Category: art
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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New York Historical to Receive Gift of Works by Native American Artists
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“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
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