The International Center of Photography in New York will present Daido Moriyama with a recognition for lifetime achievement at the institution’s annual Infinity Awards gala this May, it has been announced. Moriyama is the first Japanese photographer to earn theView More >
New York powerhouse gallery David Zwirner is expanding to London, it was officially announced in a press release dated Mar 13. Often compared to the multinational Gagosian Gallery and London’s White Cube in terms of commercial influence and clout, ZwirnerView More >
Yoko Ono has been awarded Austria’s highest recognition for contemporary art, it was announced at a press conference Mar 2 in Vienna. Named after the expressionist painter and playwright who lived from 1886 to 1980, the Oskar Kokoschka Prize confersView More >
Ningbo History Museum, 2003-2008, Ningbo, China. Photo Lu Hengzhong. The Hangzhou-based architect Wang Shu will be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was announced Feb 27. Principal of the firm Amateur Architecture Studio along with his wife, Lu Wenyu,View More >
Sarah Sze will represent the United States at the next Venice Biennale in 2013, it was announced Feb 24. Entitled Triple Point, her project for Venice is commissioned by the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York. Known for site-specificView More >
One of the leading representatives of post-war photography in Japan, Yasuhiro Ishimoto passed away Feb 6 at a hospital in Tokyo. He was 90-years-old. Born in San Francisco in 1921, Ishimoto lived in Japan from the age of three beforeView More >
The artist Mike Kelley has died at the age of 57, it was widely reported Feb 1. One of the most influential American artists of his generation, Kelley was found dead at his home in Los Angeles. Authorities are currentlyView More >
Massimiliano Gioni will direct the next edition of the Venice Biennale’s international art exhibition, it was announced Jan 31 in Venice. Associate director of New York’s New Museum for Contemporary Art and artistic director of Milan’s Foundation Trussardi, Gioni isView More >
The shortlist for the UK’s largest art prize, the Artes Mundi, was announced Jan 27 by the Artes Mundi artistic director, Ben Borthwick. The seven finalists for the prize, which confers upon one winner GBP 40,000 and provides the runners-upView More >
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Albania-born artist Anri Sala has been chosen to represent France at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, it was announced Jan 19. Currently based in Berlin, Sala studied video at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris inView More >
Over the past decade, the Singapore government has aggressively poured money into developing the city-state into a cultural hub for Southeast Asia and beyond, supporting new institutions and events like the Singapore Biennale and the commercial art fair Art StageView More >