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RAIR’s Artist Residency Program Is at a Recycling Center
The Philadelphia organization offers artists on-site access to recovered materials, construction equipment, a $1,000 stipend, studio space, and more.
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Meet UConn’s MFA Studio Art Class of 2026
This fully funded, three-year graduate program supports a broad range of art making. It culminates with a show at an NYC gallery and an on-campus thesis exhibition.
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Tate Unveils Chris Ofili Mural Commemorating Grenfell Tower Fire
The monumental work, inspired by the frescoes of Giotto and informed by testimonies from survivors of the fire, will be on display for 10 years.
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Hong Kong Student Sentenced to Prison for Tiananmen Monument Banner
Zeng Yuxuan was arrested in June over a banner of the recently removed “Pillar of Shame” monument commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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Artist Who Pocketed Banknotes From His Own Artwork Loses Court Case
The Kunsten Museum gave Jens Haaning $80K to incorporate into a new artwork, but the artist said “it is only a piece of art if I don’t return the money.”
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Bob Ross’s First On-Air Painting Could Fetch Nearly $10M
“A Walk in the Woods” (1983) was the first of 1,000 artworks created during the artist’s The Joy of Painting television show that ran on PBS for 11 years.
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Staying Close to the Land With Plein Air Painting
A new show of plein air painting in California offers a compelling take on our relationship to land and what it means to spend time trying to understand the outdoors.
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Indian TV Show Draws Criticism After Dalit Writer Alleges Appropriation
Yashica Dutt has pointed out similarities between her life’s story and one of the characters in Made in Heaven.
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A Multi-Generational Gee's Bend Story, Told by One Quilt
Stitching Love and Loss narrates the history of the Pettway family, the community of Gee’s Bend, and the entwined tragedies of slavery and Indigenous dispossession.
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Ja’Tovia Gary Reimagines Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Her short film Quiet As It’s Kept captures the essence of Morrison’s first novel with the same foreboding precision.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Reopens Modern and Contemporary Galleries With a New Installation
New acquisitions and visitor favorites at SAAM examine the explosion of possibility in US art between the 1940s and today.
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The World’s UnFair in Queens Echoes Calls to Give Native Land Back
The New Red Order exhibition asks visitors to contemplate their relationship with the land and very simply — to give it back.