Alexander Calder’s sculpture Mountains and Clouds, 1976, has returned to Capitol Hill. The monochromatic work is composed of a vertical element representing mountains and four planes of metal arranged parallel to the floor are gently rotated by a motor. After a 2011 earthquake raised safety concerns, a structural analysis of the hanging elements was prompted […]

The National Gallery of Art has named Virginia Anderson the Christiane Ellis Valone Senior Curator of American Art and head of the art of the Americas, starting in November. Anderson is currently the senior curator of American art and department head of American painting and sculpture and decorative arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art […]

Dr. Yusuf Ali Osman, a registered blind man, has filed suit against the British Museum, claiming the London institution failed to comply with the Equality Act by not providing audio-described guides at its exhibition of the famed Bayeux Tapestry. Osman called the museum in advance of his visit to ask whether live audio-described tours would […]

Three generations of the Düsseldorf-based Bronner family have been recognized with the 2026 Art Cologne Prize, which recognizes the commitment to collecting, promoting, and making art accessible to the public. The winner receives €10,000 ($11,300) and is selected by the Koelnmesse and the Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Kunsthändler (BVDG), an association of German galleries and […]

Yvonne Rainer remembers fellow choreographer and dancer Simone Forti

Artist Kehinde Wiley has written to President Donald Trump in an effort to buy back a painting of his that the administration deemed too “woke” and “aesthetically terrifying” to hang in an American embassy, the New York Times reports. The canvas, titled Young Artists after Siamesas 1960, was commissioned in 2013 by the U.S. State […]

Multidisciplinary artist Christine Sun Kim, assemblage and performance artist Rodney McMillian, and painter Vincent Valdez have been named by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as among the 2026 cohort of MacArthur Fellows. The three join seventeen other recipients of the transformative “genius” grants issued this year by the foundation, honoring those in […]

Frieze and Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism revealed the list of programs for the first edition of Frieze Abu Dhabi. The fair is set to take place from 19 to 22 November this year at Manarat Al Saadiyat, a cultural space in Saadiyat Island, an emerging hub for the arts in Abu Dhabi. […]

The organizers of Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB) have announced that the 2026 iteration, which runs December 4–6, will include 272 exhibitors from more than forty countries and territories. This number represents a reduction from 2025, which hosted 285 galleries. Bridget Finn, ABMB’s director told ArtNews that “this reduction is more about refinement than contraction,” […]

The Sámi artist network Dáiddadállu has been announced as the recipient of this year’s Munch Award celebrating artistic freedom. The award is presented annually by the Munch Museum in Oslo, and comes with a monetary prize of NOK 300,000 ($31,200). It is awarded to artists working in the spirit of Edvard Munch, who championed artistic […]

Pace Gallery is seeking a tenant with which to share its New York City headquarters, located at 540 West Twenty-Fifth Street in Chelsea. The news was first reported by Puck’s Wall Power newsletter and by Julie Brener Davich in her Substack, The Appraisal. According to Davich, the gallery is offering space on the upper floors […]

JMW Turner’s 1835 canvas Rome, from Mount Aventine will be auctioned at Sotheby’s Old Master Evening Sale in London on December 9, with an estimate of £50 million ($66.2 million). Ahead of the auction, it is on public view at Rome’s Palazzo Rondinini from September 29 to October 1. According to Julian Gascoigne, Sotheby’s senior […]

The buyer of a formerly misattributed Rembrandt that hammered for $9 million at a Sotheby’s London sale in December 2025 has been revealed to be the world’s largest collector of the artist, the Art Newspaper reports. Thomas Kaplan, an American businessman and philanthropist, purchased Rembrandt’s ca. 1661 St. John on Patmos for his Leiden Collection, […]

Unionized workers at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York will carry out a strike action on October 5 if they do not receive a fair contract offer, Local 2110 announced today. The date is perilously close to that of the opening of a blockbuster Roy Lichtenstein exhibition, slated to open to the […]

