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Collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein have donated more than 70 works of modern and contemporary art to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the museum announced on Wednesday,...
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Artist Refik Anadol presented Smithsonian Dreams, an immersive AI-driven light and sound projection mapped onto the façade of the Smithsonian’s red sandstone Castle during a pause in a renovation...
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Steidl Verlag, the German publisher renowned for high-end photobooks, entered preliminary insolvency proceedings in Göttingen after a creditor’s request, according to German media reports. NDR...
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Hyperallergic reviewed “Hujar: Contact,” an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum devoted entirely to photographer Peter Hujar’s contact sheets, drawn from the archive the Morgan acquired in...
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Chicago photographer Barbara Karant filed a federal lawsuit in Illinois on May 26 accusing artist Mickalene Thomas of copyright infringement, alleging Thomas “appropriated more than a dozen” of her...
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The Art Newspaper highlights three photography exhibitions at the 57th Les Rencontres d’Arles, where director Christoph Wiesner frames the 2026 programme as “a space for complexity and attentiveness”...
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Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective have opened “Correspondences” at Luma Arles in southern France, billed as the project’s first major European presentation and running until November 8. Installed...
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Photographer Barbara Karant has sued artist Mickalene Thomas in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleging copyright infringement for using Karant’s photographs without...
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Scholar Simona Supekar’s book “Stock Photo” (2026), published in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series, examines how stock photography has helped perpetuate racism and sexism and how those biases now...
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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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Canadian sculptor and photographer Lorna Bauer is presenting “Maison en Bord de Mer” at New York’s Trotter&Sholer gallery, a project that revisits the legacy of E-1027, the modernist villa built on...
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A photograph by Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov was stolen from the Lithuanian National Museum of Art’s Radvila Palace Museum of Art in Vilnius on 28 June while on view in the exhibition “Ukrainian...
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President Donald J. Trump posted an image on Truth Social at 8:23 p.m. on Monday, June 29, depicting a giant golden bald eagle installed on the White House’s Truman Balcony, calling it “A Golden Gift...
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The Swiss Institute (SI), a nonprofit arts organization marking its 40th anniversary, has purchased the ground floor and basement of 250 Bowery in Manhattan, directly across from the New Museum, and...
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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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Artnet News published a Pride Month roundup titled “5 Queer Artists From the Artnet Gallery Network to Celebrate This Pride Month,” highlighting queer artists available through the Artnet Gallery...
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Photographer and activist Misan Harriman will step down as chair of London’s Southbank Centre this autumn, ending a tenure that began in 2021, according to a spokesperson who said succession planning...
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Hyperallergic highlighted a new book drawn from South African artist William Kentridge’s 2024 Oxford lecture, in which he describes his studio as a “safe space for stupidity” and discusses creativity...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Photographer and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Misan Harriman said he will step down as chair of London’s Southbank Centre after serving two terms, with the organization stating he will leave in autumn...
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Historic Works Progress Administration murals at Manhattan’s Bellevue Men’s Shelter may be lost as New York City weighs whether to restore or demolish the long-dilapidated building, which closed...
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ARTnews reported that Tate Modern’s exhibition “Frida: The Making of an Icon,” opening this month in London, has already sold a record 41,000 advance tickets, surpassing the museum’s previous high of...
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The Art Newspaper revealed a previously unknown “Gachet Archive” containing extensive material from Dr. Paul Gachet (1828–1909)—Vincent van Gogh’s physician in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890—and Gachet’s...
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Hyperallergic published a Father’s Day roundup of 10 contemporary artists whose work addresses fatherhood through themes such as immigration, absence, adoption, and artistic inheritance. The article...
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Hyperallergic reviews “Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light,” a documentary directed by Paul Wagner that frames Georgia O’Keeffe as a lifelong traveler shaped by varied American landscapes. The...
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Hyperallergic interviews Ottawa-based Métis artist Rosalie Favell as part of its 2026 Pride Month series on queer and trans elder artists, focusing on how she used family and personal archives to...
