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Though the late Beatriz González is often associated with Pop Art, she maintained that this was a misunderstanding of her work. Her practice was rooted in the specificities of Colombian visual culture, which differed fundamentally from American and European contexts.
Beatriz González, Colombian Painter of Collective Memory, Dies at 93
While often associated with Pop Art, her practice was rooted in the specificities of local visual culture, depicting political events, violence, and loss.
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January 18, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Though the late Beatriz González is often associated with Pop Art, she maintained that this was a misunderstanding of her work. Her practice was rooted in the specificities of Colombian visual culture, which differed fundamentally from American and European contexts.
The Schomburg Qur’an, Auudi Dorsey’s paintings of Black community at the beach, an unsolved Pollock theft, remembering Claudette Colvin, dollhouse furniture, and more in this week’s Required Reading.
Required Reading
The Schomburg Qur’an, Auudi Dorsey’s paintings of Black community at the beach, an unsolved Pollock theft, remembering Claudette Colvin, dollhouse furniture, and more.
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January 18, 2026 at 4:42 PM
The Schomburg Qur’an, Auudi Dorsey’s paintings of Black community at the beach, an unsolved Pollock theft, remembering Claudette Colvin, dollhouse furniture, and more in this week’s Required Reading.
Can the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum share the artist’s vision of the land and represent the story of Tewa country?
The Indigenous Histories That Georgia O’Keeffe Forgot
An exhibition at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum includes works by Tewa Pueblo artists, helping dispel the problematic “O’Keeffe Country” narrative.
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January 18, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Can the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum share the artist’s vision of the land and represent the story of Tewa country?
Cultural institutions across New York City are honoring MLK Day tomorrow with artful events, including special collection tours at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Mayor Zohran Mamdani performing one of King’s sermons at BAM.
Five Art and Museum Events for MLK Day in NYC
Special collection tours at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a live reading of one of King's sermons, and other programs.
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January 18, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Cultural institutions across New York City are honoring MLK Day tomorrow with artful events, including special collection tours at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Mayor Zohran Mamdani performing one of King’s sermons at BAM.
What are we looking for in biennials “outside” of the main circuit? Do we expect them to remain insular, speaking to and for their own population when they are, by definition, large-scale international exhibitions of contemporary art?
International Rendezvous at Guatemala’s Paiz Art Biennial
This year’s biennial, The World Tree, was intended to highlight the “archetypal myth central to many ancient cosmogonies.”
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January 17, 2026 at 9:37 PM
What are we looking for in biennials “outside” of the main circuit? Do we expect them to remain insular, speaking to and for their own population when they are, by definition, large-scale international exhibitions of contemporary art?
Looking to apply to grad school? We’ve organized a list of arts-related MFA, MA, and PhD programs to explore and apply to before their deadlines close!
MFA, MA, and PhD Programs to Apply for by Early 2026
A list of arts-related graduate programs to explore and apply to before deadlines close.
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January 17, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Looking to apply to grad school? We’ve organized a list of arts-related MFA, MA, and PhD programs to explore and apply to before their deadlines close!
“In art history, meaning shifts over time, even if it was created for a specific intent or commissioned.... It is proof that, at some point, the power of the painting has nothing to do with the literal intent.” –Michael Berryhill
Beer With a Painter: Michael Berryhill
“You can’t think your way through a painting,” the artist said during our conversation at his home studio in the Catskills. “You can only act, mark, or feel your way through.”
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January 17, 2026 at 5:42 PM
“In art history, meaning shifts over time, even if it was created for a specific intent or commissioned.... It is proof that, at some point, the power of the painting has nothing to do with the literal intent.” –Michael Berryhill
This year’s San Francisco Art Week attests to the resilience and adaptability of the Bay Area art world. Despite recent closures, there’s been a mushrooming of alternative spaces, home galleries, and nonprofits — check out our guide for what to expect.
What to See During San Francisco Art Week
Despite recent closures in San Francisco’s art world, there's been a mushrooming of alternative spaces, side hustles, home galleries, and nonprofits.
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January 17, 2026 at 4:42 PM
This year’s San Francisco Art Week attests to the resilience and adaptability of the Bay Area art world. Despite recent closures, there’s been a mushrooming of alternative spaces, home galleries, and nonprofits — check out our guide for what to expect.
