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  • Pedro Friedeberg, Surrealist Artist Who Designed the Iconic Hand-Chair, Dies at 90

    Pedro Friedeberg, an artist affiliated with the Mexican offshoot of the Surrealist movement and who is now best known for his absurdist designs, including the iconic Hand-Chair, died on Thursday in San Miguel de Allende. He was 90, according to his New York gallery, Ruiz-Healy Art. Friedeberg’s diverse practice included paintings dense with dreamy imagery read more

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    Pedro Friedeberg, Surrealist Artist Who Designed the Iconic Hand-Chair, Dies at 90

  • Now in Its 45th Edition, Arco Madrid Follows Its Own Measured Tempo

    The 45th edition ofArco Madrid, which runs until Sunday, March 8,opened under an unseasonably cloudy Madrileño sky—an atmospheric departure for a fair more often associated with early spring brightness. InsideIFEMA Madrid, the city’s sprawling exhibition and convention complex, a second surprise awaited. Despite bringing together 211 galleries from 30 countries, the fair floor did not read more

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  • Petrit Halilaj’s Opera of Kosovan Memory and Myth

    Art Review Through his fantastical vignettes, Halilaj suggests curiosity about others as a way to neutralize the forces that lead to difference-based violence. Installation view of Petrit Halilaj: An Opera Out of Time at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (© Petrit Halilaj, 2025 / mennour, Paris, ChertLüdde, Berlin and kurimanzutto, New York and Mexico City; photo Staatliche read more

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    Petrit Halilaj’s Opera of Kosovan Memory and Myth

  • Lebanese Ministry of Culture Urges UNESCO to Grant Enhanced Protections to Cultural Property

    Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture has appealed to UNESCO to provide additional protection for the nation’s cultural heritage as the U.S.–Israel–Iran conflict spills into its southern borders. According to a ministry statement on Wednesday, Culture Minister Ghassan Salamé spoke by phone with Khaled El-Enany, director-general of UNESCO, urging the United Nations agency to intervene on Lebanon’s read more

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  • Forget About Getting Your AI Art Copyrighted

    News The US Supreme Court declines to hear a years-long case on the matter, leaving one famous AI art crusader out in the cold. “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” is the AI-generated image at the center of this legal battle. ( DABUS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons_ Computer scientist Stephen Thaler struck out once again read more

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    Forget About Getting Your AI Art Copyrighted

  • Christie’s Triple-Header 20th and 21st Century Evening Sales Nets $265 M., as London Proves It’s Still a Draw to Collectors

    This week has shown that there’s still a lot of money sloshing around London’s art market; Christie’s three-pronged 21st/20th century evening sale on Thursday took £197.5 million ($265 million), one day after Sotheby’s modern and contemporary auction brought £131 million ($175 million). The result marked a 52 percent increase on the house’s equivalent sale last read more

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    Christie’s Triple-Header 20th and 21st Century Evening Sales Nets 5 M., as London Proves It’s Still a Draw to Collectors

  • Bauhaus Buildings at UNESCO World Heritage Site Damaged in Tel Aviv by Iranian Missile Strike

    Two buildings that are part a UNESCO World Heritage site known as the White City of Tel Aviv were damaged this week during the ongoing missile strikes between Iran and the US and Israel. The Times of Israel first reported on the damage of one of these buildings. The White City is a complex of read more

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  • Zanele Muholi, South African ‘Visual Activist,’ Wins the World’s Top Photography Prize

    Zanele Muholi, an acclaimed photographer and activist whose work celebrates the queer Black experience in South Africa and beyond, has won the Hasselblad Award, the world’s leading photography prize, which carries a cash award of SEK 2,000,000 (approximately $218,000). As part of the award, Muholi will receive a solo exhibition at the Hasselblad Center in read more

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  • Russian Archaeologist Arrested in Poland Amid Ukraine Probe Into Crimean Excavations

    A senior archaeologist at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has been arrested in Poland at the request of Ukrainian authorities, according to The Art Newspaper, who are seeking his extradition over alleged illegal excavations carried out in Crimea. Alexander Butyagin, who heads the Hermitage’s department focused on ancient archaeology of the northern Black read more

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  • 'Lettres Décoratives' Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters' Vibrant Letterforms

