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40 Years On, DC Artists Revisit Don Miller's MLK Mural
Features Since 1986, the 56-foot painting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library has served as a visual portal into the civil rights leader’s life and legacy. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, with Don Miller’s “King Mural” (photo by Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images) Washington, DC — Last month, DC-based read more
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The Campaign to Destroy Renee Good
Renee Nicole Good was a poet, a mother of three, a wife. Within hours of her death, as far as the government was concerned, she was a domestic terrorist. On January 7, ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Good through her car windshield and window in Minneapolis. She appeared to have four gunshot wounds, according to read more
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Pennsylvania Man Who Stole Warhol and Pollock Paintings in Museum Theft Ring Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison
Joseph Atsus, a 51-year-old Pennsylvania man, was sentenced on Tuesday to 48 months in prison, a term of supervised release, and $1 million in restitution for several charges related to his participation in a notorious museum theft ring, the Department of Justice announced earlier this week. Atsus was part of a eight-person ring that stole read more
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Peruvian Artist Antonio Paucar Wins 11th Artes Mundi Award
Artes Mundi, a UK-based art organization, has given the 11th Artes Mundi Award to Peruvian artistAntonio Paucar. He will receive £40,000 towards his performance, sculpture, and video practice, which draws on Andean culture and his Peruvian heritage. The ceremony was held at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum in Cardiff on January 15. In an interview with the read more
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TikTok quietly launches a microdrama app called 'PineDrama' | TechCrunch
TikTok has quietly released a new stand-alone short drama app called PineDrama in the U.S. and Brazil. The app offers access to microdramas, which are essentially bite-sized TV shows that can be watched in a series of one-minute episodes. Think TikTok, but every video you come across is a short episode of a fictional story. read more
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All-New Apple Store Now Open in Downtown Montréal
Apple’s Sainte-Catherine store in Montréal, Canada has a new home at the northeast corner of Rue Saint-Catherine and Rue de la Montagne. The location officially opened to the public today, and the first people who visited received a complimentary tote bag and toque (the Canadian term for what Americans call a beanie), the latter of read more
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San Francisco's Tech Billionaires Don't Care About Your Art School
This week San Francisco’s California College of the Arts (CCA) announced plans to close by the end of the 2026-2027 school year. CCA’s campus will then be owned by Vanderbilt University. Citing CCA’s long-standing financial struggles, including “demographic shifts and a persistent structural deficit,” CCA President David C. Howse called the plan “a decisive act read more
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2026 Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show: Watch the Trailer Now
In September, Apple and the NFL announced that Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show on Sunday, February 8. The performance will take place at Levi’s Stadium, in Santa Clara, California. Super Bowl LX will air on NBC and stream on Peacock and NFL+, with read more
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Sale of Chinese Vase Canceled by French Court Over Question of Provenance
A French court ordered the high-profile Galerie Kraemerin Paris to return €2.8 million (around $3.25 million) to collector Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani over questions about a Chinese vase. The decision follows eight years of legal wrangling over the date attributed to the piece. As reported by the Art Newspaper, the Paris court of read more
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Something In The Air: The Paintings of Casey Weldon – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Casey Weldon’s work is like the house of mirrors at a carnival. Instead of stretching and distorting the human patrons that stumble into the labyrinthine funhouse, though, Weldon’s work entraps American culture itself, reflecting images that amplify, twist, and invert the dynamics we otherwise inherently accept in our society and its rituals. His paintings feature read more
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ChatGPT users are about to get hit with targeted ads | TechCrunch
An ongoing conversation — both within and outside of the tech community — has been about just how and when OpenAI, which is currently valued at $500 billion, will make money. Well, there’s one surefire way to do that, and that is through advertising. In the near term, that seems to be the AI giant’s read more
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Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest
Artists and other creative people (not to mention, ahem, journalists) have been deeply concerned about the way that their work has been hoovered up by tech companies to fuel artificial intelligence–powered image and text generators. In 2023, several digital artists filed a class action lawsuit targeted at Stability AI, Midjourney, and the image-sharing platform DeviantArt, read more
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Trump administration wants tech companies to buy $15B of power plants they may not use | TechCrunch
The Trump administration wants the largest electricity grid to add $15 billion worth of new power generation —and he wants tech companies to pay for it, even if they don’t need the capacity. The White House and the governors of several states in the region want grid operator PJM to hold an auction for 15-year read more
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UK Reveals Nearly $80 M. Worth of Art Donated by Collectors in Order to Reduce Tax Burdens
Arts Council England has announced the results of the 2024-25 edition of its Cultural Gifts Scheme (CGS) and Acceptance in Lieu (AIL)initiatives. Thirty-two artworks entered public collections this cycle, with a combined value of almost $80 million. Highlights include Edgar Degas’s pastel Danseuses roses (ca. 1897–1901), given to the National Gallery by the estate of read more
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Ali Cherri on How Art Can Keep Us Empathetic In a Dark and Violent World
In Ali Cherri’s recent films, war maps itself onto the spine of those afflicted. The watchman, the titular figure of a 2024 short, stands rigid for unbroken hours, lost in a lineage of men stationed along the border of the internationally unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.Cherri’s follow-up film The Sentinel (2025)—the second in an read more
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What Will Retirement Bring? An Animated Film for Those Dreaming of Work-Free Days
When I retire, I plan to read every morning and bake bread from scratch. I’d like to resume Spanish classes and finally become fluent. And I plan to see movies mid-afternoon, take long, leisurely walks leading nowhere in particular, and travel as much as possible. Does this sound familiar? Dreaming of retirement is one coping read more
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ChatGPT Introduces Lower-Priced Subscription Tier, Ads Coming Soon
OpenAI today announced that its lower-priced ChatGPT Go subscription tier is now available worldwide, with U.S. pricing set at $8 per month. ChatGPT Go provides expanded access to ChatGPT’s latest model, GPT‑5.2 Instant, with 10× more messages, file uploads, and image creation allowed compared to the free tier. ChatGPT Go also offers longer memory than read more
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Joan Mitchell Foundation Names 31 Artists for Residency in New Orleans
The New York–based Joan Mitchell Foundation has named the 31 artists who will participate in its 2026 residency program. Taking place at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, the residents will participate in either six-week or 14-week residencies during three seasons (spring, summer, fall) this year, with no more than nine residents being on read more
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What to See During San Francisco Art Week
My favorite quote about our city by the Bay is from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1957 film Vertigo. As the protagonist, Scottie, looks out at mid-20th-century San Francisco from an office window, his acquaintance, Gavin Elster, observes, “My how San Francisco’s changed. The things that spell San Francisco to me are disappearing fast. I should have liked read more
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Met Workers Vote to Join Local 2110 UAW, Creating One of the Nation’s Largest Museum Unions
Nearly 1,000 salaried and hourly workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art voted on Friday to join Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers (UAW), creating one of the nation’s largest museum unions. The new union, approved by a vote of 542-172, comprises staff from across 50 departments at the Met, including curators, conservators, librarians, read more
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