Despite the vocal testimony against the project, the National Capital Planning Commission voted overwhelmingly in favour of the arch

Welcome to the 340th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Stacy Bogdonoff follows artists' exhibitions around New York City and yearns for more s p a c e.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Stacy Bogdonoff, Kent, ConnecticutHow long have you been working in this space?Ten years.Describe an average day in your studio.Summer: Studio in the late afternoon/evening, after biking and being outdoors. Winter: Early in, poke around studio all day, occasional nap, graze the refrigerator, work/work/work....

Rodney Mims Cook Jr, the chairman of the commission overseeing Trump's makeover of Washington, is the first US official to attend in nearly a decade—and spoke on a panel calling for a “dialogue of cultures”

A woman claiming to be the sole heir to the Austrian subject of a long-lost Gustav Klimt painting has sued for restitution of the portrait, which came to auction at the small Austrian auction house Im Kinsky in 2024. The painting sold on a single bid for $37.5 million, setting a record for any artwork sold at auction in Austria, but the bidder, a Hong Kong collector represented by Patti Wong and Associates, withdrew their offer after the sale. South Carolina–based Patricia J. Leahy, on her own behalf and that of Nickolas Johann Kraft and Hans Lieser, filed a suit in New York State Supreme Court on Thursday. The suit names Austria’s Eva Ropper and the auction house as defendants. Leahy is represented by...

As rising costs and a softer market force dealers to rethink their strategies, galleries across the capital are experimenting with new business models

By A. Laura Brody What is the language of bat senses and beaver teethmarks? How does water communicate to soil and roots, and how do we translate the paths left by burrowing insects or the markings of trees? These are questions asked by the Journal of Therolinguistics exhibition at Descanso Gardens' Boddy House, on view now until July 5, 2026. Oscar Salguero has curated a fascinating exploration of the expressive worlds of plants and animals brought to life by international artists Aistė...

A few miles northwest of Downtown Los Angeles and Skid Row, St. Vincent Medical Center is considered one of the city’s most historical hospitals, having supported Angelenos since the 19th century. Vacant since 2020, the center is slated to become a full-service campus aimed at supporting people with addiction, mental health concerns, housing insecurity, and more. This transformation will begin in the next few months with a final target opening date in 2028 and a wholesale takeover in the meantime. Through July 31, visitors experience an alternative vision for communal healing, all through the lens of 70 artists. Dubbed the Hospital of Emotions, the pop-up exhibition converts 80 rooms into temporary...

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, "Bust of Urban VIII" (1630–31), bronze and porphyry, a rare example of the artist's use of several materials for a bust. (all photos Anthony Majanlahti/Hyperallergic)ROME — Sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini was essential to the appearance of Baroque Rome, and Pope Urban VIII Barberini was essential to Bernini. In many ways, the exhibition Bernini e i Barberini is an echo of its predecessor, Caravaggio 2025, though with a more specific focus: the relationship between the artist and the pope, his most important patron. In this, its curators have succeeded, if incompletely. The exhibition is relatively small, fitting into the available space on the ground floor of the east...

LEGO translates Barcelona’s impossible basilica
 
In Barcelona, the Sagrada Família rises above the Eixample with the strange familiarity of a building still becoming itself, its stone surfaces moving between church, organism, and construction site. Now that long architectural story has been translated into LEGO bricks, as the LEGO Group unveils a new Architecture set dedicated to Antoni Gaudí’s basilica during the centenary year of the Spanish architect’s death.
 
The LEGO Architecture Sagrada Família set arrives as the largest LEGO set by piece count, with 12,060 elements forming a compact version of one of the world’s most ambitious religious buildings.
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Ruby City presents Tracey Rose, a solo exhibition by the internationally acclaimed South African artist, opening on June 6. Featuring the visceral video performance TKO (2000) alongside a rarely seen suite of 62 drawings shown together for the first time, the exhibition offers an intimate look into Rose’s groundbreaking multidisciplinary practice.Created during her 2000 residency at Artpace, the works explore endurance, identity, vulnerability, and transformation through boxing, gesture, intuitive drawing, and repetition. In TKO, Rose repeatedly strikes a heavy bag fitted with cameras, transforming physical impact into a meditation on creativity, visibility, and resistance. Developed after two years of...

