Jenny Moore to Step Down as Director of Chinati Foundation in Marfa
July 1, 2022She oversaw the $2.7 million restoration of the John Chamberlain Building. Continue reading
Tag Archives: contemporary art
Phillips Leads with Women Artists in Solid $21 M. London Evening Sale
A record was set for British artist Antonia Showering. Continue reading
Koons ‘Balloon Monkey’ Sells for Ukraine Relief, Yves Klein Overperforms at Christie’s London-Paris Sale
June 28, 2022Young artists like Anna Weyant and Lucy Bull continued their rises. Continue reading
Influential Dealer Lia Rumma Gifts Arte Povera Works to Italy
June 20, 2022The works will be displayed permanently at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples. Continue reading
Documenta 15 Diary: Beyond Borders
June 17, 2022The quinquennial isn’t only for those with the passports and privilege to get to Germany. Continue reading
Singapore’s Long-Delayed ART SG Fair Names Over 150 Exhibitors for Inaugural Edition
June 14, 2022Among the galleries lined up to participate are Gagosian, Pace, and White Cube. Continue reading
Japan Will Get a New Art Fair in Summer 2023
June 9, 2022The inaugural edition will open at the Yokohama Pacifico convention center in July 2023. Continue reading
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Adjuncts and Lecturers Push to Join Unionization Effort
May 10, 2022Staff at the school and a related museum voted to unionize earlier this year. Continue reading
The 7 Best Booths at TEFAF New York 2022, From Raw Assemblages to Dazzling Arrays of Color
May 6, 2022Highlights from TEFAF New York, which opens to the public today and runs through May 10. Continue reading
Simone Leigh’s Sovereign Territory
May 4, 2022The Golden Lion winner’s Black female figures stake their claim—physically and morally—to the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Continue reading
Collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo to Turn Venetian Island into Arts Space
April 25, 2022Her foundation said that the Isola di San Giacomo will become a “laboratory for ecological reflection.” Continue reading
M+ Museum Pulls Three Politically Charged Works From Display, Spurring Speculation of Censorship
April 21, 2022The museum said the removal of the works, one of which references the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, were part of a routine rehang. Continue reading
First Namibian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Faces Tumult as Funders Back Out
April 13, 2022A petition raised concerns about the pavilion because Namibia is being represented by a white man. Continue reading
Baltimore Museum of Art Names Jessica Bell Brown Head Of Contemporary Art
April 8, 2022Bell Brown is a rising star at the museum. Continue reading
Carrie Mae Weems Among Artists Added to SFMOMA’s Board of Trustees
April 6, 2022The highly-regarded artist has been involved with the museum for two decades. Continue reading
Invoking Black Masking Traditions, Artist Demond Melancon Beads Elaborate, Celebratory Portraits
March 31, 2022Through intricately woven displays of minuscule glass beads and rhinestones, Big Chief Demond Melancon continues a legacy. He belongs to the tribe of the Young Seminole Hunters in New Orleans, where he was born and raised, and is a leader in the tradition of creating Mardi Gras suits. The “wearable sculptures” are elaborate and celebratory, and Melancon’s works are known for their immense nature and for exhibiting his deft technical skill. Extremely labor-intensive, the garments tend to envelop their wearer in multiple layers and contain more than one million glass beads precisely stitched into evocative narratives of American history. More Continue reading
12 Standouts at the 2022 Toronto Biennial: From Breathtaking Textile-Based Installations to Poignant Reflections on Place
March 25, 2022At this exhibition, water and land help fill in gaps in the histories of certain groups. Continue reading
Artist Shubigi Rao’s Pulp III Explores the Book as a Vehicle for Resistance and Redemption
March 24, 2022Printing as a vehicle for social change, and threats to books and libraries are the themes of Singapore’s pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, commissioned by the National Arts Council of Singapore. Approaching the subject through the lens of Venice’s centuries-old bookmaking industry, Singaporean artist Shubigi Rao—working with the curator and founding director of the […] Continue reading
Can Land and Water Be Archives? A Pandemic-Era Toronto Biennial Mines the Histories Beneath Our Feet
March 23, 2022When breathing together is particularly risky, artists involved considered new forms of togetherness. Continue reading
Budi Tek, Influential Collector Whose Private Museum Helped Bring Contemporary Asian Art to International Stage, Has Died at 65
March 19, 2022His Yuz Museum in Shanghai formed major partnerships with LACMA and the Qatar Museums. Continue reading