By Wednesday morning, when Zona Maco opened its 22nd edition to VIPs, Mexico City Art Week was in full swing. Monday and Tuesday had seen a slew of gallery openings across the capital city, with museum exhibitions also opening this week. The energy during opening day was vibrant, with many dealers telling ARTnews that last year was great, and this year is seemingly even stronger. How that will translate into sales still remains to be seen. But what is certain is that there is a strong showing of art at the fair, which focuses on contemporary art but also hosts dealers of antiquities and curios, modern art, design, and photography in the expansive hall of the Centro Banamex, on the outskirts of CDMX. As one of...

The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, has acquired a painting by Italian Baroque master Artemisia Gentileschi, a historic first for the institution's collections. “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy” (c. 1625), depicting the devout follower of Jesus Christ in solitude amid a divine vision, was thought to be lost for centuries until it re-emerged in 2011 from a French private collection.After its 2014 sale at Sotheby's, “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy” made its United States debut in the 2021–22 group exhibition By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800, reunited with various other masterpieces at the Wadsworth Museum of Art in Connecticut and at the Detroit...

Just in time for Valentine's Day, a show at the UK's National Archives explores the art and politics of writing love letters, the New Statesman's Zuzanna Lachendro reports:Before the passing of the Sexual Offences Act in 1967, gay men and women were forced to seek likeminded individuals using code words in classified advert publications like The Link under the non-matrimonial section: “bohemian” or “artistic” for men, “sporty” and “jolly” for women. A jokey exchange between two male friends separated by the Atlantic, one of which is described as “the campest thing between London and San Francisco” is placed alongside a letter between two men recovered after a 1920s raid of...

Welcome to the 323rd installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists carve worlds into soapstone and create alongside church community members.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.Pitseolak Qimirpik, Kinngait, CanadaHow long have you been working in this space?Five years ago, I started making graphic art at Kinngait Studios and now make drawings, prints, and carvings. I started carving stone sculptures when I was 14 years old (in 2000), a skill I learned from observing my father, the carver Kellypalik...

Heavy-hitters: the first complete Ring in its history, Tosca with Marina Rebeka, Jonas Kaufmann, and Ludovic Tézier; plus recitals from Aigul Akhmetshina, Nadine Sierra, Jeanine De Bique, Michael Spyres, and more

Four months after announcing its rebranding as the Philadelphia Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is reverting to its old name, effective immediately. The institution will retain the griffin logo and brand identity that accompanied the October renaming. The museum in a press release said that its board had voted unanimously to drop the […]

Belgium is abandoning its plan to dismantle the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) after being met with stiff resistance from the artistic community. The government had aimed to cancel construction of a high-rise building that was to have served as M HKA’s new home and to strip the museum, the oldest contemporary arts […]

Stephen Friedman Gallery in London has shut its doors permanently and begun insolvency proceedings after thirty years in business. “Stephen Friedman Gallery has commenced the administration process on 2 February 2026 to allow for an orderly review of its financial position,” wrote the gallery in a February 4 statement. “FRP Advisory have been appointed as […]

The 2026 Winter Olympics are upon us, with the opening ceremony—featuring a performance by Mariah Carey!— taking place at Milan’s San Siro Stadium at 8 PM local time on Friday, February 6. Events will take place throughout northern Italy, with indoor ice events in Milan and outdoor events in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Livigno, Bormio, Predazzo, and Tesero. While the Dolomites and Italian Alps are lovely this time of year, winter sports fans who hope to slip in some art viewing while in Italy should probably stick to things like figure skating, speed skating, or hockey. Milan has a lot more to offer in terms of museums and galleries, though only the Museo del Novecento seems to have made an effort to cater to...

Janne Sirén, director of Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery since 2013, used a museum loan to help finance a $710,000 home—more than half of which remains unpaid, including accrued interest, according to a state review. Buffalo News, citing data from the Erie County Comptroller’s Office, reported that prevailing interest rates at the time of the loan ranged between 4 and 4.5 percent. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery—now known as the Buffalo AKG Art Museum–approved the loan for Sirén at a markedly lower rate of .18 percent. It was only later, during a routine review of financial records and tax filings from county-funded cultural organizations, that the comptroller’s office found Sirén had not...

