Hundreds protested at Colombia’s national museum in Bogotá this weekend, days after the country’s far-right government ordered the removal of objects addressing political violence, women’s rights, and LGBTQ+ history — including a rainbow Pride Flag — in a move straight out of the Trumpian playbook. Inside the museum, images taken by locals showed stripped-down gallery walls bearing the haunting silhouettes of dismantled pamphlets and photographs; at the entrance, rows of police in riot gear stood at the ready to suppress demonstrators with water cannons and stun grenades. Under the order of President Abelardo De La Espriella, approximately 30 artworks referencing LGBTQ+ and feminist movements,...

Abu Dhabi government-owned developer Aldar announced plans for a new cultural district in the city dubbed “Noma,” as reported by The Art Newspaper. The announcement precedes the inaugural edition of Frieze Abu Dhabi, which will take place from November 19-22 in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. As the official fair partner for Frieze […]

Irish artist Patrick Graham and Northern Irish artist Cathy Wilkes have been named the winners of Dublin Gallery Weekend’s inaugural Francis Bacon Awards for Irish Visual Arts. Graham is the recipient of the €25,000 (about $29,000) Lifetime Achievement Award, while Wilkes is being honored with the €15,000 (about $17,000) Mid-Career Artist Award. Born in County […]

Though I spent six hours sauntering through the neighborhood for the 30th iteration of Gowanus Open Studios (GOS) on Saturday afternoon, I barely covered a tenth of the over 100 participating sites. Scattered throughout GOS' post-industrial labyrinth of stairwells, hallways, and nondescript entrances was a love letter to the notorious canal and the creative community formed along its banks, capturing the neighborhood's past and present as it hurtles toward its future as a shiny waterfront development. In the literal sense, I encountered a fair bit of plein air work spotlighting water remediation efforts on the canal and documenting familiar street corners before they change in the blink of an eye, as...

Melissa Brown has worn cat-eye makeup every day since she was a teenager. I can’t help but associate it with her paintings, where the sacred and profane converge amid mirrored surfaces, shop windows, psychics’ tables, and bedroom altars. The cat-eye flick is dramatic and powerful, dating back to ancient Egypt, where women wore mineral liner for its health properties and as protection against the evil eye. To connote the layering of our daily experience, Brown collages a spectrum of techniques: photography, plein-air painting, CMYK printing, airbrush, and stencil. Sometimes her paintings come with QR codes that send the viewer to an animation. Her painting “Commute” (2020) shows a hand with long...

David Reed: Terrible Idea at Rodder is one of the few instances where the artist has shown his paintings and drawings together, in this case, those dated between 2013 and this year. Reed cites artists as disparate as Barnett Newman, Piero della Francesca, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo as inspirations for his explorations of the interaction of color in opaque forms, layered transparencies, figure-ground interactions, and more. Along with those artists, he also mentions being influenced by everything from something someone said in his studio to an email regarding a painting he was working on. In 2010, I spoke to Reed for an interview. In it, he made two statements that came to mind when I saw this...

Prairie, a Chicago gallery that helped put a range of cutting-edge artists on the path to success, will close after nine years. The gallery announced its closure on Friday by revealing that its forthcoming exhibition, a group show called “Retrospective,” would be its final one. “This will be our last show,” the gallery wrote on Instagram. Founded in 2017 by Tim Mann and Jack Schneider as an artist-run space, the gallery had a name that referred to “the ecosystem that thrived in and around Chicago prior to the region’s colonization and industrialization,” per a description written for a prior edition of Chicago Exhibition Week. It sought to show art in a setting that was “free from the pressures...

In surreal tableaux, mythological creatures interact with flora and fauna within dream-like realms. Insects, stars, metaphysical tendrils, and all-seeing eyes accompany human bodies with the heads of raptors. Rithika Merchant’s strange yet alluring symmetry contains what may be esoteric rituals or communions with the natural world. Each speculative, fable-like narrative taps into our collective anxiety about the environment and hope for healing. Merchant’s vibrant new body of work centers on hybrid creatures and a sense of the sacred, comprising the Mumbai-based artist’s solo exhibition The Dreaming Realm at Galerie LJ. She harnesses elemental phenomena like the earth, plants, fire, water, and the stars...