Good Morning! The largest James Turrell Skyspace made for a museum will open at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum.  A 236-foot superyacht is debuting a traveling, “museum-grade” exhibition for exclusive guests, starting in Monaco. Abram Champanier’s New Deal mural, restored and reunited, will go on view at the Museum of the City of New York. The Headlines SEEING (AND PAINTING) THE LIGHT. James Turrell is debuting his largest Skyspace to date in a museum setting, at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, opening June 19, according to the Financial Times. “I always wanted people to value light,” said the American artist, who uses light and color as his media, often shifting the viewer’s sense of...

Dancer’s Fountain sold for €4m, after it was returned by the artist's museum to the heirs of Jewish collector Heinrich Stahl

In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about cultural heritage at risk in Yemen, speaks to E. Carmen Ramos on the new American flag exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and discusses one of Felix Gonzalez-Torres's wrapped candies sculptures on view at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

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Elsa Dreisig, Jonas Kaufmann, and Malin Byström lead recent album releases.

Once thought to have originated in Wales, like the rest of the 4,500-year-old monument’s bluestones, Stonehenge’s altar stone has recently been traced through geological fingerprinting to Scotland. The question of how the megalith made the 435-mile journey from there to Salsbury Plain in England is now the focus of a study by scientists at Curtin University in Australia in collaboration with experts from Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Sheffield, Wessex Archaeology, and the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.  Their findings were published June 4 in the Journal of Quaternary Science. Stonehenge was built in stages by Neolithic and Bronze Age peoples between around 3,000 BC and...

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If, unfortunate reader, you’re licking your wounds after being outbid on the $181.2 million Jackson Pollock at the New York auctions last month, take heart: you, too, can still buy access to art that will be seen only by the world’s precious few wealthiest. That’s because now there is a hyper-exclusive, “museum-grade” art show aboard a 236-foot “superyacht,” and you may yet be able to reserve a suite there. In its maiden voyage, the Floating Art Hotel has taken to Monaco Bay, where it is currently anchored facing the famed Monte-Carlo casino (frequented by the likes of James Bond) for the duration (through June 8) of the Grand Prix Formula 1 motor race, the most prestigious such race in the...

Ten years ago in a studio in Rotterdam, a dear friend and I set out to materialize the internet. We wanted to know what the weightless, frictionless noise of our hyper connected era would actually feel like if you could run your hands across it. The result, eventually shown during the 2016 Milan Design Week, was Trame Virtuali, a four meter long tapestry born from a collision of ancestral technique and algorithmic logic. Historically, the carpet has functioned as a storyteller, a textile archive holding the embedded myths of a local culture. We simply updated the script. By writing code that scraped hourly trending topics from Twitter and mapping each letter of the alphabet to a specific textile binding, we...

EXPLORING eco-conscious forms OF technological development
 
When visiting the Solar Protocol website on a random evening, one is met with following message: ‘This website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from whichever server is in the most sunshine. Presently you are on a server called Rhizome that is located in 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, USA.’  It’s the protocol node  —  the small, data hosting computer that is the basis of the website — that belongs to rhizome.org, the non-profit founded in the mid-nineties that supports new media art.
Graham Wilfred Jnr assembling the Mparntwe server. ‘Tega Brain, Benedetta Piantella, Alex Nathanson and the...

Workers and artists at Pace Gallery were having a beer in celebration of the Knicks’ historic finals win, or just waking up yesterday morning, when they heard the news via friends, coworkers, even push notifications. The mega gallery is laying off 50 workers and cutting 50 artists from its roster. That’s about a fifth of its staff and a third of its artists. CEO Marc Glimcher calls it a “model correction”; I call it workers and artists once again paying for the boardroom’s bad bets. If you need an escape into a different but possibly equally stupid world, go see Moss & Freud, about supermodel Kate Moss and painter Lucian Freud’s tumultuous artist-muse relationship, filled with gems of dialogue...

I'm surprised that American soprano Maria Kanyova has never performed at the Met, even though she has loads of high-profile U.S. opera credits.

