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Melissa Chiu leaving Hirshhorn to take over New York's Guggenheim Museum - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (360+ words) Melissa Chiu, the longtime director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, is leaving her post to lead New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Chiu will not be taking any time off between jobs: her final day at…...
A new Istanbul gallery is offering an outlet for Iran's artists
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (767+ words) Iranian artist Shaqayeq Arabi features in Echoes, the gallery's inaugural exhibition Courtesy Shiva Zahed Gallery On 28 February, a new gallery devoted to Iranian contemporary art opened in Istanbul's Pera district, offering a rare physical platform for artists navigating sanctions, travel…...
George Costakis, collector and saviour of Soviet avant-garde art, celebrated with Athens exhibition
5+ day, 12+ hour ago (491+ words) George Costakis in his apartment on Vernadsky avenue, Moscow in the mid-1970s Costakis left some of his collection to the Tretyakov Gallery when he left the Soviet Union in 1977 but took a sizeable chunk to Greece. His collection was first exhibited…...
London's National Gallery announces architects for new "350m wing
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (558+ words) Renderings. Left: The entrance to the new wing. Right: the new bridge connecting the National Gallery's old and new wings, above the activated public realm of Jubilee Walk The National Gallery in London's major new extension will be designed by…...
New York's Jewish Museum opens Paul Klee exhibition without its centrepiece
1+ week, 5+ day ago (576+ words) A Paul Klee exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York opened as planned on 20 March'except that its centrepiece was missing. Angelus Novus (1920), an oil and watercolour work on paper, remains stuck in Israel because the Iran war has disrupted…...
Contemporary Jewish Museum puts its Libeskind-designed building in San Francisco up for sale
2+ week, 4+ day ago (450+ words) The Art Newspaper Contemporary Jewish Museum puts its Libeskind-designed building in San Francisco up for sale The museum, which has been closed since December 2024, will continue its programming in collaboration with other cultural institutions The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) has…...
Who owns the seas? Shahzia Sikander's new animation on world trade beamed onto M+ museum facade
2+ week, 4+ day ago (244+ words) A still of Shahzia Sikander's animation 3 to 12 Nautical Miles (2026), co-commissioned by M+ and Art Basel Courtesy of the artist Alongside drawing and painting, Sikander has been making animations since 2001. Laborious, hand-drawn processes remain integral to her work, which consists of…...
Museums in Shenzhen and Guangzhou are building bridges between Hong Kong and mainland China
2+ week, 6+ day ago (452+ words) A rendering of R'ng Museum (bottom building) in Shenzhen's Houhai district, part of the M80 cultural complex, is slated to open in 2027; the museum, which will be run by Pi Li, its founding director, will occupy a total floor area of…...
The new New Museum: now with twice the space
3+ week, 5+ day ago (447+ words) The expanded New Museum on the Bowery in New York has doubled in size to 120, 000 sq. ft. Attached to the fa'ade is Tschabalala Self's Art Lover (2025) After four years of construction, New York's New Museum is unveils its ambitious $82m expansion…...
Pedro Friedeberg, key figure in Mexican art renowned for hand-shaped chair, has died at age 90
1+ mon, 8+ hour ago (320+ words) The Mexico-based artist and designer Pedro Friedeberg, best known for his hand-shaped chair, Mano Silla (1962), died on 5 March at age 90 in San Miguel de Allende. In addition to his famous design and a cynical, at times eccentric persona, Friedeberg's life…...