Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY shapes Louis Vuitton’s café and store
 
At London’s Heathrow Terminal 2, Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY, in collaboration with Louis Vuitton Architecture, completes a new outpost for the French fashion house. The project consolidates the Louis Vuitton store and Le Café by Cyril Lignac into a continuous architectural envelope, a fuselage-like volume that appears to have landed among the steady flow of departing and arriving passengers.
 
From afar, the volume reads as a dynamic, aerodynamic body. Its thin aluminum surface curves upward as a vertical plane before bending forward into an enveloping form, recalling the logic of aircraft construction. Glass openings are inserted with...

The Italian curator and critic Eugenio Viola, who has led the museum since 2019, says he was let go after raising concerns about working conditions at the institution

New York politicians and activists hoisted a large Pride flag to the Stonewall National Monument’s flagpole on Thursday afternoon, February 12, in defiance of a federal directive to take down any flags or pennants that aren’t the United States flag or from the Department of the Interior.It takes a lot to get New Yorkers to stand outdoors in subfreezing temperatures for more than an hour, but the Trump administration’s onslaught on an iconic gay rights symbol in the West Village mobilized a crowd to Christopher Park.“Whose streets? Our streets! Whose park? Our park! Whose neighborhood? Our neighborhood!” chanted several hundred people, who spilled into Christopher and Grove streets.National Park...

A sweeping fraud scheme targeting ticket sales at the Louvre was uncovered earlier this week, leaving the scandal-plagued museum facing losses estimated at more than €10 million. The Palace of Versailles was also implicated in the scheme, which involved the sale of counterfeit tickets and the overbooking of guided tours, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed on Thursday. French authorities shared that nine people have been arrested, including two museum employees, several tour guides, and one individual suspected of organizing the scheme. The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that more than €957,000 in cash—plus €67,000 in foreign currency—was seized, in addition to €486,000 in separate...

LOS ANGELES — The fantastical 2008 film Ponyo by celebrated Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli tells the story of a fish-like creature, Ponyo, who dreams of becoming a human girl after befriending a young boy named Sosuke, much to the dismay of her wizard father. Nearly two decades after its release, the film is being reexamined in a new interactive exhibition. Studio Ghibli’s PONYO debuts February 14 at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, which opened in 2021 with a Miyazaki retrospective. This show aims to convey the film’s whimsy and wonder while examining its profound significance through Miyazaki’s drawings and other elements behind its production.“He set out...

After 30 years at the Guardian, chief art critic Adrian Searle is stepping down from the role he has held since 1996. The Guardian announced today that Searle will leave his full-time role at the end of March. His final article, a look back at the past three decades and what he has learned, will appear on April 1. He will continue to contribute occasional pieces. Searle joined the Guardian after transitioning from a career as a painter. Over the next three decades, he became one of the most influential voices in British art criticism, writing about contemporary art with authority, clarity and wit. He played a pivotal role during the rise of the Young British Artists in the 1990s, offering early support for...

The exhibition was intended to be a homecoming for artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez who grew up in the Dallas–Fort Worth metro area. The excitement built when he got the first batch of images showing his traveling solo exhibition being installed at the University of North Texas’s CVAD Gallery. Quiñonez was looking forward to receiving images of the work being fully installed and was working on managing the RSVPs for an opening reception to take place this month. Then, silence. Quiñonez continued to follow up with the university gallery’s director Stefanie Dlugosz-Acton. The exhibition was scheduled to open on February 3, but Quiñonez is unclear if that actually happened. It wasn’t until he...

Upon entering Participant Inc. gallery in Manhattan's Chinatown, a pitch-black embrace invites us find one another in the dark. As our eyesight adjusts, a constellation of works illuminates [minna|منا]of us, a group exhibition open through March 15 featuring queer artists of the Palestinian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Syrian, and Egyptian diasporas. Wafts of burning incense mingle with the instrumentals of a commissioned sound mix by Palestinian musician Falyakon to direct visitors through the show, which Palestinian-Jordanian-Egyptian artist Ridikkuluz curated as a space for anti-colonial futurism across tradition and geography.“The show is about giving the pen back to the writer, giving the paintbrush...

