[ad_1] Welcome to Wet Paint in the Wild, the freewheeling—and free!—spinoff of Artnet News Pro’s beloved Wet Paint gossip column, where we give art-world insiders a disposable camera to chronicle their lives on the circuit. To read the latest Wet Paint column, click here (members only). The macabre and narrative qualities of Georgia Gardner Gray’s paintings were what originally got me hooked on the artist’s practice when I first encountered them at Reena Spaulings about two years ago in New York. After that show, to my great delight, I learned that her darkly surrealist sensibitlies extended to a sculptural and…
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[ad_1] After weeks of rallies against expected layoffs at the Brooklyn Museum and even a special oversight hearing at City Hall, District Council 37, one of the unions representing employees, said in a statement that leadership will offer some buyouts to impacted workers.In an email press release today, March 10, a week before the staff cuts were set to go into effect, DC 37 said the museum agreed to voluntary separation packages and retirement incentives — alternatives the union has long been advocating for. It’s unclear how many workers will be eligible, or whether layoffs will be avoided entirely. “The…
[ad_1] This week, fashion designer Gabriela Hearst debuted her latest ready-to-wear fall 2025 line at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris as part of the city’s fashion week. Those in the crowd may have noticed some familiar faces—namely, artist Rashid Johnson—among the models. This collaboration between art and fashion is hardly new, though it’s not often that contemporary artists walk the runway themselves. For the show’s 11th look, Johnson wore a black turtleneck, wide-legged black trousers fitted with a belt, and a knee-length dark brown coat. Related Articles In his art practice, Johnson is known for his sharp meditations on…
[ad_1] The Corita Art Center (CAC), dedicated to artist and educator Corita Kent, officially opened its doors on March 8th in downtown Los Angeles. This new cultural space will house the artist’s archive while also functioning as an education facility and community space. Often referred to as the “Pop art nun,” Kent—also known as Sister Mary Corita—taught herself to make prints during her time as a nun in the Immaculate Heart of Mary religious order in Los Angeles. These prints initially focused on religious subjects and took inspiration from medieval prints. By the 1960s, as Pop art gained popularity and…
[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…
[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…