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Habitat: Obsessions—Artists, Curators, and Dealers Share Their Unusual Collections

By Maximilíano Durón and Katherine McMahon Posted 09/19/16 12:14 pm

While this issue of ARTnews focuses on today’s prominent art collectors, the urge to amass objects—both valuable and not—is nearly as old as mankind. The ancient Greeks and Romans collected, as Erin Thompson writes in her recently published book Possession: … Read More

Market News

Joyce Pensato's Bo Bo Batman (2016) digital billboard, a contribution for Expo Chicago's Override project.ARTNEWS

The Center of Attraction: Expo Chicago Stretches From the Highways to the Pier

By Dushko Petrovich Posted 09/24/16 11:53 am

The most serene art-viewing experience offered by Expo Chicago turns out to be on Grand Avenue, just west of Peoria Street, above eight lanes of traffic on the I-90/94 overpass. I began my fair experience there, two miles inland, with … Read More

Pictures at an Exhibition

Danny Lyon, Woman Holds Off A Mob, Atlanta, 1963, gelatin silver enlargement print. ©DANNY LYON/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND EDWYNN HOUK GALLERY, NEW YORK AND ZURICH

Danny Lyon at Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

By The Editors of ARTnews Posted 09/23/16 4:00 pm

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News

The Martos Gallery Los Angeles space, which will now house Shoot the Lobster.COURTESY MARTOS GALLERY

Martos Gallery Rechristens Los Angeles Space as West Coast Offshoot of Shoot the Lobster

By Nate Freeman Posted 09/23/16 11:40 am

Two years after opening a 1,000-square-foot space in Los Angeles, Martos Gallery has decided to switch gears: instead of being a Martos Gallery outpost, it will be an outpost of owner Jose Martos’s project space, Shoot the Lobster.The news comes just … Read More

Artists News

Performance view of Shana Lutker's The Sleeping Poet and the Jongleuse (2016). RUBEN DIAZ

Who Threw the First Punch?: Shana Lutker Stages a Surrealist Fight in Los Angeles

By Catherine G. Wagley Posted 09/23/16 11:32 am

Late on the evening of July 2, 1925, police cordoned off the Closerie des Lilas, a Paris café, after an intellectual altercation. At a dinner in honor of Symbolist poet Saint-Pol-Roux, young Surrealists had verbally attacked older literati before the … Read More

Retrospective

The Will of an Athlete: On Matthew Barney’s Early Career

By The Editors of ARTnews Posted 09/23/16 11:19 am

Before The Cremaster Cycle existed, and long before Kanye West claimed its director as an inspiration, Matthew Barney climbed across the ceiling of Gladstone Gallery in New York for his first show there. That was 25 years ago, in 1991, and … Read More

Habitat Fall 2016, The Top 200 Issue

Matthew Higgs photographed with his record collection in New York City.

Habitat: Obsessions—A Look at Matthew Higgs’s Formidable Record Collection

By Katherine McMahon Posted 09/23/16 11:02 am

Habitat: Obsessions is a ten-part series of visits to the surprising non-art collections of art-world professionals.Matthew Higgs’s collection of records numbers about 7,500, about 5,000 of which are neatly organized in his Chelsea apartment. “The rest are either in my office, storage, … Read More

Artists News

Still from Pattern Language COURTESY THE ARTIST

Strobe Warning: Peter Burr on His New Video Installation, ‘Pattern Language’

By John Chiaverina Posted 09/23/16 10:38 am

“You’re not prone to seizures, are you?” the artist Peter Burr asked me before firing up Pattern Language, a new “immersive multi-channel video environment” that he has made with the programmer and video artist Mark Fingerhut, the artist Brenna Murphy, … Read More

News The Talent

Wadsworth Atheneum Hires Grant S. Smith as Director of Development

By Alex Greenberger Posted 09/23/16 10:30 am

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, announced today that Grant S. Smith will be its director of development, starting on September 26. In his new position, Smith will work to re-up the museum’s philanthropic and fundraising efforts.Much … Read More

News

The museum.COURTESY ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY

Albright-Knox Gallery Receives $42.5 M. Gift, Will Change Name

By Andrew Russeth Posted 09/23/16 9:36 am

Big news from upstate New York! The Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo announced today that investor and art collector Jeffrey Gundlach has donated $42.5 million to the museum. To recognize the gift, the Albright-Knox will be rechristened as the Buffalo Albright-Knox-Gundlach … Read More

Morning Links

Morning Links: Controversial Kelley Walker Paintings Edition

By The Editors of ARTnews Posted 09/23/16 8:46 am

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Pictures at an Exhibition

Installation view of "Barthélémy Toguo: Strange Fruit," 2016, at Stevenson, Johannesburg. ©BARTHÉLÉMY TOGUO/COURTESY STEVENSON, CAPE TOWN AND JOHANNESBURG

Barthélémy Toguo at Stevenson, Johannesburg

By The Editors of ARTnews Posted 09/22/16 6:01 pm

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News The Talent

Rhizome Hires Aria Dean as Assistant Curator of Net Art

By Maximilíano Durón Posted 09/22/16 4:14 pm

New York–based digital art nonprofit Rhizome announced today that it has hired Aria Dean as its new assistant curator of net art. Dean will start in her new post October 1.The new position, which is funded by a grant from … Read More

2017 Venice Biennale News

A Glenn Ligon work in Okwui Enwezor's "All the World's Futures," at the 2015 Venice Biennale. ANDREW RUSSETH

Christine Macel’s 2017 Venice Biennale Exhibition Gets a Title: ‘Viva Arte Viva’

By Alex Greenberger Posted 09/22/16 1:30 pm

The Venice Biennale announced today that the Christine Macel-curated exhibition at the upcoming 2017 edition will be called “Viva Arte Viva.” The show, along with the rest of the 57th Venice Biennale, will open May 13.In a release, Macel explained … Read More

Habitat Fall 2016, The Top 200 Issue

Habitat: Obsessions—A Look at Tom Eccles’s Toy Soldiers

By Katherine McMahon Posted 09/22/16 1:20 pm

Habitat: Obsessions is a ten-part series of visits to the surprising non-art collections of art-world professionals.“They’re quite easy to get individually, but you want a full set in its box,” curator Tom Eccles said as he unpacked a box of CBG … Read More