3 hours ago
With its 50th anniversary looming, MoMA PS1 has revealed details for the 2026 edition of Greater New York, its quinquennial for art made in and around the city.
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23 hours ago
The Onassis Foundation’s experimental art and tech studio Onassis ONX is doubling its size at a new location in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. It is slated to open with the multimedia exhibition “TECHNE: Homecoming” in January.
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23 hours ago
A church in Mexico has been reunited with a painting of Saint Francis of Assisi, its namesake, that was stolen nearly a quarter-century ago.
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1 day ago
Leading Christie’s “Old Masters Evening Sale” on December 2 in London is Gerrit Dou’s first depiction of a musician The Flute Player (ca. 1636).
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2 days ago
Sasha Suda has sued the Philadelphia Art Museum after being dismissed last week as director and CEO of the Pennsylvania institution. The suit alleges that Suda was accused by board members of “misusing Museum funds for personal gain,” something that appears to have been a https://t.co/prJEFnGfCQ
2 days ago
Palestinian Saudi artist Dana Awartani will represent Saudi Arabia at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Her pavilion will be curated by Antonia Carver, director of Art Jameel, with assistance from Hafsa Alkhudairi.
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2 days ago
Sotheby’s auction house has taken over Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist landmark on Madison Avenue. “Sotheby’s did not just open a new headquarters this week—it staged a return to form,” Daniel Cassady writes.
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2 days ago
Los Angeles–area cultural institution The Huntington has announced gifts to its art collection funded by The Huntington’s Art Collectors’ Council—including a view of London by 17th-century Dutch artist Thomas Wijck; an 1872 bust of a Black woman bound by ropes by French sculptor https://t.co/Nf0z1D6dQA
2 days ago
Galleries Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt have announced that they will be taking on joint representation of artist George Condo. The deal means that Condo will no longer be represented by Hauser & Wirth, which first started working with the artist in late 2019.
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2 days ago
In “Erwin Olaf—Freedom,” the Stedelijk Museum polemically presents the scale of the lauded Dutch artist’s diversity, devoting over a dozen rooms to a breathtaking range of photographs alongside occasional experiments with video and sculpture. "If this produces tonal whiplash for https://t.co/lHCKBQGNsQ
5 days ago
Here’s your guide to 13 terrific works to see at the new Studio Museum in Harlem, which officially begins welcoming the public on November 15: https://t.co/WV3bsZIrU1 https://t.co/GkuCY5N7DF
5 days ago
Ahead of its public reopening on November 15, the Studio Museum in Harlem showed off its new building to the press on Thursday, revealing a multitude of treasures that have entered its holdings since its closure in 2018—including the first Jean-Michel Basquiat painting to join https://t.co/gEstm6wAdD
5 days ago
Think you know your exhibit from your exhibition? Your Realism from your photorealism?
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6 days ago
According to ARTnews‘s sources, Utah-born, Mexico-based sculptor Alma Allen has been picked to represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale, which is set to open next May. The pavilion’s commissioning curator is Jeffrey Uslip, according to sources, who say the official https://t.co/72zebwUyt8
6 days ago
The United States Pavilion at the upcoming Venice Biennale is in a precarious position after a proposal by artist Robert Lazzarini and independent curator John Ravenal fell through.
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7 days ago
Following Zohran Mamdani‘s historic win as Mayor of New York City, the art world has weighed in, with many artists, curators, and critics based in the city—and even some situated in locales beyond New York—responding to his victory with hope and joy.
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7 days ago
Employees at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) announced plans to form a union on Tuesday, November 4, joining a wave of organizing that has swept cultural institutions across the United States in recent years.
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7 days ago
The Torre dei Conti, which was built in 1283 and is located near the Colosseum in Rome, partially collapsed on Monday, November 3. One worker was seriously injured, while another was trapped in the structure for nearly 11 hours. That worker, identified by officials as Octay https://t.co/cIWX72sBNu
7 days ago
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has announced an opening date for the newest branch of its museum. The five-story building, designed by the Irish architecture firm O’Donnell + Tuomey, will open to the public on Apr. 18, 2026. The V&A East, as the new outpost is called, will https://t.co/Kjzvp0v8rO
9 days ago
Vaginal Davis’s “Magnificent Product,” a lavish serving of Davis’s extensive body of work now on view at MoMA PS1, is more a prospective than a retrospective. “It’s a show that gathers everything Vaginal in one giant handbag, for the most epic carry forward,” Wark writes.
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8 days ago
Basquiat is among the most highly valued artists in the art market, and his work, all completed in the brief period between 1981 and 1984, regularly sells at auction for tens of millions of dollars.
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8 days ago
Sasha Suda, the director and CEO of the newly rebranded Philadelphia Art Museum, was dismissed on Tuesday. Suda was told of her dismissal via an email that stated she was being terminated for “cause,” though the email reportedly did not explicitly outline what that cause was. https://t.co/rT5F775pJi
12 months ago
Justin Sun is the third person to eat the banana after performance artist David Datun in 2019 and a South Korean student lat year.
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Justin Sun Eats Maurizio Cattelan’s Banana He Bought for $6.2 M. at Sotheby’s in New York Last Week
On Friday, Justin Sun, the Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur who purchased Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, made good on his promise to eat the banana.
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12 months ago
German arts workers expect that the measures, part of a broader austerity effort by the city’s government, will threaten nearly a third of fine art studios. https://t.co/WUZV1asw5T
Berlin Faces Backlash Over Proposed Cut to Culture Budget
Arts workers in Berlin are protesting a 13 percent reduction in the culture budget.
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12 months ago
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Hauser & Wirth-Owned The Groucho Club Closes Temporarily After ‘Serious Crime’ Committed on Premises
Hauser & Wirth-Owned The Groucho Club Closes Temporarily After 'Serious Crime' Committed on Premises.
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12 months ago
Artists and Art Workers Call on Tate to Divest from Donors with Ties to Israel
In an open letter, artists called on Tate to divest from donors with ties to Israel.
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12 months ago
Her video was removed from a grand Jean-Léon Gérôme show at the last minute at the order of Qatar's culture ministry.
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Artist Inci Eviner Says Qatari Museum Censored Her Work About a 19th-Century Harem
Inci Eviner said that Qatar's Mathaf museum censored her work 'Harem' from a show about Jean-Léon Gérôme.
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12 months ago
Goldsmiths’s Art Gallery Cuts Ties with Israel-Linked Donor After Boycott
Goldsmiths's art center cut ties with an Israel-linked donor after students led a months-long boycott.
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12 months ago
Germany's culture minister accused Goldin of voicing "unbearably one-sided views on Israel."
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Nan Goldin Denounced by German Politicians After Speech About Gaza at Berlin Museum
Nan Goldin was accused of having 'one-sided views on Israel' by German politicians after a speech about Gaza at the Neue Nationalgalerie.
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12 months ago
Austria's Kunsthaus Bregenz has announced what might already count as the most mysterious show of 2025. https://t.co/1XJfY0sbQd
This Beloved Austrian Museum May Never Reveal Which Artist Is Doing Its Big Fall Show Next Year
The Kunsthaus Bregenz, a high-profile Austrian museum, may never say which artist is doing its Fall 2025 show.
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