UNC Greensboro, Reeling from Dissent Over Program Cuts, Gets $5 M. Contemporary Art Gift
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Greensboro will recieve a gift of 270 contemporary artworks and funding worth $5 million from...
Endeavor Explores Selling Frieze, Including Its Magazine, Fairs, and London Exhibition Space
Endeavor Group Holdings, a holding company that owns the namesake talent agency and several other sports and entertainment enterprises, is exploring selling off some of...
Rosana Paulino Wins Munch Museum’s Inaugural $25,000 Award Celebrating Artistic Freedom
The Munch Museum in Oslo will present Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino with its inaugural Munch Award honoring artistic freedom during a ceremony on Thursday. The...
2025 Bienal de São Paulo to Take the Title of ‘Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice’
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the chief curator of 2025 Bienal de São Paulo, has announced the title and curatorial concept of his forthcoming exhibition, sent...
Massive Hoard of Silver Pennies From Norman Conquest Valued at $5.6M
A massive hoard of 1,000-year-old silver pennies found by a group of people learning how to use metal detectors in 2019 were recently valued at...
Gary Indiana, Gimlet-Eyed Writer and Art Critic, Dies at 74
Gary Indiana, a writer whose acid musings on gallery shows and artists defined a era in art criticism, has died at 74. Frieze first reported...
Far-Right German Politicians Denounce Bauhaus Movement, Calling It ‘The Wrong Path of Modernism’
Politicians with the far-right Alternative for Germany party have criticized the Bauhaus movement of the early 20th century, claiming that its emphasis on austerity and...
Abbas Akhavan to Represent Canada at 2026 Venice Biennale
Abbas Akhavan will represent Canada at the 2026 edition of the Venice Biennale, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the pavilion’s commissioner, announced on...
Collector Libbie Mugrabi Embroiled in Legal Battle with Art-Backed Lending Company
Libbie Mugrabi, the New York–based socialite, art collector, and ex-wife of Top 200 collector David Mugrabi, is embroiled in an ongoing legal battle with the...
Ye Reveals ‘Bully’ Album Cover Art by Photographer Daido Moriyama
The cover art for Bully, the next solo album by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, features an image taken by the Japanese...
Brooklyn Arts Studio Apologizes for Removing Work of Palestinian-American Staffer
UrbanGlass, an arts space and glass-making studio in Brooklyn, has issued a public apology for excluding the work of a Palestinian-American employee from a staff...
Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti Tries to Pour Cold Water on the Frieze London vs. Art Basel Paris Debate
With Frieze London and Art Basel Paris finally in the rear-view mirror, you’d be forgiven for being tired of the relentless London vs. Paris debate...
London’s Luxury Sector Thrives Off Art Audiences, But Both Are at Risk: Report
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. London’s luxury sector depends on...
Amoako Boafo, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, and Actor Julianne Moore Among 13,000 Signers of Open Letter Protesting Unlicensed Use of Works to Train AI
A open letter against the mining of artistic works for training artificial intelligence (AI) tools has garnered the public support of artists Joel Shapiro, Gregory...