Category: art
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Bard College President Leon Botstein Scrutinized for Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
Longtime Bard College president Leon Botstein, who has helmed the influential liberal-arts school since 1975, is under fire after the release of email communications with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, that suggest a relationship more personal than had been previously disclosed. On Monday, the New York Times reported that Botstein had read more
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Ali Eyal Wins Hammer Museum’s $100,000 Mohn Award
The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has announced the winners of the three prizes it gives out for each edition of its Made in L.A. biennial. Ali Eyal has won the Mohn Award, which comes with $100,000 and a Hammer-produced monograph on his work. Carl Cheng, who is in his 80s, won the Career Achievement read more
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Chief of Staff Departs as Tumult Continues
A period of turmoil at the newly rechristened Philadelphia Museum of Art continued on this week as two more senior staffers are set to resign from their posts. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that chief of staff Maggie Fairs and CFO Valerie McDuffie will both vacate their posts. Fairs is expected to leave by the end read more
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Counterpublic Triennial’s 2026 Edition to Take Theme of ‘Coyote Time’
The upcoming iteration of Counterpublic, a triennial staged in St. Louis, Missouri, has announced the exhibition’s title and a number of its main venues around the Gateway City. The 2026 show will run September 12 to December 12. For their version of Counterpublic, the five-person curatorial team—consisting of Jordan Carter, Raphael Fonseca, Stefanie Hessler, Nora read more
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Frieze New York Names More Than 65 Galleries for 2026 Edition
Frieze New York has named the more than 65 galleries that will participate in its upcoming 2026 edition, which will be the sixth iteration staged at the Shed in Hudson Yards. This year’s Frieze New York is scheduled to take place May 13–17, its timing comes closer to the middle of the month of May read more
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Five Artists Honored, Including Claire Fujita and Yuki Kobayashi—TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 Finalist Exhibition Opens
Warehouse TERRADA, which supports emerging artists on the foundation of its art-storage business, opened the finalist exhibition for TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 on January 16. Works by five artists poised to shape the next generation are now on view. Founded in 1950, Warehouse TERRADA began its art storage business in the 1970s. Since the 2000s, read more
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MoMA PS1 Names 53 Artists for Ambitious Survey of New York’s Art Scene
MoMA PS1 has revealed the 53 artists who will participate in Greater New York, the Queens museum’s quinquennial devoted to New York City’s art scene. Opening on April 16, this edition of Greater New York will mark PS1’s 50th anniversary, and rather than bringing on any outside curators, the museum has this time leaned on read more
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Bad Bunny Makes Meme History
Daily Newsletter How the “Benito Bowl” took on a second life in the digital realm, Israel’s artwashing at the Venice Biennale, an art history of liminalism, and shows to see in NYC. If you’ve had Bad Bunny’s “NUEVAYoL” playing on loop in your brain, if you’ve pledged to call the Super Bowl “el Super Tazón” read more
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British Museum Raises $4.8 M. to Keep ‘Tudor Heart’ Pendant in UK
The British Museum announced that it has successfully raised £3.5 million ($4.8 million) to acquire the “Tudor Heart” pendant and keep the centuries-old object in the UK. The museum described the Tudor Heart as “unlike any object in the British Museum collection or elsewhere in the UK.” The 24-carat-gold pendant, which is accompanied by a read more
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Bad Bunny’s “Benito Bowl” Enters the Meme Canon
Bad Bunny’s iconic crowd dive during the Super Bowl half-time show (all screenshots Hyperallergic, via Instagram) One week after receiving three Grammy awards for the 2025 album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny made history last night when he delivered the Super Bowl half-time performance almost entirely in Spanish. The right-wing fury read more
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Michaels Sues Artist Who Claimed the Craft Store Giant Used His Work Without Permission
Street artists have found themselves in legal conflicts for years with fashion brands and other companies that employ their work in advertising and social media campaigns. Some have won settlements after legal battles with these companies, which claim they do not need to contact the artists for their works, which often appear in public and read more
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In Collaboration with Indigenous Artisans Around the World, PET Lamp Emphasizes Sustainability
Every year, a plastic called polyethylene terephthalate, commonly referred to as PET, is used to produce around 600 billion bottles and other packaging. Think juice containers, detergent jugs, soft jars, and shampoo bottles, plus myriad other items like carpeting, synthetic fabrics, and industrial applications. Tons upon tons of these single-use plastics end up in landfills read more
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First Art Basel Qatar Closed with Institutional Acquisitions, Mid-Market Strength, and Measured Sales Momentum
Art Basel Qatar closed its inaugural edition this week with numbers that suggest Doha has quickly established itself as a serious market platform. Getting there required patience. Selling in Doha was always going to unfold differently. The Qatari royal family was given a private walkthrough on Monday, the day before VIP preview began. Sorces toldARTnewsthat read more
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Birth of A Movement: The Art of Robert Williams – Hi-Fructose Magazine
In 1986, another in a long string little bands from the strip asked Williams for cover art. They wanted to use his 1979 painting “Appetite for Destruction.” “I told them what would happen,” says Williams. There were protests. A media frenzy. Chain stores refused to carry Guns N’ Roses. And, after the artwork was moved read more
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Five Shows to See in New York City Right Now
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.Joan Didion, a New Yorker, famously said this. The exhibitions we recommend you trek out to see —and it’s a high bar, given these subfreezing temperatures —center that age-old practice. A show on storytelling at the Morgan Library & Museum, with a 3,000-year scope, should prime you well read more
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Political Bribery Investigation in South Korea Involving Lee Ufan Painting Draws to a Close
A bizarre saga involving a painting attributed to Lee Ufan and Kim Keon-hee, the wife of South Korea’s impeached and jailed former president Yoon Suk-yeol, may be drawing to a close. Kim Sang-min, a former chief prosecutor, had previously been accused of purchasing Lee’s From Point No. 800298 in 2023 for around 140 million won read more
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Long Misidentified, Object in Museum Is Oldest Drilling Tool Found Yet in Egypt
A small metal object excavated almost 100 years ago has been identified as the oldest known drilling tool yet found in Egypt. The news was reported by Archeology Today. The artifact came from a predynastic cemetery at the archeological site of Badari in Upper Egypt and dates to the late 4th millennium BCE. Part of read more
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How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time
Giorgio de Chirico, “The Red Tower” (1913), oil on canvas, held by the Guggenheim Museum (photo public domain via Wikimedia Commons) Had Century III Mall in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania not closed seven years ago, the shopping center —the third-largest in the world when it opened, with 200 tenants — would be approaching its 50th anniversary. read more
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Ai Weiwei Says London’s Royal Academy Sought to Eject Him After Post–October 7 Tweet about Jews
In a new interview with The Guardian in advance of his forthcoming book On Censorship, artist Ai Weiwei talked about experiencing censorship not just in his native China but also in the West—including an incident involving his membership in London’s Royal Academy. After chronicling some of his storied challenges and acts of defiance against China’s read more
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Art Books That Serve Up Beauty and Depth
Books Newsletter Our favorite art books for February, the writings of Claude Cahun, and an imaginative history of Michelangelo and Titian. What do Kaylene Whiskey and Pyaari Azaadi have in common? Both are women of color whose art can be visually breathtaking and conceptually powerful, with feminist underpinnings — and the subjects of recent art read more
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