It’s one thing to marvel at the inner workings of a transistor radio or a timepiece, but for artist Manabu Kosaka, that curiosity reaches a whole new level. Using nothing but paper, the artist makes scale replicas of cameras, watches, gaming consoles, shoes, food, and more with a preternatural attention to detail. Not only does a 35mm film camera include a strap and a back hatch that opens, the lever used to advance the film and other gears are also built into the top, some of which are even moveable. Around ten years ago, Kosaka faced uncertainty about the direction of his work. “During that time, I spoke with a friend who works in art direction, and they suggested that I try creating with simpler...

If you have been in the art world for a minute, you have probably attended a benefit gala or two for an art nonprofit. The expectations for these events are pretty well established. After a cocktail hour, attendees get their seat assignments and dine on fine cuisine while they get acquainted and exchange gossip with their neighbors. Remarks are addressed to a restive crowd. Photographers record flashy outfits for the society pages. Perhaps a celebrity auctioneer takes bids on artworks or experiences to raise funds. But artists are often great at subverting expectations, and the Renaissance Society, a beloved arts venue at the University of Chicago known for its brainy exhibitions, has for several years now...

Artnet, the digital art news publication, and Artsy, the online art sales and discovery platform, announced this week that they’ll be merging under a single leadership structure, while their respective platforms will remain distinct from one another. Beowolff Capital founder and CEO Andrew Wolff, who brought Artnet private in 2025 and acquired majority control of Artsy, will […]

The long list of stars attending the Met Gala in May will not include New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji, if unnamed sources cited by the New York Post’s “Page Six” prove to be correct. As reported by the paper, “New York City’s mayor is traditionally invited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the lavish event every year, but we’re told that Mamdani, 34, won’t be joining Condé Nast’s Anna Wintour and her coterie of celeb guests on Monday, May 4.” A source who was not identified said, “He’s not coming. And it would be foolish if he did … can you imagine? It goes against everything he believes in.” Mamdani and Duwaji do believe in fashion, as evidenced their...

Following yesterday’s news that Artsy and Artnet had been brought under the same leadership, the latter online art marketplace has laid off dozens of employees. Sources told ARTnews that the layoffs particularly impacted Artnet’s editorial arm, Artnet News, one of the most widely read art publications in the US and Europe. Among the senior reporters who are no longer at Artnet News are Sarah Cascone and Eileen Kinsella, both of whom were on staff at the publication for more than a decade. Andrew Russeth, who previously served as executive editor of ARTnews, will reportedly now serve as the interim editor of Artnet News, which has historically operated out of New York, London, and Berlin. Also severely...

an inhabitable landscape along the lagoon
 
Grizzo Studio designs Casa Lomadas facing a lagoon outside Buenos Aires, Argentina. The house sits as a long, folded concrete bar, perched across two constructed mounds that reorganize the site into an artificial terrain. From the first view, the work reads as a negotiation between mass and ground, with the building and landscape operating as one continuous system.
 
The two mounds establish the logic of the plan. One begins at the street edge and extends outward, widening as it moves toward the water, carrying the main approach. The other starts as a vehicular entry and garage before slipping into the garden and reappearing as a planted ramp that leads back up to...

The David Geffen Galleries showcase the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s permanent collection, which is reorganised around oceans and seas, emphasising connection and circulation

Add one more casualty of the collapsed NFT market to the list: Foundation, a curated Ethereum-based marketplace that rose to prominence during the 2021 digital art boom. On Wednesday, cofounder and CEO Kayvon Tehranian announced in an open letter on X that the platform’s sale to digital art company Blackdove collapsed, leaving no viable way to keep operating. “Our goal in pursuing a sale was always to see Foundation live on—to find someone who would keep the platform running and serve this community going forward,” Tehranian wrote. “That’s no longer possible.” Foundation has now started a “wind-down process,” which will see the infrastructure underpinning the NFTs and digital assets backed by...

