A painting in David Salle’s new exhibition at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles has been removed from view after critics questioned whether the painter copied another artist’s work. Salle’s painting, Hatchet (2025), features as its primary subject a woman in a black-and-white dress—her face cropped by the edge of the canvas—brandishing a sledgehammer. The exhibition, titled “My Frankenstein,” opened on February 24, and social media chatter quickly picked up on the resemblance to Kelly Reemsten’s painting Impact (2021). In a video that has since drawn nearly 10,000 views, the Minneapolis-based artist Josie Lewis asked: “Did Salle steal this woman’s idea, or is it just harmless...

A federal planning commission is set to vote Thursday on President Donald Trump’s proposal to build a massive ballroom at the White House, a plan critics say would dramatically alter the scale and historic layout of the presidential residence. The National Capital Planning Commission will consider the proposal for a roughly 90,000-square-foot addition to the White House complex, including a 22,000-square-foot ballroom designed to host as many as 1,000 guests. The project has already received approval from the US Commission of Fine Arts. Trump first announced the ballroom last summer, arguing the White House lacks an appropriate space for large formal events and often relies on temporary tents erected on the...

From March 26 through April 4, audiences are invited to experience A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake, a new large-scale work by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Presented nightly in Salt Lake City’s Memory Grove, the project combines an original musical composition with a vivid light projection that unfolds after dark across the surface of a towering, elevated sphere.The electronic musical composition draws on field recordings of local wildlife and environmental phenomena, sourced from archival materials along with new recordings made specifically for the installation. By transporting the sounds of the lake’s ecosystem into an urban park setting, Eliasson foregrounds the...

Have you always wished that you could visit a museum devoted to U.S. history, like maybe the one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but wished that rather than a brick-and-mortar museum in the nation’s capital, it could be on a tractor trailer in, say, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, or Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania? Well, the Trump administration is making those dreams come true with a fleet of six “Freedom Trucks”—mobile museums that will travel the nation throughout 2026, marking 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. On display are artifacts like a draft of the Declaration of Independence, the Aitken Bible (“the first complete Bible published in an independent...

Welcome to the 327th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists transform their law school notes into a medium and weave the studio into their everyday life.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.George Seyffert, Dumbo, BrooklynHow long have you been working in this space?One year.Describe an average day in your studio.My studio is my evening and weekend getaway. I work as an attorney during the day and let loose at night in my studio, usually into the morning hours. As soon as I enter, the curtains...

Earlier this week, the William Penn Foundation announced a slew of grants, totally $7.6 million, that will support access to museums for low-income families and people with disabilities. The grants apply to six specific organizations based on the number of ACCESS visitors each received during the 2024-25 fiscal year. (The ACCESS card allows people who receive public assistance or identify as having a disability to receive heavily discounted tickets to participating cultural institutions, of which there are nearly 100 in the Philadelphia area.) The following organizations will receive funds from the William Penn Foundation: The Academy of Natural Sciences, the Franklin Institute, the Morris Arboretum and...

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The Unscripted Pavilion by Abin Design Studio stands as a temporary structure shaped by Mumbai‘s layered and unpredictable character. Conceived as a built response to Mumbai’s dense urban fabric, the pavilion translates the shifting rhythms of the city into a compact framework of structure, void, and movement.
 
The streets of Mumbai have overlapping tempos, and movement here rarely follows a straight path. This condition informs the conceptual starting point for Abin Design Studio. The project approaches the city as a place guided by improvisation.
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Paintings by Monet, Matisse, Dalí and Picasso were snatched in a cinematic heist from Rio de Janeiro’s Museu da Chácara do Céu in 2006

In the age of the internet, we’re fortunate to have virtual access to museum collections around the world, thanks to objects in the public domain and programs like The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative. Through a searchable digital catalogue, visitors to the museum’s website can see hundreds of thousands of objects, many images of which are available for download. And it’s not alone—other institutions like the Art Institute of Chicago, The National Gallery of Art, and The Cleveland Museum of Art, among others, make pieces in their collections accessible to all. The thing is, digital images don’t always give us the full picture, so to speak. Even two-dimensional paintings and...

A treasured area of the Art Institute of Chicago may be reshaped by an expansion plan that would see the gallery spaces grow significantly in size. That area of the museum is the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room, which was originally built between 1893 and 1894, and which was spared from demolition during the ’70s. Since then, this monumental room has functioned both as a point of pilgrimage for visitors to the museum and an event space available for rental. While the room may not receive crowds on the scale attracted by Grant Wood’s American Gothic, Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, and other masterpieces owned by the Art Institute, it is a sizable space within the museum, occupying about...