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Unknown Surface Studio proposes a Regenerative Pavilion Model
 
UNFOLD is a thematic pavilion designed by Unknown Surface Studio for Aluframe that reconsiders the role of temporary architecture through the lens of circular material life cycles. Instead of creating a short-lived installation destined to become waste after the exhibition period, the project proposes a regenerative architectural system in which structures, materials, and industrial components continuously return to use beyond the event itself. The pavilion becomes not only an exhibition space, but also a prototype for an alternative architectural future where temporary construction can actively participate in long-term material circulation. The...

fernando laposse is shaping the future of craft
 
Across Fernando Laposse’s work, the future of design begins in a field, where a plant is grown for more than its commodity value and a material carries the memory of the place and people that made it.
 
Speaking with designboom, the Mexican designer traces his practice through corn husks, agave fibers, eroded hillsides, and the village of Tonahuixtla, where making becomes a way to build an economy around what the land can sustain.
 
His objects move through galleries and public installations, but their logic starts elsewhere, with seeds, farming seasons, soil, and relationships that have been maintained over years.
 
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“Reimagining” is the theme of the 29th edition of PHotoESPAÑA, a photography festival which brings nearly 100 exhibitions to Madrid and other cities across Spain, including Barcelona, Santander, Seville and Zaragoza. In the face of today’s relentless image consumption, where five billion photos are made daily, the event focuses on “curiosity, imagination, liberation and rebellion,” celebrating the past century’s most game-changing approaches to the medium. The 2026 programme includes major solo shows from leading figures, including influential photographic projects of the 1900s. Fundación MAPFRE (6 June – 30 August), for example, pays homage to Richard Avedon’s landmark photobook In the...

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London’s cultural dominance has long rested on more than the strength of its institutions. It is a city whose creative identity is built through constant reinvention, where world-renowned museums sit alongside artist-run spaces, where commercial galleries coexist with experimental projects, and where culture remains one of the capital’s most valuable exports. In 2026, that position was formally recognised when Time Out named London the world’s best city for culture, placing it ahead of Paris, New York, Berlin and Cape Town. The ranking reflected the breadth of a cultural ecosystem that continues to evolve despite economic uncertainty, rising costs and global competition. At a time when many cities are...

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Makeda Best (photo Unique Nicole, courtesy MoMA)Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Meet MoMA's New Photo ChiefMakeda Best is joining New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as chief curator of Photography starting in September. Currently serving as deputy director of curatorial affairs at the Oakland Museum of California, Best's roots can be traced back to the medium itself: She earned an MFA in studio photography at the California Institute of the Arts before getting her PhD at Harvard, where she focused her research on Civil War chronicler Alexander Gardner. Best then...

The Trump administration has diverted at least $90 million in entry fees collected at national parks, including Yellowstone and Yosemite, to projects in Washington, D.C., according to National Park Service documents reviewed by the Washington Post. The funds have reportedly been earmarked for a range of projects tied to the 250th anniversary of America’s independence, including a $1.6 million fireworks display—over five times the event’s standard budget—and a $76 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and other fountains. Advocacy groups have criticized the redistribution of funds as a misuse of federal revenue, pointing to the national park system’s $24 billion backlog of...

On Thursday, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach announced that Philippe Vergne, the French curator and current director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal, will join the institution as its artistic director and chief curator in October of this year.  In this newly created position, the longtime arts executive […]

Iranian-French filmmaker and author Marjane Satrapi, whose graphic novel series and film Persepolis, introduced the Western world to the precarity of everyday life in the wake of the Islamic Revolution, died on June 3. She was fifty-six. Her death was announced by French president Emmanuel Macron. Satrapi’s family and close friends in a statement to […]

On Thursday, the nonprofit organization Artists & Mothers named the 2026 recipients of its annual $25,000 childcare grants. Artists & Mothers, which was founded in 2024 in response to the increasingly difficult challenges faced by artists who are also new parents, offers grants providing nine months of child care aid to New York-based artists with […]

How many people actually heed the warnings about not feeding ducks waddling around public parks? If you’ve taken a flippant approach to these guidelines in the past, we recommend you watch AJ Jeffries’ new animation, “DUCKS.” What opens as an innocuous jaunt around a pond quickly turns into a dark comedy full of strange contortions and feathered villains sure to pop into your head the next time you throw a chunk of bread. Jeffries is also behind this ridiculous story of a struggling horse, and you can find more of his work on Instagram, Vimeo, or Behance. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per...

