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article culture schedule Sep 25, 2025 visibility 15 link 13 artists, 2 galleries

art market open door policy jeff magid

Jeff Magid, a New York, Los Angeles, and Mexico City–based art collector, plans to open Cuernavaca Tres, a public art foundation in Mexico City, in 2026. In an opinion piece for ARTnews, he argues that the current downturn in the art market—marked by declining sales and gallery closures—is not due to economic cycles or financialization, but rather a simple mismatch: there are more galleries, auctions, fairs, and artists than ever, while the number of buyers has not kept pace. Magid criticizes the luxury retail model adopted by many galleries, which prioritizes exclusivity and status signaling, and contends that this approach fails to attract enough new collectors to sustain the market.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 15, 2025 visibility 14 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

david lynch home studio sale

The Hollywood Hills home of the late filmmaker, musician, and artist David Lynch has been listed for sale at $15 million. The 2.3-acre compound, originally built in 1963 by Lloyd Wright (son of Frank Lloyd Wright), was expanded by Lynch over his 35 years of residence to include two neighboring lots. It features 10 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, an art studio, a workshop, and a private screening room. The property served as both living quarters and workspace, and was even used as a film set for Lynch's 1997 movie *Lost Highway*. The listing shows that the home survived the recent destructive fires in the area, from which Lynch had evacuated shortly before his death in January 2025.

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trending_up market schedule Aug 28, 2025 visibility 26 link 12 artists, 5 galleries

claire oliver gallery expands new york

Claire Oliver Gallery is expanding its Harlem townhouse location in New York, adding the upper floors to its existing street-level space. The new areas will be dedicated to a more intimate, salon-style presentation, moving away from the traditional white cube model. The expansion will be inaugurated on September 5 with a solo exhibition by BK Adams on the ground floor and a group show upstairs featuring represented artists including Barbara Earl Thomas, Carolyn Mazloomi, Gio Swaby, and others.

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article culture schedule Aug 2, 2025 visibility 25 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

okwui enwezor cuator duke collected writings

A new two-volume collection of Okwui Enwezor's writings, titled "Okwui Enwezor: Selected Writings, Volume 1: Toward a New African Art Discourse" and "Volume 2: Curating the Postcolonial Condition," has been published by Duke University Press in 2025, edited by Terry Smith. Spanning over a thousand pages and covering the years 1994 to 2019, the collection gathers Enwezor's catalog essays, exhibition reviews, and analyses, tracing his evolution as a poet, writer, curator, theorist, educator, and museum director who died in 2019 at age 56.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 26 link 15 artists, 5 galleries

another management shake up at sothebys asia and a rundown of the latest in asias art world

Sotheby's Asia faces another leadership shake-up as Elaine Holt departs her role as chairman of modern and contemporary art in Asia after just one year. Jasmine Prasetio, Sotheby's managing director for Southeast Asia, will relocate to Hong Kong to serve as interim chair. Meanwhile, European galleries Meyer Riegger and Galerie Jocelyn Wolff are partnering to open a new space in Seoul called Meyer Riegger Wolff, led by Gala Musi, with an inaugural show during Frieze Seoul. Design Miami will make its Asian debut in Seoul, and London-based artist Firenze Lai has joined White Cube's roster. In Taiwan, the Taichung Green Museumbrary, designed by SANAA, is set to open in December, and the Gwangju Biennale Foundation has appointed Youn Bummo as its new president.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 18 link 15 artists, 3 galleries

infinite images algorithmic art toledo museum

The Toledo Museum of Art has opened "Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms," an exhibition tracing the history of code-based art from the 1960s to the present. Curated by Julia Kaganskiy, the show features 24 artists including pioneers like Sol LeWitt, Josef Albers, and Vera Molnár, alongside contemporary digital creators such as Larva Labs, Snowfro, Dmitri Cherniak, Operator, and Emily Xie. Works range from Molnár's "Interruptions" series (1968–69) to recent generative and on-chain pieces like CryptoPunks (2017) and Chromie Squiggles (2020), many drawn from the collection of hedge fund manager Alan Howard.

