NewsAppointments & departures
Tate curator Mark Godfrey, who was disciplined for questioning the decision to postpone a Philip Guston show, parts ways with institution
Godfrey is taking voluntary redundancy as part of cost-cutting measures due to impact of Covid-19
NewsBritish Museum
British Museum hires curator to research history of its collection, also covering contested objects such as the Parthenon Marbles
"Issues such as the role of the slave trade and empire… will be relevant to some of the research undertaken," a museum spokeswoman says
NewsObituaries
'Constantly curious, uninterested in the market-led view': pioneering curator and writer Guy Brett has died, aged 78
His influential texts and exhibitions looked beyond Europe and the US to art from Latin America and Asia
NewsMuseums
Tate suspends curator for publicly criticising its decision to delay Guston show
Mark Godfrey has been disciplined after posting a long statement on his Instagram account describing postponement as "extremely patronising to viewers"
NewsVenice Biennale
Wanted—curator of the British Pavilion at Venice Biennale (who will work for £12,500)
Collector Shane Akeroyd sponsors post for ten-year period
NewsBiennials & festivals
How to organise a biennial in the Covid era
Bangkok Art Biennale director on grappling with coronavirus constraints and displaying "sensitive" works
Newsprizes and contests
Venice Biennale awards Golden Lions to the late curators Okwui Enwezor and Germano Celant
Honour bestowed on four previous artistic directors of the international exhibition
NewsExhibitions
Supermodel Claudia Schiffer turns curator for Dusseldorf museum
Exhibition will recall the “intense and wonderful” 1990s fashion scene with photographs by Juergen Teller, Corinne Day and Karl Lagerfeld
NewsCurators
German curator kidnapped in Iraq is free again
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas voices “relief” at release of Hella Mewis, an arts manager living in Baghdad who works to promote young Iraqi artists
NewsCurators
German curator kidnapped in central Baghdad
Hella Mewis, who works to promote young Iraqi artists, was abducted yesterday by unidentified men in the centre of the city
Newsdiversity
Curators at Guggenheim demand ‘urgent’ reforms of racial inequities at museum
In a letter to management, they call for minority hiring efforts and an inquiry into the treatment of guest curator
BlogBook Club
What has the art world been reading during the coronavirus lockdown? Part two
Curators, directors and art historians tell us about the books they have been reading and revisiting
FeatureMuseums & Heritage
The show must go on: what American curators are up to in isolation
How have curators been filling their time while their museums remain closed? Creatively, it turns out
BlogBook Club
What is the art world reading during the coronavirus lockdown?
Curators and directors tell us about their new favourite books as The Art Newspaper launches its Book Club
NewsMuseums
Critics demand explanation after quiet departures of Museo Jumex’s curator and director
Faults including a lack of transparency and a capricious programme have been cited following a change in management at the private museum
NewsKunsthalle Wien
Are three heads better than one? How to run a museum as a collective
Curatorial group WHW (What, How & for Whom), who are joint directors of Vienna’s Kunsthalle, on their experimental approach to museum leadership and exhibitions
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Face-off with a founding father: Brooklyn honours African art by placing it amidst its other collections
New exhibition seeks to “fill in the blanks that are still present in museums and art history books”
FeatureObituaries
The Getty Museum curator who hired the Rolling Stones for 15 shillings a head
Self-taught Gillian Wilson put together the 20th century’s best collection of French decorative arts
NewsUK politics
Too much politics? UK Green party MP and anti-Brexit campaigner Caroline Lucas turns curator
High-profile UK politician will organise a show of works at Towner Art Gallery that focus on the environment
CommentOkwui Enwezor
Okwui Enwezor was one of the most influential curators in history
The Art Newspaper's features editor Ben Luke pays tribute
CommentObituaries
Hans Ulrich Obrist remembers his friend Okwui Enwezor
Many of Enwezor's ideas "are more relevant today than ever before", Obrist says
NewsExhibitions
Making art history: Zeng Fanzhi organises first show on Cézanne, Morandi and Sanyu
Non-selling exhibition at Gagosian Hong Kong includes works from Asian private collections
FeatureCurators
Globetrotting curators: the international search for art
Leading curators on their travel schedules, how technology shapes their visions—and whether they are aware of their carbon footprints
ReviewBooks
Many pictures but no big picture: book struggles to capture the extraordinary life of Harald Szeemann
