Following reports that hedge-fund billionaire Igor Tulchinsky financed a community center in an illegal Israeli settlement in the Occupied West Bank, pro-Palestine activists took to the British Museum this Saturday, September 12, to protest Tulchinsky's financial backing of the new Bayeux Tapestry exhibit.Activists from Energy Embargo for Palestine, who also denounced the British Museum's ongoing partnership with the oil giant BP, unfurled their own “People's Tapestry” in the museum's Great Court.“We will continue to push for a Museum that is led by the interests of its workers and the general public,” the climate emergency group wrote in an Instagram post about the weekend action,...

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is reportedly on the brink of bankruptcy. Leaders at the center, who were largely appointed by President Donald Trump, have argued that the only way to avoid “certain fiscal collapse” is by putting the President’s name on the building’s facade to ensure his fundraising efforts, according to a report by the Washington Post. A 57-page packet reviewed by the Post offered a bleak assessment of the center’s future to the center’s board of trustees ahead of a special meeting on Tuesday. At that meeting, the Trump-led board is expected to consider two crucial issues affecting the center: its finances and the building’s crumbling infrastructure. Center...

This week, two thieves broke into the Renoir Museum in southern France and seized two paintings in under five minutes. Earlier this year, three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse and four priceless Renaissance works were stolen from two museums in Italy. The thefts are only the most recent in a series of museum robberies across Europe over the past year, following the brazen daytime jewelry heist at the Louvre in Paris. In a new report last month, Europol warned that museum robberies were becoming “almost a weekly occurrence,” with offenders increasingly employing violent and forceful methods. But a succession of spectacular thefts can create the impression of an escalating trend without...

More than 30 prints by Pablo Picasso have gone on display at Christie’s in London through September 23, as part of the auction house’s “Prints & Multiples” sale and exhibition. The total 31-piece lot is estimated to fetch between £2.8 million and £4.1 million ($3.8 million and $5.53 million). Include in the print collection are three portraits of Jacqueline Roque, who was Picasso’s second wife and last lover, until his death in 1973. This October marks 40 years since Roque’s untimely death. The earliest work is Profil de Jacqueline au foulard (1955) estimated between £30,000 to £40,000 ($40,500 to $54,000), which Murray Macaulay, head of prints at Christie’s Europe called “very rare.” In...

SO Arquitetura takes on a compact footprint
 
On the south coast of São Miguel, Portugal, SO Arquitetura & Design has turned a tiny storage building into a complete home. Mini Atalhada began with a footprint of just 13 square meters, inside a concrete structure too small to accommodate even a car. The architects bought the building themselves, using it as a chance to test their own ideas about how little space a house really needs. With very little room to expand across the site, they went upward, bringing the total interior area to around 35 square meters.
 
The stair became the central problem almost immediately. In a house this small, a conventional staircase could consume a large share of usable floor...

The Antonio Homem Sonnabend Collection that’s estimated to achieve more than $50 million at auction is coming to Christie’s this fall, with works by Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol. Antonio Homem Sonnabend, who died in March, was the adopted son of art dealers Ileana and Michael Sonnabend. Antonio oversaw Ilena and Michael’s vast collection of works, which included postwar and contemporary art, photographs, prints and multiples, and design, all of which will be offered during Christie’s 20th/21st Century Evening Sales in London, Paris, and New York. The works headed to sale are from the family’s private collection, with the pieces produced mainly...

Editor’s note: This story is the latest edition of Link Rot, a column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. Olia Lialina has been distributing herself online since 1994, counting her among the first artists in the net.art scene. 30 years worth of her fascination with the poetics of servers, browsers, and GIFs is now on view in “Network Portraits” through October 3, at Berlin’s Panke Gallery. (Elsewhere, at the Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen in Stuttgart, she is the subject of “online since 1996“, on view through mid-October). Alongside her practice as an artist, Lialina is an archivist of GeoCities websites: personal websites that were made...

Seven sacred treasures from Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra are on display in the UK for the first time.

Frederich Kunath describes that he aims to make his paintings “feel like songs.” The logo for the band Oasis turns up in a top corner of “Sometimes I’m Almost There,” and there is a kind of surreal, set-like quality to his vibrant, cinematic works. “Kunath explores themes of distance and (re)location, where a longing emerges between the place you’re in and the place you’re destined to be,” says a statement for his exhibition The Nearest Faraway Place, presented by Pace in Seoul. The artist taps into art history with compositions redolent of the tradition of Weltlandschaft, or “the world landscape,” which can be traced to the Northern Renaissance. There’s also a strong nod to the Hudson...