Take whatever positive platitude you want about aging, and it applies. All that said, building a career in the arts gets harder as you get older, doesn’t it?
Art Problems: Am I Too Old to Fit In?
If you think age is an obstacle to your art career, Paddy Johnson wants you to think again.
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January 17, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Take whatever positive platitude you want about aging, and it applies. All that said, building a career in the arts gets harder as you get older, doesn’t it?
In this week’s edition of A View From the Easel, where artists share their workspaces, Natacha Voliakovsky uses her body as a canvas in Manhattan while Brooklyn tapestry artist Traci Johnson’s studio is blanketed in yarn.
A View From the Easel
“I'm constantly singing to my tapestries.”
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January 17, 2026 at 2:32 PM
In this week’s edition of A View From the Easel, where artists share their workspaces, Natacha Voliakovsky uses her body as a canvas in Manhattan while Brooklyn tapestry artist Traci Johnson’s studio is blanketed in yarn.
In the lecture performance “A Sexual History of the Internet,” artist and researcher Mindy Seu proposes a different kind of archive: one that maps how bodies, desires, technologies, and systems of power have been entangled since the earliest days of our beloved web.
The Internet According to Sex Workers and Cyberfeminists
Mindy Seu’s "A Sexual History of the Internet" is part performance, part artist book, and part financial experiment.
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January 16, 2026 at 10:44 PM
In the lecture performance “A Sexual History of the Internet,” artist and researcher Mindy Seu proposes a different kind of archive: one that maps how bodies, desires, technologies, and systems of power have been entangled since the earliest days of our beloved web.
In Memoriam honors those we recently lost in the art world. This week, we remember the Italian conceptual photographer Franco Vaccari, the foundational Colombian painter Beatriz González, a founder of Art Informel, Arnulf Rainer, and other greats.
Remembering Beatriz González, Arnulf Rainer, and Franco Vaccari
This week, we honor a painter of Colombian national memory, a founder of Art Informel, and an Italian conceptual photographer.
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January 16, 2026 at 9:37 PM
In Memoriam honors those we recently lost in the art world. This week, we remember the Italian conceptual photographer Franco Vaccari, the foundational Colombian painter Beatriz González, a founder of Art Informel, Arnulf Rainer, and other greats.
Looking to apply to grad school? We’ve organized a list of arts-related MFA, MA, and PhD programs to explore and apply to before their deadlines close soon!
MFA, MA, and PhD Programs to Apply for by Early 2026
A list of arts-related graduate programs to explore and apply to before deadlines close.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Looking to apply to grad school? We’ve organized a list of arts-related MFA, MA, and PhD programs to explore and apply to before their deadlines close soon!
After a successful election, staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are officially unionized. The new union will represent workers across 50 departments, including curators, librarians, conservators, visitor experience, and archivists.
Met Museum Workers Are Officially Unionized
The new union will represent staff across 50 departments of the Manhattan institution.
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January 16, 2026 at 7:19 PM
After a successful election, staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are officially unionized. The new union will represent workers across 50 departments, including curators, librarians, conservators, visitor experience, and archivists.
El Salvador is making its debut at the Venice Biennale this year, with J. Oscar Molina at the helm. The artist, who is himself a migrant, will present sculptures from his ongoing series “Children of the World” that grapple with displacement.
Meet the Artist in El Salvador’s First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion
J. Oscar Molina hopes his exhibition, “Cartographies of the Displaced,” will cultivate “patience and compassion for newcomers.”
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January 16, 2026 at 5:42 PM
El Salvador is making its debut at the Venice Biennale this year, with J. Oscar Molina at the helm. The artist, who is himself a migrant, will present sculptures from his ongoing series “Children of the World” that grapple with displacement.
Although many of her earthworks have been erased by time, the late Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta’s interventions attest to her continued presence, etched into the land.
Ana Mendieta’s Injured Earth
Although many of her earthworks have been erased by time, the late Cuban-American artist’s interventions attest to her continued presence, etched into the land.
