Why Do ‘Emerging Artist’ Opportunities Still Have an Age Limit?
Open calls and residencies often define ‘emerging artist’ as under 35, but real art careers don’t expire. Here’s why age limits in the art world are outdated.
Dominique Catherina Foertig
Aurélia Jaubert Uses Textile as a Site of Collision, Not Comfort
Working with textiles, rugs and embroidery, Aurélia Jaubert brings historical technique into friction with contemporary imagery.
Ida Jessenberger Paints Faces That Refuse to Settle
Working between figuration and emotion, Ida Jessenberger paints faces that hold tension rather than resolution.
Can a Painting Remember Its Own Ghost?
Billy Bagilhole explores memory, residue and surface through painting and film, where marks feel haunted rather than finished.
Who Really Builds an Artist’s Career, and Who Just Collects the Credit
Small galleries invest time, risk, and belief. Mega galleries arrive when it is safe. Everyone pretends this is just how careers work.
Can Thread Remember the Body? Artist Spotlight Yali Romagoza
Cuban-born artist Yali Romagoza transforms linen and performance into acts of healing. Her textile sculptures unravel migration into belonging.
What Happened to Jerry Gogosian’s Mission?
Once the art world’s sharpest critic, Jerry Gogosian now sounds like the system she used to expose, and no one knows why.
Yuma Radne and the Return of Myth in Contemporary Painting
How Yuma Radne brings Buryat mythology into contemporary painting, exploring identity, memory, and myth through vivid, symbolic works.
How Do You Honor Tradition While Breaking It? Bob Geerts and Glenn Barkley at HAGD Contemporary
Geerts' tattooed paintings meet Barkley's ceramic sculptures at HAGD Contemporary, Aalborg. Curated by Rasmus Peter Fischer.
Is the Art Fair Era Cracking or Evolving?
2025 was the year art fairs stopped performing and started changing. Collaboration reshaped visibility and community as the art world prepared for 2026.
Engage, Bitches!
Monday Bitch #4: Posting on Instagram and vanishing? That’s not mysterious, it’s invisible. Community is currency. Speak up or fade out.
How does Manu García turn play and studio debris into scenes that feel lived in?
Manuel García Fernández builds diaristic paintings with oil, graphite, and surface memory, where intimacy and object presence blur into tactile, unsettled rooms.
Who are the three artists reshaping how we see objects, bodies, and systems?
Radar #13: Maria Luz elevates everyday Lisbon in paint and film, Seung-yeon Jung maps shared space across media, and Stefan Bakmand draws neon spore cosmologies.
Which social fits your voice today: Instagram, TikTok, or LinkedIn?
Because they sell different things. Instagram sells applause, TikTok sells talk, LinkedIn sells outcomes. Use each on purpose or get used by them.
Who Profits When Art is Resold? Spoiler: Not the Artist!
Visual artists don’t get royalties when their work resells, even if it sells for ten times more. Maybe it’s time that changed.
How necessary is a personal website as an artist? And are websites still a thing?
Yes. Think Neo seeing the Matrix. Once you switch it on, the noise drops and the work reads. Catapult - uncensored
Maria Luz: Contemporary painting and film photography of everyday objects in Lisbon
Maria Luz paints and photographs everyday urban objects with clear light and exact color, turning overlooked scenes into calm, durable images.
Matthias Esch: Patterns that remember the body
Berlin-based painter Matthias Esch turns ornament and diagrams into humane structures, paintings where order rests on a living ground.