The 2024 edition of Frieze New York. The fair’s upcoming edition opens next week. Photo Casey Kelbaugh/Courtesy Frieze and CKA A long-suspected game of musical chairs for the ownership of Frieze, the group that includes an influential London-based magazine and several art fairs around the world, has come to an end. Endeavor Group Holdings, the …
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Kimberly Drew, formerly of Pace. Stephanfe Feugere Photography Kimberly Drew is leaving Pace Gallery to return to the classroom, trading the sales floor for a seminar room. The curator, writer, and cultural force will relocate to London this fall to begin a masters program in the History of Design at the Royal College of Art. …
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The NEH building in Washington, D.C. Photo Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images Three humanities-focused organizations have filed a lawsuit against both the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) over the “dismantling” of the former organization. Filed on May 1 in United States District Court for the Southern District of New …
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Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun seems to be enjoying the publicity that comes with buying a $6.2 million banana. AFP via Getty Images Justin Sun, the crypto billionaire who shot to art world notoriety after buying, and promptly eating, Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana, and has remained in the spotlight amid a legal dispute with collector David …
The 2024 Venice Biennale. Simone Padovani/Getty Images As President Donald Trump systematically guts the United States’ art programs and funding to roll out an aesthetic program of his own making, questions around the country’s participation in the forthcoming 2026 Venice Biennale loom large. In a new piece for Vanity Fair, culture correspondent Nate Freeman tried …
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Sun Yitian. ©Yu Lu/Courtesy ELLE Artist Sun Yitian’s trajectory over the past decade has been fast and vertical. Her photorealist paintings of mass-produced consumer objects—an inflatable penguin, a Ken doll head, a pair of stiletto heels—sell for up to six figures. She’s unfazed by her market success, saying simply that she leaves those considerations to …
Too right? Germany’s new culture minister is feeling the heat. ullstein bild via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TRUMP AXES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM BOARD MEMBERS. The Trump administration has fired US Holocaust Memorial Museum board members nominated by former president Joe Biden, including former second gentleman Doug …
Kevin Beasley, PROSCENIUM| Rebirth/Growth: The Watch/Harvest/Dormancy: On Reflection, 2024–25. Photo Jeffrey Jenkins/Courtesy the Artist, Casey Kaplan, New York, and Regen Projects, Los Angeles Word of mouth stands to take palpable form this season at the Storm King Art Center, when the idyllic upstate New York sculpture park plays home to an acoustic mirror created by …
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Georges Coran, Délire et paix, 1954. Photo Claude Coran/©Georges Coran/Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris At the Centre Pompidou hangs a dense, colorful ink painting on cotton in which two figures with white faces and blue skin hold court in a lush thicket of flora and fauna. According to the work’s title, they are …
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Ei Arakawa-Nash with his twins. Ricardo Nagaoka/Courtesy of the Japan Foundation Los Angeles–based performance artist Ei Arakawa-Nash will represent Japan at the 2026 Venice Biennale, the Japan Foundation announced Thursday. A curator has not been announced yet. For the Pavilion, Arakawa-Nash will create a new installation that, according to the announcement, will explore his perspective …