At the intersection of fashion, art, and the uncanny, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin have for four decades challenged the ways we perceive images. Can Love Be A Photograph – 40 Years of Inez & Vinoodh, at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, offers a monumental survey of a career defined by its refusal to settle, blending the quotidian with the surreal and the personal with the performative. Their work operates in the liminal space where digital manipulation, intimacy, and high-gloss fashion imagery converge, revealing both the extraordinary and the unsettling within everyday life. “Inez & Vinoodh have been able to create something utterly fantastic; an invisible reality that looks artificial but is not. A...

Mycelium shapes compostable wooden bicycle seat
 
Networks of mycelium grow and form the shape of the compostable bicycle seat with a wooden saddle. Named Myco Seat by Ludwig Eder, the biomaterial is seen growing out of the holes from under the saddle, continuing its growth and stabilizing the seat. The designer shapes the wooden saddle with CNC-cut timber using computational tools to map out exactly where the mycelium needs to grow and where the structure needs to breathe. 
 
The pattern of holes found around the compostable wooden bicycle seat is what can be considered functional geometry so that the mycelium, the root network of mushrooms, can spread evenly through the substrate underneath. That...

In researching light, Liz Nielsen creates a dialogue between art and science as a core element of her practice. As she explores the intersection of these two worlds, boundaries blur and new possibilities emerge. To record colored light, Nielsen must make work in a pitch-black environment. Tiny bits of light are emitted systematically, making several to hundreds of exposures onto sheets of light-sensitive film. The latent images are then processed through traditional color chemistry to reveal their imagery. Her images are both abstract and representational, with references to the landscape, the moon, and architecture present in both large-scale and more intimately sized works. The Joseloff Gallery at Hartford...

Paul Ehorn, an 80-year-old shipwreck hunter, has finally located the long-lost luxury steamer Lac La Belle

EntoPedia Wearable Tool Documents Insects Without Capture
 
EntoPedia is a wearable digital collection system designed by Junfei Teng to reframe insect ‘collecting’ as documentation, turning everyday encounters into moments of observation, learning, and shared knowledge without physical capture. The project received the 2026 French Design Awards Gold (Professional) in Product Design, Educational Toys & Games, recognizing its approach to ecological education through wearable interaction and community-built datasets. Worn as a compact magnetic pendant, EntoPedia is intentionally styled to blend into personal wear rather than resemble technical equipment so that it can remain quietly present in daily life....

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The construction of Grundtvigs Kirke in Copenhagen took nearly two decades, beginning in fall of 1921 and finally reaching completion in 1940. Designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, it transforms the humble brick into a masterpiece of Expressionist architecture. Its pointed interior arches and vaulted ceiling, stepped crenellations, and hulking exterior nod to medieval Gothic and Romanesque styles while also exhibiting a profoundly modern sensibility. David Altrath, a Hamburg-based photographer whose work emphasizes urban and architectural elements, captures Grundtvigs’ details in an atmospheric cumulative portrait. Bathed in mellow, golden light, the church’s pale yellow bricks appear to glow,...

Akhnaten has lost none of its power or glitz at the Los Angeles Opera.

The latest announcements of the key players representing their countries at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

Cultural sites and museums in Israel have closed and have been instructed to move their collections into bomb shelters

The show, spanning the South Korean artist’s seven-decade career, will be one of 31 collateral events at this year’s Biennale

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Henri Purnell crafts delicate blooms out of glass beads
 
Thousands of tiny glass beads come together to form the intricate floral sculptures of musician and maker Henri Purnell. Working bead by bead, the artist recreates delicate blossoms that echo the organic irregularities of real flowers while shimmering with the luminosity of glass. From airy wildflower stems to full, colorful bouquets, each arrangement captures the fleeting beauty of botanical forms that remain permanently in bloom.
 
Across his growing collection, Purnell recreates a wide range of flowers, from buttercups and soft pastel blossoms to vibrant poppies and bright gerbera-like blooms. Color gradients formed by translucent beads produce...

a Floating Yellow Stage Activates an open Courtyard in Shanghai
 
In Shanghai’s Pudong district, Studio RE+N has transformed a neglected circular planter within the Luoshan Huayuan residential community into an elevated steel platform designed for shared neighborhood activity. The intervention introduces a 4.5-meter-diameter circular stage that replaces the former planter, reactivating a section of the courtyard that had remained largely underused.
 
