Tag: Art

  • This Is the Year We Redefine Art Institutions

    As we began 2025, optimism was tested in new ways — bringing to the surface what many of us in the arts had long felt simmering. DEI efforts were forcibly rolled back amid mounting political intervention in museum narratives, and high-profile disputes over representation and authorship played out in public. After Amy Sherald withdrew her read more

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  • Martin Luther King Jr. in Art and Memory

    Daily Newsletter Revisiting a 40-year-old mural of the civil rights leader, John Yau on the paintings of John Wilson, and a perspective from a former educator at the California College of the Arts. Good morning. Like the freedoms we often take for granted, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was hard-won. The designation of the third read more

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  • Five Art and Museum Events for MLK Day in NYC

    Guide Special collection tours at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a live reading of one of King’s sermons, and other programs. BAM VP of Creative Social Impact Coco Killingsworth at the 37th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 16, 2023 (photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images) Fifteen read more

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  • San Francisco's Tech Billionaires Don't Care About Your Art School

    This week San Francisco’s California College of the Arts (CCA) announced plans to close by the end of the 2026-2027 school year. CCA’s campus will then be owned by Vanderbilt University. Citing CCA’s long-standing financial struggles, including “demographic shifts and a persistent structural deficit,” CCA President David C. Howse called the plan “a decisive act read more

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  • Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest

    Artists and other creative people (not to mention, ahem, journalists) have been deeply concerned about the way that their work has been hoovered up by tech companies to fuel artificial intelligence–powered image and text generators. In 2023, several digital artists filed a class action lawsuit targeted at Stability AI, Midjourney, and the image-sharing platform DeviantArt, read more

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  • UK Reveals Nearly $80 M. Worth of Art Donated by Collectors in Order to Reduce Tax Burdens

    Arts Council England has announced the results of the 2024-25 edition of its Cultural Gifts Scheme (CGS) and Acceptance in Lieu (AIL)initiatives. Thirty-two artworks entered public collections this cycle, with a combined value of almost $80 million. Highlights include Edgar Degas’s pastel Danseuses roses (ca. 1897–1901), given to the National Gallery by the estate of read more

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    UK Reveals Nearly M. Worth of Art Donated by Collectors in Order to Reduce Tax Burdens

  • Ali Cherri on How Art Can Keep Us Empathetic In a Dark and Violent World

    In Ali Cherri’s recent films, war maps itself onto the spine of those afflicted. The watchman, the titular figure of a 2024 short, stands rigid for unbroken hours, lost in a lineage of men stationed along the border of the internationally unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.Cherri’s follow-up film The Sentinel (2025)—the second in an read more

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  • What to See During San Francisco Art Week

    My favorite quote about our city by the Bay is from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1957 film Vertigo. As the protagonist, Scottie, looks out at mid-20th-century San Francisco from an office window, his acquaintance, Gavin Elster, observes, “My how San Francisco’s changed. The things that spell San Francisco to me are disappearing fast. I should have liked read more

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  • A Very 2026 Art Reading List

    Daily Newsletter Also, the Smithsonian complies with Trump, the Asian Art Museum’s baby rave, and an interview El Salvador’s Venice Biennale artist. Do you have a go-to shade of lipstick? Do you wear it at all? Why, or why not? Inquiring minds — specifically, art critic Eileen G’Sell — want to know. Her forthcoming study read more

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  • 15 Art Books We're Excited to Read in 2026

    It’s a new year and that means a new crop of art books awaits us. Whether you prefer criticism, catalogs, or conversations — or the rare art-themed novel that promises to deliver — we’ve got you covered. We’re excited to alternate between a book on the activist art of complaining by Sarah Ahmed and a read more

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  • Art Movements: Pineapples, Coconuts, and More Art Awards

    Community Organizations including United States Artists and Creative Capital announced millions of dollars in grants this week. Plus: a baby rave! Matthieu Laurette applies banana puree while reading excerpts from the French Constitution, per instructions from artist Karlo Ibarra, as part of his performance “TROPICALIZE ME!” at the 3rd Gran Bienal Tropical. (photo by Raquel read more

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    Art Movements: Pineapples, Coconuts, and More Art Awards