Casa Batlló, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Barcelona designed by the Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí, recently opened a new exhibition space designated for shows of contemporary art. The program opened last week with an exhibition of work by United Visual Artists (Matt Clark) and will continue with two annual shows in a space now known as Casa Batlló Contemporary. The new initiative expands on Casa Batlló’s “Mapping,” a series involving commissions for artists “to transform Gaudí’s façade into a cutting-edge audiovisual performance.” The program, presented over two nights in the winter, premiered in 2022 with work by Refik Anadol and has since featured creations by Sofia Crespo and Quayola....

Completed in 1972, the innovative 48-story building known as the Transamerica Pyramid Center quickly became an indelible icon of the San Francisco skyline. Its modernist features include blocky elements, uniform rows of windows, and it’s namesake pyramidical shape, but its design also took its surroundings into consideration, as its tapered shape meant that more sunlight could reach the ground level around it. Inside, the light-filled Annex Gallery is currently home to the similarly towering works of Tara Donovan’s Stratagems series. Made from thousands of recycled CDs that are wrapped around steel supports and placed on concrete plinths, these swirling, reflective spires directly reference skyscraper...

The Washington Post has laid off Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee and made sweeping employee cuts across its Arts section in what's been described as a “bloodbath” at the Jeff Bezos-owned paper. All of the Post's staff photographers were also eliminated, raising questions about the future of the publication's visual strategy.Staffers began receiving layoff notices on Wednesday, February 4, after weeks of rumors of a mass downsizing. The cuts reportedly impacted one-third of the Post's staff, over 300 people, and gutted entire sections across its newsroom, including Books, Sports, and desks dedicated to local and international coverage. “I'm deeply grateful for...

luma foundation unveils richter’s strip tower in engadin
 
Presented by the Luma Foundation in Engadin, Switzerland, as part of Elevation 1049, STRIP TOWER (962) brings Gerhard Richter’s long-running investigations into the Alpine landscape, extending his practice beyond the canvas and into three-dimensional space. On view until the spring of 2029, the work draws from the methodology of his Strip Paintings, where a single painted gesture is subjected to successive acts of photographing, scanning, digital slicing, and stretching.  What begins as an analogue mark is transformed into a system of color bands governed by repetition and chance. In the tower, this process leaves the flat surface behind...

Sometimes it takes a book to remind us of how all-encompassing art can be. Or a few books. The 10 below span centuries, countries, and topics — the birth of modernism in 19th-century Montmartre, the shaping of the internet from the sexual margins, the warm embrace of Pyaari Azaadi’s art world, to name a few. What connects it all is an investment in creative production, and how it can enrich the world and promote different perspectives. While publications by the Equal Justice Initiative and artist Joseph Grigley powerfully resist racism and ableism, respectively, artists Kaylene Whiskey and Edmonia Lewis, both trailblazing women of color, have brought beauty into the world — and we all need more of that...

The Toledo Museum of Art has a somewhat atypical history, in terms of encyclopedic museums of its ilk. “The museum,” director Adam M. Levine explains, “was founded in 1901 with money and not a collection. The most interesting feature of our acquisitions is that they are almost all funded from the endowment rather than as gifts.” This, Levine feels, enables curators to drive the acquisitions process. “Because the resources are owned by the museum, there is greater stakeholder alignment. The only question is, does it serve our acquisition strategy? There isn’t really a donor relations component to the calculus. Donors can be hugely advantageous, of course, but it does introduce another variable....

With the inaugural Art Basel opening in Qatar, and with Frieze in Abu Dhabi later this year, the Kingdom is looking to the past with its exhibitions and auctions

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Jennifer Holloway, star of Salome at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, talks with Christina Colanduoni about re-launching her career as a soprano and how her Salome is "just trying not to disappear under everybody else’s rule.”

The vivacious MANON! at Heartbeat Opera makes a strong case for the return of opera in translation.

Chiharu Shiota’s (b. 1972) work is immediately recognisable. Entire rooms are overtaken by red thread, forming dense networks that obscure personal belongings, architectural structures and, at times, sleeping figures. The evocative installations, rendered primarily in red, black and white, give form to the intangible connections we make throughout life. They’re often rooted in the artist’s own experiences, taking the personal and expanding it outwards to comment on universal human concerns like life, death and relationships. Threads of Life is the Berlin-based Japanese artist’s first major solo exhibition in a London public gallery. The intricate takeover responds directly to Hayward Gallery’s...

