Reborn House adapts to urban change while preserving memory
 
Located in a suburban area of Bangkok, the Reborn House project by DARE – Design Arena + Research sits in a village split by a new public road, transforming a serene area into a busy district. The 30-year-old house, influenced by Thailand’s early modern style with compartmentalized rooms, complex hip roofs, and wooden elements, required a transformation to address the loss of privacy, security, and green space caused by urban disruption. The clients requested a refreshed design and a new spatial experience that encourages family interaction while preserving the house’s spirit.
 
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A round of layoffs at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) this summer is raising alarms at one of the best-known arts schools in the country as the institution grapples with rising costs.  The Santa Clarita-based private arts school laid off 12 administrative employees in July, including five unionized workers and seven non-union workers, claiming in a schoolwide message that CalArts needed to cut expenses in the face of a $15 million deficit this year. But faculty and staff members are questioning the administration’s decision, arguing that the layoffs could harm the school’s ability to train and nurture the next generation of artists. “Everyone was disappointed in this having to happen at...

Ellipsoidal Greenhouse built for a Brooklyn community garden
 
SAW.Earth has directed a student workshop to create an ellipsoidal greenhouse, optimizing solar exposure for the Scholes Street Community Garden in Brooklyn, NY. Over 4 weeks, with students from the New York Institute of Technology Graduate School of Architecture and Design, the team constructed an ellipse-shaped greenhouse with tiered wooden shelving to maximize area along the sun path of the garden.
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SAW.Earth collaborates with students on the greenhouse design
 
Students, along with the design team at SAW.Earth, used cedar wood and copper flashing to allow for subtle aging over time. This marks the sixth...

As the White House reviews the Smithsonian's programming, Lonnie G. Bunch was called in to meet with the president and one of the aides leading the review

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Elmgreen & Dragset arrive in Los Angeles
 
Pace Gallery presents The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles by Elmgreen & Dragset, on view from September 13th through October 25th. Spanning the gallery’s main space and adjoining south gallery, the show explores shifts in perception through acts of doubling, resizing, and spatial reduplication.
 
The Berlin-based duo, known for sculptural interventions that probe identity and belonging, uses the gallery’s architecture as both stage and subject. Each artwork appears at full scale in the main hall, while exact half-size versions are replicated in a carefully constructed miniature of that same space.
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Initiated in 2006, the NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) is a celebration and international gathering for artists’ book publishers to distribute their work, connect with broad audiences, and nurture new and longstanding relationships. This year’s fair marks an exciting and long-awaited return to MoMA PS1, Printed Matter’s venue partner from 2009–2019, a pivotal decade in expanding the fair’s reach and impact, establishing NYABF as a cornerstone for the distribution of artists’ books and the preeminent gathering point for celebrating the form. This partnership also exemplifies a shared commitment to creating spaces where audiences can engage with new ideas and perspectives, while reaffirming Printed...

Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday over the unlawful termination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), reported Bloomberg Law. The museum expected to receive a $750,000 grant award towards its historic preservation program. In March, President Trump signed the executive order “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy,” which called for the IMLS to be “eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law” within seven days. That order followed another that shrank seven federal agencies, including the IMLS. According to a complaint filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of...

The institution is building on the success its 200 Creators programme last year

Emotional range prevails at the 78th Locarno Film Festival

In large-scale, elaborate oil paintings of powerful, glowing creatures, Martin Wittfooth explores the timeless cycles and forces of nature in a celebration of the sublime. Known for his enigmatic and atmospheric depictions of wild animals in dystopian settings, the artist blends traditional European painting techniques with critical contemporary concerns surrounding the human impact on the environment. Wittfooth’s new solo exhibition, Deus Ex Terra at Corey Helford Gallery, features 19 new oil paintings on canvas, linen, or wood panels. Some take the form of tondos 18 to 24 inches in diameter, while others assume vast proportions, like “Duel,” a diptych that spans 12 feet wide. The stallion also appears...

While Miami Beach fights to keep its famous rainbow crosswalk on Ocean Drive, the one in front of the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando—the site of a 2016 mass shooting—has been painted over

The five-bedroom Chelsea townhouse belonging to the late art gallerist Barbara Gladstone recently sold for $13.1 million, more than $1 million above its asking price, reports the New York Post. The historic home at 344 W. 22nd St was listed for $11.99 million. According to the New York Post, the 19th century brick Greek Revival rowhouse was purchased by an unnamed buyer in an all-cash deal which closed on August 27. The brokers for the home, Scott Hustis and Mark Jovanovic of Compass, also told the New York Post that the final price was a record per square foot for a Chelsea townhouse. Her namesake gallery, Gladstone Gallery, currently has locations in New York, Brussels, Seoul, and Rome. It has amassed a...

