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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
On Wolfgang Tillmans's “Nothing Could Have Prepared Us – Everything Could Have Prepared Us” at the Centre Pompidou| Artforum
Sylvain Amic, president of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, died of heart failure August 31 while vacationing in the south of France. He was fifty-eight. Amic had been appointed to lead the institutions just sixteen months ago. Known for his progressive views and for his championship of restitution, he had […]| Artforum
The private California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Santa Clarita, California, shed nine staffers this summer and cut at least twelve unfilled positions in an effort to reconcile a projected $15 million budget deficit, Hyperallergic reports. All of those laid off worked in the administrative department; five belonged to the union, which formed earlier […]| Artforum
Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, met with President Donald Trump on August 28 for what the White House described in a statement to the New York Times as a “productive and cordial” lunch. The meeting came as the Trump administration continues its sustained attack on the independent entity’s programming, which it […]| Artforum
International art-fair operator Frieze is set to open Frieze House Seoul on September 2, concurrent with the launch of Frieze Seoul 2025. The exhibition space, inside a former residence in the city’s Yaksu-dong neighborhood, allows Frieze to maintain a year-round presence in the burgeoning art hub and is modeled after No. 9 Cork Street, its […]| Artforum
The organizers of the Helsinki Biennial have appointed Mami Kataoka and Arja Miller co-curators of the Fourth Helsinki Biennial, to take place in summer 2027. Kataoka is director of Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum and is known for curatorial work centering social themes, fostering intercultural dialogue, and examining the role of art in relation to global […]| Artforum
WHAT MAKES A WORK OF ART “GREAT”? When I was teaching art history, one idea that emerged in our classroom discussions was that the great work of art is often (though not always) polyvalent, proposing multiple ideas or themes simultaneously and readily lending itself to new readings by new audiences. In other words, it is […]| Artforum
ONE SUMMER, Koyo Kouoh invited me to the home outside Basel that she shared with her saxophonist husband, Philippe Mall. Arriving with my then-partner, the artist Alexandra Bachzetsis, we met Theo Eshetu, Godfried Donkor, Tracey Rose, and other artists for two days of talking, cooking, and dancing to Nigerian and Ghanaian highlife music by the […]| Artforum
WHEN THE VIDEO ART PIONEER Dara Birnbaum passed away this past May, she left behind a bevy of fellow artists, gallerists, and curators who have championed her throughout the years. Stuart Comer, the Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, summed up her character to me […]| Artforum
A FORMIDABLE CRITIC and an expansive personality, P. Adams Sitney was at once affable and irascible, generous and opinionated. He loved to play the Great Man, and as the author of an unquestionably great book illuminating an ostensibly abstruse subject—published before he turned thirty—why not? Appearing in 1974, Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde invented a […]| Artforum
On portrayals of the art world on-screen| 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
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, has named writer and curator Dan Nadel as its Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints.| 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 Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) has announced that director Michael Brand, who has led the Sydney institution since 2012, will vacate his role in July 2025.| Artforum
The Royal Academy of Arts, London, has announced Simon Wallis as its new secretary and CEO, effective this September.| Artforum
Benjamin Buchloh discusses the sculpture of Gabriel Orozco in relation to spectacle, use value, and the history of the readymade.| Artforum
Linda Yablonsky around Frieze New York and concurrent openings at Luhring Augustine, Sprüth Magers, Gladstone, kurimanzutto, Marian Goodman, and more.| 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
Due to rising costs and government budget cuts to the arts, several French cultural institutions will raise admission fees for non-Europeans next year.| 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
