The university’s decision to close its textiles, jewellery and silversmithing, and performance costume undergraduate courses has been framed as a threat to preserving some of the country’s cultural traditions

AENARA UNVEILS 1:1 MARS HABITAT AT POWERHOUSE PARRAMATTA
 
Commissioned for Task Eternal at the newly opened Powerhouse Parramatta, Off-World Habitat Wall Section is a full-scale architectural installation designed by space architecture studio AENARA, founded by Melodie Yashar. Opening November 7th, 2026, the exhibition presents a physical cross-section of a conceptual Mars habitat envisioned for the year 2075. Developed from a year-long feasibility study conducted alongside NASA collaborators, university researchers, and industry partners, the installation exposes the structural strata, mechanical utilities, and autonomous manufacturing techniques required to sustain human life in extreme off-world...

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DESERT PLAYGOLA BRINGS CHILD-SIZED EXPLORATION TO EL PASO
 
What does a city look like from just 95 centimeters above the ground? In downtown El Paso, Nómada Estudio Urbano explores this question through Desert Playgola, a temporary pavilion that transforms a traditional pergola into an interactive playground. Designed by Miguel Mendoza for the Chalk the Block public art festival, held on October 3–4, 2026, the installation combines desert-inspired sculptures, iridescent curtains, and recycled materials to create an environment where children can move, touch, and discover at their own pace. Commissioned by the City of El Paso through its Museums & Cultural Affairs Department (MCAD), the project occupies a...

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The World Monuments Fund has raised $62 million for its endowment, beating its fundraising target 18 months ahead of schedule and giving the New York-based preservation organization considerably more financial muscle to protect historic sites around the world. The campaign, announced Wednesday, has tripled the organization’s endowment net assets, which are expected to pass $100 million by 2028. The money will support everything from conservation training to emergency efforts to protect cultural heritage threatened by war, climate change, and natural disasters. The fundraising drive was launched publicly less than a year ago as part of WMF’s 60th anniversary celebrations. It was built around a $20 million...

OVERSIZED NAILS BECOME SCULPTURAL FURNITURE
 
A nail is usually meant to hold things together, not become the center of attention. Brazilian design studio Rótulo em Branco turns that logic on its head with PREGO, a collection of sculptural stainless-steel tables inspired by the familiar construction fastener. Designed by architect Ingrid Sani Lang, the series translates the nail’s recognizable silhouette into three furniture typologies: a side table, a coffee table, and a bar table. Through an exaggerated shift in scale, an ordinary industrial component takes on an entirely different role in the domestic interior.
 
Founded in 2021 in Blumenau, southern Brazil, Rótulo em Branco approaches furniture as an...

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation in Madrid and the Norton Simon Museum in California are pushing back against recent statutes related to Holocaust-era expropriation claims

Peacock has released the official trailer for “Dig,” an upcoming comedy series created by Amy Poehler and Michael Schur (“Parks and Recreation” and “The Good Place”). Screenwriter J. J. Philbin, Schur’s wife, is listed as writer and producer. The ten-episode series, based on the 2023 novel Excavations by Kate Myers, follows four women researchers working at a remote archaeological site in Greece. The expedition takes unexpected turn when the quartet unearths a priceless artifact, one that should not exist. According to the show’s logline, “When the team uncovers a long-buried secret with the potential to rewrite history, they find themselves at the center of a high-stakes international...

Ian James’s KHLZ, an overnight broadcast out of a caravan near Joshua Tree, celebrates all things New Age

"Taking an indignant tone while drinking an over-priced beer, and then doing it all over again the next day"

It’s not every day that the art world gets a public break-up, but that’s the case with art collective MSCHF. This week, cofounder and founding chief creative officer Lukas Bentel announced, via a formal press release, he was leaving the group to pursue solo work. “I am enormously grateful and proud of the MSCHF team and what we created together, it was an enormous collective effort,” Bentel said in a statement. “We moved athletically at MSCHF, but we were designing stories that last. That’s where I want to get back to: making art that stays with people long after the moment has passed.” Since its founding in 2019, MSCHF has made a name for itself via a series of viral artworks that often take aim...

