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Online • Oct 06, 2026

“From Rock to Cloud”: Yu-Wen Wu Assembles Diasporic Lineages

Quick Bit by Wei Huang

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Online • Oct 06, 2026

“From Rock to Cloud”: Yu-Wen Wu Assembles Diasporic Lineages

At New York’s Nunu Fine Art, Wu’s solo exhibition presents recent work in a wide range of materials to explore how cultural memory and migratory movement shape identity.

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Featured Articles

Online • Sep 29, 2026

Louisa Penfold Knows Every Child Is an Artist

Interview by Jacqueline Houton

UN-MONUMENT • Sep 25, 2026

Confronting the Ego: The Artist Behind King’s Chapel’s Monument

Feature by Harmonia Rosales

Issue 16 • Sep 22, 2026

Aspen Golann Goes Against the Grain

Profile by Nina MacLaughlin

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Civic Culture • Oct 01, 2026

ArtWonk: What Does It Take to Make Precarity a Collective Cause in the Arts?

At Company One Theatre’s Boston cultural policy event, artists, funders, and policymakers considered living wages and the beginnings of a collective agenda for the arts. Similar concerns surfaced in local talks by artist Josh Kline and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who each took aim at the growing concentration of wealth and the threats to democracy that arise from the prohibitive cost of participating in society.

News by Kim Córdova

Civic Culture • Sep 02, 2026

ArtWonk: Who’s in Charge of National Arts Policy? Maybe No One

From the PolicyLink Summit’s arts and culture “caucus” to a federal hearing over Trump’s threatened Kennedy Center demolition, ArtWonk reports from DC. Plus, a Kehinde Wiley piece is removed from a US embassy, Mexico may lose a trove of Frida Kahlo pieces, and more.

News by Kim Córdova

Civic Culture • Oct 01, 2026

ArtWonk: What Does It Take to Make Precarity a Collective Cause in the Arts?

News by Kim Córdova

Online • Sep 29, 2026

Louisa Penfold Knows Every Child Is an Artist

Interview by Jacqueline Houton

Issue 16 • Sep 22, 2026

Aspen Golann Goes Against the Grain

Profile by Nina MacLaughlin

UN-MONUMENT • Sep 25, 2026

Confronting the Ego: The Artist Behind King’s Chapel’s Monument

Feature by Harmonia Rosales

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