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2 hours ago

Hung Duong reports on Ghost 2568—the third and final edition of Ghost, Bangkok’s sprawling festival of video and performance art—in which “layered artistic narratives of yearning, belonging, and alienation haunt various sites” throughout the city. https://t.co/np4lUFZ76F

1 day ago

Sasha Suda, who last week was abruptly fired from her roles of director and CEO of the Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM), is suing the institution. https://t.co/5UbrXaMjaE

Ousted Director Sasha Suda Sues Philadelphia Art Museum

Sasha Suda, who last week was abruptly fired from her roles of director and CEO of the Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM), is suing the institution.

https://t.co/5UbrXaMjaE

2 days ago

Tania Willard, an artist of Secwépemc descent known for her work centering Indigenous basketry, has been named the winner of the 2025 Sobey Art Award, widely regarded as Canada’s most prestigious contemporary art honor. https://t.co/YviynkwLsE

Tania Willard Wins Canada’s Sobey Art Award

Tania Willard, an artist of Secwépemc descent known for her work centering Indigenous basketry, has been named the winner of the 2025 Sobey Art Award.

https://t.co/YviynkwLsE

2 days ago

The opening of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria, originally slated for November 11, has been postponed after a group of some twenty protesters disrupted a preview event on November 9. https://t.co/RHmFtLe4Gp

Museum of West African Art Opening Delayed by Protesters

The opening of the Museum of West African Art in Benin City, Nigeria, originally slated to take place November 11, has been postponed after a group of about twenty protesters disrupted a preview.

https://t.co/RHmFtLe4Gp

5 days ago

France’s court of auditors on November 6 released a report on security at the Louvre accusing the Paris museum of prioritizing “visible and attractive” projects over upgrades to security. https://t.co/6wzvBq3r0u

French State Auditor Issues Damning Report on Louvre Security

France’s court of auditors on November 6 released a report on security at the Louvre accusing the Paris museum of prioritizing “visible and attractive” projects over upgrades to security.

https://t.co/6wzvBq3r0u

5 days ago

Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, known for his use of humor to question social structures and systems of power, has been named the winner of the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie. https://t.co/vUrFl7bjJT

Maurizio Cattelan Wins 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie

Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, known for his use of humor to question social structures and systems of power, has been named the winner of the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie.

https://t.co/vUrFl7bjJT

6 days ago

Curator and researcher Vasyl Cherepanyn has been named curator of the 14th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, to take place in summer 2027. https://t.co/q7Q3mEGcVq

Vasyl Cherepanyn Appointed Curator of 2027 Berlin Biennale

Ukrainian curator and researcher Vasyl Cherepanyn has been named curator of the 14th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in 2027.

https://t.co/q7Q3mEGcVq

12 days ago

In this episode of “Under the Cover,” Ibrahim Mahama, discusses his work with wax print cloth; founding an art museum in the town of Tamale, Ghana; and his exhibition “Ibrahim Mahama: Zilijifa” at Kunsthalle Wien. https://t.co/yFpRxjswz5

Ibrahim Mahama on institution building in Ghana

Pablo Larios talks with Ibrahim Mahama about his work with wax-print cloth and institution building in Tamale, Ghana.

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12 days ago

Mahama’s Beasts of no nation, 2013–22, appears on the cover of Artforum’s October 2025 issue, accompanied by a feature essay on the artist’s practice by writer Edna Bonhomme. https://t.co/pYt0FROpET

Tender Ruins

Ibrahim Mahama’s large-scale works confront Ghanaian history, memory, and the politics of labor.

https://t.co/pYt0FROpET

9 days ago

In Artforum’s November 2025 issue: Andy St. Louis spotlights the art of Ayoung Kim; Thelma Golden, Connie H. Choi, and Tina Rivers Ryan discuss Tom Lloyd and the Studio Museum in Harlem; six photographers share portfolios of their work; and more. https://t.co/6ClQxcqTT3

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9 days ago

Also: Laurie Anderson remembers Robert Wilson; Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Thomas Demand, Florian Ebner, Roxana Marcoci, Christian Scheidemann, and Jeff Wall discuss the future of photography; and Caroline A. Jones tackles the history of immersive media art.

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9 days ago

On Artforum’s November 2025 cover: Ayoung Kim, Ghost Dancers B (detail), 2022, mannequins, clothes, helmets, gloves, tap case, reinforced case, tempered glass, dimensions variable. https://t.co/zJTuMfx72j

7 days ago

Staffers at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art have announced their intention to unionize under the auspices of AFSCME Cultural Workers United District Council 36, a branch of the union representing museum workers across the country. https://t.co/ldMSO4YpUJ

As LACMA Prepares to Unveil $720 Million Building, Employees Unionize

Staffers at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on October 29 announced their intention to unionize under the auspices of AFSCME Cultural Workers United District Council 36.

https://t.co/ldMSO4YpUJ

7 days ago

The Gwangju-based National Asian Culture Center (ACC) has named interdisciplinary artist YoungEun Kim the winner of the ACC Future Prize. https://t.co/9njyRCqqhd

YoungEun Kim Awarded 2026 ACC Future Prize

The Gwangju-based Asian National Cultural Center (ACC) has named interdisciplinary artist YoungEun Kim the winner of the ACC Future Prize.

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13 days ago

The nonprofit Institute of Contemporary Art San Franciso has announced that it will leave its downtown home, a Modernist onetime banking hall known as “the Cube,” and instead mount exhibitions at various Bay Area locations, beginning in 2026. https://t.co/ihNqw74SHW

ICA San Francisco Shifts to Nomadic Model

The Institute of Contemporary Art San Franciso will leave its downtown home and instead mount exhibitions at various Bay Area locations, beginning in 2026.

https://t.co/ihNqw74SHW

13 days ago

Talladega College, Alabama’s first private historically Black college, has sold four of six murals painted for the institution by renowned Black painter Hale Woodruff in order to shore up its $5 million endowment and make payroll. https://t.co/EA7nJktz8Q

Talladega College Sells Hale Woodruff Murals

Talladega College, Alabama’s first private historically Black college, has sold four of six murals by Hale Woodruff to shore up its $5 million endowment and make payroll.

https://t.co/EA7nJktz8Q

9 days ago

The Oakland Museum of California lost more than one thousand items in an October 15 break-in targeting the museum’s 100,000-square-foot off-site storage facility. https://t.co/3ElynkG6w2

Opportunistic Thieves Rob Oakland Museum of 1,000+ Objects

The Oakland Museum of California lost more than one thousand items in an October 15 break-in targeting the museum’s storage facility.

https://t.co/3ElynkG6w2

8 days ago

Alison Knowles, a key member of the Fluxus movement whose focus on the haptic set her work apart from that of her compatriots, died at her home in New York on October 29. She was ninety-two. https://t.co/KQV5QDVqyu

Alison Knowles (1933–2025)

Alison Knowles, a key member of the Fluxus movement whose focus on the haptic set her work apart from that of her compatriots, died at her home in New York on October 29.

https://t.co/KQV5QDVqyu

12 months ago

The Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide has named Jason Smith as its new director, effective February 2025. Smith, who will relocate to South Australia, arrives to AGSA from Geelong Gallery in Victoria, where he currently serves as director. https://t.co/qSuw4fJaf9

JASON SMITH TO LEAD ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) in Adelaide has named Jason Smith as its new director, effective February 2025.

https://t.co/qSuw4fJaf9

12 months ago

London-based Iranian artist Maryam Tafakory, known for works stitched together from fragments of films made in her home country following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, has been named as the winner of the seventeenth Film London Jarman Award. https://t.co/58hrEdJ65y

MARYAM TAFAKORY WINS 2024 JARMAN AWARD

London-based Iranian artist Maryam Tafakory has been named as the winner of the seventeenth Film London Jarman Award.

https://t.co/58hrEdJ65y

12 months ago

Photographer and activist Nan Goldin on November 22 delivered an impassioned speech at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie in which she denounced Israel’s war on Gaza and castigated the German government for suppressing speech surrounding the issue. https://t.co/UEBZuXogQW

NAN GOLDIN CONDEMNS ISRAEL’S WAR IN GAZA IN FIERY SPEECH AT BERLIN EXHIBITION OPENING

Nan Goldin on November 22 delivered an impassioned speech at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, denouncing Israel’s war on Gaza and the German government.

https://t.co/UEBZuXogQW

12 months ago

In this episode of “Under the Influence,” artist Glenn Ligon reflects on learning from David Hammons, his earliest memories of artmaking, and the influence that New York’s Studio Museum in Harlem continues to have on his practice. https://t.co/jXxWBJjxSi

GLENN LIGON

Glenn Ligon on reading James Baldwin, learning from David Hammons, visiting his favorite de Kooning painting, and why he became an artist.

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12 months ago

For this month’s episode of “Under the Cover,” artist Lee Ufan stops by the Artforum offices to speak with Editor in Chief TinaRiversRyan about his piece on the magazine’s November cover, Relatum (formerly titled Phenomena and Perception B), 1968/2013. https://t.co/zyEk3p1zT8

LEE UFAN ON ART, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE METAPHYSICAL

Lee Ufan speaks with Artforum about artificial intelligence and how he perceives his own soul through art.

https://t.co/zyEk3p1zT8

12 months ago

For this month’s episode of “Under the Cover,” artist Lee Ufan stops by the Artforum offices to speak with Editor in Chief TinaRiversRyan about his piece on the magazine’s November cover, Relatum (formerly titled Phenomena and Perception B), 1968/2013. https://t.co/zyEk3p1zT8

LEE UFAN ON ART, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE METAPHYSICAL

Lee Ufan speaks with Artforum about artificial intelligence and how he perceives his own soul through art.

https://t.co/zyEk3p1zT8

12 months ago

New York–based organization Anonymous Was a Woman (AWAW) has named the fifteen recipients of its 2024 awards. For the first time since AWAW’s 1996 founding, the amount each artist receives increased, doubling from $25,000 to $50,000. https://t.co/lkDALpGc0z

ANONYMOUS WAS A WOMAN ANNOUNCES 2024 GRANTEES

Anonymous Was a Woman named fifteen recipients of its 2024 awards, granted to female artists over the age of forty for their artistic contributions.

https://t.co/lkDALpGc0z