By Kristine Schomaker I keep thinking about Nomadland. Fern driving her van across that enormous American landscape. Not running from something. Moving toward something she could not quite name yet. That feeling of needing less. Of being, as Dominique Moody says, at home in the world. NOMAD: Dominique Moody and the Assemblage of Home is on view at the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena through January 16, 2027, part of the year-long city celebration for the centennials of Route 66 and the...

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Straw and earth shape land art installation at La Nave Va
 
KURA is a land art installation by Paisajeencontrado at La Nave Va, an open-air sculpture park in Berrocalejo, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. Built from straw, earth, stones, and native seeds, the project combines an amphitheater, an experimental Mediterranean garden, and a walking path to explore ecological processes and native plant conservation.
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Curved straw walls compose KURA living amphitheater
 
Curated by Andrey Brito, the project brings together Studio Paisajeencontrado, visual artists Kika Goldstein and Kmilo Morales, and landscape architect Ismael Pizarro. Two curved straw walls...

Austin Opera inaugurates its new permanent home with Ofrenda, an intimate tribute to the city's Latine community.

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Irina Arkhipova gives a masterclass in singing in this thrilling excerpt from The Maid of Orleans by Tchaikovsky.

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You try to get the latest news about the inspiring student protests in France but a snarky reporter on the New York Times podcast tells you that the country’s problem is providing “too generous” pension plans and parental leaves. These welfare benefits saddle the country with debt, he says, scolding the government for not making France more competitive in the marketplace. You turn off the podcast because you can’t listen to any more of this evil idiocy. You finally finish reading a much-hyped new novel and wonder why you made yourself go through such torture. You return to Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time to cleanse your mind’s palette. “When one is in love one has no love left for...

STEFAN SAGMEISTER AND EKN TURN DATA INTO WEARABLE DESIGN
 
Stefan Sagmeister is taking his data visualizations somewhere they rarely go: onto people’s feet. In collaboration with Frankfurt-based ekn footwear, the Austrian graphic designer has developed a sneaker and a boot that translate statistics on renewable electricity and street homelessness into wearable objects. The two designs accompany his exhibition Finally, Something Good., opening at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris on October 15, 2026. Rather than simply reproducing existing artworks on footwear, the project brings together graphic design and traditional shoemaking. ‘It was about seeing what happens when Stefan’s way of thinking meets our way of...

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Solid wood gives a functional bathroom detail a sculptural form
 
RTY Studio has developed a collection of solid wood flush plates for Geberit Sigma systems, combining precise geometry with the grain and color variations of American walnut, European oak, and padauk. Designed and crafted in Zagreb, Croatia, by sculptor Tomislav Martinčević, a member of the Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU), the collection reinterprets a functional bathroom detail through material and form.
 
The three models feature clean geometric profiles, crisp upper corners, and rounded lower corners, with two flush buttons integrated into each wooden face. The natural grain and varying tones of the three wood species give each...

On Wednesday and Thursday night, sound mixers, synthesizers, pedals, speakers, whistles, a turkey call, and a ceramic horn sat on a table at the center of the Veterans Room in Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory. Serving as the stage for Raven Chacon’s hour-long improvisation sessions for the Armory’s Artists Studio series, the table also offered audiences the rare opportunity to see the prolific artist at play.During his performance on October 8, the Diné artist, composer, and Pulitzer Prize-winner used each object on the table to surprising and often discomfiting ends. He rigorously blew a whistle into a microphone, looping the sound and layering it atop a rising drone, which he intermittently cut to make...

WASHINGTON, DC — Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk) artist Truman Lowe’s first major retrospective opens with “Ottawa” (1992), a billowing sculpture of pine and peeled willow saplings that brings together the tributary currents of the rivers that marked the aquatic realms of his childhood. The form undulates with an audacious disregard for the material’s inherent fixed state; each bend, movement, and ripple echoes Lowe’s unwavering ethos that wood is water.Throughout Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe at the National Museum of the American Indian, Lowe resonates with Toni Morrison’s sentiment that “all water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” The works are arranged...

