Police raiding a house in the Paris suburb of Champigny-sur-Marne on June 15 got a welcome surprise when they stumbled upon a stolen Pablo Picasso painting. Though the specific canvas has not yet been identified, it is reported to depict the artist’s lover and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter, reports Le Parisien, which indicates that the canvas, valued between about $13.7 million and $17.1 million, belongs to a collector from Singapore. It was allegedly stolen by a worker at an art storage facility in Paris, who claims he did it to highlight security flaws, per the outlet. The police found not only 40 pounds of cannabis resin but also several thousand euro in cash and several hundred thousand euros’ worth of...

To open a new film from Art21, artist Lenka Clayton encapsulates her way of thinking and making: “Looking at things that are supposed to behave a certain way and purposefully misunderstanding how they should be used, it’s really important to me,” she says. The Cornwall-born artist works across media, creating both meditative animations via typewriter and immersive installations of gathered artifacts. Collecting is central to Clayton’s practice both materially and conceptually, and she often works from her own experiences, particularly those around becoming a parent and her life in Pittsburgh (she even started an open-source residency program for artist mothers). In the short documentary, we see...

At Cranbrook Academy of Art, no two doors are exactly alike.That was by design. Architect Eliel Saarinen believed even the smallest details deserved thoughtful consideration. Each door across Cranbrook's historic campus serves the same purpose, yet each possesses its own distinct character — a reminder that creativity is found not in repetition, but in the possibilities created by difference.With this spirit in mind, Cranbrook Academy of Art is reopening graduate applications for Fall 2026. Applications will be accepted from June 22 through August 15 for a limited number of available openings in select programs. For artists and designers considering graduate study, this additional application period...

GEOPLAN reimagines the village school as a shared social center
 
The Hotič Educational Complex by GEOPLAN unites a primary school, a kindergarten, a multipurpose hall, and local community facilities into a new social center for the village of Hotič, Slovenia. The project is based on the understanding of the school as the central social space of the community, not merely as an educational institution, but as a place for gathering, strengthening local identity, and fostering daily community life for all generations. Situated at the heart of the village’s layout, the building’s scale and articulation of volumes reflect the logic of scattered rural development. Rather than a single dominant volume, the...

Details on the objects, taken unlawfully during colonial conquests, are yet to be announced

The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia has appointed art historian and educator Connie Choi chief curator and inaugural vice president for art and education, effective September 8. Choi arrives to the foundation from New York’s Studio Museum in Harlem, where she is a curator. She succeeds Nancy Ireson, who was chief curator and deputy director for […]

Helen Cammock has withdrawn her National Portrait Gallery installation Persistence following controversy

callback 8020: a flip phone for the scroll-weary
 
Commodore’s Callback 8020 flip phone is unveiled to bring a sense of nostalgia that’s somewhere between an early 2000s cell phone and a 1990s desktop from the home ‘computer room.’ With its familiar hinge and its small outer screen, this new phone is said to do just enough without pulling its user into every corner of the internet.
 
The revived computing brand has turned toward the current appetite for digital minimalism, and has developed a device that looks back with plastic shells, T9 typing, and chiptune sounds while running a modern mobile system beneath.
 
The phone sits in a growing category of devices made for people who want distance from...

Opening in August, The Light will transform a former museum into a major new destination for contemporary art, innovation and culture

James Wagner, beloved New York art collector, died at his home in Manhattan on June 7 at age 85. Two months earlier, his husband, Barry Hoggard, and I started arranging visitors to keep him company. Both collectors and art aficionados well-known within the New York gallery world, James and Barry built a collection of over 1,500 works largely acquired from the Brooklyn art scene via their social circles. They jumped into collecting in earnest in 1998 and 1999, acquiring at least 100 artworks in those two years alone after inheriting money from James’s mother. The mid-2000s marked the peak of their activity, with most of the collection’s catalogued works dating from 1998 to 2012. Barry continues to collect...

The Smithsonian Institution, and its Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III, have been under pressure for well over a year, with President Donald Trump and his administration trying a variety of tactics to compel the Institution to change its framing or approach to US History. That campaign reached its highest flashpoint last summer when Bunch and the president sat for a two-and-a-half hour lunch over their differing views on museum curation. Now, in a profile of Bunch for the Atlantic, writer Clint Smith reveals what actually happened at the lunch, at least according to several unnamed White House and Smithsonian officials. In Smith’s retelling, the lunch contained no grand showdown, but rather turned into a...

Augustas Serapinas transforms Nottingham Contemporary into a living gym where classical ideals, body politics and contemporary culture collide.

