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The Baden State Museum in the German city of Karlsruhe, due to begin renovations in September 2025, has decided to move to the nearby Baden-Baden State Gallery, raising alarm bells amid cuts to the state’s arts and culture budget. . The Baden State Museum is closing to allow for renovations to the landmark palace that houses it; the restoration is expected to take five years to complete. The institution’s permanent collection covers more than 50,000 years of international culture, art and regional history. Related articles As part of the move of the Baden-Baden Museums to the Lichtentaler Allee space, Eckart…

The substance of announcements of major museum acquisitions can be difficult to decipher, buried in jargon-laced press releases thanking private donors. Larger museums acquired hundreds of works in 2024, including the Brooklyn Museum, which added 330 works to its collection, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which added 626 works across three acquisition groups.We analyzed museum acquisition lists and compiled 10 noteworthy additions to U.S. institutional collections in 2024, below. Please keep in mind that not all of these works may currently be on display, so check each museum’s website for the latest exhibition status of each work.National Gallery…

art marketLavatarasPortrait of Nadine Canso. Contributed by Nadine Canso. Artsy meets Nadine Kanso on a sunny day in Dubai’s popular Jumeirah waterfront community. Born in Lebanon, Kanso rose to prominence in Dubai with his high-end jewelry company, Bil Arabi (meaning “Arabic”), which celebrates Arabic language, scripture and identity. Like her own vision of making wearable statement pieces that represent beloved Arabic scripts, Canso’s art collection—whether at home or in her stylish office in the bustling Dubai Design District—is a tribute to A thoughtful reflection of Arab creativity spanning generations.Canso and her family have lived in a two-story villa for more…

Faith Ringgold, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Audrey Flack, Yong Soon Min and Lorraine O’Grady are some of the artists we will lose in 2024. Among them were Palestinian artists killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. Below is the complete list of artists, curators, writers, and art dealers we are honoring this year for their lasting contributions to our field.Brent SikmaThe American art dealer, a partner at Manhattan contemporary art gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Company, was found dead in his apartment in Rio de Janeiro in early January, reportedly from a stab wound. Police investigation is ongoing. He is 75 years…

Dear January — you again, with your wintery beauty and frosty days! Happy New Year and post-holiday hangover month for all. In tandem with the season of reflection and repose, the ever-inviting Goddess of Art beckons us to the creative hearth as diverse exhibitions crackle around Upstate New York. At Katonah Museum of Art, find Jonathan Becker’s glamorous photos of fabulous and famous humans living their outrageous lives. A site-specific installation by Anne Schaefer at Foreland in Catskill reconfigures her bold and bright graphic artworks as part of the Greater Valley Artists show. Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency at the Frances…

Happy Public Domain Day! Starting today, January 1st, you can legally access, adapt, remix and redistribute (depending on your jurisdiction) works by Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo and Robert Capa, and some texts by William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway, among others. In the United States, copyright on commissioned works lasts for 95 years, so films and books published in 1929 are up for grabs. The United States also observes a “life plus 70 years” period for copyrighted individual works; therefore, protection for the work of any author or creator who died in 1954 has now expired. One of our…

As the year 2024 draws to a close, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the artists whose work has created interesting works. Sue Nicholas stands out among them. With an academic foundation from Goldsmith’s College and Imperial College, University of London, her journey into the world of art is anything but conventional. Where others may focus on the external trappings of identity, Nicholas turns inward, exploring the fluid, ever-changing nature of self and its connection to the vital force of consciousness. For Nicholas, creating art is less about outward expression and more about mapping the intricate emotional and sensory…

When London’s Tate Modern opened in 2000, the museum welcomed the public with Louise Bourgeois’s monumental spider steel and marble sculpture Maman (1999), which dominated the Turbine Hall The entrance then left a series of slender bronze replicas around the world including Ottawa, Tokyo, Bilbao and Kansas City. Now, the late French-American artist’s iconic spider will return to the site of its debut in 2025, drawing a new generation of visitors in her web to mark the Bankside arts institution’s 25th anniversary.Conceived as an ode to the skilled, protective and nurturing presence of the bourgeois mother, Maman was commissioned for…

Düsseldorf, Germany — Sheila Hicks is a master of color, able to suggest depth and movement in abstraction and to captivate with figures and landscapes, all without straying from formalist rigor sex. Indeed, the exhilarating survey of much of the American artist’s recent work at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is a feast of rhythmic forms and pulsating colors. In stark contrast to the museum’s austere architecture, Hicks’ rich royal blues and pale yellows complement deep burgundies, creams and off-whites.In “Amsterdam” (2014), a free-standing work, the three-dimensionality and verticality of the sky-blue fabric surprisingly evoke a standing figure, adorned with gray braids…

The long-running legal saga surrounding Marlborough gallery dealer Pierre Levai has deepened, with yet another lawsuit surrounding the gallerist’s final months. His son Max Levay now claims Pierre was “captured” by Marcia Levine, a beneficiary of his trust and whom Max’s lawsuit calls his “long-time lover.” According to the lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court on December 9, Pierre’s wife, Rosemary Levay, “knew” of Levine’s relationship with him. The lawsuit was first reported this weekend new york postalleging that Levine “kept him sick, starved, and physically incapacitated in order to better misappropriate his assets and the assets of trusts…