Across São Paulo’s galleries, artists turn to screens, Xeroxes, and neons, breathing life into Brazil’s modernist and queer histories.

Bangkok-born architect and designer Kulapat Yantrasast has been appointed artistic director of the Second Bukhara Biennial, set to take place in the Uzbek city from September 3 to November 27, 2027. Yantrasast is the founder and creative director of the Los Angeles-based WHY Architecture, whose recent endeavors include the ILMI Science Discovery & Innovation Center […]

Softness and resilience. Presence and absence. Vitality and stillness. These are just a few of the dualities that permeate the atmospheric work of Jeanne Vicerial, whose textile-focused practice taps into history and femininity with precision and reverence. A city-wide exhibition of Vicerial’s pieces titled Incarnation: Carte blanche Jeanne Vicerial opens across several historic spaces in Aix-en-Provence this month: Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme, Musée des Tapisseries, Chapelle de la Visitation, and Musée Granet. Situated amid centuries-old architecture and existing museum collections, the artist’s works nod to time, tradition, and remembrance. The show surveys sculptures and installations created...

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

In Amy Casey’s meticulous acrylic paintings, houses and main street buildings whirl through the air amid debris, teeter in huge piles in the sea, or balance precariously on giant clusters of fungi. Our perception is tested: are the houses really tiny or are their surroundings exceedingly big? That slippage is at the heart of her practice, which confronts our current, often overwhelming information era and its politics, war, the climate crisis, population displacement, and more. “It is hard to process the world and the constant flow of information about it without feeling powerless and paralyzed,” the artist says. “Sometimes life just feels like a neverending shriek.” In her paintings, which are often...

Christopher Corwin speaks to rising bass-baritone Le Bu about his journey from Yancheng, China to the Met (with a stop in Wichita) and what important roles await him.

The fact that Barbara Hannigan has never performed at The Metropolitan Opera is just plain dumb.

There are exhibitions that revisit history, and there are exhibitions that reactivate it. Ten.8 afterimage belongs firmly to the latter category. More than a survey of photographs or an exercise in nostalgia, the exhibition excavates the spirit of Ten.8, the groundbreaking photography journal published between 1979 and 1992, and asks what it means to look again at a publication that fundamentally changed the way photography was discussed in the UK. In returning to the pages, politics and personalities that shaped Ten.8, the exhibition reveals how urgently relevant its questions remain today: who gets represented, who controls the image, and what responsibilities does photography carry in times of social...

From the nearly abstracted patterns featuring dozens of Black faces in the meticulous work of Sharon Kerry-Harlan to portraits inspired by real events like Donna Chambers’ celebration of President Barack Obama’s inauguration, Masters of the Stitch: Threaded Stories at Claire Oliver Gallery spotlights remarkable narratives in fabric. The exhibition draws from the collection of Carolyn Mazloomi, founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network, whose strategy over the better part of the last four decades has been to highlight the craft as an artistic expression beyond what the gallery describes as “folk curiosity.” Works simultaneously function “as fine art, historical archive, and cultural testimony,...

Parterre Box previews Kathryn Lewek's upcoming Salome with clips of her as another unhinged lady of antiquity.

Cindy Bernhard
PLATO is honored to present Broken Vessels, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Cindy Bernhard, featuring a new body of paintings that explores spiritual rupture, transcendence and the relationship between the human body and the divine. The public opening is scheduled for Thursday, June 4, from 6 to 8 PM in the gallery’s ground floor space. The show will be on view through July 11. At the center of the exhibition is the metaphor of the vessel: the body as a container for spirit and belief. Drawing from archetypal associations between gold and divinity, Christian mysticism and contemporary existential anxiety, Bernhard’s monumental six-foot paintings depict fractured golden forms that...

