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ARTnews.com
ARTnews reported that the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York is shutting down its MFA in Curatorial Practice program. The article explains that the decision ends a graduate pathway focused on...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic argued for a boycott of the 2026 Venice Biennale, presenting the case as a response to political and ethical concerns surrounding the event and its institutional relationships. The...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
British artist Tracey Emin spoke out against what she called “jingoistic, racist, bigoted behaviour” as her major exhibition “Second Life” opened at Tate Modern in London, following a press preview...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
French artist Sophie Calle is the subject of “Overshare,” her first major North American survey, at the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, bringing together work from the 1970s to the...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The British Museum and the government of Assam agreed to a six-month loan of the 17th-century Vrindavani Vastra, a nine-metre-long tapestry depicting scenes from the life of Krishna, to begin in...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The third Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, titled “In Interludes and Transitions” (Fil Hil Wal Terhal), is being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and runs until 2 May 2026. Led by curators Nora Razian...
Artnet News
Artnet News reported on 25 February 2026 that 111 participating artists have been announced for “In Minor Keys,” the main exhibition of the 61st Venice Biennale, conceived by the late curator Koyo...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Julia Stoschek Foundation is presenting its first major US exhibition of time-based media at the Variety Arts Theater, a 1924 Italianate venue in downtown Los Angeles, according to a 25 February...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
At a Venice briefing reported by The Art Newspaper on 25 February 2026, the curatorial team for the 61st Venice Biennale detailed how they are implementing the late Koyo Kouoh’s exhibition “In Minor...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A 25 February 2026 feature in The Art Newspaper examines whether the Guerrilla Girls’ long-standing anonymity still serves their mission, in the context of the Getty exhibition “How to Be a Guerrilla...
Hyperallergic
The provided excerpt for Hyperallergic’s article “By Design” Treats Women Like Objects does not include the article’s readable body text, so the review’s subject (such as the exhibition/film/book...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Moca) has acquired Kara Walker’s monumental bronze sculpture Unmanned Drone (2023), made by dissecting and reassembling a decommissioned 1921 Confederate...
ARTnews.com
A leaked transcript indicates that a University of North Texas (UNT) dean cited politics as the reason for canceling an exhibition featuring anti-ICE artwork, ARTnews reports. The canceled show...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s review “Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom” discusses an exhibition titled “Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom,” focusing on how the show addresses political...
Artnet News
Artnet News reviewed Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition Liminals at Halle am Berghain in Berlin, describing it as a major project within the LAS Art Foundation’s “Sensing Quantum” program that took three...
Hyperallergic
Graduate students at the University of North Texas withdrew their thesis exhibitions, saying the school imposed censorship on their work. The dispute centered on what students described as...
ARTnews.com
ARTnews published a Q&A with Paul Slocum, an early advocate for digital art, about efforts to build a sustainable ecosystem for digital work. Slocum discusses how artists, collectors, and...
ARTnews.com
ARTnews reports that faculty at the University of North Texas (UNT) issued an open letter demanding the school disclose why it canceled an exhibition by artist Victor Quiñonez. The letter calls for...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The White House has pressed the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) to expand its presentation of President Donald Trump by creating a dedicated section with multiple images,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Artist David Hockney will create a large-scale window installation for Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK, as part of the gallery’s 15th anniversary celebrations. The work, measuring roughly seven by...
Artnet News
Fashion designer Alexander Wang and his mother, Ying Wang, are converting a landmark building in New York’s Chinatown into a new arts venue called Wang Contemporary, aimed at supporting Asian...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic essay examines how museum wall texts—often treated as neutral educational tools—can become flashpoints for political conflict and institutional power. The piece discusses how wording...
Artnet News
In an Artnet News article published on 2026-02-14, writers discuss how medieval Christian art sometimes depicted Christ’s side wound in crucifixion imagery as resembling a vulva, arguing the...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Tate Modern is staging Tracey Emin’s largest retrospective to date, titled “A Second Life,” spanning work from her first solo exhibition at White Cube in 1993 through her most recent paintings. Emin,...
