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Summer and the streets are teeming with beautiful young people. In a shop window, I catch my reflection staring at me with contempt. I need a haircut but have no barber to go to. The last one talked too much about his prostate and made me look like the reincarnation of Saddam Hussein. I spot a pretty well-known artist walking towards me. We’ve met and emailed before, but we can’t really be called friends. We exchange side glances and notice each other, but make an unspoken agr

When sculptor Shirley Tse was invited by her former student Anna Hrund Másdóttir to produce an original exhibition at her cooperative gallery King and Bang in Reykjavik, her first thought was to invite her friend and former teacher, the film and video maker Dana Berman Duff, to collaborate with her. Geography, landscape, desire and time are some of the interests these two artists shared. The result is an extraordinary manifestation of physical elements — breath, moon and ti

“Anas was one of the journalists who ran into the line of fire,” reads a translated eulogy by independent journalist Doaa Shaheen about her late colleague, prominent Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif, 28, who was killed alongside four other journalists on August 10, 2025, by a targeted Israeli strike on their media tent near al-Shifa Hospital. “He covered events as they unfolded because he believed the Palestinian narrative was worth this effort and exhaustion,”

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On the first Friday of each month, a dozen or more exhibitions open across galleries, studios, and temporary spaces in Knoxville. For many people in the small city’s art community, the night is either an overwhelming jumble or a repetitive routine. Artist Lauren Farkas’s maps offer a way through.“If everything is on the map, people get overwhelmed,” Farkas told Hyperallergic. “I put all the things that I would like to go to if I had en

A few weeks shy of his 10th birthday, Anderson Taylor opened a museum in the small town of Cambridge, Illinois, with just one display case. Two years later, after expanding the collection to over a dozen cases of animal fossils, iridescent bones, and rare minerals, Taylor set a Guinness World Record as the world’s youngest museum curator.Announced July 15, the award notes the curator's precise age as nine years and 340 days old when the Cambridge Natural History Museum opened on Augu

Welcome to the 350th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Linda Lay sets up shop in the mobile home she grew up in, collapsing time and tenderly reclaiming the space through her vibrant art practice.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Linda Lay, Marina, CaliforniaHow long

In 1961, a painting by Pablo Picasso on loan from the Guggenheim Museum mysteriously vanished from the University of Pittsburgh. This week, the museum filed a lawsuit to get it back. Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia has the scoop on the rediscovery and where it’s been for the last six decades.In other rediscovered painting news, Staff Writer Anna Lee reports on a 17th-century Flemish still life that surfaced after years lost in storage at the National Museum of Norway, where it will soon

Next great listen unlocked: Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia was recently a guest on the Atlas Obscura podcast to discuss the controversy around the destruction of the kaleidoscopic "Casa Cueva," one of the last works by architect Juan O'Gorman (who also designed the studios of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera), by fellow Mexican artist Helen Escobedo. Tune in to her brilliant narration of this contentious chapter in art history wherever you get your podcasts.Just off the Brooklyn-Qu

ISLAA's 2026–27 Fellows (photos courtesy ISLAA)Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other art-world happenings. Today, we report on a new cohort of fellows at ISLAA, the bittersweet closure of a West Coast arts magazine, Mamdani's plans for Elizabeth Street Garden, and new leaders at SFMOMA, the Portland Art Museum, and more. Institute for Studies on Latin American Art Announces 2026 Fellows The curator

Living on Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts will become a reality for dozens of artists as early as next year. The Village of Industry & Art (VIA) announced on August 12 that it will transform a former University of the Arts (UArts) dormitory into 45 affordable apartments. The news comes after the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded the VIA a $2.5 million grant for the building project and the establishment of on-site arts programming.

PHILADELPHIA — Held from August 6 to 9, the BlackStar Film Festival marked its 15th anniversary this year with 91 films underscoring its ongoing commitment to “a cinema for liberation.” That vision is one of collective endurance, a shared struggle rooted in solidarity and dogged determination. It suffused Haile Gerima’s Black Lions, Roman Wolves, a five-part documentary on Ethiopia’s resistance to the Italian invasion of 1935; artist Suneil Sanzgiri’s &#

The Picasso had disappeared without a trace.On the morning of February 6, 1961, a graduate student and dormitory aide at the University of Pittsburgh reported Picasso's painting "Femme dans un fauteuil" (1918) missing from the Students Union building. The 13.5-by-10.5-inch oil had been on loan from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for an exhibition in the fall semester, and was due to be returned to the museum later that month. The school reported the theft to the Pittsburgh P

A 17th-century still life that had gathered dust for decades in storage at the National Museum of Norway is set to resurface in a forthcoming exhibition, where it will be publicly attributed to the Flemish painter Clara Peeters for the first time. Opening October 8, Woman Painter brings "Still Life with small game and grapes on a gilded tazza" (c. 1620) together with the works of 18 other influential yet sometimes overlooked women artists.Originally attributed to Ambrosius Brueghel, th

After Koyo Kouoh died suddenly in May 2025, she left more than an immense void in the hearts of those who knew the visionary curator. Kouoh, chief curator of the 61st Venice Biennale, had also led the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in South Africa since 2019. This week, the Cape Town institution entered a new chapter with the appointment of Elvira Dyangani Ose as artistic director. Starting this fall, the Spanish curator will bring her expertise in modern and contemporary African art an

The San Francisco photography organization SF Camerawork will close its doors after 52 years, the nonprofit announced on Instagram this week. Its last day of operations is set for August 16, concurrent with the closing of John Chiara’s solo show Bay Panel at its gallery space in the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.“Despite the determined efforts of our staff, Board, artists, donors, and supporters to secure a sustainable future, we have reached the difficult conclusion tha

In a new documentary on Gaza, three humanitarian physicians from the United States navigate the horrors of genocide as they struggle to treat civilians in a buckling, under-resourced hospital in Khan Younis. Screening this week at the Angelika Film Center in Manhattan, journalist Poh Si Teng's debut feature documentary American Doctor (2026) uses the physicians' accounts as indisputable evidence of the cruelty inflicted on Gaza.Urgently produced in one year with on-the-ground footage b

LOS ANGELES — The rumbling in a small foyer in the Hammer Museum gave me pause before I entered a gallery where eight boulders hunkered amidst piles of soil. I couldn’t help but look up at the rattling of track lights overhead. Was this my first California earthquake of the millennium?Somewhat reassuringly, nearby wall text explained that Raven Chacon’s sound piece “Study for Vertical Earth” (2026) had translocated underground audio recordings to animate t

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) in Cape Town, South Africa, announced this week that Elvira Dyangani Ose has been appointed as its artistic director effective October 1. Concluding a 15-month search, Dyangani Ose's appointment comes after the sudden and untimely loss of Zeitz MOCAA's late Executive Director and Chief Curator of six years, Koyo Kouoh, who died in May 2025. Dyangani Ose was among the five women jurors that Kouoh, who was named chief curator of the 61s

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Christian Bernard (1950–2026)French critic, curator, and museum directorThe French critic and curator was the founding director of Geneva's Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. He helped establish the Regional Contemporary Art Fund Rhône-Alpes, a French government-funded regional collection of contemporary art, served as artistic director of the Printemps de Septembre con

Wake up, babe, the winners of the Joan Mitchell Foundation fellowships — one of the most coveted prizes in art — just dropped. Among the artists receiving the $60,000 award are Atlanta-based Krista Clark, Blue Ridge Mountains-based vanessa german, and Lexington, Kentucky-based Dianna Settles. What does the award mean to these artists? “Stability,” sculptor Beatriz Cortez told Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia flatly.Yep. It’s one of the hardest thing