Category: art

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  • Judy Baca Denies Misusing $5M Grant for Iconic LA Mural

    News The LA Times reported that 10 employees accused the activist and artist of using funds from a Mellon Foundation grant for personal benefit. Judy Baca at the LACMA Art+Film Gala at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 1, 2025 (photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic via Getty Images) Activist and painter Judy Baca, best read more

    Judy Baca Denies Misusing M Grant for Iconic LA Mural
  • Art Movements: New Curator at the Frick

    Community Aaron Wile will be a senior curator at the institution. Plus, the Venice Biennale announces its full list, and the Bezoses are chairing the Met Gala (yay!). Aaron Wile, the new John Updike Curator at the Frick Collection (photo courtesy Frick Collection) Art Movements,published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, read more

    Art Movements: New Curator at the Frick
  • In 'The Fall-Off Is Inevitable,' J. Cole Circles Back to the Beginning

    The second cut on disc 39 of his most recent double album, “The Fall-Off Is Inevitable” unfolds J. Cole’s life and professional career through a backward-moving narrative. Directed by Palestinian-American filmmaker Ryan Doubiago, the track’s accompanying music video visually captures the feeling of reminiscence, as the rapper looks back on his journey thus far. Though read more

    In 'The Fall-Off Is Inevitable,' J. Cole Circles Back to the Beginning
  • David Driskell’s Gifts to Black Art

    Features The artist and scholar spent decades championing Black artists through collecting, creating, and providing financial support through the Driskell Prize. David C. Driskell,”Pine and Moon“(1971), oil on Masonite; Portland Museum of Art, Maine (© Estate of David C. Driskell, courtesy DC Moore Gallery, New York. Image courtesy Pillar Digital Imaging) PORTLAND, Maine — David read more

    David Driskell’s Gifts to Black Art
  • SoCal’s Bunny Museum Receives Gift of Rabbit Sculpture

    Once dubbed “one of the weirdest, wildest, places you can visit” by SFGate, the Bunny Museum in Altadena, California, burned to the ground in 2025’s Greater Los Angeles Wildfires. Founded by Candace Frazee and her husband Steve Lubanski and dedicated to all things bunny, the beloved SoCal institution had been open to the public since read more

    SoCal’s Bunny Museum Receives Gift of Rabbit Sculpture
  • High Museum COO Resigns After $600K Disappeared

    News An internal investigation traced “financial irregularities” back to Brady Lum, who had served as the Atlanta art museum’s chief operating officer since 2019. The High Museum of Art in Atlanta (photo CC BY-SA 2.0 by Aleksandr Zykov via Flickr) The chief operating officer at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta has resigned after read more

    High Museum COO Resigns After 0K Disappeared
  • Rena Bransten, Legendary San Francisco Art Dealer, Dies at 92

    Rena Bransten, an art dealer whose gallery was a fixture of the San Francisco art scene for over 50 years, died Wednesday at the age of 92. Bransten died following a fall after a recent heart attack, her daughter, Trish, told the San Francisco Chronicle. Bransten’s eponymous gallery was founded in 1975 as the successor read more

    Rena Bransten, Legendary San Francisco Art Dealer, Dies at 92
  • Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum to Close After 40 Years

    The DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, founded in 1985 and part of DePaul University, will close at the end of its current fiscal year, on June 30. The school, which faces considerable financial challenges, announced the closure in an announcement to the community Thursday morning. In December, the school laid off 114 out of 1,493 read more

    Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum to Close After 40 Years
  • 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

    Judy Baca Denies Allegations She Improperly Profited From  M. Grant for ‘Great Wall’ Expansion
  • 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

    Whimsical Beaded Sculptures by Amy Gross Meditate on Our Planet's Tiniest Life Forms
  • 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

    Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner
  • 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

    Controversial Right-Wing French Culture Minister Stepping Down to Run for Mayor of Paris
  • 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

    March 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
  • 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

    Pace Prints Heads West With a Hollywood Hub, a Chuck Close Deep Dive, and a Case for Why Prints Matter Now
  • 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

    LA Artist Judy Baca Accused of Misusing Funds For Historic Mural, French President Stung by Louvre Chaos: Morning Links for February 26, 2026
  • 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

    Koyo Kouoh’s Final Show
  • Rare Collaborations Between Robert Rauschenberg, Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, and More Return—Highlighting the Playful Side of the Avant-Garde

    Avant-garde dance can be much sillier than it seems. I was reminded of this—much to my delight—at a recent rehearsal for Set and Reset, a collaboration between icons that premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in 1983. Trisha Brown did the choreography, Laurie Anderson did the music, and Robert Rauschenberg did the costumes read more

    Rare Collaborations Between Robert Rauschenberg, Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, and More Return—Highlighting the Playful Side of the Avant-Garde
  • Volunteer Group Documents Smithsonian Wall Text as Trump Administration Presses Cultural Review

    A group of historians and volunteers has been documenting wall labels across the Smithsonian Institution as the Trump administration pushes for changes to how American history is presented in federal museums, according to The Washington Post. The effort, organized under the name Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian, began after administration officials called for reviews of read more

    Volunteer Group Documents Smithsonian Wall Text as Trump Administration Presses Cultural Review
  • New York Historical to Receive Gift of Works by Native American Artists

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    New York Historical to Receive Gift of Works by Native American Artists
  • “By Design” Treats Women Like Objects

    Film Review Juliette Lewis turns into a chair in a film that critiques mass culture’s conflation of femininity with consumerism and envy. Still from By Design (2026), dir. Andrea Kramer (all images courtesy Music Box Films) “My goodness, that chair is gorgeous. Look at its body, its material, its design. Must be expensive … what read more

    “By Design” Treats Women Like Objects