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lauren quin joins pace gallery

Los Angeles-based painter Lauren Quin has joined Pace Gallery, following the closure of her previous gallery Blum & Poe earlier this summer. Her first exhibition at Pace's Los Angeles space is scheduled for 2026, and her work will also appear in the gallery's booth at Frieze Seoul next month. Quin, known for densely layered abstractions, has been on a rapid ascent since earning her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2019, with her paintings held by major institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center, and the Hirshhorn Museum. Pace founder Arne Glimcher, a longtime supporter, gave Quin a solo show at Pace-affiliated 125 Newbury in 2024, which she credits as a turning point in her practice.

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candle obituary schedule Aug 6, 2025 visibility 24 link 8 artists, 2 galleries

hisachika takahashi rauschenberg assistant artist dead

Hisachika Takahashi, an artist who worked as an assistant to Robert Rauschenberg and earlier to Lucio Fontana, has died at age 85. His death was announced by Misako & Rosen, a Tokyo gallery collaborating with Hong Kong's Empty Gallery on a current exhibition of his work. Takahashi remained relatively obscure for decades despite close ties to major figures like Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, and Gordon Matta-Clark, whom he enlisted for his project "From Memory Draw a Map of the United States." He also introduced sushi and sashimi to the menu at Food, the famed artist-run restaurant in New York. In recent years, his work gained renewed attention through efforts by artist Yuki Okumura, leading to exhibitions at WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art in Brussels and Fondazione Prada in Milan.

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article culture schedule Aug 2, 2025 visibility 27 link 9 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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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 23, 2025 visibility 36 link 38 artists, 10 galleries

upstate art weekend major new york event collectors

The sixth edition of Upstate Art Weekend (UAW) launched with a party at Assembly in Kingston, New York, founded by Helen Toomer in 2020. The festival has grown from 23 participants to 158 across 6,000 square miles, reflecting the pandemic-era exodus of artists and collectors from New York City to the Hudson Valley region. The event featured a fundraiser for abortion-rights nonprofit Noise for Now and drew a diverse crowd of attendees.

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article news schedule Jul 23, 2025 visibility 35 link 19 artists, 9 galleries

sam gilliam foundation sued over disputed drape painting and more art industry news

The Sam Gilliam Foundation has been sued over a disputed Drape painting, while the Art Dealers Association of America announced it will not hold its annual New York fair, The Art Show, in 2025, citing a strategic pause. Christie's reported $2.1 billion in auction sales for the first half of 2025, matching last year's figure but down 22% from 2023, and a juvenile Ceratosaurus fossil sold for $30.5 million at Sotheby's. Galleries are seeing movement: Nicole Wittenberg joins Acquavella Galleries, Harper Levine plans a Bangkok space, and Felix Rödder will open Rodder on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Yale University Art Gallery withdrew federal grant applications over anti-DEI language, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum named Mary Savig curator-in-charge of the Renwick Gallery.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 16 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

art market minute jul 21

Emily Kam Kngwarray, the prolific Aboriginal artist who began painting in her 70s, is receiving belated international recognition nearly two decades after her death. A landmark survey of her work is currently on view at Tate Modern in London, while major galleries and auction houses are selling her pieces for record prices. The article, part of Artnet News's 'Art Market Minute' series, examines which of Kngwarray's works fetch the highest prices and where market growth potential remains.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 28 link 13 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 22 link 12 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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trending_up market schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 31 link 39 artists, 1 gallery

collectors reveal key advice part ii

Artnet News published part two of a two-part series featuring advice from 11 experienced collectors. Among them are comedian Cheech Marin, who began collecting Chicano art in the 1980s and opened the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside, California in 2022, and Kiran Nadar, founder of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in India, who with her husband has amassed over 15,000 works. Marin emphasizes trusting instincts, building relationships with artists, seeing art in person, and warns about storage space becoming an addiction. Nadar advises staying open and curious, and not hesitating to explore the unfamiliar.

