Gagosian Presents Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon’s series In the American West (1979–84) was commissioned in 1978 by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. The ten photographs on view in Beverly Hills from November 4 to December 18, 2021, are the original...
Dave Hickey (1938-2021)
Art critic Dave Hickey, known for his sharp wit and brash writing, died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of heart disease November 12 at the age of eighty-two. Lauded in The Guardian as “the Rhonda Rousey of criticism,” Hickey, who famously...
Getty Museum Acquires Gustave Caillebotte’s Iconic ‘Young Man At His Window’
Caillebotte's Young Man at His Window sold for an artist's record of over $53 million at Christie's on Nov. 11. The single owner sale featured Impressionist works from the collection of Dallas oil tycoon Edwin L. Cox, who died last year....
Sylvère Lotringer (1938–2021)
Renowned French thinker Sylvère Lotringer, a lodestar in the twin galaxies of literary criticism and cultural theory, died on November 8 at the age of eighty-three following an illness. Beginning in the 1970s, Lotringer reshaped the American...
Simone Leigh Parts Ways With Hauser & Wirth
Pathbreaking sculptor Simone Leigh, who at the Fifty-Ninth Venice Biennale opening next May is to become the first Black woman to represent the United States, has announced that she is leaving Hauser & Wirth after less than two years with the...
New Museum Triennial Examines Resilience and Perseverance
The title of the 2021 Triennial, “Soft Water Hard Stone,” is taken from a Brazilian proverb, versions of which are found across cultures: Água mole em pedra dura, tanto bate até que fura (Soft water on hard stone hits until it bores a hole). The...
Holbein the Younger at the Getty Center
In the early 1500s, if you wanted to impress people with your good looks and accomplishments, a portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger was a sure way to astonish them. In early 16th-century Basel, Switzerland, and Tudor England, Hans Holbein the...
Whitney Gives Warhol Film Archive To MOMA
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, has announced that it will transfer its massive research archive pertaining to the films of Andy Warhol to the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The announcement coincides with the Whitney’s...
Cal State LA presents “Laurie Lipton Drawings”
Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery at Cal State LA presents "Laurie Lipton Drawings" on November 1 to 17, 2021, with exhibition reception on Saturday, November 6, 2021 from 12 to 5 PM . An artist talk and walk through will take place on...
Hammer Museum and ICA LA Go On a Witch Hunt
The Hammer Museum at UCLA and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) are presenting Witch Hunt, an incisive international survey of 16 critically acclaimed artists whose practices deploy feminist, queer, and decolonial...
Nancy Rubins Receives Artists’ Legacy Award
The Artists’ Legacy Foundation has announced that Nancy Rubins (b. 1952)—celebrated for her innovative sculptural practice—is the recipient of its 2021 Artist Award. The unrestricted merit award of $25,000 is given to a visual artist whose...
June Edmond at Luis De Jesus
June Edmond’s latest body of work continues her exploration of race and history, using social abstraction as a means to navigate these complex issues. In her paintings, Edmonds commemorates the historical contributions of African American female...
David Kordansky Gallery Expands to New York
David Kordansky Gallery, for nearly two decades a force in the Los Angeles art world, is opening a new outpost in New York in the spring of 2022. The gallery will occupy space on West Twentieth Street in the city’s Chelsea district, and is being...
Frida Kahlo Trademark Dispute Dropped By US Court
Relatives of the estate of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo have lost their case with the Frida Kahlo Corporation over claims it holds the rights to her image. Mattel, the toy maker and creators of the Barbie Doll launched a range of new Barbie...
Beyeler in Basel Ready for Their Close-Up Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton
Fondation Beyeler's new exhibit “CLOSE-UP” brings together nine women artists whose work shares a focus on the depiction of the human figure in the form of portraits and self-portraits, and who occupy prominent positions within the history of...
MASS MoCA Announces Appointment of Kristy Edmunds as Next Director
The Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) announced on Thursday that Kristy Edmunds has been appointed as its new Director, following a 10-month international search and a unanimous decision by the Board....
Out at MOCA, Klaus Biesenbach Heads to Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie
Klaus Biesenbach has been announced as the next director of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie and of its forthcoming Museum of the 20th Century. Biesenbach, who is currently artistic director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (LA MoCA),...
New York Botanical Garden Announces Fall Highlights Complementing Major Exhibition KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) announced its fall seasonal highlights complementing its critically acclaimed exhibition KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, on view through October 31, 2021. The exclusive presentation features work by internationally...
SFMOMA Presents World Premiere of Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell has long been hailed as a formidable creative force — a painter who attained critical acclaim and success in the male-dominated art circles of 1950s New York. She then spent nearly four decades in France creating distinctive,...
Kehinde Wiley Painting Commission Inspired by The Blue Boy at The Huntington Library
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has commissioned Kehinde Wiley to create a new work inspired by Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy (ca. 1770). Wiley’s A Portrait of a Young Gentleman (also the original title of the...
