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New gallery championing women and queer artists to open in east London

New gallery championing women and queer artists to open in east London

“I had my heart set on it because, as an artist, I did a performance in Arnold Circus at the end of the road and I did some community classes in this building too, so it felt the right space for me.” She adds: “I find the Shoreditch art scene really exciting—I’m a big admirer of galleries like Emalin, Kate MacGarry, Maureen Paley.”


French culture sector faces ‘violent’ cuts as parliament adopts 2025 budget

French culture sector faces ‘violent’ cuts as parliament adopts 2025 budget

In its appeal, the AcadĂ©mie des beaux-arts also denounced “verbal attacks against arts and artists launched by some local politicians” who are seeking to justify the cuts and threatening the “freedom of research and creation, necessary to our democracy”.


How Artists Are Reframing Climate Doom

How Artists Are Reframing Climate Doom

A silicone cast of a peach tree from her garden that failed to survive Los Angeles’s heat and drought hangs upside down from the ceiling, with bits of delicate bark clinging to its limp branches.


FKA Twigs Leaves It All on the Dance Floor

FKA Twigs Leaves It All on the Dance Floor

When I asked about Charli XCX’s “BRAT” and Beyoncé’s “Renaissance”—two of the biggest club albums of the past several years, each backed by expensive arena tours and hefty production budgets—she distanced herself from those records, calling them “brilliant” but “commercial.” Where they had borrowed from some of the same scenes, she told me, “ ‘Eusexua’ was born from a crevice of subculture.” (Reconciling her celebrity status with her genuine desire to be immersed in—and regarded as—part of the underground can be a challenge.


Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire

Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire

Exiting through the lobby, you couldn’t miss a familiar, heartening post-screening buzz: sounds of laughter and exasperation; hesitant, hazardous attempts at analysis; confused variations on “What was that all about?” We could have just seen “Eraserhead” or “Blue Velvet,” or stumbled out of “Mulholland Drive,” as some friends and I did, not too far away, more than two decades earlier.


Trump disbands presidential committee on the arts and the humanities

Trump disbands presidential committee on the arts and the humanities

Other Biden appointees included the artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, the curator Nora Halpern, the actors George Clooney, Jennifer Garner and Kerry Washington, the playwright Anna Deavere Smith, the screenwriter and producer Shonda Rhimes and Steve Israel, a former US representative for New York.


Ayesha Singh’s India Art Fair tent commission remembers the forgotten women of Indian architecture

Ayesha Singh’s India Art Fair tent commission remembers the forgotten women of Indian architecture

The inclusion of Begum adds a further political layer to the work: in 2023, India’s National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) removed significant sections of Mughal history from school textbooks under the guise of “rationalising” the syllabus.


“Mo” ’s Urgent, Uneven Homecoming

“Mo” ’s Urgent, Uneven Homecoming

It’s pulled in less compelling directions by the broad caricatures who now populate the edges of the story, including a marriage-crazed blonde hottie Mo humors until he can’t, and a recently green-card-approved friend whose gun collection seems considerably more expansive than his English-language vocabulary.


The Best Books We Read This Week

The Best Books We Read This Week

With examples including rebellious colonists’ proud adoption of “Yankee Doodle” as their anthem—the song was initially sung by British troops, to make fun of supposedly unsophisticated locals—and the emergence of blackface minstrelsy, Zelnik shows how white settlers used playfulness and humor to position themselves as the rightful owners of the land, to the exclusion not only of foppish Brits but also of Indigenous and Black Americans.


San Francisco’s growing art week and local scene shine at Fog Design+Art

San Francisco’s growing art week and local scene shine at Fog Design+Art

Hauser & Wirth also had strong opening day sales, selling more than a dozen pieces, including a landscape painting so geometric as to almost feel hallucinatory by Jeffrey Gibson for $100,000 and the 38-year-old artist Avery Singer’s Poker Players (study) for $575,000.


RISD’s Board Rejects Israel Divestment Proposal

RISD’s Board Rejects Israel Divestment Proposal

(Administrations at Trinity, Oberlin College, Brown University and many others have similarly rejected proposals to divest funds from companies with business interests in Israel.)


Christie’s Sells Two Winslow Homer Watercolors Appraised On Antiques Roadshow

Christie’s Sells Two Winslow Homer Watercolors Appraised On Antiques Roadshow

Krulik said applicants send in images of items for appraisal and get a ticket, but in-person viewing is necessary to determine if an artwork isn’t a reproduction or an oleograph, a print textured to resemble an oil painting.