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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 hours ago

Relentless': National Gallery of Victoria exhibition celebrates motherhood

Motherhood influences creativity, with many women feeling more productive during child-rearing than after their children have grown up.
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fromColossal
4 days ago

Street Artists Take On Monumental Infrastructure in 'Impossible' Photos

Joseph Ford's Impossible Street Art series combines photography and street art to engage with monumental infrastructure and energy production sites.
#public-art
fromColossal
2 days ago
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Explore Art UK's Digital Database of More Than 6,600 Street Art Murals

Art UK archives over 21,000 public artworks, including street art and murals, to preserve ephemeral experiences and document local history.
fromColossal
1 month ago
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Minimal Shapes Layer into Dynamic, Abstracted Murals by James Reka

James Reka favors public murals that respond to local history and community, using geometric abstraction, layered color, and architectural details to create site-specific narratives.
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fromColossal
2 days ago

Explore Art UK's Digital Database of More Than 6,600 Street Art Murals

Art UK archives over 21,000 public artworks, including street art and murals, to preserve ephemeral experiences and document local history.
fromJuxtapoz
5 days ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Last Days to See Kate Meissner's New Paintings @ Lyles & King's Project Space, NYC

"These works are an exploration of the human body's elasticity and capacity to metamorphose. Informed by my own experience of pregnancy and the birth of my first child last year, these paintings are a meditation on physiological transformation and the body's underlying animalistic and mammalian nature."
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fromKALTBLUT Magazine
2 weeks ago

Experience the Pulse of Existence: "Urgency" by Leonis Works at Haus Der Visionare - KALTBLUT Magazine

"Urgency" is a groundbreaking multi-disciplinary dance work exploring personal experience and socio-political issues through immersive choreography that transcends traditional stage boundaries.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
2 weeks ago

Abstracted organica: The design trend taking root in Naarm, and the designers doing it best

Naarm's design scene blends futuristic Y2K aesthetics with organic natural forms, creating an abstracted visual language that merges digital polish with tactile, imperfect organic shapes inspired by local landscapes and Indigenous connection to Country.
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fromArtforum
4 days ago

Can the Biennial Serve a City, or Just "Big Art"?

Regional juried exhibitions have evolved, with new triennials emerging to address local artmaking and economic growth, but face challenges in meeting diverse expectations.
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fromIrish Independent
4 days ago

'You have to step in and experience it' - artists on the rise of AI-generated art and the 'essential' gallery visit

Miriam Fitzgerald Juskova's exhibit combines paper quilling with mathematics, showcasing intricate art that engages viewers and emphasizes the value of handmade creations.
#contemporary-art
fromJuxtapoz
3 weeks ago
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Juxtapoz Magazine - No Coward Soul: Rachel Gregor @ Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco

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fromJuxtapoz
3 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - No Coward Soul: Rachel Gregor @ Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco

Rachel Gregor's exhibition explores faith, resilience, and hope through intimate domestic imagery, using glass as a metaphor for the boundary between safety and uncertainty.
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fromFuncheap
3 weeks ago

Free Art Showcase: Massimo Mazzon's "Synthetic Realism" (Menlo Park)

Massimo Mazzon showcases 'Synthetic Realism,' blending classical oil techniques with digital aesthetics to explore modern representation and perception of texture.
fromTime Out New York
3 weeks ago

This free art show in the East Village spotlights awesome work from senior artists

The show features pieces by participants in JASA's programs. The organization, which serves more than 40,000 older adults every year, offers art classes and creative workshops designed to bring people together while encouraging self-expression. The results will be on full display here, from paintings and textile work to other handmade pieces that reflect the artists' personal stories and styles.
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fromKALTBLUT Magazine
3 weeks ago

In Conversation with Malte Bossen! A Movement Of Change. - KALTBLUT Magazine

Pornceptual challenges mainstream perceptions of pornography, reframing it as inclusive, artistic, intimate, and respectful rather than exploitative or taboo. Its events, from Berlin to international stages, bring a sex-positive, body-inclusive ethos to nightlife. Strict consent practices, no-photo policies, and spaces designed for authentic self-expression create a rare kind of freedom - one that allows visitors to explore identity, desire, and intimacy without judgment.
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fromArtnet News
1 week ago

Labubu Gets a Star Turn on the Big Screen-Plus a Rundown of the Latest in Asia's Art World | Artnet News

Asia's art markets are experiencing significant developments with major sales and new art fairs emerging amidst cautious buyer sentiment.
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fromArtnet News
1 week ago

Miart 2026 Reimagines the Fair as a Layered Journey for Visitors

Miart 2026 will feature 160 galleries from 24 countries, focusing on contemporary art themes and innovative presentations.
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

