Nomad Studio’s charred circle holds memory, loss, and rebirth
 
In the burn scar left by the 2022 wildfire in Sabinares del Arlanza – La Yecla Natural Park, Spain, Nomad Studio places Socarrado, a circular structure built entirely from charred juniper trunks recovered after the blaze. First conceived for the Uncommissioned Exhibition by Novo Collective, the work becomes a point of collective reflection for the communities of Santo Domingo de Silos, transforming damaged terrain into a site of memory, refuge, and healing. Its unexpected impact on visitors ultimately led local authorities in Burgos to keep the installation embedded in the landscape rather than dismantle it as originally planned.
 
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Sotheby’s has unveiled the full contents of its Old Master and 19th century evening sale, slated for December 3 in London, saying the works are defined by “exceptional and scholarly significance and rare discoveries.” Of the 31 works, half have been hidden from public view for more than a century, while 12 have not been seen on the secondary market in 40 years. The house said the auction is one of the “greatest assemblages of Old Masters presented at Sotheby’s London in the last six years.”Among the top lots are Hans Eworth’s Portrait of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1652), which is making its auction debut with a high estimate of £3 million. The house said it “offers a striking glimpse...

From a variety of natural colors of clay, Léonore Chastagner sculpts tender representations of the human form. She details the wrinkles on one’s knuckles, the creases in a pair of denim jeans, and the intricate layers of a loosely folded T-shirt. “I use clay as one uses a diary: to record the feelings of daily life and the things that surround me,” Chastagner tells Colossal. “I take interest in what’s in front of me when I’m alone: my apartment, clothes, small gestures of the body.” Untitled (2022), ceramic, 51 x 65 x 45 centimeters. Photo by jclett Chastagner’s background in art history also influences her work, especially through the lens of archaeology and the often mysterious origins or...

Last week, some $2.2 billion worth of art was sold in a string of evening auctions that grabbed headlines. The art market media declared a once-again "healthy" market reemerging from a protracted slump. "The entire week becomes a choreographed attempt to convince the world that everything is fine, that the market is strong, that the system still works," writes artist Damien Davis in our top piece this week. "But everything is not fine. And most of the people making the work that keeps this machine running know it." While Davis writes from the perspective of the 99% of artists who don't partake in this blue-chip carnival, Marc Straus writes as a veteran art dealer who's been around the auction block...

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Violence and resilience have long existed side by side, shaping the contours of human history. Seeds of Hate and Hope, the Sainsbury Centre’s latest exhibition, brings together the work of seven artists – Hew Locke, Indrė Šerpytytė, Ishiuchi Miyako, Kimberly Fulton Orozco, Mona Hatoum, Peter Oloya, and William Kentridge – each responding in their own way to global mass atrocities. From genocides and ethnic cleansing to war crimes and crimes against humanity, the exhibition examines how artists across the 20th and 21st centuries have witnessed, experienced and interpreted acts of violence. The focus is not on images of suffering but on reflections that explore grief, memory and the possibility of...

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ZDA Designs Richter Gedeon’s Flagship Headquarters in Budapest
 
ZDA introduces Richter Gedeon’s new headquarters, a flagship workplace where innovation, nature, and architectural precision converge. The building stands at the intersection of heritage and high-performance design. With operations in over 50 countries and more than 12,000 employees worldwide, Richter Gedeon’s new headquarters in Budapest acts as the central hub for global strategy and management. The 17,400 sqm building accommodates 400 permanent workstations, a 120-seat auditorium, and community spaces including a 150-seat restaurant and generous green rooftop gardens, all brought together with a focus on human-centered design and...

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Ghiotto Boccia Ramp Encourages Inclusive Interaction in Schools
 
Ghiotto is a boccia ramp designed to support social interaction among children with and without disabilities in school environments. Developed by Diego Reggiani as a university project within a design laboratory at Politecnico di Milano, it was selected for the shortlist of the iF Design Student Award. Rooted in the principles of universal design, the project addresses a crucial challenge: enabling children who use wheelchairs to build meaningful relationships from a young age. Play is a simple, powerful tool for fostering early inclusion and counteracting the isolation that many disabled adults still face. In addition to its social impact, the...

