After adding Yoshitomo Nara to its roster last fall, David Zwirner will present the Japanese artist’s first show with the gallery at both of its spaces on 19th and 20th Streets in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The exhibition, touted as Nara’s first major solo show in New York in nearly a decade, is slated to open October 29 and will run through December 12. Nara joined Zwirner after being represented previously by Pace and Blum galleries, and said at the time, “Now, I feel fortunate to present the works I will be creating under the guidance of a gallerist who, though born and raised in a different place, shares the same generation and the spirit of the era we both lived through—including its...

A recent psychological study on so-called "cancel culture" and artistic impact found that its respondents reacted more punitively toward an artist accused of sexual assault (SA) compared to an artist accused of murder.

The charge stems from an October 9, 2024, incident in which Halai and Rosenfeld entered London’s National Gallery during open hours and covered Pablo Picasso’s 1901 Motherhood (La Maternité) with an image of a Palestinian woman weeping as she held her bloodied child. The photo was taken by Palestinian journalist Ali Jadallah during the Israeli […]

PHILADELPHIA — Imagine walking down a dirt pathway towards a bright, clean building in rural upstate New York. The windows are shutterless, neatly spaced rectangles; the roof is softly arched; and the walls are rattling with the screams, shouts, and stomps of dozens of people inside. You’ve arrived at the Second Meetinghouse of Mount Lebanon, the beating heart of a tiny, celibate, egalitarian, pacifist Christian sect: the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, better known as the Shakers, named for the distinctive ecstatic dances that accompanied joyful song during worship. A society of revolutionaries, when they burst onto the scene of 18th-century America, they were considered...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Betelhem Makonnen (1972–2026)Artist who explored diasporic consciousnessThrough photography, video, public art, and installations, she explored diasporic consciousness, embedded memory, and contemporary experience. In the 2019 video work “change means revolution in Amharic (person, place and thing),” for instance, she wanders through trees wearing a mask of herself as a child. "On her own now," Billie Anania wrote in a review in this magazine that same year, "the artist hides behind her former self, occasionally lifting the mask to face the world with caution."Makonnen's work has been shown at the...

In the famously barren courtyard of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, a garden for the next two years has been planted. Created by artist and poet Precious Okoyomon, the elaborate installation invites us to approach a giant teddy bear’s butt and slide through its core to exit through the mouth, like a tongue. “The rectum isn’t a grave, it’s just a portal,” the artist told me during the press event that took place during an overcast Wednesday sprinkled with drizzle. Their statement riffs on Leo Bersani’s 1987 seminal queer theory essay “Is the Rectum a Grave?”

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The final decisions from UNESCO‘s World Heritage Committee bring together a broad and sometimes unexpected view of heritage. A modernist sanatorium in Finland now shares the list with a porcelain-making landscape in China. Coral reefs in Jordan sit beside a South Sudanese migration route crossed by millions of animals, while cliffside towns and fortified mountain networks reveal how people have shaped difficult terrain over centuries.
 
UNESCO announced 25 inscriptions at the close of the World Heritage Committee’s 48th session on July 28th, 2026. The final count includes 19 cultural properties and five natural ones. Mount Olympus is the sole mixed cultural and natural...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has announced a deficit of $10 million on a $75.6 million budget for fiscal year 2025–26. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, which broke the story on July 28, the figure is nearly double that of the institution’s shortfall for the previous year, which was $5.4 million. Museum officials’ predictions for […]

Claude Monet’s Bord des falaises à Pourville (ca. 1882) is coming to the auction block at Christie’s Paris this October with an estimate of €11 million–€15 million ($12.5 million–$17.1 million). The brightly hued landscape is leading a sale of works from the family collection of Paul Durand-Ruel, the dealer considered most responsible helped establish Impressionism as a commercial and critical success. The October 22 sale, titled “Durand-Ruel, Generations of Vision,” will feature 62 works that have remained in the family’s possession for generations, including paintings by Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Gustave Loiseau, Henry Moret, and Pablo Picasso. The...

Will New York City’s new pied-à-terre tax drive major art collectors from the Big Apple into the tax-friendly arms of competing cultural hubs?  That is the question at the heart of an ongoing debate, prompted by a database published last week by the New York City Department of Finance (DOF). The list identifies numerous prominent art-world figures as potentially subject to a surcharge on multimillion-dollar second homes, know as as pied-à-terres. According to the DOF database, first reported by Artnet News’s Katya Kazakina, other names include billionaire collectors Steven A. Cohen, Leon Black, and Len Blavatnik, and Mitchell Rales, as well as blue-chip market figures like art adviser Allan Schwartzman...

