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Museums Without Men, founded by art historian Katy Hessel, is an audio guide program showcasing female and gender non-conforming artists who often don't see their work take center stage. Read the full article by Pia Diamandis through the link below! artshelp.com/museums-without…

Museums Without Men: Audio Guides Dedicated to Underserved Female Artists

Museums Without Men is a program initiated by art historian and Guardian art critic Katy Hessel, along with five of the world’s largest museums (including Tate Britain and The Met), to create...

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Pia Diamandis explores how Tomoaki Murayama uses illustrations to exercise creativity in seeing from the perspective of other creatures, including tortoises and bears. Read the full article below! artshelp.com/tomoaki-murayam…

Tomoaki Murayama’s Immersive Scientific Illustrations Uncover Human Intervention in Nature

Japanese artist Tomoaki Murayama works with the humble medium of pen on paper, and yet he’s able to elevate it and use it to create intricate, life-like scientific illustrations of flora and fauna....

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In her review of Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025), Rania Reihanah explores the concept of immortality in relation to Jim Crow, assimilation, and how immortality and cultural preservation can be the same. Read the full article through the link below! artshelp.com/sinners-2025/

“The Devil’s Music”: Blues, Cultural Appropriation and Black Identity in Sinners (2025)

Many Abrahamic religions define the ‘sinner’ as one who has broken religious or moral law. Communities often label the label of ‘sinner’ as one who they deem as going against the ideologies of...

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Balinese artist I Made Ada breaks down barriers between what is considered "high art" and what is considered "folk craft" through his wood carvings. Read our latest from Pia Diamandis! artshelp.com/the-wings-of-pa…

The Wings of Pakudui: I Made Ada’s Fight for Cultural Equity Through the Garuda

In the cool, terraced hills of Pakudui, Bali, the air is thick with the scent of raw wood and the rhythmic tap-tap-tap of mallets against chisels. It is here that I Made Ada, a maestro of Balinese...

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A new exhibit by the Sakato Art Community, "Rupa Cara Keberadaan (Forms of Ways of Being)" explores the excesses of modern consumerist culture and its cost. artshelp.com/rupa-cara-keber…

Rupa Cara Keberadaan: the Weight of Existence in a Disposable World

In 1972, John Berger famously opened Ways of Seeing by stating that "The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled." He argued that our vision is manipulated by habit and...

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Monstrous femininity is not a point of shame but something to be reclaimed in Umah Yuma's work. Read more about Yuma's exploration of the feminine in Pia Diamandis' latest for Arts Help. artshelp.com/umah-yuma/

The Abject as Agency: Umah Yuma and the Rebirth of the Monstrous-Feminine

In traditional cinematic and art-historical canon, a woman’s body was often relegated to a site of passive beauty or, conversely, a source of primal dread. Barbara Creed, in her seminal work The...

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AI-generated artwork has now taken the form of "Basquiat Clones," with largely white men profiting from AI-generated images in Basquiat's style. artshelp.com/basquiat-clones…

Basquiat Clones: The Worrying Way Capitalism and AI Separate Art from Artist

There has been a worrying rise of Basquiat copycat artists, or as the internet has dubbed them, “Basquiat Clones”. What's strange about the phenomenon is that even though their works are blatant...

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Diego Berel defies labels and creates vibrant abstract expressionist art. Read more about Berel's work from Pia Diamandis. artshelp.com/diego-berel/

Diego Berel: The Abstract Artist Who Happens to Have Down Syndrome

With inclusivity in mind, today’s consciousness to give those from marginalized backgrounds more opportunities, there exists a risk of boxing in these individuals due to their marginalized identity....

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Daryl Cox Jr. promotes sustainability and captures the beauty in second chances with his work Fusion Frames. artshelp.com/fusion-frames/

Fusion Frames: Reclaiming Nature and History into Unique Creations

Fusion Frames, a project by mixed media artist Daryl Cox Jr, sees reclaimed wood and vintage picture frames harmoniously combined to create unique, one-of-a-kind artworks that look as if trees have...

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Labubus have taken the world by storm. Writer Rania Reihanah breaks down how Labubu's popularity is, in large part, thanks to blind boxes. artshelp.com/blind-box-econo…

Blind Box Economics

Labubus have taken the world by storm. Writer Rania Reihanah breaks down how Labubu's popularity is, in large part, thanks to blind boxes.