The structure is assembled from eight prefabricated pie-shaped steel panels supported by a single umbrella-like column with variable-section cantilever beams. This configuration lifts the platform above the ground plane, creating the impression of a floating...

Fyodor Chaliapin, the very great Russian basso, to this day owns the role of Massenet's Don Quichotte.

What are my favorite things about New York City? The art. The culture. The people. Oh, and getting the hell out of it. Yes, you can love something, and love leaving it, too — and our guide to 15 art excursions outside the city this spring gives you a pretty good reason. Picture yourself in a room made entirely of fuzzy white fur. Or looking at an interdimensional light painting. Or gazing into lush, realist vistas of the Caribbean. Escape is a state of mind — but sometimes it's also a ride on the MetroNorth.  —Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor Jeremy Dennis, “Hill Top” (2019) (© Jeremy Dennis; courtesy Parrish Art Museum)15 Art Excursions Outside NYC This SpringOur editors rounded up must-see...

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Alicja Kwade “Siège du Monde”, 2025, marmo Azul Macaubas bronzo con patina nera, 96,5 x 54 x 58 cm. Photo Roman März, courtesy dell’artista e Galleria Continua
38 | “Al di là della pittura” – Rilettura di due film creativi di Luca Maria Patella e Marinella Pirelli / Luciano Marucci
46 | Inchiesta sull’Intelligenza Artificiale – Potenzialità e limiti (VIII) / Luciano Marucci
50 | Produzione creativa e identità – Riflessioni sulla genesi e l’evoluzione (XXI) / Luciano Marucci
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56 | Ismaele Nones – Tra passato e presente / Roberto Vidali
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Alla Galleria Massimo Minini l’incontro tra Sheila Hicks e Paolo Icaro non è un semplice dialogo tra due pratiche all’apparenza contrastanti, ma un campo di giocosa tensione. Da un lato la materia nuda, opaca, essenziale di Icaro; dall’altro le vibrazioni cromatiche di Hicks. La distanza è evidente, quasi strutturale. Ed è proprio lì che il progetto trova la sua forza.
“Live Wires. Sheila Hicks and Paolo Icaro”, installation view, 2026, courtesy of the artists and Galleria Massimo Minini, ph. Petrò Gilberti
Seduta vicino alla sua opera “The Captured Comrades” (2026), nobile e statuaria, Sheila osserva con uno sguardo vispo il via vai che la circonda. È lo sguardo di una donna che ha vissuto...

My favorite thing to do in New York City is leave it. I’m kidding, I’m kidding, but there’s nothing wrong with a little break, especially to explore the beautiful exhibitions below. They’re just a short trip from the city — and just as the weather’s beginning to hint at warmth. Many of these shows offer alternate visions, not just from the concrete crush of New York City but from our dimension entirely. See, for instance, Liz Nielsen’s abstract photographs at Connecticut's Hartford Art School Galleries — she dubs them “interdimensional timelines.” Or Piero Manzoni’s entirely white and furry room, on view in a major exhibition at Magazzino in Cold Spring. Also Upstate, three...

Americans are uniquely disconnected from our food. More than 10 percent of the working population is employed in agricultural sectors, but it’s rare for the average person to grapple with—let alone witness—the number of people involved in growing, harvesting, packaging, and ultimately getting dinner onto their plate. Given that many farms, restaurants, and other food-related businesses employ those who are undocumented, these sectors have also been targeted for deportation, further pushing the people who keep them running into the shadows. For Narsiso Martinez, this essential labor has long been the central point of his practice. The Oaxaca-born artist is known for painting tender portraits on produce...

THE LEGACY OF CLAUDE PARENT (1923–2016) is one of spatial insurrection, a realm in which architecture is reanimated as a medium of resistance to passivity in urban life. Although trained in the orbit of Le Corbusier, Parent emancipated himself from established models and norms, devoting his life to demonstrating the physicality of freedom. He developed […]

Sam Gibbons isn’t letting you off the hook. Sex, violence, religion, ego—everything comes together in colorful palettes unrestricted by shape or form. His rare, vibrant paintings are teeming with images both familiar and grotesque, and they’re demanding some careful attention Read the full article form our archives by clicking above.
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Among African elephants, “Big Tuskers” refers to bulls that grow tusks so long they sometimes scrape the ground. Each one can weigh well over 100 pounds. These giant, ivory incisors continually grow throughout an elephant’s life, and males typically have much larger tusks than females. The bigger the tusks, however, the more vulnerable these gentle giants are to poachers who harvest and traffic the ivory for trade. There are only a couple dozen left in nature preserves like Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park and Amboseli National Park. “Together Forever” For wilderness photographer Johan Siggesson, a fascination with animals and their habitats led to a series of striking black-and-white photographs...

