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Two protesters demonstrated outside the Museum of Modern Art in New York on September 22, calling for the removal of billionaire trustee Leon Black from MoMA’s board. Katie Fuller, founder of the...
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Sarah Michelson’s performance work “nowhere” is being presented daily at the Museum of Modern Art through October 11 as what performer Juli Brandano calls “essentially a 25-day dance.” The piece...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
MoMA’s exhibition “Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives” uses Marianne Wex’s 1972–1977 Hamburg street photographs—compiled into her influential project “Let’s Take Back Our Space:...
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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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A forthcoming book by journalist William D. Cohan, Money to Burn: Leon Black, Apollo and the Remaking of Wall Street (2026), reports that billionaire financier and art collector Leon Black plans to...
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York will present “Freedom and Futures: Emancipatory Art in Africa, 1956–1982” from May 2 to August 14, 2027, a thematic exhibition on mid-century African...
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The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) named Brett Littman as its next director and chief executive, with a start date in October. Littman, selected after a six-month national search, will...
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ARTnews highlighted renewed attention to Romanian-born sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) following Christie’s promotional short film featuring Nicole Kidman with his bronze-and-gold-leaf...
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Kit Fitzgerald, a pioneering American video artist known for bringing a painterly sensibility to electronic media, died on August 3 at age 73, according to an announcement by her husband and longtime...
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The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) appointed art historian and curator Carlos Quijon Jr. as chief curator of its museum for contemporary art ahead of the institution’s planned reopening...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Vincent van Gogh’s painting Tarascon Stagecoach (October 1888), made in Arles, will be shown in New York as part of the touring exhibition “Cézanne to Modigliani: Gifts of Modern Art from the...
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Artist and poet Precious Okoyomon has created a courtyard installation at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, transforming the museum’s typically stark outdoor space into a planted garden intended...
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Artist Joyce Kozloff disclosed that she was a founding member of the Guerrilla Girls, revealing her alias as Lydia (Liubov) Popova in an interview published July 22, 2026, in Art Journal Open. The...
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Artnet News reports that the Rijksmuseum will mount a major Willem de Kooning survey in Amsterdam in October, featuring more than 120 works and billed as the largest European exhibition of his art in...
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ARTnews reviews “In the Very Bowels of Change: Surrealism and Antifascism,” an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw that traces Surrealism’s political engagement and resistance to...
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Hyperallergic reviewed Michael Asher, a small survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, arguing that the late conceptual artist (died 2012) treated the museum itself as his medium. The...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A citizen collective called Defence of the Gelman Collection filed legal action on 1 July against Mexican cultural authorities to challenge a long-term agreement governing the circulation of the...
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Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art announced “Painting Magic,” an exhibition of about 70 works by Spanish-born artist Remedios Varo, running from September 18, 2026, to January 10, 2027, before...
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Hyperallergic profiles artist Akira Ikezoe, whose meticulously detailed oil paintings use anthropomorphic animals—frogs, bears, raccoons, and monkeys—to depict industrial workflows and energy...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Documents released by the US Department of Justice in January as part of the “Epstein files” indicate that investor Leon Black owned major Vincent van Gogh works, including the painting Quarry near...
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New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council speaker announced a $125.8 billion budget that includes a record $323.8 million appropriation for the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in...
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Media artist Refik Anadol will present “Smithsonian Dreams,” a large-scale A.I.-driven projection on the facade of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC, on July 17 and July 18 at 9 p.m. The...
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ARTnews reported that Israeli optical and kinetic artist Yaacov Agam died at age 98, with the news covered by outlets including the Times of Israel, Haaretz, and the Jerusalem Post. Born Yaacov...
Artnet News
In an Artnet News review, Refik Anadol’s Dataland is described as an A.I.-focused, immersive “museum” that resembles large-scale experiential attractions more than traditional institutions like the...
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Sculptor Leonardo Drew has joined Hauser & Wirth for worldwide representation, the gallery announced on Monday, and it will debut his new work Number 451 at Art Basel this week. Drew’s first solo...
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ARTnews reports that Almine Rech has become the exclusive partner in France of the Consejo Leonora Carrington and rossogranada, giving its network of galleries in Paris, London, Shanghai, New York,...
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Photographer Duane Michals died on Wednesday in Manhattan at age 94, according to Artnet News. Born in 1932 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Michals expanded photography’s narrative possibilities through...
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York announced “Mondrian Boogie Woogie,” the first survey focused on Piet Mondrian’s New York paintings and the influence of boogie-woogie music on his late...
Hyperallergic
In a Hyperallergic interview published as part of its 2026 Pride Month series, artist and educator Nayland Blake discusses their view of identity as unfixed and continually remade. Blake, who is...