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candle obituary schedule Jul 21, 2025 visibility 25 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

multimedia artist raymond saunders dies at 90

Raymond Saunders, a multimedia artist known for his enigmatic, sociopolitical paintings and assemblage style, has died at age 90. His passing was announced jointly by his representing galleries—Casemore, Andrew Kreps, and David Zwirner—on Instagram. Saunders's work often explored the Black American experience through extensive use of black paint and complex narratives, as articulated in his influential 1967 essay "Black Is a Color." His first career-spanning retrospective, "Flowers from a Black Garden," recently closed at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, his hometown. Saunders had a long teaching career in the Bay Area and received numerous honors, including a Rome Prize Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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rate_review review schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 22 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

christian marclay one hit wonder clocks doors brooklyn museum

Christian Marclay's latest supercut film, "Doors," is now on view at the Brooklyn Museum after stops in Boston and Europe. The 50-minute looped video compiles scenes of famous actors opening and closing doors from various movies, following the success of Marclay's 2011 hit "The Clock," a 24-hour video-clock that synchronizes on-screen timepieces with the viewer's actual time. The article critiques "Doors" as a less profound, more self-obsessed work that lacks the emotional resonance of its predecessor.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 17, 2025 visibility 25 link 44 artists, 3 galleries

upstate art weekend 2025 go to guide

The sixth edition of New York's Upstate Art Weekend, founded by Helen Toomer in 2020, runs July 17–21 across the Catskills and Hudson Valley, featuring 158 participating art organizations—a dramatic increase from 23 in its first year. Highlights include a Kishio Suga solo show at Dia Beacon, Sonia Gomes's first U.S. outdoor installation at Storm King Art Center, a group exhibition of seven women artists at Toomer's new project space Upbringing, Tomokazu Matsuyama's homage to Edward Hopper at the Edward Hopper House Museum, and a comparative show of Georgia O'Keeffe and Thomas Cole at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site.

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article culture schedule Jul 17, 2025 visibility 28 link 69 artists, 1 gallery

collectors reveal key advice

Collectors share advice for aspiring art patrons in a two-part series, recounting their early mistakes and lessons learned. Diana Bowes, board chair of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, recalls buying her first pieces at Art Basel in 2006 and warns against purchasing art online without seeing it in person, as well as protecting works from water, children, and house painters. Mana Jalalian, an interior designer based in Dubai with over 400 works by Iranian artists, emphasizes following instincts, continuous learning, and the value of working with an art advisor.

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article news schedule Jul 16, 2025 visibility 23 link 17 artists, 2 galleries

andrew cuomo zohran mamdani mayoral campaign donations

Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo relaunched his New York mayoral campaign as a third-party candidate on July 14, after losing the Democratic primary to Zohran Mamdani by 12 points on June 24. A recent ARTnews data analysis reveals that prominent art world figures have donated to both campaigns, with Cuomo receiving contributions from Christie's executives, Phillips and Sotheby's staff, Gagosian directors, art dealers, and museum leaders, while Mamdani drew support from foundation directors, museum curators, gallery directors, and numerous artists. The pro-Cuomo super PAC Fix the City received $5 million from billionaire Michael Bloomberg and $250,000 from Top 200 collector Daniel Loeb, while the pro-Mamdani super PAC raised about $1.4 million.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 9, 2025 visibility 22 link 14 artists, 4 galleries

new art fair london women led galleries echo soho

A new boutique art fair called Echo Soho, dedicated to women-led galleries, will debut in London from October 16 to 19, 2025, running alongside Frieze London. Founded by gallery owner India Rose James, the fair will take place at Artist’s House on Manette Street, featuring 12 exhibitors across two floors of a Georgian townhouse. With stand prices starting at £850 and booth sizes from 20 to 30 square feet, Echo Soho aims to lower barriers for mid-sized and emerging galleries, offering support with installations, art handlers, and booth photography. Confirmed participants include Pipeline, Gillian Jason Gallery, and Awita, with support from Soho Estates, Soho House, and Cass Art.

