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In Pictures | Rothko Chapel’s 50th anniversary celebrated in new publication
The Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko created 14 paintings for the chapel but did not live to see it completed
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Lorraine O’Grady’s first museum retrospective to Carol Bove’s Met façade commission
NewsHigh Desert Museum
Oregon museum receives $6m grant to display its vast but largely unseen art collection
The High Desert Museum, which has previously had an emphasis on natural history, holds important works by artists like Rick Bartow and Edward Curtis
NewsReconstruction
Longwood Gardens begins a $6.5m reconstruction of cascade garden by Roberto Burle Marx
The work of the Modernist artist and landscape architect takes new precedence as Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro faces international criticism over the devastation of the Amazon
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Guadalupe Maravilla at PPOW to David Goldblatt at Pace
NewsJames Turrell
A colossal water tank at Mass Moca will house James Turrell’s latest Skyspace
The work is due to be unveiled this spring and was envisioned by Turrell when he first visited the campus in 1987
NewsSpeed Art Museum
Speed Art Museum will reflect on the death of Breonna Taylor in an exhibition
A panel of advisors including the artists Theaster Gates and Amy Sherald will explore the ways that art can address the police killing
NewsMuseum acquisitions
Aga Khan Museum acquires massive Lego sculpture of an ancient African metropolis
The conceptual work by the Ghanian-Canadian artist Ekow Nimako addresses the cultural impact of Kumbi Saleh, the centre of the trans-Saharan trade route
NewsMichael Heizer
Nevada solar power project threatens Michael Heizer’s land art sculpture Double Negative
Local activists are petitioning to protect the artist’s monumental work on the Mormon Mesa
NewsIndigenous art
Indigenous artist Chris Pappan honours the creative and political achievements of the late Zitkála-Šá with Google Doodle
The illustration spotlights the pioneering contributions of a woman who “devoted her life to the protection and celebration of her Indigenous heritage” in the 19th century
NewsAlexander Calder
Alexander Calder's expansive archive goes digital
A new platform launched by the Calder Foundations features thousands of artworks, photographs, archival documents and publications
NewsCuba
Calls for 'art strike' against state-run cultural institutions in Cuba
Art professionals “on and off the island” are urged to stop working with state-run institutions that have been “complicit in their silence” as the government amps up efforts to squash dissent
InterviewBook Club
Q&A | Keith Haring ‘had so much drive, was so good at promoting himself’ and artists can learn from him today
The British fashion writer Simon Doonan speaks about his new book on the artist and describes his first encounter with Haring via a t-shirt
NewsFreedom of speech
Florida arts professor says she was targeted for work denouncing white supremacy in annual staff exhibition
The work has received pushback from Republican student groups who denounce the artist's decision to place the US flag on the floor
NewsCuba
With the country labelled a ‘terror sponsor’ and the government claiming activists are CIA agents, Cuba's artists are stuck in the crossfire
Concerns for the cultural sector follow Trump’s parting shot at the country, and the Castro regime's growing efforts to discredit dissidents
NewsMaya Lin
Maya Lin’s 'ghost forest' will rise in Madison Square Park this spring
The installation about climate change was postponed for a year due to the pandemic
PreviewDocumentary
HBO documentary illuminates how Black artists shaped US art history
The show centres on a landmark 1976 exhibition by the late curator, scholar and artist David Driskell
NewsMuseum acquisitions
Pérez Art Museum Miami renames endowment fund for Black art to reflect the wider diaspora
The announcement coincides with acquisitions of works by Gordon Parks, Kwame Brathwaite and Tunji Adeniyi-Jones
ArchiveThree to see
Our picks of the must-see shows to see in New York in February
From Laura Aguilar’s first retrospective at the Leslie-Lohman Museum to sculptural salt licks evoking impermanence by Malia Jensen at Cristin Tierney
NewsCuba
Cuban artists file motion to dismiss culture minister Alpidio Alonso after a peaceful protest turns violent
The activist group 27N cites a law that revokes an official’s power for conduct unbecoming public service in their petition to parliament
NewsArt market
