The jury for this year’s Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize, founded by Gallery 1957, included Touria El Glaoui, the founder of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and the Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey

sumayya vally appointed to design elie khouri art foundation
 
Architect Sumayya Vally and her practice Counterspace are appointed to design the permanent home of the Elie Khouri Art Foundation (EKAF), transforming an existing villa in Dubai’s Jumeirah 1 into a contemporary art institution. Expected to open in late 2028, the project will bring together exhibition galleries, educational spaces, pavilions and gardens.  Founded by French-Lebanese collector and philanthropist Elie Khouri, the foundation builds on more than 20 years of collecting contemporary art. Under the direction of Caroline Louca, its program will combine works from Khouri’s collection with changing exhibitions, institutional...

jean nouvel to complete shenzhen opera house in 2028
 
Designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, the Shenzhen Opera House is taking shape along the waterfront of Shekou, in Shenzhen, China, with completion expected by December 2028. Selected through an international competition in 2021 (find designboom’s previous coverage here), the project, titled Light of the Sea, translates its coastal setting into a large cultural complex organized around a fluid roof, expansive public spaces, and four performance venues.
 
Newly available construction images offer a closer look at the development of the building, moving the project beyond its original competition renderings and into its next architectural phase.
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The Gochman Family Collection contains over 800 works by contemporary Native artists, most of which are seen by the public only when they are loaned to museums and institutions — until now. Branchline, the collection’s new permanent home in Katonah, New York, opened last week with an exhibition whose poetic throughlines of land and limits pulse through works by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Cara Romero, and others. Writer Petala Ironcloud visits Branchline and reports on its strengths and how it remains to improve.Sometimes artists choose to be candid about their experience in the art-world industrial complex, and for that we are infinitely grateful. Today, Associate Editor Phillip Pyle interviews Miles...

Datecrete’s holistic approach to sustainability
 
In a world marked by overconsumption and the waste it generates, Datecrete, winner of the designboom Special Prize at the Seoul Design Award 2026, offers a radical proposition. Its approach moves in the opposite direction: recovering an abundant local waste material and transforming it into an environmentally friendly raw material for design.
 
Throughout its development, the project has demonstrated an ability to think outside the box, combining sustainability, local relevance, aesthetic ambition and functionality. To top it off, the proposal is presented as scalable and transferable to other locations without losing its cultural specificity.
 
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The Elie Khouri Art Foundation, due to open in 2028, will take its founder’s collection of works by more than 300 artists as a starting point for exhibitions, and there will also be a focus on community outreach

DAVID RULE SHRINKS THE HOUSEBOAT TO 2.6 SQUARE METERS
 
American explorer and builder David Rule has taken the tiny living movement onto the water with TinyTanic, a fully functional houseboat measuring just 2.4 meters long and 1.1 meters wide. With a total footprint of 2.6 square meters, the miniature vessel accommodates a sleeping area, kitchen, running water and an electric propulsion system. Inspired by fellow creator Zach Fowler’s 3.25-square-meter floating home, Rule set out to build something even smaller without sacrificing the essential comforts needed for a journey on the water. He describes the result as the world’s smallest functional houseboat, although the claim has not been independently...

jr’s ‘inside out’ turns public space into a collective portrait
  JR’s participatory art project Inside Out comes to Cloud 11 with Thailand Creative Archive, a large-scale photographic installation featuring more than 2,500 black-and-white portraits of people working across the country’s creative industries. Opening on November 11th, 2026, the largest presentation of the Inside Out Project in Southeast Asia brings together artists, designers, architects, performers, craftspeople, and behind-the-scenes professionals in a collective portrait that places the people shaping the cultural landscape of the country at the center of public space.
 
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Billionaire Les Wexner’s name will remain on Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts, even though the school received hundreds of requests to remove it owing to his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the Columbus Dispatch reports. More than five hundred requests sought to remove the name from the campus’s arts center, medical center, and […]

Ask a seasoned collector about their first acquisition, and you’re likely to hear that they began with limited-edition prints. Often accessible in price point yet bearing the artist’s signature and maybe even hand embellishments, prints are the perfect entry point for people interested in living with art each and every day. For the holidays, our partners at Joy Machine have graciously curated a special collection of limited-edition prints for the budding collector in your life. Liz Flores: “Untitled” (2026) Sentrock: “Better Days Ahead” (2026) Mar Figueroa: “Untitled” (2024) Anna Valdez: “Untitled” (2026) Cody Hudson: “Self-Sufficiency Mono Print (Tangerine Variant)” (2024) Stevie Shao:...

