pink floyd cover turns into triangular guitar by love hultén
 
Swedish designer Love Hultén has created Magicos-2, a custom double-neck synthesizer guitar inspired by the prism featured on Pink Floyd’s iconic album cover for ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’. Commissioned by a private client, the instrument combines custom electronics, modular synthesis, and sculptural design within a triangular body that transforms a familiar graphic into a fully playable musical device. Designed as both a performance instrument and collectible object, Magicos-2 continues Hultén’s exploration of handcrafted electronic devices that merge contemporary technology with retro-futuristic aesthetics.
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Michael Connor discusses AI, internet art, NFTs, privacy and why artists continue to engage with the technologies of the moment.

Drama, racism, masculinity, versatility and heritage.

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a mobile hive moves through the city
 
Across the broken green spaces of contemporary cities, where parks, medians, rooftops, and planted edges often sit apart from one another, Nicolas Nielsen imagines Hyve, a beehive that can move between them.
 
His project brings the form of a small autonomous rover together with a living bee colony, proposing a mobile habitat that carries pollination into places where urban development has interrupted natural routes.
 
Designed by Nielsen, a student at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Hyve was presented as a finalist for the 2026 Rimowa Design Prize (see here). The concept responds to the pressures facing bees in cities, from habitat fragmentation to reduced foraging...

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Rusted Steel and New Timber Shape the Renovation of Ichizu
 
Designed by coil Kazuteru Matumura Architects, Ichizu transforms two long-abandoned timber outbuildings hidden behind a family home into a shared kitchen and community space in Iguchido, Ikeda, Osaka. Located along the historic Nose Kaido road, the project forms the first phase of a gradual effort to reopen an inherited family property for public use while preserving its existing character and layered history. The site has been passed down through generations and consists of a parking area, the main house, and a storehouse facing the street. Beyond these buildings, a field extends toward the rear of the property, where two small timber outbuildings...

Interactive Mirrored Installation by Zhide Frames Sayram Lake
 
Located within the Sayram Lake scenic area in Xinjiang, China, Heart of Sayram Lake is an art installation designed by Zhide Architectural Design Consulting (Beijing) Co., Ltd. The installation responds to the romantic imagery of Sayram Lake, known as the ‘last tear of the Atlantic,’ while incorporating the symbolism of lifelong commitment associated with Chinese jewelry brand DR (Darry Ring) and its concept of ‘One Life, One Only, One True Love.’
 
Positioned alongside the 1,314 km² alpine lake, the artwork creates a landmark within the landscape while inviting visitors to participate through evolving installations and personal...

A largely figurative painter with a penchant for literary citation, Andrew Salgado turns his attention to the still life in a new body of work. Wanting to depart from his narrative-driven process in favor of subject matter allowing for greater intuition and spontaneity, the artist began to render vibrant bouquets in his signature gestural marks. Color ripples across each canvas, presenting the stylized florals in various states of blossom and decay. Salgado is an avid, eclectic reader, and while his still lifes operate at a remove from his typically reference-rich compositions, they still contain snippets of texts and art history. Awash in blues of all shades, “The Prince,” for example, emerges from a...

A grandly sung revival of The Ballad of Baby Doe at Central City Opera mines poignance from America's past and present.

absurdist basket makes lewis prosser in conversation
 
British artist Lewis Prosser describes himself as an ‘absurdist basketmaker,’ a title that feels both playful and surprisingly precise. His oversized willow sculptures, wearable costumes, monumental heads, and performative objects rarely function as baskets in the conventional sense. Instead, they use basketry as a way of asking larger questions about labor, locality, materials, and the future of making.
 
‘As a basket maker I feel too much like an artist, and as an artist I’m too much of a basket maker. Being an “absurdist” gives me permission to apply traditional techniques to unlikely contexts, to move away from utility without losing a...

Daniel Barenboim’s Tristan und Isolde is a performance I keep coming back to, again and again.

