We’ve been hearing about a lot of group shows for the coming months, as we head into the low-key summer, but yesterday we received a strong entry into this already crowded field. Might be a front-runner. Read More

Annie Leibovitz has been awarded Spain’s prestigious €50,000 ($64,600) Prince of Asturias award for humanities. [BBC]

Here’s The Art Newspaper‘s interview with Massimiliano Gioni. “I think of this show in Venice as the ‘second volume’ of a research project that I started at Gwangju and then carried on in numerous other shows.” [The Art Newspaper] Read More

There are plenty of entertaining moments to pull from Carol Vogel’s profile of Venice Biennale curator Massimiliano Gioni, which hit The New York Times‘s website this afternoon, but we’re going to go with this tidbit about what Ragnar Kjartansson has planned for the biennial. Read More

The Los Angeles Times confirms that former Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Curator Paul Schimmel will indeed join Hauser & Wirth at their new space in Los Angeles, set to open in 2015. You may recall that we had this scoop in March. Read More

The Shandaken Project, an artist residency program located in the Catskill Mountains in Shandaken, N.Y., today announced its 2013 artist residents. Read More

The mood at the Dia Beacon benefit on Sunday should have been dreary. In the basement of the old factory in Beacon, a man and a woman read years past and future into an empty, columned parking lot, a piece by On Kawara that, coupled with the nature of Sundays, threatened to lend to the proceedings a literal undercurrent of ennui. Plus it was raining. Read More

Anish Kappor’s wax cannon in Berlin requires ear plugs. [Bloomberg]

Two new curators with very Met-sounding names, Peter Barnet and C. Griffith Mann, are hired by the Met. [Artforum] Read More

The Miami Herald reports that the Pérez Art Museum, set to open in Miami this fall, has just received an anonymous $15 million donation that places the museum 85 percent of the way to raising the $220 million it had allocated for construction, according to the museum. Read More