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  • Bill Horrigan (1951–2025)This link opens in a new window Bill Horrigan, who helped shepherd time-based art from the cinema to the gallery by establishing Columbus, Ohio’s Wexner Center for the Arts as a major destination for film and video long before mainstream institutions welcomed such work, died on May 15 following a lengthy battle with amyloidosis. He was seventy-three. Horrigan joined the Wexner in […] May 22, 2025
  • New Frida Kahlo Museum to Open in Mexico CityThis link opens in a new window A new museum devoted to Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is set to open on September 27 in Mexico City. Museo Casa Kahlo will be housed in Casa Roja, a private home purchased by Kahlo’s parents and handed down to the artist and her sisters; the residence was donated to the museum by Kahlo’s closest living […] May 22, 2025
  • Whitney Museum Axes ISP Performance Centering Palestinian MourningThis link opens in a new window The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, last week canceled a performance by a group of participants in its prestigious Independent Study Program that had taken Palestinian mourning as its subject. Titled No Aesthetics Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance, the work featured a score of texts by Natalie Diaz, Christina Sharpe, and […] May 22, 2025
  • Sohrab Hura Awarded 2025 Eye Art & Film PrizeThis link opens in a new window Amsterdam’s Eye Filmmuseum has announced Indian artist Sohrab Hura as the eleventh winner of the Eye Art & Film Prize, an annual €30,000 ($33,000) award established in 2015 to support artists whose practices span film and the visual arts. Previous recipients of the honor include Francis Alÿs, Meriem Bennani, Wang Bing, Kahlil Joseph, and Hito […] May 21, 2025
  • Lucas Museum in Los Angeles Lays Off 14 Percent of Full-Time StaffThis link opens in a new window The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has laid off fifteen full-time employees, or 14 percent of its full-time workforce. Many of those who lost their jobs worked in education or public programming at the Los Angeles institution, which additionally eliminated the roles of seven part-time on-call staffers. The Los Angeles Times reported that the layoffs […] May 21, 2025

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