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‘Art Is a Recording Device’: Watch Artist Stephanie Syjuco Rearrange Images to Create New Perspectives on History

ART NET NEWS – In 2019, the artist delved into the massive archives of the Smithsonian to photograph documents that help tell the story of America....

In Case You’ve Missed It In Pictures: How French Rococo Design Shaped Some of Disney’s Most Beloved Films, From ‘Cinderella’ to ‘Sleeping Beauty’

ART NET NEWS – In the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast, a young woman, Belle, dances and sings inside a magical castle where inanimate objects...

‘I’ll Construct That Moment’: Watch Artist Carrie Mae Weems Bring Historical Tragedies to Life as a Way to Recast Our Present

ART NET NEWS – Over the course of her four-decade career, Carrie Mae Weems has employed photography, film, sculpture, and archival footage, all in the...

Holy Cow! Bison Have Uncovered an Ancient Rock-Art Trove In Canada, Just as an Indigenous Prophecy Once Predicted

ART NET NEWS – Elders of Wahpeton Dakota had long campaigned to have Plains bison reintroduced to their lands as they believed it would bring...

The Anonymous Was a Woman Grant Has Selected Its Largest-Ever Cohort of Female Artists Over 40—See Work by the Winners Here

ART NET NEWS – The Anonymous Was a Woman awards are back and better than ever, thanks to new donations—made anonymously, naturally—that will expand the number...

A Texas Marketing Company Is Opening a Juneteenth Museum, Promising an Interactive History of the New National Holiday

ART NET NEWS – “For decades, Juneteenth has been part of the fabric of our city, and this museum is a welcome addition to its...

Here Are the 11 Biggest Controversies That Roiled the Art World in 2021—and the Questions They Raise About the Future

ART NET NEWS – For those who lost track of what day it was in early 2020, it may come as a bit of a...

Bell Hooks, Essential Writer on Black Art and Feminism, Dies at 69

ART NET NEWS – bell hooks, a writer and thinker whose texts about Black art, feminism, and identity that inspired legions within academia and far...

With Homemade Napalm and K-pop Anthems, Photographer-Filmmaker Diane Severin Nguyen Is Forging a New Genre of Image

ART NET NEWS – Diane Severin Nguyen doesn’t only make photographs, but when she does she becomes a kind of mad scientist. Before the lens...

Jailed Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Has Pleaded Guilty to Fraud and Will Turn Over More Than $86 Million in Funds Linked to His Crimes

ART NET NEWS – Disgraced art dealer Inigo Philbrick pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of wire fraud in a federal court in Manhattan this afternoon. He faces...

‘I’m Working More With White Flesh and Toxicity’: Watch Artist Doreen Garner Explain Why She Embraced a New Approach After 2020

ART NET NEWS – In the quinquennial art exhibition “Greater New York,” on view now at MoMA PS1, sculptor Doreen Garner’s work Lucy’s Agony (2021) references...

‘Are There Any Left?’: A Sales Frenzy at London’s 1-54 Fair Reflects the Heated Demand for African Contemporary Art

ART NET NEWS- In 2020 1-54, the contemporary African art fair, was the only physical fair to take place in London—even then, it was reduced...