Lessons for Artists From Ursula K. Le Guin
The insidious ubiquity of application fees, a bill to fund the arts advances to the Senate, and a sexual history of the internet.
Jan 14, 2026
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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.
Jan 14, 2026
Grow as an Artist Without Pressing Pause: SVA’s Online MFA Art Practice
Interdisciplinary, online, and connected to New York’s art ecosystem. Applications are due on January 15.
Jan 14, 2026
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.
Jan 14, 2026
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.
Jan 14, 2026
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.
Jan 14, 2026
Black Artists Create New Universes in “Unbound”
The exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora moves between history and futurity without settling on a singular narrative of the universe, instead prompting reflection.
Jan 14, 2026
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.
Jan 14, 2026
From infinite scroll to infinite worlds: How AI could rewire Gen Z’s attention span
Members of Gen Z have grown up hearing that our attention spans are shrinking and that our lives will be defined by the eight-second scroll and an endless stream of content. The narrative is that we&#...
Jan 12, 2026
New JWST lens survey: can it save the expanding Universe?
One of the most difficult things about being inside our own Universe is that we only get one perspective, from our location here on Earth, to measure it from. We are stuck within our Solar System — as...
Jan 14, 2026