"This exhibition is a celebration and an act of preservation," says artist and curator Ruben Natal-San Miguel.
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Organized by Colours of Redbridge in collaboration with the local community, the artful van celebrates multicultural expression.
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In this exclusive excerpt from Nina Chanel Abney's forthcoming monograph, the artist sits down with Jeffrey Deitch.
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'Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s-Now' transforms the galleries of M+ in Hong Kong.
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The museum is designed to bring art, architecture, and nature into a constant and ever-evolving conversation.
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No machines here! Nano Ponto creates these vivid compositions entirely by hand.
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The forthcoming exhibition highlights street photography's capacity to provoke wonder where we least expect it: the everyday.
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The Berlin-based artist commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII in 'Two Home Countries' at Japan Society Gallery.
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White Hawk delves into cross-cultural connections and examines how artistic and national histories have been constructed.
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for October 8, 2025 is:
finicky \FIN-ih-kee\ adjective
Finicky describes someone who is very hard to please, or something that requires a lot of care, precision, or attentive effort.
// Although she was a finicky eater as a child, she grew up to become a world-renowned chef famous for her encyclopedic knowledge of global ingredients.
// The latest game in the series boasts amazing graphics but the controls are a little finicky.
"Stardom is a fleeting concept, one that we've seen play out with the biggest of stars over time. Even without outright missteps, artists often find themselves scrutinized by the masses for reasons entirely unrelated to their work. More often than not, this pressure either drives them to prove their worth to a finicky fanbase—one that will jump ship the second something else catches their attention—or pushes them back into obscurity." — Aron A., HotNewHipHop.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Did you know?
If you're a reader of a certain age (say, a Boomer, Gen Xer, or even a Xennial) you may remember cheeky television commercials featuring Morris, a finicky housecat who only eats a certain brand of cat food. (Morris is still featured on product labels.) Morris's tastes in cuisine are not only very particular, but very fine as well, and that's appropriate given the origin of finicky. The word came about in the early 19th century as an alteration of finicking, itself a 17th century alteration of another adjective, finical, which in turn is a late 16th century coinage likely derived from the adjective fine.