In 2021, the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields turned the museum’s fourth floor contemporary art galleries into an exhibition space for high-tech digital art called the Lume. Over the past five years, the controversial initiative featured immersive, crowd-pleasing exhibitions like “Van Gogh Alive” (2021), “Monet & Friends Alive” (2022-23), and “Dalí Alive” (2024-25). However, at the end of February the museum announced that the Lume’s current show, “Connection: Land, Water, Sky — Art & Music from Indigenous Australians,” which closed on Feb. 28, was its last. The museum said in a statement to the Indianapolis Business Journal that the closure will make way for “a new monumental...

LOS ANGELES — Sex Politics Religion, the title of California Beat artist Wally Hedrick’s first retrospective in 40 years, refers to three subjects that were considered verboten for mixed company when I was growing up in the 1950 and ’60s. For Hedrick, who was part of San Francisco’s mid-century countercultural movement, these topics inspired decades of creative output through which he mused about philosophical issues and protested war and politics. The show is split between Parker Gallery, which frequently platforms artists from the Bay Area’s storied art history, and The Box, which often highlights underrepresented artists and politically charged art. Between the two spaces, viewers encounter some...

The School of Visual Arts in New York will cease offering a master’s of arts degree in curatorial practice beginning in 2027, Artnews reports. The news comes as the school, like many arts colleges across the country, faces financial difficulty. Artnews last June listed SVA as one of the US art schools most reliant on international students attending its graduate programs, behind […]

Osaka Home by Masakazu Tsujibayashi Adapts to Irregular Plot
 
Located in a dense residential district of Osaka, Jonoya private residence by Masakazu Tsujibayashi Architects occupies an irregular plot bordered by roads on three sides. The surrounding neighborhood is characterized by a mix of narrow alleys and designated streets, older tenement houses, newer dwellings, small shops, shrines, and temples. Many houses sit directly along the roadside, allowing everyday domestic life to remain visible within the urban fabric.
 
Conceived as the architect’s own home, the project responds to this layered context through a strategy of adjustment rather than contrast. The intention was to create a building that...

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed curator Diya Vij director of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs. Vij, who is currently a vice president at Brooklyn nonprofit Powerhouse Arts, is the first person of Southeast Asian descent to occupy the role. She will report to Julie Su, New York’s first deputy mayor for economic justice. In her […]

Artforum revisits Jeffrey Slonim’s column on the 1995 Whitney Biennial

An Egyptian tour guide was arrested last week after video circulated on social media purportedly showing the man sketching a stick figure onto a pyramid. In the video, originally posted to X, the man is seen drawing the figure onto the wall of the Pyramid of Unas, built in the 24th century BCE and located in Saqqara, a funerary complex not far from the Pyramids of Giza. The man appeared to be speaking to tourists during the incident and is shown trying to wipe the drawing away with his hands. After the video went viral, Egyptian police found that the Saqqara Tourism Police Station had received a report from an antiquities inspector that a tour guide “had damaged an antiquity by drawing on the outer casing of...

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Eight lenses surround issey miyake’s UROKO sunglasses
 
Issey Miyake Eyes releases UROKO, a pair of sunglasses with eight concave lenses inspired by the works of one of Japan’s celebrated potters, Shoji Kamoda. Instead of using a single flat lens, the eyewear with 3D printed components uses multiple optical parts, including eight lenses in total, with four lenses sitting on each side of the frame. They are arranged in a row, which follows the layout and idea of repetition seen in Shoji Kamoda’s ceramics.
 
Each lens uses a concave cut, so they come up inward instead of outward. The design allows the parts to sit close together inside the frame, and without this shaping, the lenses would take up more...

Among the myriad delights of the marine world, nudibranchs count among some of the most adorable. There are around 3,000 known species of these often very colorful, textured, soft-bodied animals. Technically part of the mollusc family, they shed their shells as they grow older, so we sometimes refer to them as “sea slugs,” but the name doesn’t exactly live up to their inherent style. For artist Arino Borevich of Wool Creature Lab, however, these unique minuscule beings truly shine in vibrant, felted fiber. A decade ago, Borevich was working as a cook at a remote biology research station in northern Russia’s White Sea. “I was surrounded by 200 marine biologists and students living and working together...

