[ad_1] The Fine Art Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) and the city’s Asian Art Museum could see layoffs and reduced public hours as a result of a major cut in the city’s budget.The San Francisco Chronicle’s Aidin Vaziri and Tony Bravo reported last week that FAMSF—which oversees the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor museum—has proposed eliminating 23 of its 99 city-funded positions and shuttering the two museums’ doors on Tuesdays. Meanwhile, the Asian Art Museum may need to lay off 13 security guards. These moves come in response to the San Francisco mayor’s office warning institutions to…
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[ad_1] At long last, Meow Wolf is bringing its otherworldly enchantment to New York City, with plans to open its seventh permanent exhibition at Pier 17 in South Street Seaport. The immersive experience company, which launched as an art collective in Santa Fe in 2008, announced the project at the SXSW festival in Houston today. For years, Meow Wolf fans have been waiting for the company to come to the East Coast. The success of the original Santa Fe exhibition, which opened in 2016, inspired ambitious expansion plans announced in 2019 to open 15 locations in the next five years. The pandemic…
[ad_1] An ongoing exhibition at the College of William and Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, brings seven of Michelangelo’s few surviving sketches to light in the United States for the first time. Through May 28, Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine, organized by Special Exhibition Curator Adriano Marinazzo, incorporates 38 objects in total, including 25 of the Renaissance master’s drawings and ideations for the Sistine Chapel along with etchings, lithographs, and other artifacts related to the monumental undertaking at the Vatican.The exhibition spans five galleries — three of which have been painted a soft shade of blue…
[ad_1] Liu Jiakun, a Chengdu-based architect known for his sensitive, place-driven approach to design, has been awarded the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most prestigious honor in architecture. Liu, who has spent decades crafting a body of work rooted in the traditions and materials of his native Sichuan province, is only the second Chinese citizen to receive the prize, following Wang Shu in 2012. The Pritzker jury praised Liu for using “Chinese tradition without nostalgia, but as a springboard for innovation,” crafting spaces that function as historical records, infrastructure, landscapes, and public forums. His projects, which range from museums and universities to…
[ad_1] Art MarketVeena McCooleInterior view of ARCOmadrid 2025. Courtesy of ARCOmadrid. Despite the drizzle and clouds overhead, collectors, fairgoers, and gallerists from across Europe and Latin America gathered in force for ARCOmadrid’s 44th edition in the Spanish capital, which concluded on Sunday, March 10th. Hosting 214 galleries from 36 countries—including nine international exhibitors making their ARCO debut—the fair is a highlight not only for Spain’s art world, but the art industry at large. About one-third of the booths this year were Spanish galleries, with strong contingents from Portugal, France, Germany, Brazil, and Argentina.Vienna-based gallerist and former ARCOmadrid advisory committee member…
[ad_1] To witness the launch of the media artist Refik Anadol’s AI-powered generative art installation, Living Architecture: Gehry, at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao—projected on the towering interior walls of Frank Gehry’s architectural masterpiece as part of the exhibition in situ: Refik Anadol—is to be reminded of the long history of architect’s visionary dreams.It is a history that ranges from the weightless Baroque of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s multi-level “capricci”; to the monumental spheres and pyramids of the 18th-century visionaries Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and Etienne-Louis Boullée; and to the neo-Classicist CR Cockerell’s sublime The Professor’s Dream (1848), a receding vision, covering Ancient Egypt…
[ad_1] Our weekly news roundup is an extension of Paint Drippings, which drops first in The Back Room, our lively recap funneling only the week’s must-know art industry intel into a nimble read you’ll actually enjoy. Artnet News Pro members get exclusive access—subscribe now to receive this in your inbox every Friday. Art Fairs – NADA New York announced 111 galleries that will exhibit at its 11th edition in May, including newcomers like Gallery Common (Tokyo), Galerie Noah Klink (Berlin), and Dohing Art (Seoul). The fair will have a new location this year: the Starrett-Lehigh Building in the West Chelsea gallery district. (Press…
[ad_1] So you think you know Mucha? Printmaking? The ravenous classism of the art world? This month, our editors and contributors invite you to question what you think you know. Senior Editor Hakim Bishara takes a look at the first English-language translation of a book of photos by Chilean photographer Sergio Larrain with text by poet Pablo Neruda, while Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang reads critic Lucy Lippard’s collection of experimental fiction. Read on for more recommendations, including Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian on Tamara Lanier’s moving memoir chronicling her fight to reclaim daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors from Harvard University and…
[ad_1] New York is a pretty sick town. Not in the “bro, that’s sick” way. Morbid, ill, macabre. The sickness has a lot to do with how disastrously emphasized the “New” in “New York” is with each passing generation. Forget what came before you. Just accept that things change. Enjoy the present while it lasts. While eating at the new New York restaurant Manuela in SoHo, I had only one thought: Our present sucks. To be blunt: Manuela is quite nice. The food is obviously excellent; even better are the people who work there. It’s the streets around it that…
[ad_1] Shahzia Sikander—named one of Artsy’s most influential artists of 2024—is showcasing a major exhibition across two premier Ohio Museums: the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) and the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM). The mid-career survey, titled “Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior,” features nearly 100 artworks spanning 35 years. These shows will run concurrently—at CMA through June 8th and at CAM through May 4th. Sikander first presented “Collective Behavior” during the 2024 Venice Biennale at a collateral exhibition at Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel. Now, this exhibition has been split into two shows, both in Ohio. The show features her breakthrough paintings illustrating…