Some historic preservationists are alarmed at the potential effects of a bipartisan bill whose sponsors say it aims to cut red tape for infrastructure and energy production projects. On Monday, the US Senate advanced the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (S.5653), introduced by Senator Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican, by a vote of 73–25. The bill is cosponsored by Senators Mike Lee, a Utah Republican; Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat; and Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat. (The current session of the Republican-controlled Senate runs through December 18; new senators will be sworn in on January 3.) Crucially, the act would narrow the scope of the National...

A saturated blue sky and cascades of complementary golden-yellow foliage laid the foundation for a vibrant, picturesque Diwali weekend in the suburbs. It wasn’t the most festive Diwali for me — instead of lighting diyas and playing with sparklers, I spent a majority of the weekend hand-feeding a friendly yard squirrel while wearing some bullshit pajamas extracted from the depths of my childhood closet.Think I’m slumming it? Well, think again! Because those dilapidated pajamas are almost certainly what inspired the theme for next year’s Met Gala and related Costume Institute exhibit: extraOrdinary: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday, a program “devoted to the undersung beauty and allure of...

The organizers of the Liverpool Biennial have revealed the theme and artists for the event’s fourteenth iteration, cocurated by Aimee Harrison and Lucía Sanromán and slated to run June 5–September 12, 2027. Titled “The Age of Magical Thinking,” the exhibition takes as its starting point psychologist Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, which is based […]

KATONAH, NY — In 1680, English colonists bought the land that would become Bedford, New York, from a Munsee Lenape sachem named Katonah, meaning “great hill.” Today, his name belongs to a Westchester village that is now home to Branchline, the Gochman Family Collection’s (GFC) new gallery and studio space, which opened to the public on November 6 with Line Break, an exhibition of works drawn primarily from its holdings of contemporary Native American art.Since its founding in 2021, GFC has collected over 800 works with support from Native and non-Native gallerists, artists, and curators alike, including Creative Director and Curator Rachel Martin (Tlingít), curator and Hyperallergic contributor...

On Monday, November 9, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, along with the commissioners for the departments of design and construction, citywide administrative services, and cultural affairs, commenced the $184 million reconstruction project of 70 Mulberry Street, a historically significant building that sustained severe damage from a fire in 2020. Upon the project's expected completion in 2030, 70 Mulberry Street will house or provide additional space for the five community organizations that operated there before the fire, including the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA). The new building will include artist Jennifer Wen Ma's "Wings of Everchange 易之翼," a permanent, three-part art...

The huacos eróticos are giant versions of much smaller ceramics found in ancient tombs

Maspeth has not traditionally been thought of as an arts hub like Bushwick or the East Village, but one gallery has thrived by drawing collectors from all over the world to Western Queens.“We’ve had people stop here on the way to the airport and end up buying something,” Mrs. Associate Director Lily Frances Pendery told Hyperallergic. “We had an advisor who recently spent an hour and a half with us. Anyone who comes in the door is serious about what their visit is for.”From its leafy one-way street near the Long Island Expressway, Mrs. has worked with dozens of emerging artists, held 72 shows, and traveled to art fairs in Paris, South Korea, and across the country. This fall, the gallery is...

When Juan Francisco León Catena bought an old house in southern Spain, he expected that a planned renovation would incur costs. What he came to learn was that a Renaissance church facade was hidden behind the walls—and that it came with a reward worth more than €1 million ($1.2 million). The discovery dates to November 2016, when León Catena and his father began tearing down interior walls in a property he’d purchased in Úbeda, a historic town in Andalusia that, together with neighboring Baeza, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003. Behind the plaster and partitions, they found an enormous stone facade measuring roughly 49 feet wide and 36 feet tall. The stonework turned out to be part...

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has named Franklin Sirmans as chair of the board. Three other board members have also been named: Cheryl Finley, Candice Hopkins, and Suzi Kwon Cohen. Since 2015, Sirmans has been the Sandra and Tony Tamer Director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). During his tenure, he […]

At a ceremony held on November 9, the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University in the UK formally returned 39 sets of ancestral remains to the Naga people of India. The remains, primarily human skulls, were taken during the British colonial rule of India and Burma (now Myanmar) and have been in the museum’s collection for more than 100 years. A delegation of almost 30 community members from Nagaland, an Indian state bordering Myanmar, traveled to Britain for the handover. The Pitt Rivers claims to hold the largest collection of Naga artifacts in the world, most of which were acquired by John Henry Hutton, an anthropologist and colonial administrator in the Indian Civil Service, and a second...

Actor Eric Rasmussen revealed this week that he had removed his contribution to an installation by Denniston Hill in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale because the residency program appeared to support the “eradication” of Israel, in Rasmussen’s view. In an op-ed published by the Jewish Journal on Monday, Rasmussen wrote that he had combined two drawings by his mother of Adolf Hitler drawn from a notebook she kept during her childhood. The resulting work, transferred to an acetate panel, was included Denniston Hill’s installation, an exquisite corpse–style work titled Chimera (2026) that is located in the Giardini section of Koyo Kouoh’s main exhibition. The piece features contributions by...

