“I hallucinate what I desire”, wrote Roland Barthes in Speech of a lover: fragments, his 1977 book of literary ruminations on the conditions of intimacy. This notion of nostalgia as …
Arts
The Whitney Museum of American Art increases ticket prices and becomes the most expensive museum in New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has increased its admission prices to $30 for adults (previously $25) and $25 for students and seniors (previously $18). The new …
The Frieze art fair franchise has acquired The Armory Show in New York and is in the process of buying Expo Chicago, two of the largest and oldest fairs in …
An art collective has hacked QR codes at a controversial exhibition at Zurich’s Kunsthaus, giving visitors its own unvarnished take on the biography of collector Emil Georg Bührle, whom the …
The art market seems to be crashing these days, and I wonder if it’s going to crash like it did in 2008, when I made the documentary The great bubble …
Ales Pushkin, a maverick artist, iconographer and civic activist who once deposited feces outside the office of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, died in a prison hospital under “unclear circumstances”, his …
This fall, a cohort of students from around the world will come together, in person and virtually, to learn about the second World Festival of Black and African Arts and …
Simon Lee Gallery is now under joint administration with business consultancy BDO LLP, according to a notice placed in the window of the gallery’s London space yesterday. A limited liability …
Glasgow’s Burrell Collection was announced this evening as the winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023 at a ceremony held at the British Museum in London. Located …
The United States officially joined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) after a five-year absence. The country is now the 194th member state of the Paris-based international …