Events and Parties Star-Studded Performa Gala Offers Moving Tribute to South Africa Curator, museum director, and writer Okwui Enwezor, the man behind Documenta 11 in 2002 and the 56th By Sarah Cascone, Nov 2, 2016
Art & Exhibitions The Venice Biennale Will Be Pushed Back a Year, to 2022, as the Coronavirus Knocks the Art Calendar Permanently Off Its Axis That means the next Venice Biennale art exhibition will coincide with the next documenta, held every By Sarah Cascone, May 18, 2020
The Art Angle ‘Be Comfortable With Not Knowing Everything’: How a Mysterious Whitney Biennial Confronts Our Anxious Moment Biennial is underway, and just around the corner are the German heavyweights: the Berlin Biennale and Documenta By Artnet News, Apr 15, 2022
Art World Watch Loewe’s Jonathan Anderson Discuss the ‘Grandeur and Beauty’ of Lionel Wendt’s Photography Wendt also founded the '43 Group, which became a major force in post-independence Ceylon Modern art. By Artnet News, Dec 4, 2017
On View In Pictures: See Inside the Albertina’s Historic, Legacy-Defining Basquiat Retrospective in Vienna roots and follows his meteoric rise in the art world, from being the youngest ever participant at Documenta By Dorian Batycka, Sep 24, 2022
Art & Exhibitions Legendary Curator Okwui Enwezor’s Final Show, ‘Postcolonial,’ Will Now Become a Reality in Sharjah had on contemporary art and its institutions,” al-Qasimi, who cites the curator’s 2002 edition of documenta By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 4, 2019
Art World Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung to Curate 2025 São Paulo Biennial since January 2023; he teaches at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin; he was a curator at large at Documenta By Artnet News, Apr 2, 2024
On View In Pictures: A Series of Paintings Basquiat Made During an Italian Residency He Loathed Have Been Reunited at Switzerland’s Beyeler Foundation 1982, but his star was rapidly ascending and that June he was the youngest artist to exhibit at Documenta By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 13, 2023
Art & Exhibitions 17 Art Exhibitions Worth Traveling for in Europe This Year, From a Blowout Survey of Yayoi Kusama’s Inflatables to the Largest Showcase of Vermeer’s Work Yet Levy was excluded from the first Documenta, though he had been on preliminary lists. By Artnet News, Jan 1, 2023
Art & Exhibitions 11 Things You Should Know about David Hammons Ahead of His Mnuchin Gallery Show And there’s a sculpture that was shown in Documenta, the giant art show in Kassel, Germany, that appeared By Brian Boucher, Mar 11, 2016
Politics Are the Art World’s ‘Peripheries’ Becoming the New Centers? In a time defined by globalization, connectivity, and post-Post-Colonialism, institutions do well to By Nicola Trezzi, Jun 29, 2016
On View Who Can Tell a Forest’s Secrets? Janet Cardiff on What It Takes to Create a Truly Epic Work of Sound Art The work has been shown in several places since it debuted at documenta 13. By Julia Halperin, Aug 27, 2017
Art & Exhibitions See Stunning Shigeo Anzaï Photographs Documenting 30 Years in the Art World Back in Europe, he went on to photograph exhibitions such as documenta in Kassel and the Venice Biennale By Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, Mar 22, 2016
Art World Otto Piene, ZERO Group Founder, Dead at 86 Otto Piene (late 1960s)Photo: Lothar Wolleh © Oliver Wolleh, Berlin Otto Piene, a giant of post By Alexander Forbes, Jul 18, 2014
Art & Exhibitions Largest Collection of Radical Conceptualists ART & LANGUAGE Finds a Home in French Chateau that were sought after by museum curators such as Harald Szeemann who included them in his esteemed Documenta By Colin Gleadell, Jun 23, 2015
People Artist Jean-Marc Bustamante to Replace Controversial Nicolas Bourriaud as Director of the Beaux-Arts In Paris The announcement comes after a media scandal surrounding the dismissal of Bourriaud from the post which By Hili Perlson, Sep 3, 2015
People Jimmie Durham Is This Year’s Winner of the Venice Biennale Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement exhibition's 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2013 editions, Durham has also shown in the 1992 and 2012 documenta By Sarah Cascone, Apr 4, 2019
Art World From the Artists Anointed as MacArthur Geniuses to a Billionaire’s $380 Million Lawsuit Against Sotheby’s: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week in Athens has spurred masses of protesters, including a letter signed by 40 past participants in documenta By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 5, 2018
Art World From the Secretary Who Stole a Klimt to Obama’s Portrait Drama: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week documenta's Financial Fiasco – The quinquennial exhibition is in the doghouse again, this time with the By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 16, 2018
Art World Art Industry News: Inside Christie’s Emergency Turnaround Operation + More Must-Read Stories (ARTnews) The Art Institute of Chicago Hires Documenta 14 Curator – Hendrik Folkerts, who was also By Artnet News, May 2, 2017