Dutch curator Kim Sajet, who this past June stepped down as longtime director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, after President Donald Trump attacked her as “a strong supporter of DEI,” has been named director of...

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Belgian editor, curator, and writer Tom Engels has been named as the next director of the Kunstverein München. Engels arrives to the Munich contemporary art institution from Graz, Austria’s Grazer Kunstverein, where he has been artistic director since 2021....

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On Wolfgang Tillmans's “Nothing Could Have Prepared Us – Everything Could Have Prepared Us” at the Centre Pompidou

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Sylvain Amic, president of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, died of heart failure August 31 while vacationing in the south of France. He was fifty-eight. Amic had been appointed to lead the institutions just...

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The private California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Santa Clarita, California, shed nine staffers this summer and cut at least twelve unfilled positions in an effort to reconcile a projected $15 million budget deficit, Hyperallergic reports. All of...

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Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, met with President Donald Trump on August 28 for what the White House described in a statement to the New York Times as a “productive and cordial” lunch. The meeting...

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International art-fair operator Frieze is set to open Frieze House Seoul on September 2, concurrent with the launch of Frieze Seoul 2025. The exhibition space, inside a former residence in the city’s Yaksu-dong neighborhood, allows Frieze to maintain a...

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The organizers of the Helsinki Biennial have appointed Mami Kataoka and Arja Miller co-curators of the Fourth Helsinki Biennial, to take place in summer 2027. Kataoka is director of Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum and is known for curatorial work...

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BONAVENTURE SOH BEJENG NDIKUNG cuts an outsize presence in contemporary curating. Originally trained in biophysics and biotechnology, Ndikung changed tack in 2009 to found the art space SAVVY Contemporary in a former storefront in Berlin’s Neukölln neighborhood. In the...

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A FORMIDABLE CRITIC and an expansive personality, P. Adams Sitney was at once affable and irascible, generous and opinionated. He loved to play the Great Man, and as the author of an unquestionably great book illuminating an ostensibly abstruse...

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WHEN THE VIDEO ART PIONEER Dara Birnbaum passed away this past May, she left behind a bevy of fellow artists, gallerists, and curators who have championed her throughout the years. Stuart Comer, the Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media...

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ONE SUMMER, Koyo Kouoh invited me to the home outside Basel that she shared with her saxophonist husband, Philippe Mall. Arriving with my then-partner, the artist Alexandra Bachzetsis, we met Theo Eshetu, Godfried Donkor, Tracey Rose, and other artists...

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WHAT MAKES A WORK OF ART “GREAT”? When I was teaching art history, one idea that emerged in our classroom discussions was that the great work of art is often (though not always) polyvalent, proposing multiple ideas or themes...

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Yuk Hui speaks with Daniel Birnbaum about his philosophy of technology

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Three times a year—September, January, and May—Artforum’s editors look ahead to the coming season of institutional exhibitions, identifying those that are likely to impact the trajectory of contemporary art and art history. In this issue, we preview twenty-five exhibitions...

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On the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s redesigned wing for the arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania

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SOME HEARTS MIRACULOUSLY ENDURE. Agosto Machado—artist, activist, thespian, muse, historian, raconteur, and perennial fashion plate—is one of them.  Machado grew up an orphan in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood and spent much of his youth without a roof over his...

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Emotional range prevails at the 78th Locarno Film Festival

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