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fromFast Company
1 day ago

The architecture world just got its second union

This contract, the second in the industry, sets a standard for workers at Sage and Coombe and beyond, according to Architectural Workers United, which has been instrumental in organizing efforts.
NYC startup
UX design
fromMedium
2 hours ago

Designers: We are perpetuating our own burnout problem

Design and research roles experience the highest burnout rates in tech, driven by external pressures and internal frameworks that may not support well-being.
Design
fromArchDaily
1 day ago

Cultural Centers Beyond the Building: 6 Unbuilt Projects Integrating Landscape

Cultural centers are evolving to reflect diverse architectural explorations and redefine public institutions' roles in various contexts.
#art
Arts
fromIrish Independent
3 days ago

'You have to step in and experience it' - artists on the rise of AI-generated art and the 'essential' gallery visit

Miriam Fitzgerald Juskova's exhibit combines paper quilling with mathematics, showcasing intricate art that engages viewers and emphasizes the value of handmade creations.
Arts
fromwww.amny.com
2 days ago

In praise of upheaval: Women, art, and the refusal of stillness | amNewYork

Art emerges from upheaval, reflecting change as an inherent female quality and rejecting imposed stillness.
Brooklyn
fromBrownstoner
1 day ago

Brooklyn Creative Reuse Opens at Industry City

Brooklyn Creative Reuse provides affordable art materials and creative classes while promoting sustainability by keeping art supplies out of landfills.
Film
fromCalifornia Post
1 day ago

Fears grow of 'Detroit-Style' decline as Hollywood jobs evaporate

Los Angeles' TV/film industry faces a significant decline, with a 30% drop in jobs since 2022, raising concerns of a 'Detroit-style' collapse.
Marketing
fromForbes
3 days ago

The Great Convergence: Why The Creator Economy's Future Belongs To Those Who Unite Social, Brand, And Talent

The entertainment industry is shifting power to creators, with traditional advertising losing relevance as the creator economy rapidly expands.
Berlin music
fromwww.amny.com
1 day ago

Beyond the metronome: The emotional intelligence of ballet | amNewYork

Ballet's beauty stems from the intricate collaboration between music and dance, emphasizing trust and relational excellence among artists.
Writing
fromItsnicethat
1 day ago

Elizabeth Goodspeed on why design writing needs designers writing

Writing and design stem from a shared love of history and complex ideas, with personal expression being key to the author's creative process.
Graphic design
fromThe Verge
3 days ago

Like it or not, AI is part of art school curriculums

Generative AI poses a significant threat to creative professionals, impacting job prospects and sparking protests among students.
Tech industry
fromFortune
3 days ago

Do creators still need Adobe in the AI era? | Fortune

Adobe must adapt to AI rapidly while maintaining trust with enterprise customers reliant on its software.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
3 days ago

9 reasons AI isn't going to take your job (yet) | Fortune

Employers should approach AI adoption cautiously, as predictions about its impact on employment and capabilities have often been inaccurate.
fromPhilosophynow
3 days ago
Philosophy

The Collective City

Islamic philosophy invites plurality and coexistence, emphasizing the importance of dialogue and the acceptance of error in understanding.
#creativity
Renovation
fromwww.architectsjournal.co.uk
3 days ago

Practices launch architects on your doorstep' mobile AI advertising drive

The Architects on your Doorstep project uses AI to generate home makeover ideas, helping architects engage with the public and drum up business.
East Bay food
fromThe Oaklandside
3 days ago

This week in Oakland: 'Visible Labor: The East Bay at Work' photo exhibit, and Friday Nights at OMCA

Spring brings back popular events in Oakland, including First Fridays, Art Murmur, and the Khmer New Year Festival.
NYC real estate
fromHoodline
3 days ago

New York's Big Studio Land Grab, City Makes Play For Soundstage Crown

New York's film and TV production is rapidly expanding with new soundstages and studios across the boroughs, attracting significant investment and talent.
fromWashingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
4 days ago

Trump's Interference With DC Arts Is a Boon to Baltimore

The Baltimore Museum of Art landed her highly anticipated exhibition, 'Amy Sherald: American Sublime,' after the painter pulled her show from the National Portrait Gallery due to concerns over censorship. The exhibit has been a significant hit at the BMA: It was completely sold out by late February.
Washington DC
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

Why Creative People Struggle to Commit to One Path

Multipotentiality reflects cognitive flexibility and creativity, challenging the notion that pursuing multiple interests indicates a lack of focus.
fromBoston.com
4 days ago

Ice sculpture carved for Boston's 'No Kings' rally destroyed by vandals, organizers say

I designed the sculpture so that, if it was vandalized, it would still be the same message, because the vandalizers would literally be ending ICE. Art has a lot of impacts on people, and it's a very emotional message and cause.
Boston
Music production
fromPitchfork
4 days 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.
Careers
fromFortune
6 days ago

America has a workforce crisis. The solution is already here - and it's being wasted | Fortune

The U.S. economy faces a structural workforce crisis due to declining birth rates, negative net migration, and underutilization of skilled immigrants.
#home-design
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

