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According to the White House, two international groups working on cultural heritage preservation and arts policy are “contrary to the interests of the United States” and “waste taxpayer dollars.”
Trump Withdraws From Major Culture Preservation Groups
Two entities focused on global heritage and arts policy are among dozens the White House deemed “contrary to the interests” of the United States.
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January 9, 2026 at 10:44 PM
According to the White House, two international groups working on cultural heritage preservation and arts policy are “contrary to the interests of the United States” and “waste taxpayer dollars.”
South Africa has scrapped a performance mourning victims of Israel’s war on Gaza that was selected for the country’s 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion.
South Africa Axes Venice Biennale Proposal Centering Gaza Victims
Right-wing culture minister Gayton McKenzie reportedly called the subject of artist Gabrielle Goliath’s performance “highly divisive in nature.”
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January 9, 2026 at 9:37 PM
South Africa has scrapped a performance mourning victims of Israel’s war on Gaza that was selected for the country’s 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion.
In this week’s edition of A View From the Easel, where artists share their workspaces, California artist XiaoXiao Wu yearns for higher ceilings while Brooklyn fiber artist Desmond Beach talks about the studio as a container for emotion.
A View From the Easel
“The studio is not neutral.”
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January 9, 2026 at 8:28 PM
In this week’s edition of A View From the Easel, where artists share their workspaces, California artist XiaoXiao Wu yearns for higher ceilings while Brooklyn fiber artist Desmond Beach talks about the studio as a container for emotion.
Online and on the streets, protesters are expressing their rage and grief at an ICE agent’s killing of Renee Nicole Macklin Good through art. buff.ly/v5B65RN
January 9, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Online and on the streets, protesters are expressing their rage and grief at an ICE agent’s killing of Renee Nicole Macklin Good through art. buff.ly/v5B65RN
What Diego Velázquez, Frans Hals, and John Singer Sargent have in common is an academic ability to capture life as accurately as possible. That innate, confident ability allowed them to economize their brushwork to the absolute bare minimum in their own paintings.
John Singer Sargent’s Essence in a Brushstroke
Though it offers little in the way of Sargent’s artistic engagement with the city he called home for a decade, “Dazzling Paris” is a reminder of his uncommonly skillful brushwork.
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January 9, 2026 at 5:42 PM
What Diego Velázquez, Frans Hals, and John Singer Sargent have in common is an academic ability to capture life as accurately as possible. That innate, confident ability allowed them to economize their brushwork to the absolute bare minimum in their own paintings.
“Do you know the hardest things to do? Make that first mark on that white canvas. That’s the hardest mark, because that can dictate so many things about the painting.” –Sylvia Snowden, artist
For Sylvia Snowden, Color Is Life
The 83-year-old artist has dubbed her painterly detonations of color, which physically undulate from their surfaces, as “structural abstract expressionism.”
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January 9, 2026 at 4:42 PM
“Do you know the hardest things to do? Make that first mark on that white canvas. That’s the hardest mark, because that can dictate so many things about the painting.” –Sylvia Snowden, artist
If Hew Locke’s art is meant to convey his experience as a Guyanese expatriate who witnessed that nation coming into independence, why build a ship that carries a replica of a British colonial plantation house? And why make a house that dwells on water?
What Hew Locke Carries
With his haunting exhibition, Passages, the Guyanese-British artist reminds us that when we survive, so do our ghosts and our wounds.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:43 PM
If Hew Locke’s art is meant to convey his experience as a Guyanese expatriate who witnessed that nation coming into independence, why build a ship that carries a replica of a British colonial plantation house? And why make a house that dwells on water?
Christie’s auctions off a painting by Jimmy Carter, Trump sells a painting of Jesus, King Charles hands out honors, and more news from the art world in this week’s Art Movements.
Art Movements: Knights, Presidents, and Crooks
Christie’s auctions off a painting by Jimmy Carter, Trump sells a painting of Jesus, King Charles hands out honors, and more.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Christie’s auctions off a painting by Jimmy Carter, Trump sells a painting of Jesus, King Charles hands out honors, and more news from the art world in this week’s Art Movements.
A new study found that seeing authentic, original art can help drop cortisol levels and reduce inflammatory load, among other positive effects on the nervous system.
