Is the release of ChatGPT5 good or bad news for creatives?

Aug 7, 2025

Image licensed via Adobe Stock ChatGPT is going up a gear, and it’s going to be a wild ride; are you ready for the impact? Read on to discover what’s going to happen, and how to get the most out of it. You know ChatGPT, right? The chatbot that you’re...

Kour Pour Reclaims the Geometry of Abstraction

Aug 7, 2025

Kour Pour, “Twice Removed” (2025), acrylic, block ink, and esphand on shaped canvases (all images courtesy Kour Pour Studio, unless otherwise noted) LOS ANGELES — For artist Kour Pour, challenging the Euro-American art historical canon has been a...

A Moving Encounter With the Art of Bernard Williams

Aug 7, 2025

CHICAGO — Nearly every summer in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs, some genuinely dumb public art is trotted out for the entertainment of visitors and residents alike. Sometimes it’s life-size fiberglass cows, other times giant butterflies. The most dreadful ones...

José María Velasco Lovingly Captured a Changing Mexico

Aug 7, 2025

LONDON — The National Gallery hasn’t loudly trumpeted its decade-long strategy to introduce British audiences to art beyond Europe. Instead, it diligently rectifies this art-historical narrow-mindedness by covering major overlooked bases, such as with recent...

Changing Tides Expose Centuries-Old Petroglyphs in Hawaii

Aug 7, 2025

On the Western shores of Oʻahu, natural wave activity revealed an approximately 115-foot-long stretch containing 26 petroglyphs this month for the first time since they were discovered in 2016. The early Hawaiian carvings resembling stick figures extend into the...