David A. Ross, chair of the School of Visual Arts (SVA) MFA Art Practice Department for 17 years, has resigned from his post following the Department of Justice's release of his extensive email exchanges with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Much of the newly revealed correspondence dates from the period during and years after Epstein’s conviction, including an email from January 2015 in which Ross stated that he was “still proud” to call Epstein a friend and that it was “depressing” to see Epstein “once again being dragged through the mud.”A spokesperson for SVA confirmed that the school is aware of the communications between Ross and Epstein, and said in a statement shared with...

Hello from the depths of the freeze. Maybe it's the cabin fever speaking, but I think it's when it's the most brutal out that we turn inward, and the ghosts of the past come to visit. On the eve of that relentless snowstorm, for instance, my call with Morgan Library curator John Marciari transported me to the 17th century, to the moment Caravaggio became the mononymic character that remains so influential today. It's a reminder of how the past makes the present, and the present makes the future. Both links of the chain are at play in our city right now. Writer A. G. Sims walks us through how John Wilson's depictions of American racial violence (which can be seen at The Met through this...

a brick home hides within a lush site
 
With its elongated facade of perforated brickwork, Zero Studio’s Haven House sits on an elevated site within a quiet neighborhood in Valiyannur, India. From the road, the dwelling reads as a low, horizontal volume that settles into the terrain and harness the trees, overgrown plantings, and sky as a lush frame.
 
The architects shape the project through proportion and texture over sculptural gesture. A continuous laterite wall defines the eastern edge, serving as compound and building skin at once. This dense, rust-toned plane gathers the common spaces behind it and gives the house a steady presence along the boundary, while its surfaces register sunlight across the...

The court-ordered raid has resulted in the relocation of nearly 300 works of art, part of the nation’s premier colonial collection

David A. Ross, a writer and curator who led museums nationwide, resigned on Tuesday from his position as chair of the MFA art practice program at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA), a post he had held since 2009, after ARTnews revealed that he makes a number of appearances in the newly released files related to Jeffrey Epstein. The tranche of documents was released by the Justice Department in January as part of the ongoing publication of information related to late sexual offender, who died by suicide in prison in 2019. The correspondence reveals what was apparently a close friendship, and one message seems to elicit financial support for an online magazine Ross worked with. “The School of Visual Arts...

Roberta Fallon, a beloved Philadelphia artist and co-founder of the digital publication Artblog, has died at the age of 76. Fallon passed away in her longtime home city on December 5, 2025, after suffering injuries when a car struck her last November. Colleagues and friends remembered Fallon as a warm and energetic force in the Philadelphia arts community. A forthcoming memorial will be held on March 7th at the Moore College of Art and Design. Alongside fellow artist and writer Libby Rosof, whom she met when their daughters were in kindergarten at the same school, Fallon founded Artblog in 2003. The publication, focused on the local Philadelphia arts scene, gained recognition for centering underrepresented...

In a new catalogue raisonné, scholar Christof Metzger argues that The Painter’s Father (1497), a painting in the collection of London’s National Gallery, is in fact an authentic work by Albrecht Dürer. The Painter’s Father, gifted to King Charles I of England in 1636, has long been thought to be a copy made decades after Dürer’s death in 1528, based on a lost original. But in the new publication Albrecht Dürer: The Complete Paintings, Metzger—a Dürer expert and curator of German art at Vienna’s Albertina Museum—contends that the face is “preserved so well that the painting’s formerly outstanding quality is still perceptible.” He told the Art Newspaper that the London work stands apart...

This spring, LA institutions present retrospectives on iconic local artists and group shows that explore the link between material, spirituality, and community. The Museum of Contemporary Art mounts an exhibition of influential conceptual artist Michael Asher, whose ephemeral works illustrate unseen networks of influence, and a Steve Roden exhibition in Orange County focuses on the maps, scores, and symbols in works on paper that play with our perception. Meanwhile, group shows at the Armory and the Hammer Museum feature contemporary artists who foreground connections between ecology, ritual, and tradition. At the Getty, the Black Arts Movement is considered through the lens of photography, while a sprawling...

