Karin Hindsbo, director of the newly opened National Museum of Norway, has been appointed director of London's Tate Modern, one of the most prominent and popular museums in the world. Taking over in September, the Danish-born Hindsbo will replace Frances Morris, who announced her intention to retire from the museum in 2016 to focus on curatorial projects and climate change. Learn more here.
The Fondation Beyeler in Basel puts a new twist on the Jean-Michel story Basquiat this summer, featuring “Basquiat: the Modena Paintings” (11 June to 27 August), which collects eight large-scale works done in Modena, Italy, in 1982. The paintings, including “The Guilt of Gold Teeth”, are now in eight collections private individuals in the US, Asia and Switzerland. Learn more here.
This installation comes, according Joana Vasconcelos, also respond to the problem of war, especially the return of war to the European continent with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Learn more here.
The exhibition "Goya: Testimony of his Time" brings together ten paintings that will be presented for the first time in Portugal.
The original oil canvas of a large-scale portrait of Pablo Picasso by his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, painted in the critical year 1932, will come to auction for the first time next month at Christie's in New York. Find out more here.
Annie Leibovitz joins Ikea as inaugural artist in residence: As part of Ikea's Artist in Residence program, Annie Leibovitz will spend 2023 traveling the world to capture how people live in their homes. Find out more here.
the artist Alba Cortés collects elements from different origins to propose a journey between location and evocation that redefines concepts already assumed around the landscape. A journey through the natural, through the ancestral and through the vernacular that takes the landscape out of context to rethink the known and the unknown, the geographies that painting itself dislocates and places on other maps, ours. Find out more about the artist in this interview.
There are already dates for the 2023 edition of the Porto Design Biennale. Taking place between October 19th and December...
LA artist Lauren Halsey's 'afrofuturistic, ancient and funky spaceship' has landed on the roof of the Met. The monumental and ambitious installation references ancient Egypt and south central Los Angeles. Learn more here.
Spanish police have seized five fake paintings by Goya and Velázquez, reportedly valued at $84 million. The works will be displayed in an exhibition of seized forgeries curated by the Spanish police. Learn more here.
Since HBO's Succession premiered in 2018, artwork has been a centerpiece of the series' backdrop. Clearly, the connection between the art and the characters in the series shouldn't be ignored. And now, following the plot twist of season four, episode three (spoilers ahead), it looks like the show's curation decisions may have left us with a hint of things to come. Learn more here.
The Portuguese Edgar Martins was acclaimed Photographer of the Year at the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards thanks to a series of portraits in honor of his photojournalist friend Anton Hammerl, killed during the Libyan civil war in 2011.Learn more here.
The permanent exhibition at the National Museum of Soares do Reis, in Porto, closed for works since 2019, has already reopened, after "a long period of two years" that the director says was necessary to implement a new narrative.
An 18th-century bowl made from one of the world's rarest porcelains has sold for $25 million at Sotheby's in Hong Kong. It is a stunning example of Falangcai porcelain, which is now considered one of the rarest and most valuable materials of the Qing Dynasty. Learn more here.