Illustration Kat Brown/ARTnews There are more than 35,000 active museums in the United States, according to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Narrow the aperture to New York State and there are over 600 institutions; in New York City alone, nearly 200. Add to that the growing number of so-called private museums founded by …
Simone Forti, artist, choreographer, dancer, poet, and leading figure of New York’s Judson Dance Theater scene of the 1960s, as well as an influential contributor to Minimalism and the Fluxus movement, has passed away in Los Angeles at age 91, her gallery, Raffaella Cortese, confirmed via social media today. “She was a beloved friend and …
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Richmond Orlando Mensah recently founded the New Africa Cultural Initiative as a nonprofit arm of Manju Journal. Photo Daniel Okon/Courtesy the New Africa Cultural Initiative (NACI) For nearly a decade, Manju Journal has been establishing a vital digital archive and storytelling platform celebrating contemporary African art, fashion, photography, and the creatives shaping its future. Founded …
The National Gallery in London. The National Gallery Photographic Department Two activists affiliated with Youth Demand, a group calling for the British government to end economic trade with Israel as well as the cessation of new licenses for fossil fuels, were found guilty of criminal damage after covering a Picasso painting with an image of …
Cave painting at Font-de-Gaume, Dordogne Centre des monuments nationaux/Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France, Anne Maigret. For the first time, scientists have precisely dated prehistoric paintings inside Font-de-Gaume, a decorated cave in Dordogne, southwestern France. The news was reported by Science Daily, following an announcement made March 9 by France’s National …
Gilberto Cárdenas. Courtesy Dolores Carrillo García Gilberto Cárdenas, one of the country’s top collectors of Latinx art and a leading scholar of Latino studies, died on July 26 at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 79 years old. With his wife Dolores Carrillo García, Cárdenas, a sociologist and professor emeritus at the University of …
The artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982. ©James Van der Zee Archive, the Metropolitan Museum of Art/Courtesy “King Pleasure” exhibition, New York There is a new development in an ongoing fraud lawsuit against the leader of the collapsed Vancouver-based developer Coromandel Properties, whose chief executive allegedly misappropriated funds to acquire an art collection, reports The Vancouver …
Yoshitomo Nara. Courtesy David Zwirner After adding Yoshitomo Nara to its roster last fall, David Zwirner will present the Japanese artist’s first show with the gallery at both of its spaces on 19th and 20th Streets in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The exhibition, touted as Nara’s first major solo show in New York in nearly a …
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An image from the recent survey. Courtesy Nature Surveys of the Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas turned up evidence of pre-Colombian civilization that thrived in southwestern Amazonia. As reported by Heritage Daily, the new findings—published in the journal Nature—include signs of hundreds of earthworks that had not previously been identified. “The team conducted more …
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Adaline Kent, Days of Our Youth, 1947 Accessions Committee purchase, by exchange, through the T.B. Walker Foundation Fund The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced the purchases of more than 90 modern and contemporary artworks between January and June 2026. The purchases include videos and video installations by Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser, …
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