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.
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Far Out Company — Countercultural visual overload — Explore the work of under-appreciated artists of the 1960s and ‘70s counterculture.
16 Arrested for Showing Portraits of People Killed by ICE in DC Senate Building — The action by members of the Women’s March used artist Gianluca Costantini’s drawings of Alex Pretti, Renée Good, and other victims of ICE violence.
Haegue Yang’s Meditations on Exile — Also, the controversy around an AI-altered version of an Ansel Adams photo.
The Architect Shaping a New Chinese Vernacular — Pritzker-winner Wang Shu’s design for the Ningbo Historic Museum reconciles China’s nostalgia with its desire for a shiny, avant-garde future.
Lucian Freud’s Dozing Nude — Remembering Julio Le Parc, a dispatch from art shows in abandoned homes in Seattle, and more.
Warhol Foundation Awards $5.1M to 78 Arts Organizations — Raphael breaks records at The Met, the Honolulu Museum of Art gets a new director, and more.
The Konica IIA Is a Shining Example of Timeless Technology — Konica has an illustrious history, thanks largely to its namesake camera series. Take a journey into the past with the Konica IIA.
Cacti and Clouds Glitch in Alexis Mata's Fantastical Landscapes — At Thinkspace, 'Lost Landing' features Alexis Mata's glitched landscapes in which familiar terrain appears otherworldly.
New Museum's Shiny New Building Leaks During Flash Floods — No artworks were harmed, but extreme weather shuttered the Lower Manhattan museum for a full weekend.
Data Center Expansion Tests Voter Patience — The rapid expansion of AI data centers is becoming a political issue in Ohio as residents raise concerns about higher electricity bills, tax incentives and secrecy around local development deals. Representative Greg Landsman joins…
Dynamic Scenes Emerge from Fumiaki Aono's Wooden Assemblages — Secondhand dressers, chests, and cabinets stack into towering assemblages in Fumiaki Aono's imaginative sculptures.
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This August — Betye Saar’s wearable art, Alfredo Ramos Martínez’s mountain ranges, the world’s largest pop-up book, three South Asian artists redefine monumentality, and more.
Tracking the cost of Donald Trump’s tariffs — America’s global effective tariff stands at 10.0%
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Dean Millien’s Aluminum-Foil Animal World — A highlight of “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1, the artist’s remarkable sculptures made from the humble household material continue a practice he began as a child in Brooklyn.
The Sunflower Effect of Kyung-Me — The artist’s current series marks a shift in her practice, evoking the life span of a sunflower — from blooming to dying, from sharply defined forms to rivulets of dissolution.
National Pavilions We Loved at the Venice Biennale — As the punishing heat waves of this summer taper off, this might be the perfect time to visit the international exhibition.
A View From the Easel — “One of my favorite museums is the street itself.”
100+ Artists Threaten Legal Action Over Inclusion in Biennale Awards — The Biennale told Hyperallergic that although withdrawing artists are included on the ballot, “these votes will not be considered.”
Gertrude Abercrombie’s Band of Midwest Magic Realists — A pair of exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum underscores the support, comradeship, and spirit of rebellion shared by the Surrealist and her friends.
Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books — Coming soon to scholarly articles, newspapers, and more.
Kingston Locals Can't Stand City's “Soulless” New Signage — New site markers installed in the Hudson River Valley city last month have been decried as “bland,” “ugly,” and “sterile slop.”
Mary Heilmann Dies at 86 — Plus: Dean Millien's aluminum-foil animal world, another museum heist in Europe, and the architect leading a new Chinese vernacular.
A Picasso Vanished in 1961. The Guggenheim Wants It Back — The museum is suing the current owners of "Femme dans un fauteuil" (1918), which resurfaced decades after it was stolen from the University of Pittsburgh.
Get Up Close to the Sun in the Highest Resolution Image Ever Captured — The U.S. National Science Foundation’s powerful Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured details smaller than 12 miles across.
The Artists Countermapping the World — Three exhibitions of works by Claudio Perna, Sandy Rodriguez, and Firelei Báez reclaim cartography as a medium for memory, migration, and resistance.
Myanmar military chief visits Bangkok as diplomatic offensive continues — After five years of isolation, Myanmar's post-coup leadership is trying to boost its legitmacy.
Art as Infrastructure at the Medina Triennial — The inaugural edition of the sprawling yet rigorous exhibition examines the labor, regulation, extraction, and repair of our shared systems.
Cooling System Malfunction Shutters Seven Smithsonian Museums — Washington, DC, is experiencing yet another swampy summer, with heat index values reaching near 100 degrees.
China Banks Use Overnight Rate for Bonds as PBOC Reform Widens — Chinese lenders have started pricing bonds off the nation’s overnight funding cost, an indication that it’s increasingly the benchmark for the financial system.
