Tag: Contemporary
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Sotheby’s Spring Modern and Contemporary Evening Sale in London Achieves Impressive $175 M. White-Glove Result
Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. It is officially March, which means I was back at the Windmill pub, just around the corner from Sotheby’s New Bond Street location, on Wednesday. My pre-sale pint before the house’s spring modern and contemporary read more
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David Hockney to Unveil 32-Foot-Long Window Installation for Turner Contemporary in Margate
This spring, David Hockney will unveil a major new work at Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK, as part of the gallery’s 15th-anniversary celebrations. The piece, a massive 22-by-32-foot installation, will transform the museum’s floor-to-ceiling window in the Sunley Gallery overlooking Margate’s beaches and the North Sea. Running from April 1 to November 1, the window read more
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Lauren Haynes Appointed Executive Director of Atlanta Contemporary
Atlanta Contemporary has named Lauren Haynes’s as its new executive director, effective March 16. She replaces interim ED Everett Long, who had been in the position since last summer. Haynes brings a wealth of curatorial experience to her new role, from institutions throughout the United States. She was most recently vice president of arts & read more
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Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts
Announcement Transform your art practice with access to internationally-recognized faculty and state-of-the-art facilities in downtown Vancouver. MFA and MA applications are accepted through February 15. Alexis Chivir-ter Tsegba, “Currents of longing” (2025) hand-woven cloth (Așo Òke), cotton, fibre, satin, thread, stainless steel rod, steel cable. (photo by Rachel Topham Photography) The School for the Contemporary read more
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Where Would Contemporary Art Be Without Plastic?
Book Review A new anthology on plastics in art reveals the philosophical conundrums and contradictions at the heart of a material the world relies on. Arthur Jafa, “Ex-Slave Gordon” (2017), vacuum-formed plastic (© Arthur Jafa; image courtesy the artist) The motivating query behind Plastics, an art conservation anthology by Anne Gunnison and David Joselit, is read more
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Nahmad Contemporary to Stage Picasso Exhibition in Collaboration with Supermodel Naomi Campbell
Nahmad Contemporary will mount an exhibition titled “Picasso | Painter and Model, Reflections by Naomi Campbell” next month at its exhibition space in Gstaad, Switzerland. The exhibition, which runs February 14–March 15, focuses on Pablo Picasso’s late series “Le Peintre et son modèle” (The Painter and his model), and will feature 14 works produced between 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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Hard Choices: Can You Still Hack Being a Contemporary Art Curator?
With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliver a quiz full ofhard choicesforArt in Americareaders from far and wide. You landed a desirable museum job as a contemporary art curator in the mid-2000s and quickly became a power broker on the scene. Back 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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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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Can a Hotel Be a Contemporary Art Museum, Too? An Interview with 21c Curator Alice Gray Stites – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Above: a view of a Nightwatch room, and an oil painting by Ruth Owens on display at 21c Oh, pardon my coastal ignorance! You have just announced the Nightwatch immersive Suites. It is described as a “sleep-in installation” and a ‘sensory experience where “The moving light uncovers the animated magic hidden within the forest, reminding read more
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