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"MY LIFE MAKES ME LAUGH," Elia Suleiman writes in his notes to Chronicle of a Disappearance. "I am far from being courageous. I hate venturing. I wish to settle down…| Artforum
"MY LIFE MAKES ME LAUGH," Elia Suleiman writes in his notes to Chronicle of a Disappearance. "I am far from being courageous. I hate venturing. I wish to settle down…| Artforum
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, closed its doors to the public on October 5, six days after the federal government ceased operations.| Artforum
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School in New York has named Afro-Brazilian artist, educator, and researcher Rosana Paulino as the recipient of the 2025–27 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice. Honoring outstanding achievements in art and politics and recognizing artworks that advance social justice, the prize took […]| Artforum
A gouache-and-pencil work on paper by Picasso insured for $700,000 has gone missing in transit between Madrid and Granada. Titled Naturaleza muerta con guitarra (Still Life with Guitar), the roughly five-by-four-inch 1919 piece was one of fifty-seven works being transported to the CajaGranada Cultural Center to appear in the exhibition “Bodegón: La eternidad de lo […]| Artforum
London-based private equity firm Pemberton Asset Management has purchased auction house Bonhams from private equity group Epiris. The terms and amount of the sale remain undisclosed, but the acquisition comes two years after Epiris aborted an effort to float the business for roughly $1 billion: The attempt was reportedly hobbled by the postpandemic consolidation of […]| Artforum
A quartet of thieves made off with priceless necklaces, tiaras, and earrings encrusted with thousands of diamonds and other gems after breaking into the Louvre in Paris on the morning of October 19. Staff and visitors were present when the thieves—hooded, masked, and dressed as construction workers—pulled a basket lift up next to the world’s […]| Artforum
The Kalil House in Manchester, New Hampshire, a Usonian Automatic home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places by the US Secretary of the Interior. Completed in 1957 as a private residence and currently owned by the Currier Museum of Art, the home is just one of […]| Artforum
San Francisco’s Altman Siegel Gallery is set to close November 22 after sixteen years in operation. Its last exhibition, of the work of Japanese painter Shinpei Kusanagi, will close a week earlier, on November 15. Founded in 2009 in downtown San Francisco by Claudia Altman-Siegel, the gallery was known for showing cutting-edge conceptual work by […]| Artforum
On the Second Bienal das Amazônias| Artforum
The City of San Francisco has proposed a $35 million renovation of Embarcadero Plaza that does not include the park’s Vaillancourt Fountain, a 710-ton Brutalist concrete structure completed in 1971 by Canadian artist Armand Vaillancourt. Built to circulate 30,000 gallons of water, the fountain has attracted attention as a landmark both locally and internationally: In […]| Artforum
Curates sound as ceremony at the 2025 Venice Music Biennale| Artforum
The Courtauld Gallery and Institute in London has revealed itself to be the recipient of a £30 million ($40 million) donation, the largest in its ninety-three year history. The gift was made by the Reuben Foundation, a charitable organization established by billionaire brothers and art collectors David and Simon Reuben, who made their fortunes in […]| Artforum
The announcement last week by the Government of Flanders that it planned to “reform the landscape of its own museums and the visual arts sector” and strip Antwerp’s Museum of Modern Art (M HKA), Belgium’s oldest contemporary art museum, of its assets has generated criticism both locally and abroad. The scheme, which the government had […]| Artforum
The Smithsonian on October 12 closed all twenty-one of its museums as the US government shutdown begun on October 1 continued to draw on.| Artforum
Marian Goodman Gallery has announced an initiative in support of emerging BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) curators and honoring the late curator Okwui Enwezor. The initiative, conceived of…| Artforum
Assessing curator Okwui Enwezor’s impact through the lens of his Selected Writings| Artforum
The National Endowment for the Arts has canceled its Challenge America grant program, which offered $10,000 grants to underserved communities.| Artforum
Göksu Kunak reports on a performance of Vienna Actionist Hermann Nitsch's 6 Day Play in Austria, the pinnacle of his Orgies Mysteries Theater.| Artforum
The Los Angeles–based Hannah Hoffman gallery and New York’s Bridget Donahue gallery have announced that they are merging to form a bicoastal operation.| Artforum
Ralph Rugoff, who has led London’s Hayward Gallery since 2006, will depart the role in spring 2026, the Southbank Centre announced today.| Artforum
The Hepworth Wakefield was announced as this year’s Art Fund Museum of the Year, the largest museum prize in the world. The $130,000 award recognizes a museum that has shown…| Artforum
