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Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996. COURTESY CHRISTIE’S The Museum of Modern Art in New York has received Chris Ofili’s storied painting The Holy Virgin Mary (1996) as a…
Allison Smith, left, Tina Takemoto, right. Images Courtesy California College of Arts. California College of the Arts (CCA), in San Francisco, has appointed two new deans: Allison Smith as dean…
Pictures at an Exhibition Teresa Margolles, Pista de baile de la discoteca “Tlaquepaque” (Dance Floor of the Club “Tlaquepaque”), 2016, print on cotton paper showing a trans sex working…
A large hunk of jade. (Not stolen.) JAMES ST. JOHN/WIKIMEDIA Collecting The Wall Street Journal looks at how collector and D.C. power broker Tony Podesta “lost it all.” For a…
Huang Yong Ping, Theater of the World, 1993, wood and metal structure with warming lamps, electric cable, insects (spiders, scorpions, crickets, cockroaches, black beetles, stick insects, centipedes), lizards, toads, and…
Chandra McCormick, Waiting for the Bull, Men Waiting to Participate in the Angola Rodeo, 2013, gelatin silver print. ©CHANDRA MCCORMICK/COURTESY THE ARTIST Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one…
The Art Institute of Chicago. TRIPP/WIKIMEDIA It’s raining philanthropic money over at the Art Institute of Chicago, which said today that it has received an unrestricted gift of $50 million…
Installation view of Merion Estes, “Dystopia” at CB1 in Los Angeles, May 2015. COURTESY CB1. Nine artists have signed an open letter claiming that the founders and owners of Los…
James Ganz. COURTESY RANDY DODSON/FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has appointed James A. Ganz as its senior curator of photographs. Ganz, who been…
Jerry Saltz. COURTESY JERRY SALTZ New York magazine’s senior art critic, Jerry Saltz, has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. His winning article was “My Life as a Failed…