Seeing Art Is Good for Your Nervous System, Study Finds
The new research posits museums and galleries as “accessible, non-clinical spaces for preventive health promotion,” per the study’s authors.
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January 8, 2026 at 10:44 PM
A new study found that seeing authentic, original art can help drop cortisol levels and reduce inflammatory load, among other positive effects on the nervous system.
Ayoung Kim’s exhibition at MoMA PS1 synthesizes live-action footage, video game engines, and generative AI to create an interlocking series of speculative narratives.
Ayoung Kim Is Stargazing in a Digital World
Her exhibition at MoMA PS1 synthesizes live-action footage, video game engines, and generative AI to create an interlocking series of speculative narratives
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January 8, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Ayoung Kim’s exhibition at MoMA PS1 synthesizes live-action footage, video game engines, and generative AI to create an interlocking series of speculative narratives.
What’s fascinating about Manet vs. Degas is the degree to which the work of each artist seemed to possess whatever the other lacked.
The Dance Between Manet and Degas
What’s fascinating about Manet/Degas at The Met is the degree to which the work of each artist seemed to possess whatever the other lacked.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:28 PM
What’s fascinating about Manet vs. Degas is the degree to which the work of each artist seemed to possess whatever the other lacked.
Art dealer Bertrand Scholler, owner of 55 Bellechasse gallery in Paris, has been found guilty of cyberbullying France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron, partaking in a conspiracy theory that she was assigned male at birth.
French Gallerist Found Guilty of Cyberbullying Brigitte Macron
Bertrand Scholler was among 10 brought to court for promoting a conspiracy theory that the first lady was assigned male at birth.
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January 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Art dealer Bertrand Scholler, owner of 55 Bellechasse gallery in Paris, has been found guilty of cyberbullying France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron, partaking in a conspiracy theory that she was assigned male at birth.
The arts are a public good on the same level as education, healthcare, housing, transportation, and public safety. Housing reform, cultural funding equity, and fair wages for artists and cultural workers must all be tackled intersectionally to enable New York City's arts sector to thrive.
Dear Zohran, Don’t Let Art Workers Down
Those of us in the cultural sector need you to enact a bold vision for the role of city government in fostering the arts and helping our communities thrive.
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January 8, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The arts are a public good on the same level as education, healthcare, housing, transportation, and public safety. Housing reform, cultural funding equity, and fair wages for artists and cultural workers must all be tackled intersectionally to enable New York City's arts sector to thrive.
Joyce Kozloff at the Everson Museum of Art, Nina Katchadourian at the Hyde Collection, and recent political paintings by Linda Mussmann at Time & Space Limited are just some of the shows we’re seeing in Upstate New York this month.
10 Exhibitions to See in Upstate New York This January
Joyce Kozloff’s tenacious spirit, Nina Katchadourian’s eccentric universe, Linda Mussmann’s political stance against passivity, and more.
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January 8, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Joyce Kozloff at the Everson Museum of Art, Nina Katchadourian at the Hyde Collection, and recent political paintings by Linda Mussmann at Time & Space Limited are just some of the shows we’re seeing in Upstate New York this month.
Without didacticism, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra makes visible the connection between the exploitation of the natural world and the subordination of women.
Mapping a Feminist Cosmos
Without didacticism, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra makes visible the connection between the exploitation of the natural world and the subordination of women.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Without didacticism, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra makes visible the connection between the exploitation of the natural world and the subordination of women.
Artists and art workers in the Venezuelan diaspora shared a mix of emotions, from hope of a better future to anger over the unsanctioned intervention and fear of what’s to come.
Five Venezuelan Artists Respond to US Attacks
Artists and art workers in the diaspora shared a mix of emotions, from hope of a better future to anger over the unsanctioned intervention and fear of what’s to come.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Artists and art workers in the Venezuelan diaspora shared a mix of emotions, from hope of a better future to anger over the unsanctioned intervention and fear of what’s to come.
The painter Bill Rice is a singular chronicler of urban solitude between dusk and dawn. His depictions of New York’s Lower East Side are paradoxes of bleakness and sensuality, gloom and intrepid spirits.
When Isolation Is Your Only Companion
Bill Rice’s depictions of New York’s Lower East Side are paradoxes of bleakness and sensuality, gloom and intrepid spirits.
