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United States Artists Awards $50K Grants to 50 Fellows

Visual artists Edra Soto and Eric-Paul Riege are among the recipients of this year’s unrestricted award.

Jan 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Grow as an Artist Without Pressing Pause: SVA’s Online MFA Art Practice

Interdisciplinary, online, and connected to New York’s art ecosystem. Applications are due on January 15.

Jan 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Remembering Beatriz González, Arnulf Rainer, and Franco Vaccari

This week, we honor a painter of Colombian national memory, a founder of Art Informel, and an Italian conceptual photographer.

Jan 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Ana Mendieta’s Injured Earth

Although many of her earthworks have been erased by time, the late Cuban-American artist’s interventions attest to her continued presence, etched into the land.

Jan 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Reports of Artists Killed by Iranian Regime Draw Outrage and Grief

Sculptor Mehdi Salahshour and filmmaker Javad Ganji are among the members of Iran’s creative community reportedly killed during anti-government protests.

Jan 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Black Artists Create New Universes in “Unbound”

The exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora moves between history and futurity without settling on a singular narrative of the universe, instead prompting reflection.

Jan 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Vanderbilt University Buys California College of the Arts, Raising Questions

Curator Natasha Boas described the news as “another massive shock in a series of cultural shocks” for San Francisco’s arts community.

Jan 14, 2026 • 5 min read

The South African Pavilion Is Betraying Its Own History

The same government that has held Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza must revoke its culture minister’s decision to axe the Venice Biennale performance.

Jan 14, 2026 • 5 min read

New JWST lens survey: can it save the expanding Universe?

One of the most difficult things about being inside our own Universe is that we only get one perspective, from our location here on Earth, to measure it from. We are stuck within our Solar System — as...

Jan 14, 2026 • 5 min read

How “tribology” became a new industrial science

In 1964, spirited debates erupted at a conference in Cardiff, Wales. The source of the consternation was extreme production delays that stemmed from malfunctioning equipment at iron and steel plants a...

Jan 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Do AI models reason or regurgitate?

Last month, I wrote a piece here in Big Think suggesting that the public is in denial over the emerging power and associated risks of AI. Many people reacted defensively, insisting that today’s AI sys...

Jan 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Philosopher of pride

For Mandeville, humankind has a bottomless need to be liked: it is this perennial craving that forms the foundation of society- by Andrea BranchiRead on Aeon

Dec 19, 2025 • 5 min read

Here Are Monday’s Top Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Airbnb, Akamai, Applied Materials, CoreWeave, CrowdStrike, Datadog, NetFlix, Snowflake, and More

Here Are Monday’s Top Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Airbnb, Akamai, Applied Materials, CoreWeave, CrowdStrike, Datadog, NetFlix, Snowflake, and More Lee Jackson Mon, January 12, 2026 at 9:07 PM ...

Jan 12, 2026 • 5 min read