A world on fire, an alphabet, family, pigments and a studio.

The Buenos Aires museum has selected the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to lead its ambitious build-out

Pace Prints today announced that it has purchased publisher Brand X Editions. In acquiring the Long Island, New York–based workshop, with which it has long collaborated, Pace has become one of the largest printmakers in the United States. The two workshops will maintain their operations, while Pace Prints will expand into Los Angeles as well. […]

Peter Max, whose trippy Day-Glo paintings came to symbolize the Flower Power era of the 1960s, died on September 18 in a hospital in New York at the age of eighty-eight. He had previously suffered from Alzheimer’s-related dementia. His death was confirmed by his son, Adam Max, and by Park West Gallery. An astoundingly prolific […]

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other art-world happenings.The Best and Worst of TIME 100 Art ListArtist Amy Sherald, who stood on the right side of history when she canceled her show at the Smithsonian Institution for fears that her painting of a trans woman would be censored, has been recognized on TIME magazine's list of 100 influential people shaping the arts. The list includes other laudable and deserving individuals, including Dayanita Singh and Tuan Andrew Nguyen. It also features people who range from irrelevant (Vanessa Horabuena, the Trump-adored Christian speed painter!?) to absolutely reprehensible, like billionaire...

Depending on who you talk to, "affordable art" could qualify as a million-dollar steal for a blue-chip painting or a $2 plastic-wrapped print at Washington Square Park. While the latter tends to be more within my tax bracket, I found myself sticking mental bookmarks into some artworks at the opening of the New York Affordable Art Fair last night.Running through this Sunday, September 20, the semiannual Affordable Art Fair returns to the Starrett Lehigh Building in Chelsea with artworks from 620 artists, most of whom are based outside the United States, according to a press release. With pieces ranging in price from $100 to $12,000, the atmosphere feels a touch more approachable than some of its more exclusive...

Casa POP reorganizes a standardized Madrid apartment
 
Casa POP by gon architects is the renovation of a 78 sqm apartment in Vicálvaro, east of Madrid, that had been occupied by its owners for 20 years. The starting point was a typical, heavily compartmentalized home whose layout no longer suited their way of living. The project reorganizes the apartment around a large central storage core, replacing the original sequence of small rooms and corridors with a more open and connected spatial arrangement. A large green bookshelf runs from one side of the home to the other, incorporating sliding doors that can be opened or closed to adjust privacy and change the configuration of the space depending on the...

When it reopens in a redesigned state at the end of October, the Hirshhorn Museum’s Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., will be home to a curious new work by the Berlin-based Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset—in the form of a vacant swimming pool. “Upended, empty, and eternally unswimmable, the 28-foot-tall sculpture emblematizes the artists’ mastery of displacement—excerpting familiar objects from people’s surroundings and presenting them as new and strange,” reads a press release announcing the museum’s new acquisition. The outdoor sculpture—“cast in stainless steel with a lacquered cyan interior, and furnished with a diving board, ladder, and lights”—is titled Eight and...

The newly launched Spector Craft Prize has announced its inaugural winner: Sharif Bey, an artist and educator based in Syracuse, New York. The Spector Craft Prize was established last year by the Spector Family Foundation to “reinforce American craft as a vital and enduring art form while creating new pathways for artists at every stage of their careers,” according to a release. It is being awarded in collaboration with Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas. Curator and craft scholar Glenn Adamson served as an adviser on the prize. “It is encouraging that there is now a prestigious award dedicated to the impact of American craft, and I am honored to be [the] inaugural winner of the Spector Craft...

A venerable arts organization that provides subsidized studios to artists is losing half of its space inside the Brooklyn Army Terminal, displacing dozens of artists who have worked in the city-run facility for nearly two decades.New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) officials told ChaShaMa in August to empty out its 20,000-square-foot wing on the third floor of Building A by the end of October to accommodate a neighboring tenant that wanted to expand its footprint into the area. (ChaShaMa and the city both declined to provide the tenant’s name.) The Midtown Manhattan-based nonprofit, which manages 107 studios between two buildings at 140 58th Street, is currently negotiating with the city...

This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2025 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft.Growing up between New Orleans and Savannah, I was aware of the ironwork around me, but I didn’t really see it. While visiting a friend in New York City last year, I stopped mid-sentence to photograph a window with two metal Sankofa symbols. New York immediately felt familiar through that one piece of ironwork. I’ve been paying particular attention to Sankofa symbols in ironwork on gates, stair rails, and window bars. They’re usually black, other times painted white, sometimes incorporating leaves, flowers, or,...

