TORONTO — Kimsooja held her first North American solo exhibition, Soo-ja Kim: A Laundry Field/Sewing into Walking, Looking into Sewing, nearly 30 years ago. Organized at the Oakville Galleries, a contemporary art museum in an affluent Lake Ontario town approximately 22 miles (~35.4 km) west of Toronto, the artist had the Centennial Gallery walls painted black and hung dozens of colorful, used Korean bedcovers from clotheslines. “There is a swirling energy from the overhead fans as the bedcovers create alleyways for the viewer to walk through or between,” writes Oakville Galleries Curator of Contemporary Art Marnie Fleming in the exhibition catalog. “Wind generated movement becomes animation as Kim...

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi took another significant step toward its December 11 opening, naming Valerie Hillings as the institution’s inaugural director. In choosing Hillings, the Guggenheim tapped a trusted name for the high-profile appointment. She spent five years on the Guggenheim’s staff in New York before joining the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project in 2008 as curator and associate director of curatorial affairs. She worked alongside the Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi through 2018, laying the groundwork for its acquisition strategy and curatorial focus on art from West Asia, North Africa, and South Asia from 1960 onward.  “I am honored to return to Abu Dhabi to complete the...

In the voluptuous ceramics of En Iwamura, sweeping lines of clay frame minuscule eyes and noses that just barely emerge from the earthen material. The artist is based in the iconic pottery town of Shigaraki in Japan’s Shiga Prefecture and is known for his expressive yet abstract sculptures. Evoking playful depictions of masks and busts, the works are often vibrant in color, featuring bold gradients or two-toned combinations. Iwamura has long drawn on the concept of Ma, or “間,” which translates to gap or pause. In the artist’s practice, the idea appears both conceptually and holistically. He’s interested in the ways we measure and understand the spaces between ourselves and others and how those...

A seven-foot-tall marble statue from the 5th century BCE has emerged from under what used to be a Roman roadway in the ancient city of Sardis, in western Turkey, reports Heritage Daily. A UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Salihli district of Manisa Province, the city served at the time as the capital of the western satrapy of the Achaemenid Persian empire and of the kingdom of Lydia. According to Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, who posted about the discovery on Facebook, the sculpture, dated between 470 and 450 BCE, is one of the rare surviving examples of monumental marble statuary from the period. After conservation work is complete, the statue will go on view at Turkey’s...

Multimillionaire Brazilian art collector Bernardo Paz, the founder of museum and sculpture garden Instituto Inhotim, is developing a new museum and accompanying botanical garden that will sit directly next to Inhotim, according to reports. Paz is currently leading and funding the new, as yet unnamed museum project, which will eventually function as a nonprofit.  Like […]

"Hands are like a language," Iris van Herpen says as we pleat a textile together inside the recreated atelier at the center of Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses. “Each pair that joins me in creating this dress will influence the DNA of the garment.” A first of its kind, the live installation at the Brooklyn Museum invites visitors to work alongside the Dutch fashion designer in creating a garment that will evolve over the course of the show’s run. “I want to share the most beautiful part of my work — the craftsmanship — in a really intimate setting,” van Herpen tells Hyperallergic in an interview. “My atelier is my most sacred space.” Based in the Netherlands, she will periodically...

Campaigners, politicians, and arts figures are calling on the Scottish government to intervene over the possible sale of the archive of Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, according to The Art Newspaper. The collection was listed among the assets of the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), which was recently deemed insolvent. The collapse came despite a significant injection of public money. The BBC reported in January that the CCA had secured more than $4.5 million in three-year funding from Creative Scotland only a year before its closure. The organization had been struggling for years, however. It was forced to close for six months after the 2018 Glasgow School of Art fire, temporarily shut again...

For the fiscal year 2027, the federal government has proposed lowering the Smithsonian Institution‘s budget to $961.3 million, the lowest prospective funding level since 2020. The submitted budget represents an 11% cut from the $1.08 billion allocated to the Smithsonian in 2026.  This move is just the latest in a long series of deliberate attempts […]

For the dog days of August, we’ve got several shows that turn away from grand artistic gestures toward the intimate, personal, and everyday. Lisson showcases Spencer Finch’s torn-envelope interventions, bits of painted and collaged wonder. Textiles as Monument at the Fowler Museum features three artists who use soft materials to memorialize those excluded from mainstream historical recognition. A show honoring the longstanding, recently demolished Echo Park restaurant Taix tries to capture its eccentric charm as a home for neighborhood regulars and Gen-Z bohemians alike. And a show at Roberts Projects focused on the garment, jewelry, and costume design of the late assemblage art pioneer Betye Saar shines a...