Arthur Jafa, "Ex-Slave Gordon" (2017), vacuum-formed plastic (© Arthur Jafa; image courtesy the artist)The motivating query behind Plastics, an art conservation anthology by Anne Gunnison and David Joselit, is simple: “What do we learn about plastics when seen through the lens of art?” The answers to that question, posed by co-editor Caroline Fowler in her introduction, prove complex, given that its artistic uses are as malleable as plastic itself. The book considers plastic through a variety of academic case studies, which cumulatively suggest that humans remain largely oblivious to our uncomfortable intimacy with the material.In the longest and sharpest chapter, art historian Joselit argues that plastic...

A painting by Camille Pissarro in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is under renewed scrutiny over the circumstances of its sale by its former owner, the department store magnate and art collector Max Julius Braunthal. As reported by the New York Times, seven of Braunthal’s heirs have filed suit in a French court, alleging that the painting, Haystacks, Morning, Eragny (1899), was sold under duress in 1941. The Met maintains that Braunthal received fair market value for the work, which depicts several domed haystacks in a verdant, tree-filled meadow in Eragny, the village northwest of Paris where Pissarro lived from 1884 until his death in 1903. Braunthal’s heirs cite a 2023 French law...

After building a museum, memorial and sculpture park, the Equal Justice Initiative opens a new site celebrating Civil Rights Era resistance in Montgomery

Art Basel’s first edition in Doha opened this week with a noticeably different rhythm from the fair’s established outposts in Basel, Paris, Hong Kong, or Miami Beach. The Qatari fair’s format focused on fewer galleries, solo presentations, and a layout that encourages visitors to move slowly. The change was significant and widely praised on the floor by dealers and visitors. Disparate booths were suddenly in conversation with each other yet there was room for both the art, and the visitors, to breathe deeply. Sales, however, were more selective. Many dealers described the opening days less as a rush to transact than as a period of positioning and discovery.  The atmosphere felt closer to an introduction...

“Imagine a world based on a different logic; a universe comprised of the absurd and paradoxes,” prompts Bruno Pontiroli, whose paintings explore the sometimes grotesque tension between the familiar and the uncanny. The artist is known for his absurdist paintings of animals with overly long legs, contorted bodies, or myriad mutant-like heads or limbs. They’re often set amid woodlands or meadows evocative of 18th- and 19th-century academic landscape paintings or depictions of formal hunts. Instead, both domesticated and wild animals graze as normally as they would without dozens of heads or udders attached in unnatural places around their bodies. “De mal en pis” (2025), 70 x 80 centimeters There’s...

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., has announced a new, large-scale partnership with the Art Bridges Foundation. The initiative, called 50 for 50, will bring key artworks by American artists from the Hirshhorn’s collection to smaller museums throughout the US’s 50 states and Puerto Rico. The loans will be long-term, lasting three to five years, and will typically include several artworks chosen by each participating museum that will complement their existing collection or programming. The project will allow for significant artworks that are typically in storage to be enjoyed by American museum-goers in places that don’t have collections nearly as robust as the Hirshhorn’s,...

“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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Sordo Madaleno leads design of collection centre in Debrecen
 
Sordo Madaleno, working with építész stúdió and Buro Happold, has been selected as the winner of the international competition for the 43,000-square-meter New Collection Centre of the Hungarian Museum of Natural History in Debrecen (find designboom’s previous coverage here). Chosen from a shortlist of twelve teams, the project marks the first European cultural commission for the third-generation Mexican practice, which operates between London and Mexico City. The winning scheme focuses on the quieter, long-term work of conservation, research, and scientific stewardship. ‘The Centre’s staff are stewards of the objects, and the...

Fashion reflects and influences culture. The 2026 Vilcek Prizes in Fashion & Design highlight immigrants elevating fashion through design practice, material innovation, makeup, and hairstyling. As part of its mission to uplift immigrants working in the arts and sciences, the Vilcek Foundation has awarded $250,000 to four immigrant fashion professionals: Peter Do, Jacques Agbobly, Marcelo Gutierrez, and Uyen Tran.  These prizes underscore the significance of immigrants and fashion to culture in the United States by recognizing the foreign-born individuals who bring their voices, cultural memories, and immigrant experiences to their work. Their unique creations not only capture the current cultural landscape...

