Alex Greenberger

1 week ago | artnews.com | Alex Greenberger

Women rule museums this summer, taking over grand halls and big galleries. Pipilotti Rist is set to do a major commission in Beijing, while Vija Celmins will get a retrospective in Switzerland that will feature a large chunk of her oeuvre. Barbara Kruger will bring her off-kilter textual creations to Spain, and Fiona Tan will become the first artist ever to organize a show at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. And it’s not just living women—the dead will rise too.

1 week ago | artnews.com | Alex Greenberger

The Camden Art Centre, a venerable London art space, appears to be staying put for the long term. The art center announced on Tuesday that it had secured a 99-year lease on its current home after having raised the £1.9 million it needed to do so. Its lease was previously due to expire in 2027. The Camden Art Centre has a record of mounting a forward-thinking program.

1 week ago | artnews.com | Alex Greenberger

The Venice Biennale will move forward with its 2026 edition—even after the unexpected death of its curator, Koyo Kouoh, earlier this month. On Tuesday, the Biennale revealed that it intended to realize Kouoh’s exhibition, which she had already begun to devise prior to her passing. The exhibition’s leaders said she had already begun selecting artists, thinking through their commissions, and building out programming, and that she had also come up with her show’s central concept.

2 weeks ago | artnews.com | Alex Greenberger

Sebastiao Salgado, a photographer whose memorable images of worker exploitation, environmental destruction, and human rights abuses gained him widespread acclaim, has died at 81. His death was announced on Friday by Instituto Terra, the organization he cofounded with his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado. The New York Times reported that he had health issues since contracting malaria in the 1990s. Salgado was considered one of the most beloved photographers working today.

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An art historian who chaired Louisville’s public art commission said he would leave his post amid plans to restore a statue of King Louis XVI graffitied by protestors in 2020 following the police killing of Breonna Taylor. In an op-ed published in the Courier Journal, Chris Reitz, a scholar who has published two books on painter Martin Kippenberger, accused the city of Louisville, Kentucky, of attempting to “erase all evidence” of those 2020 protests on their five-year anniversary.