59+ min ago   (314+ words) Betye Saar, the pioneering assemblage artist who powerfully tackled racism, died at 99, just four days before her 100th birthday. Betye Saar, the Los Angeles–based artist whose assemblages powerfully tackled the brutality of racism and anti-Blackness and the stereotypes they engender,…...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago   (170+ words) Spencer Tunick's latest collective nude action "Gran Canaria" celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride in Las Palmas, the Canary Islands. Tunick’s latest eye-catching gathering took place in Las Palmas, the capital city of Gran Canaria, one of Spain’s Canary Islands The…...

7+ hour, 14+ min ago   (362+ words) The Detroit Institute of Arts has received more than 2,000 modern and contemporary artworks from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman estate. The Detroit Institute of Arts has received one of the largest gifts in its history: more than 2,000 modern and contemporary…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (633+ words) A shrine to Black cultural scripts stands in West Haven, Connecticut, a short ride from Union Station. It isn’t an official monument of any kind, but the studio of Felandus Thames, who has been based in the Constitution State since…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (286+ words) The Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University is more than 70 artworks richer after a donation from the collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein. The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey is now richer by more than 70 artworks after a…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (256+ words) The Brazilian-born, London-based art collector and patron Flavia Nespatti will open a commercial gallery in London this October, reports the Art Newspaper. Located in a mid-century industrial building in the central London neighborhood of Fitzrovia, Antesala will focus on art…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (339+ words) A painted self-portrait by Clarence Heyward was “intentionally” defaced at the Houston Museum of African American Culture. A self-portrait by Clarence Heyward was vandalized last week by visitors to the Houston Museum of African American Culture, where the work by…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (208+ words) Her pictures expose the buried self. Becoming a mother has prompted her to probe ever more deeply into questions about the boundaries of the self and reinforced her connection to the world by way of touch. A mail-art project she…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (890+ words) A 20th-century modernist has been the subject of a recent book that reassessed his legacy, as well as a dedicated conference at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice this month. The work of Armenian painter Haroutiun Galentz (1910–1967) is seeing a resurgence…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (452+ words) Senior Editor, Art in America Biennials, triennials, and their ilk perennially ask: What does it mean to make art today? A new triennial in Medina, a rural village in Western New York, tackles the hard question: What does it mean…...