The similarities between Rome and Paramus, New Jersey, are legion, and soon there will be one more point of commonality: Michelangelo’s hallowed paintings in the Sistine Chapel. The setting will be the Westfield Garden State Plaza shopping mall, and the occasion will be “Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition,” an “immersive experience” opening April 10. “Rated 4.8 stars globally, the exhibition faithfully recreates all 34 of Michelangelo’s ceiling and altar masterpieces using licensed high-resolution imagery and an advanced printing technique,” reads a press release (which deserves some credit for not bumping that rating up to 5). “From The Creation of Adam to The Last Judgment,...

Caravaggio, a feature-length documentary about the Baroque Italian painter, was released in theaters last fall. The film, directed by Phil Grabsky and David Bickerstaff, is part of the “Exhibition on Screen” series, which is produced by UK-based company Seventh Art Productions. It will now be more widely available, premiering on Marquee TV, a streaming platform that mostly focuses on performing arts, starting on April 6. Grabsky told the Art Newspaper that the film does not overly emphasize Caravaggio’s notorious temper and reputation as a troublemaker, instead focusing on his innovative, emotionally complex painting style. Grabsky and Dickerstaff worked on the documentary for five years, and it covers...

The German artist's "Angelus Novus", once owned by Walter Benjamin, remains at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem due to war-related flight suspensions

China has ordered a sweeping, nationwide audit of its state-run museums after a scandal at one of its top institutions revealed that national treasures had quietly slipped into the private market, according to Hong Kong newspaper South Morning China Post. The directive, issued this week by the National Cultural Heritage Administration, requires every state-owned museum to conduct a physical, item-by-item inventory of its collections, checking each object against official records. The goal is simple: make sure what’s on paper actually exists in storage.  The move follows months of fallout from the Nanjing Museum, where investigators uncovered decades of mismanagement and alleged corruption involving donated...

H168 House: a garden home in bangkok
 
Bringing together a mixed-use program of living and working, Bangkok-based studio Only Human builds this H168 House in Thailand’s capital. The design draws from the owners’ long connection to China, translating spatial concepts found in traditional paintings into a built sequence of rooms, corridors, and framed views.
 
A central corridor organizes the project into two interlocking halves. On one side, the private residence includes bedrooms, kitchen, dining, and living spaces, along with a garage that extends into a collectibles room and a dedicated music listening area. The other side accommodates an office, additional bedrooms, and a warehouse. This division...

A triceratops sold online for $5.5 million on Tuesday on musician and designer Pharrell Williams’s auction platform Joopiter. The result set a record for a dinosaur sold in an online-only sale, the Art Newspaper reported Wednesday. The sale of the 66-million-year-old skeleton known as “Trey” is further evidence of a larger trend in the auction market: fossils and dinosaur skeletons are increasingly moving out of the siloed category of natural history and being traded like any other high-end collectible. At Joopiter, that also meant an accompanying merch drop, including a $695 fiberglass replica of the skull and a $100 tote bag. Excavated in Wyoming in 1993 during the so-called “Bone Rush,” Trey is a...

A new hotline inviting people to “confess their sins” is launching on Thursday, but it’s not backed by the Church. Instead, it’s the latest project by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, whose work often mixes religious imagery with controversy and dark humor. As reported by The Guardian, the phone line is going live just ahead of Easter as part of a wider project marking 21 years since the death of Pope John Paul II. Alongside it, Cattelan is releasing a limited run of small-scale replicas of his 1999 sculpture The Ninth Hour, the piece that infamously shows the late pope knocked to the ground by a meteorite. At the same time, people around the world are being invited to submit their...

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Known for his collaborative photography projects like Invisible Jumpers, Joseph Ford is interested in perception and intervention. His ongoing series, Impossible Street Art, invites artists such as Antonyo Marest, Alex Senna, and MadC to imagine their work in monumental landscapes via a bit of sleight of hand. The artists create trompe-l’œil interventions on Ford’s photographs, which he then documents on an easel in front of that same place to give a sense of what these huge paintings or installations would feel like in situ. “These new works mostly explore infrastructure in the form of huge concrete constructions—nuclear power plants, dams, fossil fuel power stations,” Ford says. The locations are...