Spanning the globe, there are uncounted thousands of nonprofit arts organizations, with varying missions, budgets, and staff sizes. While there are many regular reports that cover the art market and the museum world, it may be that private arts foundations are less studied, perhaps partly because they are so varied.  Clare Hindle and Meagan Ryan, cofounders (with creative director Hilary Wolfe) of the Stoa Foundation, released an inaugural report this winter and have organized conferences to pin down and study these varied organizations, and to bring them together for mutual assistance. Hindle started out at Sotheby’s, later directed the Cass Sculpture Foundation in Sussex, England, and was director of...

Immersive Arts secures £8.5m to support UK artists working with immersive technologies through 2030.

The Manship Artists Residency is proud to present Hockney Reproduction(s), an exhibition examining one of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, David Hockney (1937-2026). The exhibition explores Hockney’s six-decade fascination with reproducing, reimagining, transmitting, and sharing his work through emerging technologies. With prints, books, multi-page faxes, photographs, and over 90 posters, the show reveals how reproduction served as a central force that shaped the artist’s practice.“I’ve always been interested in printing as a medium and also as a medium through which my work can be known — can reach a public. So, I’ve taken an interest in any technology to...

Shed reworks A Reclaimed Greenhouse into a Gathering Space
 
Created by Kren., a London/Vienna-based design studio, Shed is a bespoke installation for independent music festival Loud Places, set a couple of hours outside of London. Shed refers to its domestic origins and the light it sheds on the rest of the festival, acting as both a beacon and an intimate space to congregate. As an inhabitable light installation, it functions as a place to gather around throughout the day, and within at night. The yellow frame and diffuse screens are foregrounds and backgrounds that blur and then interchange as the sun sets, light emanating consistently. Working with a reclaimed greenhouse structure, the adapted system...

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On the heels of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film adaptation, John Danaher muses on operatic iterations of Homer’s Odyssey.

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Philippe Bodenmann has gifted his entire collection—including pieces by Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner and Max Bill—to the Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds

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A Jewish non-binary lesbian who fled the Nazis and lost much of her work in a 1944 studio fire, Moss's paintings and sculptures are the subject of a commercial exhibition at Ward Moretti

As technology increasingly thinks for us, Thinking Hands asks what knowledge remains embedded in our bodies, hands and gestures.

The first-century mosaic and accompanying fresco located beneath the Baths of Trajan in Rome welcomed its first visitors this past weekend

paris.designboom takes over the marais
 
For Paris Design Week 2026, designboom set up a temporary studio at 72 Rue des Archives in the Marais, bringing people together around conversation, making, and the exchange of ideas. Across the week, it became a base for podcasts, workshops, meetings, and gatherings, with designers, architects, artists, collaborators, and friends of designboom passing through.
 
We recorded podcast sessions with INDX|Global around the idea of utopia with leading architects and designers from India, turning the room into a working set as guests dropped in and out. But, as anyone who has spent time at a design week knows, some of the best parts happen between the official bits. On...

The most reflective element on Earth, silver has transformed the ways in which humans perceive, record, and understand the world. Presented on the occasion of the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft’s milestone 25th anniversary, A Material Inheritance employs silver as both subject and lens, inviting reflection on the institution’s past while considering the evolving future of contemporary craft. Silver is the material through which cultures have learned to see and remember themselves. Its exceptional optical and metallurgical properties made possible advances in mirror-making, photography, and scientific instrumentation, while its weight, density, and malleability established it as a prime medium for...

FUTURE OF DESIGN: enter A’ DESIGN AWARD AND COMPETITION 2026
 
The A’ Design Award 2026 is officially calling for entries from global designers, architects, and innovators across diverse disciplines. Submissions close on February 28, with winners revealed on May 1, offering participants a global stage to earn recognition and elevate their practice. From vintage-inspired speakers to high-performance coffee makers, designboom curates a selection of previous winners across Digital and Electronic Device and Home Appliances categories that illustrate the future of daily life.
 
Enter your latest projects here to join the ranks in 2027.
R400 CD Player by Orgdot Design
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After Mahmood Mamdani published Good Muslim, Bad Muslim in 2004, artist Naeem Mohaiemen immediately recognized himself after 9/11 in its pages. “We naively thought if we were polite in the face of Islamophobia, it would wilt,” he recalls. Both a vital record and a call to action, his opinion today reflects on the haunting time period after the attacks, the South Asian community activism that rose up in response, and the 25 years since. Now a professor at Columbia University, Mohaiemen writes, “Thankfully, Mamdani’s son, Zohran, had other ideas.”More to kick off your week in art below, from the end of the School of Visual Arts’s beloved Photography MFA program and our review of a Pope.L exhibition...

