Elena Goukassian

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton |Elena Goukassian |Torey Akers |Gameli Hamelo

The first full-scale retrospective on the late great painter and sculptor Jack Whitten (1939-2018)brings together more than 175 works spanning his six-decade career. His large-scale mosaic-like compositions—made from hardened acrylic paint cut into thousands of tiles—figure prominently, as do his mixed-media assemblage sculptures.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian

The US’s National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has published a call for artists for President Donald Trump’s pet project, the National Garden of American Heroes. The ambitious sculpture park is planned to include 250 life-size, “realistic” statues of as many historical figures—a seemingly random selection that ranges from George Washington and Martin Luther King Jr to the late basketball star Kobe Bryant and the television host Alex Trebek.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian

A New York judge ruled on Wednesday (23 April) that the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) must return a Nazi-looted Egon Schiele drawing, the latest development in a yearslong battle between the museum and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. New York Supreme Court Judge Althea Drysdale’s ruling runs 79 pages, and it took her 25 minutes to read her order in court, according to Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg in The New York Times .

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian

Four members of the US House of Representatives have sent a letter to J.D. Vance, imploring the vice-president to reject President Donald Trump’s plan to overhaul the Smithsonian Institution.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian |Benjamin Sutton |Gareth Harris

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) has picked its new director, Pierre Terjanian. He will step up to the role on 1 July, having served as chief of curatorial affairs and conservation since January 2024. Terjanian succeeds outgoing director Matthew Teitelbaum, who is retiring this summer after ten years leading the MFA—the 83rd-most-visited art museum in the world and ninth-most-visited in the US, according to The Art Newspaper’s most recent attendance-figure survey.