The Henry Moore Institute's new show, ‘Beyond the Visual’, unpacks the value of the haptic and how perception involves all the senses

The long-term maintenance of public art raises questions about funding and who is responsible

Minna Väisänen is making animations with Grok. At 56, they're exploring what happens when digital tools tear down old gatekeeping. You don't need to beg a production house for gear anymore—you just open a laptop and build your own world. The speed and access are wild. And yes, for women especially, that shift mattered. The old art structures were rigged—"genius" was a word reserved for men with handlers and mistresses. Digital tools let women skip the permission stage. You can self-publish,...

The Château de Versailles and the Château de Chambord have also announced new pricing structures

Each year, the UK experiences an average of 156 days of rain. That’s almost every other day. It was during one of these downpours that artist Yihan Pan (b. 2002) found inspiration for her practice. She recalls: “at night, I found myself beside the swan pond in the heavy rain and saw the water on the swan’s surface rolling and changing. The world became unnamable again.” Pan was born in Beijing in 2002 and is now based in London, having studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts before completing an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art. Throughout her studies, she developed a body of work that explores the tension between permanence and dissolution. At the heart of her practice is a careful...

SIGLA Studio Designs a Flexible Brick residence in spain
 
SIGLA Studio completes Patio House in Cardedeu, Spain, a single-family home that treats time as material and method. Conceived for a young couple with two children leaving behind a cramped, compartmentalized apartment, the project offers generous light, direct outdoor connection, and the ability for the house to evolve with changing family life. Built almost entirely within the limits of a narrow, deep plot, the house forms a protective brick perimeter around two inner patios, described by the architects as ‘lungs’, an organizational strategy that gives the family privacy, cross-ventilation, and a slow, measured relationship to daylight.
 
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“You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.” These words from Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), speak to our enduring desire to communicate – through everything from paintings on cave walls to today’s social media feeds. Lin Cheng (b. 1993) demonstrates that there is no single way to tell a story. She works across a variety of media – including illustration, printmaking and moving image – and is committed to exploring the complexities of human experience through these multiple forms of expression, uplifting the voices of others in the process. Silent Absence (2022–2024) is a key example of Cheng’s attentive and...

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Ben Luke speaks to The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief in the Americas, Ben Sutton, about the selection of Alma Allen for the US pavilion, explores a new exhibition on queerness in Islamic art and meets curators from Canada's National Gallery

This study of the first decade of the Artists International Association, set up in the years before the Second World War, focusses the group’s impact as well as its lesser-known figures

Brendan Dawes is a British artist and designer renowned for his playful yet thought-provoking explorations of data, technology, and everyday objects. Rooted in the ethos of remix culture, Dawes’s work often re-contextualises existing materials to examine how people experience the physical and digital worlds. Nothing Can Ever Be The Same, commissioned for Biennale Musica 2023 in Venice, is a 168-hour real-time generative film. The film uses bespoke generative technology developed for the Academy Award-shortlisted documentary Eno, continuously evolves, ensuring no two versions are ever alike. This living audiovisual system explores code, data and chance as artistic tools, pushing the boundaries of cinema. The...

hong kong’s annual design festival detour returns in december
 
deTour 2025: The Shape of Yearning takes over Hong Kong from 28 November to 7 December 2025, transforming the creative hub into a ten-day festival of exhibitions, installations, workshops, tours, and performances. Curated by designer Adonian Chan and organized by PMQ with sponsorship from the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA), the 2025 edition invites visitors to explore desire and design through the festival’s guiding ‘Design Trichotomy’ framework. Spanning the Courtyard & Marketplace and the Qube, the program features 17 installations and exhibits by creatives from Hong Kong, Mainland China, and abroad,...

Earth Day does not officially arrive until the spring, but this winter several museums are getting things started early with ecologically minded exhibitions. The São Paulo Museum of Art is continuing its yearlong series of environmentalist art exhibitions with a solo show by Minerva Cuevas, the Jeu de Paume in Paris is positioning Martin Parr as an artist concerned about our climate, and the Vancouver Art Gallery is surveying Emily Carr’s paintings with a focus on her portrayals of roiled nature. Other forward-looking institutional shows explore how artists project themselves into the future. A Museum of Modern Art exhibition about African photography considers how the medium reflected the desire for...