Remembering Ferrer (1933–2026), whose scathing wit matched his exuberant inventiveness

Rick Canny, an erstwhile artist rep for rockers including Whitesnake, ZZ Top, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, and former Creed frontman Scott Stapp, has been appointed artistic director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, the New York Times reports. Canny will be in charge of programming at the […]

real data center vacuum turns server maintenance into a game
 
The Server is an interactive game installation by art-design duo Playfool that invites visitors to take on the role of a data center cleaner. Commissioned by the V&A Museum through its Emerging Designer Commission, the work uses a real data center vacuum as a controller, allowing players to remove digital dust from a sculptural server.
 
The installation draws parallels between the maintenance of data centers and the conservation of museum collections. Although data centers are highly automated, cleaning remains a manual task essential to their operation. Similarly, museum objects require ongoing care long after their creation. Through a playful...

With the 2028 election just over the horizon, the economist Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn has put the long-contested Aztec treasure back in the spotlight

The latest attempt to halt the impending construction of President Donald Trump’s 250-foot-tall triumphal arch involves a local government body. The five-member Arlington County Board filed a lawsuit Thursday in the Eastern District of Virginia, related to the project’s questionable review process. Democracy Forward, the advocacy group representing the Board, along with the Arlington County attorney’s office, referred to the proposal as a “vanity project” that would be “massively intrusive and harmful.” Democracy Forward notes November 5 as the date of the National Capital Planning Commission’s next meeting, at which point the committee could “rubber stamp” the start of construction. The...

To commemorate Indigenous Peoples' Day here in New York, we have highlighted seven ongoing exhibitions of Native art and history in Manhattan, the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, and the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook. Across solo and group presentations, the featured artists, who represent a diverse tapestry of Indigenous populations across Turtle Island, embody survivance by tracing and rejecting narratives of dispossession and irrelevance, upending and satirizing stereotypes, preserving and reinventing traditional art forms, and bringing underrepresented histories out from the margins. Some of these sites are closed in observance of the occasion, and some of you have not been afforded the...

From rare interventions by Banksy to monumental images by JR and Diego Rivera, and preparatory sketches by Judy Baca, the museum frames muralism as public storytelling

The Renoir Museum is getting back two of its paintings that were taken during a pre-dawn raid. The paintings were recovered by the local authorities in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, where the museum is located. Mayor Bryan Masson, a member of France’s far-right National Rally, said in a statement that these “two paintings are far more than works of art. They are part of our city’s history, our cultural heritage and the legacy Auguste Renoir left to Cagnes-sur-Mer. Their recovery is a tremendous relief for the people of Cagnes-sur-Mer and for everyone who cares deeply about our museum.” The stolen paintings were Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano (1910) and Jeune fille au puits (1886), which are...

The inaugural iteration of Santa Fe Invitational will take place April 8–11, 2027 at the Santa Fe Convention Center, hosting some forty-five international galleries as well as artists, collectors, and various local and international institutions. A press release describes SFI as a “cultural summit built around cultivating the relationships, knowledge, confidence, and curiosity,” though further […]

Mesolithic baby tooth TRIESTE, ITALY—La Brújula Verde reports that a camp used by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers has been found just underneath artifacts left by the first farmers of the Neolithic period in intact archaeological layers in Tina Jama, a mountain cave on the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea. Federico Bernardini of Ca’ Foscari University, Elena Leghissa of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and their colleagues suggest that farmers arrived in the region some 7,500 years ago. Prior to the arrival of farming in the region, hunter-gatherers built a hearth in the most sheltered part of the cave. They also closed off the cave entrance with stones and blocks. Stone tools, waste flakes from...

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,” economist and computer scientist Herbert Simon warned in 1971. In our era of digital overload, it feels increasingly urgent—ironically—to remember to slow down. Too often we’re distracted by one thing or the next, looking down at our screens or paying attention to our surroundings just briefly enough to snap a photo before moving on. Jonathan Knight is captivated instead by the quiet moments, the beauty in stillness, and the gentle, gradual changes around us that take time to fully appreciate. Known for his ethereal, minimalist images, Knight conceived of Exhale as a way to explore the nuances of color and “the emotional experience of...

