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The Dia Art Foundation in New York has announced that Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has won the inaugural Sam Gilliam Prize, along with $75,000 and a public program at one of Dia’s residences. The Sam Gilliam Award was established last year by the late artist’s foundation and his widow, Annie Gawla, as foundation president. Planned to award the award annually for the next decade, the award will be given to “an artist who has made a significant contribution in any medium and works anywhere in the world for whom the award would be transformative,” according to a statement. Related Articles…

Inigo Philbrick, the New York dealer who was later sentenced to seven years in prison for an $86 million wire fraud, has been released. He was sentenced in May 2022, serving a little less than four years in prison—more than three years less than originally expected. He initially announced his release on March 1 Daily Mail, who cited a source at the Federal Bureau of Prisons; a Vanity Fair The article published that month reported that he had been placed under house arrest and would be released on supervised release for two years. Philbrick’s attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, confirmed his release Art Newspaper. Related Articles…

The Gwangju Biennale, Asia’s most prestigious recurring arts festival, has announced the artists participating in its 2024 show, which opens on September 7 in the South Korean city. The exhibition is this time curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, a French curator known for theorizing the relational aesthetic style of the 1990s. As is typical of Bourriaud’s exhibitions, his Gwangju Biennale comes with an ambitious framework that sees sound as a means of structuring life as we know it. Its title is “Pansori, the soundscape of the 21st century”, the 17th century. which refers to a 20th century Korean music genre. “In…

When Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Ghana on an official visit in 1999, the British High Commission called in Gerald Annan-Forson for a private photo session with the monarch. A few years earlier, Annan-Forson had made a habit of standing in front of Buckingham Palace with the dream of one day taking pictures of the Queen or the royal family. The commission’s request was surprising. “I said, ‘Well, wait a minute. He’s coming with all these reporters. Why me?’” he recounted, talking to ARTnews In a recent interview from Accra, the capital of the West African country. “They said, ‘Well, we’ve been…

When Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Ghana on an official visit in 1999, the British High Commission called in Gerald Annan-Forson for a private photo session with the monarch. A few years earlier, Annan-Forson had made a habit of standing in front of Buckingham Palace with the dream of one day taking pictures of the Queen or the royal family. The commission’s request was surprising. “I said, ‘Well, wait a minute. He’s coming with all these reporters. Why me?’” he recounted, talking to ARTnews In a recent interview from Accra, the capital of the West African country. “They said, ‘Well, we’ve been…

Undergraduate internships at the Smithsonian’s Latino Museum Studies Program at the Smithsonian’s National Latino American Museum have been opened to students of all races, following the settlement of a lawsuit that said the program was discriminatory. CNN the reports The suit was filed in February by the Texas-based United States Alliance for Equal Rights against the museum’s director, Jorge Zamanillo, and Crosby Kemper, director of the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The lawsuit said the program had not hired any non-Latino interns since it began operating in 2022. Related Articles “When the alliance sued,” the American Alliance for Equal Rights said…

Hundreds of workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) recently went on strike in one of Canada’s most expensive cities in an effort to get higher wages. After ten months of negotiations, members of Local 535 of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) officially went on strike on March 26 after the museum’s latest offer was rejected. The union said the AGO’s “final” offer did not offer livable wages and included protections against hiring part-time workers, who make up 60 percent of the museum’s workforce. Related Articles Events co-ordinator Mark Thornberry has worked at the museum for 15…

Mary Boone, the famous New York saleswoman who went to prison for tax fraud, is the subject of a new Vampire Weekend song that shares her name. But the song is less an ode to his gallery, which has boosted the profiles of artists ranging from Barbara Kruger to Ai Weiwei, than an elegy to a New York era. The single, released this Thursday, only abstractly references Boone’s business and the subsequent scandal surrounding his personal finances, using his name primarily within a rhyming scheme. “Mary Boone, Mary Boone,” Vampire Weekend director Ezra Koenig can be heard chanting at various…

To receive morning links in your inbox every weekday, sign up with us Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. TITLES THE NEW LEADER OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Nicholas Cullinan A new director has been appointed British Museum In London, after the resignation of the former director Hartwig Fischer, who resigned following a massive theft of the museum’s collection, which the institution believes was perpetrated by its former curator. He is currently the director of Cullinan National Portrait Galleryand in his new role, he will also have to face broad challenges Parthenon marble To Greece, as well as governance problems. Related Articles MUSEUM STRIKES. In news for museum workers, union members are flexing…

A version of this essay appeared earlier Reformulatedhas Art in America A newsletter about the art that amazes us and the works that work on us. Sign up here to be picked up every Thursday. Growing up, Anu Põder wanted to be a dancer. But his small body did not meet the discipline’s impossible standards, so he turned to art, where fit physiques soon became his main concern. The resulting feminine forms—made of fat, surgical plastic, and fashion found materials—make up Estonian artist Anu Põder: Space for My Body, a retrospective at Switzerland’s Muzeum Susch, a picturesque private institution carved into the foothills of a…