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January 7, 2026 at 10:44 PM
The painter Bill Rice is a singular chronicler of urban solitude between dusk and dawn. His depictions of New York’s Lower East Side are paradoxes of bleakness and sensuality, gloom and intrepid spirits.
Is there any real rivalry in Tate Britain’s “Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals,” or is it a PR exercise to lure us through the door?
Turner and Constable Face Off in London
Is there any real rivalry in Tate Britain’s Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals, or is it a PR exercise to lure us through the door?
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January 7, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Is there any real rivalry in Tate Britain’s “Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals,” or is it a PR exercise to lure us through the door?
Olga de Amaral at Lisson Gallery, Marianne Vitale at Journal Gallery, and a group show celebrating seven Indigenous women artists at Angels Gate Cultural Center are just some of the exhibitions we’re seeing in LA this month.
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This January
Olga de Amaral’s refined material spectrum, Marianne Vitale’s tainted minimalism, Marina Stern’s architectural precision, and much more.
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January 7, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Olga de Amaral at Lisson Gallery, Marianne Vitale at Journal Gallery, and a group show celebrating seven Indigenous women artists at Angels Gate Cultural Center are just some of the exhibitions we’re seeing in LA this month.
Though it offers little in the way of John Singer Sargent’s artistic engagement with the city he called home for a decade, “Dazzling Paris” at the Musée d’Orsay is a reminder of his uncommonly skillful brushwork.
John Singer Sargent’s Essence in a Brushstroke
Though it offers little in the way of Sargent’s artistic engagement with the city he called home for a decade, “Dazzling Paris” is a reminder of his uncommonly skillful brushwork.
hyperallergic.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Though it offers little in the way of John Singer Sargent’s artistic engagement with the city he called home for a decade, “Dazzling Paris” at the Musée d’Orsay is a reminder of his uncommonly skillful brushwork.
Kathleen Goncharov, a longtime curator who served as the US Commissioner for the 50th Venice Biennale, has died at the age of 73. “Kathy was an artist at heart, and this sensibility shaped everything she did,” wrote artist and friend Robert Ransick.
Beloved Curator Kathleen Goncharov Dies at 73
Her decorated 40-year career included serving as a US Commissioner for the 50th Venice Biennale.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Kathleen Goncharov, a longtime curator who served as the US Commissioner for the 50th Venice Biennale, has died at the age of 73. “Kathy was an artist at heart, and this sensibility shaped everything she did,” wrote artist and friend Robert Ransick.
Can influencers call themselves artists? Digital content creators are reportedly adapting their metrics to apply for the O-1B visa for “extraordinary” abilities in the arts.
Influencers and OnlyFans Models Turn to Artist Visas to Enter US
Digital content creators are reportedly adapting their metrics to apply for the O-1B visa for “extraordinary” abilities in the arts.
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January 7, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Can influencers call themselves artists? Digital content creators are reportedly adapting their metrics to apply for the O-1B visa for “extraordinary” abilities in the arts.
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 early next year!
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 7, 2026 at 2:32 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 early next year!
Cecilia Giménez rose to fame in the 2010s for her delightful restoration of a Zaragoza church fresco. The face that launched a million memes, affectionately known as “Beast Jesus,” may not have inspired religious ecstasy, but it birthed a cultural icon.
Cecilia Giménez, Whose Botched Restoration Became an Icon, Dies at 94
The Spanish artist delighted the world with her intervention on a church fresco lovingly dubbed “Beast Jesus.”
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January 6, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Cecilia Giménez rose to fame in the 2010s for her delightful restoration of a Zaragoza church fresco. The face that launched a million memes, affectionately known as “Beast Jesus,” may not have inspired religious ecstasy, but it birthed a cultural icon.
New year, new heist. A man was taken into custody in Paris on Friday for allegedly stealing the sword from an equestrian sculpture of Joan of Arc in the city’s 8th arrondissement.
Man Steals Sword From Joan of Arc Statue in Paris
The suspect reportedly climbed the bronze sculpture and broke off the French heroine’s weapon with a snap.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:19 PM
New year, new heist. A man was taken into custody in Paris on Friday for allegedly stealing the sword from an equestrian sculpture of Joan of Arc in the city’s 8th arrondissement.