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Daft Punk in Milan in 2019. Photo Marco Piraccini/Archivio Marco Piraccini/Mondadori via Getty Images Good news for any Art Basel attendees hoping to relive their early aughts salad days: Thomas Bangalter, one half of legendary French electro duo Daft Punk, will take over Hall 1.1 South at Messe Basel on Saturday June 20. Advertised as …

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Barbara Chase-Riboud. Photo Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images As questions continue to swirl around Alma Allen‘s US Pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale, sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud revealed that she was also offered the opportunity to represent the country—and that she had declined it. News of Chase-Riboud’s decision to say no was first reported by the New …

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Carrie Mae Weems has selected No Country for Old Men (still) as part of the “Fraenkel Gallery Presents” series at Metrograph. Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery and Metrograph San Francisco–based Fraenkel Gallery has partnered with Metrograph to have six of the artists it represents select one film each that will screen at the theater from May 8–17, …

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Agnes Gryczkowska Agnes Gryczkowska Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Last week, Marina Abramović opened her first solo presentation in Berlin since the 1990s, the bombastically named, “Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition” at Gropius Bau. Set to run …

Agnes Gryczkowska Discusses Curating Marina Abramovic’s New Berlin Mega Show Read More »

Guests watch a performance during the 20th Anniversary David C. Driskell Prize Gala at High Museum of Art on September 20, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. Getty Images for High Museum of Art Brady Lum, the former chief operating officer of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, entered a not guilty plea Tuesday to a federal theft …

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View of Stanton Yards with design contributions from SO – IL and OSD. Image by bloomimages A small group of high-value works from the collection of entrepreneur and philanthropist Jennifer Gilbert will go to auction at Sotheby’s this spring, with proceeds directed toward Lumana, a Detroit-based arts nonprofit she is developing. The works will be …

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Hans Ulrich Obrist. Photo Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for The Business of Fashion Hans Ulrich Obrist, one of the art world’s great curators, is more deeply connected with artists than most could dream: he has estimated that he’s recorded over 2,000 hours worth of interviews with artists, and he regularly posts handwritten notes from painters, …

Hans Ulrich Obrist Reveals the One Artist Who Refused to Let Him Into Their Studio Read More »

Performers in La Havana Madrid (2019) by Sandra Delgado, who received a Joyce Award in 2015. Photo Joel Maisonet/Courtesy the artist and The Den Theatre, Chicago The Chicago-based Joyce Foundation will relaunch its Joyce Awards, which have supported artists working in the Great Lakes region since 2004. The foundation will do so under a new …

Joyce Awards to Relaunch After Yearlong Pause with $100,000 Unrestricted Grants for Great Lakes Artists Read More »

Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, at Roden Crater in 2015. Bonnie Jo Mount/Washington Post via Getty Images Devon Booker, a five-time All Star guard for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns, has visited James Turrell’s fabled Roden Crater three times—and even struck up something of a friendship with an artist who …

NBA Star Devon Booker Finds Perspective at James Turrell’s Fabled Roden Crater Read More »

The Reichstag. Photo Hauke Schröder/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Jurors from the Kunstfonds Foundation, a prominent German body that funds contemporary art projects, have publicly denounced the country’s top cultural policy official after he requested the names of its current members. In a statement first reported by Der Spiegel, the art fund’s jury described the …

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