THE PARKING LOT THAT FORGOT ITSELF
 
A few weeks ago, in Logroño, in the Basque Country, a parking lot briefly forgot it was a parking lot.
 
For Frontones Danzantes, a public installation we designed for the twelfth edition of Concéntrico, three mobile walls transformed the Revellín car park into a temporary landscape for Basque pelota, basketball and football. Built from timber panels and steel frames, the walls could dance – they could be moved, rotated and recombined, allowing the space to change throughout the festival. The three walls were the visible expression of a broader proposition: to demonstrate that public space is not a fixed condition but something that can be continually reclaimed and...

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How many days of your life have been ruined because of someone else's fragile ego? How many times have so-called "friends" shamelessly stolen your ideas? In this month's Art Problems column, Paddy Johnson tackles an uncomfortable question: Why are there so many toxic people in the art world? Read her tips on how to protect yourself from insecure peers and bad-faith actors. Hope it helps. Speaking of toxic people, President Trump has ordered the installation of content warning signs outside the Smithsonian National Museum of American History to alert the public against the institution's alleged leftist bias. "No other president has seen fit to vandalize taxpayer-funded museums with a billboard...

Karina Gauvin slays for the slayed. Werk Bitch.

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August exhibitions from DESIGNBOOM RADAR
 
This month’s exhibition roundup is full of projects that ask visitors to look again at the spaces and objects around them. A garden becomes a climate experiment, bomb-scarred architecture returns as a climbing wall, birds turn electric guitars into instruments, and familiar designs — from Pierre Paulin chairs to BMW Art Cars — are brought into new focus. Across museums and public sites, the most compelling shows make their ideas physical by working through light, sound, movement, and materials which already carry their own histories.
 
Some of the exhibitions highlighted in earlier radars and listings on our dedicated events guide remain on view, giving...

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Prima istituzione d’arte contemporanea fondata oltre la vecchia Cortina di Ferro, il Ludwig Múzeum di Budapest si conferma un osservatorio geopolitico e culturale imprescindibile per decifrare le traiettorie dell’Est Europa. Nato nel 1989 dalla lungimirante donazione dei collezionisti tedeschi Peter e Irene Ludwig, il museo ha esordito nel 1991 tra le mura storiche del Palazzo Reale di Buda, per poi trovare la sua collocazione definitiva, nel 2005, negli spazi monumentali e avveniristici del Müpa, l’avamposto architettonico del Palazzo delle Arti affacciato sul Danubio.
István Csákány (Sepsiszentgyörgy, 1978), “The Sewing Room / Ghost Keeping”, 2012 (dettaglio dall’installazione). Veduta...

2s.design develops Equihero animal-centered inhalation masks
 
Warsaw-based industrial design studio 2s.design introduces Equihero, a series of anatomical inhalation masks developed to address the physiological and behavioral needs of horses during respiratory treatments. Based on ‘More-Than-Human Design’ principles, the project shifts the focus from human-centered usability toward animal comfort, combining digital modeling, veterinary research, and iterative prototyping to create a less stressful nebulization process.
 
The project originated from a practical challenge encountered by the studio’s founders while treating their own horse’s respiratory illness. Existing solutions were either costly...

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Cold War bunker becomes vessel for memory and displacement
 
Checksy Choi’s Eotieum: The Ply of Longing transforms a Cold War bunker into a site-specific installation that examines memory, displacement, and unresolved connection through steel, hanji, and participatory spatial interventions.
 
Presented inside a former Cold War anti-tank bunker in Seoul, the exhibition occupies the site’s two chambers and connecting corridor, using the existing architecture as a framework for a sequence of installations. The project takes as its point of departure the fishing boat that the artist’s grandmother boarded while fleeing North Korea during the Korean War. Rather than reconstructing the vessel, Checksy Choi...

After visiting the New York Art Book Fair in 2011, Adelene Koh was smitten with the world of bookbinding. Her professional training commenced in Japan, then led her to London, and she’s now based in Taiwan, where she runs a studio called dddots. This year, Koh was one of 30 finalists for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, which celebrates innovation across a wide range of artisanship. As a bookmaker and conservator, Koh draws upon the technical precision and heritage of bookmaking to create unique sculptures using paper and thread. Her work “Endless” was included in the prize’s exhibition of shortlisted artists, consisting of a kind of ouroboros-like cylinder of meticulously folded paper and edges...

On December 8, 2025, Instagram permanently terminated the account @nipeople, a project by artist, journalist, and activist Emma Shapiro, instantly erasing years of work and sparking a legal debate over digital freedom. The Instagram account was part of Exposure Therapy, a project begun in 2017 that aims to challenge gender-based discrimination by highlighting the ways society’s sexualization of female-presenting bodies is reflected in various laws. Image after image of female nipples filled the feed, each posing the same question: Is any body inherently pornographic? The conversation was cut short in 2025, when Meta, the parent company of Instagram, suspended the account after Shapiro posted a short video...

