Air de Paris, the Paris gallery known for its punk ethos and for its prescient and enduring commitment to cutting-edge Conceptual art, will close this week amid bankruptcy proceedings, Cultured magazine reports. The gallery presented more than four hundred...

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XUE TAN is a curator, producer, and writer from Hong Kong. The chief curator at Haus der Kunst in Munich since June 2024, Tan works with artists on commission-based exhibitions, most recently with Cyprien Gaillard, Ligia Lewis, Ei Arakawa-Nash,...

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The controversies beleaguering this year’s edition of the Venice Biennale continue to pile up: of late, Somali artists and cultural organizations are voicing concern that the Somalia pavilion does not adequately showcase artists and art organizations based in the...

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“Zero 10,” Art Basel’s relatively new global initiative dedicated to platforming digital art, has a curator for its third edition at Art Basel in Switzerland: Trevor Paglen, an artist, geographer and author best known for his artistic engagement with...

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In Artforum’s May issue, Harmon Siegel revisits the magazine’s 1967–71 essay series “Problems of Criticism,” which featured contributions from critics including Clement Greenberg, Barbara Rose, Max Kozloff, and Rosalind Krauss.The final installment was Krauss’s “Problems of Criticism X: Pictorial Space and the Question...

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Swiss art dealer Bruno Bischofberger, who fostered the famous collaboration between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, died on May 9. He was eighty-six. His death was announced on May 9 by his namesake gallery, which he had operated since...

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After eighteen years in the position, the director of DC’s National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) Susan Fisher Sterling has announced she’s retiring, per a press release. Sterling has spent close to four decades at the institution...

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In solidarity with the resignation of the entire 2026 Venice Biennale voting jury, fifty-four individual artists and twenty-two teams affiliated with national pavilions have now withdrawn from consideration for the Visitors’ Lion awards. The Visitors’ Lions were hastily established by the Biennale after...

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Thousands of marchers flooded the thoroughfares of Venice to protest the presence of Israel at the Venice Biennale, with many national pavilions shuttering in solidarity. The New York Times reported that the pavilions belonging to Austria, Belgium, Egypt, Japan,...

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The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) on May 8 named Richard Lewer the winner of the 2026 Archibald Prize. The award, considered Australia’s top portrait honor, is presented annually in recognition of the best portrait of an individual...

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French Algerian artist, curator, and educator Kader Attia has been appointed curator of the Seventh Kochi-Muziris Biennale, to open in Kochi, India, in December 2027. Attia is known for multifaceted practice addressing themes such as social injustice, marginalized communities,...

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Yogyakarta-based Indonesian artist Dian Suci beat out a series of competitors that included Betty Adii, Dzikra Afifah, Ipeh Nur and Mira Rizki to win the tenth iteration of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, the organization announced this...

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According to a survey conducted in March  by the US Government Accountability Office, a whopping 85% of all museums in the United States are in need of repair; even more dire, 77% of US museums have at least one...

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Vaillancourt Fountain, a Brutalist, pre-cast concrete fountain that’s been the central feature of San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza since 1971, caught fire on Wednesday morning as it was being disassembled, according to reports. The local landmark is being removed in...

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Giorno Poetry Systems (GPS), the New York–based nonprofit founded in 1965 by pathbreaking artist John Giorno, known for his Dial-a-Poems, has announced twelve recipients of its new need-based grant. The so-called Treat a Stranger grants themselves are a relaunch...

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The Tokyo-based architecture firm Kengo Kuma & Associates has been chosen to design a new, approximately $100 million project for the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art in rural Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, per a statement. The museum—which showcases the...

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EARLY IN The Devil Wears Prada 2, after Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) returns to the offices of media conglomerate Elias-Clarke to become the new features editor of Runway, she receives an invitation to a garden party at the Hamptons estate of...

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Belu-Simion Fainaru, the artist representing Israel at this year’s Venice Biennale, is said to have pressured Biennale officials ahead of the mass resignation of the event’s prize jury. According to reports first published last week by Italian news agency...

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