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In Artforum’s Summer 2025 issue: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh on Gabriel Orozco’s turn to “use value” as a bulwark against spectacle; Marina Isgro on Liliane Lijn’s feminist re-casting of technology; and Diedrich Diederichsen on Mi You’s “multipolar” art world.
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“Taming vast open venues like the Hamburger Bahnhof with grace is a tough task, but one that Klára Hosnedlová embraces with open arms,” writes Ido Nahari. “Voices and electric sermons bleed into the bombastic visual elements [to] fill the immense chamber.”
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The Bronx Museum of the Arts has announced Shamim M. Momin as its next director and chief curator. Momin, who was most recently director of curatorial affairs at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, will take up her new post in early September.
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Venus Over Manhattan, the New York gallery founded by collector Adam Lindemann in 2012, will shut its doors later in July.
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The Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot embroidered cloth chronicling the 1066 Norman Conquest of England, is set to return to England next year, some nine centuries after it was made there.
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Egyptian artist Wael Shawky has been named artistic director of Art Basel Qatar, which is set to launch in Doha this coming February.
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The Trellis Art Fund has announced the twelve artists making up its 2025 Milestone Grant cohort. Each will receive an unrestricted grant of $100,000, disbursed in two installments over a two-year period.
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How do we make sense of surviving a sibling? In the latest episode of Artforum’s video series “Interpretations,” comics expert Dan Nadel zooms in on the pathos of R. Crumb’s 1994 story Walkin’ The Streets.
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Brown’s reflection was published in the feature “Material Witness: A Tribute to Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008)” alongside texts by Thomas Crow, Branden W. Joseph, Barbara Rose, Brice Marden, James Rosenquist, Robert Whitman, and Merce Cunningham.
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In celebration of “Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg: Glacial Decoy,” the first in a series of programs @walkerartcenter celebrating Rauschenberg’s centennial, Artforum revisits Brown’s remembrance of Rauschenberg in the September 2008 issue.
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The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria, will officially welcome the public to its campus on November 11, the same day it unveils its MOWAA Institute.
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Government arts council Creative Australia has reinstated Lebanese conceptual artist Khaled Sabsabi as Australia’s representative to the Sixty-First Venice Biennale and has restored Michael Dagostino to his role as curator of the Australian pavilion.
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The Louvre on June 27 officially launched a contest to design its planned $316 million expansion that will help it accommodate 12 million visitors annually.
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In the latest episode of “Under the Influence,” artist Alicja Kwade considers how physics and philosophy shape her practice, recounts her response to the Jack Whitten exhibition at @museummodernart, and reveals some of her favorite artists.
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Dealer Tim Blum is closing his Los Angeles and Tokyo galleries and will not open a planned New York space as he seeks new paths beyond the traditional gallery model.
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Curator and anthropologist Hélio Menezes has been dismissed from his role as director of the Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araujo in São Paulo following an unusually brief tenure.
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The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation on June 27 announced the seventy-four recipients of its 2025 Frankenthaler Climate Initiative (FCI) grants, totaling $3.4 million.
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From the aesthetics of militarized rebellion to garments suggesting the dignity of their wearers, the exhibition presents a decidedly Black visual syntax, reminding us that “style was—and still is—deeply political.”
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The @metmuseum exhibition “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style“ aims “to recast the Black body not as spectacle, but as sovereign,” argues Shelton Boyd-Griffith (@flyrebel) in a new column for Artforum’s website.
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Five art market veterans have allied to form the white-glove consulting firm New Perspectives Art Partners (NPAP).
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The J. Paul Getty Trust this month announced the launch of a fellowship program aimed at developing the careers of individuals working in the fields of art and science with a focus on sustainability.
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