In a 2013 essay, author Barrett Swanson asked, “At what point does the aesthetic excellence of the photograph eclipse the depicted event, or, worse, distract the viewer from inquiring into what happened?” With the synchronous explosion of digital news content and unremitting global calamity, it’s a question that strongly resonates today, particularly with photography of protest and social movements. If these images overtly flatter the protestor, they can be accused of fueling performative activism and pulling attention away from the crisis at hand; if they are too beautiful, they might conceal the real risk of violence from the state. Still, if they are too graphic, they can rob the subjects of their...

Juan Garcia, history professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, grew up in South Texas in an established Mexican-American ranching family. When he was around six years old, his father abruptly abandoned his trade and relocated his nine children to Chicago.The reasons his family left Texas were complicated, and the retired professor has since spent his career studying the political headwinds that punctuated the lives of his farmer father and his mother, who lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, as they headed east. Some of the fruits of Garcia's research and excerpts of his family story will be publicly displayed in a forthcoming exhibition at Sacramento's...

President Donald Trump on July 27 showed off pictures on his Truth social account of two freshly gilded equestrian statues near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, opening the floodgates to a variety of opinions. The nineteen-foot-high bronze sculptures, now coated in 23.75 gold leaf, are two of four horse monuments that the Department of the Interior in […]

in-still turns historic storefront into flexible culture hub
 
ukyo X, designed by in-still, occupies a historic storefront in the pedestrian center of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, as the third location of the ukyo brand. Conceived as a hybrid café, listening bar, and cultural venue, the project adapts the existing commercial space into an environment that accommodates hospitality, creative activity, and informal work. Large sliding glass doors allow the interior to open completely toward the street, dissolving the boundary between the public realm and the interior while extending the activity of the café into the surrounding urban context.
 
The project is organized as a flexible environment where social,...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered more than 20 funerary stelae depicting human figures at Tell El-Deir, an archaeological site in the Nile Delta. The news was reported by multiple news outlets, including Ahram and La Brújula Verde, following an announcement by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). The carved limestone grave markers are notable not only for their workmanship but for the engravings on their lateral sides and backs. These include the griffin, a mythological creature of Mesopotamia and ancient Greece; Agathodaemon, the snake spirit associated with good luck in ancient Greek religion; and Isis-Thermuthis, a fusion of the Egyptian goddess Isis and the Egyptian harvest deity...

The closures are the latest mega-gallery real estate downsizes this summer

You know what they say: When the heat, and smoke, and floods go away, New York comes out to play. It's finally time, and you've more than earned it. We've put together a playlist of sorts, one that takes you to islands, beaches — even bus shelters — across all five boroughs. See the city through a different lens via giant kaleidoscopes in Pelham Bay. Have yourself a game of ping-pong on artist-designed tables at Rockaway Beach. Get a little intimate with a massive teddy bear in a courtyard in Queens. Get weird with a neural network's hallucinations in a Midtown sculpture garden. Frolic on Governors Island, my personal paradise. It's the best time of year on the best city on...

The NYC-based music criticism collective on their three picks for August 2026.

Amazon MGM Studios dropped this week the trailer for The Thomas Crown Affair, a remake of the acclaimed 1968 film that will open in theaters on March 5, 2027. Directed by and starring Academy Award–winning actor Michael B. Jordan, the trailer already hints at the art-related plot points for the film. About 12 seconds into the trailer, Jordan’s Thomas Crown faces some built-in bookshelves that slide apart to reveal a hidden room where he stores his stolen paintings. On a metal rack, resembling the sliding vertical racks often used in museum and gallery storage, are four paintings. Crown holds another canvas in his hands to add to his collection of looted masterpieces. By ARTnews’s estimations, these...

After 20 years of delays, allegations, and recalibrations, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation will open the doors to its Frank Gehry-designed Abu Dhabi outpost on December 11. The 30-gallery museum will join seven other cultural institutions on Saadiyat Island, including the Zayed National Museum and Berklee Abu Dhabi."The museum’s art collection is uniquely local and global, centred in the region but with works from all continents," Guggenheim Director and CEO Mariët Westermann said in a statement. She expressed that the museum will showcase the "experimental character of art since 1960," including abstractions, storytelling, painting, and moving images. In the past 16 years, the art activism group Gulf...