In 2022, Michelle Sank encountered a stranger on a Cape Town Promenade and spontaneously asked to take their photograph. It became the first in a powerful body of work, capturing the city’s drag queens. Drag Daughters follows six young men who grew up in townships, often facing rejection or having to hide their identities, who now strive to make a difference in their communities. Now on display at Het Zuid-Afrikahuis in Amsterdam, the series includes empowering portraits that move beyond the conventional depictions of drag in pageants or nightclubs, instead placing them in unassuming or domestic settings. In a country still navigating the legacies of Apartheid, alongside ongoing social challenges, the...

Photography, at the threshold of its bicentenary, becomes here less a medium than a condition of perception itself. Remember Me at the Bourse de Commerce gathers image, archive, and gesture into a single unfolding field where memory is not stored but constantly reassembled. The exhibition operates through proximity rather than sequence, allowing works to collide, echo and refract one another in shifting constellations. Across centuries of practice, photography is treated not as a linear history but as a series of recurring questions about presence and disappearance. The result is an environment where looking becomes an act of reconstruction, and where the photograph is never fully settled into its own time....

By Tm Gratkowski With intent and the will to do it her own way, there is a gallery in the most unlikely of places, off the 210 freeway on Lincoln Avenue in Pasadena. Imagine walking into the parking lot of an old lumber yard, stumbling down a paved area past old materials, equipment, and a small cluster of shed-like buildings. Nothing new, no signs, just your average ubiquitous Southern California lot. As you wander in you notice a little welcoming front porch and tucked away in the corner is...

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By Tatou Dede T: How did you end up here, being an artist today? A: I think it depends on how you define the term artist. I was always in theatre since, maybe, kindergarten. When I was a child I used to produce and direct sort of nonsensical plays for my schools, wherever I was, in Oakland, San Francisco, and Berkeley. So every year I produced a very bizarre play that, for some reason, every school had me put on. And then I studied with the Berkeley Rep theater. After that I went to UCLA and...

By Melanie Chapman Timed in conjunction with the Taschen publication "My Education," the first book-form retrospective of photographer Bruce Weber's multi-decade career, the new exhibition now on view at Fahey Klein Gallery, Bruce Weber: Try a Little Tenderness, is worth more than one visit. Likely due to Weber's genre-defining success as a fashion photographer for Calvin Klein, GQ, Vogue, etc., particularly at its height in the 1980s and '90s, the line for the recent gallery opening...

By Barbara Patterson Zarina Van Ranzow's debut solo exhibition featuring work from her ongoing series Let it Bleed and Music for Lovers opened on May 8 at STONE/AGE Studios in East Los Angeles. Drawing from archival photographs of the artist's family and portraits of a variety of musicians, the series adapts photographic content into oil and airbrush paintings that pick up where the camera leaves off. Diffusing the harsh, resolute forms that photography's understanding of the subject...

In Perfectly Normal—the exhibition from Dustin Myers that ran at Los Angeles gallery Thinkspace Projects in November 2023—the Southern California artist presented a collection of young characters painted in oils. Posed in the awkward-yet-endearing postures associated with school photographs, the characters’ exaggerated facial features reveal a bevy of emotions. Some are ready for their close-up. […]
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“I have a passion for product design; most of the motifs I draw are related to consumer products,” says Shohei Ochiai. The Tokyo-based artist studied at Tama Art University, where he graduated about a decade ago, and is an admirer of the designs of consumer product company Braun, Memphis Group founder Ettore Sottsass, and famed […]
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ABOVE: Photo of Martha Rich by Andrea Cipriani Mecchi Any artist will tell you one of the greatest gifts they ever earned was the moment they found their style—their singular take on subject, creation, and process. But much harder earned is the gift of confidence, that ability to continue in one’s style, despite all the […]
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Chet Zar is best known for painting monsters, but over the past few years, flowers have been creeping to the center of his canvases. Zar’s blooms—hibiscus, stargazers, and sunflowers amongst them—are so vibrant that you can instantly imagine their fragrance. Their vivid colors and pert petals might stand in contrast to the unsettling, sometimes terrifying, […]
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