ReviewBiennials & festivals
Pittsburgh’s Carnegie International is a DIY (Do Interpret Yourself) exhibition
The show’s curator Ingrid Schaffner has avoided an ill-fitting theme and allowed the art to speak for itself—sometimes this works and sometimes it does not
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John Akomfrah digs into history’s darkness at the New Museum
The British film-maker’s first US museum survey at the New Museum shows that he is one of the most forceful and stirring artists of the day—and one of our best social archaeologists
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National Gallery names art historian Wu Hung as 2019 Mellon Lecturer
The scholar will give six talks surveying more than 2,000 years of Chinese history
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History repeating itself? Three major US shows look at 1930s art and political climate
Exhibitions of Grant Wood, Precisionism and interwar Europe draw parallels with today
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National Gallery of Art show integrates the outliers
Outliers and American Vanguard Art in Washington, DC, makes clear that schooled and self-taught artists have never been that far apart
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Sittow survey in Washington, DC, helps celebrate 100 years of Estonian Republic
Court artist had an impressive roster of sitters including Mary Rose Tudor
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Time to look: Laura Owens’s self-reflective paintings demand considered attention
Visitors should not rush through the Los Angeles artist’s mid-career survey at New York’s Whitney Museum
InterviewBrice Marden
Why the process of painting never ends
The US artist Brice Marden takes a new tack in his latest works, on show at Gagosian in London
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Three to see: New York
From a divine Renaissance man to Indian Modernists
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The man without a face: Jimmie Durham at the Whitney Museum
Questions about identity abound in the travelling retrospective of the American artist’s work
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Pace Gallery remembers Elizabeth Murray with show of her 1980s work
The late painter’s shaped canvases, including some museum loans, are the subject of a survey in New York
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Reviews in brief: our take on the top shows in Pacific Standard Time LA/LA
The Getty Foundation-backed series of exhibitions across Southern California this year looks at the cultural crosscurrents between Latin America and Los Angeles. Here, we offer capsule reviews of some of the most significant exhibitions
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Three to see: Los Angeles
Lygia Clark’s spray gun painting is complemented by a survey of radical Latin American female artists
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Kathy Halbreich to lead Rauschenberg Foundation
The current associate director of MoMA plans to put her relationships with artists "to very good use"
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How migratory birds helped an artist tap into Kosovan cultural heritage
Petrit Halilaj has made 500 sculptures based on images of Neolithic artefacts
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How New York made Mondrian truly Modern
The artist was brilliant long before he came to the city, but his US works are his greatest achievements
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Bibliophiles rejoice: New York Art Book Fair returns this weekend
Hundreds of exhibitors are due to take part and a slew of events are planned
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Mapping out Pacific Standard Time's second act
How do you organise an event with more than 70 exhibitions?
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ICA LA moves into Los Angeles' downtown Arts District
Former Santa Monica museum relaunches in renovated clothing factory
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Artist brings 50 US flags from 50 states to New York
For his travelling project, Mel Ziegler exchanged old flags—from private homeowners, a National Guard office and even a casino—for new ones
NewsDisasters & destruction
Museums in Houston reopen after Hurricane Harvey
The Museum of Fine Arts will offer three days of free admission
NewsVideo, film & new media
How Pacific Standard Time plans to reframe film and video history
A group of exhibitions and programmes to artists from across the Americas
Review
Art critic Michael Fried’s new poems dwell on past love, childhood—and his predilection for high Modernism
The poet draws parallels between making sculpture and writing verse
NewsObituaries
Pioneering American artist Daniel LaRue Johnson dies
His work is currently on show in Soul of a Nation at Tate Modern
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Tate Modern chronicles the rise of Black Power in post-war America
Tate Modern chronicles the rise of Black Power in post-war America
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Nanne Dekking named chair of The European Fine Art Foundation
The former Sotheby's executive takes over from Willem van Roijen and will be based in New York
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MoMA gets $50m from Steven and Alexandra Cohen for expansion
In recognition of the gift, the New York museum will name its largest new gallery after the collectors
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Getty reimposes the rule of time
Chronological displays opening in 2018 at the Getty Villa will supersede themed galleries
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In an organisational shift, Met president Daniel Weiss takes over as chief executive
The change comes as the museum starts the search for a new director to focus on the “core mission”
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A comprehensive Piet Mondrian survey opens in the Hague
The exhibition includes early works that bring a new perspective on the Dutch painter
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MoMA finishes first phase of expansion project
The museum has also announced plans for its $400m extension due to open in 2019
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Giuseppe Penone unveils Rome’s first permanent installation of contemporary art
The luxury fashion brand Fendi commissioned the new work, installed outside its flagship boutique
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Marciano Foundation unveiled to the Los Angeles public
The private museum is lodged in a former Masonic temple
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Hal Foster named next Mellon lecturer at the National Gallery of Art
