21 Nov Yto Barrada Will Represent France at 2026 Venice Biennale
The French-Moroccan artist was selected 'for her multidisciplinary practice that unites various artistic and social communities in search of a new utopia'. ...
21 Nov Bidders Go Bananas for Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’
The work was acquired by Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun for $6.2 million, more than quadruple its estimate. ...
20 Nov Phillips' Evening Sale in New York Garners $54m
The sale fell short of its estimate with a Basquiat painting estimated at between U.S. $10 million and $15 million not finding a buyer. ...
20 Nov Théo Mercier to Bring Debris and Disaster to Mona
Mona's owner and founder David Walsh said, 'When Théo was last in Hobart he said he was "going for a walk." He walked to the top of kunanyi. He's back, and he'll be doing something just as mad at Mona.' ...
19 Nov Rauschenberg Foundation Announces Centennial Celebrations
Exhibitions celebrating the artist's 100th birthday will take place in Germany, America, Spain, Hong Kong, and Austria in 2025 and 2026. ...
19 Nov Unmissable: Lisa Reihana at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
There comes a point during Lisa Reihana's immersive digital installation when the viewer feels swallowed up by crashing waves at Tai Kwun and a feeling of anxiety creeps in. ...
19 Nov Observer Lists Most Influential People in the Art Business
Preempting Art Review's Power 100, which will be released in early December, British newspaper The Observer has published its Business of Art Power List, an unranked collection of the 67 'most influential people in art'. ...
18 Nov Who Received Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards in 2024?
A combined £750,000 was awarded to five visual artists and five composers in the Foundation's 30th anniversary Awards for Artists. ...
18 Nov Sandra Mujinga: 'I felt a very urgent need to gather people'
In Greek mythology, Echo is a loquacious nymph cursed by the goddess Hera for distracting her from the infidelities of Zeus. Driven by retribution, Hera deprives Echo of her own speech and condemns her to repeat the last words uttered by another for eternity. Drawing...
18 Nov ‘Way of the Forest’ in Abu Dhabi: Landscapes Seen and Unseen
The travelling edition of Colomboscope (22 September to 29 December) entices us to learn from the forest—through the urgent practices of artists from Sri Lanka and beyond. In Ursula K. Le Guin's sci-fi novel The Word for World Is Forest (1972), inhabitants of a distant, densely...