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fromColossal
3 days ago

Yamamoto Masao's Otherworldly Portraits Introduce Us to Expressive Owls

Yamamoto Masao's photographs evoke emotional connections between image and memory, focusing on owls and their diminishing habitats.
#portrait-photography
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago
Portland

The Cultural Landscape: Part 26 * Oregon ArtsWatch

A portrait series documents five talented cultural contributors to Portland through minimalist photography that emphasizes character over environmental context.
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fromMission Local
1 day ago

Blood, mud and a cobweb create ache of heartbreak at Asian Art Museum

Chiharu Shiota's exhibition explores themes of personal loss and connection through intricate art pieces made from blood, mud, and yarn.
#photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago
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The shadows, the figures playing basketball I waited for the magic to appear then it did': Jose Luis Morales Martin's best phone picture

fromItsnicethat
6 days ago
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Gideon Tsang's blurred and distorted work is nature photography as you've never seen it before

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fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Ben Zank's Portraits Teeter Between Surrealism and the Mundane

Ben Zank's photography captures faceless subjects in ordinary settings, evoking complex emotions through uncanny realism.
Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

As soon as I saw it, I knew the image': Robby Ogilvie's best phone picture

Edinburgh photographer Robby Ogilvie won the Sony World Photography Awards 2026 Object category for an image of a Ford Cortina in Cape Town's Bo-Kaap neighborhood, capturing the area's vibrant community and complex history through color and composition.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

The shadows, the figures playing basketball I waited for the magic to appear then it did': Jose Luis Morales Martin's best phone picture

Jose Luis Morales Martin captures the interplay of architecture and photography, emphasizing the emotional connection and artistry in both fields.
Photography
fromItsnicethat
6 days ago

Gideon Tsang's blurred and distorted work is nature photography as you've never seen it before

Gideon captures the essence of time and change in photography, focusing on the ephemeral rather than traditional beauty or detail.
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fromBOOOOOOOM!
1 week ago

Booooooom x Capture Photography Festival: Sami Farra Interview

Sami Farra's work combines photography and architecture, questioning reality and offering a unique perspective on the environment.
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fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Ben Zank's Portraits Teeter Between Surrealism and the Mundane

Ben Zank's photography captures faceless subjects in ordinary settings, evoking complex emotions through uncanny realism.
Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

As soon as I saw it, I knew the image': Robby Ogilvie's best phone picture

Edinburgh photographer Robby Ogilvie won the Sony World Photography Awards 2026 Object category for an image of a Ford Cortina in Cape Town's Bo-Kaap neighborhood, capturing the area's vibrant community and complex history through color and composition.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 week ago

Matisse's explosive finale and a new chapter for Hong Kong? Plus, Schiaparelli and Dali-podcast

The Grand Palais in Paris unveiled an enormous exhibition focusing on the final 13 years of Henri Matisse's life and work, featuring abundant examples of his celebrated gouache cut-outs.
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fromMission Local
2 weeks ago

People We Meet: Nory Sasaki, 'The life of a flower is short'

Nory Sasaki transforms root vegetables into art, showcasing his culinary skills and dedication to beauty in his garage workshop.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Culture of care: surreal celebrations of Iranian tenderness in pictures

Sheida Soleimani's work reframes caring for bodies as a political act in her exhibition, Forest of Stars.
fromsfist.com
2 weeks ago

Friends and Loved Ones Remember Joe Kukura, a Singular Soul

Joe and I met in the 7th grade and attended junior high together. I'll always remember him for his Hawaiian shirts, his love for Weird Al Yankovic, and his accordion playing.
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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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fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

Mitski Shares Her Cultural Essentials

I think, even though she's world famous with millions of fans, I still think she's underrated, because yes, she's the greatest singer in the world, but also, she doesn't get enough credit for her songwriting. She's written amazing songs over many years consistently and she's really innovated in recorded music and I don't know, I just think she's a genius and people don't realize that she is a genius.
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5 days ago
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New Dogpatch Gallery to Open This Spring Honoring Ruth Asawa's Work and Legacy

A new gallery dedicated to Ruth Asawa's work opens this spring, celebrating her 100th birthday and her contributions to art and education.
fromKqed
1 week ago
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Soon, You Can Visit Ruth Asawa's Art Whenever You Like | KQED

A new exhibition space for Ruth Asawa's works will open at the Minnesota Street Project on May 9.
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fromsfist.com
5 days ago