New York's ADAA Art Show moves to November from 2021 and beyond
The fair is normally held at the Park Avenue Armory in February
NewsCanadian art
Historic object or contemporary carving? Canadian artist claims a totem that washed up on a Victoria beach is actually his work
Archaeologists of the Royal British Columbia Museum announced the discovery was an important Indigenous work last week
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Gordon Parks at Jack Shainman to Shaun Leonardo at the Bronx Museum
NewsYayoi Kusama
New York Botanical Garden to open postponed Kusama exhibition in April
The show includes a new “infinity room” that the NYBG hopes to open in the summer if Covid-19 restrictions are lifted
NewsCuba
Tania Bruguera and members of Cuban artist-activist group 27N arrested in Havana
Footage from the protest also shows the Cuban minister of culture striking a journalist
NewsArt crime
Massachusetts man arrested for breaking into Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with a stolen painting
The man allegedly opened an emergency door at the museum and threw in a painting he had stolen from a nearby gallery days earlier
NewsPublic art
Mobile portraits of American life roll in to three US cities through PBS public art initiative
The roving works, by Rick Lowe, Swoon and Carlos Ramirez, take over repurposed vehicles
NewsJoe Biden
The art in Biden’s Oval Office reflects hope for a less divided America
The office includes an ode to Roosevelt and a sculpture by the Indigenous artist Allan Houser
NewsBrazil
Brazilian sculptor João Turin memorialised with sculpture park in Paraná
The site will “encourage sustainable development that values the fauna and flora of the Brazilian environment—the themes to which Turin dedicated his life”, says collector and businessman Samuel Lago
NewsCarmen Herrera
Carmen Herrera commissioned to create a colossal mural as part of $35m Blanton Museum redesign
The 105-year-old artist says she has long admired the museum's focus on Latin American art
NewsDesert X
Desert X postpones opening amid Covid-19 surge in California
The outdoor festival, due to take over Coachella Valley in February, will now wait until lockdown restrictions are lifted
NewsExhibitions
Death row inmate designs garden installation by instructing university students through letters
Timothy Young, currently incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison, is a key contributor to the University-led art project, Barring Freedom, that aims to put the US criminal justice system in the dock
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Eugene Von Bruenchenhein’s rapturous paintings to Brassaï’s Parisian underground
NewsStorm King Art Center
Storm King to install Sarah Sze sculpture in 2021—its first new permanent work in more than a decade
The outdoor sculpture park also plans to host an indoor show of her work, with social distancing rules in mind, and will unveil a new sculpture by Rashid Johnson that reflects on surviving a crisis
NewsMassachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Mass MoCA will expand artist-in-residency programme as artists continue to struggle amid the Covid-19 pandemic
The museum has received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and plans to collect public and private donations for the initiative
NewsBob Haozous
Apache artist Bob Haozous explains why he made a shrine to racism
The son of the modernist sculptor Allan Houser describes the impetus behind his piercing monument in Santa Fe
AnalysisLand art
Destructive, sensationalised and maybe not even art: the short and vague legacy of the Utah monolith
After the dismantling of the mysterious monolith that appeared in Utah, environmentalists and art experts alike say the object may have done more harm than good
NewsMuseums
Masp announces abridged 2021 programming as museums seek solutions to budget shortfalls
After drastic financial losses due to Covid-19, the Brazilian museum says it will hold a smaller number of shows for longer periods of time and boost its digital offerings
NewsLand art
The Utah metallic monolith has now disappeared as mysteriously as it arrived
Found last week and resembling a John McCracken minimalist sculpture, the object went missing over the weekend, prompting even more conspiracy theories
ReviewThree to see
Three online shows to see this weekend
From a sweeping survey of Kandinsky to a provocative show on the present day experience of Native American communities
NewsIndigenous art
Where to learn about and support Indigenous art and culture on Native American Heritage Month
From the Smithsonian's award-winning Americans exhibition to virtual Indigenous art markets
