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Christie’s will hold its first fine art auction in Abu Dhabi on November 1, marking 20 years since it staged what it calls the first international auction-house sale in the United Arab Emirates in...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic roundup highlights criticism and news items centered on art, celebrity, and institutional politics, including a review of Sleth’s play “The Wreck of the Unbelievable” at the Brick...
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Naomi Beckwith, the Guggenheim Museum’s deputy director and chief curator, said in an interview with Die Zeit that “a few” artists have declined invitations to participate in Documenta 16 because of...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews Taryn Simon’s exhibition Father Country I Do Love You at the Guggenheim Museum as a sprawling “detective story” that frames injustice as systemic rather than the result of...
ARTnews.com
ARTnews reviews Taryn Simon’s Guggenheim Museum exhibition Father Country I Do Love You as a major project created for the United States’ 250th anniversary, filling the New York museum’s rotunda with...
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UAE minister of state Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi said the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will present a “new story” about the Middle East as it prepares to open on Saadiyat Island on December 11 after...
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The D. Daskalopoulos Collection announced a donation of 51 artworks to four museums in Greece and Scotland, with most works going to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, MOMUS (the Metropolitan...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s “Betye Saar, Picasso, BlackStar,” introduced by editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara, highlights several art-world stories including a little-known account of a stolen Pablo Picasso work...
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has filed suit in New York State Supreme Court to recover Pablo Picasso’s Femme dans un fauteuil (Woman in an Armchair) (1918), which was stolen in 1961 while on...
Hyperallergic
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has filed suit in New York State Supreme Court seeking the return of Pablo Picasso’s “Femme dans un fauteuil” (1918), which disappeared on February 6, 1961, while...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Valerie Hillings, director of the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) since 2018, has been appointed the inaugural director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi ahead of its opening later this year. The museum,...
Hyperallergic
The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi named Valerie Hillings its inaugural director after confirming the museum’s opening date for this coming December. Hillings previously worked on the Abu Dhabi project as...
ARTnews.com
The Guggenheim Museum in New York will open a solo exhibition by Taryn Simon on September 18, dedicating the entire Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda to a single artist’s entirely new body of work...
Hyperallergic
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced that the Frank Gehry–designed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will open on December 11, following about 20 years of delays and allegations of abuse against migrant...
Hyperallergic
After 20 years of delays and controversy, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced that the Frank Gehry–designed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will open on December 11. The 30-gallery museum will join...
Artnet News
The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, a Frank Gehry–designed museum whose contract reportedly grew to $1 billion, has set its opening for December 11, keeping it on track for a 2026 debut after being announced...
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New York health officials announced that traces of Legionella bacteria linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side were detected at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, after...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art returned a Roman marble portrait bust to Turkey in February after questions about its provenance and its purchase from Phoenix Ancient Art,...
Hyperallergic
Charles Seliger, who had his first solo show at age 19 at Peggy Guggenheim’s The Art of This Century in 1945, is revisited as an early Abstract Expressionist who pursued an independent,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Unionized workers at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, represented by UAW Local 2110, voted overwhelmingly last week to authorize a strike if contract negotiations with museum...
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The Guggenheim Museum in New York will livestream select World Cup matches on Friday afternoons this summer at Frank Pub’s, a pop-up at the Wright (the museum’s restaurant), with access free to...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
In a round-up of reactions to the Venice Biennale and expectations for 2026, art-world figures described curator Koyo Kouoh’s exhibition “In Minor Keys” as politically urgent and unusually attentive...
Artnet News
British actor Tilda Swinton will debut a new live performance work titled “House of Gestures” at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao on June 5–6 in the museum’s Frank Gehry-designed atrium. The...
Hyperallergic
The Guggenheim Museum in New York will screen Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s 2006 film “Zidane, a 21st century portrait” from June 11 to July 19. The two-channel work follows French soccer...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper profiles “Helter Skelter: Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa,” a two-artist exhibition at the Prada Foundation’s Ca’ Corner della Regina in Venice, presented during the Venice Biennale...
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Chanel and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation are launching a transatlantic curatorial fellowship linking New York and Venice, with an announcement timed to the start of the Venice Biennale,...
Artnet News
An Artnet News market column argues that the Venice Biennale’s claim to be “above the market” is increasingly strained as galleries more often finance artists’ costly biennial projects in hopes of...
Hyperallergic
In Hyperallergic’s “Art Talk With Rama Duwaji,” editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara recounts visiting Gracie Mansion in Manhattan for an interview with artist Rama Duwaji, described as New York City’s...
Hyperallergic
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation named 223 recipients for its 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships, including 76 artists and other visual-arts practitioners such as Sheida Soleimani, Leeza...
Hyperallergic
In a Hyperallergic roundup titled “Trump’s Clash of Civilizations,” editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara frames the issue around recent threats by the US president to annihilate Iran’s “whole civilization,”...
Artnet News
Artnet News reported on 10 April 2026 that Melissa Chiu, 54, has been appointed the next director of the Guggenheim in New York, following a quiet search led by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Spain’s culture ministry has denied a request from the Basque government to loan Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) from Madrid’s Reina Sofía to Guggenheim Bilbao for a proposed exhibition running 1...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Melissa Chiu, director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC since 2014, will leave to become director of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Her final day at the...
ARTnews.com
The Basque regional government has asked Spain’s Ministry of Culture to approve a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which would be the painting’s first...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Conceptual artist Trevor Paglen has been named the recipient of the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award, an honor that includes a $100,000 prize from LG and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Based...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s weekly “Art Movements” roundup reported that the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is marking the 100th anniversary of Robert Rauschenberg’s birth with a one-time set of four $100,000...
Artnet News
On 19 February 2026, Artnet News reported that the U.S. Department of Justice released roughly 3 million additional files related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,...