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The Most-Read Articles of 2015 A compendium of the most popular pieces published by ARTnews this year10 Art World Things From 2015 That I Don’t Want to Hear About Anymore Including Marina Abramovic The Year in the Galleries of New York … Read More

An annual overview of how female artists and their work fared over the past year in the marketplace and the broader art world. Here is the 2014 edition.“Is the Pope Catholic?” Marilyn Minter said in response to a 2014 survey querying the existence of gender … Read More

The end of the year has arrived. It is a time for looking back, and for catching up on the books, movies, stories, and albums one missed over the past 12 months. Below are a few suggestions for articles to consider … Read More

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Here’s a podcast that the late, great Ellsworth Kelly did with the National Endowment for the Arts around the time he received a 2013 National Medal of Art. Despite beginning by saying, “Words have never been my specialty,” Kelly dives deeply into … Read More

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Below, in honor of the Kimbell Art Museum’s show “Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye,” which Phyllis Tuchman reviewed for these pages last week, is a review of a 1966 show of Caillebotte’s work at Wildenstein Art Gallery, in London. Written … Read More

Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Thirty Nine Years” is currently on view at Susanne Hilberry Gallery. The show, on view until February 13, honors the legacy of Susanne Hilberry at the eponymous contemporary art gallery in Detroit … Read More

Planned Parenthood has reopened the website for Choice Works, an initiative spearheaded by Marilyn Minter. Money donated through the project will be used to provide direct services to women, and to fund local and national advocacy campaigns. Originally created as … Read More

MoMA has announced an unrestricted gift of $40 million from Kenneth C. Griffin, the Chicago-based founder and chief executive of Citadel. The donation is one of the single largest in the museum’s history, and to reflect this, one of the … Read More

Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “A.R. Penck: Early Works” is currently on view at Michael Werner Gallery in London. The exhibition showcases early paintings and sculptures from the German artist created in Dresden in the … Read More

The animated Netflix comedy BoJack Horseman is about an anthropomorphic horse who was once the star of a ’90s family sitcom. He is in love with Diane, a human woman and the ghost writer of his memoir. His rival for her affections is … Read More

More than a quarter of the world’s top 200 art collectors maintain their own museums or exhibition spaces, according to ARTnews. Microsoft’s co-founder, Seattle billionaire Paul Allen, is now a member of this elite coterie. After his propitious launch of … Read More

BARELY LEGALSeveral members of the Wildenstein family will go on trial for tax fraud and money laundering charges, for shipping nearly $250 million worth of art from the U.S. to tax-free Switzerland after the death of their father, Daniel, in … Read More

Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Gina Beavers: Popography” is currently on view at Michael Benevento in Los Angeles. The exhibition, on view until January 9, 2016, appropriates photographs of makeup tutorials from Instagram and investigates … Read More

Alexander Calder (1898–1976), whose career spanned more than half a century, continued to reinvent himself well into the later decades of his life. His work was always about motion, literally and figuratively, as the Tate Modern’s show “Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture” makes clear—his … Read More

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“There’s no reason why New York doesn’t have an outstanding art fair,” said Benjamin Genocchio, who on Thursday was named the new director of the Armory Show. “And I want to find a new model that works in this environment. Basel, they’re … Read More

The 2015 Prix de Rome was awarded earlier today to Magali Reus, the young Dutch artist whose sculptures deal with the relationship of humans to their environments. Through the award, which is given biennially to a contemporary Dutch artist, Reus … Read More

Hartford, Connecticut’s Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Thomas J. Loughman as the institution’s eleventh director and C.E.O., effective February 1, 2016. Loughman currently serves as the associate director of program and planning at the Clark … Read More

The New Foundation Seattle announced today that it has created a grant called the Career Incentive Funds (CIF), which will be awarded to Seattle- and Portland-based artists, curators, and writers. The news comes on the heels of last month’s announcement that … Read More

History has treated painter Gustave Caillebotte unkindly. Caillebotte’s art has been underappreciated ever since his death from a stroke in 1894, at the age of 45. For almost eight decades, he was mostly known as a perspicacious art collector who … Read More

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Dorotheum is responsible for the content of this post.It has been a banner year for Dorotheum, one of Europe’s most prominent auction houses. Auctions across all categories, including fine arts, automobiles, and rare jewels fetched high prices and broke records, catapulting … Read More

The art-media intrigue continues!There has been much speculation about who would replace former Armory Show director Noah Horowitz, who was hired by Art Basel in July. Today, the Armory Show announced Horowitz’s replacement in the top job at the fair: … Read More

