Curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari have announced the lineup for the Whitney Museum’s next biennial survey of art in America today. Their 2010 edition (25 February – 30 May) will feature 55 artists (compared to 81 in ’08) rangingView More >
Kusama Yayoi Dots Obsession 2008 Installation at LA VILLETTE, Paris The first Aichi Triennale slated to open summer 2010 has announced elements of the festival that are now official. A press conference held 4 December revealed the Triennale’s aim to present worksView More >
An exhibition by students from 13 art universities running through Sunday at the Artcomplex Center of Tokyo in Yotsuya. The six! features the award-winning works from the art festivals held at each university and the shortlisted artworks from a web-basedView More >
Thomas Hoving, the former director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and author of numerous artworld-related books including Masterpiece and Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died on 10 December from cancer at 78. HovingView More >
Onimusume 1 by Utatane Hiroyuki （1994） © Utatane Hiroyuki / Comic House ©KAIYODO Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Bome, the modeler known primarily from his work on Murakami Takashi’s Project KO2 series of figure sculptures, opens his own solo showView More >
Sarah McCrory appointed as curator of Frieze Projects (Art Review） http://www.artreview.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1474022%3ABlogPost%3A924605 Steve McQueen directs Fela, a feature film based on the life of African musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. (Artforum） http://www.artforum.com/news/#news24370 New Prize Created by Victor Pinchuk Honors ArtistsView More >
Anish Kapoor The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative is a program created to nurture rising talents in a variety of artistic fields by bringing them together with great masters for a year of creative collaboration in a one-to-one mentoringView More >
Open Studio presents the results of the ARCUS Project’s yearlong artist-in-residence program, for which international artists are selected each year through an open call for applications. The 2009 resident artists are Daniel Seiple (USA), Doreen Uhlig (Germany) and Wu Shang-lin.View More >
David Bowen growth modeling device The Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee (The Agency for Cultural Affairs / The National Art Center, Tokyo / CG-ARTS) has announced the 24 award-winning works in the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival. One GrandView More >
Unitled (detail) 2008 Courtesy Gagosian Gallery, London/New York; the Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow and BQ, Berlin Britain’s high profile contemporary art prize was awarded last night to site-specific painter Richard Wright, with the announcement and award presentation broadcast liveView More >
The Cartier Award 2010 is calling for proposals for a new work to be realized at Frieze Art Fair 2010. The award covers project production costs of up to £10,000 and includes a three-month residency at Gasworks (London) providing accommodation,View More >
■Event Following the close of the autumn segment of the 2009 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, featuring some 370 artworks scattered around Niigata’s Takamachi and Tsunanmachi regions, comes a wrap-up session on the festival’s fourth edition. Along with a report on theView More >