Loneliness and longing in Emi Yagi's new novel

The new Lawh Wa Qalam: M.F Husain museum in Doha is based on a sketch by the artist himself. We spoke to the architect Martand Khosla about how he translated the drawing into a functioning building

Amita Shenoy, curatorial consultant to the brand-new Doha institution dedicated to work of M.F. Husain, picks out some highlights

Lawh Wa Qalam: M.F. Husain Museum is a modern cultural learning space where visitors can explore the artist’s work but also engage with a new model for educational arts practice in Qatar

The organizers of the SITE Santa Fe International Biennial today announced the appointment of Ekow Eshun as curator of the biennial’s thirteenth iteration, opening summer 2027 and running through 2028. Eshun, a former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, was the first Black person to helm a major UK arts institution. He is currently […]

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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...

Wenting Zhu and the team at Beauty of Science have released another visual ode to nature’s processes. “Crystal Garden: Seasons” features more than 100 chemical compounds manipulated with various pigments to create a kaleidoscope of colorful growths that spring up and crawl across the tiny, round vessels. Zhu writes about the project: “Garden serves as a metaphor for the meeting of the natural and the man-made. A garden is a space where nature and human intention intertwine: neither wholly wild nor entirely artificial.” Find more on Beauty of Science’s Behance and website. You also might enjoy the studio’s study of molds and salt. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal...

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Cycling station in taiwan provides shelter under lotus roof
 
Floating above the ground of Dapo Pond wetland in Taitung, Taiwan, the Tie-Ma Cycling Station reimagines the infrastructure of rest. Designed by Studio APL and Lin Ko-Fang Architects, the public ‘lotus garden’ creates a sanctuary for cyclists traversing the region’s East Rift Valley. Stones discovered during foundation excavation were transformed into breathable gabions walls and steel shaped into organic canopies. The project dissolves the boundary between bicycle station and the wetland ecosystem. Currently in its first completed phase, this resilient landscape architecture acts not as a barrier, but as a porous interface connecting the...

99designs studies over 700 book covers from the New york Times
 
Who shapes the look of a bestseller, and how closely does it mirror the cultural moment it emerges from? 99designs by Vista set out to answer that question by analyzing more than 700 number-one titles from The New York Times weekly bestseller list, tracing 25 years of book cover design from the aftermath of 9/11 to the rise of #BookTok. The study examines how global events, social media, and shifting reader behaviors have influenced color palettes, typography, imagery, and genre dominance across the US publishing landscape, while also comparing these findings with thousands of book covers created by freelance designers on the 99designs...

RGB 2.0 by love hultén is a modern wooden synthesizer
 
Love Hultén is back with the second version of his RGB Stepper Motor Driven Synth, a modern wooden synthesizer inspired by vintage reel-to-reel tape player. The instrument is housed in a wooden cabinet-like material with visible grain, giving it the impression of a handcrafted piece of furniture. There at the front panel lie three rotating discs colored in red, green, and blue. 
 
At the lower section, three stacked keyboard rows allow users to play notes, sequences, or control parameters. Above the keyboards are the switches and knobs to control the sounds. These rotating disks resemble reels from early tape machines or industrial control dials....

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Mimi Plumb spent more than five decades observing the western United States subtle disquiet and enduring beauty. She was born in 1953 and raised in the San Francisco suburb of Walnut Creek. As a teenager, she began taking photographs, capturing the rhythms of suburban life during a decade of profound upheaval. In her early series The White Sky, Plumb depicts adolescents navigating uniform streets and abandoned construction sites, rendering the harsh Californian light with an intensity that amplifies both the absurdity and the pathos of everyday existence. Her images convey an empathy for her subjects whilst also registering the tension between human aspiration and the constrictions of environment. Her work...

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In Pain Chain Lucia Tkáčová mette in gioco per la prima volta in modo diretto la propria storia personale, assumendo l’autobiografia non come racconto, ma come materia strutturale dell’opera. Il progetto nasce da un’esperienza prolungata di convivenza con la dipendenza – non vissuta in prima persona, ma interiorizzata attraverso legami familiari segnati dall’alcolismo – e si concentra su quella zona grigia e spesso invisibile che è la codipendenza: una condizione relazionale che produce identità fragili, senso di colpa, iper-responsabilità e annullamento del sé.
Lucia Tkáčová, “Pain Chain”, installation view at Albumarte, Roma, ph. Giorgio Benni, courtesy Albumarte
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In 2014, Matt Saunders traveled to Dallas to see “The Art of Leadership: A President’s Personal Diplomacy” at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, an exhibition of paintings by the former president. He puzzled over the works in a column published in Artforum’s Summer 2014 issue: “The ex-president defines himself as a painter, but do […]

