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Newsmakers: Kathryn Andrews on Founding a Nonprofit Research and Art Center

Kathryn Andrews. Photo Ahrum Hong/Courtesy the artist Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Artist Kathryn Andrews has long been interested in disrupting established systems by inviting viewers of her wide-ranging practice to join in actively interrogating common subjects of …

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The Year in Black Art: Six Blockbuster Exhibitions

Howardena Pindell, Untitled #3C, 2009, in “Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage,” Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Artwork © Howardena Pindell, courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery. This year, exhibitions around the globe highlighted Blackness, celebrating the Black artistic vanguard and …

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Matthew Barney and Alex Katz Go Great Together in “The Bitch”

A still from Matthew Barney’s DRAWING RESTRAINT 28 (2024). Photo David Regen/©Matthew Barney/Courtesy the Artist, O’Flaherty’s, and Gladstone Gallery There’s no gallery show this year with a more eyebrow-raising title than “The Bitch,” and it would be hard to think of a more singular setting for a duo presentation of art by Matthew Barney and …

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Hassan Hajjaj Brings a Marrakech Tea Shop to Miami Beach

Hassan Hajjaj (right) explaining the Dar Miami 1446 project to Miami Heat player Jimmy Butler. Photo Bre Johnson/BFA.com Hassan Hajjaj is among the leading photographers of his generation. Born in Larache, Morocco, in 1961, he moved to London when he was 12. The contrast between the life he knew in Morocco with what he saw …

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Anonymous Donor Gifts $3.54 M. to Milwaukee Art Museum to Make Admission Free for Kids

The anonymous gift will enable free admission for kids 12 and under. Photo by Front Room Studios, Courtesy of the Milwaukee Art Museum The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) will now be free for kids age 12 and under through an anonymous gift of $3.54 million. The gift will enable the museum to establish a endowment …

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40 Museum Shows and Biennials to See This Winter

Daniela Hritcu/ARTnews Multihyphenates rule this winter, a season headlined by attempts to fully assess artists whose work resists the traditional museum retrospective format. Within Germany alone, Shu Lea Cheang, who has shown her work in movie theaters, on the internet, and in art galleries, will finally get a career-spanning survey, and Semiha Berksoy, a Wagnerian …

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Seattle Art Museum Workers Allege Union Busting Amid Ongoing Strike

A sign held up by a member of SAM VSO during a strike in December. Photo: Margot Pasky. Courtesy SAM VSO The Seattle Art Museum‘s union remains on strike one week after the workers began their stoppage. In a statement, the union claimed that the institution has been “bargaining in bad faith” during the negotiations …

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After Alleging Censorship, Nan Goldin Adds Message About Gaza and Israel to Work in Berlin

Nan Goldin. Photo Fabian Sommer/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Following a widely discussed interview in which she alleged censorship, Nan Goldin has added a message about the people killed in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank, and during the October 7 Hamas attack, to an artwork on view at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. Goldin and Klaus …

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Saudi Arabia Puts $52.6 M. Toward Centre Pompidou Overhaul in Deal with France

The Centre Pompidou in Paris will close its doors from 2025 to 2030 for a major renovation. Photo Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP, via Getty Images Saudi Arabia will contribute €50 million ($52.6 million) to the €262 million renovation of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The money is part of a heritage fund established as part of …

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MoMA PS1 Receives $1 M. Gift from Teiger Foundation

Exterior view of MoMA PS1, 2024, Queens, New York. Photo Nathan Bajar/Courtesy MoMA PS1 MoMA PS1 has received a $1 million donation toward the funding of future exhibitions from the Teiger Foundation. A dedicate fund known as the Teiger Foundation Exhibition Fund will support exhibitions by MoMA PS1’s curatorial team, which includes Jody Graf, Elena …

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