In their collaborative and solo projects, currently on view at Pioneer Works in New York, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne cheekily empower visitors to fight climate change

At the Courtauld Gallery, the artist's pastel-coloured works are clearly shown to be still lifes with bite

As part of the ceasefire deal brokered by the Trump Administration last week, Israel and Hamas finally swapped hostages and detainees on Monday. Hamas returned all 20 remaining living hostages to Israel, along with four of the 28 remaining deceased hostages—reportedly the bodies of Yossi Sharabi, Guy Illouz, Daniel Peretz, and Bipin Joshi. However, the militant group had agreed to return all 28 bodies it held captive. For its part, Israel released 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences, and roughly 1,700 Gazans who were arrested in the aftermath of the October 7 attack.One of the 28 hostages who died in Hamas captivity was Israeli graffiti artist and art student Inbar Haiman, known as “Pink,”...

Few collectors are as well positioned for Frieze as Rajan Bijlani, whose home, a former pottery studio, is a ten-minute stroll across Regent’s Park

Fatoş Üstek, the curator of this year's outdoor section, explains why shadows matter

The Sámi-Norwegian artist integrates the key motifs of a reindeer herder community with the wider ecological crisis in her Turbine Hall commission

Beneath ominous skies and set within flat, green parkland, Lee Madgwick’s folly-like buildings strike an unsettling note. His surreal paintings feature dilapidated facades and uncanny shrubbery against cloudy, deep gray skies—usually with something just a little strange going on. In “Drift,” for example, bricks dislodge from the top of a boxy structure and float into the sky one by one, and “Fracture” defies gravity altogether with a hovering apartment tower that crumbles from below. Madgwick’s rural scenes nod to landscapes and developments that are often overlooked, imbuing them with what he describes as “an undercurrent of mischievous menace.” “Echoes” Madgwick’s paintings aren’t...

Several years after launching a trial, Ireland is set to make its basic income for artists program permanent starting in 2026. Under the program, selected artists receive a weekly payment of approximately $375, or about $1,500 per month. There are 2,000 spots available, with applications set to open in September 2026; eligibility criteria have not yet been announced. The government may expand the program to additional applicants in the future, should more funding become available, according to Irish broadcaster RTÉ. The current program, which began in 2022 and is set to end in February after a six-month extension agreed to earlier this year, was launched to support the arts sector following the pandemic. Many...

A gold pendant known as the Tudor Heart is the subject of a high-profile fundraising campaign launched by the British Museum, which involved actor Damian Lewis (famed for his roles in Billions, Homeland, and Wolf Hall) and historian Mary Beard in an appeal for money to acquire a treasured example of historical “bling” for its storied collection. “We have absolutely nothing of this complexity or type surviving from Henry VIII’s early reign,” Rachel King, the British Museum’s curator of Renaissance Europe and the Waddesdon Bequest at the museum, told the Art Newspaper. The same TAN report notes that King suggested “understanding of the ‘bling’ from this era has been reserved to inventories and...

OMA studies neighborhood typologies in busan, south korea
 
OMA, in collaboration with the Busan Architecture Festival and the Department of Housing and Architecture, proposes a masterplan that translates the strengths of the South Korean city’s informal neighborhoods into a contemporary framework for lively streets and coherent skylines.
 
Four residential categories emerged from the Busan Slope Housing study, including terrace houses, urban villas, row units, and towers. Each type is tested for slope, solar access, orientation, and area, while additional qualitative filters, proximity to public space, views, and visual variety helped refine their placement. Towers occupy high points, villas anchor urban...

After dropping and then reinstating Khaled Sabsabi as Australia’s Venice Biennale representative, Creative Australia has awarded the artist a $100,000 grant, the Guardian reports. Sabsabi is one of 16 awardees under Creative Australia’s Visual Arts, Craft and Design Framework. His grant will support a solo show at the Samstag Museum of Art in Adelaide in 2027. According to the Guardian, that exhibition will also feature new work set to debut at the Biennale’s Australia Pavilion next year. The Lebanese Australian artist was controversially dropped as Australia’s Biennale pick in February after some raised concerns about past works by him, including one that depicts Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the leader...

The timing for Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Macbeth this weekend was perfect for Halloween, though the show itself at the Emerson Colonial Theatre was decidedly less spooky.

Dreams have always been a powerful source of inspiration in art and culture. Many of history’s great artist and thinkers have questioned how our nighttime imaginings can offer a glimpse into our inner lives, or a doorway into alternate realities.  Surrealism, a movement at its height between 1924 and 1945, was influenced by the writings of Sigmund Freud and built upon the belief that creativity came from deep within a person’s subconscious. Figures like Max Ernst, René Magritte and Salvador Dalí painted from within a dreamworld, creating works that transcended the literal world. Meanwhile, Man Ray wrote: “In the morning when I wake up, if I have a dream, I draw it right away. Many of the drawings...

