The institution is offering a “voluntary exit scheme” for all employees and will be reducing its activities

The cultural sector is ripe for a great commissioner, and the moment demands one more than ever.As Mayor Mamdani prepares to appoint a new commissioner for the Department of Cultural Affairs, we need a public counterpart who understands that progress is built with civil society.Throughout the last decade, the field has assumed a more active civic role. Artists, cultural workers, and partners in government and philanthropy have organized through cultural plans like CreateNYC and the People’s Cultural Plan; weekly Culture@3 and New Yorkers for Culture and Arts advocacy calls; coalitions like the Cultural Equity Coalition, Latinx Arts Consortium of New York, Safety Net Coalition, and Voices for Creative New...

Although our sugary contemporary Valentine’s Day traditions are a far cry from its brutal origins in Ancient Roman sacrifice and martyrdom, it’s not uncommon for February 14 to inspire a little pain. It’s an occasion to reflect on romantic love, and with that comes the pressure to externalize such musings, from planning the perfect date to avoiding all plans in defiance of the social code. This year, we suggest letting the city’s whims define your day. Yes, love is in the air. But get out of your head and let artists be your guide. It’s just a Saturday with a high probability of finding free heart-shaped candy. Below are 10 art-adjacent cultural activities that will immerse you in visual worlds...

Art Basel returns to Hong Kong this March with 240 galleries and an expanded program, including a reimagined Encounters section and the Asia debut of the digital-focused Zero 10. Following its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach in December, Zero 10’s first Hong Kong outing will feature 14 exhibitors with a program that includes digital animations by DeeKay examining psychological states through the lens of early video games (via a presentation by AOTM); a meeting of AI, sculpture, installation, and traditional ink painting featuring works by Seneca, Qu Leilei, Tim Yip (at Asprey Studio); and a “participatory blockchain -based work” by Robert Alice (at Onkaos). For this year’s edition, Encounters will be...

Earlier this week, news broke that the Trump administration had quietly removed the Pride flag that once waved over the Stonewall National Monument in New York’s West Village. Several New York City and State elected officials condemned the flag’s removal, and many gathered to reinstate it on Thursday afternoon. Gay City News first reported on the flag’s removal on Monday, with the removal likely happening over the weekend. A report in amNewYork quoted Tim Sutton, a local resident, who said he witnessed the removal on Friday, February 6, at around 10am. At the time Sutton didn’t realize what was going on, telling the paper, “I’m standing right here and I think, ‘What are they doing?’ I thought,...

Szilveszter Makó’s enigmatic photographs carry layers of mystery and introspection. Standing inside curious block-like backdrops and lain against two-dimensional fields of color and texture, his subjects seamlessly meld into stories in which every detail carries intention. Taking inspiration from art history, the Milan-based artist references Surrealism and grotesque art through his use of chiaroscuro effects via light exploration and contrasting earth tones. Similar to 20th-century Surrealist paintings, Makó’s images delve into uncanny realms and evoke a dreamlike sense of unfettered imagination. It’s no surprise that the photographer was once a painter and has suggested that these impulses may be a...

ENESS fills Piazza Maggiore with inflatable geology
 
ENESS’ Iwagumi Air Scape unfolds across Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, marking one of the few contemporary artworks to occupy the 13th-century square in its long history. The large-scale installation transforms the civic heart of the city into a field of luminous, air-filled ‘boulders’ that appear geological in mass.
 
More than 10,000 people gathered around the work, yet, despite the crowds, the atmosphere reportedly settled into an unexpected calm, as visitors moved quietly among the forms. Previously presented at i Light Singapore along the Marina Bay foreshore and later at Prahran Square in Melbourne, the project arrives in Bologna with an...

Next month, during the spring sales in London, Sotheby’s will auction off ten works to raise money for the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which has been in a financial crisis since the pandemic. The works have all been donated by living or honorary Royal Academicians, in the hopes of raising enough funds to “secure the future of the Royal Academy as a place where creativity flourishes and artists can fully realise their vision,” Batia Ofer, chair of the Royal Academy Trust told the Art Newspaper. The cumulative high estimate of the works is around £2.6 million ($3.7 milion). Among the works on offer is a tapestry by El Anatsui (estimate £800,000-£1.2 million) and an oil painting by Sean Scully...

