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Frieze New York 2018

Kapwani Kiwanga Wins Inaugural Frieze Artist Award

The Paris-based artist will realize an open-air installation, exploring freedom of movement and…

Image: Henrike Grohs. Copyright Marc-André Schmachtel.

Henrike Grohs Art Award

New Prize For African Artists Is A Call For Reflection And Action

The first recipient of the Henrike Grohs Art Award, conceived by the Goethe-Institut…

left :Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley / Oil on canvas, 2018 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © 2018 Kehinde Wiley
right: Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama by Amy Sherald / Oil on linen, 2018 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

National Portrait Gallery

Barack and Michelle Obama Official Portraits Unveiled

Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald are the first African American artists commissioned to…

Photo credit: Guillermo Cano, Mickalene Thomas (left) and Racquel
Chevremont (right)

VOLTA 2018

Announcing Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont for 2018 Curated Section

Titled “The Aesthetics of Matter,” the 3rd edition of the Curated Section at…

Sir David Adjaye (Mentor Architecture) and Protégée Mariam Kamara.

Rolex Arts Initiative

New mentors and protégés announced

Sir David Adjaye , Zakir Hussain , Crystal Pite and Colm Tóibín will…

ruby onyinyechi amanze (Foto: Sahar Coston-Hardy)

Montblanc Art Collection

Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze one of the recipients of Artist Commission Program 2018

Guided by the belief that the arts inspire new ideas and thinking, the…

Robin Rhode, Frustum series, 2017. © Robin Rhode, images courtesy of the artist

Award

Robin Rhode wins Zurich Art Prize 2018

The jury praised Rhode’s vocabulary of constructivism and ability to see the medium…

Jack Whitten (1939 – 2018)

In Memorium

Jack Whitten (1939 – 2018)

The celebrated abstract painter died on January 20 at age 78.

John Akomfrah, Precarity, 2017. Three channel HD color video installation, 7.1 sound, dimensions variable. © Smoking Dogs Films. Courtesy Lisson Gallery.*

Announcing 2017 grant recipients

VIA Art Fund has awarded Tacita Dean, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Zanele Muholi

VIA Art Fund has awarded grants totaling 570,000 USD in 2017 in support…

Oprah Winfrey Will Receive MoMA’s Cultural Entrepreneur Award

David Rockefeller Award

Oprah Winfrey Will Receive MoMA’s Cultural Entrepreneur Award

The Award is presented annually by MoMA

Rujeko Hockley (left) and Jane Panetta (right), Photograph by Scott Rudd

Whitney Museum of American Art

Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta to co-curate the next Whitney Biennial

The 2019 Whitney Biennial goes on view in May 2019

Emeka Ogboh, installation view The Way Earthly Things Are Going (2017). Multichannel sound installation and real-time LED display of world stock indexes. documenta 14 in Athens, 2017. Photo by Marie-Ann Yemsi

Hugo Boss Prize

Guggenheim Announces Short List for 2018

Among the Six Nominees for the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize are Bouchra Khalili,…

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