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.
A typographer mapped every decision in a single letter—kerning, weight, angle—and showed how changing one millimeter shifts the whole thing. Lettering is half the read.
With 200+ Artworks, 'Rainbow Dreams' Revels in the Vast Creativity of the Color Spectrum — A new book for the color obsessed.
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.
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.”
Art Movements: Meet MoMA's New Photo Chief — Also, the Asian Cultural Council awards $1.6M in grants to artists, and at least one sector of the art market is hot as hell.
Haegue Yang’s Meditations on Exile — Also, the controversy around an AI-altered version of an Ansel Adams photo.
The DJI Osmo Pocket 4P Is Finally Available Everywhere Except the USA — The DJI Pocket 4P has finally been made available globally after a long, drawn-out, and confusing release schedule.
Introducing: The Autodromo Group C Turbo Sport Chronograph — Auto-inspired Autodromo returns with a unique analog-digital offering, marking its first all-new watch since 2023.
Visual Phenomena & Optical Illusions — This huge collection of non-scary optical illusions and fascinating visual phenomena emphasizes interactive exploration, beauty, and scientific explanation.
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Is Free — The Cuban dissident artist is exiled to the US and a Homerist reviews Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”
Lucian Freud’s Dozing Nude Could Fetch $47M at Auction — "Sleeping By the Lion Carpet" (1995–96) is the last in a series of monumental portraits of Sue Tilley in resting postures.
Geographicus Rare Antique Maps — Rare Antique Map Gallery specializing in original historic cartography from 1500 - 1920.
ASCII by Jason Scott — Jason Scott's Weblog
Child Punctures Magritte Painting With Pinecone at Israel Museum — René Magritte's “The Castle of the Pyrenees” (1959) was removed from view to undergo restoration.
Nature or Culture? Europeans Can Vote on the New Banknote Design — The European Central Bank is seeking public feedback on ten design proposals for new banknotes, which feature either figures or birds.
Project Gutenberg — Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
Remembering Jean-François Leroy, Lucien Smith, and Jibby Beane — This week, we honor the founder of an influential photojournalism festival, a fixture of NYC’s downtown art scene, and a fashionista and gallerist.
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Interactive map of every typeface's x-height rendered at actual size — lets you see why some fonts feel cramped and others breathe
Painting “Intentionally” Defaced at Museum of African American Culture — The Houston institution said Clarence Heyward's self-portrait "Man in the Garden" (2025) was deliberately vandalized by visitors.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine — A free library of the entire web's memory.
A Mushroom Foraging Trip Outside Yellowstone Sent 11 People to the Hospital — Seven victims remain in serious condition following a foraging incident in Park County, Montana.
How Betye Saar Set Black Dolls Free — Nearing the occasion of her upcoming 100th birthday, an exhibition at the New York Historical celebrates Saar’s promised gift of her collection of dolls to the institution.
Seven people, mostly foreign tourists, killed in helicopter crash in Kenya — Ecuador's intelligence chief Michele Sensi-Contugi and NBCUniversal journalist Jose Suarez are among the dead.
Man Arrested in Broad Daylight Theft of 2,500-Year-Old Gold Torque From French Museum — Discovered in an ancient Celtic tomb in northern Burgundy, the neck collar is considered one of the most prized objects in the institution's collection.
simone.computer — Simone Marzulli's personal website, feel free to click your favourite buttons!
Long-Misattributed Clara Peeters Still Life Resurfaces After Decades in Storage — Formerly attributed to the Brueghel family, the painting was found in 2022 by a curator at the National Museum of Norway.
Battling AI fatigue as a designer and developer: a practical guide — AI is great, but it doesn’t have to take over your life
Python Graph Gallery — The Python Graph Gallery displays hundreds of charts made with Python, always with explanation and reproduciible code
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.
"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok — Four frontier models, a blank canvas, and colored pencils. We tracked every stroke, dollar, and output as they tried to draw the Mona Lisa.
Behind the Scenes at Pace — Employees describe the gallery’s disorienting layoffs, Brenda Goodman looks back on her six-decade practice, and artists urge Mayor Mamdani to ban AI in schools.
12 Friendsgiving-Friendly Airbnbs to Book If You Want to Be the Martha Stewart of Your Group — Equipped with multiple bedrooms, full kitchens, and grand dining tables, these rentals will help you and your crew celebrate America’s favorite holiday in style.
