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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Artists, what are the questions that keep you up at night: Is what I'm making art? Hasn't it all been done before? In Artist Commons, our resident philosopher of art, Dr. Rebecca Millsop (@noumenal.bsky.social), helps us explore these questions and connect them to the work we're making.

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're proud to announce the establishment of the Generative Art Foundation Creative Coding Award, made possible by a generous grant from the Generative Art Foundation. [1/3]

Artist Commons Announced – The Generative Art Foundation Creative Coding Award – Funding scholarships to Artist Commons for artists working with technology so they can get the resources, mentorship, and community they need to develop their work – Artist Commons x Generative Art Foundation

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Artists, what's the one thing you shouldn't do at an art fair? Gallerist Stephen Santoro from @vertufineart breaks it down for us. If you've got other dos and don'ts, share them in the comments! #artfairs #artadvice #arteducation

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How should you approach art fairs as an artist? With NYC art week almost here, this week we'll be sharing clips from curator Stephen Santoro of Vertu Fine Art to help you know the dos and don'ts. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We're delighted to share our Visiting Artists in Residence this quarter were new media artist Sarah Rothberg (@sarahrothberg.bsky.social) and photographer Greg Miller. One of the things we love about Artist Commons is creating opportunities for artists to spend time with other working artists. 1/2

Artist Commons Summer Visiting Artists in Residence. Greg Miller – Large-format photography and staged narrative. Sarah Rothberg – Interactive technologies and new media art.

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Rebecca Millsop (@noumenal.bsky.social) as a new mentor for Artist Commons. Rebecca has already been part of our larger community as a lecturer in the philosophy of art, and we’re thrilled to deepen that relationship as she begins leading her own cohorts. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Can’t afford to get an MFA? Artist Commons is a year-long, online development program for visual artists. We're not an MFA, but we offer many of the things artists are looking for when they start thinking about grad school... [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Art history is about more than just the past. It gives artist tools to think with and helps us understand how images speak when we sit down to work in our studios One of our favorite works from Dr Amy Raffel's art history lecture a couple weeks ago was Martha Rosler’s SEMIOTICS OF THE KITCHEN [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and the Italian Futurists thought traditional language was too slow for the modern world. Grammar, punctuation, syntax, even the rectangle of the page — all of it belonged to the past. So they broke language open. [1/2] #ArtHistory #ModernArt #ItalianFuturism #AvantGarde

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Application deadline extended! We heard your requests for more time to finish your applications, so we've extended the application deadline to Monday, June 22. We get it. It takes time to fill out a strong application, to find the right words and to select good images for the portfolio section.

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Last chance to apply! For an artist, being part of a cohort can be a transformative experience, where you learn to push your work and ask better questions about what you're making. We have some great cohorts shaping up for July. Application deadline is tonight.

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

You want to grow in your art practice, but you feel like an MFA is out of reach. If that describes you, come check out @artistcommons.bsky.social, a year-long online artist development program created by artists for artists. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

If you’ve been curious whether Artist Commons is the right fit for you, the replay of our recent Program Info Session is now streaming on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=itEmBASVlNk It’s the best way to understand how the program works & hear from both our team and current students. [1/x]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Before ChatGPT and Claude, there was BINA48, a humanoid robot created in 2010 by Hanson Robotics. BINA48 stands for Breakthrough Intelligence via Neural Architecture 48. It was powered by AI and a series of motors to create realistic facial expressions. [1/2] #contemporaryartists

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

What can technologies like AI teach us about what it means to be human? And how can an artist help us make sense of that question? Our Visiting Artist in Residence for the second half of this quarter is @sashastiles.bsky.social. [1/2] #contemporaryartists #poetry #aiart

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Less than one week to apply! What would a year of in-depth, honest support do for your art practice? Artist Commons is a year-long, online development program for early- and mid-career visual artists. Each month you'll receive feedback on your work and learn how to navigate the art business [1/x]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Dada was born from a world that no longer made sense. After World War I, many Dada artists believed that their so-called rational society had led to the very violence it claimed to prevent. The values of middle class Europe had failed. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Artists: join us Wednesday, June 10 @ 6pm ET for an @artistcommons.bsky.social info session. What could a year of hands-on mentorship, cohort feedback, and weekly lectures from art world professionals do for your art practice? RSVP at the link below to learn more:

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Before the internet gave us endless image feeds, artist Hannah Höch was already cutting through the media overload. Her 1919–20 photomontage CUT WITH THE KITCHEN KNIFE gathers fragments from newspapers and magazines into a dense, unruly map of modern culture. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

How have artists used text as a visual medium? Last week Dr. Amy Raffel sat down with our students to talk about the use of text throughout art history. Of course, you can't talk about text in art without touching upon the Dadaists, including this delightfully odd performance by Hugo Ball.

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Artists need to protect their rights. The US Copyright Office makes it easy to register artworks through their website. It costs a small fee, but in return you get the legal protection that if someone misuses your image, like putting it on a product or in an ad, you're likely entitled to: [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

You can't copyright an idea. A sunset is an idea, or at least a shared subject. Anyone can paint it. Anyone can photograph it. But your photograph of that sunset is a specific expression: your timing, your framing, and your finished image. That’s what copyright is concerned with. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Do you have to a register an artwork to own the copyright to a piece you made? @haiverart.bsky.social sat down with intellectual property lawyer David Shein to discuss artists' rights and what they need to do to protect their work. #artistrights #artlaw #copyrightlaw #copyright

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Artist @sashastiles.bsky.social is one of the most innovative artists working with language today. In 2018, she turned the user agreements from big tech companies into an art piece. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