US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran have severely damaged Tehran’s four-hundred-year-old Golestan Palace, according to reports first released by Iran’s ISNA and Mehr news agencies. Photos of the Safavid-era palace, the Iranian capital’s only UNESCO-listed site, showed glass and debris scattered across its floors following a March 2 missile strike on nearby Arag Square, a buffer zone. […]

Kostas Stasinopoulos, the longtime curator of live programs at London’s Serpentine contemporary art gallery, has been appointed director of exhibitions and programs at Kyklos, the Renzo Piano–designed center for art and culture set to open in 2028 in Piraeus, Greece. Established by the Dinos and Lia Martinos Foundation, the private institution will be the first […]

In 1898, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum staged an exhibition of paintings by renowned Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt (1606-1669). Included in this show was a 23-by-19-inch oil painting titled “Vision of Zacharias in the Temple,” which was completed in 1633, relatively early in the artist’s career. Fast-forward to 1960, and the work was deemed to have not actually been made by Rembrandt. Despite that in the past it had been catalogued as part of his oeuvre, that was no longer the case. So, a private collector purchased it in 1961, from which point on, it remained out of sight—until now. Experts and conservators at the Rijksmuseum, which was recently granted the opportunity to reassess the painting by...

Parterre Box previews an upcoming performance of Hercules with Ann Hallenberg in some very unique Baroque repertoire.

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Strong performances at Opera Naples can't overcome the cringey nostalgia of Derrick Wang's Scalia/Ginsburg.

It is estimated that by 2030, 1 in 6 people worldwide will be over 60. Meanwhile, 1 in ten children in the UK are now expected to live beyond 100. Yet, as people globally are living longer, many face health and social inequalities that impact later life. A new exhibition at Wellcome Collection, London, asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better. The Coming of Age is the first major museum show to explore experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to the elderly, through art, science and popular culture. More than 120 artworks and objects are featured in the exhibition, including Sebald Beham’s medieval woodcut depicting elders rejuvenated by the mythical fountain of youth, and...

The one, the only Fyodor Chaliapin, singing Massenet's "Elegie" (with, I believe, a young Piatigorsky on the cello part).

The Black Arts Movement emerged as a profound cultural awakening and radical reimagining of representation, galvanised by mid-20th century civil rights struggles and sustained by a belief in art’s transformative power. Writers, musicians, visual artists and performers sought not merely to reflect the world but to remake it, centring Black identity, dignity and autonomy within a cultural landscape that had long marginalised these voices. At its core, the movement insisted that creative production was inseparable from political engagement, asserting that culture could not remain neutral in the face of systemic oppression. Themes of self-definition, collective empowerment and the reclamation of history resonate...

La mostra Converging Trajectories: Ettore Spalletti meets Gino De Dominicis and Franz West indaga i punti di tangenza tra artisti che, pur attraverso linguaggi differenti, hanno condiviso un’idea di arte come esperienza totale. Un percorso che coinvolge sia il piano poetico sia quello storiografico, mettendo in evidenza il legame tra le personalità indagate e la città di Pescara, centro dinamico di sperimentazione nella seconda metà del Novecento. Oltre alla Galleria Vistamare, che ospita la mostra nella sua sede milanese, si ricorda il fratello di Ettore Spalletti, Vittoriano, appassionato collezionista, e Mario Pieroni, che nella sua galleria romana propose nel 1969 un primo confronto tra l’artista...

