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In an open letter sent to ARTnews on Tuesday morning, a group of artists called on the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan, to remove their work from the show. The open letter comes a week after the triennial took work off view, in a controversy that some have alleged is censorship. The letter is signed by Tania Bruguera, Pia Camil, Claudia Martínez Garay, Regina José Galindo, and Javier Téllez, as w

The 2014 season has begun. While popular shows of artists like Magritte, Hopper, and Carrie Mae Weems continue their travels, dozens of new exhibitions devoted to modern and contemporary art are opening across the country. Here are some observations: You say you want a revolution? It’s an explosion of Early Modernism The season starts with a bang at the Guggenheim, where “Italian Futurism, 1909–19

Museumgoers snapping photos of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night, 1889, at MoMA. It’s a scene that plays itself out hundreds of times a day in American museums: a mother and her fidgety teenage daughter stand before a famous painting—in this case, Caravaggio’s The Toothpuller, from the early 17th century. The mom pulls out a cell phone and poses her daughter in front of the work, a funny-grotesque i

Leigh Anne Miller Photo Editor and Associate Editor, Art in America A.i.A. has confirmed that David Weiss, half of the artist-duo Fischli/Weiss, died this morning, age 66. According to his New York gallery Matthew Marks, Weiss had been undergoing treatment for cancer since September of last year. “It was more advanced than anyone realized,” said gallery director Stephanie Dorsey. The prolific Swis

Given the art market’s well-documented “correction” this year and last, you might think the larger luxury market would be down as well. If so, you’d be very wrong.