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Community ### A View From the Easel “Going back there is a psychological, conscious choice to enter the space and interact with the energy.”Art Movements ### An Artist Reimagines Frieze London's Loos Gray Wielebinski's scented artworks for the fair's bathrooms, Michelle Grabner’s gift to a Wisconsin museum, Gagosian's real estate footprint shrinks, and other news.Community ### Required Reading This week: a Renaissance altarpiece returns home, Yoko Ono at the Broad, the anti-AI writing movement, an uncertain future for butterfly collectors, the harp is hot again, and more.Interview ### Simone Forti Talks Yoko Ono, Dance, and Aging in Never-Before-Published Interview “I remember sitting with Yoko on a ledge on the PS1 roof and talking together comfortably,” said the late performance artist. “It was restful.”## Featured### AI Companies Are Pulping Our Humanity The recent revelation about Anthropic’s systematic digitization and destruction of out-of-print books portends a rapacious future, one where soulless LLMs swell while the shelves starve.### Opportunities in August 2026 Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Erie Canal Museum, Jentel Artist Residency, Princeton University, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.### Madrid Museum Puts Picasso in Dialogue With "African Guernica" Dumile Feni’s monumental drawing is part of the Museo Reina Sofía's new program "History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme."### Art Problems: Why Are There So Many Toxic People in the Art World? Paddy Johnson with essential tips on how to protect yourself from insecure peers and bad-faith actors.### Betye Saar, Who Opened Portals Between Worlds, Dies at 99 Her visionary assemblages recast the debris of American history into monuments of Black resilience and liberation.### Giant Wieners, Drag Queens, and Curtis Sliwa at “The Most American Pageant Ever!” The absurdist performance art event at Times Square felt more like an elegy during this national moment.Get the best of Hyperallergic sent straight to your inbox.