James Harithas, a celebrated museum director and founder who viewed curation as a form of activism, highlighting iconoclastic, often socially conscious work both by little-known artists as well as maverick luminaries like Yoko Ono and Nam June Paik, died on March 23. He was 90. His death was confirmed by his sister, Paula Yankopoulos. Mr….
More than two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album filled with nearly 2,000 silhouette portraits, including those of two former presidents. Before displaying the cut-paper portraits, made by a traveling artist named William Bache, the museum needed to create a new, sturdier binding for the book. That’s when curators spotted…
The Preis der Nationalgalerie 2024, which is administered by Berlin’s Nationalgalerie and awarded every two years, will for the first time go to four artists. The winners are Pan Daijing, Daniel Lie, Hanne Lippard,and James Richards, who will each produce a new work that will go on view at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof in April. The…
What defines an icon? That question is at the heart of the new season of the PBS series Art in the Twenty-First Century. For artist Alex Da Corte, icons are “characters or images or objects that exist within a world of dreams.” In an exclusive interview aired as part of Art21’s 11th season, Da Corte…
Initially, I was thrilled to enter the almost entirely Asian American space of “Beef.” Getting to watch two Asian American leads channel their repressed second-generation anger into an escalating road rage incident? It was the show I never knew I wanted. I also deeply appreciated how “Beef” effortlessly incorporated Korean American specificities: Steven Yeun’s character,…