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January 16, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Although many of her earthworks have been erased by time, the late Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta’s interventions attest to her continued presence, etched into the land.
Organizations like Creative Capital and United States Artists awarded millions of dollars to artists, the Asian Art Museum is hosting a baby rave, and more news from the art world in this week’s Art Movements.
Art Movements: Pineapples, Coconuts, and More Art Awards
Organizations including United States Artists and Creative Capital announced millions of dollars in grants this week. Plus: a baby rave!
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January 16, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Organizations like Creative Capital and United States Artists awarded millions of dollars to artists, the Asian Art Museum is hosting a baby rave, and more news from the art world in this week’s Art Movements.
When South Africa initiated proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice, charging it with committing genocide in Gaza, the nation exposed itself to the possibility of global retaliation. What is most surprising is to see that retaliation come from inside the South African state.
The South African Pavilion Is Betraying Its Own History
The same government that has held Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza must revoke its culture minister’s decision to axe the Venice Biennale performance.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:32 PM
When South Africa initiated proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice, charging it with committing genocide in Gaza, the nation exposed itself to the possibility of global retaliation. What is most surprising is to see that retaliation come from inside the South African state.
How does one curate a show about a parent? Theo Downes-Le Guin began this daunting task last year while organizing an exhibition about his mother, the writer Ursula K. Le Guin, who constantly remade herself and detested being pigeon-holed.
Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin
I would never have proposed this exhibition in her lifetime. This is, after all, a writer who said in an interview, “Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over.”
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January 15, 2026 at 10:44 PM
How does one curate a show about a parent? Theo Downes-Le Guin began this daunting task last year while organizing an exhibition about his mother, the writer Ursula K. Le Guin, who constantly remade herself and detested being pigeon-holed.
In an internal email, Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie G. Bunch notified staff that the institution handed over documents and other materials to the White House, following the Trump administration’s threat to withhold congressional funds unless it complied.
Smithsonian Complies With Trump’s Documents Request
The institution handed over wall texts and other materials as part of the White House's targeted inquiry into the museum system.
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January 15, 2026 at 9:37 PM
In an internal email, Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie G. Bunch notified staff that the institution handed over documents and other materials to the White House, following the Trump administration’s threat to withhold congressional funds unless it complied.
After years of declining enrollment and financial woes, California College of the Arts, the last remaining private art and design school in the San Francisco Bay Area, will shutter and be absorbed into Vanderbilt University.
Vanderbilt University Buys California College of the Arts, Raising Questions
Curator Natasha Boas described the news as “another massive shock in a series of cultural shocks” for San Francisco’s arts community.
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January 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM
After years of declining enrollment and financial woes, California College of the Arts, the last remaining private art and design school in the San Francisco Bay Area, will shutter and be absorbed into Vanderbilt University.
As accounts emerge from Iran’s deadly crackdown on dissent this month, reports that government forces have shot and killed artists, including sculptor Mehdi Salahshour and filmmaker Javad Ganji, have added to growing international outrage.
Reports of Artists Killed by Iranian Regime Draw Outrage and Grief
Sculptor Mehdi Salahshour and filmmaker Javad Ganji are among the members of Iran’s creative community reportedly killed during anti-government protests.
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January 15, 2026 at 7:19 PM
As accounts emerge from Iran’s deadly crackdown on dissent this month, reports that government forces have shot and killed artists, including sculptor Mehdi Salahshour and filmmaker Javad Ganji, have added to growing international outrage.
Fifty artists across the country were awarded USA Fellowships. Artist and curator Edra Soto, interdisciplinary weaver Eric-Paul Riege, and multidisciplinary artist Mercedes Dorame are among the winners in the visual arts category.
United States Artists Awards $50K Grants to 50 Fellows
Visual artists Edra Soto and Eric-Paul Riege are among the recipients of this year’s unrestricted award.
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January 15, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Fifty artists across the country were awarded USA Fellowships. Artist and curator Edra Soto, interdisciplinary weaver Eric-Paul Riege, and multidisciplinary artist Mercedes Dorame are among the winners in the visual arts category.
Our monthly Opportunities list provides a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their work.
Opportunities in January 2026
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and…
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January 15, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Our monthly Opportunities list provides a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their work.
