Category: art
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Performa Diary: A Year of Sexy Revolutionaries
My Performa journey began on November 4. Dick Cheney died that morning, and Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York that night. In between, I was fidgety, nervous, and excited for what the city might become. Still, I managed to sit patiently through some performance art like it was my job. The show I read more
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December 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
Rotterdam Photo 2026 Open Call: Echoes of Silence—War in the Artist’s SoulFeaturedRotterdam Photo invites photographers worldwide to explore how war and collective trauma resonate in the artist’s inner world. ‘Echoes of Silence’asks: What happens when artists are not eyewitnesses to conflict but still carry its emotional legacy? How does violence linger in memory—not as an read more
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Four Additional Suspects Arrested in Connection to Louvre Museum Heist
Four suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of the French crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris last month, USA Today reported. Two men and two women between the ages of 31 and 40 were arrested on Tuesday and are being questioned, according to statements made by French prosecutors on Tuesday. read more
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Are There Enough Collectors for All the Art Fairs? Chanel Opens China’s First Public Contemporary Art Library, US-Style Cultural Giving on the Rise in the UK: Morning Links for November 25, 2025
The Headlines SUPPLY… DEMAND? This fall’s art-world chatter came with a major announcement: Frieze will launch an Abu Dhabi edition in November 2026, shortly after Art Basel opens in Qatar in February 2026. Art Basel Qatar is a completely new fair, while Frieze Abu Dhabi will expand and internationalize the existing Abu Dhabi Art fair, read more
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Ángela Ferrari's Dramatic Paintings Tease Out a Passionate Play for Power
Aggression and struggles for power abound in the vivid paintings of Ángela Ferrari. The Argentinian artist is keen to explore the limits and consequences of control through scenes rife with antagonism: dogs nip at each other, horses buck and bare their teeth, and birds lie lifeless. Evoking hunting paintings and masculine displays of pride for read more
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Art in America’s Winter “Collaborations” Issue Features Talia Chetrit, Mernet Larsen, Artists’ Fashion Legacies, and More
What is creative activity? Social media would have us believe it is fast and furious—cue the dizzying double-speed video of someone making something. In fact, the creative process doesn’t usually lend itself to drama; a lot of what happens in the studio would appear to be inaction, the outwardly humdrum, inwardly remarkable percolation of ideas. read more
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Chanel and Power Station of Art Open Mainland China’s First Public Library Dedicated to Contemporary Art
Chanel has announced the public opening of Espace Gabrielle Chanel, mainland China’s first public library dedicated to contemporary art, at Shanghai’s Power Station of Art (PSA). The 1,700-square-foot library was designed by renowned Japanese architect Kazunari Sakamoto and is located on the third floor of the museum. It holds more than 50,000 books and audiobooks, read more
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An Expansion and Renovation Brings New Life to the Portland Art Museum
When the Portland Art Museum presented the city’s first retrospective exhibition of paintings by Mark Rothko in 2012, many local viewers were unaware that the artist grew up in Portland, where he attended the Portland Art Museum School and was awarded his first museum exhibition. With Rothko now officially reclaimed as a hometown hero, and read more
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New David Adjaye-Built Museums Beg the Question: What Happened to #MeToo?
Of all the political movements of the 2010s that failed to secure for themselves real power, perhaps the most devastating failure for me personally was that of #MeToo. I was in graduate school at the height of the movement, where I was being harassed by a professor and sharing my stories with others in the read more
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New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Names Arts and Culture Transition Committee
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who decisively beat back independent candidate Andrew Cuomo in the election to lead the city earlier this month, has named an arts and culture transition committee. The 28-member group includes curators, art dealers, journalists, and arts and nonprofit administrators. It ranges from Elizabeth Alexander, the president of the Mellon read more
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Plasticine Realism: The Art of Timur Fork – Hi-Fructose Magazine
From Moscow to Osaka, Timur Fork’s “plasticine realism” has been turning heads. In recent years, the Russian painter, who got his start in the street art world, has developed a unique specialty in works that capture the textures and colors indicative of the kid-friendly modeling clay known as plasticine. His scenes blur the lines of read more
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Ten Percent of National Endowment for the Humanities Budget Will Support Two Grantees
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant funds appear to have been put towards supporting two awards at nearly 10 percent of the agency’s annual $207 million budget, the New York Times reported. The Trump administration previously canceled the NEH grants that had been approved under the former Biden administration, laid off the majority read more
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Guy Cogeval, former director of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, has died at 70
Guy Cogeval, who was director of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay from 2008 to 2017, died on November 13 at the age of 70. His death, after a long illness, was reported by Le Monde on November 17. An iconoclastic and at times controversial figure in the museum world, Cogeval was an impassioned scholar of 19th-century art read more
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Ancient Limestone Face Carving Discovered During Controversial Maya Train Project Excavation
The Maya Train construction project has been ongoing since 2020, with the goal of connecting historical sites in the Yucatan and boosting tourism. The first section opened in December 2024. Over the years, the controversial project has unearthed thousands of archaeological objects and sites along the railway’s 1,000-mile-long route. As reported in Artnet News, the read more
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Lot Watch: The 16(ish) Top Works Hitting the Block at the November Marquee Sales
nnnnnnn ntPainted on Christmas Day in 1981, just after his 21st birthday,u00a0Crowns (Peso Neto)</em> was produced as Basquiat was vaulted from downtown prodigy to art-world phenomenon. This was the year Basquiat moved from the street into the studio, as well as the year critics and collectors began to grasp the range of his ambition. In read more
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‘They Want to Kill Art’: The French Art World Is Up In Arms Over a Proposal to Impose New Taxes on Art
In an attempt to increase revenue, two French parliamentarians are proposing that the government put in place a new tax regime on art in its 2026 budget. The French art world has risen up to oppose it, including issuing a lengthy statement with 27 signers, including leading fair company Art Basel, which just held the read more
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Sotheby’s CEO Says Supply Is ‘Catching Up With Demand’ as Fall Auctions Target $1.4 Billion
Sotheby’s CEO Charles Stewart said the art market has entered a new phase this fall, with supply finally “catching up with the demand” after months of strong bidder activity. The comment, made recently to CNBC, comes as New York’s marquee auction houses prepare for sales expected to totalmore than $1.4 billion, a jump of roughly50 read more
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University of Leicester Updates Its Trans-Inclusive Museum Guidelines, Despite Legal Threats
The University of Leicester in England made updates to its guidance on trans-inclusivity for museums and galleries last month. The university made the change, despite receiving litigation threats from the campaign group Freedom in the Arts (FITA). The 44-page document in questionwas “regularly reviewed and kept up to date”, the university told Arts Professional, following read more
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Lewis Chamberlain: From the Pocket of A Ghost – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“If I have to change my work halfway through, that causes huge issues. I like to know exactly what I’m doing and I like to plan ahead.” For “Woman Falling from an Airplane,” Chamberlain built the scene inside a dark cardboard box. That’s frequently how he works and he will shine bright lights on different read more
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Auction Houses Tapping into Jewelry Boom, Brooklyn Public Library Launches Art-Lending Program, Paris Photo Returns: Morning Links for November 14, 2025
The Headlines STAY CALM AND KARAT ON. As auction houses increasingly lean on the luxury market to offset sluggish art sales, Christie’s incoming global head of jewellery, Max Fawcett, is optimistic. The house kicks off its London Jewels sale on Friday, and he predicted it will be “one of the best London sales we’ve had read more
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