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Installation view of Art of the Spanish Americas galleries, Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin. COURTESY BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART With a $2 million gift from…
It is always dread-inducing when you hear what sounds like an elaborate installation violently crashing to the ground, particularly when a huge art exhibition has just opened and work has…
Sorbetto al Mare Adriatico. ANDREW RUSSETH/ARTNEWS The Palazzo Ducale in Venice is currently hosting “Canaletto and Venice,” an exhibition rich with paintings of the city, its waterways, and boats, the…
Michael Snow, Expo Walking Woman, 1967, installation view at Art Gallery of Ontario lobby. ©MICHAEL SNOW/ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO In recent years, museums have been reevaluating admissions policies as part…
Adrian Ghenie, Figure with Dog, 2019. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND THADDAEUS ROPAC These days, no one actually believes that old saw about painting being dead, but looking at the work…
Interior of the British Museum. ERIC POUHIER/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Venice Dispatches Keep up with…
Pietro Rigolo. RICCARDO BANFI/COURTESY GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE The Getty Research Institute (GRI) in Los Angeles has appointed Pietro Rigolo as its assistant curator of modern and contemporary collections. Since 2013,…
Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (9-46), 2014. ©THOMAS NOZKOWKSI/KERRY RYAN MCFATE/COURTESY PACE GALLERY Thomas Nozkowski, whose quiet abstract paintings, drawings, and prints evoke notions of landscapes and cosmic forms, has died. Pace…
Lee “Scratch” Perry at the Swiss Institute. BRIDGET BADORE “Don’t mess with my birds,” Lee “Scratch” Perry said—apropos of nothing—while placing a feather into his electric-pink hair. I had not…
Outside the United States pavilion: Martin Puryear’s Swallowed Sun (Monstrance and Volute). Ralph Rugoff has termed the Arsenale section of his Venice Biennale exhibition “Proposition A.” The portion of “May…