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Phillips CEO Martin Wilson. Courtesy Phillips. Phillips has named Martin Wilson as the house’s new chief executive officer amid another leadership shuffle, succeeding Ed Dolman, who held the dual position of CEO and executive chairman over the last year, and is now departing from the house after ten years. Wilson previously served as Phillips’ chief …

Phillips Chairman and Deputy CEO Step Down Amid Leadership Reshuffle Read More »

A crowd gathers outside the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris to watch its reopening ceremony on Saturday on a giant screen on the banks of the River Seine. Photo Telmo Pinto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett In April 2019, Parisians saw Notre-Dame de Paris, one of their most emblematic monuments and one of the world’s most elaborate examples …

Notre-Dame de Paris Rises Like a Phoenix from the Ashes Read More »

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 …

Warsaw Non-Profit Opens First Museum of Queer History in Poland Read More »

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 …

Women-Only ‘Ladies Lounge’ Artwork Returns to Australian Museum After Supreme Court Win Read More »

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. …

Zoé Whitley to Depart London’s Chisenhale Gallery After Five Years Read More »

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 …

Iconic David Hammons Work to Be Restaged by Hauser & Wirth During Frieze LA Read More »

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 …

Banksy Posts Mysterious Madonna and Child Mural on Instagram, Stirring Speculation Read More »

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 …

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

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 …

40 Museum Shows and Biennials to See This Winter Read More »

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 …

Seattle Art Museum Workers Allege Union Busting Amid Ongoing Strike Read More »