Valerie Hillings Named Inaugural Director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi — She will return to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation after helming the North Carolina Museum of Art for nearly eight years.
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.
MAHA moms test their influence in US glyphosate fight — 'Make America Healthy Again' activists see legislative wins, White House disappointments and questions for the midterms.
AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps — data centers are so cool there should be one in every house
Lucian Freud’s Dozing Nude — Remembering Julio Le Parc, a dispatch from art shows in abandoned homes in Seattle, and more.
TokenTown: How an LLM Works, as a City — An isometric city that runs a miniature transformer in real time: tokenizer docks, attention plaza, KV-cache warehouse, feed-forward mill and the sampler.
A Short Film Sheds Light on the Garfield Phones Washing Up on a French Beach Since the '80s — Breton coastal residents grew up collecting parts of a 1984 Garfield-themed plastic telephone on the beach—and still do.
Govee’s colorful, JBL-tuned Lamp Pro 2 is matching its best price to date — The Memorial Day savings strike again.
Cape Town Gallery Accused of Withholding Pay and Artworks — An artist who left SMAC Gallery late last year took to social media with claims of delayed payments and missing works.
“I Shot Andy Warhol” Upends the Myth of the Great Man — The radical feminist author of “SCUM Manifesto” and the bygone world of Warhol’s Factory come to life in the 1996 film, now restored to 4K.
Theo Bosboom Takes a Bug's-Eye View in His Perspective-Shifting 'Flowerscapes' — Bosboom explores local forests, dunes, public parks, roadside verges, and virtually any place that flowers grow.
Hopeful Art Fundraisers for Earthquake Relief in Venezuela — Art sales featuring everything from paintings and prints to photographs, artist books, and zines are benefiting urgently needed aid efforts.
Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type — Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.
Designing emoji for the way we communicate today — On World Emoji Day, go behind the scenes of Noto 3D to learn how we redesigned thousands of emoji for modern communication.
Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art — Artworks from an era when Venetians brawled on bridges.
The Tattoo Artist Inking Arabic Script on Skin — New York-based artist Noore Yazigi’s designs reference everything from the Quran to the poetry of the late Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer.
Samsung can’t afford to play it safe with Apple’s first foldable looming — Samsung is ready to take a risk.
Trump Re-Erects Monument of Enslaver Removed in 2020 — The statue of Caesar Rodney, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who enslaved at least 200 people, is now on display in DC's Freedom Plaza.
Workers Push to Rename Wexner Center for the Arts Over Epstein Ties — The union said the Victoria’s Secret billionaire and Epstein associate’s name “does a profound disservice” to artists and community members.
Scanning for Pangram errors — I scanned over 2 million words into Pangram looking for false positives
Long-Contested Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Gets Opening Date — Activists have called on artists to boycott the new museum, citing inhumane treatment of workers.
A Menagerie of Animal Sculptures by 50+ Artists Populate 'The Ark' — Powerhouse Arts asks, will we care for the future of our planet the way we care for the animals we love?
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.
A People’s History of Mount Rushmore — Eight art books reframe America 250 and stock photography in the age of AI.
US Stocks Drag as Broadcom's Outlook Fails to Impress | Bloomberg Brief 6/4/2026 — Nasdaq 100 futures lead US equities lower as Broadcom's sales growth forecast failed to meet investors' lofty expectations. Iran says there had been no recent progress in peace deal talks with the
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.
How my images are dithered | dead.garden — Hello there! This is my personal website and it is allergic to SEO.
The wireless headset that gets hot-swappable batteries right — Glorious made swapping batteries faster and easier (and more fun) in a $230 headset than its $400 competitors.
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.
Hilde Lynn Helphenstein of “Jerry Gogosian” Found Dead in Brazil — The curator and commentator built a following for her online persona and satirical memes of the art world.
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House Proposes Slashing Major Arts Education Grant — The program has awarded millions in grants for organizations serving families living below local poverty lines.
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?
The curious case of the disappearing Polish S — One keyboard bug three decades in the making
The Black Photographers Who Exposed My Own Brainwashing — An exhibition at The Getty gave me the peculiar feeling of peeking behind a curtain in my own house and discovering new things about a topic I thought I knew well.
Labcorp Raises Earnings Outlook on Strong Medical Testing Demand — Labcorp Holdings Inc. raised its outlook for the year after reporting second-quarter earnings that topped analyst estimates, citing strength in cancer tests and new genetic screenings.
Ant Hamlyn Taps into the Optimism of Y2K in Squished Floral Sculptures — Ant Hamlyn's playful, even cartoonish, works center around stuffed polyurethane flowers squished between acrylic panels.
The Longtail of Incarceration Unfolds in Gil Batle's Surreal Narratives — The flora and fauna of a tiny Filipino island commingle with harrowing memories of California prisons in the surreal works of Gil Batle.
Google Arts & Culture — Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.
“Helter Skelter” Can’t Look America in the Eye — Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa’s exhibition at the Fondazione Prada cannot face the racial implications of its conceit.
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 🎨
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.
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.
15 Outdoor Art Shows to See in NYC This Summer — Slide through a teddy bear, get weird with a neural network’s hallucinations, play ping-pong on an artist-made table, and so much more.
Pacific Surf Takes Center Stage in Craig Hubbard's Dreamy Photos — The golden hour hues of the West Coast's legendary sunsets and a love for surfing spurred Hubbard's reacquaintance with the camera.
Shazam launches its first ever sticker pack to celebrate Ariana Grande's new album - 9to5Mac — The Apple-owned Shazam app today announced its first ever Artist Sticker Pack, available for free as part of the latest...
Open Call 2027: Jentel Artist Residency — A Mountain West residency for artists, writers, and composers.
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.
Art Orgs That Received More COVID-Era Funding Outperforming Others, Study Finds — A new report zooms in on data from 10 cities between 2019 and 2024, linking local public investments to stronger performances in the arts sector.
How to Get Canceled in the Art World — Study respondents reacted more negatively toward artists committing sexual assault than murder. Plus, an unexpected pairing with Picasso’s “Guernica.”
The five dramatic days that shook Infantino and world football — BBC Sport's Simon Stone reflects on the unravelling of Gianni Infantino's plans to sell off stakes in Fifa competitions.
The Biggest American Wiener — A visit to the “Most American Pageant Ever!” and the story of a broken Jefferson statue’s quill.
Xi Urges Shift to Prevention in Disaster Management, Xinhua Says — President Xi Jinping called for China to shift disaster management toward prevention, saying safety and resilience should be integrated into planning and development, Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday.
Peter Hujar’s Darkroom Floor — Also, Coco Fusco asks: Where is Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara?
15 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York This Summer — James Turrell’s luminous visions, Agnes Martin’s nonconformist heroism, Anicka Yi’s micro-organic experiments, and much more.
The Art Institute of Chicago Cuts Its Entire Custodial Staff — The museum's union called the plan to outsource in-house custodial work to a third-party vendor a "devastating and unconscionable injustice."
Sokoban - Menachem Kornreich — Play Sokoban in your browser and watch an AI solver crack it. A plain-JS port of a native C++ engine, it returns the provably optimal (fewest-move) solution, entirely client-side.
Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch — The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.
'Masters of the Stitch: Threaded Stories' Spotlights Narrative Quilts by Black Americans — 'Masters of the Stitch: Threaded Stories' at Claire Oliver Gallery spotlights remarkable narratives in fabric.
Leopard caught on camera storming into a store in Rajasthan, India — A leopard storms into a store in Rajasthan, India, attacking an employee and causing panic.