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5 days ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art plans to lay off nearly 8% of its workforce, citing "financial challenges" to its operating model. Twenty-nine SFMOMA employees will be terminated as the museum continues to grapple with increased competition for philanthropic support, low attendance and a $5m structural deficit. “SFMoMA has an exceptional team—one that is immensely dedicated, passionate and talented.
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6 days ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers
The 11th edition of the New Art Dealers Alliance (Nada) New York fair has taken over the third floor of the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea (until 11 May). Boasting 120 galleries, art spaces and non-profits representing 19 countries, this year’s edition offers notably cryptic forms of figuration, unspoken secrets and clandestine commentary, enticing viewers with the conspiratorial promise of disclosure.
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6 days ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers
Future Fair (7-10 May) has returned for its fifth anniversary to the Chelsea Industrial building on West 28th Street in Manhattan, sporting 67 local, national and international exhibitors with a flare for the bright and bold. Fairs of all sizes have been touched by President Donald Trump’s tariffs this year, and Future Fair is no exception—at the Bologna-based Magazzeno Art Gaze's stand, a small hand-written sign reads: “Our shipment (art) is stuck at JFK customs.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers
The 14th New York edition of the curator-driven fair Spring Break Art Show (until 12 May) has taken up residence at 75 Varick Street, an office building in Soho that provides a labyrinthine environment for the reliably wacky work on display.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers
What sound does a sculpture make? That is one of the many synaesthetic questions the artist Jennie C. Jones conjures in her new commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s roof garden, Ensemble (until 19 October). Her stark, powder-coated aluminium menhirs use stringed instruments as experiential analogues for Black contributions to the cultural canon, expanding the Hudson Valley-based artist’s longstanding interest in animating minimalist abstraction with sonic life.
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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.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers
The status of the United States’ participation in the 2026 Venice Biennale is uncertain due to US President Donald Trump and his administration’s multi-armed campaign to defund the arts and re-imagine the country’s aesthetic programming. According to recent reporting by Nate Freeman in Vanity Fair , the US government’s preparation for the Biennale, which draws 800,000 people to the Giardini gardens every two years, appears to be running behind schedule.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers
The Texas branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has picked its artists-in-residence for 2026: the acclaimed, Austin-based writer and artist KB Brookins and the San Antonio-born painter Vincent Valdez. Selected through an open call of nearly 200 applicants, the winners will receive $30,000 and the opportunity to work with the ACLU with an eye towards criminal law reform, immigrants’ rights and equality for LGBTIA+ individuals.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers
The Los Angeles County Museum of American Art (Lacma) has added 112 objects to its collection through six new acquisitions made during the institution's latest Collectors Committee Weekend. The 39th edition of the two-day event (26, 27 April) raised more than $2.5m for acquisitions from 62 members. The resulting acquisitions come as the museum's long-awaited, $715m David Geffen Galleries building nears completion.
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2 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers
The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on 28 April, but most of the works it had been created to display will not be repatriated to their place of origin. Instead, all but five of the objects will be returned to their donor, the filmmaker and banking heir Robert Owen Lehman. The objects in question are known as Benin Bronzes, flashpoints in a broader conversation on the ethics of collecting and displaying objects taken during the colonial era.