Tethered to the spiritual realm, blue connotes a sense of serenity and healing in Yoruba culture. It’s also the color of peace, and for Romuald Hazoumè, it’s an apt metaphor for considering the legacy of colonial violence, climate catastrophe, and the global crises transforming life today. In My Blue Period at October Gallery, the artist meditates on the contemporary geo-political landscape through a series of masks made from plastic jugs and found objects, like feathers, netting, and hardened paintbrushes. The expressive sculptures are part of Hazoumé’s series titled masques bidons, or fake masks, which utilizes the functional structures of the vessels—circular openings for mouths, handles for...

FROM NAPOLEON’S PARIS TO A BRITISH HOTEL
 
In a city with no shortage of historic hotels, Hotel Westminster has had more than two centuries to develop its identity. Located at 13 rue de la Paix, between Place Vendôme and the Palais Garnier, the Parisian address has undergone an extensive restoration led by interior architect Laurent Maugoust, with British designer Helen Stephens reimagining its restaurant, Le Céladon. The project, completed one year ago, preserves architectural elements accumulated throughout the building’s history while introducing contemporary interiors. Awarded its fifth star in 2025, the Westminster enters its latest chapter with a rather unusual distinction: a distinctly British...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art became an unwitting new home for a work by the Los Angeles–based artist David (Sabastian) Miklatski, who snuck a drawing onto one of the institution’s walls and documented its time there for all the world to see. As reported by Hyperallergic, “In a viral Instagram reel, multi-hyphenate artist David (Sabastian) Miklatski detailed the steps of creating and surreptitiously installing a drawing on one of The Met’s gallery walls last Sunday, October 25. The work in question, The MET 2027, is an oil pastel painting depicting a Met Gala attendee ascending the staircase flanked by shrubs and photojournalists as police in riot gear beat down protestors in a fiery scene in the...

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Pace Gallery has finally filed its 2024 accounts with Companies House, the British government’s business register. The mega gallery was ten months late in its filings. This past summer it announced deep cuts to its artist roster and staff, dropping a total of 100 artists and staffers in its retrenchment. Pace, a mega gallery, has […]

IBRI, OMAN—The Oman Observer reports that burial chambers containing human remains and pottery have been excavated in northwestern Oman by archaeologists from Oman’s Department of Heritage and Tourism. The burials have been dated to the third millennium B.C. and attributed to Mesopotamia’s Jemdet Nasr civilization. Walid bin Hamad al Ghafri of the Department of Heritage and Tourism said that the excavation uncovered many beads, in addition to bronze arrowheads, axes, and daggers. Archaeological sites in the region are in danger of destruction due to rapid urban development, he concluded. To read about how people lived in the Omani desert some 5,000 years ago, go to “Oasis Makers of Arabia.”
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MPUMALANGA PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA—Phys.org reports that stenciled rock art has been identified in South Africa, which is known for rock art painted with brushes and fingers. “I wasn’t entirely sure what I was looking at for a while,” said David Pearce of the University of the Witwatersrand. “Then they popped into focus, a bit like optical illusions do,” he explained. The two human-like figures were discovered in the La Rochelle rock shelter in eastern South Africa, where few paintings have been found on the region’s steep cliffs. Pearce said that brush-painted images of hartebeest, eland, and humanoid beings had previously been identified in the large rock shelter. He now suggests that two of the...

