The Whitney Reopens With 3 Powerhouse Shows
NY Times - When the museum closed in March, it was showing Agnes Pelton’s paintings and Mexico’s great muralists. Thankfully, these works are still up on the walls. - read more ...
At 85, Hsiao Chin Continues to Challenge the Eurocentric Legacy of Abstract Art
artsy - In the midst of the Cold War, Shanghai-born artist Hsiao Chin (萧勤) moved from Taipei to Madrid, spending his twenties exhibiting across Europe and expanding Western conceptions of Chinese art. Hsiao pus...
Mary Cassatt’s Independent, Feminist Spirit
Hyperallergic - Poor Mary Cassatt. She spent most of her headstrong life as an independent woman abroad, working alongside the bad boys of the Paris avant-garde, Degas, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro. But we tend to ...
SIXTEEN SNAPSHOTS OF LIFE IN NEW YORK CITY UNDER QUARANTINE
Smithsonian Magazine - Emily Ginsberg, 84, stood with her arms clasped behind her back at the New-York Historical Society on a sunny Friday morning. She looked silently at a photo of a masked man staring at the...
edoardo tresoldi shares exclusive preview of ‘opera’, a public artwork in reggio calabria
design boom - Italian artist edoardo tresoldi has shared an exclusive preview of ‘opera’, a permanent public art installation on the seafront of reggio calabria, italy. designboom is currently on site to docume...
Yves Bouvier evaded paying taxes on £276m of art sales, Swiss authorities claim
The Art Newspaper - Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court ordered documents unsealed that call into question whether the dealer declared all profits from sales made to Dimitry Rybolovlev - read more ...
Guggenheim Approves Diversity Plan After Staff Complaints of Racism
NY TIMES - The Guggenheim Museum has approved a plan to address complaints of entrenched racism within its walls. It is one of the first major cultural organizations to provide details of an expanded diversity...
Seven designers share objects created within a kilometre of home during lockdown
de zeen - Barcelona-based designer Sanna Völker has curated a collection of seven furniture and homeware pieces, which were created during coronavirus lockdown to reflect the unique limitations and opportunitie...
Architectural visualisers imagine rainbow-coloured Sonora Art Village during pandemic
de zeen - Moscow siblings Davit and Mary Jilavyan spent the coronavirus lockdown creating renderings of an imaginary community in Mexico with two-toned buildings and streets dotted with cacti and swimming pools...
Digital artwork by Es Devlin voices accounts of atomic bomb witnesses
de zeen - British set designer Es Devlin has created a digital artwork titled I Saw The World End to mark 75 years since the dropping of the atomic bomb over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. - re...