Today, Tate Modern launches two new projects for UNIQLO Tate Play

The LongHouse Reserve is fundraising for the restoration of Buckminster Fuller’s iconic fiberglass sculpture Fly’s Eye Dome (1976), which sustained damage during the blizzard that blanketed the East Coast on Sunday. According to the Long Island institution, the outdoor sculpture buckled under heavy snow and collapsed. “It’s devastating,” LongHouse director Carrie Rebora Barratt told Artnet News. “It’s our most iconic piece in the garden. It’s a backdrop for our galas. It’s on most of our promotional materials. And it’s the one thing that almost no one else in the world has.” The sculpture is one of only five existing prototypes of Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome, a cavernous metal mound...

Organised in collaboration with the Egyptian government, the exhibition comes to London in the latest stage of a world tour

The secondary art market has always been a critical arena where the art world’s values are laid bare. Where Native... Read More

A bronze statue of Winston Churchill near the Houses of Parliament in London was vandalized with graffiti reading “Stop the Genicide” and “Free Palestine” as well as “Never Again is Now” and “Globalise the Intifada.” As reported by the BBC, a 38-year-old man named Caspar San Giorgio was arrested after the incident on Friday and charged with criminal damage. In court he pleaded not guilty and claimed his name was Olax Outis, after which prosecutors informed the court of the different name on his passport. A report in The Art Newspaper connected the vandalism to a claim that it was conducted by a Dutch activist group called Free the Filton 24 NL. In a spoken statement posted on Instagram with...

Carmen Reviriego talks less like the head of cultural foundation than someone building an engine. On a warm evening in Madrid, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, she moved through the International Patronage Awards with calm efficiency, greeting patrons (like ARTnews Top 200 collector Batia Ofer, this year’s winner of the foundation’s International Patronage Award), warmly hugging artists, and shaking hands with public officials as if she were assembling a coalition in real time. She is the founder and president of the Callia Foundation, the organization behind the awards, now in their 11th edition. The project began with her book La Suerte de Dar (The Luck of Giving) and has since become...

a home to view the woodlands below and sky above
 
Architect Cristián Nanzer completes a home, named Casa Cosmos by its owners, along the foothills of the Punilla Valley in Córdoba, Argentina, at the edge of a protected natural reserve. The site slopes east to west and falls sharply toward a woodland to the south.
 
From a single point on the plot, the concrete house establishes its geometry in response to three distant landmarks. To the south, the reserve extends toward Las Gemelas hills. To the northeast rises Mount Uritorco. To the west, El Cajón Dam reflects the sky. This triangulated reading of the landscape gives the project its plan and its spatial logic.
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Will Wilson, Will Wilson, Citizen of the Navajo Nation (2013), Trans-customary Diné Artist, printed 2018, archival pigment print from wet plate collodion scan, 22 x 17 inches (courtesy of Art Bridges, photo by Brad Flowers)In partnership with Art Bridges, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey is pleased to present In Conversation: Will Wilson, on view in the Main Gallery through Sunday, August 23, 2026. The exhibition brings together contemporary photographs by Diné (Navajo) artist Will Wilson (b. 1969) and historic images by Edward Sheriff Curtis.Wilson’s work reexamines how Native peoples have been photographed and represented over time. Using modern photographic techniques and digital media, he responds...

Transport for London (TfL) has launched a new edition of its Art Map, showcasing the rich and diverse Art on the... Read More

From diminutive pieces of fine mesh, Ruby Silvious meticulously conjoins, stains, tears, and sculpts a range mixed-media collages and tiny paintings from repurposed teabags. She often incorporates other elements, such as sardine tins, thread spools, and cut paper elements. The bags are emptied and flattened and sometimes connected to form longer surfaces, often keeping the strings and tabs attached. Other times, Silvious further manipulates the soft paper substrate, creating life-size garments that possess an ethereal, even spectral quality. This spring, Silvious’ work can be seen in group shows in Vermont, Maryland, Philadelphia, Massachusetts, and New York. During the summer, she will be collaborating with...

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Sumqayit, Azerbaijan–born artist Faig Ahmed has been chosen to represent his home country at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to open May 9 and run through November 11. Ahmed, who is known for his surrealist weavings, previously represented Azerbaijan in a group exhibition at its inaugural Biennale pavilion in 2007. His exhibition here, titled “The Attention,” […]

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A uniformly strong cast triumphs over a dull production of Don Carlos at the Dallas Opera.

