Having been ordered in 2021 by France’s highest court to face a retrial after being twice acquitted of tax fraud, the members of the Wildenstein family, owners of one of the world’s largest collections
The seductiveness of pollutant industries is both contested and adopted in Alice Channer’s ambitious two-part exhibition “Heavy Metals / Silk Cut”, which, in a historical first, spans both the Kunstmuseum
Foxy Production, a contemporary art space in operation in New York for two decades, is ending its gallery program in October, Artnews reports, and pivoting to focus on “consultancy, curatorial,
Two-thirds of US museum workers are considering abandoning their jobs owing to high levels of burnout, low wages, and minimal opportunities for advancement, Julia Halperin reports in The Art Newspaper.
Lee Miller’s Remington Silent, London, England, 1940, captures a smashed typewriter lying on shattered stone. The image dates to a time when the artist began documenting World War II for British Vogue.
Emma Sarpaniemi is not shy about where she finds her inspiration: with Self-portrait as Cindy, 2022, she connects her photographic series “Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower,” 2021– , with the self-portraits
Alex Reynolds’s exhibition “¡Porque tengo lágrimas!” (Because I have tears!) is an essay on portraiture, intimacy, and intimidation. It offers a reflection on the gaze in two types of relationships:
For the third episode of “Interpretations,” Linda Simpson—New York City drag artist, performer, game-show hostess, and downtown documentarian—reflects on Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls. Simpson
Kenojuak Ashevak’s art is renowned for its iconic imagery. In Canada, the Inuit artist’s home country, Ashevak’s stylized prints featuring birds, fish, humans, and other animals are perhaps most widely
Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose whimsical, ballooning figures gained him worldwide acclaim and elevated the global profile of Latin American art, died in Monaco on September 15 at
IN THE 1930S, a savvy developer embarked on a real-estate venture in Samcheong, a neighborhood in the heart of Seoul that was once home to a six-hundred-year-old village. Using modern materials for
The Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism on September 14 announced that Kim Sung-hee will be the next director of South Korea's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA). Kim will
In the liner notes of their 1997 album, The Quest, the Detroit-based Afrofuturist electronic duo Drexciya (Gerald Donald and James Stinson) made known that their named referred to an underwater world
AUGUST WAS SLOW and dull and frustrating; I spent it trying to synthesize Craig Owens and Leo Strauss. The confluence of postmodernism and antimodernism would seem to explain our reactionary aesthetic
The Manhattan district attorney’s office on September 13 seized from three US institutions a trio of works by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele that are believed to have been stolen during World War
New York’s Museum of Modern Art has announced that it will raise admission prices effective October 16. Adult admission at the door will rise to $30 from $25, while seniors and visitors with disabilities
The estate of late Pop Conceptual artist John Baldessari (1931–2020) is staggering under the weight of dual multimillion-dollar lawsuits, one of which it filed, and one of which it is facing, Artnews
Latvian American artist Vija Celmins has been named a winner of Japan’s 2023 Praemium Imperiale Award for painting while Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson received the honor for sculpture, and
Art Basel Miami Beach has named the 277 galleries participating in its 2023 iteration, slated to run December 8–10, with preview days on December 6–7. The number represents a slight dip compared to
Damnation Diaries, by Peter Rostovsky. Uncivilized Books, 2023. 144 pages. AMONG THE BEST PARTS of Peter Rostovsky’s new graphic novel, Damnation Diaries, are the jokes about art and art school.
J. C. Leyendecker died in the summer of 1951, in Norma Desmond–like obscurity, on the grounds of his once-magnificent mansion in New Rochelle, New York. His Ivy League Adonises and Madison Avenue
Anyone who is wondering, “What the hell is Judith Bernstein’s problem?” need only look at the world around them. Since the late 1960s, Bernstein has channeled the sexually violent id of a puritanical
THE EIGHTIETH EDITION of the Venice Film Festival was stacked, strong, and, gratifyingly, a place where ambitious work was rewarded rather than the few white elephants. With awards chatter (somewhat)
I have been standing before a photograph taken outside a Belgian café for an indeterminate stretch of time, hustling for language to explain it. On the surface, Antwerp, 1988, is simple enough: A woman,
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