by October Gallery
Pictures at an Exhibition Naoya Hatakeyama, Untitled/Osaka, 1998, chromogenic print. COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Excavating…
Helen Molesworth. COURTESY MOCA Last Tuesday, the news broke that Philippe Vergne, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, had fired the museum’s chief curator, Helen…
Caitlin Haskell. PHOTO BY ANDRIA LO Caitlin Haskell will be the new curator of international modern art at the Art Institute of Chicago. She will start in her post in…
Tyler Perry. VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS On the Auction Block What’s it feel like to lose a bidding war to a celebrity six-year-old? Ask the director Tyler Perry, who, on the…
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Rob Chavasse: The Gallerist,” 2018, at the Sunday Painter, London. OLLIE HAMMICK/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND THE SUNDAY PAINTER Pictures at an Exhibition…
The Eldon, Iowa farmhouse depicted in Grant Wood’s “American Gothic.” COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Museums & Galleries The Broad Museum in Los Angeles has acquired a new Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror…
Exterior of the Grand Avenue branch of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. ELON SCHOENHOLZ/COURTESY THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES As questions swirled last week around…
Dennis Chen, country head and head of wealth management, UBS Taiwan, and Magnus Renfrew, cofounder and director of Taipei Dangdai. COURTESY TAIPEI DANGDAI Since being acquired by Art Basel seven…
Sheila Hicks. CRISTOBAL ZANARTU/VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Asia Magnus Renfrew, the former director of Art Basel Hong Kong, will launch a new fair called Taipei Dangdai. Its first edition will be…
Amy Sherald, The Bathers, 2015, oil on canvas. ©AMY SHERALD/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND HAUSER & WIRTH This time last year, Amy Sherald was unknown to much of the art world.…