The National Gallery Singapore (NGS) and Singapore Art Museum (SAM) have named Chng Hak-Peng as the new CEO of NGS, effective January 1, 2027. Chng previously led the Singapore Symphony Group, where he served as deputy chair, then as CEO, from 2014 to 2022. During his tenure at the Singapore Symphony Group, the Singapore Symphony […]

Ann Temkin, whose eighteen-year tenure as chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art proved transformative for the New York institution, will depart the role in January. Temkin will remain with the museum as strategic adviser to its director, Christophe Cherix, and is expected to lead the programming for the institution’s […]

The Vancouver Art Gallery has announced Eva Respini and Sirish Rao as its co-CEOs. The appointment caps a yearlong stint for the pair as interim-co CEOs, following the March 2025 departure of Anthony Kiendl, who went on to lead the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Respini will continue in the dual roles of co-CEO and […]

For the fourth year running, the Switzerland-based MCH Group, the parent company of the Art Basel fair, recorded an increase in revenue and profit in the first half of 2026. The company’s net profits also quadrupled from CHF 4.4 million ($5.3 million) last year to CHF 18.4 million ($22.1 million), despite geopolitical conflicts and trade […]

For the second installment in the series, Jan Tumlir and Jeffrey Stuker follow the beginnings of the algorithm through wayward cartographers, gamblers, poets, and bomb physicists

Brooklyn art publication Hyperallergic, which has long touted free access to readers as a crucial aspect of its mission, is now routinely paywalling a portion of its articles and requiring readers to sign in to view the majority of its content, Urgent Matter reports. Readers were alerted to the changes in a September 16 email. […]

The Milwaukee Art Museum on September 9 transferred two stoneware vessels made by enslaved potter David Drake to his relatives. The pots had been given to the museum by the Chipstone Foundation earlier this year. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the return was the result of an agreement between the museum and an LLC […]

A red chalk drawing of a crouching child was recently attributed to the French modernist Edouard Manet. The suspected study is owned by a private Italian collection. The child in the sketch is believed to be the same figure as a street urchin in Manet’s 1863 painting Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), […]

The artistic director of the forthcoming Kanal–Centre Pompidou in Brussels answers _Artforum_ ’s questionnaire

An installation by Polish artist Alicja Kwade occupying a space outside Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong was found to have been damaged on September 20, according to the Hong Kong Standard. Security staff reported that a large rock that had been sitting atop a cast-bronze Monobloc chair as part of a work titled Waiting […]

Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Gilcrease Museum is scheduled to reopen in March 2027 in a new, purpose-built home, following a multiyear closure. The building was collaboratively designed by architecture firms SmithGroup and G&A, and creates more flexible spaces for exhibitions, research, and public interaction. Renovations will also improve the integration of the Helmerich Center for American Research […]

The critic takes aim at Christopher Wool's "puritan aestheticism"

Filipina artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya was named to the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Visual Arts on September 1, becoming the first woman to receive the honor in its fifty-four-year history. The order was established in 1972 to recognize those who have significantly contributed to the country’s arts. Born in 1949, Endaya […]

The Thai Ministry of Culture has named jiradej-pornpilai meemalai: BAAN NOORG as the artistic director of the Fifth Thailand Biennale, ArtReview reports. Emily Chin-Jie Lee, Gesyada Siregar, and Tyuki Imamura will serve as curators of the event, to take place December 2027 to April 2028 in Rayong, on the east coast of the Gulf of […]

A former senior employee at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Australia is said to have drained $8 million from the institution’s coffers over a six-year span, The Guardian reports. The staffer, who has not been publicly named, is said to have spent the money on mobile phones, which he purchased through a museum […]

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On September 23, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that 36 trafficked or looted antiquities—collectively valued at over $5 million—would be returned to the people of Syria. The repatriation ceremony coincided with the visit of Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The list of […]

Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) announced the thirty-eight recipients of the last round of its A4 Arts Fund, which distributes $500,000 to arts and cultural organizations that support Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Grants are awarded in the amount of $10,000 or $15,000 to organizations with annual budgets under $500,000. A4 received applications […]

Artists, students, and cultural workers gathered outside of Colombia’s Ministry of Culture in Bogotá on September 21 to protest a proposed 30% cut to the cultural budget in 2027 and a suspension of national arts awards. “The effects of decisions that disrupt the country’s cultural sector are now being felt by thousands of arts workers,” […]

