The Sun Is Shining on Saif Azzuz — Across galleries, museums, and outdoor sculpture, he connects Indigenous land practices in California, the Hudson Valley, and beyond.
Animated Nellie Mae Rowe Biopic Coming to YouTube — Streaming of the 2023 film, which lovingly immortalizes the late self-taught Black artist's life and legacy, starts on July 2.
Performance Cuts Through the Noise at the Venice Biennale — Florentina Holzinger and Miet Warlop transform the Austrian and Belgian pavilions into immersive spectacles of endurance, ecological dread, and controlled collapse.
Designing in regulated industries — How to ship meaningful, human-centered design when the legal team has as much say as the user
Apple is working to incorporate AI agents on the App Store, per report - 9to5Mac — A new report indicates that a WWDC announcement might be coming regarding Apple’s efforts to better incorporate AI agents into the App Store.
Zara’s Ortega Buys Paris Office Complex for About €800 Million — Zara billionaire Amancio Ortega bought a business center in Paris from Invesco Ltd., in what is his biggest transaction in Europe.
Defense Against Dishonest Charts — This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
Someone mapped every typeface decision in a single book cover—why the serif sits where it does, what the margin width says. The attention to the stuff you don't notice is sharp.
NYPL Digital Collections — Maps, photos, and ephemera.
Linear cosine palettes – Notes from a data witch — Kind of a generative art thing, but mostly an attempt by the author to prove to herself that a she can write a short blog post without turning it into a goddamn monograph
Artist spent six months painting the same wall in her apartment from different angles. The wall never changes but somehow each one looks like a different room.
Italian Arts Workers Announce Nationwide Strike — A month after a historic Venice Biennale strike, groups say they will withhold their labor this Friday, June 12, in a call for better working conditions and in solidarity with Palestine.
The Photographs that Shaped the Black Arts Movement in the Mid-20th Century — 'Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985' features works by more than 100 artists, journalists, organizers, and more.
Designing a Scientific Calculator from scratch in FPGA — This is a scientific BCD calculator that uses binary-coded decimals, the same internal number format HP used in its scientific…
Color Hunt - Color Palettes for Designers and Artists — Discover the newest hand-picked color palettes of Color Hunt. Get color inspiration for your design and art projects.
Discovery vs Delivery — A personal perspective on AI, product quality and the growing divide between deciding what should exist and efficiently building it.
Bournemouth close in on £11.1m Juanlu — Bournemouth are finalising an £11.1m move for Sevilla right-back Juanlu as new manager Marco Rose's squad nears completion.
A $90,000 Graduate Fellowship for Immigrants & Children of Immigrants in the Visual Arts — The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports immigrants & children of immigrants in MFA, MA, PhD & other graduate programs.
Opportunities in June 2026 — Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the VH Award, Bennett Prize, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
Former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe dies at 78 — Ann Widdecombe became a dominant pro-Brexit voice later in her career.
Engaging With Art Can Slow Aging, Study Claims — A group of researchers at University College London identified a relationship between consuming and creating art and a lower biological age.
Timex Atelier Chronographs Bring Modern Clarity to a Classic Complication — The latest release become an elevated entry point into the undeniably appealing world of Timex Atelier
Curtis Sliwa and Massive Hot Dog in Times Square — The absurdist elegy of “The Most American Pageant Ever!,” Brazilian modernist Chico da Silva, reclaiming a Thomas Jefferson statue, and more.
Art Archives — Want to keep up with what's happening in today's art world? My Modern Met's art articles with help you stay up to date and in the know.
Self-Fulfilling Projects — The projects that defy clarity and specificity.
If you ask Americans, Norway's Erling Haaland is already a winner — If the World Cup was a tournament for hearts and minds, the Norwegian striker would certainly win.
Trompe-L'œil Paintings by Jason Limon Reveal a Hidden Skeletal World — Jason Limon imagines a playful world in which vintage illustrations are the colorful veneer concealing a universe populated by skeletons.
How the GW Corcoran Is Rethinking Interaction Design Education — The Interaction Design program at the George Washington University Corcoran School of Arts and Design is utilizing partnerships across DC to encourage its students to develop more inclusive design practices.
Who is Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas’s newly elected political chief? — Veteran negotiator assumes Palestinian group's overall leadership following a wartime election process.
DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models | TechCrunch — DesignArena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.
Visual Phenomena & Optical Illusions — This huge collection of non-scary optical illusions and fascinating visual phenomena emphasizes interactive exploration, beauty, and scientific explanation.
Home — Daily coverage of everything new in Urban and Street Art
Listening to Our Queer & Trans Elders — We kick off our Pride Month series with painter Jamie Nares. Plus, a sports betting company makes its first foray into the art market.
