Conceived for the impossible task of serving as an alibi, if not an apology, for the $25-billion development at New York's Hudson Yards, the Shed, the 200,000-square-foot nonprofit art space that…
Earlier today, Time released their annual 100 Most Influential People list, including both the painter Chris Ofili and Björk as art-world representatives within the hundred.
Ofili (in the “artists”…
"So I have been doing a little reading and trying to find folks who could help me define what 'ism' I am," Icelandic pop star Björk wrote to writer Timothy Morton in an email in October. In a…
The Louvre Abu Dhabi will open in 2016, thanks to a 5,000-person workforce, which is expected to grow to 7,500 in coming months. [The Art Newspaper]
UK galleries and museums receive 15 oil paintings…
One gloomy morning this week at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, I was standing in a snaking, claustrophobic line–the first of many–for the press preview of a retrospective of the Icelandic…
As the lights throughout the Guggenheim Museum's rotunda dimmed for the fourth time one recent weekday evening, a hushed stillness fell across the crowd of more than 500. Three opening acts had…