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December 15, 2022 at 2:35pm

Met Receives Major Donation of Philip Guston Works from Artist’s Daughter

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is the lucky recipient of 220 works by Philip Guston, becoming the steward of the world’s largest collection of work by the renowned Canadian American artist. Guston’s daughter, Musa Mayer, has promised ninety-six paintings and 124 drawings by the artist, whose practice encompassed both abstraction and figuration. in partnership with her husband, Thomas, Mayer is also supplying the museum with a $10 million donation. The money is to be used to establish the Philip Guston Endowment Fund, which will facilitate scholarship around the artist’s work.
“We see

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December 15, 2022 at 12:06pm

Armory Show Announces Curators for 2023 Edition

The Armory Show has named Eva Respini, Candice Hopkins, and Adrienne Edwards as curators for various sections of its 2023 show, to be held next September at the Javits Center in New York, Artnews reports. Respini, deputy director for curatorial affairs and chief curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, will organize the Platform section, which features large-scale and site-specific works. Hopkins, who is the director and chief curator of Forge Project in Taghkanic, New York, will curate the Focus section, which centers single and dual-artist presentations. Edwards, a curator and

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December 15, 2022 at 11:27am

Adriano Pedrosa Named Curator of 2024 Venice Biennale

Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa has been announced as the organizer of the 2024 Venice Biennale, becoming the first Latin American to oversee the storied event. Pedrosa, the director of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), will have care of the Biennale’s sixtieth iteration, to take place April 20–November 24.
“I am honored and humbled by this prestigious appointment, especially as the first Latin American to curate the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, and in fact the first one based in the Southern Hemisphere,” said Pedrosa.
Since taking over as

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December 14, 2022 at 3:23pm

New York’s Museum of Sex Erects Outpost in Miami

The Museum of Sex, which debuted in New York in 2002, is opening a new outpost in Miami. Bringing to mind the oft-debated adage “bigger is better,” the Miami institution, which will occupy a repurposed warehouse in the city’s Allapattah district, will comprise 32,000 square feet; by comparison, the New York institution boasts just 20,000 square feet (though it also is being expanded, to 25,000 square feet). The Miami Museum of Sex is being designed by noted global architecture firm Snøhetta and will count among its neighbors the Rubell Museum, Superblue, and El Espacio 23, the private contemporary

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December 13, 2022 at 6:32pm

Burns Halperin Report Shows Art World Diversifying at a Snail’s Pace

The third edition of the Burns Halperin Report, a publication inaugurated in 2018 by independent editor Charlotte Burns and Artnet News’s Julia Halperin, arrived today with the disheartening news that collections at US museums remain far from reflecting their publics. According to the report, which investigates the representation of Black American artists, female-identifying artists, and Black American female-identifying artists in US museums and the global art market, progress is largely nonexistent in the American art world, while the international arena is evolving, if not at the speed one

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December 13, 2022 at 1:00pm

MASS MoCA Union Ratifies Contract After 14 Months of Bargaining

Unionized workers at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) yesterday revealed that they had agreed on a contract with management and voted to ratify it. The resolution comes after fourteen months of negotiating punctuated by a daylong strike this past August as workers at the North Adams, Massachusetts, institution grew frustrated with the wages being offered by the administration.
The terms of the contract have not yet been public, but Maida Rosenstein, president of UAW Local 2110, which represents workers at MaSS MOCA as well as workers at universities and museums throughout

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December 12, 2022 at 1:01pm

Artists Boycott Finland’s Kiasma Museum over Ties to Zionist Arms Heir

More than 150 artists have pledged to boycott Helsinki’s Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma until it severs relations with British-Finnish billionaire Chaim “Poju” Zabludowicz, who sits on the board of the institution’s support foundation. An avid collector who has over the past decade loaned a number of works to Kiasma, Zabludowicz is the founder of the Zabludowicz Collection, with branches in London, New York City, and Sarvisalo, Finland. He is also the CEO of London-based investment group Tamares. The company was founded by Zabludowicz’s father, who amassed his personal wealth through facilitating

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December 12, 2022 at 10:38am

New School Adjunct Strike Ends with Tentative Contract Agreement

The strike launched November 16 by part-time professors at New York’s New School and the Parsons School of Design, which it encompasses, ended December 10 after the school’s administration reached a tentative agreement with the striking faculty. According to a joint statement issued by the faculty’s union, ACT-UAW Local 7902, and school officials, the five-year contract stipulates regular pay raises, protects health care benefits, and ensures that adjuncts will be paid for out-of-classroom work, which they previously had not been.
The agreement arrived just as the schools’ fall semester draws to

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December 08, 2022 at 3:12pm

Pakui Hardware to Represent Lithuania at 60th Venice Biennale

Neringa Cerniauskaite and Ugnius Gelguda, who together make up duo Pakui Hardware, have been chosen to represent Lithuania at the Sixtieth Venice Biennale, slated to take place in 2024. The pair will present an immersive installation at the Lithuanian pavilion that will include works by the modernist painter Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė (1933–2007). The pavilion is organized by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art undercommissioner Arūnas Gelūnas and curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas and João Laia.
The Vilnius- and Berlin-based Pakui Hardware are known for a practice that places both organic and

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December 08, 2022 at 1:08pm

Veronica Ryan Wins 2022 Turner Prize

Montserrat-born sculptor Victoria Ryan has been announced as the winner of the 2022 Turner Prize, one of the world’s top visual art awards. Her work explores themes of displacement and loss through organic sculptures frequently embodying soft, vegetal forms and made from organic and recycled materials. At sixty-six, Ryan, who emigrated to the UK in the 1950s as a child, is the oldest artist ever to receive the honor. She was nominated for her 2021 solo exhibition “Along a Spectrum” at Spike Island, Bristol, and for her monument to the Windrush generation. Unveiled in Hackney, London, last year,

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December 07, 2022 at 4:47pm

Brazil to See Restoration of Culture Ministry Under President-Elect Lula

Brazil’s president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to reinstate the country’s culture ministry, which was dismantled by his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, in 2019. The Art Newspaper notes that Lula, as the once and future leader is nicknamed, made the promise to restore the ministry a part of his campaign platform. He also vowed to increase funding to the Rouanet Law, a federal tax incentive to provide monies to cultural endeavors that saw funding cut by more than 50 percent under Bolsonaro, who publicly demonized it as promoting corruption.
Lula is also tasked with selecting a new

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December 07, 2022 at 2:02pm

David Zwirner Lands Right to Exclusively Represent Gerhard Richter

German painter Gerhard Richter, a giant in the worlds of both Photorealism and abstraction, is leaving Marian Goodman, his gallery of thirty-seven years, for David Zwirner. The ninety-year-old artist will have his first show with the globe-spanning megagallery at its New York flagship in March 2023. Zwirner has multiple galleries in New York, with outposts in London and Hong Kong; Richter’s connection to the gallery dates to 1994, when he showed at its New York space just months after the gallery’s launch. The artist’s relationship to the Zwirner family goes back even farther: Richter in 1968

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