Relief in the offering chapel of Ikhetneferet, Saqqara, Egypt CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a 4,000-year-old offering chapel belonging to Ikhetnefert, the wife of the high priest Sabu, has been discovered at his tomb in Saqqara by researchers from the Czech Institute of Egyptology. The team members also explored the tomb of Ptahshepses, a 5th Dynasty official who was the son of Sabu and Ikhetnefert. Ptahshepses is known to have served four kings of the 5th Dynasty and to have married an Egyptian princess. The tombs in this area of the Saqqara necropolis were first explored in the nineteenth century by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, who founded the Egyptian Antiquities Service. He uncovered...

soon to open on copenhagen’s paper island
 
Kengo Kuma & Associates‘ KAI Water Culture House is set to open on December 5th, 2026, on Copenhagen‘s Papirøen (Paper Island). Bringing ten swimming pools to the city’s harborfront, the 5,800-square-meter spa introduces a new place for swimming and bathing along a waterfront that has gradually shifted from industrial use toward public recreation.
 
The building is recognizable at once by its five irregular brick towers, which rise above a continuous band of glass at ground level. Their sloping walls form a clustered silhouette along the quay, with spaces between the volumes opening toward the sky. From the harbor, the heavy masonry appears to hover over...

Researchers at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico have discovered a 2,500-year-old structure that they believe was once a solar observatory. The structure is part of the pre-Hispanic Teteles de Ávila Castillo archaeological site in Sierra Norte de Puebla. Teteles has been under excavation for eleven years. Researchers have also found […]

Rilès handwrites the Bible, makes a new album and searches for ALL LOVE in East London.

Outsider Austrian artist Josef Hofer, who was hidden as a child from Nazi forces by his parents due to a speech and developmental disability, has died at 80, reports Le Quotidien de l’Art. Gallery Christian Berst in Paris, where the artist had his last show this fall, said he passed away in the western Upper Austrian town of Ried im Innkreis on Friday, October 23, shortly after he was hospitalized for complications related to a pulmonary infection. Hofer, who signed his works “Pepi,” rarely spoke and was hard of hearing, instead expressing himself through raw, figurative drawings that reflected his own life and observations. These included depictions of erotic nudes within a signature frame drawn in...

For more than two decades, one question has followed me since I was abused by Jeffrey Epstein: “Why me?” In trying to understand what happened, I have come to recognize that the answer lies not only in the manipulation I endured, but also in the institutions and social structures that helped make that manipulation possible. Leon Black’s board position at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is one of the starkest examples of institutional ignorance — a head-in-the-sand, look-the-other-way mentality that will inevitably give abuse of power a dark corner to grow and fester in. 

LA28 unveils “Stars Align” as the official slogan for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

An exhibition series organized by the Vatican brings together more than 100 artists — including Arthur Jafa, Jeremy Frey, and Mona Hatoum — to celebrate “fundamentally human” creativity in the face of AI's rapid rise. Across seven coinciding international exhibitions, the Catholic Universities Art Triennale (ArtCut) centers empathy and self-reflection as the primary drivers of humanity's progress, rather than technological advancement. ArtCut's inaugural edition is assembled under the umbrella of Exercises in Empathy, expanding on Pope Leo XIV's earlier encyclical on safeguarding the human condition from AI's capacities for manipulation and delusional omnipotence.Cardinal...

By Lorraine Heitzman There is a meticulous elegance to everything Phyllis Green makes, a quality that is immediately apparent in her brilliant fifteen-year survey show at the Leband Art Gallery. Phyllis Green: Of My Own Making is a diverse yet cohesive exhibit, both imaginative and grounded in the textures of commonplace materials such as wood, clay, cloth, and metal. She masterfully applies her vision across multiple disciplines making sculptures that appear simple despite her extraordinary...

Beverly Buchanan was mentored by Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden, a contemporary of Ana Mendieta and Eva Hesse, and most recently featured in the 61st Venice Biennale in Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys. Yet, the late artist and her oeuvre have long been understudied and underexplored. With contributors ranging from friends, dealers, historians, curators, and contemporaries, Beverly Buchanan: Ruination and Regeneration (2026) seeks to amend this oversight. Above all, it is a testament to the North Carolina-born artist’s complexity, intellect, and sensitivity across sculpture, photography, land art, and video work. It’s also a reminder that the combined effects of racism and anti-Blackness, misogyny, and...

