Melissa Chiu, curator, author, and longtime director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, has been appointed director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced on April 9. 

Chiu has served as director of the Hirshhorn since 2014. During her tenure, she oversaw a renewed focus on contemp...

Art is the only commodity in the world that promises transcendence of the commodity. In no other industry do you purchase an object that offers, simultaneously, the conviction that you are not the kind of person who buys mere objects. What is for sale is not just the thing, but also a shard of genius, a chapter of history, a claim on the sublime—custodianship of a moment of h...

Nearly three hours by train from Geneva, nestled in the snow-capped Swiss Alps and overlooking the Rhône valley, a modest cube of a building houses and exhibits collections of the Fondation Opale, Europe’s only center dedicated to Australian Aboriginal art. Its façade is modeled on the swirling, pointillist rock painting patterns in Australia’s Western Desert that are said to...

French Lebanese artist and filmmaker Ali Cherri, together with the International Federation for Human Rights, has lodged a civil complaint in France over a 2024 Israeli airstrike on Beirut that killed seven civilians, including his parents. The complaint, filed on April 2 in a French court with its specialized war crimes unit and brought “against persons unknown,” condemns th...

Over 70 artists and curators taking part in “In Minor Keys,” the main exhibition of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, have issued an urgent open letter opposing the participation of Israel, Russia, and the US in this year’s edition. 

As of publication, there are 73 signatories, including Alfredo Jaar, Avital Barak, Gala Porras-Kim, Walid...