The New York collector Black is revealed to have bought five of the artist’s pieces

Since George Washington, it has been customary for presidents to have an official portrait—usually an oil painting—unveiled shortly after they leave office. That was to be the case for President Donald Trump, who sat for a portrait by artist Ronald Sherr just after leaving office in 2021. There is just one complication: Trump now wants a new one. Sherr’s portrait was ready to be accepted by the National Portrait Gallery, which maintains the nation’s presidential portraits, in 2022. But by then Trump had already announced his bid for the presidency in 2024. The gallery does not typically hang a presidential portrait until the president has permanently left office, according to the New York Times. Now,...

The former treasurer of the Hearthstone Historic House Museum in Appleton, Wisconsin—touted as “the only building still standing from the dawn of electricity” on its website—admitted to stealing $70,000 from the institution. According to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday, Steven Jahnke confessed to embezzlement and now faces one count of theft in a business setting. As reported by the local radio station WTAQ, “board members became suspicious of transactions apparently not related to museum operations, including cruises, vacation travel and vehicle repair. Additionally, some accounts deposited through the community foundation were depleted, despite having a restricted status.” Other suspicious...

Adrian Searle has described writing for the paper as “an exhilarating ride”

Hieu Chau compares his dense, dynamic compositions to his always active mind. Playing with scale and proportion, the Vietnamese artist renders surreal scenes in which flora and fauna converge and figures interact with the outside world as if in a dream. Chau, who was trained as a painter, now works digitally, although his pieces capture the grainy textures and gestures of a physical medium. The artist recently published a book collecting his projects from the last decade, and you can find explore an archive of these pieces on Instagram. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Surreal Dreams...

A playful artwork inside a medieval nave
 
The Rhinoceros in the Room, an inflatable installation by Itamar Gov, occupies the central volume of Kunstmuseum Magdeburg in Magdeburg, Germany with a single, overwhelming gesture. Installed inside the former monastery church that houses the museum, the project places a larger than life rhinoceros directly in the nave, its bulk stretching from aisle to aisle and rising toward the Romanesque vaults, so that the animal becomes the primary spatial condition of the building rather than an object within it.
 
Approaching the exhibition, visitors pass through stone arcades and patterned floors before meeting the pale mass of the creature head on. The architecture remains...

By not going down more obvious routes, the exhibition, which places nine Confederate monuments in dialogue with 19 artists, avoids preachiness

The University of North Texas (UNT) abruptly shuttered an exhibition of works by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, whose practice centers the lived experience of immigrants in the United States and their inhumane treatment by federal agencies.Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá — Spanish for “neither from here nor from there” — opened on February 3 and was slated to run through May 1 at the College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD) Galleries in the UNT Art Building. Initially curated by Kate Fowle for Boston University Art Galleries, where it was on view for three months last year, the show notably included several works from Quiñonez's acclaimed I.C.E. Scream series — life-sized sculptures of paletas, or...

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Former home of painter Ary Scheffer celebrates the Romantic period through art, music and soundscapes

Christof Loy’s production of Pablo Luna’s gender-bending Orientalist farce Benamor proves to be irresistible.

We’re thrilled to invite you all to the Chicago premiere of Paint Me a Road Out of Here, the award-winning documentary from Aubin Pictures directed by Catherine Gund. Along with Intuit Art Museum and the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at DePaul University, Colossal is co-hosting a screening of the film followed by a conversation between film participant Leah Faria and our editorial director Grace Ebert on March 25. This event is free to attend, but seating is limited. Featuring artists Faith Ringgold and Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Paint Me a Road Out of Here uncovers the whitewashed history of Ringgold’s masterpiece, “For the Women’s House,” following its 50-year journey from Rikers...

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Lana Launay brings antique doilies to light sculptures
 
Lana Launay’s Kinship series aims to preserve the antique doilies and ancestral lace-like textiles that have been passed down through generations using glowing light sculptures. At first glance, Kinship I and II illuminate with amorphous patterns, but up close, their surfaces resolve into lace. Doilies, stockings, and fragments of textile are stretched, wrapped, and held within stainless steel frameworks, then activated from within by LED light embedded in aluminum housings. The result is a series of industrial lighting pieces meeting inherited cloth.
 
The textiles themselves are not decorative afterthoughts. Each doily has been collected from...

It's impossible to imagine New York City without art, or contemporary art without New York City. This is where you come to see the best of the best, or to take part in making it. This country’s international standing is down in the gutter, thanks to Trump, but this city is still a living, rolling dream. Right now, we're waiting to see who's going to be Mayor Mamdani's pick for cultural affairs commissioner. It's an important role that determines where the city's budget priorities will lie and who'll get a seat at the table. Gonzalo Casals, who served as culture commissioner under Mayor de Blasio, and Mauricio Delfín, who co-directs the Culture & Arts Policy Institute...