A new gallery dedicated to the work of Ruth Asawa, a trailblazing modernist sculptor known for her organic-feeling, looped wire creations, will open in San Francisco in the spring, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The new venue will be in San Francisco’s Minnesota Street Project, a converted warehouse space that hosts galleries and arts nonprofits. Born in rural […]

Maurizio Cattelan’s meteorite-struck pope returns as a miniature
 
With La Nona Ora, Maurizio Cattelan revisits one of his most controversial works, translating the 1999 installation into a new limited edition sculpture. The piece depicts Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite, frozen in a moment of collapse atop a vivid red carpet. Both irreverent and carefully composed, the work retains its original tension, presenting a powerful religious figure as vulnerable and human.
 
To mark the release, the Italian artist expands the project beyond the object itself by introducing a confessional hotline, inviting the public to submit their sins via voicemail, text, or WhatsApp. Launching on April 2nd, 2026,...

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Madama Butterfly confronts anime, virtual reality, and weeaboos in Matthew Ozawa's bold production at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Parterre Box is announcing a formal partnership with Kalshi Inc. 

Some of the country’s most precious historic sites and buildings are in need of major repair following bombing by Israel and the US

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The exhibition at the UK’s Farleys House & Gallery brings together female-focused works by Bohm, who also helped get Miller’s work back into the spotlight

The skeleton of a young adult dinosaur, excavated in Wyoming during the 1990s "Bone Rush", sold on the musician's online Joopiter platform

The conceptual artist revives his sculptural portrait of John Paul II in a confessional-raffle this Easter

When we visit major hubs like Copenhagen or Paris, we often take a lot of photos and make sure to grab a little souvenir as a memento of our visit. How better to remember the architecture and the feel of the city? Well, fiber designer Jake Henzler, a.k.a. Boy Knits World, figures you can stitch those memories into something much cozier than a postcard or a keychain. Forthcoming from David & Charles Publishing, Henzler’s book Knit the City highlights buildings around the world through a series of building block-like patterns. Using a modular system, details like gables and windows can be switched up to create your own unique facades. Then it’s up to you to choose the colors you’d like to use. The blocks...

collective cinema shaped by river and ritual
 
In Belén, Peru, where the Itaya River redraws the city each year, a floating cinema emerges as a recurring space for collective life. The Floating Stage for MuyunaFest, developed by Espacio Común Association together with local builders from the neighborhood, takes shape within this amphibious context in the Peruvian Amazon. Here, seasonal flooding between January and June transforms streets into waterways, reorganizing daily routines around canoes, stilt houses, and floating structures. Within this shifting environment, long marked by environmental pressure and limited state support, local initiatives continue to sustain spaces for education, gathering, and...

CASALGRANDE PADANA PRESENTS ELEMENTS COLLECTION 
  By merging high-performance porcelain stoneware with a modular, multi-texture system, Casalgrande Padana’s Elements collection enables architects and designers to craft seamless, sensory-rich environments. The collection creates a narrative of continuity between different functional areas where modular formats allow for expansive, uninterrupted surfaces. Three different types of textures are available that can be combined into contrasting or color matched ton sur ton transitions, creating a continuous, sophisticated atmosphere both indoors and outdoors. This approach to layering provides a sensory experience that alters the perceived volume of a room,...

Frida Leider is a major Wagnerian soprano who does not sound like a Wagnerian soprano.

BREAKING: Just weeks after President Trump non-ironically erected a statue of Christopher Columbus, another tribute to a very different type of terrible man who thinks way too highly of himself has risen outside the White House. Read all about Vice President JD Vance's monument to the incel in today's special edition. Plus, we caught wind of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's new acronym, inspired by a recently discovered Duchamp readymade; the Louvre Museum reveals plans for updated, um, security protocols; a curator's shoes outshine the art at MoMA's recent opening; and the Kennedy Center's exciting next chapter as the beloved seasonal store of your nightmares.We've also got...

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Gundam-inspired handpainted film camera
 
There’s a handpainted film camera going around, and it is inspired by the sci-fi Japanese anime Gundam through its vibrant color blocks. Made by David C W, the device uses IUTD ‘To Be Continued’, a film camera from the Chinese brand IUTD Studios, as the base. He then applies four colors in sequence over multiple sessions: light gray, blue, yellow, then red, each one laid down, dried, and masked before the next coat goes on.
 