Multiple-headed deities, strange woodland feasts, plants with sprite-like faces, and worlds floating on animals’ backs are just a few of the dreamlike occurrences in the work of Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). The British-Mexican artist, born into an upper-class family in Lancashire, was fascinated by the notion of “other.” She immersed herself in fairytales and folk stories by the likes of Beatrix Potter and Lewis Carroll and rebelled against the strict expectations of high-society women in England. Carrington traveled extensively, soaking up inspiration from classical sculptures and Renaissance paintings in Florence, where she studied art, then attending the first International Surrealist Exhibition in...

Meanwhile film star Angelina Jolie also put in an appearance at Art Basel Qatar

Nederlands Fotomuseum – the Dutch National Museum of Photography – has more than 6.5 million objects in its archives. That makes it one of the most significant collections in the world. Founded in 2003, the gallery is a mainstay of Dutch history, tracing how the camera has equally documented and influenced the course of the nation’s identity. This almost unparalleled influence is only set to grow, with the collection estimated to reach 7.5 million by 2028. It is only natural, then, that the museum would eventually outgrow its surroundings. This month, Nederlands Fotomuseum opens a new site at the renovated Santos warehouse in Rotterdam, offering innovative ways for visitors to experience the art and...

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The headline exhibition Unruly Waters will chart Qatar’s “past and present role as a geopolitical hub”

Alventosa Morell Arquitectes form a house on a steep, rocky site
 
Nestled within a pine forest on the coast of Tarragona, Spain, Casa CLO by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes is a lightweight timber house that gently steps down a steep, rocky site. The structure sits on a sloping plot, adapting to the topography and existing wood to create comfortable living spaces among the tree canopies. The site has rocky ground and a very steep slope, with access only from its lowest point. From the highest part of the site, the sea can be glimpsed in the distance, filtered through the pine forest. The clients, a family from Barcelona, acquired this plot to build their second home, with the intention of gradually spending...

The pavilion—ten years in the making—is part of the upcoming Rubaiya Qatar quadrennial in November

aircraft-shaped racing motorcycles by don vesco
 
Looking back, American racer and engineer Don Vesco created two high-powered aircraft-shaped racing motorcycles: the Silver Bird and its upgraded sibling, the Lightning Bolt. First, the Silver Bird, which the engineer built with a clear goal: to break the 300 miles per hour speed barrier. In the 1970s, no motorcycle had ever reached this speed, and Don Vesco made it his ambition to beat it. The design of the Silver Bird was unusual for normal motorcycles because it was long, low, and fully covered in a smooth metal body, a shape called a streamliner. 
 
It resembles an aircraft without wings, and the design helped air flow easily over the bike, reducing drag...

It's always surprised me how so many performances of the major Brecht/Weill collaborations seem to have zero clue of how to handle either Weill's music.

landscape shapes home by teamtonbo
 
House in the Fields is a residential project in the Netherlands by TEAMTONBO. The unique location provided the starting point for the design: a plot where the barns and stables of a farm once stood, with miles of unobstructed views over meadows and forest. The design celebrates that view. While walking through the house, a different panorama unfolds each time – a 360-degree experience of the landscape. The clients did not want to build larger than necessary, so the program found its place in three separate volumes for living, sleeping, and eating. Each volume was given its own material and character: the living room was constructed from recycled brick, the sleeping...

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lt2a and open architectes extend elementary school in belgium
 
The extension of the Fernand Jacquemin elementary school by LT2A in association with Open Architectes in Ploegsteert, Belgium, delivers a 1,600-square-meter educational building that rethinks how architecture can support everyday learning. The project brings together kindergarten and primary education while introducing a new kitchen and dining hub. Moving away from the notion of the school as a neutral shell, the architects treat it as an active spatial system that directs movement, enables encounters, and frames attention from the first moment of arrival.
 
Oriented toward playgrounds to the east and open agricultural horizons to the south and...