Eight indicted in thwarted attack on UFC's White House event — A federal grand injury indicted eight men Thursday for their alleged roles in a thwarted drone and sniper attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House in June.
What dating in 2026 is really like, according to Redditors — Looksmaxxers are on Tinder.
Data visualization examples — Browse 400+ data visualization examples built for interactive data storytelling. Explore by industry or purpose, and reuse charts in your own projects.
Reputation Management: Tech Disruption Isn’t Just For Used Cars — Welcome back to Reputation Management! We are again revealing the underbelly of local automotive retailers—places like car dealers and service shops—with fictional service tales inspired by real…
Lenka Clayton Reflects on Motherhood and Finding Connection in Everyday Objects — In a new film from Art21, Pittsburgh-based artist Lenka Clayton shares her expansive practice and interest in care.
‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings — The long read: For tens of thousands of years, these Palaeolithic artworks were unseen. When they were rediscovered, onlookers marvelled at their vivid beauty. One of the world’s leading
Venezuelan fashion designer swaps dresses for body bags — A Venezuelan fashion designer has turned his workshop from making colourful dresses to producing body bags.
Happenings: The Patek Philippe Museum Celebrates 50 Years Of The Nautilus With A Special Museum Exhibition — The exhibition will run from June 2026 until early 2027 at the brand's museum in Geneva.
Pace Gallery’s Hall of Mirrors — Despite a tightly controlled narrative, the mega-gallery’s downsizing has left more questions than answers, with some workers and artists describing a disorienting experience.
In a New 223-Megapixel Image, NASA Captures 16.5 Million Stars of the Cigar Galaxy — Captured by Webb’s NIRCam across 65 hours, the enormous image features the dense Messier 82 galaxy 12 million light-years away.
Home — Home The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.
Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams - Writer Beware — A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email…
If Artists Mapped the World — Three shows unravel the politics of cartography. Also, why does a new Messi statue look like … that?
Elliot McGucken Suspends Einstein's 'Light Cones' Over Desert Expanses — The sublime enigmas of nature form the basis of the physicist-photographer's explorations of landscape and light.
Calls for public inquiry into Jason Arday 'witchhunt' — Lord Simon Woolley said Arday had been "hounded" by the media and pursued relentlessly.
Italian Apple Ad Featuring a Toddler With an iPhone Sparks Controversy — Does the ad celebrate child safety features or promote dangerous behavior?
UNSW's Parker on US' 20% Cargo Toll in Strait of Hormuz — Jennifer Parker, Adjunct Fellow at UNSW Canberra, discusses the legality and diplomatic implications of the US blockade and 20 percent cargo toll in the Strait of Hormuz. She draws on more than 20 years' experience in…
Walter Benjamin Warned Us About AI — The philosopher believed that good photography provokes cognition while dangerous photography soothes, as seen in a jewel box show at the Jewish Museum.
A View From the Easel With Arghavan Khosravi — “It feels like I am spending my time doing what I love.”
The In-Between Worlds of Larissa Borteh — In the artist's paintings, are we looking at plants in a state of beautiful decay, ghosts, deities, fairylands, or something from a dream?
Truth & Beauty - Data visualization by Moritz Stefaner — Always chasing the perfect form for information. Moritz Stefaner lives and breathes data visualization — as an independent designer, consultant and researcher.
Sophie Cunningham not concerned about being a distraction for Fever — Sophie Cunningham says she's unconcerned that the rallies against transgender participation in women's sports that have accompanied the Indiana Fever's recent games are a distraction for the WNBA team.
Artist Julio Le Parc, Maestro of Light, Movement, and Defiance, Dies at 97 — While his contemporaries focused on abstraction’s retinal possibilities, he viewed the liberation of the spectator as parallel to society's.
Two more small boat pilots jailed for Channel crossings — Both men admitted steering overcrowded vessels carrying more than 80 people each to the UK.
Valverde Hotel: The Design-Forward Lisbon Stay I’ve Booked 10 Times and Counting — My Lisbon home-away-from-home delivers exceptional service, great style, and the prettiest courtyard garden.
Kongo Gumi in Osaka, Japan — <p><img alt="Tanimachi-suji Avenue, Osaka; Kongo Gumi is seen on the right." data-width="6000" data-height="4000" width="300" height="200" src="https://img.atlasobscura.com/DPJTPaWNhZFwFUD2Ao9i0lUZI_bMr6LHkJus5qRP2rU/rs:fill:300:200:1/g:ce/q:81/sm:1/…
25 Art Shows Reckoning With the US at 250 — From Indigenous survivance to quilting to modernism, these exhibitions and projects reframe and challenge the story of the United States.