Volume on pioneering curator takes an admiring, rather than a critically analytical, approach
NewsDocumenta
Documenta to name new artistic director by early 2019
Quinquennial appoints eight-member search committee for curator of 2022 edition
InterviewFrieze New York
On the road, from Iraq to Germany
The Iraqi-Kurdish artist Hiwa K on migration and contemporary politics
InterviewFrieze New York
Frieze Artist Award winner Kapwani Kiwanga takes on colonialism
Imposing open-air work made of African farming fabric opens at New York fair this week
NewsPolitics
Polish art world calls on national museum to stage 'major international show' against fascism
An open letter to Krakow institution asks for exhibition to counter rise of the right in Poland
InterviewBiennials & festivals
Diana Campbell Betancourt: 'How I put together the Dhaka Art Summit'
Chief curator of biennial south Asian art platform discusses her gruelling schedule, rediscovered art work stores, and how art world friends can help with insurance
NewsBiennials & festivals
Mali Wu and Francesco Manacorda named co-curators of next Taipei Biennale
Exhibition opening in November will explore grassroots communities
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
Expert Eye: Dan Cameron
Curator picks his top works at Art Basel in Miami Beach
NewsObituaries
Tim Hunt—flâneur and the curator of the Andy Warhol Foundation—has died, aged 60
"He was the most charming, kind and witty individual imaginable, for whom nobody had a bad word, which is rare in the art world"
ArchiveNew Museum
Young artists get their big moment in the Big Apple at the New Museum's Generational Triennial
The New Museum bets on future stars who deal with our digital world
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
Women artists dominate Art Basel Miami Beach’s new “Survey” section
The new section explores art from the 60s and 70s
ArchivePhotography
Photo shows that made history
As a new book surveys landmark photographic exhibitions, museums are only starting to catch up with the digital revolution of the medium
ArchiveRuschenberg Foundation
Rauschenberg inspires tomorrow’s curators
The Rauschenberg Foundation competition is now open
ArchiveBooks
Books: Have curators and collectors replaced critics? Paul Wood demystifies while Alistair Hicks disappoints
Two very different books speak to a worrying trend in the critique of art
ArchiveInterviews
The best that was and will be: Curator interviews
Curators and scholars on their key exhibitions of 2013, 2014 and beyond.
ArchiveInterviews
Pac-Man at MoMA: Interview with Paola Antonelli
The museum's senior curator of architecture and design speaks about a show opening this month about the diversity and pervasiveness of design in the virtual and physical worlds
ArchiveMuseum of Modern Art New York
Pac-Man at MoMA? it’s no game
Paola Antonelli on a show opening this month about the diversity and pervasiveness of design in the virtual and physical worlds.
ArchiveFrançois Pinault
Pinault appoints curator for first Palazzo Grassi show..
The French billionaire chooses Alison Gingeras from the Guggenheim
ArchiveSalvador Dalí
Pompidou promotes Dalí as forerunner to performance art in new exhibition
The chaotic layout of the show is designed to embrace the theatricality and madness of the great artist
ArchiveCurators
Tate Britain fills curatorial gaps
new curators take the place of the three just gone
ArchiveArt Basel
While Art Basel's outlook stays cosmopolitan, US artists are left in the cold by curators
Documenta, Manifesta, La Triennale and the Kiev Biennale strike a different tone to the art market
ArchiveInterviews
Western perspectives on Hong Kong’s gallery scene: Interview with Graham Steele and Robin Peckham
White Cube’s Graham Steele and the US curator Robin Peckham discuss their new spaces in the Central district
ArchiveApril 2012
Pompidou at war with its US donors
The president of the Paris museum and chairman of its American fundraisers go head to head over expense of India show and how it raises cash in the US
ArchiveTate Britain
Tate Britain Director defends curatorial changes
Constable and Turner experts may go
ArchiveInterviews
Interview with Nicholas Serota: The importance of curating Gerhard Richter
The latest exhibition he has curated opened just last week at Tate Modern, “Gerhard Richter: Panorama”
ArchiveMexico City
Mexico’s female focus
Fair devotes section to emerging women artists
ArchiveVideo, film & new media
Outcry over lab’s decision to stop printing 16mm film
Tate Modern curator and leading artist head protests
ArchiveInterviews
“Actors are playing us, but we might interfere”: Interview with curators Elmgreen and Dragset
Elmgreen and Dragset on splitting up but staying together and why they are putting their lives on stage
ArchiveCurators
The rise of 'curators' in commercial spaces blurs the lines of the art world, with galleries offering non-selling and historical shows that mimic a museum
“Here’s this unbelievable stage... why make it just about money?”
