Chanel is deepening its artistic relationships overseas through its Chanel Culture Fund. The French luxury brand has partnered with Thailand’s contemporary art museum Dib Bangkok for the inauguration of its annual Chanel Gateway Commission. The annual program will handpick a local artist in Southeast Asia to create a large-scale artwork that will then be displayed at Dib Bangkok, which was founded by ARTnews Top 200 collector Purat “Chang” Osathanugrah and opened its doors in December 2025. Yana Peel, president of arts, culture, and heritage at Chanel, said that for years the brand has been “captivated by Thailand’s vibrant cultural community and its influence on the international art scene” and...

A SCULPTURE BY GUAN XIAO SHAPE THE NEW ALAÏA INTERIOR
 
Alaïa reopens its boutique at Plaza 66 in Shanghai on the mall’s third floor, introducing an interior that extends the fashion house’s established visual language. Defined by curved lines and sharp geometric forms, the space brings together Carrara marble, Macassar ebony wood, stainless steel, and nude-toned leather. A work by Chinese artist Guan Xiao anchors the boutique, connecting Alaïa’s interest in form and construction with contemporary artistic practice. The storefront incorporates circular geometric elements that reinterpret Alaïa’s perforated motif, while a central glass frontage opens the boutique toward the mall.
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Batten and Kamp’s AI Robot Becomes a Mobile Vase for an Orchid
 
Batten and Kamp’s Beauty Seeker Seeker is an embodied AI vase that uses robotic movement to direct human attention toward a single orchid. Combining a decorative object with an autonomous robotic system, the project examines the attention economy, weaponized cuteness, and the relationship between technology and the natural world. The project considers attention as a resource shared by both living and technological systems. Flowers can be understood as biological mechanisms for attracting insects, while domesticated animals and digital technologies have developed systems that encourage human engagement. Building on this idea, Beauty Seeker...

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TANGENT TAKES THE 911 OFF SCRIPT
 
A 992-generation Porsche 911 looks unusual sitting this high off the ground. Tangent Design Group’s Urban Safari lifts the Carrera 4 by three inches, puts it on chunky tires, adds a bull bar up front and straps recovery gear to the roof. The proportions are familiar enough to register as a 911 straight away, but everything around them has shifted.
 
The Chicago-based industrial design studio began the project in 2019, after finishing another 911 commission and deciding to build one for itself. A 2021 Carrera 4 became the base. Tangent wanted all-wheel drive, ordered the car in Paint-to-Sample Black Olive, and started figuring out how far the standard 992 could be pushed...

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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in all kinds of trouble, from stagnant ticket sales to falling debris in the grand foyer.  The center posted images of the debris on X and Instagram on Friday. “Another warning we can’t ignore. A section of the Grand Foyer ceiling collapsed after this week’s storms. Thankfully no one was hurt. Decades of deferred maintenance made this inevitable,” said the post, adding that “Chairman President Trump has been right: America’s cultural center needs to close, renovate, and be restored—now.” According to The Guardian, the ceiling collapsed because of heavy rain. The center’s vice president for public relations, Roma Daravi, said that the...

Ci sono luoghi che sembrano appartenerci prima ancora di essere stati abitati. Li riconosciamo nella disposizione di una finestra, nella luce che attraversa una stanza, nella presenza di un tappeto o di un vaso di fiori. Qualcosa in quelle forme precede il ricordo e lo fa affiorare senza consegnargli un’immagine precisa. I dipinti di Quentin James McCaffrey nascono dentro questa zona incerta, dove familiarità ed estraneità si incontrano e ogni ambiente custodisce la traccia di un’esperienza possibile.
Quentin James Mccaffrey, “Landscape with Sunbeam”, 2026, oil on canvas over wood panel, 16 x 13 in. Courtesy Alison Jacques ® Quentin James McCaffrey, ph. JSP Art Photography
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Mexican artist Geles Cabrera, who was celebrated as her country’s first professional female sculptor and associated with the Generación de la Ruptura (Breakaway Generation), died on September 1 at age 100, as first reported by the Spanish magazine Bonart. Over seven decades, she built a sculptural practice that explored the human figure through abstracted, voluptuous forms, often ones made of rough volcanic stone. Over the years, she effectively led the way for younger generations of modern and contemporary Mexican artists, for whom she was a “tireless promoter,” as the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL), Mexico City, put it in a past tribute. The institution also announced her death...

Rotated Timber Frames Define the Studio’s Triangular Structure
 
Set on a hill within the rural landscape of Kobe, Japan, Tsukumo Kiln by Dept. + OAAA is a ceramic studio surrounded by fields and mountains. Conceived as a working space for ceramic production, the 80.32-sqm building responds to its open setting through a triangular plan, a column-free central workspace, and a continuous translucent envelope.
 
