Covering the last 365 days

Art

Art on Scoop.it is active where exhibitions, public space and identity meet. In the last 365 days, the subject area gathers 37 topics and 66 posts, with recent activity reaching 2026-09-22.

The coverage is broad: museum exhibitions, women artists, African contemporary design, light art, installation, photography, digital and networked art, craft, illustration, art education and transmedia storytelling. It is fed by 33 curators, from long-running specialist topics to active streams on lighting, gender, African design and India Art n Design.

What is moving now is institutional and public. Museums are revisiting women artists and overlooked histories, light is being treated as civic artwork, African art coverage is linking artists to museum culture and fashion, and transmedia projects are being used for memory, participation and education.

Key figures

  • 37 topics
  • 33 curators
  • 1807421 views
  • September 22, 2026 last activity

Cross-cutting issues

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Museums are widening the canon, but visibility is still the fight

Recent selections frame recognition as an institutional process, from women artists returning to major museums to African art gaining stronger cultural infrastructure.

Lee Miller | Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris mam.paris.fr

The strongest current running through these topics is not simple rediscovery. Gender and art follows museum and gallery programming around Lee Miller, Carrie Mae Weems, Tracey Emin, Leonora Carrington and women artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, where the institution itself becomes part of the correction.

Afrodizziak adds a parallel story about cultural infrastructure. Its selections move from a young Gambian artist renewing traditional printmaking to Marie-Cécile Zinsou discussing museum culture in Benin and young artists presenting contemporary culture in Ethiopia.

Taken together, the posts show visibility as something built through exhibitions, collections, museum language and repeat coverage. The question is not only who is shown, but which histories now receive the institutional setting that makes them harder to ignore.

The mix also widens the geography of the art page. European and North American museum attention to women artists sits beside African contemporary art, design and museum-building, making canon repair and institution building part of the same conversation.

Further reading

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Art is moving from the gallery wall into public systems

Light art and African design coverage both show art becoming a matter of civic display, cultural infrastructure and public encounter.

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Lighting in art treats illumination as a public artwork, a technical culture and a field for specialists. The topic follows monumental projection, International Day of Light activity, open calls for light art residencies and urban lighting linked to cultural heritage.

The civic dimension matters. Xavier de Richemont’s projection for Liberty’s Beacon at the National WWI Museum and Memorial is described through light, color and public memory, while the lighting festival selection turns streets and rivers into the exhibition space.

Afrodizziak brings a useful counterpoint because it tracks how art and design circulate through public-facing systems too. Posts on museum culture in Benin and Ivory Coast fashion designers moving onto the international stage show visibility built through platforms, venues and audiences.

Across the two topics, art is less confined to the white cube. It appears as projection, festival, street atmosphere, fashion stage and museum ecology, where infrastructure shapes what the public can see.

Further reading

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Personal narrative is becoming an art-and-design format

Indian art-and-design media and the Robert Kasirer stream both turn space, learning and identity into publishable creative material.

From Page to Space: When the Book Expands Beyond Reading - India Art N Design indiaartndesign.com

India Art n Design - Art and India Art n Design - Creativity, Education & Business both frame design through experience. One post follows the book as it expands beyond reading; another presents architecture as a landscape for learning at Curiosity Cove.

The Robert Kasirer topic pushes the same pattern toward digital identity and personal transformation. Its selections connect a digital future for Jewish youth and a networked Jewish ecosystem with essays on skiing, wilderness trails and nature journeys.

The overlap is not stylistic. These streams treat design, learning and self-narration as linked forms of publication. A space, a book, a digital network and an outdoor journey all become ways to explain how people locate themselves.

This angle also shows how art-and-design coverage on Scoop.it can sit beside profile writing and reflective essays. The result is a broader archive of creative life, not only a record of objects and exhibitions.

Further reading

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Transmedia turns memory into a shared workspace

Across theatre, podcasts, student storytelling and digital community projects, transmedia is being used to preserve memory and invite participation.

ABORDA BIIYA!!, MIRANDO ADENTRO LA DISCAPACIDAD Y EL CAPACITISMO DESDE EL TEATRO TRANSMEDIA Y EL CIRCO CONTEMPORÁNEO | Prensa INBA - Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes | Teatro inba.gob.mx

Narrativa transmedia gathers projects where stories move across stage, podcast, research and education. The selections include theatre and contemporary circus addressing disability and ableism, a podcast documenting the music industry from within, and a project preserving languages and memories in Caribbean Colombian communities.

Memory is the recurring function. Students tell the Caribbean through stories and memory, while a Ceibal project combines time travel and music in an expanded universe. Transmedia is presented less as a novelty and more as a structure for participation and cultural retention.

The Robert Kasirer topic extends the digital-community side of that picture. Posts on a digital future for Jewish youth and a networked Jewish ecosystem show how identity work is also being described through connected platforms and shared access.

Together, these topics make transmedia look like a social method. It gives theatre, education, music documentation and community memory a way to cross formats while keeping participation at the center.

Further reading

Curators to follow

  • Caroline Claeys

    Maintains two gender-focused art topics and selects museum and exhibition material on women artists, feminist art and gender issues in art.

  • LIGHTING

    Keeps Lighting in art active with posts on public light events, monumental projections, urban lighting and opportunities for light art specialists.

  • Susan Myburgh

    Maintains Afrodizziak, a topic focused on contemporary African design, African art, crafts, museum culture and fashion.

  • India Art n Design

    Maintains two India Art n Design topics, covering art happenings, artist profiles, design education, creative spaces and business-facing design features.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of art topics are covered here?

This page brings together 37 art topics selected on Scoop.it over the last 365 days. The material spans exhibitions, women artists, African contemporary design, light art, installation, photography, digital and networked art, craft, illustration, art education and transmedia storytelling.

What is changing in art coverage right now?

Current movement is strongest around institutional visibility, public art systems and narrative forms. Recent posts highlight women artists in major museums, African museum culture and design, monumental light projection, urban lighting, Indian art-and-design publishing and transmedia projects linked to memory, education and participation.

Does this art page include digital and media art?

Yes. Several topics focus on digital practice, including Digital #MediaArt(s) Numérique(s), #Netart #Webart #Internetart, ASCII Art, Adobe Illustrator Tutorials and Art, Design & Technology. The recent cross-topic material also connects transmedia projects and digital community building with cultural memory and identity.

How are women artists represented in these topics?

Gender appears through dedicated topics on women artists, feminist art and gender issues in art. Recent selections include museum pages and exhibition coverage on Lee Miller, Carrie Mae Weems, Tracey Emin, Michaelina Wautier, Leonora Carrington and women artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam.

Where can I find public art and installation coverage?

Public art appears through light-based work, urban lighting, festivals, projections, installation, sculpture and artists in public spaces. The Lighting in art topic is especially active, with posts on a monumental projection in Kansas City, light art residencies and urban lighting linked to cultural heritage.

Who feeds the art topics on Scoop.it?

The material is fed by Scoop.it topic maintainers and other selectors. Among the active named contributors, C3 follows gender and art, C4 follows light in art, C8 follows contemporary African design, and C14 follows India Art n Design topics across art, creativity, education and business.

Most quoted sources

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  • robertkasirerca.com 1
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Updated on September 25, 2026