Sir John Soane's Museum has selected Lacey Law and Kanto Ohara Maeda as its 2026 Jerwood Artists in Residence

A conversation with Feng Xiao-Min on painting, perception and the pursuit of simplicity.

Founded by Sarah Le Quang Sang in 2024, SLQS Gallery has quickly established itself as one of Shoreditch's most compelling new spaces

black-and-white Suite Defined by circle and square Geometries
 
The Schachmatt hotel suite by Designhotel Laurichhof (Seidel Architekten) is based on a clear geometric concept that translates the relationship between circle and square into a cohesive interior system defined by black and white, texture, and graphic structure. Large-scale wall compositions combine overlapping circular and rectangular motifs with finely patterned flooring, black built-in elements, round mirrors, and sculptural lighting. Within this framework, selected interventions introduce material contrast, including a deep violet velvet sofa, an aubergine-toned bedroom wall, and an ochre rug that define specific spatial zones through color...

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a timber lookout opens toward laguna troya
 
At Laguna Troya in Calbuco, Chile, a small timber structure rises beside the water as a place to pause and view the landscape. Designed by Chilean architecture studio Dum-Dum Lab, the Troya Viewpoint sits between architecture and environmental interpretation, giving visitors a collective viewing point over the lagoon while keeping the surrounding vegetation and birdlife close to the experience.
 
The project was completed in 2026 with support from Fondart Artistic Creation 2025, and its scale is modest, at 6.8 meters by 6.9 meters by 5.8 meters, covering 38 square meters. Its value comes through the way a simple lookout becomes an open classroom, shaped for...

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Italian culture workers and arts collectives announced this week that they would be joining trade unions and other organizations across the country in participating in a “general cultural strike” on June 12. The strike will focus on supporting Palestine and championing workers’ rights. The organizations who communicated on Monday that they’d be part of the effort include […]

FOUR XIANGCHUN TREES ANCHOR A CIRCULAR SPACE FOR GATHERING
 
Located in a valley in Zibo, Shandong Province, Circle Pit is a site-specific installation by Studio Clash organized around four mature Xiangchun trees (Toona sinensis) growing around a solitary rock. The project draws on the cultural significance of Xiangchun in northern China, where the tree is associated with local identity, seasonal rituals, and collective memory. Through a circular architectural intervention, the installation combines landscape, community use, and environmental preservation within a single spatial framework. The four Xiangchun trees form both the physical and conceptual center of the project. Having grown from wind-dispersed...

Galerie Templon has closed its Chelsea outpost in New York after four years in the location, Artnet News reports. Headquartered in Paris since its 1966 founding, the gallery joins the London-based Stephen Friedman and Timothy Taylor, both of which shuttered their New York branches in recent months. Mathieu Templon, who oversaw the New York space and is the son […]

Last Friday, three men who were convicted of stealing priceless golden artifacts from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands were sentenced to serve 47 months apiece in prison. In January of 2025, three thieves used dynamite and a crowbar to breach a door to the museum. They ultimately made off with golden treasures that included the helmet of Coțofenești, […]

How about them Knicks? (I’m writing this after Game 3, so do not respond to this email accusing me of jinxing.) What with the basketball buzz, I almost forgot that soccer’s also in season with the World Cup group stage starting this week. In celebration, the Guggenheim will be screening artists Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s masterpiece about French soccer legend Zinédine Zidane starting Thursday. And the Tribeca Film Festival’s this week, too? Seems like when the art world starts to get a little sleepy, the rest of the city comes out to play. It’s also Pride Month! We kick off our series of interviews with queer and trans elders this June with Senior Editor Di Liscia’s interview with...

Belgian Surrealist René Magritte’s iconic 1959 painting Le château des Pyrénées is undergoing conservation after a young visitor to the Israel Museum pierced it with a pine cone. Ha’aretz reports that a six-year-old boy was visiting the Jerusalem institution with his family when he discovered the pine cone in the museum’s sculpture garden and used it to puncture the canvas several […]

Nayland Blake at work (all photos © Nayland Blake, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery)This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June.Nayland Blake kind of looks like an alt Santa Claus, with a septum piercing and a beard that ends in a braid, and this wonderful loud, braying laugh. Their work is cerebral, hilarious, charming, kinky, alarming. See the video “Negative Bunny” (1994) in which a fluffy and toxic stuffed bunny tries to convince you of its negative HIV status and cajole you into having sex with it. Or the installation “Mirror Restraint” (1988–89), a BDSM collar suspended between tilted floor-level...

