Emma Enderby, currently the Chief Curator at The Shed has been named the new Chief Curator at Haus der Kunst. “After over 6 years in New York City, I am thrilled to be returning to Europe to take on this position at such a salient global center for art,” she says. “I look forward to working with Andrea Lissoni and the team to continue to push the space for interdisciplinary practices at Haus der Kunst, as well as the inventive, open, and prescient program that this institution is renowned for.” (more…)

Harold Ancart, Untitled (2021), via David Zwirner

Marking the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the artist’s sculptural work, David Zwirner is presenting a selection of new sculpture by artist Harold Ancart at the gallery’s Paris exhibition space, a show that also marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in the French capital. The show, which compiles a set of new sculptures from a series begun in 2017, the exhibition focuses in particular on swimming pools, cast in concrete, and painted with rich layers of color that recall art-historical, architectural, and everyday influences.

Harold Ancart, Untitled (2021), via David Zwirner

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Artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar has won this year’s Prix Marcel Duchamp, the most prestigious prize in French art.  (more…)

Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie has restituted, and then repurchased a Camille Pissarro piece that its original owners were forced to sell at auction in 1942, the Art Newspaper reports. “This Pissarro painting is an important work for our collection because it marks a significant step towards Impressionist art, which is one of the core holdings of the Alte Nationalgalerie,” says Director Ralph Gleis. “I thank Armand Dorville’s heirs for the trust in this institution shown by this acquisition.” (more…)

Rob Pruitt, Studio Calendar 2020 (2020), via 303 Gallery

Marking his first solo exhibition with 303 Gallery, Rob Pruitt returns to New York with a body of new works assembled under the title These Are the Days of Our Lives. Serving as a fitting reflection on the passage of time, social memory and the tumultuous, unforeseen changes of the past two years as they have unfolded across political and public realms, the show makes for a unique and insightful look into Pruitt’s studio practice and ongoing body of work.  (more…)

Frieze has tapped Patrick Lee as director of its Seoul art fair, which will launch next year. “The groundwork is now in place—art schools, private museums and public museums have come together and gelled at the right time,” he says of Korea’s readiness for a fair of this scale. (more…)

A piece in the NYT this week looks at the ongoing impacts the Covid-19 pandemic has had on British Museums, and forecasts how these setbacks will impact its institutions in the future. “We’re still seeing the impact of the pandemic play out,” says Sharon Heal, the director of the Museums Association, a trade body. “It’s not back to normal at all.” (more…)

A Van Gogh landscape sold under duress before WWII will go to auction this year as part of a restitution settlement by the heirs of its original owner Max Meirowsky. “It is especially moving that Christie’s Restitution has been so deeply involved with this collection,” says Marc Porter, Christie’s Americas chairman. “We have made WW2 period provenance research a hallmark of our expertise, inextricably a part of the art historical framework.” (more…)

Glenn Ligon gets the profile treatment in the NYT this week, as the newspaper visits his Brooklyn studio and talks to the artist about his early life, work, and his early experiments with text and printing. You can’t plan those things,” he says. “The mistake was the fact that the text was getting all smeary until I realized, ‘Oh, smeary text is the thing.’” (more…)

Margo Leavin, a central fixture of LA’s art scene since the 1970’s, has passed away at the age of 85. Leavin was a central figure in the career of many LA artists including John Baldessari, Alexis Smith, and  Allen Ruppersberg.  (more…)

Nairy Baghramian, Side Leaps (Installation View), via Marian Goodman

Presenting a series of new works at Marian Goodman’s London Projects exhibition space, Nairy Baghramian’s Side Leaps brings a new series of enigmatic sculptural interpretations to the British capital. This is the first time that this body of work has been exhibited in the UK, with several drawings never having been seen previously, and showcases Baghramian’s use of sculpture and form as a starting point for conversations on space and perception.  (more…)

The Art News Top 200 Collectors list is out for 2021, featuring a range of collectors that includes actor Cheech Marin, Jeff Bezos and Roman Abramovich. (more…)

Artist Julie Mehretu will join the Whitney board, just the third artist in the museum’s history to do so. “The Whitney’s founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, believed that artists were essential to defining, challenging and expanding culture and that the museum should be a site where artists and audiences engaged openly with untested ideas,” says director Adam D. Weinberg. “Today, more than 90 years later, this history informs who we are and how we serve our public, and our trustees, along with our staff, help to ensure that we redouble our commitment to American art and artists.” (more…)