What can an ancient technology like poetry teach us in this moment of existential fear around AI? Artist @sashastiles.bsky.social sat down with Artist Commons' students last week to share her work and to look at how poetry is uniquely attuned to help us process everything that's going on right now

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We're delighted to welcome our next visiting artist in residence this quarter, Sasha Stiles (@sashastiles.bsky.social) Over five weeks, she'll meet with Artist Commons' students for 3 sessions: a presentation of her body of work, a process lecture, and a candid interview about the art world [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

How do gallery directors think about the artist/curator relationship? Here, Adam Berninger (@adamberninger), founder of Heft Gallery (@heft_gallery), sits down with Artist Commons director @haiverart.bsky.social to discuss the importance of relationship over contract. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Great artists steal. Richard Prince is famous for appropriating the work of other creators, so it's fun to see artist Michael Neff (@heyneff) turn the tables and appropriate Prince by removing the cowboy figures to turn these once Marlboro Man ads into pure, abstracted landscapes. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Kehinde Wiley doesn’t hide his references. He wants you to see that he copied from Ingres's original painting of Napoleon. The composition, the pose, the trappings of power. Instead of asking viewers merely to admire power, his new painting asks us to reconsider how power is staged and performed.

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This quarter, art historian Dr. Cristin McKnight Sethi spoke to Artist Commons' students about the history of quilting in contemporary art. There are many ways for a figurative image to become a quilt. Cut fabric can be layered into a composition, or images can be printed onto fabric. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

What changes when an artist puts an ordinary object on a gallery wall? When does a bed stop being a bed? Art historian Cristin McKnight Sethi looks at Robert Rauschenberg's combines, like his 1955 piece BED, which blur the line between art and everyday things. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Pacita Abad’s quilted trapuntos blur the line between painting, textile, and relief sculpture. She activates the surface with layered fabric, paint, stitching, shells, buttons, and other materials. Every material choice adds weight and rhythm. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A strong composition often has an invisible structure underneath it. In this clip from his Artist Commons residency, papercut artist Andrew Benincasa looks at the use of triangles throughout Renaissance painting as a key compositional technique. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

We often approach art by asking what kind of thing it is. A painting. A sculpture. A performance. An installation. But some works resist that first step. Sónia Almeida’s work refuses to give us a stable category, and that refusal becomes part of the experience. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

What would a year of in-depth, honest support do for your art practice? [1/4]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

What if art doesn’t have to be so serious? Fine art photographer Yasumasa Morimura reminds us that art has always had a relationship to entertainment and spectacle. Even the old masters, like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, were making work for patron's homes and public spaces. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Before you make art in the studio this week try this: Make yourself a rule. It can be simple: only use one material or one tool, one color or one type of mark or gesture. When you narrow your options, you have to listen more closely to your materials. Limits can change the way you see your work.

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Can I use this image in my art? When does appropriation become fair use? Prof. Cheyenne Rudolph looks at Richard Prince’s use of photographs from Patrick Cariou’s book Yes Rasta for his Canal Zone series. Prince physically cut images from the book and altered them. He didn’t ask for permission.

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The quote that "great artists steal" is nowhere more true than the work of Yasumasa Morimura, who restages famous paintings from art history as photographs. Morimura's photos don't just ask us to recognize the original reference, but to reconsider it entirely. They turn cultural memory on its head.

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Is any artwork truly original? Last week, Prof. Cheyenne Rudolph looked at Kehinde Wiley’s portraits as an example of how artists borrow from one another. By reworking old master paintings and replacing their figures with Black subjects, Wiley redirects the authority of art history to new ends.

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Michelangelo's quote is a good reminder that patience isn't passive. The patience to trust slow growth. The patience to protect the quiet part. The patience to keep looking. The patience to let the work teach you what it needs. The patience to keep going when no one else can see it yet. [1/2]

A minimalist poster featuring a quote by Michelangelo: 'Genius is eternal patience.' The design has a modern, artistic layout with muted colors.

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

What can Michelangelo teach us about composition in art? Composition is about more than where an artist places objects. It's about controlling a viewer's eye lines, and creating a sense of tension and release. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Working in ceramic and steel, artist Sanford Biggers mashes up the disciplines of quilting and sculpture to create geometric works. Rather than treating quilting as a flat or domestic form, Biggers expands its visual logic into space, transforming pattern and repetition into a sculptural presence.

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

In textile art patterns often carry more meaning than we realize. In this lecture excerpt from art historian Cristin McKnight Sethi, we look at the symbolic role of snakes and lotus flowers in South Asian visual culture. [1/3]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Applications are now open for the next Artist Commons cohorts. Beginning this July, artists will spend a full year in conversation with mentors, art world professionals, lecturers, and a small cohort of peers who are serious about building a stronger, more sustainable art practice. [1/2]

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

When does an artist's intention matter? It's always a hot topic. Dr. Rebecca Millsop (@noumenal.bsky.social) presents Noël Carroll's theory as a middle ground between the two extreme ends of the spectrum on artist intention versus viewer interpretation. 1/2

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We're delighted to announce Artist Commons' next two Visiting Artists in Residence! One of our favorite things about designing this artist development program was finding a way to put students in close contact with established contemporary artists actively shaping the field. 1/x

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The best version of an artwork isn’t always the one you planned. In this final clip from papercut artist Andrew Benincasa’s process lecture, he describes how many of his strongest works evolve toward the end. Not because his original plan failed, but because making art is often intuitive.

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Artist Commons @artistcommons.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Our visiting artist in residence this quarter, Andrew Benincasa, describes his papercutting process as one of constant revision: erasing, changing, stepping back, and returning to the work with fresh eyes. 1/2

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