For fans of cozy cottages, sipping tea with a good book, exploring misty woodlands, and relishing timeless folk- and fairytales, the illustrations of Vanessa Gillings tap into a sense of comfort and wonder. Her protagonists, often donning witchy or wizard-like hats, appear to be on marvelous and mysterious journeys, sometimes accompanied by ravens, foxes, or butterflies as they explore forests, pen stories, or attempt to cast spells. The works shown here formed part of the artist’s recent solo exhibition, Into the Woods, with Gallery Nucleus. See more on Gillings’ website and Instagram. “Making Friends” (2025), watercolor and gouache, 9 x 11 3/4 inches “The Forest Guardian” (2025), watercolor and...

Parterre Box features an exclusive sample of Lawrence Brownlee's jump-in performance in La sonnambula from this weekend

Christie’s has been consign to sell works of Impressionism from the Bill and Dorothy Fisher Collection during its marquee auctions in November. The consignment from the Fisher Governor Foundation includes works by Paul Signac, Camille Pissarro, Eugène Boudin, Pierre Bonnard, Alfred Sisley, and Henri Matisse, and has a total estimate “in excess of $10 million.” Proceeds from the sale will support “local cultural enrichment in the community” of Marshalltown, Iowa, including the Marshalltown Arts & Civic Center. “Bill and Dorothy Fisher and the Fisher family have demonstrated their love for and commitment to their hometown of Marshalltown for decades, through their generosity and as exemplars of the...

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Hiroshima Architecture Exhibition 2025 launches in japan
 
designboom visits Japan’s inaugural Hiroshima Architecture Exhibition 2025, which runs from October 4 to November 30 across the twin cities of Fukuyama and Onomichi. Conceived as a triennial event by the Kambara & Tsuneishi Foundation, the festival invites 23 architects and artists from Japan and abroad to explore the future of cities and the role of architecture in revitalizing local communities through a series of exhibitions, site-specific installations, and talks.
 
Bringing together major figures such as Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, Arata Isozaki, Sou Fujimoto, and SANAA alongside younger practices including Studio Mumbai, VUILD, and Clouds...

geometry of Football goalposts becomes a photographic frame
 
Manuel Álvarez Diestro turns the geometry of football goals into a lens to explore urban growth and the boundaries of architecture. There is a fragile line of thought about whether football goals belong to architecture. Two posts and a crossbar that define no inhabitable space, yet minimally mark the goalkeeper’s territory. In Through the Goalpost, the photographer turns this humble yet powerful structure into a lens through which to contemplate the expansion of cities. Like a discreet observer, he enters empty fields, looks through fences, or watches from afar, tracing the dialogue between the geometric clarity of the goal and the cubic shapes...

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Renzo Piano’s ‘Island of Music’ breaks ground in Hanoi
 
Hanoi’s Westlake Opera House, a new cultural landmark designed by architect Renzo Piano and named Isola della Musica (Island of Music), breaks ground on the Quang An Peninsula by Đầm Trị Lake. Scheduled for completion in 2027, the complex features a 2,000-seat opera house and a themed cultural and art park.
 
The architectural and structural design of the Hanoi Westlake Opera House is rooted in the principle of expressing the building’s interior program through its external form, much like natural double-layered structures. After exploring several geometric models, from soap bubble shells to two-dimensional catenary envelopes, the team...

Mercedes-benz unveils vision iconic car in shanghai
 
Mercedes-Benz introduces Vision Iconic, a car with Art Deco designs and a reinterpreted radiator grille featuring lighting animations. Unveiled in Shanghai on October 14th, 2025, the automobile draws design cues from the Mercedes-Benz Typ 540K Autobahn-Kurier, the company’s 1938 roadster with an elongated front, ballooned wheel arches, large round headlights, and a sloping-down roof to the rear. For the recent Vision Iconic, Mercedes-Benz brings over the style of Art Deco.
 
In an interview with designboom in Shanghai, Gorden Wagener, Chief Design Officer of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, tells us that Art Deco has always been an inspiration to him. ‘Even...