When the Bayeux Tapestry returns to Normandy next summer after its 10-month sojourn to London, the 11th-century textile will be re-presented in a new way that more closely resembles how it currently looks at the British Museum in London. Previously, reports Le Monde, the 770-pound, 220-foot-long embroidered cloth had been displayed vertically at the Bayeux Museum, which is closed for renovations and scheduled to reopen in October 2027. At the British Museum, however, it has been displayed flat, in a darkened exhibition hall. When it goes back on view in Normandy, it will be reinstalled on a slanted table. Catherine Pégard, France’s Minister of Culture, posted on X that the tapestry’s presentation was...

Protesters assembled around Bogota’s National Museum of Colombia over the weekend after the removal of more than 30 objects “related to the struggles of the LGBTQ+ movement, feminism, and the political left,” according to the digital news source Colombia One. As reported, “The decision by Abelardo De La Espriella’s government, announced last Friday, turned the area around the museum into a site of public demonstrations against what protesters describe as ‘an attempt to impose an ideological view of the country’s history.’” The protests on Saturday and Sunday included anti-censorship sentiment and political theater but also clashes with the police, who used water cannons and riot-control...

Hi-Fructose co-founder Atta visited three 21c Museum Hotels in four days to explored their galleries and the towns around them. Here is his report! 21c locations combine actual contemporary art museum gallery exhibitions which are free and open to the general public (whether you stay there or not) with fine dining.  Depending on the location, […]
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New York’s Massey Klein Gallery will close its doors after nine years, saying that after initial success, the numbers no longer add up to pay for its showroom on the Lower East Side and support the dealers’ family and the gallery’s artists. Husband-and-wife team Garrett Klein and Ryan Massey felt called by their Christian faith to open the gallery, and say they’ll continue on with nomadic projects. They announced the closure in a Saturday Instagram post. The gallery’s current show, of Kate McQuillen, is extended through November 20. The gallery has participated in prominent fairs including the Armory Show and NADA in New York, Untitled in Miami, and the Dallas Art Fair. At NADA New York in 2025,...

Every fall, the East Village gets all furry-scurry as hundreds of dogs and their doting families race to the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade. Despite the chill that descended upon New York on Saturday, October 17, spectators and participants braced the winds to cheer on entries spanning "Pup Leo," a Yayoi Kusama pumpkin, a cyclosporiasis parasite, and an entourage of Pomeranians dripped out in Knicks gear. "Pup Leo" assesses his fans from his Popemobile.Event organizers for the parade's 36th iteration welcomed the normal flurry of advertisements while placing a particular emphasis on shelter adoptions, bringing 250 dogs looking for new homes to the parade. There was fierce competition among the...

VERTICAL PLANTERS ENCLOSE FOUR-LEVEL RESIDENCE IN SÃO PAULO
 
Designed by Isay Weinfeld with landscape architecture by Rodrigo Oliveira, 111 House is a four-level residence in São Paulo, Brazil, created for a family of contemporary art collectors. Positioned on a compact urban plot, the house organizes its footprint along the left site boundary, leaving a lush, full-depth garden strip along the right side. This arrangement allows the primary living spaces, breakfast room, and upper-level bedrooms to open directly onto outdoor greenery, optimizing natural light and cross-ventilation across every level. A rear setback further opens up the lower level, creating a sunken lightwell court that brings illumination...

What’s on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mind? Policy, policing, potholes, surely. But this week, the Studio Museum in Harlem also made the list. The freshly 35-year-old mayor shared on Instagram that he spent his birthday at the museum yesterday. According to him, one painting on view left a lingering impression: The Hypnotist (2026) by Atlanta native Taylor Simmons. The work, he wrote, was “just incredible.” Simmons is a 2026 artist-in-residence, along with Simonette Quamina and Derriann Pharr, in the first cohort to work and exhibit in the museum’s new building. A documentarian of sorts, he works across painting, prints, and drawings, rendering mundane scenes made fantastic when filtered...

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a permanent home for anselm kiefer’s ‘black flakes’
 
A monumental painting by German artist Anselm Kiefer has finally found a place large enough to exhibit it, nearly two decades after its creation. In Künzelsau, Germany, David Chipperfield Architects has completed a freestanding concrete pavilion built specifically to house Schwarze Flocken (Black Flakes), a work measuring more than eleven meters tall and seven meters wide. The museum building opened to the public on October 13th, 2026 in the sculpture garden of Museum Würth 2, and marked the painting’s first public presentation.
 
Created in 2007, Schwarze Flocken is the largest work by Kiefer in the Würth Collection. Its immense canvas...

