Julie Mehretu’s Advice to Young Artists — The artist's stirring commencement speech at RISD, the best art shows in NYC this summer, and can you really have friendships in the art world?
After Automation — AI progress creates more work for humans, not less
Artvee — Browse and download high-resolution, public domain Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations and Posters.
Play 'Liminal Bingo,' Pat Perry's Participatory Photo Treasure Hunt — Pat Perry recently launched "Liminal Bingo," a communal photo hunt that asks participants to snap images of the mundane and quirky.
Figurative Expressionist Painter Jay Milder Dies at 92 — He carved out a space for himself in the downtown art scene as a bold artist and gallerist who championed contemporaries such as Claes Oldenburg and Jim Dine.
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Is Free — The Cuban dissident artist is exiled to the US and a Homerist reviews Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”
RIP Vermeer, You Would’ve Hated AI — A biography of the Dutch painter misses the mark, Ed Simon reacts to Anthropic’s book-pulping, and more.
You Can Love David Hockney and Still Hate His iPad Paintings — No amount of curatorial artspeak counters the sense that the late artist’s massive digital painting lacks the inventive mark-making and use of color that characterized his life’s work.
I DON'T WANT TO INSPIRE YOU | HA HAI YEN | TEDxMoc Chau — We often call people who overcome adversity “inspiring.” But placing someone on a pedestal can unintentionally make us believe that they succeeded because they are special, while we could never do the same. Drawing from…
The Biggest American Wiener — A visit to the “Most American Pageant Ever!” and the story of a broken Jefferson statue’s quill.
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Remembering David Hockney — The British painter who transformed the everyday, and 25 art shows for America 250.
Thieves Steal Over $4.5M in Jewelry From French Museum — The morning raid at the Musée Lalique comes less than a year after the infamous heist at the Louvre.
Former High Museum Executive Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement — According to court filings, Brady Lum stole more than $600,000 from the Atlanta institution during his nearly seven-year tenure.
Designing with web standards: The playbook for this AI moment — Jeffrey Zeldman helped end the browser wars by making the case for standards. We are starting that journey again and we should follow his…
When code is abundant — Producing code is getting cheap. Trusting it is not. Why enterprises need a durable layer of context, verification, and governance around AI agents.
NYT Strands hints, answers for July 7, 2026 — Every hint, nudge and outright answer you need to complete today's NYT Strands puzzle.
watched an artist spend 6 months painting the same room from different angles. the light changes in like 4 of them and honestly it broke my brain a little 🎨
‘We’re astounded and a bit perplexed by it’: colossal 2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at Unesco site in Turkey — The statue gives new insight into the ancient Lydian civilisation, Turkey’s culture ministry says
South Korea Delays Single-Stock Weekly Options Days Before Start — South Korea has delayed a plan to launch weekly single-stock options on shares including SK Hynix Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., the latest sign regulators are becoming jittery after wild stock-market swings.
Cocoa Plantations Set the Scene for Divine Events in Marc Padeu's 'Memento Vivere' — Humans' futile control of time forms the basis of a new suite of works in Padeu's solo show at Larkin Durey.
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Delcy Morelos Tends to Sepulchral Installations in a Divine Connection to the Land — A new film from Art21 follows Delcy Morelos as she installs a sepulchral mound in Seville's Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo.
Everyone's a thought leader. Almost no one is thinking. — Thought leadership got cheap. Thinking didn't.
Smithsonian Hearing's Most Bizarre Moments Ranked by Tier — “Is Mickey Mouse racist?” Texas Republican Congressman Brandon Gill asked National Museum of American History Director Anthea Hartig.
Presence, Memory, and Time Merge in the Surreal Works of 'Architects of Absence' — The five-person group exhibition at Gallery Wendi Norris plumbs the dialogue between absence and presence.
The Looter Who Built Your Favorite Museum — A new book maps the network that allowed Douglas Latchford to violently rip Khmer statues from their homes and funnel them into Western institutions.
Construct Your Own Miniature Paper Brutalist Circuses with 'Cirk' — 'Cirk,' a new book from David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka of Zupagrafika, highlights a wide range of permanent circuses.
New Zealand Prime Minister Luxon Wins Party Confidence Vote — New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said the governing National Party has backed him to remain leader following a confidence vote.
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How Fannuh Baskets Connect Liberia to the US Lowcountry — Gullah Geechee basket-weaving is rooted in an oral tradition carried by enslaved people from Liberia’s Windward Coast.
The Shakers Weren’t Minimalists — An exhibition posits that the sect happened upon the ideals of modern design, overlooking the contradictions and vitality of its culture.
