Category: art
Creativity, design, culture, inspiration
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Minneapolis Institute of Art Closes for Third Straight Day Amid Alex Pretti Killing, ICE Protests
The Minneapolis Institute of Art, the city’s leading art museum, announced on Sunday that it would remain closed on Sunday “for the safety of staff and visitors,” according to a statement posted to Instagram. The institution was one of many in the city to close on Friday as part of the Day of Truth and read more
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Gallerist Marian Goodman, Unwavering Champion of Vanguard Artists, Dies at 97
The art dealer Marian Goodman, who was revered for her enduring commitment to the artists that she represented, and for her disinclination to follow either aesthetic or business trends, died on Thursday in a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 97. The New York Times, which first reported news of her death on Sunday, did read more
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Rare Glimpses of Diverse Marine Life Take the Stage in This Year's Ocean Art Photography Contest
Off the deep waters of Kumejima, Japan, Steven Kovacs captured an image that would be awarded Best in Show for the 2025 Ocean Art Photography Contest. Traveling to the Okinawa prefecture in the hopes of encountering a scarcely documented species of larval goosefish, Kovacs spent nearly two weeks blackwater diving before photographing the rare moment. read more
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Alaska College Student Arrested for Eating AI Artwork Speaks Out: ‘AI Chews up and Spits out Art’ Made By Other People.’
The University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate arrested earlier this week for eating an AI-generated artwork on view in an MFA exhibition has since addressed his controversial meal. Graham Granger, a student in the school’s film and performing arts program, was charged Wednesday with class B misdemeanor criminal mischief for tearing up a set of Polaroids read more
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Art Market Sentiment Is Up for 2026, But the Recovery Has a Very Specific Shape
The art market is heading into 2026 in a better mood than it’s been in years, according to a newGlobal Art Market Outlookreport from research firm ArtTactic. After a long hangover following the 2022 peak, confidence is back, selectively, cautiously, and with clear favorites. More than half of art market participants now expect the market read more
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Gene Hackman’s Longtime Santa Fe Home Lists for $6.25 Million
Gene Hackman’s longtime home in Santa Fe has quietly come onto the market, offering a rare look at the private world the actor built far from Hollywood. The 13,000-square-foot compound, listed for $6.25 million with Sotheby’s International Realty, sits on a hilltop in the gated Santa Fe Summit community, surrounded by piñon trees and open read more
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Personal Identities Pair with Sartorial Expression in Paintings by Glenn Hardy Jr.
In his forthcoming solo exhibition, Building Identities Through Style, Glenn Hardy Jr. excavates the strata of fashion, especially how identities are shaped and perceived through appearance. Based in Washington, D.C., Hardy is a self-taught painter whose bold portraits emphasize Black life “liberated from the burdens of racial stereotypes and conflict,” says Charlie James Gallery, which read more
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How Larry Gagosian Pulled Off a Standout Show of Jasper Johns’s Crosshatch Paintings
Why did Larry Gagosian want to stage a just-opened blockbuster exhibition of Jasper Johns‘s paintings at his Upper East Side gallery in New York? “First of all, because I want to look at them,” he told Alison McDonald in a soon-to-be-published Gagosian Quarterly interview. It’s not an especially lofty justification, but it’s at least an read more
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Jonathan Carver Moore Is Building the Art World He Wanted to Walk Into
When Jonathan Carver Moore talks about his gallery, he rarely starts with sales figures or artists’ résumés. He starts with a feeling. The feeling of walking into a space and not wondering whether you belong there. That instinct is on display this week at the FOG Design + Art Fair in San Francisco, where Moore read more
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Gelman Collection of Mexican Art Surfaces at Santander, With Plans to Bring it to Spain
Banco Santander announced Wednesday that it will manage roughly half of the Gelman Collection—one of the most significant collections of 20th-century Mexican art—after the collection disappeared from public view in 2008, El País reports. More precisely, the Madrid-based bank now oversees 160 of approximately 300 works amassed by influential art patrons Jacques and Natasha Gelman. read more
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‘Secret Mall Apartment,’ Documentary About Providence Artists Living In Mall, Releases on Netflix
Secret Mall Apartment, the 2024 documentary film recounting the story of several artists who secretly lived inside a Providence mall for four years, released on Netflix Friday. Originally released in theaters in last March, becoming one of the year’s hit documentaries, the film has since been available for rental on Amazon Prime Video and Apple read more
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Why Are So Many New York Gallery Shows This Winter About Saving the Trees?
A rich tradition of tree art has sprouted in biennials across the world, with installations composed of saplings, snags, and perennials in various stages of development popping up at seemingly every big art event. (A recent case in point: the centerpiece of last year’s inaugural edition of the Sky High Farm Biennial in Upstate New read more
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A Long-Lost Henry Raeburn Painting Discovered at a London House Sale Goes on View in Scotland
A long-lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn is now on view at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh. The painting was discovered at a London house sale last year. Scotland’s most famous bard, Robert Burns (1759–1796) is perhaps best known for songs such as “A Red, Red Rose” (1794) and “Auld read more
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Two Artists Consider How Chicago Shapes Its Youth in 'World in My Eyes'
Joy Machine is thrilled to presentWorld in My Eyes, a duo exhibition of Chicago artistsKayla Mahaffeyand Joseph Perez, a.k.a.Sentrock. World in My Eyesis, first and foremost, rooted in the lives of everyday people. Both Sentrock and Mahaffey have long depicted friends and neighbors in their own Chicago neighborhoods, exploring how our city shapes its youngest read more
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Beloved California Art Park Lists Its Estate for $10.9 M. Amid Financial Strife
The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, a beloved art park in Naples, California, that is in the midst of a prolonged period of financial difficulty, has listed its estate for $10.9 million, according a report by the San Francisco Chronicle from last weekend. The park is host to a range of notable works by read more
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Thieves Steal Dutch Museum’s Entire Silver Collection
A museum in the eastern Dutch city of Doesburg has been hit by thieves who lifted its entire silverware collection in the early hours of Wednesday morning. According to museum staff, more than 300 “irreplaceable” objects were stolen, valued at tens of thousands of dollars. At approximately 4:30 a.m. local time, two men forced entry read more
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Is Flora Yukhnovich’s Neo-Rococo Any Different than MAGA’s?
“Let them eat cake,” the anonymously-run X account @PatriotTakes declared earlier this month. Following its stated mission of monitoring “right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy,” the account issued this declarative alongside found footage of a rather peculiar party. A husky in a pistachio overcoat and breeches spins his flouncy bulldog lover around a patch read more
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$1 M. Jack Whitten Painting Leads Steady Sales at San Francisco’s FOG Design+Art
At the FOG Design+Art, a San Francisco art fair set across two piers at the Fort Mason Center, the tone for opening night on Thursday was set by what takes place the event’s environs. There, one can find a slew of valet drivers in white dinner jackets; they’ve returned from picking up cars belonging to read more
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Congress Funds Institute for American Indian Arts
News The Senate confirmed appropriations for the college and several other embattled cultural institutions following Trump’s threats to defund them. “Apache Anamorphic” mural (2025) by Institute of American Indian Arts Artist-in-Residence Douglas Miles and other students (all photos by Jason Ordaz, courtesy IAIA) Following months of uncertainty, the Senate has confirmed full or near-full funding read more
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Art Movements: New Leaders Everywhere
Community Plus, Amy Sherald signs with the Creative Artists Agency and the Whitney Museum’s head-scratching “cosmic look” at its 2026 Biennial artists. Jean Cooney is the new executive director of Creative Time. (photo © Claudia Lucia, courtesy Creative Time) Art Movements,published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings read more
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