NewsLand art
Alien visitors or avant-garde installation? Mysterious monolith discovered in the Utah desert
The large object spotted by biologists resembles the work of sculptor John McCracken, or a prop from Kubrick's sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey
NewsSculpture parks
A seven-mile underwater sculpture park is slated to open in Miami Beach next December
The Reef Line, designed by the architect Shohei Shigematsu/OMA, will include new commissions by Leandro Erlich, Ernesto Neto and Agustina Woodgate
NewsBakehouse Art Complex
Miami non-profit launches virtual sales platform with a generous donation from the Martin Margulies Foundation
The Bakehouse Art Complex hopes to raise $100,000 in its inaugural sale to help artists amid the Covid-19 pandemic
NewsPerforma
Performa biennial hosts virtual telethon, evoking the work of George Orwell, Nam June Paik—and, of course, Jerry Lewis
The event has been produced in partnership with Pace gallery and will feature new and archival material
PreviewExhibitions
Garrett Bradley's America film installation goes on show at MoMA, exploring racism in black and white
The artist intersperses her work with footage from an unreleased 1914 film, believed to be the oldest surviving feature-length film with an all-Black cast
Outdoor sculpture
A breath of fresh air: The Clark opens its first outdoor exhibition
Known for its esteemed collection of European and American paintings and art historical research library, the institution's 140-acre meadow now features contemporary sculptures set against the bucolic landscape of the Berkshire Highlands in Massachusetts
ReviewVideo art
As Trump baselessly cries voter fraud, one artist surveys the rise of conspiracy theories in US politics
Cassandra Zampini's short film Media Warfare compresses four years of fake news into a harrowing 25-minute survey of America's shattered psyche
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a portal to the Utah monolith at David Zwirner to Vivian Springford’s meditative paintings at Almine Rech
NewsIndigenous art
Minneapolis art museum criticised for keeping ancient Indigenous objects
University of Minnesota graduate students have joined Native nations in a long repatriation fight for Mimbres funerary objects controversially held by the Weisman Art Museum
NewsHagia Sophia
Gli, the cat of the Hagia Sophia, has died, aged 16
The famous feline was born at the UNESCO World Heritage Site that was controversially converted into a mosque earlier this year
ReviewExhibitions
The fraught history of voting transparency in the US, explored
A show at the Corning Museum reveals how corruption and intimidation have historically suppressed the votes of non-white, non-male demographics as US presidential election results remain in flux
NewsAcquisitions
A print series of Jacob Lawrence’s earliest narrative cycle has been acquired by the Colby College Museum of Art
The screenprints are an abridged version of the artist’s 41-panel tempera series devoted to the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture
Newselection 2020
From art to doing 'their part': US museums provide a vital community service by acting as polling sites
Dozens of institutions across the nation have stepped up to "help increase public participation in the American system of self-government" on election day
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Abigail DeVille's freedom torch at Madison Square Park to new marble sculptures by Sanford Biggers at Marianne Boesky
NewsLabour
New York artist launches temp agency to employ creatives for a day
As US unemployment rates remain high, the project offers out-of-work artists $200 to "do whatever they need to do" while critiquing the expectations of capitalism
PreviewExhibitions
Inaugural Asia Society Triennial to finally open with new programming following the pandemic and BLM protests
New triennial in New York aims to highlight the contribution of the fastest-growing demographic in the US, with exhibitions, events and a little inspiration from Yoko Ono
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From UOVO Prize winner John Edmonds at the Brooklyn Museum to Michelangelo Pistoletto at Lévy Gorvy
NewsAmerican art
Oklahoma museum receives vast archive related to 'Black Wall Street' and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
The Gilcrease Museum has also received a $300,000 grant to conserve and digitise the ephemera collection "so that these atrocities would not be forgotten"
ReviewResidencies
New York artists find second chance in Governors Island residency programme showcase
