‘I’ve hijacked your surveillance camera. How about a game of chess?” The words filled a closed-circuit television screen that only seconds before had shown commuters in London’s Charing Cross station. Whichever security guard read the message soon saw it replaced … Read More
Deborah Solomon profiles Sheena Wagstaff, the chairwoman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s department of modern and contemporary art. “No one has done a profile of me ever,” Wagstaff said. [The New York Times]Clara Kim and Nancy Ireson head to … Read More
Earlier this year, for a performance at 47 Canal, Xavier Cha put out a casting call for performers. No experience was necessary, but you had to be able to act—by which Cha meant, as it turned out, that you had … Read More
The painter Jan Frank has a reputation as a hard-drinking, if not hard-fighting, downtown playboy. He is known for his sharp suits and smoky drawl, his alpaca coat, and his fondness for the racetrack (he names his paintings after favorite … Read More
Mark Manders’s work makes a good argument for banishing the term “contemporary.” It’s a silly term. Unlike “modern,” which projected futures for a range of now-failed ideologies and left its own archaeology, “contemporary” has no historic potentiality. I admire Manders’s indifference … Read More
John Olson is one-third of the seminal American new music trio Wolf Eyes and the creator of American Tapes, a boutique label specializing in limited-edition objects that often blur the line between fine art and music. He is 115% Trip … Read More
The winners of the Pierre Daix Prize, a new award given to an art history book covering modern or contemporary art, was announced in a ceremony at the Musée Picasso in Paris, earlier today. The inaugural prize was awarded to two … Read More
Zurich-based gallery Hauser & Wirth is finally set to open its first California gallery, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, and today we get word on the first exhibition: “Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016.” The all-female survey of postwar … Read More
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Sculpture: Muñoz, Schütte, Trockel, and Warren” is currently on view at Skarstedt Gallery in New York. The group exhibition is on view until December 19.
Karen Finley wore a black wig and a black jacket over slightly flared white pants when she took the stage at the Broad Museum in Downtown Los Angeles this weekend. She also wore big orange-rimmed sunglasses, a key part of … Read More
Last March, dealers Joel Mesler and Zach Feuer partnered up to create the bipartite Lower East Side gallery operation Feuer/Mesler and Mesler/Feuer: one space at 30 Orchard Street, where Mesler previously ran a gallery called Untitled, and one space at … Read More
The board of the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation has named Austrianartist Heimo Zobernig the winner of the 2016 Roswitha Haftmann Prize “in recognition of his sustained and diverse production and compelling body of work,” according to a press release. The prize, … Read More
The estate of a Paris dealer has sued the Nahmad Gallery in New York once again over a Amedeo Modigliani portrait, alleging that it had been seized by the Nazis and is now owned by the Nahmads. The painting, Seated Man With … Read More
The ambitions of Mexico City’s Material Art Fair are quickly growing. In its first two editions, which were held in 2014 and earlier this year, Material, which focuses on emerging galleries and runs concurrently with the well-established Zona Maco fair, … Read More
Frieze announced today that it has tapped Raphael Gygax to be the new curator of Frieze Projects. Gygax, who is curator at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, will choose artists to create new works for the 2016 Frieze Projects, which will appear … Read More
The Rijksmuseum is requesting that visitors stop taking pictures and instead start drawing the art with the hashtag #hierteekenen (#startdrawing). [Hyperallergic]The Tehran Museum of Contemporary art will host a solo show for Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. [Artforum]Beatriz Milhazes at James … Read More
The Wu-Tang Clan has sold the sole copy of its conceptual album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin…, through online auctioneer Paddle8 for an “undisclosed figure in the millions.” The album was purchased by an anonymous “American buyer.”Once Upon a … Read More
Artadia has announced the winners of the seventh cycle of 2015 Houston Artadia Awards: Lily Cox-Richard, Autumn Knight, JooYoung Choi, El Franco Lee II, and Charisse Weston. Artadia has implemented similar merit-based awards programs in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, … Read More
Performa announced today that the Los Angeles–based artist Edgar Arceneaux has won the biennial’s Malcolm McLaren Award for his performance Until, Until, Until…, staged for the first time on Friday, in New York.Named for the British artist who was also … Read More
Last Wednesday evening at 8 p.m., audience members loosely filled the benches of the very ecclesiastical-looking auditorium inside New York’s Society for Ethical Culture for a performance of Agatha Gothe-Snape’s Performa 15 commission, Rhetorical Chorus (LW). The LW stands for … Read More
On a recent afternoon in Long Island City, Richard Phillips—who has his first solo show in New York in three years on view at Mathew NYC on the Lower East Side—came to the door of his studio wearing jeans and a leather … Read More
There are around 80 million photographs shared on Instagram every day, according to the company’s statistics. That’s roughly 929 photos a second, which equates to 3.3 million images an hour, or a little over 1.5 million photographs every half hour. … Read More