Simone Leigh at Hauser & Wirth, via Art Observed

After a long hiatus and the challenges posed in the wake of months of crippling pandemic lockdowns, the Frieze Art Fair has returned to Regent’s Park in London for its annual run, bringing with it over 160 international galleries and a range of projects and talks that underscore its continued vitality in the world of contemporary art. The full first edition back in the British capital since the fair was forced to cancel its 2020 edition due to Covid-19, this year’s opening was a return to form, filling its exhibition halls with a range of diverse works and artists from around the globe. (more…)

Ibrahim Mahama,  (2019-2021), via White Cube

Marking his third show with White Cube, artist Ibrahim Mahama brings together a body of new works addressing the passage of time, the notion of obsolescence and the potential for regeneration. The Ghanian artist, whose work often incorporates materials from the everyday landscape of his home in Tamale, touches down at the gallery’s Bermondsey exhibition space for Lazarus, a show that draws reference from the biblical story of a miracle resurrection and one of Mahama’s works on view, a group of suspended sculptures formed from armatures made of metal rebar and draped with tarpaulin, which together take on the form of cloaked figures or large bats. Haunting and ethereal, the work challenges framings of economic and cultural history in his home country and abroad.  (more…)

Anish Kapoor, Blackness From Her Womb (2021), via Lisson

On view now at Lisson Gallery in London, Anish Kapoor presents a new series of paintings, an element of his practice that has rarely been seen, exploring the intimate and ritualistic nature of his work. Created over the past year, the show provides a poetic view of the artist’s recent preoccupations, while delving into his more expressive and visceral modes of practice. The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the artist’s show at Modern Art Oxford. (more…)

Issy Wood, What if you showed up (detail) (2021), via Carlos Ishikawa

Marking the latest entry in a body of work that has long evaded easy classification, painter Issy Wood has opened a show of new works this month at Carlos/Ishikawa, continuing her exploration of the painted canvas as a site for the juxtaposition of realities, memories and figments of the imagination. (more…)

Ron Nagle, Pink Flamenco (2021), via Matthew Marks

Ron Nagle is known for his intimately scaled sculptures made of ceramic elements that are slip-cast, fired, and embellished with epoxy and other synthetic materials that allow him to expand his forms beyond the limits of clay. Evoking otherworldly landscapes or surreal architectural arrangements, Nagle’s inventive works elicit a vast range of associations. A new exhibition of the artist’s work is now on at Matthew Marks in New York. (more…)

Jack Pierson, Stay (1992), via Regen Projects

Spanning the full width and breadth of his career, Regen Projects is currently presenting a selection of works by the artist Jack Pierson, underscoring his ongoing and extensive practice, and its engagement with themes of memory, desire, longing, beauty, despair, loss, and glamour.Arranged as a poetic, achronological, and comprehensive installation, Less and more tracks Pierson’s diverse yet idiosyncratic practice. (more…)

Helen Marten, Horizontal Weather (2021), via Sadie Coles

Currently on view at Sadie Coles HQ‘s Kingly Street location, artist Helen Marten presents a body of new works that continue her investigation of a space shaped by participants and her pieces simultaneously, the show here draws on the ancient philosophical metaphor of “the body politic”, taking the allegory of a single individual body into a raging grammatical city, a contemporary projection of systems, agency and the digestion of ideas. (more…)

Rashid Johnson, Untitled Totem (2021), via David Kordansky

On view in Los Angeles this month, artist Rashid Johnson has brought forth a selection of new works at David Kordansky that continue his exploration of a wide range of media and formats. The show, which includes new paintings, bronze sculptures, works on paper, and the debut of a new 35mm film will occupy all three of the gallery’s exhibition spaces. (more…)

Lisa Yusakavage, Yellow Studio (2021), via David Zwirner

On view now at David Zwirner’s 19th Street location in New York, artist Lisa Yuskavage marks her seventh solo exhibition at the gallery with a selection of new work that sees the artist continuing to mine her surreal approach to figuration, and her expression capacity for charging scenes with a latent tension complicated by notions of sexuality, the body, and society.  (more…)

Work by artist Kerry James Marshall will replace two Confederate-themed stained-glass panels at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., the NYT reports. “It will have to be work that is able to synthesize a multiplicity of ideas and sentiments about what the country represents for all of us,” Marshall says. “There will be some kind of imagery that presents itself as an invitation to reflection on the meaning of America now.” (more…)

Korakrit Arunanondchai has an interview in Art Newspaper this week, as the artist opens a major show of his work at the Migros Museum in Zurich, where he reflects on the dense layering of cultural, personal and societal symbolism in his work. “I felt like I wanted to paint on denim because denim constantly signifies Western globalization and the soft power of America.” he says. “Today, one in seven people in the world have denim. It felt like that was the thread or the canvas I wanted to build my practice upon. But now I think the series has gone full circle, it goes back to my grandfather, to the idea of death, to the source of the fire itself.” (more…)