Fulya Erdemci has been appointed curator of the 13th Istanbul Biennial, to take place Sept. 14–Nov. 10, 2013. A curator and writer living in Istanbul and Amsterdam, she organized the Turkish pavili…
Timothy Potts has been named director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, effective Sept. 1. Potts, a native of Australia, has been head of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, since 2008. Prior to…
Lillian Bassman, postwar fashion and fine art photographer, died on Feb. 13 in Manhattan, age 94. She was noted for bringing a personal touch to her images, staging shoots in a friend's apartment an…
When it opened in 2001, the Palais de Tokyo contemporary art center was a scrappy contemporary art center amidst the tony 16th arrondissement of Paris. For a time, it was a successful laboratory, ho…
The ever-expanding Guggenheim Foundation is, for a change, pruning one of its outposts. The Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin will close at the end of this year.
Artist Mike Kelley has died, age 57. The cause of death has not been announced. The news was reported by the New York Observer's Gallerist blog (which indicated that the cause was said to be…
Dorothea Tanning, artist and poet, died on Jan. 31 at the age of 101. Erudite and prolific for seven decades, Tanning often said she learned how to paint by gazing at paintings on her frequent visit…
Steven Leiber, 54, art dealer and collector, died Jan. 28 in San Francisco after a year-long battle with cancer. Leiber occupied a niche, specializing in contemporary artist's books, reference mater …
Italian Massimiliano Gioni has been appointed director of the 2013 Venice Biennale. The seemingly omnipresent 39-year-old is associate director of the New Museum in New York and artistic director of…