FeatureCoronavirus resources
Dietl initiative supports art technicians who lost work due to coronavirus
A new commission-free sales platform launched by the art logistics company benefits art handlers, who are often artists subsidising their studio practice
FeatureCoronavirus resources
New York artist launches platform to link people in need of help with others amid coronavirus lockdown
Social practice artist Jody Wood started her S.O.S. online aid network as part of her belief that "everyone is responsible for caring for one another"
NewsYayoi Kusama
New York Botanical Garden forced to postpone blockbuster Kusama show due to coronavirus
The artist says the passion she and the garden put into the exhibition is "still burning"
Newscoronavirus
Magazzino Italian Art Foundation commissions eight Italian artists to produce new work in response to coronavirus
The New York-based foundation says there is an "absolute need to support artists" as the Covid-19 pandemic shutters exhibitions around the world
FeaturePerformance art
Annabel Daou will take on your worries in a 12-hour durational performance
During the coronavirus crisis, the project “is a way to consider my role with respect to others, as an artist and as a human being in this world”, the artist says
Newscoronavirus
Brazilian galleries and museums to remain closed despite Bolsonaro's draconian stance on coronavirus
As the Brazilian president calls for businesses to re-open despite a growing number of Covid-19 cases, some refuse to follow "politically-influenced" advice
Newscoronavirus
Arts organisations produce face masks and other medical equipment to help slow the spread of coronavirus
As museums donate protective supplies to medical centres during coronavirus crisis, grassroots efforts to make masks struggle to meet medical standards
NewsPhotography
Photographers are capturing the stark mood of major cities amid the coronavirus pandemic
As many self-employed photographers face work losses due to Covid-19, others document the "seriousness of what is happening on a personal and community level"
Newscoronavirus
Artists and galleries help raise coronavirus relief funds through print edition sales
Eric Fischl is supplying a limited edition print to benefit the closed New York Academy of Art while other sales are being donated to emergency funds and community organisations
NewsArtists
Here is a list of resources addressing the economic impact of coronavirus on the cultural sector
Organisations are offering medical emergency grants while other groups crowdsource data quantifying the impact of the health crisis on the cultural labour market
Newscoronavirus
SP-Arte suspends forthcoming edition as Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro gets tested for coronavirus
Fears about the spread of Covid-19 are growing just weeks after the country's Carnival festivities ended
Newscoronavirus
New York galleries start to close due to coronavirus concerns
Pace, Hauser & Wirth and some others have confirmed that they will temporarily shut down
PreviewPublic art
Maya Lin will plant a ‘ghost forest’ in New York
A series of spectral trees will populate Madison Square Park this summer in the artist's latest project addressing climate change
PreviewExhibitions
São Paulo show to explore how samba transformed the work of Hélio Oiticica
Exhibition at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand will kick off a year of shows celebrating the influence of dance on artists
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Met Breuer’s final exhibition, devoted to Gerhard Richter, to Jonathan Berger’s love letters at Participant Inc
NewsSpring/Break Art Show
Social media addiction, a blood-soaked Salvator Mundi and more at the Spring Break Art Show
The ninth edition of the curator-centred fair presents more than 120 projects considering the theme of “in excess”
NewsCensorship
Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara arrested on way to a LGBTQ+ censorship protest
The artist will face a summary trial in ten days while activists say the arrest amounts to "state terrorism"
NewsStorm King Art Center
A behind-the-scenes look at Storm King in the off-season
Curators shelter some sculptures and let winter work its magic on others
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Cauleen Smith’s feminist films at the Whitney to Rodney McMillian’s conceptual landscapes at Petzel Gallery
NewsArt Basel
Art Basel announces exhibitors for its 50th anniversary edition this June
More than 20 galleries will take part in the flagship Swiss fair for the first time
PreviewWomen Artists
Museum devoted to Palestinian art to celebrate international women's day with exhibition
The show features more than 200 works by women artists such as Samia Halaby and Laila Shawa
NewsThe Momentary
Crystal Bridges launches satellite for living artists
Arkansas private museum’s cross-disciplinary new venue shines a spotlight on contemporary American art, from performance to cooking
NewsCensorship
San Antonio officials censor work by Xandra Ibarra in Chicano art exhibition
The curators and the National Coalition Against Censorship are challenging the removal of the artist's work
NewsNevada Museum of Art
Nevada Museum of Art receives $1.25m from Tesla to boost its arts education programme
The automotive and green-power company is also sponsoring an exhibition that explores the intersection of art and technology
NewsAlexander Calder
A 'sanctuary' devoted to Alexander Calder will open in Philadelphia
The non-profit space, likened to the Rothko Chapel in Houston, will offer visitors a place to introspectively connect with Calder's work
ReviewExhibitions
Largest US exhibition of works by J.M.W. Turner opens in Nashville
The Frist Art Museum has secured more than 70 works from the Tate’s Turner Bequest
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the first US retrospective devoted to the pioneering female photographer Madame d’Ora to an immersive Joan Miró experience at Acquavella Galleries
NewsMuseums
Aspen Art Museum closes Yayoi Kusama’s infinity room due to building code violation
The installation, which opened on 20 December, is closing 11 weeks early
NewsAboriginal art
Emily Kame Kngwarreye show in New York highlights spike in interest for Australian indigenous art
The exhibition brings together museum-quality pieces, most consigned by US collectors
NewsBienal de São Paulo
The 34th edition of the Bienal de São Paulo explores ‘calls to resilience’
The biennial launches this month with “kunsthalle-sized” exhibitions ahead of the main show in September
PreviewExhibitions
Beyond the wall: a golden period of exchange between Mexican and US artists is revisited in new show
