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fromHyperallergic
18 hours ago

The Future of Museums Is a Dance Floor

Rave culture serves as a transformative space for belonging and worldbuilding, challenging traditional social hierarchies and perceptions.
NYC music
fromVulture
23 hours ago

Jerry Saltz's '90s Art World

The end of the 1980s marked a shift in the art world, leading to new opportunities amidst a market recession.
fromVulture
23 hours ago

Jerry Saltz's '90s Slideshow

"I knew nothing about photography. I ended up making 40,000 goddamn slides."
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Writing
fromwww.nytimes.com
9 hours ago

Poetry Challenge Day 2: Love, How It Works and What It Means

Auden's poem explores love philosophically, contrasting indifference with the desire for mutual affection.
Music production
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
21 hours ago

ARY's 'DARKSTAR': A Journey Through Light and Darkness % - %

ARY's new album 'DARKSTAR' showcases her evolution as an artist, exploring deep personal themes and redefining her sound in the Nordic music scene.
#public-art
fromMission Local
1 day ago
Mission District

Doug Rhodes, Clarion Alley's only open studio artist

Public art thrives in the Mission, with Clarion Alley showcasing diverse murals and Doug Rhodes' unique artistic contributions.
fromwww.amny.com
5 days ago
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Art Without Walls: Inside the Public Art Fund Party | amNewYork

Public art engages communities, inviting them to see their city more honestly and expansively, embodying a sense of belonging and shared experience.
Mission District
fromMission Local
1 day ago

Doug Rhodes, Clarion Alley's only open studio artist

Public art thrives in the Mission, with Clarion Alley showcasing diverse murals and Doug Rhodes' unique artistic contributions.
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fromwww.amny.com
5 days ago

Art Without Walls: Inside the Public Art Fund Party | amNewYork

Public art engages communities, inviting them to see their city more honestly and expansively, embodying a sense of belonging and shared experience.
fromDesign Milk
3 days ago

Sabah House NYC Pays Homage To Set + Setting

Sabahs are made entirely by hand from 100% leather in either Texas or Turkey—two regions with distinct yet deeply rooted relationships to the material. The result is a shoe that varies subtly from pair to pair, even within the same size.
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fromRemodelista
4 days ago

House of Three: NYC's New Event Space and Creative Studio

Kelsie Hayes transformed her floral business into a creative event space, House of Three, after a successful career in fashion and pop-up events.
fromEater
4 days ago

These 6 Iconic Restaurant Artworks Are the Stars of the Dining Room

The painting in question was gifted to the Inn's late founder Helmuth Deetjen by the late, celebrated local artist George Choley. This particular Choley painting had been in the same place since the 1980s, undisturbed, and a symbol of continued historic preservation.
Dining
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future review some of these insights into AI are just mindblowing

Artificial intelligence's impact on relationships and society is explored through personal stories and expert insights in Grayson Perry's documentary.
fromIntelligencer
1 hour ago

He Dealt Masterpieces by Day, Torture by Night

Crispo's life was a tapestry of contrasts, with letters from aristocrats and celebrities juxtaposed against prison correspondence from junkies and thugs, illustrating his dual existence.
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History
fromwww.amny.com
6 days ago

Rare Holocaust sketches found by couple now on display in the Bronx at Manhattan University | amNewYork

A hidden collection of Holocaust drawings was discovered during a home renovation and donated to Manhattan University for preservation and education.
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fromTime Out New York
6 days ago

Swing through this glowing Lincoln Center installation for free this month

An interactive swing installation called 'Mi Casa, Your Casa 2.0' is now open at Lincoln Center, encouraging playful engagement for all ages.
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fromThe New Yorker
4 days ago

David Armstrong's Probing Gaze

David Armstrong's retrospective at Artists Space showcases over ninety works, emphasizing portraits and desire, revealing his artistic evolution and impact.
NYC music
fromHoodline
4 days ago

Fifth Avenue Turns Into Giant Art Block Party as Museum Mile Roars Back

Fifth Avenue will host the Museum Mile Festival on June 9, featuring free access to over 20 museums and various art activities.
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fromColossal
22 hours ago

