Experts weigh in on the effect that the 2016 vote to leave the EU has had on the trade

Artist, activist, philanthropist and community leader Daniel “Danny” Simmons has died at 72. His family recently announced his death but did not indicate a location, date or cause, reports the New York Times. Born in Hollis, Queens in 1953, Simmons was older brother to hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons and rapper Joseph Simmons, known as Rev. Run in the rap trio Run DMC. In 1995, the three brothers co-founded the New York gallery Rush Arts (named for Russell’s nickname) and Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, whose mission was to provide exhibitions, events, art education, scholarships, and grants for disadvantaged artists of color. Simmons also founded Corridor Gallery in his Brooklyn loft apartment....

Kando: a smart connected care system for elder care facilities
 
Kando is a smart care system designed to address the critical challenges facing elder care facilities today. Developed by Brussels-based creative product studio Futurewave, the system comprises three interconnected hardware products: the Kando Button, a wearable device residents clip onto themselves or their bed, featuring LED feedback and vibration confirmation for one-touch emergency interaction; the Kando Box, a wall-mounted unit that connects to the resident’s TV as an interactive visual interface; and central hubs that coordinate communication across the entire facility.
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Wolf Trap Opera triumphs in a fizzy, fun Cenerentola.

We had to wait for Marian Anderson to break the color barrier at the Met and many great Black opera singers never had a chance there.

In an exclusive interview, the enigmatic collector and philanthropist discusses Anselm Kiefer’s inverted pyramid, oxygen molecules billions of years old—and why he has invented a completely new library categorisation system

James Turrell brings the sky below ground in Aarhus
 
In Aarhus, Denmark, a low circular mound now rises beside ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, its grass-covered dome cut by a dark oculus that turns the Danish sky into part of the museum’s collection. Inside it sits As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace by James Turrell, a permanent light installation that opened in January 2026 ahead of the museum’s opening in time for the summer solstice in June 2026, drawing visitors beneath the museum grounds before lifting their gaze toward the sky.
 
The work marks Turrell’s 100th Skyspace and his largest ever installed within a museum context. At sixteen meters (52 feet) high and forty meters (130 feet) in diameter,...

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AL MAHA ISLAND MASTERPLAN UNVEILED DURING ART BASEL 2026
 
Herzog & de Meuron unveils the masterplan to transform Al Maha Island, a 230,000sqm man-made island established in Lusail, Qatar, in 2022. Presented during the 2026 Art Basel in Basel by Jacques Herzog, Her Excellency Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and Art Basel CEO Noah Horowitz, the project reimagines the site as a premier cultural and residential district where contemporary architecture, art, design, gastronomy and community converge. The sweeping masterplan encompasses the Swiss architecture studio’s bowl-shaped Lusail Museum, a permanent home for Art Basel Qatar future editions, a contemporary souk, verdant gardens,...

Dallo Studio Tommaseo a una rete internazionale di curatori e artisti: Giuliana Carbi Jesurun racconta il percorso e la visione di un centro culturale che ha deciso di guardare oltre, rivolgendosi a Est, in un progetto che parte negli anni ‘70 e che continua ancora oggi a evolversi.
“Dialoghi Lituani”, 1997, mostra alla Stazione Marittima di Trieste, in primo piano le sculture imbottite di Darius Bastys, foto Tiziano Neppi, courtesy Trieste Contemporanea
Veronica Rinaldi: Ci potrebbe raccontare com’è nata Trieste Contemporanea?
Giuliana Carbi Jesurun: Trieste Contemporanea è nata perché in una Trieste che voleva essere contemporanea era doveroso guardare a Est. I nostri Dialoghi con l’arte...

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Ambient Architects embeds a library within a wooded landscape
 
Designed by Ambient Architects, the Public Library in Choszczówka, Warsaw, is located within a single-family residential district characterized by pre-war housing, abundant greenery, and a limited provision of public spaces. The building accommodates reading areas for adults and children, a multifunctional conference room, a space for children’s activities, and administrative offices for the district library network. The lobby is designed as a flexible area for informal work, short meetings, and laptop use.
 
The surrounding green area extends the interior program outdoors, allowing seasonal use for reading, educational activities, and...