The Dutch museum has undertaken a two-year study of the 17th-century work "Vision of Zacharias in the Temple"

Meanwhile Art Dubai fair, scheduled for April, plans to go ahead but its organisers are "monitoring the situation closely"

In an era dominated by constant scroll and shrinking attention spans, documentary has emerged as one of the most vital languages in contemporary culture. From the political urgency of Navalny to the cultural resonance of Beckham and the environmental meditation of David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, non-fiction storytelling has become central to how audiences engage with politics, identity and collective memory. Viewers are increasingly drawn to works rooted in truth yet shaped with cinematic precision. Documentary today is not merely reportage; it is authorship, immersion and, often, an act of listening. Across platforms and festivals, audiences are seeking stories that move, challenge and...

The funding, from Belarus-born hedge fund billionaire Igor Tulchinsky, will help facilitate schools' access to the historic textile

A post-revolution election has brought to power familiar figures, but change is still possible, some say

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Kinder Rain: a kindergarten shaped like a small village
 
Located within a green setting in Italy, Kinder Rain by AACM – Atelier Architettura Chinello Morandi is conceived as a kindergarten structured around a series of pyramidal volumes arranged as a small architectural ensemble. The project reinterprets the spatial logic of a village, organizing classrooms around open courtyards that function as transitional and collective spaces.
 
The design draws from the archetype of the Casone Veneto, the vernacular rural dwelling traditionally used by farmers and fishermen in the Veneto region. Its distinctive pitched roof form informs the geometry of the kindergarten’s three classrooms, which emerge as...

Researchers at the Rijksmuseum have confirmed that Vision of Zacharias in the Temple (1633) is an authentic work by Rembrandt van Rijn

Xiaomi Vision Gran Turismo debuts at MWC 2026
 
Xiaomi debuts the Vision Gran Turismo, a wind-sculpted hypercar that embeds different cutouts and air ducts around its teardrop-shaped body. Unveiled at World Mobile Congress (MWC) 2026 in Barcelona, the concept exists both in the digital world of the Gran Turismo video game as well as a full-scale concept model, present at the event between March 2nd and 5th. It is a collaborative work between the electronics company’s design teams in Munich, Beijing, and Shanghai, taking the way the air moves around a car at high speeds as the starting point of the design.
 
As the design teams have studied, some hypercars prefer to choose one direction of wind: either low...

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced his pick for culture commissioner this weekend. He chose well: Diya Vij, a veteran curator with a strong record of community-forward work, has her heart in the right place. Best of luck to her. Also, please join me today at 3pm (ET) for a virtual conversation with artist-writer Damien Davis. Since he started writing for us in 2024, Damien has emerged as one of the strongest voices in the field. We’ll discuss his recent essays, studio practice, and how the two converge. The event is for Hyperallergic Members only. It's not too late to sign up.—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief Curator Diya Vij (photo by Sam Richardson)Curator Diya Vij Named NYC Culture CommissionerDiya...

For all the talk about 2026 being the year of analog, most of the conversation has been about rediscovering old formats like vinyl, film photography, and journaling. What’s been missing from these hobbies is something genuinely new, a reason to believe paper can do more than it did before. Radioposter is betting it can.  The Midwest-based startup has built what it calls Paper-fi: physical books with synchronized audio soundtracks that follow readers in real time as they turn each page. No chips embedded in the paper, no QR codes to scan. The system uses patented computer vision and other modes through a smartphone or smart glasses to track your place in the book and play the corresponding audio. Whether...

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Martin Margiela, one of the most influential and elusive figures in contemporary culture, to stage his first large-scale exhibition in Japan

Since 2011, multidisciplinary artist Peggy Weil has been working on what she calls “extended landscapes”: artworks which “visualise the unseen but critical processes of climate change.” This month, two of her video installations, 88 Cores and 18 Cores, are on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Here, Weil reformats scientific archives – including ice and rock cores from the Greenland Ice Sheet and Salton Sea Scientific Drilling projects – into scrolling moving-image portraits that reveal invisible layers “beneath our feet, above our heads, and back in time.” The exhibition, titled Core Memory, takes audiences on a downward journey, showing how climatic and geological events are...

