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Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping entire industries, from finance to media to healthcare, with significant breakthroughs accelerating within the past few months alone. The art world will be no exception, as AI could offer boundless potential, from helping art businesses operate more effic
Nearly 200 Venice Biennale participants signed a letter demanding Israel's pavilion be canceled. The move exposes how cultural boycotts have become the art world's only tool for accountability—because the institutions were never built to provide it.
A $7 million conservation project at Fallingwater finally addresses Frank Lloyd Wright's endemic leaking problem—and quietly admits that architectural icons often fail at their most basic function.
Art SG absorbed S.E.A. Focus for the first time this year, and dealers are worried the boutique curation that made Southeast Asian art accessible is getting swallowed by scale economics.
A new National Portrait Gallery exhibition reframes Lucian Freud as a painter of psychological dislocation—people painfully adrift from themselves. In 2026, that feels more urgent than nostalgic.
The University of North Texas removed Victor Quiñonez's immigration-themed exhibition without explanation — a censorship strategy that relies on administrative silence rather than public justification.
An anonymous sculpture on the National Mall depicts Trump and Epstein in the Titanic pose — but guerrilla political art has become so formulaic that provocation itself is now the cliché.
By pairing Chiharu Shiota's thread installations with Yin Xiuzhen's clothing environments, Hayward Gallery is making a case for installation art as a form that interrogates labor, memory, and the politics of making—not just spectacle.
White Cube will show Emmi Whitehorse at Art Basel Hong Kong after Garth Greenan spent years building her market. That's how art's power structure works.
Jamie Gentry's moccasin exhibition positions ceremonial craft inside the contemporary art world while refusing the institutional frameworks that flatten its meaning—a deliberate friction that forces galleries to confront their own inadequacy.
Photography books are the medium's truest form — sequenced, paced, and designed to be experienced as a whole. Here are the monographs from the last ten years that belong on your shelf.
Christopher Selman's survey of 36 thermal retreats signals a genre shift in design media—from documenting built environment to selling lifestyle aspiration.
Dazed Digital's editorial with model Angelina Kendall and humanoid robot HMND Alpha uses fashion to normalize AI companionship without critique.
The 2026 Whitney Biennial has traded confrontation for introspection, betting that institutional legitimacy now means creating space for complexity rather than performing activist rigor.