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At a ceremony held at the Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, Germany, this evening, the Kunststiftung NRW foundation named Sondra Perry the winner of the 2018 Nam June Paik award, which is given …

10/22/18 the art fair Frieze announced a new partnership with the Manhattan museum the Drawing Center. The collaboration will span multiple fairs and involve Frieze making “a significant …

10/18/18, during a dinner at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Simone Leigh was presented with the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize, which is given every two years to a contemporary artist. It comes with a $100…

Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art has linked up with Rutgers University’s Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to digitize the Moscow Archive of New Art (MANI), a collection …

Five pieces from the collection of the filmmaker and architect François de Menil and his wife, Susan, will go up for sale at Christie’s in New York as part of its November evening sale of postwar a…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has acquired the 1914 Juan Gris Cubist still life The Musician’s Table. The collector Leonard A. Lauder, who previously founded the Met’s Leonard A…

On November 15, at its postwar and contemporary art evening sale in New York, Christie’s is set to put David Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972, on the auction bloc…

Shanghai’s ART021 Contemporary Art Fair will host booths for 103 galleries from 30 different cities in 18  countries during the sixth edition of the fair, running this year November 8-11. Parti…

Earlier this year, Frieze said that it would start a modestly sized art fair in Los Angeles—the city that not so long ago shattered the dreams of another enterprising art-fair company from…

Art Basel will institute what it termed a slide-scale pricing model, beginning with the 2019 edition of its flagship Swiss fair next June that will look to help galleries with smaller footprints at it…

In the opening moments of Heather Lenz’s new documentary, Kusama: Infinity, the artist Yayoi Kusama, donning a bright red dress and wig to match, describes “the sense of being obliterated by …

The collection of David Tieger, the management consultant and former trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York who died in 2014 at the age of 85, will be sold through Sotheby’s in a serie…

Art Basel has revealed details about the artworks that will be featured in the Buenos Aires edition of its Cities program, which will take place from September 6 to 12. The 18 artists featured&n…

Yasuaki Ishizaka has been appointed chairman & managing director for Sotheby’s Japan. He will start in early September. Ishizaka was the president and managing director of Sotheby’s Japan fro…

Artist Lauren Halsey is the winner of this year’s Mohn Award, which is given by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles to a participant in its Made in L.A. biennial. Through the award, Halsey will receive…

The thirteenth edition of the Contemporary Istanbul fair, which will be held at the Istanbul Congress Center and the Convention and Exhibition Centre from September 20 to 23, will feature over 80 gall…

The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) announced 93 exhibitors—including 10 new participants—for TEFAF New York Fall, which will take place at the Park Avenue Armory October 27-31. In contrast to a sp…

At the contemporary art evening sale at Sotheby’s in London, a new record was set for a Lucian Freud at auction in the capital city, when his Portrait on a White Cover (2003) sold for…