Ed Woodham’s Radical Public Art — The artist and educator on queer creativity in the margins, dogs across art history, and a collective tarot-horoscope for Hyperallergic readers.
How the A321XLR is redefining single-aisle comfort for passengers — Discover how the A321XLR brings widebody comfort and design to a more fuel efficient single-aisle aircraft.
30 Must-See Art Shows in New York City This Summer — Pierre Huyghe’s brain activity-inspired dreamscapes, Orientalism at The Met, a menagerie of mystical animals, and so much more.
New EU-wide product repair rules come into force — New EU rules have come into force aiming to tackle the 35 million tonnes of waste the premature disposal of consumer goods generates across the bloc.
Why systems thinking is becoming the most important UX skill — As apps become more context-aware, the designer’s job is shifting from shaping screens to shaping systems.
Liquid Glass: who gets to decide how an interface looks? — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/liquid-glass-who-gets-to-decide-how-an-interface-looks-a0abe75ae21e?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.med
artist spent three years perfecting hyperrealistic oil paintings of trash bags, the reviews are somehow worse than the actual trash 🗑️😭
One killed, dozens injured after wildfire hits Croatian coast — At least one person was killed and around 42 others were injured after a violent wildfire hit a coastal town in Croatia.
GitHub - calmrocks/ai-engineer-notebooks: Hands-on, framework-free Colab notebooks for the AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) skill set — model APIs, structured output, tool calling, RAG, evals-as-the-spine, agents (loop from scratch, tool design, guardrails, MCP, Ski…
How Jimothy the Raccoon Became a Hero of the Misfits — The short-spined Seattle animal with an unfettered spirit has been honored in fan art, tattoos, and murals.
US Postal Service says mail-in ballot restrictions now in effect — The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of changes backed by President Donald Trump, but new challenges have been filed.
Famed “Portrait of Omai” Will Go on View at LA’s Getty Museum — The Sir Joshua Reynolds painting, acquired in a joint deal by the Getty and the National Portrait Gallery in London after a heated controversy, will be on display starting September 14.
Was Modern Art Really a CIA Psy-Op? - JSTOR Daily — The number of MoMA-CIA crossovers is highly suspicious, to say the least.
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From near oblivion to Europe - Brighton celebrate 125th anniversary — From obscurity and near oblivion to Premier League and Europe - Brighton celebrate their 125th anniversary.
Szilveszter Makó's Surreal Photographs Reconstruct the Boundaries of Portraiture — Szilveszter Makó's photographs highlight his distinct mise en scène, consisting of props, backdrops, and exquisite garments.
Artists Sue NYC Gallery The Hole for Nonpayment — The suit filed by Daniel Um and Nastaran Shahbazi concerns nearly $50,000 in payments allegedly owed to the artists.
Venice Arts Workers to Protest During US Ambassador’s Visit — “We refuse the capture of Venice by oligarchs, war profiteers and the representatives of imperial power,” said the Art Not Genocide Alliance.
Sexual Assault Allegations Get Artists Canceled More Than Murder, Study Finds — Though they considered murder morally worse, survey participants deemed artists accused of sexual abuse more deserving of censure.
When You Feel Like Giving Up, Keep Creating, Keep Expressing | Sonia Barcelona | TEDxLasVegas — She wrote a song on her iPhone in 20 minutes, released it, and moved on. Years later, at a moment when she was questioning whether she could keep going as an artist, that same song…
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.
Planned Charlie Kirk Statue Gets Trolled — Also: Trump shrinks two national monuments in Utah by 90%.
Ava Roth Collaborates with Insects to Create 'Kintsu-Bee' Ceramic Vessels — As bees build their hives, ceramics are mended in the spirit of the time-honored Japanese craft tradition of kintsugi.
Who Will Fight for Artists' Rights in Congress? — Democratic Congressman Jerry Nadler has led the fight to bring resale royalties to artists in the US. With his retirement, it could all go away.
Remembering Yervant Gianikian, Valerie Brathwaite, and Jerry Moriarty — This week, we honor a giant of 20th-century cinema, a sculptor of the natural world, and a self-described “paintoonist.”
Sources: Kanter Freedom not WNBA-eligible; arena ban TBD — The WNBA has not announced any plans to ban Enes Kanter Freedom from attending future games but, according to multiple sources, the ex-NBA player will not be eligible to play in the league.
Rupert Grint to return to Harry Potter in Broadway play — Grint, now 38, will play his character as an adult in the Harry Potter spin-off play in New York.
spent three hours redesigning my portfolio before realizing the original layout was fine... i just needed to stop looking at it for a week. playtest your assumptions, especially the ones about your own work