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16+ hour, 46+ min ago (348+ words) This week: women's strike in Argentina, graffiti dialogues in Brooklyn, UK museums hold human remains from former colonies, mini Tudor paintings, mapping The Met, and more. Zahra Hankir took to the streets of Crown Heights to observe the dialogue playing…...
Art Movements: Look Who’s Headed to Perrotin Gallery
12+ hour, 44+ min ago (117+ words) Alma Allen gets mega-gallery representation, Marina Abramovi" forays into balloon art, and more industry news. Art Movements,published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today's chaotic art world. Through themes of…...
A View From the Easel
19+ hour, 41+ min ago (316+ words) I use my entire body when painting, so I need to align it with my mind beforehand." Welcome to the 328th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists invent…...
Pete Hegseth Goes to War With Press Photographers
10+ hour, 55+ min ago (117+ words) Pete Hegseth Goes to War With Press Photographers'Hyperallergic Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design Through themes of encoding, looping, and sampling, "Video Craft" brings the craft roots of emerging film technologies into focus....
The Problem With Art Awards
22+ hour, 8+ min ago (446+ words) Lucian Freud's paintings of "lostness," the real purpose of art awards, a new center for Native American art, and a lot of chair stuff. Are art awards meant to provide artists with recognition and material support, or to reinforce power…...
The Tiny Brooklyn Project Space Resisting the Gallery Machine
13+ hour, 31+ min ago (266+ words) I, like so many others of that generation lost to the internet,have been thinking about friction lately. How technology's promise of seamless interconnection across people, geographies, and time has ultimately made each of us more alone. About the price…...
Lucian Freud Mastered the Art of Lostness
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (373+ words) As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves. LONDON " Death can be such a miserable nose-dive for any artist. Lucian Freud is deep into the 15th year of his posthumous life…...
Laura Phipps Tapped to Lead Gochman Collection of Indigenous Art
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (571+ words) The former Whitney curator will steer the NYC organization as it builds a permanent exhibition space in the Hudson River Valley. Laura Phipps, former associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been tapped as the new director…...
Art Basel Qatar's Complicity
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (321+ words) Art Basel's complicity in Qatar's persecution of queer people, the US and Israel bomb another Iranian historic palace, protest against the Venice Biennale, Beer With a Painter, and more. Nasser Mohamed, the only publicly queer Qatari citizen, strikes at the…...
The Whitney Biennial Is Here
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (508+ words) Our first impressions, Chinatown storefront art, and things to do on a glorious spring day. My god, it's beautiful out. Spring in New York really makes you work for it, but then it makes it worth your while." Also, make…...