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article news schedule Jul 16, 2025 visibility 16 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

rashid johnson painting howard lutnick tequila video

United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posted a video on social media showing off a new tequila bottle, but the backdrop featured a painting from Rashid Johnson's "Anxious Red" series. The artwork, confirmed by Hauser & Wirth as an authentic Johnson piece purchased on the secondary market, sparked criticism online due to the irony of Lutnick—a Trump appointee whose administration has cut public health funding—owning a work born from pandemic-era anxiety. The series originally supported the WHO's Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund through a 2020 charity auction, the same organization Trump withdrew the U.S. from on his first day in office.

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article news schedule Jul 16, 2025 visibility 27 link 16 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 8, 2025 visibility 25 link 12 artists, 1 gallery

blanche lazzell lincoln glenn

Blanche Lazzell (1878–1956), a pioneering American Modernist artist and printmaker largely forgotten today, is featured in the exhibition “Herself: American Artists of the 20th Century” at New York’s Lincoln Glenn Gallery. The show brings together 30 women artists spanning roughly 90 years, including Alice Neel, Grace Hartigan, Barbara Kruger, Sheila Hicks, and March Avery. Lazzell, who earned her fine arts degree at West Virginia University in 1905, studied at the Art Students League alongside Georgia O’Keeffe, traveled to Paris, and cofounded the Provincetown Printers, the nation’s first woodblock print society. She is credited with developing the white-line woodcut technique known as the Provincetown Print, and her work is held by major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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article culture schedule Jul 4, 2025 visibility 29 link 15 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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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 3, 2025 visibility 22 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

yoshitomo nara hayward gallery london 2025

The first U.K. public institutional solo exhibition of Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara opened at London's Hayward Gallery in June 2025, featuring over 150 works spanning four decades. The retrospective includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations, such as the large-scale painting "I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight" (2017), which sold for $12.3 million at Sotheby's Hong Kong. Notable visitors include artist Takashi Murakami and collector RM of BTS. The exhibition runs through August 31.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 27, 2025 visibility 23 link 5 artists, 3 galleries

jordan wolfson little room

Jordan Wolfson's latest virtual reality artwork, *Little Room* (2025), debuted at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel during Art Basel. The piece requires participants to undergo a full-body scan using 96 cameras, creating a detailed 3D model that is uploaded into a VR environment. Once inside, pairs of participants find they have swapped bodies, experiencing a disorienting and intimate encounter where they watch their own body being controlled by another person. The work involves a lengthy, ritualistic queue and a twelve-minute VR session that explores themes of identity, voyeurism, and technological mediation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 25, 2025 visibility 17 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

tracey emin landmark italian show

Tracey Emin, the renowned British artist and former YBA, is the subject of a major new exhibition titled "Sex and Solitude" at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy—the first comprehensive show of her work in the country. Curated by the museum's director general Arturo Galansino, the exhibition features some 60 works spanning 30 years, including paintings, drawings, film, photography, embroidery, sculptures, and neon installations. Emin created a new neon piece for the facade, and many works are being shown in Italy for the first time. In a video interview, she emphasized the show is not a retrospective but a living, present-focused exploration of her themes of sexuality, love, trauma, and solitude.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 24, 2025 visibility 27 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

phillips tests lichtenstein market vandalized painting priced 20 million

Phillips New York is offering Roy Lichtenstein's 1994 painting *Nudes in Mirror* with a $20 million estimate this fall, despite—or perhaps because of—its history of vandalism. The work, from the Rush Family Collection, was slashed by a mentally unstable woman while on loan to the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria in 2005, leaving four 12-inch gashes that have since been expertly restored. Phillips is openly embracing the attack as part of the painting's mythology, detailing the incident in its catalogue and comparing it to other famous acts of art vandalism.