Alla Galleria Studio G7 di Bologna si rinnova un sodalizio che dura da oltre cinquant’anni. Fuori dal dipinto, dodicesima personale di Franco Guerzoni negli spazi della galleria, segna un ritorno a casa per l’artista modenese, che con questo luogo ha intrecciato un rapporto iniziato nel 1973. La mostra, aperta fino al 27 dicembre 2025, si articola attraverso un dialogo serrato tra pittura, spazio architettonico e tempo, confermando una ricerca che da sempre interroga i confini della rappresentazione. Il titolo rimanda a una tensione che attraversa l’intero percorso di Guerzoni, quella necessità di oltrepassare la superficie pittorica, di varcare i limiti del quadro per farlo dialogare con lo spazio...

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The announcement last week by the Government of Flanders that it planned to “reform the landscape of its own museums and the visual arts sector” and strip Antwerp’s Museum of Modern Art (M HKA), Belgium’s oldest contemporary art museum, of its assets has generated criticism both locally and abroad. The scheme, which the government had […]

The Smithsonian on October 12 closed all twenty-one of the museums operating under its auspices as the US government shutdown begun on October 1 continued to draw on. The organization also shuttered its fourteen education and research centers and the National Zoo, which it runs. Among the institutions temporarily darkened while Republicans and Democrats wrestle […]

It was immediately apparent when I walked into Gray Gallery’s spacious, living room-like uptown space that the dimensions of the four paintings in Judy Ledgerwood’s exhibition were determined by those of the walls on which they hung. A single work occupied two of the walls, while two equally sized canvases held a dialogue on the third.  Ledgerwood’s manipulation of formal structure within individual works accelerated my appreciation of her play with dimensions, from the skewed linear grid of unequal triangles occupied by a hand-drawn trefoil in “Vitamin C” (all works 2025) to the vibrant opticality of different trefoils, some of them mirrored, dispersed across a monochromatic ground in...

HUMLEBAEK, Denmark — Who owns a memory? What is a memory? And do your memories always belong to you? These questions hover in the air of Dollhouse, a retrospective of American artist Kaari Upson at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, the first of its kind following her death in 2021 from cancer at age 51. The exhibition is vast, taking over the entire south wing gallery. It is varied, with works spanning sculpture, painting, film, installation, drawings, and more. But above all, it exemplifies Upson’s prolific work ethic — almost all the featured pieces were created in the 2010s — and her potent, playfully macabre sensibility. She had a very specific talent for unsettling the domestic, injecting eeriness...

Shanghai-born, Tokyo-based artist Lu Yang transforms the Museum of the Moving Image into a dazzling temple of digital devotion. Guided by an Escher-like checkerboard floor, visitors enter “The Great Adventure of Material World” (2019–20), a hypnotic arcade where Buddhist cosmology refracts through gaming culture. Screens, projections, and murals overflow with deities, avatars, and cybernetic bodies, radiating Lu’s delirious, maximalist energy. The result is a world at once ecstatic and disorienting — a sensory overload that turns spectacle into revelation. Why a video game? For Lu, the medium of play — so often dismissed as mere entertainment — becomes a vehicle for awakening, translating...

Hyperallergic Members are invited to join us on November 5, 2025, for a virtual conversation between two leading voices in contemporary art. Poet, critic, and curator John Yau will sit down with internationally acclaimed artist Sean Scully for a conversation about his decades-long career, recent work, and advice for young artists. Read Yau’s review of Scully’s work.  The virtual conversation, moderated by Hrag Vartanian, will take place on Wednesday, November 5, from 2 to 3pm (ET), and will be followed by an opportunity for members to ask questions. All members are welcome to register for this free event. Not a member yet? Join now to attend. Already an active member? Sign in to access the registration...

There is a distinctly patriotic flavor to Paris’s tentpole shows this fall. The Louvre is mounting what may be the most significant Jacques-Louis David exhibition in living memory, while the Petit Palais is doing his Napoleonic era contemporary Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and Georges de la Tour is at the Musée Jacquemart-André. The first two are both tied to anniversaries of some sort — the bicentenary of David’s death and the 300th anniversary of Greuze’s birth. Is it so bad to just do a really bloody good show on big French art history stalwarts without the flimsy excuse? Major private spaces are also setting out their stall. The Fondation Cartier is opening an architecturally powerful new space to rival...

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Featuring El Anatsui, Iman Issa, Abdoulaye Konaté, Adam Pendleton, Yinka Shonibare and Carrie Mae Weems Installation view of ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ at Efie Gallery, Dubai, 2025. Courtesy of Efie Gallery. Now open […]

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Risale al 2021 la piccola pubblicazione di David Levi Strauss Perché crediamo alle immagini fotografiche, il cui titolo, sebbene manchi di un punto interrogativo, si presenta come un vivo dubbio rivolto alla fotografia, intesa come mimesi del mondo reale. Un avviso che vuole mostrare come tale pratica sia origine di una storia non conosciuta come la si vede, bensì come un dubbio sulla credenza del guardare. Tema quest’ultimo sviluppato nella personale Corpi d’aria di Stefano Cerio a cura di Stefano Chiodi, in programmazione a Palazzo Collicola di Spoleto fino al 2 novembre 2025. Nelle sale del museo sono esposte foto tratte dalle serie Aquila e Brenva, riprendenti i nomi dei paesaggi dove sono state...

