Category: art

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  • Tiffany Window From Connecticut Church Could Fetch $2 M. at Christie’s

    A late 19th-century stained-glass window by Tiffany Studios, which hung in a Connecticut church for more than a century, is headed to auction this June and expected to bring in up to $2 million. The Boyd Family Memorial Window (The Falls), from 1898, will headline a design sale at Christie’s New York, according toArtnet News.The read more

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  • How One Cooperative Champions the Quechua Weavers of Peru's Sacred Valley

    The economy of Peru’s Sacred Valley has long been entwined with the seasons. Rural communities typically grow crops and raise livestock to sustain themselves and to barter with others, a process that necessitates an attunement with nature, its cycles, and how these patterns influence self-sufficiency. This is particularly true for the Quechua communities, Indigenous peoples read more

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  • Happy 80th Birthday to The Pope of Trash: An Interview With John Waters – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    LO: Does being part of a film archive at a university change how people might look at your work, like, now you have generations of young students who have been studying from your work? JW: Well, it’s bizarre because I got thrown out of every school that I ever went to, practically—except for grade school. read more

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  • "Halfbreed" by Artist Nahanni McKay

    A series tracing family history and confronting the bureaucratic labeling of Indigenous identities in Canadian history by Métis artist Nahanni McKay. Based on Treaty 7 Territory, in Mînî Hrpa (Banff) and Mohkínstsis (Calgary), Nahanni is a member of Otipemisiwak (Métis Nation of Alberta), which deeply inspires her work. She produces sculptures, images, and beadwork that read more

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  • Shooting at Mexico’s Teotihuacán Pyramid of the Moon, Diego Rivera’s Grandson Donates Collection to Mexico’s Museo Anahuacalli, and More: Morning Links for April 21, 2026

    To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. Good morning! A Canadian tourist was killed, and others injured in a shooting atop Mexico’s ancient Teotihuacán Pyramid of the Moon. The grandson of Diego Rivera, Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, has gifted over 150,000 items to Mexico’s Museo Anahuacalli. A papyrus fragment of Homer’sIliadwas found read more

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  • Dance Your Way to the Museum

    Daily Newsletter The benefits of rave culture, Genesis P-Orridge’s subversive mail art, Jean Shin’s memorial to the trees of a New York cemetery, and more. If you think raves are just hazy gatherings of intoxicated people who have forgotten where they are and can’t tell the difference between yesterday and next week, think again. According read more

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  • MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” Is Gritty, Stunning, and Gutting

    Yesterday, on a gorgeous, unseasonably hot spring afternoon,a squad of us descended on MoMA PS1 in Queens for the press preview of Greater New York, which opens today, April 16. A survey of artists working and living in New York City, the quinquennial (that’s every five years) is back for the sixth time since its read more

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  • Walker Art Center Severs Ties with Restaurant for Laying Off Workers in Favor of QR Codes

    Cardamom, a beloved restaurant at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, is no more following a controversial decision by the eatery to lay off its front-of-house workers and institute a QR code ordering system. The museum said on Thursday that such a move “does not align with our core values.” “We are committed to creating read more

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  • Marvel at Manabu Kosaka's Hyperrealistic Paper Sculptures of Retro Objects

    It’s one thing to marvel at the inner workings of a transistor radio or a timepiece, but for artist Manabu Kosaka, that curiosity reaches a whole new level. Using nothing but paper, the artist makes scale replicas of cameras, watches, gaming consoles, shoes, food, and more with a preternatural attention to detail. Not only does read more

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  • Talking Art With Rama Duwaji

    Daily Newsletter The artist and NYC first lady sits for an exclusive interview with our editor-in-chief. Plus: Who’s behind the posters calling to boycott the Met Gala? On a damp New York City morning last week, I visited Gracie Mansion for an exclusive interview with artist and First Lady Rama Duwaji in her studio. We read more

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  • What We Miss When We Talk About Giacometti

    What We Miss When We Talk About Giacometti “Everyone knows what a head is!” Thus André Breton—the imperious leader of the French Surrealist group with which Alberto Giacometti had made common cause in the late 1920s—chided the artist for his return to sculpting human likenesses after 1935. The Swiss-born, Paris-based Giacometti had distinguished his tenure read more

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  • 2025 Photo Awards Winner: Chanyoung Chung

    Can you describe three life moments that made you who you are today? My first moment was in 2009, when a thief broke into my place, and took away everything I had built over ten years in a single day. Every film negative I had shot since high school, my cameras, hard drives, and even read more

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    2025 Photo Awards Winner: Chanyoung Chung

  • The Drawings of Femke Hiemestra Depict Fairy Tales with Looming Consequences – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Animals are the primary subjects of Hiemstra’s works, with dogs and cats slated as her favorites and thus reoccurring most often. In art, like literature, animals can challenge perceptions of reality exhibiting an uncanny resemblance to the behaviors of their human counterparts. Hiemstra explains, “I find animals with all their different shapes and forms very read more

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  • NBA Star Devon Booker Finds Perspective at James Turrell’s Fabled Roden Crater

    Devon Booker, a five-time All Star guard for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns, has visited James Turrell’s fabled Roden Crater three times—and even struck up something of a friendship with an artist who called him an “amazing person … taking it to another level, and that’s what all artists try to do.” As reported in a read more

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  • NEVERCREW Explores Our Tenuous Relationship with Nature in Huge Murals

    Artists Christian Rebecchi and Pablo Togni, who work as NEVERCREW, have a knack for bringing the immensity of nature to developed urban spaces. Their colorful, large-scale murals take a playful tack when it comes to portraying animals, often merging them with other objects such as instant photos or, most recently, a plastic punch-out toy. “Souvenir,” read more

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  • Masha Foya's Airy Illustrations Embrace the Universality of Emotions

    “Dreaming in Blue and Green Colors (Part 2).” All images © Masha Foya, shared with permission Where the blue sky breaks through the tree canopy or light reflects onto the surface of a pond, illustrator Masha Foya summons moments of joy and surprise. The Kyiv-based artist’s dreamlike illustrations often portray spaces and individuals in emotional read more

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  • In the Studio With Rama Duwaji

    My first encounter with Rama Duwaji’s art was while waiting in line for the restroom at the Levantine bistro Huda in East Williamsburg back in 2024. It took me a second to realize that I was looking at an NYC-mandated first-aid poster, transformed into a stunning artwork in what I can now recognize as Duwaji’s read more

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    In the Studio With Rama Duwaji

  • These Are the Winners of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship

    News Kenneth Tam, Alina Tenser, Sheida Soleimani, Leeza Meksin, and American Artist are among the 223 individuals receiving the annual award. 2026 Guggenheim Fellow Kenneth Tam’s installation The Medallion at Bridget Donahue, New York (January 17–March 8, 2025) (photo Jason Mandella, courtesy Kenneth Tam and Hoffman Donahue) The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced read more

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  • LR Vandy's Rope Sculptures Disentangle Histories of Colonialism and Transportation

    For millennia, humans have navigated seas, rivers, and oceans as avenues for trade, exploration, conquest, and colonization. During the Age of Discovery—an era interwoven with what’s known as the Age of Sail—European explorers and traders embarked on journeys around the world to map previously uncharted continents, trade commodities, and establish new socio-political outposts. Imperial forces read more

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  • After Five Years of Community Building, Social Practice CUNY Initiative to End in 2027

    “I don’t think that anybody ever starts with a clear plan to sunset, but nor did I think that this would necessarily institutionalize in a way that would make it exist forever,” artist and Chloë Bass told ARTnews in a recent interview about Social Practice CUNY, the initiative she has co-directed for the past five read more

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