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will go dark for two years while it undergoes renovations. President Donald Trump wrote in a statement posted to Truth Social that the center “will close on July 4th, 2026, in honor of the 250th Anniversary of our Country, whereupon we will simultaneously begin Construction of […]

The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), a leading light of the Glasgow experimental and contemporary art scene and a mainstay in the larger Scottish art scene, is closing after thirty-three years in operation. All thirty-nine of it staff will lose their jobs. The Art Newspaper reports that Creative Scotland, which owned the building in which […]

On a promontory in eastern Portugal overlooking the Hispano-Portuguese plateau and the gorges of the Rio Erges, a spherical installation sits amid brush and old stone walls. A project of Paris-based studio Atelier YokYok, “Ninho Globo” is made of a local black rock called schist. The material lends a dramatic effect in contrast to the sky and the windswept area of Salvaterra do Extremo, a town nestled in this rocky area bordering Spain. Atelier YokYok is a three-person design studio founded by architects Samson Lacoste and Luc Pinsard and joined by Laure Qaremy. Evocative of Andy Goldworthy’s slate interventions in the form of portals and cones, “Ninho Globo” evokes a nest, a planet, or a giant seed...

Con Same old, same old, Berlinde De Bruyckere – artista belga nata nel 1964 – torna a interrogare una delle questioni più radicali della sua ricerca: la persistenza del corpo come luogo di conflitto, memoria e trasformazione. La mostra, ospitata da Galleria Continua a San Gimignano, si configura anche come un estratto e una rielaborazione del progetto presentato dall’artista a Frieze Masters, estendendo e approfondendo in un contesto più raccolto e meditativo alcune delle traiettorie emerse in quella occasione. Non si tratta di una semplice trasposizione, ma di un nuovo montaggio critico, capace di far emergere connessioni latenti tra opere e temi ricorrenti.
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Decades before the advent of photography, when European scientists and explorers were undertaking global expeditions and collecting flora and fauna from around the world, art and science converged in fields of medicine, anthropology, and natural history. During the Enlightenment, artists like Elizabeth Blackwell, John Gould, and Elizabeth Gould—among many, many others—documented botanicals, avians, insects, marine species, and more, many of which were published in hefty volumes and archived in museum collections. Sarah Stone (1759-1844) was a British illustrator and the daughter of a fan painter, whose rich depictions of birds and artifacts highlight a singular talent during an era when women weren’t...

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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...

Photography’s relationship to fashion has long been defined by surface and spectacle. This year, a series of exhibitions across Europe foreground a different set of concerns: memory, authorship and the politics of representation. Nhu Xuan Hua’s digitally reworked family photographs are marked by migration and intergenerational silence, whilst Rico Puhlmann’s fashion imagery is reimagined by a new generation of photographers. Elsewhere, carefully staged still lifes, queer portraiture and redefined fashion bodies point to photography’s continued capacity to adapt. The exhibitions gathered here question who is visible within photographic history and on what terms, pushing the trajectory of the medium in...

In the Secret Lives of Colour (2016), author Kassia St. Clair recounts the remarkable story of Prussian Blue. It was discovered by accident in the early 1700s, when a paint manufacturer ran out of an ingredient for red pigment. It has since been used extensively in the art world, by everyone from Claude Monet to Anish Kapoor, as well as in pioneering “blueprints” by Sir John Herschel and Anna Atkins. A similar shade is central to Marie Dreezen’s The Bluest of Days, an eerie collection in which sandy beaches – rendered exclusively in blue – appear floodlit by spectral shapes. Windows, projected by an unknown force, appear across empty dunes. There is a feeling of estrangement; these locations, usually...

Scholars Andrew Higgott and Timothy Wray state that “the photograph is not ‘taken’, as in common parlance, but ‘made’.” Far from frozen truths, any pictures we see physically or digitally, circulated at truly overwhelming rates, must be understood as constructions. In the age of the Internet and AI, it is necessary to stay vigilant about how visual media is never neutral, but instead provides a carefully assembled, often manipulated representation of a person or place. This should lead us, as viewers, to a constant, essential – if tiresome – line of questioning: who made the image, and why? A new book by Professor Ari Seligmann – author, longtime researcher in Japan, and Associate Dean of...