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Sotheby’s attempted a highly secretive private auction on June 2 at its Manhattan Breuer Building for Jackson Pollock’s Number 19, 1951, owned by Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher, with an asking...
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Makeda Best will join New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as chief curator of Photography starting in September, according to Hyperallergic’s 2026 roundup column “Art Movements.” Best is currently...
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The Museum of Modern Art announced on June 2 that Makeda Best will become its chief curator of photography starting in September, filling a role vacant since Clément Chéroux departed in 2022. Best...
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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...
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Art Basel has appointed Iraqi curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi as artistic director of the 2027 edition of Art Basel Qatar, following the fair’s debut earlier this year in Doha. Al-Khudhairi will succeed...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Japanese artist and poet Gozo Yoshimasu, 87, has won the inaugural £200,000 Serpentine x Flag Art Foundation Prize, described as the largest contemporary art prize in the UK, according to The Art...
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MoMA PS1 in New York City will present the first US survey of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles in fall 2026, Hyperallergic reports, bringing together works made over more than 30 years that address...
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Artnet News reports that Berry Campbell in New York is presenting “Louisa Chase: The Eighties,” the largest and most comprehensive Louisa Chase (1951–2016) solo show in New York in more than two...
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Christie’s New York will auction 16 works from the collection of late publishing magnate S. I. Newhouse (died 2017) on May 18 at Rockefeller Center, with the group expected to total about $450...
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Artist George Herms, a foundational figure in the West Coast Assemblage movement, died on Friday, April 24, at age 90. Born July 5, 1935 in Woodland, California, Herms left engineering studies at UC...
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ARTnews reports that artist and cyclist fields harrington began photographing customized delivery bikes across New York City in 2024 after witnessing a delivery worker crash in Williamsburg,...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York,” a large survey attempting to capture the city’s art scene with more than 150 works by more than 50 artists. The article presents a selective,...
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West Coast abstract painter James Hayward died on April 16 at age 82, according to an obituary posted by his studio. Born in San Francisco in 1943, Hayward studied at San Diego State University and...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A five-star review in The Art Newspaper praises “Rothko in Florence,” a major exhibition examining how Florence influenced American painter Mark Rothko (1903–70), who visited the city three times in...
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MoMA PS1 has opened the sixth edition of Greater New York, its quinquennial survey of artists living and working across New York City’s five boroughs, featuring 53 artists and staged during the...
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MoMA PS1’s sixth Greater New York quinquennial opened on April 16 during the museum’s 50th anniversary year, presenting work by more than 50 New York City–based artists described as being in the...
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Time magazine’s 2026 “100 Most Influential” list includes Chinese artist Cao Fei and photojournalist Lynsey Addario, as part of a roster spanning politics, technology, fashion, medicine, and the...
Artnet News
Gagosian will open a newly overhauled ground-floor gallery at 980 Madison Avenue in New York on April 25 with an exhibition of Marcel Duchamp readymades, timed to the Museum of Modern Art’s Duchamp...
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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
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are mounting the first major US survey of Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) in 53 years, revisiting the institutions that...
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An Artnet review (published April 8, 2026) assesses the Museum of Modern Art’s major Marcel Duchamp exhibition and questions whether the presentation is overly reverential. The show is organized by...
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ARTnews reports that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has mounted a major Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) retrospective, described as the first comprehensive North American survey of the artist in more...
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Sculptor Melvin Edwards died on Monday, March 30, at age 88, according to confirmation from his gallery, Alexander Gray Associates. Born in 1937 and raised in Houston, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio,...
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Gladstone Gallery announced it now represents the estate of Pope.L, the influential American performance and conceptual artist who died in December 2023, and plans to mount its first solo show for...
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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...
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Pat Steir, the New York-based painter and printmaker known for her “Waterfall” paintings, died at age 87 of natural causes in Manhattan on March 25, 2026, according to her husband Joost Elffers and...
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Artist and activist Agosto Machado, a figure in Downtown New York’s queer art scene whose shrine-like altar sculptures are currently included in the Whitney Biennial, died on Saturday after a brief...
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ARTnews.com reported that Refik Anadol’s AI-driven work—described as a “lava lamp”—was spotlighted on the CBS program ’60 Minutes’, reigniting debate about AI art and authorship. The segment and...
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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
David A. Ross resigned as chair of the Master of Fine Arts in art practice department at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA), effective 3 February, after newly released “Epstein Files” documents...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reported that newly released Epstein-related files include detailed allegations involving financier and art patron Leon Black. The excerpt provided does not include the publication date...
Artnet News
Artnet News reported on January 31, 2026, that previously unknown Andy Warhol films—left undeveloped for decades—have been newly processed and brought to public attention in connection with the...