If you're wondering what we did this week at Hyperallergic, here's an abridged run-down. Critic Michael Glover reviewed a show on Elizabeth I that spoke truth to royal power; Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar decoded the Surrealist references of a World Cup soccer jersey; and Staff Writer Isa Farfan reported on Trump's unhinged new memo against the Smithsonian, calling it what it is: "draconian.” Sofia Thiệu D’Amico profiled painter Akira Ikezoe, whose work seems to be everywhere these days; Nayyar interviewed Justin Gignac, the artist who successfully sold the trash outside Taylor Swift’s wedding. Also this week, one of our beloved contributors, Noah Fischer, received a coveted award from the...

Lino Fiorito non ha mai separato davvero la pittura dallo spazio. Anche quando lavora sulla superficie della tela, le sue immagini sembrano già pensate come corpi; quando invece la forma occupa fisicamente un ambiente, continua a comportarsi come un dipinto. È a partire da questa continuità che le due mostre presentate tra 480 Site Specific ed EDICOLA480 possono essere lette come un unico progetto articolato in due tempi, in cui la seconda non rappresenta una conclusione, ma una naturale condensazione della prima.
Lino Fiorito solo show, installation view, 2026, 480 Site Specific, Napoli, courtesy dell’artista e 480 Site Specific, Photo: Danilo Donzelli
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The Roman was gone.When I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art a few weeks ago in search of a marble portrait bust of an imperious-looking Roman man, both the sculpture and its pedestal had vanished. Only the label dating the piece to the 2nd century CE remained, marooned on the gallery wall. The sculpture had been purchased from Phoenix Ancient Art, a gallery purporting to follow “the antiquities trade’s most vigorous and stringent procedures of due diligence.” The gallery touted the effort it put into finding evidence that its artifacts had left their countries of origin long before the enactment of export bans. Equipped with these good provenances, or ownership histories, Phoenix boasted that its...

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene discovered Legionella, the bacterium that causes Legionnaires’ disease, in the Guggenheim Museum’s cooling tower this week during a series of preliminary tests attempting to identify the origin of a recent cluster of illnesses. A museum spokesperson confirmed the positive result to Hyperallergic and said there was no present danger to museum staff or the public inside the museum after it took “remediation” actions requested by the city. Legionnaires’ disease is a form of pneumonia that can be contracted by inhaling mist containing the bacteria. It is not transmitted between people. The Guggenheim is located in one of three Upper East Side...

On public view for the first time, the objects were all returned during outgoing president Gustavo Petro’s administration

Chua Mia Tee, known for his sympathetic depictions of the people of Singapore during the country’s early period of self-rule, has died, age 94. The artist’s daughter, Chua Yang, told the Straits Times that her father was recently hospitalized for pneumonia and died at his Bukit Timah home on July 10. No less than Singaporean president Tharman Shanmugaratnam posted on Facebook about the artist’s passing, expressing “much respect” and saying, “He gave everyone, from the shipyard worker to the elderly dumpling seller, their portrait and place in Singapore’s history.” Shanmugaratnam continued, “He contributed in that way to the building of our national identity, when we were a young nation and...

Thousands have mobilized in the Houston area and online this week to protest the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old man who was fatally shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday morning, July 7. It was later revealed that ICE had mistaken the victim — an undocumented Mexican immigrant and father of three who had resided in the United States for 35 years without a criminal record — for another “target.” With the number of ICE-induced fatalities soaring to the double digits this year, the tragic killing of Salgado Araujo has devastated activists, artists, and civilians who see his qualities and vulnerabilities represented in their own circle of loved ones and community...

The Bayeux Tapestry, a massive, 11th century masterwork that depicts the events surrounding the Duke of Normandy’s conquest of England, has returned to England for the first time in nearly one thousand years.  The priceless historical treasure, which will be on display in the British Museum’s Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery from September 10 until July of 2027, was transported […]

Legal proceedings seek to halt a long-term loan agreement authorised by Mexican authorities concerning works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and other national treasures

In an age of visual overload, it’s easy to forget that endlessly available pictures of people, places, and things were once exceptionally rare. So scarce, in fact, that artistic representations were mostly reserved for religious ritual and sacred spaces, for specialized education, or for the very wealthy. Printmaking was arguably the first, and most lasting, innovation counter to such exclusivity.Holly EJ Black’s The Story of Printmaking: A Global History of Art (2026) traces a medium that has too often been under-appreciated. It’s been relegated as secondary to painting or sculpture, for example, even as prints have been essential to the dissemination of religious belief, intellectual history, and...