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New Museum appoints ten new trustees as the New York contemporary art institution enters a new era following its major OMA-designed expansion.

WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE REHEARSE AT HOME?
 
When Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou opened MODES OF HABITATION, she asked, ‘what if the home is where we first rehearse the world we want, in miniature, before we dare to build it?’ Over the weeks that followed, that question kept expanding. The home appeared less as a finished object than as a testing ground: for comfort and discomfort, solitude and community, permanence and change, efficiency and pleasure. Again and again, the spaces we inhabit revealed themselves as active participants in everyday life, shaping how we move, work, rest, meet others and understand what belongs to us.
 
As the chapter moved from kitchens and conversation pits to underground houses,...

Chunbum Park reviews Hijo Nam at Space 776, exploring shamanistic abstraction, memory and cyclical time.

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Che cosa accade quando un’immagine ci è familiare e, nello stesso istante, sfugge al riconoscimento? Quando un luogo sembra custodire qualcosa che abbiamo già visto, pur senza riuscire a collocarlo nella nostra esperienza? La pittura di Marina Rheingantz nasce dentro questa zona instabile, dove la percezione precede la certezza e il ricordo si forma attraverso frammenti, atmosfere, tracce.
Marina Rheingantz, “Miope”, installation view at White Cube Seoul, courtesy White Cube Seoul
In Míope, la mostra presentata da White Cube a Seoul, l’artista costruisce paesaggi in cui il visibile appare sempre sul punto di dissolversi. La materia pittorica conserva una forte presenza fisica, mentre forme,...

Opera Philadelphia's production of Mitridate, re di Ponto proves more puerile than perhaps its 14 year-old composer intended.

I am very much interested in La Scala's upcoming opening night with Verdi's Otello.

Il genere delle impressioni di viaggio ha una lunga e complessa storia che, sin dal diciassettesimo secolo, ha svolto un ruolo significativo nel plasmare l’immaginario occidentale dei paesi non-occidentali. Artisti e studiosi hanno viaggiato nel mondo per spedizioni coloniali, scientifiche o archeologiche producendo schizzi, disegni, dipinti e letteratura che ritraevano le civiltà che incontravano. Le culture del passato e del presente erano comunicate attraverso rappresentazioni di frammenti architettonici e rovine, ornamenti, oggetti, abbigliamento, costumi e tradizioni. Il mondo naturale, inoltre, era registrato in pubblicazioni botaniche e zoologiche. Nel loro insieme, queste impressioni di viaggio...

September 7, noon: It’s Labor Day but some labor has to be done. I see a young man at a cafe wearing a hat embroidered with the words “Contemporary Art Market.” If only he knew, I mutter, and bury my head back into my laptop. September 8, morning: I meet Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar in Chelsea. We talk about the rise of authoritarianism, the decline of democracy, and other depressing things. In the evening, this gloominess turns cathartic as he delivers a moving lecture at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan. They serve a buffet but I don’t touch any of it. On my way out, I stop in front of an exhibit in the hallway to educate myself about the Battle of New York in 1776. Outside, the Empire State...

Ha ancora senso pensare alla mostra come a un evento temporaneo, una parentesi chiusa tra le quattro pareti di una galleria che si accende e si spegne a orari stabiliti? La ricerca di Lin Wu – curatore indipendente e ricercatore formatosi tra la Tsinghua University e il Royal College of Art di Londra – nasce da una crepa profonda nel modo in cui viviamo la cultura e la distanza. Nel saggio teorico in cui formalizza la sua metodologia curatoriale di Physical-Digital Curatorial Practice (PDCP), Wu mette in discussione un equivoco che ha impoverito la curatela digitale negli ultimi decenni, ossia l’idea che il PDCP sia una semplice combinazione di formati espositivi fisici e digitali e che la tecnologia...

Five teams of designers, featuring architects and landscape designers, will compete for the project, expected to be completed by 2030

A Connecticut auction house identified the stolen works in a private estate collection and helped return them

Through brilliant oranges and moody shades of blue, Los Angeles-based artist Roberta Gentry renders vivid, balanced compositions that, as she says, take the senses seriously. Gentry has long been interested in the relationship between the constructed and the natural, cultivating abstract, biomorphic forms scaffolded by tall columns. Gravitating toward symmetry and restricted palettes, Gentry paints rhythmic pieces that adhere to an underlying grid. Every painting is the result of multiple layers of thinned acrylic, which build into subtle gradients that dissipate across the canvas. “The Rose Lattice” (2026), acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches The paintings shown here are part of that artist’s upcoming...