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Few photographers have shaped the language of colour as decisively as William Eggleston. He showed that ordinary scenes, when observed with patience and precision, could carry the same weight as traditional subjects of art. His work refuses spectacle yet rewards close attention. By turning the camera on petrol stations, motels and suburban streets he proposed a democratic vision of what could be worthy of observation. This radical insistence on attentiveness transformed colour photography from novelty into a serious medium. Decades later the clarity and restraint of his vision remain revolutionary, although many who have come after have tried to emulate this mastery and they never fully achieve his brilliance....

Dal 5 al 15 febbraio 2026, in occasione di ART CITY Bologna e Arte Fiera, la mostra Corpo Tessuto presenta una nuova e significativa selezione di opere di Simone Miccichè, artista bolognese la cui ricerca pittorica si concentra sul tessuto come luogo simbolico, linguistico e corporeo. La mostra, curata da Federica Fiumelli e Francesco Liggieri, pone al centro del progetto espositivo il tessuto. Elemento che, però, non è mai semplice soggetto rappresentato, ma diventa metafora della pittura stessa: superficie sensibile, pelle del mondo, archivio di memorie culturali e politiche. Le opere di Miccichè nascono da un’osservazione lenta e analitica delle trame, delle pieghe, dei pattern che attraversano stoffe...

 
There’s just 2 weeks left to submit your work for Feeling Seen, a community-centered photography project inviting you to share what you’re experiencing right now.
We want photographers to capture the essence of their current emotions, sensations, and surroundings. Our sense of feeling goes beyond the physical – it’s emotional, atmospheric, and relational. It’s through these feelings that we connect with one another on a deeper level.
It’s about exploring how photography can express both internal and external sensations – whether it’s the rush of anticipation, the dis/comfort of the body, nostalgia of memory or tension of conflict. This project believes in photography’s power to evoke real...

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David A. Ross has stepped down as chair of the master’s degree program in art practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York following the revelation of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The resignation comes after Artnews published his correspondence with the convicted pedophile, who committed suicide in a Manhattan prison in 2019 […]

From more than 60,000 entries submitted by photographers around the globe, the jurors of the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition had their work cut out for them. They selected 100 images that tell powerful stories and represent diverse regions and types of animals in a huge range of habitats, including areas heavily impacted by human activity. Now, 24 photographers have the chance to win the contest’s People’s Choice Award, which you can vote for until March 18. Contenders include a cozy baby sloth, polar bears relaxing on a sunny day, baby kestrels about to take flight, and many more. In addition to casting your vote, visit the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at London’s...

“When I look for places in the city to locate my sculptures, or take photographs, it is a bit similar to [mushroom hunting]. I like to observe the city with that gaze for little details.”Read the full article by Silke Tudor by clicking above.
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The frolicking skeleton children, bat-human creatures, and a lizard girl named Claudine embody the wild imagination of Matt Gordon, a mixed-media artist based in Plymouth, Michigan. Read the full article by Andy Smith by clicking above!
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A photojournalist for the Icelandic daily newspaper Morgunblaðið for 44 years, Ragnar Axelsson is attuned to capturing the moments that tell a story. Mundane activities, impending tragedies, and tender connections between people and animals all figure prominently in his work and offer a portrait of life that comes from being embedded within a community. Axelsson’s book, Where the World is Melting, applies this journalistic rigor and sensibility to a personal project documenting the indelible impacts of a warming planet from Greenland to Siberia. In grainy black and white, snow-covered tundras and misty shorelines strikingly glimpse an environment in flux. One image in particular reveals a cloud of steam...

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Simon Boccanegra has never felt as foreboding or prophetic as it did at a recent performance at La Fenice.

Each spring, Somerset House unveils a large-scale installation in its famed courtyard. The free, public artwork is an opportunity for audiences to encounter some of the most exciting figures working in contemporary art. This year, this opportunity goes to Dana-Fiona Armour (b. 1988), who defines herself as an artist-researcher, often collaborating with scientists and statisticians in her work. Serpentine Currents combines sculpture, technology and science, to raise awareness of issues surrounding marine ecosystems and changing ocean conditions. The three-part sculpture is modelled on a 3D scan of an endangered sea snake species. LED lights react to historic and predicted ocean data from the British...

