WORLD ART
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Activists Call for Ceasefire in Gaza During Protest Outside Art Basel Miami Beach
The South Florida Coalition for Palestine, members of Jewish Voice for Peace, and an ad hoc group of Miami-based artists and cultural workers...
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Striking Workers at the Centre Pompidou March to France’s Culture Ministry to Demand Job Security
At the Centre Pompidou in Paris on Thursday, striking museum workers, union members, employees from other French institutions gathered inside a...
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Discussions Stall for Qatari Purchase of Stake in Sotheby’s as House Denies Possibility of IPO
Potential buyers were approached to purchase a minority stake in Sotheby’s after its French Israeli owner, Patrick Drahi, leveraged assets...
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One Year On From the NFT Crash, the Digital Art Scene at Miami Art Week Matures
During the 2021 crypto boom, Miami became the white-hot center of the scene: Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX,...
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Amazon Cuts Ties with Riverside’s Cheech Museum After Show with Work Critical of the Tech Company
Amazon has reportedly ended its financial support for the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, California, after the...
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An Overblown Anselm Kiefer Documentary by Wim Wenders Retells the Same Boring Myths
Bad artist documentaries—there are many of them—breed the myth of the lone great artist, the genius who works in isolation, without the help of...
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Critic’s Diary: Private Collections Around Miami Delight as Museum Exhibitions Disappoint
Art Basel Miami Beach took place a week and a day later than usual this time around, and that was a good thing. It meant that early arrivals...
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Art Basel Miami Beach Sees Sales of Big-Ticket Artworks, Including Marlene Dumas Painting for $9 M. and Philip Guston for $20 M.
The art industry has once again descended on Miami for a week of “parties, paintings, and pills” at Art Basel Miami Beach, with...
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Whitney Biennial 2024 Adds Five Curators for Film and Performance Series
The next Whitney Biennial, opening in the spring of 2024, may be its most ambitious edition yet. The Whitney Museum of American Art...
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Step Inside a Stalagmite Cave on Miami Beach, Courtesy Artist Sallisa Rosa
Earth keeps the score, to our awe and shame. Conjure the great grooves weathered into rock by flowing water or the broken forest beds, stripped...