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Ascendant Art has launched an AI avatar generator that pays royalties to artists whose work helps train the system, positioning the app as a more ethical alternative to other generative AI tools. But the proposal has also prompted criticism from artists who

The National Park Service removed Joel Shapiro’s 24-foot-tall sculpture “Blue” from the Kennedy Center grounds on September 2, without prior explanation from the institution. The work’s next location will be determined by the Joel Shapiro and Ellen Phelan Foundation, according to the

Works by artists supported through the Works Progress Administration fetched $460,490 at Swann Auction Galleries in New York. The February 4 sale highlighted prints, photographs, and other works tied to the Federal Art Project and the broader New Deal arts programs.

Lebanon’s Sursock Museum has reopened to the public nearly three years after the deadly August 4, 2020 Beirut port explosion caused extensive damage to the historic institution. The restoration, supported by UNESCO-led LiBeirut and multiple international donors, returned five galleries of classical

Catherine Murphy’s paintings have long stood at the crossroads of realism and abstraction, expanding observational painting into a distinctly original territory. This appraisal traces how her work reconciles Renaissance echoes, modernist structure, and everyday subject matter into compositions marked by formal rigor

Mildred Howard has received the Artists’ Legacy Foundation’s 2026 Artist Award, a $25,000 unrestricted prize honoring major painters and sculptors whose work “shows evidence of the hand.” The roundup also covers Stephan Jost’s departure from the Art Gallery of Ontario, new Anonymous

This fall’s art-book lineup spans memoir, poetry, essays, photography, and archival projects, with standout titles by Guadalupe Rosales, Christine Sun Kim, Elizabeth Alexander, and Fady Joudah. The selections explore memory, grief, disability culture, Palestinian survival, and the power of artists telling their

Erin Barnes is preserving the physical remnants of Ernie Barnes’s studio, including paint tubes and brushes, as part of an effort to honor and document his creative legacy. Interest in Barnes’s work is growing through a new documentary, an Ohio exhibition, and

Hyperallergic’s September 2026 Opportunities Listings roundup features awards, grants, residencies, and fellowships for artists, writers, and researchers. Listings include funding from Foundwork, Gulf Coast Journal, and CAA, as well as residencies at institutions such as Hamiltonian Artists, Vermont Studio Center, and the

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin is accepting applications for its 2027–2028 research fellowship program, with up to 50 funded awards available. The program supports researchers working with the center’s major humanities collections, and the deadline to