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  • Gabrielle Goliath to Seek Legal Action After Axed Venice Biennale Pavilion

    News The artist reportedly alleges that South Africa’s minister of culture acted unconstitutionally in canceling her commission, which included references to Gaza. Artist Gabrielle Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo, who were dropped from South Africa’s 2026 Venice Biennale commission (photo by ZUNIS, courtesy Gabrielle Goliath studio) Artist Gabrielle Goliath is reportedly planning to take legal read more

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    Gabrielle Goliath to Seek Legal Action After Axed Venice Biennale Pavilion

  • The Most Turbulent Flight Route on Every Continent

    Even for the calmest of fliers, a sudden bout of unexpected turbulence can be unnerving, especially when it’s the kind to jolt you from your seat and send drinks on your tray table flying. Luckily, that kind of extreme turbulence is rare, and even when it does occur, it’s unlikely to cause any real safety read more

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    The Most Turbulent Flight Route on Every Continent

  • Queens Museum Leader Sally Tallant to Step Down After Seven Years

    News Under Tallant, the museum secured a $26 million expansion allocation from the city, but also drew controversy and criticism. Former Queens Museum Director Sally Tallant (photo by Thierry Bal, courtesy Queens Museum) After a seven-year tenure, Sally Tallant will step down as president and executive director of the Queens Museum this summer, per an read more

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    Queens Museum Leader Sally Tallant to Step Down After Seven Years

  • Remembering Harvey Pratt, Roger Allers, and Robert Burleigh

    In Memoriam This week, we honor the designer of the Native American Veterans Memorial, a Disney animator, a picture book illustrator, and others. Harvey Pratt (undated) (photo by RedFeatherFriend via Wikimedia Commons; edit Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic, CC BY-SA 4.0) In Memoriamis published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world. read more

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    Remembering Harvey Pratt, Roger Allers, and Robert Burleigh

  • Will Apple Charge for Its Siri Chatbot?

    Apple is apparently working on a Siri chatbot that will rival Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT, and Apple is aiming to debut it in less than six months when iOS 27 is unveiled at WWDC. Bloomberg shared details on the chatbot earlier today, but there was one major question unanswered: what will Apple charge? Anthropic, Google, read more

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    Will Apple Charge for Its Siri Chatbot?

  • Trump says tiny cars are amazing but will Americans actually buy them?

    Osmond ChiaBusiness reporter Jason Garcia Nevi Bergeron and her Suzuki Cappuccino mini sports car America is known as the land of big cars and even bigger SUVs but Donald Trump has an idea that could change that. The president wants to bring to the US tiny vehicles, like those commonly seen on the streets of read more

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    Trump says tiny cars are amazing but will Americans actually buy them?

  • Seven more countries agree to join Trumps Board of Peace

    David Grittenand Rachel Hagan EPA Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited the White House in November Seven countries including Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt say they will join US president Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, according to a joint statement. They will join Israel, which also publicly confirmed its participation earlier. On Wednesday evening read more

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    Seven more countries agree to join Trumps Board of Peace

  • Painter Amy Sherald Signs with Talent Agency CAA

    Amy Sherald, a painter renowned for her tender portraits of Black American life, has signed with talent agency Creative Artists Agency (CCA), marking the latest high-profile crossover between the art world and Hollywood. Sherald rose to national fame in 2018 after being commissioned by former First Lady Michelle Obama to paint her official portrait for read more

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    Painter Amy Sherald Signs with Talent Agency CAA

  • 13 Beautiful Places in Oman for Fjords, Dunes, and Waterfalls

    Terraced fields seen from Jebel Akhdar Mountain in Oman Getty Images Jebel Akhdar High above the lowlands, Jebel Akhdar—the “Green Mountain”—lives up to its name in defiant patches of cool and color. Rising more than 1.24 miles above sea level, this limestone plateau is full of stone villages and agricultural terraces where pomegranates, walnuts, apricots, read more

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    13 Beautiful Places in Oman for Fjords, Dunes, and Waterfalls

  • Bonhams Posts $970 M. in 2025 Sales as It Tries to Turn the Page

    Bonhams ended 2025 with $970 million in global sales, a headline number that, in another year, might have been received as unambiguously good news. Instead, it arrives trailing a thicket of context: a widely circulatedFinancial Timesreporton a £213 million pre-tax loss, a change in ownership, and renewed scrutiny of how auction houses account for downturns read more

