Lebanese-born, California-based artist Huguette Caland, whose five-decade career reflected an imaginative conception of form and color through whimsically sensual figurative and abstractly surreal painting, textile, drawing, and mixed media works, has died at eighty-eight years old. On the occasion of an exhibition at New York’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Art in 2018, Artforum contributor Kaelen Wilson-Goldie wrote of the “formal clarity of Caland’s erotic line—her ability to be sexually suggestive, almost comically naughty, while at the same time penning a feminist political critique of beauty, the body, and expectations…

Vivian Li has been appointed the curator of contemporary art at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA). Li most recently served as associate curator of Asian art and global contemporary art at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. In her new role, she will work closely with senior curator of contemporary art Anna Katherine Brodbeck. Li will assume her responsibilities on October 7.“Just as we recently created new curatorial roles in Islamic and Latin American art to support and further strengthen these areas of our collection, we are pleased to…

ImageNet—a database of more than 14 million images and one of the most widely used sources for training AI machine learning technologies to facially recognize people and objects—has announced it will remove 600,000 photos of people from its system. The news comes five days after artist Trevor Paglen and Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford unveiled ImageNet Roulette, a viral project illustrating the biases and fallibility in how the program identifies people.Currently on view in Paglen and Crawford’s “Training Humans” exhibition, which opened at the Fondazione Prada museum in Milan last week,…

The seventh edition of the Asian Art Biennial, organized and hosted by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung and curated by multimedia artists Hsu Chia-Wei and Ho Tzu Nyen, has announced its full list of participating artists. Titled “The Strangers from Beyond the Mountain and the Sea,” the biennial will open on October 5 and take up themes of the international migration crisis, decolonization, Eastern philosophies, technology, and climate change. For the curators, the title refers not only to “travellers from distant lands, but also spirits, gods, shamans, foreign merchants, immigrants, minorities,…

Lawrence Rinder, the director and chief curator of the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), announced today that he plans to resign in March 2020, but will continue to work with BAMPFA on a consulting basis. Chief administrative officer Richard Tellinghuisen and senior film curator Susan Oxtoby will serve as co-interim directors until a successor is appointed.“For more than a decade, Lawrence Rinder has been an outstanding leader of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, amplifying the museum’s international reputation and deepening its…

Curator, writer, and educator Bruce W. Ferguson, who championed contemporary Canadian artists and founded cultural programs such as SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico, which launched its biennial of contemporary art more than twenty years ago, died of cancer in Los Angeles on September 14. He was seventy-three years old.Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, on July 3, 1946, Ferguson knew from an early age that he wanted to work in the arts. He received his bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Saskatchewan and earned his master’s degree in…

The Galerie Nagel Draxler, which has locations in Berlin and Cologne, has announced the opening of its new premises in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich. Located at Türkenstraße 43, the street level gallery is in walking distance of the Museum Brandhorst and Pinakothek der Moderne. An exhibition addressing environmental issues such as climate change and featuring American artists Mark Dion and Christine Wang will inaugurate the space on October 23.UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach has released the list of exhibitors for its eighth edition, taking place from December 4 to December…

BRIC​, the Brooklyn-based arts organization, has established the $100,000 ​Colene Brown Art Prize​ to help advance the careers of New York–based artists. Underwritten by Deborah Brown—a BRIC board member and founder of Storefront, an artist-run gallery in Bushwick—in memory of her late mother, the unrestricted grant will be divided between ten creatives, who will each receive $10,000.“BRIC is grateful for the tireless support of Deborah Brown, a board member who reflects our ethos and understands firsthand the challenges facing contemporary artists,” said BRIC president Kristina Newman-Scott. ​“Her generosity will help…

Glasgow International, Scotland’s biennial festival for contemporary art, has announced the details of its upcoming program, which will take place from April 24 to May 10, 2020. More than one hundred artists—including Kader Attia, Yuko Mohri, and Eva Rothschild—will participate in the approximately sixty exhibitions and other events that will be staged in various venues across the city.“The theme for 2020 is ‘attention’ and this idea of how we pay attention to something or how we attend to ourselves and each other is something we’ve sought to consider both in…

On the eve of the opening of the first Toronto Biennial of Art, which launched on Saturday, September 21, and is on view until December 1, the exhibition revealed that Abel Rodríguez has been selected as the winner of its inaugural Art Prize, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the biennial, and Hera Büyüktaşçıyan has been named the first recipient of its Emerging Artist Prize. Both awards come with a monetary prize of $15,000.Titled “The Shoreline Dilemma” and curated by Candice Hopkins and Tairone Bastien, the exhibition explores the implications of…