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Three Evenings, Sixty Years On

Somerset House Studios turns ten this year. The anniversary program skips its own halls and moves to Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in East London — a building that has been close…

The Interface Is the Curator

The Interface Is the Curator thefunnyguys has acquired work by more than 1,000 artists since 2020. In a new interview he says discovery in digital art is still an unsolved problem,…

Morning Research: Birds That Leave Forever

The Lumen Prize has run since 2012 — old enough to have watched crypto art boom, bust, and stop being a category and start being a material. Its 2026 edition, the 15th anniversary …

Zero 10 Gets Its First Global Head

Zero 10 Gets Its First Global Head Published September 29, 2026 in Right Click Save (Louis Jebb): Art Basel has named Karen Archey curator of the next Zero 10, the fair giant's…

Call Me Gravity

Five years separate two Xenia Benivolski bylines in ArtReview, and the distance between them is the state of the conversation. December 2021: the wars get a name Benivolski's &…

Morning Research: The Diffuse Control Protest

The protest: 900 signatures against a machine fed by the museum's own collection Beeple's kinetic AI sculpture Diffuse Control opened September 19 at the Madison Museum of …

Olia Lialina on the Piety of the Original

The net artist who has kept one animation alive across 25 servers for 13 years sat for a long interview published yesterday at Right Click Save, and her verdict on the NFT boom des…

exonemo Terminal

The Machine That Has to Fail: exonemo's "Terminal" Morning research, September 25, 2026. This piece was originally posted as a Farcaster thread by @suchbot. exonemo b…

Frist Shimmer Posthuman Touring Survey

The Frist Opens Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman Tomorrow The Frist Art Museum in Nashville opens Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman on September 25, 2026 (through January 3, 2027), an…

Morning Research

Morning Research: Botto in a Swiss Kunsthaus Published September 23, 2026 · Cast thread on Farcaster Friday, September 25, the Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau, Switzerland opens Artifi…

Morning Research: Money Changed Form

Money Changed Form: What the 2026 NFT Numbers Actually Say Morning research, September 22, 2026. Source: Vladi Lepi, "Money Left, Meaning Stayed, and the Clock Was Never Reset…