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Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani announced that Art Basel Qatar will relocate to a purpose-built venue on Al Maha Island in Lusail, north of Doha, with a target groundbreaking date...
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On 16 June, the New York Supreme Court ruled that dealer David Nahmad must return Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918) within 30 days to Philippe Maestracci, grandson of Jewish dealer...
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The Obama Foundation unveiled the first official dual portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama on Monday, June 15, commissioning Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby. The...
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An ARTnews.com essay argues that the “tragicomic” has reemerged as a defining aesthetic for the current era, linking today’s political and cultural absurdities to a form with roots in Plautus (2nd...
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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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Photographer Duane Michals died at age 94 on Tuesday, June 9, in a Manhattan hospital, according to confirmation from DC Moore Gallery, which had represented him since 2013. Michals was known for...
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“A Kind of Paradise: Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art,” a group exhibition at Museum Rietberg in Zurich, brings together 20 artists to examine how colonial-era photography shaped memory...
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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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A controversy at The Photography Show (Aipad) in April centered on gallerist James Danziger selling AI-generated “colourised” editions of Ansel Adams’s black-and-white photograph Moonrise, Hernandez,...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports on Lebanese-born, Sydney-based artist Khaled Sabsabi and the controversy around his selection to represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale, his removal within a week after...
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French conservation specialists are developing an AI model to predict how climate change will affect cultural heritage sites, an initiative led by Ann Bourgès of the French Ministry of Culture’s...
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An AI-generated “colourised” version of Ansel Adams’s Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941) shown by New York gallery Danziger at the Aipad Photography Show in April sparked backlash among...
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The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust criticized New York gallerist James Danziger for selling AI-colorized editions derived from Ansel Adams’s iconic photograph “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico”...
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Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is the subject of “Burtynsky: Human/Nature,” a solo exhibition at Paul Kyle Gallery in Vancouver running May 30–August 1, 2026. The show spans works from the...
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Artnet News reports that Studio 54 Fine Art, founded in Milan in 2016 by director Gary Williamson, is pursuing a flexible gallery model without a permanent brick-and-mortar space. The gallery stages...
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The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust criticized New York’s Danziger Gallery for offering an AI-generated image referencing Ansel Adams at the 2026 AIPAD Photography Show, which ran April 22–26....
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A new documentary titled “Avedon,” directed by Ron Howard and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, is criticized for offering a conventional biography of photographer Richard Avedon rather than a...
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A Chicana curator of “Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026” at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside, California, explains why she removed a 1969...
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has been threatened with legal action by Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center over its planned exhibition “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present,”...
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More than 97,000 complaints were filed with the UK’s Independent Press Standards Organisation after right-wing outlets published articles alleging that British-Nigerian photographer and arts trustee...
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Austrian artist Valie Export, a pioneering feminist performance artist, sculptor, and filmmaker, died at age 85, according to her gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, which did not provide a cause of death or...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
After weeks of bombardment that forced its closure and emergency measures to protect its holdings, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) has reopened with a weekly rotating post-ceasefire...
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The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced 312 new acquisitions in 2025 during its 50th anniversary year, expanding strengths in photography, mixed media, and contemporary...
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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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Marina Abramović is staging “Transforming Energy” at Venice’s Gallerie dell’Accademia, becoming the first living female artist to receive a solo show there and the first to have her work installed...
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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open in Los Angeles on 22 September with 18 thematic inaugural exhibitions curated by founder George Lucas, announced on 30 April. The program will present more...
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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 reports that the 2026 AIPAD Photography Show at the Park Avenue Armory brought 82 exhibitors together and ran through Sunday, April 26, with a notable emphasis on Latin American and...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (Aipad) opened the 45th edition of The Photography Show on April 22, 2026 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. The fair includes about 65...
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Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie has completed digitising a high-resolution archive of glass negatives documenting hundreds of paintings destroyed in May 1945, when two fires swept the Friedrichshain flak...
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Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the grandson of Diego Rivera, is donating more than 150,000 objects to Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli, significantly expanding the museum’s holdings and refocusing...
