Animated Nellie Mae Rowe Biopic Coming to YouTube

Streaming of the 2023 film, which lovingly immortalizes the late self-taught Black artist's life and legacy, starts on July 2.

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10 Art Shows to See in DC This Summer

As the nation marks 250 years, exhibitions explore artists’ interpretations of the American flag, Joan Miró’s printmaking, collage as critique, Black design, Pueblo pottery, and more.

Emma Cieslik·Jun 17, 2026

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Soyoung Yoon Appointed Director of the Whitney’s Independent Study Program

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, has announced Soyoung Yoon as the new director of its prestigious Independent Study Program, effective immediately. Yoon, herself a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow of the ISP’s 2006–2007 cohort, arrives to her new job from Parsons School of Design at the New School, where she was director of the fine […]

Polly Watson·Jun 17, 2026

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Barack and Michelle Obama Unveil First Dual Portrait Painted By Artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby

In the lead up to the formal opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, former US president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama revealed their first dual portrait on June 15. The portrait was created by Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who currently resides in Los Angeles. Titled The Obamas: Springing Forth, […]

Mika Lee·Jun 18, 2026

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Ceramics Now

Refigured: Clay, Figuration, and Fragmented Bodies

By Tana West The latest exhibition at County Hall Pottery draws attention to the figurative turn in contemporary ceramics, not just a return to representational forms but a recognition that ceramic materials and processes themselves generate new figurative possibilities. The works in the exhibition reimagine, reshape, and reuse the language of figuration to destabilise ideas […]

Ceramics Now·Jun 16, 2026

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Caught by the River

Birded and Eyed

Antler Moth © Sarah Gillespie Opening this weekend at Kestle Barton, Helston, Cornwall, Birded and Eyed is the second solo exhibition by Sarah Gillespie, bringing together new works in mezzotint and drawing. The exhibition takes its title from a line by the American poet Jane Hirshfield, reflecting Gillespie’s ongoing attention to the animate, watchful presence […]

Diva Harris·Jun 17, 2026