The Frick Collection has announced Axel Rüger as its next director. Ruger, since 2019 the secretary and chief executive of London’s Royal Academy of Arts, will start his new role early next year, as the New York institution reopens in its freshly renovated home.| Artforum
Clément Delépine, the director of Art Basel Paris, is set to join Lafayette Anticipations as its director.| Artforum
Theorist Yuk Hui discusses his recent book ‘Post-Europe’ and his philosophy of technology with curator Daniel Birnbaum| Artforum
Top auction house Sotheby’s and well-known New York art fair operator Independent on September 8 announced a multiyear collaboration.| Artforum
Laurent Le Bon, president of Paris’s Centre Pompidou, on March 14 signed an agreement with the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) to establish a massive branch of the contemporary art…| Artforum
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) on June 29 told the Centre Pompidou that it will not supply the tens of millions of dollars it had promised to fund the Paris museum’s planned Jersey City outpost.| Artforum
Teiger Foundation has awarded a total of $7 million to eighty-five curators at more than sixty art institutions in the United States and Puerto Rico.| Artforum
Agosto Machado’s archive of downtown New York—featuring Candy Darling’s shoes and Peter Hujar’s photographs—introduced by Alex Jovanovich.| Artforum
Allyn Aglaïa visits Wolfgang Tillmans's exhibition in the Centre Pompidou's library, the museum's last show on site for five years.| Artforum
The California Institute of the Arts shed nine staffers and cut at least twelve unfilled positions to reconcile a projected $15 million budget deficit.| Artforum
Critic Ayodeji Rotinwa discusses the redesigned wing for the arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania at the Met in New York.| Artforum
Yolngu artist Gaypalani Wanambi has won Australia’s Telstra Art Award. The $65,000 prize is the country’s most prestigious First Nations art accolade.| Artforum
The Smithsonian Institution in a June 9 statement reasserted its independence to hire and fire, counteracting President Trump’s May 30 announcement that he was dismissing National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet.| Artforum
Kim Sajet is stepping down as director of the National Portrait Gallery. Her departure follows President Trump announcing that he was firing her because she was “a strong supporter of DEI.”| Artforum
The Hepworth Wakefield museum has teamed up with UK charity the Art Fund to amass the $5.3 million needed to keep Barbara Hepworth’s 1943 Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red for the nation.| Artforum
The Trump administration on August 21 posted an article on the White House's website calling out several Smithsonian museum exhibitions for "woke" messaging.| Artforum
The Getty Foundation presented seven US organizations with a total of $1.5 million in grants as part of its ongoing Black Visual Arts Archives initiative.| Artforum
Barbara Hepworth's 1943 Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red will remain in England following a successful financial appeal by the Hepworth Wakefield museum and UK charity the Art Fund.| Artforum
An in-depth investigation into the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collecting practices related to its collection of Native American art has uncovered lax attention to provenance on the part of the…| Artforum
International auction house Phillips has filed suit against film producer David Mimran alleging that he failed to pony up the $14.5 million he had promised to pay for a Jackson Pollock canvas.| Artforum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has announced Lucian Simmons as its first provenance research chief.| Artforum
Interim director Jarosław Suchan on April 26 was forced from his post at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Poland. His replacement, Andrzej Biernacki, was selected by Jarosław Sellin, Poland’s deputy…| Artforum
The New York–based Joan Mitchell Foundation on August 13 named fifteen recipients of its 2025 Joan Mitchell Fellowship.| Artforum
The Trump administration on August 12 announced it would conduct a review of Smithsonian Institution exhibitions for "alignment with American ideals.”| Artforum
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland has named Daniel Muzyczuk as the next director of the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź.| Artforum
Ekow Eshun's "Black Earth Rising" considers the climate crisis as a consequence of European colonization of the New World.| Artforum
Venus Over Manhattan, the New York gallery founded by collector Adam Lindemann in 2012, will shut its doors later in July.| Artforum
Clearing gallery, which launched in New York in 2011 and opened an outpost in Los Angeles in 2020, has announced its closure in both cities.| Artforum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York welcomed over 5.7 million visitors to its two locations in the 2025 fiscal year, which ended June 30.| Artforum
Diedrich Diedrichsen on Mi You’s book Art in a Multipolar World| Artforum
Ian Volner reviews Julian Rose’s book Building Culture, featuring interviews on museum architecture with Frank Gehry, Elizabeth Diller, and more.| Artforum
Hayward Gallery Touring, organizer of the British Art Show, has appointed Ekow Eshun as curator of the event’s tenth edition, opening September 2026.| Artforum