The Angeleno academic and weaver has drawn on her family history to create a permanent artwork for LACMA

Until just the past few decades, textiles were generally created with only practical applications in mind. Although fiber and cloth in its myriad forms had been produced for millennia around the globe, fabrics were woven for either domestic or industrial use, and crafts such as knitting, weaving, basket- and net-making, and more were considered purely functional. Think clothing or decor. Even ornate medieval tapestries were conceived as utilitarian objects, used in stone buildings like churches and large homes to soften sounds and insulate against the cold. Within the canon of Western art history, in particular, the hierarchy of fine art has long been quite definite: painting and sculpture were chief among...

Built during the 2nd century, the circular building found in northern Sinai may have been dedicated to the god Pelusius

braiding structures material and form in TRENZAR at Alcova 2026
 
TRENZAR is a collection presented by Barcelona-based furniture studio Marlot Baus at Alcova during Milan Design Week 2026, exhibited at the Baggio Military Hospital, Casa delle Suore C4. Developed by Laura García, founder of Marlot Baus, in collaboration with designer Natalia Ortega of Worn Studio, the project brings together contributions from nine Spanish artisans working across wood, iron, ceramic, silver, embroidery, blown glass, and wicker.
 
The collection examines braiding as both a construction method and an organizing principle. Through interlacing techniques, individual elements are assembled into structural compositions, where...

An invigorating double bill at the San Francisco Symphony challenges how Bach "should" be performed.

The shortlist for the Art Basel Awards spans artists, curators and collectors ahead of June ceremony in Basel

The Italian started with a simple, clever sweater and went on to international success

This year, CONTACT Photography Festival celebrates its 30th edition. The Toronto-based event is dedicated to exhibiting, analysing and celebrating lens-based media in all its forms. Over the past three decades, it has attracted over 20 million visitors and presented the work of over 8500 artists, Darcy Killeen, Chief Executive Officer, says: “this is a milestone for our organisation, and we are truly grateful to the thousands of artists who have participated and shared their work with the public in exhibitions and programs across Toronto and on our website.” This year, the featured lens-based and mixed-media artists employ practices variously incorporating themes of decolonization, community-building,...

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Bofill Taller de Arquitectura’s dreamlike worlds
 
Ricardo Bofill establishes the Taller de Arquitectura as a collective experiment in how architecture might think, act, and feel differently. Bringing together poets, mathematicians, writers, and engineers alongside architects, the Taller positions itself against the rigid logic of modernism, proposing instead a practice rooted in interdisciplinarity, political urgency, and spatial imagination.
 
Across its projects, the team treats geometry as language, color as instrument, and movement as narrative, constructing environments that oscillate between system and sensation, order and disorientation. From modular labyrinths on the Mediterranean coast to...

This performance of Poulenc's "Les Chemins de l'amour" is a gem.

On a damp New York City morning last week, I visited Gracie Mansion for an exclusive interview with artist and First Lady Rama Duwaji in her studio. We talked about her art practice and political life while surrounded by her drawings and ceramics. I hope you enjoy reading this interview, through which I learned more about Duwaji's life story and got a better sense of who she is as a person and an artist.Also in New York: Who's behind the guerrilla posters across the city calling for a boycott of the Jeff Bezos-sponsored Met Gala?—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief Artist Rama Duwaji in her studio in New York (photo Dahlia Dandashi)In the Studio With Rama DuwajiSurrounded by her drawings and ceramics,...

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soft tones and raw materials outline Drinkit Café’s pink interiors
 
Drinkit flagship café in Yekaterinburg, Russia, explores the relationship between the city’s industrial legacy and its evolving creative culture. The project, designed by the brand’s own team, combines references to reinforced concrete construction with a palette derived from confectionery tones, establishing a contrast between material heaviness and visual softness.
 
The design approach is based on interpreting local identity through color, texture, and spatial composition. The interior incorporates shades such as muted pistachio and pink alongside raw, industrial elements. Materials include glass blocks, upcycled plastic...

A Wearable Interface Translates Gesture into Emotional Data
 
MELO Bubble Ring, designed by New York-based product designer Shuting Jiang, explores the relationship between everyday gestures, wearable technology, and emotional awareness. The project addresses stress as a largely unrecorded condition, translating unconscious tactile behaviors into measurable data. The design builds on the observation that repetitive gestures, such as pressing, rotating, or fidgeting, often occur during moments of stress or concentration. These actions are typically overlooked, yet they reflect underlying emotional states. MELO reframes these behaviors as an input system, capturing interaction without requiring deliberate user...

