Cameroon-born curator Koyo Kouoh, the first African woman chosen to curate the Venice Biennale, died on May 10 in a hospital in Basel. She was fifty-seven. News of her death, which came just days before she was set to...

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The Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, has presented this year’s Joan Miró Prize to French-Canadian multidisciplinary artist Kapwani Kiwanga. The Hamilton, Ontario–born Kiwanga, who lives and works in Berlin and Paris, will receive a €50,000 (roughly $56,000) grant and, in...

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The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) on May 9 named Julie Fragar the winner of the 2025 Archibald Prize. The award is presented annually in recognition of the best portrait of an individual “distinguished in art, letters, science...

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The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation have teamed up to offer a total of $800,000 to cultural programs that lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts in February after Trump administration cuts forced the...

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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has eliminated twenty-nine roles, or about 7.5 percent of its roughly 430 staff, citing financial difficulties. Twenty full-time and nine part-time positions were cut, a number of which were said to be...

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Korean multidisciplinary artist Suki Seokyeong Kang, who drew from traditional Korean culture and techniques to create dynamic works that cast such historically long-standing issues as social roles and the human relation to landscape in a contemporary light, died on...

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The US government on April 30 opened the portal for submissions to represent the country at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to take place May 9–November 22, 2026. Among the changes submitting artists will notice this year are a shortened...

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The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, has announced Defne Ayas as its new director, beginning in September. Ayas, who formerly helmed Rotterdam’s Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (now Kunstinstituut Melly), is currently curator-at-large at New York’s...

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Mara Manus, who since September 2023 has served as the inaugural CEO of Brooklyn, New York’s Pioneer Works, has left the role, Artnews reports. Before arriving at the arts and culture nonprofit, Manus had spent seven years as executive...

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Trailblazing video and installation artist Dara Birnbaum, who in the 1970s began dicing and splicing television footage to produce stuttering, explosive videos that explored the politics of image making and dissemination, died on May 2. She was seventy-eight. Her...

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) on the evening of May 2 canceled or withdrew grant offers made to organizations earlier this year. The cancellation of the grants arrived within hours of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for...

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Endeavor Group Holdings has sold Frieze to entertainment honcho Ari Emanuel, its onetime CEO, ending months of speculation that it would offload the art fair operator. The terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed, but Emanuel said...

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Puerto Rican painter and philanthropist Tony Bechara, who as board chair of El Museo del Barrio oversaw the New York institution’s transformation from a local concern to an internationally renowned repository of Latinx and Latin American Art, died in...

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I am probably the most radical artist to have ever come from Scarsdale.*—Richard Foreman I WAS TEMPTED TO NOT WRITE THIS ARTICLE. Starting is always the hardest part. Google “Richard Foreman” and one of your first hits will invariably...

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I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE to begin these reflections by explaining that Mel Bochner and I were close friends, making this admission “in the interest of full disclosure.” But then I found myself entangled in a familiar trap:...

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On Gustave Caillebotte at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris

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On “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” 

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On the aural scenography of “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica”

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