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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…

On the morning of December 16, anonymous street artist Banksy posted a photo on Instagram of a mysterious artwork depicting the Virgin Mary breastfeeding baby Jesus. Notably, the image features what appears to be a drain hole with a rust-red stain, not Mary’s drain hole. Nipples, causing gunshot wounds or other injuries.The post’s cropped image composition and lack of captions sparked multiple theories in the comments section, with many users suggesting the artwork was symbolic of ongoing deadly attacks against mothers and children in the Gaza Strip. Others believe the article may be a commentary on hazardous chemicals and the…

Chicago – Theaster Gates’ latest exhibition, When the Clouds Lift: Reflections and Recovery in the Johnson Archiveswould give all but the most radical archivists a heart attack.It’s also incredibly exciting, filled with novel presentation strategies, bold creative repurposings, and plenty of dark humor, all done with a great aesthetic. The exhibition marks the artist’s most extensive engagement with furniture, objects and images from the now-defunct Johnson Publishing Company, which long documented black American life in magazines ebony and injection. Founded in 1942 by John H. and Eunice Johnson, JPC was, at its peak, the largest black-owned media enterprise in the…

Descendants of late Swedish abstract painter Hilma af Klint have expressed concerns about a possible deal between the foundation that manages her artistic estate and David Zwirner Gallery, citing There is a risk of “commercialization” in her work. Erik af Klint, chairman of the board of directors of the Hilma af Klint Foundation and the artist’s great-grandson, called the deal a “hostile takeover” and initially Reported by the foundation guardian.Eric was the only one of the five board members to vote against Zwirner’s proposal to become the foundation’s representative gallery. In 2022, Zwirner orchestrated the acquisition of a series of…