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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 day ago

Remembering Steven Oshatz: "Marking the contours" * Oregon ArtsWatch

Oshatz worked on a monumental scale to represent underwater scenes, creating a full stage silk backdrop. He also designed hand painted silk waves that dancers moved across the stage.
Portland
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fromwww.nytimes.com
1 month ago

Dance and God Are Inseparable in Ann Lee' and Beyond

For the Shakers, Dancing is both a means of revelation and a way to do the work of God in the world, Kimerer LaMothe, a dancer and philosopher of religion, said in an interview. To dance is to build heaven on earth.
Philosophy
Photography
fromThe New Yorker
4 days ago

How Robert Rauschenberg Made the Real Realer

Rauschenberg valued stillness as a form of energy, finding inspiration in Newhall's photographs despite their contrasting kinetic nature.
Podcast
fromArtforum
5 days ago

Schlock Jock: Joshua Citarella at the Whitney Biennial

Doomscroll podcast's live tapings at the Whitney reflect changing museum priorities and the evolving relationship between art and digital discourse.
fromHyperallergic
10 hours 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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fromPitchfork
1 week ago

Nobody's Chosen: An Interview With Sideshow

Sideshow's album TIGRAY FUNK addresses societal issues through personal experiences and a unique musical fusion of G-funk and Ethiopian influences.
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fromHyperallergic
22 hours ago

Josh Kline Misses the Mark

Artists face an affordability crisis in New York City, and solutions require action rather than relocation.
#art
Berlin music
fromwww.berkeleyside.org
2 weeks ago

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to Cal Performances April 7-12

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to Berkeley with new artistic director Alicia Graf Mack, showcasing diverse programs and a rich musical soundtrack.
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fromArtnet News
13 hours ago

Artist Charles Ross Spent 50 Years Trying to Bring the Stars Down to Earth. At 88, Has He Done It? | Artnet News

A chance encounter with a cowboy in 1975 led Charles Ross to pursue his vision of creating Star Axis, a large naked-eye observatory.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
15 hours ago

Pressing issues: the vital role of printmaking in the history of art

Yale came to me and said there isn't an overarching book about the history of printmaking; they wanted it to be about the printed image. There are a lot of books about printing-about the history of journalism or the history of books, the printing press and the printed word-but not so much about the printed image and its processes. So that was my challenge.
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fromArchitectural Digest
3 weeks ago

How Alexander Widener Turned His Vintage Obsession Into a Career

In the digital world that we're in, you know, negative videos are what goes viral. People are always knocking people down a peg and it's really easy to fall into that. If something bad happens-which, when you own your business, something bad happens every day- it's easy to circle in despair. But my challenge is to look for the positive and figure out how to pivot, and if something isn't working then figure out a different way to get it done.
Digital life
fromArtnet News
22 hours ago

Rediscovering Joshua Johnson, America's First Black Professional Artist

Joshua Johnson, born around 1763 in Maryland, was the first Black professional artist in the United States, overcoming the challenges of his early life as an enslaved person.
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fromHi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
3 weeks ago

Uncanny Valley: The Oil Paintings of the Late Eyvind Earle Still Have A Resounding Influence on Artists & Viewers Today - Hi-Fructose Magazine

To call the oil paintings of Eyvind Earle "landscapes" is accurate but very sorely wanting. For more than seventy years, Earle turned his unique refracting eye on what he called the "stupendous infinity of nature," interpreting what he saw through a long lens shaped by a very particular kind of mythopoeia.
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fromOpen Culture
1 day ago

How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War

The work of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning wound up as part of a secret CIA program during the height of the Cold War, aimed at promoting American ideals abroad.
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fromHyperallergic
1 day 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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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 days ago

Art Institute of Chicago's first Norman Rockwell acquisition is a home run

The Dugout is the largest and most elaborate study in oil that Rockwell made for one of his most recognisable Saturday Evening Post covers. The image is partly credited with popularising the team's reputation as the 'lovable losers.'
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fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds

The Jewish Museum presents the first US exhibition focusing on Paul Klee's late work, highlighting his response to 1930s fascism.
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fromArtnet News
5 days ago

David Nott Brings Textured Abstraction to the Screen with LG Gallery+

David Nott's textile works blend sculpture, design, and craft, with his 'Color Riddle' series emphasizing color, shape, and texture.
Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

From bustling Venice Beach to gas station shrines: Alex Frayne's photographic exploration of America

South Australian photographer Alex Frayne documents America's fractured psyche through three years of analogue photography across nine states, focusing on western, southern, and Bible belt regions.
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fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Remembering Glen Baxter, Pat Steir, Melvin Edwards

This week honors an absurdist cartoonist, a feminist artist, and a sculptor addressing violence in the US.
#art-market
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fromBerlin Art Link
6 days ago

Review of Group Show Anahita Sadighi Gallery | Berlin Art Link

The exhibition 'Let Us Believe in the Dawn of Spring' celebrates renewal through diverse artistic expressions coinciding with the Persian New Year.
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fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - David Salle "My Frankenstein" @ Spruth Magers, Los Angeles