In the forest nothing stands still. Time layered through thoughts and feelings, leaves kicked and crunched as we walk. The trees talk to each other, sending mycelium messages, carbon gifts, and warnings of drought or illness. From ancient wisdom to popular culture, it’s all here.
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, did it make a sound? Of course it did. And if Jo Stapleton was there to capture the moment, there would be a visual symphony of light, shape and form to follow.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, this beautiful collection of 100 images by Jo Stapleton is an expressionist photographic account of her interactions with trees, forest and woodland, later remembered and...

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A fifty-eight-year-old Paris man on April 14 won a painting by Pablo Picasso valued at more than €1 million (about $1.2 million) in a raffle. Ari Hodara, a software engineer, is now the owner of the Spanish master’s 1941 Head of a Woman, depicting Picasso’s longtime muse and lover Dora Maar, a celebrated photographer and Surrealist in […]

On Tuesday afternoon, police were called when an activist super-glued herself to a display cabinet at the Bode Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island. The news was reported by the German magazine Monopol. The action was claimed by New Generation, a successor movement to Last Generation, a German/Italian group of climate activists best known for gluing themselves to roadways. Last Generation disbanded in January 2025. The woman, dressed like Germany’s Economic Affairs Minister, Katherina Reiche, and wearing a mask of the minister’s face, glued herself to a glass case containing coins and held up a sign reading “Katherina Super-Reiche.” “I’m Katherina Super-Rich and I stick to money!” New...

The Massachusetts liberal arts college Hampshire College announced this week that, after nearly six decades in operation since being founded in 1965, it will shut its doors for good; the institution’s board cited “financial pressures…compounded by shifting external factors” as being among the reasons for closure.  “We have long known that addressing these issues is essential to establishing […]

The real estate firm Cushman and Wakefield has accused Sotheby’s of failing to pay a $10.2 million commission on sale of its former New York headquarters, Artnet reports. Last week, Cushman and Wakefield filed a lawsuit against Sotheby’s alleging that the auction house breached a commission agreement attached to the sale of 1334 York Avenue to Weill Cornell Medicine, a transaction […]

In a world not so unlike our own, during a time not that long ago, a mother wolf sits comfortably upon an abandoned tree stump in a clearing in the woods. Surrounded by carefully rendered flora and fauna, the creature is positioned upright with impeccable posture and human-like mannerisms. Her hind legs are crossed at […]
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Artists Christian Rebecchi and Pablo Togni, who work as NEVERCREW, have a knack for bringing the immensity of nature to developed urban spaces. Their colorful, large-scale murals take a playful tack when it comes to portraying animals, often merging them with other objects such as instant photos or, most recently, a plastic punch-out toy. “Souvenir,” completed this year in Vienna, combines motifs of a large bear with other Arctic components, such as icebergs, a seabird, and a steamship. “The natural environment appears transformed, filtered, made artificial: it is no longer a space experienced through relationship, but a distant construction,” the artists say in a statement. The work is “almost a...

My first encounter with Rama Duwaji's art was while waiting in line for the restroom at the Levantine bistro Huda in East Williamsburg back in 2024. It took me a second to realize that I was looking at an NYC-mandated first-aid poster, transformed into a stunning artwork in what I can now recognize as Duwaji's signature style.The Texas-born, Syrian-American artist has created illustrations and animations for the New Yorker, Tate Modern, and BBC, among other outlets and institutions. Last November, Duwaji became a household name after her husband, Zohran Mamdani, swept the New York City mayoral race in a historic victory that inspired and delighted millions. A private person by nature, she was...

Where the blue sky breaks through the tree canopy or light reflects onto the surface of a pond, illustrator Masha Foya summons moments of joy and surprise. The Kyiv-based artist’s dreamlike illustrations often portray spaces and individuals in emotional or experiential states, as if the entire environment morphs into a single living being. Hands clasp over the arc of a foliage tunnel, for example, and a plane sails through an aperture shaped like a bird in flight. Seemingly enclosed spaces often converge with the sky or the cosmos, alluding to the boundlessness of imagination and feeling. The work shown here comprises both personal and commissioned projects. Foya is currently working on developing a number...

The Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: The Complete Paintings and Works on Paper announces the highly anticipated launch of its website in association with Bates College Museum of Art.The catalogue consists of over 1600 paintings, drawings, pastels, and prints executed by Marsden Hartley (1877–1943). In addition to photography and full attributions for each work, the catalogue compiles detailed provenances, exhibition histories, and bibliographies. Documenting over 2200 exhibitions and 2100 publications related to Hartley, the project aims to ignite and sustain scholarship on one of America’s most important modernists. The website will be updated continually as new material comes to light.Left: Marsden...

Tutto Boetti 1966–1993 at Magazzino Italian Art offers a multifaceted view of Alighiero Boetti’s artistic research, tracing its development from early experiments in Turin in the 1960s to the large-scale works of his maturity. The show presents approximately 30 works by the artist, beginning with a core group from the museum’s permanent collection, including a selection of early works from the 1960s, alongside loans from the Boetti estate and an important private collection. The exhibition will be complemented by a symposium on April 25, featuring leading curators, critics, and artists invited to reflect on Boetti’s legacy, affirming his central role as one of the most influential figures in the...

The Met Gala is coming in less than three weeks, and while the annual event has always drawn some form of protest or criticism for its theme, attendees, and context in the grand scheme of things, this year already feels a little on the nose. In posters wheatpasted across New York City, activists are calling for a boycott of the 2026 event, whose lead sponsors, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, have also been appointed honorary co-chairs. The posters take aim at Amazon's alleged exploitation of warehouse and delivery labor, as well as the company's links to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through its cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS). Behind the poster...

With Nixon, Klinghoffer, and Andris Nelsons on the mind, Parterre Box offers a recording of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's recent John Adams outing.

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La Belle Êpqoue – French for Beautiful Era – conjures up images of glittering theatres, excessive parties and flowing champagne. The term defines the years before WWI, when France experienced a period of economic growth that produced a wealth of artistic and cultural developments. In 1913, Galeries Lafayette unveiled its flagship department store, whilst architect Auguste Perret completed the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. The country was the world’s biggest exporter of cars, as well as leading the way in the skies, with Bleriot crossing the channel in 1908. Names like Gaumont and Pathe drove the flourishing cinematic industry forwards, whilst Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque captured this rapid...

A very haunting Hugo Wolf song sung exquisitely here by Arleen Auger.

Francesca Woodman’s (1958–1981) photographic career spanned less than a decade. Yet, during that time, she created some of the best-known self-portraits of the 20th century. The majority of Woodman’s scenes unfold within empty interior spaces, illuminated by shafts of natural light or mirrored surfaces. The artist is usually the sole subject; sometimes she appears nude, other times clothed or shrouded. She might be partially hidden by furniture, appear to be suspended in a doorframe, or lie on the ground. “Haunting” is one of the words most-used to describe her images: they are often blurred, employing long exposure techniques and a black-and-white palette. Woodman operated on both sides of the...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will welcome the public to its brand-new David Geffen Galleries on May 4, with members able to get a gander beginning April 19. Described by the New York Times’s Michael Kimmelman as a “curvaceous concrete sandwich,” the $724 million Peter Zumthor–designed building has been more than twelve years in the making, its construction closely […]

For our fourth edition of the Booooooom Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners, one for each of the following categories: Portrait, Street, Colour, Nature, Student. You can view all the winners and shortlisted photographers here.
It’s our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Colour category, Chanyoung Chung. Born in South Korea and raised in Montréal, Chung came to photography after seven years working as a nurse in Vancouver. Now back in Montréal, he creates still-life images in the studio while also photographing traces of contemporary life beyond it. His work invites reflection on peace, cooperation, and the quiet harmony that can emerge within society.
Our sincere thanks to...