Jess Johnson’s universe is filled with intricate, near-hypnotizing patterns, bold colors, an array of symbols that recall ancient rituals, and a narrative that unfolds like a modern space fantasy saga.Read the full article by clicking above!
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Murray Bowles was, by all accounts, the very best kind of artist. For more than forty years, he was in regular attendance at punk shows billing up-and-coming bands in ramshackle and makeshift venues throughout Northern California (particularly in the East Bay). Read Jessica Tagami's full article by clicking above.
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Sam Jinks’ work hits like a shot to the body. There’s a sudden impact, and it bruises the most important organs. The uneasy feeling settles in and deepens over time. Read the full article by Joseph Williams by clicking above.
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For Lydia Ricci, a broken pencil, outdated forms, long-ago paid bills, and tattered bits of fabric are prime materials for her elaborate, small-scale worlds. The artist credits her parents’ obsession with collecting as the beginning of what’s grown into a scrap-centric process. “My mother was an immigrant from the Ukraine who could improvise anything when we didn’t have exactly what we needed, which was most of the time. And my Italian father hasn’t ever thrown anything away because one day it might be useful, or some day he might get around to fixing it,” she writes. Detail of “It’s What’s Inside” (2025), collected scrap materials, 10 x 38 x 13 centimeters Today, Ricci pieces together bits...

David Benjamin Sherry (b. 1981) is concerned with the world’s wild places. The artist creates works that become photographic activism, with saturated colour palettes that highlight both the natural beauty of the landscape and its fragility. His series American Monuments (2017) documented sites that were being threatened by Trump’s administration, inspiring a sense of urgent in viewers. Each image depicts sites that have been reconsidered to make way for coal, uranium, oil and other interests. His hyperreal monochrome shots subvert traditions of the American landscape genre, bringing a queer perspective to a hetero-male dominated canon. Now, the artist focuses on a new part of the globe: Antarctica. The...

Nella costa orientale siciliana, alla Fondazione La Verde La Malfa – precisamente a San Giovanni La Punta (CT) –   l’arte contemporanea viene presentata, quale medium, per indagare la dimensione più intima e spirituale dell’esistenza. Infatti, in occasione del suo XVII anniversario, è stata inaugurata la mostra “Del Vedere e del Sentire” di Franco Marrocco, visitabile fino al prossimo 30 dicembre 2025. Il progetto espositivo, promosso e ideato dal presidente della Fondazione Alfredo La Malfa, da Dario Cunsolo e dallo stesso curatore Giorgio Agnisola, è patrocinato dal comune della cittadina etnea. La mostra consiste in un allestimento di diciotto opere pittoriche di medie e grandi dimensioni...

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William Kentridge has spent more than four decades reshaping how we see art’s relationship to politics, history and memory. Born in Johannesburg in 1955, he is acclaimed for an expansive practice that bridges drawing, animation, performance and opera. His work is at once playful and profound, lyrical and urgent, always alive to the contradictions of the human condition. Sculpture has increasingly become central to this language, and The Pull of Gravity at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) offers the most substantial exploration of this facet of his career outside South Africa. Spanning nearly two decades of practice, the exhibition assembles over 40 works in bronze, steel, paper and plaster. Outdoors, the newly...

Nel cuore di Chiaia, a Napoli, nasce EDICOLA480, un esperimento espositivo che ribalta la logica della mostra collettiva per concentrarsi sull’essenziale: un’opera sola, isolata nello spazio e nel tempo. Il progetto, ideato dal curatore Massimiliano Bastardo e sviluppato e prodotto dall’associazione 480 Site Specific, propone una modalità di fruizione alternativa al sovraccarico visivo della contemporaneità. La prima artista invitata è Sara Fenicia (Pisa, 1998), che fino al 20 ottobre 2025 esporrà “Leopardi II”, un dipinto in cui si intrecciano fascinazioni arcaiche e visioni intime della natura. Ogni trenta-quaranta giorni, un nuovo lavoro occuperà lo spazio espositivo in via San Pasquale 61a,...

