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Featuring nearly fifty paintings and drawings created over forty-three years – rendered in ink, watercolor and gouache – this retrospective of the art of Philip Van Aver features works that …

View of “August 9, 1908”, Peter Freeman Inc, New York. To its own surprise, Matt Mullican’s new body of work is vibrantly colored. A departure and a release of sorts …

Art historian Robert Storr bequeathed the majority of his massive personal archive to Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies. The giveaway, described by CCS Bard executive director Tom Eccles as …

“Ambiguities arise when a detail is effective in more than one way at once,” wrote William Empson in his seminal work of literary criticism. Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930). The …

Alexia Fabre will be curator of the Seventeenth Biennale of Lyon, which will take place from September 2024 to January 2025. Chief curator of heritage, Fabre directed from 2005 to …

British sculptor Sarah Lucas has been named the first winner of the New Museum’s newly launched Hostetler/Wrigley Sculpture Prize. The $400,000 prize is named after Sue Hostetler, trustee of the …

Organizers of the eighteenth Venice Architecture Biennale have awarded Nigerian-born architect, designer and artist Demas Nwoko the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Nwoko was at the forefront of Nigeria’s modern …

Koo Jeong-a, known for her conceptual work centered on elusive elements such as fragrance, silence and luminescence, has been chosen to represent South Korea at the 60th Venice Biennale, which …

“Njabala: Holding Space” is the second iteration of the Njabala Foundation’s annual exhibition program, which was launched in 2021 by Ugandan curator Martha Kazungu to increase the visibility of female …

In his novel The man without qualities (1930/42), Robert Musil wrote: “Unfortunately, nothing is more difficult to achieve than a literary representation of a thinking man”, because the result “no …