ArchiveCollectors
Ziba Ardalan de Weck on five years of London’s Parasol Unit
“It’s much more satisfying than buying paintings”
ArchiveTate Britain
News bites: the art world celebrates, commemorates, curates, complains, and ... stinks
Dr Penelope Curtis is a renowned scholar but also has a track record—as an exhibited artist
ArchiveInterviews
Interview with Robert Storr: Most theory has little bearing on art
The critic and curator spoke to The Art Newspaper about the role of art theory, and what advice he is giving to his students in today’s artistic climate.
ArchiveTate
Tate looks to young international artists with £120,000 acquisition fund
The works selected reflect Tate's increasingly global outlook and support of young artists
ArchiveCurators
Interview with Achim Borchardt-Hume, new chief curator for Whitechapel
Borchardt-Hume on history, community and leaving the Tate
ArchiveCensorship
Terrorism exhibition cancelled at Chelsea Art Museum
Museum curator resigns over claims of censorship
ArchiveTate
Tate’s Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund picks bring new artists to the gallery
The supercharged shopping trip was worth £125,000 this year
ArchiveUllens Center for Contemporary Art
Conveyor belt of directors continues as the world wonders, what is going on at the Ullens Center in Beijing?
Since it opened last November, four out of five senior curators and directors have left and one has apparently been redeployed
ArchiveInterviews
Interview with Robert Storr, director of the 2007 Venice Biennale: "I would recommend dramatically increasing the number of national pavilions"
In the second part of our interview with Storr, he considers the question of how to make the historic event truly representative of today’s global art world
ArchiveRudolf Zwirner
New guest lecturer: Rudolf Zwirner
College of Visual Arts in Brunswick
ArchiveBooks
Books: Kirk Varnedoe’s Mellon lectures prove to be a fitting swansong for the famous MoMA curator
Given three months before his death, these last lectures are now in print
ArchiveMuseums
Former MoMA chairman’s oddball art goes under the hammer
William Lieberman’s eclectic holdings yielded bargains
ArchiveMuseums
Latin American curator for MoMA
Luís Perez-Oramas, who currently serves as adjunct curator of drawings at the museum, is the institution’s first curator of Latin American Art
ArchiveTakashi Murakami
Murakami to Gagosian?
Japanese artist and curator may have moved on from his gallerist of 10 years
ArchiveFakes & copies
Fake art: “Criminality in the Russian art market has reached alarming levels”
Tretyakov curator speaks out and admits being taken in by forgers
ArchiveFeatures
The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish: The details
Here we publish an account of the memoirs of the late William S. Rubin, director of the paintings and sculpture department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for 15 years
ArchiveMuseums
The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish
Shortly before his death in January, William Rubin handed us his manuscript
ArchiveMuseums
Terry Riley to leave MoMA
The head of Architecture and Design will instead focus on his own firm
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA appoints new chief curator of drawings
Cornelia H. Butler, previously at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, scores the role
ArchiveTate
Outside curators buy for Tate at Frieze
This year's haul included video, installations, and photos but no paintings
ArchiveFrançois Pinault
Mr Pinault’s director returns to the Walker
Philippe Vergne had been appointed director of François Pinault’s foundation for contemporary art
ArchiveArt Basel
Harald Szeemann remembered at Art Basel
At a function in honour of the prolific curator, friend Guido Magnaguagno recounted their time together fondly
ArchiveCollectors
Cuban-born Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz discuss their work as both collectors and as curators
They receive 5000 visitors a year in their house, which has become a personal Kunsthalle 16 years in the making
ArchiveFrançois Pinault
Pinault Foundation names its first director
Philippe Vergne is senior curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis
ArchiveVenice Biennale
Women curators appointed for the first time ever, to be followed by an American in 2007
Less circus, more focus at the Venice Biennale
ArchiveVenice Biennale
Venice Biennale gets two women curators
Appointment of Maria Corral and Rosa Martinez announced
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Mark Haworth-Booth leaves V&A after 34 years