Following an eighteen-month deadlocked negotiation between MCH Group, the Swiss-based owner of five international Art Basel fairs, and the city of Miami Beach, the fair has announced that it will stay in Florida through 2031. MCH Group argued that the city’s fee to use the convention center every December was too high and threatened to […]

The British Museum in London announced a £30 million ($40 million) gift from a longstanding supporter on October 17, according to Artnet News. It will go towards the implementation of the museum’s Masterplan redevelopment. The donor’s identity has not been revealed. The £1 billion Masterplan project is among the most comprehensive transformations in the history […]

French demonstrators blocked the entrance doors to the Louvre this morning, amid nationwide protests over the state of public schools and the rising cost of living. Saturday saw marches around the country, and law enforcement officials said that they made more than 2,400 arrests and cited incidents of property destruction and looting. Artnet shared an […]

Combining elemental rhythms with human-made materials, DRIFT’s latest sculptural choreography invites visitors to consider their connection to nature in an interactive experience influenced by the planet’s intrinsic processes and systems. “Aeolus” is named for the ancient Greek deity of the wind and comprises an environment characterized by numerous glass rods with tiny lights inside. These are activated by visitors’ movements. “Like wind itself, the work only fully exists through interaction,” say Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, founders of the Amsterdam-based design studio in a statement. “It is both still and in motion, fixed yet constantly changing.” Light and glass were chosen to...

The mischievous artist has revealed an early CV with some (re)productive roles

outward-rounded glass base creates subtle optical distortion
 
Designed by Federico Fontanella for Milan-based brand TRAGA, the Melt Glass reinterprets the standard drinking glass through subtle optical distortion. Its outward-rounded base alters the appearance of the liquid inside, creating the impression that the glass is slowly melting into the surface beneath it. The 300 ml vessel sits somewhere between a familiar tumbler and a small sculptural object. The shape originated from TRAGA’s own visual identity. The curvature at the base borrows from the forms found in the brand’s logo, translating a two-dimensional graphic element into a functional three-dimensional detail. 
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Called Serenissima, the jewels use finely wrought metals to capture the art of the lace makers found on the island of Burano

Fitzwilliam Museum show in Cambridge displays drawings, paintings and designs acquired by Sydney Cockerell, a friend and private secretary of the English designer

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured some remarkable phenomena in space, from the Horsehead Nebula to the unbelievable “Pillars of Creation.” Things just got a little bit wilder with brilliant images of the Lion Nebula (NGC 2392) captured by the telescope’s NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid Infrared Instrument). The shape is formed by the remains of a dying star now at a phase known as a white dwarf, when a very dense stellar core remains as it sheds its outer layers. On NGC 2392, the bright center looks like a little nose. “The central dying star is so hot that its radiation is ‘cooking’ everything from the inside and producing a bubble of ionized hydrogen gas as it does,”...

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Speaking before nationwide demonstrations escalated on Saturday, students at various art schools discuss why they have felt compelled to take a stand

While protests occurred outside the ball, the museum announced an anonymous £30m donation toward its masterplan redevelopment project

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JENNY HOLZER ILLUMINATES MUSÉE D’ORSAY WITH WORDS FROM THE PAST
 
The walls of Paris’ Musée d’Orsay have plenty to say, and Jenny Holzer is giving them a voice. For J’ai Vu (I Saw), opening October 20, 2026, the American artist transforms the former railway station into a vast canvas of illuminated words, moving texts, and engraved stone sculptures. Developed in collaboration with the museum, the exhibition draws on writings from the period represented in its collections, bringing together artistic correspondence, political commentary, and historical accounts. Rather than simply revisiting the 19th century, Holzer lets its voices confront the present, proving that some conversations are far from...

Ibrahim Mahama brings Ghanaian industrial histories to paris
  Ibrahim Mahama has spent years collecting, dismantling, and rebuilding things that could be considered beyond repair. Old trains, airplanes, factory structures, wooden stools, and industrial materials shape a practice that looks at what societies leave behind and what can be done with it. His work is rooted in northern Ghana, where the history of colonial exploitation continues to shape the region, but his questions reach far beyond it: who gets to shape the future, what do we do with the past, and how can art create something useful for the people around it? These questions come together in The Harvest Season, Mahama’s major exhibition at...

Sometimes, the first time you hear an oeuvre, it becomes the definitive performance for you.

