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Invitation to Artist Talk: Painting in the Afterimage
Jonni Cheatwood, Sami Lukkarinen and Luis Gispert at Makasiini Contemporary and an artist talk this Sunday hosted by Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar
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Are You Artmaxxing?
There is a kind of person one meets now at exhibitions and art fairs, in hotel lobbies and at fashion dinners... What happens when taste becomes…
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Will New York’s Alternative Art Fairs Outgrow Themselves?
As new social exhibition models emerge, the question is no longer whether satellite fairs can succeed, but what success now asks them to become. By…
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The Art World Doesn’t Have an AI Problem, It Faces An Existential Threat
The Architecture of Invisibility. Why the art world’s fixation on flashy AI tools is masking a fatal crisis of machine legibility. By Roland-Philippe…
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APPLY NOW: No Place Art on Materiality, Access and the Support Artists Really Need
For its second edition, No Place Art brings together 80 artists, 7 judges, 4 curators and a growing network of awards, residencies, mentoring and…
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Frieze New York 2026: The (Soft) Market Read
Examining the fair’s thematic elements, atmosphere, and market psychology knitting of inferences that suggest the art world’s current patterns. By…
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Hilma af Klint and the Architecture of Abstraction
The Art Bystander's contributor Solveig Carrier Wilson visited Le Grand Palais in Paris to get a multi-dimensional experience of the famed Swedish…
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