Author: Juddy Miller

The 20th edition of São Paulo’s SP-Arte—Brazil’s main art fair—will open a few weeks before the 60th Venice Biennale (April 20 to November 24), a historic moment for the country’s art world, with Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa. curator of the exhibition. Fernanda Feitosa, founder of SP-Arte, says that the nation’s commercial sector is ready to “capitalize on the moment”. The fair will gather this month 180 exhibitors, including from more than 15 Brazilian cities. “There are 30 Brazilian artists at the Venice Biennale, our largest representation ever,” says Feitosa. “Almost all of these artists have been exhibited at the fair and…

Brazilian dealers Jaqueline Martins and Maria Montero are merging their galleries to create a new joint venture, Martins&Montero. Both Martins, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, and Montero, who founded Sé Galeria, will close their individual spaces in São Paulo and jointly open another in the city next month. Martins&Montero will also take over the second location of Galeria Jaqueline Martins in Brussels. All employees of both galleries will be retained in the merger, and each artist previously represented by Jaqueline Martins or Sé will transfer to the Martins&Montero roster. Founded in 2011, Galeria Jaqueline Martins has grown to represent 30 artists, including…

A unique 19th-century Maori feather cloak, created from thousands of green parrot feathers woven into a grass cloth, has been put on display at Scotland’s new £27m Perth Museum. The cape is a special object for the descendants of its makers: Maori people were invited to Perth to pray and sing over it, as it was carefully packed for transport, and traveled to the British Museum in London, where conservation work was carried out. A closed Facebook group enabled exchanges between two museums in the UK, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum in New Zealand and Māori communities. The cape is in…

For his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, American artist Glenn Ligon has created several new paintings that expand on his celebrity. the stranger series, which started in 1997. The works on display at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong are based on James Baldwin’s 1953 essay. Stranger in Town, the writer reflects on his encounter with the inhabitants of a Swiss mountain town where he had never met a Black person before. Ligon’s powerful compositions explore the visibility and invisibility of the Black experience, drawing Baldwin’s words on canvas and covering them with charcoal dust. says Ligon Art Newspaper about the beginnings of the series…

Visitors have returned to Hong Kong’s museums as the Special Administrative Region’s lockdowns and travel restrictions have ended. Since opening in 2021, M+ has become Hong Kong’s most popular art museum. It received 2.8 million visitors in 2023—38% more than in 2022, when it was closed for 89 days due to the pandemic—making it one of the 20 most visited art museums in the world, according to M+. Art NewspaperThe annual visitor survey, published this month, has seen more visitors than Florence’s venerable Uffizi galleries and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. It was the most visited art museum in Asia, after the National Museum…

Edward Enninful is one of the great minds of our time. With an insatiable thirst for knowledge and “why?” with a passion for questioning, creativity flows constantly in his veins. Knees finds the greatest fulfillment in research, immersing himself in various cultures, especially art. Enninful seeks to understand “the mechanics of things” and studies “the masters and their brushstrokes,” among other things. Although her career has taken her to the far corners of the fashion world, she is “as excited to see me as she is to go to the galleries. [designer] shows”. Art is essential to his quality of…

Inaugural works of Small Worldthe latest biennial in Taipei, which closed on Sunday, the provocative exhibits are as remarkable as they ever get: first, a section featuring pioneering Palestinian digital artist Samia Halaby, then a wall of Hsu Tsun-Hsu’s photographs documenting Taiwan’s passage through the military dictatorship. To the prosperous democracy in the 1990s. Palestinian curator Reem Shadid from Beirut, Taiwanese curator Freya Chou from Hong Kong and Taiwanese American writer Brian Kuan Wood from New York. Small World It applies insights from very small but conflicted places, like Taiwan and Palestine, to big questions about humanity, security, and community. “After that there…

The art technology team at London’s Serpentine Galleries has invited artists and arts organisations, lawyers, publishers and technologists to join them in developing new shared systems for cultural institutions to manage and control their data using artificial intelligence (AI). The call to action comes in a year where the use of AI by large companies to analyze and profit from data sets — as well as by governments, businesses, professionals and creatives in their daily lives — is one of the major issues facing society. The group was invited at the Future Art Ecosystems 4: Art x Public AI (Fae…

More than 150 people occupied London’s Science Museum on Saturday to protest against a new gallery sponsored by part of the Indian conglomerate Adani, which has links to coal mining and arms manufacturing. The museum has been accused of allowing the Adani Group, the world’s largest private coal miner, to “green” its operations by sponsoring the Energy Revolution: Adani Green Energy gallery. through the renewable energy subsidiary. The new gallery, which opens on Tuesday, highlights how renewable energy can help tackle climate change. An investigation by research group Culture Unstained, using documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests, revealed that the…

a study of the guard Four formaldehyde sculptures created by Damien Hirst and dated to the 1990s have been alleged to have been created in 2017. In the first of two reports, published on March 19. an unidentified source says Hirst’s company, Science, “instructed employees to artificially age the sculptures, making them appear as if they were made in the 1990s.” Science representatives have confirmed that the three aforementioned sculptures were physically made in 2017: the pigeon; Myth Explore, Explain, Explode; and Cain and Abel, Hirst dates them to 1999, 1993-99 and 1994, respectively. Earlier dates refer to when the works were created, rather than produced,…