artSunday, June 21, 2026
Today's art coverage is heavy on animation, from a paper stop-motion debut to a new Pippi Longstocking series, but the most arresting piece is Ben Lerner's short story about the impossible knot between writing and therapy. Elsewhere, an NCAD student's storytelling robot and a Chinese jade carver's labor medal offer two very different takes on craft and tradition.
Two pieces today ask what it means to make art, and who gets to judge it.
Ben Lerner's fictional piece in The New Yorker explores a writer's anxiety that his therapist's reading of his work could distort their relationship, a tight, uncomfortable premise that says something real about the vulnerability of being read.
A profile of Chinese jade carver Yang Fuyu, who won a national labor medal, uses his painstaking craft to ask whether such honors obscure the true nature of artistic labor.
Several animation projects made headlines, from a director's debut to a beloved character's return.
Italian director Stefano Bertelli debuts 'Spacetime Chronicles,' a 71-minute paper stop-motion film at Annecy, after a decade of music videos for Eminem and Pink Floyd.
The award-winning animated short 'Luce and the Rock' is being developed into a 35-episode TV series set to air in 2027 on Belgian broadcaster Ketnet.
StudioCanal and Heyday Films are developing a new 3D CGI Pippi Longstocking series, the first animated adaptation of the character in nearly 30 years, with 52 11-minute episodes.
The definitive ranking of every Pixar movie (including 'Toy Story 5')bit.ly
Poll: Box Art Brawl: Sonic The Hedgehog 35th Anniversary Switch Showdownwww.nintendolife.com
AI meets Irish storytelling with robot seanchaíwww.rte.ie
Win a Tate membership, Tracey Emin merch and morewww.theguardian.com
Miranda July Headlines Aspen Art Museum’s 2026 AIR Festivalbit.ly
'We Won't Get Old Together' Wins at Transilvania Industry Awardsvariety.comValentín Roma és el nou director del Macbawww.ara.cat
Valentín Roma, historiador de l'art de Ripollet (1970), ha estat nomenat nou director del Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Macba) després de guanyar el concurs convocat per la institució. Roma torna al Macba onze anys després de ser destituït arran de la polèmica exposició
‘Kaiseki’ fine dining with a side of classical poetryebx.sh
Kyoto fine dining restaurant Kodaiji Wakuden is experimenting with traditional Japanese poetry (kaiseki) as part of its dining experience. The article describes this as an interesting but uneven experiment in aesthetics, blending classical poetry with high-end kaiseki cuisine.
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