The Met Museum’s Best Curator of Contemporary Art Leaves

When Sheena Wagstaff was an art student in the 1980s, she often visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, seeking refuge among the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of the Asian art department. Appointment of the museum as the best curator of modern and contemporary art in 2012, an international exhibition featuring Kerry James Marshall, Gerhard Richter, David …

The Met Museum’s Best Curator of Contemporary Art Leaves

When Sheena Wagstaff was an art student in the 1980s, she often visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, seeking refuge among the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of the Asian art department. Appointment of the museum as the best curator of modern and contemporary art in 2012, an international exhibition featuring Kerry James Marshall, Gerhard Richter, David …

Saving Ukrainian Art and Helping Artists, One NFT at a Time

Lika Spivakovska closed two art galleries in Kyiv, Ukraine hours after Russia invaded her country, and felt helpless as she and her two children traveled across Europe seeking refuge. Artists stranded in Ukraine had been texting him all week saying that their home ateliers and studios had been destroyed by the attackers. According to text …

New York City Eliminates Rules Governing Art and Other Auctions

New York City has lifted regulations it has adapted to govern the auction industry in a sudden turn in policy, part of a sweeping effort to improve conditions for businesses in the wake of the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic. The changes, designed to help small businesses by reducing bureaucracy and reducing penalties, will …

South Korea’s Recent Art History On Display at TEFAF New York

Seoul — The seven artists to be represented by this city’s Gallery Hyundai at TEFAF New York reflect not only the 52-year history of the gallery but also the art history of South Korea in the decades after the Korean War. While many galleries will display contemporary art, Gallery It celebrates South Korea’s roots in …

‘I Love This For You’ Review: The Art of Selling

Joanna Gold, the extremely inept protagonist new Showtime comedy “I Love That For You” often turns into a dialect you’ve never heard before, straight to Cleveland, social media and daytime TV mayhem, embarrassing him even as he rocks it. When asked how he felt, he replied, “I’m hashtag-living, hashtag-I’m-loving, boo-doom-poom-poom, yeah, let’s go to Mickey …

Art that Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Full Land

His path went through a female-led Sufi community, studies in graphic design at a technical college, and eventually an art school diploma. A lot had changed by then. He recreated his grandmother’s living room for the graduation show; She arrived and sat there, “watching their soap” on TV under her embroidered self-portraits. The Chicago show …

Reexamining the Groundbreaking Spectacle of Feminist Art

This article is part of our latest article Special section on museumsfocusing on new artists, new audiences, and new ways of thinking about exhibitions. “Twenty-Six Contemporary Women Artists” opened in London in 1971. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Conn was the first exhibition of its kind in this country, organized by a feminist art critic …

‘Go West’ for Art Donors and Clients in Florida

This article is part of our latest article Special section on museumsfocusing on new artists, new audiences, and new ways of thinking about exhibitions. The Tampa Museum of Art on Florida’s west coast has raised $71 million in a $100 million capital campaign to expand the city’s footprint along the Riverwalk that follows the Hillsborough …