The Milwaukee Art Museum has returned two 19th-century stoneware vessels by Dave (David) Drake to the descendants of the African American ceramicist under an ownership transfer agreement that allows the objects to be displayed long-term. While the hefty jars serve as examples of ceramic mastery, Drake had also inscribed them with his name and brief poems during a time when Black literacy was criminalized in the antebellum South. “For our family, this agreement is about more than the ownership of these two vessels,” said Yaba Baker, Drake's fourth great-grandson, in a press statement on the return. “It is about recognizing David Drake as our ancestor whose voice, expertise, and creativity have...

Scales and fur and flower petals, gossamer wings and morning dewdrops. Working on paper, whose raw, frayed edges belie the force of the composition within them, Derriann Pharr draws out the shape of a woman, long and animalesque, in "Squinching my eyes shut and wishing real hard (Honey’s Dream)" (2026). In "Bring My Bones Home!" (2026), a bulbous female figure coils around a tiny creature in a gesture of tender but watchful protection. Spiky sculptural elements protrude above her, guardingly. Derriann Pharr, "Bring My Bones Home!" (2026) Pharr's works are part of A sustained becoming: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2026, an exhibition of the institution's inaugural resident cohort. They...

I went to This Heat at the New York Studio School, curated by Jacob Brooks and spread across two galleries now twice the size after recent renovations, to see the works of Brenda Goodman and Steve DiBenedetto, and learn about those of Bendix Harms. I have followed and written about the first two for many years; I knew nothing about the last. I was intrigued by the exhibition announcement because it paired two longtime veterans of the New York art world with someone unknown to me. Was there a formal connection between these artists, and what was it? I have long felt there was a complex and nuanced dialogue within contemporary art about the relationship between abstraction and figuration, opacity and...

According to a new study by the World Monuments Fund, a lack of government resources is now seen as more damaging to cultural sites than climate change

“I think as historians, we spend so much time asking ourselves how someone as prominent as Edmonia Lewis could be overlooked, but there are generations of artists who have been looking closely at her since the 1860s,” Melissa Ragain, the curator of a new exhibition at Montana’s Tinworks Art on the late Black and Indigenous artist’s legacy, tells Hyperallergic.On view at the Bozeman nonprofit art space through April 2027, Chisel & Razor: The Artistic Legacies of Edmonia and Samuel Lewis bridges the lives, work, and influence of the expatriate sculptor and her benefactor brother, a Bozeman businessman and performer. While the first installment centered on Samuel, the exhibition’s second act, opening...

Rafael Ferrer (photo Françoise Ferrer, courtesy Henrique Faria gallery)In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Rafael Ferrer (1933–2026)Puerto Rican multidisciplinary artist and musicianHis conceptual, process-based, and narrative-driven art across sculpture, painting, printmaking, installation, and more features recurring motifs such as paper bag faces, kayaks, and maps. He was active within Surrealist circles in Paris in the 1950s, taught at institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and New York's School of Visual Arts. He held major solo exhibitions at El Museo del...

Two years after shutting its doors, MAM São Paulo returns to the same pavilion with an exhibition built to push Brazilian art past representation

"I felt like a restless suburban teenager coming down to the big city looking for glamour.”

the Roar recurs across Ferdi B Dick’s animal sculptures
 
South African-born sculptor Ferdi B Dick builds many of his animal sculptures around a recurring gesture: an open mouth with an extended tongue, capturing the form of a roar. Rather than representing aggression, Dick connects the gesture to release and exhalation, drawing a parallel with Simhasana, the lion’s breath in yoga practice.
 
The motif appears throughout his practice at different scales, from mirror-polished stainless-steel public sculptures to gallery works and cast crystal. In Embrace the Amazing Whale, the gesture takes the form of an 8-meter-tall public sculpture on the waterfront of Zhanjiang, China, installed in December 2023. Lion...

