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Hong Kong’s ambitious West Kowloon Cultural District project has found a director for its USD 609 million Museum Plus (M+) initiative. Lars Nittve, outgoing director of Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, will be in charge of seeing into fruition the interdisciplinary museum,View More >

Artist Yoshitaka Azuma died June 21 in Osaka due to asthma-related respiratory failure, ART iT has confirmed. Born in Osaka in 1977, Azuma earned a BA in Fine Art from Kyoto University of Art & Design and was represented byView More >

Simon Fujiwara – Installation view of Welcome to the Hotel Munber (2010). Courtesy Baloise Group, Basel. Simon Fujiwara and Claire Hooper have been announced as winners of this year’s 12th Baloise Art Prize in recognition of outstanding works in theView More >

William Kentridge. ⓒ William Kentridge, courtesy the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. On June 18, Kyoto’s Inamori Foundation announced that South African multimedia artist William Kentridge is among the three winners of this year’s 26th Kyoto Prize. Each ofView More >

Tate Modern has found a replacement for outgoing director Vicente Todolí, who leaves later this year after seven years at the iconic London museum. Chris Dercon, currently director of Munich’s Haus der Kunst, will be assuming the vacated post inView More >

In the latest sign that the art market is rescaling its pre-Lehman Brothers heights, a rare sculpture by Amedeo Modigliani has sold for 43.2 million euros in auction at Christie’s June 14 Impressionist and Modern Art sale in Paris. CarvedView More >

Wa5NNtFt0TY Already a worldwide brand with branches in New York, Bilbao, Berlin and Venice, and a forthcoming branch in Abu Dhabi, the Guggenheim Foundation has now taken its expansion to the Internet through a new partnership with YouTube. The initiative,View More >

The German artist Sigmar Polke died June 10 in Cologne at the age of 69 due to complications related to cancer, it has been reported. Born in 1941 in Oels, Lower Silesia, in what is now Poland, Polke is consideredView More >

On June 3, the Judd Foundation announced the temporary closure of 101 Spring Street in New York, the historic home of artist Donald Judd (1928-94). Located on the corner of Spring and Mercer Streets in the heart of New York’sView More >

Dancer Kazuo Ohno died June 1 in Yokohama due to respiratory failure at the age of 103, it has been reported. Born in Hakodate, Hokkaido, in 1906, Ohno was along with Tatsumi Hijikata a pioneer of post-war avant-garde Butoh dance.View More >

Artist Louise Bourgeois died of a heart attack May 31 in New York at the age of 98, it has been reported. Born in Paris in 1911, Bourgeois was known for making sculptural works in bronze, marble and unconventional materialsView More >