Gears of War E-Day arrives October 6 as an Xbox and PC exclusive — One of Microsoft's biggest gaming franchises is sticking with Xbox.
These 5 3D prints make my kitchen more functional without a renovation — Solving little kitchen problems one print at a time.
Artists Memorialize Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Houston Man Killed by ICE — Portraits, illustrations, cartoons, and signs pay tribute to the Mexican immigrant and father of three who was fatally shot in his car on his way to work.
Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art — Artworks from an era when Venetians brawled on bridges.
Damien Aubin Documents a Former Soviet Mining Settlement Suspended in Time — French photographer visits the Arctic region of Pyramiden to document the snow-covered remnants of a former mining town.
Miles Greenberg Rehearses Myths for the Future — The artist’s performance videos invoke the wild, inestimable human spirit and make Black people the characters of universal stories.
Useful or Useless? | Emma Jung | TEDxSeoul Youth — As a language enthusiast who continuously questioned the rigid boundaries between what society deems "useful" and "useless," Emma Jung realized that the dictionary definitions we blindly follow often fail to match the true…
The latest iPhone Ultra rumors and leaks: What we know — Apple doesn't mind being late to the party. Will its first foldable phone be its next big hit?
Savneet Talwar, Anna Boghiguian, Iris van Herpen — A never-before-published interview with Simone Forti, pleating at the Brooklyn Museum with an elite designer, and heartbreaking drawings by children held at ICE facilities.
Shu Lea Cheang Gives Trans Artists the Wings to Fly — The filmmaker invites visitors to move and reposition the screens in her four-channel video at Leslie-Lohman, an ever-evolving mosaic of trans performances and dreamscapes.
RISD MFA Students Paint Through the Heartbreak — Each painting is like an island awash with yearning, sending out a lighthouse signal into a fractured world.
Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Exiled to the US — The dissident artist arrived in Miami after serving five years in a maximum-security prison outside Havana.
Obama Center, Nayland Blake, Danielle Mckinney — The “Obamalith” is unveiled while the School of the Art Institute of Chicago wages war against its students’ imagination.
Divers Stumble Upon 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck in Italy — The wreck off the coast of Italy, filled with clay vessels, is being hailed as “one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries of recent years.”
The Winners of the 2026 Pure Street Photography Awards Invoke Happenstance and Commotion — Eight winners were selected in this year's contest from nearly 1,600 entries submitted by photographers in 50 countries.
The Scent of Ancient Rome in St. Louis — An exhibition makes a case for the sensuality of these marble sculptures, recreating the perfumes and balms that once adorned them.
Johnny Marr Shares New Song "It's Time": Listen — Johnny Marr isn’t just getting dragged into feuds with Morrissey — he’s also getting ready to release his new album The Age Of Everything. He’s shared “Spin” and “Ophelia,” and now he’s back with “It’s Time,” which is thankfully…
watched a painter spend three hours getting a shadow wrong, then erase it all and get it right in five minutes. said the first attempt taught her what not to do
Bluesky has a new setting to help you avoid accidentally going viral — The setting will prevent your posts from being recommended in the algorithmic "discover" feed.
ASUS is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its gaming division with the ROG XBOX Ally X20 — The big upgrade on the 20th anniversary ROG XBOX Ally X20 is a larger 7.4-inch OLED display.
Google Pixel 11 leak claims higher prices, no 128GB model, August release date — A new leak reveals that Google is probably raising Pixel 11 series prices, finally ditching the 128GB storage option, and...
Morning news brief — A look at the new round of U.S. economic sanctions on Iran, Iran vows to retaliate, SCOTUS hands President Trump a temporary win on his efforts to restrict voting by mail.
Atmospheric Scenes and Layered Interpretations Top the 2026 Hasselblad Masters Contest — This year, photographers in 160 countries submitted more than 108,000 images to the prestigious Hasselblad Masters competition.
Nvidia just made gaming on Linux a whole lot easier — The cloud game service has also lower lag and higher frame rates.
Christina Mrozik Illustrates an 'Emotional Ecosystem' Oracle Deck with Fantastical Forms — In Christina Mrozik’s new project, fifty cards comprise a richly illustrated oracle deck.
"Pam the Bird" Graffiti Stirs Controversy in Melbourne — Days after police arrested the graffiti artist who tagged a prominent bridge tower with a giant bird, some are calling on the city to preserve the work.
Israel’s Katz hails settlers for ‘holding onto’ Palestinian land — Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz praised radical Hilltop Youth settlers for ‘holding onto’ Palestinian land.
The Fruitless Search for Vermeer’s Personal God — A recent biography spends too much time speculating about the Dutch artist’s religious beliefs and not enough exploring other mysteries, including his possible use of a camera obscura.