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), the federal agency responsible for promoting preservation of America’s historic places, announced that it has terminated its consultation work on President Trump’s Triumphal Arch Project. The ACHP will send its final comments to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum by October 7. In a letter to the National Park Service […]

In May We Feed the King, the curator of a palace museum fills in the gaps

The London institution has rearranged its permanent collection to look more closely at the nuances of Morris’s life and politics, while galleries have been transformed

The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has named Stephanie Rosenthal as its new artistic director, starting in early 2027. Rosenthal is currently the director of the (yet to be opened) Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Throughout her career, Rosenthal has held leadership positions at institutions in Abu Dhabi, London, Berlin, Sydney, and Munich. From 2018-2022, she served as […]

Hailing from the French West Indies in the Caribbean—specifically the island of Guadeloupe—and currently based in Montréal, multi-disciplinary artist Eddy Firmin is deeply interested in the history and politics of colonization and identity. His home region’s inextricable ties to the dark legacy of slavery informs a practice that interrogates how knowledge is shared and passed down through generations. Throughout more than three centuries, upwards of 20 million or more people were transported to the Western Hemisphere to be sold as slaves in what is now viewed as one of the most atrocious crimes against humanity ever perpetrated. Millions died due to exhaustion, disease, and brutal transport and living...

A long-hidden private collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Fauvist works valued at about $450 million will go up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York on November 18. The dozen paintings come from the estate of Nelly Blaquier de Arrieta and Carlos Pedro Blaquier, the latter of whom is alleged to have been complicit in […]

The permanent commission for the new Lassonde Art Trail reflects on the past, present and future of North America with Monkman’s characteristic quirky twists

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The documentary “I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies”, premiering at the New York Film Festival, follows the activities of the Tabriz-based artists Nasser Bakshi and Roghayeh Najdi

ANREALAGE SS27 TURNS E-INK INTO A SECOND SKIN
 
For Spring/Summer 2027, Anrealage takes the idea of a wardrobe update rather literally. Kunihiko Morinaga’s Skin collection, presented during Paris Fashion Week at the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, imagines clothing as an outer layer that can shed, mutate and regenerate. Drawing parallels between biological skin and the interchangeable skins of digital avatars, the designer builds the collection around surfaces that refuse to stay visually fixed. The premise feels familiar to anyone who has changed an avatar outfit in seconds; translating that behavior to the physical body is the more complicated part.
 
The transformation begins relatively quietly....

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Amartuvshin Enkhbat is superb in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra in San Francisco — even if the drama offstage is more persuasive than this new production.

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david altrath photographs germany’s autobahnkirche
 
David Altrath turns his camera toward the Autobahnkirche Siegerland, a roadside chapel by schneider+schumacher beside the A45 motorway near Wilnsdorf, Germany. His photographic series focuses on the sculptural geometry of the building, tracing the transition from its stark white exterior to the warm, intricate timber structure inside. Completed in 2013, the chapel was designed as a place for travelers to pause beside the motorway. Its exterior translates the familiar pictogram of a church into a three-dimensional architectural form, with two pointed spires rising above a folded white volume. Altrath photographs this silhouette from close and distant...

ROYAL ENFIELD REIMAGINES CITY TRAVEL WITH ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE
 
During Paris Design Week 2026 Royal Enfield invited designboom for a test drive event of the Flying Flea C6 electric motorcycle, presenting its vision of a lightweight, design-driven alternative to conventional motorbikes to Europe. Developed under the sub-brand Flying Flea, the vehicle strips away the complex mechanics, offering an intuitive riding experience that invites a new generation of urban riders to transition from electric bicycles and shared micro-mobility options into the realm of full-fledged electric travel. 
 
‘The idea for the Flying Flea C6 grew directly out of watching people navigate cities on Lime bikes and asking, “Why...

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A continuous circulation loop reorganizes Lilac apartment
 
Lilac is one of two ‘family’ apartments in Lisbon designed by BUREAU as the first homes of two ‘brothers, sisters,’ Lilac and Blue. At 44 sqm, the apartment explores how a compact floor area can accommodate everyday routines, objects, and different ways of living. The layout places limited emphasis on privacy, allowing multiple activities to coexist while giving each space its own function and flexibility.
 
The redesign turns circulation into usable space. The former entrance hall becomes a functional kitchen, while the existing interior bedroom at the center of the apartment is converted into wet areas. A continuous passage wraps around...