LONDON — Monumentality is a powerful tool for Anish Kapoor; his immense sculptures in his signature red and chrome palette inspire awe when dropped among, say, the grounds of Houghton Hall, Norfolk, or Millennium Park, Chicago, reducing viewers to mere ants. But at his show at the Hayward Gallery, his illusions of monumentality fall short. The most impressive piece, “All of Nothing” (2026), a giant red blood cell, inflates and fills the hangar-like space but somehow makes its surroundings feel small by comparison, foreshadowing what follows.The following gallery displays the artist’s so-called greatest hits: clever one-trick illusions that hinge on creating optical confusion. On view are artworks from...

The group of eight preservation groups that currently have a lawsuit pending to prevent changes at the Kennedy Center without congressional approval have called for the institution’s leadership to step aside or for the court to take the drastic step of putting the cultural organization into receivership, citing the leadership’s fiduciary duty to steward the Center. The eight plaintiffs are the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, the DC Preservation League, the Docomomo US, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Cultural Landscape Foundation. (Their legal suit...

Cultural Counsel, an art publicity powerhouse since 2015 with a national reach that has counted top-flight museums, galleries, and foundations in its client list, is restructuring its operations, sources tell ARTnews—starting with leadership. Adam Abdalla, the firm’s founder and most visible figure, will transition to a new role, with senior vice president Marcella Zimmerman assuming public-facing affairs. In a statement to ARTnews on Wednesday, Abdalla, who will retain ownership of the company, said he is “no longer involved with day to day account management” at Cultural Counsel, though he characterized his role at the firm since the beginning as being more focused on the company’s big picture. He...

The United States has repatriated a total of 58 cultural relics, artworks, and fossils to China. A handover ceremony was held by the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, according to the embassy’s official WeChat account, reported the Global Times. The Cultural Property, Art, and Antiquities Program of the US Homeland Security Investigations returned such artifacts as a Bodhisattva statue from the Tianlongshan Grottoes in North China’s Shanxi Province, which was looted more than a century ago, as well as terracotta figures, stone statues, and fossils, per China News. An Instagram post on Hong Kong News Updates also commemorated the occasion. The items’ return is supposedly a result of a...

More than 60 Monet paintings, including 20 Water Lilies, are coming to Tate Modern.

The Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent (CCA Tashkent), Uzbekistan’s first permanent institution devoted to contemporary art, opened to the public on September 6. London-born curator, writer, and educator Sara Raza was named artistic director and chief curator last year. Designboom reports that Raza’s inaugural exhibition is titled “Hikmah,” the Arabic word for “wisdom.” The show […]

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has named the four curators who will lead the third edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale, slated to open on November 1, 2027. The team will be helmed by Nada Raza, director of the Alserkal Arts Foundation; William Robinson, former head of Christie’s Islamic Art department; Alain Fouad George, I. M. […]

a frank lloyd wright house built partly by its owners
 
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Samuel and Dorothy Eppstein House has returned to the market in Galesburg, Michigan, with an asking price of $2.1 million. Completed in 1953, the low-slung Usonian residence sits within The Acres, a community Wright planned for a group of Upjohn scientists outside Kalamazoo. A broad cantilevered roof stretches across hand-cast concrete block walls, while mahogany-framed glazing opens the interiors toward the surrounding landscape.
 
The Eppsteins had a unusually hands-on relationship with the house. Samuel and Dorothy were both research scientists at Upjohn, and Dorothy had flown military aircraft during World War II as a Women...

Italy’s South Tyrol province, which borders Switzerland and Austria in the Alps and is home to some of Central Europe’s most dramatic mountains, lives up to its geographic position as a borderland. Italy annexed the region in 1919 following World War I, prior to which it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Many people are German-speaking, and in many ways, their cultural traditions and ancestry lean traditionally toward Austria more than Italy. At the outbreak of World War II, the Fascist Italian regime built a series of fortifications along the country’s northernmost border. Construction was halted at the onset of the war, and the military controlled what had been completed until 1993. For Vincenzo...