How does a creative residency impact your practice? Quite a lot, according to these artists

Her practice uses clay to bring people together with the "therapeutic aspects of tactile making". She first came to ceramics during university, where access to the department allowed her to fall in love with the practice. And so, Ciara is deeply cognisant of the importance of supporting those who struggle to access a ceramics studio due to various social factors.
Online Community Development
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fromFast Company
1 week ago

This artist's work has been shown at MoMA. Now it's training AI

Michael Hafftka embraces AI by uploading his artwork to Hugging Face, viewing it as a collaborative opportunity rather than a threat.
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fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

Australia Is Getting Its First Major Takashi Murakami Retrospective

The Art Gallery of New South Wales will host Australia's first major Takashi Murakami retrospective in December, featuring 150 works spanning 30 years and debuting new pieces.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

How a poet uses AI to write and why her work is now at MoMA

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as oppositesone deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet argues, is one of our most ancient and enduring technologies, a system of meter and rhyme invented to store vital information. She views AI as its natural heir. Stiles's path to AI began with literature, not code.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 weeks ago

Even the edges: Jason Gubbiotti at RecRoom * Oregon ArtsWatch

Jason Gubbiotti's small-scale geometric paintings combine elaborate precision, brilliant color, and meticulous craftsmanship, creating visually and intellectually satisfying works that reveal their handmade nature only upon close inspection.
fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

Magnum Gallery Honors the Life and Legacy of Photographer Martin Parr

His humor, his clarity, and his vision shaped many discussions across the agency and within the wider photographic world. This exhibition pays homage to the unique vision of Martin Parr, whose sharp eye for contemporary society and prominent role within Magnum Photos have left an enduring mark on photography.
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Remodel
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Potter Museum of Art / Wood Marsh

Concave, mirrored stainless-steel portal expands the Ian Potter Museum, integrating the 1930s Physics Annex and activating a multi-faceted public interface with campus and major road.
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Embracing Friction in the Art World

On Franklin Street in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, one non-commercial gallery fosters 'a small, stubbornly human space for friction.' Friction—the ubiquitous buzzword that captures the simultaneous delight and discomfort of doing things the slow way—is at the heart of artists Pap Souleye Fall and Char Jeré's current show at Subtitled NYC. It also reflects the overall spirit of this little exhibition space and of a burgeoning movement to reject our culture of optimization in favor of a bumpier, more intimate, less alienating experience.
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Environment
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 months ago

Woodleigh Futures Studio / McIldowie Partners

Regenerative Futures Studio is a carbon‑sequestering, solar‑powered living ecosystem school that filters pollution, fosters wildlife, achieves near‑zero waste, and supports project‑based regenerative learning.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The rise and rise of Australia's cinematheques: There's just a particular magic'

Cinematheques attract diverse, intergenerational audiences by programming curated archival and underseen films as an alternative to multiplex and streaming offerings.
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 months ago

Youth 2 Independence Campbell Street Project / Liminal Architecture

Natasha Mulhall + 27 More SpecsLess Specs Natasha Mulhall Text description provided by the architects. The Youth 2 Independence Campbell Street project (Y2I) reimagines social housing for young adults. At its core, it provides accommodation for youths interwoven with Community Hub support, social activities, and life-long learning opportunities. See allShow less About this office Published on January 16, 2026Cite: "Youth 2 Independence Campbell Street Project / Liminal Architecture" 16 Jan 2026. ArchDaily. Accessed . ISSN 0719-8884
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US politics
fromWIRED
2 months ago

Sorry MAGA, Turns Out People Still Like 'Woke' Art

Mainstream entertainment achieved major success with diverse, politically conscious projects that became cultural phenomena despite political and corporate pushback against DEI.
Mental health
fromBOOOOOOOM!
2 months ago

"Landfall" by Photographer Ava Margueritte

Landfall is a portrait series linking mental health, community support, and Northern landscapes to convey neurodiverse experience, impermanence, and cyclical wellbeing.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Harold the Kangaroo' Thornton: the extraordinary, forgotten life of the greatest genius who ever lived'

Harold Thornton, an eccentric Australian artist who painted psychedelic works and stood beside his Archibald Prize entry in 1983, remained largely unrecognized despite admirers like Martin Sharp and Ken Done, achieving greater recognition in Amsterdam than his home country.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

War, conflict and Roman sculptures: Bath exhibit shows different side of Don McCullin's work

Sir Don McCullin, famed for war photography, exhibits previously unseen photographs of Roman sculptures and plans to retire after a final Vatican visit.
fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

