A version of this essay originally appeared in Reframed, the Art in America newsletter about art that surprises us and works that get us worked up. Sign up here to receive it every Thursday. Growing up, Anu Põder wanted to be a ballerina. But her small body failed to conform to the discipline’s impossible standards, so sheContinue Reading
The Gwangju Biennale, the most high-profile recurring art festival in Asia, has revealed the artists that will take part in the 2024 show, due to open in the South Korean city on September 7. The exhibition is this time being curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, a French curator best known forContinue Reading
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES NEW BRITISH MUSEUM LEADER. Nicholas Cullinan has been appointed the new director of the British Museum in London, following the resignation of former director Hartwig Fischer, who stepped down in the wake of a massive theft fromContinue Reading
A prominent school of art and design in Kyiv sustained severe damage from a Russian airstrike on Monday, becoming the latest landmark of Ukrainian culture drawn into Russia’s invasion. The news was shared by Ukraine’s ministry of culture and information policy, which said in a statement that “as a resultContinue Reading
The Great Depression began in the United States with the stock market crash in October 1929, which instigated a severe worldwide economic downturn. President Franklin Roosevelt responded with a series of programs and reforms called the New Deal to promote economic recovery and alleviate financial strain across various labor sectors,Continue Reading
The Liste Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland, has announced the participating galleries for the 2024 edition. Running concurrently with Art Basel and in the Messe Basel, where Art Basel also takes place, this year’s fair will feature 91 galleries from 35 countries. Among the exhibitors are 22 first-time participants includingContinue Reading
With Hong Kong Art Week set to take off Monday, art world jet-setters are officially en-route and eyes are squarely on the coastal metropolis. It’s been a busy, challenging year for Hong Kong, as 2023 marked the first Art Basel Hong Kong since the lifting of “Zero Covid” restrictions thatContinue Reading
A curator recently shared with me a digital folder containing scanned slides of Alice Shaddle’s art, a lifetime of sculptures, collages, paintings, and installations, some of them representational, many others almost unclassifiably baroque. As I browsed the works—most constructed from paper, latex, or vinyl—two words kept recurring in the captions:Continue Reading
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES UNDER CONSIDERATION. Citing a reported spike in antisemitism, legislators introduced a bill in Congress on March 20 aimed at establishing a Smithsonian Museum of American Jewish history. The legislation would set up a commission to examineContinue Reading
“Making Their Mark,” an exhibition of women artists from the Shah Garg Foundation, has seen some 50,000 visitors since it opened at the former Dia Foundation building in New York in November. Now, it will see more when it goes on a planned tour. The show will stop first atContinue Reading
