Few contemporary public art projects have simultaneously stirred such artistic, theological, and political controversy as Notre-Dame Cathedral’s new stained glass windows. It’s no surprise, then, that the artist awarded the commission in 2024, the French figurative painter Claire Tabouret, has faced extraordinary scrutiny. In December, the public finally encountered the artist’s vision in “Claire Tabouret: In a Single Breath” at the Grand Palais, which featured life-sized maquettes of the six stained-glass windows slated to replace the 19th-century works of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Jean-Baptiste Lassus. Tabouret, known for her vividly colored, tautly emotional portraiture, has imagined a...

Joanne Greenbaum may be the only artist who came of age in the 1980s to extend the visual innovations of Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, and Asian ink painting into fresh, unexpected territory in which marks can convey stillness and accelerating movement. She achieved this by reintroducing the hand and drawing into painting at a time when it was dominated by a stylized aesthetic, while utilizing different media and processes in each work: Using oil paint, acrylic, flashe, oil stick, ink, ballpoint pen, colored pencil, markers, and other diverse, seemingly incommensurable materials, she stains the canvas, creates flat and feathery shapes, and defines open-ended, linear constructions. The result is a...

Happy Friday! Qatar has unveiled ambitious details for its inaugural quadrennial contemporary art exhibition set to coincide with neighboring Frieze Abu Dhabi in November.   Fallout from the Epstein saga continues with new revelations of ties to SFMOMA. A small Michelangelo sketch of a foot just sold for a record $27.2 million. The Headlines QATAR’S NEXT MOVE. The first Art Basel Qatar comes to a close Saturday, but the Gulf emirate is already eyeing its next major art event: a new contemporary art quadrennial in Doha called Rubaiya Qatar , strategically timed to coincide with its neighbor’s launch of Frieze Abu Dhabi this November. On Friday, Qatar Museums, the organizers of the quadrennial, revealed...

A July 2009 email in the Epstein files features an image of the Mona Lisa with a black square covering her face. (all screenshots via Department of Justice)In a document containing photographs sent to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal email address, the Department of Justice (DOJ) made a curious redaction, placing a black square on the face of one of the most ubiquitous portraits in the world. While the DOJ faces intense scrutiny for releasing sensitive information about Epstein's victims, including social security numbers and uncensored nude photos, in its recent document release, the federal agency decided to cover the face of what appears to be a reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.”The...

The Calder Foundation has announced multidisciplinary Japanese artist Yuko Mohri as the winner of the 2025 Calder Prize. The honor is bestowed biannually on “a contemporary artist whose innovative work reflects the continued legacy of Calder’s genius.” Mohri, known for her installations incorporating sound, fruit, found objects, and kinetic elements, will receive $50,000 in cash […]

A parrot confined to a too-small cage, jellyfish floating above fungi and ferns, and a spotted octopus resting as the centerpiece to a flourishing bouquet are a few of the surreal scenes in the works of Martin Wittfooth. The artist is known for his enigmatic paintings that meld flora and fauna to consider interconnection and nature’s endurance. Wittfooth currently splits his time between Savannah and Brockville, although he plans to relocate permanently to the latter this year. Before he begins preparing for a solo exhibition in spring 2027 with Hashimoto Contemporary, the artist is completing a few larger commissions. “Dam” He enjoys the balance between larger bodies of work and singular pieces: “A...

The man accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staffers outside the Capitol Jewish Museum last May now faces multiple terrorism charges, according to the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old Chicago native, was charged in a 13-count superceding indictment unsealed on Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C. The charges include four counts of terrorism while armed and a federal aggravating factor for substantial planning and premeditation to commit an act of terrorism. Rodriguez was previously indicted on hate crime and murder charges in the fatal shooting of Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 26. Both victims were employed by the Israeli embassy...

Just over six months after it was announced, the Louvre has indefinitely postponed the competition launched in June 2025 to design an expansion of France’s most well-known art museum. The news was reported in Le Figaro Friday. The project, called Louvre—Nouvelle Renaissance, was announced by French President Emmanuel Macron in January of last year and aims to ease overcrowding at the museum, which welcomes some 9 million visitors a year. It was expected to be completed by 2031. The initial plan was to create a new entrance, update aging infrastructure, and—perhaps most controversially—build a new 33,000-square-foot exhibition space for the Mona Lisa. The plan was estimated to cost $778 million. The Art...

