Pavilions We Loved in Venice — Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian and critic Aruna D’Souza’s highlights from the biennale, plus six artworks inspired by the Odyssey.
The Kintsugi problem — The most important design decisions aren’t made when everything works — they’re made when it doesn’t.
Pat Oleszko Wins $100K Whitney Biennial Prize — The artist known for her irreverent inflatables gets the Bucksbaum Award, a new grant for artists living with cancer, and Murmurs Gallery closes.
Why the Hottest New Wearables Want to Be Ignored — Burnt out on wrist buzzes and notification overload? A new crop of minimalist wearables promises to collect your health data without demanding your attention.
vanessa german’s Shrine to Forgotten Black Girls — In new sculptures that vibrate with color and movement, the artist vivifies the stories of the girls who attempted to escape from a Louisville detention center in 1913.
From Apocalypse to Renewal, Amy Casey Paints a Surreal World in Distress — In Amy Casey’s meticulous acrylic paintings, houses and buildings whirl through the air amid debris or balance on giant clusters of fungi.
Marc Spiegler Got It All Wrong — In a guest essay for the New York Times, the former Art Basel global director presented a vision of a Brave New Art World that has little to do with art and those who make it.
Björn Persson's New Book Highlights the World's Incredible and Endangered Wildlife — 'The Earth We Share,' forthcoming from Rizzoli next month, celebrates conservation efforts and the diverse animal realm.
Brooklyn Street Art | …loves you more every day. — Street art culture.
Madrid Museum Puts Picasso in Dialogue With "African Guernica" — Dumile Feni’s monumental drawing is part of the Museo Reina Sofía's new program "History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme."
'She beat Disney by a decade': How a 26-year-old German woman made the world's oldest animated feature film — German director Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed was released a century ago in 1926 – and now stands as the world's oldest animated feature film
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Four Native Artists Commissioned for Counterpublic Triennial — Plus, the High Line’s fall lineup, new curators at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a laid-off Artnet News reporter speaks out, and more in Art Movements.
Be like water: Rethinking the design process with AI — What Bruce Lee can teach us about structure, flow, and intention.
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 🎨
Being Imperfect, Writing Your Own Script | Varun Anand | TEDxWisdom World School Amanora — We all carry labels. Sometimes they come from family. Sometimes from friends. Sometimes from society. And often, they begin as a simple comment about how we look, where we come from, how…
From Barbie logos to medieval manuscripts: step inside Teddy Blanks’ film title design process — Teddy Blanks, the Chips co-founder behind the title sequences for Barbie, Weapons and Robert Eggers’ upcoming Werwulf, explains how eBay dolls, hidden AA symbolism and a 14th…
Dribbble - Discover the World’s Top Designers & Creative Professionals — Find Top Designers & Creative Professionals on Dribbble. We are where designers gain inspiration, feedback, community, and jobs. Your best resource to discover and connect with designers worldwide.
Value of Looted Objects at Met Museum Tops $95M After New Seizures — Several ancient sculptures and vessels acquired between 1971 and 2001 were among the objects extracted from The Met's collection this June.
Beer With a Painter: Keltie Ferris — “I am playing with the building blocks of painting,” the artist told me at his studio in Woodstock, where he experiments with gestural compositions and monumental body prints.
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.
Blender Guru — Learn 3D from the famous donut tutorial.
3 registry hacks I always use on a fresh Windows 11 install — You don't have to tolerate the little annoyances.
Redfin Chief Economist Sees Structural Issues in Housing — Daryl Fairweather, Chief Economist at Redfin, discusses the bipartisan Road to Housing Act, which President Trump has opposed despite its passage by a veto-proof majority. The bill represents a significant federal…
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.
Art Problems: Why Are There So Many Toxic People in the Art World? — Paddy Johnson with essential tips on how to protect yourself from insecure peers and bad-faith actors.
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The Jealous Curator /// curated contemporary art — Art that inspires envy.
New video shows Williams handball - but won't end VAR row — New video footage shows the ball coming off both Neco Williams' arms in the lead-up to his disallowed goal against Tottenham.
Play and design: in favour of the novel digital experience — Design used to let us wander; modernity replaced that wandering with efficiency — now, every product decides where you’ll end up before you…
Becoming Elite Fighter Pilots | Top Guns: Next Generation MEGA Episode | National Geographic — This Top Guns: The Next Generation MEGA episode features three full episodes that follow a class of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps student pilots on their journeys to become elite strike…
Against design system federation — Avoid the fraught model that will set your design system back.
