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Architect Frida Escobedo to Design Malba Expansion...
The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) has announced that Mexican architect Frida Escobedo will lead the project to expand the museum. The subterranean expansion will be constructed beneath Plaza Perú, the public park that neighbors the...
U.K. Bans Export of “Exquisite” Renaissance Statue...
The U.K. government has placed a ban on the export of an early-sixteenth-century bronze, valued at $6.2 million, in an effort to give British museums and galleries time to acquire the work and keep it on public display. Seated...
Jeffreen M.H. Ash Steps Down from Leadership of Th...
Jeffreen M.H. Ash will depart from her role as executive director of the Chicago cultural nonprofit Threewalls on September 30. She has spent eleven years at the contemporary art organization, whose mission is to support Black artists through collaboration...
Art Institute of Chicago Returns Metzinger Paintin...
The Art Institute of Chicago has announced that it will return Jean Metzinger’s painting Woman with a Fan (1913) to the family of Jewish art collector Emanuel Lewenstein. The museum acquired the painting from New York’s Sidney Janis Gallery...
Corporate Cartoon Capers
On the death and resurrection of Dave Green's 2026 film Coyote vs. Acme
Mérida to Host First Edition of Bienale de Yucatán...
The Bienale de Yucatán, the first large-scale international contemporary art biennial in Mexico, is set to open in Mérida, the capital of the Yucatán state, this November. Artistic director Abraham Cruzvillegas has made language and all forms of communication...
Tyler Mitchell Wins Crystal Bridges Museum’s $250,...
Artist, photographer, and filmmaker Tyler Mitchell has been named the recipient of the 2026 Don Tyson Prize for the Advancement of American Art. Established in 2016, the prize is awarded biennially by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art...
Kanal Director Yves Goldstein to Depart Museum Aft...
Yves Goldstein will leave Brussels’s new Kanal-Centre Pompidou two days after its opening on November 28. He has spent a decade leading Kanal through the planning and renovation of its home in a massive Art Deco building, which formerly...
Maria Arusoo to Lead Estonia’s Tallinn Art Hall
Maria Arusoo has been announced as the director of the Tallinn Art Hall, one of Estonia’s oldest and best-known contemporary art institutions, with a contract for the next five years. An influential figure on the Baltic art scene, she...
Catherine Liu’s Early Reviews
In the early ’90s, Catherine Liu contributed regular dispatches from the downtown New York gallery scene for Artforum
“What Does It Mean to Be Animate?”: The Films of D...
On Diego Marcon’s sick children, dangling puppets, and suspended bodies
From A to T & Back Again: Openings, Part One
Visits to Olney Gleason, Garth Greenan, David Zwirner, and more during New York's first week of fall openings
From A to T & Back Again: Openings, Part Two
Six of the fall's new crop of gallery openings at Lomex, Maxwell Graham, Theta, David Peter Francis, Ellie Rines Gallery, and Ulrik
Shock Downpour Sends Water Torrenting into the Uff...
A fast-moving cloudburst swept through Florence on September 17, dropping nearly two inches of rain in the span of an hour and sending water cascading into the Uffizi Gallery and the historic Palazzo Pitti, sparking concern regarding the masterpieces...
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza Opens New Contem...
Madrid’s Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (MNTB) will expand into a second venue to house more than 360 works of contemporary art, which have been donated or are on loan from the TBA21 Collection. In 2002, the philanthropist Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza founded...
Moderna Museet Appoints Cédric Fauq Curator of Con...
The Moderna Museet has named closely watched curator Cédric Fauq as its new curator of contemporary international art. Fauq arrives to the Stockholm institution from CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, in France, where he is currently chief curator...
New Lawsuits in Ongoing Battle Around Return of Na...
Two new lawsuits, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, by Jewish heirs or their representatives seek the return of artwork taken by the Nazis during World War II and now held by prominent museums. The suits are...
Pace Prints Buys Brand X, Becoming One of the Larg...
Pace Prints today announced that it has purchased publisher Brand X Editions. In acquiring the Long Island, New York–based workshop, with which it has long collaborated, Pace has become one of the largest printmakers in the United States. The...












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