Artforum

From Medusa to Nvidia: On the Algorithm’s Primal Scene

Tracing the “godly, biological, and machinic” origins of contemporary computation

Valerie Hillings Appointed Inaugural Director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, which recently announced that it will open December 11, has named Valerie Hillings as its inaugural director. Hillings joins the institution from Raleigh’s North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMAA), where she has served as director since 2018. Her appointment marks her return to Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, where she was curator and […]

Bridgemaker Prize Awarded to San Diego Museum of Art and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art

Earlier this week, the Art Bridges Foundation announced that two museums—The San Diego Museum of Art and The Westmoreland Museum of American Art—are the recipients of the second annual Bridgemaker Prize. The prize, which this year comes with a $75,000 award to support future projects, is given to Art Bridges’ museum partners whose institutional endeavors […]

CAM Raleigh is Selling Its Building and Reallocating Resources to Artists

The Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh (CAM Raleigh), North Carolina is selling its longtime home in the city’s Warehouse District. The building has been listed the commercial real estate firm CBRE for an undisclosed sum. CAM Raleigh, which describes itself as a “non-collecting contemporary art museum,” was established in 1983 as the City Gallery of […]

Calls To Rebuild The Glasgow School Of Art’s Mackintosh Building Gain Momentum

A petition launched by Scottish architect Ruairidh Moir to rebuild Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s famed Glasgow School of Art building has garnered almost 9,000 signatures. The campaign is a response to years of perceived inaction on the part of the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), with the building still standing unrestored following two fires in 2014 […]

Francisco Correa Cordero, Founder of New York’s Lubov Gallery, Dead at 37

Francisco Correa Cordero, whose ten-year-old Lubov gallery was a beacon for emerging artists, died on August 2 in a Manhattan hospital. He was thirty-seven. His death was announced by his gallery in an Instagram post, which noted that Cordero “passed away peacefully surrounded by what he loved the most—his chosen family, laughter and so much […]

Michelle Grabner Gifts Huge Selection To The John Michael Kohler Arts Center

Artist and curator Michelle Grabner has donated over 2000 pieces of artwork to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The gift makes JMKAC the single largest holder of Grabner’s works in the world. The donated works span across Grabner’s career beginning in the 1990s and consist of 1200 prints and photographs, […]

Trump Administration’s Assault on Smithsonian Continues With Proposed Budget Cuts

For the fiscal year 2027, the federal government has proposed lowering the Smithsonian Institution‘s budget to $961.3 million, the lowest prospective funding level since 2020. The submitted budget represents an 11% cut from the $1.08 billion allocated to the Smithsonian in 2026. This move is just the latest in a long series of deliberate attempts […]

Vindicated Collector Bernardo Paz is Developing a New Museum in Brazil

Multimillionaire Brazilian art collector Bernardo Paz, the founder of museum and sculpture garden Instituto Inhotim, is developing a new museum and accompanying botanical garden that will sit directly next to Inhotim, according to reports. Paz is currently leading and funding the new, as yet unnamed museum project, which will eventually function as a nonprofit. Like […]

Inaugural Art Week NYC Announces Participating Galleries

Jeju Museum Of Art Reveals Final Artist Lineup For 2026 Jeju Biennale

The Jeju Museum of Art has revealed the list of sixty-nine participating artists and collectives for the 2026 Jeju Biennale in a press release. The event, which is set to open on August 25, will run until November 15, and is titled “Iyahong: The Art of Metamorphosis.” Now in its fifth edition, the Jeju Biennale will take place […]

Union Members at Royal Museums Greenwich and Other London Institutions Elect to Strike

Staff at Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) in UK-based trade union Prospect have decided to strike on August 11 and 12, as per a recent statement. Over 90% of members voted on action, with nearly 77% of those favoring strike action. Operating out of Greenwich’s UNESCO World Heritage site, RMG represents four cultural institutions in London: […]

Lizzie Borden’s Triumph of the Senses

Nearly a decade before the release of her breakout film Born in Flames, Lizzie Borden wrote the essay “The New Dialectic,” a capstone on two years of consistent contributions to a then-nascent Artforum. Drawing on changing attitudes toward process-based art and Conceptualism in the early 1970s, Borden identified the emergence of competing “inductive and deductive” methodologies in […]

Hong Kong Palace Museum Director Louis Ng to Step Down in 2027

Hong Kong’s Palace Museum (HKPM) has announced that its director, Louis Ng, will retire from his role in January of 2027 after completing his seven year contract. Ng oversaw the construction of the museum before becoming its inaugural director in 2019. “I am deeply honoured to have served as the Museum’s founding director over the […]

Gagosian Temporarily Retreats from Basel, Shutters a London Location

Gagosian will close its lone Basel gallery and has already exited its location in London’s historic Burlington Arcade, the Art Newspaper reports. According to a spokesperson, the megagallery will look for another space in Basel; the closure of the London branch is permanent. Gagosian has already erased mention of the outposts from its website. Both […]

Curators Selected for the 2nd Edition of the Bogotá Biennial

The curatorial team for the 2027 Bogotá Biennial (BOG27) has just been announced. Following the first edition in 2025, the upcoming edition of the biennal will be led by Juan Ricardo Rincón Gaviria as director, supported by chief curators Magalí Arriola and José Esparza Chong Cuy. The additional supporting curators will be María Paula Bastidas, […]

