Friday, June 24, 2016
Tony Feher, the American sculptor whose low-key work involving everyday objects captured the transience of life, died today of cancer-related causes. He was 60.Feher's work involved the careful, deliberate use of everyday materials, which he just barely altered. Often these were things … Read More
Thursday, April 14, 2016
At the annual Planned Parenthood spring luncheon today at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan, Marilyn Minter, the organization's Woman of Valor honoree, unveiled a new Miley Cyrus portrait, with a short introduction from the subject herself.In a video, Cyrus, lounging in … Read More
Monday, March 21, 2016
Thomas Nozkowski has painted almost every day for the past 40 years, and the works he has made in that time are united less by a signature style than by an enduring inventiveness, moving through a range of lively, even rollicking, abstract languages.In his latest … Read More
Friday, March 18, 2016
The Guggenheim Museum’s conservation department has received a $3 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its conservation efforts.The grant, which the museum will need to match two-to-one (raising an additional $6 million), endows the position of deputy director and chief … Read More
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
The video artist Sondra Perry, who recently showed work at MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” and the Studio Museum in Harlem’s “A Constellation” exhibition, makes work centered on what she describes as “the abstraction of subjecthood” and the imagining of the … Read More
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Upon entering the contemporary pier of the Armory Show on Wednesday, the first thing fair attendees saw was a gigantic board hanging from the ceiling that proclaims, in bold letters, “ALL SO FUCKING AFRICAN.” Further complicating things was what’s installed below it: … Read More
A few weeks ago, the Swiss Institute finally managed to buy grasshoppers for an upcoming event. The following night, the New York institution was going to host the United States book launch of Swiss artists Admir Jahic and Comenius Roethlisberger's Artists' Recipes, and ... Read More
Friday, January 22, 2016
In honor of her two shows at Lehmann Maupin and her show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles opening this weekend, below is a profile of Catherine Opie from the September 1998 issue of ARTnews. —The Editors"L.A. Story" By Suzanne MuchnicFrom the … Read More
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
The Smithsonian announced that philanthropist David Rubenstein, cofounder of the Carlyle Group private equity firm, has given $10 million to the institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s capital campaign. With this donation, the museum will have already … Read More
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
To mark the 35th anniversary of its "Concentrations" series, which focuses on emerging and underrepresented artists, the Dallas Museum of Art announced today that it plans to host its first international edition of the series, with artist and dealer Margaret Lee in Hong Kong.“Concentrations HK: … Read More
Ever since Frank Stella said that a painting is “a flat surface with paint on it—nothing more,” in the early 1960s, his body of work has appeared to grow steadily outwards. The freestanding architectural works he has made since the mid-'80s … Read More
Monday, January 4, 2016
The New York–based arts organization Rhizome, which focuses on the preservation and promotion of digital-born and digital-based art, announced today that it has received a $600,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fully fund its Webrecorder archiving tool.Webcorder, … Read More

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Accommodation and Hospitality Supervisors Maggie from Beauport, spends time with pastimes such as bowls and candle making. Will soon undertake a contiki trip that will include going to the Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley).
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