Category: art
Creativity, design, culture, inspiration
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Evan Beard Has Left Masterworks to Launch His Own New York Gallery
Editor’s Note:This story is part ofNewsmakers, a newARTnewsseries where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Not every art dealer is in the mold of Leo Castelli, the aristocratic Italian who came to New York and created a market for artists like Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. His read more
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Timo Kappeller Joins Pace Gallery as Senior Director in New York
Timo Kappellerhas joined Pace Gallery as a senior director in New York, where he will focus on sales and artist relationships, the gallery announced this week. He begins the role on January 20. Kappeller arrives at Pace after three years as artistic director of The Campus, the collaborative exhibition space in upstate New York operated read more
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For Which It Stands…
Announcement Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States, this major loan exhibition at the Fairfield University Art Museum explores more than a century of artists taking on the American flag. Left: N. C. Wyeth, “The Victorious Allies” (1918), oil on canvas, 45 ¼ × 34 ¼ inches (courtesy the Delaware Museum of Art, Gift read more
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Top Architecture Firm Accused of Illegally Firing Union-Supporting Staff, Founding Editor of Artforum Dies: Morning Link for January 20, 2025
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines UNIONERS PAY PRICE.In 2023, employees at Snøhetta, the prominent New York–based architecture firm, mounted an unsuccessful effort to unionize. Now the National Labor Relations Board has accused the firm of unlawfully retaliating against workers who supported the campaign, the New York Times reports. read more
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Trump Targets New Deal-Era Art
Daily Newsletter The national myth of Grandma Moses, Lotty Rosenfeld’s radical linework, and how will art institutions evolve in 2026? No rest for the wicked, least of all Trump and his cronies. As the administration continues its attacks on culture, the president is targeting a building near the National Mall with several remarkable New Deal-era read more
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Activists Fight to Salvage the “Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art”
A group of artists, preservationists, and activists is sounding the alarm against Trump’s potential demolition of a prominent federal office building next to the National Mall, and the treasured artworks inside it — including several New Deal-era murals that speak to the value of Social Security in the United States. Alex Lawson, executive director of read more
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What the Smithsonian Won’t Say About Grandma Moses
WASHINGTON, DC —The 2025 government shutdown delayed the opening of Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work at the Smithsonian American Art Museum by about a month. While the curatorial team can’t be faulted for this, it remained fresh on my mind as I considered the powers we are beholden to in the United States. The read more
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Uman’s Diasporic Abstraction
Art Review The artist paints the distance between the homeland you lose and the one you try to dream back into existence. Uman, “first class, window seat” (2025), acrylic, oil, oil stick on canvas (photo ©Uman; image courtesy the artist, Nicola Vassell Gallery, and Hauser & Wirth; all other photos Qingyuan Deng/Hyperallergic) RIDGEFIELD, Conn. —Walking read more
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This Is the Year We Redefine Art Institutions
As we began 2025, optimism was tested in new ways — bringing to the surface what many of us in the arts had long felt simmering. DEI efforts were forcibly rolled back amid mounting political intervention in museum narratives, and high-profile disputes over representation and authorship played out in public. After Amy Sherald withdrew her read more
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Lotty Rosenfeld Weaponized the Line
Art Review The Chilean artist knew that survival under authoritarianism requires both sustenance and nerve — something to live on and something to stand for. Photo documentation of Lotty Rosenfeld, “Una Milla de Cruces Sobre el Pavimento” (One mile of crosses on the pavement, 1979) (photo courtesy Fundación Lotty Rosenfeld; all other photos Clara Maria read more
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CHANEL Culture Fund Names Winners of Its 2026 Next Prize, with 10 Artists Awarded €100 K. Each
The CHANEL Culture Fund has named the recipients of its 2026 CHANEL Next Prize, awarding €100,000 each to ten artists working across visual art, performance, design, music, and film. The fashion house’s Culture Fund is aglobal programme of initiatives and partnerships that “seek to champion equality of voice and give visibility to global game changers read more
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Martin Luther King Jr. in Art and Memory
Daily Newsletter Revisiting a 40-year-old mural of the civil rights leader, John Yau on the paintings of John Wilson, and a perspective from a former educator at the California College of the Arts. Good morning. Like the freedoms we often take for granted, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was hard-won. The designation of the third read more
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2025 Booooooom Photo Awards Judges: Introducing Jessie Wender
Can you share three life moments that shaped who you are today? 1. Having my son two and a half years ago has changed me in so many ways. Watching him grow and learn all these new things is so amazing. And his enthusiasm for life is genuinely inspiring. It has changed my views on read more
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Et Tu, South Africa?
Sometimes you wake up to news headlines that don’t make any sense. Take this one, for example: South Africa Axes Venice Biennale Proposal Centering Gaza Victims. You ask yourself: Wait a second, isn’t South Africa the same country that accused Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice? Yes, it is, but it happens read more
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John Wilson’s Relentlessly Humane Vision of Black Life
I was on my way to one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s blockbuster exhibitions when something unexpected stopped me: John Wilson’s “Self-Portrait” (2002). This haunting, abraded pastel and paint work is part of the revelatory exhibition Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson. A longtime resident of Boston, a city that never developed an read more
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Artist and Skateboarder Alexis Sablone Is Inducted Into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame
Artist, designer, architect, and Olympian skateboarder Alexis Sablone has been inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame. The SHoF announced its Class of 2026 inductees on its website and on social media on January 15. The group includes 18 figures who according to the SHoF “have shaped the culture, progression, and global impact of skateboarding.” read more
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Five Art and Museum Events for MLK Day in NYC
Guide Special collection tours at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a live reading of one of King’s sermons, and other programs. BAM VP of Creative Social Impact Coco Killingsworth at the 37th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 16, 2023 (photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images) Fifteen read more
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40 Years On, DC Artists Revisit Don Miller's MLK Mural
Features Since 1986, the 56-foot painting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library has served as a visual portal into the civil rights leader’s life and legacy. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, with Don Miller’s “King Mural” (photo by Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images) Washington, DC — Last month, DC-based read more
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Pennsylvania Man Who Stole Warhol and Pollock Paintings in Museum Theft Ring Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison
Joseph Atsus, a 51-year-old Pennsylvania man, was sentenced on Tuesday to 48 months in prison, a term of supervised release, and $1 million in restitution for several charges related to his participation in a notorious museum theft ring, the Department of Justice announced earlier this week. Atsus was part of a eight-person ring that stole read more
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Peruvian Artist Antonio Paucar Wins 11th Artes Mundi Award
Artes Mundi, a UK-based art organization, has given the 11th Artes Mundi Award to Peruvian artistAntonio Paucar. He will receive £40,000 towards his performance, sculpture, and video practice, which draws on Andean culture and his Peruvian heritage. The ceremony was held at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum in Cardiff on January 15. In an interview with the read more
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