Category: art
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Queens Museum Leader Sally Tallant to Step Down After Seven Years
News Under Tallant, the museum secured a $26 million expansion allocation from the city, but also drew controversy and criticism. Former Queens Museum Director Sally Tallant (photo by Thierry Bal, courtesy Queens Museum) After a seven-year tenure, Sally Tallant will step down as president and executive director of the Queens Museum this summer, per an read more
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Remembering Harvey Pratt, Roger Allers, and Robert Burleigh
In Memoriam This week, we honor the designer of the Native American Veterans Memorial, a Disney animator, a picture book illustrator, and others. Harvey Pratt (undated) (photo by RedFeatherFriend via Wikimedia Commons; edit Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic, CC BY-SA 4.0) In Memoriamis published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world. read more
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Painter Amy Sherald Signs with Talent Agency CAA
Amy Sherald, a painter renowned for her tender portraits of Black American life, has signed with talent agency Creative Artists Agency (CCA), marking the latest high-profile crossover between the art world and Hollywood. Sherald rose to national fame in 2018 after being commissioned by former First Lady Michelle Obama to paint her official portrait for read more
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Bonhams Posts $970 M. in 2025 Sales as It Tries to Turn the Page
Bonhams ended 2025 with $970 million in global sales, a headline number that, in another year, might have been received as unambiguously good news. Instead, it arrives trailing a thicket of context: a widely circulatedFinancial Timesreporton a £213 million pre-tax loss, a change in ownership, and renewed scrutiny of how auction houses account for downturns read more
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Text & Car Crashes: the Art of Scott Teplin – Hi-Fructose Magazine
The book The Clock Without a Face, for instance, is an illustrated detective wonderland that pulls Teplin’s art into the real world. Produced in collaboration with Mac Barnett and Eli Horowitz, who collectively go by the pseudonym Twintig, and published by the masters of art-and-life line-blurring McSweeny’s, The Clock Without a Face is a story read more
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The Unexpectedly Seductive Art of Julia Randall – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Raised in New York City, Julia Randall was surrounded by a supportive family that nurtured her creativity. Her art-lover aunt would take her along on frequent trips to museums and gave Randall art books as gifts that still remain in her collection. After attending an arts-focused elementary school and a high school that offered a read more
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Frank Lloyd Wright House in Chicago for Sale for $350,000—Or Is It?
A Frank Lloyd Wright house in dire need of restoration has been reported to be up for sale with an asking price of $350,000, after the property was supposedly put on the market by the Federal National Mortgage Associate—best known as Fannie Mae—as part of a court-ordered sale following foreclosure in December. As reported by read more
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Sally Tallant Departs Queens Museum to Lead London’s Hayward Gallery
The Southbank Centre has named Sally Tallant the new director of the Hayward Gallery, a role she will begin in July. She is replacing the Hayward’s longtime director Ralph Rugoff, who recently announced his resignation after 20 years at the helm. As part of her new position, Tallant will also oversee visual art installations at read more
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Gabrielle Goliath Seeks Legal Action Against Culture Minister After Canceled Venice Biennale Pavilion
Artist Gabrielle Goliath said she and curator Ingrid Masondo are submitting an application for a court case against South African culture minister Gayton McKenzie after he canceled their planned pavilion for the Venice Biennale. Goliath was set to show a performance from her “Elegy” series, part of which would address Israel’s war in Gaza. McKenzie read more
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Mexico City’s Zona Maco to Bring Together 241 Exhibitors Next Month
Next month, Zona Maco, one of Latin America’s top fairs, will alight in Mexico City, bringing together droves of collectors to Centro Banamex, on the outskirts of the capital city for the fair along will several satellites. The fair will take place during the same time as the inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar, but read more
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SFMOMA Adds 85 Modern and Contemporary Artworks to Its Holdings
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced the acquisition of some 85 modern and contemporary artworks, from painting and sculpture to new media and photography. Some of the most notable names include Ruth Asawa (whose retrospective, currently at the Museum of Modern Art, debuted at SFMOMA last spring), Nan Goldin, Kay WalkingStick, Yoshitomo read more
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52 Walker Quietly Becomes a David Zwirner Gallery as Ebony L. Haynes Shifts to a Global Role
When 52 Walker opened in Tribeca in 2021, it did so with unusual fanfare. The space, founded byEbony L. Haynes under the umbrella ofDavid Zwirner, was widely framed as a corrective gesture within the commercial gallery system: a Kunsthalle-style venue with an all-Black staff, full curatorial autonomy, and a mandate untethered from the usual pressures read more
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New Philadelphia Art Museum Director Says Board Doesn’t Need ‘Radical Restructuring’
In one of his first extensive interviews as the new director of the Philadelphia Art Museum, Daniel H. Weiss told the Philadelphia Inquirer that his institution’s board doesn’t require major changes after the abrupt firing of his predecessor last year. Amid a controversial rebranding, Sasha Suda was terminated in November for what an email described read more
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Goliath Goes to Court, Abramović Brings Installation to Davos: Morning Links for January 21, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines ESCALATION.Two weeks after news broke that South Africa cancelled a Gabrielle Goliath artwork planned for its Venice Biennale pavilion, the artist has announced her next move: taking her dispute to court. Tomorrow Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo will file an application with South read more
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The Language of Flowers Meets Queer Desire in Kris Knight's Tender Portraiture
In late 19th-century London, the famed writer and ostentatious dandy Oscar Wilde initiated a trend that, as trends often do, flourished into a life of its own. Wilde wore a green carnation—the typically pink petals were dyed with arsenic—to the theater, prompting questions about what the oddly colored boutonniere symbolized. This was the height of read more
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Financially Strapped Met Opera May Sell its Prized Marc Chagall Paintings (But Keep Them in Place)
New York’s Metropolitan Opera is facing a serious financial crunch, and may sell two beloved Marc Chagall murals to help fill the gap—but if it does, it will leave them in place. Sotheby’s valued the artworks at a total of $55 million, reports the New York Times. Unveiled in 1966, The Sources of Music and read more
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Edward Zutrau Was a Chromatic Rebel
Every now and then a press release for an artist unfamiliar to you catches your attention for the right reason. It is seldom the description, which I tend to distrust, that piques my interest, but rather the biographical context. This was the case with the exhibition Edward Zutrau: Thirty Years, Two Worlds at Lincoln Glenn. read more
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Pam Connolly Tenderly Weaves Family Snapshots on Vintage Potholder Looms
Across frameworks devised from vintage potholder looms, Hudson Valley-based artist Pam Connolly weaves personal family narratives and explores notions of home. “I grew up in the 1960s in a typical, post-war suburban neighborhood in New Jersey,” she says. “My parents owned a furniture store that was at the center of our family’s universe—everything revolved around read more
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How to Piss Off Trump
Daily Newsletter A mysterious public artwork on the National Mall, the Philadelphia Art Museum’s ongoing rebrand debacle, new Louvre heist footage, and Yoko Ono’s relentless positivity. Good morning. The latest in a series of mysterious monuments periodically erected on the National Mall has an unusual element: public participation. The installation is a 10-foot replica of read more
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Shocking New Louvre Heist Footage Released to the Public
News The video shows how the thieves made it in and out of the museum’s Apollo Gallery almost seamlessly with the nation’s crown jewels. It’s been three months since the monumental jewel heist at the Musée du Louvre astonished the world, and the CCTV footage from inside the museum on that fateful day has been read more
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