Yesterday marked the last day of the 56th international Venice Biennale, which has reported a total visitor count of 500,875, with 2,899 average visitors per day. Numbers have been increasing slowly since 2009; this number is a 5.45% increase from 2013’s … Read More
Zurich-based gallery Hauser & Wirth is finally set to open its first California gallery, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, and today we get word on the first exhibition: “Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016.” The all-female survey of postwar … Read More
Inspired by a rare opportunity to acquire iconic Clyfford Still paintings, buyers made headlines in 2011 when Sotheby’s auctioned four Still canvases for $114 million, nearly twice the combined asking price. The most expensive paintings, 1949-A-No.1 and 1947-Y-No.2, sold for … Read More
After Miami Basel in December, the next major fair on the calendar in the United States is Art Los Angeles Contemporary, which runs from January 28 through 31. Started in 2010, it was originally conceived to strongly highlight the galleries … Read More
Wifredo Lam, who was born in Cuba in 1902, was one of the very few artists from beyond the borders of the American and European art worlds to become a genuine star in those locales in the middle part of the 20th century. Lam’s work had … Read More
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College has organized a solo show of work by video game designer Jason Rohrer, which will open February 10, 2016. Though Rohrer’s revered game Passage is in the collection at the Museum of Modern Art … Read More
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Darren Bader: rocks and mirrors” is on view at Galleria Franco Noero in Turin, Italy, through December 23.
Endearing, vivacious, and hyper-self-reflexive, Wyatt Kahn’s Work is a charming addition to this year’s Performa biennial. In the puppet-mocumentary, Kahn’s hard-edged, sculptural paintings come alive as plush pillow sculptures with the aid of puppeteers actually visible on stage, and Kahn himself appears as his … Read More
Boston mayor Marty Walsh has declared November 20, 2015 Corita Kent Day for the city of Boston, in honor of what would have been the late nun and artist’s 97th birthday, according to Harvard Art Museum’s Facebook page. “The proclamation … Read More
Last Friday, at There Are Certain Facts That Cannot Be Disputed, Juliana Huxtable’s performance at the Museum of Modern Art commissioned for the Performa 15 biennial, the pre-show soundtrack included an ominous minor key southern rap instrumental by Three 6 … Read More
Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Daniel Heidkamp; Sunset Park, New York. “I often write about my paintings,” Daniel Heidkamp told me. “Thinking about my work through literary terms has definitely helped to shape the solo shows … Read More
Phillips president Michael McGinnis will be stepping down from his position and leaving the company, he announced in an email to staff. He will be pursuing “various opportunities in the non-auction side of the art business.”“My tenure with Phillips has … Read More
Today the New Foundation Seattle named artist Martha Rosler the first recipient of its 100K Prize, which will be given biennially to a notable American female artist. With the award, Rosler will receive $100,000 from the Seattle–based nonprofit arts organization, which … Read More
The artist Martha Wilson answered the door to her apartment wearing a gray suit and tie, with a matching fedora that covered her curious hair, half of which is dyed a reddish orange. Ilona Granet, one of Wilson’s collaborators, stood … Read More
Jonathan Gardner, whose lush, richly colored, cartoon-inflected paintings abound with beautiful ladies (who are quite often topless), elegant patterns, and art-historical references, is now represented by Casey Kaplan in New York.A representative for the gallery, which is based in Manhattan’s Flower … Read More
Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation has named Dr. Martha Lucy deputy director for education and public programs as well as curator, Thom Collins, the museum’s executive director and president, announced today. The appointment takes effect immediately.In a statement, Collins said, “Martha is a … Read More
The 24th Outsider Art Fair opens in New York at the Metropolitan Pavilion on January 21, 2016, and runs through January 24. The fair features 59 exhibitors from 13 countries showing work by newly discovered or self-taught artists. A full … Read More
Lower East Side gallery Lisa Cooley has announced that it now represents Fiona Connor. Connor was the subject of a solo show at the gallery last summer. That exhibition included a replica of a concrete drinking fountain from Tompkins Square … Read More
Last Friday, while waiting in line to see Jesper Just and FOS’s Performa commission, one chicly dressed attendee could be heard saying, “I love this idea of ‘Don’t have a performance within your performance.’ ” Alas, there was a performance in … Read More
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age” is on view at Museum Brandhorst in Munich through April 30, 2016. Featuring 230 works by 107 artists, the exhibition is … Read More
Late last month, FotoFocus and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati hosted a symposium, titled “Mapplethorpe +25,” which took a look back at the dramatic events that surrounded the exhibition “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment” a quarter century earlier. As … Read More
Last Monday afternoon, the artist Uri Aran staged a collaborative performance at Gavin Brown’s Lower East Side space that incorporated art, jazz, dance, and even bagels. The end result was a non-linear and at times absurdist exploration of group dynamics … Read More
