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Art Controversies and Unusual Incidents this week: On the night of August 14, emergency personnel forced entry into Access Gallery in Vancouver after a 911 caller; and Marvel Studios’ newly released art book, Spider-Man: Brand New Day –…

Italian brand Lapalma has collaborated with architect and designer Raffaella Mangiarotti on a new kaleidoscopic palette of colourways for its catalogue.

Interactive Art this week: This matters for Interactive Art because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Shirley Tse and Dana Berman; and This week’s art dispatches cover Alan Michelson’s oyster-shell public artwork on Governors…

Interactive Art this week: Second Nature, an exhibition at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai, presents nine immersive; and Hyperallergic’s new NYC newsletter editor, Rhea, introduces MoMA PS1’s two-year courtyard commission…

Interactive Art this week: Harvard Art Museums tested a generative AI marketing campaign that animated François Boucher’s 1750 portrait of; and The Rijksakademie has opened applications for its 2027 Tech Fellowship Programme, offering…

Architectural Marvels and Urban Landmarks this week: Dutch social enterprise Shift has revealed the winning design for its ’embassy’ building in Rotterdam, a publicly; and MVRDV has won the international competition for the Shift Embassy…

Interactive Art this week: Venice Immersive marks its 10th anniversary with 68 projects from 26 countries, including 30 in competition (22; and Artist Doddz has been commissioned to create a projection mapping piece for Blackpool Tower…

Interactive Art this week: SIGGRAPH 2026’s Experience Hall, running 19–23 July at the Los Angeles Convention Center, consolidates five; and Refik Anadol’s Dataland, the self-described first ‘museum of AI arts,’ opened in downtown Los…

Architecture and Adaptive Reuse this week: The seventh annual Upstate Art Weekend (UAW) in the Hudson Valley featured over 160 organizations and artists, using; and BIG has completed a 2,800-square-metre mass-timber headquarters for…