Category: art
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Civilization is A Sculpture: The Art of Dustin Yellin – Hi-Fructose Magazine
As a child in the mountains of Colorado, Yellin found art in nature. “I was picking up sticks and rocks and seeing the multitudes of history in the rocks,” he says. “I always thought that a rock was a beautiful sculpture. Timeless.” He surmises that his road to art-making began “by stacking rocks and sticks, read more
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Heading Into Frieze After a Year Marked by Fire and ICE, Los Angeles’s Art World Is Poised Between ‘Grief and Hope’
As the art market looks ahead to its next major tentpole event, the 2026 edition of Frieze Los Angeles this week, LA is marking just over one year since devastating wildfires ripped through parts of the city. “There was really a point where we thought the whole city was going to burn down,” said lifelong read more
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Louvre Director Resigns Amid Heist Fallout
News Laurence des Cars’s resignation comes months after the infamous jewel heist drew international ire. Laurence des Cars before the National Assembly cultural affairs committee at the Palais Bourbon in Paris, on November 19, 2025 (photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP via Getty Images) Laurence des Cars resigned from her post as the president and read more
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Manhattan DA Drops Charges Against Photographer Alexa Wilkinson
News Wilkinson was arrested after photographing a protest at the New York Times’s headquarters. Alexa Wilkinson was charged with a hate crime months after they documented vandalism at the New York Times headquarters for social media posts critiquing the newspaper’s Israel coverage. (photo courtesy Alexa Wilkinson) Manhattan prosecutors have dropped their case against protest photographer read more
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Your Guide to Fairs and Shows This LA Frieze Week
Once upon a time, Los Angeles hosted just two main art fairs to contend with (RIP ALAC). But this year, there are eight fairs to navigate — or more, depending on how you define them. These range from the behemoth Frieze LA at the Santa Monica Airport to the suite-hopping hotel fair Felix in Hollywood read more
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Why My Public Art Drives the Right Nuts
Opinion “Phoenix Ladder” is an homage to the people of the Bronx, a lighthouse for our collective futures, and our witness. Detail of Shellyne Rodriguez, “Phoenix Ladder: Monument to the People of the Bronx” (2025) (all photos Andrés Rodríguez von Rabenau) The violent media campaign orchestrated by the fascists against me, spearheaded by the New read more
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Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of MACBA, Ends Tenure Early Amid Conflict over Abu Dhabi Biennial
Elvira Dyangani Ose, director of MACBA, will step down at the beginning of April, ahead of her contract’s original expiration date in late July. The move concludes a tense dialogue with the MACBA Consortium, which had ruled that her appointment as director of the forthcoming Abu Dhabi Public Art Biennial conflicted with her duties at read more
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Calder Sculpture in Senate Office Building to Be Restored a Decade After Dismantling
A partially dismantled sculpture by Alexander Calder in Washington, D.C. is, at long last, in the process of being restored, according to Roll Call, a publication that focuses on Capitol Hill-based news. The sculpture in question, Mountains and Clouds, fills the 90-foot-high, skylit atrium of the Hill’s Hart Senate Office Building, which was constructed in read more
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Ireland Makes Basic Income Program for Artists Permanent
News After a successful pilot, artists will be paid hundreds of euros weekly over three years. National Campaign for the Arts (NCFA) members Carla Rogers and Peter Power celebrated Ireland’s new basic income scheme with Irish Culture Department Minister Patrick O’Donovan (second from right) and musician John Blek (left). (image courtesy NCFA) The Irish government read more
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In Leaked Transcript, UNT Dean Cites Politics as the Reason Behind Cancelation of Show with Anti-ICE Art Show
The decision to cancel a solo exhibition featuring anti-ICE art at the University of North Texas art school was an “institutional directive,” Dean Karen Hutzel said in newly leaked transcripts of a faculty meeting. First reported by the Denton Record-Chronicle, the transcripts show Hutzel declining to identify the directive’s source while warning colleagues to expect read more
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A Tour Inside the NY Botanical Garden’s Trippy Orchid Show
New Yorkers are at their finest — most comradely, most game — during extreme events we can rally around: Knicks wins, SantaCon horrors, heat waves, and, as recently experienced, winds that make parts of the city feel as cold as Antarctica. The deathly chill did not deter those who ventured to the Bronx’s New York read more
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Butter Art Fair Expands to Los Angeles During Frieze Week
Butter, the Indianapolis-founded art fair that returns 100 percent of sales proceeds to artists, will make its Los Angeles debut this week, expanding for the first time beyond its Midwest base as the city fills with collectors and dealers for Frieze week. Founded in 2021 and organized by Indianapolis-based cultural development firm GangGang, Butter positions read more
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Snow Day in the Art World
New York Newsletter From Helene Schjerfbeck to Glenn Ligon, here’s what to read — and where to go when the snow clears. Sometimes you can’t help but talk about the weather —like when a blizzard rolls through town, bringing with it almost two feet of snow. It’s a time to stay indoors, to turn inward read more
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Louvre Director Laurence des Cars Resigns After Heist and Internal Turmoil
After a prolonged period of internal turmoil that has included a widely publicized heist, striking workers, two structural leaks, and a ticketing scam, the Louvre has lost its director. On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said he had officially accepted the resignation of Laurence des Cars, who had led the Louvre since 2021. “Ms. Laurence read more
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The Disappearing Art of Iberian Democracy
Art Review The varied, confrontational works on view at Madrid’s La Casa Encendida are reminders of the intense labor required to protect liberty. Installation view of Inquietud. Libertad y Democracia at La Casa Encendida, Madrid. Center: Jimmie Durham, “St. Frigo” (1996) (all photos Lauren Moya Ford/Hyperallergic) MADRID — On April 25, 1974, Portuguese soldiers and read more
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MOCA Los Angeles Reveals 158 Newly Acquired Works, Including Acclaimed Kara Walker Sculpture
An acclaimed Kara Walker sculpture, abstractions by beloved painters of the past and present, and a video about two lizards in Covid-era New York are among the 158 artworks acquired last year by the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, which revealed the newest pieces to enter its holdings on Tuesday. Fifty of the artists read more
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Four Suffer Minor Injuries After Michael Joo Sculpture Is Damaged in New York
A large sculpture by Korean American artist Michael Joo collapsed after an accident, reportedly caused by a careless visitor, during the February 20 opening of his exhibition “Sweat Models 1991–2006,” at New York’s Space ZeroOne. The collapse of the piece Saltiness of Greatness (1992) injured four, who were taken to the emergency room via ambulance, read more
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Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock to Star in Blockbuster Exhibition at the Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will host a major exhibition for two major artists who have never been subject to such treatment by the institution before: Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. The famously married artists each established a legacy that stands on its own. This show, to open in October and run read more
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Undulating Coasters and Slide Complexes Loom in Alex Hutton's Paintings
Considering Alex Hutton’s fascination with rollercoasters and monumental waterslides, he doesn’t actually ever climb aboard. “Heights and the sinking feeling during free-fall bother me too much to enjoy them,” he tells Colossal. In a way, that adds even further dimension to the enigmatic, unpeopled atmosphere of his meticulous oil paintings, which focus on rollercoasters, waterslides, read more
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The Mount Rushmore of Racism
Daily Newsletter Blizzard shuts down museums in New York, Prince Andrew’s arrest photo is hung at the Louvre, a beloved hand-drawn calendar in Los Angeles, and a biography of a mountain. Can’t New Yorkers catch a break? Just when the stubborn mounds of filthy snow that haunted us for weeks finally began melting away, we read more
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