Researcher Matt Waters stands next to a sediment core sample pulled from an ancient Maya Lowlands lake. AUBURN, ALABAMA—Reuters reports that mercury contamination has been identified at additional Maya sites. The Maya used the red pigment cinnabar, which contains mercury, in ceremonies and funerary rites, and to paint murals and decorate temples. A previous study confirmed mercury contamination at the Maya site of Tikal in Guatemala. Now, Matt Waters of Auburn University and Savanna Wooten of the Jones Center at Ichauway have identified mercury in core samples taken from lake beds at the sites of Coba and Xcach, which are located on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. The study found a mercury spike at Coba...

Sword and scan of the lower end of the sword and its scabbard COLMAR, FRANCE—A fifth-century cemetery A.D. has been excavated in northeastern France by archaeologists from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP), Live Science reports. The cemetery was used between about A.D. 450 to 500, around the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire. The graves of 11 adults, three children, and two horses buried with their harnesses have been uncovered. Silver bird-shaped brooches, glass bead necklaces, and a bone comb have been recovered from the women’s graves. A sword, a wooden scabbard, a shield, and a javelin have been unearthed in the men’s burials. A Germanic short sword...

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The Julia Stoschek Foundation will reopen in its Düsseldorf space in April 2027, just in time for the organization’s 20th anniversary. “Selfish in Bed”—a group exhibition curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen comprising 52 works from 43 artists in the foundation’s archive—will inaugurate the newly renovated galleries. “Selfish in Bed” takes its title from a Sarah Lucas […]

Hundreds gathered around Anish Kapoor’s iconic Cloud Gate, knows as the “Bean,” in Chicago’s Millennium Park on Sunday in an attempt to shift the sculpture seven inches to the left. Despite the crowd’s best efforts, the silver 110-ton stainless steel sculpture could not be moved. ARTnews reports that the stunt was based on a viral […]

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO—According to a statement released by the University of New Mexico, a team of researchers led by Kari Schleher of the University of New Mexico identified geological sources of azurite used by Ancestral Pueblo communities some 1,400 years ago. Azurite is a copper mineral with a vivid blue color used as a pigment or paint. The scientists analyzed two samples of azurite obtained from sources in New Mexico and Utah known to have been mined by Ancestral Pueblo people. Then they analyzed the isotopes of lead, strontium, and copper in 12 azurite specimens recovered in the Four Corners region. Most of these samples were found to have collected in the Lisbon Valley. Two of the samples came from...

Since President Donald Trump returned to office last year, his administration has made reining in the cultural sphere a core plank of his agenda. Those efforts have included slashing federal funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); attempting to remake the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in his image; and unleashing a relentless barrage of executive orders, attempted firings, and investigations targeting the Smithsonian Institution and its affiliated museums. The campaign reached a fever pitch in July, when the White House released a 162-page report detailing supposed “ideological capture” at the National...

Cannabis seeds in situ, Tunnug 1, Siberia GENEVA, SWITZERLAND—According to an Associated Press report, cannabis may have been used some 2,800 years ago by the Scythians in southern Siberia. An international team of scientists discovered cannabis seeds in a monumental tomb at the Tunnug 1 archaeological site in the Uyuk Valley. Analysis of preserved hair also detected the presence of the drug. “It’s extremely rare that we have both preserved plant parts and human soft tissue with the active compounds in it in the same context,” said Gino Caspari of the University of Bern. It is not clear if the cannabis was inhaled or ingested, he added. Critics of the study state that there is not enough evidence...

More than 15,300 submissions made their way to the judges for this year’s Close-Up Photographer of the Year, setting a record for the highest number of entries in the competition’s history. From uncanny insects to slime molds to unexpected animal interactions, photographs captured by amateur and professional photographers alike highlight the diverse and sometimes surreal flora and fauna all around us. The contest winners will be announced in January. In the meantime, a photography challenge on the theme of “Close to Home” is open for submissions through the end of the month. Explore some of our favorites from the shortlist below, and learn more on the contest’s website. Joao Pontes, “Suspended”...

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The Metropolitan Opera has added a live, free video broadcast of Lincoln in the Bardo to its fall lineup on Saturday, 14 November at 8 PM EDT.

As Shanghai art week kicks off, the city's network of galleries, museums, fairs and artist communities offer sources of resilience amid economic upheaval

Plumbing the rhythms of the ocean and marine life, Amy Genser creates undulating abstractions that evoke swells, currents, reefs, and the sea floor. The artist composes elaborate wall works from rolled mulberry paper, acrylic, and wire in which patterns move and converge across swaths of blues and greens. The closer you look, the more colors emerge. Although reminiscent of the sea in many ways, Genser’s works defy instant recognition. At first glance, they may appear topographical, as if a luminous, clear sea is being viewed from above. The rolling forms are redolent of waves but also perhaps the way corals cluster around rock formations. Then, details draw us nearer: bulbous forms with cavities resemble...

