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Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Celebration? Realife Revisited, 1972, installation view, 2016, Serpentine Galleries, London. Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for Serpentine Galleries Marc Camille Chaimowicz, an artist whose unclassifiable installations trotted the line between art and design with aplomb, has died at 77. His death was announced on Thursday by Brussels’s WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, which do …

Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Nonconformist Artist Who Merged Art and Design, Dies at 77 Read More »

20th-century mummies on display in the vault of the Panteon cemetery at Guanajuato on the summit of Trozado, Mexico. Photo George Pickow/Three Lions/Getty Images The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Mexico’s governing body for archaeological studies on the federal level, is up in arms after the mummified corpse of a body that was …

Mummy Dismembered During Museum Renovations in Mexico Read More »

The refurbished Grand Palais in Paris, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and Art Basel Paris. Photo YOAN VALAT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Art Basel’s Paris fair will see several notable changes when it opens its third edition this coming October. First among them is the fair’s expected relocation to the Grand Palais, which had …

Art Basel Subtracts a Plus Sign for Its French Fair, Now Titled Art Basel Paris Read More »

Courtesy Cinefrance Studios, Cannes Film Festival. It is an ongoing mystery why so many artists’ biopics, though undoubtedly coming from a place of deep admiration, choose to ignore the very thing that makes their subjects extraordinary—their art—in favor of outlining the less extraordinary (however torrid) circumstances of their private lives and loves. The latest example: …

‘Niki’ Review: Charlotte Le Bon Stars in a Pretty but Flimsy Portrait of an Artist Minus Her Art Read More »

The signing ceremony. From left to right: Luo Yi, deputy director-general of Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism; Joan Valadou, consul general of France Consulate General in Shanghai; Gong Yan, director of Power Station of Art; Zong Ming, vice chairwoman of Standing Committee of Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress; Renaud Bailly, president of North Asia …

Chanel and Shanghai’s Power Station of Art Sign Long-term Partnership Read More »

The Main Building at CalArts. Photo: Scott Groller/Courtesy CalArts Citing an enrollment crisis that threatens to shutter its doors forever, the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) in Montpelier has forged a partnership with the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Los Angeles that will allow its students to fulfill short-term residencies on the CalArts …

Facing Enrollment Crisis, Vermont College of Fine Arts Strikes Deal with CalArts to Share Campus Read More »

Street view of Christie’s auction house in New York, 2017. Photo Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images The Christie’s website and app are now up and running again, the auction house confirmed. This comes following a 10-day outage that sparked concern among art advisers and collectors amid a busy season of sales. The website reportedly went down on …

Christie’s Website and App Is Back Online After Ten-Day Outage Read More »

Ai Weiwei. Photo Gao Yuan/Courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio Ai Weiwei, the Chinese provocateur who ranks among the world’s most popular artists, will have his first US retrospective in a decade at the Seattle Art Museum next year. His last retrospective, held first at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. in 2012, was …

Ai Weiwei to Get His First US Retrospective in a Decade at Seattle Art Museum Read More »

The 1928 winners of the William E. Harmon Foundation Award for Distinguished Achievement among Negroes collecting their awards. Photo UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images During the 1920s and ’30s, a cohort of Black artists, writers, and intellectuals, many of whom were based in Harlem, ushered in what was then known as the New Negro Movement. Today, the …

How the Harmon Foundation Played a Pivotal Role in Supporting the Artists of the Harlem Renaissance Read More »

George Rouy. Photo Kemka Ajoku George Rouy, a fast-rising British painter, is the latest artist to join the roster of Hauser & Wirth, the mega-gallery which operates 18 spaces worldwide. The 29-year-old painter is now the youngest artist represented by the gallery. Rouy will continue to be represented by London’s Hannah Barry Gallery, the space …

Painter George Rouy Joins Hauser & Wirth, Becoming the Youngest Artist on Its Roster Read More »