Indigenous Australian Art Finds a New Audience at TEFAF Maastricht

The gallery's inaugural presentation marked the first time Australian First Nations art had been presented at TEFAF Maastricht, and with sales totaling nearly $1.4 million, further underscored the growing relevance and interest in the category. Building on the momentum of the 2025 presentation, D Lan Galleries will now focus on works dating from the 1970s through today by artists whose practices have shaped the evolution of Australian Indigenous art.
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fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Unreal nature: Inside Mark Dorf's digital vivariums and infinite livestreams

Inside NYC-based artist Mark Dorf's project Late Pastoral, the ecological world is trapped in a rear-illuminated print. It's real - but something is off, it's been digitally altered, data-noise clutters images of glowing plant life. Shaped by the pervasive influence of technology, design and the rhythms of digital connectivity, even nature becomes at one with the unreal. Non-human nature is the main thesis of Mark's wide-spanning digital art works, offering reflections on our digital age.
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fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Andrew B. Myers shows us how he magnifies his brilliant miniature worlds

Andrew B Myers combines warm, organic manual processes with digital techniques to transform small objects into large, curious imagery for major clients.
#solid-light-installation
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fromFuncheap
1 month ago

Anthony McCall's 'First Light' at SF's Fort Mason (Special Musical Performance)

Anthony McCall pioneered 'solid light' installations in 1973, creating three-dimensional sculptural projections through haze that viewers can walk through and interact with, predating modern immersive art movements by decades.
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fromFuncheap
1 month ago

Anthony McCall's 'First Light' at SF's Fort Mason (Thru March 8)

Anthony McCall pioneered 'solid light' installations in 1973, projecting light through haze to create three-dimensional sculptural forms that viewers can walk through and interact with, predating modern immersive art movements by decades.
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fromFuncheap
1 month ago

Last Chance: Anthony McCall's 'First Light' at Fort Mason (SF)

Anthony McCall pioneered 'solid light' installations in 1973, projecting light through haze to create three-dimensional sculptural forms that viewers can walk through and interact with, predating modern immersive art movements by decades.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month ago

'It doesn't put walls around everything': behind the plans for Manila's new contemporary art centre

The Ayala Foundation is developing Kontempo Center for Contemporary Art in Manila, led by artistic director Reuben Keehan, emphasizing exhibitions and public programming over permanent collections.
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fromThe Bold Italic
1 month ago

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture & The Kramlich Art Foundation present Anthony McCall: First Light

Anthony McCall: First Light will be presented at Fort Mason Center on Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Can Performance Art Win Over a New Generation of Collectors? | Artnet News

Performance art is already sellable; recent shifts are increasing how its market value is established through editions, documentation, and institutional purchases.
#mitchell-johnson
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fromTime Out New York
1 month ago

Alexander Wang opened a new Asian arts hub with his mother in Chinatown today

A century-old landmark bank at 58 Bowery reopens as The Wang Contemporary, a cultural hub championing Asian and Asian American art, fashion, music, and design.
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

New Exhibition Brings Viewers Inside the Creative World of Andy Scott

In 2014, Scottish artist Andy Scott made international headlines with the unveiling of his colossal dual horse-head sculptures, The Kelpies. Completed in late 2013, they are installed in the Helix park in Flakirk, Scotland, and each of the steel heads measures 98-feet high and weighs in at a whopping 300 tons. The works have become iconic in their own right, but also exemplary of Scott's practice, which takes focus on animal forms and employs the visually and thematically weighty materials of steel or bronze.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Squeak Carnwath Paints Her Own Path

Squeak Carnwath rejects the idea that painting is exhausted and continues to produce expansive, vital work within the oil painting tradition.
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fromThe Washington Post
1 month ago

In a stunning Smithsonian exhibit, artist Nick Cave uses stuff to excavate life

Nick Cave's 'Mammoth' exhibition assembles found objects, wearable sculpture, video and installation into a 700-square-foot light-table self-portrait that evokes memory and bodily performance.
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fromArchDaily
1 month ago

London's Brutalist Heritage and Australia's New City: This Week's Review

Architecture increasingly emphasizes social responsibility, adaptive cultural projects, heritage protection, and large-scale urban planning aligning infrastructure, resilience, and long-term civic agendas.
fromColossal
2 months ago

Drawn to Synbols, Michael McGrath Conjures Uncanny Narratives

Disembodied heads, eyes, and hands meet spindly trees, dragonflies, and vibrant blossoms in the folk-art inspired works of Michael McGrath. Based in Rhinebeck, New York, McGrath melds a variety of media-most pieces contain a mixture of graphite, ink, and oil and acrylic paints-into dynamic compositions suffuse with mystery. Recurring symbols and objects lend themself to a distinctive visual language that captures both the wondrous and puzzling.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The Guardian view on living more creatively: a daily dose of art | Editorial

