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One of the Canadian art world’s biggest ongoing controversies has taken a new turn.
A gender-based workplace harassment complaint leveled against Gregory Burke, the former director and CEO of the Remai Modern museum in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, has been stayed by Justice Brenda Hildebrandt, a judge in Saskatoon’s Court of Queen’s Bench, according to CBC News. On Tuesday, Hildebrandt ordered that Burke’s name be removed from the complaint filed to the Saskatchewan H

Thursday, January 2, 2020
Yinka Shonibare Launches Nigerian Residencies British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare has announced plans to establish two artist residencies in Nigeria, through the Guest Artists Space Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering international artistic exchange. A residency space in Lagos will include a gallery, studio, and housing for artists in the program. Participating artists are also invited to a second residency location in Ijebu, in the Nigerian state of

Friday, January 3, 2020
Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media Names Winner Lebanese-British artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan is the recipient of the 2022 Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media, which is awarded jointly by the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art to support the creation and acquisition of artworks in the mediums of video, film, performance, and sound. Now in its third year, the award carries a cash prize of $125,000 to

After an important Pablo Picasso painting was damaged at one of London’s most notable museums, a man could face criminal charges.
This past weekend, Pablo Picasso’s 1944 painting Bust of a Woman was reportedly ripped at the Tate Modern. The person suspected of vandalizing the painting is Shakeel Ryan Massey, a 20-year-old man from London, who was charged with criminal damage on December 28. According to the Guardian, Massey has said he will deny the charge.
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In the years leading up to world War I, German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner developed a proto-Expressionist painting style that combined a vibrant palette and lurching brushwork and exemplified the ideals of Die Brücke (The Bridge), the group of painters that he cofounded in Dresden in 1905. Painting, in his hands, became a site of restorative exuberance and anxious estrangement, often in the same image. The curators of the Neue Galerie’s condensed survey of his work, Jill Lloyd and J

The debate surrounding an important report urging French museums to repatriate objects plundered from Africa continues to rage on.
Stéphane Martin, the president of the Musée du Quai Branly–Jacques Chirac, a Parisian institution that is home to roughly two-thirds of the 90,000 African objects owned by the French state, has been one of the most vocal opponents of that report, which was released in 2018 and authored by art historian Bénédicte Savoy and economist F

The debate surrounding an important report urging French museums to repatriate objects plundered from Africa continues to rage on.
Stéphane Martin, the president of the Musée du Quai Branly–Jacques Chirac, a Parisian institution that is home to roughly two-thirds of the 90,000 African objects owned by the French state, has been one of the most vocal opponents of that report, which was released in 2018 and authored by art historian Bénédicte Savoy and economist F

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Shakeel Ryan Massey, a 20-year-old man from London, has been charged with criminal damage for allegedly ripping Picasso’s painting Bust of a Woman while it was on view at Tate Modern. He has said he will deny the charge. [The Guardian]
Melanie Pocock, who has worked as assistant curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore sin

In all her artistic guises, Leah Schrager is a beautiful woman. In the tradition of feminist artists like Hannah Wilke, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Katharina Sieverding, and Andrea Fraser, Schrager knows her beauty’s impact when exploring its effects. Whether harnessing her beauty to create art as her Instagram cam-girl identity, Ona; as Sarah White (The Naked Therapist); or under her own name, Schrager confronts the power, privileges, pitfalls, and prejudices of being a sex-positive, confident wom