Artist Michael Kagan Wants to Get Miami Fairgoers Amped About Space Travel With This Floating, 400-Pound Space Capsule
One of the stranger sights in Miami this week is an Apollo space capsule floating in Biscayne Bay as if…
Looking to See Some Art Beyond a Fair Booth? Here Are 16 Museum and Gallery Shows to Visit During Art Basel Miami Beach 2021
During Miami Art Week (November 29–December 5), there will be plenty more to see beyond the Miami Beach Convention Center,…
A Houston Outsider Art Center Beloved by Dominique de Menil Is Expanding Into an Eight-Acre Campus for Offbeat Creativity
For 40 years, Houston’s Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has been the guardian of experiential art environments in the…
Editors’ Picks: 14 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Licensing Lessons for Artists to the Return of Immersive Van Gogh
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person, in the…
In Pictures: Artist Kenzo Digital’s New, Multilevel Installation Atop a New York City Skyscraper Has to Be Seen to Be Believed
Brooklyn artist Kenzo Digital has transformed the heart of Midtown Manhattan into infinite artwork in the sky in Air, his new,…
The Largest Documentary Film Festival in the U.S. Is Kicking Off in New York. Here Are 7 Films About Art to Check Out at Doc NYC
Today marks the start of Doc NYC, the nation’s largest documentary film festival, and quite a few of the selections…
A New Museum Is Opening in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Visitors Will Need a Military Escort to Get There
The Korean Demilitarized Zone, a thin strip of land dividing the Korean peninsula on either side of the 38th parallel,…
Depressing New Report Finds That Women Artists Accounted for Just 16 Percent of NFT Sales Over the Past 21 Months
It remains to be seen if the NFT and crypto art trend has legs, but it appears this new sector…
Justin Bieber’s Lawyers Tried to Shut Down a Gallery Show by an Artist Impersonating the Pop Star to Sell $100,000 Paintings
When a press release went out from one “Harry Gablowsian,” hundreds of pop fans RSVP’d for the new gallery’s opening…
Groundbreaking Sculptor Simone Leigh Splits With Hauser and Wirth Mere Months Before Her Venice Pavilion’s Debut
Sculptor Simone Leigh is parting ways with global mega-gallery Hauser and Wirth after less than two years—just months before she is due…
A Texas Marketing Company Is Opening a Juneteenth Museum, Promising an Interactive History of the New National Holiday
A National Juneteeth Museum is opening in Fort Worth, Texas, on the site of an existing institution that commemorates the…
With a Knockout Show of Vividly Painted Religious Sculptures, New York’s Hispanic Society Comes Back to Life After a Four-Year Closure
For more than four years, the galleries at New York’s Hispanic Society of America have been closed to visitors, its…
‘The Whole Thing Is an Art Project’: Meow Wolf Cofounders Explain the Grand Plan Behind Their Wildly Popular Immersive Art Universe
Last month marked the opening of Meow Wolf Denver, the third location for the wildly popular immersive art experience company that began…
On the National Mall, The Largest Participatory Art Project in a Quarter Century Makes Tangible the Human Toll of COVID-19
Artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg has planted 695,000 white flags on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.—one for each person in the U.S. who…
The New Museum Is Launching a $400,000 Prize for Female Sculptors, One of the Largest Art Awards in the United States
New York’s New Museum has launched one of the world’s largest art prizes with one clear objective: to recognize path-breaking female…
In an Expansion, the Rubell Museum Will Bring Its Tastemaking Private Art Collection to Washington, D.C., Next Year
Miami’s Rubell Museum, one of the most prestigious and influential private contemporary art institutions in the U.S., is expanding with a long-awaited…
See 10 of the Exhilarating Installations at the Spring/Break Art Show, From a Shrine to Giantesses to One Absurdly Big Ham
Spring/Break Art Show, the upstart cool kid’s fair, kicked off its 10th New York edition—yes, you read that right—in uncharacteristically…
Silicon Valley Investors Are Backing a New San Francisco Contemporary Art Institution That Promises to Look Beyond White Men
A new museum is coming to the Bay Area. The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is set to open…