The New York Philharmonic commissioned an outside investigation into its culture after a magazine article explored how it handled an accusation of sexual assault in 2010.The New York Philharmonic, which has been facing an uproar since a recent magazine article... More »
Bank of America, which has a division that focuses on cultural philanthropy, has announced the 24 institutions that its giving funding to as part of a long-standing conservation program, which has been in affect for over a decade. Among the biggest ones receiv... More »
Sotheby’s will offer four major paintings by Joan Mitchell as part of its contemporary evening sale on May 13, spanning the artist’s career, with estimates ranging between $1 million and $20 million.All four paintings, Untitled (1954), the large-scale c... More »
Typically, the Venice Biennale’s national pavilions play second fiddle to the main exhibition—which is ironic, considering that there is about as much art, if not more, on view in them than what’s contained in the Arsenale and the Giardini combined. But this y... More »
The simultaneously eccentric and emblematic Americanness of Robert Indiana is on prismatic display in Venice, where a career-spanning survey titled “The Sweet Mystery” opened at the historic Procuratie Vecchie in Piazza San Marco as one of the collateral event... More »
While the last professional preview day for the 2024 Venice Biennale is Friday, the week’s hullabaloo technically ends on Saturday morning, when the exhibition opens to the public and the Biennale’s jury announces the winners for the Golden Lions at 11 am (loc... More »
Photography Social Issues#climate crisis #contests #refugees #war #World Press Photo April 18, 2024 Grace Ebert More »
The Venice Biennale’s most exclusive and elusive show is at a women’s prison. Put on by the Vatican pavilion, the show is at Giudecca Women’s Prison; the bouncers are prison guards, and it’s hard to get an appointment. It seems that the prison, and the Vatican... More »
Art#Afghanistan #Hadi Rahnaward #installation #matches April 18, 2024 Grace Ebert More »
Art#animals #birds #sculpture #Tamara Kostianovsky #textiles April 17, 2024 Grace Ebert More »
The Sydney Dance Company’s “ab [intra]” at the Joyce Theater is impressive but chilly.“Ab[intra],” the title of the work that Sydney Dance Company from Australia is performing at the Joyce Theater this week, is Latin for “from within.” But the Latinate words t... More »
Art#afrofuturism #Cyrus Kabiru #fashion #found objects #sculpture April 17, 2024 Kate Mothes More »