David Salle integrates AI-generated imagery with traditional painting techniques, using machine learning models trained on his own work as new visual "givens" to respond to creatively.
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fromHyperallergic
6 days 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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fromHyperallergic
6 days ago

Melvin Edwards, Who Sculpted a New Vocabulary for Political Art, Dies at 88

Melvin Edwards, influential sculptor, passed away at 88, known for his innovative abstractions reflecting art history and the legacy of Atlantic slavery.
fromHyperallergic
6 days ago

The Art World Is a Joke

Kamrooz Aram is everywhere this year, from Mumbai Art Week to the Whitney Biennial, and critic Aruna D'Souza is grateful. She pens a beautiful meditation on his work, reading his abstract paintings as not simply a denunciation of Western modernism nor a reassertion of Islamic visual motifs, but something else entirely - something gestural, exuberant, riotous, and incomparably his own.
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fromArtnet News
1 week ago

Rare Rauschenberg Experimental Dance Revived at Brooklyn Roller Rink

The Trisha Brown Dance Company is reviving Robert Rauschenberg's 1963 dance 'Pelican' for the first time in 60 years at a Brooklyn event.
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fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

A View From the Easel

Creating molds from high-heeled shoes in a shared workspace enhances precision and organization in the artistic process.
fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Sand Art Review

Sand Art is a game by Kory Jordan and published by 25th Century Games for two to four players ages 10 and up. It takes about an hour to play, and has you collecting resources and then coloring in a bottle, making art in a bottle out of sand, in case the name didn't give away the plot. Gameplay Overview: Sand Art has you gathering and mixing sand, which is used to fill your bottle.
Board games
Fashion & style
fromColossal
2 months ago

Personal Identities Pair with Sartorial Expression in Paintings by Glenn Hardy Jr.

Fashion shapes, signals, and negotiates Black identities through style, balancing conformity, difference, aspiration, and access while combining reality and fantasy.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 week ago

The Art Consultancy Firm Saying No to the Attention Economy

Approximately Blue prioritizes anonymity and substance over visibility and social media presence in the contemporary art market.
US politics
fromWIRED
2 months ago

Sorry MAGA, Turns Out People Still Like 'Woke' Art

Mainstream entertainment achieved major success with diverse, politically conscious projects that became cultural phenomena despite political and corporate pushback against DEI.
fromBerlin Art Link
2 months ago

Review of Alexander Basil at Galerie Judin | Berlin Art Link

Alexander Basil has created a cosmos. His instantly recognizable style and established color palette implicate the subject matter in a process of calm and sure scrutiny. Central to this cage is the familiar figure that reappears, on a quest through daily life. The protagonist is both the subject and object of reflection that morphs in and with his surroundings, travelling worlds beyond the room he finds himself in.
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#whitney-biennial
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago
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Under the Influence at the Whitney Biennial

Artists often fail to acknowledge the influences and predecessors that shaped their work, particularly in the context of AI-generated art.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago
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Whitney Biennial Sneak Peek

The Whitney Biennial features moody, contemplative art with immersive experiences, while arts leaders urge new NYC culture commissioner Diya Vij to address artist affordability amid federal funding cuts and museum closures.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Under the Influence at the Whitney Biennial

Artists often fail to acknowledge the influences and predecessors that shaped their work, particularly in the context of AI-generated art.
fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

Peter Halley Returns to Austria with First Solo Show in Two Decades

In many ways working in the tradition of Kazimir Malevich and Josef Albers, his compositions employ a language of squares and rectangles known as "Cells" and "Prisons," connected by bold lines called "Conduits." Together, these geometric and linear arrangements tap into the inherent geometry that structure reality, and conceptually refer to the construction of everyday life, both public and private as well as physical and psychological.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Absolutely transformative': Willem de Kooning exhibition uncovers raw intensity of early work

Willem de Kooning's 1948 solo exhibition at Charles Egan Gallery launched his international career, establishing him as a pre-eminent painter by the 1950s through his innovative exploration of figuration and abstraction.
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fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Required Reading

Artists depict motherhood and childbirth through raw, unsentimental imagery that challenges conventional artistic and cultural representations of birth and maternal experience.
#outsider-art
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fromTime Out New York
3 weeks ago

Theater review: Bughouse looks inside the world of outsider artist Henry Darger

Henry Darger's posthumously discovered artistic legacy reveals a reclusive menial worker's obsessive creative output combining disturbing imagery with apocalyptic kitsch aesthetics.
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fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

Blink and You'll Miss It! 3 New York Shows With Painfully Short Runs | Artnet News

Gallery exhibition runs have lengthened from weeks to five or six weeks due to increased competition and high mounting costs, though a countermovement of brief, limited-time shows is emerging.
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks 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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fromJuxtapoz
4 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way @ Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Fifty-eight contemporary Latinx artists innovate within painting traditions, challenging historical exclusion and interrogating boundaries while celebrating personal, culturally specific expressions that enrich American and contemporary art.
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fromArtnet News
4 weeks ago