Whitney Museum exhibition will explore the enduring influence of artists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros on US counterparts including Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Helen Molesworth’s presentation of Noah Davis at David Zwirner to the first installment of Laia Abril’s documentary project on misogyny
NewsPublic art
As debate rages around controversial US monuments, New York park invites artists to make their own
The year-long programme Monuments Now at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens aims to evaluate ideas around public art
NewsAntony Gormley
Antony Gormley's monumental work in New York looks for human connection during 'an absolute fucking disaster'
The project in Brooklyn Bridge Park is a commission of BTS Connect, an international public arts initiative funded by the Korean boyband
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Morgan’s ode to the French symbolist Alfred Jarry to overlooked paintings by a feminist pioneer at James Fuentes Gallery
NewsBrazil
Jair Bolsonaro appoints conservative novela star Regina Duarte the new culture secretary
Duarte has been critical of the Rouanet Law, a federal cultural incentive, despite benefitting from it
NewsSalvador Dalí
Dalí and Gala with their 'heads full of clouds' go up for sale at Bonhams
Work will be offered without guarantee from the collection of the late Modernist composer Giancinto Scelsi
PreviewExhibitions
Paris exhibition shines light on Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar and the plight of indigenous peoples
As the Yanomani way of life is threatened once again, we hear from the photographer ahead of a major show at the Fondation Cartier
NewsBrazil
Brazil's culture secretary dismissed after channeling Joseph Goebbels in video promoting national arts prize
Roberto Alvim, a former theatre director, is a die-hard supporter of the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Pope.L’s overdue retrospective at MoMA to meditations on the climate by Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps
NewsVirtual and augmented reality
New Museum and Onassis Foundation join to launch a mixed reality lab in New York
The new venture will offer a dozen artists' residencies and an exhibition space
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a sweeping survey of American Indian contemporary art to historical photographs at the Met
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Kent Monkman’s Met commission to radiant 1960s paintings at the Guggenheim
NewsArt market
Spanish police investigate nuns over religious sculpture that surfaced at Tefaf last month
The sculpture is thought to have been illicitly sold from a convent in Granada
NewsFaurschou Foundation
Danish collector Jens Faurschou inaugurates new outpost in Brooklyn
The sprawling gallery follows Faurschou’s spaces in Beijing and Copenhagen
NewsExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Guercino drawings at the Morgan to meditations on Cézanne at Ceysson & Bénétière
PreviewExhibitions
Sculptor Gego closes Brazil museum’s year of women artists
São Paulo survey at Masp shows work by one of the leading figures of the 1950s kinetic and geometric abstraction movement
InterviewArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
'I only think of work I can afford': inside the collection of Martin Margulies
As his Miami arts space turns 20, the arts patron discusses Nathalie Djurberg's pink octopus and why takeout would be on the menu at his dinner party
InterviewArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Cecilia Vicuña: Tales of text and texture
The first major retrospective of the Chilean-born poet and artist, at MoCA North Miami, truly combines her two practices
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in Miami this weekend
From the Rubell Museum’s inaugural display to Sterling Ruby’s first solo museum exhibition
InterviewCollectors
'I have no regrets': inside the collection of Alan Faena
The Argentine real estate developer on installing Alfredo Jaar's electronic billboard on a boat and purchasing his first work at the age of 16
PreviewArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Rubells’ new museum offers sweeping survey of contemporary art
Inaugural show in the Miami collectors’ new space, which opens today in the Allapattah district, features more than 300 works
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Peter Halley’s day-glo funhouse to Rachel Harrison’s retrospective at the Whitney
PreviewExhibitions
In Miami for Art Basel? Eight shows to see outside the fair
From a travelling Stonewall survey to Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña's first major museum retrospective
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Chloë Bass’s show at The Studio Museum in Harlem to Yasiin Bey’s multimedia exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
Cirque du Soleil co-founder Guy Laliberté’s immersive, multi-media art pyramid will not come to Miami
PY1's laser and acrobatics filled show promised to be a trip "through space and time" but was a box office disappointment during its premiere in Montreal this summer
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Rachel Feinstein’s first survey at The Jewish Museum to a superlative collection of drawings and prints at the Met
NewsEgypt
Egypt cracks down on 'thuggish acts' against antiquities and archaeological sites
A new article implements harsher fines and imprisonment for abusing archaeological sites and museums and smuggling antiquities out of the country
NewsMuseums
Rio Art Museum could close due to lack of federal funding
Two directors left the museum last week, and 126 employees have received a dismissal notice
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Wayne Thiebaud’s little-known paintings of the Southwest to Shirin Neshat’s exhibition of Iranian women artists
NewsExhibitions
Experimental art space in Tehran has been recreated in Pittsburgh
Two artists began a collaborative project after one was denied a visa to enter the US under Donald Trump's travel ban
NewsMontreal Museum of Fine Arts
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts offers ‘a contemporary gaze’ at ancient objects in a new wing
Museum will juxtapose archaeological finds with recent pieces in an “Art of One World” gallery
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Alexandre Singh's dark thriller at Metro Pictures to entrancing etchings at the Met, the best shows to see this Halloween weekend
PreviewAntiquities & Archaeology
Invoking his own great-grandfather, an artist considers the fragmented history of Syrian artefacts
A Met exhibition explores fraught acquisitions in museum collections with the aim of kickstarting new conversations