Amid Urban Spaces, Alex Senna's Bold Murals Embrace Connection and Belonging

Alex Senna's murals emphasize community, emotional bonds, and togetherness through bold black-and-white compositions set against colorful urban backgrounds.
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fromAnOther
3 days ago

"We're Calling It a Future-Spective": Inez & Vinoodh on Their New Show

Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin are influential photographers known for their digital manipulation and exploration of photographic truth and beauty.
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fromBOOOOOOOM!
3 days ago

"National Character" by Photographer John Sanderson

John Sanderson's photography captures the impermanence and expansion of American landscapes, reflecting modern tensions and a search for national identity.
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fromBOOOOOOOM!
20 hours ago

"Halfbreed" by Artist Nahanni McKay

Nahanni McKay's artwork confronts bureaucratic labeling of Indigenous identities and reflects her Métis heritage and personal history.
NYC music
fromwww.amny.com
5 days ago

Where NYC finds its voice: Inside Michael Minelli's Step to the Mike' | amNewYork

Step to the Mike transforms New York City sidewalks into live platforms for discovering raw musical talent.
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fromArtnet News
3 days ago

Art Dealers Try Their Hand as Artists in This Unusual Exhibition | Artnet News

White Columns' new fundraising technique involves art dealers creating works for sale, challenging traditional norms of artist donations.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

A ruined building, five Ghanaians and an elegant horse: Ron Timehin's best photograph

Labadi showcases the vibrant community life of Accra, emphasizing local fishing traditions and the pride residents take in their heritage.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
3 days ago

Tom Prochaska: Through the Open Door * Oregon ArtsWatch

Tom Prochaska distinguished himself in many mediums: He was a masterful printmaker, an intuitive painter, a builder of papier-mâché figures, a creator of fused glass panels, and graphite-on-paper drawings.
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fromArtnet News
3 days ago

What Not to Miss at the San Francisco Art Fair

"I love the range in this booth, from large-scale ceramic totems to more intimate neon paintings. I'm always impressed by the artists Freeburg represents and the clarity of her program's mission."
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fromwww.nytimes.com
3 days ago

How Do Museums Care for Unconventional Acquisitions?

Knowles's performances, such as Make a Salad and Identical Lunch, showcased her unique approach to art through food, engaging audiences in the experience of preparation and consumption.
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fromFuncheap
6 days ago

Photo by Drew Altizer Photography

Diedrick Brackens's exhibition explores themes of tenderness, migration, and connections with nature through hand-dyed weavings.
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fromFuncheap
6 days ago

Photo by Drew Altizer Photography

Diedrick Brackens's exhibition explores themes of tenderness, migration, and connections with nature through hand-dyed weavings.
fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

MoMA PS1's "Greater New York" Is Gritty, Stunning, and Gutting

The curators of Greater New York really captured the energy of the city well - not the out-of-towner's New York with its glossy surfaces, brands, and trendy fare, but the gritty New York that's always in the process of formation, that rejects surface in favor of rawness.
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fromwww.nytimes.com
3 days ago

A Timeline of Postwar American Art

Peggy Guggenheim's gallery in New York showcased artists like Pollock and Rothko, establishing New York as the new art capital post-World War II.
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fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

In Surprising Twist, ADAA Art Fair Will Now Benefit the Whitney Museum

ADAA terminated its partnership with Henry Street Settlement and announced a new philanthropic relationship with the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Arts
fromwww.nytimes.com
3 days ago

Artists on Their Favorite Artworks at the Met, the Louvre, the Prado and Other Museums

American art reflects diverse cultural values and personal connections through various mediums and styles.
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fromwww.amny.com
4 days ago

Self-Made at the American Folk Art Museum explores a century of artists inventing themselves | amNewYork

Self-taught artists create work that is deeply personal, immediate, and reflective of lived experiences, challenging conventional narratives of artistic authorship.
fromArtnet News
5 days ago

7 New Art Books to Step Into Spring | Artnet News

Casa Kahlo offers an unprecedented look into the famed Mexican painter's family home, Casa Roja, which stands just blocks away from Casa Azul in Mexico City. Kahlo would retreat to Casa Roja when Casa Azul got crazy.
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fromTime Out New York
4 days ago