Neville Wakefield has been named the curator for the spring 2016 season at Red Bull Studios, the energy-drink-supported art space in Chelsea, which in the past has organized exhibitions by the likes of DIS, Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, and … Read More

The Liverpool Biennial has announced that Kitty Scott will co-curate the 2018 edition. Also announced was Julie Lomax’s appointment as director of development. Since 2012, Scott has been the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of modern … Read More

Changes are afoot at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which announced this morning that it has added four members to its board: businessman Gabriel Brener, philanthropist Mary Klaus Martin, artist Lari Pittman, and hedge-fund manager and art collector … Read More

The genesis of Milwaukee-based artist, curator, and writern Nicholas Frank’s current show “Post Self”—on display now until January 23 at Western Exhibitions in Chicago—comes out of the artist’s relationship with his mother. “It actually all starts from my mom,” Frank … Read More

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The St. Louis Art Museum has acquired Horace Pippin’s 1943 painting Sunday Morning Breakfast. The museum purchased the painting for $1.5 million through New York’s Alexandre Gallery, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which first reported the news. The painting … Read More

The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that Tracey Moffatt will be representing Australia at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Melbourne–based curator Natalie King will be curating her work, which will be shown at the Australian Pavilion in the Giardini.In … Read More

The Andy Warhol Foundation announced today that photographer Catherine Opie has been elected to its board, which also includes Deborah Kass, Carrie Mae Weems, and Adam Weinberg.The news comes as Opie, who is also on the board of MOCA Los … Read More

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Earlier this year, Hank Willis Thomas selected a week’s worth of exhibitions for “Pictures at an Exhibition,” a daily feature on the ARTnews site that highlights noteworthy shows around the world. This week, Dawn Kasper, currently based in Kingston, New York, is taking on the … Read More

The next time you have a few minutes for a little video watching, I recommend hopping on over to the website Scenes from the Studio, which has a number of great, bite-size videos of studio visits with artists in New York. … Read More

Dread Scott has the distinction of being one of the few artists to have had his work denounced by a United States president. In 1989, when he was an undergraduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, … Read More

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The peculiar appearance of Forrest Bess, the “pseudo-hermaphrodite” painter, at the 2012 Whitney Biennial still stands out in my memory. The eleven paintings were vivid and haunting, and his story of genital self-surgery, with accompanying photo-documentation, was even harder to … Read More

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In the September 1966 issue of ARTnews, Jeanne Siegel published a roundtable among the 14 members of Spiral, the American-American artist collective, in which they discussed, as the magazine put it, “the contradictions facing them in modern America.” The group, which included Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, … Read More

Matthew Langan-Peck at Svetlana, Sven Loven at Jeffrey Stark, ‘The Home Show,’ ‘NO DICE (1)’ at Kimberly-Klark, U.S. Blues Read More

Philanthropist, political activist, and collector Barbara Lee has donated 20 works by 12 female artists to the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the New York Times reported today.The works, by Eva Hesse, Kara Walker, and others, are estimated at $42 million altogether, … Read More

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On Friday evening—a few hours after a woman at Art Basel Miami Beach was stabbed multiple times in the neck with an X-Acto knife while walking by the booths, which prompted passersby to dismiss the pooling blood as performance art—the collective … Read More

Assemble, a London-based architecture collective, has won the 2015 Turner Prize for its work redesigning derelict houses in Liverpool. The award, which includes a £25,000 ($37,700) prize, was presented by Kim Gordon of the band Sonic Youth this afternoon at an award … Read More

“The artists get to keep 100 percent of what they sell because they deserve it,” the producer, rapper, and art collector Swizz Beatz yelled enthusiastically from a stage in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood Saturday night, followed by a bevy of air … Read More

At one distant end of the Art Basel week spectrum, far away from the one with all the bald Frenchmen wearing pink pants, the visual artist and musician Narwhalz (Of Sound)—government name Brian Blomerth—performed a set of abstract Gameboy music … Read More

The Dutch collector Bert Kreuk, artist Danh Vo, and Berlin gallerist Isabella Bortolozzi have resolved their two-year legal dispute over a site-specific installation at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. After a six-hour negotiation today, all parties have agreed to withdraw their claims … Read More

The latest editions of the Venice Biennale and Istanbul Biennial recently ended their runs, and released news that each had set new records for attendance: more than 500,000 people for Venice, and 545,000 for Istanbul. The graph above takes a … Read More

A little-known part of Clyfford Still’s oeuvre are his “replicas”—near-identical copies of his past works. Currently the subject of a show at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, the “replicas,” the Abstract Expressionist said, were ways of working through ideas so … Read More

