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Latest News in Black Art features news updates and developments in the world of art and related culture Guyana-born British painter Frank Bowling won the 2022 Wolfgang Hahn Prize. | Photo by Sacha Bowling Awards & Honors MUSEUM LUDWIG IN COLOGNE, GERMANY, awarded the 2022 Wolfgang Hahn Prize to Guyana-born British painter Frank Bowling. The prize includes a solo exhibition at ...

Latest News in Black Art features news updates and developments in the world of art and related culture From left, Poet Claudia Rankine joined the Guggenheim board; Maria Rosario Jackson is President Biden’s nominee to head the National Endowment for the Arts. | Photos: Courtesy Blue Flower Arts; Courtesy Maria Rosario Jackson via NEA Appointments Poet, playwright and essayist Claudia Rankine ...

Latest News in Black Art features news updates and developments in the world of art and related culture Artist Rashid Johnson. | Photo by Chris Sorensen Appointments Artist Rashid Johnson will be the next chair of the board of directors at Performa, the New York City organization “dedicated to live interdisciplinary performance by visual artists.” Johnson assumes his new role prior ...

George Osborne has been appointed the next chair of trustees of the British Museum. The former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer was elected by an unanimous vote of the appointments committee comprising existing trustees. He joins the board as a trustee on 1 September and takes over from Sir Richard Lambert as chair on 4 October. Osborne said, ‘All my life I have loved ...

George Osborne, an investment banker and former editor of the Evening Standard, has been named the new chair of the board of trustees of the British Museum. On social media, the appointment generated an outcry because of Osborne’s history of cutting funding for the arts in the United Kingdom. The appointment was unanimously approved by the museum’s chair search committee, which is comprised of ...

In 2017, heavy metal musician Alice Cooper found an Andy Warhol silkscreen of an electric chair that had been in storage in his Arizona home for four decades. Now, Cooper is planning to auction the piece, titled Little Electric Chair. The work is based on a press photograph from 1953 at New York’s Sing Sing prison and comes from Warhol’s famed 1960s series “Death ...

With Leon Black set to step down amid controversy over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the Museum of Modern Art in New York has named Marie-Josée Kravis as its next board chair. She will begin on July 1, when Black’s term ends. The museum also announced on Tuesday that Ronnie Heyman had been re-elected for a second term as president. The New York Times ...

Amid growing tension resulting from his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, collector and former Apollo Global Management chief executive Leon Black will not seek re-election this summer as the chair of the Museum of Modern Art’s board of trustees, the New York Times reported on Friday. His current term is set to expire on July 1. Black has been on MoMA’s board since 1997, and ...

"It is wonderful that the George C. Forsythe Family Foundation, through this endowed chair, recognizes the significant work of Florida Southern College and the Polk Museum of Art as we continue to strengthen ties with the local arts community," said FSC President Dr. Anne B. Kerr. "We are excited to work with this tremendously important foundation through its president, Dr. William Gregory, to help ...

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Tuesday, January 26. NEED-TO-READ The MCA Chicago Lays Off Dozens of Employees – The museum let go of 41 employees last week due to budgetary constraints caused by the pandemic. The news came shortly after two ...