Weekly Round Up of the Week of the May 4

The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries.


An Art Fair for the “Global Majority” Debuts in Brooklyn


Conductor Art Fair at Powerhouse Arts seeks to represent the underrepresented, with some notable overlap with next week’s Venice Biennale.

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Paul McCarthy: ‘The world is now an extreme absurdity. The work is a reaction to that’


The veteran provocateur talks about his return to the enduring motif of Santa Claus, and his ongoing collaboration with the German actress Lilith Stangenberg, as an exhibition of his taboo-busting work opens in Paris.

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The Nature of Hope: A Photo Project Supporting Roots & Shoots and Vital Impacts


A global photographic project developed through Vital Impacts, the non-profit Vitale founded. At a time when climate anxiety dominates headlines, this initiative offers something rare and necessary: a perspective grounded not in despair, but in hope, legacy, and the enduring resilience of the natural world.

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Pittsburgh’s burgeoning gallery community readies for its moment in art world spotlight


As the latest Carnegie International arrives, Pittsburgh’s long-running and newer commercial art spaces make the case for a more supportive, sustainable and slower-paced scene

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15 Art Shows to See in NYC This May


Lynette Yiadom-Boakye captures quietude, Seydou Keïta documents a revolution, Renée Green compiles an autoethnography, and much more.

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