ArtPrize, the biggest contemporary art exhibition in the US, which features up to 1,500 artists competing for $500,000 in prize money, has cancelled its 2020 edition. The organization has “decided to put the entire staff on furlough with no clarity about when or if that will end,” Kevin Buist, ArtPrize’s artistic director, wrote in a post […] More
When artist Shaun Leonardo released a statement last month accusing the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, of censorship, few were more surprised than Cleveland-based artist and activist Amanda King. Last February, she raised her concerns to the institution’s senior staff that the work in Leonardo’s exhibition, which depicts scenes of police officers killing African American […] More
It is a shocking and unforgettable image: a Black man crosses the street with an angry mob in pursuit. A brick flies through the air toward the man’s head. The traffic light is green, as if the angry mob has the go-ahead. Activists are petitioning the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main to take down […] More
Art lovers up and down the East Coast of the US can celebrate Independence Day with , a new public, augmented-reality artwork from Nancy Baker Cahill that debuts on July 4 in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, and Washington, DC, among other cities. “I spent a lot of time in Philadelphia as a child, and one of my most […] More
“Gordon Parks: Part One”through August 1, 2020Alison Jacques Gallery, London What the gallery says: “Born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, Gordon Parks was a humanitarian with a deep and life-long commitment to social justice. He rapidly developed a deeply personal style of photography with a focus on race relations, poverty, civil rights, and […] More
Marian Cramer Projects in Amsterdam has teamed up with curator, writer, and contributing editor of Juxtapoz magazine, Sasha Bogojev, for an exciting group exhibition that will celebrate the beginning of Summer and hopeful restoration of everyday life’s energy. DontGiveADamns is an eclectic selection of 18 international artists whose creative practice carries the “f**k it!” attitude […] More
What is more powerful: beauty, or ugliness? Artist Fred Wilson, who is known for his interventionist artworks, in which he takes objects from museum collections and rearranges them, decoding and recontextualizing their meaning, was focused on just that question in an exclusive interview with Art21 filmed in 2014. In the interview, Wilson discusses beauty, ugliness, and meaning […] More