An early self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi broke a record for the Italian Baroque painter when it sold at Christie’s in New York for $5.69 million—well over its estimate of $2.5 million to $3.5 million. As reported by Artnet News, “The previous auction high for a Gentileschi was $5.25 million (€4.7 million), which was set in 2019 at Artcurial in Paris for Lucrèce, above a high estimate of €800,000. Adjusted for inflation, that would come to roughly $6.6 million, almost $1 million above the new result.” The painting depicts Gentileschi as Saint Catherine of Alexandria and is one of only five known self-portraits by the artist, three of which are in museums, according to Christie’s....

The week's sales also saw a near-record for a Canaletto painting and a seven-figure result for a 15th-century Hebrew illuminated manuscript

The London-based artist introduces her exhibition at Culturgest

The newly conserved “Poplars near Nuenen” goes on show in Rotterdam

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The Nederlands Fotomuseum has officially opened its new home in Rotterdam, settling into the restored Santos warehouse along the Rijnhaven harbor.
 
The heavy brick mass of the early twentieth century warehouse stands steady at the corner, its facades still marked by decorative lintels and deep-set openings. Above, two added floors sit within a perforated aluminum veil that glows softly at dusk. The metal skin reads as a light canopy hovering over the old masonry, a precise intervention that contrasts the museum‘s new public life with its working past. See designboom’s previous coverage here.
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Ben Luke talks to art market editor Kabir Jhala about the inaugural fair in Doha, explores the debate surrounding a painting of Dürer’s father, and we hear about the synergies between two 20th-century painters

The exhibition showcases 2,000 years of Afghan art and craft

Close-up Photographer of the Year has announced the winners of its 7th edition, with Western Australia-based Ross Gudgeon’s image of the elaborate internal structure of a cauliflower soft coral taking the top spot. The population of the otherworldly pink marine creatures found in reefs off the coast of New South Wales has seen a staggering decrease in the past few years—90% between 2011 and 2021 alone. Peering up from the base, he portrays the delicate stalks as if they’re towering trees. Additional category winners include close-ups of a wide range of both marine and terrestrial wildlife, from insects and arachnids to mammals and amphibians. Colossal readers might also recognize the work of Barry Webb,...

An artist was asked by Vatican officials to paint over the image he had created during a restoration last year

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mofa studio design biomorphic eila art retreat
 
Perched on a steep hillside overlooking Naggar valley in Himachal Pradesh, India, Eila is an art retreat that functions as an extension to the terrain rather than a static object. Designed by MOFA Studio, the project champions fluid architecture through advanced computational design, realizing a structure that mimics the landscape. The site’s masterplan adopts a stepped strategy that preserves topsoil and rainwater runways, organizing the resort as a gradual, terraced descent. The resulting pod-like volumes, crafted from lightweight steel and thin concrete shells, appear to grow out of the slope, embodying a high-performance response to complex topographical...

Cyrus Ardalan renovates Modernist apartment in Paris
 
On a high floor of a 1966 residential building in Paris’ 11th arrondissement, Cyrus Ardalan reworks a 65-square-meter through-apartment. The architect reframes a standard postwar layout through a contemporary lens.
 
From the entrance, the two-bedroom home opens directly onto a generous, south-facing living area that brings together lounge, dining, and workspace in a single volume. Transitions are marked with precision, most notably through a glass-paste frame that references modern architectural traditions but is treated here less as an ornament than as a functional device. Used on the kitchen island, dining table, and within the shower, the material...

IAAC’s Forestone Timber Cabin Rooted in Pyrenean Forestry
 
Forestone Cabin is a 20-sqm experimental wooden dwelling designed and built by the 2025 cohort of IAAC – Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia’s Master in Ecological Architecture and Advanced Construction, as part of the Bio for Piri initiative. Led by the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera and funded by the Biodiversity Foundation with European Next Generation funds, this initiative promotes regenerative forestry and the sustainable use of local timber from Pyrenean forests, specifically in Alinyà (Lleida). Located at MónNatura Sort, in the Pyrenees, the cabin sits on a sloping site just a few steps from the existing hostel, offering...

