artTuesday, June 23, 2026
Animation dominates today's art news, with two major feature announcements from legendary and internet-born creators. Meanwhile, a Stratford Othello and a Tokyo illustrator offer grounded counterpoints.
Two very different animators are making the leap to feature films, one from Final Fantasy fame, the other from YouTube.
Yoshitaka Amano, the artist behind Final Fantasy's iconic look, is finally releasing an anime project he's been developing since 2010. The first look drops at Anime Expo next week.
Vivienne 'VivziePop' Medrano, the online animator behind Hazbin Hotel, is writing and directing a fossil fantasy musical called Prehistoria for Warner Bros. It's her first theatrical feature, set outside her Hellaverse.
Away from the screen, a brutal Othello and a witty Tokyo illustrator offer depth and humor.
Haysam Kadri's Othello at Stratford is being called unmissable, a visceral, brutal staging that balances violence with dark humor and features standout performances.
Shunpei Kamiya's illustrations turn everyday Tokyo, commuter trains, ramen shops, into surreal, funny scenes. A profile explores how he blends the mundane with the absurd.
The Flash #34 Preview: Gorilla Warfare Meets Speed Force Visionsbleedingcool.com
Cannelle: CINNApitchfork.com
Before You Stop the World and Get Offthe-unibrow.com
First Footage From Warner Bros. and DC Studios’ ‘Dynamic Duo’ Promises Boldest Superhero Tale Since ‘Into the Spider-Verse’www.thewrap.com
Why a Brazilian Soap Star Is Beloved by Hundreds of Millions in Chinawww.hollywoodreporter.com
Tyler Spangler turned punk shows and a psychology degree into candy-coloured chaoswww.creativeboom.comRiley Ratcliff — the tinywww.thetinymag.com
A poetic, abstract piece exploring themes of connection, identity, and the merging of two beings through objects and gestures. The text uses fragmented imagery (pocket, flint, bone, flowering limb) to meditate on whether two can become one when an object becomes identical to a pe
How China still outworks the Westecon.st
The article profiles Yang Fuyu, a Chinese jade carver who won a national labour medal for his intricate craftsmanship. Despite his humble self-description as "simply a jade maker," his work involves months of painstaking effort transforming raw stone into elaborate mythological p
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