Since it is handpainted, there’s no film camera that looks the same, as David works on the model one at a time. Luckily, the original camera’s body is clean looking enough to be a canvas. The designer’s assembly starts with removing...

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Authenticity and connection are two core values that drive Tina Simakova, a London-based portrait photographer. “I believe the most powerful images are born in trust and honesty,” she says. The artist is a master of natural light and minimal settings, using them to create atmospheric portraits rooted in intimacy and vulnerability. In one shot, a sliver of illumination – perhaps from a doorway, or an open window – slices through the darkness, brightening only the subject’s eyes. In another, the sitter’s side profile balances on the edge of a plush sofa, bathed in the glow from yet another unseen source. Its warmth complements their auburn hair. Elsewhere, chiaroscuro – where deep shadows engulf...

 
A figure shades her face from bright headlights, shining through a front window. Another character lies on a green velvet bedspread, quietly examining a pocketknife. Elsewhere, a woman clutches a portrait, its face obscured by rays of sunlight. These are compositions by Chrissy Lush, a visual artist born in New York and based in Nashville. Her staged works centre on moments when “composure begins to give way.” Often set within domestic and suburban environments, Lush’s figures appear to respond to external pressures that remain just outside the frame. “These are moments of slippage, when a controlled exterior falters and something unguarded briefly surfaces,” Lush says. The work explores tensions...

 
Stockholm-based Linda Westin left photography to pursue a PhD in neuroscience, specialising in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy – a group of imaging techniques that allows scientists to illuminate the structures inside cells by making them glow under specific wavelengths of light. When returning to the medium, she began to apply what she had learned, and started to look at forests, rocks, plants and stars with a newfound sensitivity. Now, Westin brings methods from neuroscience into artworks. These pictures present forest canopies as if they were neuronal dendrites, the branching extensions of nerve cells that receive signals. In the following pages, far-off mountains are framed by lush, layered...

 
One unexpected angle can offer an entirely new perspective on something we think we know. Stockholm-based Senay Berhe (b. 1979) proves this to be true, encouraging us to reconsider our surroundings through graphical compositions. As he travels across the city, Berhe captures everything from bridges to tower blocks – with the setting sun bouncing off multi-storey buildings, or balconies and satellite dishes cast in shadow. These are everyday locations shown anew. In portraiture, Berhe demonstrates an equally considered approach to framing and lighting, whilst also emphasising the depths of human emotion. One shot plays with primary colours; a model – seemingly deep in thought – is positioned against a...

The Danish architecture firm BIG was founded in 2005 by Bjarke Ingels (b. 1974), one of the most celebrated figures in the field. What began as a small Copenhagen practice has now grown into a major studio, with offices in Barcelona London, Los Angeles, New York, Riyadh, Shanghai and Zurich. BIG’s designs – often described as “pragmatic utopian” – stand out for their bold-yet-practical forms, elements of surprise and people-focused solutions. From Denmark’s playful LEGO House, which appears to be made from the famous colourful bricks, to The Twist, a warping structure situated in the Kistefos Sculpture Park outside Oslo, BIG continues to produce buildings that push the boundaries of imagination. ...

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The Louvre Museum said today that it will install locks on its doors for the first time in history, marking the Paris institution’s most significant security upgrade since changing its password from “louvre” to “louvre_lol123” in the aftermath of last year’s brazen heist.At a press conference this morning, Director Marianne Cestperdu acknowledged that in trying to make its collection accessible to all audiences, the museum had made it “too accessible … like, ‘climb-through-a-window-and-drive-off-with-the-crown-jewels’ accessible.”As a result of the theft that shocked the world last fall, when robbers made off with priceless items in broad daylight in under seven minutes, the museum said...

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, has signed a temporary lease agreement with Spirit Halloween to supplement funds for the institution's two-year, $250 million dollar renovation project set to begin this summer. Requesting anonymity out of fear of “being forced to wear a Ghostface costume and scare shoppers” this fall, an employee at the Kennedy Center told Hyperallergic that the board fielded the seasonal retailer’s tenancy as an alternative revenue source, as millions in federal funding originally intended for the capital project have since been allocated to and exhausted by the Department of War.Per the employee, the board stipulated in the lease agreement that Spirit...