We knew everything we needed to know about the art world before the Epstein Files dropped. Before heinous allegations against Museum of Modern Art trustee Leon Black emerged, or School of Visual Arts chair David A. Ross's sympathetic endorsement of Epstein came out, we knew about the intimate connections between institutional heads and donors and trustees. The exchanges of money, donations, or favors that bind them.So what do we do about it? In an opinion piece today, Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian asks a crucial question: How do we empower arts leaders to reject funding from corrupt individuals in favor of civic leaders we can be proud of? We're living in a world where — speaking of evil...

Botanical cement with desert sand for construction
 
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Tokyo have made a prototype of botanical cement made of desert sand and plant-based additives in hopes that it can be used to build houses and roads. Once mixed, the team adds tiny pieces of wood together and presses them all with heat to produce the cement. The researchers have already tried other ways to create the botanical cement with desert sand by testing different temperatures, the force used to press the materials, and what types of sand were used.
 
The one they’ve developed is sturdy enough that it can be used to make paving stones for pavements and...

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On 6 December 2025, Martin Parr died at home in Bristol, aged 73. He was an icon of British documentary photography: an astute observer of modern life, who held up a mirror to the nation through an inimitably incisive and humorous lens. Parr was also a tireless image-maker, on shoot in Italy the day before his passing, “working to improve on a photograph he had previously made of tourists outside Duomo Cathedral in Milan.” He dedicated his career not only to producing his own pictures and photobooks – a pursuit which he loved – but to championing the creativity of other people. He did so through The Martin Parr Foundation, which opened at Paintworks in Bristol in 2017 with the aim “to support...

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Dal 6 al 9 febbraio 2026, in occasione di Arte Fiera, nell’ambito di ART CITY Bologna e ART CITY White Night torna Ababo Art Week con mostre, talk, eventi, installazioni e performance presenti dentro e fuori il centro storico di Bologna, oltre che all’interno dell’Accademia delle Belle Arti di Bologna, che per l’occasione diverrà uno spazio espositivo diffuso capace di esporre la ricchezza di idee e ricerche degli studenti dei vari dipartimenti.
ABABO Open Show 2025, ph Martina Platone, courtesy Accademia delle Belle Arti di Bologna
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Nederlands Fotomuseum – the Dutch National Museum of Photography – has more than 6.5 million objects in its archives. That makes it one of the most significant collections in the world. Founded in 2003, the gallery is a mainstay of Dutch history, tracing how the camera has equally documented and influenced the course of the nation’s identity. This almost unparalleled influence is only set to grow, with the collection estimated to reach 7.5 million by 2028. It is only natural, then, that the museum would eventually outgrow its surroundings. This month, Nederlands Fotomuseum opens a new site at the renovated Santos warehouse in Rotterdam, offering innovative ways for visitors to experience the art and...

Gothic romance and the dark appeal of a vampire lover

Since the release of some of the Epstein files, journalists and members of the art public have been scouring them to find associations to our beloved world of art. We knew they were there because the halls of power are a short hop away from modern and contemporary art. The super-wealthy financialize their holdings for loans, as Josh Spero points out in the Financial Times, and prestige in grand gestures of artwashing. It can feel voyeuristic to glimpse inside the elite rooms that many of us are not normally privy to, but we must realize our perspective is being skewed. We’re looking through peepholes and often seeing only the reception areas of more complex offices of power, where the true decision-making...

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Now Boarding: London —> New MexicoBritish curator and writer Ekow Eshun has been tapped to curate the 13th SITE SANTA FE International Biennial, which will take place in the summer of 2027. Eshun became the first Black leader of a major British arts institution when he took the helm of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Asked what is most exciting to him about curating a biennial in New Mexico, Eshun told Hyperallergic that the region's art is “inseparable from a long history of imaginative reaching toward different possible...

