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Artists Gala Porras-Kim, Jeremy Frey and Tuan Andrew Nguyen among winners of 2025 MacArthur ‘genius grants'

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced its 2025 cohort of MacArthur Fellows, awarding 27 recipients—including visual artists Gala Porras-Kim, Jeremy Frey, Matt Black, Garrett Bradley, Tonika Lewis Johnson, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen—with $800,000 each over five years. The artists span conceptual institutional critique, Indigenous basketry, documentary photography, film, and social practice, with several currently holding major solo exhibitions or biennial features.

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person people schedule Apr 30, 2026 visibility 49 link 18 artists

Montclair Art Museum Hires Esteemed Curator Kate Kraczon After Layoffs at Brown University

The Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey has appointed Kate Kraczon as its new chief curator, effective June 15. Kraczon previously served as director of exhibitions and chief curator at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, where she was laid off in late 2024 amid a wave of cuts. She succeeds Gail Stavitsky, who held the post since 1994. The museum also recently hired Todd Caissie, an enrolled member of the Osage Nation and former director of Canada’s New Brunswick Internment Camp Museum, as its director.

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person people schedule Mar 12, 2026 visibility 23 link 5 artists

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Brooklyn-based photographer Keisha Scarville has been named the 2026 winner of the Brooklyn Museum’s Uovo Prize. The award includes a $25,000 cash prize, a solo exhibition at the museum, and a public art commission featured on the facade of Uovo’s Bushwick facility. Her upcoming presentation, titled "Where Salt Meets Black Water," will debut in May 2026 and features vinyl reproductions from her "Mama’s Clothes" series, which explores Guyanese heritage and maternal legacy through textiles.

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person people schedule Oct 8, 2025 visibility 22 link 13 artists

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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced its 2025 class of 22 MacArthur Fellows, each receiving an $800,000 no-strings-attached grant. Among the winners are several visual artists: Garrett Bradley, known for her Oscar-nominated documentary *Time* (2020) and works centering Black resistance; Gala Porras-Kim, whose practice questions how art institutions convey or conceal information about objects; Tuan Andrew Nguyen, whose films and installations explore trauma and colonization; and Jeremy Frey, a seventh-generation Passamaquoddy basket maker whose midcareer survey is on view at the Bruce Museum. Photographers Matt Black and Tonika Lewis Johnson also received fellowships, along with archaeologist Kristina Douglass and non-artists such as novelist Tommy Orange and astrophysicist Kareem El-Badry.

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person people schedule Mar 13, 2026 visibility 20 link 5 artists

Keisha Scarville Awarded Brooklyn Museum’s $25,000 UOVO Prize

The Brooklyn Museum has named photographer and multimedia artist Keisha Scarville the winner of its sixth annual UOVO Prize. She will receive a $25,000 unrestricted grant, a public exhibition titled "Where Salt Meets Black Water" at the museum's Iris Cantor Plaza opening May 8, and a commission for a large-scale work on the façade of UOVO's Bushwick storage facility.

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person people schedule Jun 20, 2025 source 2 sources visibility 23 link 17 artists, 3 galleries

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Philanthropists Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder, who have been part of Long Island's East End cultural scene since 1969, are being honored at the Parrish Art Museum's annual midsummer gala in July 2025. The couple commissioned an oceanfront home from architect Norman Jaffe in Sagaponack and have filled it with a collection featuring works by Jack Pierson, Almond Zigmund, Constantino Nivola, Roni Horn, Jenny Holzer, Mel Kendrick, Lynn Chadwick, Claude Lawrence, and others. Sandy serves as vice president of the museum's board of trustees, and the couple previously supported a Jaffe retrospective at the Parrish in 2005.

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person people schedule Apr 5, 2026 visibility 22 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

Lily's grandmother defied 50s' social norms to be both an artist and a mother

The article profiles an unnamed Australian artist who, in the 1950s, pursued a career in art while raising a family, challenging the era's restrictive social expectations for women. Her story, shared by her granddaughter Lily, highlights the personal and societal barriers faced by women artists of that generation.

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person people schedule Feb 9, 2026 visibility 18 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

UK’s Hepworth Wakefield announces new co-directors

The Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire has appointed Olivia Colling as executive director and Laura Smith as artistic director, filling the leadership void left by former director Simon Wallis, who departed last summer to lead the Royal Academy of Arts. Colling, who joined the gallery in 2015, previously oversaw commercial income and capital projects, while Smith, who arrived in 2022, has focused on expanding the collection and curated a Helen Chadwick retrospective in 2025; her upcoming exhibition features the late Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee.

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person people schedule May 7, 2025 visibility 16 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

‘It’s a dream vessel for me’: Defne Ayas appointed new director of the Van Abbemuseum

Defne Ayas has been appointed director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands, replacing Charles Esche, who held the post for two decades. Ayas, previously director of Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam and co-curator of major biennials including the 13th Gwangju Biennale, will take over ahead of the museum's 90th anniversary in 2026. She describes the role as a "dream vessel" and emphasizes the museum's commitment to decolonization, social engagement, and accessibility.

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person people schedule Sep 18, 2025 visibility 16 link 8 artists

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Hero Bean Stevenson, a New York-based photographer, is featured in Cultured's "29" series, nominated by Brigitte Lacombe. Stevenson has shot for clients like Maison d’Etto and Carven, co-founded the Los Angeles gallery Raum, and developed a spare black-and-white photographic style. The article includes Stevenson's reflections on portraiture, citing influences such as Peter Hujar, Robert Mapplethorpe, and a memorable 2023 portrait session with filmmaker Werner Herzog.

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person people schedule Apr 28, 2026 visibility 22 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

From studio to gallery, here are three women redefining the art world

Melanie Mullan interviews three women redefining the art world: contemporary artist Petria Lenehan, who transitioned from fashion design to painting and now works from her studio in Wicklow, Ireland, promoting her work via Instagram; and Trish Lambe, CEO and Artistic Director of Photo Museum Ireland, who began her career at the museum in the 1990s and now leads its curatorial team. The article highlights Lenehan's intuitive painting process and Lambe's hands-on approach to exhibition production.

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person people schedule Mar 3, 2026 visibility 15

Royal Ontario Museum picks Nicholas R. Bell as next leader

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has appointed Nicholas R. Bell as its next director and chief executive, effective July 6. Bell, a Vancouver native, succeeds Joshua Basseches, who led the Toronto institution for a decade. Bell joins the ROM from the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, where he was recognized for overseeing a major $200 million renovation and implementing a free admission policy.

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