Alvin Ailey. Photo John Lindquist/©Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University Dancers of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater stretch their arms out wide like wings. At once, their elbows rise from the strength of their shoulders with fingertips pointed out. They’re bathed in amber light as they slowly lift their heads out of the …
Hilary Galbreaith, Be Our Guest, 2024, installation view, 17th Biennale de Lyon, IAC. Photo Jair Lanes/©2024 ADAGP, Paris/Courtesy the artist For the first time, in 2022, the Biennale de Lyon expanded its footprint, displaying artwork across the France’s third largest city, which brought in 274,225 visitors, with nearly half being under 26. For its 2024 edition, …
View of the Hong Kong skyline, as seen from Kowloon, this past February. Photo Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images ARTnews has announced that it will launch a new ARTnews Asia edition next year, by way of a partnership with Luxetech Ventures, a global venture builder concentrated on the luxury industry and the art market. Headquartered in Hong Kong, China, …
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LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 9: Lisa Nandy MP, Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development delivers a speech to party delegates on day two of the Labour Party conference on October 9, 2023 in Liverpool, England. Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is among Labour MPs and Shadow Ministers addressing delegates on day two of party conference. (Photo …
As November’s US presidential election approaches, more artists are putting their talent in service of Democratic candidate and current vice president Kamala Harris. 165 leading contemporary artists—Carrie Mae Weems, George Condo, Jenny Holzer, among others—have contributed pieces to the aptly-titled group, Artists for Kamala, which will host a week-long sale starting October 1. The online …
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English art critic Brian Sewell, portrait, United Kingdom, 1985. Photo by Tim Roney/Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: He was one of the most feared and revered British art critics of his generation — and now, nearly a decade after his death, Brian Sewell could be about to wield his pen once more. Deadline understands that London’s historic Evening Standard newspaper has …
Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch (1642). Courtesy Corbis via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FOR THE LOVE OF REMBRANDT… NOT MONEY. The heirs of Dutch museum director Abraham Bredius (1855-1946) have filed a legal motion demanding a trove of Rembrandt paintings he donated to the Mauritshuis museum in The …
Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips’ Spring auction results have been called ‘as bad as it gets.’ A new report by veteran art market analysts Michael Moses and Jianping Mei of JP Mei & MA Moses Art Market Consultancy, argues that the 2024 spring auction season was “the worst overall financial performance” for the art market this …
Bony Ramirez. Courtesy the artist and Newark Museum of Art “I thought about how orchids in general are [like] these beautiful parasites that attach themselves to trees and don’t exactly bring anything positive to them,” artist Bony Ramirez told ARTnews during a recent interview. “They’re just occupying space, which can be closely related to Spanish …
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess Photo copyright © Museum Associates/LACMA. There are many ways to tell the story of Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. There is the narrative about the charming nonagenarian finally getting her due: At the age of 95, the artist, who was born in Venezuela and lives in Los Angeles, is currently having her first museum …
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