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Tina Rivers Ryan Steps Down From ArtforumI take no pleasure in saying "I told you so." Really, I don't. But I was hardly shocked by this week's news that Tina Rivers Ryan, who was named editor-in-chief of Artforum in 2024 after the dumpster fire that was the magazine's handling of an open letter in support of Gaza, was stepping down (Daniel Wenger and Rachel Wetzler will step in as co-editors, scrapping the editor-in-chief title altogether). It is almost like firing your previous editor-in-chief in suspect circumstances, issuing a paltry...

Bonhams has a new front door in New York, and it is not subtle. This week, the 232-year-old auction house opened its new U.S. headquarters at 111 West 57th Street, inside the restored Steinway Hall and beneath the pencil-thin tower that now looms over Billionaires’ Row. The move shifts Bonhams from its longtime Madison Avenue base into a 42,000 square foot space that feels more like a cultural center than a back-office salesroom. The building does much of the talking. Visitors enter through an 80-foot glass atrium that opens onto a grand staircase, a triple-height gallery, and two sizable auction rooms. The historic Steinway Rotunda has been restored and folded into the mix, giving the place a sense of old...

At age 85, Gladys Nilsson brings her playful sensibility to new drawings that unravel myths about gender, aging, and intimacy, Lauren Stroh writes for Momus:I am thinking of Picasso because his prurience usefully counters the critical modalities typically brought to the work of Gladys Nilsson, a Chicago-based artist who began painting in the wake of second-wave feminism and is still all-too-often expected to address the “woman question.” Because her female figures take on unruly proportions—are fleshy and voluptuous, or otherwise unconventionally attractive—critics have framed their sensuality as a disruption of misogynist art-historical norms (though the works also resuscitate classical ideals of...

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Patrick Martinez and Jay Lynn Gomez, “Labor of Love” (2022), stucco, neon, ceramic, acrylic paint, spray paint, latex house paint, family archive photos, ceramic tile and led signs on panel; acrylic on cardboard, fabric (all photos Tara Ann Dalbow/Hyperallergic)TORRANCE, Calif. — Art can amaze, soothe, offer escape, expand the imagination, grant access to someone else’s interior life, trouble deeply held beliefs, critique entrenched social norms. At FOG Design+Art a few weeks ago, for instance, I was surrounded by inspired, challenging, strange work that was, in large part, affirmative — a testament to human ingenuity and the capacity to create beauty. That Saturday afternoon, a man was shot and...

A team of 13 archaeologists and scientists from universities in Oregon and Nevada have successfully dated a cache of animal hide clothing to the Late Pleistocene era, making it the oldest known sewn clothing in the world. The stitched-together hides were originally excavated, along with other materials (braided cords, knotted bark, and other fiber objects), by an amateur archaeologist named John Cowles from Cougar Mountain Cave in western Oregon in 1958, according to the study published in Science Advances. Cowles kept his findings until his death in the 1980s, at which point they were transferred to the Favell Museum, which collects Indigenous artifacts and contemporary western art, in Klamath Falls, Ore....

The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has named the sixty-one artists and collectives slated to participate in the Fifty-Ninth Carnegie International, to take place May 2, 2026–January 3, 2027. Titled “If the word we,” this edition of the quadrennial event is the largest to date and will appear at the Carnegie as well as various institutions across the […]

The Queens Museum in New York has announced Debra Wimpfheimer as its new executive director. A native of Queens, Wimpfheimer has worked for the institution on and off since 2002, most recently as deputy director. She will succeed Sally Tallant, who is set to become the director of London’s Hayward Gallery this July. Wimpfheimer has held senior development positions at the Museum […]

The new mayor of Jersey City, James Solomon, said a long-planned outpost of the French museum is no longer happening

The artist was approached about including his seminal work in an exhibition at the University of Maryland’s Driskell Center, but ultimately it was not featured; he and the curators disagree on the reasons why

THE ETHEREAL WHISPER: A Home Rooted in Kerala’s Plantation
 
Ethereal Whisper, developed by Project 51 A (h), is a residence in Karimannoor, Idukki, India, designed for a couple who returned to Kerala after years in Canada in search of a slower, land-connected life. Set at the natural high point of a two-acre rubber plantation, the house occupies an existing clearing and responds to the site’s contours, climate, and rhythms of plantation living rather than reshaping them.
 
The semi-circular plan follows the terrain, organizing spaces around a central living core where cooking, dining, and gathering merge into a single, open volume. Three bedrooms extend outward with varying orientations, balancing...

