If you’ve been following along, you know that things haven’t exactly been smooth sailing for San Francisco’s art scene in the last six months. Our last art school announced plans to close. Several galleries called it quits. City budget cuts have decreased arts funding. But in the middle of it all, the community is coming together and finding new ways to support itself. A collaboration between several local galleries, a deep-dive into the history of the Bay Area’s suburban hardcore punk scene, local film history-turned-immersive art, and overdue recognition of the living legend that is Mildred Howard go a long way to remind us all of what we have here. And what we have is something special, something...

In the popular imagination, artists are often thought to create for the sake of creating, unfettered by the demands of the market-driven world outside their studios. Though many well-known artists have muddled the boundaries between art and commerce (Jeff Koons comes to mind), the two realms have a contentious relationship. Business savvy artists are often […]
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The Dutch collector, whose Museum Voorlinden is celebrating its tenth anniversary, tells us about missing out on a Louise Bourgeois spider and swimming in the Rhine

Kunstmuseum Basel show traces the early history of queer art and artists, from the time the word “homosexual” was coined

Museum that honours the famous kinetic artist Jean Tinguely turns its attention to the often undervalued role of women in the workplace, through a show of films, paintings and other pieces by 36 artists

The Iranian German artist, who won a medal in the 2025 Art Basel Awards, discusses the work she has created for the Messeplatz, and why she wants it to have an “afterlife” after the fair

A new fellowship in memory Kouoh, who tragically died in 2025, will support emerging curators, writers and cultural practitioners with funding from Art Basel

In the wee hours of Saturday, June 13, workers in the nation’s capital, having erected a scaffold in front of the building that was at that moment labeled “The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts,” reportedly carried out a judge’s orders to remove the name of the current US president. Trump had added his own name to the facade in December, over loud protests and in spite of lawsuits filed to stop him, and in spite of the law, which reserves such powers for Congress. A crowd of some two hundred people had earlier gathered outside the building, chanting, “Take it down!”, reported the Washington Post. They would get their wish.  But the scaffolding remains in...

Ye, the controversial rapper and fashion mogul, occasional architect, and Trump supporter formerly known as Kanye West, was spotted earlier today at Art Basel. The flagship art fair in Basel, Switzerland, has its VIP preview days on June 16-17, and opens to the public on Thursday. West was presumably there to support his wife Bianca Censori, an Australian artist who stars in Untitled (Izanami), a 2025 film installation by Vanessa Beecroft that is being presented at Art Basel Unlimited by Lia Rumma Gallery. The Milan- and Naples-based gallery is also showing pieces by Alfredo Jaar and Wael Shawkey at Unlimited, Art Basel’s section for large-scale artworks and performances that would not fit well in a...

Among the discoveries at Liste Art Fair 2026, two artists stood out. Kemil Bekteši and Coco Klockner

Glossy, synthetic, and very compressed, Ant Hamlyn’s botanicals are unlike anything you’d find in nature. He taps into the aesthetic of Y2K and the early 2000s, when early computer graphics, sci-fi, and teen punk melded into a kind of optimistic, tech-forward visual experience. Think early flip phones, polyurethane miniskirts, and Now That’s What I Call Music on CD. Better Go South, which presents the artist’s current solo exhibition Soft // Chrome, describes the artist’s approach as “celebrating our human capacity to find beauty and connection even within the most manufactured environments.” “Soft // Chrome Pink Daisies” (2026), hand-sewn metallic fabrics, fiber stuffing, polyurethane-coated...

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Across the grass near Serpentine South, a rectangular volume of yellow lines by artist Jesús Rafael Soto now sits in the open air of Kensington Gardens, catching the movement of visitors as much as the movement of the park around it.
 
Entitled Pénétrable BBL Jaune (1999, 2023 Edition), the pavilion launches Serpentine’s 2026 summer program, bringing one of the Venezuelan artist’s immersive kinetic sculptures outdoors in the UK for the first time.
 
On view from June 16th — October 25th, 2026, the work extends Serpentine’s exhibition program beyond the gallery walls and into the landscape that has long shaped its public identity.
 