Outside the 10-15 48th Avenue building, where a fire erupted on the morning of June 8 (all screenshots via Linda Ganjian on Instagram)A fire that broke out in Long Island City on Monday left two Queens artists scrambling to rescue decades of work and look for new studios.Linda Ganjian spent much of the day inspecting and salvaging 20 years of sculptures and mixed-media works from water damage after a fire erupted in the two-story loft at 10-15 48th Avenue where she and sculptor Ilan Averbach had studios, she said. Known for making intricate table-top sculptures that play with West African and American craft traditions and for her murals in JFK Terminals 4 and 8, Ganjian stored many of her works in cardboard...

If you've watched and loved Paris Is Burning, the iconic 1990 documentary about Black and Latinx ballroom culture in Harlem, this is the reading list for you. This month, delve into new books that highlight queer and trans artists — past and present — who have always shaped the realms of visual art and culture. One is a catalog about Vaginal Davis, who recently got a retrospective at MoMA PS1 after decades of influential work as a performer, curator, and filmmaker. Another is a jewel-box compendium of photographs of queer nightlife, from Sunil Gupta's portraiture to the Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina's critical trove of images and testimonials. As fascist legislation targets queer and...

Three men have each been sentenced to 47 months in prison for the theft of ancient Romanian gold from a Dutch museum, marking a major development in the 16-month-long case. In the pre-dawn hours of January 25, 2025, a band of thieves blasted open several windows at the Drents Museum in the city of Assen, ultimately absconding with a cache of Iron Age gold artifacts from the exhibition “Dacia—Empire of Gold and Silver” and triggering a diplomatic conflict between Romania and the Netherlands. Among the stolen loot was the prized golden helmet of Cotofenesti, dated to the 5th century B.C., as well as Dacian gold spiral bracelets unearthed in sacrificial pits.  Shortly after the theft, Romanian Prime...

LOS ANGELES — I stepped onto the escalator and descended into a cavernous mirrored space, as dazzling light projections covering the walls, floor, and ceiling morphed into hard-edged cyber-graphics, then branching mycological networks, then color-saturated flowers and trees. A thunderous soundtrack swelled from ambient minimalism to cinematic triumph, peppered with bird chirps and the howls of monkeys. The scent of a damp forest floor wafted through the air, dispersed by a device I wore around my neck. The walls seemed to shift around me, and my heart began racing. It was exhilarating. It was mesmerizing. I felt like I was going to be sick.This was my initial experience of Dataland, billed as “the...

From the beaded phrases of Jeffrey Gibson’s sculptural weavings to Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s canoe series to Raven Halfmoon’s fingerprint-textured tributes, a new exhibition marks the largest presentation of American Indigenous work in the U.K. to date. Opening next week, Hold to This Earth at Yorkshire Sculpture Park features nearly 70 pieces by 38 artists, which in turn represent 35 Tribal Nations. “(The artists) reference and honour ancestral knowledge whilst being steadfastly contemporary, asserting a powerful presence and countering narratives of erasure that too often position Indigenous cultures only in terms of the past,” says a statement from Tia Collection, from which the pieces are drawn....

The 16th Gwangju Biennial, opening this fall in South Korea (Sept 5-Nov. 15, 2026), has announced the names of the 40-some artists and groups who will be included in the exhibition. The list was first published by e-flux. The Biennial’s curator, “fast-rising” Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen, was announced in April 2025. Ho represented Singapore at the 2011 Venice Biennale, and organized the Asian Art Biennial in 2019. The title of Ho’s show, “You Must Change Your Life,” is drawn from the last line of Rainer Maria Rilke sonnet “Archaic Torso of Apollo.” The show focus on the continuous practice of change and transformation. The inaugural edition of the Gwangju Biennial opened in...

The Museum of Modern Art has announced a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian’s years in New York—in particular, the influence of the city’s boogie-woogie music scene on his art. The exhibition will bring together 30 of Mondrian’s paintings either made or completed between his move to New York in 1940 and his death there in 1944. A pioneer of 20th-century abstraction, Mondrian began as a figurative painter before co-founding the De Stijl art movement—an international collective dedicated to non-representational art—in 1917. After moving to Paris in 1919, he continued to develop his theories on abstract art, eventually settling on the format for which he is best known:...

King Fahad Stadium prepares for 2034
 
On the eastern edge of Riyadh, King Fahad Sports City Stadium rises with the familiar silhouette of a landmark that has carried Saudi football, concerts, and national gatherings since the late 1980s.
 
Opened in 1987 as the first large-scale stadium of its kind in the region, the venue is now entering a major renovation led by Populous in collaboration with the Saudi Ministry of Sports, as the country prepares to host the FIFA World Cup in 2034.
 
The project looks beyond a simple upgrade of seats and services. It will expand capacity, renew the stadium’s technical systems, and reshape the surrounding site into a mixed-use sports park that can support major...