In works that merge sculpture, fashion, and kite-making, Hai-Wen Lin traverses the thresholds that connect one’s physical self, the mind, and the elements. The artist describes their practice as “an act of reorienting: looking back, looking forward, looking in, looking up.” Using a wide range of materials, Lin creates vibrant, abstract compositions in textile often manipulated with cyanotype patterns or dyed with natural hues such as indigo and turmeric. They make kites “that speak the language of clothing,” blurring definitions of craft, art, garments, and acts of play. “October 8th 2:56-3:56pm Wicker Park; a picnic together // we probably shouldn’t feed the sparrows” (2022), tannic acid-toned...

The latest iteration of the recurring exhibition boasts more specially commissioned works than ever before

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Retrospective on Aleksa Milojević’s The Nomad’s Automobile
 
Aleksa Milojević’s The Nomad’s Automobile was presented in the Future gallery of Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, curated by Norman Foster. The 2022 exhibition examined the automobile through artistic and cultural perspectives, with one gallery dedicated to speculative proposals addressing the future of mobility. Milojević’s project contributed to this framework by exploring independent movement in response to resource scarcity, urban congestion, and shifting living patterns.
 
Set in the year 2086, The Nomad’s Automobile proposes a mobility system designed for existence beyond conventional urban...

Diana Soviero chats with Roger Pines about six decades of performing, four decades of teaching, and how she’s handing the tradition off to the next generation.

Die Entführung aus dem Serail boldly goes where no opera has gone before at Pacific Opera Project. 

Despite some complications, the Deutsche Oper exhumes buried treasure in Franz Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber. 

The auction will provide crucial financial support for the institution, which last year was looking at axing 60 members of staff as part of a cost-cutting drive

Museums have long served as vital vessels of culture, shaping collective memory whilst nurturing curiosity and imagination. They provide spaces where history, art and ideas intersect, allowing society to reflect on its past and envision its future. Exhibitions, programmes and public engagement offer opportunities to explore diverse perspectives and challenge conventional thinking. Within their walls, knowledge and creativity coalesce, creating narratives that transcend time and place. The New Museum has become a beacon for contemporary art, offering a platform for artists to interrogate the present moment and speculate on what lies ahead. Its reopening signals a new chapter in the ongoing mission to inspire,...

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tbilisi shop frames organic merchandise with industrial style  
 
BARR x Cutburo Café and Flower Shop is a monochromatic retail and cafe space in Tbilisi, Georgia. The design objective was to unify two distinct sensory experiences – the social ritual of a café and the delicate, organic nature of a flower shop – under a singular, futuristic aesthetic. The project operates on the principle of ‘industrial coldness,’ using a sharp, silver-toned palette to frame and elevate the natural life contained within. The material selection is central to the project’s spatial identity. Stainless steel serves as the primary medium, chosen for its reflective properties and its ability to create a dialogue...

The Solti recording of Bohème is completely miscast.

Seoul wing provides temporary shelter in parks
 
Seoul Wing by BKID is a series of installative sunshades for parks that can withstand typhoons and harsh weather. Formed with a sloping roof, the bird-wing-shaped structures are made from polyurethane mesh, giving them a lightweight and robust design. Seoul’s summers are humid, and at times, the country experiences sudden storms and seasonal typhoons. Traditional parasols and tents break under strong winds, so BKID reframes these through the lens of biomimicry because in nature, wings can withstand air by being flexible and distributing force.
all images courtesy of BKID | photos by BKID and Lee Sangpil
 
 
Light Installative sunshades made from mesh
 
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Yorgos Lanthimos needs no introduction. From the unsettling minimalism of Dogtooth to the baroque intensity of The Favourite, his films have repeatedly reshaped contemporary cinema. Celebrated for a singular vision that balances absurdist humour with acute human insight, Lanthimos has become synonymous with uncompromising originality. Five-time Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, the Jury Prize at Cannes and the Golden Lion at Venice attest to the scale and reach of his imagination. Each work exists as a world, meticulously constructed and unnervingly precise, drawing audiences into spaces that are intimate yet disorienting. This same careful orchestration informs his latest venture: a major...

 
What does love look like? Sometimes it comes with lust and desire, sometimes with deep-rooted care from the heart, and other times it’s a disguise for something that isn’t love at all.
Love can be found in the quieter gestures of everyday life. It can look like kindness, the people and places you hold dear, moments of care and support, or the small comforts that bring you peace: a cup of tea, a single flower, a familiar corner of home.
DO YOU LIKE LOVE? is a metaphor for the things that bring us joy and comfort, and for what we offer others to help them feel the same. Within the pages of DO YOU LIKE LOVE?, photographers answer the question – do you like love?
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C’è stata anche la dolorosa questione iraniana nell’appena conclusa 49esima edizione di Arte Fiera a Bologna, anno domini 2026 (la prima firmata dal nuovo direttore Davide Ferri). Il rinnovato padiglione esterno Esprit Nouveau, esatta riproduzione di quello parigino firmato da Le Corbusier, ha ospitato infatti una (molto) concettuale e potente installazione/performance dell’artista franco-iraniana Chalisée Naamani. Chalisée Naamani,”Wardrobe”, Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, Bologna, 2026. Un progetto di Arte Fiera in collaborazione con Fondazione Furla,  ph credits Team99, courtesy l’artista e Ciaccia Levi (Parigi-Milano)
Proposta dalla Fondazione Furla, “Wardrobe” è un’installazione...

