There’s an artist currently showing in Midtown Manhattan who is teaching a machine to paint.
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This week, drone photo awards, uncovering unverified Indigenous identity, vacationing in the Metaverse, the beauty industrial complex, and more.
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The Vulnerable Painterly Worlds of Katherine Bradford
In Bradford’s color-infused world of superheroes and swimmers, viewers and her figures bathe together outside of time and space.
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This week, new photos of Jupiter, film audiences and critics disagree, Andrew Wyeth’s funerary drawings, Diva Kid meme reborn, and more.
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This week, an architect designs his own home, unraveling the white supremacy of archives, pigeons in New York City, being “Asian” in the United States, apologizing to Sacheen Littlefeather, and more.
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This week, award-winning nature photography, reviewing Jared Kushner’s new book, Smithsonian NMAAHC hires a new digital curator, Damien Hirst plans to burn paintings, and more.
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This week, the Getty Museum is returning ancient terracottas to Italy, parsing an antisemitic mural at Documenta, an ancient gold find in Denmark, a new puritanism, slavery in early Christianity, and much more.
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This week, the Webb space telescope wows, übernovels, crappy pigeon nests, the problem with “experts,” and much more.
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Your Frieze Art Fair Bingo Card Is Here
It’s art fair season and we’re here to comfort and entertain you during this difficult time of the year with a new, biting edition of our Bingo card series.
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The Cartoonist the US Right-Wing Political Establishment Loves to Hate
Eli Valley is one of the best American cartoonists and the political elite can’t stand his viral comics that pack a punch.
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Artists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin Discuss Digital Combines
Two new media-based artists have a conversation about the new energy in the contemporary art field and the limitations of categories for artists.
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This week, a rare fossil is discovered, a new book on artist Niki de Saint Phalle is published, the erasure of women philosophers continues, a culinary map of China, and much more.