BOS Arquitectes introduces Muro nursery school in Mallorca
 
BOS Arquitectes completes a 745-square-meter nursery school in Muro, Mallorca, between the town’s edge and open agricultural fields. Set on elevated ground, the building overlooks familiar landmarks, which include the Marés stone windmill, the football field stands, and the skyline punctuated by the Church of Sant Joan Baptista and the Convent of Santa Anna. The single-story structure settles into the landscape through a sequence of low-rise vaults that trace a continuous, undulating roofline along the horizon.
 
Visible from multiple vantage points, the ceramic-tiled roof becomes the defining gesture of the project. Finished in a restrained...

Layered masses define PROJECT RESIDENCE_BB 214’s architecture
 
Minimalist Architecture & Design Studio organizes PROJECT RESIDENCE_BB 214 in Ludhiana, India, as a composition of restrained volumes and calibrated voids. The design emphasizes spatial sequencing, proportion, and the controlled use of daylight, allowing the experience of the house to unfold gradually through movement and changing light conditions.
 
The residence is structured as a series of layered masses that negotiate openness and privacy through setbacks, screens, and spatial shifts rather than solid partitions alone. Circulation becomes a means of revealing the architecture incrementally, with filtered daylight entering indirectly and...

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Activist. Iconoclast. Provocateur. English fashion designer Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022) is synonymous with many words, but one rules supreme: punk. Now, NGV pairs her up with Rei Kawakubo (b. 1942), founder of Comme des Garçons, an equally radical Japanese creative force whose driving philosophy has long been to “break the idea of clothes.” The pair of “self-taught rebels” were born a year apart in different countries and cultural contexts. Yet, as NGV reveals, they shared many remarkable commonalities. Perhaps most striking is that their debut runway collections, both launched in 1981, revolved around the same title and theme: pirates. It makes for an intriguing curatorial premise. NGV’s...

Nel suo lavoro più recente, Stephanie Temma Hier indaga il confine poroso tra pittura e scultura, facendo dialogare immagini dipinte e strutture ceramiche in composizioni ibride che mettono in crisi la bidimensionalità dell’immagine. Swan Song si configura come un percorso unitario, in cui cornici, oggetti domestici e figure ricorrenti concorrono a costruire un immaginario sospeso tra quotidiano e straniamento. Attraverso una pratica che intreccia temporalità differenti – l’immediatezza della pittura e la lentezza irreversibile della ceramica – la mostra riflette sui temi della trasformazione, del consumo e del passaggio del tempo, evocando una fine che non coincide con una chiusura, ma con...

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Szilveszter Makó’s enigmatic photographs carry layers of mystery and introspection. Standing inside curious block-like backdrops and lain against two-dimensional fields of color and texture, his subjects seamlessly meld into stories in which every detail carries intention. Taking inspiration from art history, the Milan-based artist references Surrealism and grotesque art through his use of chiaroscuro effects via light exploration and contrasting earth tones. Similar to 20th-century Surrealist paintings, Makó’s images delve into uncanny realms and evoke a dreamlike sense of unfettered imagination. It’s no surprise that the photographer was once a painter and has suggested that these impulses may be a...

The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has named the sixty-one artists and collectives slated to participate in the Fifty-Ninth Carnegie International, to take place May 2, 2026–January 3, 2027. Titled “If the word we,” this edition of the quadrennial event is the largest to date and will appear at the Carnegie as well as various institutions across the […]

The Queens Museum in New York has announced Debra Wimpfheimer as its new executive director. A native of Queens, Wimpfheimer has worked for the institution on and off since 2002, most recently as deputy director. She will succeed Sally Tallant, who is set to become the director of London’s Hayward Gallery this July. Wimpfheimer has held senior development positions at the Museum […]

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In works that merge sculpture, fashion, and kite-making, Hai-Wen Lin traverses the thresholds that connect one’s physical self, the mind, and the elements. The artist describes their practice as “an act of reorienting: looking back, looking forward, looking in, looking up.” Using a wide range of materials, Lin creates vibrant, abstract compositions in textile often manipulated with cyanotype patterns or dyed with natural hues such as indigo and turmeric. They make kites “that speak the language of clothing,” blurring definitions of craft, art, garments, and acts of play. “October 8th 2:56-3:56pm Wicker Park; a picnic together // we probably shouldn’t feed the sparrows” (2022), tannic acid-toned...

