2+ hour, 32+ min ago  (300+ words) Workers from Umoja Art Gallery, based in Kampala, Uganda, were denied visas the week before the Africa Basel art fair opened on June 17. Arts workers affiliated with Umoja Art Gallery, based in Kampala, Uganda, were denied Swiss entry visas the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (205+ words) New York City nonprofit Artists & Mothers has named the 2026 recipients of its eponymous $25, 000 grant for artists who identify as mothers. The landmark program provides funding to cover nine months of childcare and is open to emerging and mid-career artists raising…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (270+ words) A range of well-known French artists signed an open letter on Wednesday that sought a boycott of the Centre Pompidou's soon-to-be-inaugurated Seoul satellite museum in protest of a partner foundation's ties to Israel. The Hanhwa Foundation has attempted to distance…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (360+ words) While it has been suspected, though not confirmed, that Mc Kenzie canceled the piece because of the Palestine content, Goliath was unequivocal at the exhibition's opening on Monday. "If you read the minister's letters'the first threatening letters I started getting…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (625+ words) Artist Guadalupe Maravilla alleges that he was racially profiled by the police while in Venice to install his work at the Venice Biennale. New York'based artist Guadalupe Maravilla had traveled to Venice last weekend to finalize the installation of his…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (291+ words) As questions continue to swirl around Alma Allen's US Pavilion for this year's Venice Biennale, sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud revealed that she was also offered the opportunity to represent the country'and that she had declined it. "Participating in the 61st Venice Biennale…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (215+ words) As the foundation pointed out, all three of the artists included'Ayan Farah, Asmaa Jama, and Warsan Shire'have ties to Somalia, but they all work outside the nation. Farah is based in Stockholm, Jama is based in Bristol, and Shire is…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (353+ words) Belu-Simion Fainaru, the artist representing Israel at the forthcoming Venice Biennale, responded at length this weekend to continued calls for his nation's ejection from the show. Fainaru's Israeli Pavilion has been protested by groups such as the Art Not Genocide…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (230+ words) Enslaved Girl Identified in 18th-Century Portrait at Art Gallery of Ontario Former Louvre president Laurence des Cars admitted to lawmakers yesterday that, since the October theft of France's crown jewels from the Louvre, "we should no longer display them there…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (306+ words) South Africa's contribution to this year's Venice Biennale will be both absent and impossible to ignore. Months after the government abruptly canceled a planned pavilion by artist Gabrielle Goliath, the work at the center of the dispute is now set…...