COURTESY THE ARTIST
Niki Johnson’s portrait of Pope Benedict XVI made of condoms is naturally sparking controversy. [TIME]
Josef Helfenstein, the director of the Menil Collection, will leave his position at the Houston museum to become the director of the Kunstmuseum Basel. [The New York Times]
A year-long series of art events, featuring films by Liam Gillick and Zineb Sedira, has been announced for the London Underground. [The Art Newspaper]
Photographs of artists’ private lives, including one snapshot of a possibly drunk George Tooker. [Hyperallergic]
ArtsWave is awarding $10.4 million in grants to various arts institutions in or around Cincinnati, Ohio. Among them is the Cincinnati Art Museum, which will receive $1.6 million. [Arforum]
Sam Hodge has been making prints based on the screens of broken phones. [The Telegraph]
Sean Scully works have been installed in the Monastery of Santa Cecília, in Montserrat, Spain, in what the painter calls the “most significant exhibition probably [he’s] ever done.” [The New York Times]
Nicola Tyson at Nathalie Obadia. [Contemporary Art Daily]
Artists in Dubai are recycling materials to create work that questions identity. [The National UAE]