Victor Wembanyama is much more than a transcendant basketball star. In the hours leading up to a decisive Game 3 victory in the 2026 NBA Finals—the first such game in New York City in 25 years—the 7-Foot-4 Frenchman spent the afternoon in Gramercy sketching. As seen in a viral video posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Wembanyama and his sister Eve, who also plays professional basketball, but in Europe, were spotted in Gramercy Park, one of just two private parks in New York City, sketching a statue of Edwin Booth, the 19th-century Shakespearean actor whose brother, John Wilkes, cemented his place in history by assassinating President Abraham Lincoln. Edwin’s statue, depicting him as Hamlet, was sculpted by...

“There was a moment when I was walking between forests and mountains in Tepoztlán, Mexico, while dandelions floated across my face,” Alexis Mata says. “In that instant, I experienced a strange sensation, as if I were standing on another planet, in another time, confronted with an entirely new landscape.” As the dainty seeds drifted through the air, Mata began to think about the ways life forms travel and embed themselves in new ecosystems. He was drawn to the idea of landing, of rooting and growing, which quickly became the basis for a poetic exhibition at Thinkspace in Los Angeles. “Lost Landing” (2026), oil on canvas, 160 x 160 centimeters Titled Lost Landing, the show features Mata’s glitched...

René Magritte’s The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) has gone to the conservation lab at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after being accidentally damaged by a young museum visitor. A boy visiting the museum with his family punctured the painting with a pinecone before a museum guard could stop him, museum staff told The Times of Israel. Sharon Tager, head of conservation at the museum, told Ha’aretz that repairs would take several weeks. “We’re experienced in conserving paintings and objects that arrive in poor condition, including works that have been stored since the Holocaust period,” Tager told Ha’aretz. “The first stage is treating the base itself because the hole caused the canvas to sag. We...

1RIN turns number 1 into single-stem vases crafted across Japan
 
Developed by Tokyo-based design company KUMAnoTE, 1RIN is a collection of single-stem vases based on the form of the number 1. The project originated from the idea of placing a single flower in a single vessel, using the numeral as a shared design framework through which different materials, regional traditions, and manufacturing techniques could be explored.
 
The inaugural collection brings together three forms of Japanese craftsmanship: Hasami porcelain from Nagasaki Prefecture, Takaoka bronze casting from Toyama Prefecture, and Yakumo wood carving from Hokkaido. While each vase follows the same numerical silhouette, the character of the...

The Hong Kong jeweller and sculptor unveils parallel installations at Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo and Santa Maria della Pietà, linking mythology, sacred architecture and cosmology

“Ice burns, and it is hard for the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost,” wrote A.S. Byatt in Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice. Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami characterizes ice in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman as a capsule that preserves the past “cleanly and clearly,” but possesses no future. In the ephemeral performance “MIZU,” frozen water takes on the form of a woman in an enchanting and emotive meditation on memory, time, and impermanence. “MIZU” is the brainchild of puppeteer and director Élise Vigneron’s Théâtre de L’entrouvert and Companie Furankaï, which encompasses the work of choreographer and circus artist Satchie Noro. The composition...

Frieze Seoul returns this September with over 125 galleries, two new curated sections, expanded Focus

Matthew Travisano has such doubts about Douglas Cuomo's opera recently seen at Opera Parallèle.

Supported by an ingenious production and strong performances, Antonia Bembo's Ercole Amante makes a successful Paris Opera debut.

So much color in this beautifully agile voice.

The “No Ice in the Cup” campaign is using art to protest US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents' planned deployment to the football tournament

Hypha Studios opens its largest project to date in Bankside, transforming an empty office building into a major cultural hub

"Never mind that more and more of these movies look and feel like TV shows"

The new FotoFocus Center gives the city’s popular photography biennial a permanent presence and an inclusive mandate

What is prison for? Touted as both a means of punishment and correction, the U.S. carceral system rarely succeeds at the latter. According to the Department of Justice, more than 650,000 people are released from prison annually, with two-thirds being arrested again within three years. Rehabilitation is the purported justification for locking away more of our residents than most other nations, but clearly, the punitive system seldom accomplishes this goal. A new film by writer Marvin Wade and animator Evan Bode juxtaposes the counterproductive forces of the carceral system with the programs, resources, and true determination that make change possible. Presented by The New York Times‘ Opinion section,...

The Museo Dolores Olmedo is welcoming visitors again after a six-year-long closure during which plans were floated to relocate its prized collection

Double can mean many things. It may imply a duplicate, symmetry, a reflection, a twin, a splitting, or even a shadow self. There is an inherent duality that forms around two parts, which may or may not be in concert with one another. Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Rank was the first to describe the concept in an essay published in 1914, and Sigmund Freud ran with the idea in his 1919 book The Uncanny. For Freud, the phenomenon illustrated how the unconscious is actually a kind of second consciousness. Scottish psychoanalyst R.D. Laing drew on this foundation in his study of schizophrenia in the book The Divided Self, which delves into the nature of “real” and “false” selves. And in a literary sense, the...

