Exterior view of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA). Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FROM BARN SALE TO AUCTION. After being picked up earlier this year at a barn sale in the Hamptons for just $50 dollars by an eagle-eyed art dealer, a …
The MAXXI museum’s “Memorabile.Ipermoda” (2024–25) fashion exhibition in Rome. Giovanni Giannoni / WWD “What has fashion become today?” That is one of the key questions fashion theorist, professor and curator Maria Luisa Frisa asked herself when planning the “Memorabile.Ipermoda” exhibition at the MAXXI Museum here. “These are challenging times and the exhibition generates questions and issues that …
Inci Eviner, Harem (still), 2009. Courtesy the artist Inci Eviner, an artist whose work has appeared in biennials across the globe, from Venice to Sharjah, accused Qatar’s Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art of censorship after it removed one of her videos from an exhibition at the last minute. The video, titled Harem (2009), revisits …
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“It’s much better than other bananas,” Sun told reporters. “It’s really quite good.” COURTESY Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images On Friday, Justin Sun, the Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur who purchased Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, the banana duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 last week – made good on his promise to eat it. Immediately after buying the controversial artwork at …
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Banksy’s ‘Well Hung Lover’ was painted on the side of a sexual health clinic in Bristol in 2006. Andrew Michael/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. A Banksy mural of a man hanging out of a bedroom window as he tries to evade his love rival is being sold at auction with the building it …
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Nadia Myre, Your Waves of Want Wash Over Us (detail), 2024, installation view, at CIAP Vassivière, 2024. Photo Aurélien Mole The first thing Nadia Myre did when she went to do her residency on an island in a man-made lake in central France was to make her own charcoal. At a local grocery store on …
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Installation view of “Black Ancient Futures,” 2024, at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon. Photo Bruno Lopes In 2008, Danish Trinidadian artist Jeannette Ehlers traveled to Ghana, where she visited Fort Prinzenstein, which was built by Danish traders in 1784 and used in the transatlantic slave trade. Located in Keta, in the West …
Nora Burnett Abrams. Photo Nikki Rae Photography After a year-long search, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston has selected Nora Burnett Abrams as its next director. She will begin in the post on May 1, succeeding Jill Medvedow, who has directed the ICA for 26 years. Abrams comes to the ICA after a 15-year tenure …
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Jen Liu, The Land at the Bottom of the Sea, 2023 (still). Courtesy the artist and Blindspot Gallery with generous support of the 2023 Taipei Biennial and Creative Capital Anonymous Was A Woman has revealed the 2024 recipients of its celebrated grants, which are awarded to women-identifying artists over the age of 40 in support …
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Archaeological Museum of Thessalonik, August 19, 2024. AFP via Getty Images A marble head of a man dated from 150 CE has been repatriated to Greece by the Archaeological Museum of the University of Münster in Germany. The museum voluntarily returned the artifact after concerns were raised over its ownership records by researchers. During a …
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