Some little girls want to be movie stars, some long to be prima ballerinas. Not Mary Heilmann. As a child, she prayed for sainthood. "I used to dream that I was thrown to lions in the Coliseum," said…
With so many shows about art and the Internet lately, it’s hard to remember a time when it was unexpected that artists would ever rely on machinery and electronics, but, in 1971, when the Los Angeles…
Filmmaker Seamus Harahan, who is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has won the 2015 Film London Jarman Award, which was presented at London's Whitechapel Gallery along with £10,000 (about $15,100)…
The Whitechapel Gallery, Collezione Maramotti, and Max Mara announced the shortlist for this year’s Mara Art Prize for Women yesterday. The prize is given biannually to a United Kingdom–based female…
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago shared news today that it has hired Omar Kholeif, a curator at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, as its new Manilow Senior Curator. Kholeif's curatorial…
In Kassel, Germany, works by Jimmie Durham and Heini Gut were destroyed by vandals. [artnet News] Kansas moves from Tribeca to the Lower East Side. Commence the “Dorothy, we’re no longer in Tribeca”…
Despite encouraging signs of women's improved status and visibility in the art world, there are still major systemic problems. Do not misunderstand me: women artists are in a far better position…
One recent morning, art historian Nada Shabout was telling me about her search for a graduate program two decades ago. "When I contacted universities and said I wanted to work on modern Arab art…
This year's Armory Show Focus edition highlights art from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean (Armory Focus: MENAM), curated by Whitechapel Gallery's Omar Kholeif, and presented in…
An accounting of the visible world and the invisible world: this is one definition of art offered by Richard Tuttle.