Morning Links: El Quijote Edition -ARTnews
Honoré Daumier’s Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, 19th century. ROGERS FUND, 1927/METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Giants On the occasion of Joan Jonas’s retrospective at Tate Modern in London, Farah Nayeri…
MoMA’s Gripping ‘New Photography’ Goes Behind the Lens -ARTnews
Sam Contis, Denim Dress, 2014, pigmented inkjet print. ©2018 SAM CONTIS/THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, ACQUIRED THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF THOMAS AND SUSAN DUNN In recent years, photographers have been…
At the Kitchen, Moor Mother Haunts Ghosts from the Future -ARTnews
Camae Ayewa/Moor Mother, Synth Altar, 2018, at the Kitchen. ANDY BATTAGLIA/ARTNEWS For three weeks that moved much too fast, the upstairs gallery space at the Kitchen in New York played…
Naoya Hatakeyama at the Minneapolis Institute of Art -ARTnews
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…
Prior to Her Firing, Curator Helen Molesworth Made Public Statements Critical of Museum Practices, MOCA -ARTnews
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…
Art Institute of Chicago Names Caitlin Haskell Curator of International Modern Art -ARTnews
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…
Underbidding Tyler Perry Edition -ARTnews
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…
Rob Chavasse at the Sunday Painter, London -ARTnews
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…
American Gothic Farmhouse Edition -ARTnews
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…
Artists and Museum Professionals Vexed by Imbroglio at MOCA L.A. -ARTnews
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…