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Whanki Museum Reopens After Major Refurbishment Following a ten-month-long renovation, the private Whanki Museum in Seoul’s Buam-dong hillside neighborhood has reopened its doors to the public. The institution, which is dedicated to the late Korean abstract artist Kim Whanki (1913–1974), had closed in February to revamp its 33-year-old
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Amid ongoing controversy surrounding Documenta, Naomi Beckwith, deputy director and chief curator of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, has been appointed as the artistic director of its 16th edition, slated to open in 2027. She is the first Black woman and second US-born curator to helm the major
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Chiang Mai-based video and installation artist Som Supaparinya has been awarded the Han Nefkens Foundation—Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2024. She will receive USD 15,000 to produce a new work, to be exhibited next year by six partner institutions: Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City; Jim Thompson
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Lebanese modernist Samia Osseiran Junblatt, renowned for her abstract painting infused with Japanese figuration, passed away at the age of 80 in December. Her death was announced by the Beirut-based cultural institution, the Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation (DAF), which loaned her work to the Venice Biennale this year.
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Winners of the 2024 Thirteen Artists Awards Revealed The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in Metro Manila has announced 13 Filipino contemporary artists as the recipients of its 2024 Thirteen Artists Awards (TAA). Now in its 54th year, the triennial TAA celebrates young visual artists whose innovative practice has
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*presented by Diriyah Art Futures A new hub for digital art charting a course for the global art landscape from Saudi Arabia Diriyah Art Futures (DAF), the first dedicated hub for New Media and Digital Art in the Middle East and North Africa, has opened its doors in the UNESCO
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Tang Kwong San: Rootstock GDM Hong Kong Sep 12–Nov 9 “One day, fables will overlap with your personal experiences.” This quote from the artist Tang Kwong San embodies the spirit of his oil paintings, graphite drawings, and installations that were showcased in “Rootstock,” his first solo exhibition at Hong
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Looking at the story of water in the artist’s latest series. RONG Art Space
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Shortlist for 2025 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) Revealed On November 28, the New South Wales Government and Sydney’s nonprofit Artspace jointly announced the six artists shortlisted for the 2025 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging). The nominees are: installation artist Ellen Ferrier, photographer Ellie Hannon, multimedia artist Vedika Rampal,
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Koyo Kouoh has been selected as the curator of the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026. Recommended by La Biennale’s president, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco
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On December 4, the Tate Britain in London announced that Scottish-born artist Jasleen Kaur was the winner of the Turner Prize 2024. Presented by actor James Norton at a ceremony, the award of GBP 25,000 (USD 31,600) acknowledged Kaur’s 2023 exhibition “Alter Altar” at Glasgow’s Tramway
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The 31st Wolfgang Hahn Prize, awarded annually by the patrons club of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, will be given in 2025 to Chengdu-born, Rotterdam-based multimedia artist Evelyn Taocheng Wang. The EUR 100,000 (USD 104,900) prize celebrates contemporary artists with internationally recognized oeuvres who deserve greater recognition in
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On Friday November 29, Hong Kong’s Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile (CHAT) named contemporary artist Yee I-Lann and weavers Julitah Kulinting and Roziah Binti Jalalid as the winners of the inaugural ANTEPRIMA x CHAT Contemporary Textile Art Prize 2024. They received an award of HKD 300,000 (USD
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Tao Hui's solo exhibition investigated the complexity of social identity in contemporary China. ANNABEL PRESTON