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    Bonhams Posts 0 M. in 2025 Sales as It Tries to Turn the Page

  • Text & Car Crashes: the Art of Scott Teplin – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    The book The Clock Without a Face, for instance, is an illustrated detective wonderland that pulls Teplin’s art into the real world. Produced in collaboration with Mac Barnett and Eli Horowitz, who collectively go by the pseudonym Twintig, and published by the masters of art-and-life line-blurring McSweeny’s, The Clock Without a Face is a story read more

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    Text & Car Crashes: the Art of Scott Teplin – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • The Unexpectedly Seductive Art of Julia Randall – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Raised in New York City, Julia Randall was surrounded by a supportive family that nurtured her creativity. Her art-lover aunt would take her along on frequent trips to museums and gave Randall art books as gifts that still remain in her collection. After attending an arts-focused elementary school and a high school that offered a read more

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  • Apple Developing AirTag-Sized AI Pin With Dual Cameras

    Apple is working on a small, wearable AI pin equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker, and microphones, reports The Information. If it actually launches, the AI pin will likely run the new Siri chatbot that Apple plans to unveil in iOS 27. The pin is said to be similar in size to an AirTag, with read more

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    Apple Developing AirTag-Sized AI Pin With Dual Cameras

  • Frank Lloyd Wright House in Chicago for Sale for $350,000—Or Is It?

    A Frank Lloyd Wright house in dire need of restoration has been reported to be up for sale with an asking price of $350,000, after the property was supposedly put on the market by the Federal National Mortgage Associate—best known as Fannie Mae—as part of a court-ordered sale following foreclosure in December. As reported by read more

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    Frank Lloyd Wright House in Chicago for Sale for 0,000—Or Is It?

  • Sally Tallant Departs Queens Museum to Lead London’s Hayward Gallery

    The Southbank Centre has named Sally Tallant the new director of the Hayward Gallery, a role she will begin in July. She is replacing the Hayward’s longtime director Ralph Rugoff, who recently announced his resignation after 20 years at the helm. As part of her new position, Tallant will also oversee visual art installations at read more

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    Sally Tallant Departs Queens Museum to Lead London’s Hayward Gallery

  • Mark Your Calendar: Apples Key Dates to Watch Over the Next Month

    While the first few weeks of 2026 have been relatively slow for Apple, things should start to pick up soon. Apple Creator Studio launches next week, and there are a handful of other items on the company’s agenda over the next month. Below, we have listed key Apple dates to watch through February: Wednesday, January read more

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    Mark Your Calendar: Apples Key Dates to Watch Over the Next Month

  • A Siri Chatbot is Coming in iOS 27

    Apple plans to turn Siri into a chatbot that will rival Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, reports Bloomberg. Apple did not initially plan to introduce a chatbot, but their popularity forced Apple executives to reconsider. Codenamed Campos, the ‌Siri‌ chatbot will be integrated into iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, replacing the read more

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    A Siri Chatbot is Coming in iOS 27

  • Gabrielle Goliath Seeks Legal Action Against Culture Minister After Canceled Venice Biennale Pavilion

    Artist Gabrielle Goliath said she and curator Ingrid Masondo are submitting an application for a court case against South African culture minister Gayton McKenzie after he canceled their planned pavilion for the Venice Biennale. Goliath was set to show a performance from her “Elegy” series, part of which would address Israel’s war in Gaza. McKenzie read more

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    Gabrielle Goliath Seeks Legal Action Against Culture Minister After Canceled Venice Biennale Pavilion

  • Apple Employees Using Enchanté Internal AI Chatbot to Speed Up Work

    Apple hasn’t developed an AI chatbot for consumers, but it has been using them internally for some time now. Last year, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman detailed a Veritas chatbot to test the new version of Siri, and now Macworld has shared details on two other AI tools that Apple employees are allegedly using. Enchanté is apparently read more

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    Apple Employees Using Enchanté Internal AI Chatbot to Speed Up Work

  • What We Know About the Winter Storm About to Hit the US—and What We Don’t

    Over the past weekend, when weather models first started forecasting a winter storm that would sweep over large parts of the country, Sean Sublette, a meteorologist living in Virginia, started telling people in his area to prepare for snow. At the time, Sublette says, “a lot of the data started to point to a substantial read more

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    What We Know About the Winter Storm About to Hit the US—and What We Don’t