The British prize for moving image work has been an important forerunner of further success. Grace Ndiritu, Black Beauty (2021), film still. Courtesy of Post-Hippie Productions. The six nominees for this year's Jarman Award were announced this week. They are Jamie Crewe, Onyeka Igwe, Grace Ndiritu,...
Frieze named the 118 galleries taking part, including a who's who of blue chip global galleries. Seoul. Photo: Joon Kyu Park. Frieze has announced the 118 galleries that will show in their first Asian fair from 2–5 September 2022. The list is a who's who of the...
David Kordansky shared his memories of working with the artist he nicknamed 'Big Tree'. Sam Gilliam, 10/27/69 (1969). Acrylic on canvas. Approximate installation dimensions: 355.6 x 469.9 x 40.6 cm. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Courtesy David Kordansky Gallery, Los...
Fifteen thousand people gathered at the NFT.NYC conference in New York last week, with many more joining just for satellite events around the city. A number of NFT.NYC sessions took place at Radio City Music Hall. Photo: Sam Gaskin. There was a boosterish tone to most...
The new Singaporean art fair, billed as Southeast Asia's biggest, will debut in January 2023. Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Courtesy Marina Bay Sands. The exhibitors have been announced for a major new art fair that will launch in Singapore early next year. ART SG will showcase over...
Previous winners of the UK's largest contemporary prize include China's Xu Bing, Mexico's Teresa Margolles, and Thailand's Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Top row from left to right: Rushdi Anwar, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, and Mounira Al Solh, Carolina Caycedo. Bottom row from left to right: Taloi Havini, Alia...
Boasting its own gallery in Marfa, Texas, Art Blocks has been as eager to embrace the contemporary art world as Pace has to promote NFTs. Their first collaboration is a series of oil slicks by John Gerrard. John Gerrard, Petro National (United States of America),...
Verse has now raised $2.4 million in seed funding and brought in former Tate curator Leyla Fakhr as its head of exhibition programming. Verse co-founders Jamie Gourlay and Augustinas Malinauskas. Courtesy of Verse. New NFT platform Verse is collaborating with 12 artists, curators, and NFT whisperers...
Artistic directors ruangrupa and Palestinian collective The Question of Funding have been accused of anti-semitism and subject to threatening graffiti. Graffiti at WH22. Courtesy documenta fifteen. Ruangrupa invoked the lumbung, Indonesian for a communal rice barn, as the foundation of the 15th edition of documenta, the...
The pair previously collaborated on exhibitions including A Journal of the Plague Year at Para Site in 2013 and Long Green Lizards at the Dak'Art Biennale in 2018. (From left) Inti Guerrero and Cosmin Costinaș at McMahons Point, North Sydney. Photograph: Joshua Morris. Berlin-based curators...