The structure is organized around three timber portal frames, each rotated 60 degrees from the next. This arrangement produces an equilateral triangular geometry in plan and establishes a building without a conventional front, back, or dominant direction. The same geometric operation defines both the...

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Lawyers for the heir, a descendant of the Dutch dealer Jacques Goudstikker, say the outcome is ‘unprecedented’ as it involves the recovery of a work held in private hands through a criminal case

The circus is coming to town, although maybe not in the form you’d expect. The art world, in all its acrobatics, pageantry, and occasional fun, is returning to cities across the United States this fall with a spate of acts. Artist Karon Davis ushers us into the big top in an exhibition rife with circus archetypes at the Seattle Art Museum. In a group show at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, we’re given front seats to the circus that is American democracy. There may be no ringmaster inside this tent, but there’s certainly showbiz: the Denver Art Museum has dedicated an entire show to the diva phenomenon, while at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute for Contemporary Art, Tony Cokes...

IKEA AND XBOX SCALE UP THE THUMBSTICK
 
There is a stool in IKEA and Xbox’s new YXSTABY collection that looks immediately familiar. Its seat is an enormous Xbox thumbstick, developed from the controller’s original 3D files and enlarged until something normally moved with one finger can support a whole person.
 
IKEA designer David Wahl worked with Xbox’s device team to get the curve and balance right while keeping the original grip texture and the slight movement of the control. ‘It even moves the way a thumbstick does, so it tilts with you while you play,‘ he says.
 
Wahl is a lifelong gamer, and even queued overnight for the first Xbox console 25 years ago, so he’s familiar with these shapes....

When artist Ernie Barnes died in 2009, his daughter Erin was left to sort through the vestiges of materials the Los Angeles-based painter and professional football player had accumulated over his decades-long art practice.There were canvases, sure, but also paint tubes, brushes, and containers Barnes kept in the garage that he used as his studio to create vibrant, kinetic scenes of Black church gatherings, football games, and nightlife during the Jim Crow era, including his iconic work “The Sugar Shack” (1976), making him one of Southern California’s most beloved artists.For years, Barnes stored her father’s partially squeezed containers of Liquitex, Grumbacher, and Winsor & Newton acrylic paint and...

"Rocket" (2026) by Syd Sauer, one of many artists who say they were ghosted by Abstract Mag after applying to their advertised residency (image courtesy Syd Sauer)Like hundreds of other visual artists around the world, 25-year-old airbrush painter Syd Sauer Wilson opened their email inbox on Friday, June 5, to what appeared to be the opportunity of a lifetime: an invitation to participate in an artist residency program hosted by Abstract Mag — a popular art-focused social media platform that had over 1 million followers — taking place overseas this summer.The residency promised an all-expenses-paid retreat in the mountainous regions of southern Georgia, where for two weeks in August, 40 visual artists...

Six years ago, on August 4, 2020, a massive explosion at the Port of Beirut killed more than two hundred people, wounded thousands, and devastated large parts of the capital. This August, sitting with a friend at a family-run restaurant amid the pine trees of Dhour El Choueir, a mountain town overlooking Beirut, I found myself unable to shake off a painting and a poem I had translated two decades earlier. Lebanese painter Moustafa Farroukh’s watercolor “A Group of Pines in Bekfaya” was painted just a few miles from here in 1936. Born and first trained in Beirut under the painter Habib Serour, Farroukh later studied in Rome and Paris before returning to establish his practice in his native city. Through...

This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2025 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft."The Collective Map of Paths" (2025–ongoing), 50 x 50 inches (photo by and courtesy Andrés Altamirano)How can we delve into the archives of the present? Is it possible to unveil and touch the documents that communities are creating today to record and remember their history, or does understanding only arise with the passage of time? When does an object become an archive?For the past two years, I have been working with two immigrant-led costureros: circles of women from all over Latin America that gather to create...

St Paul’s Cathedral, the main cathedral in London that serves as the seat of the Bishop of London, is facing backlash after it announced that it’s entering a four-year partnership with Fabric, the capital city’s iconic nightclub known for its variety of contemporary music, from drum and bass to house and techno. St Paul’s Cathedral has a rich history and has been part of many state events such as the funerals of British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, as well as the wedding of King Charles III, when he was Prince of Wales, to Princess Diana. The cathedral is also home to important artworks, from a copy of William Holman Hunt’s The Light of the World (1853) that was completed...

The National Portrait Gallery in London, which is home to paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger, Anthony Van Dyck, and Joshua Reynolds, is welcoming contemporary artists to the museum as part of a new program called Artist Focus. The gallery’s Weston Wing will host three exhibitions annually with free admission, starting with the American-born British artist Issy Wood, whose show will be on view October 9 through to February 28, 2027. In 2025, Wood made headlines for painting pop star Charli XCX for the cover of Vanity Fair. The National Portrait Gallery has already collected three of Wood’s works, one of them being Self Portrait 2 (2021), which will be displayed during the presentation alongside 11...

