Artists

Christmas Through the Eyes of Photographer Lee Friedlander

Lee Friedlander, New York State, 1965. ©Lee Friedlander/Fraenkel Gallery, Courtesy Eakins Press Foundation “Whether or not you’ve celebrated Christmas at any point over the past seventy years—roughly the period covered by these photographs—you have no doubt encountered some of the things Lee Friedlander shows us here.” So begins the afterward to Lee Friedlander: Christmas, a …

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The Best Digital Art of 2025, According to Curators, Artists, and Critics

Editor’s note: This story is an edition of Link Rot, a bi-weekly column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. It’s the end of the year. You know what that means: a list. For this end-of-year edition of LinkRot, I asked artists, curators, gallerists, critics, and technologists to pick the …

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See Wonders of the ‘Nanocosmos’ Through an Electron Microscope

Erythemis simplicicollis dragonfly wing tip. ©Michael Benson Nanocosmos: Journeys in Electron Space is an otherworldly collection of images from a mysterious realm of the extremely small scale. With help from powerful scanning electron microscope (SEM) technologies that he started working with at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), artist Michael Benson went on a years-long …

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How Artists Responded to 2025’s Surging ICE Raids

A demonstrator holds up a reproduction of Patrick Martinez’s Abolish Ice (2018/2021) at an anti-ICE demonstration in downtown Los Angeles, June 2025. Courtesy the artist and Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles We often look back on past moral crises and imagine ourselves acting differently: resisting sooner, refusing silence, choosing courage over complicity. It’s a reassuring fiction, …

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Bay Area Artist Mildred Howard to Receive Major Retrospective at Oakland Museum of California

Mildred Howard in her Oakland studio, 2025. Photo Christine Cueto/Courtesy Oakland Museum of California The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) will stage a major retrospective for Bay Area artist Mildred Howard, opening next June. Titled “Poetics of Memory,” the exhibition will bring together work from across five decades of Howard’s career and will also debut …

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Using AI and Abstract Paintings, WangShui Is on a Journey to Understand Love

WangShui. Photo Jose Peas Artists who work with technology are typically viewed as nerds sequestered in studios filled with hardware, gadgetry, and complex wiring. But WangShui, an artist who made their name on innovative abstract paintings made with the assistance of AI, positions themself less as a geek than a hermit with a romantic worldview. …

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