New Dogpatch Gallery to Open This Spring Honoring Ruth Asawa's Work and Legacy

A new gallery dedicated to Ruth Asawa's work opens this spring, celebrating her 100th birthday and her contributions to art and education.
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fromKqed
1 week ago

Soon, You Can Visit Ruth Asawa's Art Whenever You Like | KQED

A new exhibition space for Ruth Asawa's works will open at the Minnesota Street Project on May 9.
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fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Exhibit honors Japanese American who fought for US in WWII while their families were locked up

Japanese American Nisei soldiers fought for the United States in World War II while their families were imprisoned in internment camps, and a new traveling exhibit honors their service and sacrifice.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Do what you really want to do while you're still alive': Masayoshi Takanaka, the Japanese guitar hero surfing a second wave in his 70s

Masayoshi Takanaka, a 72-year-old Japanese jazz fusion guitarist, is experiencing a career resurgence with his first UK solo performances in 50 years, including two nights at Brixton Academy and a summer festival headline.
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fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Breezy Swathes of Fabric Dance Amid Landscapes in Thomas Jackson's Photos

Thomas Jackson creates in-camera fabric installations that challenge perceptions of nature, artificiality, and consumerism through layered textile compositions in landscapes.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

Rick Bartow Art Studio at Yakona Nature Preserve nearing completion * Oregon ArtsWatch

People have been hearing about this or seeing it for months now. Now, finally this summer, we'll be able to share it. We absolutely believe we're honoring Rick and his legacy as an art educator. The whole area has been transformed because of the Bartow studio. It's amazing. The anticipation level is through the roof.
Portland
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Prince laughed like a kid as I painted Free on his stomach': Steve Parke's best photograph

Around the Sign o' the Times album he called to say he was joining Prince's band, and said: I'm gonna take you with me. He showed Prince some of my artwork, which he apparently liked. I was asked to paint a stage for him that was the first job I did, and one day he asked: Have you ever taken photos? I was in the right place at the right time.
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fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Restrained Emotions Simmer in Shinsuke Inoue's Tender Wood Sculptures

I have virtually no idea what the finished piece will look like until I actually begin working with the wood. As a result, the form often emerges as I carve, and I frequently change my plans midway through the process. Naturally, I keep the many failures a secret.
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#larry-sultan
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago
Photography

Writing, watching, photographing: the heart of the matter according to Larry Sultan

Larry Sultan's writings reveal that writing was integral to his artistic practice, documenting his reflections on seeing, family memory, and photography's limits through correspondence, notebooks, diaries, and essays.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago
Photography

Parents, porn sets and Bob's Big Boy combos: how Larry Sultan photographed American domestic life

Larry Sultan's outsider, observant anxiety shaped his photographic focus on everyday American domestic life, revealing idiosyncratic, ironic moments across genres.
Photography
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

Writing, watching, photographing: the heart of the matter according to Larry Sultan

Larry Sultan's writings reveal that writing was integral to his artistic practice, documenting his reflections on seeing, family memory, and photography's limits through correspondence, notebooks, diaries, and essays.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 weeks ago

Next edition of Getty's PST Art initiative will focus on Los Angeles's connections around the Pacific Rim

The next PST Art will highlight exchange around the Pacific across several centuries, from the arrival of Chinese porcelain in the Spanish missions to the influence of Japanese visual culture on the city's architecture and design, to the ongoing impact of contemporary Korean pop culture.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The week around the world in 20 pictures

Photographers documented the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Ramadan in Gaza, Russian airstrikes in Odesa, and severe flooding in France.
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fromFuncheap
3 weeks ago

Film: Oshin, Oshin The Soul of the Cherry Blossoms (SF Main Library)

Katsuta Shinpyō bridged Japanese ukiyo-e traditions and contemporary art, establishing creative bases in San Francisco and Japan while mastering traditional painting techniques.
Music
fromPortland Mercury
1 month ago

Derek Hunter Wilson's Sculptures Sounds like the Pacific Northwest Coast

Sculptures is a gentle, grief-centered ambient-classical album blending Pacific Northwest coastal memories with improvised textures and sculptural editing.
#contemporary-art
fromJuxtapoz
3 weeks ago
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Juxtapoz Magazine - No Coward Soul: Rachel Gregor @ Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco

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fromJuxtapoz
3 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - No Coward Soul: Rachel Gregor @ Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco

Rachel Gregor's exhibition explores faith, resilience, and hope through intimate domestic imagery, using glass as a metaphor for the boundary between safety and uncertainty.
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fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