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CENTRAL and Maxime Delvaux transform Logroño’s square
 
In Plaza del Mercado, Logroño, Spain, directly in front of the Co-Cathedral of Santa María de la Redonda, CENTRAL and photographer Maxime Delvaux present Architecture for Ritual, one of the temporary installations created specially for Concéntrico Festival 2026.
A large dune of sand and a colorful timber mast compose the project, which introduces a temporary beach-like landscape to the city center, encouraging residents and visitors to occupy and interact with the square in unexpected ways. Developed through the duo’s investigation into Logroño’s architecture, the installation is enclosed by a low perimeter wall that references the traces of...

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Meeting a politician who strikes you as sincere and authentic is as rare an occurrence as a New York Knicks championship or a peace deal between the US and Iran. But I had this uncommon experience last week when I met New York State Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, an artist and union organizer who's running for Congress. Valdez is as progressive as they come, advocating for Medicare for all, universal rent control, taxing the rich, abolishing ICE, and freedom for Palestinians. She moved to the city in 2015 to become an artist and lived through the ordeal of fulfilling that dream, working jobs at Taco Bell, Trader Joe’s, and Pizza Hut. If she wins this Democratic primary on June 23, she would be making...

Henry, artist Nancy Shaver’s collectibles store in Hudson, New York, is closing after 30 years. Its demise marks the end not only of a beloved retail enterprise, but of a singular, long-running art project. As a shop, Henry is an ever-changing compendium of objects, generally showing the effects of time and use, selected and arranged with purpose. As an artist, Shaver is now perhaps best known for her wall sculptures built up from fabric-covered wooden blocks (“Blockers”), containers filled with objects (“Boxes”) and fabric-covered panels (“Spacers”). Of importance in both Shaver’s art making and her retail activities is how things look together, how they speak to one another, and how their...

Durante i giorni della Biennale, Venezia continua a funzionare come un sistema poroso, dove ogni intervento si innesta su stratificazioni già presenti senza mai cancellarle del tutto. In questo contesto, la Cappella di Santa Maria della Pietà accoglie Vessels of Other Worlds di Wallace Chan come una deviazione silenziosa rispetto al flusso espositivo diffuso in città. Non si tratta di un’occupazione dello spazio, ma di una sua lenta modulazione, in cui la materia sembra reagire più che dichiararsi. L’impatto visivo, per chi entra nell’edificio progettato da Giorgio Massari, è un’alterazione improvvisa della luce: la pietra e i marmi storici della chiesa settecentesca entrano in contrasto con la...

You’ve seen Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son.” You can picture Frida Kahlo’s family tree. There exists a litany of Dutch masters’ renditions of domestic scenes, children crouching at the ankles of adults. What about depictions of dads today? Fatherhood endures as rich subject matter, and there are a whole host of contemporary artists playing with it, questioning it, turning it over lovingly in their hands.On the occasion of Father’s Day, Hyperallergic has rounded up 10 artists making work that involves dads of all kinds: immigrant dads, absent dads, flawed dads, fellow artist dads, adopted father figures — or an imagined vision of what future fatherhood could be.Arleene Correa ValenciaIn 1996,...

Roman-era curse tablet, Heerlen, Netherlands HEERLEN, THE NETHERLANDS—A curse tablet discovered in the southeastern Netherlands has been analyzed with reflectance transformation imaging and deciphered by Rodney Ast of the University of Heidelberg and his colleagues, according to a report in La Brújula Verde. The lead sheet, dated to the second century A.D., was discovered in a well in what had been the Roman military settlement of Coriovallum. It measures about 3.5 inches long and almost two inches wide. Multiple photographs of the curse tablet were taken under varying lighting conditions, and then digitally combined with a computer into a single image with adjustable lighting to highlight the surface...