The White House has continued to escalate its assault on the Smithsonian Institution this week, ordering signage outside the National Museum of American History to flag what an executive order calls “inaccurate information” presented in its exhibits. A prominent industry group, the American Alliance of Museums, is finally hitting back. Earlier this month, the AAM released a statement condemning the Trump administration’s attacks on the Smithsonian. In a scathing rebuke, the group asserted that the Smithsonian “reflects the highest standards of scholarship, stewardship, and public service.” The AAM’s statement continues, “Efforts to politicize how museums present history, art, science, culture,...

Winners and their booking group will receive ‘a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stand within the ancient stones with no one else around’ before opening hours

When auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen brought down the hammer on Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500) at Christie’s in 2017, it fetched $450.3 million, making history as the priciest work of art ever sold at a public auction. Sold as the last Leonardo in private hands, it went to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman; ever since, it’s been visible in numerous headlines and even in a documentary, but hasn’t gone on public view.  Well, New York’s Salvator Mundi Museum of Art can’t exactly fill that gap, since it doesn’t have the painting, but the 45-square-foot institution, founded by mischievous artist Elliott Arkin in 2019, does bill itself as having “one of the largest private collections...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced the acquisition of more than ninety modern and contemporary artworks, as well as more than 250 approved gifts of art to the museum. All the pieces were acquired between January and June 2026. The purchases include video installations and works by Ana Mendieta, Stephanie Comilang and […]

MILWAUKEE — Handmade ceramic lizards with tails that morph into flowers cling to the walls of photographer Widline Cadet’s exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum. These little creatures crouch low or grip onto the corners of the ceiling as if silently accompanying us through the artist’s first solo institutional show in the United States, marking a territory of displacement and adaptation. Cadet, who grew up in Haiti and now lives in Los Angeles, immigrated to New York City at age 10 to reunite with her mother, who had arrived years earlier. Because immigration is a fraught, violent issue in the US, every museum exhibition that humanizes these stories feels urgent. Cadet explores concepts of separation...

Nearly twenty years after it was first announced, the long-awaited Guggenheim Abu Dhabi has finally revealed an opening date of December 11. The new modern and contemporary art museum in the United Arab Emirates’ capital was designed by the late Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry and is the latest addition to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s […]

Across West Africa, Indigenous communities mark holidays, rites, and sacred events with a remarkable variety of ceremonies ranging from dances to processions. These masquerade traditions incorporate meticulously carved masks and full-body costumes that often facilitate links between humans and the spiritual world. There’s evidence of masked customs dating back millennia, and today, artists continue the tradition of hand-hewn masks and ensembles in vivid colors and a wide array of materials—sometimes with a twist. The exhibition New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, which opens at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg next month, celebrates contemporary creations by four...

VOLLEBAK PREPARES FOR WHEN ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE
 
Vollebak launches the FWAHBL (For When All Hell Breaks Loose) jacket as a limited edition of ten entirely yellow trench coats. Cut from the same material used to manufacture airtight chemical protection suits, the jacket arrives at the center of a fictional universe complete with a comic book, film-style trailer and playable video game currently in development. For a coat conceived around chaos, the rollout is remarkably organized.
 
Its outer shell is made from double-faced polychloroprene rubber coated onto both sides of a woven polyester core. The material is engineered to resist chemicals, oils, ozone, flame and weathering, giving the trench coat a...

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Refusés is opening its first permanent space at Queensrollahouse, expanding its artist-led programme with a solo exhibition by Elspeth Vince.

Introducing a redesigned retail format in one of London's fastest-growing creative districts.

Atelier Siyu revives Shanghai lane house with modular furniture
 
Atelier Siyu’s Society of Home Workshop & Pop-up uses the strategy of ‘bringing the tree into the space’ to establish a visual and spatial connection between the interior and its immediate surroundings. Located within a Shanghai lane house, the project responds to the existing architecture, including its timber roof structure, aged steel-framed windows, and courtyard. A curved curtain organizes the narrow interior, while a modular furniture system is reconfigured to accommodate office, exhibition, storage, and retail functions. entrance ©siyu
 
 
Curved Curtain and Modular Furniture Organize the Workshop
 
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It's a busy summer for Vida Miknevičiūtė and Eric Cutler, the subjects of this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag.

Yuval Sharon's production of The Excursions of Mr. Brouček shoots for the moon — and lands somewhat limply on Lake Constance.

