Mary Reynolds made a calling card with all uppercase, simply review: Mary Reynolds/ Reliure/ 24R. Hallé/ Paris XIV. It’s unclear why she desires them, since she quit (” binding” in French) is
Editor’s Note: This tale becomes part of Newsmakers, a n ARTnews collection where we talk to the lobbyists that are making adjustment in the art globe. Invite to the resisterhood. That’s the property of Youthful Joon Kwak’s existing solo event,
In 2023, Beata America, director of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art in Africa, went to Ghana for an inspection. Accompanied by colleague Julia Kabat, America eventually visited the Accra studio of
London’s South by Southwest (SXSW) will host its second London festival next week, covering more than 20 venues around the Trueman Brewery in Shoreditch. Known for its fusion of technology, business and
Pollock and Krasner moved to a house at 830 Hearth Road in East Hampton Springs that they purchased from the Guggenheim with a $2,000 down payment. Unlike today’s rich man’s playground, East
When the Belarusian Free Theater opened “Officially. Unofficially. Belarus.” at an exhibition at the Evangelical Church of San Giovanni in Venice earlier this month, it marked Belarus’ first appearance at the Venice
Whenever a tech company promotes an emerging technology like artificial intelligence or virtual universes, the pitch sounds the same: a promise to “unleash” the imagination, or a new “immersive world.” When Facebook
Mark Rothko’s abstract works are known for their rectangular floating forms and pale colors, which critics and historians say invoke metaphysics. The Russian-American painter relied on these formal elements to imbue his
The New Art Dealers Alliance opened the 12th annual NADA New York on Wednesday, just five blocks north of Frieze. Those who go to Chelsea’s Starrett-Lehigh building at West 26th Street and
Late last month, in a cafe in Little Italy, Joel Meisler leaned back in his chair and began explaining how he used to sell art in New York. He said that when
Akira Ikezoe has been thinking a lot lately about what milk can do. Yes, it can be obtained from cattle, packaged, sold and consumed. But what if you could paint with it,
What is appropriate to appropriate? That question is the one that animates practices of Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa, who are currently showing their work together at the Fondazione Prada in Venice.
Six days after Georg Baselitz died, his long-time dealer Thaddeus Ropac opened an exhibition in Venice this week, and the artist has accepted that it will be his last. “Eroi d’Oro” at
In 2015, Los Angeles–based artist Guadalupe Rosales launched the Instagram account @veteranas_and_rucas as a way to share images from her personal archive of Chicana life in Southern California in the 1990s. In
The South African pavilion in Giardini will remain empty during this year’s Venice Biennale, with Culture Secretary Gayton McKenzie deciding to scrap a planned pavilion by artist Gabrielle Goliath as “extremely controversial”.
When Carmelo Grasso, abbot and curator at the San Giorgio Maggiore convent in Venice, saw a sculpture by New York artist Barry X Ball Pope St. John Paul II (2012-24), he knew
When you enter the Saudi Arabian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, you are first struck by the scale of the project: tens of thousands of clay bricks pieced together to replicate the
Every two years, Venice is activated with more art than is possible to see in a week. While much attention this year will be on “In Minor Keys,” the central show curated
When does something become a work of art? A canvas once it’s been painted? A block of marble once it’s been carved? For Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), the answer was much more direct
Artist Natasha Toney, who has just concluded her first institutional exhibition, will unveil an ambitious immersive installation at the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, a 16th-century building in San Marco during the Venice
Entering Venice’s Magazzini del Sale museum, viewers will see Nalini Malani’s animations projected directly onto the uneven brick walls of the former salt warehouse. Her images flicker, dissolve and reappear in architecture
At first glance, Nancy Burson’s “Quantum Entanglement” paintings appear to be just white dots washed up in clusters and waves on a black canvas. Some dots resemble a pair of eyes; Others
April 28, 1966 new york times Hilton Kramer, a conservative critic notorious for his disdain for contemporary art, reviewed the Jewish Museum’s “Primary Structures” exhibition. This disdain was on full display in
Calder returned to Paris in 1937 and set up a studio in his garage, equipped with a car turntable, probably to facilitate viewing and adjusting his sculptures. In the same year, he
For as long as people have made art, they have depicted something they know intimately: the nude human form. One of the oldest surviving works of art—the Paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, which
“It started with youthful academic curiosity,” artist Theaster Gates says of his initial interest in the work of 19th-century slave-holding potter David Drake, also known as “Potter Dave.” In the early 1990s,