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.
Once a place where sea, desert, and palm groves coexisted in rare harmony, Tunisia’s Gabès Oasis stands today as one of the world’s most fragile cultural-environmental sites. At its heart is artist Mohamed Amine Hamouda, whose ecological practice offers a form of resistance—one built on memory, materials, and a return to ancestral knowledge.