Jason Kaufman

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.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton |Jason Kaufman |Ruth Lopez |Helen Stoilas

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) has received an anonymous $10m gift to support its performance programme. The gift, which will allow the museum to establish a Performance Fund endowment to support live art programming, comes shortly after the museum hired Moira Brennan, the former director of the Map Fund at Creative Capital, to be its new director of performance and public programmes.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Melissa Gronlund |Jason Kaufman |Dorian Batycka |Gareth Harris

One of Luis Barragán’s finest masterpieces—a vast pink-walled hacienda on the outskirts of Mexico City—will from August become a centre for architecture and art. La Cuadra San Cristobal will encompass a permanent exhibition about the life and work of Mexico’s best-known architect, plus gallery spaces, artists’ studios, a library, gift shop and café. The project is the brainchild of the Mexican architect Fernando Romero, who says Barragán (1902-88) was his biggest influence as a young student.