Artist and curator Michelle Grabner has donated over 2000 pieces of artwork to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The gift makes JMKAC the single largest holder of Grabner’s works in the world.  The donated works span across Grabner’s career beginning in the 1990s and consist of 1200 prints and photographs, […]

On Tuesday, Art Week NYC, the soon-to-launch annual citywide celebration of contemporary art presented by ARTnews, Art in America, and Artforum, announced the galleries participating in its gallery program. Seventy-six galleries are set to participate in the inaugural edition of the event, set to take place November 11–14. Among those participating are blue-chip enterprises like Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, David Zwirner, Pace Gallery, White Cube, Perrotin, Lisson, and Paula Cooper. Other galleries run the gamut from emerging to midsize, and are located across the city’s gallery districts, including Chelsea, Tribeca, the Lower East Side, and the Upper East Side. “Our vision for Art Week NYC began with the...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The National Gallery has been criticized after spending £250,000 on its NG Citizens program. Royal Museums Greenwich staff have voted for industrial action over pay, conditions, and workplace reforms. London’s mayor has defended free entry to the capital’s national museums, arguing that culture should remain accessible regardless of income or background. The Headlines LAND OF THE FREE. London mayor Sadiq Khan has defended free entry to the capital’s national museums, arguing that culture should remain accessible regardless of income or background. In an op-ed for LBC, Khan...

Francisco Correa Cordero, whose ten-year-old Lubov gallery was a beacon for emerging artists, died on August 2 in a Manhattan hospital. He was thirty-seven. His death was announced by his gallery in an Instagram post, which noted that Cordero “passed away peacefully surrounded by what he loved the most—his chosen family, laughter and so much […]

The work, created by the young friar-artist and updated later by Lorenzo di Credi, has undergone careful repair and cleaning

In 2023, Minnesota-based artist Lydia Hansen set a goal of taking at least one hike every week throughout the entire year to care for her mental health. She began musing about how fun it would be to create crocheted mushrooms that one would encounter with the same surprise they’d feel coming across the real thing. Serendipitously, she ran into one of the trail managers of the park she was exploring and shared her idea. “That turned into my very first Fungi Hunt, which ran for an entire year at the Lost Creek Hiking Trail near Chatfield, Minnesota,” the artist tells Colossal. This summer marks the third iteration of the project, which visitors can explore at Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center in...

MAD completes its coastal museum after eight years
 
Across the edge of Houhai, where Shenzhen’s headquarters district meets Talent Park and the open water, MAD has completed Shenzhen Bay Culture Square after eight years of work. The 188,000-square-meter museum sits on a reclaimed site facing Hong Kong, with mangrove wetlands continuing along China‘s shoreline.
 
Its scale is immense, though the first impression comes through a broken silhouette. White granite volumes rise separately from green slopes, leaving the bay visible between them and giving the complex the appearance of stones exposed by retreating water.
 
The finished complex reveals how closely its architecture depends on the spaces between...

A MONUMENT ARRIVES AT BOFILL’S LA FÁBRICA
 
Three hundred kilograms of silvery rock have landed at La Fábrica, looking less like a discreet new artwork than the beginning of a particularly elegant science-fiction incident. Created by artist Luna Paiva, Totem stacks a series of imagined stones cast in stainless steel, introducing a reflective, almost otherworldly presence into the industrial architecture of Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. For Paiva, however, the staging of the object matters as much as the object itself: how it was made, where it stands and, crucially, who helped bring it there.
 
The sculpture draws on archaeological patterns shared by civilisations across different periods and...

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Jisu Yoon introduces Re-flat pack foldable furniture system
 
Seoul-based industrial designer Jisu Yoon introduces Re-flat pack sofa, a furniture system that explores the possibility of repeatedly folding and unfolding a sofa through the use of shape-memory materials. The design replaces conventional foam upholstery with nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy typically used in medical stents and aerospace mechanisms, allowing the material to function simultaneously as the structure and cushioning system.
 
The project begins from a limitation of traditional flat-pack furniture: while existing systems simplify transportation and assembly, most pieces cannot return to their original compact form after being built....

Today, Art Week NYC announced the participating galleries for its inaugural citywide event taking place November 11–14, 2026. The gallery program, presented by Artforum, is the cornerstone of the inaugural event, bringing together more than 76 world renowned galleries shaping the contemporary art world.  Participating galleries include Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, David Zwirner, Pace Gallery, Lisson, Paula Cooper Gallery, and many others across New York’s gallery districts, […]

A house spins out of control in a wind storm, animals loom large in the imaginations of children, and mysterious creatures lurk in the darkness of Susan kae Grant’s shadow puppet-like photographs. For more than two decades, the artist has plumbed the mind’s eye, especially what it sees when we sleep. In the early 1990s, she even began collaborating with a researcher in a sleep laboratory at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Study and documentation of what she visualized in her own REM cycle led to phrases and vocabulary about what she dreamt that she continues to tap into for her studio work. Forthcoming this autumn from MW Editions, Grant’s book Night Journey delves into her lifelong fascination with the...