Diana Soviero chats with Roger Pines about six decades of performing, four decades of teaching, and how she’s handing the tradition off to the next generation.

Despite some complications, the Deutsche Oper exhumes buried treasure in Franz Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber. 

Die Entführung aus dem Serail boldly goes where no opera has gone before at Pacific Opera Project. 

Museums have long served as vital vessels of culture, shaping collective memory whilst nurturing curiosity and imagination. They provide spaces where history, art and ideas intersect, allowing society to reflect on its past and envision its future. Exhibitions, programmes and public engagement offer opportunities to explore diverse perspectives and challenge conventional thinking. Within their walls, knowledge and creativity coalesce, creating narratives that transcend time and place. The New Museum has become a beacon for contemporary art, offering a platform for artists to interrogate the present moment and speculate on what lies ahead. Its reopening signals a new chapter in the ongoing mission to inspire,...

The Solti recording of Bohème is completely miscast.

Yorgos Lanthimos needs no introduction. From the unsettling minimalism of Dogtooth to the baroque intensity of The Favourite, his films have repeatedly reshaped contemporary cinema. Celebrated for a singular vision that balances absurdist humour with acute human insight, Lanthimos has become synonymous with uncompromising originality. Five-time Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, the Jury Prize at Cannes and the Golden Lion at Venice attest to the scale and reach of his imagination. Each work exists as a world, meticulously constructed and unnervingly precise, drawing audiences into spaces that are intimate yet disorienting. This same careful orchestration informs his latest venture: a major...

 
What does love look like? Sometimes it comes with lust and desire, sometimes with deep-rooted care from the heart, and other times it’s a disguise for something that isn’t love at all.
Love can be found in the quieter gestures of everyday life. It can look like kindness, the people and places you hold dear, moments of care and support, or the small comforts that bring you peace: a cup of tea, a single flower, a familiar corner of home.
DO YOU LIKE LOVE? is a metaphor for the things that bring us joy and comfort, and for what we offer others to help them feel the same. Within the pages of DO YOU LIKE LOVE?, photographers answer the question – do you like love?
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C’è stata anche la dolorosa questione iraniana nell’appena conclusa 49esima edizione di Arte Fiera a Bologna, anno domini 2026 (la prima firmata dal nuovo direttore Davide Ferri). Il rinnovato padiglione esterno Esprit Nouveau, esatta riproduzione di quello parigino firmato da Le Corbusier, ha ospitato infatti una (molto) concettuale e potente installazione/performance dell’artista franco-iraniana Chalisée Naamani. Chalisée Naamani,”Wardrobe”, Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, Bologna, 2026. Un progetto di Arte Fiera in collaborazione con Fondazione Furla,  ph credits Team99, courtesy l’artista e Ciaccia Levi (Parigi-Milano)
Proposta dalla Fondazione Furla, “Wardrobe” è un’installazione...

The best design shows reveal how creativity, science, innovation and technology intersect – influencing the very world around us. Those working in the space blend traditional art with bold new methods, creating something striking and unexpected. These five international exhibitions shine a spotlight on the pioneers pushing the discipline forward, inviting audiences behind the scenes of their practice. Together, they trace the complex and fascinating evolution of design, unpack the methods and thinking behind the work, and explore how these ideas resonate within contemporary culture and everyday life. Hella Jongerius: Whispering Things  Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein | Opens 14 March  Hella Jongerius is...

February 11, 2026, New York, NY — Today, Artforum announces a restructure to its editorial leadership. Tina Rivers Ryan, who has served as Editor in Chief for the past two years, will depart her role at the end of February. Two current staffers, Executive Editor Rachel Wetzler and Editor Daniel Wenger, will now lead the publication’s editorial initiatives […]

When we think of terms like “flowing” or “fluid,” we could be referring to the nature of water, but we can also just as easily apply these concepts to our understanding of art and craft. Fabrics “pool” and different mediums converge. The nature of creativity is often referred to in terms of an “ebb and flow.” Ecologically speaking, bodies of water are metaphorically woven into the fabric of our planet. Rivers and lakes sustain an abundance of life, shape cultures, and course through history. Amid the ongoing climate crisis, how do artists express concerns about water and the environment? Water | Craft, a group exhibition at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, dives into this question. The museum...