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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Art Basel opens this week in Switzerland, and dealers say they’re cautiously optimistic after several challenging years.  Ibrahim Mahama unveils a major Münsterplatz commission as he recovers from a brutal attack in Ghana. Christie’s is opening a wine shop in Rockefeller Center. The Headlines MOSTLY BLUE SKIES IN BASEL. After three years of market correction, dealers heading into the 2026 edition of Art Basel say the mood on the ground is the most optimistic it has been in some time—though no one is ready to declare it a recovery, ARTnews’s Devorah Lauter reports. With...

New Curators has announced a transformative £3 million funding commitment from the Bukhman Foundation, securing future growth

monumental installations take over art basel unlimited 2026
 
Art Basel Unlimited has long been the fair’s testing ground for works that exceed the limits of the traditional booth. Monumental sculptures, interactive installations, and ambitious environments spill across the vast exhibition hall, inviting visitors to experience art not as an object on display but as a space to inhabit. This year’s edition demonstrates that scale alone is no longer enough. Instead, many of the strongest presentations use their physical presence to explore intimacy, vulnerability, and collective memory.
 
From labyrinthine architectures and suspended textile landscapes to reclaimed hospital sheets and ritual vessels, the...

According to reports from the BBC and other international media, Russian dissident artist Robert Kuzovkov has been shot dead in eastern Poland

Run Pony Run marked the debut exhibition of Noisy Room Projects, an artist-led curatorial collective creating space for emerging artists

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Parterre Box features soprano Miina-Liisa Värelä, making her title role debut in Die Walküre in Munich next week, in a performance of Tristan und Isolde from 2021.

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materials become vessels of memory at the India Pavilion
 
The India Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia turns to some of the country’s oldest materials to address the experience of distance. Titled Geographies of Distance: remembering home, the exhibition brings together artists Alwar Balasubramaniam, Sumakshi Singh, Ranjani Shettar, Skarma Sonam Tashi, and Asim Waqif, whose works transform earth, thread, bamboo, natural fibers, and papier-mâché into reflections on memory, migration, belonging, and change (find designboom’s previous coverage here)
 
Within the Arsenale’s Isolotto, fractured landscapes, suspended structures, vernacular dwellings, and evolving...

"Beauty and poetics carry weight. They are how human beings have always processed what is unbearable, imagined what is not yet possible, and kept alive the sense that something else could exist." These beautiful words belong to artist Julie Mehretu, who delivered the commencement address to the Rhode Island School of Design class of 2026. Today, we're publishing the full speech, courtesy of the artist. It's a great read, even if your college days are way behind you. Also today: Those art-world "friends" of yours — are they really friends if they always need something from you, and what can you do about this problem? Paddy Johnson has some ideas. Finally, if you're in New York, check out our...

REDEFINING CREATIVE MEANING IN THE AGE OF AUTOMATION
 
With creative processes accelerating through automation, the parameters of creative design are fundamentally changing. Responding directly to this, the iF Design’s trend report 2026 provides a comprehensive analysis of global design trends by identifying four diametrical trend pairs that reflect the intersection of technological, social, and ecological transformations.
 
By charting this complex territory, the report marking its fifth collaboration with future research firm The Future: Project, maps out how contemporary creative success, across industries, requires looking far beyond the visual surface, challenging creators to operate at the strategic...

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Design Wood Home builds timber landmark overlooking Kola Bay
 
Located on a hillside overlooking Kola Bay, a five-minute walk from a residential neighborhood in Murmansk, Russia, the Kola Bay Lighthouse by Design Wood Home was commissioned by the Murmansk Regional Government as part of the Living in the North program. Conceived as an observation pavilion and public recreational space, the project introduces a new destination within the existing landscape while responding to the region’s industrial identity.
 
The pavilion’s silhouette references the port cranes and lighthouses that define the coastline of Kola Bay. Rather than replicating these industrial structures, the design translates their geometric...

