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Lorraine O’Grady and Nicholas Galanin Named Guggenheim Fellows
The two are among 68 visual artists, photographers, filmmakers, and art scholars receiving the prestigious prize.
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Court Orders Women-Only Exhibition to Admit Men
A male visitor sued Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art after he was denied entry to “Ladies Lounge.”
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Court Stops Iowa Art Center From Destroying Artist’s Land Installation
A judge ruled on Monday that the Des Moines Art Center must pause its planned demolition of Mary Miss’s “Greenwood Pond: Double Site” installation.
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Nelson-Atkins Museum Appoints Tahnee Ahtone as Curator of Native American Art
A former Hyperallergic fellow, Ahtone joins the museum after serving as director and curator of the Kiowa Tribal Museum in Carnegie, Oklahoma.
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German Museum Employee Fired After Secretly Hanging Up His Own Painting
Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne terminated the 51-year-old artist and called in the police to investigate.
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A New Art Weekend Touches Down in New Jersey
More than 100 venues across the state will take part in the inaugural Garden State Art Weekend.
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Is This Stingray-Shaped Rock the First Artwork Depicting an Animal?
A team of scientists theorize that a kite-shaped stone found on the coast of South Africa was intentionally shaped to resemble an endemic blue stingray species.
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Artist Seeks Restraining Order to Prevent Land Artwork’s Demolition
The Des Moines Art Center cited the “ephemeral” nature of artist Mary Miss’s original materials in its decision to destroy the work.
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National Gallery of Art Names Its First-Ever Curator of Latinx Art
Natalia Ángeles Vieyra will develop the museum’s existing collections of Latinx art through new acquisitions, scholarship, exhibitions, and public programming.
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Gaza's Last Contemporary Art Space Destroyed by Israel
Shababeek for Contemporary Art stood just a few feet away from Al-Shifa Hospital, recently raided by Israeli forces.
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Meet the Studio Museum’s 2024 Arts Leadership Cohort
Eight New York-based curators, all early- or mid-career, were selected for the institution’s new program for art workers of color who focus on Black cultural production.
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This Phone App Lets You Capture a Solar Eclipse
Scientists at Western Kentucky University are inviting the public to snap photos of the dazzling phenomenon to gather data about the sun’s shape and internal structure.