Branchline, a permanent exhibition space for the Gochman Family Collection, will open on November 6 in Katonah, New York, functioning as a new home for the renowned trove of contemporary Native art.Building on the private collection's focus on Indigenous and anti-colonial art, Branchline will present rotating exhibitions of the over 800 works by contemporary Native artists in the Gochman Collection and provide residential and studio spaces for artists. Deriving its name from the network of rail lines that connect Katonah to surrounding areas like Manhattan and Upstate New York, Branchline also encompasses the ancestral and historical lineages informing the featured art."We imagine this as a flexible space...

In dual shows at Kunsthalle Fribourg and Fondation Pernod Ricard, the artist traces how cultural identities change through the ages

OSLO, NORWAY—Additional ring ditches have been discovered at the Hunn burial ground in eastern Norway with ground-penetrating radar, according to a Science Norway report. Standing stone circles are known to have stood in the South Field some 2,000 years ago. The newly uncovered circles were found in the West Field, where traces of large burial mounds remain. “They may have made the circle first in order to plan the construction of the burial monument, or it may have formed because people walked in a circle around it,” said Anne Lene Melheim of Norway’s Museum of Cultural History. Several possible graves have also been spotted in the area. “We are quite certain that standing stones were erected...

 
When we say ‘think of the colour yellow’, what comes up for you? Our latest photobook, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: YELLOW, is bursting with inspiration, from delicate blossoms and ripe lemons to eye-catching clothing and sunny décor.
Across 100 photos, our photographers celebrate all things yellow: some chanced upon in the street or in nature, others meticulously planned. Of course, there are loads of different hues that count as yellow, from acidic brights to mustard, egg yolk, and canary. You’ll find them all in the book!
The cover image, by Jo Martindale, submerges us in a ball pit of yellow plastic balls: it’s immersive, fun, and hard to look away. The yellow we find around us definitely has multiple...

By Jody Zellen Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 3–November 22, 2026 Susan Silton has never been an artist attached to a single medium. Her practice, which spans more than forty years, interweaves photography, design, performance, sculpture, video, audio, and installation. Working as a graphic designer in the 1970s and ’80s shaped her visual acuity and formal sensibilities. Her production is conceptually strong and visually coherent and very little is left to chance. It is a delight...

A painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill will be auctioned at Christie’s as part of its Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale in London on October 21. Amaryllis Lily (1948) carries an estimate of £300,000–£500,000 ($396,000–$661,000). The painting depicts a red amaryllis belladonna, otherwise known as a March lily, blooming in a plant pot situated on a table against a dark backdrop. Churchill gave the painting to his daughter, Lady Mary Soames, who then donated it in 1995 to the Churchill Fellowship. Proceeds from the sale will be used to support Churchill Fellowship’s “Making Space for the Arts” program. “Amaryllis Lily is a striking example of Winston Churchill’s...

16TH-CENTURY PALACE BECOMES flagship for massimo dutti in rome
 
Spanish fashion brand Massimo Dutti opens its new flagship store within the 16th-century Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome. Spanning over 2,000 square meters (21,527 square feet) along Via del Corso, the retail design exhibits its clothing collections within the historic architecture, pairing the palace’s original  features — such as the vaulted ceilings and palatial staircase — with contemporary wooden furniture, large-format rugs, and lightweight displays for fashion.
Spanish fashion brand Massimo Dutti opens its new flagship store within the 16th-century Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome
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SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA—According to a statement released by the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), a study conducted by scientists from UCSB and Stanford University has determined that the forager-farmer Tsimané people of lowland Bolivia and the hunter-gatherer Hadza people of Tanzania have highly diverse yet similar gut microbiomes, sharing more than 1,200 bacterial species. More than 60 percent of these bacterial species are rare or absent in the microbiomes of people living in industrialized populations. The researchers were surprised because the Hadza consume mammals, birds, fish, and foraged fruits and vegetables, while the Tsimané eat more fiber in the form of plantains, rice, manioc...