More than 60 artists bring contemporary Chinese craft and design to Somerset House.

studiomateriality designs Mexican-inspired bar in athens
 
OchoTac is a Mexican-inspired bar in Athens, where architecture, graphic identity, and food culture come together through a bold material and visual language. Designed by Studiomateriality, the project takes its name from its defining offer: eight tacos, alongside a drinks-focused menu, creating a concept built around the number eight. The design draws from the visual culture of Mexico while deliberately avoiding a literal interpretation of Mexican aesthetics. Instead, the project translates references to Mexican wrestling, or lucha libre, into a contemporary spatial and graphic identity.
 
Wrestling becomes the conceptual thread connecting the...

Cao Fei brings more than two decades of virtual worlds and digital art to Hayward Gallery.

With San Francisco Opera's orchestra on strike and bass Andrew Potter retiring at 43, Miles Greenberg sees opera's ethics and economics of impracticality at a breaking point

The expansion will house more than 360 contemporary artworks donated or on loan from the TBA21 Collection, led by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza

Panoramic views of the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi in central Italy’s Umbria region can be viewed on the Preserving Assisi platform

Skepta takes 24 statements about identity, ambition and perception onto public screens around the world.

before the building, the image
 
Before the Crystal Palace existed in Hyde Park, it appeared in the newspaper. Joseph Paxton sketched his proposal in June 1850 and sent a view to the Illustrated London News while the scheme was still awaiting approval. It appeared on July 6th. The Royal Commission accepted his design nine days later. Thousands of panes of glass and miles of iron structure still had to follow, but the public had already seen the building in the form of that image.
 
This sequence still happens now. We regularly meet architecture first as an image, often long before visiting it, and sometimes without ever visiting at all. But this second existence developed over centuries. Buildings occupy...

The images in the British-Indian artist’s retrospective at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, England, are both tender and powerful

MUSHLUME RETHINKS MATERIAL APPROACH INSIDE MADE: BUSH TERMINAL
 
MADE: Bush Terminal, a revitalized public landmark, reopens its historic doors as a productive workspace designed to fuel local innovation and economic growth. Inside the renewed space, designboom speaks with Danielle Trofe, founder of MushLume, one of the resident studios shaping the hub, who combines a biofabrication laboratory and production. Awarded for its sustainable lighting and acoustic panels, MushLume grows its collection using living mycelium and agricultural hemp, pioneering a design approach that treats nature as a true partner rather than a simple material resource.
 
‘The story of how I came across this material really shaped...

I guess it’s no secret here that I LOVE contemporary operas.

The exhibition, which explores the passage of time across Monet’s oeuvre, is partly sponsored by Anthropic, which sponsored another Monet show earlier this year

Tutto inizia da un pastello a cera color salmone, il Caran d’Ache Neocolor II numero 7500.051, che Nicola Toffolini ha steso in maniera uniforme su un foglio senza aggiungervi nient’altro: nessun segno, nessuna figura, solo la campitura di quella tinta aranciata, opaca e sorprendentemente regolare nella texture, nonostante l’esecuzione manuale. La chiama Matrice, ed è proprio da questo singolo colore reso oggetto autonomo di contemplazione che si sviluppa Roseo, il progetto che l’artista presenta allo Spazio Kappa-Nöun di San Lazzaro di Savena (BO) dopo quasi due anni di elaborazione.
Nicola Toffolini, “Roseo”, installation view at Kappa-Nöun, courtesy the artist and Kappa-Nöun
Inevitabile...

Ticket sales for the National Gallery’s forthcoming Renoir exhibition have topped twenty-two thousand, setting a record for the London institution. Bookings opened to members on August 4, and to the general public on August 25. The museum’s previous best-selling show was 2024’s “Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers,” which booked 15,654 tickets in the same amount […]

Dear Reader, The New York Times recently asked dozens of 10-year-olds what the world will be like in 2050. Some are hopeful: a woman will finally be president of the U.S., people will be more kind, and everyone will have a pet fox. Others, though, feel as if they’ve been plucked straight from a dystopian hellscape: world wars, monarchic rule supplanting voting, embedded brain sensors that send your thoughts straight to an app, and the end of human civilization entirely. Whether optimistic or not, these children mention A.I. again and again. In their futures, it’s an inextricable fixture of life. A.I.’s exponential growth has accelerated fears about its power, prompting numerous executives and...

