Rick Owens and Juergen Teller make out for Moncler
Rick and Juergen share a snog in the brand’s new campaign… plus all the fashion news you missed this week
Jan 16, 2026
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s plan to put AI inside our minds
The tech founder’s new company, Merge Labs, has raised some $252 million in its quest to integrate human biology with AI
Jan 16, 2026
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
Christina Sharpe's Appeal to South Africa
A call to reinstate Gabrielle Goliath's Venice Biennale pavilion, Ana Mendieta’s earthworks, and the California College of the Arts is no more.
Jan 15, 2026
Smithsonian Complies With Trump’s Documents Request
The institution handed over wall texts and other materials as part of the White House's targeted inquiry into the museum system.
Jan 15, 2026
Meet the Artist in El Salvador’s First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion
J. Oscar Molina hopes his exhibition, “Cartographies of the Displaced,” will cultivate “patience and compassion for newcomers.”
Jan 15, 2026
Required Reading
The Schomburg Qur’an, Auudi Dorsey’s paintings of Black community at the beach, an unsolved Pollock theft, remembering Claudette Colvin, dollhouse furniture, and more.
Jan 15, 2026
Art Movements: Pineapples, Coconuts, and More Art Awards
Organizations including United States Artists and Creative Capital announced millions of dollars in grants this week. Plus: a baby rave!
Jan 15, 2026
15 Art Books We're Excited to Read in 2026
Books about Marcel Duchamp, Frida Kahlo, Alma Thomas, and more, plus critical studies of lipstick and complaining, are on our radar.
Jan 15, 2026
A Very 2026 Art Reading List
Also, the Smithsonian complies with Trump, the Asian Art Museum's baby rave, and an interview El Salvador's Venice Biennale artist.
Jan 16, 2026
Met Museum Workers Are Officially Unionized
The new union will represent staff across 50 departments of the Manhattan institution.
Jan 16, 2026
What to See During San Francisco Art Week
Despite recent closures in San Francisco’s art world, there's been a mushrooming of alternative spaces, side hustles, home galleries, and nonprofits.
Jan 16, 2026
San Francisco's Tech Billionaires Don't Care About Your Art School
Behind the closure of the California College of the Arts is a widening wealth disparity that is now taking on national dimensions.
Jan 16, 2026
40 Years On, DC Artists Revisit Don Miller's MLK Mural
Since 1986, the 56-foot painting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library has served as a visual portal into the civil rights leader’s life and legacy.
Jan 16, 2026
Five Art and Museum Events for MLK Day in NYC
Special collection tours at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a live reading of one of King's sermons, and other programs.
Jan 16, 2026
John Wilson’s Relentlessly Humane Vision of Black Life
He portrayed the gamut of the Black experience, making visible a sense of deep isolation as well as pride, family, and community.
Jan 16, 2026
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
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
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