Can Artists Stop the AI Slop Machine?

Sep 18, 2025

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...

Announcing the 2025 Center for Craft Archive Fellows

Sep 18, 2025

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...

Announcing the 2025 Center for Craft Archive Fellows

Sep 18, 2025

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...

LA Louver to Close Gallery Space and Shift Into Private Model 

Sep 17, 2025

LA Louver, the oldest extant gallery in Los Angeles, will be closing its space in Venice this fall and transitioning to focus on private art dealing and consulting, according to an announcement today, September 16. Alongside this pivot, the gallery will be donating...

Massive Photo of Trump and Epstein Unfurled Outside Windsor Castle

Sep 17, 2025

Activists are determined to spoil Donald Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom this week — one Jeffrey Epstein photo at a time. Less than 24 hours ahead of his arrival at Windsor Castle, a supersized photo of the president with the convicted sexual predator was...

Meet the “Microsnail” Named After Picasso

Sep 17, 2025

Move over, Gary the Snail. There’s a new gastropod in town, and its name is Anauchen picasso. One of the world’s tiniest snails has been named after the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso for its defined, swirled shell that evokes early 20th-century Cubism. In...

Activists Face Hate Crime Charges for Anti-Israel Graffiti

Sep 16, 2025

Co-defendants Raunaq Alam and Afsheen Khan at the Tarrant County courthouse last week (photo by and courtesy Stacey Monroe) Texas prosecutors are seeking 10-year prison sentences for activists accused of anti-Zionist graffiti.  The three defendants — Raunaq Alam,...

No Other Land Director’s Home Raided by Israeli Military 

Sep 16, 2025

The Israeli military reportedly raided No Other Land co-director Basel Adra’s home in the Occupied West Bank on Saturday, September 13, as first made public on X by investigative journalist Yuval Abraham, the film’s other co-director. The raid followed an...

Keith Haring Is Getting the Biopic Treatment 

Sep 15, 2025

Keith Haring painting a backdrop for the Palladium nightclub, May 11, 1985 (all photos courtesy the Keith Haring Foundation) Graffiti and pop art icon Keith Haring, widely recognized for his social activism and his visual vocabulary of animated painted figures with...

Two Artists Withdraw From Smithsonian Symposium

Sep 13, 2025

Lingít and Unangax̂ artist Nicholas Galanin and Mexican-American sculptor Margarita Cabrera withdrew from a symposium at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) today, September 12, alleging that the institution’s decision to make the event private effectively...