This sprawling free NYC art show just opened at MoMA PS1

MoMA PS1's 'Greater New York 2026' showcases over 150 works from 53 artists, reflecting the current creative landscape of New York City.
fromArtnet News
6 days ago

Painting Has Entered Its Performance Era | Artnet News

Much of Instagram's video content is organized around transformation-the virtual magic of the before-and-after and clips that show cause and effect. A person makes pasta from scratch in 20 seconds via edits that compress time-intensive labor.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
4 days ago

Artist interview: Sarah Rosalena

I see myself first and foremost as a weaver working at the intersection of craft and technology. As an Angeleno, I grew up learning how to weave in the Wixárika tradition of my matriarchal bloodline by watching my mother and my grandmother.
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#lacma
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago
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Designed to disorient': LA art museum unveils enormous concrete gallery, 20 years in the making

The David Geffen Galleries at LACMA represent a $724 million revitalization effort, showcasing a controversial design by architect Peter Zumthor.
fromHyperallergic
4 days ago
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LACMA's New Building Invites You to Chart Your Own Path

LACMA's new building challenges traditional museum concepts with a thematic approach, despite facing criticism over its design and budget.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Designed to disorient': LA art museum unveils enormous concrete gallery, 20 years in the making

The David Geffen Galleries at LACMA represent a $724 million revitalization effort, showcasing a controversial design by architect Peter Zumthor.
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fromArtnet News
5 days ago

Unseen George Condo Works Arrive at Auction From Anna Condo's Collection

Anna Condo is auctioning her ex-husband George Condo's artworks, marking a significant moment in her artistic journey.
fromArchitectural Digest
4 days ago

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Everything You Need to Know About the Met Gala Venue

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with the mission of bringing art, culture, and education to the American public. In the over 150 years since, the Met has steadily grown into one of the world's most influential museums.
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fromwww.amny.com
4 days ago

The intelligence of the print: Inside the IFPDA Print Fair | amNewYork

Rembrandt's etching process exemplifies the enduring and cerebral nature of printmaking, emphasizing patience, attention, and the art's relevance today.
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fromwww.amny.com
4 days ago

Marcel Duchamp: The mind above the hand | amNewYork

Abstraction in art emerges through radical recalibrations, with Marcel Duchamp exemplifying a shift from representation to conceptual exploration.
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fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Steve DiBenedetto's Cosmic Sense of the Absurd

Steve DiBenedetto's paintings serve as a functional structure to help viewers navigate collective trauma.
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fromHyperallergic
6 days ago

Art Problems: Do I Need to Go to Art Fairs?

Art fairs are optional; attendance depends on individual goals and networking strategies.
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fromHyperallergic
5 days ago

The Bennett Prize Opens Fifth Call for Entries

Women figurative realist painters can apply for The Bennett Prize, offering a $75,000 grand prize and a traveling solo exhibition.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Trump tweets, penguins and human-sized chess: NGV unveils blockbuster 2026 Triennial

Jenny Holzer's artwork WTF reflects chaos in digital conversation and explores themes of truth and authority in contemporary society.
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fromHyperallergic
6 days ago

These Are the Winners of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship

223 individuals, including artists and researchers, received the annual Guggenheim Fellowship, supporting diverse disciplines and creative endeavors.
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fromHyperallergic
6 days ago

Duchamp in New York

Marcel Duchamp's comprehensive solo exhibition at MoMA marks his return to New York after over 50 years, showcasing his revolutionary impact on modern art.
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fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Required Reading

Compton's art center aims to support formerly incarcerated artists and promote rehabilitation through creative expression.
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Jasper Johns Keeps Looking

Jasper Johns seemed to reject the tortured, in-the-moment 'I' of Abstract Expressionism, ironically commenting on the heroism and spontaneity associated with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning in his early work.
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fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Unlike Josh Kline, I Choose New York

"The first step towards a cure is admitting you have a problem," artist Josh Kline writes, highlighting the inequities in New York City's real estate market and its impact on art.
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fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Josh Kline Misses the Mark

Artists face an affordability crisis in New York City, and solutions require action rather than relocation.
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fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Required Reading

