Teiger Foundation on August 27 announced that it has awarded a total of $7 million to eighty-five curators working at more than sixty art institutions in the United States and Puerto Rico. Each will receive between $50,000 and $150,000....

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Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum in an August 27 press release said it would be forced to shutter if the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science does not pony up the funds necessary for a much-needed refurbishment. The New...

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Anonymous Was a Woman (AWAW) in collaboration with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has named the 2025 recipients of funds from AWAW’s Environmental Art Grants (EAG) program, Artnews reports. Twenty-nine projects led by women-identifying artists from...

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Asia Art Archive (AAA) has named Istanbul-born curator Özge Ersoy as its next executive director. Ersoy, who joined the Hong Kong-based research and cultural organization in 2017 as public programs chief before rising to become senior curator there, will...

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The School of Visual Arts in New York has laid off roughly thirty employees, citing “financial challenges” as behind the cuts, Hyperallergic reports. Fiscal woes are also said to have led to course cancellations and funding shortfalls at the...

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On Hermann Nitsch’s Orgies Mysteries Theater at Schloss Prinzendorf

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The Trump administration on August 21 posted an unsigned article on the White House’s website calling out a number of Smithsonian museums for their exhibitions and messaging, which it sees as out of alignment with its own anti-diversity values....

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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery has announced the closure of its Los Angeles branch. Inaugurated in 2018, the space will shut after its last exhibition, a solo show of work by Bek Hyunjin, which closes on August 29. The gallery, which...

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The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has appointed Brian Ferriso as its new director. Ferriso arrives to the role from the Portland Art Museum (PMA) in Oregon, which he helmed for nearly two decades, beginning in 2006. He replaces...

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Collector, fashion designer, and art patron Christophe de Menil died August 5 at her home in New York. She was ninety-two. Her brother George de Menil told the New York Times that she had been bedridden with arthritis. Heir...

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The Getty Foundation has presented seven US organizations with a total of $1.5 million in grants as part of its ongoing Black Visual Arts Archives initiative, established in 2022. This round of recipients encompasses the Amistad Research Center, New...

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A twenty-one-foot-high mural depicting nineteenth-century and present-day immigrants arriving in New York City is slated to be dedicated at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York on September 21 during mass. Painted by Brooklyn-based artist Adam Cvijanovic, the twelve-panel work...

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British sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s 1943 Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red will remain in England following a successful financial appeal issued by the Hepworth Wakefield museum and UK charity Art Fund. More than 2,800 members of...

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Naomi Beckwith, who late last year was named curator of Documenta 16, has appointed an all-female artistic team, Artnews reports. Beckwith is the first Black woman to curate the German quinquennial since its founding in 1955; she is the...

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A small band of demonstrators from the environmental activist group Greenpeace climbed an active Shell gas extraction platform on August 13 to unfurl a massive Anish Kapoor work in protest of the catastrophic effects of oil and gas on...

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