Officials Decry Demolition of Mosque Tower in Basra, Iraq – ARTnews.com
Locals and cultural officials are angered by the demolition of a 300-year-old minaret, a move they say is tantamount to…
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How to Use Generative AI Tools While Still Protecting Your Privacy | WIRED
The explosion of consumer-facing tools that offer generative AI has created plenty of debate: These tools promise to transform the…
2023 Emmy Nominations Highlights: ‘Succession,’ ‘The White Lotus’ and More
“Succession,” HBO’s operatic saga about a media dynasty and a two-time best drama winner, scored 27 Emmy nominations for its…
The curator playing matchmaker between emerging artists and Aspen collectors
“I hallucinate what I desire,” Roland Barthes wrote in A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, his 1977 book of literary ruminations on…
Darrel Ellis’s Legacy of Love and Loss
Darrel Ellis, “Self-portrait based on Peter Hujar photograph” (c. 1989), the Baltimore Museum of Art (© Darrel Ellis Estate, Candice…
New York Art FairsMay 8-11, 2014
It a big week for New York art fairs with ten opening this week. We’ll be adding additional details within…
Review: The Farther Shore by Julia Borissova
Julia Borissova’s The Farther Shore is a recent addition to the growing number of photobooks looking at traces of the…
What Artists Need to Know – ARTnews.com
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTNews may receive an affiliate…
The Rise and Fall of Smooth Jazz
Whenever I’m asked to provide a “fun fact” about myself, I usually say that I worked as a smooth-jazz radio…
The Gift of Holiday Men
Kema Christian-Coates’s childhood was filled with “holiday men,” absentee fathers — including her own — who returned each year around…
From the “Bloomsbury stud” to unseen works by Winifred Nicholson—our pick of London Art Week
London might have been lighter on art fairs this June but the gallery trail London Art Week’s (LAW) summer edition…
Artists Denounce Supreme Court’s Ruling on Affirmative Action
The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) effectively struck down affirmative action last Thursday, June 29, therefore barring universities from considering an applicant’s…
Contemporary Art and Art Fairs: Miami Art Week – December 1
Let me start off by saying Miami Art Week is the best Contemporary Art Week in the United States, and…
Maria Oliveira
About her series under the surveillance of ancient animals photographer Maria Oliveira wrote me: “I am following the lives of…
12 artists who made their name as musicians and actors – ARTnews.com
For people who live in the public eye, painting can be a way to peacefully remove oneself from the melee…
Monumental endeavor – Chicago Reader
We’re coming up on the three-year anniversary of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s stealth eviction of Christopher Columbus from Grant Park. Under…
Daily Campello Art News: Review: Burning Man: Art on Fire
For decades now I have been discussing, ranting, and raving about how fine art fairs have become the epicenter of…
Bobby Osborne, Mandolinist Who Flouted Bluegrass Convention, Dies at 91
Bobby Osborne, the singer and mandolin player who with his younger brother, Sonny, led one of the most groundbreaking bands…
Italy condemns tourist who vandalised Colosseum with love note
Italy’s culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, has condemned a tourist who was filmed scratching his name on a wall at the…
The Fight to Preserve Denver’s Chicano Murals
In the mid-1960s, Denver was at the forefront of the national Chicano movement. Activists concerned with land rights, labor rights,…
Art Basel Miami BeachDecember 4-7, 2014
It’s that wonderful time of the year when Art Basel Miami Beach is getting ready to open. It runs December…
Bertrand Carriere
In Apres Strand, Bertrand Carriere follows the trails of Paul Strand who in 1929 and 1936 visited the Gaspé Peninsula,…