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Reuben “Rube” Goldberg (1883-1970) was known for his comic strips, political cartoons, and unique inventions. His most enduring legacy, however, is arguably the Rube Goldberg machine. Still bearing his name, these contraptions are often comical or playful due to their “overengineered” nature, using complex sequences of simple chain reactions like rolling ramps, weight and pulley systems, domino chains, and pendulum swings. “Busy Bodies,” created by animator Kate Renshaw-Lewis, is a short film inspired by these straightforward yet intricate mechanisms. The animation presents an imaginative process for what seems to be the creation of red rubber gloves and the packaging of vague fish products. As...

Known for his fantastical paintings of hybrid flora and fauna, Jon Ching channels the otherworldly in vibrant and meticulously detailed canvases. His precise renderings of regal creatures conjure elemental energies like fire and water, merged with the personalities of mammals, birds, and marine life. Inspired by his island upbringing on O’ahu, Hawai’i, Ching continues to turn to nature as a boundless source of wonder and solace. The Los Angeles-based artist’s forthcoming solo exhibition, Path of Least Resistance at KP Projects, highlights recent portraits of owls, hummingbirds, fish, orchids, and more. Navigating both the socio-political realities of the past few years and the daily challenges and...

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...

Niklas Roy is fascinated by the convergence of art and technology. From robotics to gaming systems, the Berlin-based artist and inventor creates quirky yet thought-provoking sculptures and installations that investigate relationships between creativity, science, and tech. His mechanical contraptions are often infused with a lighthearted twist that prompts viewers to think critically and get involved. And his most recent project draws on one of the most fundamental types of technology humans have ever developed: telling time. “Glashütte Trash Clock” is named for the town in Saxony, Germany, where the artist participated in a residency this year. It’s also the birthplace of the nation’s renowned...

Richard Lynn muses on whether the Met can make good on its exciting new promise of "Opera For All" while the goals of its $1.5 billion fundraising campaign remain murky.

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Tenet Vocal Artists's first-ever opera production, of Monteverdi's Orfeo, soars to Platonic ideals.

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. Arch Enemy Arts Call for ArtistsFeaturedArch Enemy Arts is seeking submissions for an annual group exhibition in January 2027. This spotlight exhibition of new and emerging talent has no themes or direction in subject matter, although the gallery focuses on representational, dark surrealism, magical realism, post-graffiti, pop-surrealism, narrative, illustrative, and figurative work across a range of artistic mediums. The exhibition is open to artists worldwide, who are invited to submit up to three works for...

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The Metropolitan Opera gets its freak on — or about as close as it can —  in a revival of its Coney Island-set production of Così fan tutte. 

Yannick Nézet-Séguin opens Philadelphia's symphonic season in typically sunny style with programs feautring Beethoven, Brahms, and Bernstein.

By Victoria Thomas Lauren Cross, PhD is the Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts for The Huntington. The gifted artist, author, and scholar moves through the world of material objects with a detective's nose for sleuthing out lost context and hidden figures, and a Griot's gift for connecting narrative dots to unearth treasure. She is the unstoppable force behind the first major museum retrospective to explore the untold history of ceramic innovator Doyle Lane, with more...

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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Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.

The 80th Issue of Hi-Fructose is coming soon! It includes a cover a feature on the paper collages of Lola Dupre, the Fluffy Vases of Shishi San, the installation paintings of Evgenia Voinar, Debbie Lawson’s textile sculptures, painter Rob Browning’s stark surrealism.  Plus a Special Insert Section focused on the art of Jeff Sheridan, Andrea […]
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By Lacey Argus Sovern, a nonprofit art gallery and healing justice center in Los Angeles, sticks out like a vibrant castle in the midst of the harsh greys of urban Los Angeles. The bright shades of pink and elaborate designs that adorn its concrete walls draw you in, as if calling you to explore the treasures within. The gallery's current showing is Into the Pluriverse, running from June 25 through October 8, 2026. Into the Pluriverse is a group exhibition inspired by the Zapatista term...

 
Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...

By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...

For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...

Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
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Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
   
The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

 
Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...

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...