The historian will discuss how artists invented new forms after the brutality of the Second World War
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What a Renaissance artist taught Freud about memory
A new book looks at the psychoanalyst’s favourite Old Master fresco—and his inability to remember the artist’s name
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Frieze New York's Spotlight shines on hidden gems
Follow curator Toby Kamps's tour of the 20th-century art section
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A life’s work: Ellsworth Kelly’s last paintings
Matthew Marks shows the late artist's final works
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Winner winner chicken dinner: Bridget Donahue awarded Frieze Frame Prize
The installation of drawings, collages and sculptures by Susan Cianciolo was inspired by a visit to a Milan eatery
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MoMA collection takes a Paris vacation
Some works, like Andy Warhol’s 32-part Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), have never before been shown in France
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Frieze New York gets theatrical
For this year’s Frieze Projects tribute, four artists will recreate and riff on Galleria La Tartaruga’s historic Teatro delle Mostre exhibition, which turned experiences into works of art
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Pop goes the yacht: Roy Lichtenstein’s designs for America’s Cup sail to Vermont
As well as the artist’s models, drawings and the mermaid-themed vessel itself, the exhibition includes the premier of a documentary film about the historic project
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The best shows in town during Frieze New York
Our pick of the top exhibitions around the city this week
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Satellite dish: what to see at fairs outside the Frieze New York tent
In addition to the main fair, a number of other events offer a range of events, exhibitions and enticements across the city. Here are some things to look out for this year.
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The rest of the past month’s news at a glance
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Frick shows that collecting is a scholarly subject
Center for the History of Collecting marks its first decade with book release and reveals ambitions to do more work with living collectors
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Pictures Generation artist confronts ‘alternative facts’ at MoMA
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Shows set to let textile artist and printmaker Anni Albers shine
The wife and fellow Bauhaus refugee of Josef is at the forefront of two forthcoming exhibitions, including a full-scale survey of her work planned for 2018 at Tate Modern
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Hugo Boss Prize exhibition links nature with nurture
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The rest of last month’s news at a glance, April 2017
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Chinese institutions work with the Metropolitan for groundbreaking exhibition
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Yayoi Kusama hits the spot in Washington, DC
Review
The persistent disbeliever: on Donald Judd's writings
A new book of his collected essays reveals the ferocity with which he questioned almost everything
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Albers Foundation celebrates second anniversary of Senegal project
The foundation's centre hosts cultural and agricultural efforts in a small village
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Safra Foundation gives $1m to Washington’s National Gallery of Art to support art scholars
The money secures a permanent professorship at the museum’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
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Snapshot from a brighter moment: the 2017 Whitney Biennial reflects a pre-Trump America
Many of the works in this year’s exhibition respond to the country’s social tensions, but the pressing question about what art can do during a crisis remains unanswered
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National Gallery of Art delves into the woods with its next Mellon lectures
Alexander Nemerov will give six talks on representations of the American forest in the 1830s
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The rest of last month’s news at a glance, March 2017
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‘Only ideas can change the world’: an interview with the Zero group’s Heinz Mack
The artist, who turns 86 in March, reflects on new work—but how little his ideals have changed—ahead of presentations in St Moritz and New York
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Helen Frankenthaler Foundation names head of catalogue raisonné project
Douglas Dreishpoon joins the foundation from the Albright-Knox Gallery
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Building anew: how Constructivism sought to remake the world
In the centenary year of the Bolshevik Revolution, exhibitions survey the art of the Russian avant-garde and put its radicalism in context
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The rest of last month’s news at a glance, February 2017
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Sean Scully’s grand finale opens in China
Abstract artist enjoys critical acclaim with two career surveys in as many years
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A bridge to something better: on artist-run galleries in mid-century New York
A show at the Grey Gallery looks at a time when artists could afford to run their own spaces
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John Baldessari reunites Jackson Pollock with his teacher Thomas Hart Benton
“Art comes out of art; I’m interested in artists who influenced me, and how one artist interests another artist,” he says
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Underground art: the public works that are part of New York’s $100bn infrastructure plan
At MoMA, governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the state’s projects, including pieces by Sarah Sze, Chuck Close and Vik Muniz
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Royal Academy president to show new compositions in US
Christopher Le Brun's latest paintings respond, in part, to music
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Good art in bad taste: art that mixes high and low culture at the fair
You know what they say—there's no accounting for taste. There are many handsome works on show at Art Basel, but there are also works by artists who care little about refinement