Edgar Arceneaux

Our pick of the best new shows to catch around the world — including new exhibitions Spain, Miami and Chicago

Ni de aqui, ni de alla—neither from here or there. This is something you might hear on the streets of Puerto Rico as people consider what it means to be both citizens of the United States and colonized subjects of an antiquated political system.

Our pick of this week's must-see new shows worldwide, featuring Cy Twombly in Athens and a new, immersive installation at MoMA

Whilst we live in a multicultural world, the consideration of diversity is now crucial more than ever.

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Let the bidding begin! The Art F City 12th anniversary paddle8 auction is live, which means you’ve got exactly two weeks to secure that work you love.

Edgar Arcenaux’s exhibition at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, Written in Fire and Smoke, is relatively modest in scale, occupying the List’s two main galleries.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will show L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists (October 30, 2016–April 2, 2017), featuring a selection of works given to the museum for its 50th anniversary as part of an unprecedented campaign led by artist Catherine Opie.

Los Angeles is a metropolis built on a delusion: that engineering can overcome a basic lack of sufficient resources to meet the popular need.

On September 16th Art21 will launch the 8th Season of Art in the Twenty-First Century on PBS, taking viewers to Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles and Vancouver, B.C. to visit Nick Cave, Theaster Gates, Barbara Kasten, Chris Ware, Natalia Almada, Minerva Cuevas, Damián Ortega, Pedro Reyes, Edgar Arceneaux, Liz Larner, Tala Madani, Diana Thater, Stan Douglas, Brian Jungen, Liz Magor and Jeff Wall.

The background radiation is still there, two decades later, from the infamous 1993 Whitney Biennial — the so-called multi-cultural, identity-politics, political, or just bad biennial. Establishment art history circa 1993 was a broken model, built on white men and Western civilization and certain ossified ideas about “greatness” and “genius.” New artists looking for new ways to speak to new audiences couldn’t get their voices heard or work seen.

One month after USC Roski School of Art and Design’s only MFA student abandoned the program, citing “a total absence of leadership,” the school has announced it has made a “transformative” group hire.

Met Sets Attendance Record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced yesterday that the institution’s three locations brought in 6.7 visitors in 2015-16, the highest number recorded since the museum started to track attendance 40 years ago.

A significant anniversary invites a retrospective view, and for SITE Santa Fe’s 20th, the institution is doing just that, in a yearlong series of exhibitions featuring artists who have presented major works at SITE in the past. But for this 20th-anniversary celebration, SITE is not only looking back at its own history, or reprising past projects, rather refreshingly the exhibits that comprise “SITE 20 Years/20 Shows” take the form of new work, commissions, and collaborations.

10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

In 1964, the FBI sent a threatening letter to Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, MLK Jr. delivered his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, in which he

The exhibitions you don't want to miss this summer in Manchester, San Diego, Zurich, Moss, New York, Glasgow, San Gimignano.

New MoMA installation, Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, Hiller, Landy, Gupta, Titian, Thek and many more.

In 1964, the FBI sent a threatening letter to Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, MLK Jr. delivered his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, in which he

Born in Puerto Rico and living in Chicago, Illinois, MutualArt had the opportunity to catch Pedro Vélez as he made his final preparations in his Brooklyn studio at APT Institute for the opening of the Whitney Biennial 2014. Vélez is known for his multidisciplinary approach, incorporating painting, large-scale collages, web-based works, and sculpture.

The 2014 edition of the Whitney Biennial is upon us, enlivening the Breuer Building with one last biennial before the museum moves to the Meat Packing District in 2015. Before it christens its new space, the biennial has taken a new turn, inviting three curators from outside of the museum to put their mark on the exhibition. Stuart Comer (Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA), Anthony Elms (Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia), and Michelle Grabner (artist and Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago) have each been given their own floor of the museum, to curate three mini biennials fused into one.

As the memories of our favorite exhibitions from 2013 wane, 2014 promises a slew of exciting museum shows opening around the world. This year marks an important one for New York, with the Whitney Biennial’s final edition in the iconic Breuer building, in addition to big shows at MoMA and PS1. The large scale architectural work of Elmgreen & Dragset is celebrated in Oslo, and New York’s Tauba Auerbach is given her first solo museum show in the UK. Paris welcomes a historic show of seminal ‘decisive moment’ photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, while Los Angeles examines Expressionism in France and Germany before the influence of World War I. These and other shows in our round up promise an exciting year for art viewing audiences across the globe.

The exhibitions you don't want to miss this summer in Manchester, San Diego, Zurich, Moss, New York, Glasgow, San Gimignano.

The Whitney Biennial curators have chosen the 103 participants for this years exhibition. The show is the United States most important survey of emerging American art. The 2014 edition will take place March 7–May 25, 2014. It will be the last Biennial in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s building at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street before the Museum moves downtown to its new building in the spring of 2015. This is the 77th in the Museum’s ongoing series of Annuals and Biennials begun in 1932 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

The Watts House Project, in which artists lend their talents to community improvement, has landed a $370,000 grant that will enable it to finish

Mark Twain's great American novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, published 125 years ago, is still regarded as a mainstay of the literary canon