Napoleon Jones-Henderson, a member of the AfriCOBRA collective who made art for the age of Black Power, died in Boston on December 6 at 82. Wonderland, a Boston-based art publication, reported that Jones-Henderson had been battling cancer. Jones-Henderson was one of...
Pantone has been taken to task by some media outlets, and more critics on social media, for choosing “Cloud Dancer” — a version of white — for the 2026 Color of the Year. Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, was unavailable for an...
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Starting January 1, MoMA PS1 in New York City will offer free admission to all visitors for the next three years, the museum announced today, Tuesday, December 9. The announcement comes after a gift from Bay Area art collector and entrepreneur Sonya Yu, who serves on...
The Brooklyn Museum has revealed the nearly 600 works that it acquired in roughly the past year, providing a view into the institution’s collecting priorities as it marks its 200th anniversary. Contemporary art continued to be a core focus, with works by Tony Bechara,...
While other institutions across the United States raise their ticketing prices to $30—and, in a few cases, even higher—New York’s MoMA PS1 will stop charging admission fees altogether for the next three years. Supported by a gift from Sonya Yu, a creative strategist...
Amsterdam’s historic West-Indisch Huis was once home to the Dutch West India Company but today houses the John Adams Institute,...
The year 2025 saw several solo exhibitions by well-known Black artists, including Kerry James Marshall, Amy Sherald, Rashid Johnson, Jack Whitten, Lorna Simpson, and Elizabeth Catlett. Following his exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, Marshall is now lauded as...
The Philadelphia Art Museum is organizing a 2026 exhibition centered on a famous artwork that is closely associated with it but is actually not part of its collection: the statue to Rocky Balboa, the fictional boxer created by Sylvester Stallone, that stands at the...