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From John Akomfrah's enthralling three-part film to Peter Hujar's nightlife photographs

"The Great Big Art Exhibition" rejected Ai Wewei's artwork about Julian Assange and political prisoners. What was the real reason?

Pedro Reyes: ‘sculpture is a very jealous goddess’ Pedro Reyes: ‘sculpture is a very jealous goddess’ In ‘Tlali’, an exhibition at Lisson Gallery, New York, Mexican artist Pedro Reyes carves into the spirituality of stone, the complex history of the American continent and the vocabulary of pre-Columbian and Mesoamerican civilisations Pedro Reyes
, © Pedro Reyes. Courtesy Lisson Gallery Pedro Reyes’ latest body of work is all ancient history. It’s also searingly conte...

As her first major solo show opens at Bosse & Baum during London Gallery Weekend, we speak to the artist about her art, her activism and what it was like growing up in rural Yorkshire

Julie Mehretu Donates a Painting to the Art for Justice Fund – The artist has donated Dissident Score (2019–21) to benefit Agnes Gund’s Art for Justice Fund, which seeks to fight mass incarceration. The single-lot sale opened May 26 on Artsy and has a starting bid of $2.6 million. It closes June 10. ( Contemporary Art Society Will Open a Pop-Up – The U.K.’s Contemporary Art Society will set up shop in Mayfair, London, on June 4 at a temporary space during London Gallery Weekend. T...

Mount Street in Mayfair, London Photo: Ewan Munro / Flickr The Contemporary Art Society (CAS) charity, which supports museums and artists across the UK, is setting up shop in Mayfair on 4 June. CAS is moving into a temporary space on Mount Street—lent by the London collectors Freddy and Muriel Salem—during London Gallery Weekend, selling works by artists such as Lubaina Himid and Roger Hiorns with proceeds going to the charity. The space is due to be open until August....

The a href= https://artdealers.org/ target= _blank Art Dealers Association of America /a today announced the addition of 16 new members from acros

A rare Black-owned art gallery lands in Chelsea The entrance to Nicola Vassell’s new gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York, May 17, 2021. After working with artists like Kehinde Wiley and advising collectors like Swizz Beatz, Vassell bucks the online trend with a brick-and-mortar space. Donavon Smallwood/The New York Times. by Robin Pogrebin (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- At a moment when equity and diversity have become paramount in the art world, Nicola Vassell, a former director of both Pa...

Shedding Bark, 2021. (Courtesy of Lisson Gallery) Even now that New York galleries are open, and have been for nearly a year after being closed from mid-March through late June in 2020, I haven’t been able to bring myself to frequent them as diligently as I used to. Yes, I go, and gladly, but I’m far more selective about what I see. I mostly walk in where I already have some hope of seeing something that might raise my spirits and skip the ones where I have no inkling of what I’m going t...

Though the city is lifting many coronavirus restrictions today, some safeguards will remain, and you'll still need to keep a mask handy.