Author: Ann Williams

CHICAGO – A boy who goes to school with my children was killed two weeks ago. He was 11 years old, the star of the next school musical, very kind and cheerful with everyone, and he died trying to protect his mother from an attacker who entered their house with the intention of harming her. The situation was neither random nor unexpected. The mother had repeatedly threatened the man, who had spent years in prison for domestic battery and other charges, and had an active protective order in place. So it was with a very heavy heart that I saw…

Artist Profile Archive’s latest documentary short features Njideka Akunyili Crosby, an acclaimed Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist. In this video, the artist speaks from his LA studio, reflecting on his career as an artist, the creative process, and the 2023 exhibitions “The Hilton Als Series: Njideka Akunyili Crosby” and “Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Coming Back to See Through, Again.” ” by David Zwirner in Los Angeles and New York. Born in Nigeria in 1983, Akunyili Crosby immigrated to the United States at the age of 16. He attended Swarthmore College, where he majored in biology and took many art classes. “Art was…

This week, the British Museum in London launched legal proceedings against one of its former curators, Peter Higgs, accused of stealing up to 2,000 objects from its collection. The archaeologist who first saw the stolen items, however, described the legal action as “locking the stable door after locking the horse”.Higgs was curator of the museum’s Ancient Greek collections and acting head of the Greece and Rome department. It was released last year after revelations that scores of objects had been damaged or disappeared, and this week the museum sued Higgs for the return of the remaining artworks in its possession.In…

Nicholas Cullinan, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, has been appointed to lead the British Museum, taking on a number of challenges at the world’s oldest national museum after a theft scandal and revelations of serious problems in its governance amid calls for action. To return the Parthenon marbles to Greece.Cullinan led a major transformation at the National Portrait Gallery that won critical and public acclaim. “We believe it can achieve this and more at the British Museum on a larger scale as we undertake a once-in-a-generation redevelopment,” British Museum chairman George Osborne said in a statement.Cullinan has served…

Mar Dixon, as he remembers on his profile @MarDixon X (screenshot and background color edited by Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) Social media specialist and culture enthusiast Mar Dixon died at the age of 53 on Saturday, March 16, in Shropshire, England. Throughout his career, Dixon has driven several international social media campaigns focused on audience development for cultural centers, starting social media trends such as #AskACurator and #Museum Selfie and start 52 Museums network project, among others. Originally from Pennsylvania and based in the UK, Dixon is best remembered for his singular goal of connecting the individual with the organization in…

“New Artist Spotlight” is a recurring editorial series featuring artists who have recently joined Artsy’s roster of gallery partners.Self-taught French artist Alexis Ralaivao is fascinated by small details. Her oil paintings, whether close-ups of sparkling jewels or cropped portraits of the human figure, exude a palpable sensuality that transforms everyday scenes into cherished moments. A student of The Artsy Vanguard 2022, Ralaivaok draws inspiration from Dutch Golden Age masters such as Johannes Vermeer and Gerard ter Borch, focusing obsessive attention to the details of lived experiences in his genre paintings, which highlight clothing, flesh, glass, metal. , and jewelry. Now…

XVII By the end of the 19th century, Europe was beginning to see China as more than the legendary land of Marco Polo. As luxury goods—especially porcelain—flowed to the West and scientific tools and ideas increased to the East, the two civilizations became slightly more familiar and enviable. This period of what might be called respectable greed ushered in a golden age of collecting, bought, commissioned or simply collected by the French court of Versailles, then the finest in Europe, and its Chinese counterpart, the imperial court of the Forbidden City in Beijing. the two worldsNow, the remnants of those…

Ghanaian sculptor, textile and installation artist Ibrahim Mahama has won the inaugural Sam Gilliam Award, an award created last year by the Dia Art Foundation and the Sam Gilliam Foundation in honor of the late artist’s legacy. Mahama will receive $75,000 and appear in a public program at Dia this fall. The prize will be awarded annually until 2033.”My mentor Kąrî’káchä Seid’ou first introduced me to Gilliam’s important work as a student, and he has had a profound influence on me ever since,” Mahama said in a statement. “The most important aspect of any community is the sharing of their…

On a brisk Friday morning in early March, James Fuentes led a parade of art workers, press and members of Japanese-American painter Kikuo Saito’s extended family from the painter’s basement studio in Soho to his new gallery in Tribeca. The art dealer was the artist’s first time in the 2,500 square meter building Color Codes, a series of large-scale monochromatic paintings by Saito in the early 1990s. He was amazed by its high ceilings and the skylight in the back room, which allowed daylight to flood the entire space. “I appreciate being centrally located, which we’ve never been,” Fuentes said…

ArtBrady NgWolfgang Tillmans, Window Left Open, 2023. Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York/Hong Kong; Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne; and Maureen Paley, London.Izumi Kato, Without a title, 2023. ©2023 Izumi Kato. By the artist and Perrotin. The opening of the Venice Biennale is less than a month away, but for now, the great and the good of the art world will be coming to Hong Kong for Art Basel. The fair is returning to its pre-2020 scale, with more than 240 galleries from 40 countries setting up booths and collectors gathering for new acquisitions. There, they will also find a litany of…