The winners of this year’s Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation awards for writing about digital art are San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator Rudolf Frieling and Light Industry cofounder Ed Halter. This is the third year the awards … Read More
After about two and a half years as senior curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Dan Byers is headed five miles west-northwest to Cambridge to serve as director of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.Byers will … Read More
Patrick Charpenel will be the new executive director of El Museo del Barrio in New York.Charpenel is a Mexico City–based curator who has worked extensively in Mexico as well as internationally. He organized a Gabriel Orozco retrospective at the Museo … Read More
Roberts & Tilton gallery in Los Angeles announced today that it now represents the Chinese artist Zhao Zhao. He will have his second show with the gallery in spring 2018.Zhao’s multifaceted practice takes the rapidly changing socio-political landscape of China … Read More
After its former chief curator, Jeffrey Uslip, resigned amidst controversy surrounding Kelley Walker works featuring images of African-Americans, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis has found a new chief curator: Wassan Al-Khudhairi. She begins at the museum on August 1, … Read More
Esther McGowan, the current associate director of Visual AIDS, will serve as the art nonprofit’s executive director beginning in July. McGowan joined the organization five years ago, under its current director, Nelson Santos, whose departure after 17 years was also announced today. … Read More
Lauren Cornell, a longtime curatorial ambassador for the New Museum in New York in different roles spanning digital art and technology initiatives, has been named director of the graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and … Read More
After more than six years as editor in chief of Art in America, Lindsay Pollock announced today that she will be stepping down to pursue other projects. Pollock, who began her tenure in 2011, was the seventh editor in the … Read More
The Rome Prize announced its 2017–18 winners this weekend. Each of the awardees will receive a residency at the American Academy in Rome lasting anywhere from six months to two years, as well as a stipend.Among the winners in the … Read More
After three years at e-flux, Karen Archey is now the curator of contemporary art, time-based media at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.Archey joined e-flux in 2014. In her tenure there, she founded the organizations’s conversations website, where users can discuss … Read More
Here’s some serious auction-world-revolving-door news: Just three months after starting his job as chairman of the fine art division at Sotheby’s, Marc Porter will return to Christie’s to be its chairman, Americas, a spokesperson for the house said in an email. Prior … Read More
In the midst of a year-long period of institutional turmoil at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, May Xue, the nonprofit institution’s CEO, has announced her resignation. She began her directorship at the Ullens Center in 2011 and … Read More
Beautiful news out of Italy this morning: Carolee Schneemann has been awarded Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the Venice Biennale. Schneemann, who has produced trailblazing feminist and performance art for more than half a century, will pick up her … Read More
There is never a dull day in the art world of 2017. This week’s surprises have included Jeffrey Deitch revealing that he will open a Los Angeles gallery and Eataly proudly announcing that it will help save Leonardo’s Last Supper. … Read More
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