Heavy-hitters: the first complete Ring in its history, Tosca with Marina Rebeka, Jonas Kaufmann, and Ludovic Tézier; plus recitals from Aigul Akhmetshina, Nadine Sierra, Jeanine De Bique, Michael Spyres, and more

Four months after announcing its rebranding as the Philadelphia Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is reverting to its old name, effective immediately. The institution will retain the griffin logo and brand identity that accompanied the October renaming. The museum in a press release said that its board had voted unanimously to drop the […]

Belgium is abandoning its plan to dismantle the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) after being met with stiff resistance from the artistic community. The government had aimed to cancel construction of a high-rise building that was to have served as M HKA’s new home and to strip the museum, the oldest contemporary arts […]

Completed in 1972, the innovative 48-story building known as the Transamerica Pyramid Center quickly became an indelible icon of the San Francisco skyline. Its modernist features include blocky elements, uniform rows of windows, and it’s namesake pyramidical shape, but its design also took its surroundings into consideration, as its tapered shape meant that more sunlight could reach the ground level around it. Inside, the light-filled Annex Gallery is currently home to the similarly towering works of Tara Donovan’s Stratagems series. Made from thousands of recycled CDs that are wrapped around steel supports and placed on concrete plinths, these swirling, reflective spires directly reference skyscraper...

Jennifer Holloway, star of Salome at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, talks with Christina Colanduoni about re-launching her career as a soprano and how her Salome is "just trying not to disappear under everybody else’s rule.”

The vivacious MANON! at Heartbeat Opera makes a strong case for the return of opera in translation.

Chiharu Shiota’s (b. 1972) work is immediately recognisable. Entire rooms are overtaken by red thread, forming dense networks that obscure personal belongings, architectural structures and, at times, sleeping figures. The evocative installations, rendered primarily in red, black and white, give form to the intangible connections we make throughout life. They’re often rooted in the artist’s own experiences, taking the personal and expanding it outwards to comment on universal human concerns like life, death and relationships. Threads of Life is the Berlin-based Japanese artist’s first major solo exhibition in a London public gallery. The intricate takeover responds directly to Hayward Gallery’s...

Multiple-headed deities, strange woodland feasts, plants with sprite-like faces, and worlds floating on animals’ backs are just a few of the dreamlike occurrences in the work of Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). The British-Mexican artist, born into an upper-class family in Lancashire, was fascinated by the notion of “other.” She immersed herself in fairytales and folk stories by the likes of Beatrix Potter and Lewis Carroll and rebelled against the strict expectations of high-society women in England. Carrington traveled extensively, soaking up inspiration from classical sculptures and Renaissance paintings in Florence, where she studied art, then attending the first International Surrealist Exhibition in...

It's always surprised me how so many performances of the major Brecht/Weill collaborations seem to have zero clue of how to handle either Weill's music.

Few photographers have shaped the language of colour as decisively as William Eggleston. He showed that ordinary scenes, when observed with patience and precision, could carry the same weight as traditional subjects of art. His work refuses spectacle yet rewards close attention. By turning the camera on petrol stations, motels and suburban streets he proposed a democratic vision of what could be worthy of observation. This radical insistence on attentiveness transformed colour photography from novelty into a serious medium. Decades later the clarity and restraint of his vision remain revolutionary, although many who have come after have tried to emulate this mastery and they never fully achieve his brilliance....

Dal 5 al 15 febbraio 2026, in occasione di ART CITY Bologna e Arte Fiera, la mostra Corpo Tessuto presenta una nuova e significativa selezione di opere di Simone Miccichè, artista bolognese la cui ricerca pittorica si concentra sul tessuto come luogo simbolico, linguistico e corporeo. La mostra, curata da Federica Fiumelli e Francesco Liggieri, pone al centro del progetto espositivo il tessuto. Elemento che, però, non è mai semplice soggetto rappresentato, ma diventa metafora della pittura stessa: superficie sensibile, pelle del mondo, archivio di memorie culturali e politiche. Le opere di Miccichè nascono da un’osservazione lenta e analitica delle trame, delle pieghe, dei pattern che attraversano stoffe...

 
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...

From more than 60,000 entries submitted by photographers around the globe, the jurors of the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition had their work cut out for them. They selected 100 images that tell powerful stories and represent diverse regions and types of animals in a huge range of habitats, including areas heavily impacted by human activity. Now, 24 photographers have the chance to win the contest’s People’s Choice Award, which you can vote for until March 18. Contenders include a cozy baby sloth, polar bears relaxing on a sunny day, baby kestrels about to take flight, and many more. In addition to casting your vote, visit the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at London’s...