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article culture schedule Jul 4, 2025 visibility 24 link 17 artists, 3 galleries

how top curators spot the artists of tomorrow

Artnet News spoke to seven leading curators about how they identify emerging artists who will become the next big names. The curators, including Amy Smith-Stewart of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and iLiana Fokianaki of Kunsthalle Bern, describe their methods: seeking artists who address erased histories, geopolitical contexts, and marginalized perspectives. The article also references a recent debate sparked by Dean Kissick's polemic 'The Painted Protest' in Harper's, which criticized contemporary art for being overly dictated by identity politics, a view countered by curators who affirm their commitment to socially engaged work.

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article news schedule Jul 2, 2025 visibility 25 link 21 artists, 3 galleries

museum artist ranking june 2025

Artnet News published its quarterly museum artist ranking for June 2025, analyzing temporary exhibitions at over 250 U.S. museums to identify which living artists received the most institutional attention. The list includes over 4,500 names, with Indigenous contemporary artists dominating the top ranks: Cara Romero and Sky Hopinka remain highly visible, joined by Jeffrey Gibson and Andrea Carlson. Cindy Sherman appears in at least 10 group shows nationwide, while Alex Katz continues as a rare painter favored by museums at age 97. The ranking prioritizes career retrospectives, dedicated exhibitions, and special commissions over group show appearances.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 20, 2025 visibility 28 link 30 artists, 13 galleries

asian collectors and dealers art basel

Asian collectors and dealers are increasingly choosing to skip Art Basel's flagship Swiss edition in favor of Art Basel Paris, citing the French capital's more appealing experience. Amid a market contraction, figures like Monique Leong are skipping Basel for the second year, while others such as Kankuro Ueshima, Rosy Wu, and Kazunari Shirai still attend. Notable appearances include K-pop star RM of BTS, who made his first public appearance after military service as Samsung Art TV's global ambassador. The fair saw Asian languages spoken widely, and young first-time collectors brought private guides to maximize their visit.

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candle obituary schedule Jun 19, 2025 visibility 18 link 8 artists, 3 galleries

joel shapiro sculptor dead

Joel Shapiro, the acclaimed Post-Minimalist sculptor known for his playful yet conceptually rigorous works in bronze, aluminum, and wood, died on Saturday at age 83 due to acute myeloid leukemia. His death was announced by Pace Gallery. Shapiro's career spanned decades, with his work appearing at major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the United States Holocaust Museum. He began at Paula Cooper Gallery in the 1970s, creating tiny cast-iron houses and chairs that subverted Minimalist monumentality, before evolving toward large-scale figural sculptures made from beams of metal. His 2024 exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York featured towering works, though he resisted calling them colossal.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 15 link 4 artists, 3 galleries

jordan wolfson little rooms basel fondation beyeler review

Jordan Wolfson's new virtual reality artwork "Little Room" at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, immerses participants in a multi-stage experience that begins with a full-body scan and proceeds to a VR encounter designed to be "morally and emotionally challenging." The piece combines elements from Wolfson's earlier puppet-based works with his notorious VR piece "Real Violence" (2017), which sparked controversy at the Whitney Biennial for depicting a brutal beating. Participants are paired, scanned, and guided through the experience by assistants, with early reactions suggesting the work provokes strong emotional responses.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 16, 2025 visibility 26 link 7 artists, 2 galleries

christies design sale june 2025 tiffany studios window

Christie's June 2025 design sales totaled $23.6 million across two auctions, led by the 'American Avant-Garde: The James D. Zellerbach Residence by Frances Elkins' single-owner sale ($8.1 million) and the broader Design sale ($15.4 million). The top lot was the Goddard Memorial Window by Tiffany Studios, which sold for $4.285 million with fees to an online bidder, marking the second-highest price ever for a Tiffany Studios work. Other highlights included two Alberto Giacometti bird sculptures selling for nearly $2.9 million each, a Claude Lalanne chandelier at $1.865 million, and her sculpture 'L'Enlèvement d'Europe' at $1.134 million.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 15, 2025 visibility 21 link 21 artists, 4 galleries