5 Art Job Openings That Are Definitely Not Exploitative

Qualifications for art-related positions often include unconventional traits and low compensation.
Graphic design
fromColossal
3 days ago

Stitch Your Favorite Destinations with Jake Henzler's 'Knit the City'

Knit the City by Jake Henzler allows users to create unique knitted representations of architectural landmarks using modular patterns.
fromArchDaily
6 days ago

A Community Art Ecosystem in Practice / MINOR lab

The project emphasizes the reactivation of spatial value within existing community structures, transforming building stock into community assets of public significance.
Renovation
Arts
fromColossal
1 day ago

Explore Art UK's Digital Database of More Than 6,600 Street Art Murals

Art UK archives over 21,000 public artworks, including street art and murals, to preserve ephemeral experiences and document local history.
Portland food
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 week ago

Why Bay Area ceramics studios are growing in popularity as pottery interest spikes

The Bay Area's ceramics scene has grown significantly, with 26 pottery studios now in San Francisco, driven by a resurgence in creative hobbies post-pandemic.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
4 days ago

Humans only! This website invites artists to animate anti-AI disclaimers for everyone to use

Artists created disclaimers against AI-generated content, showcasing diverse styles and emphasizing the human journey in art creation.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

An Artist Embraces the Metaphorical Cracks of Matzah

Emily Drew Miller's art reflects the disconnection felt among Jewish people through her matzah-inspired prints.
Fashion & style
fromEntrepreneur
2 weeks ago

Young Entrepreneurs Are Building Businesses Around 'Grandma Hobbies' and Demand Is Surging

Millennials and Gen Z entrepreneurs are building thriving businesses around analog hobbies like needlepoint, mahjong, and blacksmithing as an antidote to screen fatigue and digital burnout.
Parenting
fromItsnicethat
1 week ago

"Let go of the small stuff"

Parents working unsociable hours with young children experience shared struggles; emotional honesty with supportive people and clear communication with partners about household division of labor are essential coping strategies.
fromHyperallergic
2 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.
Arts
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 weeks ago

Arts & Business Alliance of Eugene: Advocates for the arts * Oregon ArtsWatch

WolfBrown found that Eugene had an abundance of art; however, the town needed more support from the business sector. The results showed that "we punched above our weight for a community our size," said Kelly Johnson, executive director of the nonprofit Arts & Business Alliance of Eugene, which the city created in 2008 to link the arts and business communities.
Portland
Arts
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
2 days ago

Perceptrum and the Emergence of Augmented Painting: When the Canvas Begins to Listen - KALTBLUT Magazine

Perceptrum redefines painting by allowing touch, creating a sensory dialogue that transforms the relationship between observer and artwork.
Graphic design
fromMedium
6 days ago

Disruption has a shape. Design history shows us what it is.

AI is causing anxiety in design, echoing past technological disruptions like the printing press and desktop publishing.
Media industry
fromVariety
2 weeks ago

Arte President Bruno Patino Issues Industry-Wide Alert: AI Has Now Pushed Us Into a 'Relationship Economy,' the Only Way Forward Is 'Coalition'

Media sovereignty faces existential threats from conglomeration, AI-driven fragmentation, and loss of shared information commons, requiring urgent industry rethinking.
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

How does a creative residency impact your practice? Quite a lot, according to these artists

Her practice uses clay to bring people together with the "therapeutic aspects of tactile making". She first came to ceramics during university, where access to the department allowed her to fall in love with the practice. And so, Ciara is deeply cognisant of the importance of supporting those who struggle to access a ceramics studio due to various social factors.
Online Community Development
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fromArtforum
3 days ago

Can the Biennial Serve a City, or Just "Big Art"?

Regional juried exhibitions have evolved, with new triennials emerging to address local artmaking and economic growth, but face challenges in meeting diverse expectations.
fromBOOOOOOOM!
2 days ago

"Idling" by Artist Greta Kresse

"These paintings merge the landscape and the intimacy of windows through the framing of the car, bridging the two realms I've typically explored separately. The car becomes a meditation on transition, on existing simultaneously here and elsewhere."
Arts
fromVogue
1 month ago

How a New Generation of Designers Are Promoting, and Protecting, Their Names

What if I took my design lens and built out my essentials capsule for the Everlane customer? I felt like that would be a really amazing opportunity for me to introduce myself as a designer to an audience outside of EB Denim.
Fashion & style
Arts
fromArtforum
3 days ago

The Biennial as Art Form in an Age of Global Fatigue

Art forms evolve with institutional structures, but can face decline as those structures change or disappear.
#art-market
Arts
fromThe New Yorker
4 days ago

The New Museum Returns, but Humans Are Left Behind

The exhibition explores humanity's struggle against technology through diverse multimedia installations and thought-provoking artworks.
Arts
fromGothamist
3 days 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.
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.
fromColossal
1 week ago

How Do Artists Finance Their Lives? Join Us for a Discussion About Mason Currey's New Book

Mason Currey dives into the underexplored topic of how artists fund their practices and lives, revealing the financial strategies that have supported creatives through the ages.
Arts
Remote teams
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