Creative Time has commissioned artist Guadalupe Maravilla to make a major installation in the Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York’s Morningside Heights neighborhood. Presented in collaboration with the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, Maravilla’s Consejos de las Estrellas will be on view from December 17, 2026, to February 7, 2027. As with past works by the artist, Consejos de las Estrellas will take the form a sculptural installation that is also “conceived as a sanctuary space—a place for gathering, reflection and respite during a season that can be both celebratory and vulnerable,” per a release. “Both in the way he approaches his work and moves...

Art historian Hall W. Rockefeller has designed an AI tool that shows the gender balance of any gallery’s roster of artists. Rockefeller designed the tool to advance the mission of “Less Than Half,” an artist network she founded to advocate for the recognition of women artists. The program allows users to check whether a gallery […]

Tucked away in the West Village, actor Julianne Moore doesn’t seem to live like her Hollywood counterparts. She resides in a two-bedroom duplex with her husband, film director Bart Freundlich, that is also home to work by Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, and Robin Rice. “My taste is consistent, though it has evolved. I love modernism. But this apartment is prewar, and you have to address that. It’s not tiny, but it’s not massive, either, so materials and choices become even more important,” she told Architectural Digest for a feature in its upcoming November issue. Her home in the West Village was constructed in the 1920s as a residential hotel with most of the units being used as...

“I left my hometown / My hometown appears,” begins a poem by artist Shuling Guo titled “Temple II,” which shares its name with her forthcoming solo exhibition at Hollis Taggart Downtown. Drawing on sacred symbolism and nature, Guo delves into her memories of growing up in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, China, and the area’s unique mixture of spiritual and folk traditions. Her dreamlike, symmetrical works speak to the harmony of the cosmos as much as they nod to the balance of life and the sublime. Guo’s paintings in Temple II explore memory, presence, and loss, and their creation coincided with both the birth of her daughter and the death of her grandmother. Burgeoning blossoms, delicate flames,...

The UK artist known for his searing critiques of consumer culture is showing a new series of drawings at the Sir John Soane’s Museum that imagine the future ruins of notable buildings

The Jamaica-born abstractionist's first major survey, which opened at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art last year, moves to the Hammer Museum

Two up-and-coming sopranos — Chelsea Lehnea and Marigona Qerkezi — make a splash across two nights in Stuttgart.

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In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about life for artists in Gaza one year on from the ceasefire, visits the new Robert Ryman survey at the Barbican in London, and speaks to US artist Katherine Hubbard about her latest installation exploring her mother's illness and memory loss

To celebrate the retrospective exhibition Future Pastime featuring the work of futurist Syd Mead opening at the Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery in San Francisco this evening, we are showing previews of paintings from the show as well as the full article which Silke Tudor wrote on the late legendary industrial designer in Hi-Fructose Issue 33. […]
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Bone comb DORCHESTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA—WCBD reports that a bone comb has been unearthed at Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site, which is located on the Ashley River, about 20 miles from the city of Charleston. The simple comb may have been discarded when too many of its tines had broken off. The village of Dorchester was founded in 1697 and abandoned before the Revolutionary War. A brick church bell tower, traces of the town’s log wharf, and the remains of a fort made of oyster-shell concrete remain at the site. For more about the site, go to "Off the Grid: Dorchester, South Carolina."
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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—Analysis of more than 190 bones from people who were buried in Scandinavia between about 500 B.C. and A.D. 1050 suggests that violent encounters increased over time, Live Science reports. The remains were interred in domestic areas, but it is not known if the violence occurred during domestic disputes, or as a result of warfare or some form of punishment. “The fact is that not all bodies ended up in monumental burial mounds in the Iron and Viking Ages, or even in more modest urnfields and cemeteries,” said Marianne Hem Eriksen of the National Museum of Denmark. Eriksen and her colleagues determined that at least 12 of the individuals in the study, including two women and a child, had...