 
The Shutter Hub OPEN 2026 opened on 19 January 2026 at Art at the ARB at Cambridge University and launched on the 24 January with a private view attended by over 200 guests. The exhibition, which runs until 02 April 2025 and will be part of the Cambridge Festival, brings together 120 international photographers in a selected exhibition promoting the future of photography through diverse and creative imagery – taking over four floors of the ARB building at Cambridge University, transforming the space and covering the walls with hundreds of images printed by our favourite newspaper print partners Newspaper Club.
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La maggior parte delle persone pensa che Torino sia stata una città centrale per l’Arte Povera, sia perché molti artisti vi risiedevano e poi perché in quegli anni di piombo vi operavano gallerie come Gian Enzo Sperone, Tucci Russo e Christian Stein. In realtà anche Genova è stata un punto di riferimento importante. Basti pensare a Ida Gianelli (che in seguito diventerà direttrice del Castello di Rivoli) e a tutto il lavoro di supporto che diede agli autori sostenuti da Germano Celant con l’attività della Saman Gallery, a partire dal 1972. Ricordiamo in particolare le mostre dedicate a Giovanni Anselmo, Sol LeWitt, Giuseppe Penone, Hans Haacke e così via. Ovviamente non sono mancate altre gallerie,...

Francesco Lauretta è nato a Ispica, nel 1964, e dopo aver trascorso alcuni anni a Torino è approdato e Firenze, dove attualmente risiede e ha lo studio. È un artista poliedrico che declina la pittura di impianto figurativo con le installazioni, la scultura e i materiali più eterogenei. La rivista si è occupata di lui in varie riprese, dedicandogli una copertina e organizzandogli una mostra nel lontano 2005: “Tenetevi svegli!”. Ora, in occasione della sua mostra da Giovanni Bonelli, abbiamo incontrato l’autore per percorrere assieme a lui i contenuti di questa nuova avventura.
Vista parziale della mostra “Parade” di Francesco Lauretta alla Galleria Giovanni Bonelli di Milano. Ph Francesca...

With dye-like paints on raw linen, Pedro Pedro creates vivid still lifes. He depicts bounties of fruit, large
bouquets of flowers in full bloom, piles of clothes, and tables overflowing with art supplies—juxtaposing
both tidy and disheveled scenes of abundance throughout his body of work... Read the full article by clicking above!
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Todd Schorr creates weird and ambitious works that feel like fever dreams about death, sex, and a fear that the good times are long gone. Read the full article by clicking above!
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Written and edited by Tanlume Enyatseng, this studio conversation brings Congolese painter MUMBY and photographer Hélène Feuillebois together to reflect on presence, visibility, and the quiet labour of being seen in contemporary Paris. © Hélène […]

‘Sunkissed’ examines visual culture in a rapidly transforming Gulf Ahaad Alamoudi, Those Who Don’t Know Falcons Grill Them (still), (2018). Image courtesy of the artist. Ahaad Alamoudi’s exhibition ‘Sunkissed’, presented at Sharjah Art Foundation, unites […]

Murals and installations across a historic neighbourhood in Dubai Courtesy of Dubai Culture & Arts Authority. The 14th edition of Sikka Art & Design Festival transforms Al Shindagha Historic Neighbourhood into an open-air site for […]

Suzanne Gibson is creating new pieces with new energy and focus. At 50+, their work is more self-dedicated—not about what others expect from them. Me painting in Utah, 2024, photo by event photographer, used by permission for personal use and promotion What's actually hard about being an artist at this point?  Being available for themselves. Someone just turned 50 and wants to start making art—what do they tell them? Let's do this. Let's play!!! Do they try to keep up with what matters in the...

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A focused fair platform for contemporary African art within Art Basel Week October Gallery Booth at Africa Basel 2025 with works by Zana Masombuka, LR Vandy, Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, Xanthe Somers, and Alexis Peskine. Courtesy […]

Karen Dabrowska on an exhibition reframing post-independence Sudanese art beyond images of war © Bakri Bilal Vibrant colours that radiate positivity, hope and inspiration characterise the works of Sudan’s second generation of artists. These artists […]

In some ways, Di Piazza’s work is influenced by his own environment. Although he was born in Syracuse, Sicily, Di Piazza was raised and continues to reside in Palermo. He describes the ancient city as a “melting pot,”... Read the full article by clicking above!
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