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Can a pair of boxer shorts help bring us closer together? That’s one question that artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase thought through as they were creating their latest exhibition, “Big Wash,” at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, on view through June 6. Boxers form a recurring motif in the … [Read More...]
Art Is Everything, a new novel by art critic and law professor Yxta Maya Murray, follows the life of Amanda Ruiz, a queer Chicana performance artist who writes essays about her life and art, over the course of about a decade. When the novel opens, Amanda is on the cusp … [Read More...]
Epic scenes of the kind featured in paintings of battles, coronations, and other major historical events are not the specialty of Nick Quijano, an artist based in Puerto Rico, with an online exhibition hosted by Fort Gansevoort devoted to works geared toward intimate scenes of everyday life around his home … [Read More...]
Adál Maldonado, a key Puerto Rican artist who went by ADÁL, has died of pancreatic cancer at age 72. His passing was confirmed by Taína Caragol, a close friend and a curator at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Over some 45 years, ADÁL created a wide-ranging and experimental … [Read More...]
As the world came to a halt in the spring, I was reading two books simultaneously: How We Became Posthuman, a seminal work from 1999 by N. Katherine Hayles about transformation in the digital age, and Achille Mbembe’s Brutalisme, a philosophical volume on our tumultuous times that had just been published … [Read More...]
After almost a month and a half of fierce debate over the postponement of a much-anticipated retrospective of postwar artist Philip Guston, the exhibition has a new itinerary beginning with an opening now planned for Boston in May 2022. Other dates for the exhibition—which had previously been delayed until as … [Read More...]
As cultural institutions in parts of Brazil begin to reopen, the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announced that it would stage a new in-person exhibition in November that is related to its larger group biennial show postponed until next fall. The new show, titled “Vento” (“Wind” in English), will … [Read More...]
What has been rumored for a year has now been confirmed: collector Raymond J. McGuire, who serves as the chairman of the Studio Museum in Harlem, said on Thursday that he would seek the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City. McGuire, who is also a trustee of the … [Read More...]
Jorge M. Pérez started collecting art almost 50 years ago, when he was in college. His collection, which focuses on contemporary art with an emphasis on the work of artists from Latin America, the United States, and Africa, currently numbers over 1,000 pieces—not including the hundreds he and his wife, Darlene, have … [Read More...]
Collectors based outside major art world hubs like New York, Los Angeles, London, and Hong Kong occupy unique positions in their communities—they have the opportunity to nurture growing creative scenes. Art scene starters support small and midsize art markets and homegrown institutions in locales as diverse as Little Rock, Arkansas, … [Read More...]
With the art world’s fall season now underway, one of the world’s biggest galleries has made a significant hire. Kyla McMillan has joined David Zwirner as director, focusing on sales and artist management. She will be based at the gallery’s New York location and start in her new post … [Read More...]
Erich Marx, a well-known art collector and patron whose decision in the 1990s to donate the bulk of his esteemed collection of contemporary art to the German state transformed the public display of contemporary art in the country, died on Wednesday, September 9, at age 99. The news was announced by … [Read More...]
The organizers of Art Basel Miami Beach announced today that they had been forced to cancel the scheduled 2020 edition of the fair, which was set to take place during the first week of December in Florida. The news was announced after trading closed on the Swiss stock exchange, where the … [Read More...]
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Brigid Berlin, who left behind a life in Manhattan’s high society to find fame in her own right as one of Andy Warhol’s Superstars, has died at the age of 80. Her death was confirmed by Vincent Fremont, a longtime friend who was the executive manager of Warhol’s studio from 1974… [Read More...]
The ever-mysterious, still-under-construction Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles is beginning to take shape. Last October, the museum hired Sandra Jackson-Dumont, formerly the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chairman of education, to be its director and CEO. Now, Jackson-Dumont has announced her hires for … [Read More...]
When Quaker Oats announced that it would change the name of its Aunt Jemima syrup and pancake mix earlier this week after saying that the brand’s “origins are based on a racial stereotype,” the news was seen as an acknowledgement that the brand’s iconic image had played a … [Read More...]
Major museums across the United States have been criticized for their response—or lack thereof—to the killing of George Floyd by police officers. The latest museum to come under fire in that respect is the Palm Springs Art Museum in California. Employees at the museum and members of the Californian art … [Read More...]