The bonkers, bewildering Die ägyptische Helena begets a suitably lush musical and creative treatment at Bard SummerScape.

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‘Free museums and galleries are a fundamental part of London life’, says the long-serving Labour mayor in a new op-ed

The seventh-century Anglo-Saxon burial ship is due to take to the water in May 2027, following a lengthy reconstruction process working from decayed remains

Luxembourg’s banks as a site for creative inquiry
 
Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, SUPERFLEX, and museum visitors have come together to create something this small European country is big on: banks. Throughout the summer of 2026, members of the community are invited to Mudam to co-create The Bank, which will result in a permanent installation for the surrounding Park Dräi Eechelen. Here, a bank isn’t merely a place to hold money—it could be a site for storing ideas, containers for critters to stow away their treasures, or a central point for collecting and distributing food. Using molds created by the Copenhagen-based artist collective, kids and curious adults will shape...

YACADEMY BRIDGES EDUCATION WITH GLOBAL PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES
 
Stepping directly from university into world-class studios is every young designer’s dream. Bridging theory and practice, Yacademy’s Placement Program turns that ambition into reality by providing students with a direct pipeline into leading world-renowned firms like SANAA, BIG, Snøhetta, David Chipperfield Architects, Herzog & de Meuron, and Kengo Kuma & Associates. A total of 32 scholarships are available for applicants to the four courses running from November 2026 to February 2027.
Scholarships available for Yacademy’s 2026/2027 Educational Offer | all images courtesy of Yacademy
 
 
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Just when we thought tech companies couldn’t get more odious, they took a page from the long, tyrannical tradition of book burning. Author and bibliophile Ed Simon opines today about the horrific revelation that Anthropic scanned and then shredded out-of-print books to train its large language models, a shameless act of artistic plunder aimed at gutting our humanity. Read and share, and take this as a sign to support your local library while you’re at it.Meanwhile, artists continue to offer glimmers of hope in unexpected places. Case in point: psychedelic pickleball courts in Pittsburgh (say that five times fast). A co-founder of the experimental collective Hilma’s Ghost and proponent of public art,...

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An exploration of scientific studies on art and health, short-listed for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction

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Jelena e Nataša Prljević sono artiste, operatrici culturali ed educatrici serbe. Nel 2018 a New York, insieme all’artista Joshua Nierodzinski, hanno dato vita a HEKLER, una piattaforma collaborativa transnazionale che esplora le relazioni tra ospitalità e conflitto attraverso programmi come Assembly, Host e Medium. Questa pratica ha ispirato Four Waters, a Ljubanje, in Serbia, una casa indipendente, un punto d’incontro e un rifugio per artisti e comunità, che fonde strategie artistiche, curatoriali, pedagogiche e organizzative, ponendo al centro il potenziale liberatorio del lavoro collaborativo e collettivo.
Jelena Prljević, “Baba Bosiljka Prljević, Ljubanje”, 2020. Ph courtesy of the...

Lubov's statement on the passing of gallery founder Francisco Correa Cordero (screenshot via Instagram)Francisco Correa Cordero, the founder of the downtown New York gallery Lubov, died on Sunday, August 2, at the age of 37. The news of his passing was announced by the gallery’s Instagram account today, August 3. The cause of death was not listed, but the gallery said in its statement that he passed away "surrounded by what he loved the most — his chosen family, laughter and so much love."

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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Known for their monumental murals, which span entire public squares, rooftops, playing fields, and more, Ella & Pitr bring eccentric joy to urban spaces. The artists often represent people from historically marginalized groups, including refugees and the elderly. Sometimes laughing, other times sleeping or passing the time in quietude, these giant figures curl around fountains and wedge into parking areas in an expression of joy, resilience, and individuality. The duo are slated for an exhibition at Galerie Jonathan Roze in Rennes, France, titled Points de Suspension. Explore more on Instagram. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts...

The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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After spending many years painting, Agata Iwaszkiewicz picked up a ball of clay for the first time at 41 and felt a change. “I knew I’d found what I had been looking for,” she tells Colossal. “Working with clay felt completely natural. Ideas came effortlessly, and I immediately had a clear vision for what I wanted to build with my new business.” Ceramika Matylda was born. The Gdańsk, Poland-based artist is particularly drawn to animals, especially dogs. Their playful, quirky, cartoonish faces and spaghetti-like limbs are both relatable and slightly unfamiliar, tapping into a sense of sentimentality and curiosity. “My newest collection of poodles was inspired by my own dog, Rudolf, who passed away...