  • One Second After: The Art of Lola Dupre – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Born in Algeria, Dupre grew up in Paris, London, and Glasgow, with much of her limited, formal education completed in the confines of several scattered schools. A self-described “hell-raising-know-it-all” in her youth, she spent time traveling across Europe, indulging in a transient lifestyle she seemed well suited for, which came with its own set of read more

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  • Are There Enough Collectors for All the Art Fairs? Chanel Opens China’s First Public Contemporary Art Library, US-Style Cultural Giving on the Rise in the UK: Morning Links for November 25, 2025

    The Headlines SUPPLY… DEMAND? This fall’s art-world chatter came with a major announcement: Frieze will launch an Abu Dhabi edition in November 2026, shortly after Art Basel opens in Qatar in February 2026. Art Basel Qatar is a completely new fair, while Frieze Abu Dhabi will expand and internationalize the existing Abu Dhabi Art fair, read more

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    Are There Enough Collectors for All the Art Fairs? Chanel Opens China’s First Public Contemporary Art Library, US-Style Cultural Giving on the Rise in the UK: Morning Links for November 25, 2025

  • Art in America’s Winter “Collaborations” Issue Features Talia Chetrit, Mernet Larsen, Artists’ Fashion Legacies, and More

    What is creative activity? Social media would have us believe it is fast and furious—cue the dizzying double-speed video of someone making something. In fact, the creative process doesn’t usually lend itself to drama; a lot of what happens in the studio would appear to be inaction, the outwardly humdrum, inwardly remarkable percolation of ideas. read more

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    Art in America’s Winter “Collaborations” Issue Features Talia Chetrit, Mernet Larsen, Artists’ Fashion Legacies, and More

  • Chanel and Power Station of Art Open Mainland China’s First Public Library Dedicated to Contemporary Art

    Chanel has announced the public opening of Espace Gabrielle Chanel, mainland China’s first public library dedicated to contemporary art, at Shanghai’s Power Station of Art (PSA). The 1,700-square-foot library was designed by renowned Japanese architect Kazunari Sakamoto and is located on the third floor of the museum. It holds more than 50,000 books and audiobooks, read more

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  • An Expansion and Renovation Brings New Life to the Portland Art Museum

    When the Portland Art Museum presented the city’s first retrospective exhibition of paintings by Mark Rothko in 2012, many local viewers were unaware that the artist grew up in Portland, where he attended the Portland Art Museum School and was awarded his first museum exhibition. With Rothko now officially reclaimed as a hometown hero, and read more

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    An Expansion and Renovation Brings New Life to the Portland Art Museum

  • ‘They Want to Kill Art’: The French Art World Is Up In Arms Over a Proposal to Impose New Taxes on Art

    In an attempt to increase revenue, two French parliamentarians are proposing that the government put in place a new tax regime on art in its 2026 budget. The French art world has risen up to oppose it, including issuing a lengthy statement with 27 signers, including leading fair company Art Basel, which just held the read more

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    ‘They Want to Kill Art’: The French Art World Is Up In Arms Over a Proposal to Impose New Taxes on Art

  • Beautiful Abyss: The Art of Janice Sung – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Illustrator-turned-fine artist Janice Sung’s figures seem at home amidst natural settings, whether in a lily pad pond or a garden, floating like a near-translucent milk specter. Her recent gallery showing at Gallery Nucleus in Los Angeles, the first using physical media by the artist. While you can definitely see the influence of one of her read more

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  • Adorable, with Teeth: Twenty Years of the Art of Ciou – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    My work had a “more is more” approach – perhaps even too much, but it always felt just right to me. In 2014, your practice changed, you moved away from using collage backgrounds, using mostly cut out pages filled with words. Looking back, any reason why you navigated away form this part of your practice? read more

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    Adorable, with Teeth: Twenty Years of the Art of Ciou – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Can a Hotel Be a Contemporary Art Museum, Too? An Interview with 21c Curator Alice Gray Stites – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Above: a view of a Nightwatch room, and an oil painting by Ruth Owens on display at 21c Oh, pardon my coastal ignorance! You have just announced the Nightwatch immersive Suites. It is described as a “sleep-in installation” and a ‘sensory experience where “The moving light uncovers the animated magic hidden within the forest, reminding read more

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    Can a Hotel Be a Contemporary Art Museum, Too? An Interview with 21c Curator Alice Gray Stites – Hi-Fructose Magazine