The philosopher probes the "precinct of art"

London exhibition will examine the life of the crime fiction writer and how she created her most famous characters

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

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The works—mostly by Greek artists—will go to the National Gallery of Greece in Athens, Momus-Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete and National Galleries Scotland in Edinburgh

David Chipperfield has converted Banco Santander’s former headquarters into Faro Santander, a new home for works by artists including Velásquez, Titian, Goya, Picasso and Sorolla

George Saunders’s unforgettable novel about the greatest sorrow known to humankind—surviving the loss of a child and letting go—work as sung theater by Missy Mazzoli.

C’è un’accezione dell’interferenza che il senso comune tende a scartare, bollandola come rumore da eliminare: quella, di matrice fisico-ingegneristica, per cui due segnali quando si incontrano invece di sommarsi generano un terzo pattern imprevisto, che non apparteneva a nessuno dei due. È da questo significato tecnico, e non da quello colloquiale di guasto o disturbo, che muove Interference. The image is never just an image, la collettiva a cura di Francesca Leoni e Davide Mastrangelo (Vertov Project) che dal 2 settembre anima gli spazi della Fondazione Dino Zoli di Forlì come prologo all’undicesima edizione di Ibrida Festival delle Arti Intermediali (17-20/09/2026).
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Siamo tutti coscienti che l’epoca nella quale viviamo non è più quella della libertà selvaggia o primitiva: quei tempi sono finiti, quegli spropositi si sono esauriti. La nostra epoca è quella della complessità e la complessità si vede nel dettaglio o nella somma di dettagli. Ecco perché pensando alla storia della rivista Juliet, e che ha visto un dialogo pluriennale tra migliaia di immagini e di artisti, mi fa venire in mente l’idea del “dettaglio”.
Copertina realizzata dall’artista Luigi Ontani (acquarello su carta) per il n. 29 di Juliet, dicembre 1986. Courtesy collezione Juliet; David Bowes, “Poika (Boy)”, 1995, pittura su tela, cm 41 x 33. Foto di Alessio Curto, courtesy collezione...

Evgeny Titov, locally infamous for his production of Salome where the titular heroine wears a paper mask for the entire performance, returns with Szymanowski's shimmering King Roger.

Ci sono artisti che costruiscono il proprio immaginario partendo da un mondo già esistente e altri che, al contrario, sembrano ricomporlo ogni volta da capo, attraverso frammenti, immagini, oggetti e presenze sottratte alla realtà. Il lavoro di Valerio Murri si muove in questa seconda direzione. La sua pittura nasce dall’accostamento di elementi riconoscibili che, una volta trasferiti sulla tela o sulla carta, perdono la loro consueta collocazione e iniziano a raccontare qualcosa di diverso. Nato nel 1968 a Viareggio, dove vive e lavora, Murri arriva alla pittura dopo gli studi universitari in Scienze politiche e attraverso una formazione artistica progressivamente sviluppata nel tempo. La pittura diventa...

On Thursday, China announced that it would withdraw its pavilion from the forthcoming Gwangju Biennale, You Must Change Your Life, over claims that the festival was misrepresenting Taiwan as an autonomous nation through its pavilion name. Central to the dispute is the Biennale’s Pavilion Project, which is separate from the main proceedings. In late August, […]

Los Angeles’s Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opened to the press earlier this week, and the resulting opinions are sharply divided. Founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife, investor Mellody Hobson, and designed by Beijing-based firm MAD Architects, the institution has been closely watched since its inception; its long-delayed opening — plans […]

In the Oscar-winning film American Fiction, the irritable protagonist Thelonious “Monk” Ellison describes his work as follows: “I just invent little people in my mind and make them have conversations with each other.” The film, which director Cord Jefferson adapted from Percival Everett’s novel Erasure, grapples with stereotypes and the ways we’re asked to perform our identities. For Monk, this turns into a satirical quest to write a “Black” book under a pen name, which plunges him into an outlandish world of tropes. American Fiction layers farce upon farce and is one of the more searing considerations of the contemporary impulse to leverage identity for nefarious (and capitalist) purposes. In...

Bay Area artist Mildred Howard has been named the 2026 recipient of the Artists’ Legacy Foundation’s annual Artist Award, the organization announced on Wednesday.  Howard will receive an “unrestricted merit award of $25,000,” a prize the foundation gives annually to “a painter or sculptor who has made significant contributions to their field and whose work […]

"The chaotic nature of Marseille is as much a protagonist as the art itself"

For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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Headquartered in Stockton, California, Blackwing is about finding the joy in analog creative tools at a time when digital devices consume our attention. The manufacturer produces its signature pencils in a series of specialized factories in Japan, where the graphite cores are meticulously processed before being sent to a wood shop. In a behind-the-scenes video, the company shares how that process works, followed by how the utensils begin to take shape. Sandwiched between slats of wood, individual pencils are then sliced and trimmed to their characteristic hexagonal shape. Yet another factory takes care of the painting and labeling, where depending on the style, the pencils can receive up to 10 coats of lacquer...