Experts fear the explosions’ proximity to the site has caused damage, but cannot assess this while the area remains under Israeli occupation

Just in time for this month's theme of filth or dementia, a review of Terrence McNally's Master Class from Central City Opera.

Ma che brutta figura per la lirica!

Beatriz Morales (Città del Messico, 1981) vive e lavora tra Hidalgo e Berlino. La sua pratica si origina nella pittura, ma ne sottopone progressivamente a verifica i confini, estendendo il gesto cromatico alla fibra, alla scultura e all’installazione. Il passaggio dalla superficie allo spazio non coincide tuttavia con un abbandono del linguaggio pittorico. Il colore continua ad agire come principio strutturante, assumendo consistenza materiale, profondità simbolica e valore culturale. Tecniche tessili, fibre vegetali e pigmenti non sono trattati come semplici risorse formali, ma come depositi di conoscenza. La materia trattiene temporalità, gesti, economie, storie di estrazione e pratiche di trasmissione....

By Victoria Thomas Photographer and ceramic artist Catherine (Cathy) Opie first shocked and rocked the fine art world with her self-portraits during the late 1990s. Today, her decades of work — often termed confessional — now serve as context for the far more enigmatic Holding Blue installation, on view at Regen Projects through July 3. The Los Angeles-based artist identifies as a leather dyke, lesbian cowboy, an elder, and as "Mama Cathy," with a mustachioed male alter-ego named Bo. Opie is...

The Bayerische Staatsoper’s summer festival wound down with Lotte de Beer’s darkly effective production of Gounod ’sFaust.

I sort of have a love/hate fascination with countertenors/male falsettists.

Prima istituzione d’arte contemporanea fondata oltre la vecchia Cortina di Ferro, il Ludwig Múzeum di Budapest si conferma un osservatorio geopolitico e culturale imprescindibile per decifrare le traiettorie dell’Est Europa. Nato nel 1989 dalla lungimirante donazione dei collezionisti tedeschi Peter e Irene Ludwig, il museo ha esordito nel 1991 tra le mura storiche del Palazzo Reale di Buda, per poi trovare la sua collocazione definitiva, nel 2005, negli spazi monumentali e avveniristici del Müpa, l’avamposto architettonico del Palazzo delle Arti affacciato sul Danubio.
István Csákány (Sepsiszentgyörgy, 1978), “The Sewing Room / Ghost Keeping”, 2012 (dettaglio dall’installazione). Veduta...

Entrando negli spazi privati di fondaco in Largo Forcella 8 ad Atri, adibiti a luogo espositivo in occasione della collettiva “Adagio” dei cinque pittori Benyamin Zolfaghari, Enrico Pierotti, Andrea Lucchesi, Lorenzo Di Lucido, Andrea Astolfi, respiro un’aria serena: ad accogliermi c’è uno spazio rimasto fermo nel tempo, intriso di ricordi familiari, una sorta di grotta in mattoni e pietra datata tra Settecento e Ottocento, fatta di cunicoli e scale senza uscita, ampie arcate e nicchie immerse tra luci e ombre, come stanze della memoria o del pensiero umano.
AA.VV., “Adagio”, installation view at fondaco, Atri, 2026, courtesy of the artists
L’artista atriano Andrea Astolfi fa gli onori di casa...

Siamo a Villa Marigola, a Lerici, all’interno del Lerici Music Festival, “Musica, Immagini e Parole dall’Acqua” con la mostra I miei orizzonti e tu di Giovanni Ozzola, a cura di Carlo Orsini e in collaborazione con Galleria Continua.
Giovanni Ozzola, vista parziale della mostra “I miei orizzonti e tu”, alla Fondazione Lerici. In primo piano a parete: “Untitled – a fine primavera”, 2026 e “Untitled – with a view”, 2026; sullo sfondo: “Venezia – faro di notte”, 2026. Foto di Fabio Gianardi, courtesy Lerici Music Festival 2026
Nella mostra sono presenti fotografia, scultura, installazione e video concepiti per il contesto del Golfo dei Poeti e con il mare che diviene metafora...

“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...

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By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...

Common Objects brings together the work of 97 photographers from across the globe to explore the role of the image and its ability to shape perception. Organized not by theme or geography but by visual association, the book draws on the logic of the reference catalog—a structure built for sustained, democratic looking. Within it, photographs from vastly different cultures and contexts find themselves in unexpected proximity, generating connections and contrasts that no single image could produce alone. In this format, the photographs enter into a subtle dialogue with one another, revealing how context, sequence, and framing shape interpretation and inform visual experience.  
   
   
   
   
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By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...

It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...