Jim Nutt Wins Artists’ Legacy Foundation’s 2015 Artist Award
The Artists’ Legacy Foundation announced two days ago that it awarded Jim Nutt the 2015 Artist Award, which includes an unrestricted grant of $25,000, to be used at the artist’s will.Nutt’s work, noted...
View ArticleWalker Art Center Announces 200 Recent Acquisitions
The Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, announced today it has acquired 200 new works, through donation and purchase over the past year. The acquisitions include pieces by artists such as Trisha Brown,...
View ArticlePerforma Announces Yvonne Rainer European Tour
Performa, the New York nonprofit dedicated to performance-based art, announced today that it is producing a European tour of Yvonne Rainer’s The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing...
View ArticleWorcester Art Museum Receives $4 M. to Endow Director Position
The Worcester Art Museum announced today that it has obtained a gift of $4 million to endow its director position, which is currently held by Matthias Waschek. The gift, which the museum is touting as...
View ArticleHere Are 1,541 More Works That the National Gallery of Art Is Acquiring From...
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., announced a second acquisition of pieces—mainly works on paper—from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which decided to disband last year for financial...
View ArticleArtTable Names New Board Members
ArtTable announced today the appointment of nine new members to its board of directors: Ruth Abrahams, Alyson Baker, Naomi Beckwith, Jenny Dixon, Tracy Freedman, Deborah Harris, Elizabeth Smith, Susan...
View Article‘It’s Never Really Over’: Tavares Strachan on His New, Rosalind...
Tavares Strachan, the Nassau, Bahamas-born artist, makes conceptual works that tackle science, sociology, history, and technology. His latest exhibition, “Seeing is Forgetting the Thing that You Saw,”...
View Article‘I Wanna Grow a Concept!’: Wyatt Kahn Works Through How to Complete a...
Endearing, vivacious, and hyper-self-reflexive, Wyatt Kahn’s Work is a charming addition to this year’s Performa biennial. In the puppet-mocumentary, Kahn’s hard-edged, sculptural paintings come alive...
View ArticleOlafur Eliasson Named Guest Artist at the Palace of Versailles for Summer 2016
Olafur Eliasson, the Danish Icelandic conceptual artist, was named this summer’s guest artist for the Palace of Versailles. Since 2008, the palace has invited artists, including Jeff Koons, Takashi...
View ArticleKoenig & Clinton Now Reps Maria Hassabi, Albert Herter, Miljohn Ruperto and...
Maria Hassabi, Albert Herter, and collaborators Miljohn Ruperto & Ulrik Heltoft are now represented by Koenig & Clinton in New York. The Chelsea gallery made the announcement today.Herter, an...
View ArticleRema Hort Mann Foundation Names 2016 Los Angeles Artist Grantees
The Rema Hort Mann Foundation today announced the recipients of its 2016 Emerging Artist Grants in Los Angeles, which provide unrestricted funds stipend of $10,000. In addition, the foundation offered...
View Article2016 Armory Week Art Fair Cheat Sheet
It’s Armory Week—again. Below, a succinct guide to its fairs. The Armory Show March 3–6 Tried and true, the Armory Show once again ranks as the largest event in this week’s program, featuring 200-plus...
View Article‘You Can Touch It, Too’: Delson Uchôa’s ‘Inhabited Painting’ at the Armory Show
Of the 30 or so paintings involving textiles that I saw at this year’s Armory Show, there was one very distinct from the rest—Delson Uchôa’s Inhabited Painting (2016). “You can touch it, too,” the...
View ArticleHere’s the Artist List for the 2016 deCordova Biennial
The show will include Lois Dodd, Susan Howe, and Cary Smith Read More
View Article‘Abstraction Isn’t Neutral’: Sondra Perry on the NCAA, Subjecthood, and Her...
The video artist Sondra Perry, who recently showed work at MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” and the Studio Museum in Harlem’s “A Constellation” exhibition, makes work centered on what she describes as...
View Article‘When Perverted Looking Becomes a Home’: How the Indefatigable Writer Wayne...
Wayne Koestenbaum’s studio is packed, floor-to-ceiling, with paintings. There are paintings lining the baseboards and bubble-wrapped canvases populating two industrial shelving units. Stacks of...
View ArticleSandra Vásquez de la Horra at David Nolan Gallery
“Crossroads,” Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s show at David Nolan Gallery in Chelsea, is as intimate and unsettling as anyone familiar with the work of this Chilean-born, Berlin-based artist might...
View ArticlePilar Tompkins Rivas Named Director of Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles
East Los Angeles College announced today that Pilar Tompkins—the former coordinator of curatorial initiatives at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art—has been hired as director of the college’s Vincent...
View ArticleTate Britain Announces Four Turner Prize Nominees
Tate Britain announced four nominees for the annual Turner Prize today: Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten, and Josephine Pryde. The prize, reserved for artists under the age of 50 who either...
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