Calida Rawles' art explores the duality of water as both healing and destructive within the Black diaspora's history.
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fromGothamist
2 weeks ago

A one-man psychedelic art empire thrives in Brooklyn

Alex Aliume's Brooklyn studio attracts thousands of visitors with his unique glow-in-the-dark art and immersive experiences.
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fromwww.amny.com
3 weeks ago

A fever dream in Chelsea: The Outsider Art Fair | amNewYork

The Outsider Art Fair 2026 showcases art that exists outside traditional narratives, emphasizing raw expression and instinctive creation.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

New Ways of Seeing at the Outsider Art Fair

The Outsider Art Fair has enriched New York City's art world since its inception in 1993, presenting eclectic and idiosyncratic artists who challenge traditional fine art hierarchies.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

What Do We Really Think of the New New Museum?

The new New Museum is many things: contemporary, perhaps, but also a science, history, anthropology, and many other museums in one. It echoes the desire of its patron class to own the world and its affiliated courtier class to deliver it to them on a silver platter, or encased in perforated metal, in this case.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

The New New Museum

The New Museum reopens this week with an inaugural exhibition exploring humanity during technological change, alongside exhibitions on saris, Gainsborough, Carol Bove, and experimental art in Brooklyn.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Embracing Friction in the Art World

On Franklin Street in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, one non-commercial gallery fosters 'a small, stubbornly human space for friction.' Friction—the ubiquitous buzzword that captures the simultaneous delight and discomfort of doing things the slow way—is at the heart of artists Pap Souleye Fall and Char Jeré's current show at Subtitled NYC. It also reflects the overall spirit of this little exhibition space and of a burgeoning movement to reject our culture of optimization in favor of a bumpier, more intimate, less alienating experience.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Required Reading

Women's strikes, graffiti activism, and museum repatriation efforts represent diverse forms of contemporary protest and cultural reckoning across multiple global contexts.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

A View From the Easel

Artist Lusmerlin Lantigua uses meditative practices like dancing and singing to align body and mind before painting, viewing the studio as a flexible space where nature observation directly influences creative work.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Required Reading

Iranian heritage sites face irreversible damage from military conflict, while contemporary artists and curators reimagine cultural spaces through photography, exhibitions, and architectural interventions.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Artists Pay Tribute to Alex Pretti

A 37-year-old nurse, Alex Pretti, was shot ten times by border patrol officers while filming; artists create tributes and gallerist Marian Goodman died at 97.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Required Reading

Artists use playful, empathetic imagery to challenge ageist and gendered stereotypes and to restore community and resilience amid destruction.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

A View From the Easel

I work outside, carving and shaping the stone. Outside my house, I have a table, an extension cord, and tools. It's very cold and I have to wear all my winter clothes. When it's too cold, I do the filing and finishing work inside after I shape it outside. I listen to all kinds of music. I listen to Eminem all the time; his albums are all my favorites. For drawings, I work at Kinngait Studios or at home on my kitchen table.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Required Reading

Artists explore themes of Black resistance, marronage, and ecological history through natural materials and portraiture while navigating creative practice alongside full-time work.
fromColossal
2 months ago

Drawn to Synbols, Michael McGrath Conjures Uncanny Narratives

Disembodied heads, eyes, and hands meet spindly trees, dragonflies, and vibrant blossoms in the folk-art inspired works of Michael McGrath. Based in Rhinebeck, New York, McGrath melds a variety of media-most pieces contain a mixture of graphite, ink, and oil and acrylic paints-into dynamic compositions suffuse with mystery. Recurring symbols and objects lend themself to a distinctive visual language that captures both the wondrous and puzzling.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Required Reading

Historic and contemporary cultural scenes reveal shifting norms in love, gender, Black entrepreneurship, and visual arts, from coded letters to early Black-owned bookstores.
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fromArtnet News
2 months ago

Alexander Wang Debuts New Cultural Space Centering Asian Creativity

Alexander Wang and Ying Wang converted 58 Bowery into the Wang Contemporary, a restored Beaux-Arts venue showcasing Asian and Asian American creative expression.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Required Reading

Lunar New Year festivities and California's new Historic South L.A. Cultural District underscore renewed recognition of local arts, community celebration, and plans for a monument.
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