A&L Berg Foundation Launches New Program to Support Early-Career Latinx Art...
For seasoned art world professionals, attending the invite-only opening week of the Venice Biennale is par for the course. But for those who are just starting out, being part of the opening week can...
View ArticleNew Study Identifies the UNESCO Heritage Sites Imperiled by Climate Change
A new study has listed the 50 UNESCO World Heritage sites most at risk from climate change, and emphasized the urgent need for the cultural sector to take action. The study, first reported in The Art...
View ArticleGuggenheim to Hold Mid-Career Survey for Former Trustee Rashid Johnson
The Guggenheim Museum in New York will hold a mid-career survey next year for Rashid Johnson, an artist who sat on the institution’s board for seven years. He stepped down from the position last year...
View ArticleAfter Covid-Related Closure, Long Beach’s Compound Charts a New Path Forward...
Compound, an art and wellness nonprofit in Long Beach, California, has named January Parkos Arnall as its executive director. She begins in the post on September 23. Compound was founded in 2020 by...
View ArticleChristie’s Will Celebrate Birth Centenary of Francis Newton Souza With...
Christie’s South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art will have its first non-selling exhibition as part of Asia Week New York’s autumn edition. The 26 works by Francis Newton Souza come from the...
View ArticleNADA Names Nearly 50 Exhibitors for Inaugural Paris Fair
The New Art Dealers Alliance will bring together 46 galleries and nonprofit spaces for its inaugural fair in Paris. Organized in partnership with Paris-based art space The Community, the fair,...
View ArticleIndianapolis Museum of Art Names New Leader Following Diversity Scandal
The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields has named its third president and CEO in four years as it attempts to move past a racism scandal that forced the departure of its longtime leader in 2021....
View ArticleHigh Line Art Relaunches Its 18th Street Billboard Commission with a Glenn...
New York’s High Line Art, the art commissioning platform of the beloved railroad turned pedestrian walkway, is once again getting a dedicated billboard. After nearly a decade hiatus, the organization...
View ArticleLeonard Riggio, Barnes & Noble Founder Who Amassed a Major Art Collection,...
Leonard Riggio, the businessman behind Barnes & Noble who made significant forays into the art world, buying key works of Minimalist art and giving millions of dollars to the Dia Art Foundation,...
View ArticleThe AI-Powered Ask Dalí and Hello Vincent Installations Raise Uncomfortable...
Despite being dead, Salvador Dalí makes for a punctual employee. For the past five years, a digital doppelgänger of the Surrealist has been on call at his eponymous museum in St. Petersburg, Florida....
View ArticleLACMA’s Art+Film Gala to Honor Simone Leigh, with Charli xcx Set to Perform
Brat summer has officially been extended into fall. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will host a special performance by Charli xcx at its annual Art+Film Gala, which each year honors an artist and...
View ArticleThe Future of Japan’s DIC Museum’s Collection, Including Seven Rothko...
Japan’s loss-making, severely indebted chemical company DIC Corporation is reevaluating the future of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, an institution that it owns. DIC Corp’s board of...
View ArticleInquisitive Boy Destroys 3,500-Year-Old Ancient Jar at Israeli Museum
A curious four-year-old boy visiting the Hecht Museum in Israel with his family inadvertently smashed a jar that predates the time of Biblical main characters King David and King Solomon. The boy’s...
View ArticlePrints of Hokusai’s ‘A Great Wave’ Head to Auction in September Amid a Hot...
Two prints of Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic woodblock print will be auctioned by Bonhams and Christie’s during Asia Week New York’s autumn edition for 2024. The sales are notable because interest in...
View ArticleSuzanne Kite Is Making Sure Indigenous People Aren’t Left Out of the AI...
Suzanne Kite, who simply goes by Kite, is an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and researcher, and one of the few Indigenous artists currently working with AI and machine learning, which she has been...
View ArticleThe Little-Known Business of Traveling Exhibitions Is Booming
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Last month, in a Wisconsin court, the...
View ArticleCalifornia College of the Arts Faces $20 M. Budget Deficit, Russian Artist...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES VACANT HOWSE. The California College of the Arts (CCA) is grappling with a severe...
View ArticleWhat Do J.D. Vance, Dimes Square, and the Art World Have in Common? More than...
Last week, Reuters reported that Rockbridge Network, a right-wing Silicon Valley-backed donor organization cofounded by vice-presidential hopeful J.D. Vance in 2019, is working to influence the...
View ArticleWill AI Change Art History Forever?
It’s not often that the work of authenticating art makes mainstream news, but that’s exactly what happened last year when a team of researchers in the UK determined that an anonymous, centuries-old...
View ArticleFormer Frieze Fair Director Picked to Lead London’s National Portrait Gallery
Victoria Siddall, a former executive at the global fair company Frieze, has been tapped to lead the National Portrait Gallery in London. She was chosen by the museum’s board, whose appointment was...
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