Tag: Art

  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Chief of Staff Departs as Tumult Continues

    A period of turmoil at the newly rechristened Philadelphia Museum of Art continued on this week as two more senior staffers are set to resign from their posts. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that chief of staff Maggie Fairs and CFO Valerie McDuffie will both vacate their posts. Fairs is expected to leave by the end read more

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  • Five Artists Honored, Including Claire Fujita and Yuki Kobayashi—TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 Finalist Exhibition Opens

    Warehouse TERRADA, which supports emerging artists on the foundation of its art-storage business, opened the finalist exhibition for TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 on January 16. Works by five artists poised to shape the next generation are now on view. Founded in 1950, Warehouse TERRADA began its art storage business in the 1970s. Since the 2000s, read more

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    Five Artists Honored, Including Claire Fujita and Yuki Kobayashi—TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 Finalist Exhibition Opens

  • MoMA PS1 Names 53 Artists for Ambitious Survey of New York’s Art Scene

    MoMA PS1 has revealed the 53 artists who will participate in Greater New York, the Queens museum’s quinquennial devoted to New York City’s art scene. Opening on April 16, this edition of Greater New York will mark PS1’s 50th anniversary, and rather than bringing on any outside curators, the museum has this time leaned on read more

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  • First Art Basel Qatar Closed with Institutional Acquisitions, Mid-Market Strength, and Measured Sales Momentum

    Art Basel Qatar closed its inaugural edition this week with numbers that suggest Doha has quickly established itself as a serious market platform. Getting there required patience. Selling in Doha was always going to unfold differently. The Qatari royal family was given a private walkthrough on Monday, the day before VIP preview began. Sorces toldARTnewsthat read more

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  • Birth of A Movement: The Art of Robert Williams – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    In 1986, another in a long string little bands from the strip asked Williams for cover art. They wanted to use his 1979 painting “Appetite for Destruction.” “I told them what would happen,” says Williams. There were protests. A media frenzy. Chain stores refused to carry Guns N’ Roses. And, after the artwork was moved read more

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  • Art Books That Serve Up Beauty and Depth

    Books Newsletter Our favorite art books for February, the writings of Claude Cahun, and an imaginative history of Michelangelo and Titian. What do Kaylene Whiskey and Pyaari Azaadi have in common? Both are women of color whose art can be visually breathtaking and conceptually powerful, with feminist underpinnings — and the subjects of recent art read more

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  • Meet the Speakerhead Wiring the Art World for Sound

    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. One of the standout works in “Art of Noise,” an exhibition of music-related design at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, is a listening room devoted to a sound read more

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  • Matthew Bogdanos Awarded Marica Vilcek Prize in Art History for Repatriation of Stolen Artifacts

    Announcement The leader of the Manhattan DA’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit is acknowledged for his lifelong dedication to recovering and safeguarding looted antiquities. Matthew Bogdanos (all images courtesy the Vilcek Foundation) US Colonel Matthew Bogdanos has worked tirelessly throughout his career to protect cultural heritage, recovering thousands of artifacts from across the world. For his extraordinary read more

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    Matthew Bogdanos Awarded Marica Vilcek Prize in Art History for Repatriation of Stolen Artifacts

  • The Art World's Epstein Problem

    Weekly Newsletter How to root out corruption and depravity in our community, artists against ICE, the Washington Post lays off its art critic, the pitfalls of archival art, and more. Why are we so obsessed with the Epstein files? Because they’ve long stopped being about just one depraved pedophile and have come to symbolize the read more

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  • Basel’s House of Electronic Arts and Tezos Foundation Partner to Preserve Digital Art

    Blockchain may still feel like a buzzword to some, but for the House of Electronic Arts (HEK)—a museum in Basel dedicated to digital culture, media art, and technology—and the Tezos Foundation, it’s a vital tool for expanding the museum experience and helping artists connect with audiences. The two institutions recently announced a year-long partnership bringing read more

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  • Matthew Bogdanos, Head of New York DA’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit, Wins $100 K. Prize in Art History