The best design shows reveal how creativity, science, innovation and technology intersect – influencing the very world around us. Those working in the space blend traditional art with bold new methods, creating something striking and unexpected. These five international exhibitions shine a spotlight on the pioneers pushing the discipline forward, inviting audiences behind the scenes of their practice. Together, they trace the complex and fascinating evolution of design, unpack the methods and thinking behind the work, and explore how these ideas resonate within contemporary culture and everyday life. Hella Jongerius: Whispering Things  Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein | Opens 14 March  Hella Jongerius is...

February 11, 2026, New York, NY — Today, Artforum announces a restructure to its editorial leadership. Tina Rivers Ryan, who has served as Editor in Chief for the past two years, will depart her role at the end of February. Two current staffers, Executive Editor Rachel Wetzler and Editor Daniel Wenger, will now lead the publication’s editorial initiatives […]

When we think of terms like “flowing” or “fluid,” we could be referring to the nature of water, but we can also just as easily apply these concepts to our understanding of art and craft. Fabrics “pool” and different mediums converge. The nature of creativity is often referred to in terms of an “ebb and flow.” Ecologically speaking, bodies of water are metaphorically woven into the fabric of our planet. Rivers and lakes sustain an abundance of life, shape cultures, and course through history. Amid the ongoing climate crisis, how do artists express concerns about water and the environment? Water | Craft, a group exhibition at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, dives into this question. The museum...

A bad Facebook experience turned Brown off to social media, but he ultimately brought David Henry Nobody Jr. to Instagram... Read the full article by clicking above!
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Although James Reka finds total freedom in his studio practice, it’s public art that he gravitates toward. The Australia-born artist researches the history of a building or neighborhood as he conceptualizes a mural and enjoys the constraints of creating within a particular geographic and cultural context. “Public art needs to connect with the local community,” he says. “It does need to have a narrative or a message, even if it’s very subtle. I am mindful of this and choose to view it as a challenge to explore certain themes and color combinations that my studio work does not.” Rheine, Germany Reka renders minimalist shapes into dense compositions with a distinctive sense of vitality and movement....

Redolent of African basketry, hairstyles, headwear, and pottery, Donté K. Hayes’ abstract ceramic sculptures may be interpreted as poetic vessels, even though they lack traditional openings. While we easily associate clay pots and round woven forms with ideas related to storage, protection, and even spiritual significance, they also nod to the human head as a holder—a kind of receptacle for culture, language, personal expression, and dreams. For the past several years, Hayes has approached porcelain with an emphasis on mostly monochrome black forms with meticulously hand-marked surfaces with textures that appear almost strand-like. Recently, he’s begun incorporating colored porcelain into the bulbous...

Iván Fischer's Mahler 3 with the Budapest Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall is memorable but crude, sometimes exhilarating and often tedious.

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Yemeni-Egyptian-American artist Yumna Al-Arashi (b. 1988) creates work with a singular purpose: to oppose the oppression and stereotyping of women worldwide. The artist uses a range of media – photography, book, sculpture – to explore how the Arab world is depicted, question the legacy of colonialism in our thoughts and contemplate matriarchal traditions that are all but lost. Huis Marseille presents Al-Arashi’s first solo museum exhibition, titled Body as Resistance, which brings together her entire oeuvre. Featured works include dyptich Axis of Evil (2020), which depicts four women from the countries designed “rogue states” by the US government and Shedding Skin (2017), made in a bathhouse in...

The very first Biennale was founded in 1895 in Venice, as an international exhibition designed to bring artists from across Europe together in the Giardini gardens, fostering exchange and dialogue between nations. Originally established as a celebration of artistic innovation, it created a precedent for large-scale exhibitions that could combine national pride with cross-cultural engagement. Over time, the Biennale expanded its remit beyond painting and sculpture to include architecture, film, performance and multimedia works. It is a festival of ideas, a convergence of memory, place and political reflection, where art ceases to exist in isolation and becomes a catalyst for social engagement. Biennales have...

