People gather on the street at the opening of Poland’s first Queer Museum in Warsaw, Poland on December 6, 2024. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP) (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images On Friday, Poland inaugurated its first museum dedicated to LGBTQ history, a milestone in a country where legal …
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Kirsha Kaechele’s Ladies Lounge at Mona, Australia before the works were moved in to the women’s restroom. COURTESY MONA Following the successful reversal of a Tasmanian court case, a women-only art installation will reopen at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart, Australia. Artist and curator Kirsha Kaechele’s work, titled Ladies Lounge, made headlines when Jason Lau …
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Zoé Whitley. Photo Daryll Borja Zoé Whitley will leave her post as director of the Chisenhale Gallery, a London art space with a record of spinning venturesome emerging artists into bona fide stars. Whitley’s last day there will be March 1, 2025. The Chisenhale Gallery’s announcement of her departure did not state her next steps. …
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Hauser & Wirth’s Los Angeles gallery. Photo Joshua Targownik/targophoto.com As part of its programming for the upcoming Frieze Los Angeles fair, Hauser & Wirth will restage David Hammons’s iconic work Concerto in Black and Blue (2002) for the first time since its debut more than 20 years ago. The only time Concerto in Black and …
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The location and meaning of Banksy’s new mural is not yet known. via Instagram On December 16, British street artist Banksy posted on Instagram an artwork referencing the Madonna and Child, stirring speculation to its meaning. The painting on a metal panel in an unknown location shows the woman’s breast with a rusting hole for …
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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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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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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 (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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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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