Amy Smith-Stewart Hired as Curator at Aldrich Museum

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conn., has hired Amy Smith-Stewart as its new curator. Smith-Stewart serves on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts and Sotheby's Institute of Art, both in New York. She was the founder of Smith-Stewart, a nomadic gallery that formerly operated on New York's Lower East Side.

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Phyllida Barlow Gets RAW at the Norton

London's Phyllida Barlow (1944-) is the latest artist to be honored in Recognition of Art by Women (RAW), a series of annual solo exhibitions featuring living women artists at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla. "Phyllida Barlow" will open in December and run through March 2014, and will include the artist's signature large-scale sculptures and installations crafted from repurposed materials. Read More

Stedelijk Receives Gift From Dealer Paul Andreisse

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has received a major gift from local gallery owner and collector Paul Andriesse. The donation includes 60 drawings, paintings and photographs by artists and designers including Marlene Dumas, Charles and Ray Eames, Thomas Struth and James Welling.

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Attitudes Become Form Once Again, in Venice

This summer, coinciding with the Venice Biennale, the Fondazione Prada will revisit Harald Szeemann's seminal exhibition "Live in Your Head. When Attitudes Become Form," originally presented at the Kunstalle Bern, Switzerland, in 1969. "When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013" (June 1-Nov. 24) is organized by independent curator Germano Celant with artist Thomas Demand and architect Rem Koolhaas. Read More