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Sculptor and author Barbara Chase-Riboud told the Financial Times that she declined an invitation to represent the United States at the 61st Venice Biennale, saying “this was not the moment.”...
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Barbara Chase-Riboud said she declined an offer to represent the US at the 61st Venice Biennale because, as she told the Financial Times, “as a world citizen, this was not the moment,” according to...
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Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, Diego Rivera’s grandson, has donated 157,300 objects from his private collection to Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli, significantly expanding the institution Rivera...
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A focused exhibition of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s mail art submissions to the Canadian collective General Idea is on view at Art Metropole in Toronto through May 31. Drawn from the National Gallery...
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Spain’s National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) has not yet complied with a May 2025 Supreme Court ruling ordering it to return the contested 13th-century Sijena Monastery murals to the Royal...
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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...
Artnet News
A report cited by the Guardian says London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) removed content from exhibition catalogues at the request of Chinese censors, raising concerns about foreign influence on...
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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...
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Houston’s FotoFest marked its 40th anniversary with a large retrospective, Global Visions: FotoFest at 40, which opened around the biennial’s March 7 reception and features work by more than 450...
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Hyperallergic highlighted Ai Weiwei’s new book On Censorship in an editor’s roundup that also referenced commentary on a Trump meme and an obituary for artist-activist Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, who died...
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Sharjah’s Barjeel Art Foundation, which manages the modern and Arab art collection assembled by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, has broken ground on its first dedicated museum, scheduled to open in January...
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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,”...
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An ARTnews article recounts how, during the New Deal era from 1933 to 1943, the US government treated art as a public resource and employed artists as part of broader economic relief during the Great...
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Frieze New York’s 2026 edition will run May 13–17 at the Shed with more than 65 exhibitors and will include institutional collaborations plus a new acquisition fund. In partnership with the Whitney...
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Hyperallergic profiled Iranian-born, Columbia MFA–trained artist Kamrooz Aram, noting his prominent early-2026 visibility through shows at Nature Morte in Mumbai during Mumbai Art Week, Alexander...
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ARTnews profiles Native American artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) in connection with his site-specific installation “Red Metal Dust” at the Barnes Foundation in...
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Jean-Marc Bottazzi, a Japanese bond trader based in Hong Kong, says his approach to collecting is about sustained support rather than “ticking boxes,” a philosophy shaped in part by his relationship...
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ARTnews criticizes US cultural politics while reviewing “The Great Camouflage,” a contemporary-art exhibition at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai that runs through April 26 (year not specified in...
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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...
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Hyperallergic reviews “Imaging after Photography” at Rice University in Houston, arguing that ethical approaches to AI art are possible when artists use the technology critically and transparently....
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An ARTnews review of Miljohn Ruperto’s exhibition at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center highlights new works that use AI and digital tools to critique extraction, colonialism, and the...
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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...
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On 26 February 2026, the Vancouver Art Gallery announced a gift of more than 800 photographs by Stephen Shore from the Chan family, largely from Shore’s landmark “Uncommon Places” series (1973–81)....
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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...
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A collection of 666 works by 135 Afro-Brazilian artists was voluntarily repatriated from a private collection in Detroit to Brazil’s National Museum of Afro-Brazilian Culture (Muncab) in Salvador,...
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Hungarian painter, printmaker, and filmmaker Dóra Maurer has died aged 88, according to the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts, where she served as president from 2017. Born in Budapest on 11...
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The Brooklyn Navy Yard has evicted a drone manufacturer after months of protests. Demonstrators objected to the company’s presence at the Navy Yard, arguing that its products and contracts were...
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Gagosian is marking the 40th anniversary of Nan Goldin’s photobook “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” a landmark work first published in 1986. ARTnews described the anniversary presentation as a...
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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,...
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On 10 February 2026, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, announced it will deaccession and return three bronze Hindu sculptures to India after a provenance review...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s article examines what happens when artists lose control of their archives—materials such as correspondence, sketches, photographs, and administrative records that shape how their work...
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An open letter published amid controversy at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto calls for the resignation of trustee Judy Schulich, who is reported to have instigated a committee decision to...
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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...