British archeologists have uncovered a type of Neolithic earthwork called a long enclosure on England’s Suffolk coast. The news was first reported by Heritage Daily, following an announcement by Oxford Cotswold Archeology (OCA). A charity that conducts archeological research, OCA has been excavating in the area ahead of the construction of the Sizewell C nuclear power station. The Neolithic period in Britain spanned roughly 4000 to 2500 BCE. During this time, humans shifted from nomadic hunting and gathering to farming, producing pottery, and, most remarkably, building monumental structures like Stonehenge. Long enclosures—rectangular open spaces defined by ditches—are among the earliest of these...

Buckingham Palace’s Picture Gallery on July 9 unveiled a surprising new rehang of the palace’s collection that nearly doubles the number of works on view, from 63 to 120. The salon-style hang echoes those recently presented at the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain and harks back to a style popularized at the eighteenth-century Paris […]

On Wednesday, the Indonesian Consulate in New York hosted an event celebrating the return of two 8th-century bronze sculptures to Indonesia. According to an announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the Buddhist sculptures were originally taken from archaeological sites in Republic of Indonesia by an organized looting network and sold to Douglas Latchford, the British dealer who died in Thailand in 2020, a year after he was indicted for trafficking antiquities, particularly from Cambodia. Latchford sold the bronzes, along with dozens of other looted objects, to an unnamed collector between 2003 and ’07. Around 2021, this collector relinquished 34 objects (including...

In an email to his staff, American educator, historian, and Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III pushed back against a recent White House Domestic Policy Council report which accused the Smithsonian National Museum of American History of veering towards a mission rooted in “extreme political activism.” Bunch’s email, which was published by the Washington Post […]

Legionella bacteria, which causes Legionnaires’ disease, has been found in the cooling tower of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The Art Newspaper reports that the bacteria was discovered during routine monthly testing earlier this week and that the institution quickly complied with the city’s remediation requirements. The museum has said that the tower is […]

After gracing the ramps of the Guggenheim with their pop-projecting presence, BTS have turned their eyes to another museum as part of a marketing campaign for its latest world tour. This time, the K-pop group is in league with the British Museum in London, where visitors can see a showcase of artworks in the institution’s Korea Foundation Gallery, chosen in collaboration with curator Sang-ah Kim. The Guggenheim gambit was a private affair during which BTS performed amid a Carol Bove retrospective, for the cameras of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The British Museum move, meanwhile, is a public happening organized as part of a citywide art trail to promote a world tour around BTS’s latest album. As...

Meanwhile another giant memorial-arch project in Salt Lake City, Utah, has local residents up in arms

COLCHESTER, ENGLAND—Phys.org reports that a 100 million-year-old marine reptile fossil was found in a pit, along with the possible remains of a cat; a horse tooth; pottery; and a ligula, a Roman spoon used to retrieve perfumes or medicines from long-necked bottles. The Roman artifacts have been dated to the second century A.D. “In several parts of the English coastline, an isolated, perhaps heavily wave-worn, ichthyosaur vertebra washed out from the base of a cliff is a commonplace find, usually of little bearing,” said Patrick Spencer of the Colchester Archaeological Trust. “In this instance, however, the wholly unexpected context of the vertebra made it entirely exceptional,” he explained. Rock...

American conservatives are once again up in arms about a six-year-old tweet by Zohran Kwame Mamdani, elected last year as New York’s mayor. It was June 2020, and a wave of iconoclasm was sweeping the United States. Minneapolis police had murdered George Floyd, an African American man, the month before, and protesters argued that monuments to Confederate soldiers and leaders, slaveholders, and similar figures didn’t just mark important parts of American history, but rather promoted their white supremacist views. Prominent in this discussion were monuments to Italy’s Christopher Columbus, who, as the Progressive Magazine put it in 2017, “engaged in enslavement, outright theft and the genocide of this...

