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Artforum
1 day ago

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalil House Wins Landmark Status

The Kalil House in Manchester, New Hampshire, a Usonian Automatic home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places by the US Secretary of the Interior. Completed in 1957 as a private residence and currently owned by the Currier Museum of Art, the home is just one of […]

Artforum
1 day ago

Altman Siegel Closes in San Francisco

San Francisco’s Altman Siegel Gallery is set to close November 22 after sixteen years in operation. Its last exhibition, of the work of Japanese painter Shinpei Kusanagi, will close a week earlier, on November 15. Founded in 2009 in downtown San Francisco by Claudia Altman-Siegel, the gallery was known for showing cutting-edge conceptual work by […]

Artforum
1 day ago

Returning to Belém

On the Second Bienal das Amazônias

Artforum
3 days ago

SF Redevelopment Plan Threatens Brutalist Vaillancourt Fountain

The City of San Francisco has proposed a $35 million renovation of Embarcadero Plaza that does not include the park’s Vaillancourt Fountain, a 710-ton Brutalist concrete structure completed in 1971 by Canadian artist Armand Vaillancourt. Built to circulate 30,000 gallons of water, the fountain has attracted attention as a landmark both locally and internationally: In […]

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3 days ago

Caterina Barbieri

Curates sound as ceremony at the 2025 Venice Music Biennale

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3 days ago

London’s Courtauld Gallery Receives Historic $40 Million Donation

The Courtauld Gallery and Institute in London has revealed itself to be the recipient of a £30 million ($40 million) donation, the largest in its ninety-three year history. The gift was made by the Reuben Foundation, a charitable organization established by billionaire brothers and art collectors David and Simon Reuben, who made their fortunes in […]

Artforum
5 days ago

Flemish Government’s Plan to Dissolve M HKA Sparks Outrage

The announcement last week by the Government of Flanders that it planned to “reform the landscape of its own museums and the visual arts sector” and strip Antwerp’s Museum of Modern Art (M HKA), Belgium’s oldest contemporary art museum, of its assets has generated criticism both locally and abroad. The scheme, which the government had […]

Artforum
5 days ago

Smithsonian Closes Museums as Shutdown Stretches On

The Smithsonian on October 12 closed all twenty-one of the museums operating under its auspices as the US government shutdown begun on October 1 continued to draw on. The organization also shuttered its fourteen education and research centers and the National Zoo, which it runs. Among the institutions temporarily darkened while Republicans and Democrats wrestle […]

Artforum
9 days ago

Frieze to Inaugurate Abu Dhabi Fair in 2026

London-based art fair operator Frieze on October 10 announced the launch of Frieze Abu Dhabi. The event is being staged through a partnership with the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), which organizes Abu Dhabi Art, the region’s best-known homegrown art fair. The last iteration of Abu Dhabi Art, inaugurated […]

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9 days ago

Cecilia Vicuña Awarded 2025 Roswitha Haftmann Prize

Chilean activist, artist, and poet Cecilia Vicuña, known for her quipus—strands of knotted fibers that reference the ancient Andean communication system—has been named the winner of the 2025 Roswitha Haftmann Prize. Established in 2001, the honor, which is accompanied by a no-strings-attached cash purse of 150,000 Swiss francs ($187,000), is named for late Swiss dealer […]

Artforum
10 days ago

Ken Jacobs (1933–2025)

Filmmaker Ken Jacobs, a towering figure in the world of experimental cinema, died of kidney failure on October 5 in New York. He was ninety-two. Alongside peers including Jack Smith and Jonas Mekas, Jacobs pioneered the use of found footage, which he spliced together and manipulated to create highly original and often intense films that […]

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10 days ago

The Beat Goes On

On Stephen Prina at the Museum of Modern Art

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10 days ago

Four Artists Win 2025 MacArthur Fellowships

Artist and filmmaker Garrett Bradley, interdisciplinary artist Gala Porras-Kim, multidisciplinary artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and basket artist Jeremy Frey have been named as among the 2025 class of MacArthur Fellows by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The four join eighteen other recipients of the transformative “genius” grants issued this year by the […]

Artforum
12 days ago

National Gallery of Art Closes amid Government Shutdown

The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, closed its doors to the public on October 5, six days after the federal government ceased operations following the failure of Republicans and Democrats to agree on a spending bill. Though the museum, established by a Congressional mandate in 1937, operates as a private nonprofit entity, […]

Artforum
13 days ago

Aimee Ng Named Chief Curator of the Frick Collection

The Frick Collection in New York has announced Aimee Ng as its next chief curator, effective this November. Ng, who is currently the museum’s John Updike Curator, has been a member of its curatorial department since 2015. She will replace departing chief curator Xavier F. Salomon, who has served in the role since 2014, taking […]

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13 days ago

Artnews Reveals Nominees for 2025 Artnews Awards

Artnews has announced the nominees of its second annual Artnews Awards. The platform established the prizes last year to honor “excellence in art achievements at US arts institutions,” per a press release. Qualifying nominees are those who mounted exhibitions in the US between August 1, 2024, and July 31, 2025, and are distributed across six […]

Artforum
13 days ago

A Question of Stance

Visiting the 2025 Aichi Triennale

Artforum
15 days ago

Petrit Halilaj Wins $100,000 Nasher Prize for Sculpture

Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj has won the 2027 iteration of the Nasher Prize. Established in 2015, the award, considered to be the world’s most prestigious sculpture honor, is presented biennially by the Nasher Sculpture Center to a living artist whose work pushes the boundaries of the form. Halilaj—who at thirty-nine is the youngest artist ever […]

Artforum
18 days ago

Museum Devoted to Indian Modernist M. F. Husain Set to Open in Doha

The Qatar Foundation has revealed that it will inaugurate a new institution dedicated to the life and work of influential Indian modernist Maqbool Fida Husain in Doha’s Education City later this fall. Lawh Wa Qalam: M. F. Husain Museum will open to the public on November 28. Housing a collection encompassing six decades of Husain’s […]

Artforum
18 days ago

UC Irvine Acquires Orange County Museum of Art

The University of California, Irvine, has officially taken over the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), which it will merge with the UC Irvine Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA). All OCMA employees now work for the university, which has renamed the blended entity UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, […]

Artforum
18 days ago

Turkey Announces Artist, Curator for 2026 Venice Biennale

The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) has named multidisciplinary artist Nilbar Güreş, known for her humorous, poetic, yet critical works commenting on social topics, as Turkey’s representative to the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, set to take place May 9–November 22, 2026. Güreş was unanimously selected by the Turkish pavilion’s advisory board, which comprised art […]

Artforum
18 days ago

A Spell of Good Things

ALTHOUGH ANOTHER FALL SEASON of exhibitions just kicked off here in New York, it feels as if it was only yesterday that I walked into White Cube for last year’s September opening of “A Spell of Good Things,” Ibrahim Mahama’s first solo show in the city. The series of sculptures and drawings on view imaginatively […]

Artforum
18 days ago

Particular Mind

On Henry Martin: An Active Ear

Artforum
18 days ago

Making Space

On space Un and artistic exchanges between Japan and Africa

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