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June 25, 2023 at 11:03am

Cora Cohen (1943–2023)

New York–based painter Cora Cohen has died at the age of seventy-nine. Born in New York City in 1943, Cohen earned BA and MA degrees at Bennington College in Vermont, where her teachers included the painter Paul Feeley and the critic and curator Lawrence Alloway. Starting with an exhibition at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York, in 1974 at the invitation of James Harithas, Cohen had an extensive exhibition history, yet she remained—as Barry Schwabsky remarked in a recent review of an exhibition of Cohen’s work of the 1980s—“one of the most underrated painters in New York.” For all that,

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June 23, 2023 at 7:00pm

Peter Brötzmann (1941–2023)

German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, whose fiercely innovative style and explosive playing made him a towering figure in the world of European free jazz, died June 22 at his home in Wuppertal, Germany. He was eighty-two. Emerging as a visual artist and as a self-taught saxophonist and clarinetist at the end of the 1950s, Brötzmann ultimately chose improvisational music as his main mode of expression, one that arguably found its most unalloyed form in his landmark 1968 album Machine Gun. The prolific reedist would go on to make over fifty albums under his own name, deploying various experimental

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June 23, 2023 at 2:55pm

Nalini Malani Wins 2023 Kyoto Prize

The Inamori Foundation in Japan has revealed the winners of this year’s Kyoto Prize. Established in 1984, the award is given in recognition of lifetime achievement and is the country’s highest private honor, its equivalent of the Nobel Prize. It is presented annually in three categories: advanced technology, basic sciences, and arts and philosophy. This year’s winners are reproductive biologist Ryuzo Yanagimachi, mathematician and physicist Elliot H. Lieb, and pathbreaking video artist Nalini Malani. Each will receive ¥100 million (US $706,000) and a gold medal.
Born in 1946 in Karachi, in what

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June 22, 2023 at 4:40pm

Film Forum Union Ratifies Inaugural Contract

Unionized workers at Film Forum, New York’s internationally known independent cinema, successfully negotiated their first contract with the downtown nonprofit’s management. The forty-five-member union, which organized last year under the auspices of United Auto Workers Local 2110, voted by a large margin to ratify the new five-year contract, which runs from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2028. Its enforcement date is concurrent with that on which deputy director Sonya Chung takes the reins from Karen Cooper, who is departing after fifty years as the theater’s director.
“After eight months of negotiations,

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June 22, 2023 at 2:47pm

Resolve Collective Cancels Barbican Show over “Anti-Palestinian Censorship”

Resolve Collective, an interdisciplinary group of designers addressing social issues through art, architecture, technology and engineering, are shutting down their exhibition at London’s Barbican, citing “anti-Palestinian censorship” and “a number of shameful incidents” involving the venue’s staff as among its main reasons for doing so. “Them’s the Breaks,” which opened March 30 to warm reviews, was originally scheduled to close July 16; instead, the collective will clear out Barbican’s Curve Gallery, where it was situated, by June 26. They will distribute the show’s materials to “organizations,

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June 22, 2023 at 12:23pm

Uzodinma Iweala Wins Independent Curators International’s 2023 Leo Award

New York–based nonprofit Independent Curators International (ICI) has announced author Uzodinma Iweala as the winner of its 2023 Leo Award. Iweala since 2018 has served as CEO of New York’s African Center, with whose team he shares the prize. Under his leadership, the center has worked to change the global understanding of Africa and its diaspora, and of the role played by people of African descent. “Iweala and his team have been instrumental in fostering dialogue, breaking down barriers, and amplifying diverse voices from the African continent,” said ICI in a press release. “They have transformed

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June 22, 2023 at 12:00pm

Venice Biennale Reveals Title, Theme for Sixtieth Edition

Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the 2024 iteration of the Venice Biennale, this morning announced that the title and theme of the event will be “Foreigners Everywhere.” The exhibition will investigate the concept of the foreigner, focusing on marginalized people including exiles, refugees, immigrants, Indigenous people, and queer people. The Biennale, which is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary, is slated to take place April 20–November 24, 2024.
“Artists have always traveled under the most diverse circumstances, moving through cities, countries and continents, a phenomenon that has only grown

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June 22, 2023 at 6:00am

Bookforum to resume publication under The Nation

The publishers of Artforum and The Nation are pleased to announce the continuation of Bookforum under the stewardship of The Nation beginning this summer. The first issue of the relaunched quarterly will appear in August 2023.
Founded in 1994 as the literary sister publication to Artforum, Bookforum evolved into one of the leading voices of literary criticism, covering the best in new fiction, nonfiction, current affairs, and arts titles. Deemed “a vital bellwether of book culture” by The New Yorker and a “haven from culture war and dwindling standards of intellectual discourse” by The Washington

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June 21, 2023 at 4:44pm

Mellon Foundation Issues $25 Million in Grants to Fund Diverse Monuments

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation earlier this week announced its latest plans regarding its Monuments Project, intended to “transform the nation’s commemorative landscape” by 2025. The five-year $250 million grant initiative funds public artworks across the United States that “more completely and accurately represent the multiplicity and complexity of American stories,” according to a foundation press release. The organization will distribute nine Monuments Project grants this summer to support public art projects in nine cities. Asheville, North Carolina; Boston; Chicago; Columbus, Ohio; Denver;

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June 21, 2023 at 2:55pm

Thirteenth Berlin Biennale Pushed Back to 2025

The thirteenth edition of the Berlin Biennale, originally slated to take place in 2024, has been postponed a full year over concerns that it would otherwise fall during what the German Cultural Foundation in a statement characterized as a “biennial super art year.” Pointing to their own “pandemic-related organizational delays,” the Biennale’s organizers noted, “Because other international biennials were also postponed to 2024 due to the pandemic, a competition for resources can be expected," which will ultimately limit the capacities and availability of the artists. Among the biennials taking

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June 20, 2023 at 1:05pm

Whitney Names Meg Onli Curator at Large

New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art has appointed Meg Onli curator at large, the first person to occupy the role in more than fifteen years. Onli, who with Chrissie Iles is cocurating the 2024 Whitney Biennial, most recently served as codirector and curator of the Underground Museum in Los Angeles. In her new role at the Whitney, she will curate exhibitions, suggest acquisitions, and advise on special projects. With artist Alex Da Corte and Scott Rothkopf, the museum’s chief curator and incoming director, she will cocurate the Whitney’s 2026 Roy Lichtenstein exhibition, the first retrospective

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June 16, 2023 at 4:21pm

Darienne Turner Named Brooklyn Museum’s First Full-Time Curator of Indigenous Art

The Brooklyn Museum has announced Darienne “Dare” Turner as its inaugural full-time curator of Indigenous art. Turner, who is currently an associate curator of Indigenous art at the Baltimore Museum of Art will take up her post at the New York institution in August. In her new role, Turner will be tasked with curating canon-broadening exhibitions, and with expanding the museum’s collection of Indigenous art. Many of the more than 13,600 works held by the museum were was made by peoples including Hopi, Kwakwaka’wakw, Miaidu, Osage, Pomo, and Zuni.
“The Brooklyn Museum is committed to addressing

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