Alma Allen Joins Perrotin After Split With Previous Galleries | Artnet News

Sculptor Alma Allen joined Perrotin gallery and will represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale after his previous galleries opposed the commission.
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Market Momentum in L.A. | Artnet News

Some dealers at Frieze Los Angeles said they sold more in L.A. than they did at Art Basel Miami Beach in December, suggesting that market confidence has continued to strengthen since the end of the last year. The city's art week also saw a record number of satellite events as the appetite for alternative fair models continues to grow.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner

Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner, on view at Haverford College's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through April 5, 2026, is the first comprehensive retrospective of the pioneering feminist artist, filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. Bringing together nearly 100 works, many never before publicly exhibited, the exhibition seeks to reposition Kleckner as a foundational figure in feminist, queer, and activist art histories.
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fromJuxtapoz
5 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - The 2026 AXA Art Prize US is Open for Submissions

AXA XL launches the ninth edition of the AXA Art Prize US, inviting undergraduate and graduate students to submit figurative paintings, drawings, and prints by March 16, 2026.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

A Cold Plunge Into Glenn Ligon's Blue

Glenn Ligon merges language and saturated blue to transform abstraction into perception-driven figuration that probes formal limits and racialized meanings.
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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.
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
2 months ago

A View From the Easel

Artist balances painting, drawing, embroidery, and large-scale scroll work in a vineyard-side studio, managing herniated discs by alternating tasks, drawing inspiration from sunrise and sunset.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

A View From the Easel

Home studio constraints shape artistic labor and conceptions of women's spaces, intertwining domestic routines, community interactions, and concentrated multi-project practice.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Beer With a Painter: Michael Berryhill

Michael Berryhill uses vibrant color, dry-brush technique, and domestic spaces to enact aesthetic resistance that both constructs and resists figurative image-making.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Matt Midgley Paints Razorsharp Geometric Acrylics So Precise They Barely Look Handmad

Death Anxiety Comics Inspired By Our Fears "Sunkissed": Beautiful Feminine Illustrations by Emilija Savic Artist Creates Honest Illustrations About Relationships And Everyday Life Artist Yana Tarakanova Creates Superb Explicit and Bizarre Comics About The Society The Dark, Incredibly F*cked Up Comics Of Joan Cornella Chris Keegan by Cosmic Creatures 6 Feet Covers: Duo Artists Re-Designed Iconic Album Covers To Promote Social Distancing Artist Spent Three Years Painting Her Readings Mom Prepares Healthy Meals As Cartoon Characters For Her Son How To Teach Yoga Like Slav: Top 10 Drunk Yoga Positions
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

John Altoon's Fever Dream Drawings

John Altoon abandoned abstraction to create dreamlike, sexually charged drawings that challenged formalist norms and emphasized imaginative, unsettling figure work.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

A View From the Easel

Mornings are best for concentrated work. In the winter, I turn on the heat at 8am and get started around 10am. Summer, I start around 9am. I have two areas in the studio for projects. The large, heavy wood sculptures are carved in the front section of the studio, closest to the roll-up wide door. Smaller sculptures are placed on a hydraulic workbench. Before I start, I focus, connect with the Source, and ask for guidance.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

8 signs you appreciate art, music, and culture on a deeper level than most people - Silicon Canals

Some people experience art deeply, reacting emotionally and perceiving subtle artistic cues that reveal heightened sensitivity and meaningful connections to creative expression.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

A View From the Easel

A small, adaptable studio provides calm, supports varied artistic practices—drawing, performance preparation, archival work—and becomes a communal space for collaboration and care.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Does It Have to Mean Something to Be Great?

Joanne Greenbaum combines diverse media and mark-making to create cohesive paintings where individual elements retain distinctiveness, blending stillness with accelerating movement.
#architecture
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

James Castle Was a World Unto Himself

James Castle's found-paper and soot works create transportive, formally radical abstractions that evoke otherworldly, rule-governed visual universes.
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fromBOOOOOOOM!
2 months ago

Artist Spotlight: Su A Chae

Su A Chae's paintings examine identity and belonging through paradoxical spatial propositions, cultural memory, information asymmetry, and balance framed as active resistance.
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Mike Mitchell Captures Pop Icons In Wholesome Absurdity and Colourpop Minimalism

A wide-ranging showcase of contemporary and historical visual art highlights diverse mediums, techniques, emotional themes, and cultural commentary from posters to sculptures and digital works
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Aldrich Museum Names Artists for First-Ever Decennial

For the first time in its 62-year history, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art will present a survey of artists living and working in Connecticut. Today, Tuesday, January 13, the institution named the 40 participating artists in the inaugural Aldrich Decennial. The exhibition, Aldrich Decennial: I Am What Is Around Me, which is expected to recur once every decade, will open on June 7 and run until January 10, 2027. A complete list of artists is included at the end of this article.
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fromThe Mercury News
2 months ago

In Berkeley, a major new exhibit for conceptual and performance art

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's work receives a major retrospective at BAMPFA, displaying over 100 pieces that explore memory, displacement, and language.
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