Three years after Brice Marden’s death, his daughters found themselves looking at nearly every painting he had ever made. The occasion was the completion of Brice Marden: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, 1961–2023, a project the artist began with scholar Tiffany Bell in 2019 and one that his family helped bring to completion after his death in 2023. This fall, the publication will be accompanied by I Am Plane Image, a major survey at Gagosian that brings together paintings spanning six decades of Marden’s career. Opening September 10 at the gallery’s Chelsea flagship, the exhibition marks the first major survey of Marden’s paintings in New York in twenty years. Drawn from museum collections...

An artist bringing sustainability to sculpture.

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La ricerca di Senzeni Marasela (Thokoza, Sudafrica, 1977) riflette sul periodo di colonizzazione britannica del Sudafrica e poi dell’apartheid, ponendo l’accento sulla vita delle donne nere e sul lavoro nelle miniere dell’area intorno a Johannesburg utilizzando materiali tessili e il ricamo. Nella mostra In Minor Keys alla 61. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte a cura di Koyo Kouoh, l’artista presenta The Conversation (2018) e una serie sugli incidenti avvenuti nelle miniere tra il 1960 e il 2024: Coalbrook 435, 1960 (2025), Kinross 177, 1986 (2025), Marikana 34, 2012 (2025), Stilfontein 77, 2024 (2025), Val Reefs 104, 1995 (2025), Welkom 30, 2023 (2025), Comet (2025). Marasela ha un alter ego...

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The Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv was damaged by a fire caused by a major Russian drone strike across Ukraine in the early hours of June 15. The structure, which dates to the eleventh century, is part of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, or Monastery of the Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The monastery includes a massive […]

The Frank Bowling Foundation, which celebrates the legacy of the eponymous ninety-two-year-old British artist, is set to launch in London on June 24, 2026. Supported by a substantial gift from Bowling comprising paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and archival material spanning his life and professional endeavors, the foundation will operate as a charity with the […]

Panel from Abram August Champanier’s "Alice of Wonderland Visiting New York" (1938–40) (photo courtesy the Museum of the City of New York)We didn’t need the Knicks to show us that we’re a city of champions, but it sure doesn’t hurt. This has been a major year in New York’s art world — we saw the reopening of the Studio Museum and the expansion of the New Museum, and the stars aligned with marquee exhibitions like the Whitney Biennial and MoMA PS1’s Greater New York landing at the same time. You might even say that The Met’s hard-hitting group show on Orientalism probes the empire state of mind.And then, of course, there are the wildcards that make this city such a haven for the weird, the...

Cheeks uses his 104-year-old embroidery machine to embellish fabrics old and new. (all photos courtesy Cheeks/Ramell-Correen Frederick)As New Yorkers flooded the streets in celebration of the Knicks’s NBA Championship win on Saturday night, Brooklyn-based textile artist Cheeks (Ramell-Correen Frederick) embraced a wave of city pride at his now-viral Fort Greene embroidery pop-up. Riding the momentum of last week’s heated NBA playoffs, Cheeks, a 41-year-old Queens-born artist, brought his century-old chainstitch embroidery machine to Habana Outpost during the New York City team’s fifth and final game of the championship. From 7:30 pm until well past 1 am, Cheeks sold all 15 of his pre-made Knicks fan...

The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., has voted to establish a new endowment in President Donald Trump’s name, apparently creating an additional source of private funding to complement its existing endowments and the approximately $257 million in federal funding appropriated for its building renovations.  The Center’s board of trustees, which is chaired by Trump and composed largely of the president’s allies, voted unanimously to establish the new endowment during a meeting on Thursday, June 11. The board also voted to file an emergency appeal seeking to stay a federal court order requiring the removal of the president’s name from the arts and cultural venue’s facade. Judge Christopher R. Cooper...

The Obama Foundation revealed the first official portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama together, painted by Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, the family’s philanthropic organization announced on Monday, June 15. Akunyili Crosby’s large-scale painting of the couple, "The Obamas: Springing Forth" (2026), rendered in the artist’s signature photo-transfer technique, will be on view in the lobby of the $850 million Barack Obama Presidential Center, nicknamed the “Obamalisk,” joining other new commissions by artists including Idris Khan and María Magdalena Campos-Pons. The Obama Foundation captured the former president and first lady’s first impressions of the artwork in...

