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6 days ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison
Following on from opening her exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which continues until August, the US-born, Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim this week opened a show in London in collaboration with Thomas Mader. The exhibition, 1880 THAT, uses a notorious historic conference in Milan in 1880, which effectively outlawed sign language in Deaf education, as a springboard to explore languages and stigma in Deaf and hearing cultures today.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Lee Cheshire |Aimee Dawson |Alexander Morrison |Gareth Harris
Meaning “gateway” in Arabic, the Bawwaba section of Art Dubai offers artists an entry point to the fair. It is made up of ten solo presentations of artists both established and less well-known. All of the works were made either in the past year, or especially for the fair. This year the section has been curated by Mirjam Varadinis, the curator-at-large at the Kunsthaus Zurich. “I felt this would be a good moment to reflect on the idea of co-existence,” she says.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |Julia Michalska |David Clack |Alexander Morrison
In two-and-a-half months since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, a series of executive orders and other initiatives have attempted systematically to eliminate and defund some of the federal agencies responsible for the distribution of federal money to museums, libraries and other organisations.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |Julia Michalska |David Clack |Alexander Morrison
In two-and-a-half months since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, a series of executive orders and other initiatives have attempted systematically to eliminate and defund some of the federal agencies responsible for the distribution of federal money to museums, libraries and other organisations.
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2 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison
The Art Newspaper’s annual report on museum visitor figures is out and shows that the slow build-back after the Covid-19 closures is over, and museums are back at what we might consider their “natural level”. Host Ben Luke talks to the co-editor of our report, Lee Cheshire, about what that means, and who were last year’s big winners and losers.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Alexander Morrison |Florence Hallett |Benjamin Sutton
As the art world descends on Hong Kong for Art Basel , museums and galleries begin launching their summer blockbusters. These are the exhibitions opening in April that caught our eye. This exhibition is part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of the William Morris Gallery, housed in a mansion the artist lived in as a teenager.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Alexander Morrison |Jason Kaufman
Rifling through the storeroom drawers at the William Morris Gallery in London, the institution’s director Hadrian Garrard pulls out a poster depicting a dachshund surrounded by a jumble of flowers and leaves. Above the dog are the words “William Morris”, and below it, “The Artistry of 19th Century Cotton Prints Exhibition”. If this sounds like an unlikely image for a William Morris exhibition poster, that is because it is in fact an AI-generated product sold on the online marketplace Temu.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison
After a five-year closure, the Frick Collection in New York will reopen to the public on 17 April and this week opened its doors to the press. The Gilded Age mansion, created on Fifth Avenue for the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, has been restored and enhanced by Selldorf Architects, with the executive architect Beyer Blinder Belle. It is the biggest upgrade to the building since it first became a museum in 1935. Ben Luke talks to the architect Annabelle Selldorf.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison
The largest ever exhibition of the work of Jack Whitten opens this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. Ben Luke speaks to Michelle Kuo, the curator of the show, about the political and experimental commitment that drove Whitten’s remarkable body of work. In Paris, one of the final exhibitions to open at the Centre Pompidou before it closes for five years was unveiled this week.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison
After a challenging year in which international galleries, auction houses and museums have been forced to scale back their operations and make redundancies on an alarming scale, a slower, more considered approach to business seems to be emerging. So are we into an era of longer, more in-depth exhibitions and bespoke events concerned more with authentic connection than flashy spectacle? Ben Luke talks to Anny Shaw, a contributing editor at The Art Newspaper.
