When Culture Is Funded Like Roads and Bridges
Across the U.S., stories from Philadelphia, Chicago, and Washington show cultural support shrinking or used as leverage, while Scotland, Edinburgh, California, and Toronto are building stable funding channels that treat culture like infrastructure.
‘Giant Arc’ at SFMOMA: Jacob Hashimoto’s Largest Installation Suspends Nearly 75,000 Paper Kites
Jacob Hashimoto’s largest installation to date, Giant Arc, suspends nearly 75,000 bamboo-and-printed-Japanese-paper kite-like elements at SFMOMA. The work fills the ground floor gallery, shifts with the daylight, and remains on view through mid-2028.
A New Book Turns Spaceward Curiosity Back Toward Earth
Forthcoming from Delmonico Books, Inploration: Art Exploring Space to Understand Earth brings together work by nearly 100 contributors, edited by Lawrence Azerrad and Richelle Ellis, to consider how cosmic inquiry can sharpen our attention to the planet. The volume features artists including Cannupa Hanska Luger, Tavares Strachan, Wangechi Mutu, Cai Guo-Qiang, and James Turrell, among others, and is due at the end of October.