Storm King Art Center in Upstate New York will start its first-ever residency program in 2015 with the help of The Shandaken Project, which has run a program of its own for artists in the Catskills since 2012. From June … Read More
Tania Bruguera’s arrest has raised questions about artistic freedom in Cuba. [The New York Times] Life magazine photographer Robert Morse has died. [The New York Times] “The controversial marble statue of Margaret Thatcher by Neil Simmons has been banished from … Read More
When Kazimir Malevich painted Black Square (1915), whose title perfectly explains what it is, painting was pushed further into abstraction than it ever was before. A new show at London’s Whitechapel Gallery, “Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and … Read More
Collector Budi Tek’s next museum (following the Yuz Musuem which opened last year in Shanghai) will be an “art park” in Bali that will charge around $100 as an entry free, the Financial Times reports. Once inside “everything will be … Read More
On January 29 the Outsider Art Fair will launch its 23rd edition, boasting 50 exhibitors (its most ever) at Center 548 in Chelsea, all part of a trend owner Andrew Edlin (of the eponymous gallery) sees as a growing demand and … Read More
The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris is hoping to expand its photo department by establishing a patrons group dedicated to photography. [The Art Newspaper] Here is Carol Vogel’s last on-staff Inside Art column. [The New York Times] … Read More
New York’s James Fuentes gallery announced today that this Sunday it will open a project space within its gallery at 55 Delancey Street. The 400-square-foot space is called Allen & Eldridge (two streets that do not intersect, though they do frame … Read More
Professor Nouriel Roubini, the famous NYU economist also known as “Dr. Doom” for his predictions about the housing crisis, sounded off on the art market at Davos, the Financial Times reports. From the FT: “Whether we like it or not, art … Read More
Björk, who will be the subject of a career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in March, released her new album Vulnicura this week, two months earlier than expected. In a Facebook post announcing the release, the singer called … Read More
The Nassau Country Museum of Art, in Roslyn, New York, announced today that its board of trustees has tapped Angela Susan Anton as its new president, taking the place of Clarence F. Michalis, who will become executive vice president. Anton is … Read More
“Consumer Reports” is a recurring feature that profiles an artist’s consumption of any and all media throughout one work week. Body by Body is a collaboration between Melissa Sachs and Cameron Soren. In 2014 they had solo exhibitions at Interstate … Read More
From Usher to Pharrell, here’s “Why Celebrities Are So Into the Artist Daniel Arsham” [The New York Times] The Queens Museum has awarded $20,000 artist fellowships to Meredith James, Kameelah Rasheed, and Casey Tang. [Artforum] This is a wild one: … Read More
At a panel discussion on Thursday at the Art Stage Singapore fair, Indonesian-Chinese collector Budi Tek announced that he will bring the Rain Room to his eight-month-old private museum in Shanghai in September. An installation created in 2012 by the art collective Random International, … Read More
If you’re wondering what to get that special someone for Valentine’s Day, dearest reader, might I suggest the Marina Abramović dinnerware collection for Bernardaud? No? Come on. Give it a shot, people. Here’s what Abramović said about it in a … Read More
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Storm King Art Center Is Starting an Artist Residency Program