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Venice Diaries: Fine Young Cannibals
Artforum - 17 April 2024, 6:49 pm“THIS SHOW IS CHANGING PEOPLE’S LIVES,” an artist said to me on the windy evening following the Sixtieth Venice Biennale’s Tuesday pre-opening. She wasn’t kidding. Deftly telling a story about artistic self-invention by marginalized groups, curator Adriano Pedrosa’s “Foreigners Everywhere” is the rare mega-show that renders a deep picture with a deceptively light curatorial hand.…Read More
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Venice Diaries: Pretty Pretty Good
Artforum - 17 April 2024, 6:49 pmALWAYS START YOUR DAY with something you know you’re gonna like. For me, that usually entails a book and a quadruple espresso: a luxury I can’t afford when I’ve been tasked with seeing as much of the Venice Biennale—“Foreigners Everywhere,” curated by Adriano Pedrosa—and its multitudinous collateral exhibitions and events as possible within three days.…Read More
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Israeli Pavilion at Venice Biennale Will Not Open Until a Ceasefire Is Reached
Artforum - 16 April 2024, 9:44 pmRuth Patir, the artist representing Israel at the forthcoming Venice Biennale, and curators Mira Lapidot and Tamar Margalit, who are organizing her exhibition, have said the country’s pavilion will not open to the public until Israel and Hamas reach “a cease-fire and hostage release agreement.” The trio’s announcement comes as the death toll in Gaza owing to Israel’s continued assault…Read More
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Fatima Hellberg to Lead Vienna’s MUMOK
Artforum - 16 April 2024, 8:34 pmAustria has named Swedish curator Fatima Hellberg, since 2019 the director of the Bonner Kunstverein in Bonn, Germany, as the next general director of Vienna’s Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK). Hellberg will take up her new role in October 2025, succeeding Karola Kraus, who has helmed the institution for fifteen years. MUMOK is known for…Read More
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So Close, Yet So Far Away
Artforum - 16 April 2024, 2:56 pmArt Basel returns to a Hong Kong in flux Email Facebook Pinterest Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsAppRead More
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Faith Ringgold (1930–2024)
Artforum - 15 April 2024, 10:40 pmTrailblazing artist, activist, illustrator, and author Faith Ringgold, who was widely renowned for her elaborate pictorial quilts documenting Black life, died April 13 at her home in Englewood, New Jersey. She was ninety-three. Ringgold explored issues including race, class, gender, and community through a variety of media including doll-making, mask-making, sculpture, performance art, and paint,…Read More
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Roman Frescoes Uncovered in Banquet Hall in Pompeii
Artforum - 12 April 2024, 5:59 pmArchaeologists working in Pompeii have uncovered an ancient banquet hall decorated with stunning and well-preserved Roman frescoes depicting mythological characters from the Trojan War. The roughly fifty-by-twenty-foot dining room, which was buried in volcanic ash following the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius, “provided a refined setting for entertainment during convivial moments, whether banquets or conversations,”…Read More
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Guggenheim Names 2024 Fellowship Recipients
Artforum - 11 April 2024, 11:49 pmThe Guggenheim Foundation has announced the 188 recipients of its 2024 fellowships. Those awarded the prestigious honor this year include artists, scholars, photographers, novelists, essayists, poets, historians, choreographers, environmentalists, and data scientists. Fifty-two disciplines are represented, with recipients ranging in age from twenty-eight to eighty-nine and scattered across thirty-eight states, the District of Columbia, and four Canadian…Read More
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Art021 to Debut Hong Kong Art Fair, Suspend Shenzhen Fair
Artforum - 11 April 2024, 8:58 pmShanghai-based fair operator Art021 has announced a new Hong Kong fair, set to take place this summer. The event will feature roughly eighty galleries from mainland China, the Middle East, and the rest of the Global South—including India, Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil, and Pakistan—as well as the Chinese diaspora, according to Art021 cofounder David Chau. The fair,…Read More
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Court Temporarily Halts Dismantling of Seminal Mary Miss Land Art Installation
Artforum - 10 April 2024, 10:06 pmA US federal judge on Monday issued a temporary restraining order against the Des Moines Art Center preventing the museum’s planned demolition of an iconic Land art installation by Mary Miss from going ahead as scheduled. The order came after Miss filed suit against the Art Center on April 4 claiming that the museum’s destruction of her…Read More
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The Flip Side of the Moon
Artforum - 10 April 2024, 9:55 pmReflections on the Fourth Baan Noorg Biennial Email Facebook Pinterest Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsAppRead More
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Gavin Brown Donates Gallery Archive to Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies
Artforum - 10 April 2024, 9:32 pmLongtime New York gallerist Gavin Brown has given his archive to Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard). Brown, a partner at Gladstone Gallery, amassed the trove during the twenty-six years he ran Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, which he opened in 1994 and closed in 2020. Among the materials included are catalogues, gallery documents, and files on…Read More