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Lukas Liebe's 'Traces of Existence' considers the importance of endangered species, creating work with an emotional weight. Read more in our latest by Pia Diamandis. artshelp.com/lukas-liebes/

Lukas Leibe's 'Traces of Existence': Textured Realism and a Stark Reminder of Endangered Life

Lukas Leibe's painting series Traces of Existence uses his signature "Textured Realism" technique to evoke a powerful sense of loss and vulnerability in the face of environmental crisis. These...

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Lala Bohang's "In the Middle of Everything" unfolds into existential contemplation and exploration of womanhood in Southeast Asian cultures. Read more about Bohang's book in our latest by Rania Reihanah. artshelp.com/lala-bohang/

Lala Bohang: In The Middle of Everything… all at once.

We experience life in a multitude of ways. Even though we might not be the main character in another person’s story, we are still the main characters, as well as the director, screenwriter, and...

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British fashion designer Isab Taylor's brand 'Skinned Potential' repurposes fish skin in its designs. Read more in our latest from Pia Diamandis. artshelp.com/skinned-potenti…

‘Skinned Potential’: Repurposing Fish Skin Into High Fashion Garments and Couture

Young British fashion designer, Isab Taylor, has created her own couture brand, Skinned Potential, which repurposes discarded fish skin from fish farms into works of high fashion. Taylor began the...

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"If those in power prefer you to feel hopeless against the machinery of the system to avoid its change, hope and empathy become rebellious acts." Read more about James Gunn's Superman from writer Jad Eleid. artshelp.com/hope-returns-to…

Hope Returns to the Sky: Superman Soars Above Societal Division

The new Superman (2025), directed by James Gunn, marks a striking shift away from the recent depictions of superheroes in Hollywood that have focused more on dark, brooding characters with murky...

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Photographer Paloma Tendero uses photography to explore her physical inheritance from her Mother. Read more in our latest. artshelp.com/paloma-tendero-…

Paloma Tendero and Her Mother: Between a Loving Connection and Concerns Around Women’s Inherited...

Spanish photographer Paloma Tendero explores her connection with her mother, along with the physicality and psychology of inherited traits and diseases in her series of photographs titled Mamá and...

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Alaina Varrone’s embroidery art reclaims a craft historically associated with women’s domestic life to celebrate the witch as a powerful feminist symbol. Read more in the article below! artshelp.com/alaina-varrone/

Alaina Varrone: Embroidering a Witchy Sisterhood

Alaina Varrone is an American embroidery artist who creates realistic portraits of women engaged in witchcraft rituals or simply having fun in macabre ways. Like many contemporary women embroidery...

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Singapore-based performance artist Polina Korobova, or GlitterQueen, uses Glitter as a statement of women’s resilience and the absurdity of expectations of contemporary femininity. Read more in our latest by Pia Diamandis. artshelp.com/glitterqueen/

GlitterQueen's Feminist Rebellion

Polina Korobova, the Singapore-based performance artist who goes by GlitterQueen, is known for her mesmerizing performance art pieces where she rolls around in glitter, covering every part of her...

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Trevor Lee’s green energy-producing ‘WindNest’ is a purposeful public art. Read more in the article below by Pia Diamandis. artshelp.com/windnest-by-tre…

‘WindNest’ by Trevor Lee: Utilizing Enchanting Public Art To Create Green Energy

Conceptualized by artist and landscape architect Trevor Lee, WindNest is a public art project that aims to introduce green energy alternatives. The structure, redesigned for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,...

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Our latest is a reflection on Singaporean photographer Jingna Zhang’s 2024 win in a copyright case against Jeff Dieschburg. Read more in the article by Pia Diamandis. artshelp.com/jingna-zhang-wi…

Jingna Zhang Wins Plagiarism Trial: Looking Back on a Substantial Win Exposing Industry Racism and...

After being locked in a two-year-long court battle against a plagiarizer, US-based Singaporean photographer Jingna Zhang finally won her case in 2024. During the very public trial, Zhang had also...

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Singaporean architect Shyue Woon uses a camera to capture life in dark city corners. Read more in our recent article from Pia Diamandis. artshelp.com/shyue-woons-dar…

Shyue Woon’s Dark Cities: Looking Into the Livability of Cities After Dark

By Pia Diamandis While the city slumbers, Singaporean architect Shyue Woon has been channelling his passion into a series of photographs titled Dark Cities. The photographs have been published in...

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