Artemisia Gentileschi, Penitent Mary Magdalene, 1625–26. Kimbell Art Museum The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired an Artemisia Gentileschi painting that has been owned by private collectors for nearly 400 years. When the work goes on view today, it will be the first time the painting has been exhibited publicly since the …
Rheim Alkadhi’s ICA London show. Photo Rob Harris, ICA If you enter the lower galleries of London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts right now, you’ll encounter a postcard-like image described by the museum as “an intervention.” The image’s front side shows “this beautiful portrait of probably a queer person,” the other side, “a very direct statement …
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A more than 3,000 year old jar lays shattered on the floor. Hecht Museum staff A curious four-year-old boy visiting the Hecht Museum in Israel with his family inadvertently smashed a jar that predates the time of Biblical main characters King David and King Solomon. The boy’s father told the BBC that his son was simply “curious …
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Caitlin Berry. Will Kirk for Johns Hopkins University Caitlin Berry has been named the inaugural director of the Irene and Richard Frary Gallery, a new university art gallery that is part of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. She began in her role in August. Berry was most recently the inaugural director …
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The glass facade of the newly expanded and renovated Museum of Modern Art, reflects the surrounding buildings. The new MoMA, designed by architect Yoshio Tanigchi, is twice as large as before and cost $425 million to be built. (Photo by James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images A long-running legal dispute over a …
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In a word, this fall’s offerings are electric. The word shows up in the titles of not one but two tech-minded shows—one devoted to Op art and its influence, the other to the rise of digital art, at the Buffalo AKG Art Gallery and Tate Modern, respectively. It may as well also have figured in …
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A Teddy Bear figure from Sway Molina’s 2024 AI film “Our T2 Remake” is in front of Refik Anadol’s “Unsupervised” and an AI work by Alexander Reben. Images courtesy of Crocker Art Museum, Daniela Hritcu, Getty, and Sway Molina; Illustration by Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews. When Edmund Cartwright was at work creating the world’s first …
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Visitors at the “Lumen: Helen Pashgian” installation at the Getty Center. Cassia Davis/ © 2024 J. Paul Getty Trust It wasn’t until I walked through the faded-blue door to Helen Pashgian’s Pasadena studio and she told me to put away my recorder and notebook that I understood this would not be a conventional interview. “People …
Ryan Preciado at work in his woodshop studio in South Los Angeles. Photo Joyce Kim for ARTnews A few years ago, Ryan Preciado began frequenting a hardware store less than a mile from his main studio in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Arlington Heights. Slowly, he began befriending the family who runs the shop. When …
Regina José Galindo, Tierra, 2013. Museum of Modern Art, New York In 2013, Regina José Galindo attended the trial of José Efraín Ríos Montt and Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez, who spearheaded the Guatemalan coup d’état in 1982 and then led the country until 1983. Ríos Montt and Rodriguez Sanchez spoke of how the army dug …
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