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Critic, poet, and publisher Giancarlo Politi, founder of the influential contemporary art journal Flash Art, one of the first international publications of its kind, died on February 24. He was eighty-nine. Politi, over a career spanning more than five decades, shaped the global contemporary art scene through the establishment of a publishing house, an art-world directory, a […]

A painting that has gone unseen by the public since being deauthenticated more than fifty years ago has been determined to be an early work by Rembrandt van Rijn and will go on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam this week alongside twenty-five others by the renowned artist. Titled Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, […]

L’ingannevole equivalenza visiva tra un’immagine fotografica e il frammento di realtà in essa immortalato si fonda su una serie di riduzioni successive: il volume degli oggetti collassa sulla superficie del negativo, la materia si dissolve in traccia ottica e la profondità spaziale si traduce in graduazioni di luce e ombra. Nataly Maier (Monaco di Baviera, 1957) inizia alla fine degli anni Ottanta a interrogarsi su cosa accade a livello visivo e concettuale quando si tenta di restituire alla fotografia quella consistenza fisica e volumetrica che essa può soltanto suggerire attraverso codici rappresentativi. Alla Fondazione Sabe per l’arte di Ravenna la mostra Immagini nello spazio si concentra su un...

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In an era dominated by constant scroll and shrinking attention spans, documentary has emerged as one of the most vital languages in contemporary culture. From the political urgency of Navalny to the cultural resonance of Beckham and the environmental meditation of David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, non-fiction storytelling has become central to how audiences engage with politics, identity and collective memory. Viewers are increasingly drawn to works rooted in truth yet shaped with cinematic precision. Documentary today is not merely reportage; it is authorship, immersion and, often, an act of listening. Across platforms and festivals, audiences are seeking stories that move, challenge and...

Contemporary design today is as much about narrative as it is about form. At the Design Museum in London, Simone Brewster’s first museum show PLATFORM makes this clear, presenting objects that are functional, sculptural and rooted in cultural memory. Spanning four sections: Passages, Everyday Ornaments, Scales of Emotion and Body Narratives – the exhibition interrogates identity, heritage and value. Brewster combines the precision of architectural thinking with the fluidity of sculpture, suggesting that design must engage social histories and formal innovation. This is design that asks why objects exist, what they communicate and who benefits from their creation. Within the museum’s programme,...

A Bologna, presso Fondazione MAST, le opere fotografiche complesse, articolate ed emblematiche di Jeff Wall raffigurano situazioni evocative, suggestioni profonde ed eventi mai accaduti. Con la mostra Living, Working, Surviving, la fotografia diventa pittura, la documentazione diventa interpretazione e l’ambiguità diventa il punto di partenza per analizzare i temi più profondi della nostra società.
Jeff Wall, “Dressing Poultry”, 2007, transparency in lightbox, ©: Jeff Wall, Courtesy: Cranford Collection, London
Si potrebbe dire che la mostra Living, Working Surviving di Jeff Wall presso la Fondazione MAST di Bologna non abbia una vera e propria tematica principale. Le fotografie si mostrano ambigue...

Surrounded in her Massachusetts studio by pins, glue, and piles of brightly colored paper strips, a visitor might initially mistake Lisa Nilsson for a reclusive arts and crafts teacher. But as her nimble hands purposefully curl the paper into shapes, and then magically weave the shapes into identifiable forms, a new impression emerges. Read the full article by clicking above!
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For our second annual Illustration Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners from each of the following categories: Editorial, Personal, Advertising & Promotional, Product & Packaging, Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Student category: Bella Han.
Bella Han is a freelance illustrator from China and a first year student in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual Arts (Class of 2027). This work is part of a series illustrating one of the most famous Qing Dynasty stories in China, which depicts the opulent yet tragic life of Zhenhuan, a concubine of Emperor Yongzheng, who later became Empress Dowager after his death.
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The Undercurrent Surfaces There are moments in a country’s creative consciousness when the atmosphere tilts. For many of the designers showing at Zurich Fashion Week 2026, the seeds were sown during last year’s pre‑events. And so, after more than twelve months of preparation, this was the week their work stepped fully into the light — an undercurrent now rising into a transformative movement in modern style. As I walked into the Kongresshaus Zurich this February, the first edition of Zurich...

 
The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives.
Our first edition is devoted to blue. A colour of depth and distance. Vast as the sky and as still as water. Blue evokes calm, melancholy, serenity and sorrow. Delicate cornflowers, robust denim, precious jewels, and the deepest ocean.
From literal to abstract interpretations, and alternative processes, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: BLUE shares photographers’ wide range of creative expressions.
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The women portrayed in Prudence Flint’s paintings are caught in moments of quiet, reflection, and impermanence. They appear fixed in a moment of repose ripe for interruption. Perhaps they are lying on the grass, or changing an infant’s diaper, or awash in warm water mid-shower. Regardless, there is a certain mood shared among her works. Read the full interview with the artist by clicking above!
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