The free residencies were part a multi-organisation initiative to replace the annual artist-run Portal art fair and other cultural programming cancelled due to Covid-19
PreviewExhibitions
From the streets to the studio: show explores how Basquiat, graffiti and hip-hop culture stormed the art world in the 1980s
Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston includes works by Rammellzee, Keith Haring, Kool Koor and Lady Pink
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Oklahoma to honour Indigenous art in new $175m museum
More than 25 years in the planning, First Americans Museum opens with new commissions and objects from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Previewelection 2020
Bureaucratic but not boring: exhibition explores the visual history of US election ballots
With early voting already underway in the 2020 presidential election, a show at New York's Cooper Union reveals the "power of design in our civic process"
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Howardena Pindell's first video work in 25 years at The Shed to a cyclical series of Salome-inspired sculptures by Luke Ivy Price at Ki Smith Gallery
NewsBrazil
Inhotim cannot use works from its collection to pay off founder's debt, judge rules
The Brazilian arts park signed an agreement in 2016 to donate 20 works from its collection to the government in order to repay Bernardo Paz's $110m tax debt for laundering donations
NewsDeaccessioning
Palm Springs Art Museum will deaccession a work by Helen Frankenthaler at Sotheby's
The work carries an estimate of $2.5m to $3.5m and will help the museum cope with its financial struggles amid the Covid-19 pandemic
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Trenton Doyle Hancock's face-off with Klansmen at James Cohan to Feliciano Centurión's textile paintings at Americas Society
NewsAcquisitions
The Met acquires Kent Monkman's grand diptych Mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)
The Cree artist says the work, on view in the museum's Great Hall, reflects on the “colonial version of history” in museum collections
NewsCommercial galleries
Superblue unveils installations by James Turrell, Es Devlin and teamLab to inaugurate its Miami space
An outgrowth of PaceX, the experiential art centre is the first in a series of planned galleries that focus on the intersection of technology and art
NewsMonuments
Mellon Foundation announces $250m grant to 'reimagine and rebuild' US monuments and memorials
Amid increased unrest over memorials since the Black Lives Matter protests erupted, the grant will help fund new storytelling spaces across the country
Reviewelection 2020
Denver exhibition considers the art of the Trump years
The Museum of Contemporary Art show aims to “take stock of the work that has come out of this difficult period”, says curator
NewsIndigenous art
Exhibition honours, demands action for missing and murdered Indigenous women
Boontak! (Stop it!) opens as Congress passes two bills to enact better law enforcement practices to protect Indigenous women and girls from violence
NewsAuctions
Judy Chicago's Birth Project series work will benefit Planned Parenthood as reproductive healthcare comes under renewed threat
With a high estimate of $350,000, the sale of "Trinity Birth Quilt" at Sotheby's Choice Works charity auction event could reset the artist's auction record
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a performance critiquing surveillance by Krzysztof Wodiczko on Governor's Island to a monumental mural by Jackson Pollock at the newly reopened Guggenheim
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a tribute to Breonna Taylor at Mitchell Innes & Nash to the Public Art Fund's portals placed through Central Park
NewsWhitney Museum of American Art
Artists urge the Whitney to review its ethical practices following backlash over cancelled exhibition
An open letter calls for the Whitney to “commit to a year of action—of mobilisation and introspection”
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Brian Clarke's light-filled stained glass at the Museum of Arts and Design to Dan Herschlein's dark horror movie tropes at JTT gallery
NewsFilm
A new documentary chronicles the revolutionary power of Mexican artist and activist David Siqueiro's murals
"Siqueiros: Walls of Passion" includes voice work by actor Cheech Marin and explores the restoration of the artist's iconic and controversial LA mural "América Tropical"
NewsAustralia
Campaign to 'free' the Aboriginal flag gains momentum as Australian government seeks exclusive licensing rights
