Hong Kong was born out of the drug trade. It was the result of the global trading explosion of the 19th century, and an early indication that the Western world, mostly Britain and the United States, would seek maximum profits … Read More
Ever since Ann Goldstein stepped down as director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, at the end of 2013, after about four years on the job, people have whispered about where she might end up next, and her name has … Read More
Lynn Hershman Leeson has recently enjoyed a late-career comeback. Over the past two years, the feminist video artist has had critically acclaimed solo shows at Modern Art Oxford, Bridget Donahue in New York, and the ZKM Center for Art in … Read More
Modern Painters, the nearly 30-year-old magazine that’s part of the Louise Blouin Media stable of art publications, announced today that executive editor Scott Indrisek will be taking over as editor-in-chief, replacing Daniel Kunitz. Joining him at the top of the masthead, … Read More
The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has announced the appointments of Adrienne Edwards as visual arts curator at large and Vincenzo de Bellis as visual arts curator.Edwards, who currently serves as a curator and head of programming at Performa and … Read More
P.P.O.W. announced today that it now represents Betty Tompkins, the feminist artist who, over the past few years, has seen a renewed critical interest in her work. The New York gallery notes, in a release, that Tompkins is a “natural … Read More
Boris Groys’s latest book of essays, In the Flow (Verso Books), has been marketed as being about art on the Internet. This is deceptive. For one thing, Groys’s definition of “art on the Internet” refers not to net art, digital … Read More
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
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
L.A. Habitat is a weekly series that visits with 16 artists in their workspaces around the city.This week’s studio: Diana Thater; Highland Park, Los Angeles.Diana Thater shares her Highland Park studio with her husband, T. Kelly Mason, a sculptor and musician. Thater is … Read More
Today the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens the Met Breuer, its hotly anticipated annex for modern and contemporary art. Many have seen the Met Breuer as a way of bringing the Met up to date, making it an encyclopedic museum … Read More
The New Art Dealers Alliance has released the exhibitor list for NADA New York, its fair that runs every May during Frieze Week. For its fifth edition, NADA will return to Basketball City on Pier 36, on the Lower East … Read More
The Museum of Modern Art announced today that Sarah Suzuki will now be the museum’s curator of drawings and prints. Since 2010, Suzuki has been an associate curator in her department, and now she’ll be working under Christophe Cherix, the … Read More
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
247365, the New York gallery that began as a project space in the so-called “Donut District” in Carroll Gardens, then hopped the East River to occupy a basement on Eldridge Street, and then split for two-story digs on Stanton Street, now has … Read More
'When I first came out here, this place was like a scratchy black-and-white movie. Today it’s promising you a piece of fudge around every corner.' Read More
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Olivia Erlanger: The Oily Actor” is on view at What Pipeline in Detroit through March 26.
This Sunday, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel inaugurates its new Los Angeles space with “Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947–2016.” The show runs the gamut, from Ruth Asawa to Sonia Gomes, creating what seems to be a historical … Read More
Ever since the organizers of Documenta 14 announced that the quinquennial would be held in 2017 in both Kassel, Germany (its typical home base), and Athens, the big question has been: how will you schedule out your travels to see … Read More
Yannick Val Gesto is a Belgian artist living and working in Antwerp. Since 2013, he has shown at the Belgian gallery Levy Delval and exhibited internationally at venues including Higher Pictures in New York, Gloria Knight Gallery in Auckland, New … Read More
The Minneapolis Institute of Art has announced the appointment of Gabriel Ritter as curator of contemporary art, beginning this May. Ritter currently serves as assistant curator of contemporary art at the Dallas Museum of Art, where he organizes exhibitions for … Read More
Michigan State University has announced the appointment of Marc-Olivier Wahler as director of the university’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, effective July 1. Wahler will be replacing the museum’s founding director, Michael Rush, who died in March 2015.In a statement, … Read More
The Washington Post has reported that, for the first time in the institution’s history, the Kennedy Center’s history will focus on hip-hop music for its 2016 to 2017 season and has appointed the rapper and producer Q-Tip to curate.Although the center has … Read More
“Picabia Alert” takes note of shows and publications that include the wily French artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953), aiming to sate Picabia appetites until a retrospective of the artist arrives at the Kunsthaus Zurich and New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2016.There’s … Read More
Late last summer I arrived at a young artist’s Brooklyn studio for a visit that I thought had been set up as an opportunity to get to know the artist’s work better. I’d seen his paintings in a few exhibitions, … Read More
The Art Institute of Chicago announced today that Martha Tedeschi, its deputy director of art and research, will leave her position at the museum in July. She’ll be going to the Harvard Art Museums, where she will become the Elizabeth … Read More
Today, Electric Objects—the digital art platform whose product, the EO1, takes the form of a computer and screen you can purchase for $399 and then load with art when connected to the Internet—announced the Art Club Fund, a new $100,000 … Read More
I used to associate Jonathan Lasker’s impasto loops with the singer Regina’s twisty hair wraps in the music video for her 1986 hit single, “Baby Love.” Lasker’s 1980s paintings, like Elizabeth Murray’s, had a happy overlap with ’80s graphic design, … Read More
New York–based nonprofit Public Art Fund announced today that Chinese billionaire Adrian Cheng has joined its board of directors, which also includes Ugo Rondinone and Rob Pruitt. Despite holding a number of positions in the art world, including both the Tate’s … Read More
Yesterday, the legendary actor, artist, and art enthusiast Sylvester Stallone posted a selfie in front of a painting with the caption “Checking out the in Atlanta Georgia very inspiring much more to follow.” That half-formed thought actually turns out to … Read More
'The exhibition will represent the largest collection of the new art works ever shown in this country, with the exception of the Armory show' Read More
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
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).