The Outsider Art Fair has revealed the exhibitor list for the 2018 edition of its New York fair. Now in its 26th year, the fair will once again return to Chelsea’s Metropolitan Pavilion, where 63 galleries from seven countries will show work by outsider artists. (The fair also alights annually in Paris.) In addition to […]
Ralph Rugoff Will Be the Curator of 58th Venice Biennale in 2019
The Venice Biennale announced this morning that Ralph Rugoff, director of London’s Hayward Gallery since 2006, will be curator of the 58th Venice Biennale, in 2019. A prolific writer about art for numerous publications, Rugoff was also the artistic director of the 13th Biennale de Lyon in 2015. Prior to the Hayward, he spent six […]
Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta Will Organize 2019 Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Museum revealed today that the 2019 edition of its closely watched biennial will be organized by Jane Panetta, who is an associate curator at the museum, and Rujeko Hockley, an assistant curator there. Hockley joined the museum in March from the Brooklyn Museum, where she was assistant curator of contemporary art. Her curatorial […]
Here’s the Exhibitor List for Art Brussels 2018
Art Brussels has revealed the exhibitor list for its 2018 fair. For the fair’s 50th-anniversary edition, which will run April 20-22, Art Brussels will include 146 galleries from 33 countries, with nearly a quarter of the exhibitors showing for the first time. Newcomers and galleries returning to the fair include the Belgian outfits Mendes Wood […]
Leo haggles over $850K Basquiat drawing at Art Basel
Leonardo DiCaprio spent more than 45 minutes in a private room haggling over the price of an $850,000 Basquiat drawing at Art Basel Miami. The Oscar winner — who tried but completely failed to hide his identity under a baseball cap and a black hoodie while walking around with a huge entourage — spent more […]
Nov – Dec | UK visual arts
From 1 December, Parafin presents ‘Secular Icons in an Age of Moral Uncertainty’, by artists Nathan Coley, Mimosa Echard, Simon Fujiwara, Sara Naim, Indrė Šerpytytė and curated by Coline Milliard. At a time when the notion of belief is particularly fraught, Secular Icons in an Age of Moral Uncertainty examines some of the objects we […]
Art Basel Miami Beach Sees ‘Slow But Steady’ Sales—Including $9.5 M. Nauman—on Opening Day in Mid-Renovation Convention Center
A pack that included some of the world’s top art collectors streamed into Art Basel Miami Beach’s First Choice preview this morning, and as the day went on buyers snapped up dozens of seven-figure works from the 268 galleries that have set up in booths at the city’s convention center. Despite construction outside related to […]
Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites
National Gallery UK 2 October 2017 – 2 April 2018 Sunley Room Acquired by the National Gallery in 1842, the Arnolfini Portrait informed the Pre-Raphaelites’ belief in empirical observation, their ideas about draughtsmanship, colour and technique, and the ways in which objects in a picture could carry symbolic meaning. The exhibition will bring together for […]
Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet in the Time of Trump
Maurizio Cattelan came out of his self-imposed, five-year retirement from the art world just in time. His work has always been prescient, sometimes uncannily so. His life-like wax portrait of Pope Paul II in full papal regalia lying inert under a felled meteorite—La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour) (1999)—presaged the sexual abuse scandals of the […]
A New Crossroads in Moscow: Garage Museum Launches the First Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art
Bottles of vodka zipped around the tiny, jam-packed room in downtown Moscow, passing from hand to hand like buckets of water in a slapstick fire drill. What began as a modest birthday fete on the third floor of the Marriott Grand Hotel had become the unofficial after-party for the first Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, […]