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In 2012, the Hammer launched Made in L.A., a biennial focused on Los Angeles. Some 61 artists and collectives working primarily in that city participated in the first edition, from young guns like Math Bass to established figures like Channa Horwitz. This year's edition, … Read More

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Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Jan De Cock: Abstract Capitalism" is on view at Office Baroque in Brussels. The exhibition features 18 new "Abstract Capitalist" sculptures as well as 9 "Memorial" drawings. It is … Read More

The Art Gallery of Ontario has named Honolulu Museum of Art director Stephan Jost as its new director, The Globe and Mail reports. He takes over for Matthew Teitelbaum, who left the Toronto museum last April to take the helm of … Read More

In a piece published today in Interview magazine, the Texan artists Mark Food and Will Boone engage in a sprawling conversation, touching on bohemian studio environments, getting wasted, making art with the anti-art collective I Love You Baby, and Flood's tenure working … Read More

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After a law passed in Denmark that allows authorities to search asylum-seeking refugees' homes and confiscate their belongings, Ai Weiwei protested by closing his show at the Faurschou Foundation in Copenhagen, the Guardian reports. The show, titled "Ai Weiwei: Ruptures," … Read More

Curator John Elderfield and the daughter of artist Richard Diebenkorn were among the first witnesses called by the plaintiffs to testify in the Knoedler & Company forgery trial Tuesday afternoon. The trial, which began this week in United States District … Read More

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Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center announced that, beginning February 13, admission to its galleries will be free for at least three years, though tickets will still be required for some special events and performances. This change was made possible by a … Read More

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The Mattress Factory, a contemporary-art museum in Pittsburgh, has announced that James Turrell has donated one of his "Skyspace" works to the museum's permanent collection. Estimated at $1 million, the gift is the largest in the museum’s history.“He called us … Read More

Total sales at Christie's in 2015 couldn't match the heights of 2014, the auction house announced today. The aggregate haul came to $7.4 billion, which is down 5 percent compared to the previous year.The total is still the second-highest year-long … Read More

Takeshi Murata is an artist living and working out of Saugerties, New York, who has exhibited work at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, … Read More

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Artist Thornton Dial, who used found objects, fabric, and paint to make astounding, intricate wall reliefs and sculptures that harbor nuanced narratives at once grand and intimate, died yesterday, Monday, January 25, at his home in Emelle, Alabama. The cause of death was … Read More

The nonprofit art organization LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) announced today that it will be hosting the ninth Rob Pruitt Flea Market from February 13 to 14 in Downtown Los Angeles. The flea market will bring together “top artists and … Read More

Today Christine Macel, the chief curator of Paris’s Centre Pompidou, was named artistic director of the 2017 Venice Biennale, which is set to run May 13 through November 26, 2017.The Biennale’s president, Paolo Baratta, said in a statement, “In the wake of … Read More

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

One of the nice things about the Outsider Art Fair, which opens its 24th edition tonight with a vernissage at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, is that, by and large, the price point is significantly lower than at a contemporary fair of … Read More

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

The Quietus reported today that the musician and artist Fatima Al Qadiri has announced details of her new full-length album, Brute, to be released March 4 on the British label Hyperdub. The record's cover features a sculpture by the artist … Read More

Metrograph, a new hub for independent cinema, will soon open its doors in the heart of the Lower East Side gallery district, and the initial lineup looks pretty fantastic. Announced today, the first slate of films includes selections from what it … Read More

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In a fairly damning white paper, the National Center for Art Research at Southern Methodist University offered a stark dismissal of the lengthy study on funding models for minority arts organizations that was released by the DeVos Institute of Arts … Read More

On Wednesday afternoon I met up with the artists Loney Abrams and Johnny Stanish—the creators and curators of the ongoing Hotel Art project, which stages and documents extremely temporary art shows in unorthodox spaces for the ultimate purpose of an … Read More

Ryan Lee will now represent Emma Amos, the painter known for being the only woman in the short-lived collective Spiral. The Chelsea gallery will have its first solo show of Amos's work—and the 77-year-old artist's first New York solo show … Read More

The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles released the artist list today for the 2016 edition of its biennial, "Made in L.A.," and it is an intriguing one. It includes just 26 names, from promising young upstarts like Dena Yago and Martine Syms to … Read More

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The World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, a multi-day conference where some of the most privileged and insulated people on the entire planet gather together to convince one another that they are "committed to improving the state of … Read More

