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Anthropic's $1.5-billion settlement signals new era for AI and artists
Chatbot builder Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to authors in a landmark copyright settlement that could redefine how artificial…
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Cindy Sherman’s and Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley
For a hundred years of New Yorker history (except once, in 2000, for our seventy-fifth anniversary), our covers have featured drawings,…
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The High Femme Dystopia of Star Amerasu
If the recent embrace of seemingly—and only seemingly—autonomous machines is any indication, something much less chic than the future…
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Ethel Cain’s Anti-Pop Stardom
Midway through the music video for “American Teenager,” a feel-good pop song that has been streamed more than a hundred million times, the…
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Amy Sherald’s “Trans Forming Liberty”
The cover of the August 11, 2025, issue, by the artist Amy Sherald, is a portrait of the trans model and performance artist Arewà Basit.…
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Life Inside a Singular Artists’ Enclave in Brooklyn, in “The Candy Factory”
Watch “The Candy Factory.” Some forty years ago, Ann Ballentine, a real-estate agent with an eccentric sense of style and a knack for…
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Arian Moayed’s Waterwell Teams With Nonprofit Nimruz on Grant Program to Uplift Iranian Artists
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting…
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How Rembrandt Saw Esther
Jewish persecution and Jewish self-protection, not to mention Jewish paranoia, the relations of Jews and Persians, the morality of Jewish…
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Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers
The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it, “the sacred art of…
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How “The First Homosexuals” Shaped an Identity
About those faraway realms: Can we really credit two white Victorians, and their peculiarly German fetish for classification, with the…
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Joost Swarte’s “Sunny-Side Up”
For the cover of the July 21, 2025, issue, the artist Joost Swarte portrays how New Yorkers have been feeling in the midst of a heat wave.…
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Christoph Niemann’s “The Bridge”
“The real beauty of the Brooklyn Bridge can only be experienced in motion,” the artist Christoph Niemann said, about his cover for the…
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A Forgotten Surrealist’s Paintings Return to New York
When Ford returned to his gallery, he entered Orlik’s name into Artnet, the art-price database. His search yielded barely any results.…
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Haruka Aoki’s “Nothing to See”
Animals displaying human behaviors are often the stuff of fables, intent on communicating moral lessons. But in this work, by the Japanese…
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David Hockney’s “Going Up Garrowby Hill”
There are many ways to celebrate spring, but few contemporary artists have devoted more attention to the topic than David Hockney. The…
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Rashid Johnson’s Own “Poem for Deep Thinkers”
It’s an epic display of small ideas. But what gives the exhibition its coherence is Johnson’s consistent—if tonally varied—engagement with…
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Jack Whitten Went Hard in the Paint
He poured the paint in layers and combed through it with an Afro pick. Or he froze and shattered it, reassembling the shards into new…
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Kadir Nelson’s “Major Taylor, a Champion Who Led the Way”
For the cover of the June 2, 2025, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson features Marshall W. (Major) Taylor leading a parade of bicyclists from…
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Barry Blitt’s “Soft Landing”
For the cover of the May 26, 2025, issue, the artist Barry Blitt chose to depict President Donald J. Trump’s enthusiasm for any way that…
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Anthropologie and Moleskine Partner to Recognize Emerging Artists
Anthropologie has partnered with Moleskine to launch a limited-edition journal collection featuring cover designs by YoungArts alumni. As…
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Emma Roberts Goes Classic in Dior Houndstooth Wool Jacket and Skirt Coords for Brooklyn Artists Ball
Emma Roberts joined a bevy of high-profile stars and A-list guests for the Brooklyn Artists Ball on Tuesday night. Presented in…
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Requiem for a “Drunk Dad”
Jeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore. Source link
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The Show Can’t Go On
Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support…