Benjamin Britton’s paintings have a commanding presence, and not just because of their size, which in the intimately scaled galleries at Marcia Wood seemed to be larger than life.
Many of Pam Longobardi's recent sculptures and installations have focused on the dire problem of ocean-dumped plastic, the assorted junk that ends up on beaches, in ocean gyres and waterways, and, fat…
Fulya Erdemci has been appointed curator of the 13th Istanbul Biennial, to take place Sept. 14–Nov. 10, 2013. A curator and writer living in Istanbul and Amsterdam, she organized the Turkish pavili…
Timothy Potts has been named director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, effective Sept. 1. Potts, a native of Australia, has been head of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, since 2008. Prior to…
Lillian Bassman, postwar fashion and fine art photographer, died on Feb. 13 in Manhattan, age 94. She was noted for bringing a personal touch to her images, staging shoots in a friend's apartment an…
When it opened in 2001, the Palais de Tokyo contemporary art center was a scrappy contemporary art center amidst the tony 16th arrondissement of Paris. For a time, it was a successful laboratory, ho…
The ever-expanding Guggenheim Foundation is, for a change, pruning one of its outposts. The Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin will close at the end of this year.