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Andrea Rosen Gallery announced today that it now represents artist Hayden Dunham. Dunham "creates entire circulatory and structural systems," the gallery said dramatically in a press release, though she is perhaps best known for her alter-ego, QT, a quasi-fictional pop … Read More

In 1974, a monolithic, fire-red painting by Jack Whitten debuted in the Whitney's lobby gallery. Whitten made the painting, titled Sorcerer’s Apprentice, by laying the canvas on the floor, dragging a squeegee across it to mix colors, and letting the … Read More

In 2014, in Los Angeles, a small art fair opened at Paramount Ranch Western Town, a group of sets—and now a national park attraction—that was previously used for shooting Hollywood movies. The fair, named Paramount Ranch after its location, was founded … Read More

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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

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Earlier today, the Pritzker Architecture Prize named its 2016 winner: Alejandro Aravena. The Chile-based architect, who is directing this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, will receive $100,000 as part of winning the world's most important architecture prize.In an essay for the … Read More

In addition to its Milan and London spaces, Massimo De Carlo gallery will soon add a third location, in Hong Kong. To celebrate the gallery's 30th anniversary, the new space is set to open on March 21 with a show … Read More

Christie's next Impressionist and modern evening sale will be held February 2 in London. Highlights include Marc Chagall's Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel, estimated at £4.8 million–£6.8 million ($6.9 million–$9.8 million); a Pablo Picasso still life from 1937, "painted … Read More

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Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: Hannah Starkey's seventh solo show at Maureen Paley in London is on view through January 24.

ARTnews Ltd., which publishes these pages, announced today that it has hired Vincent Fremont as its new CEO. Fremont helped found the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts after the artist’s death in 1987, and served as its sales … 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

Paramount Ranch 3, the outré Los Angeles contemporary art fair, announced the artist and exhibitor list for its third edition today. By our count, this year's fair has 51 exhibitors and 78 artists.New York is well-represented, with Bridget Donahue, Real Fine … Read More

This week (it started Sunday and is ending Thursday), the artist Rutherford Chang will be live-streaming his playing of Game Boy Tetris on Rhizome's website, presented in tandem with the New Museum and broadcast via the gaming platform Twitch. The … Read More

The Chrysler Museum of Art's director, Erik Neil, announced today that Lloyd DeWitt has been appointed chief curator and curator of European art. DeWitt plans to begin his new position at the Norfolk, Virginia-based museum in the spring. It will see him leading … Read More

Creative Capital announced today that it will award funding to 46 projects by 63 individual artists in emerging fields (or, types of work that can't be classified under traditional mediums), literature, and performing arts."Our goal is to fund really exciting … Read More

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One of the most thrilling exhibitions to arrive in New York last year was “Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist” at the Whitney, a traveling retrospective of the under-sung African American artist, organized by the Nasher Museum at Duke University. It … Read More

Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: "Nanda Vigo" is on view at Sperone Westwater, New York. The exhibition features a selection of early vintage works from the Italian sculptor and is on view until … Read More

Socrates Sculpture Park announced today that Jess Wilcox will be the outdoor Queens museum's new director of exhibitions, effective immediately. She'll be leaving her position as the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art programs coordinator, which she … Read More

Artforum reports today that Babacar M'Bow was officially fired from his post as executive director of MoCA North Miami on December 31 following a multiple-week suspension stemming from sexual harassment claims. City chief of staff Natasha Colebrook-Williams will temporarily serve as director … Read More

Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: "Jean Baudrillard's photography: The Ultimate Paradox" is currently on view at Château Shatto in Los Angeles, until February 6. The exhibition features works named only for respective cities or … Read More

The Guardian reports that London’s Saatchi Gallery has announced that it will hold an all-female exhibition titled “Champagne Life,” which will include the work of 14 emerging women artists from around the world. The exhibition will open on January 13.The … Read More

On Monday, after Guy Wildenstein was put on trial in Paris for tax fraud and money laundering in France and possibly the United States, a court decided to delay the art dealer's trial until May 4. The New York Times … Read More

The New York Public Library announced yesterday that 180,000 out-of-copyright materials from its digital collections are now available for download, no permission required. This is, according to the NYPL, "intended to facilitate sharing, research and reuse by scholars, artists, educators, … Read More

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A 4,000-piece collection of contemporary Lithuanian art will find a permanent home in a Daniel Libeskind–designed museum, due to open in the country’s capital, Vilnius, in early 2019, The Art Newspaper reports. The museum—a first of its kind for Lithuania—will … Read More

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