HENN refurbishes and expands iconic Staatstheater Augsburg
 
The Staatstheater Augsburg, originally built in the 19th century, is undergoing a comprehensive refurbishment and expansion led by HENN. Located in the historic center of Augsburg, Germany, the project is set to restore and update the Grosses Haus (Large House) while introducing two new structures, the Kleines Haus (Small House) and a service building, scheduled for completion by 2030.
 
The theater, designed by Viennese architects Fellner and Helmer and inaugurated in 1878, has long been a cultural landmark. Wartime destruction necessitated reconstruction of the outer walls in the 1950s, and the surviving historic fabric is now part of the...

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The National Gallery’s blockbuster exhibition, ‘Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers’, provided an unusual opportunity to see how the artist’s works have been framed by their owners

President Donald Trump had lunch on Thursday with Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, according to the New York Times. The meeting suggests that the Trump administration and the Smithsonian are in communication, even as the President continues to target its museums in official mandates, White House communications, and social media posts. Last week, for example, the White House released a bullet-pointed list of artworks at the Smithsonian’s museums that it appeared to denounce, including a painting of refugees along the US-Mexico border and a portrait of Anthony Fauci. Amy Sherald’s painting of a Black trans woman posing as the Statue of Liberty was also on that list; Sherald had...

The Woodmere had received around a quarter of a $750,000 federal grant it was awarded before the president signed an executive order revoking the funds

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The Headlines PROGRESS REPORT. Since Donald Trump took office for his second term, the Department of Homeland Security has used its social media to post artworks that ostensibly speak to American greatness, rankling some, including the Thomas Kinkade Foundation, which said it was considering legal action over the unauthorized usage of the artist’s work. But what did DHS really mean when it posted an image of American Progress, an 1872 painting by John Gast, a German immigrant who allegorized Manifest Destiny by showing Native Americans being forced out of his picture? The New York Times explored the matter and approached Stephen Aron, the director of the Autry Museum of the American...

My recollections of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in Louisiana twenty years ago today, come with a pair of odd bookends: it starts with Verdi’s Don Carlo and ends with Puccini’s Il trittico.

Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Summer $1,800 Innovate Grants for Art + PhotoFeaturedInnovate Grant awards two $1,800 grants each quarter to one visual artist and one photographer. In addition, twelve applicants will receive honorable mentions, be featured on the website, and join a growing community. International artists and photographers working in any medium are eligible.Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PST on September 10, 2025.   Open Calls PHOTOcentric 2025: “State of Our Union” (International)Garrison Art Center invites photographers to...

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Upcycled train strap handles form WA lamp by Akasaki & Vanhuyse
 
WA is a table lamp designed by Akasaki & Vanhuyse, produced from reused train components of the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line 8500 series, which was retired in January 2023. Around 1,400 resin strap handles were collected, cleaned, and repurposed into a limited edition of 150 lamps, with the project emphasizing both reuse and sustainable production methods.
 
The strap handles were chosen for their circular form and availability in large numbers, making them suitable for upcycling. Each piece was inspected and graded based on imperfections, then sandblasted to remove the glossy coating and produce a matte finish. Surface marks such as scratches and...

The 1966 Bayreuth Festival production of Tristan and Isolde, conducted by Karl Böhm provides Nilsson with the cast she truly deserved, including Wolfgang Windgassen, Christa Ludwig, Martti Talvela, and Eberhard Waechter.

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Ann Hamilton (b. 1956) is an American visual artist, known for her large-scale multimedia installations, performance pieces and public projects. In 2012, she transformed the Museum of Modern Art in New York into a gargantuan field of swings, fabric and rope for the event of a thread. Other key works include indigo blue (1991), for which she presented a mound of 14,000 pounds of disassembled blue work uniforms; and privation and excesses (1989), which covered a 45 x 32-foot concrete floor with 750,000 honey-coated pennies. Hamilton is highly acclaimed: a MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and representative of the United States at the 1999 Venice Biennale. She has exhibited extensively around the world, with major...

he glass figurines in Lola Gil’s latest work are essentially still lifes. She owns each one, treasures each one. Holds and manipulates them to understand their qualities, their quirks. She depicts everything about them except her own fingerprints on their surface Read all about Lola Gil by clicking above.
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The Molina Family Latino Gallery at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, which has served as the home of the nascent Latino museum, will stay closed until April 2026. (all images courtesy Felipe Galindo) On Friday morning, August 22, illustrator Felipe Galindo Gómez opened his email to find a note from his friend. “Have you seen this?” the message read, and linked to the White House’s bullet-pointed list targeting Smithsonian artworks and exhibitions. There it was: an image of his 1999 illustration “4th of July from the south border.” Since 2022, Galindo’s work had been reproduced on a label about anti-immigrant prejudice as part of ¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States...