Calligraphy is an ancient art with roots across the globe, dating back to early Chinese dynasties and Greek civilization, all through the Italian Renaissance. But one glance at a work by San Francisco-based artist Hunter Saxony III, and your understanding of calligraphy will be turned on its head. In an approach that is varied, yet […]
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"Young Eurymedon” mosaic, Aspendos, Turkey ANTALYA, TURKEY—Türkiye Today reports that a third-century A.D. mosaic depicting a river god has been uncovered at the site of Aspendos in southern Anatolia. The image shows “Young Eurymedon,” a symbol of the Eurymedon River, which flowed near the city. Young Eurymedon wears reed leaves on his head and holds some in one hand as he leans on an amphora from which water flows as a symbol of fertility. Fish swim in the life-giving water. “This discovery not only reveals the artistic richness of Aspendos, but also provides important scientific data on Roman-period Anatolian mosaic art,” said Nuri Ersoy, Turkey’s culture and tourism minister. The mosaic was...

Excavation of Battle of Bunker Hill redoubt, Boston BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS—According to an Associated Press report, an excavation conducted at Breeds Hill, the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill, has uncovered the outline of an earthworks, eight musket balls, and parts of a musket. The earthen walls were quickly built by Americans to slow advancing British forces who occupied Boston in June, 1775. Joe Bagley, city of Boston archaeologist, said that potential locations for the fort were identified with ground-penetrating radar, and the presence of a defensive ditch some three feet deep and six feet wide was confirmed through excavation. American soldiers piled soil from the ditch to form a six-foot-tall square...

As the United States approaches the dubious milestone of 250 years, we look to art as an exemplar for independence of expression. This summer, artistic freedom reigns in Upstate New York. At the Hudson River Museum, photographs of Black cowboys and cowgirls by Ron Tarver offer poignant visions of American power. The inaugural Upstate Photography Biennial at the Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) is an exciting group exhibition that highlights regional talent, while a solo show of photos by Linda McCartney takes center stage at Fenimore Art Museum. Wassaic Project presents an incredible summer exhibition — my favorite this season — installed throughout seven floors, and Jack Shainman Gallery’s...

The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

Georgia O’Keeffe, “Pedernal” (1945), pastel on paper (image courtesy the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum)Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light, a new documentary directed by Paul Wagner, begins by asserting that the American artist remains largely unknown in Europe.This seems unlikely, and in any case incidental to the story. Anyone who has opened an art history textbook can recognize one of the most important painters of the 20th century. After this initial hiccup, the film launches into clichéd descriptors from a cast of authorities: O’Keeffe was driven, passionate, fearless, committed, astounding. Thankfully, the documentary soon finds its rhythm, unspooling in a slow, patient manner that honors...

Métis artist Rosalie Favell (all photos by and courtesy the artist)This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June.Rosalie Favell knows who she is, but she wasn’t always so sure of it. Living and working in Ottawa, Favell is a lesbian Métis artist who both questioned her identity and found the answers through her family and personal archives. Through autobiographical photography, personal text, and digital collage, Favell extrapolates truths of her ancestry and sexuality that were hiding in plain sight, and inserts herself where she wants to be — where she knows she belongs. A traveling retrospective celebrating 40...

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In 2022, the artist created a massive celebration of Black and queer culture at New York’s historic Park Avenue Armory

La Coopérative-Musée Cérès Franco is reopening to show its eclectic collection after a major renovation

The artist chronicled Amsterdam life in the 1970s

Leyla Gencer had a long European career but never sang at the Met.

Nello spazio del foglio i segni tracciati da Kazuko Miyamoto si muovono liberi. Gli ideogrammi animano la superficie della pagina in una raffinata sequenza di passi e movimenti, alla stregua di una danza, così come i tocchi di inchiostro e colore sono coinvolti in un moto perpetuo di aggregazione e disgregazione. Sulla carta non esiste possibilità di correzione e ripensamento, e ciò non per puntigliosa ed esteriore regola di gioco, ma perché la scrittura rappresenta il diagramma continuo d’un fluire a cui sono ignote le soste.[1]
Kazuko Miyamoto, “Dancing around the entrance to the cellar”, exhibition view, courtesy Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Roma
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Archaeologists from Wessex Research, a British archaeological firm, have found a structure that may have been a prototype for Stonehenge. The company announced the find just days before June 21, when thousands of visitors will converge on the ancient stone circle to celebrate the summer solstice. The Wessex Research team made the discovery while conducting required excavations in Bulford, three miles from Stonehenge, ahead of the British Ministry of Defense’s construction of new housing. At the heart of the find were two postholes, 400 feet apart, aligned so the now-vanished poles would point directly to the rising sun at summer solstice and the setting sun at winter solstice—exactly as Stonehenge’s...