SAN FRANCISCO — No one ever said the business of art would be easy. In San Francisco, the landscape has felt particularly demoralized in recent years. A cost-of-living crisis, paired with a seemingly absent collector base and the closure of local art schools, has spurred an exodus of artists and galleries alike. Those who are sticking around are turning to alternative models to survive and foster community, from nonprofit status to retail business.Last year, Cushion Works, in the Mission District, acquired nonprofit status and launched a membership program to help keep the lights on. That wasn’t gallery founder Jordan Stein’s initial goal when he opened the space in 2018.“I don’t think of it like a...

Place has always been central to Lisa Sanditz’s paintings and drawings. In the winter of 2006–7, she went to China specifically to paint the rapid growth of single-industry cities, which sustained themselves by producing and exporting items such as Christmas ornaments to Western consumers. A longtime resident of the Hudson Valley, she was aware that this part of New York State, once populated by single-industry cities, such as Tannersville and Gloversville, had become post-industrial outposts for those seeking to live within hailing distance of the expensive bustle of New York City’s five boroughs. The production of inexpensive consumer goods had left America for Asia, with its cheap labor and...

The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) has initiated the Africa Art Library, a program that will see the institution donate art books to libraries across Africa. The Art Newspaper reports that the TMA gave around a hundred books to the Koyo Kouoh Library at the Gihanga Institute of Contemporary Art in Kigali, Rwanda, earlier this […]

Sean Rogg on engineering empathy, human connection and the return of The Waldorf Project.

Armed with high-magnification macro lenses, filmmaker Sandro Bocci journeyed through coral reefs to document a striking array of color, texture, and pattern. A project for Bocci’s collective Julia Set Lab, the short film homes in on the intricacies of a life form we can’t see with the naked eye. Subtle shifts in gradients, bold color juxtapositions, and a seemingly endless diversity of recurring motifs explode across the frame, revealing the beauty and complexity of the extraordinary organisms growing below the water’s surface. Set to music by Maurizio Morganti, “Iteration” is the second collaboration by the pair, who continue to harness the power of technology to create works at the intersection of...

Heartbeat Opera’s Queeney Todd draws together New York’s queer theater multiverse in a stunning drag production that breathes new life into the opera and leaves the audience in stitches.

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The foundation is giving grants to 11 institutions, from Oklahoma to Hong Kong

Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the escape artist's death on Halloween, ‘Houdini's Library’ at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas spotlights his vast collection of books and other ephemera

Paul Carey-Kent on Cady Noland’s new London show and the return of The Clip-On Method.

Four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2027.

One of the greatest to ever do it.

For more than a decade, Berlin-based artists Lynn Lehmann and Dennis Gärtner, a.k.a. Zebu, have been transforming otherwise mundane walls and surfaces into vivid, geometric paintings. Moving between patterns and representational abstraction, the duo draw on their adjacent work in illustration and graphic design to create eye-popping compositions. Indeed, much of their practice is studio-based, so murals introduce broader possibilities in a variety of settings. “There’s something special about being able to interrupt someone’s everyday routine with an unexpected visual surprise,” the pair says. Currently, Zebu is experimenting with a more intuitive approach to murals as a complement to their method if...

In its current form, the global transition away from fossil fuels will depend on the earth’s rare minerals. According to ClimateWorks, we’ll collectively need to mine 6.5 billion tons of cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel, and other materials before 2050 in order to keep up with energy demands. Most of these resources are found in regions already facing the greatest impacts of the climate crisis, from Chile’s Atacama Desert to Indonesia’s nickel reserves to the cobalt deposits of the Democratic Republic of Congo. For the past six years, German photographer Tom Hegen has been traveling the globe to document the communities bearing the brunt of this transition. Through his signature aerial images, Hegen...