    Before digital fonts and the ability to reproduce graphics on a large scale, there were sign painters. Today, printers can spit out countless posters and ads, but there was a time when hand-painted promotional signage was needed for retail windows, and business names were often rendered just the same. Of course, it’s a trade that read more

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    'Lettres Décoratives' Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters' Vibrant Letterforms

  • Grant Garmezy Molds a Full-Size Dakotaraptor from Molten Glass

    Dakotaraptor, a fossilized skeleton of which was discovered a little more than 20 years ago by paleontologists in South Dakota, was an extremely lethal prehistoric predator. Its feathered body, powerful legs, and huge jaw gave it an advantage as it roamed its territory some 66 million years ago. But it was really its so-called “sickle read more

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  • Carol Bove’s Metal Textiles

    Daily Newsletter Was the artist’s Guggenheim survey a success? What’s so “weird” about this year’s Whitney Biennial? And other questions. Good morning to you, and good riddance to Kristi Noem. If you’re in the mood for some great art writing today, you’ve come to the right place. Read reviews by Aruna D’Souza and Seph Rodney read more

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  • A Tracey Emin Retrospective Asks If We Expect Too Much from Women Artists

    “I’m starting to think I am a really boring artist,” admits Tracey Emin in the catalog accompanying her retrospective at the Tate Modern. It’s quite the reflection from a woman who made her name on shock value. Her 1998 self-portrait-cum-performance-cum-sculpture My Bed—her actual, slept-in bed covered in the detritus of her life—shook the art world read more

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    A Tracey Emin Retrospective Asks If We Expect Too Much from Women Artists

  • An Overfilled Guggenheim Retrospective Dulls Carol Bove’s Brilliance

    Art Review A smaller survey would have allowed for something more meaningful than just showing what Bove has been doing for the past decades. Carol Bove, “10 Hours” (2019) (all photos Seph Rodney/Hyperallergic) There was a moment in the Guggenheim’s sprawling new Carol Bove exhibition when the entire show began to make sense to me. read more

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  • Art Movements: Anicka Yi Picks Up the Pace

    Community The artist is now represented by Pace, along with three other galleries. Plus, NYC has a new culture commissioner, closures at art schools, and more industry news. Anicka Yi in 2024 (photo Jae An Lee, courtesy Pace Gallery) Art Movements,published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings read more

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  • Carol Bove’s Gripping Guggenheim Retrospective Transcends Time and Space

    Lionel Ziprin’s unlikely rediscovery really got going with a walk-in safe in Carol Bove’s Brooklyn studio. It was a big safe, and an old one—Bove initially had to use a car jack to pry open its metal door—and it became the unlikely home for all things related to Ziprin, a doyen of the Lower East read more

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    Carol Bove’s Gripping Guggenheim Retrospective Transcends Time and Space

  • The Polycrisis Sublime of the Whitney Biennial

    As my friend Anthony Elms pointed out to me recently, the Whitney Biennial is a kind of neither-here-nor-there entity: too big for a tight thesis to be legible, too small to provide a true scope of what’s happening in the United States art world. (He should know: He curated a floor of the 2014 edition.) read more

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    The Polycrisis Sublime of the Whitney Biennial

  • Guggenheim Union Rallies at Carol Bove Reception

    News “We’re out here rallying to put pressure on the museum to come back to the bargaining table with a bit more movability on their positions,” said one of the workers. Drew Reynolds, Guggenheim Museum educator and union chair, rallied with their coworkers for a fair contract yesterday evening. (all photos Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) It was read more

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  • The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston Solves a Big Mystery (But Not That One)

    The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, vexed for decades by one of the art world’s most dramatic mysteries, cracked a case of less but still some significance when conservators identified the original fabric for a set of chairs in need of restoration in the museum’s Dutch Room—the site of the greatest art heist of all time. read more

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    The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston Solves a Big Mystery (But Not That One)

  • Sprüth Magers Removes AI-Assisted David Salle Painting Amid Copyright Controversy

    A painting inDavid Salle’s new exhibitionatSprüthMagersin Los Angeles has been removed from view after critics questioned whether the painter copied another artist’s work. Salle’s painting,Hatchet (2025), features as its primary subject a woman in a black-and-white dress—her face cropped by the edge of the canvas—brandishing a sledgehammer.The exhibition, titled “My Frankenstein,”opened on February 24, and read more

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    Sprüth Magers Removes AI-Assisted David Salle Painting Amid Copyright Controversy