Beyond the Myth of Chico da Silva — Presenting da Silva with Amazonian artists of different generations undermines the Western notion of the artist as an isolated genius.
Mayor Mamdani Should Reclaim the City’s Jefferson Statue — The fact that the quill of David d’Angers’s statue of the third US president broke during the nation’s 250th anniversary provides more than an irresistible symbolic trope.
Making holograms with a pen plotter — I have a pen-plotter! It’s great. It’s like having a printer but slow and it breaks more often. I got it on eBay and it came sorta broken and I immediately spent the difference between what I paid and the price of new one fixing it. Now…
Tschabalala Self’s Splendid “Lady in Blue” Graces London’s Fourth Plinth — Self said the figure is “not an idol to venerate or a historical figure to commemorate,” but rather “an everyday woman like the many who occupy the square daily.”
Landing Page Design Examples: 7,300+ Best Landing Pages | Lapa Ninja — Browse 7,300+ landing page designs from portfolios, agencies & startups. Find high-converting examples with screenshots & videos. SaaS, e-commerce & more.
Children's Imaginations Run Wild in Taekhan Yun's Collaborative Design Workshops — A series of hands-on workshops facilitated by designer Taekhan Yun invited children to conceive of whimsical chairs and birdhouses.
Headlines | Guess the Year — Guess the year. 5 real headlines a day.
Neuma: Build Your Personal AI by Talking to It — A hands-on course. Build a personal AI system with briefings, memory, coaching, and tasks, no programming required.
LukeW | Collaborative Steering — Today, AI tools are mostly solo sports. Developers write more code. Designers create more images. PMs crank out more docs. That's cool... but it's more cool to ...
Loading UI - spinners, loaders, and loading animations for the web — Free and open source CSS and React loaders, spinners, and animations to create polished, accessible loading states for modern web apps.
Your banking app is lying to you — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/your-banking-app-is-lying-to-you-52959b075823?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img…
Rob Hann's Chromatic and Quirky Landscapes Evoke Long-Distance Road Trips — Photographer Rob Hann's subjects range from handmade road signs and vintage buildings to peculiar local attractions.
Dave Krugman's 'WINDOWS' Captures a Multitudinous Portrait of New York City — As Brooklyn-based photographer Dave Krugman traverses the streets of New York City, camera in hand, he seeks patterns.
We Must Protect South American Rock Art — Given the region’s abundant petroglyphs, why are there so few legal protections and only one World Heritage inscription?
Packaging of the World — Package design showcase.
Society’s Repair Begins With Art — We must cultivate spaces with the capacity to hold another kind of cultural experience that forges a reintegration of art and life.
The Met and the Art Smuggler — An interview about a notorious antiquities trafficker with Matthew Campbell, plus an exclusive excerpt of William Kentridge’s new book.
Seattle Artists Breathe Life Into Houses Slated for Demolition — “We want to act as a little eddy in the stream of gentrification, giving these houses one last burst of life before they’re gone,” one of the organizers of “Once Removed” told Hyperallergic.
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.
John Constable’s Four Seasons — Art historian Susan Owens's exquisitely illustrated new book narrates the painter’s story through his relationship to weather, place, and time.
Whiston wins gold after ill father makes rare trip — Para-swimmer Brock Whiston says she wanted to make her father Gel proud as he watched poolside for the first time in 17 years.
NYC's Swiss Institute Heads to the Bowery — Raymond Pettibon and Abdelkader Benchamma team up on a massive mural, Seattle Art Museum's new chief curator, and more.
A woodblock carver in Kyoto still uses the same tools from 200 years ago... and you can watch how a single print takes shape across fifteen different blocks.
What a 13-Month Scout Rebuild Taught Me — There’s a scene that replays in my head often, one I can’t quite let slip by. It’s from late September 2024. I was lying on my side, welding, in the back of my 1976 International Scout Traveler, in my father’s barn. The air was cool but…
Critics Slam “Petty” Removal of Joel Shapiro Sculpture From Kennedy Center — Artists and activists condemned the National Park Service’s dismantling of "Blue” (2019), calling it an example of “Trump’s continued vandalism of the nation’s artistic treasures.”
Forthcoming New Museum Show Is a Love Letter to the Bowery — "The Bowery: Devil’s Mile,” opening September 24, traces 400 years of the iconic strip known as a destination for fun, however raucous or refined.