Tag: Art
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Vancouver Art Gallery Announces Major Gift of Stephen Shore Photographs
The Vancouver Art Gallery announced this week that it has received a gift of more than 800 works from American photographer Stephen Shore’s series “Uncommon Places.” The donation comes from the Vancouver-based Chan family, which has long supported the museum. Taken on road trips across North America between 1973 and 1981, “Uncommon Places” is considered read more
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Art Spring in NYC
Daily Newsletter The best shows to see across the city this season, SVA shuts down curatorial practices program, Art Crossword, March opportunities, and more. Enough with those filthy glaciers on our sidewalks — the Hyperallergic Spring 2026 New York Art Guide is here! With 70-plus shows, it’s all you need to know about the major read more
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Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) Details Her Pointed Work on the Cover of Art in America
In many ways, the confrontational cover of this issue needs no explanation: Lady Liberty is dead. But when A.i.A. sat down with the artist Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) to talk about her sculpture Liberté Morte (Dead Liberty),2025, she shared an enlightening story about how the work extends the lineage of her lexicon. In 2016, read more
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Supreme Court Declines to Reconsider Copyright Case on AI Art
The US Supreme Court said on Monday that it will not hear a case over whether art by artificial intelligence can recieve copyright protection. The decision all but ends the years-long quest by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to have art crafted by his AI system “DABUS” recieve federal copyright protection. In a 2024 profile in read more
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The Lume digital art gallery at Indianapolis Museum closes
In 2021, the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields turned the museum’s fourth floor contemporary art galleries into an exhibition space for high-tech digital art called the Lume. Over the past five years, the controversial initiative featured immersive, crowd-pleasing exhibitions like “Van Gogh Alive” (2021), “Monet & Friends Alive” (2022-23), and “Dalí Alive” (2024-25). However, read more
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Frieze Week LA: Mobile LED truck displays Epstein emails
Artist Tod Lippy has been following reports about art world figures who maintained friendships and correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—even after his crimes were public—and been left with the nagging sense that the consequences have been too mild. Billionaire collector Leon Black still sits on the board of New York’s Museum of Modern read more
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Birmingham Museum Seeks Public Help to Find Historic Artwork
TheBirmingham Museum of Artis asking the public for help locating artworks byCorietta Mitchell, the first Black artist to have a solo exhibition at the museum during the city’s segregation era, according to local news outletWVTM. The institution marks its 75th anniversary this year with a renewed effort to recover what it calls a missing piece read more
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6 Must-See Artworks on Digital Art Streaming Platform CIFRA
Editor’s Note: This article was produced in partnership with CIFRA. As the art world continues to grapple with how best to exhibit, preserve, and monetize digital work, a new streaming platform aims to do more than simply replicate the white cube online. CIFRA positions itself as a platform made for artists working in video, sound, read more
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Watch the Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Latest Film
The art world continues to be Hollywood’s new favorite setting. Following Cathy Yan’s The Gallerist, an art thriller released last month, and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, a 2025 film about an art heist, comes The Christophers by director Steven Soderbergh. The new film, set to be released April 10 in the US and May 15 read more
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Ulysses Jenkins, Video Art Trailblazer with an Eye on Mass Media, Has Died at 79
Ulysses Jenkins, a muralist, performer, and trailblazer of video art, has died at 79. His death was confirmed by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, his hometown and first collaborator in a lifelong examination of the connective and destructive potential of mass media. The museum mounted a retrospective of Jenkins’s work in 2022, titled “Without read more
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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