joe coleman jeffrey deitch tribeca film festival

Artist Joe Coleman is the subject of a new documentary film, "How Dark My Love," directed by Scott Gracheff, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Concurrently, Coleman has curated a group exhibition titled "Carnival" at Jeffrey Deitch gallery, featuring his own hyperrealistic paintings alongside works by artists such as Derrick Adams, George Condo, and Anne Imhof, as well as his personal collection of oddities and ephemera. The film centers on the creation of Coleman's magnum opus, a life-size portrait of his wife, Whitney Ward, titled "Doorway to Whitney," which took nearly four years to complete.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 11, 2025 visibility 20 link 9 artists, 2 galleries

claudia alarcon silat weaving venice biennale james cohan

Claudia Alarcón, a Wichí artist from Argentina, learned the traditional yica stitch from her mother and grandmother at age 12. Her weavings, created in collaboration with the all-female collective Silät, were a standout at the 2024 Venice Biennale, earning critical praise from Barry Schwabsky in The Nation. The works are now featured in a solo show at James Cohan Gallery in New York, as well as in Brazil’s Bienal do Mercosul, and will travel to the De La Warr Pavilion in England, the Museo de Arte de São Paulo, and the Guggenheim Bilbao.

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article news schedule Jun 9, 2025 visibility 25 link 20 artists, 5 galleries

wet paints summer guide 2025

Artnet News' Wet Paint gossip column presents a selective summer guide for the art world, highlighting key exhibitions and social hotspots. In Manhattan, the Upper East Side offers the Park Avenue Armory's Diane Arbus photo exhibition, the Met's John Singer Sargent show, and the newly opened Frick with its Westmoreland café. Downtown, Bar Oliver in Two Bridges has become an art world haunt, co-created by Olmo and Cy Schnabel. The column also previews themed group shows: "Hope is a dangerous thing" at P.P.O.W. and "CAKE" at Olympia Gallery, featuring edible artworks. Exclusive news reveals the engagement of Lucas Zwirner to Charlotte Lindemann, merging two powerful art-dealing families. Additionally, Sky High Farm in Germantown, New York, is launching a new biennial with works by Anne Imhof, Rudolf Stingel, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 5, 2025 visibility 29 link 21 artists, 46 galleries

frieze london frieze masters 2025 exhibitor lists

Frieze has announced the exhibitor lists for its two concurrent October fairs in London: Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which will run from October 15 to 19 in Regent's Park. Frieze London will feature around 160 galleries, including blue-chip names like Gagosian, Pace, Hauser & Wirth, and David Zwirner, alongside 58 London-based galleries. Frieze Masters, with some 120 exhibitors, will be the first edition under the direction of Emanuela Tarizzo. Curated sections include Artist-to-Artist at Frieze London, where artists nominate peers, and Spotlight at Frieze Masters, organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver. Frieze Sculpture, curated by Fatoş Üstek, will run from September 17 to November 2 in the English Gardens.

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article news schedule Jun 5, 2025 visibility 21 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

omai portrait joshua reynolds national portrait gallery fundraising campaign

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London is in a last-minute push to raise £50 million ($60 million) to acquire Joshua Reynolds's 1776 portrait of Omai, a Polynesian visitor to Britain, before a temporary export ban expires on March 10. Despite raising roughly £25 million through a grassroots campaign involving public donations, a £2.5 million grant from the Art Fund, and £10 million from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the NPG remains short of its goal and is reportedly in secret talks with the Getty Museum to jointly purchase the painting.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 5, 2025 visibility 15 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