Daily engagement in creative activities improves physical and mental health, reduces mortality risk, and should be prioritized alongside diet and exercise.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Jerry McMillan, Whimsical Chronicler of LA's Art Scene, Dies at 89

Jerry McMillan documented and shaped the mid-century Los Angeles art scene through experimental photo-sculptures and inventive portraits, preserving key artist images for historical archives.
#zona-maco
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Matt Midgley Paints Razorsharp Geometric Acrylics So Precise They Barely Look Handmad

Death Anxiety Comics Inspired By Our Fears "Sunkissed": Beautiful Feminine Illustrations by Emilija Savic Artist Creates Honest Illustrations About Relationships And Everyday Life Artist Yana Tarakanova Creates Superb Explicit and Bizarre Comics About The Society The Dark, Incredibly F*cked Up Comics Of Joan Cornella Chris Keegan by Cosmic Creatures 6 Feet Covers: Duo Artists Re-Designed Iconic Album Covers To Promote Social Distancing Artist Spent Three Years Painting Her Readings Mom Prepares Healthy Meals As Cartoon Characters For Her Son How To Teach Yoga Like Slav: Top 10 Drunk Yoga Positions
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Artists Pay Tribute to Alex Pretti

A 37-year-old nurse, Alex Pretti, was shot ten times by border patrol officers while filming; artists create tributes and gallerist Marian Goodman died at 97.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Alexander Wang Debuts New Cultural Space Centering Asian Creativity

Alexander Wang and Ying Wang converted 58 Bowery into the Wang Contemporary, a restored Beaux-Arts venue showcasing Asian and Asian American creative expression.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

How British Artist Lincoln Townley Captures the Faces of Modern Success

Lincoln Townley's paintings interrogate success, wealth, and power through psychologically informed, gestural portraits that obscure faces and reveal darker human drives and anxieties.
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fromTime Out London
1 month ago

One of London's most unmissable art exhibitions in 2026 will open this week

The Courtauld presents Seurat and the Sea, the first UK exhibition solely focused on Georges Seurat's seascapes, running February 13–April 12, 2026.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

The World Has Too Much Art. What Will Happen to It? | Artnet News

Global art market mirrors wine oversupply: excess supply, falling prices, shrinking demand, causing gallery closures and strained art-fair economics.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Major Contemporary Art Center Planned in Manila-and a Rundown of the Latest in Asia's Art World | Artnet News

Major Asian art fairs broaden regional visibility, showcase MENASA artists, and generate modest sales while building important institutional and dealer relationships.
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fromEast Bay Express | Oakland, Berkeley & Alameda
2 months ago

Art / Tech: Postmodern Cultural Incubator critiques technology with art

A six-to-eight-month Cultural Incubator fosters anti-disciplinary collaboration, merging art and technology to critique current tech deployment and broaden who benefits from technological innovation.
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

How the Mayor Gallery Has Helped Define Contemporary Art for 100 Years

In the story of art history-the art and artists, movements and trends-a select number of galleries have played a defining role in the evolution and trajectory of art itself. Among them, the Mayor Gallery in London is surely one, as it has maintained a position fostering and promoting some of the most significant developments in art for an astounding 100 years.
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fromColossal
2 months ago

Rep Your Love for Independent Arts Publishing

Our new line of Colossal merchandise is finally hitting the (digital) shelves in the Colossal Shop. We're big fans of repping publications that inspire us, and we're excited to finally offer our own goods to this special community of readers. Hats and mugs are now available, and all proceeds directly support our ongoing commitment to make art accessible to everyone. You can also receive a mug by joining us with an annual Patron of the Arts membership.
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fromBOOOOOOOM!
2 months ago

Artist Spotlight: Su A Chae

Su A Chae's paintings examine identity and belonging through paradoxical spatial propositions, cultural memory, information asymmetry, and balance framed as active resistance.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

'It's Not All About Me': Three Portland icons make a winning show * Oregon ArtsWatch

With most of us, 90 minutes of reminiscing wouldn't make for scintillating theater. Gert Boyle, as played by Wendy Westerwelle, is the exception to that rule. The late Gert came to fame when she took the reins of Columbia Sportswear after her husband's death in 1970 and also became the "One Tough Mother," with gray hair and glasses, of its comedic '80s and '90s ad campaigns. In one, she put her son, Tim, through a carwash to test the durability of a coat.
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fromArtnet News
2 months ago

How 19 Contemporary Artists Paid Tribute to John Constable

Bernard Jacobson Gallery is exhibiting the 1976 print portfolio For John Constable by 19 contemporary artists through February 27, 2026.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

A Very 2026 Art Reading List

Art world highlights for 2026 include forthcoming art books, major grants to artists, museum programming experiments, and renewed focus on cultural repatriation and exhibitions.
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