Category: art
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Regina Silveira Pieces Together an Evolving Narrative of Latin America
Regina Silveira has spent the better part of three decades considering the relationship between media and meaning, particularly as it relates to Latin America. Based in São Paulo, Silveira is a pioneer of Brazilian conceptual art who is known for utilizing light, installation, and photos to consider how images circulate and tell stories. One of read more
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Moving Multimedia Collages by Rich Wells Playfully Remember Places and Landscapes
From an array of photos, videos, sound bytes, and illustrative elements, Rich Wells creates moving collages that capture the essence of place. Based in Sheffield, he documents his visits to landscapes and landmarks near and far, including bicycle rides around different parts of the U.K. and places as familiar as his own kitchen table. “I read more
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Ashes To Ashes: The Paintings of Fulvio Di Piazza – Hi-Fructose Magazine
From funeral services to the famed David Bowie song to a British sci-fi series, the phrase “ashes to ashes” takes on a new strain of meaning with every use. With Fulvio di Piazza’s recent show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York, this metaphoric 360-degree view of life is reimagined once again. Ashes to Ashes read more
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Adolf Hitler’s Art Still Sells, as ‘Industry’ Just Reminded Us
Adolf Hitler’s artistic ambitions may havedied in a Vienna admissions office, but his watercolors remain surprisingly alive on the auction circuit—and, now, on prestige television. This week’s episode of HBO’sIndustryfeatures a quiet reveal that would have felt implausible if it weren’t so well documented: a tasteful watercolor of Neuschwanstein Castle turns out to be signed read more
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A Delightfully Tactile Stop-Motion Music Video Pieces Together 300 Ceramic Tiles
For three months, Julia Fernandez would spend the hours between 8 a.m. and noon waiting for the right light to filter into her Brooklyn studio. Once the shared space was properly lit, she would swap out a grid of 12 ceramic tiles and take overhead photos that would eventually be pieced together into the charming read more
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Art Gallery of Ontario Trustee Reportedly Led Push Against Acquiring Nan Goldin Work
A trustee at the Art Gallery of Ontario advised an acquisitions committee at the museum not to acquire a Nan Goldin piece because of the artist’s statements on Israel’s war in Gaza, according to a new report by the Globe and Mail. The same publication previously reported that the museum had sought the acquisition of read more
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AI-Generated Image Misattributed to Egon Schiele Provokes Outrage
An AI-created image purporting to be a famous watercolor by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele has generated hundreds of thousands of page views, as well as outrage and alarm on X. The image was posted by @lovedropx, an account with 287,000 followers and a vigorous reposter with a weakness for maudlin inspirational quotes. A depiction of read more
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In New York, the Stakes are High for a Young Gallery Dedicated to Play
A cold wind cuts through lower Manhattan, passing shuttered storefronts that once housed small galleries—some casualties of the rent crisis—before losing force at the corner of Broome and Chrystie Streets. There, a different kind of market experiment took shape. Last year, Spielzeug Gallery, a nomadic curatorial project had a turn as a brick-and-mortar commercial gallery, read more
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Painted LEGO Bricks Appear to Move and Vibrate in Katherine Duclos' Assemblages
Starting with the inherently gridded layouts of LEGO baseplates, Katherine Duclos creates vibrant, undulating compositions of pastels and gradients. The Vancouver-based artist employs the colorful bricks in a variety of geometric patterns and low-relief textures to achieve dynamic compositions that appear almost kinetic, adding her own effects with paint. The impression of movement, paired with read more
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Artists Urge Jewish Museum to Save Federal ‘Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art’ from Demolition in Open Letter
The latest attempt to save the New Deal-era artwork from the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C., involves a letter written by a group of artists urging the Jewish Museum in New York to save the murals and sculptural reliefs created by Jewish artists like Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and Seymour Fogel. The read more
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Louvre Closes Again as Union Negotiations Drag On
The Louvre closed on Monday due to a strike as employees’ demands for improved working conditions and pay equity continue to go unmet, marking the fourth day the Paris museum has shuttered since mid-December. The stoppage is one of the longest strikes in the history of the world’s most visited museum, a crisis intensified by read more
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Salon 94’s Alissa Friedman on Coming Home, Cultural Lag, and Why Art’s Boundaries Are Disappearing
Editor’s Note:This story is part ofNewsmakers, an ARTnews series featuring conversations with the figures shaping how the art world is changing right now. For Alissa Friedman, returning to Salon 94 was a homecoming. After more than a decade of helping to shape the gallery’s identity, Friedman left when founder Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn joined forces with read more
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6 Books on Robert Smithson’s Shelf
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Record-Breaking Koch Sale at Christie’s Signals Renewed Interest in American Art
Christie’s record-breaking sale of works from William I. Koch’s Western art collection may look like a one-off, but recent data suggest it fits into a wider, if uneven, revival of historical American art. According to theObserver, the two-part auction realized $84.1 million with fees, more than tripling the previous record for a single-owner Western art read more
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Amid National Upheaval Over Minneapolis Killings, Photographer Ellen von Unwerth Attends White House ‘Melania’ Screening
On Saturday, the same day that federal Border Patrol agents shot and killed intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in the street in Minneapolis, and as an historic winter storm bore down on a large swath of the United States, the White House staged a screening of Melania, the forthcoming documentary about First Lady Melania Trump. read more
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Seyni Awa Camara, Sculptor Beloved by Artists Ranging from Louise Bourgeois to Pharrell, Has Died
Seyni Awa Camara, a sculptor whose clay creations made in a remote Senegalese town captured the European art world’s attention in the late ’80s and gained a vast following in the decades afterward, has died. DakArt News reported Camara’s death on social media on Sunday. Because Camara’s birth year has not definitively been reported, ARTnews read more
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In 'Reading the Rooms,' Gretchen Scherer 'Opens Up' Historic, Art-Filled Spaces
The wealthy in society have been known to spare no expense when it comes to building palatial residences with impressively high-ceilinged rooms and enviable art collections. Visits to U.K. National Trust properties like Attingham Park in Shropshire and other historic estates serve as reminders of aristocratic obsessions with opulence and legacy, with their soaring ceilings read more
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South Carolina Artist Wins $158K in Copyright Infringement Case Over Mural
A judge in U.S. District Court in South Carolina has awarded local artist Todd Atkinson $158,400 in a copyright infringement case against artist Chan Shepherd and the owner of the building on which Atkinson’s mural was originally painted. Atkinson painted the mural, of a train and a water tank, with the words “Water Tank” in read more
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There Are a Lot of Open Art Museum Directorships in the United States Right Now
There’s been a lot of drama in the world of museum directors lately, headlined by the meltdown at the Philadelphia Art Museum. Perhaps just as dramatic, though, is the sheer number of open directorships at American art museums. In just the past two days, two major jobs opened up: at the Queens Museum, where Sally read more
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Legendary Dealer Marian Goodman Dies, Louvre Shutters Again Amid Strike: Morning Links for January 26, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Kicker GOODMAN GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. Marian Goodman, the art dealer admired for her lifelong loyalty to her artists and her indifference to market trends, died on Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital at 97, ARTnews reported on Sunday. In 1977, at 49, she read more
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