BEIJING, CHINA—Phys.org reports that a new analysis of a skull fragment and jaw fragment found in northern China’s Xujiayao archaeological site in the 1970s suggests that the fossils belonged to Denisovans. Qiaomei Fu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and her colleagues identified 18 proteins in the fossils. One of the collagen variants is found only in Denisovans, and not in Neanderthals nor modern humans. Then the researchers evaluated the shapes of the fossils and used 3D computer models to reconstruct the bones. These images were compared with fossils from Neanderthals, modern humans, and other hominins. The study suggests that Denisovans traits combined the features of ancestral hominins,...

SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Sheffield, technician Lisa Hollands of the University of Sheffield has reproduced the color-changing effect observed in the Lycurgus Cup, a 1,600-year-old Roman glass cage cup that appears jade green in reflected light and ruby red when light is shown through it. The dichroic glass of the cup was cut and ground to produce an image of the mythical Thracian king Lycurgus ensnared in a vine. The Romans are thought to have produced the color-changing effect by adding small bits of gold and silver to the glass. The size and shape of the resulting layers of nanoparticles allow the glass to absorb light and display colors. “I knew that...

In Izumi Kato’s surreal paintings, stones appear to float, bodies disappear in water, and feet become fish tails. In his new eponymous solo exhibition at Perrotin, two- and three-dimensional works converge in a dreamlike grouping where time slips, bodies morph, and space is simultaneously flattened, compartmentalized, and stretched. The Tokyo- and Hong Kong-based artist’s practice has evolved from painting to include wood forms, soft vinyl sculptures, and cast metal. As Kato explores materiality, his sculptures emerge from the same almost alchemical approach to canvas. He paints the tiny wooden figures with the same approach he does a flat surface, and the stones are actually lightweight cast aluminum,...

Parma's annual Festival Verdi traversed "distant worlds" of crusades, conquests, and colonial struggles, stopping first in Peru for the seldom-heard Alzira.

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Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s Omar fascinates and frustrates in equal measure in Chicago.

Oralia Dominguez: deranged, demented, an absolute triumph.

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By Victoria Thomas Classical music is rarely the currency of activism. We generally turn to less patrician, more hard-edged forms to voice protest and dissent against fascism, tyranny, racial violence, and other sociopolitical ills. But SYZYGY, a new three-movement concerto composed by Courtney Bryan celebrating three visual artists — all women, all women of color — defies this expectation. Bryan's 18-minute composition makes its world premiere on The American Concerto, Volume One, performed...

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Photos provided by 21c, with additional photos by Atta Hi-Fructose co-founder Atta visited three 21c Museum Hotels in four days to explore their galleries and the towns around them. Here is his report! 21c locations combine actual contemporary art museum gallery exhibitions which are free and open to the general public (whether you stay there […]
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By Kristine Schomaker I keep thinking about Nomadland. Fern driving her van across that enormous American landscape. Not running from something. Moving toward something she could not quite name yet. That feeling of needing less. Of being, as Dominique Moody says, at home in the world. NOMAD: Dominique Moody and the Assemblage of Home is on view at the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena through January 16, 2027, part of the year-long city celebration for the centennials of Route 66 and the...

 
When we say ‘think of the colour yellow’, what comes up for you? Our latest photobook, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: YELLOW, is bursting with inspiration, from delicate blossoms and ripe lemons to eye-catching clothing and sunny décor.
Across 100 photos, our photographers celebrate all things yellow: some chanced upon in the street or in nature, others meticulously planned. Of course, there are loads of different hues that count as yellow, from acidic brights to mustard, egg yolk, and canary. You’ll find them all in the book!
The cover image, by Jo Martindale, submerges us in a ball pit of yellow plastic balls: it’s immersive, fun, and hard to look away. The yellow we find around us definitely has multiple...