    The Vilcek Foundation, a nonprofit that raises awareness of the contributions of immigrant to American history and culture, announced the recipients of its 20th annual prizes for excellence in the arts and sciences. Among this year’s honorees was Matthew Bogdanos, a former classics scholar, US Marine colonel, and current assistant district attorney in New York. read more

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    Matthew Bogdanos, Head of New York DA’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit, Wins 0 K. Prize in Art History

  • Pulitzer-Winning ‘Washington Post’ Art Critic Sebastian Smee Laid Off in Cutbacks, But Philip Kennicott Remains

    Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post laid off some thirty percent of its employees on Wednesday, according to sources quoted in the New York Times, slashing the paper’s sports, local news, and international coverage. More than 300 of the approximately 800 journalists in the newsroom were reportedly let go. Among the casualties was Pulitzer Prize for read more

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    Pulitzer-Winning ‘Washington Post’ Art Critic Sebastian Smee Laid Off in Cutbacks, But Philip Kennicott Remains

  • Toledo Museum of Art Director Adam M. Levine on Six of the Museum’s Most Important 2025 Acquisitions

    The Toledo Museum of Art has a somewhat atypical history, in terms of encyclopedic museums of its ilk. “The museum,” director Adam M. Levine explains, “was founded in 1901 with money and not a collection. The most interesting feature of our acquisitions is that they are almost all funded from the endowment rather than as read more

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    Toledo Museum of Art Director Adam M. Levine on Six of the Museum’s Most Important 2025 Acquisitions

  • Philadelphia Art Museum Says Goodbye to “PhAM”

    News “There was no good reason to rename it,” Director Daniel Weiss told Hyperallergic about the museum’s decision to backpedal on a controversial new name. Another lesson in “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” (edit Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) The Philadelphia Art Museum, no, hold on … Scratch that! The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) confirmed read more

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  • Philadelphia Art Museum Reverses Controversial Rebrand, Becomes Philadelphia Museum of Art Again

    Four months after announcing a snazzy rebrand from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the Philadelphia Art Museum, the institution announced that it is reversing course. As of Wednesday afternoon, the museum will again be known by its longtime moniker. In a press release, the museum said that it would retain its new griffin logo read more

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  • 10 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York This February

    To my dear readers: With this February installment, we celebrate two years of this monthly round-up of exhibitions in Upstate New York. It is a continued joy to promote the artists and shows in the region, and I thank all of you for your steadfast support of this column and community! This wintry month, the read more

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  • 7 Shows to See in Mexico City Art Week

    Los Angeles–based artist rafa esparza has two exhibitions on view in Mexico City at the moment. At Lago Algo, located within the Bosque de Chapultepec, he has a solo exhibition showing the breadth of his practice, including sculpture, painting, video, sound, and installation. Titled “juntxs” (Spanish for “together” with the “o” in “juntos” replaced in read more

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  • The Rubin’s Annual Grant Program Funds Himalayan Art and Research

    Announcement The 2026 grant cycle opens February 16. Submit a letter of intent by March 6. Photo courtesy the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art In 2024, the Rubin launched a new annual grant program to support artists, creatives, and scholars who are expanding awareness and understanding of Himalayan art globally, as well as the rich read more

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    The Rubin’s Annual Grant Program Funds Himalayan Art and Research

  • Secret Hideout: the Art of Matt Gordon – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    A sense of place has always been important to the artist. His studios have always provided inspiration in how these fictional get-togethers are formed. “My last studio of fifteen years was built in 1852, and there is a harness racing horse track down the hill and in full view when you look out the south-facing read more

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  • The Best Booths at Art Basel Qatar from the Quietly Sensual to the Colorfully Quirky

    Art Basel Qatar’s first edition doesn’t unfold in a convention center or a sealed-off fairground. Instead, it is embedded directly into the newly built Msheireb Downtown Doha. The fair spans two venues—the M7 building and the Doha Design District—set roughly two blocks apart, close enough that walking between the two doesn’t feel like a chore. read more

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    The Best Booths at Art Basel Qatar from the Quietly Sensual to the Colorfully Quirky