Christophe Cherix. Photo Peter Ross/©2021 Museum of Modern Art The Headlines MOMA HAS A NEW DIRECTOR. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has a new director Christophe Cherix, ARTnews reported on Friday. Cherix will succeed Glenn Lowry, the director of MoMA since 1995, and he will start his new job this September. He has served as chief curator …
Artziwna gallery in Vienna. Google imgaes A painting newly revealed to be by J. M. W. Turner has surfaced in a private Austrian collection and is now up for sale at a Viennese gallery for €38 million ($41 million). A version of Venice, Seen from the Canale della Giudecca, an 1840 painting housed at London’s …
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Jas Lin performs in KICKOUT, a work exploring queer bodily autonomy in collaboration with artists IV Chan, and Alexmalism, at M+ on Monday. Photo Winnie Yeung @ Visual Voices/Courtesy of M+ Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in our special Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter for Art Basel Hong Kong. Sign up here to receive it every …
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Lucy Dacus. Photo Kevin Winter/Getty Images Lucy Dacus‘s newly released album Forever Is A Feeling has been widely anticipated among music aficionados, with the 29-year-old singer even getting a full-length profile in the New Yorker last week. But it turns out that the art world has a reason to pay attention to the album, too. …
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Exterior view of The American Museum of Natural History’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation on May 10, 2023. Corbis via Getty Images New York’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) has returned a shrine known as the Whalers’ Washing House to Mowachaht, a First Nations people in Canada. The Whalers’ Washing House …
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At center: Suzanne Jackson, deepest ocean, what we do not know, we might see?, 2021. ©Suzanne Jackson/Courtesy Ortuzar, New York/Photo Patrick Jameson/Tanoto Family Collection Suzanne Jackson, an influential painter whose work was a star of the 2024 Whitney Biennial, will get a traveling retrospective that kicks off this fall. The show, titled “Suzanne Jackson: What …
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An installation image of art in the student-organized show shuttered by campus. Courtesy RISD Students for Justice in Palestine Students at the Rhode Island School of Design have accused administration of censorship after an exhibition of dissident art, some of which explicitly criticized Israel’s occupation of Palestine, was removed from public view by campus security …
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Christophe Cherix (at right) with Ed Ruscha, whose 2023 retrospective Cherix curated for MoMA. Getty Images for The Museum Of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art in New York has named Christophe Cherix as its next director, succeeding Glenn Lowry, who has led the institution for three decades. The New York Times first reported …
The British Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. Photo Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Nearly 50 UK art businesses have landed on a newly published list of Art Market Participants (AMPs) that failed to comply with money laundering regulations, according to a disclosure by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) last week. The fines …
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The Ebell of Los Angeles building. Courtesy Ebell of Los Angeles The Headlines FRESCO FIND. After 90 years, forgotten frescoes by Maxine Albro were recently discovered beneath nine layers of paint in the historic building of Ebell of Los Angeles, a women-focused organization dedicated to education, arts, and culture, reports the Los Angeles Times. Painted in 1933, the murals …