At once stoic and melancholy, pensive and forlorn, Woman With Her Back to the Viewer in All Those Gallery Photos is perhaps one of the art world's most elusive figures. She opens up for the first time in an exclusive interview with Hyperallergic, which she agreed to only on the condition that her back face the camera during our Zoom call.Read our conversation, in which she refers to herself as a “modern-day Rückenfigur” and reveals her grueling morning workout routine, below.Hyperallergic: What does a typical workday look like for you?Woman With Her Back to the Viewer in All Those Gallery Photos: I wake up and do 100 deadlifts and 65 lat pulldowns. Then I head into the office, which is wherever...

The New York art world is keeping the latest big thing under wraps as dozens of mega-collectors are reputed to be attending a super-secretive art fair slated to take place in the US Virgin Islands in May. A source tells us that gallerists are clamoring to set up booths at the exclusive venue, known as The Island, which will feature special water sports activities, but details are not being shared. Rumors suggest that artist Andres Serrano and Jeff Koons had been tapped for special commissions. Our source mentioned that all sales at the event will be redacted after the fact, but was unable to explain what that exactly meant. We reached out to several high-profile art collectors and museum board members to...

TWO YEARS AGO, I became the Editor in Chief of Artforum because I believe in everything it represents as a rigorously edited outlet for deeply thoughtful, nuanced writing about art and culture—writing more urgent and productively undisciplined than both academic prose and advertorial content; that can be shaped by history and theory; and that is […]

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WŁADYSŁAW STRZEMIŃSKI’S Teoria widzenia (Theory of Seeing), newly translated into English by Klara and Wanda Kemp-Welch, operates on multiple registers at once. Written in the late 1940s, at the onset of the Stalinist consolidation of power in Poland under Moscow’s supervision, and published posthumously in 1958, the book presents itself, on its surface, as a […]

IN 1974, a strand of hair twirled in a porcelain sink in room 503 of the Chelsea Hotel. It belonged to an artist named Bettina, who photographed its sinuous formations as water jostled it around. The resulting suite of sixty-three gelatin silver prints—Two Hours in the Life of One Hair Photographed in the Sink at […]

Throughout Southeast Asia, nymph-like, shape-shifting deities associated with clouds and water known as apsaras are commonly depicted in sculptures and other artworks dating back millennia. For San Francisco-based artist Anoushka Mirchandani, who was born in India, these mythological beings are the spirits, so to speak, of vibrant oil paintings. Tapping into family memories and her upbringing influenced by South Asian cultural traditions, Mirchandani explores mythology and perception. Her current solo exhibition, My Body Was a River Once at ICA San José, explores the tradition of the apsara through a lens of timelessness, femininity, and biophilia. Curated by Zoë Latner, the show emphasizes the dynamic...

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LIMA, PERU—The Andina News Agency reports that 169 artifacts have been returned to Peru this year from 13 different countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Luxembourg, and Italy. For example, a Moche-style necklace made sometime between 200 B.C. and A.D. 600 was repatriated by Turkey. Artifacts attributed to the Nazca, Vicus, Tiahuanaco, Wari, Chancay, Lambayeque, Chimú, and Inca traditions are also among the repatriated items. Peru’s Foreign Affairs Minister Hugo De Zela said that more than 70 percent of the items returned to Peru had been handed over voluntarily. Peru has also returned more than 1,700 cultural items to other countries since 2023, added Culture Minister Fatima Altabas. For more on...

In the process of painting someone, artist Jenny Morgan reveals not only what shows, but what doesn’t show. Her vibrant and emotional oil paintings of figures hover in a place that is between realism and abstraction, where many of her subjects confront their viewer with an electric stare that braves against the vulnerable moment in […]
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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—According to a statement released by Stockholm University, genetic analysis of 13 people whose remains were found in an Islamic cemetery on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza suggests that the population had roots in Europe, North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa between the tenth and twelfth centuries A.D. Two of these individuals were found to have sub-Saharan ancestry. “This is direct genetic evidence of the long-distance networks reaching the Sahel, as described in historical sources,” said Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela of Stockholm University. The study also suggests that people from North Africa reached Ibiza in the late ninth century, or about two to seven generations earlier than those...

