Can Artists Stop the AI Slop Machine?

In 2022, Molly Crabapple noticed that several images uncannily resembling her distinctive illustrations of the Aleppo skyline and portraits of protesters had spread across the web. She realized that artificial intelligence companies had hoovered up her work, along...

Hyperallergic’s Art Tarotscope for the Fall Equinox

The Speaker of Stones card from the Mixed Signals tarot deck by M Eilo (all images courtesy M Eilo) Hyperallergic’s tarotscope series is a combination of tarot with astrology, a reading for the collective readership combined with cards for the major astrological...

10 Art Shows to See in the Bay Area This Fall

After a long, rainy summer, the Bay Area art scene is beginning to thaw out, with galleries returning from summer vacation and museums kicking off the fall. The country seems to be spiraling ever further towards authoritarian chaos, but a small flame of resistance...

10 Art Shows to See in the Bay Area This Fall

After a long, rainy summer, the Bay Area art scene is beginning to thaw out, with galleries returning from summer vacation and museums kicking off the fall. The country seems to be spiraling ever further towards authoritarian chaos, but a small flame of resistance...

Stephen Westfall’s Avian Abstractions

In 2006, I interviewed Stephen Westfall about his longtime interest in the possibilities of a skewed grid, among other subjects. He came to this grid by connecting Agnes Martin with Paul Klee; he also discussed vulnerability and planar abstraction, and the different...

The Night Harriet Tubman Made History 

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Under a full moon very early on a Tuesday morning 162 years ago, Harriet Tubman, already sweating in the South Carolina late spring humidity, prepared her troops to attack the Confederacy. Under the command of Union Colonel James Montgomery, she led...

The Night Harriet Tubman Made History 

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Under a full moon very early on a Tuesday morning 162 years ago, Harriet Tubman, already sweating in the South Carolina late spring humidity, prepared her troops to attack the Confederacy. Under the command of Union Colonel James Montgomery, she led...

When Artists Are Too Old to Be “Emerging” 

About a decade ago, I was at a fundraising event when the director of a Brooklyn residency encouraged me to apply for a Van Lier studio fellowship. I had just recommitted to my practice and was hungry for momentum. I went home, pulled together the application, and hit...

Announcing the 2025 Center for Craft Archive Fellows

The recipients of the Center for Craft’s 2025 Craft Archive Fellowship are Teju Adisa-Farrar, Robert Choe-Henderson, Amalia Uribe Guardiola, Crystal Vance Guerra, Trelani Michelle, and Bilphena Decontee Yahwon. For their six projects, they will each receive a $5,000...