Palais de Tokyo to Close for Renovations in 2027, Sparking Ire with New Temporary Digs

Paris’s Palais de Tokyo will close for repairs in July 2027, necessitating a temporary move to a location that turns out to be hotly contested, French daily Libération reports. The noncollecting institution, which since its 2002 founding has been housed in a concrete structure built for the 1937 World’s Fair, recently revitalized its building and […]

Trump Administration’s Gaudy Gilding of DC Statues Divides Opinions

President Donald Trump on July 27 showed off pictures on his Truth social account of two freshly gilded equestrian statues near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, opening the floodgates to a variety of opinions. The nineteen-foot-high bronze sculptures, now coated in 23.75 gold leaf, are two of four horse monuments that the Department of the Interior in […]

Emerging Native Arts Grant Awarded to Melissa Melero-Moose

The Walker Youngbird Foundation has awarded its Emerging Native Arts Grant to the artist Melissa Melero-Moose. The Paiute painter, a member of the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe in Hungry Valley, Nevada, is the fifth recipient of the $15,000 award. Melero-Moose makes mixed-media paintings—layered, abstract surfaces made of acrylic washes and rice paper, onto which she embeds […]

Chicago’s Renaissance Society Receives $45,000 Ellsworth Kelly Award

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a nonprofit organization founded in 1963 by John Cage and Jasper Johns, has announced the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago as the 2026 recipient of the Ellsworth Kelly Award. The $45,000 annual grant supports institutional exhibitions for contemporary artists. The museum will use the funds to mount a […]

Kiaf SEOUL Will Return for 25th Edition With 175 Exhibitors

Kiaf SEOUL, the largest and oldest international art fair in Korea, will return for its twenty-fifth iteration at COEX, a major convention complex in Gangnam, from September 2–6 this year. The forthcoming edition will include 175 galleries from eighteen countries and territories, and the fair will also feature internal sections that serve to differentiate the […]

Stephanie Wiles of Yale University Art Gallery to Retire in 2027

Stephanie Wiles, who’s held the post of Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery since 2018, will retire in the spring next year, according to a statement to the Yale community made earlier this week by university president Maurie McInnis and provost Scott Strobel. In their letter, McInnis and Strobel acknowledged […]

Sculptor Tony Cragg To Receive The 2026 European Culture Prize

British-born sculptor Tony Cragg will be awarded the European Culture Prize this year at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on September 4. The award, which has been given out each year since 2012 by the European Cultural Forum, honors pioneering European artists across several disciplines and artistic spheres. Born in Liverpool, Cragg has been a […]

2020 Music Group on Digital Outsiders, Fred Again, and Theo Parrish

The NYC-based music criticism collective on their three picks for August 2026.

$22 Million Renovation of LA’s Watts Towers to Begin in October

A newly announced $22 Million expansion of Los Angeles’s Watts Towers Campus is slated for groundbreaking in October, immediately following the premature end of a 15-year conservation project on the site. The soon to be enlarged Watts Towers Arts Center Campus (WTACC) surrounds 17 interconnected radio tower-like structures built between 1921 and 1954 by Sabato […]

U.K. Museums Association Unites With American Alliance of Museums Against Trump

The Trump administration’s repeated attempts to undermine and attack the Smithsonian are being met with international pushback: this week, the Museums Association in the United Kingdom republished a statement, originally released by the American Alliance of Museums on July 20th, that resoundingly condemns the flagrant and politicized attacks that’ve been leveled at the US’s “flagship […]

V&A Workers Vote to Strike, Citing Amazon-Style Conditions

Employees of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum who are members of the Prospect trade union on July 29 voted to strike over issues including pay, working conditions, and access to water and toilets, The Guardian reports. The V&A operates four museums in the London area: the V&A in South Kensington, V&A East Museum and V&A […]

Shanghai Institutions Launch Arts-Based Initiative to Provide Mental Health Support

A coalition of institutions in Shanghai have launched a “Museum Healing Alliance”, focus on exploring museum-based mental health support and therapeutic programming for those in need of aid. The multi-pronged initiative would hinge on the creation of a hospital referral program that would connect medical institutions with museums. Through this referral program, patients would be […]

Valentin Noujaïm awarded Han Nefkens Foundation Video Art Production Grant

The Han Nefkens Foundation in Barcelona announced French Lebanese artist and filmmaker Valentin Noujaïm as the recipient of the inaugural Mediterranean Video Art Production Grant 2026. The €25,000 (USD 28,800) grant was installed to support the production of a new video artwork by artists based around the Mediterranean Sea. Noujaïm (1991), who was selected from nine shortlisted […]

Pair Who Covered Picasso with Photo of Palestinian Mother and Child Found Guilty of Criminal Damage

The charge stems from an October 9, 2024, incident in which Halai and Rosenfeld entered London’s National Gallery during open hours and covered Pablo Picasso’s 1901 Motherhood (La Maternité) with an image of a Palestinian woman weeping as she held her bloodied child. The photo was taken by Palestinian journalist Ali Jadallah during the Israeli […]