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In Performance Series, Artists Tackle the Nature of Images, and Reality, in the Face of AI
18+ hour, 49+ min 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+ day, 18+ hour 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?
1+ week, 4+ 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
1+ week, 5+ 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
1+ week, 6+ 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
2+ week, 1+ hour 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…...
Trevor Paglen's New Book Says AI Is Rewriting What Images Do
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1189+ words) Machine Vision, out from Verso, confronts everything from UFOs to psyops with surprising lucidity. There's no shortage of speculation about what generative AI portends for culture: Visions range from a "dead internet," in which bots produce the majority of online…...
At 77, Painter Archie Rand Is Still Telling New Stories
3+ week, 1+ day ago (339+ words) Why? "Because I want to go around here and find out what's around the corner. Where are these people coming from? What's over there?" He kept his finger on the canvas as he said it, tracing the edge of a…...
An Art Historian's Riotous Novel Melds Medieval Art with Monica Lewinsky
3+ week, 3+ day ago (465+ words) As the invitation stirs up memories, middle-aged Jean revisits her diary from the time of her relationship with David. There, she discovers her own teenage mistreatment of Monica Lewinsky. "Clinton admitted on TV to an affair in the White House…...
World Press Photo of the Year Depicts a Family Torn Apart by ICE
3+ week, 5+ day ago (208+ words) The World Press Photo foundation has awarded its top honor to a harrowing image of two young girls clinging futilely to their father's shirt as he is detained. A New York report on ICE detainments at 26 Federal Plaza, which also…...