Joe Biden. Photo Spencer Platt/Getty Images In a new report published by the State Department’s Bureau of Protocol, records show that former President Joe Biden received a $19,000 painting from the president of Angola, João Lourenço, last year. The report, published annually, details gifts given to the president, their spouse, members of the cabinet, and …
M7, the future home of Art Basel Qatar. Photo Julius Hirtzberger/Courtesy Art Basel. When Art Basel opens its first edition in Doha on Tuesday, the difference—from other editions—will be immediately apparent. This is the smallest Basel fair by far: just 87 galleries, all of them mounting solo presentations, in a layout that feels closer to a curated …
Shahzia Sikander at work. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle Hong Kong’s M+ museum has selected Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander‘s hand-painted animated film 3 to 12 Nautical Miles (2026) for its latest commission for M+ Facade, an enormous LED-embedded media screen measuring approximately several hundred feet across. Co-commissioned by M+ and Art Basel, the work will screen from …
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James Rondeau. TNS For the first time since his return to his job last May following a voluntary leave, James Rondeau, the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, spoke frankly about a bizarre incident on an airplane that gained attention far beyond the art world. During that incident, last April, Rondeau was on a …
Anish Kapoor is sending a sculpture to space. Photo Roberto Serra/Iguana Press/Getty Images Anish Kapoor, a Turner Prize–winning artist who has never been afraid of controversy, has plotted his next project: sending a sculpture to space. What, exactly, the work might be remains a mystery, but he told the Times of London this week that …
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Esther Bell will be the next director of the Clark Art Institute. Courtesy Clark Art Institute The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has promoted Esther Bell, its deputy director and chief curator, to serve as the museum’s sixth director. She begins in the post on July 1. Bell is the first woman to hold …
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Tim Walz compared Minnesota’s children to Anne Frank, leading to pushback. Photo Stephen Maturen/Getty Images The US Holocaust Memorial Museum pushed back against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz this week after he compared victims of ICE raids in his state to Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who was killed in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. …
Victoria Helena, founder of Artist Money Matters. Photo by Diana Ghetau Victoria Helena has built a career most artists could never imagine for themselves. Before founding Artist Money Matters, a new artist-first financial consultancy launching this month, she spent two decades working in finance and studio administration while maintaining her own sculptural practice. The result …
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Protesters in Minneapolis carry a banner printed by a press devised by local artist Piotr Szyhalski Piotr Szyhalski When U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents subdued, disarmed, and then killed nurse Alex Pretti on January 24, it was on the doorstep of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and just a few blocks …
From left: Jordan Harper White, Isabelle Rose Basha, and Evan Karas. Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews A cold wind cuts through lower Manhattan, passing shuttered storefronts that once housed small galleries—some casualties of the rent crisis—before losing force at the corner of Broome and Chrystie Streets. There, a different kind of market experiment took shape. Last year, …
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