Members of Pussy Riot and FEMEN outside the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale on Wednesday. Brian Boucher “Russia kills! Biennale exhibits!” “Disobey! Disobey! Disobey!” “Art for show, graves below!” “Blood is Russia’s art!” “Slava Ukraini!” Those were some of the chants from a few dozen protesters, some clad in pink balaclavas, some with bared …
Heidi Klum at the Met Gala. Photo Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images Though the Met Gala is held each year by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the glitzy event is known less for its engagement with art and more for tapping the fashion industry. That changed this year, in large part because the Met Gala …
Production still from Raven’s Murderers Bar, 2025. ©Lucy Raven/Courtesy the Artist and Lisson Gallery After an inaugural edition last year, the AIR festival will return to Aspen, Colorado, in July with a program of performances, exhibitions, talks, and other events in the high-flying mountain town. The second edition, slated for July 27-31, will feature some …
A design for the Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art. Courtesy Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art The forthcoming Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art has received a $490 million construction grant from Diriyah Company, a real estate juggernaut that has previously thrown its support behind an array of resorts, a digital art institution, and …
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Treat a Stranger Grant recipients (from top left to bottom right): Samiya Bashir, Malcolm-X Betts, Agosto Machado, Jacolby Satterwhite, Christopher Udemezue, Pe Ferreira, Gavilán Rayna Russom, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Mercy Kelly, and Keioui Keijaun Thomas. Courtesy Giorno Poetry Systems Giorno Poetry Systems, a nonprofit organization founded by the artist and downtown New York …
Janne Sirén. Courtesy Buffalo AKG Art Museum Janne Sirén, the director of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Upstate New York, will depart his post in October after more than a decade, opening up yet another top role at a US art institution. Sirén oversaw the museum as it expanded dramatically in 2023, adding another …
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Essence Harden will be senior curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Photo Barrington Darius The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco has named Essence Harden as senior curator. She will begin in the role on May 18. Harden currently serves as curator of the Expo Chicago art fair. Since …
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Kate Kraczon. Montclair Art Museum. The Montclair Art Museum has a new chief curator. The New Jersey institution hired Kate Kraczon, who lost her job as director of exhibitions and chief curator at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, late last year amid a wave of layoffs; she had …
Claude Lalanne, Important and Unique Ensemble of Fifteen Mirrors for Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, ca. 1974. Courtesy Sotheby’s A bespoke ensemble of 15 mirrors by Claude Lalanne sold at Sotheby’s New York today for $33.5 million, breaking the artist’s secondary-market record and becoming the most valuable design work ever to leave the auction …
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The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. Photo by Omer Messinger/Getty Images Hundreds of paintings lost to the ravages of war—including multiple works by Peter Paul Rubens, Paolo Veronese, Anthony van Dyck, and Caravaggio—will soon be viewable online courtesy of a digitization initiative by Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie. The museum’s formidable collection of Old Master paintings was damaged by two …