When we think of traveling circuses, the “big top” tent likely springs to mind with its acrobats, clowns, tightrope walkers, and other entertainers and pageantry. Sometimes the traditions are controversial, such as the use of elephants and lions for performances. But visions of bedazzled animals or the swinging trapeze are nevertheless etched in our collective memory. In the former U.S.S.R., the tradition took on a whole new meaning. Circuses had been nationalized in 1919, a few years before the Soviet Union was formed. Along with theater, opera, and music, the genre was also co-opted by the socialist government as a propaganda machine, turning family-friendly entertainment into a channel for Communist...

The London-based Art Loss Register said Tuesday that it had recovered a 17th-century Flemish painting that had been stolen in September 2020 from a private residence in Canada. The missing painting was reported to police and logged with the Art Loss Register shortly after its theft. The stolen painting, Interior of a Collector’s Cabinet: An Allegory of Sight (ca. 1660) by Jan van Kessel the Elder and Abraham Willemsens, was identified in October 2023 ahead of a planned sale at Sotheby’s. The auction house cross-checked the painting with the Art Loss Register’s database of stolen works as part of its due diligence, which ultimately matched it with the work taken in 2020. The consignor of the work had told...

The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia has named Connie H. Choi as chief curator and vice president for art and education, the latter being a newly created position. She succeeds Nancy Ireson, who held the title of chief curator and deputy director for collections and exhibitions and left the position in November. Choi begins at the Barnes on September 8. Choi is currently curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, where she has worked for nearly a decade. At the Studio Museum, she worked closely with Thelma Golden, its director and chief curator, to map out the museum’s curatorial vision, including its recent reopening last fall. To inaugurate the new building, Choi served as lead curator for its collection...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Helen Cammock removed her video claiming Churchill starved Indians during the Bengal famine from London’s National Portrait Gallery. Charles Hinman, known for his three-dimensional sculpted canvases, has died at age 93. The top ten sales at Art Basel last week were revealed. The Headlines UNDER PRESSURE. Following heated backlash, artist Helen Cammock has removed her video work from London’s National Portrait Gallery, which claims former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill willfully starved Indians during the 1943 Bengal famine, reports BBC. “Today, Helen Cammock...

The Las Vegas Sphere has announced its next residency. A Sphere adapted version of The Rocky Horror Show will replace... Read More

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis does its best to give magic in its summer productions of Roméo et Juliette and A Streetcar Named Desired. 

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The revamped museum, which focuses on the history of the UK capital, will open to the public on 28 November 2026

In this interview, the artists discuss memory, belonging, landscape and artistic identity.

Santiago Lastra is combining a love for the artist and his home cuisine in London this summer

Out of Line proposes new housing model for suburban New Jersey
 
Out of Line has completed Swoop ADU, a two-bedroom, one-bathroom Accessory Dwelling Unit in South Orange, New Jersey, designed to support multigenerational living on a long-owned family property. The project allows a mother and daughter to share the same property with independent homes. Located within a cul-de-sac of nearly identical split-level houses built in the 1980s, the project engages a familiar suburban context and brings a new housing model to the neighborhood, being the first ADU permitted in the New Jersey town.
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sweeping facade line links old and new in Swoop ADU project
 
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Nomad co-founder and director Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte describes the fair as “a resort concept”

Sena Jurinac, a celebrated Mozart and Strauss singer here as the Composer, a signature role.

Flavia Rando is the New York queer icon you don’t know enough about. She participated in the first art exhibition to include the word "lesbian" in the title. She sat at the “gay table” at the Brooklyn College cafeteria. In 1969, while riding the 14th street crosstown bus, she met the lesbian feminist activist Martha Shelley, who invited her to a Gay Liberation Front meeting. And the rest is history — well, living history, as Rando is nowhere near done. Alexis Clements interviews the artist and educator for Hyperallergic’s Queer Elders series.Speaking of New York: Artist Danielle De Jesus shows up at the Knicks parade with a press pass, a film camera, and memories of watching kids playing basketball...

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NOT A STUDIO reshapes century-old apartment in barcelona
 
Located in Barcelona’s Sarrià neighborhood, Monterols is NOT A STUDIO’s renovation of a 36-square-meter apartment with a 15-square-meter mezzanine inside a residential building dating to 1919. Designed as an update to a family-owned property passed down through generations, the project removes decades of partitions to recover the original volume of the home and foreground its nearly five-meter ceiling height. By exposing the structure of the apartment and introducing a vivid palette of blue, green, and yellow, the intervention transforms a compact historic interior into an open loft organized around light, height, and flexibility.
 
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The piecemeal approach to repealing and replacing EU regulations highlights the lack of a coherent policy

COLOR TRANSFORMS TECHNICAL FIXTURE INTO INTENTIONAL DESIGN ASSET
 
Too often, conventional restroom fixtures are sidelined as utilitarian objects, but the U-Flow® system by Mediclinics challenges this default architectural neglect. Engineered for high-traffic environments, the hand dryer intersects an ergonomic user experience with technical performance housed within a highly considered outer form. Expanding beyond elemental utility, U-Flow® incorporates an adaptive color palette that shifts the device from a tacked-on afterthought into an intentional extension of bespoke architectural spaces.
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MEDICLINICS RESHAPES THE BASELINE OF SHARED...

