MOCA Grand Avenue. Elon Schoenholz/Courtesy The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announced Julian Charrière and Cecilia Vicuña as the winners of its inaugural Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize. The award comes with a $100,000 purse and institutional support from the museum to develop …
Workers clean the base of GAM’s giant statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II. courtesy picture alliance via Getty Image The long-awaited – and much-delayed – state-funded Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) next to the Giza Pyramids is finally open, but only partially. GEM houses the largest collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including treasures from the tomb of …
Visitors take pictures of ‘Comedian’ by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. courtesy Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines GOING BANANAS. Maurizio Cattelan’s famously provocative duct-taped, yellow plantain sculpture will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York on November 20. Has the piece managed to retain its …
Facade of Clark Art Institute via Google images. The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has received a significant posthumous donation from the foundation of one of its former trustees, Bulgarian-American software developer Aso O. Tavitian, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 80. The donation includes 331 artworks and a $45 million …
An installation view of Charles Moffett’s booth at ADAA’s The Art Show. Silvia Ros/Courtesy of Charles Moffett Gallery Not even an hour into the opening of The Art Show, the annual fair of the Art Dealers Association of America, New York dealer Charles Moffett had sold half of the seven egg tempera on wood New …
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The Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany. Photo John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images Politicians with the far-right Alternative for Germany party have criticized the Bauhaus movement of the early 20th century, claiming that its emphasis on austerity and minimalism led modernism in the wrong direction. According to the German publication Middeldeutsche Zeitung, members of the party, …
The scene at the 2024 edition of Art Basel Paris. Courtesy Art Basel Few years have been as tumultuous in the art market as 2023. Of course, 2008 and 2016 were bad (and not to mention 1990), but the ongoing art market “correction” was preceded by the post-Covid low-interest rate economy that drove a speculation …
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Paul Morrissey. Photo Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Paul Morrissey, the director of several Andy Warhol film collaborations that earned the scorn of critics and the admiration of audiences around the world, died in New York on Monday after being hospitalized with pneumonia. He was 86, according to the New York Times, which first reported the news. …
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Abbas Akhavan. Photo Alex de Brabant Abbas Akhavan will represent Canada at the 2026 edition of the Venice Biennale, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the pavilion’s commissioner, announced on Thursday. Related Articles For the Canadian Pavilion, Kapwani Kiwanga Considers the Hefty Historical Importance of the Tiny Venetian Seed Bead There She Blows: Geoffrey Farmer …
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A digita work by Alba G. Corral called ‘Emergence’ (2021) displayed through Feral File’s app on a smart TV. COURTESY FERAL FILE Feral File, an online platform for digital art founded in 2020, is striving to beam curated digital art through smart TVs and mobile devices in people’s homes via a new membership program. “We’re …