Alec Baldwin has more of a casual relationship with the art world, one consisting mostly of out-bidding bankers at Hamptons charity auctions and flirting with the idea of opening a gallery because it would “be really cool.” Yet on Tuesday … Read More
Since 1986, Franklin Parrasch has owned six New York galleries, and the one he currently helms is on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. This January, Parrasch will expand his reach to include the West Coast, where he and Christopher Heijnen will … Read More
At Art Basel Miami Beach, an annual product-placement festival for liquor and fashion brands that runs for a few days in South Beach every December, a company named ROE is offering 24/7 caviar delivery. The tagline is “You Don’t Need … Read More
As its title suggests, film critic Dennis Lim’s new book, David Lynch: The Man From Another Place, is not a standard biography. But how could it be when its subject is an artist who has so consistently defied the typical rules of film and television over the course of … Read More
To make his paintings of embracing lovers and running horses, Austin Lee relies on a series of “and thens.” First he makes a drawing on his iPad, and then he exports that sketch to Photoshop, and then he prints the Photoshop mock-up, and … Read More
The curators of a new exhibition titled “Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age,” which runs at Munich’s Museum Brandhorst through April 30, aim to do no less than “revise the history of painting since 1960,” as they write in … Read More
On the stretch of Wilshire Boulevard opposite the Los Angeles County Museum of Art there sits a large slab of the Berlin Wall. Contrary to that old Missing Persons song—“nobody walks in L.A.!”—people were bustling about in front of it … Read More
Today the Brooklyn Museum played host to the 6th Annual Brooklyn Real Estate Summit, which became a hot-button source of controversy earlier this month after anti-gentrification activists criticized the nature of the event and the museum’s involvement with it. The theme for … Read More
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Carlos Vega: Faith Need Not Fear Reason” is currently on view at Jack Shainman’s West 24th Street location in New York. The exhibition is on view until December 5.
Yesterday, the Prix Net Art named its 2015 winner: Constant Dullaart, a Dutch artist known for his conceptual work that deals with the way software and technology sometimes seem to perform on their own. Dullaart is the second winner of … Read More
Bentonville, Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced today that it has acquired Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (L.A.), 1991, which sold last week at Christie’s postwar and contemporary evening sale for $7,669,000, a record for the late artist.The piece involves around 50 … Read More
On Sunday night, Maya Lin was standing in the main hall of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., next to a sculpture of Maya Lin. It was not of her own design, nor did it look anything like her … Read More
Well, look at that! Three of my favorite things came together really nicely for the 25th-anniversary cover of Martha Stewart Living: Will Cotton, sugar, and Martha Stewart.Cotton, who has painted Katy Perry, a cover for this magazine, and many beautiful ladies surrounded … Read More
“The store is a temporary buildout that is supposed to look like our International headquarters in the top of a skyscraper in Hong Kong,” the artist Eric Mast told me over e-mail as a way to explain the pop-up that … Read More
The November sales of Impressionist, modern, and contemporary art in New York took in $2.33 billion over the course of a ten-day auction spree, down from the May sales in New York, which took in a record $2.7 billion.The sales … Read More
The slope at Buttermilk, a ski park in Aspen, Colorado, is home to the extreme sports competition the Winter X Games and, on average, 300 inches of snow per year. In addition to intense weather and feats of athletic prowess, … Read More
Christie’s Sotheby’s PhillipsOver the past few years, the art world has become quite used to concluding each November auction season with fresh new records, and news that the grand totals from the evenings sales of Impressionist, modern, and contemporary art … Read More
Emory Vodka, “a new ultra-premium line of 100% corn-based, Naturally Gluten Free vodka with a unique design concept,” will “launch” a “subliminal guerrilla marketing campaign” during Art Basel Miami Beach and “the unique brand marketing platform that Art Basel and … Read More
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Thornton Dial: Works on Paper” is on view at Marianne Boesky’s East 64th Street location in New York until December 19 and features works created between 1990 and … Read More
Sotheby’s capped its auction week yesterday with a respectable contemporary day sale that brought in $98 million. With 323 out of 418 lots finding buyers, 80 percent of the works that went on the block sold. Although some momentum was lost … Read More
Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Louise Fili; Kips Bay, New York. “They were going to raise their rent from $12,500 to $50,000 per month, just like that!” Louise Fili said, discussing a Manhattan restaurant whose logo she designed … Read More
The nonprofit philanthropic arts organization VIA Art Fund has announced its fall 2015 grant recipients, who received a combined total of $190,000.In recognition of work that falls within VIA’s three core values of “artistic production, thought leadership, and public engagement,” the … Read More