Robert Frank and June Leaf's New York Studio Hits the Market

Robert Frank and June Leaf's historic 7 Bleecker Street townhouse, their creative home for over four decades, is now listed for $6.5 million following both artists' deaths.
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fromBerlin Art Link
2 months ago

Review Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at Fruitmarket | Berlin Art Link

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith advanced Indigenous rights and environmental justice through four decades of art, activism, curation, and teaching, blending language, collage, and Indigenous knowledge.
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fromDocumentjournal
1 month ago

Bootsy Holler's lost photos of Seattle's teen underground

Bootsy Holler's photographs document Seattle's post-grunge youth scene (1992–2004), capturing underage nightlife, DIY parties, and emerging bands like Death Cab for Cutie.
Film
fromwww.berkeleyside.org
2 months ago

BAMPFA opens largest-ever retrospective of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's interdisciplinary artistic practice profoundly influenced conceptual art, performance, film, and poetry despite her death at 31.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

My favourite family photo: This is a happy picture and also saturated in grief'

I remember the moment this photo was taken: five years ago, on my partner Claire's birthday, in a National Trust for Scotland garden six miles east of Edinburgh. We were standing on a wooden deck, an ideal spot for pond-dipping with the kids and a lesser-known viewing platform for trainspotters. This is where my autistic son, then six, loved (and still loves) to jump in tandem with the ScotRail trains toggling back and forth in the middle distance.
Parenting
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago

Discover Ichi-go Ichie, the Japanese Art of Savoring Every Moment

The Bud­dhis­ti­cal­ly inflect­ed " ichi-go ichi‑e" is just one in the vast library of yoji­juku­go, high­ly con­densed apho­ris­tic expres­sions writ­ten with just four char­ac­ters. (Oth­er coun­tries with Chi­nese-influ­enced lan­guages have their ver­sions, includ­ing sajaseon­geo in Korea and chéngyǔ in Chi­na itself.) It descends, as the sto­ry goes, from a slight­ly longer say­ing favored by the six­teenth-cen­tu­ry tea mas­ter Sen no Rikyū, " ichi-go ni ichi-do " (一期に一度).
Mindfulness
Remodel
fromApartment Therapy
2 months ago

I Learned the Right Way to Put Photos on My Wall, and Now I'll Never Go Back

Find, frame, and hang art and photos to dress bare walls using existing pieces, thrifted or purchased prints, appropriate frames, and correct hanging hardware.
#analogue-photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The week around the world in 20 pictures

The brutal crackdown in Iran, ICE in Minneapolis, Russian aistrikes in Kyiv and heavy rain in Gaza the past seven days as captured by the world's leading photojournalists
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The week around the world in 20 pictures

Global photojournalists documented ICE operations, Russian airstrikes, protests in Greenland and Sakhnin, and the Africa Cup of Nations final in Rabat last week.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

In Conversation: Will Wilson

Wilson's work reexamines how Native peoples have been photographed and represented over time. Using modern photographic techniques and digital media, he responds to Curtis's influential project The North American Indian (1907-1930), inviting viewers to reflect on questions of identity, visibility, and who has the power to shape the images we see.
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fromCN Traveller
2 months ago

On Location: Chasing Marty Supreme from the Lower East Side to Tokyo and back again

Timothée Chalamet stars as Marty, a 1950s Lower Manhattan table tennis hustler who travels worldwide pursuing fame, inspired loosely by real player Marty Reisman.
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fromBOOOOOOOM!
1 month ago

"In the Bedroom" by Photographer David Kaminsky

David Kaminsky stages collaborative domestic scenes to reveal how intimacy, conflict, and shifting identities coexist within home spaces across generations.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month ago

Vancouver Art Gallery gifted more than 800 photographs by Stephen Shore

We are profoundly grateful to the Chan family for their extraordinary generosity and their commitment to making Stephen Shore's Uncommon Places accessible to all. Few bodies of work have so decisively changed the course of photography.
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fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Takashi Murakami: Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme's Genesis @ Perrotin, Los Angeles

Takashi Murakami presents 24 new paintings tracing ukiyo-e's influence on Impressionism and exploring bijinga's global impact at Perrotin Los Angeles.
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fromHigh Country News
1 month ago

The little-known photographer who documented a changing Okanogan, Washington - High Country News

