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Nederlands Fotomuseum appoints new director Zippora Elders Tahalele has been appointed general and artistic director of Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam

Zippora Elders Tahalele has been appointed general and artistic director of Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam. The museum’s previous director, Birgit Donker, was fired last July following an investigation over claims of creating a ‘toxic workplace’ artreview.com/nederlands-f...

The Interview: Aidan Zamiri ‘‘The people who intellectualise pop culture, ten years after it was made, often feel like they’re the ones ascribing its meaning’’

Aidan Zamiri: ‘‘The people who intellectualise pop culture, ten years after it was made, often feel like they’re the ones ascribing its meaning’’ artreview.com/the-intervie...

Kennedy Center to shut for two-year renovation, Trump announces A post on Truth Social says the Center will close on 4 July for approximately two years

Kennedy Center to shut for two-year renovation, Trump announces artreview.com/kennedy-cent...

Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts to permanently close A statement claims that staff were informed they were no longer employed via an online call this morning

Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) is closing permanently due to financial difficulties, Creative Scotland has confirmed artreview.com/glasgow-cent...

Marking the HIV-AIDS Crisis in Italy Vivono (‘they live’) is an at once lyrical and luminous engagement with a history of pain

Vivono (‘they live’) is an at once lyrical and luminous engagement with a history of pain artreview.com/vivono-art-a...

How Do You Visualise The Supernatural? An exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel frames the ghost as a ‘call to attention’ that interrupts temporal continuity

‘What do ghosts have to say to us?’ It’s a simple premise but it risks collapsing a history of spectres, psychological disturbance and cultural superstition into a generalised metaphor for human projection artreview.com/ghosts-visua...

The 10 Exhibitions to See in February 2026 Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month, from London to Delhi artreview.com/the-10-exhib...

US art institutions join national strike and close in protest of ICE The strike follows the death of at least 8 people in ICE custody or killed by federal agents since the start of the year

Many museums and galleries across the United States will be closed today, 30 January, in support of the ‘National Shutdown’, a nationwide strike calling for ‘No work. No School. No Shopping. Stop funding ICE’ artreview.com/us-art-insti...

How New Technologies Are Contesting the Museum Model Let’s not see that as a threat, but as an opportunity for new thinking

New technology is shaking up the established museum model, warns Alistair Hudson. Let’s not see that as a threat, but as an opportunity for new thinking too artreview.com/how-new-tech...

Chung Sang-Hwa, Dansaekhwa minimalist painter, 1932–2026 A member of the Korean Dansaekhwa movement, he was known for his textured paintings that explored the limits of flatness

Chung Sang-Hwa, a member of the Korean Dansaekhwa movement known for his textured minimalist paintings, has died artreview.com/chung-sang-h...

Made in L.A. 2025: 28 Artists Searching For a Curator Rather than interrogating present-day, citywide issues, the exhibition hovers at surface-level with muddled displays and obscure juxtapositions

Rather than interrogating present-day, citywide issues, the exhibition hovers at surface-level with muddled displays and obscure juxtapositions artreview.com/made-in-l-a-...

Like the author of this lovely essay, I was introduced to David Wojnarowicz by Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City and a shattering retrospective from The Whitney. His life changed how I looked at the world and other people; paradoxically, I have since then felt kinder, and angrier, and sadder.

Emilija Škarnulytė’s Planetary Scales In films featuring mermaids, bioluminescent organisms and decommissioned military and energy sites, the artist’s work swirls with posthuman mythologies

“For me, it’s not about wearing a mermaid costume, it’s about embodying the form of a shapeshifter,” Škarnulytė says. “The characters are inhabiting the form – it’s more like a ritual” artreview.com/emilija-skar...

“One Day This Boy…”: How David Wojnarowicz Gave Me Life The author of 'I Will Greet the Sun Again' chronicles a personal relationship with the late artist and his defiant, fiery work

A personal relationship with the late artist and his defiant, fiery work artreview.com/one-day-this...

The Exhibitions and Biennials to See in 2026 Our editors choose the artworld moments to look forward to this year

Our editors choose the moments to mark in your calendars this year artreview.com/the-exhibiti...

Lygia Pape: Weaving Space Into Thought In an exhibition at Pinault Collection, the Brazilian artist fuses the corporeal and the abstract via text-based works and installation

The Brazilian artist Lygia Pape fuses the corporeal and the abstract via text-based works and installation artreview.com/lygia-pape-w...