In his essay “The Passing Wisdom of Birds,” environmentalist and writer Barry Lopez rued how scientific methodology doesn’t take into consideration our senses or perception, how data is divorced from the experience of nature. “Biology should borrow here from quantum physics, which accepts the premise that, under certain circumstances, the observer can be deceived,” he wrote. “Quantum physics, with its ambiguous particles and ten-dimensional universes, is a branch of science that has in fact returned us to a state of awe with nature, without threatening our intellectual capacity to analyze complex events.” Such is the fascination that grounds the book Inploration: Art Exploring Space to Understand...

Keri-Lynn Wilson and the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra channeled a want for justice into fine music-making in two appearances at David Geffen Hall.

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Olga Treivas, architetto e designer di origine moscovita, è la fondatrice del Treivas Architecture Bureau, studio multidisciplinare con sede a São Paulo in Brasile impegnato in una progettualità multidisciplinare, che spazia dall’oggetto da collezione all’architettura di spazi pubblici. Formatasi e affermatasi in Russia, dove il suo lavoro è stato esposto in gallerie e istituzioni museali dedicate alle arti decorative, Treivas ha poi spostato il baricentro della propria attività in Brasile, modificando materiali, maestranze e temperatura dei suoi oggetti. Le sue creazioni di design si distribuiscono in due principali filiere parallele.
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Whether it’s scenes from the subway, streets, or Times Square, visions of New York City are often hectic and crowded. For Erin Milez, the hustle and bustle, but moreover the cramped spaces and tightness, characterize a new body of work going on view this month in Everything the Light Touches at Monya Rowe Gallery. Milez recently moved from New York to Seattle, and she began to examine the nature of human connection, or the lack thereof, in urban spaces. Her expressive paintings draw on the visual language and subject matter of artists like George Tooker and Jacob Lawrence, who approached the theme of urban life through distinctive, figurative compositions. There’s also an unmistakable nod to the blocky,...

Before the iPhone essentially turned all of us into documentarians, the Super 8 camera offered a more democratic approach to filmmaking. Kodak introduced the analog format in 1965 with an eye toward amateurs and hobbyists interested in capturing the world around them, and today it remains a stalwart of the discipline, particularly for those drawn to the grainy, nostalgic qualities of shooting on film. Ed Sayers, director and founder of the annual Super 8 competition and community called straight 8, tapped into the camera’s equalizing legacy for his latest project. Bringing together 40 collaborators in 25 countries across five continents, Super Nature is a collective ode to our planet. Rather than travel the...

By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...

A new English translation of Puccini's La fanciulla del West gallops into a high school in Pacifica with as much grit and gumption as its titular frontierswoman.

There are several HDs that look interesting, but what I most looking forward to is the Manon with Nadine Sierra.

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Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"—Honoré de Balzac "Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning."—Miguel de Unamuno Hiroko Yoshimoto's paintings concentrate nature into radiant and dynamic beauty, distilling visual sensation into poetic and environmental significance. Throughout the 2020s, Yoshimoto has worked on two series of paintings about nature: Biodiversity and Of Infinite Variety. Both series are based on observation of the natural...

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By Julie Faith There is something strange about returning to a place you once knew well after being away for a long time. You recognize the architecture before you recognize what the years have done to you. As I passed through the gate at Corey Helford Gallery, crossed the lot, and headed up the stairs, I felt ridiculously, wonderfully giddy. Kid-in-a-candy-store giddy. I have been away from the gallery and much of the Los Angeles art world, but somewhere between the gate and the stairs, I...

By Victoria Thomas Altadena-based artist James Griffith greets me at his studio, located in a refurbished 1920s firehouse diagonally across the street from the gleaming silver lagomorph of the restored Bunny Museum, by saying "Hi, I just started putting a galaxy in the armpit of a penguin." Great cities announce their identities through their monuments. New York City has the Statue of Liberty, St. Louis the Gateway Arch, Chicago the Cloud Gate, Philadelphia the original LOVE sculpture. And...

The Glen Most people have experienced a “thin place” even if they don’t necessarily realize it or give it a name. When I learned about them a few years ago, I was able to recall some of these places from my own past, even though I didn’t know the terminology at the time. I’m currently listening to The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, and the knights are forever leaving the comforts of Camelot to seek adventure. On their journeys, they often come across places in the woods where the atmosphere changes, time takes on a different quality, and the boundary between the ordinary and the otherworldly becomes uncertain. When I saw the work of photographer, film, and television director Lev L. Spiro, I...

 
Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
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The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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