The London exhibition, which opens 12 November, will explore the artistic and personal relationship between two of the Bloomsbury Group's most famous painters

Saioa Hernández makes a no-hold-barred house debut in The Metropolitan Opera's prematurely dusty Tosca.

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Consider this 1959 Italian-language blowout from Palermo, with Franco Corelli’s infiammatissimo Don José

Son Lux’s newest music video is an atmospheric mini-epic. Last month, the video premiered at MASS MoCA—the piece is a joint commission by the museum and Pioneer Works and made in collaboration with Alex Cook—as an immersive, 17-minute installation titled “Out Into Us (Slow Down),” complementing the release of the band’s ninth studio album. “In the last decade, social media has created a reality in which music is often eclipsed by visuals, served up in an endless buffet of bite-sized and contextless flavors,” says a statement. For this multimedia work, the artists leaned instead toward deeply felt human experiences, like how long it can take to do or understand something. Portraying a...

Tattooed with verdant foliage, the central figure in Kelly Sinnapah Mary’s portraits is both a product of and subsumed by the plant life that surrounds her. Born in the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe, the artist conjures the mythic stories of her home through surreal scenes in which humans, flora, and fauna find a sort of hybrid harmony. Sinnapah Mary’s recurring figure is named Sanbras, which the artist derived from a derogatory children’s book popular in the 19th and 20th centuries. Through uncanny compositions that rely heavily on saturated color and delicate, organic textures, Sanbras appears as a subversive figure who morphs across various bodies of work and nods to the artist’s enduring...

SAQQARA, EGYPT—One of the world’s earliest known autobiographies was written on the walls of the tomb of an Egyptian dignitary named Khuwy, according to a La Brújula Verde report. Khuwy’s tomb was located by Czech archaeologists inside a cemetery in Saqqara that surrounds the pyramid of the 5th Dynasty pharaoh Djedkare Isesi (reigned ca. 2381–2353 B.C.). Dating to around 2400 B.C., it is one of the oldest underground decorated burial apartments. Although most of the upper structure built atop the tomb has not survived, archaeologists found inscribed blocks that once lined its walls. On these, Khuwy described his life and achievements. Among them, he boasts of his moral integrity, stating, “I never...

UK artist Harry Waine, aka, Jimi Biscuits, oh-so-gently smacks viewers with a one-two punch of color and content that feels like reading retro comics on acid. Fusing punchy, wry humor with stunning and stark graphics, he’s built a following on Instagram, and collaborated with the likes of Paperwallet and various record labels to create a […]
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Print Center New York has appointed Yukiko Yamagata as its new Executive Director, succeeding Judy Hecker following her decade-long tenure.... Read More

Gareth McConnell brings three decades of photography, political history and rave culture to Stills Edinburgh.

More than £10m in new funding brings IWM Lab at Duxford closer to opening in 2029.

A major Sámi art exhibition at Somerset House explores land, memory, time and cultural survival.

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This 1961 performance from the Bolshoi is a treasure.

Now in its penultimate installation, Tobias Kratzer’s Munich Ring is reaching full maturity—without compromising its humor.

A drunk raccoon, petrol, cosmetic surgery, science fiction and motherhood.

All photos by Yubo Dong Ian Davis convenes nondescript characters into enigmatic gatherings. Often male, he calls them “actors.” But what kind of actor? They seem to be always on the brink of chaos or recoiling from its aftermath. Their exact charge is unclear to the viewer, and Davis has said in the past that […]
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With photos provided by Stephen ESPO and Matthew Kuborn, courtesy of ESPO Stephen Powers is a New York-based artist with a bold, straightforward style that combines minimalism, a carnival sideshow joie de vivre, and pristine design. Nothing about his career makes sense. He spurns the dealership model and operates an atelier-style shop in New York […]
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Ominous backrooms? Echoey abandoned spaces? nope. These are the carefully explored and brilliantly captured photographs of instruments by Charles Brooks. Symphonic music can be epic. Grandiose in scale. It sweeps and pans through an architecturally tuned performance space, connecting our brains with the shared resonance of sound. And simultaneously, it can be intimate, reverberating through […]
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Credit: Márcia Falcão I was invited to attend two of the opening days of Frieze London and, arriving in my home city, I was immediately reminded of its extraordinary energy, gathering pace around the nucleus of the Regent's Park venue. The art on display was more than equal to the occasion. A-listers and icons from across the wider cultural landscape, including film, music and fashion, mingled with professionals, students and enthusiasts from London’s eclectic art scene, all seemingly loving,...