“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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Simon Boccanegra has never felt as foreboding or prophetic as it did at a recent performance at La Fenice.

Each spring, Somerset House unveils a large-scale installation in its famed courtyard. The free, public artwork is an opportunity for audiences to encounter some of the most exciting figures working in contemporary art. This year, this opportunity goes to Dana-Fiona Armour (b. 1988), who defines herself as an artist-researcher, often collaborating with scientists and statisticians in her work. Serpentine Currents combines sculpture, technology and science, to raise awareness of issues surrounding marine ecosystems and changing ocean conditions. The three-part sculpture is modelled on a 3D scan of an endangered sea snake species. LED lights react to historic and predicted ocean data from the British...

Concluso il fitto programma di eventi che ha animato Catanzaro nell’annualità 2025, Performing prosegue come piattaforma di ricerca e produzione artistica permanente, mentre è già in fase di preparazione l’edizione 2026 del festival.
Luana Perilli, backstage di “Cantalamissa”, 2025, courtesy Performing Catanzaro
La prima edizione del festival itinerante delle arti performative contemporanee, promosso dall’Accademia di Belle Arti di Catanzaro con il sostegno del Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca e il coinvolgimento di undici istituzioni AFAM e universitarie, si sposta ora dalla dimensione dell’evento a quella del processo. Laboratori, residenze e co-progettazioni trasformano Catanzaro...

An exhibition opportunity foregrounding empowerment, representation and lived experience Unpublished Africa invites African women photographers to submit work for its Women’s Month 2026 exhibition, building on earlier research and exhibitions focused on empowerment and visibility […]

Under the artistic direction of Hoor Al Qasimi, the 25th Biennale of Sydney brings together global, First Nations and diasporic practices to examine memory as an active force shaping history, land and collective responsibility Gabriel […]

A medieval English bronze jug, its trans-Saharan journey, and the afterlives of empire—from fourteenth-century England to the royal court of Asantehene Prempeh I The Asante Ewer, c. 1340–1405. England. Leaded bronze. H. 62 cm. British […]

In occasione di Art City Bologna 2026, la Fondazione Carlo Gajani ospita “A body engineered by water”, mostra personale di Claudia Amatruda incentrata sui temi del corpo, dell’acqua e del femminismo. La mostra sarà visitabile per tutta la settimana di Art City, fino a domenica 8 febbraio (ad eccezione di mercoledì 4 febbraio, giorno di chiusura). Sabato 7, in occasione della White Night, ci sarà un talk speciale guidato da Fuorisedia con il collettivo Parsec, con introduzione dello storico dell’arte Giuseppe Virelli e letture della scrittrice Anna Papa. Per saperne di più abbiamo deciso di incontrare le curatrici Sara Papini e Fuorisedia.
Claudia Amatruda, “Operation Theatre (OT) n.1_Hypersea”,...

“A line is a line, whether it’s wool or oil,” says Zavaglia, who was trained as a painter. “The art world is finally embracing it. They're breaking down this hierarchy of art and craft.” Read the full article on the artist by clicking above.
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With works that simultaneously convey the awe of nature and the whimsy of fairy tales, Clémentine Bal sculpts a world full of wonder and imagination. Read Liz Ohanesian's full article on the Hf 63 cover artist by clicking above.
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A Bologna nelle giornate del 2, 7 e 8 febbraio 2026, in occasione di Art City, presso Alchemilla torna il format Artisti Marziali, nato nel 2024 e curato da Veronica Santi. Il progetto, dalla natura sperimentale, ha l’obiettivo di approfondire e indagare le pratiche artistiche degli autori chiamati a partecipare attraverso dei dialoghi della durata di quaranta minuti, strutturati da uno scambio di domande poste a turno.
Artisti Marziali | Federico Tosi vs Davide Sgambaro, 2025, ph. Luca Peruzzi
Ogni incontro prevede il confronto diretto tra due artisti, in una conversazione libera. Non vi sono interventi di curatori, galleristi, giornalisti o direttori museali e, privo di moderatori, il dialogo si svolge...

An exhibition opportunity for Creative Business Studio alums at a regional photography festival in Zambia Unpublished Africa invites Creative Business Studio alums to submit work for consideration in an exhibition at Bakashimika International Photography Festival […]