Artnet News
The University of North Texas’s College of Visual Arts and Design Galleries in Denton canceled a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez after installation was completed,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Los Angeles exhibition “Monuments,” presented at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick, brings nine Confederate monuments into dialogue with works by 19 artists and received a five-star...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
London’s National Gallery is preparing staff reductions and program cuts after projecting an £8.2 million deficit for 2026–27, The Art Newspaper reported on 13 February 2026. The museum is offering a...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The University of Maryland’s David C. Driskell Center opened America Will Be! on 6 February 2026 (running through 8 May), an exhibition about Black artists’ reinterpretations of the US flag, but it...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art announced that the 59th Carnegie International will feature 61 artists and collectives and run from 2 May 2026 to 3 January 2027. Reported by The Art Newspaper on...
Hyperallergic
A solo exhibition by painter Amy Sherald set a new visitor record at the Baltimore Museum of Art, according to Hyperallergic. The article reports that attendance for Sherald’s show surpassed previous...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
London’s Southbank Centre has been granted Grade II listed status by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, giving statutory protection to key parts of the Brutalist arts complex, The Art...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews an exhibition framed around critical theory, describing it as unexpectedly engaging despite the subject’s reputation for difficulty. The article argues that the show translates...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
On 10 February 2026, The Art Newspaper reported that Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei faced a vote at London’s Royal Academy of Arts over whether to revoke his status as an international Royal...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
On 9 February 2026, Indigenous Brazilian leader Ninawa Huni Kui, of the Huni Kui (Kaxinawá) people from Acre, condemned London’s Science Museum for accepting sponsorship from BP ahead of its...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper published a running list on 9 February 2026 of national pavilion announcements for the 61st Venice Biennale, which opens 9 May 2026 and runs through 22 November 2026 across the...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Ukraine announced on 5 February 2026 that artist Zhanna Kadyrova will represent the country at the Venice Biennale with a pavilion titled "Security Guarantees," referencing the 1994 Budapest...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s article "How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time" examines the rise of “liminalism” as a contemporary visual and cultural trend focused on transitional, in-between...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Saudi Arabia is spotlighting its Modern art history with museum exhibitions and auctions as international attention shifts toward the Gulf ahead of Art Basel’s inaugural fair in Qatar and Frieze’s...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Qatar Museums announced further details of a new quadrennial, Rubaiya Qatar, opening in November 2026 across Doha and other sites in Qatar, with more than 50 artists and over 20 new commissions. The...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper compiled the national-pavilion announcements made so far for the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opens 9 May 2026 and runs through 22 November...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviewed an immersive project by artist Deborah Jack described as an elegy for water. The excerpt provided does not include the exhibition venue, dates, specific works, or any quoted...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Saudi Arabia’s AlUla Contemporary Art Museum, designed by architect Lina Ghotmeh, announced its name and curatorial vision on 1 February 2026 at the opening of Arduna, an 80-work group exhibition...
ARTnews.com
ARTnews reports that curator and writer Ekow Eshun has been selected to organize the next SITE Santa Fe International, the contemporary art institution’s recurring large-scale exhibition in Santa Fe,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
On 2 February 2026, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi appointed Manuel Rabaté as its first chief executive and director, marking his move from the Louvre Abu Dhabi, where he has been...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Art Basel launched its first Qatar edition on 2 February 2026 with an inaugural fair featuring 87 exhibitors and a format designed to feel more like a curated exhibition than a conventional...
Artnet News
Artnet News reports that the Louvre is lending its marble sculpture “Sleeping Hermaphroditus” to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The work will be shown in the Rijksmuseum’s forthcoming exhibition...
ARTnews.com
ARTnews reported the death of Chung Sang-hwa, a Korean painter associated with the Dansaekhwa movement, at age 93. The article notes his prominence within the monochrome painting tendency that gained...
Hyperallergic
In “James Castle Was a World Unto Himself,” Hyperallergic profiles American artist James Castle, emphasizing his highly personal visual language and the self-contained creative universe he built over...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic examines photographer Nan Goldin’s ongoing fight against censorship, focusing on controversies surrounding the display of her work. The article situates Goldin’s case within broader...