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Marco Mazzucconi è un punto fermo della storia degli anni Novanta in Italia. La sua serie di “Informale visto dall’uomo e visto dal cane” è qualcosa di incredibile: porta in superficie la pittura e allo stesso tempo ci fa pensare. Ci lega alla realtà e al modo di percepirla, ci rimanda alla verità e all’interpretazione della stessa, ci parla della forma e dei pensieri che su questa si possono ricamare. Inoltre, si tratta di opere ineccepibili, eseguite con cura maniacale e di grande professionalità. Altro ciclo, declinato in varie maniere, ma sempre di grande forza espressiva e di grande intuizione, è quello che s’intitola “Chance di un capolavoro”. Questo ciclo, declinato nelle sagome di...

Marc Spiegler’s recent guest essay in the New York Times, titled “Art Galleries Are Not Okay,” can only provoke anger and frustration for artists and others trying to live and work in today’s uncertain, Brave New Art World. Spiegler, former global director of Art Basel, echoes Pace Gallery CEO Marc Glimcher’s assertion that the gallery system is broken beyond repair. He worries about the future of galleries, which he calls the “foundation” of the art market. The art world today is unrecognizable to those who built the East Village art scene in the 1980s or fought the right during the Culture Wars of the 1990s, times when artists — not galleries or art fairs — were considered fundamental to...

Brooklyn's South Bushwick Community Church is seeking to raise $2 million after a three-alarm blaze caused devastating damage on Friday, June 19. The 173-year-old Dutch Reformed church caught fire around 1:30 pm on Friday and continued to burn for hours afterward, a New York Fire Department spokesperson told Hyperallergic. The cause of the incident is still under investigation.FDNY members responded to a 3-alarm fire at a church on Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn on Friday afternoon. Units arrived within three minutes of receiving the call and quickly encountered a heavy fire condition. Within 20 minutes, the incident escalated to a third alarm, bringing a… pic.twitter.com/H1RhG38ky4— FDNY (@FDNY) June...

Ryan Heshka has a longtime love of science fiction, four-color printed comics from the 1950s and ‘60s and mid-twentieth-century mutant movie characters. In his comic Frog Wife, he taps into these influences while adding in a dose of contemporary themes, drawing upon not just the “anxiety of nuclear annihilation” that inspired so much twentieth-century pop […]
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The currently highly put-upon National Trust for Historic Preservation nonprofit unanimously elected a new president, the organization announced on Monday. Brent Leggs, formerly the executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, will become the National Trust’s eleventh president since its founding in 1949. Leggs is also joining the institution at a pivotal […]

Police conducting what The Telegraph described as a “routine narcotics raid” at a suburban Paris home discovered a painting by Pablo Picasso that had been stolen from its Singapore-based owner, Artnet News reports. Valued at up to $17 million, the painting has not yet been publicly identified but is reported by French newspaper Le Parisien […]

Thousands of handmade ceramic tiles nest together like a puzzle on the facade of the Torre San Luis hotel in Guadalajara, Mexico. Abstract shapes evocative of a lush garden ecosystem burst across the outdoor wall in a collaboration between Alex Proba and the artisans of Cerámica Suro. Titled “Shape of Movement,” the large-scale public work melds Proba’s organic visual language with a color palette that reflects the local environment. Earthy neutrals, alongside dusty pinks and blues, mimic the sun-drenched landscape, while the dynamic forms appear as if they’re mid-motion. “The work is about the movement we carry through spaces every day,” Proba shares. “I wanted the mural to feel as if the...

The western pediment of the Parthenon, one of the main attractions of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, has been partially restored to its full splendor and was unveiled to the public last Thursday. The western flank of the temple is now viewable in the most complete state it’s been in in over two centuries. The restoration […]

Whether it’s a large-scale wallpaper reproduction of Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” or pages of deconstructed Artforum magazines, David Daigle’s detailed punch-cut compositions delve into the material and conceptual possibilities of layers, depth, and what is revealed or concealed. Daigle’s forthcoming exhibition, The Death of Beauty at Track 16, investigates intersections of identity, consumer culture, and desire through a kind of sedimentary approach to commercial imagery, which he excavates with precise holes each revealing tiny tableaux. This method of décollage, which involves building up the surface and then removing elements, literally peels away the meanings and intentions behind...

The influential pair sit down to discuss the history of their gallery, the circumstances that led to its closure, and why the art world is failing their model.