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A Bologna, presso Fondazione MAST, le opere fotografiche complesse, articolate ed emblematiche di Jeff Wall raffigurano situazioni evocative, suggestioni profonde ed eventi mai accaduti. Con la mostra Living, Working, Surviving, la fotografia diventa pittura, la documentazione diventa interpretazione e l’ambiguità diventa il punto di partenza per analizzare i temi più profondi della nostra società.
Jeff Wall, “Dressing Poultry”, 2007, transparency in lightbox, ©: Jeff Wall, Courtesy: Cranford Collection, London
Si potrebbe dire che la mostra Living, Working Surviving di Jeff Wall presso la Fondazione MAST di Bologna non abbia una vera e propria tematica principale. Le fotografie si mostrano ambigue...

Baritone John Brancy smoothly traverses the American songbook at Carnegie Hall. 

Artists have always concerned themselves with light – how to capture it, how to distill it, how to play with it. World renowned 20th century painter Henri Matisse once told an interviewer “the chief goal of my work is the clarity of light,” whilst Claude Monet wrote that “light is the most important person in the picture.” Yet, it wasn’t until the 1920s, with the advent of mass-produced artificial lighting, that it began to be used as an artistic medium in its own right. This intensified in the 1960s and 1970s by artists associated with minimalism and postminimalism. This was the era of Dan Flavin’s groundbreaking fluorescent tubes, which took the simplicity of light and made it the central point...

Money manufacturers the world over are forever contending with counterfeiters. Before the U.K. introduced a new pound coin in 2017, for example, the earlier version was easy enough to fake that there were tens of millions of fraudulent copies in circulation. The same goes for paper bank notes, which over the years have been printed with increasingly high-tech features such as holograms, watermarks, and distinctive material blends. More recently, many countries have also implemented plastic coatings. Banque de France, a central money-producing outfit in Europe, has adopted a technology called EverFit, which includes a polymer coating on cotton-blend notes that increases durability. Every year, up to three...

In his pioneering book Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait, writer and curator Phillip Prodger states: “A great portrait is a psychological exploration, an artistic journey into a person’s heart and soul.” It’s a perfect summary of the power of the camera to go beneath the surface, going beyond a simple snapshot to explore representation, visibility and identity. The artists featured in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2026 longlist create works that undoubtedly make this journey into the very essence of the sitter. Some images reveal the complexities of the human psyche, making the invisible, visible, whilst others draw from distinct cultural ideas of belonging and selfhood, or play with the...

I wanted to make sure Paata Burchuladze gets celebrated in this series.

IN WORKING ON THIS ISSUE, I kept thinking about the 2013 essay “The Power of Patience,” in which Harvard art historian Jennifer L. Roberts argues the importance of closely observing works of art.* In every one of her undergraduate and graduate courses (many of which I was privileged to take, experiencing the “power” of her […]

Diya Vij, vice president of curatorial and arts programs at the Brooklyn nonprofit Powerhouse Arts, will be New York City's next culture commissioner. Rumors about Vij's pick for the top job at the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) have circulated in the local art community for weeks, until the New York Times broke the news today, February 28.Vij, who was a member of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's transition team, will succeed Laurie Cumbo just four months after joining Powerhouse Arts. “This administration has renewed my belief that city government can be a site of real change — and that art and culture are essential to that project,” said Vij in a statement today. “Too many artists have...

Samantha Hankey’s Composer is the standout in the Wiener Staatsoper’s episodically sublime Ariadne auf Naxos revival.

Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!

Artist Cara Romero (b. 1977) is an enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe. She has spent much of her life between the contrasting settings of the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, California, and the urban sprawl of Houston, Texas. Romero’s visual storytelling is informed by this identity, representing Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, countering dominant narratives of Native American experiences and showcasing the diversity within Indigenous nations and communities. Phoenix Art Museum presents a landmark display of the photographer’s work, representing the first major museum exhibition dedicated solely to her oeuvre. Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) features...

Just north of Cusco in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, a small studio draws on ancient Peruvian traditions. The town of Urubamba is home to Ceramicas Seminarios, a workshop founded by husband and wife Pablo Seminario and Marilú Behar in 1980. For decades, the pair and their team have been crafting sculptures, functional wares, and decorative objects rooted in the culture of the valley. As a child, Seminario was fascinated by huacos, pre-Columbian ceramic works often utilized for Andean rituals and ceremonies rather than everyday life. This interest developed throughout his university years and beyond, as he researched the various techniques and designs that characterized Peru’s ancient cultures. Seminario...