Made by the Luritja artist Harold Thomas in 1971, the rights to the flag design are currently held by Ben Wooster, a former art dealer previously fined $2.3m for selling fake Aboriginal works of art
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Betye Saar's travel sketchbooks at the Morgan Library and Museum to Rivane Neuenschwander's tapestries at Tanya Bonakdar gallery
NewsFilm
Cate Blanchett takes on multiple personalities in her second art film, directed by Italian artist Marco Brambilla
The three-minute video in which Blanchett embodies the Greek philosopher Galen's four temperaments debuts today at Michael Fuchs Galerie in Berlin
NewsObituaries
Forrest Fenn, known for burying $2m worth of treasure in the Rocky Mountains, dies at 90
The controversial yet colourful Santa Fe-based art and antiquities dealer announced that his treasure had been found shortly before his death
PreviewExhibitions
Sanford Biggers show will highlight the unlikely role played by quilts in helping slaves flee to free states
Retrospective at the Bronx Museum in New York will also include the artist's mandala pieces
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Whitney's prelude to David Hammons's Day's End to Sharona Franklin's decomposing work at King's Leap
NewsMemorials
Petition launched to replace Confederate monument in South Carolina with statue of actor Chadwick Boseman
Many say he "opened doors" for black people in the arts and artists like Toyin Ojih Odutola have created works honouring the the 43-year-old Black Panther actor, who died last week
NewsCultural heritage
Jair Bolsonaro, long criticised for anti-black statements, removes a painting of Afro-Brazilian deities from presidential offices
The Brazilian president allegedly requested the removal of Os Orixás by the artist Djanira da Motta e Silva at the behest of his wife, an Evangelical Christian
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York, London and online this weekend
From Jacob Lawrence's Struggle series at the Met to Edmund de Waal's library of exiled authors at the British Museum
NewsBrazil
Cinemateca Brasileira, the largest audiovisual institution in South America, under threat by Bolsonaro government
The government has fired all 41 technical staff, who safeguard an important collection of more than 250,000 works
NewsWomen Artists
Campaign launched to enshrine Corita Kent’s former Los Angeles studio as a historical landmark
The studio where the “nun-turned-artist” produced colourful, conscious works in the 1960s could be demolished
NewsMurals
Depression-era murals in a Minnesota city hall covered over with new works reflecting a more diverse community
The works foreground the contributions of immigrant and Indigenous communities, but members of the Dakota tribe claim the contributions are a "Band-Aid"
NewsFrieze London
Alberta Whittle named the winner of this year's Frieze Artist Award
Exploring themes around the fear of contagion and xenophobia, the new film commission will debut online as part of the virtual edition of Frieze London
AnalysisArt education
As autumn looms, US art schools prepare for students’ return amid the pandemic
From online lessons to outdoor classrooms, universities are attempting to make studio practices safe, but some students say the class quality does not match the steep tuition
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London, New York and online this weekend
From Public Gallery's Spitalfields debut to Keegan Monaghan at James Fuentes
NewsCopyright
Redbone music video sparks artist dispute over copyright infringement
Frank Buffalo Hyde says the imagery in the short film for the band's 1974 hit Come and Get Your Love released by Legacy Recordings this month is "too close to comfort" to his work
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London, New York and online this weekend
From Nicolaes Maes at London's National Gallery to a meditative installation at Rockaway Beach in New York
NewsMonuments
As monuments to Christopher Columbus come down across the US, Italian-Americans campaign to protect a symbol of 'culture heritage'
Some Italian-Americans, including the New York governor Andrew Cuomo, say statues of Columbus symbolise the history of Italians in the US
NewsPublic art
As public art comes under increased scrutiny, New York's High Line asks the people to help pick its next installation
Around 80 artists—including Nick Cave, Mona Hatoum and Rafa Esparza have submitted proposals for the elevated park on Manhattan's West Side
NewsMedia & broadcast
Virginia Commonwealth University launches programme dedicated to the art of podcasting
Embedded within the school's Institute for Contemporary Art, the initiative positions podcasting as a crucial skill for creatives