Achievements include inaugurating the museum's permanent photography gallery
ArchiveExhibitions
Mona Hatoum is the latest artist to curate an Artist's Choice exhibition at the MoMA
The show is named “Here is elsewhere” since “most of the artists in the exhibition, because of their gender, sexual orientation, colour, or cultural background, speak from a critical position outside the status quo”
ArchiveBooks
Super sculpture scholarship collections in quick succession
The Victoria and Albert Museum has published its catalogues of the British, German, and Netherlandish collections in quick succession
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA curatorial swaps
John Elderfield and Kynaston McShine exchange positions
ArchiveInterviews
Interview with Sherman Lee: “Innovation, wherever it occurs, is ‘modern’, and people could be more modern in ancient times than we are now”
One of the great connoisseurs of our time, the curator of the current exhibition of Chinese art at the Guggenheim talks about Chinese art seen from within and without
ArchiveTate
Tate appoints associate curator of Latin American art
Cuauhtémoc Medina has nabbed the position, intended to broaden the Tate's sights beyond Europe and North America
ArchiveArt Basel
James E. Rondeau to head Art Basel Miami Beach
The seasoned curator will now turn his attention to the direction of the Modern and contemporary art fair
ArchiveArtist interview
Synthesiser’s synthetic synthesis: Interview with leading New Media artist Leo Villareal
He talks to The Art Newspaper ahead of his upcoming show at White Columns
ArchiveTate Modern
Artists of the world united
Cities provide the context for many of the 20th century’s most important innovations, but are also environments in which literature, music, art and thought merge, split or collide with one another. Tate Modern’s first major exhibition since opening ambitiously comprises nine sections, 13 curators and 1,500 works spread over two floors. The display combines the scale and global scope of an international biennial with the historical perspective of art’s most varied century
ArchiveSaatchi Gallery
London News: A revolutionary row at Saatchi as changes come to the Turbine Hall, Whitechapel and Wapping
Whitechapel curator goes .com, more power into art and Juan Muñoz is the next artist for Tate Modern
ArchiveTate Britain
Anatomies of exhibitions: Tate Britain. "To define British art"
Director Stephen Deuchar and curators Christine Riding and Robin Hamlyn reveal how they choose the shows
ArchiveIreland
Exhibition of Visual Art (EV+A) in Limerick remains relevant and provocative
Pigs not caught in flagrante delicto and women wrestling with balloons are just some of the delights at this multi-venue biennale curated by Rosa Martínez
ArchiveExhibitions
Putting Matisse and Picasso back in the ring at Tate Modern
Matisse wanted his art to be like a comfortable easy chair, while Picasso preferred to think of art as a weapon. But did these statements correspond with reality?
ArchiveIwona Blazwick
Iwona Blazwick on her time with Tate and the future of Whitechapel
The number two position at Tate Modern might satisfy most curators but Blazwick has given it up to direct the Whitechapel Art Gallery
ArchiveInterviews
The house that Michael built: Interview with Michael Auping
An interview with one of the curators of this year’s Whitney Biennial as his sculpture exhibition moves south of the Texan border
ArchiveInterviews
Interview with Marcia Tucker on building a truly contemporary museum: “Process, not product”
Marcia Tucker, the founding director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, reviews her work of the past twenty-two years
ArchiveInterviews
The brains behind the Biennale: Interview with Harald Szeemann
The Biennale director who launched the “Aperto” section for young artists is now replacing it with “d’Apertutto” as the theme of Biennale ‘99
ArchiveInterviews
We must salvage what remains of the past: Interview with Johnson Chang
The guru of avant-garde Chinese art in the Eighties and early Nineties talks now of a return to tradition
ArchiveExhibitions
Behind the scenes at MoMA with John Elderfield and Kirk Varnedoe
Exhibitions, projects, budgets, and attendance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
CommentControversies
Don't be angry that Tate's 'Head of Coffee' gets £39,500—be mad that salaries in both hospitality and the arts aren't higher
The London museum's job advert has upset the art world but these industries should not be pitted against one another, says barista Celeste Wong
Celeste Wong