Il CRAC Puglia di Taranto ospita la mostra “Paesaggi”, con le opere di Aldo Damioli e Giovanni Pulze, a cura di Roberto Vidali, e accoglie in contemporanea la donazione di trenta opere che l’Associazione Juliet consegna agli archivi del CRAC, in occasione delle celebrazioni per “JULIET 45 YEARS”. La mostra mette a confronto due pittori italiani di impianto figurativo e concettuale che rimandano a un pensiero che va oltre la superficie della tela dipinta.
Aldo Damioli, “Venezia New York”, 2013, acrilico su tela, cm 80 x 100, courtesy l’Artista
La traccia di fondo che unisce questi due autori si incentrata sul ruolo che il loro lavoro ha avuto nella pittura del nuovo millennio e sui rapporti che...

Surrounded in her Massachusetts studio by pins, glue, and piles of brightly colored paper strips, a visitor might initially mistake Lisa Nilsson for a reclusive arts and crafts teacher. But as her nimble hands purposefully curl the paper into shapes, and then magically weave the shapes into identifiable forms, a new impression emerges. Read the full article by clicking above!
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Nella sua seconda personale presso la Nicelle Beauchene Gallery di New York, intitolata The gifts, Quentin James McCaffrey costruisce un insieme di dipinti inseriti in ambienti orchestrati con cura, dove tappeti, bouquet, miniature, tendaggi e superfici riflettenti assumono un ruolo strutturale. Non si tratta di abitazioni, ma di configurazioni concettuali in cui ogni componente definisce proporzioni, angolazioni e traiettorie ottiche. L’ordine è essenziale e privo di ornamenti superflui, mentre l’illuminazione stabilisce legami e relazioni tra le forme.
Quentin James McCaffrey, “Mirror with Landscapes”, 2026, oil on canvas over wood panel. Center panel: 12″ x 16″ x 1 1/2″; Side Panels: 12″ x...

For our second annual Illustration Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners from each of the following categories: Editorial, Personal, Advertising & Promotional, Product & Packaging, Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Student category: Bella Han.
Bella Han is a freelance illustrator from China and a first year student in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual Arts (Class of 2027). This work is part of a series illustrating one of the most famous Qing Dynasty stories in China, which depicts the opulent yet tragic life of Zhenhuan, a concubine of Emperor Yongzheng, who later became Empress Dowager after his death.
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The Undercurrent Surfaces There are moments in a country’s creative consciousness when the atmosphere tilts. For many of the designers showing at Zurich Fashion Week 2026, the seeds were sown during last year’s pre‑events. And so, after more than twelve months of preparation, this was the week their work stepped fully into the light — an undercurrent now rising into a transformative movement in modern style. As I walked into the Kongresshaus Zurich this February, the first edition of Zurich...

 
The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives.
Our first edition is devoted to blue. A colour of depth and distance. Vast as the sky and as still as water. Blue evokes calm, melancholy, serenity and sorrow. Delicate cornflowers, robust denim, precious jewels, and the deepest ocean.
From literal to abstract interpretations, and alternative processes, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: BLUE shares photographers’ wide range of creative expressions.
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La mostra Onion di Michael Beutler, ospitata negli spazi di Pinksummer all’interno di Palazzo Ducale, a Genova, si configura come un ambiente esperienziale che lavora per sottrazione piuttosto che per accumulo. Più che presentare un insieme di opere da osservare, Beutler costruisce una situazione in cui il visitatore è invitato a rallentare e a rinegoziare il proprio rapporto con lo spazio e con il tempo, trasformando la fruizione in un atto intenzionale, fondato su una relazione diretta e non mediata con la struttura.
Michael Beutler, “Onion”, 2026, installation view at PINKSUMMER, Genova. Photo © Federico Ghillino. Courtesy PINKSUMMER and the artist
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The women portrayed in Prudence Flint’s paintings are caught in moments of quiet, reflection, and impermanence. They appear fixed in a moment of repose ripe for interruption. Perhaps they are lying on the grass, or changing an infant’s diaper, or awash in warm water mid-shower. Regardless, there is a certain mood shared among her works. Read the full interview with the artist by clicking above!
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