The boutique fair is attracting increasingly ambitious exhibitors while leaning into the mountain town's distinctive character

British-born sculptor Tony Cragg will be awarded the European Culture Prize this year at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on September 4. The award, which has been given out each year since 2012 by the European Cultural Forum, honors pioneering European artists across several disciplines and artistic spheres. Born in Liverpool, Cragg has been a […]

Earlier this month, a team of researchers at Santa Clara University in California launched an AI chatbot called AI Provenance Research. The tool is intended to enable anyone to ask questions about Nazi-looted artworks and receive answers based on information culled from a searchable, illustrated online database with over 40,000 entries. The news was recently reported by the Jewish News of Northern California. The group is made up of three business school colleagues: management professor Michael Santoro and analytics professors Haibing Lu and Michele Samorani. The database use AI to corral the vast array of existing provenance data that are spread across different archives, databases, and catalogues, in many...

Stephanie Wiles, who’s held the post of Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery since 2018, will retire in the spring next year, according to a statement to the Yale community made earlier this week by university president Maurie McInnis and provost Scott Strobel.  In their letter, McInnis and Strobel acknowledged […]

Although no longer involved with Inhotim, Paz appears to be reviving its model of art pavilions in a botanical landscape

“I was incredulous. Really?” That was Kim Sajet’s take when her former Smithsonian colleague, Anthea M. Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, was subjected to hostile questioning during a congressional hearing last week, according to a new interview with The New York Times. “I could see that it was going to become a real witch hunt,” she continued. “I didn’t wish that on my colleagues and I didn’t wish that on the Smithsonian.” Sajet is nearly a year past her decision to step down as director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery after President Donald Trump announced his intention to fire her. She’s in the Midwest instead, having started a new stint as...

Kiaf SEOUL, the largest and oldest international art fair in Korea, will return for its twenty-fifth iteration at COEX, a major convention complex in Gangnam, from September 2–6 this year. The forthcoming edition will include 175 galleries from eighteen countries and territories, and the fair will also feature internal sections that serve to differentiate the […]

Every year, the Central West Astronomical Society (CWAS) of New South Wales celebrates AstroFest, a festival of astronomy during which amateur photographers and scientists from around the globe are invited to submit their best views of the night sky and beyond. This year, the overall prize was awarded to Stefan Buda for his tonal moonscape titled “The Lunar Apennines,” which captures a detailed view of Montes Apenninus. Categories include Deep Sky, Solar System, Wide-Field, Nightscapes, and more, allowing photographers to contribute images of phenomena ranging from distant nebulae and spiral galaxies to the Milky Way and aurora australis, or the southern lights, shining above impressive terrestrial...

Set against uninterrupted backgrounds, the bold, metallic portraits of Kip Omolade float almost deity-like amid vibrant color. Known for his hyperrealistic treatment of chrome-like visages in oil paint, the artist sometimes incorporates spray-painted elements, drawing on the graffiti culture of New York City’s subways during the 1980s and 1990s when Omolade tagged using the moniker “Kace.” The artist also presents the mask-like faces from different vantage points, sometimes with incredible eyelashes, whether peering directly at the viewer or positioned in regal profile. Reflections are typically abstract, showing little indication of the surrounding space beyond perhaps blue skies, the sun, and local...

The Unesco World Heritage site, located in northwest England, is home to the UK's largest telescope

Winfield House, home to American representatives to the UK, is hidden away in Regent’s Park—and has hosted a series of the Dutchman’s masterpieces

Entrando negli spazi privati di fondaco in Largo Forcella 8 ad Atri, adibiti a luogo espositivo in occasione della collettiva “Adagio” dei cinque pittori Benyamin Zolfaghari, Enrico Pierotti, Andrea Lucchesi, Lorenzo Di Lucido, Andrea Astolfi, respiro un’aria serena: ad accogliermi c’è uno spazio rimasto fermo nel tempo, intriso di ricordi familiari, una sorta di grotta in mattoni e pietra datata tra Settecento e Ottocento, fatta di cunicoli e scale senza uscita, ampie arcate e nicchie immerse tra luci e ombre, come stanze della memoria o del pensiero umano.
AA.VV., “Adagio”, installation view at fondaco, Atri, 2026, courtesy of the artists
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From meticulously cut and painted pieces of paper, realistic birds emerge amid foliage and forests in compositions by The Paper Ark. The collaborative practice of Nayan Shrimali and Venus Bird, which focuses on intricate paper reliefs, also centers on ecology by illustrating real species and their habitats around the world. The duo aims to raise awareness of biodiversity and conservation by evoking a sense of wonder akin to how we also often feel in nature. The artists recently exhibited a number of the pieces shown here with Antler Gallery at Seattle Art Fair, and “Great Green Macaws” appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of Audubon Magazine. See more on The Paper Ark’s Instagram. “Hyacinth Macaw”...

In 1906, Devil’s Tower in northeastern Wyoming became the first national monument in the U.S., preserving a little more than 1,300 acres around the 867-foot-tall column of igneous rock. Amid the rolling hills of the plains, it can be seen from miles around, and it’s been a sacred site and gathering place for myriad Indigenous American tribes, who refer to it by names like Bear Lodge or Bear’s House. One oral narrative describes how bears attacked a group of seven girls, and the ground swelled up to push the children toward the sky. There, they became the constellation Pleiades, or the “Seven Sisters,” which can be seen over the monument. In other stories, the distinctive striations around the...