A bad Facebook experience turned Brown off to social media, but he ultimately brought David Henry Nobody Jr. to Instagram... Read the full article by clicking above!
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Yemeni-Egyptian-American artist Yumna Al-Arashi (b. 1988) creates work with a singular purpose: to oppose the oppression and stereotyping of women worldwide. The artist uses a range of media – photography, book, sculpture – to explore how the Arab world is depicted, question the legacy of colonialism in our thoughts and contemplate matriarchal traditions that are all but lost. Huis Marseille presents Al-Arashi’s first solo museum exhibition, titled Body as Resistance, which brings together her entire oeuvre. Featured works include dyptich Axis of Evil (2020), which depicts four women from the countries designed “rogue states” by the US government and Shedding Skin (2017), made in a bathhouse in...

In un mondo dell’arte che, nell’attuale frangente di deriva imperialista, autoritaria e bellicista, è apparso finora troppo silente e timido, la Fondazione Merz di Torino ha scelto di schierarsi. Diverse mostre e iniziative che vi hanno avuto luogo di recente, a partire dalla mostra dell’artista palestinese Khalil Rabah nel 2023, si sono collocate senza timore nel discorso politico, attraverso un fare cultura che è anche informare e creare comunità. Prendendo spunto da una considerazione tratta da uno scritto di Mario Merz, “la cultura si sveste e fa apparire la guerra”, la mostra collettiva Push the Limits 2 si pone in continuità con questi intenti e costituisce il secondo capitolo di una...

The organizers of Frieze New York have revealed the sixty-seven galleries that will be participating in the event’s fourteenth iteration, slated to take place May 3–17 at the Shed, which has hosted it since 2021. The exhibitors represent twenty-six countries and include stalwarts such as Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, Perrotin, Thaddaeus Ropac, White Cube and David Zwirner. Among […]

The Minneapolis-based designer discusses his viral anti-ICE protest signs

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FRENCH PLACE, realtà nata a Londra nel 2020, inaugura la nuova sede di Milano con CORALE. L’impianto critico della mostra permette alle ricerche degli artisti di incontrarsi in un magico e spontaneo punto di tangenza, secondo una visione che sostiene la libertà e l’opacità delle singole poetiche. CORALE rispecchia una condizione polifonica, un ecosistema in cui il visitatore si muove tra progetti e identità diverse.
AA.VV, “CORALE”, installation view, ph Francesco Paleari, courtesy of FRENCH PLACE
La pratica di Matthias Odin, primo artista in residenza, coniuga l’esperienza del situazionismo francese, ancorato alla nozione di psicogeografia coniata da Debord, alla circolarità del movimento...

In 1979, with the publication of The Lowbrow Art of Robt. Williams, Williams unintentionally coined a term that would come to define an art movement. But he began intentionally carving out its place in the world long before... Read the full article on Robert Williams by clicking above.
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Con More Than This, la Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna accoglie un progetto espositivo che mette in tensione due dimensioni in apparenza inconciliabili: l’istituzione museale storica e una pratica pittorica radicalmente contemporanea, nata all’interno di un contesto formativo e laboratoriale. La mostra, curata da Daniele Capra, riunisce dodici artisti formatisi all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia nell’ambito dell’Atelier F, restituendo non tanto una “scuola” intesa in senso stilistico, quanto un metodo condiviso fondato sul lavoro, sul confronto e sulla continuità del fare.
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There’s just 2 weeks left to submit your work for Feeling Seen, a community-centered photography project inviting you to share what you’re experiencing right now.
We want photographers to capture the essence of their current emotions, sensations, and surroundings. Our sense of feeling goes beyond the physical – it’s emotional, atmospheric, and relational. It’s through these feelings that we connect with one another on a deeper level.
It’s about exploring how photography can express both internal and external sensations – whether it’s the rush of anticipation, the dis/comfort of the body, nostalgia of memory or tension of conflict. This project believes in photography’s power to evoke real...

“When I look for places in the city to locate my sculptures, or take photographs, it is a bit similar to [mushroom hunting]. I like to observe the city with that gaze for little details.”Read the full article by Silke Tudor by clicking above.
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The frolicking skeleton children, bat-human creatures, and a lizard girl named Claudine embody the wild imagination of Matt Gordon, a mixed-media artist based in Plymouth, Michigan. Read the full article by Andy Smith by clicking above!
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