With all of the attention being paid to women artists—both at Art Basel Miami Beach and at the all-woman show at the Rubell Collection in Miami—and to figuration (the Deitch/Gagosian exhibition in the Wynwood District), it’s worth throwing the spotlight on … Read More

“Power,” not unlike a sheet of Bounty paper towels, “is disposable,” the artist Will Ryman told me over the phone earlier this week. Known for addressing politics through material metaphors, the artist has used this analysis as the basis for Freedom (2014), … Read More

Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys at Raven Row, Stuart Middleton at Carlos Ishikawa, and Rachel Rose at the Serpentine Read More

Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Marepe: Armazém de Mim” is on view at Galeria Luisa Strina. The exhibition, which is the artist’s fourth solo show at the gallery, is on view through January 30, 2016.

At 9:00 p.m. on Thursday in Miami Beach, when a torrential thunderstorm caused flooding on much of Collins Avenue, the surge charge on an UberX had reached a rate of 9.9. A ride that would normally cost $10 now cost … Read More

When I arrived at The Nautilus Hotel Friday afternoon for Tyson and Scott Reeder’s poolside Beach Painting Club—which in the past has happened in locations like Far Rockaway and Easthampton—it was already raining. But that didn’t stop Tyson and the … Read More

Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Wallace Whitney; Bronx, New York. “Whether it’s good or not, you have to be completely open to what you’re doing in the moment,” Wallace Whitney said while peering at an unfinished … Read More

Darja Bajagić at New Galerie, Pepo Salazar at Galerie Joseph Tang, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at Centre Pompidou, and more Read More

You can now make love to works of art, thanks to a condom company called Made in Love. [Hyperallergic]Advisers to the U.N.’s Human Rights Council have asked the Saudi Arabian government to prevent the “unlawful” execution of Ashraf Fayadh, a Palestinian poet and … Read More

We now know the reason for Bret Easton Ellis’s high-profile presence with Alex Israel at Art Basel Miami Beach this year. It’s been revealed that the Gagosian Gallery’s Beverly Hills outpost will present a series of collaborations between the American … Read More

Andy Warhol used to treat Mr. Chow’s on 57th Street as his den room, dining often with younger artists such as Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Keith Haring. So, perhaps as a belated thank you for all that high-end Chinese … Read More

At a panel discussion in Miami Thursday, Aspen Art Museum director Heidi Zuckerman revealed that in conjunction with the opening of Mickalene Thomas’s exhibition this spring at the museum, she will be inviting people into the museum who specialize in … Read More

The New Art Dealers Alliance fair, which opened Thursday morning to VIP collectors, is the much more modest counterpart to the behemoth that is Art Basel Miami Beach, but it is not immune to displays of outlandish wealth. For instance, … Read More

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The Pulse Contemporary Art Fair announced today that Brooklyn- and Ho Chi Minh City–based artist Trong Gia Nguyen has won the fair’s 2015 Miami Beach Pulse Prize. Nguyen’s work was brought to the fair by mc2gallery, which is based in Milan.At Pulse, … Read More

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After being inside of a massive and hectic art fair, the scene at Collins Park on Wednesday night for the Art Basel Miami Beach Public program of performances—which premiered privately on Tuesday but opened for the general public last night—felt … Read More

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Art Basel Miami Beach opened its doors this morning to Earth’s primo art collectors, who perused the offerings from 267 galleries en route to snapping up works by blue-chip artists such as Picasso and Frank Stella, who continues his hot … Read More

For a split second after looking at the artist Andrei Koschmieder’s work at the Art Basel booth for Brooklyn gallery Real Fine Arts, I felt less like I was at an art fair in Miami and more like I was … Read More

One of the more edifying recent developments in the art-writing landscape has been the fast rise of Topical Cream, an online-publishing outfit that bills itself as “a media platform focusing on women working in FAT: fashion, art and technology.” Over … Read More

The U.S. French Embassy announced today that sculptor Carl Andre and gallerist Paula Cooper were honored with France’s Order of Arts and Letters, given to those who make significant contributions to French arts and culture. Andre was named commandeur of … Read More

The 13th edition of the New Art Dealers Association’s Miami Beach fair opens Thursday, December 3, at its new location in the Fontainebleau Hotel, which is closer to the Miami Beach Convention Center, where the main fair Art Basel Miami Beach … Read More

As Art Basel Miami Beach brings the world’s dealers to South Beach, word has gotten out that two major European galleries are planning incursions into the New York City market.Brussels-based Almine Rech Gallery plans to open a space on the Upper East … Read More

Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: Jumana Manna’s one-person show is on view at Chisenhale Gallery in London. The exhibition, comprised of a new feature-length film and an installation of sculptures, closes December 13.

