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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. News Legendary filmmaker and artist John Waters will donate his 372-work collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. His holdings include works by Andy Warhol, Nan Goldin, Diane Arbus, Catherine Opie, and many more. The Baltimore Museum of Art initiated a firestorm last month when it attempted to deaccession $65 ...

Aldo Tambellini, an experimental filmmaker whose innovative works expanded cinema beyond the confines of the theater and mined conceptions of blackness for both formal and political meanings, has died at 90. Various curators who have shown Tambellini’s work posted news of Tambellini’s death on social media on Thursday. ARTnews has reached out to Tambellini’s foundation for details of his passing. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, ...

Even in the best of times, organizing an international biennial—wrangling dozens of far-flung artists and hundreds of works, all while keeping to a budget—is not an easy business. Organizing an international biennial amid a once-in-a-century global health crisis is another matter entirely. But at a time when most such shows have been delayed, the curator Jacob Fabricius managed to pull one off in high style. ...

A famed installation by Bruce Nauman will be taken away from its longtime home on the campus of the University of Münster in Germany. Square Depression, a walk-in sculpture Nauman conceived for the school in 1977, was torn down in early November by the university to make space for a new university building. The large-scale sculpture, which measured around 82 feet across, was an inverted pyramid sunk ...

Ming Smith can still remember a phrase that Arthur Jafa used to describe something he saw in her photography: “the blur.” The two artists were at an opening for Smith’s work at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York, and Jafa uttered those words in such a way that they were elongated and guttural, suggestive of a kind of presence that can be felt as ...

NOVEMBER 27, 12:47 PM If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. It’s Black Friday, the start of the holiday shopping season! Many US retailers have marked down selected wares, including art and craft tools for kids. Any parents who have been living with children during quarantine know how important it ...

NOVEMBER 27, 2:20 PM If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. It’s Black Friday, the start of the holiday shopping season! Many US retailers have marked down selected wares, including pens and markers. To help you parse the offerings, we’ll be tracking some of the best deals on artists’ writing ...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. News Six months after protests erupted over the killing of George Floyd, a pair of activists have collected at least 593 plywood boards bearing art of different kinds from around Minneapolis and St. Paul that could otherwise have been destroyed or defaced. Starting in Cleveland, Kelsey Ables reports on African American museums across the country ...

Holiday decorations are a kind of kitsch that doesn’t change much over time. The celebrations are traditional and the accessories are, too, passed down over generations. That becomes a problem when you might want something that matches a little better with your mid-century modern furniture. Three friends in the Los Angeles music industry, Jesse Kivel, David Kitz, and Michael David, are collaborating with artists ...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. News Hauser & Wirth has added to its roster the estate of abstractionist François Morellet, which was previously represented by Lévy Gorvy. The Smithsonian Institution and National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. have closed amid rising coronavirus cases across the city and the United States. The White House announced last week that it had ...