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Artist Yang Fudong Summons the Future in One of His Biggest Exhibitions in China

Yang Fudong. Courtesy UCCA Center for Contemporary Art In his third year of college, the artist Yang Fudong decided to stop speaking. For what became Otherwhere: Not Speaking for Three Months (1993), he communicated largely by writing on his hand or signage. Sometimes he even traced his finger on a cold window and breathed to …

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Keith Haring Foundation Names Simon Castets, Former Director of Swiss Institute, as Next Executive Director

Keith Haring at his Crack is Wack mural, New York, NY, June 1986. Artwork © The Keith Haring Foundation. Photograph Tseng Kwong Chi © Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Inc., New York The New York–based Keith Haring Foundation announced Tuesday that it has named Simon Castets as its next executive director. Castets, a French American curator …

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Craig Boagey’s Nests of Internet References Thread the Line Between Desire and Horror

An installation view of works in Craig Boagey’s “Spirit Economy” at Amanita in New York. Courtesy Amanita Girl with pitbull, bands of cash. The radiance of heaven. Being a teen. Gummy, chewy, delicious. Pink. Meme. Foucault and the way Foucault writes. Absurd extinction! Pagan root. Western civilization and liking it. Not like a boy likes …

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25 Native American Artists to Know

http://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Kay-WalkingStick-North-Rim-Temple-2023-Oil-on-panel-in-two-2-parts-101.6-x-203.2-x-5.1-cm-40-x-80-x-2-in-K_WAL0392-Photo-by-JSP-Art-Photography-copy.jpg Kay WalkingStick, North Rim Temple, 2023 Courtesy of the artist and Hales, London and New York. Photo: JSP Art Photography. Native American artists have only recently gained a spotlight within the mainstream art world. For centuries, Native art was siloed on reservations, at trading posts, and in Indian markets, with no dedicated Indigenous commercial …

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In New Documentary, Artist Marilyn Minter Overcomes the Burden of Shame in the Art World

Marilyn Minter in New York City, ca. 1970s-’80s. Courtesy Pretty Dirty: The Life and Times of Marilyn Minter Pretty Dirty: The Life and Times of Marilyn Minter—a new documentary that screened as part of the DOC NYC film festival at IFC Center on Thursday—exposes the perhaps underrated value that a sense of humor carries in …

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Thirty-Five Arrested in Bulgaria, with Ties to Larger Criminal Art Trafficking Network

Recovered stolen artifacts found in a raid. Courtesy Europol Bulgarian authorities, with the support of Europol, busted a criminal network involved in the trafficking of thousands of cultural artifacts across Europe on Tuesday, according to Europol. Investigations are still ongoing. Conducted by a Europol operational task force, the investigation has involved law enforcement and judicial …

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Michael H. Smith, Dealer and Curator Who Prized Experimentation, Dies at 80

Michael H. Smith Courtesy estate of Michael H. Smith Michael H. Smith, an artist, dealer, and curator who prized experimentation and was instrumental to helping develop the art scenes in Southern California in the 1970s and ’80s, died on October 31 in Santa Barbara. He was 80 years old. A cause was not given. Smith …

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Tinworks Art in Montana Inaugurates Newly Acquired Theater with Matthew Barney Film

The Rialto in Bozeman, Montana. Dan Armstrong Tinworks Art, an enterprise that garnered attention last year with an ambitious resurrection of Agnes Denes’s storied Wheatfiled Land art work in Bozeman, Montana, is making its next move with a newly acquired historic theater to be inaugurated with screenings of Matthew Barney’s 2018 film Redoubt. The program …

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You Can Now Explore the Archives of Jay Gorney Modern Art, a Seminal New York Gallery in the 1980s and ’90s

Installation view of “Eadweard Muybridge, Michael Snow, Haim Steinbach,” 1995, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York. Courtesy Jay Gorney Modern Art Lari Pittman’s first New York solo show, the first time Nan Goldin showed prints of her famed The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1985), Barbara Bloom’s conceptual reimagining of the Titanic’s ocean-floor detritus, Catherine Opie’s …

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A Show at the National Gallery Highlights the Role of Photography in the Black Arts Movement

Doris A. Derby, Black-owned Grocery Store, Sunday, Mileston, Mississippi, 1968 National Gallery of Art. Artwork copyright © Doris A. Derby. In a 1968 photograph by Doris Derby, a young girl longingly peers into the window of a toy store in Jackson, Mississippi. Within the image, Derby captures another photographer holding an 8mm camera, kneeling and …

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