Zubin Mehta was a major part of musical life when I moved to Southern California in 1969, having started his tenure as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Siamo a Villa Marigola, a Lerici, all’interno del Lerici Music Festival, “Musica, Immagini e Parole dall’Acqua” con la mostra I miei orizzonti e tu di Giovanni Ozzola, a cura di Carlo Orsini e in collaborazione con Galleria Continua.
Giovanni Ozzola, vista parziale della mostra “I miei orizzonti e tu”, alla Fondazione Lerici. In primo piano a parete: “Untitled – a fine primavera”, 2026 e “Untitled – with a view”, 2026; sullo sfondo: “Venezia – faro di notte”, 2026. Foto di Fabio Gianardi, courtesy Lerici Music Festival 2026
Nella mostra sono presenti fotografia, scultura, installazione e video concepiti per il contesto del Golfo dei Poeti e con il mare che diviene metafora...

It's a busy summer for Vida Miknevičiūtė and Eric Cutler, the subjects of this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag.

Yuval Sharon's production of The Excursions of Mr. Brouček shoots for the moon — and lands somewhat limply on Lake Constance.

It is no wonder Bernard Herrmann relishes the wistful lyricism in Barber's masterwork, as Herrmann's score for Vertigo is among the most beautiful and haunting of all film scores ever composed.

La fotografa Glorija Lizde, che vive e lavora a Spalato, utilizza la sua macchina fotografica per costruire quasi-documentari mirati attraverso le immagini, spesso indagando i membri della propria famiglia attraverso conversazioni difficili e in situazioni di precarietà. Non sorprende quindi che Glorija trovi punti di contatto nell’opera del medico Jean-Martin Charcot, le cui immagini di fine Ottocento, che ritraggono donne alle prese con la malattia mentale, possiedono un intenso peso psicologico e sollevano interrogativi culturali su autorialità, soggettività e ruoli di genere.
Glorija Lizde, “Ritratto di famiglia. Che aspetto aveva il mio viso prima della nascita dei miei genitori”, 2022, foto di...

Da oltre quarant’anni Antony Gormley assume il corpo come punto di partenza della propria ricerca, senza mai ridurlo a una semplice figura. Lo considera piuttosto una misura attraverso cui interrogare spazio, materia e condizione umana. In What Holds Us, la mostra presentata da Galleria Continua a San Gimignano, questa riflessione trova una formulazione particolarmente essenziale. Più che introdurre nuovi temi, il progetto approfondisce una domanda che attraversa l’intero lavoro dell’artista: quali relazioni rendono possibile la presenza di un corpo nello spazio?
Antony Gormley, “What Holds Us”, 2026, installation view at Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, photo Ela Bialkowska – OKNO Studio,...

“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...

All images courtesy of CHOI&CHOI Gallery and the artist Sculptor Yu Jinyoung garnered international acclaim for her striking figures, whose bodies are often partially transparent. These are individuals “who wish to become invisible,” she says: “those who exist free from external attention and interference.” These explorations of both intentional isolation and somber loneliness have always […]
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By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...

Common Objects brings together the work of 97 photographers from across the globe to explore the role of the image and its ability to shape perception. Organized not by theme or geography but by visual association, the book draws on the logic of the reference catalog—a structure built for sustained, democratic looking. Within it, photographs from vastly different cultures and contexts find themselves in unexpected proximity, generating connections and contrasts that no single image could produce alone. In this format, the photographs enter into a subtle dialogue with one another, revealing how context, sequence, and framing shape interpretation and inform visual experience.  
   
   
   
   
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Photos by Robert Berg, Gregory Gorman, courtesy of the Donum; with additional photos by Annie Owens Balancing awe and meditative moments, the sculptures of The Donum Collection populate a sprawling vineyard estate, with many works many commissioned expressly to respond to the lush landscape they inhabit. Seventy works of art, ranging from bronze sculptures by […]
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In the mountains of northern Italy, far from his studio in Madrid, David Oliver was supposed to be resting. It was early 2025 and he had gone with friends to a house in the Dolomites on a retreat to disconnect. Instead, Oliver found himself staring at images on his phone of cities under bombardment in […]
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By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...

The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

By Melanie Chapman There is much to appreciate about the new pop-up exhibition Hospital of Emotions, currently on view at St. Vincent Medical Center (2131 W. Third Street, Los Angeles) until July 31. But if you want to maximize the benefits of your visit, avoid the bombardment of images now flooding the internet and even consider not reading this review. Like seeing all the best parts of a movie by watching the trailer, it is better to just go, and go soon, with as little advanced exposure as...