What Is Contemporary Art for Today? collects twenty-five responses to the titular question, with essays by artists, writers, and critics.| Artforum
The noted Kasmin gallery is closing after 35 years. It's president, Nicholas Olney, and senior director, Eric Gleason, will establish a new gallery, Olney Gleason.| Artforum
The Studio Museum in Harlem will welcome the public to its new home on November 15. The museum has been closed since 2018.| Artforum
The organizers of Manifesta have announced that the seventeenth iteration of the nomadic biennial will take place in Coimbra, Portugal, in 2028.| Artforum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has refuted allegations that a guitar in its collection was stolen from erstwhile Rolling Stones axeman Mick Taylor.| Artforum
Swiss gallery Hauser & Wirth on July 30 announced plans to expand into Palo Alto, in northern California’s Silicon Valley, in the spring of 2026.| Artforum
Amy Sherald has terminated her forthcoming show, “American Sublime,” at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery over censorship concerns.| Artforum
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Operating within her self-imposed formal constraints, Kang built a beguiling, idiosyncratic show in which everything felt strangely alive.| Artforum
Cory Arcangel, The Bruce Springsteen “Born to Run” Glockenspiel Addendum, 2006. Performance view, Light Industry, New York, August 5, 2008. Photo: Damien Crisp. CORY ARCANGEL: Recently I read an interview…| Artforum
The Royal Academy of Arts, London, has announced Simon Wallis as its new secretary and CEO, effective this September.| Artforum
Jennie C. Jones discusses her Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden commission, a suite of sculptures inspired by the forms of musical instruments.| Artforum
Brandon López and Fred Moten's album "Revision" answers a need to assert incisive voices from the African diaspora, now more than ever.| Artforum
Paris’s Centre Pompidou will open a satellite in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, in November 2027. The outpost is the institution’s first foray into South America.| Artforum
The High Museum of Art has named Alison Saar the winner of its 2025 David C. Driskell Prize for her contributions to the field of African American art| Artforum
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has named Maud Page as its new director. Page is the first woman to lead the institution since its founding in 1872.| Artforum
The Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, has announced the appointment of Denise Markonish as its chief curator.| Artforum
London’s Chisenhale Gallery, known for supporting international and UK-based artists, has announced Edward Gillman as its new director.| Artforum
The Aotearoa New Zealand art collective Mataaho Collective speak about their new textile work at New Zealand’s Dunedin Public Art Gallery.| Artforum
Lakota artist and poet Layli Long Soldier discusses her use of language as an artistic material across various formats, from print to installations.| Artforum
The Brooklyn Museum on February 7 announced cost-cutting measures that include laying off more than forty employees and reducing annual exhibitions.| Artforum
The Guggenheim Museum in New York on February 28 announced that it would lay off 7 percent of its workforce to improve its financial health.| Artforum
Eve Hill-Agnus attends Guadalajara Art Weekend and Mexico City's Zona Maco, Feria Material, and Salón ACME.| Artforum
The found objects in Phinthong's exhibition "No Patents on Ideas" at Singapore Art Museum transform into semi-Minimalist works with layered narratives.| Artforum
New York-based arts nonprofit A Blade of Grass has announced the launch of a $75,000 fellowship initiative in support of socially engaged art.| Artforum
What if I am to criticism as Emily is to marketing, the same opportunistic hustler in more elitist packaging? And so Emily fills me with resentment, first, because I feel that I see through her. But, more enduringly, because I sense that she sees through me.| Artforum
The conclusion of FX’s What We Do in the Shadows and its immigration subtext in Trump's America.| Artforum
At a mere eighty-one years of age, Gerard Malanga—poet, photographer, filmmaker, whip-dancer, Andy Warhol Superstar, and raconteur nonpareil who was recently made a Chevalier of Arts and Letters by the French Republic—has lived more lives than many of us could ever dream of.| Artforum
Locke's exhibition examines Britain’s imperial past through historical objects, telling a story of colonial pursuit, dominance, and control.| Artforum
Iconoclastic avant-garde playwright and director Richard Foreman died on January 4 in New York City of complications of pneumonia.| Artforum
The Berlin government has sliced the city's arts and culture budget by $135 million, imperiling the German capital's status as an arts hub.| Artforum
Pathbreaking multi-hyphenate artist Pippa Garner, known for her powerful, witty send-ups of consumer culture, died on December 30 from leukemia.| Artforum
Tokyo’s contemporary art scene remains enigmatic, even to frequent visitors from across Asia, who are often confounded by Japan’s linguistic and cultural barriers.| Artforum
