Here’s the 2019 Venice Biennale Artist List -ARTnews
Venice at dusk. ANDREW RUSSETH/ARTNEWS The list is out. After months of anticipation, the Venice Biennale has released the names of the artists who will participate in its central show…
‘Still Life with Mackerel’ Edition -ARTnews
Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Still Life with Mackerel (1787), which has been acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. COURTESY KIMBELL ART MUSEUM Top Stories The trailblazing artist Carolee…
High Museum Names Sarah Kennel Curator of Photography -ARTnews
Dr. Sarah Kennel. COURTESY HIGH MUSEUM The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has appointed Sarah Kennel as its curator of photography, a position she currently holds at the Peabody…
Estimated at $25 M. to $35 M., Bouguereau Painting Could Break Artist Record at Sotheby’s New York in May -ARTnews
La Jeunesse de Bacchus (1884). COURTESY SOTHEBY’S This May at Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern art evening sale in New York, a large-scale painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau will hit the block…
Performa Launches Online Platform for Streaming New and Archived Works -ARTnews
Mike Kelley, The Judson Church Horse Dance, 2009. PAULA COURT/COURTESY PERFORMA The New York–based nonprofit arts organization Performa, which commissions and produces live performances, has announced that its new website,…
Margaret Harrison Sends Up Playboy Hugh Hefner at the Armory Show -ARTnews
Margaret Harrison, This is only a bunny boy but he is quite nice really, 1971–2011. COURTESY ADN GALERIA One of the more beguiling works in the Armory Show this year…
Amid Allegations That Pop Star Sexually Abused Children, Michael Jackson Art Exhibition to Travel as Planned -ARTnews
A visitor to the Grand Palais version of “Michael Jackson: On the Wall” looking at a work by Yan Pei-Ming. IAN LANGSDON/EPA-EFE/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK On Tuesday, the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Germany, said…
All 50,000 Reservations for Brant Foundation’s Jean-Michel Basquiat Exhibition Are Gone -ARTnews
Installation view of “Jean-Michel Basquiat” at the Brant Foundation in New York, which runs through May 15. TOM POWEL IMAGING/© ESTATE OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT/COURTESY THE BRANT FOUNDATION/LICENSED BY ARTSTAR, NEW…
At Independent New York, Two Exhibitors Will Foreground Survivors of Nazi Regime -ARTnews
Ceija Stojka, SS, Auschwitz, ref 708, 2002, acrylic on cardboard. COURTESY GALERIE CHRISTOPHE GAILLARD Two solo exhibitions at Independent New York, which opens to the public on Friday, will spotlight…
$10.8 M. Basquiat Leads Robust $122.9 M. Sotheby’s Contemporary Sale in London -ARTnews
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Apex, 1986, sold for about $10.8 million. COURTESY SOTHEBY’S Tonight, at Sotheby’s London, the auction house sold £93.3 million (about $122.9 million) worth of contemporary art in an…