the San Francisco Art Institute announced that was looking for a new business model that it would allow it to remain open. The statement comes a month after the 149-year-old art school (for a time known as the California School of Fine Arts) first revealed that it would suspend all its academic degree programmes after the summer and close indefinitely. The institution has said it intends to offer studio art classes and public programmes while it looks for new partners.
At Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai, Indian contemporary artist Manish Nai invites viewers to reconsider the materials that surround them. In In Search of Material within Material, a solo exhibition bringing together works created between 2021 and 2026, discarded objects, industrial surfaces and familiar everyday materials become the starting point for an exploration of form, memory and transformation.