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Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.

Every Halloween, black cats return as emblems of witchcraft, bad luck, and the supernatural.

At the end of the day, this is who I want to be reading to my children.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, "Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre" (1844) on view in The Horror Show at the Academy Museum (all photos Matt Stromberg/Hyperallergic unless noted) LOS ANGELES — Horror films may have historically been relegated to second-class

Before Derek Jarman became known for his anachronistic, queer film adaptations of the lives of Saint Sebastian, Caravaggio, Edward II, and even the Passion of Jesus, the English artist and activist worked as a set designer.

Helsinki-based artist Tuomas Laitinen's exhibition, Siphon, begins with copper.

Artists wear many hats: we’re creators, but we’re also entrepreneurs, project managers, strategists, and accountants.

Over two decades ago, Dani Bensky was abused by Jeffrey Epstein.

For more than two decades, one question has followed me since I was abused by Jeffrey Epstein: “Why me?”

An exhibition series organized by the Vatican brings together more than 100 artists — including Arthur Jafa, Jeremy Frey, and Mona Hatoum — to celebrate “fundamentally human” creativity in the face of AI's rapid rise.

In Cici Wu’s exhibition at 47 Canal, Auld Lang Syne (prelude), a 16mm projector sits behind a flickering image of Princess Bari, the Korean goddess who guides souls into the afterlife.

Beverly Buchanan was mentored by Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden, a contemporary of Ana Mendieta and Eva Hesse, and most recently featured in the 61st Venice Biennale in Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys.

SAN FRANCISCO — No one ever said the business of art would be easy.

Place has always been central to Lisa Sanditz’s paintings and drawings.

Philadelphians can help establish a permanent arts and culture office in their city this Election Day, November 3.

LOS ANGELES — There is a certain irony to the formal correspondence between the endless scroll of a social media feed and a spool of 35mm photographic film.

Duchamp's practice was one of continuous self-reinvention, impossible to categorize under any label.

The University of Connecticut's (UConn) MFA in Studio Art is a funded, two-year graduate program combining advanced studio research with substantial undergraduate teaching experience.

Tonight’s the night!

Wow…October came and went, didn’t it?

The art community in Los Angeles is digging deep into history this November, excavating and reframing it through novel juxtapositions and archival findings.

Amid the spate of publicized museum heists sweeping the globe, one Los Angeles artist has flipped the script by adding his own artwork to the walls of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Graciela Iturbide, Untitled (2007), dye imbibition print (© Graciela Iturbide; courtesy the J.

The decades-long ownership dispute between the family of late Holocaust survivor Dina Gottliebova Babbitt and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum over seven watercolors depicting Roma prisoners is back in the news.

Ursula von Rydingsvard, a sculptor whose monumental objects were partly inspired by her childhood in post-World War II refugee camps, died in her Manhattan home this morning, October 27, at 84.

Contemporary art is where culture, politics, technology, and identity converge.

Reading Layli Long Soldier’s newest publication, We (Graywolf Press, 2026), is a visual experience.

Pop star Justin Bieber is no saint — well, actually, in Paul Pfeiffer’s art, he kind of is.

After an eye-opening loss during the first round of elections earlier this month, incumbent Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known mononymously as Lula, staged a major comeback yesterday evening, defeating rival far-right candidate Flávio B…

LOS ANGELES — Founded in 1966 by Sydney B.

Portrait of Paul Pfeiffer (photo Claire Dorn, all photos courtesy the artist and Perrotin) LOS ANGELES — In the early 1990s, Paul Pfeiffer began producing a series of striking interventions in found video footage, often featuring celebrated sports figures,

As an art historian, it's hard not to relate what you see in everyday life to history — not in the sense that every lily pad recalls Monet or snowballs bring David Hammons to mind, but in the sense that sometimes art really does imitate life.

Digital rendering of the ofrenda in Flatiron's North Plaza (all images courtesy Mestiz Studio and Flatiron NoMad Partnership) An enormous ofrenda, titled "Twenty Petal Flower," begins blossoming in Flatiron's North Plaza in Manhattan today, October 26, six

As New Yorkers line up to cast their midterm ballots early through Sunday, November 1, and others prepare to brave the crowds next Tuesday, November 3, some cultural institutions and museums are turning into voting sites.

John Dilg’s paintings don’t seem to have undergone any seismic changes during the decade I’ve been following his work, so I wasn’t sure there was anything else I could say about it.

SANTA BARBARA — People didn’t always live in cities.

When journalist Naima Morelli arrived in Paris last weekend, she could smell the scent of burning plastic in the air.

PARIS — On the heels of last Saturday’s mass protests — and amid the preemptive closure of Art Basel Paris and museums like the Louvre — Paris’s artists, culture workers, and art students were back in the streets today, October 24.

The subway car rattles, shakes, and screeches as it tunnels us from Brooklyn to Manhattan underneath the East River.

PARIS — “The people in the art world are courageous,” a collector told me at Asia Now, the first of the Paris art fairs that opened early in the week on Monday, in the heat of the protests.

Enayet Khan fled Myanmar in 2017.

Critic and theater director Isaac Butler is younger than I am, so he didn’t live through the Culture Wars of the Reagan ’80s.

American rapper Kid Cudi took to Instagram this week to announce his hand in writing, directing, and starring in the forthcoming project JEAN, a biopic of late contemporary artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

TORONTO — At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this year, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that the world is “in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.”

Scholars have long accepted June 1889 as the month when Vincent van Gogh painted the iconic blue eddied-sky and idyllic hillside village of "The Starry Night."

Welcome to the 360th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.

One of California’s most culturally significant landmarks comes to the Skirball with the opening of The 1960s — A Generation on Fire: Judy Baca's Great Wall of Los Angeles featuring new, monumental murals that approach history as a living, contested, and…

Leave it to Art Basel Paris to close early during a movement for education equality and working conditions … “in the interest of safeguarding our visitors.”

Turiya Adkins (photo Clyde Nichols); Timothy Yanick Hunter (photo Spring Morris), and Clifford Prince King (photo Clifford Prince King; images courtesy Studio Museum) Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appoi…

Rose Wylie, "Opera Singer and Teapot" (2024), oil on canvas “What is an ‘old-age style’?