The New York evening sales concluded tonight with the Impressionist and modern sale at Christie’s, which racked up $145.5 million, well above its low estimate of $108.8 million—a quite successful tally accrued during a slow, steady waltz through a list of 59 relatively low-priced … Read More
Let’s begin with a warning.If you are going to be able to see Xavier Cha’s current show in New York at 47 Canal—a five day affair that closes this Sunday, November 15—it would be best to stop reading right now. … Read More
The opening of Manifesta 11, in Zurich, is still more than seven months away, but today reps from the roving European biennial announced that they have selected Palermo, Italy, on the island of Sicily, as the site of Manifesta 12, … Read More
The International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO), which has run annually in Madrid since 1981, will hold a 2016 edition in Lisbon from May 26 through May 29, 2016, the art fair announced today.ARCOlisbon will open at the Fábrica Nacional da Cordoaria, in Belém, … Read More
Christie’s finished out its contemporary-art auctions in New York with a morning sale and an afternoon sale Wednesday that offered about 400 lots and raked in $88.8 million in total. About 81 percent of the 224 lots in morning sale found buyers, while about 76 percent of the 175 lots … Read More
Tavares Strachan, the Nassau, Bahamas-born artist, makes conceptual works that tackle science, sociology, history, and technology. His latest exhibition, “Seeing is Forgetting the Thing that You Saw,” is on view now at Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco through December 11. Its focus … Read More
An enormous round of applause rang out in the Sotheby’s salesroom following its contemporary art evening sale tonight in New York, as the auction house wrapped perhaps the first solidly positive sale of the past week, totaling $294.9 million, over a low … Read More
Earlier this week, Bright Lyons—the Downtown Brooklyn store run by the collector Paul Bright that specializes in art and antiques—unveiled a new website that contains a browsable selection of around 600 works from Bright’s collection.Bright, who also just released a book about … Read More
James Cohan now represents Mernet Larsen, the gallery announced today. The 75-year-old painter last showed in New York at Johannes Vogt Gallery in 2012, which also marked her first solo show in Manhattan. The year before, Larsen showed in a … Read More
John Michael Boling is an artist currently based in Athens, Georgia. In the past, Boling has served as associate director of Rhizome and was a the creator of the infamous website 53 o’s. His work has been shown internationally at … Read More
Last year, news outlets began reporting that the militant group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria had begun bombing and bulldozing cultural heritage sites and artifacts, some dating back to ancient times. The losses this far include … Read More
Independent New York, the art fair that runs concurrently with the Armory Show in March, has shared the details of its 2016 edition. The fair, previously held at the former Dia building in Chelsea, which was recently sold, will open … Read More
The trend of cooler bidding that has defined these New York sales continued Tuesday night at Christie’s postwar and contemporary art evening sale, where notable flops and a few withdrawn lots accounted for a tepid $331.8 million haul, just over … Read More
Phillips wound down its auction week in New York with a day sale of 20th-century and contemporary art that saw a fairly mediocre sell-through rate of 72 percent, with 159 of 221 lots finding buyers. That sell-through rate was almost identical to the … Read More
Earlier today the United States Artists grant-making organization announced its 2015 fellows. Selected from over 400 nominees from various artistic disciplines, the 37 fellows will each receive a $50,000 reward.The winners in the category of visual arts are: Judith Baca, USA … Read More
On Monday night, Washington D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden held its 40th anniversary gala in, of all places, Lower Manhattan, on the 68th floor of 4 World Trade Center. The gala honored 40 living artists—among them Marina Abramovic, Lynda … Read More
The Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair hits Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar for its seventh edition in late January. The fair’s exhibitor list, released to ARTnews, features new additions from New York, London, Berlin, and elsewhere, and announces new sections for the fair, including … Read More
Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu Couché (1917–18) soared past its already astronomical $100 million on-request estimate en route to a record-smashing price of $170.4 million at Christie’s Monday night, making the magnificent nude portrait the second-most-expensive painting ever sold at auction—and, in a twist, … Read More
On Monday morning, the artist Jeff Koons stood in Gagosian Gallery’s West 21st Street location in Chelsea, discussing his new show at the space with a small gathering of reporters. The exhibition features work from his “Gazing Ball” series. For … Read More
Today, Sotheby’s released financial results for its third quarter, which ended September 20, 2015, reporting a net loss of $17.9 million, equal to 26 cents a share, which was an improvement over the $27.7 million, or 40 cents a share, … Read More
Pyotr Pavlensky, who was previously best known as the Russian performance artist who nailed his scrotum to the street in Red Square to protest the police, has found a way to outdo himself: as The Guardian reports, Pavlensky set fire … Read More
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