Tag: Art
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Walker Art Center Severs Ties with Restaurant for Laying Off Workers in Favor of QR Codes
Cardamom, a beloved restaurant at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, is no more following a controversial decision by the eatery to lay off its front-of-house workers and institute a QR code ordering system. The museum said on Thursday that such a move “does not align with our core values.” “We are committed to creating read more
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Talking Art With Rama Duwaji
Daily Newsletter The artist and NYC first lady sits for an exclusive interview with our editor-in-chief. Plus: Who’s behind the posters calling to boycott the Met Gala? On a damp New York City morning last week, I visited Gracie Mansion for an exclusive interview with artist and First Lady Rama Duwaji in her studio. We read more
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A Delightful Short Film Highlights the Remarkable Self-Taught Art of George Voronovsky
In the mid-20th century, before preservation efforts revived Miami’s Art Deco South Beach neighborhood with bright colors and lavish hotels, the area was a whitewashed holiday haven for retirees. And in a third-floor room of the Colony Hotel, which looked out onto the building’s marquee and the street below, a unique artistic endeavor unfolded. Ukrainian read more
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Fine art logistics company Convelio secures Series C funding
Convelio, a technology-enabled fine art logistics and storage company, has secured a Series C investment to expand its AI-powered logistics and collections management services for the global art and antiques market. The round was led by a prominent French entrepreneurial dynasty with strong ties to the international art sector, with participation from existing investors Forestay, read more
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Kendall Ross Comments Directly on the Craft Vs. Art Debate – Hi-Fructose Magazine
From her dining room table in Oklahoma City, Kendall Ross knits brightly colored, intricately patterned sweaters and vests—some so large that referring to them as wearables is a bit misleading. Her textile pieces are often emblazoned with diary-like messages that speak of relationships, insecurities, and life’s joys. Sometimes, too, she uses her work to comment read more
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Call to Submit: 2026 Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award
Calling all artists, illustrators, and photographers! It’s the return of one of our most popular open calls, the Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award! Once again we are teaming up with our friends over at Bookmobile to offer the chance to have your work published as a standalone book for free! This year, we will read more
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Remembering Asher Remy-Toledo, Media Art Luminary
Obituary The Colombian-born cultural producer, who died in February at age 62, cultivated community and experimentation for New York City artists, including me. Asher Remy-Toledo at Creative Tech Week at the Red Door, Hyphen Hub, circa 2013–15 (all images courtesy the Hyphen Hub Archive, unless otherwise noted) Asher Remy-Toledo, a beloved New York cultural producer, read more
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At Art Basel Hong Kong, Blue-Chips Report Flurry of 7-Figure Deals, While Others Lament ‘Slower Than Usual’ Sales
Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. Cash flowed, but confidence trickled on Day 1 of Art Basel Hong Kong, wherea cross-section of the 240 galleries offered a spectrum ofresponses to one simple question: How are sales? At Hauser & Wirth, MarcPayot,presiding overa read more
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Despite Uncertainty, Gulf Art World Projects Normalcy
As the US-Israel war on Iran enters its fourth week, neighboring Gulf states, a hub of much of the region’s contemporary art production, are projecting an image of normalcy, with many galleries and museums reopening. It’s a sharp contrast to the sheer scale of destruction in Iran and Lebanon, where American and Israeli strikes have read more
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Worlds Collide: The Art of Mary Iverson – Hi-Fructose Magazine
While the inklings of Iverson’s new work were a long time stewing, she had to undergo several dramatic changes in style before arriving at her current location. “Where this series really started was when I was out painting Seattle’s industrial areas, and doing plein air realistic renderings.” Iverson recalls. “As I focused more on that read more
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In Blob We Trust: The Art of KRK Ryden – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Even KRK Ryden’s bathroom walls are hand painted in comic book panels. Elsewhere, a collection of convenience store-boughtnovelty lighters are positioned like circling sharks has invaded a brightly colored coffee table. The kitchen refrigerator, long removed from the premises to make room for the wall of mousetraps; each room, nay, each exposed surface or wall read more
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Meg Webster, Comme des Garçons, and Dia Art Foundation Have Partnered on a New Perfume
Like lingering petrichor or damp earth, Meg Webster’ssculpturesenvelopthe senses—hardly surprising,astheyemergefrom“soil, sand, and salt,” in the words of the Dia Art Foundation, a longtime guardian of herwork.For years, visitors have beeninvited tosteparound andintothe shadow of her earthworks,installedasmounds and pillars along the gallery floor. Starting March 19, thoseencounters will be bottledand available year-round, thanks to a collaboration read more
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Art Movements: Look Who’s Headed to Perrotin Gallery
Community Alma Allen gets mega-gallery representation, Marina Abramović forays into balloon art, and more industry news. Alma Allen (photo by Ana Hop, courtesy American Arts Conservancy) Art Movements,published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world. Alma Allen Heads to Perrotin The French gallery read more
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Denver Art Museum Reveals 2025 Acquisitions, Including Works by Tishan Hsu, Berthe Morisot, and More
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The Venice Biennale Claims It’s Neutral—But No Art Exhibition Ever Is
The 1974 Venice Biennale has gone down in history less for what went on view than what didn’t: the show itself. The explanations for why the exhibition didn’t happen are diverse. Some accounts attribute the show’s cancelation to an embarrassing disagreement among warring Italian factions. Others follow the narrative laid out by then-Biennale president Carlo read more
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Private Messages Reveal Lead Up to Canceled Anti-ICE Show at North Texas Uni, Art Market Edges Back to Growth: Morning Links for March 12, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines SORRY, NOT SORRY. Newly revealed text messages and emails shed more light on what happened before University of North Texas (UNT) leaders decided to cancel an anti-ICE exhibition by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez. Adam Schrader reports for Urgent Matter that the communications, obtained through read more
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The Problem With Art Awards
Daily Newsletter Lucian Freud’s paintings of “lostness,” the real purpose of art awards, a new center for Native American art, and a lot of chair stuff. Are art awards meant to provide artists with recognition and material support, or to reinforce power structures and maintain the status quo? Damien Davis argues it’s the latter in read more
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After Two Years of Decline, the Art Market Edges Back to Growth, Says 2026 Art Basel UBS Report
The global art market clawed its way back to modest growth in 2025, reaching an estimated$59.6 billion in sales, according to the latestArt Basel and UBS Art Market Report, by economist Clare McAndrew of Arts Economics. The total represents a4 percent increase from the previous year, breaking a two-year slide in sales—though the market still read more
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Laura Phipps Tapped to Lead Gochman Collection of Indigenous Art
News The former Whitney curator will steer the NYC organization as it builds a permanent exhibition space in the Hudson River Valley. Laura Phipps, the new director of the Gochman Family Collection (photo by and courtesy Roeg Cohen) Laura Phipps, former associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been tapped as the read more
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Lucian Freud Mastered the Art of Lostness
Art Review As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves. Lucian Freud, “Girlin Bed” (1952), oil on canvas(© The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2026 / Bridgeman Images. Photo © National Portrait Gallery, London. Lent by a private collection, courtesy of Ordovas) LONDON — read more
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