"Focus on quality interactions rather than volume"

State communication preferences in a five-month work-health 1:1, request teammates' preferences, and ask the manager to reboot meetings to ensure inclusive, fairly chaired communication.
Photography
fromDesign Milk
2 months ago

The Art of What We Throw Away

Frozen household food waste can be transformed into artwork that records daily life, promotes circularity, and fosters community engagement through zero-waste events.
Music
fromFast Company
2 months ago

The Missing Export: Culture as Economic Infrastructure

Cities can treat music as an exportable cultural asset and economic engine to drive jobs, tourism, investment, and distinctive place branding.
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

Somebody stole her entire livelihood. L.A. puppeteer is devastated - but not beaten

Jackie Smook has spent years crafting characters and props for "Dilly's World," her whimsical web series and touring theatrical show about a girl confronting big issues with the help of some puppet friends. Her life's work was stolen early Monday when thieves swiped a shipping box containing many of her puppets from outside her Beachwood Canyon apartment. Among the missing are Angus the bassist, Phyllis the mail-delivering puppet, Holstein, who was holding an intricate saxophone prop, and Dumont, who had a television stand.
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Marketing
fromForbes
2 months ago

Why Creatives Need To Thrive On Past Learnings Like AI Does

Advertising creatives must learn and apply classic creative tenets through education, mentoring, and experience to produce memorable, brand-rooted work no machine can replicate.
Artificial intelligence
fromTNW | Insider
1 month ago

The next Renaissance: Why creativity is the currency of the AI age

AI automates tedious, repetitive tasks, freeing humans to focus on creativity, imagination, and higher-value work, unlocking widespread human potential.
Parenting
fromSlate Magazine
2 months ago

I Gave My Artist Husband the Ultimate Lifelong Gift. Everyone Swears It's a Sign He's Taking Advantage of Me.

A woman supports her noncommercial musician husband, plans paid childcare, and worries social stigma will make their child view the father as a mooch.
Music
fromArtsjournal
2 months ago

Director of Artistic Operations

Director of Artistic Operations coordinates artistic planning, rehearsal and touring logistics, budgets, and systems for The Knights; requires orchestral experience, strong communication, and travel flexibility.
Arts
fromElite Traveler
3 weeks ago

AI Art: Is It Any Good? The Experts Weigh In

AI art represents a transformative cultural moment comparable to the Renaissance printing press, fundamentally changing artistic creation and expression.
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.
Arts
#arts-and-health
fromMedium
2 months ago

AI and Creativity: Why Human Imagination Still Matters in an Algorithmic World

As AI systems become more capable, more accessible, and more embedded in everyday workflows, creativity is emerging as one of the most important human skills in AI development and deployment. Not creativity as decoration or aesthetics, but creativity as problem framing, decision-making, and human judgment. In an era where many organizations are using the same models, tools, and platforms, creative thinking is what separates meaningful outcomes from generic ones.
Artificial intelligence
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design

Video Craft exhibition explores how video, film, and early moving image technologies share formal and technical properties with traditional craft media like ceramics, textiles, and glass through encoding, looping, and sampling.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Hundreds of creatives warn against an AI slop future

Around 800 artists and creatives accuse AI companies of copying and profiting from their work without authorization, launching the "Stealing Isn't Innovation" campaign.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

We Must Do More Than Simply Depict Our Lives

The Bronx Museum biennial spotlights representational works that center urban youth and marginalized identities, challenging mainstream narratives through sincere, everyday portrayals.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Art for Dignity

As if demolishing the East Wing, gutting arts agencies, and slapping his name and face on several federal buildings weren't enough, the US president now wants to do away with a DC building known as the "Sistine Chapel of New Deal art." This week, we reported on a burgeoning campaign to save the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, which houses murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, Seymour Fogel, and other major American artists. We will continue to follow this story.
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fromArtnet News
2 months ago

This New Advisory Wants to Help Artists Master Their Money | Artnet News

Artist Money Matters provides tailored financial tools and advisory to artists, covering cash-flow, pricing, contracts, taxes, grants, budgeting, and studio sustainability.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

'It's Not All About Me': Three Portland icons make a winning show * Oregon ArtsWatch

With most of us, 90 minutes of reminiscing wouldn't make for scintillating theater. Gert Boyle, as played by Wendy Westerwelle, is the exception to that rule. The late Gert came to fame when she took the reins of Columbia Sportswear after her husband's death in 1970 and also became the "One Tough Mother," with gray hair and glasses, of its comedic '80s and '90s ad campaigns. In one, she put her son, Tim, through a carwash to test the durability of a coat.
Arts
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

When Artists Lose Their Archives

An artist lost a storage unit and later discovered parts of their work were sold online without notification, stripping authorship and meaning.
Arts
fromEast Bay Express | Oakland, Berkeley & Alameda
2 months ago

Art / Tech: Postmodern Cultural Incubator critiques technology with art

A six-to-eight-month Cultural Incubator fosters anti-disciplinary collaboration, merging art and technology to critique current tech deployment and broaden who benefits from technological innovation.
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