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Mexican artist Geles Cabrera, who was celebrated as her country’s first professional female sculptor and associated with the Generación de la Ruptura (Breakaway Generation), died on September 1 at age 100, as first reported by the Spanish magazine Bonart . Over seven decades, she built a sculptural practice that explored the human figure through abstracted, voluptuous forms, often ones made of rough volcanic stone. Over the years, she effectively led the way for younger generations of modern and contemporary Mexican artists, for whom she was a “tireless promoter,” as the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL), Mexico City, put it in a past tribute . The institution also announced her death earlier this month. “It is with deep sadness that we pay tribute to Geles Cabrera… a pioneer of modern sculpture in Mexico and an artist whose work transformed the way we think about the body, movement, and space,” stated OMR gallery in Mexico City, wh...

The two teams met in fine, windy conditions in their opening Hurricanes Youth Council 2026 Division 1 match at Kilbirnie Park this past Saturday. A feature of the encounter was the well-acquainted match-ups of many of the players, having been First XV teammates in their school sides all year and now opposing each other. There...

An Yves Saint Laurent Piet Mondrian dress from the 1960s that’s been photographed by the likes of David Bailey, Irving Penn, and Richard Avedon is going under the hammer at the online auction house Fair Warning, in collaboration with Kerry Taylor Auctions. Titled “The Impossible Couture Collection,” the sale also features pieces by Azzedine Alaïa, Elsa Schiaparelli, Paco Rabanne, and John Galliano. The sale will take place on the evening of September 17, the first day of London Fashion Week. The auction has been curated by art collector Peter Brant Jr., who is the son of art collector and publisher Peter M. Brant and supermodel Stephanie Seymour. Jussi Pylkkänen, formerly the global president of Christie’s, will auctioneer the sale. With a presale estimate between $200,000–$500,000, the YSL Mondrian dress is expected to be the top lot of the evening. “It has been decades since a Mondrian Dress of this significance has appeared at auction, making this an e...

Monday morning edition – updates expected, as is the case this time of the year with fresh news rolling in: Another whirlwind weekend of rugby has concluded, and there is more to come over the next several weeks. Representative matches are scattered far and wide this coming weekend. The second round of the Hurricanes Youth...

Cuauhtémoc Medina, a Mexico City–based curator and art historian who has organized exhibitions around the world, has been appointed curator of the Bienal de Arte Paiz. The biennial takes place in Guatemala City and Antigua, about 25 miles west of the capital. It is organized by the Fundación Paiz para la Educación y la Cultura, a family foundation that initially awarded education scholarships and supported soup kitchens. The foundation launched the biennial in 1978; Medina’s show, opening in 2027, will be the exhibition’s 25th edition. In a statement about his appointment, Medina called attention to the Bienal’s history of serving “Guatemalan audiences as a vehicle for contemporary thinking and sensibility.” “It is,” he said, “a great honor, but also a challenge, to be in charge of curating the Paiz Biennial for this special occasion. I hope that, with the help of the Biennial staff and the artists, we will be able to produce something wo...

The Anderson Ranch Arts Center, a five-acre complex of studios and artist housing in Snowmass, Colorado, that offers workshops and residencies, is often called a maker’s paradise. You understand that moniker upon arrival: Once you get over the 8,000-foot elevation, you feel energized, breathe in the crisp air, behold your bucolic surroundings—mountains dotted with the watching eyes of aspens—and want to revel in making something, even something as banal as your morning coffee. When I was at the Ranch in mid-July for its 60th-anniversary celebrations, for which ARTnews was a media sponsor, that crisp air had a threatening edge, that crisp air had a threatening edge: It was so dry it seemed like you could start a fire simply by thinking about one. Dry enough that the arrow on the daily fire danger rating board outside the Snowmass Wildcat fire station had swung all the way into red (“extreme”). Dry enough that the Ranch’s artists needed special permission to fir...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has decided it’s not worth writing a single one. Nearly two decades in the making and costing more than $1 billion, the long-awaited Lucas Museum is finally ready to make its debut, with founding member previews starting next week and its public opening on September 22. The two scrapped plans in different cities (first Chicago, then San Francisco) and the eight years spent building it in LA have certainly added to the hype surrounding the country’s newest museum. In a promotional video for the museum, cofounder George Lucas says he has always had a problem with the mainstream art world’s rigid delineations between what is and isn’t art. It’s a noble cause, and one that many would now agree with. The past decade has seen profound changes in the art world, with scholars, curators, and critics working to rewrite an art historical canon that has, since the formalization o...