Pioneering Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who splashed her signature polka dots on paintings, sculptures and museum installations around the world, has died. She was 97.
Dolly Parton died after a brief battle with cancer, publicist says
Country music legend Dolly Parton died Tuesday after a brief battle with cancer, her publicist said.
A ‘weird dream’ of an arts festival began 10 years ago in the California desert – can it survive its growing popularity?
The Bombay Beach Biennale started as an intimate event and has grown dramatically – but some question whether it can sustain its DIY atmosphere
‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza
The long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Thomas Ammann Fine Art initiates the ongoing Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings, Sculptures, and Drawings project.
Gloria Steinem, feminist icon and journalist, dies at 92
Gloria Steinem, the pioneering feminist writer, journalist and activist who became one of the most recognizable voices of the women’s rights movement in the United States, has died at 92.
Frank Beard, ZZ Top drummer, dies at age 77
"Today, Elwood and I lost a great friend and collaborator, and the world lost one of the most naturally innovative drummers and a great and true son of Texas," ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons said in a statement.
Bombay Beach Biennale Press
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Microdramas are the death rattle of Hollywood
Read to the end for Dolly Parton’s “Stairway To Heaven”
Kitagawa Utamaro - Mother and Child - Japan - Edo period (1615–1868) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
As in a number of the prints in this exhibition, the reflection of the mother and child in this image enables us to see the figures from two sides....
Jennifer Finch, L7 Bassist and Los Angeles Punk Figure, Dies at 59
Jennifer Finch, the longtime L7 bassist, vocalist and songwriter, has died at 59 following an aggressive form of brain cancer.
These emotionally charged illustrations are here to make your imagination wander
Xiao Hua Yang paints in unfamiliar purples, greens and yellows, rendering the natural world as something alien but always exciting.
1-bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave” – Hypertalking
5 years ago I started a now completely stalled project (fingers crossed I can figure out how to restart soon) to draw all of Hokusai’s 36 views of Mount Fuji as 1-bit pixel art.
George Tice, ‘Bard of New Jersey’ With a Camera, Dies at 86 (Published 2025)
He found beauty in the prosaic: bars, phone booths, hamburger joints, barber shops — first in a downtrodden Paterson, then throughout the state and beyond.
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture
Society cannot recover from such an epic scale of devastation - the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and three days later on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 - but may, instead, manifest trauma as a perpetual genetic scar—ontological chasm which moves as a consumptive demon ripping up through the generations as a peripatetic wound, egregious disfigurement banished from conscious thought, inflating to cartoon benignity in a pantomime of humanity, sutured gash badly sewn and always reopening, futile replacement of scarred mortality for the immaculate technology of machines, and finally as the wholesale abandonment of frail humanity for alternative existential states.