SAN MARINO, Calif. — Standing in the gallery of Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight, you are bathed in oceanic, cobalt blue light. The buzz of neon lights drones in the background. It’s hard to say if the temperature has truly dropped, or if it’s psychosomatic, that the atmosphere has cooled your skin just by the power of suggestion. You’re floating in space, or suspended underwater — gravity works differently here. The phases of the moon are painted on the wall in a matte metallic silver, and a small poem by Saar is draped across the wall: “The moon keeps vigil as a lone canoe drifts into a sea of tranquility seeking serenity in the twilight.” In the middle of the room, a long canoe, 17 feet...

Since 1973, Vincent van Gogh masterpieces including his beloved sunflowers, wistful wheatfields, and self-portraits have been housed in Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. The institution was established via a historic 1962 agreement between the painter’s nephew and the Dutch government to ensure the long-term preservation of hundreds of paintings, drawings, and letters comprising van Gogh’s oeuvre.Now, the museum says that the collection’s future is uncertain, citing a dispute with the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) over the funding for costly maintenance repairs and sustainability efforts mandated by the state. In a legal complaint, the institution claims that the Dutch government is...

A Banksy that startled London last summer has been packed away until its next act: a starring role in the London Museum. The work, which features a fish tank full of Piranhas, appeared overnight on August 11, 2024, as one of nine animal-themed interventions the artist installed across the capital over nine consecutive days. Painted on the windows of a police sentry box in the financial district, the mural transformed the booth into a fish tank. Looking closer, though, viewers would find that fish aren’t harmless—they’re piranhas with serrated teeth. Critics suggested the piece alluded to Damien Hirst’s pickled shark, repositioned here as a comment on surveillance and policing. The City of London...

Teiger Foundation on August 27 announced that it has awarded a total of $7 million to eighty-five curators working at more than sixty art institutions in the United States and Puerto Rico. Each will receive between $50,000 and $150,000. The funds support three years of programming for contemporary-art curators at institutions with budgets of $3.5 […]

Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum in an August 27 press release said it would be forced to shutter if the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science does not pony up the funds necessary for a much-needed refurbishment. The New York Times reports that the museum, which houses more than two hundred paintings and roughly five […]

Rendered in delicately cross-hatched ink, dozens of figures inhabit towering structures or assemble in crowds in the elaborate scenes of Pittsburgh-based artist Ben Tolman. Evoking the playfulness of Where’s Waldo? and the optical illusions of M.C. Escher, the artist conjures what Galerie LJ calls “a kind of human zoo.” Opening next month, the gallery presents Tolman’s solo exhibition, Control, the title of which takes its cue from current events. Throughout the last 15 years, the artist has channeled an undercurrent of disconnection and imagined dystopian settings. His forthcoming show acknowledges the uncomfortable notion that some of these elements have become disconcertingly close to reality....

For two and a half decades and across five continents, Janet Echelman (previously) has established spaces for gathering, although her approach emerges from an unusual angle. The artist is known for suspending enormous nets from ceilings and outdoor structures, which often cast colorful shadows or glowing light onto their surroundings. Swaying with gusts of wind, the architectural installations invite viewers to pause and meditate on interconnectedness. Now, the artist’s works are collected in a monograph titled Radical Softness: The Responsive Art of Janet Echelman. Published by Princeton Architectural Press and edited by Gloria Sutton, the tome chronicles Echelman’s evolution while situating her practice...

Wagner month at Parterre Box concludes in grand and explosive style: octogenarian Hanna Schwarz and sexagenarian Karita Mattila in crucial moments from Das Rheingold and Lohengrin.

ART AFRICA recently donated hundreds of back issues of the magazine to universities, residencies, and arts organisations across Johannesburg and Pretoria, making parts of our archive more accessible to local audiences in the region. © […]

Chennai hosts StoneX’s multisensory journey of art, culture, and craftsmanship. Courtesy of StoneX. Chennai will play host to an evening where stone becomes story, and story transforms into memory. On 29 August 2025, under the […]

A weekend of exhibitions, competitions, and new ways of collecting art across Johannesburg. In just two days, the streets, studios, and galleries of Johannesburg will be transformed into a city-wide celebration of art, fashion, and […]

In 1977, Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) – alongside three other female performers – stepped out in front of an audience dressed as an oven, refrigerator, washing machine and sink. They were taking part in In The Kitchen, Chadwick’s degree show piece, now considered a seminal example of feminist art. First performed at London’s Chelsea College, where Chadwick studied for an MA, it playfully yet incisively critiques gendered stereotypes. It set her on course to make a huge cultural impact. Ten years later, she became one of the first women artists to be nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize. Life Pleasures is a major retrospective of Chadwick, now open at The Hepworth Wakefield. It’s the first in over...