Required Reading — This week: the Louvre reopens the room where it happens, a Texas artist’s outdoor collection, Nancy Drew in the public domain, Rachel Cusk and Natalie Portman have beef, and more.
Artsy — Discover and Buy Fine Art — Artsy is the world’s largest online art marketplace. Browse over 1 million artworks by iconic and emerging artists from 4000+ galleries and top auction houses.
“Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.” Eigendrum: a drum simulator where you can change the shape of the drum — “Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.” Eigendrum: a drum simulator where you can change the shape of the drum to see how it affects the sound it makes.
Bradford Cox Books First Show in Seven Years — The Deerhunter maestro’s Atlas Sound project returns next weekend at Making Time ∞ festival
Design.md: the one standard file carries your visual identity, for humans and agents — Like a mullet, the business is up top for the machine, and the party below for the person. A single file is the standard we need that both…
Deepen Your Creative Practice at Vermont Studio Center — Full and partial fellowships available for artists and writers
15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall — Carmen Lomas Garza’s tender scenes of Chicanx community, Huguette Caland’s life in lines, Indigenous artists on fire and stewardship, photography of trans mutual aid, and more.
Chris Kraus, Relational, and the Moon — The acclaimed writer sits down with artists Shirley Tse and Dana Berman Duff for a dialogue on breath, the universe, and the ephemeral forces that carry us.
UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center Provides Funded Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities — The humanities library and museum will award up to 50 fellowships to support scholars, artists, and writers conducting on-site archival research.
The feature trap — How product teams confuse building with validating
Speed Art Museum Returns 24 Native Artifacts to Oklahoma Tribes — The culturally significant objects include a turtle amulet, a Cheyenne cradle board, and a slate of beaded bags.
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.
Art Problems: How Do I Get the Guggenheim Fellowship? — Tired of getting rejected year after year? Don't despair. Paddy Johnson is here to help.
Edge-to-Edge Splendor Fills Maria Yolanda Liebana's Buoyant Paintings — Tarot, ancient mythologies, pop culture, and personal narrative converge in the NYC-based artist's maximal works.
Indian Bonds Sink on Central Bank Debt-Sale Plan, Global Selloff — Indian bonds declined after the central bank said it would sell sovereign notes to drain cash from lenders, adding to the supply of debt in a year when the market is already under pressure from record government…
Everything New in iOS 27.2 Beta 1 — Apple surprised us with the first beta of iOS 27.2 today instead of releasing an iOS 27.1 beta. Apple likely went straight to iOS 27.2 to keep iPhone Duo code under wraps for now, since we already know the iPhone Duo will ship with iOS 27.1…
Config 2026: New Materials, New Tools and a More Expressive Canvas | Figma Blog — Push past what you thought was possible with code layers, Figma Motion, shaders, generative plugins and Weave tools, all on the canvas.
How to get Spotify's best audio quality — Spotify's default audio settings let you enjoy music wherever you go, but you're not always getting the best quality. A few tweaks can make all the difference.
NYC Arts Nonprofits Benefit from Mamdani's $8.4 Million in Grants — From the Red Hook Art Project in Brooklyn to a citywide initiative from Fourth Arts Block, arts organizations and small businesses will receive support from Mamdani's latest investment.
Creative Bloq | Daily inspiration for creative people — Daily inspiration for creative people. Fresh thinking, expert tips and tutorials to supercharge your creative muscles.
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.
With a Little Help From My Art Friends — Gertrude Abercrombie’s crew of Magic Realists, the artist selling trash from outside Taylor Swift’s wedding, and the truth about stock photography.
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.
WikiArt.org - Visual Art Encyclopedia — Wikiart.org is the best place to find art online. Discover paintings and photographs in a searchable image database with artist biographies and artwork descriptions.
Husband Found Guilty of Scheming Murder of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema — Daniel Sikkema was accused of hiring the hitman who stabbed the gallerist in his Brazil townhouse in January 2024.
artists spend years learning to draw hands correctly, then ai generates them backwards and somehow that's the more interesting problem now
The Missing Colors of Black American Pigment-Making — George Washington Carver is remembered as an innovative agricultural scientist, but his overlooked artistic work places him in a lineage of Black American natural dyeing traditions.
What’s the Purpose of Information Architecture? — Fifty years after its formal introduction, the discipline of IA is still widely misunderstood. Here‘s a corrective.