3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (262+ words) A recent history of “disco balls” and its precursors; plus, Ed Simon on why we should be alarmed about Lonnie Bunch’s resignation. Also today, Ed Simon sounds the alarm about Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch's resignation. The museum leader dedicated his…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (157+ words) Panmela Castro, Agrade Camíz, Márcia Falcão, Maya Weishof, and Gokula Stoffel are five artists at the helm of the revival. After years of institutional exhibitions of Brazilian painting often limited to early-modernist figuration and mid-century abstraction — and the work of…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (495+ words) Plus, artists on feeling deceived by a widely advertised summer residency that lured them in and never materialized. The autumnal equinox isn’t for a few weeks, but we’re officially marking the start of another seasonal shift on the calendar: art-world…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (253+ words) The influential Palestinian painter dies at 79, the National Museum of the American Latino is still looking for a home, and the new horse mural that’ll put a smile on your face. Meet with the School of the Art Institute of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (149+ words) The art world at times imagines itself outside politics, or at least agrees on them; the latest edition of the annual festival reveals otherwise. Director Christoph Wiesner wrote in the catalog that “as everything pushes toward simplification, division and reduction,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (87+ words) The artist’s performance videos invoke the wild, inestimable human spirit and make Black people the characters of universal stories. The humanities library and museum will award up to 50 fellowships to support scholars, artists, and writers conducting on-site archival research. Contemporary…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (397+ words) Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian and critic Aruna D’Souza’s highlights from the biennale, plus six artworks inspired by the Odyssey. The Venice Biennale made headlines in the spring, from the triumph of late curator Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys to the historic…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (242+ words) A permanent home for the artist’s archives, MoMA PS1 is getting a new café, which museum scored a sweet early Rothko, and more in Art Movements. Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (117+ words) A highlight of “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1, the artist’s remarkable sculptures made from the humble household material continue a practice he began as a child in Brooklyn. “My background doesn’t make me feel ostracized or anything,” he commented. “I…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (190+ words) “My inspiration for art doesn’t really come from the history of painting,” the artist told Hyperallergic in a 2013 interview, “it comes from the community of art as it is now.” Mary Heilmann, a pioneering abstract artist who enjoyed a late-career…...