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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Emmanuel Perrotin. ©Tanguy Beurdeley/Courtesy Perrotin Emmanuel Perrotin, the French art dealer with galleries in Paris, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, and LA, is donating 23 artworks to the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Xavier Rey, the modern and contemporary art museum’s director, and several of its curators selected the works. They are by a …
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Ben Franklin Bridge and Philadelphia skyline as seen from Camden, New Jersey. Couurtesy Visions of America/Universal Ima To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines CHAPTER 11. The University of the Arts (UArts) in Philadelphia has filed for bankruptcy a few months after it abruptly closed this summer. The …
The India Art Fair is coming to Mumbai. Middle East Images/AFP via Getty To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TOUGH TRUTHS. A traveling German exhibition documenting the experience of refugees granted asylum in the country was removed soon after it was installed. The reason: because it reportedly …
Panoramic cityscape. Photo by Barry Iverson/Getty Images Thirty valuable paintings on loan from the Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran have vanished after “an unidentified entity outside the municipality with official documentation” for an exhibition that it appears never took place, according to a report from Artdependence. Tehran City Council member Nasser Amani disclosed the …
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The entrance to the Armory Show. Courtesy of the Armory Show About three hours into prowling the aisles at the VIP preview of The Armory Show earlier this month, I began to feel déjà vu. It’s difficult to say what triggered it. Was it the sounds of The Dare, an indie sleaze pop revivalist whose …
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Cai Guo-Qiang, WE ARE: Explosion Event for PST ART, Act II: “WE ARE,” 2024. Realized at LA Memorial Coliseum. Photo by Kenryou Gu, courtesy Cai Studio Around 4,000 people filled the Los Angeles Coliseum on September 15 to witness the kickoff event for the Getty Museum’s $20 million PST ART: Art & Science Collide, in which …
The Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth Catlett show. Alex Greenberger/ARTnews Artists’ grant applications tend to be anodyne things because the point of them is often to appeal to an organization’s sensibilities, not to take a stand. But take a stand is what Elizabeth Catlett did in 1945 when she wrote of the “double handicap of race and …
An installation view of several works in the “We Live in Painting” exhibition at LACMA. On the right and hanging in the center are several works by Porfirio Gutiérrez. Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA On first glance, one might be forgiven for wondering how the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “We Live in …
Philippe Rouyer, Jean-Christophe Simon, Setareh Maleki, Mohammad Rasoulof, Mahsa Rostami and Amin Sadraei attend the Seed of the Sacred Fig press conference at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival. Photo Cindy Ord/Getty Images A new report co-published by two legal U.S.-based advocacy groups calls on Iran to stop a years-long campaign to persecute artists, a …
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