It’s art fair season here in New York City. Read on highlights (and flops) from Frieze and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and expect more in the coming days.
In other news, students at Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts stage a sit-in for Gaza, while the Biden administration pardons billions in debt for former students of defunct Art Institutes.
Also today, Christine Hume revisits the little-known story of a 1974 exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute where Joanne Leonard’s abortion series was deemed so controversial it had to be hidden from view. Sound familiar?
There’s more, including Required Reading, A View From the Easel, and a new book about the history of the “art public,” meaning people like me and you.
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In 1974, the San Francisco Art Institute isolated Joanne Leonard’s series Journal of a Miscarriage from the rest of the works in her solo show. Has anything changed since?
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Student activists staged a sit-in for Gaza at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, refusing to leave until leadership agrees to divest from companies tied to Israeli military attacks on Palestine.
The United States government has canceled $6.1 billion in student debt for borrowers who attended the Art Institutes, the now-defunct chain of for-profit colleges.
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The East Asian art of paper cutting, drawings inspired by Brazilian woodworking, and cunty ceramics are among the standouts of a mostly uninspiring affair.
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Rhea Nayyar |
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The special attention to women artists highlights the importance of intersectional representation in the fight for inclusion.
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ET Rodriguez |
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Much has been written about artists, curators, and art historians. Oskar Bätschmann’s The Art Public: A Short History is dedicated to the spectators on the other side.
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Blending zoomorphic elements with a fanciful aesthetic, the artist duo’s functional animal sculptures evoked a sense of wonder and enchantment.
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Rebecca Schiffman |
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“I spend some moments quietly observing the work in my studio and try to listen to what the work needs.”
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Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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This week, new US census categories, a dispatch from an art-framing shop, university crackdowns on student protesters, silly TikTok recipes, and much more.
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Lakshmi Rivera Amin and Elaine Velie |
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Dana Awartani is now represented by Lisson Gallery in collaboration with Chemould Prescott Road and Athr Gallery.
Claire Gilman was appointed curator and department head of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library and Museum.
Imani Roach was appointed the inaugural director and curator of the Brind Center for African and African Diasporic Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Ryan Sullivan and Sebastian Silva are now represented by BLUM gallery.
Lumi Tan was appointed program curator of the 2026 Converge 45 biennial in Portland.
Tracy Thomason is now represented by Miles McEnery Gallery.
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David Huang won the third annual Open Call for Artist Banners at the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. Jacqueline Qiu and Derek Zheng were selected as
runners-up.
Pierre Huyghe won the Grand Prix Artistique prize from the Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca.
Wang Tuo won the K21 Global Art Award from the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf.
The National Portrait Gallery in London, Young V&A, Manchester Museum, Dundee Contemporary Arts, and Craven Museum were shortlisted for the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year award.
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