conditional authenticity appraisal reports recent cases

A Paris court seized 135 allegedly stolen paintings from Paris-based art authenticators ArtAnalysis in January, which had been holding the works for collector Mozes Frisch. The pieces are part of a 1,778-work collection supposedly by heavyweight Russian modernists. Palestinian businessman Uthman Khatib and his son Prince Castro Ben Leon claim the works were stolen from them by Frisch in 2019, and are suing in Germany for return of the works or $323 million. ArtAnalysis owner Laurette Thomas, Frisch, and collector Olivia Amar are countersuing Khatib for return of the Paris-held works plus $30.5 million in damages. The Khatibs' law firm Dentons hired Doerr Dallas Valuations to appraise the 135 disputed works, which assigned a $208 million valuation but included a caveat, likely related to the fact that many works were listed on the Art Loss Register in 2014 during an investigation into disgraced Israeli art dealer Itzhak Zarug, who was suspected of dealing fakes.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 4, 2025 visibility 23 link 10 artists, 2 galleries

follow artist brad kahlhamer as he preps a major manhattan show amid frieze tefaf

Artist Brad Kahlhamer prepares for his first solo exhibition with Venus Over Manhattan at 39 Great Jones Street, featuring energetic paintings on bedsheets that blend Plains Indian winter counts, pop-cultural graphics, and Manhattan's post-punk scene. The article follows Kahlhamer through the week leading up to the show, including his visit to TEFAF New York at the Park Avenue Armory, where his work "American Horse" was displayed in the gallery's booth, and his reflections on the installation process and the portable bedsheet medium inspired by Indigenous traditions.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 29, 2025 visibility 31 link 30 artists, 13 galleries

frieze new york 2025 museum and gallery guide

Frieze New York 2025 is approaching, and Artnet News has published a guide to must-see museum and gallery shows across the city. Highlights include dual exhibitions by Kennedy Yanko at Salon 94 and James Cohan, a solo show by Salman Toor at Luhring Augustine, two concurrent Picasso exhibitions at Gagosian and Almine Rech, and a major survey of Rashid Johnson at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The guide covers emerging and established artists, with shows running from April through July 2025.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 29, 2025 visibility 16 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

ilana savdies shapeshifting worlds

Artist Ilana Savdie, known for her electrically colorful and biomorphic paintings, presents a new series titled "Glottal Stop" at White Cube in New York. The exhibition explores themes of camouflage, animal mimicry, and the physical toll of global discord, featuring works that use pigmented beeswax, oil, and acrylic to create nearly sentient surfaces. Savdie draws from horror films, Baroque painting, and anatomy books, incorporating suspended painted latex sheets into an immersive, maze-like installation.

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rate_review review schedule May 23, 2025 visibility 19 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

lorna simpson met museum painting survey review

Lorna Simpson's paintings are the subject of a new survey exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, titled "Source Notes," on view through November 2. The show features over 20 paintings created between 2014 and 2024, marking the first exhibition to survey Simpson's output in this medium. Curated by Lauren Rosati, the exhibition aims to provide an overview of her painterly practice while connecting it to her collage work, with two vitrines displaying her collages to illustrate the fluidity between the two practices. Simpson, best known for her photography from the 1980s, debuted her paintings at the 2015 Venice Biennale organized by the late curator Okwui Enwezor.

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trending_up market schedule May 20, 2025 visibility 13 link 7 artists, 2 galleries

estate of susan rothenberg who fused symbolism with abstraction joins hauser wirth

Hauser & Wirth, the mega-gallery with locations across three continents, has announced its representation of the estate of Susan Rothenberg, the influential painter who died in 2020. Rothenberg, known for her psychologically charged works featuring horses, disembodied limbs, and uncanny landscapes, was previously represented by Sperone Westwater gallery from 1987 until her death. The gallery will debut Rothenberg's work at Art Basel in June 2025, followed by her first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York in September 2025.

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trending_up market schedule May 20, 2025 visibility 21 link 13 artists, 4 galleries

pilar corrias new gallery london 2023

Pilar Corrias is expanding her London gallery with a new 5,000-square-foot flagship space at 49-51 Conduit Street in Mayfair, featuring 16-foot ceilings and street-level access. The gallery, now 15 years old, has grown from representing 4 to 35 artists, including top-selling names like Christina Quarles. Corrias decided to open the new space after a four-year search, citing its rare size and industrial character as a contrast to her existing Savile Row location, which she will retain. The first exhibition in the new gallery will showcase new paintings by Christina Quarles.

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