At 33 feet wide and 52.5 feet high, an ancient mosaic recently unveiled to the public may be the largest in the entire Roman world. It sits within the recently opened Museum of the Baths of Trajan in central Rome, which preserves a monumental, early 2nd-century bath complex built by Emperor Trajan covering about 15 acres. To construct the baths on the Oppian Hill, builders repurposed elements of a previous structure, Emperor Nero’s Domus Aurea, or “Golden House,” originally erected between 64 and 68 C.E. It’s unclear if the mosaic originated in that building; archaeologists think it could have also been part of a lavish dwelling that was later incorporated into the compound. But many of the monumental...

Inspired by shapes and movement found in nature, Pablo Luna Studio conceives of hospitality spaces, wellness retreats, and homes that sympathize with their surroundings. Rather than creating a barrier between outside and inside, the airy structures welcome foliage and the natural landscape into the overall experience, blurring the boundary between structure and environment. The firm, based in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, is dedicated to building with nature, incorporating sustainable materials and taking a climate-responsive approach. “Imagine a home that stays cool in summer without constant air conditioning, or warm in winter with minimal heating, simply by virtue of its design,” the studio says. “This...

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There may be frozen giant erections and psychedelic projections galore — but there's also a surprising degree of emotion in Kirill Serebrennikov's latest theatrical experiment in Berlin.

Parterre Box draws your attention to another Macbeth taking the stage this month, the triple-threat baritone Luca Micheletti.

La prima edizione di Astoria Artshow, appena conclusa, non ha cercato di replicare la scena galleristica viennese concentrandola in un unico luogo, ma si è impegnata ad aprire uno spazio di confronto e scoperta. L’assenza di alcune gallerie storiche viennesi non indicava disinteresse, ma semplicemente una questione di tempistiche: erano già impegnate altrove.
Board VAU – Vienna Art United: Isabell Kisling-Steinek, Karoline Bartosch-Hilger, Markus Peichl, Antonia Lia Orsi, Maximilian Thoman, Thomas Krinzinger (v.l.n.r), ph. Carmen Alber, courtesy of Astoria Artshow
Organizzata da VAU, Vienna Art United, in soli tre mesi dai galleristi stessi, la fiera ha coinciso con una stagione culturale eccezionalmente...

If you find yourself feeling impatient at the slow, meditative opening scenes of “The Spectacle,” just wait. The short documentary from The New Yorker visits a slew of stunning vistas primarily across Norway, showcasing star-dappled night skies and awe-inspiring mountaintop views. We’re witness to landscapes that appear untouched by humanity, until director Yasmin van Dorp plops us down amidst hordes of tourists. What was a serene environment is suddenly a chaotic display of phones and cameras. A parent attempts to coax their child out atop the famous Norwegian boulder Kjeragbolten for a photo, assistants fluff formal gowns so their wearer appears windswept, and selfie sticks and drone controls abound....

Kosuke Ajiro
GR gallery is pleased to present Excavation Record I – Sayonara, the first solo exhibition in the United States by Japanese artist Kosuke Ajiro. The exhibition introduces Ajiro’s distinctive practice through the figure of the archeologist, who ventures into a whimsical and enigmatic imagined realm known as the “Kingdom of Sally.” Across the exhibition, each work reveals a fragment of this mysterious world, uncovering earthbound creatures and curious details before opening onto a vast, fantastical expanse. Moving between the familiar and the otherworldly, Ajiro’s works invite the viewer on a journey of mystery, magic, transformation, and discovery. As the story gradually reveals itself,...

Countertenor Carlo Vistoli shows he's got the goods across the repertoire at the Park Avenue Armory.

C’è un angolo della Biennale in corso in cui il confine dell’opera d’arte sfuma fino a confondersi con la realtà. Alcuni cartelli mettono in guardia visitatori e addetti ai lavori: «Non buttare, opera!», «Do not put trash here please». Tutto il perimetro dell’installazione è circondato da questi cartelli che cercano di evidenziare un confine, tra arte e reale, che di regola in uno spazio espositivo istituzionale non viene messo in discussione. L’installazione in questione è Postscript to the Arabic Edition (1938-2025) dell’artista libanese Walid Raad (Chbanieyeh, 1967) e ciò che può trarre in inganno è la presenza di rifiuti abbandonati tra un dipinto e l’altro.
Walid Raad,...

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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,...

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...

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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...

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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.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
   
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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