Concluso il fitto programma di eventi che ha animato Catanzaro nell’annualità 2025, Performing prosegue come piattaforma di ricerca e produzione artistica permanente, mentre è già in fase di preparazione l’edizione 2026 del festival.
Luana Perilli, backstage di “Cantalamissa”, 2025, courtesy Performing Catanzaro
La prima edizione del festival itinerante delle arti performative contemporanee, promosso dall’Accademia di Belle Arti di Catanzaro con il sostegno del Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca e il coinvolgimento di undici istituzioni AFAM e universitarie, si sposta ora dalla dimensione dell’evento a quella del processo. Laboratori, residenze e co-progettazioni trasformano Catanzaro...

An exhibition opportunity foregrounding empowerment, representation and lived experience Unpublished Africa invites African women photographers to submit work for its Women’s Month 2026 exhibition, building on earlier research and exhibitions focused on empowerment and visibility […]

A long-awaited exhibition of Dörte Eißfeldt (b. 1950), one of Germany’s foremost experimental photographers, opens in Berlin this February. It’s an exciting survey of an artist known for harnessing unconventional methods to develop images that defy categorisation – such as inverting positives and negatives, or taking multiple exposures. Eißfeldt’s body of work spans everything from snapshots of everyday life to heavily abstracted compositions that foreground texture and materiality. It’s an approach that has let to widespread acclaim; in November 2025, she received the prestigious Prix Viviane Esders. Plus, her pieces are held in major collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern...

Under the artistic direction of Hoor Al Qasimi, the 25th Biennale of Sydney brings together global, First Nations and diasporic practices to examine memory as an active force shaping history, land and collective responsibility Gabriel […]

A medieval English bronze jug, its trans-Saharan journey, and the afterlives of empire—from fourteenth-century England to the royal court of Asantehene Prempeh I The Asante Ewer, c. 1340–1405. England. Leaded bronze. H. 62 cm. British […]

In occasione di Art City Bologna 2026, la Fondazione Carlo Gajani ospita “A body engineered by water”, mostra personale di Claudia Amatruda incentrata sui temi del corpo, dell’acqua e del femminismo. La mostra sarà visitabile per tutta la settimana di Art City, fino a domenica 8 febbraio (ad eccezione di mercoledì 4 febbraio, giorno di chiusura). Sabato 7, in occasione della White Night, ci sarà un talk speciale guidato da Fuorisedia con il collettivo Parsec, con introduzione dello storico dell’arte Giuseppe Virelli e letture della scrittrice Anna Papa. Per saperne di più abbiamo deciso di incontrare le curatrici Sara Papini e Fuorisedia.
Claudia Amatruda, “Operation Theatre (OT) n.1_Hypersea”,...

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

“A line is a line, whether it’s wool or oil,” says Zavaglia, who was trained as a painter. “The art world is finally embracing it. They're breaking down this hierarchy of art and craft.” Read the full article on the artist by clicking above.
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With works that simultaneously convey the awe of nature and the whimsy of fairy tales, Clémentine Bal sculpts a world full of wonder and imagination. Read Liz Ohanesian's full article on the Hf 63 cover artist by clicking above.
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Loneliness and longing in Emi Yagi's new novel

A Bologna nelle giornate del 2, 7 e 8 febbraio 2026, in occasione di Art City, presso Alchemilla torna il format Artisti Marziali, nato nel 2024 e curato da Veronica Santi. Il progetto, dalla natura sperimentale, ha l’obiettivo di approfondire e indagare le pratiche artistiche degli autori chiamati a partecipare attraverso dei dialoghi della durata di quaranta minuti, strutturati da uno scambio di domande poste a turno.
Artisti Marziali | Federico Tosi vs Davide Sgambaro, 2025, ph. Luca Peruzzi
Ogni incontro prevede il confronto diretto tra due artisti, in una conversazione libera. Non vi sono interventi di curatori, galleristi, giornalisti o direttori museali e, privo di moderatori, il dialogo si svolge...

An exhibition opportunity for Creative Business Studio alums at a regional photography festival in Zambia Unpublished Africa invites Creative Business Studio alums to submit work for consideration in an exhibition at Bakashimika International Photography Festival […]

A major exhibition situating LGBTQ+ artists within African and diasporic art histories through collaboration, joy and lived experience Tobi Onabolu, Dear Black Child, 2021. Video, 18 min. 41 sec. Courtesy of the artist. ‘Here: Pride […]