In 2023, we covered exhibitions around the world from the much anticipated reopening of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, to Barkley Hendricks at the Frick and the Made in L.A. biennial at the Hammer Museum.
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Hoping to establish an annual tradition, Art & Object invited its regular contributors to share their favorite 2023 exhibitions with our readers. The list below highlights twelve important art events from the past year, some of which we covered at the time and others we did not. Whatever your taste in art, these shows prove that 2023 had something for everyone.
Here are the top archaeological finds of 2023.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that it will be repatriating looted sculptures to the Kingdoms of Cambodia and Thailand.
Here are eight contemporary Latinx artists who have made vital contributions to the art world.
What started as a small avenue in which Pantone could engage with the design community in 1999 has blossomed into a worldwide event each December when the Color of the Year (COTY) is announced.
A conflict broke out on the platform X between New York Magazine’s senior art critic Jerry Saltz and artist Refik Anadol over a negative review of Anadol's 2022 A.I.-fueled work Unsupervised—Machine Hallucinations—MoMA.
The Metropolitan Museum has announced the artists for the 2024 commissions: Petrit Halilaj, Lee Bul, and Tong Yang-Tze.
Archaeologists have discovered a funerary stone that could completely change how we understand gender roles in ancient Iberian society.
The following failed restoration jobs range from humorous to disgraceful. Some were so easy to fix, it’s like they never happened. Others have left masterpieces so irrevocably damaged that huge fines had to be issued. The rest seem to fall into a gray area, with members of the general public and professional communities still debating whether or not these so-called failures carry much weight in the grand scheme.