For his contributions “to bringing cultures closer together and enriching the dialogue between France and Thailand,” Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul was made a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor in a ceremony at the French Residence in Bangkok on June 10. The award, which is France’s highest military and […]

All images courtesy of the artist and GNYP gallery In Aistė Stancikaitė’s painting “Some Time We Walk Together,” two gloved hands are joined by a set of finger cuffs. The connected, silver rings resemble wedding bands. As for the hands, whether they belong to one or two people is up to the viewer to decide. […]
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Based in the foothills of Cambewarra Mountain in New South Wales, Australia, Tamara Dean captures ethereal images that explore the intrinsic bond between the human body and the natural world. She is driven by what she describes as a desire to “explore the reality that humans are not separate from nature, but intrinsically part of it.” Using bodies to express this relationship, the figures within her compositions do not emerge as prominent subjects of portraiture. Instead, they exist as elements embedded within each scene, often emerging as extensions of surrounding flora. “I am interested in those moments when the body appears to merge with the landscape, becoming almost plant-like, animal-like or...

Fábio Szwarcwald, who served as executive director of the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio) from 2020 to 2022, has been ordered to pay a fine of 100,000 reais (about $20,000) for breach of contract, the Art Newspaper reports. The breach came in 2022 when Szwarcwald said publicly that the museum had been without […]

When one reassesses the architectural designs of the technologically obsessed, postmodernist Archigram Collective (1961–74), they encounter a brand of space-age Futurism that feels as cutting-edge and charmingly obsolete as a pulpy sci-fi novel. In an essay for the October 1998 issue of Artforum, architect Joel Sanders evaluates the significance of the group’s pre-digital forays into virtual […]

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In the statement for Annalise Gratovich’s solo exhibition, Carrying Things From Home, the gallery poses a couple of questions: “When war, displacement, and migration sever familial and cultural ties, how do we sustain a sense of self and ancestral connection? How do we hybridize in a new homeland?” For the artist, who is based in Austin and runs High Low Print Co., her family’s history informs a printmaking practice that explores deeply personal and even spiritual links to land, home, and a sense of belonging. Hecho a Mano presents eight large-scale, hand-carved woodblock prints in Carrying Things From Home, which have been painstakingly created between 2014 and 2025. Gratovich meticulously carves...

“The question that has always stayed with me is the one the market rarely asks: what happened in the studio before the work arrived? The sketches abandoned, the ideas reconsidered, the moment something became itself?” That is Shlomi Rabi, founder of Bridgewell Arts and a former auction-house specialist, describing what he is now looking for in his new role on the jury of the .ART Award. The global art prize opened for applications this May to mark the 10th anniversary of the .ART domain. The .ART Award’s format follows from his question. Every artist who applies builds a working archive in the process: their bio, their work, the story behind it, gathered in one place on a .ART domain. “We rarely get to...

The one who got away was Anna Caterina Antonacci, a thrilling performer.

“Metafisica / Metafisiche” è una straordinaria rassegna enciclopedica che ci fa vedere come nell’arte contemporanea si ritrovino radici che affondano nell’avanguardia storica della pittura metafisica di inizio Novecento. A Palazzo Reale di Milano, con quattrocento opere distribuite in tredici saloni, il curatore Vicenzo Trione, affiancato da una squadra di collaboratori costituita da Anna Luigia De Simone, Anna Calise, Vincenzo Di Rosa e Alessia Scaparra Seneca, dimostra i collegamenti fra la poetica della Metafisica con vari movimenti dell’arte contemporanea, collegamenti estesi anche agli ambiti della fotografia, del cinema, dell’architettura e della moda. Questo complesso e articolato progetto...