A heartfelt celebration marking the artist’s 40-year journey, bringing together reflection, community, and the insistence on personal truth Senzo Shabangu, We must unite or perish, 2023. Acrylic paint on canvas, 130 x 130cm. Courtesy of […]

Christie’s London is preparing to send another trove of works amassed by the late Sam Josefowitz to the auction block on December 3. Titled “The Sam Josefowitz Collection: Graphic Masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn – Part III,” it follows the sales of Part I and Part II over the last two years, which netted the house a combined £13.5 million.This time around, 101 prints by the Dutch master will be up for grabs during Christie’s Classic Week. “Rembrandt’s etchings were an enduring passion for the late Sam Josefowitz, whose collection of the Dutch master’s graphic works remains unparalleled by any other 20th-century collector,” the house said in a statement. “This sale presents the final...

A Fully Funded Residency Supporting Palestinian Artistic Practice Gasworks has opened applications for its 2026 Residency for Palestinian Artists, an eleven-week fully funded opportunity designed to support emerging and mid-career practitioners working anywhere in the […]

Curators Courage Dzidula Kpodo, Maria Pia Bernardoni and Robin Beth Riskin reflect on expanding photographic language, revitalising historic sites, and charting new pathways toward freedom. Good People, 2024. © Khanya Zibaya LagosPhoto enters a new […]

While Robert Musil’s century-old adage that “there is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument” still rings true in some ways, many monuments today feel more visible than ever. Statues of Cecil Rhodes and Robert E. Lee have collapsed under the pressures of public protest, exposing monuments for what they really are: flashpoints where histories are negotiated and mythologies are formed. In Monumental: How a New Generation of Artists Is Shaping the Memorial Landscape (2025), art historian Cat Dawson identifies the roots of contemporary artists’ confrontation of monumentality by locating its watershed moment. Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety” (2014), a 75-foot (~22.9-meter) sugar sculpture,...

Summer Moraes reflects on the legacy of late trans artist Greer Lankton, whose hauntingly beautiful dolls offer companionship to the misfits, in Dazed:For Lankton, dolls were more than just kitschy objects – they were powerful, emotional extensions of herself. “(My dolls) are all freaks. Outsiders. Untouchables,” she once said. “They’re like biographies – the kind of people you’d like to know about. Really interesting and fucked up.”Lankton’s dolls were born as much from necessity as from imagination. “She wasn’t allowed to have a doll as a kid,” Monroe tells Dazed. “So, she made them – first with flowers, then with socks. Then she realised she could bend hangers to create arms so...

Welcome to the 313th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists paint to the sounds of washing machines and commune with ancestors while they work.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Mieke Marple, Los Angeles, CaliforniaHow long have you been working in this space?My garage? Since right before my daughter was born, so almost three years.Describe an average day in your studio.It looks like me doing laundry while masking off a painting or running the dishwasher while airbrushing some final painting...

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.After Much Ado, Alma Allen Gets the Venice GigAfter several, shall we say, setbacks, the United States finally has a representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale. Alma Allen will explore "the concept of 'elevation'" as a "physical manifestation of form," according to the Department of State. OK. Read our full report here. We're Not All Fam at PhAMWelcome to this week's installment of "What in the World Is Happening at the Philadelphia Art Museum?" Daniel Weiss, whose name might ring a bell due to his previous gig as director of The Met,...

Greta Thunberg and several members of the Extinction Rebellion environmental group turned Venice’s Grand Canal bright green on Monday to protest what they view as the world’s slow progress in transitioning away from fossil fuels.They dropped non-toxic fluorescein dye into the canal from boats, making it look like a radioactive, toxic soup. The stunt was one of a series of demonstrations at lakes, fountains, and waterways across 10 Italian cities in the wake of the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Brazil. Thunberg and her fellow activists also unfurled a banner reading “Stop Ecocide” from Venice’s Rialto Bridge to highlight “the massive effects of climate...

Zorg (Yifan Jing) (b. 1998) is a London-based visual artist whose practice is grounded in field research. A graduate in illustration from Goldsmiths, University of London, he investigates the intersections of migration, cultural symbolism and collective memory. His work has been exhibited internationally – in New York, Paris, Tbilisi, Las Vegas, Shanghai and London – in shows that highlight his ongoing engagement with communities and the ways in which environments shape, and are shaped by, the people who inhabit them. A major work to highlight is Clover (2024). This intricately designed, multi-paned window sculpture is the result of long-term research in a diverse area of East London, home to communities...

Through large-scale tapestries of fringed strips of fabric, Abdoulaye Konaté explores the contemporary relevance of ancient signs and symbols. The Malian artist began working with textiles in the 1990s, when it became clear to him how prevalent they are in our everyday lives, from clothing and home goods to tools and more. This early interest began what’s become a research-driven artistic practice, and today, he layers long, stitched pieces of Bazin and Kente fabrics into dynamic, largely abstract works. Konaté and his team create each monumental tapestry entirely by hand, from the dyeing process to cutting and stitching. The final layout typically occurs on the studio floor after the artist sketches in...