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Molto spesso mi ritrovo a osservare come la luce incontra l’intonaco delle pareti delle chiese, come quel fascio di luce illumini quella piccola porzione di muro o come i mosaici nelle stesse brillino anche al buio, generando intorno a loro dei timidi luccichii. Di mani in quelle immagini se ne vedono molte: reggono doni, indicano visi impressi nella storia, seguono il tragitto delle stelle.
Evgeniya Pankratova, “Specie di spazi”, installation view at Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Milano, ph. Sarah Indriolo, courtesy the gallery and the artist
Nonostante non sostengano secoli di storia, le pareti della galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea riescono a riproporre proprio quel groviglio di...

Our critics assess Kansas's own Ben Bliss in a (nearly) all-American program performed at the Park Avenue Armory and Vocal Arts DC.

An elegant rendition, and an artistically true one.

Torino è una città molto vivace: ha gallerie di tendenza (come Franco Noero), vanta gallerie storiche (come Giorgio Persano), ha musei di tutto rispetto (come il GAM), vanta la sede della Fondazione Merz, accoglie la sede storica della Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo e ha una fiera di tendenza come Artissima.
Vista d’insieme degli spazi espositivi di The Others Art Fair 2025. Foto di Carolina Lemmi, courtesy The Others
A queste realtà, poco flessibili e molto impositive, si affiancano, in parallelo, molteplici iniziative che aumentano l’offerta e le opportunità di proporre delle opere al di fuori di una linea puramente egemonica. The Others Art Fair è una di queste realtà: un progetto...

The world's leading tenor garners a tepid response at Carnegie Hall's season opener featuring the Berliner Philharmoniker.

The open, skyward deliveries at the beginning and end of the aria as she addresses heaven! The mournful softness of her interceding "O mia Regina."

Il calore di Charmaine Poh (Singapore, 1990) rispecchia il suo sentire e la sua propensione alla collettività. Espone, dopo la Biennale 2024, la sua prima mostra personale in Italia e porta il suo progetto per il premio “Artista dell’Anno” della Deutsche Bank 2025 inaugurato durante la Berlin Art Week lo scorso anno. Il MUDEC – Museo delle Culture apre la stagione artistica con il progetto di Charmaine Poh (a cura di Britta Färber e in collaborazione con 24 Ore Cultura), Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take, che si consolida nella scena istituzionale italiana. L’esposizione è un display della sua pratica multimediale che si divide tra video, installazioni e performance...

Dal 29 ottobre al 1° novembre 2026, a Torino, da Flashback Habitat (Ecosistema per le Culture Contemporanee, situato in corso Giovanni Lanza 75) si svolgerà la XIV edizione di Flashback Art Fair, il tutto sotto la cupola di un motto che per quest’anno è IN TIME, mentre la direzione di questa manifestazione è affidata a Ginevra Pucci e Stefania Poddighe. All’interno di questo registro, privo di veri confini e di limiti, se non quelli segnati dalla qualità, e dove antico, moderno e contemporaneo smettono di essere categorie separate per diventare parti di un’unica esperienza visiva, si potrà incontrare un disegno di Klimt e una tela seicentesca di Andrea Vaccaro, un’opera di Sandro Chia accanto a...

A nude figure with frazzled hair lies in bed, the sickly colored linens draped across their upper body. Fingertips glowing red as if inflamed, the character grasps a navy phone and stares catatonically at the screen. A vibrant infinity symbol is superimposed on the scene, emerging as endless loops of energy and mesmerization from the device. The all-too-relatable portrait is part of a suite of new works by Robin F. Williams capturing the omnipotent techno-dystopia we’re collectively barreling toward. Extrapolating on the ways humanity and machines merge, the Brooklyn-based artist presents a mystical vision of another world infused with pop culture and art history. “Merminator” (2026), oil on linen, 60 x...

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Prima del turista viene l’immagine del turista. Prima ancora di arrivare davanti a una rovina, a un tramonto sul Mediterraneo o a una piazza italiana, il visitatore possiede già un repertorio di ciò che dovrebbe vedere. È dentro questa distanza fra esperienza e rappresentazione che si colloca A sunset, a ruin, a crowd and a battle, la mostra di Cecily Brown da Thomas Dane Gallery a Napoli: circa trenta dipinti e disegni in cui l’estate mediterranea diventa materia di una contesa visiva, storica e percettiva. Brown concentra la propria ricerca sul momento in cui un luogo cessa di essere soltanto un luogo e acquista la forma di un’immagine desiderata.
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Federico Veronesi received the top honor of the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year for his poignant black-and-white image of a female elephant carrying her deceased calf. The portrait represents a rare insight into animals’ habits we have yet to fully understand and demonstrates the power of timing and persistence in photography. Veronesi had been tracking elephants in the Huab River Valley of Namibia when he encountered some unusual drag marks on the earth. He eventually caught up with the family, and the adult emerged with the calf’s leg wedged between her trunk and tusk. “Behaviours centering on death have been observed in both Asian and African elephants, including vocalisations, guarding the...