By Melanie Chapman There is much to appreciate about the new pop-up exhibition Hospital of Emotions, currently on view at St. Vincent Medical Center (2131 W. Third Street, Los Angeles) until July 31. But if you want to maximize the benefits of your visit, avoid the bombardment of images now flooding the internet and even consider not reading this review. Like seeing all the best parts of a movie by watching the trailer, it is better to just go, and go soon, with as little advanced exposure as...

For Willie Cole, the convergence of material and concept are as important as emotional and even spiritual links to history. Whether repurposing salvaged musical instruments, creating enigmatic visages from stacked stilettos, or arranging hundreds of single-use plastic bottles across a surface, his imaginative sculptural assemblages tap into a range of global traditions, eras, and social and environmental issues. Cole explores our associations with physical objects by removing them from the context within which we’re accustomed to encountering them. Time-honored African masking traditions and figurative sculptures made of high heels meet modern symbols of labor and culture, such as repeated ironing board...

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The divine Dame Janet Baker never sang at the Metropolitan, sadly for American audiences.

Miriam Cahn propone una visione e la impone come dato. La retrospettiva al MACRO di Roma, la prima in Italia di questa ampiezza, è un campo di attrito in cui cinquant’anni di opere costringono il corpo a misurarsi con la propria esposizione all’abuso. Guardare, qui, indica essere guardati. Il titolo, Ciò che mi guarda, ribalta la direzionalità dello scrupolo con una minuzia tutt’altro che retorica. Lo spettatore smarrisce qualunque ubicazione esterna: viene convocato in una relazione che esclude neutralità e divario gestibile. Il visivo funziona da contatto diretto, pressione, più che raffigurazione. Curata da Cristiana Perrella e allestita da Didier Fiúza Faustino // Bureau des Mésarchitectures,...

Wolf Trap Opera triumphs in a fizzy, fun Cenerentola.

We had to wait for Marian Anderson to break the color barrier at the Met and many great Black opera singers never had a chance there.

Dallo Studio Tommaseo a una rete internazionale di curatori e artisti: Giuliana Carbi Jesurun racconta il percorso e la visione di un centro culturale che ha deciso di guardare oltre, rivolgendosi a Est, in un progetto che parte negli anni ‘70 e che continua ancora oggi a evolversi.
“Dialoghi Lituani”, 1997, mostra alla Stazione Marittima di Trieste, in primo piano le sculture imbottite di Darius Bastys, foto Tiziano Neppi, courtesy Trieste Contemporanea
Veronica Rinaldi: Ci potrebbe raccontare com’è nata Trieste Contemporanea?
Giuliana Carbi Jesurun: Trieste Contemporanea è nata perché in una Trieste che voleva essere contemporanea era doveroso guardare a Est. I nostri Dialoghi con l’arte...

Durante i giorni della Biennale, Venezia continua a funzionare come un sistema poroso, dove ogni intervento si innesta su stratificazioni già presenti senza mai cancellarle del tutto. In questo contesto, la Cappella di Santa Maria della Pietà accoglie Vessels of Other Worlds di Wallace Chan come una deviazione silenziosa rispetto al flusso espositivo diffuso in città. Non si tratta di un’occupazione dello spazio, ma di una sua lenta modulazione, in cui la materia sembra reagire più che dichiararsi. L’impatto visivo, per chi entra nell’edificio progettato da Giorgio Massari, è un’alterazione improvvisa della luce: la pietra e i marmi storici della chiesa settecentesca entrano in contrasto con la...

Calligraphy is an ancient art with roots across the globe, dating back to early Chinese dynasties and Greek civilization, all through the Italian Renaissance. But one glance at a work by San Francisco-based artist Hunter Saxony III, and your understanding of calligraphy will be turned on its head. In an approach that is varied, yet […]
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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...

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Nello spazio del foglio i segni tracciati da Kazuko Miyamoto si muovono liberi. Gli ideogrammi animano la superficie della pagina in una raffinata sequenza di passi e movimenti, alla stregua di una danza, così come i tocchi di inchiostro e colore sono coinvolti in un moto perpetuo di aggregazione e disgregazione. Sulla carta non esiste possibilità di correzione e ripensamento, e ciò non per puntigliosa ed esteriore regola di gioco, ma perché la scrittura rappresenta il diagramma continuo d’un fluire a cui sono ignote le soste.[1]
Kazuko Miyamoto, “Dancing around the entrance to the cellar”, exhibition view, courtesy Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Roma
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In the popular imagination, artists are often thought to create for the sake of creating, unfettered by the demands of the market-driven world outside their studios. Though many well-known artists have muddled the boundaries between art and commerce (Jeff Koons comes to mind), the two realms have a contentious relationship. Business savvy artists are often […]
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All images courtesy of the artist and GNYP gallery In Aistė Stancikaitė’s painting “Some Time We Walk Together,” two gloved hands are joined by a set of finger cuffs. The connected, silver rings resemble wedding bands. As for the hands, whether they belong to one or two people is up to the viewer to decide. […]
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