 
Who doesn’t love a good photo book? To flick through the pages, be enlightened, educated, distracted and absorbed into another world through another’s eyes? Totally fantastic!
We’re here to share our Photobook Favourites – a selection of our favourite photography books recommended by the Shutter Hub community, an archive of titles we’ve enjoyed, and a reference point for you to explore.
The Colour of Money and Trees, Tony Dočekal, VOID
The Colour of Money and Trees, Tony Dočekal, VOID
The photographs in ‘The Color of Money and Trees’ were made by Dutch photographer Tony Dočekal during several visits to Arizona and California. While volunteering for an organisation working with the unhoused,...

Exploring a practice where tactility, ornament, and material play unsettle the boundaries of contemporary art Installation view of ‘I Like to Like What Others Are Liking’ at Sharjah Art Foundation. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art […]

For the past three days, Los Angeles–based artist Brittany Fanning has posted the same picture to her Instagram grid. It shows two grinning men in double-breasted suits, complete with pocket squares. In her caption, she identifies them as brothers Jackson Navin and Matthew Navin, of London-based gallery Pictorum Art Group. In a separate posting, Fanning says that she is still owed money from the gallery related to a group show she participated in three years ago.  During the course of her campaign, Fanning said she learned that other artists are claiming to be in a similar situation and have also not received payment from Pictorum. One of these artists, Finn Johnson, received a court judgment ordering...

South Korean painter and sculptor Lee Ufan, a key figure of the Mono-ha movement, has been named the winner of the thirty-second Wolfgang Hahn Prize, presented by the Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. The museum, which sponsors the prize, will put €100,000 (about $115,000) in member donations toward purchasing work […]

Upper part of leather shoe with gold decoration TŘEBÍČ, CZECH REPUBLIC—An excavation conducted in the historic center of the town of Třebíč has revealed thirteenth-century carved pottery, the upper part of a leather shoe decorated with gold, a bakery, a blacksmith’s workshop, a timber processing area, a millet drying facility, and a possible stable, according to a Radio Prague International report. Founded in the twelfth century in Moravia, Třebíč is located in what is now the southeastern Czech Republic. Archaeologist Aleš Hoch said that the unusual shoe is rare evidence of the town’s early elite. “We know of only a few [similar] pieces from Wrocław in Poland; otherwise they’re not well...

Wolf upper arm bone STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—According to a statement released by Stockholm University, an international team of scientists suggests that people may have transported Eurasian gray wolves to the Swedish island of Stora Karlsö in the Baltic Sea as early as 5,000 years ago. The island, which has no native land mammals, was used by seal hunters and fishers during the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age. Analysis of the remains of two of the canids found no evidence of dog ancestry, but the animals did eat a diet rich in seals and fish, which was likely provided by humans. The wolves were also found to be smaller than typical mainland wolves. One of the animals exhibited low genetic diversity, which can...

Across Tokyo, museums and galleries are taking up fraught national histories

“I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that our perceived reality is shaped by our minds and reflecting our inner world,” says artist Michelle Blancke, whose ethereal photographs of trees, glens, and foliage invite us into a familiar yet uncanny world. Her lens-based practice explores themes of interdependence, consciousness, and concealment, especially through the subject of nature. Blancke’s vivid Secret Garden series comprises a total of five sub-categories: Realm, Ascent, Essence, Veins, and Origin. Whether capturing the waxy surface of an intricately veined leaf or the way vines create shadowy veils over gnarled trees, she’s interested in relationships between “transformation, mysticism, and...

BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND—ABC News Baltimore reports that Maryland State Terrestrial Archaeologist Zachary Singer and State Geologist Rebecca Kavage Adams are investigating stone tools made and used by Clovis hunters some 13,000 years ago at central Maryland’s Piney Grove site. The site was discovered during road construction in 2001. “Every piece of chalcedony we’ve found at the site has been worked, has been flaked,” Singer said. “The chalcedony must have been found nearby because we’re finding lots of evidence of people breaking down larger pieces to make hunting tools,” he explained. Adams has analyzed the stone and is now looking for its source among stone outcrops in the region that...