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Yue Zhang
I’m an illustrator/ graphic designer currently based in Beijing. Through illustration, I make connections to everyday life, seeking out beauty in the midst of chaos. My work gives visual form to inner feelings and experiences. I see each creative process as an adventure, specializing in the translation of text into vibrant visual narratives.
This zine《Let’s go to the park》 is an experimental work on visual language, creating narrative solely through visual imagery. It came from some moments when I was just zoning out in the park: from the amusing interactions between a dog and its owner, the swirling ripples in the fountain, the sudden downpour of rain… I blended these unrelated moments...

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By Kristine Schomaker I keep thinking about Nomadland. Fern driving her van across that enormous American landscape. Not running from something. Moving toward something she could not quite name yet. That feeling of needing less. Of being, as Dominique Moody says, at home in the world. NOMAD: Dominique Moody and the Assemblage of Home is on view at the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena through January 16, 2027, part of the year-long city celebration for the centennials of Route 66 and the...

 
When we say ‘think of the colour yellow’, what comes up for you? Our latest photobook, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: YELLOW, is bursting with inspiration, from delicate blossoms and ripe lemons to eye-catching clothing and sunny décor.
Across 100 photos, our photographers celebrate all things yellow: some chanced upon in the street or in nature, others meticulously planned. Of course, there are loads of different hues that count as yellow, from acidic brights to mustard, egg yolk, and canary. You’ll find them all in the book!
The cover image, by Jo Martindale, submerges us in a ball pit of yellow plastic balls: it’s immersive, fun, and hard to look away. The yellow we find around us definitely has multiple...

By Jody Zellen Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 3–November 22, 2026 Susan Silton has never been an artist attached to a single medium. Her practice, which spans more than forty years, interweaves photography, design, performance, sculpture, video, audio, and installation. Working as a graphic designer in the 1970s and ’80s shaped her visual acuity and formal sensibilities. Her production is conceptually strong and visually coherent and very little is left to chance. It is a delight...

To celebrate the retrospective exhibition Future Pastime featuring the work of futurist Syd Mead opening at the Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery in San Francisco this evening, we are showing previews of paintings from the show as well as the full article which Silke Tudor wrote on the late legendary industrial designer in Hi-Fructose Issue 33. […]
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The women look concerned, and weary. They are ready to repel an attack. The women look in love, but bored. “When are you leaving,” they might wonder. The women are only half-present. Matted hair, two eyes, a hand, and the rest have either turned inward or run away. The women are multifaceted. Their eyes are […]
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In the “feminist west” that lives on Jennifer Nehrbass’s canvases, women ride horseback and hike in fashionable attire. They appear in head-and-shoulder portraits against fiery backgrounds and nude in pieces where figurative and landscape painting converge. In her work, Nehrbass challenges the common depictions of the U.S. West. “You would always have the man who […]
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By Kristine Schomaker Friday night I stood at the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and watched artists perform five-minute pieces in the open air as the sun went down. ACTION = LIFE, presented by LACE and the Performance Art Museum as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. A marathon of performances. So many friends. So much history in one place. I drove home still feeling it. Thinking about the first performance I ever saw that made me understand what my own work was actually about....

By Kristine Schomaker I learned yesterday that my friend Scott Froschauer died suddenly. I've known him for almost ten years, and I'm still trying to find a place to put this. Scott was a Shoebox artist, one of the early ones. We worked together on several projects, but the one I keep coming back to is an art salon we put together on consent, negotiation, and the male gaze, how the male posture of viewing women frames any sign of femininity as an invitation, and what it would mean to actually...

By Betty Ann Brown "In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world."—Graciela Iturbide Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide creates haunting images that portray the people, places, and events of the extraordinary cultures and geographies of her home country. Iturbide has a unique artistic practice that involves living and working with the people she chooses to photograph. Her process has made possible the strange and wonderful depictions for which she is known. In...