Incense burner decorated with appliqués of women ZURICH, SWITZERLAND—According to a Gizmodo report, analysis of residue samples taken from an incense burner previously unearthed near Pompeii has identified an offering used in ancient Rome. “We’ve long known from ancient writers that the Romans burnt frankincense in their sacrifices,” said Johannes Eber of the University of Zurich. “Preserved ashes and traces of fragrant resins from a domestic shrine near Pompeii provides tangible proof and a striking reminder of just how globalized the ancient world truly was,” he added. The terracotta censer, decorated with an appliqué of a reclining woman, came from a domestic shrine at a rural villa north of...

A slice of one of the timbers investigated by Ording. The white tabs on the slice mark the fifteenth, almost invisible, growth ring. OSLO, NORWAY—A new study of southern Norway’s Raknehaugen mound conducted by Lars Gustavsen of the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research suggests that it does not contain a burial and may have been built in response to a landslide, according to a Phys.org report. “I actually discovered the landslide scar more or less by accident,” Gustavsen said. “While investigating the visibility of the mound using LiDAR data, it suddenly appeared in one of the visualizations I was using to analyze the landscape,” he said. When the mound was excavated in 1869 and 1870,...

Blown wildly out of proportion in large format, the slime molds that British photographer Barry Webb captures seem atmospheric and sculptural. Stemonitis, for example, looks like dozens of thin pieces of wire with their ends coated in colored wax. But this fungi-like form is one of hundreds of kinds of slime mold, and it typically only reaches a height of about two centimeters at the most. Thanks to Webb’s macro photos, we glimpse a phenomenally beautiful world up-close that is otherwise virtually invisible. Scientists have documented hundreds of these organisms, which aren’t actually related to plants, fungi, animals, or molds—despite the name. They comprise a unique group unto themselves, more closely...

Barrie Kosky’s zany production of The Nose time-steps back onto the Komische Oper Berlin stage.

As a (former) bass singer myself, I've always been captivated by this aria.

Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Earth 2026 Art Awards: Exhibition, Publication, Sales, and Global PromotionFeaturedWhat does your art reveal about Earth? Its beauty, its resilience, or what’s at risk? The 6th edition of Earth 2026 juried awards invites artists worldwide to explore and express the power, beauty, and resilience of our wounded planet as we approach World Earth Day. From nature and climate to human connection and endangered ecosystems, this is your space to turn awareness into art. Selected artists receive an exhibition, Artsy...

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Grape harvest VALENCIENNES, FRANCE—The AFP reports that a 600-year-old grape seed recovered from a medieval waste pit in northern France is genetically identical to grapes used today to make pinot noir wine. A team of researchers led by Ludovic Orlando of the French National Center for Scientific Research sequenced the genomes of 54 grape seeds dating from about 2300 B.C. to the medieval period. The oldest grapes in the study were found to have come from wild vines. The scientists determined that early farmers began using clonal propagation techniques as early as 625 to 500 B.C., when domesticated grapevines were grown in southern France. Such techniques, including rooting cuttings and grafting on root...

Growing up as a queer kid in the ‘80s, I was well aware from an early age that I was different, and that different was not okay, especially living in Missouri,” says New Mexico artist Anthony Hurd, who recently shifted away from abstracts, to delve into what may be deemed “controversial” figurative work. Not only […]
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The 78th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on Nieves Gonzalez, the art of Grip Face, The landscapes of Jennifer Nehrbass, the soft sculptures of Ela Fidalgo, the stitched urban landscapes of Laura Ortiz Vega, the art Jeffrey Gibson, Yu Jin Young’s once transparent figures, and the paintings of Fatima De Juan.  Plus […]
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We are really pleased to announce that DO YOU LIKE LOVE? is now available to order!
Do you like love? The question came from a conversation, recalled by a friend. Her elderly neighbour used to cry for ‘elp!’ and Jane’s husband Pip would rush to her aide. Sometimes she’d fallen, but rarely; although she was blind she had lived in that house for 60 years, she knew every inch of it. A house filled with memories of her husband, their life together, and her aloneness after his death. On this one day that she called out, she was found sitting with the television on, a black and white film playing out a romantic scene from the 1950s.
‘Do you like love, Pippy?’ she said, ‘I like love.’
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Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen captures people in oils with all the precision and clarity of a camera. He then places these incredibly lifelike images in impossible scenes. Uldalen’s models float in blank spaces. They precariously climb staircases that spiral upside down. They fall from buildings that tilt at odd angles. The Oslo-based artist’s work isn’t so […]
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