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The CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Tracey Bates, told the New York Times that staff turnover and layoffs in 2025 did not alter the museum’s direction, saying George Lucas “has always been...
Hyperallergic
“Marina,” a new performance by Julio Torres and Martine Gutierrez, premiered at Manhattan’s Little Island as part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial program and uses comedy and spectacle to critique...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
American abstract painter Mary Heilmann died on 14 August at age 86 on Long Island, New York, from “complications from a fall,” according to an announcement by her studio director. Born in San...
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Abstract painter Mary Heilmann died at 86 on Friday in Riverhead, New York, due to complications from a fall, according to an Instagram announcement by her studio. Heilmann received her first solo...
Artnet News
The Whitney Museum of American Art will open “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New” on October 11, 2026, after delaying the exhibition originally planned for 2023 as part of centennial celebrations that...
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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...
Hyperallergic
Artist Jonathan Allen superimposed pro-Palestinian, anti-genocide messages onto two advertising screens outside the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan at about 10:30pm on July 2. The action...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic profiles artist Akira Ikezoe, whose meticulously detailed oil paintings use anthropomorphic animals—frogs, bears, raccoons, and monkeys—to depict industrial workflows and energy...
Hyperallergic
The Whitney Museum of American Art has appointed Soyoung Yoon as the new director of its Independent Study Program (ISP) after the museum suspended the tuition-free fellowship for the 2025–26 year....
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper reports that House of Criticism (2026), a documentary by Alison Chernick, premiered last week at the Tribeca Film Festival and profiles influential US art critics Jerry Saltz and...
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ARTnews highlighted “Martin Wong: Chinatown USA,” a monographic exhibition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago featuring over 100 works by New York artist Martin Wong, including 11 never-before-exhibited...
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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The 82nd Whitney Biennial opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York’s Meatpacking District in 2026 and runs until 23 August, arriving a week after the US and Israel began a coordinated...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art rallied outside the museum’s annual fundraising gala on 19 May in New York as contract negotiations continued with Whitney Union UAW Local 2110....
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s “Mom, I’m Gonna Be an Artist!” is a Mother’s Day–themed roundup that links recent art-world coverage—especially protests and labor actions around the Venice Biennale—with a feature in...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Artist Cooper Jacoby is highlighted as a standout of New York’s Whitney Biennial for sculptures examining how AI companies and other corporations convert personal data into financial assets. In a...
Artnet News
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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ARTnews profiles the legacy of artist and writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, emphasizing her cross-disciplinary practice and the lasting impact of her 1982 book Dictée, published in fall 1982 just weeks...
Hyperallergic
Painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer died at age 46 on Friday, April 10, at her home in Los Angeles, days before a planned solo exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch’s West Hollywood gallery; no cause of death was...
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Painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer died at her home in Los Angeles on Friday at age 46, with Jeffrey Deitch gallery announcing the death on Saturday and not providing a cause, according to ARTnews. Known...
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Artist Josh Kline’s essay “New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art,” published by October and made available online for free, has become a widely discussed critique of New York’s art...
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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...
Hyperallergic
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,...
Hyperallergic
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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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...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic frames its coverage around art and activism, including Steven Weinberg’s comic offering tips for making protest signs for the “No Kings” marches and a discussion of how socially engaged...
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Precious Okoyomon’s room-filling installation Everything wants to kill you and you should be afraid (2026) went on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2026 Whitney Biennial after a delay,...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s roundup “The Biggest Week of the Spring?” surveys a cluster of New York art-world events, including the reopening of the New Museum and the recent Affordable Art Fair and Outsider Art...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara argues that the current Whitney Biennial is “muted” and “somber,” and that, with a few exceptions, it seems to be “hiding from the world today instead of...
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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...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic review argues that the 2026 Whitney Biennial feels subdued and evasive rather than directly engaging with contemporary US political crises. The critic contends that, despite an...
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...
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ARTnews reports that David A. Ross resigned as chair of the School of Visual Arts (SVA) after newly released “Epstein Files” documents revealed ties between Ross and Jeffrey Epstein. The article says...
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ARTnews published a profile titled “Pat Oleszko on Making a Fool of Herself for 60 Years and Counting,” focusing on performance artist Pat Oleszko and her six-decade career. The provided text is...