Data from Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips shows confidence from major single-owner sales is trickling down to the rest of the art market

LIMA, PERU—Andina News Agency reports that excavations conducted by a team led by archaeologist Ruth Shady Solís of the National University of San Marcos at the main public structure in Peñico, which is located on the Pacific coast of Peru within the Ministry of Culture’s Caral Archaeological Zone, have uncovered a ritual offering linked to the consecration of a platform some 3,800 years ago. The 43 objects, which are made of wood and bone, had been placed in a small area edged with a semicircle of rounded stones topped with a large stone. Some of the artifacts had been incised with designs and exposed to fire. The sculptures include a woman, possible authority figures, birds, snakes, tadpoles, and...

The Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania, Australia has just announced plans to build an outpost museum in Bangkok; specifically, plans indicate that the new site, called Mona Bangkok, will be located on the banks of the Chao Phraya River. Mona, the largest private museum in Australia, is executing the new museum […]

Archaeologists excavate in Turkey's Üçağızlı II Cave KYOTO, JAPAN—Modern humans and Neanderthals may have shared a common culture over a period of some 20,000 years, Live Science reports. An international team of researchers excavated Üçağizlı II Cave in southern Turkey and uncovered evidence that the two species used the same space, had similar hunting and gathering strategies, and shared the same tool technologies. Dating of sediments where Neanderthal and modern human remains were recovered indicates that Neanderthals used the space between about 77,000 and 59,000 years ago, and modern humans from about 59,000 to 47,000 years ago. Both species collected raw materials from the same sources, and...

The lively flora and fauna of a tiny Filipino island commingle with harrowing memories of California prisons in the surreal works of Gil Batle. Entirely self-taught, Batle honed his skills while incarcerated over the course of 25 years, drawing and eventually tattooing in a clandestine practice. Today, he’s immigrated to his parents’ native country, where he continues to reflect on the decades he spent in confinement. Batle’s Double Life is a new body of work that explores these dual experiences. On white porcelain plates, the artist renders strange, unsettling compositions in which violence and a desire for freedom pervade every inch. Bird cages—common symbols for incarceration— are aplenty, while...

Three timepieces are among the house's top five highest-priced lots this year

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I first experienced the magic of Seiji Ozawa in 1972 when I was 12 years old.

Tschabalala Self will bring a contemporary ‘everywoman’ Lady in Blue to Trafalgar Square this September

Ho parlato con lo scultore di Zagabria, Vladimir Novak, per diverse settimane questa primavera, culminando in una conversazione, “Tra scultura e città”, organizzata da Residency Unlimited a New York. Il lavoro recente di Novak si concentra su questioni scultoree relative alle risposte fisiche degli oggetti nello spazio in modi sorprendenti. Ciò include meccanismi accuratamente calibrati, come l’uso di piccole macchine leggermente decentrate e posizionate dietro le quinte che animano l’opera e le interazioni con il pubblico che le attivano.
Vladimir Novak, “≈ 30 Steps In Balance”, 2018. © Vladimir Novak, foto di Zvonimir Ferina, per gentile concessione dell’Artista
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For a structure that was completed nearly 90 years ago, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge possesses a kind of timeless modernity. It’s been the subject of countless photographs, often seen in the background from Baker Beach or from the overlook in Marin County. Its towers rise 500 feet from the roadway, but we typically can only see the structures from that level. For photographer Marcin Zając, a drone’s-eye view revealed a unique perspective of this iconic landmark. Zając’s image is one of 101 finalists in the 2026 International Aerial Photographer of the Year, marking the second year of the competition. Photographers around the world submitted nearly 1,600 entries, with the top honor awarded to...

“Improbable but not impossible” is how Brazilian artist Ana Elisa Egreja describes the unexpected companions in her vibrant still lifes. Combining the architectural motifs, animals, and fare common in her native São Paulo with elements from abroad, Egreja positions domestic spaces as sites of change, where migration and cross-cultural pollination come to bear. In a new suite of 15 oil paintings, the artist draws on the long tradition of Dutch Golden Age still lifes alongside the contrived qualities of collage. Tablescapes filled with fresh flowers and shiny produce also contain cellophane-wrapped snacks and canned goods. Egreja acknowledges flight as a rich symbol of freedom and migration, and birds swirl...

