Spring/Break Art Fair Debuts in L.A. -ARTnews
Installation view at Spring/Break in L.A. JANELLE ZARA After a string of rainy and uncharacteristically cold days, visitors who traveled to Los Angeles for a spate of art fairs this…
Artadia Names Six Finalists for 2019 Los Angeles Awards -ARTnews
Works, from top left to bottom right: Eddie Aparicio, Aquellos Que Apuntan Con El Dedo Medio (11th St. and Union St., Los Angeles, California), 2017; Carmen Argote, Accumulations, 2017; Ron…
Lisa Anne Auerbach Offers Psychic Advisory at Frieze Los Angeles -ARTnews
Alpine Moon conducting a tarot reading in Lisa Anne Auerbach’s Psychic Art Advisor (2019) installation. PHOTOS: JANELLE ZARA Inside the piece. As with an answer on Jeopardy!, a tarot reading…
A Glorious, Shapeshifting Quarter-Mile of Robert Rauschenberg at LACMA -ARTnews
A tiny bit of Robert Rauschenberg’s The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece, 1981–98, at LACMA. ANDREW RUSSETH/ARTNEWS Whatever the quality of the art on offer at the fairs in…
Theaster Gates and Ava DuVernay to Co-Chair Prada’s New Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council -ARTnews
Theaster Gates in Bristol, England, in 2015. SIMON CHAPMAN/LNP/SHUTTERSTOCK Prada has created a Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council that will be co-chaired by artist Theaster Gates and filmmaker Ava DuVernay.…
Dallas Contemporary Names Laurie Ann Farrell Senior Curator -ARTnews
Laurie Ann Farrell. COURTESY LAURIE ANN FARRELL Dallas Contemporary in Texas has brought on Laurie Ann Farrell as senior curator. She fills a position once held by Justine Ludwig, who…
Robert Mapplethorpe at Madre, Naples, Italy -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe, White Gauze, 1984. © AMEDEO BENESTANTE/© ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE FOUNDATION/COURTESY FONDAZIONE DONNAREGINA PER LE ARTI CONTEMPORANEE Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one…
Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Fellowships to Guadalupe Rosales, Hank Willis Thomas -ARTnews
Guadalupe Rosales (left) and Hank Willis Thomas (right). COURTESY THE ARTISTS Artists Guadalupe Rosales and Hank Willis Thomas are the recipients of this year’s Gordon Parks Foundation fellowships, which are…
Desert X Turns California’s Coachella Valley Into Open Exhibition Space -ARTnews
Sterling Ruby, Specter, 2019. LANCE GERBER ‘It’s brutal,” co-curator Amanda Hunt said of the arid environment of Desert X, the mostly outdoor biennial that opened this weekend in California’s Coachella…
Cindy Sherman Wins 2019 Max Beckmann Prize -ARTnews
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #593, 2016/2018, dye sublimation metal print. COURTESY METRO PICTURES Photographer Cindy Sherman has won the Max Beckmann Prize, which is awarded every three years by the city…