Sin dalle origini, si sa, la luce è sinonimo di rinascita: porta con sé speranza, gioia, novità e tutta una serie di connotazioni positive capaci di illuminare il futuro. E se Lucio Dalla cantava “Aspettiamo che ritorni la luce, di sentire una voce, aspettiamo senza avere paura domani”, la medesima luce è un faro che accompagna l’omonima mostra collettiva, curata da Diana Segantini e promossa dalla Fondazione Augusto Rancilio, visibile fino al 5 luglio 2026 a Villa Arconati a Castellazzo di Bollate (MI).
Igor Eskinja, Eskinja, “At your place”, lightbox, plexiglass, 2008; Antoni Taulé, “Seuil de la caverne”, 1986, olio su tela; Nives Widauer, “Moonbrightnight” (dalla serie of moon...

Conductors, schlock, and 26-27, oh my! Make sure to weigh in on our next edition of The Talk of the Town.

In the case of Lina Bruna Rasa, the reasons why she never sang at the Met are painfully clear.

La pittura contemporanea è entrata da tempo nella propria fase necromantica. Origina fantasmi, archivi, rovine, temporalità collassate e mitologie tossiche, ma raramente produce ancora storia. Il trauma si presenta oggi come filtro atmosferico: una nebbia estetica compatibile con la circolazione dell’immagine. Il sistema dell’arte dipende dall’immaginario terminale; distopie climatiche, folklore post-umani, allegorie coloniali ricombinate e iconografie del deterioramento sono diventati il linguaggio dominante di una pittura che oscilla tra fascinazione archeologica e consumo della catastrofe. La vera ossessione non è più la fine del mondo, ma la paura che la fine del mondo abbia smesso di produrre...

In the ever-expanding pantheon of open-world video games where combat, survival, crafting, and anarchy reign, the simple idea of taking a virtual walk while chatting with a few friends might seem pointless. A new video game from Melbourne-based developer House House begs to differ, though, turning a casual stroll across dreamy landscapes into a uniquely collaborative game, where puzzles and the lengths required to solve them take center stage. Some areas of Big Walk render players speechless, forcing you to devise innovative ways to communicate. It might just be the antithesis of Fortnite or Grand Theft Auto. This friendly, casual, and playful approach to game design may come as no surprise from the makers of...

Conductor Eun Sun Kim and soprano Elza van der Heever play to their strengths in a piercing revival of Elektra at San Francisco Opera.

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Dal 9 al 13 giugno 2026 si svolge a Bologna la dodicesima edizione di Opentour, la piattaforma dedicata alla promozione dei giovani talenti dell’arte contemporanea che continua ad arricchire la città trasformandola in un grande laboratorio diffuso di ricerca, confronto e sperimentazione artistica. Al centro del programma di Opentour è la rassegna Giovani talenti in galleria che, coinvolgendo simultaneamente 31 gallerie e spazi privati di Bologna, costituisce il fulcro della manifestazione, creando un dialogo diretto tra la formazione accademica e il sistema dell’arte contemporanea.
Opentour 2026, Openshow, ph. Alessandro Para, courtesy Accademia delle Belle arti di Bologna
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By Victoria Thomas When John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966, he had no idea who she was. More remarkably, Yoko was equally unaware of John. This neutral introduction seems impossible for us today, especially for children of the 1960s. But defying mere nostalgia, The Broad meets this challenge with Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Ono's first LA museum show, which offers a full season of multi-arts media programming, including the installation of seven digital antiwar billboards across Los Angeles....

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Interior Gallery Photos by and ©Tim Hursley, courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum  As a world-class institution showcasing one of the most impressive collections of American art spanning five centuries, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has firmly placed Bentonville, Arkansas on the global cultural map. And, except for a few major holidays, the museum […]
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By A. Laura Brody What is the language of bat senses and beaver teethmarks? How does water communicate to soil and roots, and how do we translate the paths left by burrowing insects or the markings of trees? These are questions asked by the Journal of Therolinguistics exhibition at Descanso Gardens' Boddy House, on view now until July 5, 2026. Oscar Salguero has curated a fascinating exploration of the expressive worlds of plants and animals brought to life by international artists Aistė...