5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (259+ words) Following early market success and what he called “the pitfalls of gaining notoriety so early,” Smith shifted his focus to community-centered projects such as his nonprofit Serving the People. Artist Lucien Smith, an abstract painter whose work as a nonprofit…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (312+ words) Two thieves carried out an early-morning raid on the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer on Tuesday, taking off with two of the four paintings they targeted. Renoir's “Madame Colonna Romano” and “Jeune femme au puits" (both images via Wikimedia Commons, CC…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (147+ words) As part of “Mule’s Passage,” artists Z Behl and Kim Moloney are paddling six hours a day and camping for five weeks. WATERFORD, NY — The scene in Waterford, Upstate New York, in early August: A group of kind elders sing…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (267+ words) Michelle Millette’s Sherwood Forest Zine Library in Austin is part of a growing culture and community surrounding the self-published, easy-to-distribute booklets. Zines are self-published booklets. Often hand-bound and independently circulated, they are low-cost, easy to distribute, and can feature a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (141+ words) Gullah Geechee basket-weaving is rooted in an oral tradition carried by enslaved people from Liberia’s Windward Coast. This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2025 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (96+ words) Julio Torres and Martine Gutierrez's new performance is a grotesque parade of visual delights that defangs our toxic relationship to our screens. The artist's sixth solo exhibition at Castle Hill will open to the public on September 8, 2026. Learn more about…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (92+ words) The painter reconciles modernist conventions like the grid with one-point perspective, creating something fresh and entirely her own. The artist's sixth solo exhibition at Castle Hill will open to the public on September 8, 2026. Learn more about the graduate degrees offered…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (263+ words) The two thieves paid entry before stealing the 673- white diamond necklace that once belonged to Queen Nazli of Egypt. Two visitors smashed a display case and made off with a platinum and diamond necklace at the Museum of Applied Arts…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (177+ words) Contemporary Indigenous and Latin American artists illuminate the convergence of math, metaphysics, and art in this new exhibition opening September 4. At a moment when the social and environmental consequences of technological advancement are prompting global concern, this selection of works…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (159+ words) The MIT List Visual Arts Center added nine new works to the Student Lending Collection for its 49th anniversary. Since 1977, the program has enabled students to customize their living space with a work of museum-quality contemporary art for the academic year....