Gaurav Bhatia. VIA SOTHEBY’S In November of last year, after being accused of sexual harassment, Gaurav Bhatia took an “indefinite leave” from his position as managing director of Sotheby’s India ahead of the auction house’s inaugural sale in Mumbai. Now ARTnews has learned that Bhatia permanently...

Prem Krishnamurthy and Tina Kukielski. SEBASTIAN BACH The Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art has named Prem Krishnamurthy and Tina Kukielski as the artistic directors of its second edition, set to open in Ohio in July  2021. Krishnamurthy is a founding principal of the design...

The National Mall. COURTESY CREATIVE COMMONS Daniel Sallick is the board chair of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and a founding partner of Subject Matter, a creative advocacy firm based in the city. The views expressed here are his own. A portrait of Ginevra de’...

Guercino’s  Vanitas Still Life, 1518. It is the only known still life by the Italian artist. COURTESY CHRISTIE’S On May 2 at its Rockefeller Center headquarters in Manhattan, Christie’s will offer works from the collection of the veteran New York art dealer Richard L. Feigen in its Old Masters sale,...

Dogman and Rabbit Girl in Spitalfields London. VIA LOCO STEVE/FLICKR News Austrian artist Nikolaus Gansterer is the third winner of Ireland’s MAC international prize, receiving a purse of $25,000. [Artforum] The Pike County Juvenile Holding Center in McComb, MS has been transformed into an arts...

The Musée d’Orsay. COURTESY MUSÉE D’ORSAY On Saturday, a protest by the Yellow Vests in Paris led the Musée d’Orsay to close early for the day. The museum said on Twitter that it had canceled its “nocturne,” or nighttime viewing period, for its exhibition “Picasso. Blue and Rose.” (That show,...

Ruth Estévez. COURTESY ROSE ART MUSEUM Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, has named Ruth Estévez as its senior curator-at-large. Estévez, who splits her time between Mexico City and Los Angeles, is an independent curator, writer, and stage designer with a focus on...

El Anatsui, Earth Developing More Roots, aluminum and copper wire, 2011. COURTESY JACK SHAINMAN’S THE SCHOOL Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Parking on Pavement” is on view at Jack Shainman Gallery’s the School in Kinderhook, New York,...

Simon Dinnerstein, The Fulbright Triptych, 1971–74, oil on wood panels, 79 ½ x 168 in., framed and separated. Click to enlarge. COLLECTION OF THE PALMER MUSEUM OF ART, PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY ‘It’s all there in Proust—all mankind!” Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer once told an...

Installation of “Contemporary Muslim Fashions” at the de Young. Ensembles by Peter Pilotto, and Mary Katrantzou, Yves Saint Laurent and Rebecca Kellett. COURTESY OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO/JOANNA GARCIA CHERAN Thanks to the success of retrospectives devoted to designers like...