Frank Matsura, a Japanese immigrant photographer in early 20th-century Okanogan County, produced personable black-and-white portraits that remain fondly remembered by local communities.
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fromBOOOOOOOM!
1 month ago

"Lupine" by Photographer Daniel Dorsa

Landscape photography can be used as a framework to process grief and trauma, facilitating emotional reconstruction through physical displacement and introspection.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Ocean Vuong Is a Legitimately Good Photographer

Ocean Vuong's photography exhibition Sống powerfully portrays New England immigrant experience and the bond with his brother after their mother's death.
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fromAnOther
2 months ago

Photos Capturing the Culture, Landscapes and People of Asia

Asia is presented through multiple native, migrant, and passerby gazes, revealing overlapping pasts, presents, and imagined futures via photographic perspectives.
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fromColossal
2 months ago

Moving Multimedia Collages by Rich Wells Playfully Remember Places and Landscapes

Rich Wells creates moving collages from photos, videos, sound bytes, and illustrations that capture the essence of place through short, looping animated worlds.
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fromFuncheap
2 months ago

Everyday Inspiration: The Art & Life of Jerry Ross Barrish

Jerry Ross Barrish's found-plastic assemblage sculptures exhibit in the Main Gallery at Sanchez Art Center Jan 16–Feb 8, with receptions, talks, and related gallery shows.
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fromColossal
1 month ago

Through Vivid Color, Martin Wittfooth Revels in Surreal Worlds

Martin Wittfooth paints surreal flora-and-fauna scenes that probe interconnection, community, and nature's endurance through enigmatic compositions.
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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.
fromColossal
1 month ago

Szilveszter Mako's Surreal Photographs Reconstruct the Boundaries of Portraiture

Szilveszter Makó 's enigmatic photographs carry layers of mystery and introspection. Standing inside curious block-like backdrops and lain against two-dimensional fields of color and texture, his subjects seamlessly meld into stories in which every detail carries intention. Taking inspiration from art history, the Milan-based artist references Surrealism and grotesque art through his use of chiaroscuro effects via light exploration and contrasting earth tones.
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fromSFGATE
2 months ago

Thousands of Fotomats once covered the U.S. Now there's only one left in SF.

The last Fotomat in San Francisco remains an overlooked, decaying relic of drive-thru photo development amid modern technological landmarks.
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

San Jose artist brings wind, light to bear in her paintings

Artist Ayelet Gal-On does not just paint; she builds, layering oil, acrylic and plaster on canvas. Gal-On's signature subjects for "Taken by the Wind, Swept by the Light," her upcoming solo exhibition at Gallery 9 in Los Altos, are white dresses that appear to hang on a line, defying the stillness of the canvas. "I love the process of playing with color," says the artist.
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from48 hills
2 months ago

At SFMOMA, Alejandro Cartagena's photographs strike deep community chords - 48 hills

The 'Carpoolers' series documents Monterrey residents riding in pickup truck beds, capturing everyday life and workers amid cartel violence.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

San Jose artist brings wind, light to bear in her paintings

Ayelet Gal-On's layered textured paintings of white dresses capture wind and light; her solo exhibition runs March 3–29 at Gallery 9 in Los Altos.
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fromThe Phoblographer
2 months ago

Want to Know Something Crazy? - The Phoblographer

A $25 annual subscription removes banner ads and helps fund staff, servers, and site growth while providing member discounts and perks.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

Newport octogenarians Sandy Roumagoux, Bobby Flewellyn, and Scottie Howard show art is ageless * Oregon ArtsWatch

The three met in Roumagoux's Thursday morning Open Studio class at Oregon Coast Community College, two hours when a dozen students paint and Roumagoux roams the room sharing the wisdom honed over her decades as both an artist and teacher. "As people started loosening up and telling their life stories, as happens in a good studio class, lo and behold, we told what ages we are," Roumagoux recalled.
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fromHigh Country News
2 months ago

Ansel Adams in the age of ICE - High Country News

Ansel Adams photographed both industrial Los Angeles and incarcerated Japanese Americans at Manzanar, producing work he regarded as among his most important.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month ago

Vancouver Art Gallery show celebrates Emily Carr's affinity with nature

"I think Carr is a remarkable Modernist landscape painter who has been largely overlooked in the wider history of Modernism," Hill says. "Her intense commitment to art, despite sexist assumptions about her potential as a woman artist and her geographic isolation from the mainstream art world, are a story I think many people would find fascinating if given a chance to hear it and see the work."
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