ART NEWS
From Tracey Emin’s Candid Conversation to a Gagosian Director’s Suspension: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week
Tracey Emin Gets Candid – The UK-based artist suffered a cancer diagnosis, but she says it hasn’t stopped her creative practice—far from it, in fact. Ed Ruscha […]
Two Museums Tried to Sell Art. Only One Caught Grief About it.
The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum both planned on selling works last Wednesday at auction, but Baltimore paused the sale after much criticism. […]
With Main Exhibition Postponed, São Paulo Biennial Names Artist List for New In-Person Show
As cultural institutions in parts of Brazil begin to reopen, the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announced that it would stage a new in-person exhibition in […]
Joe Biden and the Arts: No R.B.G. but a Loyal Promoter of Culture
The former vice president has been an intermittent consumer of the arts, but cultural leaders credit him as a key source of government financial support. Source […]
Artist Ahmet Ögüt Has Withdrawn His Work From an Azerbaijani Museum After It Used His Name in a Propaganda Campaign
Turkish artist Ahmet Ögüt has withdrawn a solo exhibition of his work from the Yarat Contemporary Art Space in Baku, Azerbaijan, after the museum tied it […]
Enzo Mari, Industrial Designer Who Kept Things Simple, Dies at 88
He railed against material excess, consumerism and fame, but made poetic and useful objects that influenced generations of designers. He died of the coronavirus. Source link
From Fashion to a Fantasia in Stone
The photographer Priscilla Rattazzi brings to life the amazing, endangered Hoodoo rock sculptures of southern Utah. Source link
An Artist’s Portrait of His Brother
Henry Taylor shares a new, unfinished work that captures this specific moment in time — and his ongoing fascination with flight. Source link
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Thelma Golden to Speak in Komal Shah’s Stanford Talk Series
As part of its “Artists on the Future” discussion series, which is devoted to art and issues affecting society at large, Stanford University in California will […]
Billionaire Congolese Art Collector Sindika Dokolo, Who Championed the Restitution of African Art, Has Died at Age 48
The billionaire Congo-born art collector Sindika Dokolo has died at age 48 after a scuba diving accident in Dubai. The family has not yet released a […]