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Ren Light Pan Dramatizes the Dilemma of the Trans Artist.
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (149+ words) The photo-painter, who shows at Lyles & King in New York, dramatizes the dilemma of the trans artist. Pan came up with this method'a way of "creating a situation where I'm not entirely in control'to circumvent her perfectionist tendencies. What she…...
Ansel Adams Trust Slams Gallery for AI-Generated Work at AIPAD Photography Show
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (233+ words) The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust slammed the decision by Danziger Gallery to offer an AI-generated artwork referencing Adams's work. The artwork, which still appears on Danziger's website, does not contain a title but is headlined A. I GENERATED, From the…...
Muriel Hasbun, Artist Whose Work Poignantly Recounted the Salvadoran Diaspora and the Fraughtness of Memory, Dies at 64
1+ week, 1+ day ago (951+ words) Memory is elusive. It changes with time and it's different for each person who experienced a particular event. Nonetheless, its power is unquestionable, Hasbun once said. Muriel Hasbun, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice poignantly recounted the effects of El Salvador's…...
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Announces a Major Gift of Nearly 2000 Photographs
1+ week, 3+ day ago (95+ words) The donation comes from the holdings of financier Howard Stein (19262011), and encompasses historic, modern, and contemporary works The gift comprises works spanning the 19th century and the present day by more than 450 artists In 2017, JGS began donating works from Steins's collection…...
In Performance Series, Artists Tackle the Nature of Images, and Reality, in the Face of AI
1+ week, 4+ day ago (55+ words) By Shanti Escalante-De Mattei Every time a tech company promotes an emerging technology like AI or the metaverse, the pitch sounds the same: a promise to "unleash" the imagination, or a new "immersive world." "When you believe something is fake,…...
Rene Mati" Awarded 2026 Deutsche B'rse Photography Foundation Prize
1+ week, 5+ day ago (169+ words) Rene Mati" was awarded the 2026 Deutsche B'rse Photography Foundation Prize. They received the "30, 000 ($40, 250) prize for their exhibition "AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH," which closed at CCA Berlin in February Their practice includes an excavation of British subculture, including the "rude…...
In Venice, Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince Ask: What Is Appropriate to Appropriate?
3+ week, 1+ day ago (360+ words) What is appropriate to appropriate? That question is the one that animates practices of Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa, who are currently showing their work together at the Fondazione Prada in Venice. " At first glance, the pairing might seem like…...
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo's New Art Island Made a Sunny Splash in a Rainy Venice Vernissage Week
3+ week, 2+ day ago (204+ words) San Giacomo is the newest exhibition venue for the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, created in 1995 by Sandretto Re Rebaudengo; the foundation opened its headquarters in Turin, Italy, in 2002, and opened the Palazzo Re Rebaudengo and its Art Park among the…...
Aneta Grzeszykowska Shoots Poetic Portraits in a Mask of Herself at Age 14
3+ week, 3+ day ago (266+ words) A. i. A. spoke with Grzeszykowska about "Mama," "Daughter," and how she has come to consider herself a viewer of her own work. How would you describe the evolution of your thinking from the "Mama" series to your new "Daughter" works? How did…...
Abbas Akhavan Transforms the Canada Pavilion Into a Greenhouse, Daring Viewers to Leave Behind Their Preconceptions
3+ week, 3+ day ago (359+ words) If all of this seems laden with meaning of the kind that often attends conceptual art in 2026colonialism, empire, fraught ideas of foreigness and exoticnessyou, like me, will have read Akhavan's intentions completely wrong. Things are rarely so pat for the…...