6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Worth The Wait? Nikhil Chopra’s For the Time Being chose an expansive fuzziness over the confrontations that a more explicit manifesto might invite

Nikhil Chopra’s ‘For the Time Being’ chose an expansive fuzziness over the confrontations that a more explicit manifesto might invite artreview.com/kochi-muziri...

Rethinking Institutional Trust in Istanbul’s Art Ecosystem As Istanbul’s cultural establishments continue to battle reputational issues, Kaya Genç advocates for greater accountability amid the country’s growing illiberalism

As Istanbul's cultural establishments continue to battle reputational issues, I advocate in @artreview.bsky.social for greater accountability amid the country's growing illiberalism.

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Rethinking Institutional Trust in Istanbul’s Art Ecosystem As Istanbul’s cultural establishments continue to battle reputational issues, Kaya Genç advocates for greater accountability amid the country’s growing illiberalism

İstanbul'un kültür kurumları itibar sorunlarıyla boğuşmaya devam ederken, @artreview.bsky.social'a sanat dünyası ve hesap verebilirlik üzerine yazdım:

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Amy Sillman’s Alternate Sides Can painting achieve new forms of fluidity once it subjects free association to self-imposed restrictions?

Can painting achieve new forms of fluidity once it subjects free association to self-imposed restrictions? artreview.com/amy-sillman-...

Rethinking Institutional Trust in Istanbul’s Art Ecosystem As Istanbul’s cultural establishments continue to battle reputational issues, Kaya Genç advocates for greater accountability amid the country’s growing illiberalism

As Istanbul’s cultural establishments continue to battle reputational issues, Kaya Genç advocates for greater accountability amid the country’s growing illiberalism artreview.com/rethinking-i...

Ira Sachs on Peter Hujar The filmmaker speaks with ArtReview about his new film Peter Hujar’s Day

“I don’t have any intention of broadening the audience of Peter Hujar,” the filmmaker Ira Sachs tells ArtReview about his new film ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ artreview.com/ira-sachs-in...

Ira Sachs on Peter Hujar The filmmaker speaks with ArtReview about his new film Peter Hujar’s Day

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Ira Sachs on Peter Hujar: His is ‘‘a body of work which is monumental, and it makes visible a world that disappeared with the AIDs epidemic; like uncovering a circus under the ground.”

Don’t Listen to the Art Gurus Celebrity authors are rebranding themselves as philosophers of art; an extraordinary dumbing down of culture has occurred

Nina Power was teaching there at that time, and later made a huge lurch toward the right. With McLaughlin, there's a sense of skepticism about censoriousness which maybe conceals some kind of small-c conservative tolerance of odious positions and behaviour. artreview.com/dont-listen-...

Space Racism: How the Right Captured Science Fiction Before Musk and Thiel, a shadow history throws the often idealistic hopes of progressive science-fiction cultures into stark and unstable relief

Oi fascists, hands off our speculative possibilities

Space Racism: How the Right Captured Science Fiction
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Nice mention @aptshadow.bsky.social "In Tchaikovsky’s Alien Clay an extraterrestrial planet rich in parasitic biota defies a fascist authority’s crude typologies"

Christina Ramberg Took Objectification to Its End Point A retrospective at Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates Ramberg’s playful focus on the fetishistic rituals of femininity

Delighted! Here’s a place to start.

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28 Years Later and the Zombie as Spent Metaphor In Nia DaCosta’s recently released 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, the undead confront a world already saturated with horror

Making my debut for @artreview.bsky.social today with a piece that explores the origins of the cinematic living dead and asks: are zombies still relevant in 2026? artreview.com/28-years-lat...

Inuuteq Storch: The Celestial and the Profane Why the Greenlandic artist thinks photography is uniquely suited to telling the story of his homeland

Storch ist echt ein interessanter Typ, kenne ihn von der letzten Fototriennale Rhein-Main. Hier gibts auch mehr von ihm: artreview.com/inuuteq-stor...

On the Production of Black Cultural Value What is gained and what is lost when contemporary art institutions attempt to define and legitimise Black culture?

What is gained and what is lost when contemporary art institutions attempt to define and legitimise Black culture? artreview.com/on-the-produ...

Courtauld to open two new galleries for contemporary art The galleries are expected to open in 2029 following a £10m gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation

Courtauld to open two new galleries for contemporary art: artreview.com/courtauld-to...