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Rheim Alkadhi Offers a Path Toward Liberation in Palestine-Themed Artworks in London

Rheim Alkadhi’s ICA London show. Photo Rob Harris, ICA If you enter the lower galleries of London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts right now, you’ll encounter a postcard-like image described by the museum as “an intervention.” The image’s front side shows “this beautiful portrait of probably a queer person,” the other side, “a very direct statement …

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Caitlin Berry Named Inaugural Director of Johns Hopkins’s New Frary Gallery in D.C.

Caitlin Berry. Will Kirk for Johns Hopkins University Caitlin Berry has been named the inaugural director of the Irene and Richard Frary Gallery, a new university art gallery that is part of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. She began in her role in August. Berry was most recently the inaugural director …

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Artists and Creatives Are Working with AI Companies, but Should They?

A Teddy Bear figure from Sway Molina’s 2024 AI film “Our T2 Remake” is in front of Refik Anadol’s “Unsupervised” and an AI work by Alexander Reben. Images courtesy of Crocker Art Museum, Daniela Hritcu, Getty, and Sway Molina; Illustration by Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews. When Edmund Cartwright was at work creating the world’s first …

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Helen Pashgian, a Pioneer of California’s Light and Space Movement, Continues to Produce Work that Astounds

Visitors at the “Lumen: Helen Pashgian” installation at the Getty Center. Cassia Davis/ © 2024 J. Paul Getty Trust It wasn’t until I walked through the faded-blue door to Helen Pashgian’s Pasadena studio and she told me to put away my recorder and notebook that I understood this would not be a conventional interview. “People …

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Ryan Preciado Is Marrying Sculpture, Design, and Conceptual Art—And Finding a Wide Audience

Ryan Preciado at work in his woodshop studio in South Los Angeles. Photo Joyce Kim for ARTnews A few years ago, Ryan Preciado began frequenting a hardware store less than a mile from his main studio in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Arlington Heights. Slowly, he began befriending the family who runs the shop. When …

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Regina José Galindo Puts Her Body on the Line in Her Art Confronting Power

Regina José Galindo, Tierra, 2013. Museum of Modern Art, New York In 2013, Regina José Galindo attended the trial of José Efraín Ríos Montt and Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez, who spearheaded the Guatemalan coup d’état in 1982 and then led the country until 1983. Ríos Montt and Rodriguez Sanchez spoke of how the army dug …

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Suzanne Kite Is Making Sure Indigenous People Aren’t Left Out of the AI Conversation

Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews Suzanne Kite, who simply goes by Kite, is an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and researcher, and one of the few Indigenous artists currently working with AI and machine learning, which she has been using since 2018. She holds an MFA from Bard College, where she also heads up an Indigenous AI …

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