‘Rodin: Genius with Giblets’
100 YEARS AGO Ralph Albert Blakelock, Moonlight, ca. 1885-1889, oil on canvas. BROOKLYN MUSEUM, DICK S. RAMSAY FUND, 42.171.Is it not about time for the recent exploitation of the sad state of the...
View ArticleHerzog & de Meuron To Design Hong Kong’s M+
Hong Kong’s long-delayed dream of a major museum for modern and contemporary art has come a big step closer to realization. The Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, in conjunction with the...
View ArticleLars Nittve Steps Down as Executive Director of M+
Lars Nittve. GARY KWOK/©WKCDA Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District Authority announced today that, in January, Lars Nittve will step down from his position as executive director at M+, the hotly...
View ArticleWinter Preview: Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World
Jimmie Durham, Various Elements from the Actual World, 2009. COURTESY KURIMANZUTTO, MEXICO CITY/LONTI EBERS COLLECTION, NEW YORK With winter just weeks away, it is time to preview the season’s most...
View ArticleAnnika Eriksson at Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
Annika Eriksson, I am the dog that was always here (loop), 2013. COURTESY THE ARTIST Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Annika Eriksson: The...
View ArticleFall Preview: Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World
Regina Silveira, Biscoito arte (Art cookie), 1976, C-print (diptych). “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. ©REGINA SILVEIRA/COLLECTION OF FERNANDA FEITOSA AND...
View ArticleDaniel Birnbaum Announces Exit from Moderna Museet to Direct VR Company Acute...
Daniel Birnbaum. JOHN SCARISBRICK Daniel Birnbaum will leave his post as the director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm next year to head up Acute Art, a company launched last year with an interest in...
View ArticleModerna Museet Malmö Names Elisabeth Millqvist as Next Director
Elisabeth Millqvist has been named the new director of the Moderna Museet’s Malmö branch of the preeminent Stockholm modern and contemporary art institution. Millqvist will take the helm on August 1,...
View ArticleSweden’s State-Run Museums to Stop Offering Free Admission Following New...
Some of Sweden’s top art museums will no longer offer free admission to all following a new government budget plan for 2023 that reduces the amount the culture sector will receive. In total, the...
View ArticleIsabelle Andriessen Gives New Meaning to “Long Duration”
In the storied limestone caves of southern France, shimmering, milky calcite engulfs and preserves the skulls of extinct species—cave bears, woolly mammoths. Its presence registers the millennia that...
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