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Polazzo creates works on canvas, murals using the fresco secco technique, and functional, hand-painted lamp sculptures

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Three new properties were inscribed under emergency procedures and simultaneously placed on the World Heritage in Danger List

The National Portrait Gallery looks beyond Marilyn Monroe’s screen image to reveal the beauty, vulnerability and tragedy behind the Hollywood icon.

Ayumi Tsuchiya’s wooden sculptures encourage curiosity
 
Children rarely stop to ask how Ayumi Tsuchiya’s sculptures work but intuitively climb inside them, rock back and forth, push, pull, and listen. Adults, on the other hand, look for instructions first. That difference has become one of the defining observations behind the Japanese artist’s practice. Across hand-built wooden chairs, musical seesaws, oversized carved bowls, and flower-like seats, Tsuchiya’s practice revolves around objects that ask for the body as much as the eye. Her works occupy a space between sculpture, furniture, instrument, and playground, asking to be used before they are understood. ‘Children begin to play...

SHINING PORCELAIN TAKES CENTER STAGE AT THE TABLE
 
Milan-based Habits Design sets the table, looking into technology, design, and gastronomy through an interactive luminous tableware collection named Light Bites that transforms traditional dining into an ever-evolving narrative. Embedded with hidden sensors, the tableware becomes a dynamic participant at the table, enabling light, color, and intensity to respond in real time to food, composition, and human movement. Like a synchronized performance, turning each dish into a miniature installation that shapes a deeply multisensory, contemplative experience.
Habits Design presents Light Bites | all images courtesy of Habits Design
 
 
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It is no wonder Bernard Herrmann relishes the wistful lyricism in Barber's masterwork, as Herrmann's score for Vertigo is among the most beautiful and haunting of all film scores ever composed.

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As Andy Burnham opens a new office in the city of Manchester, we offer up some suitably northern works for the walls

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Paul Carey-Kent reviews Trace Elements, a new monograph documenting Eric Butcher's striking shift towards a more sustainable artistic practice.

La fotografa Glorija Lizde, che vive e lavora a Spalato, utilizza la sua macchina fotografica per costruire quasi-documentari mirati attraverso le immagini, spesso indagando i membri della propria famiglia attraverso conversazioni difficili e in situazioni di precarietà. Non sorprende quindi che Glorija trovi punti di contatto nell’opera del medico Jean-Martin Charcot, le cui immagini di fine Ottocento, che ritraggono donne alle prese con la malattia mentale, possiedono un intenso peso psicologico e sollevano interrogativi culturali su autorialità, soggettività e ruoli di genere.
Glorija Lizde, “Ritratto di famiglia. Che aspetto aveva il mio viso prima della nascita dei miei genitori”, 2022, foto di...

The two shows both seek to investigate the interstices of spiritual and artistic practices, yet neither fully manages to capture the divine

After the US Supreme Court struck down the White House’s previous tariffs, Trump and his trade representative have imposed new tariffs of 10% or more on around 80 countries

Bentonville is a small town in Northwest Arkansas that has, over time, become synonymous with massive retail operations and corporate ecosystems. The bustling hub is ingrained with the legacy of Walton’s, a small nickel and dime convenience store that opened on Bentonville’s downtown square in 1950 to serve its surrounding community. The shop quickly found success, and owner Sam Walton opened another store nearby that would evolve into the largest retailer in the world: Walmart. During this time and throughout the ’60s, a post-war boom overtook the burgeoning commercial landscape of the United States. The suburban American Dream became a catalyst for retailers to adapt to an evolving social fabric that...

What best represents European life? The eternal dichotomy of nature vs. culture structures the Central Bank’s quest for a new banknote design, and now, the public can vote and offer feedback on ten proposals. A panel of jurors selected the designs, which follow one of two themes: European places and ideas or birds and rivers, the latter of which is meant to symbolize freedom and unity. While the basic elements are the same—all collections devoted to culture feature the same six figures, including Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, composer Ludwig van Beethoven, scientist Marie Curie, opera singer Maria Callas, and authors Bertha von Suttner and Miguel de Cervantes, for example—individual approaches...

A new public work by Alan Michelson and an exhibition by Leslie Wayne explore climate change and fragile ecosystems

Da oltre quarant’anni Antony Gormley assume il corpo come punto di partenza della propria ricerca, senza mai ridurlo a una semplice figura. Lo considera piuttosto una misura attraverso cui interrogare spazio, materia e condizione umana. In What Holds Us, la mostra presentata da Galleria Continua a San Gimignano, questa riflessione trova una formulazione particolarmente essenziale. Più che introdurre nuovi temi, il progetto approfondisce una domanda che attraversa l’intero lavoro dell’artista: quali relazioni rendono possibile la presenza di un corpo nello spazio?
Antony Gormley, “What Holds Us”, 2026, installation view at Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, photo Ela Bialkowska – OKNO Studio,...