New York–based artist Teresita Fernández has been revealed as the first artist in a new commissions program for the reopening of the Menil Collection’s Fresco Building in late 2027. The historic structure, which has been closed since 2018, will be repurposed for semi-permanent, site-specific commissions. The reopening will coincide with the fortieth anniversary of inauguration […]

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, a museum-without-walls whose stated mission is to center women’s history on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., has launched a new augmented reality project called “Unhidden Heroines.” Starting on June 18, anyone with a smartphone (or a computer) will be able to conjure the presence of five women who helped shape the country over the past 250 years and learn about their history and influence. The five virtual monuments will join those honoring iconic (male) figures from American history on the Mall, from Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Jefferson to Martin Luther King, Jr. They are dedicated to Julia Ward Howe (poet who wrote “The Battle Hymn of the...

A New York Supreme Court judge on June 16 gave billionaire dealer David Nahmad thirty days to return Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 painting Seated Man with a Cane to the family of Jewish antiques dealer Oscar Stettiner, who left it in his Paris shop as he fled the Nazis during World War II. The ruling is the latest twist in a […]

In the lead up to the formal opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, former US president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama revealed their first dual portrait on June 15. The portrait was created by Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who currently resides in Los Angeles.  Titled The Obamas: Springing Forth, […]

A video work by Helen Cammock that has been on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London for nine months has recently sparked controversy for its claim about former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s role in the Bengal famine of 1943. In the 40-minute video, titled Persistence (2025), Cammock, who won the Turner Prize in 2019, mentions Oliver Cromwell’s conquest of Ireland, which included a famine. In her narration, according to the Guardian, she says, Cromwell “starved people, en masse, a little like the wilful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill.” The controversy was first stirred up in the conservative British newspaper the Telegraph earlier this week, when arts...

Skull of a 10-year-old girl who may have died of the plague around 5,000 years ago in Siberia OXFORD, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that evidence for an outbreak of plague some 5,500 years ago has been identified in DNA samples taken from the remains of hunter-gatherers buried in cemeteries in southeastern Siberia. A second outbreak likely occurred between 400 and 600 years later. Ruairidh Macleod of the University of Oxford and an international team of researchers suggest that the hunter-gatherers were infected by the plague bacteria (Yersinia pestis) through butchering or eating raw marmots, a type of ground squirrel that can act as a reservoir for plague today. The disease likely then spread from person to...

Handaxe, Fureidis Cave, Israel HAIFA, ISRAEL—Flint scrapers and handaxes; the bones of fallow deer, gazelle, and ancient horses; and evidence for the controlled use of fire some 300,000 years ago have been discovered in northern Israel’s Fureidis Cave by researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority and the University of Haifa, according to a report in La Brújula Verde. The well-preserved site was occupied by members of the Acheulo-Yabrudian culture, before the arrival of Neanderthals and modern humans in the region. Sites of similar age have been found at Qesem Cave in central Israel and Tabun Cave in northern Israel. Study of the intact site at Fureidis Cave could reveal more information about the...

The Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel will not be awarded in 2026, the Art Newspaper reports. Established in 1999, the SFr30,000 (roughly $37,000) honor had been presented annually to two artists whose work appeared in the fair’s Statements section, devoted to emerging artists. The prize was historically administered by Swiss insurer Baloise Group, which […]

Think for a second about what comes to mind when you hear “soda.” Perhaps fizzy, saccharine, and bright? Then consider the connotations of the word “sour.” Maybe it evokes the zing of a lemon, tanginess, or something sharper. This is the relationship that forms the basis of Sour Soda Studio, a project built upon two decades of illustration experience with a playful and slightly unsettling view of some of the most pressing issues of the Anthropocene. “It didn’t come from a change of direction, or from a manifesto,” says the artist, who prefers to remain unnamed. “It came from something simpler: the need to say different things with a different voice.” In these vibrant, often absurd works with...