The Noguchi Museum has named architect Tadao Ando and artist Elyn Zimmerman as the winners of the 2016 Isamu Noguchi Award, which is given annually “to individuals who share [museum founder] Noguchi’s spirit of innovation, global consciousness, and East-West exchange,” according to … Read More

Perhaps hoping to ease the shame of showing up to an art fair still rocking the mark of a late night out imprinted on your right hand, Exhibition A, the online edition-hawking site, has recruited a few big-name artists to design … Read More

Can you copyright silence? It would appear so—SoundCloud has taken down a John Cage “4'33"” remix. [New York Magazine]Rhizome relaunches their reviews section with a criticism of the Wrong Biennale. [Rhizome]Climate-change activists protested British Petroleum at the Tate Britain over … Read More

The Dutch collector Bert Kreuk, artist Danh Vo, and Berlin gallerist Isabella Bortolozzi have resolved their two-year legal dispute over a site-specific installation at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. After a six-hour negotiation today, all parties have agreed to withdraw their claims … Read More

To mark World AIDS Day, the New York–based arts nonprofit Visual AIDS, which supports HIV-positive artists and fights the disease through art, released a slide show called Radiant Presence, with images of works in the organization’s Artist+ Registry, which is the largest database of works … Read More

Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Thomas Kong/John Neff” is currently on view at Night Club Gallery in Chicago, showcasing collages by Thomas Kong as well as photographs and objects by John Neff. The … Read More

The 2015 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the last major art fair of the calendar year, opens on Thursday, December 3, with previews beginning Wednesday, December 2. Comprised of nine different sections, the fair will include 267 international galleries … Read More

Leslie Waddington, whose London gallery offered master-class shows of postwar American art, and who was known for championing up-and-coming British artists during the late 1960s, has died at 81. A statement from Stéphane Custot, the co-owner of Waddington Custot Galleries, … Read More

Jackson Pollock’s black paintings are finally getting their time in the limelight. At the Dallas Museum of Art, “Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots,” which is on view through March 20, features 31 of the 50 or so black paintings the artist … Read More

This past September, Noah Horowitz, clean-cut, in his mid-30s, and with a mild professorial mien, arrived on time for our interview at Cookshop, a restaurant in the heart of New York’s Chelsea art district. He unbuttoned his suit jacket, sat … Read More

The Watermill Center, a so-called “performance laboratory” founded by avant-garde director Robert Wilson in an abandoned Western Union facility on Long Island, turns ten next year. To celebrate, the center has organized a yearlong schedule of events and programs.Most notably, … Read More

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New York’s Andrea Rosen Gallery announced today that it now represents multidisciplinary artist Simon Fujiwara. Fujiwara held his first one-person exhibition in New York at Andrea Rosen in 2013 and will see his next exhibitions taking place in Tokyo, at the Obayashi Foundation … Read More

Filmmaker Seamus Harahan, who is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has won the 2015 Film London Jarman Award, which was presented at London’s Whitechapel Gallery along with £10,000 (about $15,100) and a commission for Channel 4’s short-form arts show, Random … Read More

One afternoon earlier this month, the Cape Town, South Africa–based group Chimurenga, which bills itself as a “multi-tiered programming platform,” settled into the Performa Hub in Tribeca for a short-term residency that proved to be one of the more multifarious projects in this year’s performance-art biennial, Performa 15.First, some background. … Read More

All things considered, I enjoy living in New York City. With that said, it can often feel deeply absurd and almost unlivable, like waiting in a perpetual line for some kind of artisanal ramen that you know is never going … Read More

Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Karl Haendel: Organic Bedfellow, Feral Othello” is on view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York. The exhibition, showcasing new pencil drawings from the Los Angeles–based artist, is … Read More

The Arts Writers Grant Program announced its 2015 recipients on its website this week. Among this year’s winners are New York Times critic Martha Schwendener and novelist Lynne Tillman.Co-supported by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation, Arts Writers Grants are … Read More

The 2015 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the last major art fair of the calendar year, opens on Thursday, December 3, with previews beginning Wednesday, December 2. Comprised of nine different sections, the fair will include 267 leading international galleries from 32 … Read More

There are major streets in downtown Miami that have been effectively hollowed out by development, impossible to traverse and made useless in the name of progress. It is a city of luxury high-rises and scaffolding. On a recent trip, at … Read More

The Armory Show announced the exhibitors for its 2016 edition, with the art fair once again returning to Piers 92 and 94 in New York. Pier 94, home to the Contemporary section, includes 113 galleries, and Pier 92, the Modern section, … Read More

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