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, has named Jonathan Abbott as its new director and CEO. Abbott arrives to the institution from public media company GBH, the country’s largest producer of multiplatform content for PBS and partner to NPR and PRX (Public Radio Exchange), where he spent fifteen years as director. He succeeds interim […]

Aperture, the nonprofit photography publisher founded in 1952, opened its new home last week. The organization has taken the first two floors of a building on the Upper West Side at Columbus Avenue and West 78th Street, across from the American Museum of National History. The decision to move uptown from its previous location in […]

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has purchased a newly discovered painting by seventeenth-century Spanish master Diego Velázquez—the first work by the artist to enter its collection, and the first to enter the collection of any West Coast museum. Titled Portrait of Count-Duke of Olivares, the ca. 1626 work is a bust-length portrayal […]

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Blue-chip auction house Christie’s on September 23 revealed the launch of a new division focused on sales of pop culture memorabilia, Artnews reports. The announcement comes on the heels of a sale of sports, music, and historical memorabilia from the collection of Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay that brought in a whopping $105.3 million—the largest […]

Last week, the Joan Mitchell Foundation published the report “Creating Future Memory: Building the Field of Artist Legacy Stewardship.” The report is available on the foundation’s website as a free PDF download. The report’s authors, Solana Chehtman and Sharon Mizota, surveyed more than 150 artists, family members, archivists, curators, and legacy professionals to create the […]

The Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, has revealed a trio of buildings designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, the Pritzker Prize–winning designer of the new David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The three structures, along with the addition of roughly 108,000 square feet of green space, including gardens, expand the […]

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a nonprofit organization called the International Center for 9/11 Justice rented space from New York’s El Museo del Barrio for a four-day conference called “Turning the Tide: 9/11 25 Years Later.” The museum says it regrets renting space to the event’s organizers. According to the New […]

Canadian multidisciplinary artist Steven Shearer, known for his portraits blending youth subculture, contemporary iconography, and art-historical references, has been named the winner of this year’s C$100,000 ($71,000) Audain Prize for the Visual Arts. Established in 2004 with the aim of elevating Canadian art at home and abroad, the prize is considered one of Canada’s most […]

Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota and Mami Kataoka, the director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, have been appointed to l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) by the government of France. Shiota was awarded the rank of Officier, while Kataoka was given that of Chevalier. The pair were honored at […]

Two German artists were arrested at the Louvre in Paris on September 19 after mounting two canvases to a wall of the Salle des États, where Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is displayed. Police reported that the pair used sticky tape to affix the works, each of which measured roughly twelve by nine inches. One […]

The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) has announced that Mexican architect Frida Escobedo will lead the project to expand the museum. The subterranean expansion will be constructed beneath Plaza Perú, the public park that neighbors the museum, and will roughly double the museum’s current exhibition space. New features include temporary galleries, an […]

The U.K. government has placed a ban on the export of an early-sixteenth-century bronze, valued at $6.2 million, in an effort to give British museums and galleries time to acquire the work and keep it on public display. Seated Nymph was sculpted by the Italian artist Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, also known as Antico, in […]

Jeffreen M.H. Ash will depart from her role as executive director of the Chicago cultural nonprofit Threewalls on September 30. She has spent eleven years at the contemporary art organization, whose mission is to support Black artists through collaboration and community and within Black feminist and diasporic traditions. “It has been a privilege to create […]

The Art Institute of Chicago has announced that it will return Jean Metzinger’s painting Woman with a Fan (1913) to the family of Jewish art collector Emanuel Lewenstein. The museum acquired the painting from New York’s Sidney Janis Gallery in 1959, but provenance research by the Mondex Corporation—an organization founded in 1993 that works to […]

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The Bienale de Yucatán, the first large-scale international contemporary art biennial in Mexico, is set to open in Mérida, the capital of the Yucatán state, this November. Artistic director Abraham Cruzvillegas has made language and all forms of communication the focus of this first edition. Titled “Vocal,” it will bring together seventy-six artists and other […]