The Trellis Art Fund has named the dozen artists making up its 2026 Milestone Grant cohort. Each will receive an unrestricted grant of $100,000, disbursed in two installments over a two-year period. Among this year’s recipients are sculptor and installation artists Kelly Akashi; performance artist Ei Arakawa-Nash, who is representing Japan at this year’s Venice Biennale; conceptual […]

Raised in a wealthy, well-connected family in England, the young Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) glommed onto stories her mother and grandmother told of Celtic folk tales about mythical beings in Ireland. Her imagination ran rampant as a child, and a rebellious spirit earned her expulsion from more than one convent school for antics like writing backwards and even trying to levitate. Later, her father insisted she be presented to the court of King George V at a debutante ball and was expected to “marry well.” Art and fantasy continued to call to Carrington, though, and not to be sallied by social convention, she attended the Chelsea School of Art, discovered Surrealism at the 1936 International Surrealist...

After success at the Met as Turandot and before a historic Medea, soprano Anna Pirozzi talks to Harry Rose about her voice, her repertoire, and where her "second explosion of career" is taking her.

Video Artists International brings us back to a time when opera was carried over the airwaves by great voices—and a tire company.

La Galleria de’ Foscherari di Bologna ha inaugurato Merci Satie, una personale dedicata al rapporto tra Aldo Mondino e la musica, costruita attorno alla figura di Erik Satie. Più che un semplice omaggio, il percorso espositivo mette in scena una domanda da sempre centrale nella ricerca dell’artista: come può la pittura trattenere ciò che per natura scorre, come il suono, il ritmo, il movimento di un corpo? Satie, figura fondamentale della musica tra Otto e Novecento, diventa per Mondino non soltanto un riferimento culturale, ma quasi un metodo. Nella sua musica, infatti, convivono leggerezza, ironia, malinconia e sospensione; gli stessi elementi che Mondino traduce in immagini attraverso la...

One of the most enduring traditions in the U.S. is undoubtedly the state fair. The very first was held in Syracuse, New York, in 1841, and throughout the mid-19th century, states launched their own unique takes. Some of the largest and busiest, such as those in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, have been running just about as long as the states have existed. And it’s no coincidence that some of the most well known and beloved events, which usually take place in the late summer or early autumn, represent the nation’s agricultural heartlands. The exhibition State Fairs: Growing American Craft at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery celebrates the unique crafts and customs of these annual...

Bristol-based artist Diana Beltrán Herrera continues to construct elaborate sculptures of flora and fauna in vibrant paper. Over the last few years, Herrera’s work has grown in both scale and subject matter as she incorporates new materials such as paperboard, thread, and cardboard, which have allowed her work to evolve beyond previous forms. The artist’s latest explorations of nature motifs include flower structures, leaf patterns, and most recently, coral formations. Uniquely, coral reefs exhibit fractal and hyperbolic geometry, making them a particularly fascinating subject for sculptural reproduction. Utilizing thread as a structural tool has been especially integral for Herrera’s explorations of...

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Tornare sui propri passi spesso significa percorrere strade già attraversate, ma con degli occhi del tutto nuovi e con la mente sgombra, per far spazio a nuovi percorsi e nuove figure. Si è rincuorati dalla possibilità di riconoscere i propri riferimenti e, allo stesso tempo, si è spinti a esercitare l’osservazione del nuovo. Questo esercizio di osservazione e di scoperta accade a me quando osservo le tele di Luca Ceccherini (Arezzo, 1993) e accade all’artista quando, grazie al suo ingegno creativo, si appresta a proseguire il suo coerente e solido percorso pittorico, dando una forma e un luogo, ancora e ancora, ai giullari, menestrelli, acrobati, campagnoli e contrabbandieri che da sempre popolano le...

Designer Taekhan Yun’s parents run an English school in Cambodia. One day, during a visit, he noticed how the kids were constantly shifting in their chairs, trying to get comfortable. “It made me realize how naturally furniture and spaces are designed around adult standards, while children are often expected to adapt and conform to those environments,” he tells Colossal. That’s when the idea was born to not only create functional pieces that would better suit the students’ needs but to invite them to create their own. Yun has always been interested in participatory creative projects, especially because of “the unexpected outcomes that emerge when people from different backgrounds come together to...

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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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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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....