| Good morning. For $3 million, you can get yourself a (literally) hulking Jeff Koons sculpture at Frieze, and for $3,000, one of Santiago Licata’s elegant concrete carved pigeon sculptures at NADA — New York’s art fairs really do have it all! Managing Editor Hakim Bishara takes us right into the belly of the beast, the proverbial “main fair,” where he finds a show that's finally shed its facade: Frieze, he writes, is no longer pretending to be "socially forward while selling art as a luxury item in the tens of millions." Read the rest of our dispatches from Future Fair, Esther II, and NADA, and check back for more art fair coverage tomorrow. And in a fitting bookend to conclave week, a new publication titled Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images deals primarily with eating and drinking as religious rites, but ultimately illuminates “a different form of consumption [that] promises a cure,” writes Claudia Hart. What does the deceptively simple history of transubstantiation say about the Trump Internet’s hunger for misinformation and lies? Scroll on for Required Reading, A View From the Easel, and lots more below. — Valentina Di Liscia, News Editor | | |
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 | | The blue-chip art market inflates with anger and slams its fist if you keep pestering it with the nuisance of the outside world. | Hakim Bishara |
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LATEST REVIEWS |  | | Readers might enjoy the gross and gory fairy-tale quality of this new book — or its parallels to the Trumpian internet. | Claudia Hart |
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SPONSORED |  | | | | The museum carries out its multifaceted mission to celebrate and cultivate the arts, all while keeping the Mexican-American community of Pilsen at its center. Learn more |
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 | | The Louvre’s conservation of two Cimabue paintings led its curators to reassess the artist not as a predecessor to the Renaissance masters but on his own merits. | Daniel Larkin |
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MORE FROM HYPERALLERGIC |  | | “My studio currently stores all the supplies for the Queer Liberation March.” | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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|  | | This week: Northern Lights are doing something weird, plagiarizing indie media, how artist Cory Arcangel saved a digital legacy, NYC’s tech boom, AI videos in courts, and more. | Hrag Vartanian |
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| GUIDE TO THIS WEEKEND'S NYC ART FAIRS |  | | A quick and easy lowdown on what to expect at the more than a dozen fairs opening soon, plus programs and other happenings coinciding with the frenzy. | Rhea Nayyar |
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TRANSITIONS | | Defne Ayas was appointed director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, succeeding Charles Esche.
Binna Choi was named artistic director of the Korean pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale.
Maria J. Coltharp was appointed acting director of the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, Washington.
Gabriel Mills is now represented by Alexander Berggruen gallery.
Patty Talahongva was appointed chief programming and engagement officer of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. |
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AWARDS & ACCOLADES | | Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Las Nietas de Nonó, Natalia Viera Salgado, and Pública Espacio Cultural are the recipients of La Residencia, a residency program at Abrons Arts Center in collaboration with Pública Espacio Cultural in San Juan.
Sandra Singh won the 2025 IKOB Feminist Art Prize. Herlinde Raeman and You Huize won second and third place.
The Allentown Art Museum, BronxArtSpace, and Think!Chinatown are among the organizations to receive grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. See the full list of grantees here. |
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FEATURED OPPORTUNITY | | Oak Spring Garden Foundation – 2026 Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence | | The fellowship will be awarded to an early-career artist working on projects that address plants, landscapes, or gardens. It includes a $10,000 grant and a two- to five-week stay at OSGF in Northern Virginia.
Deadline: May 31, 2025 | osgf.org
See more in this month’s list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers! |
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