A nude Black woman lies on a stark white chaise, her head propped up by her thin arm. She’s surrounded by flat, abstracted color in the form of fruits and fabrics, and a glass coupe and bottle on a nearby table offer a clear, rather than refracted, view of the vibrant scene. Rendered in oil on burlap, the painting by William H. Johnson is commanding in its palette and subject matter and an exemplary work in a new book by art historian Richard J. Powell. Forthcoming this fall from Princeton University Press, Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect delves into the ways that color and social, political, and cultural forces intersect in Black American art. Powell takes an expansive approach to each of the three...

“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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Since 1998, Fumiaki Aono has been interested in how objects circulate and what happens when they appear in new contexts. Questions of restoration and regeneration naturally followed, and wood became a prime medium for exploring these themes. Today, Aono continues to revitalize found objects, particularly discarded furniture. Dressers, chests, and cabinets stack into towering assemblages and become the imaginative backdrop for the artist’s constructed scenes. Converted drawers appear like apartment buildings on a summer day, with tenants leaning out windows and hanging out at street level. Several works also depict box trucks and other vehicles emerging from wooden furnishings, while bicycles, hats, and shoes...

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Wolf Trap Opera presented a lovely Eugene Onegin with particularly noteworthy performances by Magdalena Kuźma and Daniel O’Hearn.

Lorenzo Molajoli is a mysterious figure.

Esistono immagini che non si limitano a rappresentare il reale, ma ne sospendono la consistenza fenomenica per restituirlo come esperienza critica dello sguardo. Mediterraneo, il progetto che Mimmo Jodice torna a consegnare al pubblico nella grande mostra curata da Carlo Sala a Palazzo Lanfranchi (Matera), la prima ampia esposizione istituzionale a lui dedicata dopo la sua scomparsa, appartiene a questa rara condizione dell’immagine: non descrive il passato, ma ne riattiva la presenza, trasformando l’archeologia in una pratica della contemporaneità.
Mimmo Jodice, “Mediterraneo”, installation view at Palazzo Lanfranchi, Matera, ph. Antonello Di Gennaro, courtesy Musei Nazionali di Matera – Palazzo...

Lo scorso 12 dicembre è scomparso all’età di 89 anni l’artista e fotografo emiliano Franco Vaccari (Modena, 1936-2025); per ricordarlo, Museion, il museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Bolzano, ha allestito una mostra, la prima in assoluto dopo la sua morte, intitolata “Feedback. Gli Ambienti di Franco Vaccari”, a cura di Frida Carazzato e Luca Panaro, visitabile fino al 13 settembre 2026.
“Feedback. The Environments of Franco Vaccari”, exhibition view at Museion, 2026. Photo: Luca Guadagnini, courtesy Museion, Bolzano
Mosso dall’iniziale interesse verso la “poesia visiva” e per quelle che amava definire “forme anonime di poesia”, Franco Vaccari era attratto dai segni apparentemente...

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Nella cultura odierna orientata all’immagine, gli artisti sono costantemente circondati da riferimenti visivi – dai feed dei social media, alle scene cinematografiche, dalla storia dell’arte e dagli archivi personali. Il curatore e critico francese Nicolas Bourriaud ha descritto questo approccio come “postproduzione”: gli artisti non creano più da zero, ma rimescolano e reinterpretano immagini e simboli culturali esistenti. L’ascesa di Internet ha solo intensificato questo processo. Gli artisti contemporanei ora lavorano con flussi infiniti di immagini online, fotografie trovate e materiali d’archivio, citandoli, rimescolandoli e riappropriandosene mentre li caricano di significati...

By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...

All images courtesy of CHOI&CHOI Gallery and the artist Sculptor Yu Jinyoung garnered international acclaim for her striking figures, whose bodies are often partially transparent. These are individuals “who wish to become invisible,” she says: “those who exist free from external attention and interference.” These explorations of both intentional isolation and somber loneliness have always […]
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By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...

Common Objects brings together the work of 97 photographers from across the globe to explore the role of the image and its ability to shape perception. Organized not by theme or geography but by visual association, the book draws on the logic of the reference catalog—a structure built for sustained, democratic looking. Within it, photographs from vastly different cultures and contexts find themselves in unexpected proximity, generating connections and contrasts that no single image could produce alone. In this format, the photographs enter into a subtle dialogue with one another, revealing how context, sequence, and framing shape interpretation and inform visual experience.  
   
   
   
   
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