Stumbling upon a battered end table or lost mitten is an opportunity for magic in Woo Jin Joo’s mind. The Seoul-born artist is known to gather furniture, garments, and other objects that have been left behind while walking near her home in London or commuting to her studio in Deptford. “I am not actively looking for anything in particular, but I discover them by happenstance, and they become meaningful; they provoke my imagination,” she says. “This is how I feel like we conjure meaning in our lives.” Combined with clay and shiny, viscose thread, these found items transform into uncanny sculptures that often meld animal bodies with domestic fixtures. Human-sized figures cloaked in costumes of white...

Flowers for eyes, a horizon for a mouth… a popsicle for a holy relic? Rafael Silveira has long been interested in what he describes as “visual synonymies,” which he likens to “formal correspondences between seemingly unrelated things, moments in which one image unexpectedly recognizes itself in another.” The Brazilian artist’s surreal paintings replace facial features with landforms, flora, and fauna, sometimes hybridizing animals, figures, and other objects. The works seen here were recently included in the artist’s solo exhibition Popsicledelic Trip at KP Projects Gallery in Los Angeles alongside a show by Silveira’s wife, the artist Flávia Itiberê. A series of vertical pieces with ornate,...

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With ambition to spare, Boston Lyric Opera's William Tell shows that the state of American opera need not be depressing.

And then I remembered how much I love Cecilia Bartoli who was a major star when I first got into opera in my teens and remains so today.

Twenty years ago, National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore set out on a deceptively simple multi-year mission: to create a photo archive of biodiversity. Documenting around a thousand animals each year, his ultimate goal is a portrait catalogue showcasing more than 25,000 species. As of this writing, Sartore has documented 18,567 animals, including the new species of cat recently discovered in Bolivia. In zoos, aquariums, wildlife sanctuaries, and more, he collaborates with conservationists and researchers to document an awe-inspiring yet tiny fraction of life on our planet. Sartore’s Photo Ark project illuminates animals against plain black or white backgrounds, highlighting their distinctive...

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The women look concerned, and weary. They are ready to repel an attack. The women look in love, but bored. “When are you leaving,” they might wonder. The women are only half-present. Matted hair, two eyes, a hand, and the rest have either turned inward or run away. The women are multifaceted. Their eyes are […]
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In the “feminist west” that lives on Jennifer Nehrbass’s canvases, women ride horseback and hike in fashionable attire. They appear in head-and-shoulder portraits against fiery backgrounds and nude in pieces where figurative and landscape painting converge. In her work, Nehrbass challenges the common depictions of the U.S. West. “You would always have the man who […]
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By Kristine Schomaker Friday night I stood at the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and watched artists perform five-minute pieces in the open air as the sun went down. ACTION = LIFE, presented by LACE and the Performance Art Museum as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. A marathon of performances. So many friends. So much history in one place. I drove home still feeling it. Thinking about the first performance I ever saw that made me understand what my own work was actually about....

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By Kristine Schomaker I learned yesterday that my friend Scott Froschauer died suddenly. I've known him for almost ten years, and I'm still trying to find a place to put this. Scott was a Shoebox artist, one of the early ones. We worked together on several projects, but the one I keep coming back to is an art salon we put together on consent, negotiation, and the male gaze, how the male posture of viewing women frames any sign of femininity as an invitation, and what it would mean to actually...

By Betty Ann Brown "In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world."—Graciela Iturbide Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide creates haunting images that portray the people, places, and events of the extraordinary cultures and geographies of her home country. Iturbide has a unique artistic practice that involves living and working with the people she chooses to photograph. Her process has made possible the strange and wonderful depictions for which she is known. In...

With a creative lexicon featuring yarn, pixels, beeswax, and spray paint, Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega has created a new language for herself, one that speaks to the present and the past by using traditional and contemporary techniques, as well as rural and urban sensibilities, to create a body of work that synthesizes all her […]
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