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article culture schedule Jun 21, 2025 visibility 31 link 8 artists, 9 galleries

art basel party june social diary

ARTnews sent correspondents Daniel Cassady and George Nelson to cover the social scene at Art Basel, documenting their experiences across three nights of parties, dinners, and cocktail hours. Cassady's journey was marred by travel delays, but he eventually attended a dinner hosted by Thaddaeus Ropac at Safran Zunft, a garden party by Sean Kelly Gallery, and a late-night gathering organized by multiple galleries. Nelson arrived smoothly and joined Cassady for drinks, noting the challenges of street noise and cabbage smells near their Airbnb.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 20, 2025 visibility 33 link 27 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 21 link 6 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 22 link 3 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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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 15, 2025 visibility 23 link 17 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 13, 2025 visibility 21 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

pompidou free access wolfgang tillmans

Celine is partnering with the Centre Pompidou to offer free public access on four select days this summer, coinciding with Wolfgang Tillmans's major exhibition "Nothing Could Have Prepared Us – Everything Could Have Prepared Us." The initiative, "Accès Libre par Celine," launches June 13 and continues on July 3, August 28, and September 22. Tillmans's exhibition occupies the museum's entire second floor, typically home to the Bibliothèque publique d'information (Bpi), and runs through September 22. Rather than a chronological retrospective, the installation engages directly with the building's architecture, repurposing library furniture and redesigning partitions. The show follows Tillmans's traveling retrospective "To Look Without Fear" at MoMA in 2022 and a recent solo presentation at David Zwirner.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 11, 2025 visibility 22 link 7 artists, 2 galleries

olga de amaral appraisal

Art advisor Naomi Baigell recalls that when she managed Prudential's corporate art collection in the late 1980s and 1990s, executives refused to hang textile works by Colombian-born artist Olga de Amaral, preferring abstract paintings instead. Now 93 and still working, Amaral is experiencing a major market and institutional renaissance: the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami is hosting a solo show of her work (through October 12), her pieces are included in MoMA's "Woven Histories" exhibition, and she has been represented by Lisson Gallery since 2019. In 2025, her auction performance has been stellar, with a new record of $1.16 million set in May for *Imagen perdida 27* (1996) at Phillips New York, and total sales of $4.07 million as of June.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 11, 2025 visibility 21 link 3 artists, 2 galleries

ibrahim mahamas stunning textile installation blankets the barbican in london

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has transformed the lakeside terrace of London's Barbican Centre with a monumental textile installation titled "Purple Hibiscus" (2023-24). The work, measuring 6,560 square feet, is made from handcrafted pink and purple fabric adorned with approximately 130 traditional ceremonial robes called batakaris, sourced from communities in Tamale, Ghana. Mahama collaborated with a network of local women weavers and employed around 1,000 workers to produce the piece over seven months, using Tamale's Alui Mahama sports stadium as a workspace. The installation is part of the Barbican's exhibition "Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art."

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 11, 2025 visibility 24 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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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 24 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

christo pompidou arc de triomphe

Christo, the Bulgarian-born artist known for his monumental fabric-wrapped installations, reflects on his career ahead of a planned exhibition at the Centre Pompidou titled "Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Paris!" The show, dedicated to Christo and his late wife and collaborator Jeanne-Claude, has been indefinitely postponed due to the global health crisis. Christo discusses his early years in Paris, his nomadic artistic approach, and his upcoming project to wrap the Arc de Triomphe, scheduled for September 19 to October 4. The article captures his disdain for retrospection, his escape from communist Bulgaria, and his lifelong commitment to taking art beyond traditional gallery spaces.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 27 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

james francos terrible nude paintings of seth rogen get gallery show updated

James Franco has created a series of nude paintings of his friend and fellow actor Seth Rogen, based on a 2011 book of fan art by Christopher Schulz. The works, rendered in acrylic over graphite illustrations, include sexually provocative phrases and are slated for exhibition at OHWOW gallery in Los Angeles, despite earlier confusion about a show at Pace Gallery. The paintings have drawn criticism online for alleged homophobia and plagiarism, adding to Franco's recent legal troubles.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 5, 2025 visibility 34 link 21 artists, 45 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 25 link 7 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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