Wayne White’s pictures start with thrift store paintings... White seizes on a startup surface that was a middle class decorator staple in the ‘50s and ‘60s.. read Mat Gleason's article on the artist by clicking above!
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Carmen Dominguez is working with gift tissue as transparencies. At 56, they're doing more woven paper art, experimenting with combining traditional home crafts with abstract imagery. They're exploring the themes of reconciling historical alienation with contemporary reality. They're influenced by absurdist humor—DADA, found art, art brut, home crafting, and graffiti. They must call themselves "entry-level" but they have 20 years of creating art at home. Self-taught. Southern California, urban...

PETÉN, GUATEMALA—Part of a game board dated to the fifth century A.D. has been discovered embedded in the floor of a building in northern Guatemala’s Maya site of Naachtun, according to a Phys.org report. Julien Hiquet and Rémi Méreuze of the French National Center for Scientific Research estimate that more than 475 red and orange pottery pieces would have been used to lay out the complete game board, measuring about 30 inches wide by 43 inches long. The building where the game board was found is in a residential area, and may have been the home of an elite family or a small administrative building. Smaller boards for the game, known as patolli in historic documents and codices, have been found drawn or...

In 2024, while Timo Fahler was out for a run in Los Angeles, he came across a discarded bedspring. It lingered in his studio for months until one day, its thirteen rows of springs revealed themselves as the red and white stripes of the American flag. It also turned out to be the last work he made in the U.S. before he and his family relocated to The Netherlands. Fahler’s slouched “flag” is one of a number of recent stained glass sculptures on view in his solo exhibition Terminal Classic at Sebastian Gladstone that reference major changes in the artist’s personal life and the U.S.’s tumultuous socio-political climate. Time becomes slippery as he taps into imagery that is both contemporary and ancient....

The Biennale's eighth edition focuses on the city-state's idiosyncrasies

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A Major Platform Supporting Emerging Artistic Talent in the UAE Applications are now open for the 2026 Christo and Jeanne Claude Award, an annual initiative designed to support the next generation of UAE-based artists. Presented […]

Experience design firm Murmur Ring, in partnership with Empathy and the Institute of Design, invites artists, designers, makers, and creatives of all kinds to join the Reclaiming Value: Sacred Valley Design Immersion from June 15 to 19, 2026, in Peru’s Sacred Valley. The Colossal team previously joined Murmur Ring for a transformative week-long immersion in Oaxaca, Mexico, and looks forward to joining this excursion, as well. This is not a tourist program. Mumur Ring’s Immersions are creative exchanges born from years of research and relationship-building. Intimate site visits with Peruvian makers and innovators offer rare, behind-the-scenes access to the perspectives, techniques, and community-centered...

The Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM) has filed a civil suit against former director and CEO Sasha Suda, accusing her of theft. The filing, which claims that Suda “misappropriated funds from the Museum and lied to cover up her theft,” is the latest twist in a saga that began earlier this month when the institution, until […]

Stephen Friedman Gallery has announced that it will shutter its New York outpost at the end of February 2026. The gallery, which had moved to its TriBeCa space just over two years ago, will continue to operate its London flagship, in business since 1995, and has said it will maintain its full artist roster. Stephen […]

PAPHOS, CYPRUS—Kathimerini Cyprus reports that researchers led by Lindy Crewe of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) are excavating a Bronze Age settlement at Kissonerga-Kalia in southwestern Cyprus. The site was first inhabited from around 2500 to 1600 B.C. Crewe and her team determined that by about 1750 B.C., the residents razed older buildings on the northern side of the settlement, pushed the debris down a slope, and reused it to create a platform measuring some 13,000 square feet. A system of massive walls and open courtyards was then built with mud and plaster on this terrace. The researchers think this structure was used as workshop space that included an L-shaped courtyard...

"Even though I would hope to be remembered as a portrait artist—canonizing the image of Indigenous people within art history—I am constantly set upon side quests,” says multidisciplinary Canadian artist Wally Dion.. read the full article by clicking above.
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Cartoonist Jay Howell is "looking forward to the next thing, always". Click above to read the full article.
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At 75, Cindy Zimmerman is developing a workshop on making artist books for Banned Books Week at San Diego Central Library. They're also working on Mobile Monument, rolling activist art for protests, parades, and exhibitions, amplifying words purged during the first weeks of the Trump administration. They're more clear now that they decide what to do based on the guidance of their inner voice. What's actually hard about being an artist at this point in their life?  Too little space. Someone...

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
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