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.
GraffitiStreet Store - Buy Urban Art: Originals, Limited Edition Prints — GraffitiStreet is a leading UK urban art gallery, offering authentic Banksy prints and artworks with Pest Control certification, alongside works by pioneering street artists including Invader, STIK, Bordalo
The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI — Smashing Magazine — As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear cases, Andy Budd examines what…
From Two Tons of Celadon, Jean Shin Sculpts a Metaphor for the Korean Diaspora — Jean Shin's 'Celadon Landscape' presents a pair of large-scale vessels made of the lustrous green-blue material.
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Traditional African Baskets and Pottery Meet Pop Culture in Donté K. Hayes' Sculptures — "The head is more than the center of the brain and thought; it is the place where the soul lives and must be protected," the artist says.
Today's Hurdle hints and answers for May 18, 2026 — Everything you need to win.
A New Richard Avedon Documentary Lets Him Down — Director Ron Howard is a gun for hire, and it shows in this conventional documentary about the famed photographer.
Visual Phenomena & Optical Illusions — This huge collection of non-scary optical illusions and fascinating visual phenomena emphasizes interactive exploration, beauty, and scientific explanation.
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.
Zendaya’s Earrings Are Part of a Much Bigger Problem — The 3,000-year-old Iranian discs turned red-carpet jewelry are emblematic of a market that has spent decades quietly dismantling ancient objects for parts.
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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.
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Maya Lin to Build Otherworldly “Floating Landscape” at UT Austin — The architect and artist’s first public artwork in Texas will open in April 2027.
San Diego Museum of Art Lays Off 11 Workers — The cuts impacted employees in departments including programs, development, exhibitions, and operations as the institution cited financial difficulties.
Funding International Dialogue: The Asian Cultural Council Opens 2027 Global Grant Cycle — ACC invites artists, arts professionals, scholars, and organizations to apply from Oct 1 to Nov 10, 2026.
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This Wood-Fiber Dress Was Made from a 17th-Century Shipwreck — Designers at Aalto University in Finland have turned wood from a 300-year-old shipwreck into an elegant knit dress.
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.
Edward Church, Peter Hujar, Looted Art — Who is the antiquities dealer behind looted artifacts at dozens of museums across the United States?
Disclosed CVEs: 3.5× Spike After Claude Mythos — Notable organizations disclosed ~1,300 high- and critical-severity CVEs in June 2026, roughly 3.5× the pre-Mythos monthly record. Epoch AI's breakdown of vulnerability disclosures following Anthropic's Project Glasswing.
"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.
US High-Grade Bond Market Sees the Most Issuers Since January — A record pace in US investment-grade bond issuance continued Monday, with 19 firms storming the market, the most in seven months.
Penske Gobbles Up Vox Media — In better news: Frankenthaler Foundation climate grants, Meow Wolf on “The Simpsons,” Schomburg Center acquisitions, and more.
Discover Art | Tate — Artworks, films, articles, biographies, glossary terms and more. Explore Tate’s growing collection of British and international art, and our archive of sketchbooks, letters and photographs.
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.
Meet with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at Admissions Events Across the US and Online — Learn more about the graduate degrees offered at SAIC and get all of your questions answered.
Art Movements: Larry Gagosian Heads to the Big Screen — The enigmatic art dealer gets the documentary treatment, Pace gets the Brancusi Estate, the Louvre's new architects, and other industry news.
AI Trade Falters; Chinese Investors Banned from SpaceX IPO; Jobs Report | Bloomberg Brief 6/5/2026 — US stocks head for its first weekly drop since March as the AI-fueled rally loses steam ahead of the May Jobs Report. Jensen Huang confirms that Nvidia has certified Samsung, SK H
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.
Walker stars for Chiefs as Swift & Cruise watch on — New signing Kenneth Walker rushes for 173 yards as the Kansas City Chiefs begin their NFL season with a 31-10 victory over the Denver Broncos.
Inside Chicago’s Obama Center — Italian art workers announce a nationwide strike, New York’s Penn Station to feature Trump’s name, and have you heard about the “Obamalisk”?
UI Skills for Design Engineers | Curated Skill Directory — Discover curated UI Skills for design engineers, including accessibility, motion, frontend craft, and interface quality guides with copy-ready install commands.
Inside NFL Rooney Rule coaches say is rigged against them — Brian Flores' lawsuit finds the NFL's Rooney Rule at a crossroads as more than 20 coaches spoke to ESPN about the issues they face.
'Voices in the Mirror' Honors the Legacy of Pioneering Photographer Gordon Parks — A large-scale survey of Gordon Parks' most iconic photographs go on view in a celebration of his work and 20 years of The Gordon Parks Foundation.
Investors Bet on a Hair Loss Treatment Boom — Drugmakers are developing a new generation of hair loss treatments, including lotions, pills and longer-lasting injections, targeting a US market where tens of millions of men and women experience pattern hair loss. Joining…
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SEC Looks Into Trading at Situational Awareness — The SEC has sent subpoenas to major Wall Street banks regarding the hedge fund Situational Awareness, according to people familiar with the matter. Hema Parmar reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)
Watch It: Wilhelm Schmid And Ben Clymer Discuss A. Lange & Söhne's Watches & Wonders Novelties — On the new 36mm Saxonias, the Lange 1 Perpetual Tourbillon Lumen, and the discipline required to make a smaller watch.
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.
Inside the Mind of an Antiquities Looter — "The Man Who Stole the Gods" author Matthew Campbell discusses Western collectors' rapacious hunger for ancient Cambodian art and the sheer violence it took to satiate it.
Looking Up at Constable’s Sky — The British painter’s four seasons, the New Museum’s new director, and which Surrealist painter influenced a soccer jersey?
UVA’s Situational Awareness Bet Fueled Record Year Before Tumult — When AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness lost more than two-thirds of its $45 billion in July, most of the investors who took the hit were wealthy individuals and tech founders.