A figure appears to have been subsumed by a bookcase, and another is swathed in a green sleeping bag beneath a makeshift tent. Whether navigating a bathtub fitted with oars or sleeping in a bed while stacked like pancakes, the figures in Sara Anstis’ atmospheric drawings are immersed in curious activities. Hints of mysterious narratives, nursery rhymes, art historical iconography, and ancient symbolism make their way into enchanting and peculiar tableaux. Anstis conjures a timeless air in the small-scale works of her solo show Pastels at Olney Gleason. Over the past couple of years, her palette has shifted to more muted, autumnal tones in contrast to her earlier works that featured vibrant, saturated hues...

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Have you ever imagined a pear or an apple with a personality? If the fruit suddenly had two eyes and a stem-like nose, it might look a little like PÉPET, the palm-size “paper friend” produced by TAKEO Co., Ltd. Originally designed by Masae Nagao, the colorful characters come with names like “Dandel,” “Fuji,” and “Sky.” They’re each composed of more than 400 of layers of colorful paper, and they adorably wobble and ruffle when handled. Inspired by the saturated red and green of apples and their leaves, TAKEO will release a new edition named “Pomme” on October 14. Follow updates on the company’s Instagram. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and...

I’m overdue for some bel canto and WCO has historically done it well.

La forza dell’arte di Cecilia Vicuña (1948, Santiago del Cile) risiede nell’intensità dell’approccio rituale e performativo, da cui traggono origine le molteplici forme della sua espressione: poetica, pittorica, tessile-scultorea, relazionale. Osservarla mentre conduce una performance e ascoltarla parlare del suo lavoro, come è capitato al pubblico intervenuto all’inaugurazione della sua mostra al Castello di Rivoli – la prima personale in un museo italiano – rivela l’aspetto sciamanico del suo operare artistico.
Cecilia Vicuña, “El glaciar ido (The vanished glacier / Il ghiacciaio scomparso)”, 2026. Installation view, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino. Photo...

 
Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...

By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...

In Lise Davidsen's new album Lise Davidsen: Verdi, the singing is thrilling but the interpretations are limp.

I bordi della fotografia coincidono con gli infissi di una finestra divisa in sei quadri. La finestra è aperta su un paesaggio coperto di un velo spesso di bruma, sotto il quale si distinguono i contorni soffusi e mesti di un complesso industriale. Sul luogo dello scatto, quella bruma la chiamano caìgo: una veste di umidità impenetrabile, che aggiudica al paesaggio l’aspetto di una residenza di fantasmi. Sul luogo dello scatto, in effetti, non c’è nessuno. Nel 1997 quando Vincenzo Castella realizzava #3205 Venezia Marghera, il complesso petrolchimico di Porto Marghera già s’avviava alla dismissione. Di quel luogo restano solo un lungo commiato silenzioso e nostalgia densa al punto del visibile....

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For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...

Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"—Honoré de Balzac "Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning."—Miguel de Unamuno Hiroko Yoshimoto's paintings concentrate nature into radiant and dynamic beauty, distilling visual sensation into poetic and environmental significance. Throughout the 2020s, Yoshimoto has worked on two series of paintings about nature: Biodiversity and Of Infinite Variety. Both series are based on observation of the natural...

By Julie Faith There is something strange about returning to a place you once knew well after being away for a long time. You recognize the architecture before you recognize what the years have done to you. As I passed through the gate at Corey Helford Gallery, crossed the lot, and headed up the stairs, I felt ridiculously, wonderfully giddy. Kid-in-a-candy-store giddy. I have been away from the gallery and much of the Los Angeles art world, but somewhere between the gate and the stairs, I...

By Victoria Thomas Altadena-based artist James Griffith greets me at his studio, located in a refurbished 1920s firehouse diagonally across the street from the gleaming silver lagomorph of the restored Bunny Museum, by saying "Hi, I just started putting a galaxy in the armpit of a penguin." Great cities announce their identities through their monuments. New York City has the Statue of Liberty, St. Louis the Gateway Arch, Chicago the Cloud Gate, Philadelphia the original LOVE sculpture. And...

 
Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
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The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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