London’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has made a most unexpected acquisition: a ticket kiosk on a small traffic island just outside its new entrance. But it is the hidden space below street level that is important: a former underground Victorian public lavatory, which closed in the 1970s. This unusual site […]
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0 A class action filed Thursday alleges that Madonna, Jimmy Fallon, and Paris Hilton, among other celebrities who promoted Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, were compensated for those promotions and did not disclose such deals. In the complaint, filed to the federal Central District Court of California, plaintiffs Adonis Real and […]
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0 Veronica Ryan, who created the UK’s first permanent artwork to honour the Windrush generation, has won the 2022 Turner prize, one of the world’s most prestigious awards for visual arts. Ryan, 66, becomes the oldest artist to win the prize. She was nominated for the Windrush sculpture, which was unveiled […]
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0 Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, unveils the Asia premiere of HUMAN ONE, an iconic kinetic video sculpture by digital art pioneer Beeple , in the museum’s Focus Gallery today. The work is on view until 30 April 2023. […]
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0 This past weekend saw art world actions at Untitled Miami Beach, and in New York at Four Freedoms Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This past weekend saw art world actions at Untitled Miami Beach, and in New York at Four Freedoms Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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0 This year, Mumbai-based Jhaveri Contemporary brings together artists across generations from South Asia and its diaspora, many of whom are showing at Frieze for the first time. What unites these artists is a focus on religious and spiritual practice, expressed through painting, sculpture, photography, and textiles. “The stand brings together […]
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0 This year, Frieze returns to Regent’s Park in London, gathering more than 280 galleries from 42 countries in a kaleidoscopic collection of classical and contemporary art. Amid economic turmoil on U.K. soil, geopolitical uncertainty across the continent, and mourning for a monarch who represented stability and British identity for many, […]
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0 A lost Fernand Léger painting has reappeared after more than a century of being hidden behind another canvas. The work, an unnamed piece from the “Smoke over the Rooftops” series (1911–12), was discovered on the flip side of Léger’s Bastille Day, painted later that year, per the Agence France-Presse. The […]
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0 The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the PMA Union, an affiliate of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, District Council 47, reached a tentative three-year agreement, union leaders and PMA museum director Sasha Suda announced Friday. The PMA’s board of trustees and the union’s executive committee approved the […]
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0 Freddy Rodríguez, a New York–based painter whose works acted as a means of processing issues related to Latinx identity, died on Monday at 77. News of Rodríguez’s death was posted to the artist’s Instagram, which said that he had been battling ALS. Rodríguez’s works spanned formalist abstraction and less easily […]
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