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Judy Baca Denies Allegations She Improperly Profited From $5 M. Grant for ‘Great Wall’ Expansion
Artist Judy Baca is pushing back against allegations from former employees who claim she improperly benefited from a $5 million grant tied to the expansion of her landmark mural, The Great Wall of Los Angeles, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The accusations come from 10 former employees of the Social and read more
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Whimsical Beaded Sculptures by Amy Gross Meditate on Our Planet's Tiniest Life Forms
After more than two decades as a commercial textile designer, often working digitally, Amy Gross was drawn to making something that felt more immediate and tactile. “I started making beaded jewelry, something I could hold and feel,” she tells Colossal. The beading techniques gradually merged with canvases, which over time became more three-dimensional. They were read more
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Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner
Announcement This exhibition at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is the first comprehensive retrospective of the pioneering feminist, filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. Susan Kleckner,“Untitled” (© Susan Kleckner Papers, Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archive Research Center, UMass Amherst Libraries) More than four decades after she helped shape feminist film and performance, Susan read more
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Controversial Right-Wing French Culture Minister Stepping Down to Run for Mayor of Paris
Rachida Dati, France‘s culture minister, is stepping down from her post to run for mayor of Paris in next month’s election, she told the Financial Times in an interview Wednesday. Dati was appointed minister of culture by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in 2024 as part of President Emmanuel Macron’s new-look centrist cabinet, following an election read more
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: This isn't our first SaaSpocalypse | TechCrunch
Salesforce pulled out all the stops to convince investors that the AI revolution won’t be its death when it announced fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday. Salesforce reported a solid quarter of $10.7 billion in revenue, up 13% year-over-year. For the year, it reported $41.5 billion in revenue, up 10% over the previous year, with both results read more
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€4.5M raised by FlyFocus to scale European drone production
FlyFocus, a Poland-based defence technology company specialising in unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and avionics, has raised €4.5 million in a funding round led by ffVC, with participation from the NCBR Investment Fund, the venture capital arm of Poland’s National Centre for Research and Development. The investment marks the company’s first institutional round following eight read more
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March 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthlyOpportunities Newsletter. Emptiness 2026 Art Awards: Exhibition, Publication, Sales, and Global PromotionFeatured What is emptiness in your art? Is it solitude or serenity, absence or possibility, loss or quiet fullness? read more
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Apple Teases A Big Week Ahead With Announcements Starting Monday
Apple CEO Tim Cook today teased “a big week ahead,” with announcements starting Monday. His post included an #AppleLaunch hashtag with a colorful Apple logo, along with a short video that ultimately shows an Apple logo on the lid of a Mac. Apple is reportedly planning a three-day stretch of product announcements from Monday, March read more
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IShowSpeed Rudely Wakes A Snoozing Mongolian Girl On Omegle Triggering Memefest: WATCH The Viral Video
A recent Omegle interaction between American streamer IShowSpeed and a Mongolian woman has gone viral. As IShowSpeed matched with the soundly sleeping woman on the video chat platform, he immediately started shouting, “Hey, wake the fuck up, wake up, wake up, yeah, wake up, it’s that time.” The startled woman woke up, initially appearing confused read more
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How to avoid bad hires in early-stage startups | TechCrunch
This week on TechCrunch’s founder-focused podcast, Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen isjoinedby SarahLucena,the CEO and co-founder ofMappa,abehavioralintelligence platform that uses voice AI to decode humanbehaviorinless than60 seconds. Lucena got the idea for Mappa after trying to build a marketing team but continually feeling like she had made the wrong hires. “And I was so frustrated because read more
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Pace Prints Heads West With a Hollywood Hub, a Chuck Close Deep Dive, and a Case for Why Prints Matter Now
Pace Prints is heading to Hollywood. The New York–based print publisher and workshop has taken a space in Los Angeles and plans to open a production facility this fall with a small accompanying gallery, expanding its footprint at a moment when the L.A. art scene feels, to some, unsettled. Unlike a traditional gallery outpost, the read more
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LA Artist Judy Baca Accused of Misusing Funds For Historic Mural, French President Stung by Louvre Chaos: Morning Links for February 26, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines CRACKS IN THE WALL. Ten former employees, including two managers, who worked on The Great Wall of Los Angeles public collaborative mural, allege the revered Chicano artist Judy Baca has been misusing millions of dollars in grants.Shedesigned and leads the project, and the read more
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Tech.eu Summit London 2026 unveils new speakers
Following our previous announcements, we are excited to unveil a new group of confirmed speakers for the Tech.eu Summit London 2026.The Tech.eu Summit London 2026 will take place on 21–22 April 2026 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, bringing together senior leaders, founders and investors who are actively shaping the future of read more
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Apple Reportedly Agrees to 100% Price Hike on Samsung Memory Chips
Apple has agreed to pay Samsung twice as much for the LPDDR5X memory chips that it needs for ongoing iPhone 17 production, claims a report from Korean outlet Dealsite. According to the report’s sources, Apple recently held emergency meetings with Samsung’s semiconductor division to negotiate delivery volumes of RAM for the first half of this read more
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Oska Health secures €11M to expand AI-driven care
Oska Health, a hybrid care provider combining personal health coaches with AI, has raised €11 million in seed funding to scale its continuous care model for high-risk, chronically ill patients. The round was led by Capricorn Partners and SwissHealth Ventures, with participation from Revent, Calm Storm, LBBW Venture Capital, BMH, GoHub Ventures, and Aurum read more
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Apple Maps Launches F1 Tracks Guide Ahead of 2026 Season
Apple Maps has been updated with a new guide called “2026 Formula 1 Tracks Around the World,” ahead of the new season which is being streamed exclusively on Apple TV in the United States. Spotted by 9to5Mac within the Apple TV Formula 1 Channel, the guide offers an immersive way to explore the circuits, starting read more
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Koyo Kouoh’s Final Show
Daily Newsletter The Louvre gets a new director, the world’s largest sock monkey, and remembering artists we lost this week. Nine months after the passing of Koyo Kouoh, the Venice Biennale has named the 111 artists and collectives in the prestigious international exhibition she curated and titled: In Minor Keys. Each artist functions almost as read more
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Why Sierra the Supercomputer Had to Die
Supercomputers can be measured in several ways, but the vital statistic is their ability to perform floating-point operations per second, or flops. Flopping as fast as possible is what makes you successful. At her peak, Sierra could hit 94.64 petaflops—94.64 quadrillion floating-point operations—per second. El Capitan, at 1.809 exaflops, is about 19 times faster. In read more
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Proxima Fusion boosts Europe’s commercial fusion
Fusion energy company Proxima Fusion has signed an agreement with the Free State of Bavaria, RWE, and Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) to put the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant on the grid in Europe. This agreement marks Europe’s first major step toward commercial fusion power, as the continent’s leadership read more
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Callosum emerges to challenge AI Silicon Valley monoculture
A UK AI infrastructure startup founded by Cambridge neuroscientists offering a counter view to the “monoculture” that believes superintelligence will come from a single “God-like” AI model running on identical chipshas come out of stealth, raising over $10m in funding. Called Callosum, the startup has raised $10.25m from European VC Plural and ARIA (the read more
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