For millennia, humans have navigated seas, rivers, and oceans as avenues for trade, exploration, conquest, and colonization. During the Age of Discovery—an era interwoven with what’s known as the Age of Sail—European explorers and traders embarked on journeys around the world to map previously uncharted continents, trade commodities, and establish new socio-political outposts. Imperial forces competed with one another to control as much as they could, all in the name of wealth and power, and individual landowners and traders profited immensely. But sustaining a presence in far-flung places would never have been remotely possible, nevertheless successful, without slavery. Well into the 19th century,...

Golda Schultz soldiers through illness at the New York Philharmonic.

Fanglin Luo is a London-based early-career artist and curator whose interdisciplinary practice moves between performance, painting and photography. Her work has a foundation in both art theory and fashion design, weaving together visual and conceptual languages to examine identity, feminism and the complexities of transcultural memory. Luo’s works have been exhibited internationally, from the UK and France to the USA and Japan. In 2025, she presented at the London Design Festival and won the Silver Award at the Light From The Other Shore: 2025 New York International Art Competition. One of Luo’s earlier works is video piece ME & GODDNESS & ME, inspired by the artist’s experience walking alone at night...

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In 1912, André Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto. The work described Surrealism as “pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.” It was a statement that came to define a moment that, one hundred years later, continues to play a defining role in contemporary art. To consider Surrealism is to conjure up names like Breton, Salvador Salí or René Magritte, but many female artists pushed the artform forward in ways that have long been overlooked. VISU Contemporary, in Miami...

By Kristine Schomaker The work hits immediately. Not one piece — all of it, simultaneously. Large sculptural assemblages covering the walls, a freestanding sculpture in the middle of the room, a piece suspended from the ceiling. The whole gallery feeling like its own solar system, each work a satellite orbiting something enormous and unspoken. Last night, four humans splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after flying around the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years. Artemis II...

ABOVE: “Spatial Awareness”, 54″ x 250″, hand-knit with wool, 2025, photo by Chris Rettman From her dining room table in Oklahoma City, Kendall Ross knits brightly colored, intricately patterned sweaters and vests—some so large that referring to them as wearables is a bit misleading. Her textile pieces are often emblazoned with diary-like messages that speak […]
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In 2019, Kayla Mahaffey reached a turning point with her art. The Chicago-based artist had a solo show at Line Dot Editions in April of that year. Titled Off to the Races, the series of paintings centered around children ready to hit the road. Some sat with their growing legs crouched in tiny cars or […]
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For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Street category: Victor Cambet.
Based in Montréal, Victor Cambet developed photography as a self-taught practice after relocating to Canada from Lyon, France. Drawn to vivid scenes, unusual characters, and the overlooked details of daily life, his work finds beauty in the ordinary.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of...

San Juan Capistrano Library #1 Amir Zaki No Dust to Settle Diane Rosenstein Gallery April 4 - May 9, 2026 by Jody Zellen The saying "waiting for the dust to settle" might refer to when things will calm down and return to normal. It could be said that "the dust never settles" and there is no state of definitive calmness because everything is in flux, both in life and in art. This might be taking the personal into account by reading too much into the title of Amir Zaki's current exhibition, his...

 
There’s just two weeks left to submit your work for The City Series: Cambridge!
An ongoing series of publications, The City Series sets out to explore the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, showcasing images that respond to a place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
The inaugural volume explores a city that has welcomed us, and been home to nearly a dozen Shutter Hub exhibitions – Cambridge.
Rather than defining Cambridge by landmarks or narratives, we invite photographers to approach the city openly, perhaps through people, atmosphere, details, routines, abstractions, or moments that feel personal or unexpected....

When Frode Bolhuis got his start as a sculptor, he worked classically, with monumental figures made of bronze and metal—the kind of thing you see in a public square or park. But then the Dutch sculptor discovered the simplest of mediums, polymer clay, and his art practice exploded into a technicolor world of hue and […]
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Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here . We also mark an...

When the Bulls Fest—a raging celebration of the iconic and famed NBA team—first happened at Chicago’s United Center in 2022, Kyle Cobban was one of the contributing artists to The Art of the Game exhibition. It’s a piece that encapsulates Cobban’s aesthetic vision. Working with graphite and paper, the Chicago-based artist makes small, detailed drawings […]
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