Gravestone of "Boston" in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Masschusetts BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS—Live Science reports that conservationists identified the gravestone of a formerly enslaved man who died in Boston in the early eighteenth century. The stone is located in the Granary Burying Ground, which was established in 1660 and contains more than 5,000 graves. “I was reviewing the photos of headstones, and then I noticed that the stone only had one name,” said Kelly Thomas of the Historic Burying Grounds Initiative for the Boston Parks and Recreation Department. She noted that enslaved people were often known by just one name. A search of historical records revealed that the man had been named...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA—According to a Türkiye Today report, Emmanuel Macron, president of France, handed over 23 artifacts to Ahmed Al-Charaa, president of Syria, during a meeting held at the Umayyad Mosque. Loaned to the Arab World Institute in Paris in 2011, the objects were scheduled to be returned in 2014, but the outbreak of civil war in Syria canceled those plans. The collection, including a section of a frieze from the ancient city of Palmyra, will be housed in Syria’s National Museum in Damascus. To read about another artifact from ancient Syria, go to "Model Homes: Sealing the Evidence."
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For more than three decades, Rob Hann has pursued the inimitable and notable, turning his lens toward public figures like Tom Hanks, David Byrne, Chloe Sevigny, Ray Lotta, Willem Dafoe, and many others. He also ranges across the breadth and length of the U.S., traversing storied highways like U.S. 89 in Arizona, a popular route to the Grand Canyon, or U.S. 90 in Texas, which passes through the artistic enclave of Marfa. Not unlike the way he captures portraits of people, his characterizations of the country’s endearingly quirky and remote places highlight individuality, presence, and the passage of time. Hann’s subjects range from handmade road signs and vintage buildings to peculiar local attractions like...

Ambur Braid's biggest dramatic soprano assignment yet — the Dyer's Wife in Aix — is occasion for Parterre Box to feature her in some of her old repertoire.

Stand in front of a serious contemporary painting and read the label beside it. Chances are, it tells you the... Read More

Formafantasma has been appointed Serpentine’s Lead R&D Fellows, Ecology, beginning a multi-year project to rethink how the institution works

Fausto Cleva, in this glorious Fanciulla from the old Met, demonstrates all the great skills of opera conducting

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“Identità mutanti”, “Il latte dei sogni”. Il tema dell’identità oltrepassa il secolo scorso, attraversa le Biennali e le riflessioni critiche di FAM, le tendenze Queer e le metamorfosi di Barney per bagnare le rive di Santarcangelo. La 56esima edizione di Santarcangelo Festival, se da un lato deve ancora fare i conti con un corpo collettivo ereditato dalla sua storia, si sofferma su quello individuale. Se il nuovo direttore (Luigi De Angelis) dovrà – tra le altre cose – riportare soprattutto il festival alla sua storia di gratuite pratiche di inclusione cittadina e di coinvolgimento popolare, l’attuale programma dell’edizione diretta da Tomasz Kireńczuk mette al centro il corpo...

Prima ancora di nominare un’origine, origo ne assume la morfologia. Nella sua struttura grafica e sonora, la parola comincia e finisce con una “o”, figura minima del cerchio, della cavità, della soglia. In questa doppia apertura si inscrive una temporalità non lineare, un movimento che non procede verso un punto inaugurale, ma ritorna, ricomincia, si riavvolge incessantemente nella materia. L’origine non appare come un luogo remoto da raggiungere, né come mito pacificato del principio, ma come una condizione di rientro, una possibilità di esporsi nuovamente a ciò che precede il corpo e insieme lo sostiene.
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Sotto l’impulso teorico del suo Presidente, Guillaume Désanges, il Palais de Tokyo non si limita a ordinare una sequenza di mostre autonome, ma si offre come un vero e proprio ecosistema fenomenologico e politico teso a decostruire il sistema del validismo. Questo paradigma, strutturato su severi criteri fisici e psicologici, impone una rigida gerarchia tra corpi considerati normali e anormali in base alla velocità, alle performance e alla produttività capitalista. Désanges rovescia questa dinamica ricordando come la fragilità non sia una condizione eccezionale o marginale, bensì la coordinata ontologica più ampiamente condivisa dall’umanità e da tutto il vivente. Basta un virus, l’avanzare del...

By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...

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