Atlanta’s High Museum of Art names Alison Saar the winner of the 2025 Driskell Prize.
Alison Saar has been awarded the High Museum of Art’s 2025 Driskell Prize, recognizing her decades-long exploration of Black identity through sculpture and installation. Her selection comes as the prize marks its 20th anniversary, affirming her role in shaping contemporary American art and amplifying African diasporic narratives. The honor includes a $50,000 award and will be celebrated at a September gala.
A photographer who risked 50 years in prison for making art will soon open his first solo show.
Isaac Wright, a former Army paratrooper turned urban photographer, built a following by scaling skyscrapers and bridges to capture vertiginous self-portraits. His high-risk art nearly cost him 50 years in prison after police across multiple states branded him a threat. Rather than stop, he used the scrutiny to sharpen his vision and, now, after years of evading arrest and then selling NFTs from jail, he’s opening his first solo show in New York at Robert Mann.
Koyo Kuoh, the curator of the 2026 Venice Biennale, has died at the age of 57.
Koyo Kouoh, a pioneering force in contemporary African art and curator of the forthcoming 2026 Venice Biennale, died in Basel at age 57, just weeks before unveiling the theme of the biennale. Over decades, she built institutions that reshaped global understandings of African art, most notably through Dakar’s RAW Material Company and Cape Town’s Zeitz MOCAA. Her death marks the abrupt end of a curatorial vision that promised to extend far beyond the art world’s usual centers.
One critic posits that parents—and the art world—can learn valuable lessons when kids damage artwork.
After a child accidentally scratched a $56 million Rothko, some have predictably called for children to be banned from galleries—but one writer argues that such incidents can serve as teachable moments. Her thesis hinges upon how children engage with art instinctively, and advocates for exposing them early in the name of fostering curiosity.
While it awaits Demna’s arrival, Gucci will launch its 2026 Cruise collection at its Florence archives.
Gucci will debut its 2026 Cruise collection on May 15 at its historic Palazzo Settimanni archive in Florence, returning to its deep ties to the city as it transitions between creative directors. The collection was designed in-house as the fashion world at large awaits Demna’s arrival as its newest creative director.
Today’s attractive distractions:
Step inside the richly crafted world of thriller flick Sinners.
Photographer Anna Marie Tendler is capturing, not exhibiting, images at the Other Art Fair.
Across the East River, Brooklyn is hosting its own vibrant art fair ecosystem.
Former Ralph Lauren designer Brett Robinson sets his eye on the next chapter of his furniture design career.
