Art & Exhibitions The Venice Biennale Has Announced the Highly Anticipated Curatorial Theme of Its 2024 Art Exhibition The show's first-ever Latin American curator has revealed the concept of his upcoming edition. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 22, 2023
Art World Art Industry News: Artist Takashi Murakami Worries He Will Be ‘Replaced’ by A.I. Someday + Other Stories Plus, the Berlin Biennale gets postponed, and the Kunstmuseum Basel names its new leader. By Artnet News, Jun 20, 2023
Art Fairs 10 of the Best Artworks at Art Basel 2023, From New Provocations by Anne Imhof to a Bravura $22 Million de Kooning These are the booths that caught the eye of Artnet News's editor-in-chief. By Andrew Goldstein, Jun 15, 2023
Museums & Institutions Manuel Segade, the Reina Sofía’s New Director, Wants to Reimagine the Madrid Institution as a ‘Kinder,’ Softer Museum The newly appointed director of Spain’s most-visited museum envisions “contemporary art as a way of producing social transformation." By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 14, 2023
Art Fairs ‘I Am Just the Host’: Latifa Echakhch Has Devised Precarious Stage-Scapes for an Artist-Curated Concert Series at Art Basel Experimental musicians, including artists Robert Longo and Naama Tsabar, are performing throughout the week. By Annie Armstrong, Jun 14, 2023
Art World Art Industry News: The Climate Activists Who Glued Themselves to a Vatican Statue Are Ordered Pay $30,000 in Restitution + Other Stories Plus, Japan names the artist exhibiting at the Venice Biennale in 2024, and a new report reveals which country has the most private museums. By Artnet News, Jun 14, 2023
Art Fairs See Some of the Best Works in Art Basel’s Unlimited Sector This Year, From a Massive Metal Ship to an Ironic Mattress Sale Installation The fair's sector for large-scale works and installations feels like a victory lap for some of the most talked-about artist projects of the last year. By Kate Brown, Jun 12, 2023
Galleries Art Buyers Stopping Off in Zurich on Their Way to Art Basel Found Heady Exhibitions and a Market in Transition: It’s Now a Buyer’s Game We headed to the Swiss financial center to take a finger to the wind before Art Basel. By Naomi Rea, Jun 12, 2023
What I Buy and Why Swiss Collector Suzanne Syz Houses Her Artworks in an Actual Bank in Geneva and Once Returned a Warhol The former jewelry designer has attended Art Basel for over 35 years—and will again this year. By Lee Carter, Jun 12, 2023
The Back Room The Back Room: Working for the Weekend This week: London Gallery Weekend, Mike Bloomberg's philanthropic flex, a doggone surprise in the Old Master market, and much more. By Artnet News, Jun 9, 2023
Politics An Artist Said a Hungarian Biennial Pushed Him to Alter a Work That Took Aim at the Country’s Conservative Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán An uncensored version of the work will be included in a special exhibition organized by Budapest Pride on June 16. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 9, 2023
Art World Art Industry News: The National Comedy Museum Has Acquired Joan Rivers’s Archive of Jokes + Other Stories Plus, dispatches from Hurvin Anderson's local barbershop and gallerist Sukanya Rajaratnam joins White Cube as director. By Artnet News, Jun 9, 2023
Art World Art Industry News: Curator Manuel Segade Has Been Chosen to Helm the Reina Sofia in Madrid + Other Stories Plus, Louis Vuitton launches an NFT collection and the names in the running to lead the Guggenheim. By Artnet News, Jun 7, 2023
Art World Art Industry News: A Fleet of Illuminated Drones Paid Tribute to Van Gogh’s Starry Night + Other Stories Plus, Sonia Boyce leaves Simon Lee Gallery and the Serpentine unveiles Lina Gotmeh's breezy summer pavilion. By Artnet News, Jun 6, 2023
Op-Ed ‘Everyone Became More Powerful’: Simone Leigh and Rashida Bumbray on How They Built the Landmark ‘Loophole of Retreat’ Conference The gathering in Venice was a labor of love built on decades of relationships. Its impacts are still unfolding. By Laura Raicovich & Simone Leigh & Rashida Bumbray, Jun 6, 2023
