Newly Discovered Rooms in Peru Suggest Ancient Society Was Ruled by Women
In September, archaeologists in Peru uncovered an elaborate throne room and hall that they believe could indicate that powerful women ruled more than 1,300 years ago. The throne room and hall were...
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Oh La La! Interrupts Regular Programming at Art Basel Paris for Playful...
For the first time since it landed in Paris two years ago, Art Basel has taken up the freshly renovated Grand Palais. On this occasion, the fair has launched a new initiative dubbed Oh La La! As a...
View ArticleIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum Acquires $22 M. Residential Building
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston has purchased a 62-unit apartment building for $22.8 million, securing the only non-museum property on the block adjacent to its new wing. Located at 14...
View ArticleThe Best Booths at Art Basel Paris, from Enigmatic Paintings to a Foreboding...
France finally has a fair at the Grand Palais again in the form of Art Basel Paris, which made its debut outing at the iconic structure after two editions in a temporary space. As sunlight shone...
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Mellon Foundation Launches $25 M. Fund to Support Arts Organizations Along...
The Mellon Foundation, the US’s largest philanthropic supporter of arts and humanities, has launched a $25 million fund that will support arts organizations based in the US-Mexico borderlands. Called...
View ArticleTexas Art Museum Briefly Shutters Show About Cowboys, Race, and Gender After...
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, closed and then reopened an exhibition that unpacked the concept of the cowboy, critiquing it through the lens of race, gender, sexuality,...
View ArticleDutch Museum Buys Van Gogh Painting for More Than $9 M.
Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Woman (Gordina de Groot) has been picked up by the Noordbrabants Museum in ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. According to the Art Newspaper, the museum bought the 1885...
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Falling Apart: A Conversation Between Artists Miranda July and Cindy Sherman
Editor’s Note: This conversation between Cindy Sherman and Miranda July was originally realized for #37 Miranda July: New Society, part of the Quaderni series published by Fondazione Prada. That...
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Paris Art Week Is Packed With Satellite Fairs for Every Taste
The art world is still flush from Paris fever, with international galleries vying for a foothold in the City of Light, particularly since Brexit in 2016 and the arrival of Art Basel Paris three years...
View ArticleThe Best Shows to See Around Paris During Art Basel
With Art Basel Paris having firmly cemented its place in the French art calendar, museums have smartly begun saving their best exhibitions for the mid-October opening slots. That means there’s much to...
View ArticleSome Art Basel Paris Exhibitors Forced to Protect Their Artworks from Leaks...
On Wednesday morning, the first VIPs queuing up outside the Grand Palais for Art Basel Paris were bathed in sunshine. Inside the historic, glass-covered exhibition hall it was like a greenhouse – hot...
View ArticleThis Fall, Institutions in Belgium Celebrate Artist James Ensor
Sitting on the Flemish coast, the city of Ostend in Belgium overlooks the English Channel, its miles of beaches making it a popular seaside resort since the first half of the 19th century. It’s also...
View ArticleCyndi Lauper’s Farewell Tour Features Yayoi Kusama, Daniel Wurtzel, Refik...
Cyndi Lauper’s farewell tour began this past weekend featuring art by Yayoi Kusama. During the first two nights of the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour” in Montreal on October 18 and Toronto...
View ArticleAlicia Henry, Artist Whose Modest Works Asked Big Questions About Visibility,...
Alicia Henry, an artist whose sculptural works elegantly considered what it means to be seen, died on October 16 at 58. She had for the past two years been battling cancer, according to her...
View ArticleGuggenheim Outpost in Basque Nature Reserve Faces Opposition from...
Plans to establish a new outpost of Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum in Guernica and the Urdaibai biosphere reserve in Spain have sparked controversy, according to the Guardian. While proponents argue that...
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Newsmakers: Dealer David Lewis Discusses Mounting a Thornton Dial Exhibition...
Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Next month, Hauser & Wirth will mount an...
View ArticleHudson Yards Sculpture ‘Vessel’ Reopens With Steel Mesh Barriers After...
Visitors will once again be able to walk up The Vessel, Thomas Heatherwick‘s gleaming sculpture at Hudson Yards in New York City, after several suicides closed public access in 2021. The structure...
View ArticleAlex Katz, Carrie Mae Weems, and Mark Bradford Receive National Medal of the...
Carrie Mae Weems, Alex Katz, and Mark Bradford have been awarded the National Medal of Arts, a designation for US artists and philanthropists given out by the government. The merit is decided by the...
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Sotheby’s Will Auction First Artwork Made by Humanoid Robot Ai-Da Using AI...
Sotheby’s will auction its first artwork made by a humanoid robot using artificial intelligence algorithms. On October 31, the auction house will sell A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024) by the...
View ArticleArcheologists Discover Hidden Tomb in Ancient City of Petra and a Skeleton...
British archaeologists recently made a discovery that sounds like something straight out of an Indiana Jones movie: a secret tomb under the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, according to a press...
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