 
There’s just one week left to submit your images for AUTO PHOTO Awards 2025, before the deadline on 04 September 2025 (5pm BST).
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Anonymous Was a Woman (AWAW) in collaboration with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has named the 2025 recipients of funds from AWAW’s Environmental Art Grants (EAG) program, Artnews reports. Twenty-nine projects led by women-identifying artists from across the United States and its territories whose work addresses ecological concerns will receive grants of […]

Between 1935 and 1944, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) spurred a unique documentary project. The government outfit, organized as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, provided aid to rural families during the Great Depression. The global economic crisis spanned 1929 to 1939 and was compounded in North America by the Dust Bowl, a severe drought exacerbated by poor agricultural practices and strong winds. Many farmers and their families were forced to migrate as, in some cases, their livelihoods essentially blew away. Roy E. Striker, head of the Information Division of the FSA, had the foresight to hire a group of renowned photographers to chronicle the realities of the living conditions in rural...

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This summer’s Glyndebourne cast in a live broadcast from the BBC Proms

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Chris’s Cache offers Nadine Sierra and Xabier Anduaga, the stars of the upcoming production of La sonnambula, in a performance of another favorite bel canto opera

Nadav Kander (b. 1961) is a master image maker. He is a Prix Pictet award-winner whose work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum. Kander has photographed presidents, celebrities and cultural figures, as well as turning his lens to landscapes, from China’s Yangtze river to Chernobyl. Last year, the major survey exhibition The Edge of Things, curated by Fany Dupechez, brought together some of his most celebrated pictures – including portraits of director Werner Herzog, actor Rosamund Pike and the late David Lynch. Acclaimed art writer David Campany described this work as: “pensive, laden with possibility.” Whatever the genre, whomever...

Storytelling, at its most powerful, is never just about what’s in front of the camera. It’s also about what lies behind it – the hands that hold it, the eyes that frame the shot, the journey that leads to a particular moment of focus. In a compelling new collaboration between Aesthetica and MPB, the UK’s top camera reseller, filmmakers are invited to explore this intersection of memory, technology and artistic growth through MPB: The Next Shot, a call to reflect on the cameras that have shaped their creative practice. At its heart, this initiative is about storytelling: not just the narratives captured on film, but the personal and intimate story of the tools that made them possible. MPB: The Next...

Corn, tomatoes and potatoes feel like staples of the European diet. They’re grown in abundance across the continent, served in national dishes and on dinner tables every day. In reality, they were introduced by Christopher Columbus in 1492, who brought them back from the “New World.” The same can be said of decorative flowers like rhododendron and cherry laurel, imported by researchers for their beautiful and tropical appearance. These plants, often assumed to be part of local heritage, in fact tell stories of colonialism, extraction and global migration. Phyto-Travellers, a new exhibition from Paris and Karlsruhe-based land artist Eva-Maria Lopez, draws this reality into sharp focus. The show reckons...

Sasol New Signatures 2024 winner explores speculative mysticism through sculptural inventions and interactive devices. Miné Kleynhans, Orbea kako-occultus. 3D printed object, resin, hot glue, fabric, Perspex, marbles and weed eater trimmer line, 85 x 180 […]

From weaving to candle-making, the show celebrates the intimacy of materials and offers hands-on workshops that allow visitors to experience the process firsthand. Installation view of ‘When Surfaces Speak’ at La Motte Ateljee. Courtesy of […]

Asia Art Archive (AAA) has named Istanbul-born curator Özge Ersoy as its next executive director. Ersoy, who joined the Hong Kong-based research and cultural organization in 2017 as public programs chief before rising to become senior curator there, will assume her new role in September. She succeeds artist Christopher K. Ho, who led the nonprofit […]

ear the dawn of the twenty-first century, Brian Dettmer was primarily a painter. But one day he embarked on a series of works where he applied the torn pages of newspapers and books to his canvases. “I liked the idea that the information actually existed there on the canvas, even though it wasn’t really readable,” he recalls on a recent phone call. “It became more of a visual archive.” Those collaged canvases led to sculptures made from stacks of books, which he would carve in ways where the alterations were not obvious until the viewer came close to the piece. While making one such sculpture, Dettmer noticed a landscape inside a book, carved around it and peeled back more pages. As he did that, a...

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The realities that Hattie Stewart manifests have a carnival quality—gleaming, trashy fun with a slightly sinister undertone like golden midway tokens that rust and then jingle in your hand like they are laughing at you for believing the gold was real anyway. “Nothing brings me more joy,” Stewart says, “than taking a clean blank page and filling every inch of it with colors and imagined worlds.” Read Clayton Schuster's full article on the artist by clicking above.
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By Betty Ann Brown An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.                    ~Ruth Asawa  ...

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