In a world this absurd and disastrous, do we gravitate toward cynicism or levity? For the artist duo known as Murmure (previously), both are the only option. The Caen, France-based pair presents a new body of paintings and charcoal drawings in their plainly titled exhibition, La fête est finie, or The party is over. Through a unique sense of wit and irony, they transform astronauts into runway models, the moon into a nuclear power plant, and a birthday cake into a raging forest fire. “Moon Walk” (2025), carbon pencil on paper, 50 x 40 centimeters Where there could be commonplace sights or moments of joy and frivolity, Murmure instead presents an unsettling composition. Every ill-advised choice—whether...

London-based art fair operator Frieze on October 10 announced the launch of Frieze Abu Dhabi. The event is being staged through a partnership with the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), which organizes Abu Dhabi Art, the region’s best-known homegrown art fair. The last iteration of Abu Dhabi Art, inaugurated […]

Chilean activist, artist, and poet Cecilia Vicuña, known for her quipus—strands of knotted fibers that reference the ancient Andean communication system—has been named the winner of the 2025 Roswitha Haftmann Prize. Established in 2001, the honor, which is accompanied by a no-strings-attached cash purse of 150,000 Swiss francs ($187,000), is named for late Swiss dealer […]

Coincidence is around every corner, and immortalizing a split second of fleeting chaos takes a special eye. Since 2020, Pure Street Photography—an initiative focused on connecting international photographers—has commended visual storytellers through an annual competition. This year’s edition drew an impressive 1,160 submissions across 34 countries and five continents. Judged by British writer and curator David Campany alongside founder Dimpy Bhalotia, a total of 147 winning and finalist images were chosen. Chris Yan, “Mirror” From capturing unfortunately humorous moments before disaster to documenting endearing instances of whimsy, the wide range of winning images evoke a spectrum of expressions....

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Marina Abramović is a defining figure in contemporary art. Since the beginning of her career in the early 1970s, the Serbian-born artist has turned the body into a site of experimentation and expression. Her pioneering works include Rhythm 0 (1974), in which she allowed audiences to use certain props on her however they wished. Also renowned is Rhythm 5 (1974), where she lay in the centre of a burning five-point star until she almost lost consciousness. Fast forward to 2010, and The Artist Is Present at MoMA saw Abramović sit in silence across from visitors every day for three months. These performances married endurance with empathy, complicity with loss of control, passivity with danger. They...

Virtù essenziale che, per Aristotele, mediava tra temerarietà e viltà, il coraggio è oggi qualità imprescindibile per affrontare le grandi sfide del nostro tempo così come quelle, più nascoste, della vita quotidiana. È forza dell’anima, è “agire con il cuore” – come ricorda la cultura latina da cui nasce la parola stessa – ed è un tema che ha attraversato il pensiero di filosofi e intellettuali di ogni epoca. È questo il filo conduttore della quinta edizione di Fotografica Bergamo Festival, “Coraggiosi si diventa”: una narrazione corale che, attraverso la fotografia, dà voce a chi incarna il coraggio nella propria esistenza. Il risultato è un’alternanza di immagini ora dure, ora...

Filmmaker Ken Jacobs, a towering figure in the world of experimental cinema, died of kidney failure on October 5 in New York. He was ninety-two. Alongside peers including Jack Smith and Jonas Mekas, Jacobs pioneered the use of found footage, which he spliced together and manipulated to create highly original and often intense films that […]

A sculpture or painting created by Jen Stark often functions as a vehicle—an entry point to some technicolor dreamworld. Read all about the artist from writer Andy Smith by clicking above.
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This year, cities across the UK have seen art escape gallery walls and enter public spaces. Liverpool Biennial, which ran from April to September, used a pharmacy as one of its key venues, whilst part of this season’s Bradford 2025 programme is set to unfold in a shopping centre. As a curatorial approach, this is vital. It allows audiences to engage with art outside of traditional settings, weaving creativity into everyday life and reminding us that culture thrives when it is accessible. Now, Connaught Village Art Month joins this movement, transforming a London district just minutes from Oxford Street and Marble Arch. The event celebrates culture not only in galleries, but also through pop-up events in...

A celebration of creativity, vulnerability, and transformation in clay Githan Coopoo. Photo: Paige Fiddes Opening on 15 October 2025 at the Norval Foundation in Cape Town, ‘Tears Now But Heaven Tomorrow’ pays tribute to the […]

From open studios and curated exhibitions to music, food, and conversation, Solo Studios returns from 24–26 October for a weekend of art and community across the Riebeek Valley. Laurel Heritage, By the Light of the […]

Weaving survival and memory into monumental form, Lidia Lisbôa transforms gestures of care into radical acts of creation. Installation view of Tetas que deram de mamar ao mundo by Lidia Lisbôa, during the 36th Bienal de […]