The English musician will co-organise a show at the UK's Hepworth Wakefield next year

Dearest by Zeinab Diomande is a zine presenting a collection of paintings that, while not a formal series, share a cohesive visual language exploring themes of liquidity and the passage of time, achieved through the use of thinned paint and water. The pieces employ texture as a storytelling device, reflecting the rituals and ceremonies of the artist’s alter egos within imagined worlds.
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Opera Theater of St. Louis's summer festival opened last night and Parterre Box is celebrating by launching a new feature: custom travel guides!

Emma Hoffman reports on the glimmers of ecstatic artistry in Lise Davidsen's all-Schubert recital at Carnegie Hall with James Baillieu.

Interior Gallery Photos by and ©Tim Hursley, courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum  As a world-class institution showcasing one of the most impressive collections of American art spanning five centuries, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has firmly placed Bentonville, Arkansas on the global cultural map. And, except for a few major holidays, the museum […]
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By A. Laura Brody What is the language of bat senses and beaver teethmarks? How does water communicate to soil and roots, and how do we translate the paths left by burrowing insects or the markings of trees? These are questions asked by the Journal of Therolinguistics exhibition at Descanso Gardens' Boddy House, on view now until July 5, 2026. Oscar Salguero has curated a fascinating exploration of the expressive worlds of plants and animals brought to life by international artists Aistė...

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For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

Cindy Bernhard
PLATO is honored to present Broken Vessels, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Cindy Bernhard, featuring a new body of paintings that explores spiritual rupture, transcendence and the relationship between the human body and the divine. The public opening is scheduled for Thursday, June 4, from 6 to 8 PM in the gallery’s ground floor space. The show will be on view through July 11. At the center of the exhibition is the metaphor of the vessel: the body as a container for spirit and belief. Drawing from archetypal associations between gold and divinity, Christian mysticism and contemporary existential anxiety, Bernhard’s monumental six-foot paintings depict fractured golden forms that...

By Tm Gratkowski With intent and the will to do it her own way, there is a gallery in the most unlikely of places, off the 210 freeway on Lincoln Avenue in Pasadena. Imagine walking into the parking lot of an old lumber yard, stumbling down a paved area past old materials, equipment, and a small cluster of shed-like buildings. Nothing new, no signs, just your average ubiquitous Southern California lot. As you wander in you notice a little welcoming front porch and tucked away in the corner is...

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By Tatou Dede T: How did you end up here, being an artist today? A: I think it depends on how you define the term artist. I was always in theatre since, maybe, kindergarten. When I was a child I used to produce and direct sort of nonsensical plays for my schools, wherever I was, in Oakland, San Francisco, and Berkeley. So every year I produced a very bizarre play that, for some reason, every school had me put on. And then I studied with the Berkeley Rep theater. After that I went to UCLA and...

By Melanie Chapman Timed in conjunction with the Taschen publication "My Education," the first book-form retrospective of photographer Bruce Weber's multi-decade career, the new exhibition now on view at Fahey Klein Gallery, Bruce Weber: Try a Little Tenderness, is worth more than one visit. Likely due to Weber's genre-defining success as a fashion photographer for Calvin Klein, GQ, Vogue, etc., particularly at its height in the 1980s and '90s, the line for the recent gallery opening...

By Barbara Patterson Zarina Van Ranzow's debut solo exhibition featuring work from her ongoing series Let it Bleed and Music for Lovers opened on May 8 at STONE/AGE Studios in East Los Angeles. Drawing from archival photographs of the artist's family and portraits of a variety of musicians, the series adapts photographic content into oil and airbrush paintings that pick up where the camera leaves off. Diffusing the harsh, resolute forms that photography's understanding of the subject...

In Perfectly Normal—the exhibition from Dustin Myers that ran at Los Angeles gallery Thinkspace Projects in November 2023—the Southern California artist presented a collection of young characters painted in oils. Posed in the awkward-yet-endearing postures associated with school photographs, the characters’ exaggerated facial features reveal a bevy of emotions. Some are ready for their close-up. […]
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“I have a passion for product design; most of the motifs I draw are related to consumer products,” says Shohei Ochiai. The Tokyo-based artist studied at Tama Art University, where he graduated about a decade ago, and is an admirer of the designs of consumer product company Braun, Memphis Group founder Ettore Sottsass, and famed […]
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ABOVE: Photo of Martha Rich by Andrea Cipriani Mecchi Any artist will tell you one of the greatest gifts they ever earned was the moment they found their style—their singular take on subject, creation, and process. But much harder earned is the gift of confidence, that ability to continue in one’s style, despite all the […]
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