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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
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...
Trump officials have reportedly ordered the removal of a famous image of a formerly enslaved man from a Georgia national monument where the United States Army toppled a Confederate garrison during the Civil War. The officials ordered the removal of a...
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,...
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 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...
For nearly four decades, more than 2,000 artists flocked to the alternative nonprofit Art in General (AiG), whose accessible and diverse programming helped propel the early careers of Pope.L, Cecilia Vicuña, Joan Jonas, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Patty Chang, Sanford...
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...