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The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A commentator reflecting on co-curating Tate Britain’s 2014 exhibition “Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation” argues that museums should be cautious when adding audio and video to gallery spaces....
Hyperallergic
A major James McNeill Whistler retrospective at Tate Britain in London argues that the artist’s brushwork, limited palettes, and compositional restraint were aimed at achieving visual harmony rather...
Hyperallergic
The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt will return to Scotland for a full exhibition at Glasgow’s Tramway beginning Saturday, September 12, running through October 4, marking the first time it will be shown in...
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Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels is scheduled to open on November 28 after a decade of delays and renovations costing more than €250 million ($290 million). Housed in a 430,000-square-foot former...
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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...
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Mexican curator and art historian Cuauhtémoc Medina has been appointed to curate the 25th Bienal de Arte Paiz, organized by the Fundación Paiz para la Educación y la Cultura and scheduled to open in...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Tate Modern’s exhibition “Frida: The Making of an Icon” examines how Frida Kahlo’s image and mythology were constructed and later reused, rather than presenting a large-scale survey of her paintings....
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Malagasy collector and entrepreneur Hasnaine Yavarhoussen helped enable Madagascar’s debut pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019 after meeting artist Joël Andrianomearisoa the year before and...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
After Indigenous artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung was stripped of Taiwan’s National Award for Arts following his sexual-assault conviction in April, curators and artists have pointed to a generational...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A major survey of British sculptor Cathy de Monchaux, titled “Studio Wounds and Battles: Desire is the Reiteration of Hope,” opened at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, marking her first significant...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Elvira Dyangani Ose, formerly director of Barcelona’s Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Macba), has been appointed artistic director of Cape Town’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic highlighted debate around David Hockney’s late digital works, focusing on a 295-foot (about 90-meter) composite iPad “painting,” “A Year in Normandie” (2020–21), shown at Serpentine...
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The Hammer Museum has named Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet as co-curators of the eighth edition of the Made in L.A. biennial, scheduled to open in fall 2027. Wellen, who became the Hammer’s...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Jessica Morgan, director of the New York-based Dia Art Foundation since early 2015, has been appointed the next director of Tate, replacing Maria Balshaw, who stepped down last year. Morgan will...
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Scottish artist Christine Borland, known for research-driven work engaging forensic science, medical history, and human genetics, died on Sunday at age 60 after cancer; her death was confirmed by...
Artnet News
Artnet News reviews a landmark Ana Mendieta retrospective at Tate Modern, on view through January 17, 2027, arguing it restores the Cuban-American artist’s place in 20th-century American art history....
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Tate Modern’s major retrospective of Ana Mendieta foregrounds works made during her returns to Cuba beginning in 1980, after she fled the country as a child refugee in 1961. The exhibition opens with...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has donated three sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg to the Artist Rooms collection jointly shared by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland, The Art Newspaper...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Tate Modern is preparing a major survey titled “Ana Mendieta” that will present about 150 works and be the UK’s first major Mendieta exhibition in over a decade. The show will frame the Cuban...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Belvedere in Vienna is presenting a major survey of Polish artist Erna Rosenstein (1913–2004) titled “On the Other Side of Silence,” examining her painting, poetry, and assemblage work shaped by...
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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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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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born pioneer of kinetic art, died in Paris on 30 May at age 97, having lived there since the late 1950s. Tate Modern will open a major survey, Light. Colour. Action (11...
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A painting Lucian Freud long denied making, Man in a Black Scarf, will go on public view for the first time in the exhibition “Benton End: A Paradise of Pollen and Paint” at London’s Garden Museum....
Hyperallergic
Franco-Argentine kinetic and Op art pioneer Julio Le Parc died in Paris on May 30 at age 97, days before a major Tate Modern retrospective in London scheduled to open June 11. Born in 1928 in...
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Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born pioneer of kinetic art known for participatory installations using light, mirrors, movement, and optical effects, died in Paris on May 30 at age 97. His son, Yamil...
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ARTnews’s summer preview lists 46 museum exhibitions and biennials worldwide, identifying spectacle as a major seasonal theme. It highlights projects including Laure Prouvost’s show about quantum...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A podcast episode from The Art Newspaper reviews New York’s recent auctions, noting record-setting prices for works by Jackson Pollock, Constantin Brancusi, and Mark Rothko alongside more mixed...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A new James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) exhibition at Tate Britain in London, curated by Carol Jacobi, argues that the artist’s legacy has been overly defined by his 1877 libel suit against critic...
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Constantin Brâncuși’s Danaïde (1913), a bronze head formerly owned by media magnate S. I. Newhouse, sold at Christie’s on Monday for a $93 million hammer price, totaling $107.6 million with fees and...
Hyperallergic
British artist Sarah Lucas unveiled a new public sculpture, VENUS VICTORIA (2026), at the New Museum’s triangular entrance plaza on the Bowery in Lower Manhattan, where it will remain on view for two...
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Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT, a pioneering feminist figure known for challenging the conventions of art and cinema, died on May 14 at age 85, according to confirmation from Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
White Cube has announced representation of Chinese-born, New York–based artist Cai Guo-Qiang, marking the first gallery to represent him, according to The Art Newspaper. The partnership coincides...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Tate has announced the four nominees for the Turner Prize 2026: Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau, and Tanoa Sasraku. Their shortlisted work will be exhibited at the Middlesbrough...
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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Brazilian artist Teresinha Soares, known for erotic-inflected paintings, assemblages, and participatory installations that challenged gender norms in the 1960s and ’70s, died on March 31 in Belo...
Artnet News
Artnet News published a “State of Play” roundup on March 29, 2026, under its Artnet Pro newsletter series “The Asia Pivot,” titled “Labubu Gets a Star Turn on the Big Screen—Plus a Rundown of the...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic review of Tracey Emin’s retrospective “A Second Life” at Tate Modern in London argues that Emin’s work centers on extreme self-introspection and relies heavily on text—titles and...
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Helen Legg, director of Tate Liverpool since 2018, has been appointed artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and will begin in June, overseeing exhibitions, the collection, and...
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
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,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Adrian Searle is stepping down as The Guardian’s chief art critic after more than 30 years, according to a 13 February 2026 report in The Art Newspaper. Searle called his time writing for the paper...