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The women-led Venice Biennale Jury resigned today, April 30, a week after its statement to omit Russia and Israel from consideration and less than a week before the pre-opening. The jury’s drastic move to resign from the role altogether echoes Art Not Genocide Alliance’s (ANGA) call to boycott or withdraw entirely from the Biennale through Israel’s participation, a movement that has garnered worldwide support. . . . Image: The entrance to the main exhibition at the 2024 Venice Biennale (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) https://lnkd.in/eecazh6H

Meet Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, the new Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Plus, learn more about the Turner Prize shortlist, Print Center New York’s 2026 New Voices cohort, and a surprising acquisition backstory.

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Jeremy Frey is one of the most celebrated Indigenous weavers in the country. He has forged a singular aesthetic that embraces the fusion of craft, design, and contemporary art with his own techniques to create pieces that have been exhibited in the world’s most renowned museums. The artist was the first basketmaker to win Best of Show at the Santa Fe Indian Market in 2011. Frey also won Best of Show and at the Heard Museum Indian Guild Fair and Market in Phoenix, AZ that same year and would go on to earn the same recognition in 2015. He is the first artist to accomplish this feat. Frey’s work is held in the public collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine; and the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, among others. This event is free for Hyperallergic paid members. Not a paid member yet? Sign up today! Image 1: Jeremy Frey (Photo John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation CC BY-NC 4.0) Image 2: Jeremy Frey, Seed of Life, 2025 Black ash, sweetgrass, and synthetic dye, 8½ × 11¼ × 11¼ in. Courtesy the artist and KarmaImage 3: Jeremy Frey, Regrowth, 2025 Ash, sweetgrass, and synthetic dye, 15¼ × 9 × 9 in. Courtesy the artist and Karma 4: Jeremy Frey, Unbound, 2024. Black ash and synthetic dye, 64¼ × 64¼ × 3 ¼ in. Courtesy the artist and KarmaImage Image 5: Jeremy Frey, Tidal, 2025. Cedar bark, ash, and synthetic dye, 13 × 9 × 9 in. Courtesy the artist and Karma Image 6: Photo by Jared Lank, Courtesy the Portland Museum of Art

The Center for Craft is accepting applications for the 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship, offering four $5,000 awards to support research on underrepresented craft histories in the United States.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced 223 recipients of its annual fellowship, including 76 artists, fine arts researchers, architects, designers, and photographers. The 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship cohort hails from 10 countries and 33 US states and spans 55 artistic and scientific disciplines selected from a competitive 5,000-person applicant pool. This year’s total applicants increased by nearly 2,000 from 2024 and by 1,500 from last year, when President Trump took office.

Are the art fairs worth the back pain and steep ticket prices? Paddy Johnson, founder of the artist-centered professional development company Netvvrk, says it’s up to the artist. “What you get out of any art fair experience depends on your ability to assess what you should get out of it—you have to know what you want,” she explains.

Rama Duwaji, artist and first lady of NYC, met with us to discuss her evolving practice, new life in the spotlight, and commitment to her work. Last November, Duwaji became a household name after her husband, Zohran Mamdani, swept the New York City mayoral race in a historic victory that inspired and delighted millions. The Texas-born, Syrian-American artist has created illustrations and animations for the New Yorker, Tate Modern, and BBC, among other outlets and institutions. In her interview, Duwaji left a strong impression as a thoughtful and ethical artist keen on remaining true to herself despite the intense media attention she might otherwise avoid.

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, a painter and human rights advocate, died at the age of 46 at her home in Los Angeles, days before the opening of a new solo exhibition “Burning in the Eyes of the Maker,” which grapples with the tension between the transactional nature of the art world and the political meanings she imbued in her works.

Women figurative realist painters can enter to win $75,000 and a traveling solo exhibition. Applications for The Bennett Prize are open through September 19.