In un mondo dell’arte che, nell’attuale frangente di deriva imperialista, autoritaria e bellicista, è apparso finora troppo silente e timido, la Fondazione Merz di Torino ha scelto di schierarsi. Diverse mostre e iniziative che vi hanno avuto luogo di recente, a partire dalla mostra dell’artista palestinese Khalil Rabah nel 2023, si sono collocate senza timore nel discorso politico, attraverso un fare cultura che è anche informare e creare comunità. Prendendo spunto da una considerazione tratta da uno scritto di Mario Merz, “la cultura si sveste e fa apparire la guerra”, la mostra collettiva Push the Limits 2 si pone in continuità con questi intenti e costituisce il secondo capitolo di una...

The organizers of Frieze New York have revealed the sixty-seven galleries that will be participating in the event’s fourteenth iteration, slated to take place May 3–17 at the Shed, which has hosted it since 2021. The exhibitors represent twenty-six countries and include stalwarts such as Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, Perrotin, Thaddaeus Ropac, White Cube and David Zwirner. Among […]

The Minneapolis-based designer discusses his viral anti-ICE protest signs

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FRENCH PLACE, realtà nata a Londra nel 2020, inaugura la nuova sede di Milano con CORALE. L’impianto critico della mostra permette alle ricerche degli artisti di incontrarsi in un magico e spontaneo punto di tangenza, secondo una visione che sostiene la libertà e l’opacità delle singole poetiche. CORALE rispecchia una condizione polifonica, un ecosistema in cui il visitatore si muove tra progetti e identità diverse.
AA.VV, “CORALE”, installation view, ph Francesco Paleari, courtesy of FRENCH PLACE
La pratica di Matthias Odin, primo artista in residenza, coniuga l’esperienza del situazionismo francese, ancorato alla nozione di psicogeografia coniata da Debord, alla circolarità del movimento...

In 1979, with the publication of The Lowbrow Art of Robt. Williams, Williams unintentionally coined a term that would come to define an art movement. But he began intentionally carving out its place in the world long before... Read the full article on Robert Williams by clicking above.
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Con More Than This, la Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna accoglie un progetto espositivo che mette in tensione due dimensioni in apparenza inconciliabili: l’istituzione museale storica e una pratica pittorica radicalmente contemporanea, nata all’interno di un contesto formativo e laboratoriale. La mostra, curata da Daniele Capra, riunisce dodici artisti formatisi all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia nell’ambito dell’Atelier F, restituendo non tanto una “scuola” intesa in senso stilistico, quanto un metodo condiviso fondato sul lavoro, sul confronto e sulla continuità del fare.
AA.VV., “More Than This”, installation view at Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, 2026, ph. Irene Fanizza, courtesy...

La sala espositiva di KAPPA-NöUN accoglie il visitatore con un’installazione che concentra in un unico gesto scultoreo la riflessione di Giovanni Termini (Assoro, 1972; vive a Pesaro) sulla memoria, sul lavoro e sugli strati di esistenza che si sedimentano negli oggetti attraversati da molteplici vite. PostAzione, il titolo di questo progetto espositivo, nella sua formulazione linguistica racchiude un duplice significato: da un lato evoca la posteriorità dell’azione, il venire dopo, l’agire in risposta all’ascolto di memorie precedenti; dall’altro designa la postazione di lavoro, quel luogo quotidiano in cui l’artista compie le sue operazioni trasformative.  Al centro dello spazio, un tavolo da...

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There’s just 2 weeks left to submit your work for Feeling Seen, a community-centered photography project inviting you to share what you’re experiencing right now.
We want photographers to capture the essence of their current emotions, sensations, and surroundings. Our sense of feeling goes beyond the physical – it’s emotional, atmospheric, and relational. It’s through these feelings that we connect with one another on a deeper level.
It’s about exploring how photography can express both internal and external sensations – whether it’s the rush of anticipation, the dis/comfort of the body, nostalgia of memory or tension of conflict. This project believes in photography’s power to evoke real...

“When I look for places in the city to locate my sculptures, or take photographs, it is a bit similar to [mushroom hunting]. I like to observe the city with that gaze for little details.”Read the full article by Silke Tudor by clicking above.
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The frolicking skeleton children, bat-human creatures, and a lizard girl named Claudine embody the wild imagination of Matt Gordon, a mixed-media artist based in Plymouth, Michigan. Read the full article by Andy Smith by clicking above!
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