Summer and the streets are teeming with beautiful young people. In a shop window, I catch my reflection staring at me with contempt. I need a haircut but have no barber to go to. The last one talked too much about his prostate and made me l…
When sculptor Shirley Tse was invited by her former student Anna Hrund Másdóttir to produce an original exhibition at her cooperative gallery King and Bang in Reykjavik, her first thought was to invite her friend and former teacher, the fil…
“Anas was one of the journalists who ran into the line of fire,” reads a translated eulogy by independent journalist Doaa Shaheen about her late colleague, prominent Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif, 28, who was killed alongside four othe…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On the first Friday of each month, a dozen or more exhibitions open across galleries, studios, and temporary spaces in Knoxville. For many people in the small city’s art community, the night is either an overwhelming jumb…
A few weeks shy of his 10th birthday, Anderson Taylor opened a museum in the small town of Cambridge, Illinois, with just one display case. Two years later, after expanding the collection to over a dozen cases of animal fossils, iridescent
In 1961, a painting by Pablo Picasso on loan from the Guggenheim Museum mysteriously vanished from the University of Pittsburgh. This week, the museum filed a lawsuit to get it back. Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia has the scoop on the re…
ISLAA's 2026–27 Fellows (photos courtesy ISLAA)Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other art-world happenings. Today, we report on a new cohort of fellows at ISLAA, th…
Living on Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts will become a reality for dozens of artists as early as next year. The Village of Industry & Art (VIA) announced on August 12 that it will transform a former University of the Arts (UArts) dormito…
PHILADELPHIA — Held from August 6 to 9, the BlackStar Film Festival marked its 15th anniversary this year with 91 films underscoring its ongoing commitment to “a cinema for liberation.” That vision is one of collective endurance, a shared s…
The Picasso had disappeared without a trace.On the morning of February 6, 1961, a graduate student and dormitory aide at the University of Pittsburgh reported Picasso's painting "Femme dans un fauteuil" (1918) missing from the Students Unio…
A 17th-century still life that had gathered dust for decades in storage at the National Museum of Norway is set to resurface in a forthcoming exhibition, where it will be publicly attributed to the Flemish painter Clara Peeters for the firs…
After Koyo Kouoh died suddenly in May 2025, she left more than an immense void in the hearts of those who knew the visionary curator. Kouoh, chief curator of the 61st Venice Biennale, had also led the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa…