Guide: What #OneWeek100People Gets Right About Attention, Practice, and Public Drawing
The global #OneWeek100People challenge asks participants to sketch 100 people in seven days, using volume and play to reduce perfectionism and rebuild observational discipline.
Arthur Bondar's 35,000-Negative Archive Reframes WWII Memory Politics
Photographer and collector Arthur Bondar has preserved and smuggled a vast archive of WWII negatives into exile, positioning raw photographic records against state-manufactured war narratives.
Unearthed Letter Recasts Edvard Munch as a Formative Influence on Paula Rego
A newly surfaced teenage letter and an early painting, Drought, reveal how strongly Munch's emotional palette and iconography shaped Paula Rego's early visual language.
Robby Ogilvie's Phone Shot Wins at Sony Awards, Spotlighting Bo-Kaap's Layered Urban Narrative
Scottish photographer Robby Ogilvie's image of a Ford Cortina in Cape Town's Bo-Kaap won the Sony World Photography Awards Open Object category, turning a casual street scene into a study of color, place, and social division.
Global Art Market Returns to Growth in 2025, but Recovery Remains Uneven
The Art Basel and UBS report puts 2025 global art sales at $59.6 billion, up 4 percent year over year, with gains strongest in top tier auction categories.
New York Academy of Art to Redirect Epstein Linked Funds
The New York Academy of Art says it will donate remaining Epstein linked money to an anti trafficking nonprofit, extending a delayed institutional cleanup process.
MSCHF’s Angus Project Saved a Cow and Exposed the Limits of Viral Ethics
MSCHF’s tokenized ‘Our Cow Angus’ project crossed its rescue threshold, but the episode raises harder questions about whether spectacle-driven participation can produce serious ethical discourse.
Frida Kahlo Heads to Netflix as Institutions Reheat the Global Kahlo Cycle
Netflix is developing a drama on Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as major museum programming in New York and London signals another high-intensity phase of Kahlo canonization.
Yves Bouvier Ordered to Stand Trial in Paris Over Missing Picasso Works
A French judge has sent dealer Yves Bouvier to criminal trial over alleged disappearances of Picasso works from a storage unit tied to Catherine Hutin, escalating one of the market’s longest-running legal sagas.