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Photographer Zanele Muholi is named the 2026 Hasselblad Award laureate.

South African visual activist Zanele Muholi has won the prestigious 2026 Hasselblad Award, one of the highest honors in photography. The award, which includes a cash prize and a major exhibition at the Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden, recognizes Muholi's decades-long dedication to documenting and celebrating Black LGBTQIA+ communities in South Africa and beyond. Their powerful portraits and self-portraits challenge historical erasure and create a profound visual archive of resistance and existence.

Chief Curator Julian Cox to Depart Beleaguered Art Gallery of Ontario

Julian Cox will step down as deputy director and chief curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario on April 13, concluding an eight-year tenure. The AGO's director praised Cox's impact on exhibitions, collection growth, and scholarship, stating his departure is not connected to recent institutional turmoil.

‘Prince laughed like a kid as I painted “Free” on his stomach’: Steve Parke’s best photograph

Photographer Steve Parke recounts the story behind his iconic 1999 photo shoot of Prince for Notorious magazine. The singer rejected the magazine's initial concept of painting "1999" on his stomach, instead insisting on the word "Free" to reflect his ongoing battle for artistic freedom from record labels. Parke, who was Prince's in-house art director, ended up painting the word on the singer's stomach himself with gold paint, causing Prince to laugh like a child from the cold sensation.

In the Studio with Garnet Goldman

Artist Garnet Goldman discusses her intricate, hand-cut paper works in an interview, detailing her shift from painting to paper cutting after a creative hiatus. She describes her intuitive process, where pieces begin with a single shape and evolve into complex compositions of flora, hair, and symbolic figures that blend folk tradition and personal mythology.