The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, on November 20 named Nora Burnett Abrams as its new director. She succeeds Jill Medvedow, who in October 2023 announced her departure after more than a quarter-century in the role. Abrams arrives to...

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Stephanie Stebich, who since 2017 had served as director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in Washington, DC, this past September was moved out of her position to a senior advisory role in the Smithsonian Institution, after taking...

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The UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict on November 18 announced that it had added thirty-four Lebanese heritage sites to its enhanced protection list, and that it would provide funding and...

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Poet, essayist, and novelist Ocean Vuong answers five questions on Robert Frank. Vuong—who contributed to the book accompanying Pace Gallery’s ongoing exhibition of Frank’s work—speaks about his first encounter with the artist’s images, the through lines between poetry and...

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The Paul Hamlyn Foundation on November 14 named the ten artists and composers who have received the organization’s 2024 Awards for Artists. The honors, presented annually, are England’s largest of their kind. Where members of previous cohorts had each...

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German artist Walter Dahn, a progenitor of “Bad Painting” and a founding member of the Junge Wilde, a group of artists who rejected Minimalism and Conceptualism in favor of a raw, expressionist style inspired by graffiti and cartoons, died...

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The Nam June Paik Art Center in Yongin, South Korea, has named trailblazing video and performance artist Joan Jonas as the winner of its eighth Nam June Paik Prize. Jonas will receive KRW 50 million ($35,600) at a ceremony...

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Sotheby’s will pay $6.25 million to settle a 2020 tax fraud lawsuit filed by New York State attorney general Letitia James alleging that the auction house, in an effort to boost its own sales, helped wealthy collectors avoid paying...

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The British Museum in London on November 13 revealed that it is the recipient of a major collection of Chinese ceramics valued at £1 billion (about $1.3 billion). The trove of 1,700 objects was donated by the trustees of...

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the thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and not the myth the drowned face always staring toward the sun the evidence of damage worn by salt and sway into...

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German British painter Frank Auerbach, known for thickly impastoed heads, figures, and landscapes that are as blazingly revelatory as they are darkly impenetrable, died in London on November 11. He was ninety-three. Consumed from a youthful age with a...

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With every odd stacked against it, Venice rises to the surface as Italy’s art capital

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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has named art historian and curator Miren Arzalluz as its new director general. Arzalluz, a native of Bilbao and currently director of Paris’s Fashion Museum–Palais Galliera, will assume her new duties on April 1, 2025....

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Pérez Art Museum (PAMM) in Miami announced on November 9 that billionaire Ken Griffin will donate $10 million to the institution. The gift, which was unveiled at the museum’s annual Art of the Party fundraising gala, is one of...

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Montreal-based Aamjiwnaang First Nation artist Nico Williams, known for his beadwork, has been named the winner of the Sobey Art Award, presented annually by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in conjunction with the Sobey Art Foundation. The prize...

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Though the Sixtieth Venice Biennale remains open through November 24, four countries have already announced the artists who will represent them at the sixty-first iteration of the event, to open in April 2026. The curator and theme for the...

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Canadian curator Kitty Scott has been named curator of the Fifteenth Shanghai Biennale, set to run November 8, 2025–March 31, 2026, at the Power Station of Art, Shanghai, becoming the first woman to curate the event since its establishment...

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The organizers of the Liverpool Biennial have announced the theme and artists for the event’s thirteenth edition. Curated by Marie-Anne McQuay and taking place June 7–September 14, 2025, the Biennial will be titled “Bedrock.”  The theme responds to both...

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