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Ex-Pussy Riot Member Was Recruited to Spy on Artists

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:33:45 +0000

Hyperallergic – Margarita Konovalova, who performed in the collective under the alias Rita Flores, fled Russia earlier this month with the help of her lawyer. – read more

Jonathan González is the Performance Artist of the Moment

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:24:12 +0000

Art News – This past May, on one of the first warm days of an unusually frigid spring in New York, two friends seized on the good weather and decided to have cocktails on the Whitney Museum’s eighth floor terrace. They chatted and laughed—and then were quickly interrupted by a woman in a white leotard that looked as though it had been splashed with paint. The woman got up on their table and gleefully pretended to tap dance, drawing an amused crowd of onlookers. “A typical Friday night in New York,” one security guard drily mused to another before walking away. – read more

The divine peace of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:23:38 +0000

Los Angeles Times -Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist known for her hypnotic, repetitive polka dot artworks, died earlier this week at the age of 97. Hers was the third in a string of deaths this week that left me feeling quite melancholy. First Dolly Parton, then Tim Curry and finally, Kusama. – read more

Nacho Cremona

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:00:49 +0000

Llegando a Cusu Cusi, archival digital print, Hahnemühle fine art paper,

Julia (Cha Na), 2022, archival digital print, Hahnemühle fine art paper, 30” x 21”

Manos Huicholes, 2021, Calma, 2022, archival digital print, Hahnemühle fine art paper 15” x 20″

Un Instante Una Eternidad, 2016, Calma, 2022, archival digital print, Hahnemühle fine art paper, 15” x 18”,

Maiz de Chiapas, 2022, archival digital print, Hahnemühle fine art paper, 14” x 14”

Celso (NE’EJ), 2022, archival digital print, Hahnemühle fine art paper, 33” x 25”

AI is changing how artists work, not whether they work

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:12:02 +0000

Generative AI has intensified concerns about job loss in creative fields. If software can produce images, music, and text in seconds, it is easy to assume that artists and other creative professionals will be among the first workers displaced.- read more

STRIKE LOOMS AT GUGGENHEIM

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:48:58 +0000

Artforum – Unionized workers at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York voted to strike last week, Artnews reports. According to UAW Local 2110, which represents the institution’s staff, 93 percent of members agreed to the action “if necessary to win a fair contract.” No strike date has been announced as of yet, but the vote arrives at the start of summer, the time of year when New York museums typically see their highest attendance as vacationers flock to the city from around the world. – read more

Pace Drops 50 Artists & 50 Staff in ‘Model Correction’

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:53:29 +0000

NY TImes – “The whole art gallery art system became too big, too commercial, too impersonal and too corporate,” Marc Glimcher, the chief executive, said in an interview this week. “We all know it’s true. But you actually have to do something to adapt to it. You have to make some substantial changes.” – read more

Wolfgang Tillmans Wins Europe’s Richest Art Prize

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:55:53 +0000

Hyperallergic– The first public exhibition of Jack White’s artwork, Cheryl Finley gets the David C. Driskell Prize, and more news to know. – read more

Red stripes in Welsh cave declared Britain’s oldest art

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:11:42 +0000

NBC – The horizontal lines of red pigment are evenly spaced and arranged in a way that suggests “a deliberate and structured pattern,” according to a study. – read more

Brazilian Police Have Identified Architect of Matisse Theft

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:51:32 +0000

Art News – Brazilian police say they have identified the man they believe organized last year’s theft of eight Henri Matisse works from one of São Paulo’s most important libraries, a case that shocked the country’s cultural sector and remains unresolved. – read more