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The Art of Obinna Makata

September 28, 2015
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Visionary artist Obinna Makata loves breathing new life into scraps and junk. Find out about his unique style, philosophy and choice of materials. Obinna Makata Obinna Makata uses fabric as a metaphor for cultural identity and evolving social values. His works create narrative associations that deal with quotidien issues in contemporary Nigerian society, including visa queues, abortions,

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Christies RSS Feeds | Art News

September 10, 2015
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Become a Partner What is an RSS feed? The acronym RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” It’s an increasingly popular way for Web sites to alert regular users to new content — and for users to access that content. An RSS feed is a dynamically updated summary of a Web site’s offerings. Whenever an RSS-enabled

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CCS Bard College Receives $1 M. Grant From Brant Foundation, Alex Kitnick Joins as Fellow

September 10, 2015
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Kitnick. BARD COLLEGE Today Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies—or CCS Bard, as it’s commonly styled—announced that it has received a $1 million grant from the Brant Foundation, a nonprofit headed by Peter Brant, who—full disclosure—recently announced he was acquiring part of the parent company of this magazine, ARTnews S.A., as part of a merger.

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Henry Taylor at Carlos/Ishikawa

September 10, 2015
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Henry Taylor, Untitled, 2015, Acrylic on canvas. © THE ARTIST, COURTESY BLUM & POE, CARLOS/ISHIKAWA LONDON Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: Henry Taylor’s solo show is currently on view at Carlos/Iskikawa in London. The exhibition features works from the Los Angeles–based artist. All of the portraits in the show

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Somewhere in New York, Bodega Has Opened a New Space Named Princess

September 10, 2015
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Installation view of the inaugural show at Princess, ‘Joel Dean: Empty Stomach Challenge.’ COURTESY THE ARTIST AND PRINCESS The Lower East Side’s Bodega gallery, which moved to New York from Philadelphia last year, is opening a new project space this week called Princess. But while most galleries situate their project spaces in a back room

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Here Is the Trailer for Jacob Ciocci’s Upcoming Show at Interstate Projects

September 10, 2015
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This week, Jacob Ciocci released a striking new trailer for his upcoming show at Interstate Projects in Brooklyn. In it, Ciocci muses abstractly and poetically over a barrage of imagery—children’s home movies, mental-health stock footage, a deflating Barney balloon—about life, art, and freedom. (Disclosure: Jamie Sterns, who contributes to ARTnews, is Interstate’s curatorial director.) Here

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Here’s the Exhibitor List for the 2015 Editions/Artists’ Books Fair

September 10, 2015
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COURTESY E/AB The Editions/Artists’ Books Fair has announced that, for its 2015 edition, it will move from the former Dia Chelsea building in Manhattan to the Tunnel building, a few blocks away along the Hudson River. This year’s fair runs from November 5 through November 8, during New York Print Week. Its sister fair, the IFPDA’s Print Fair, will run concurrently.

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Met Appoints Stephen C. Pinson Curator of Photography

September 10, 2015
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Stephen C. Pinson. COURTESY NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Thomas P. Campbell, director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has named Stephen C. Pinson curator of the museum’s photography department, effective November 2. Pinson has served as the Robert B. Menschel Curator of Photography and as the Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Assistant Director

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Met Names Barbara Drake Boehm Senior Curator of The Cloisters

September 10, 2015
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Barbara Drake Boehm. ©2013 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART/PHOTO: JACKIE NEALE CHADWICK The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that Barbara Drake Boehm will be the Paul and Jill Ruddock Senior Curator at the museum’s medieval-art annex, the Cloisters, where she is currently a curator. In this newly created position, Boehm will oversee plans for budgeting,

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Morning Links: David Adjaye Edition

September 10, 2015
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David Adjaye. COURTESY ADJAYE ASSOCIATES Ahead of his Art Institute of Chicago show, David Adjaye was announced yesterday as the winner of this year’s $100,000 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts. He’ll now do a residency at MIT. [Artforum] “We don’t think of Picasso as a sculptor, but we should. He was a great one,”

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