SEATTLE — As the sun sank on a cold day in late February, a steady stream of visitors crossed a stranger’s lawn and filed through the front door of a small bungalow in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. Inside, a topsy-turvy living room was drenched in a fresh coat of bright red paint. Upside-down chairs sprouted from the ceiling, and thrift-store lamps dangled, their shades nearly grazing the heads of guests who, clutching plastic cups of Two-Buck Chuck, tapped their feet to the swell of cello, guitar, and melodica coming from somewhere within the crowd. A hand-painted statement written in black across the crimson wall laid out the terms of this heady bacchanal: The house had only a few days left to...

Lucian Freud, "Sleeping by the Lion Carpet" (1995–96) (all images courtesy Sotheby's)A masterpiece by British artist Lucian Freud is headed to auction this summer. Freud’s widely exhibited nude painting of model Sue Tilley, “Sleeping by the Lion Carpet” (1995–96), could fetch up to £35 million (~$47 million) at Sotheby’s in London on June 24. The grandson of Sigmund Freud is known for deeply observed portraits of friends and family that capture his sitters’ psychological gravitas and visceral physicality. Freud met Tilley, an unemployment office manager, through the Australian performance artist and fashion designer Leigh Bowery, who has also been featured in the artist's paintings...

Loewe unveiled a new campaign on Monday celebrating the fashion brand’s 180th anniversary, complete with a capsule collection, an anniversary magazine, and an animated film, much of which nods to the house’s long-standing connections to the art world. Under former creative director Jonathan Anderson, the fashion brand played up that connection through numerous high-profile collaborations with artists ranging from Lynda Benglis to Richard Hawkins. Many of Anderson’s collections were filled with references to visual art. That era was summed up with an exhibition in Shanghai in 2024. Anderson left the brand last year to lead Christian Dior, but Loewe has continued to draw on the art world for both...

Julio Le Parc, the Franco-Argentine artist who transformed the spectator into an active participant and spent a lifetime dismantling art-world hierarchies, died in Paris on May 30 at the age of 97. His passing came just days before a major career retrospective at the Tate Modern in London, set to open June 11, that will now serve as a posthumous tribute to a career defined by movement, light, and unwavering political conviction.Le Parc is widely recognized as a key figure of kinetic and Op art and was the last surviving founding member of the artist collective Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV). While his contemporaries, such as Victor Vasarely and Carlos Cruz-Diez, often focused on the technical and...

A proposed “earnings test” in the works at the Department of Education (ED) would put many graduate arts programs in the United States at risk, per a new report from the New York Times. The proposed test, which the ED plans to implement by July 1st, 2026, is designed to measure the financial return on […]

As of today, June 2, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has expanded to include cultural nourishment for participating New York residents through the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In collaboration with the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) and the Department of Social Services (DSS), The Met has debuted a new, free membership tier for SNAP recipients across the state. The museum has provided pay-what-you-wish admission to state residents since 1970 and, in 2024, became a Museums for All member by offering free or heavily discounted admission to any United States visitor who showed their SNAP card. However, the new “Explorer” membership program for NY's SNAP recipients offers...

If there's a theme to this week's issue, it's artists going their own way. There's the incomparable Celia Paul — muse, author, painter-chronicler — who lets the "material world fall away" in her stark, desaturated portraits, John Yau writes in his review below. Her works go on view in New York for the first time in over a decade, at Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea. Then there's Frank Stella. I don't mean his instantly recognizable geometric paintings, but rather his extensive collection of boldly colorful 19th-to-20th-century Navajo weavings, which are on view through next week at Arader Galleries on the Upper East Side. Shirking typical collecting benchmarks in favor of...

Raymonde Arcier, who brought attention to women’s work by way of an art practice based in fabric and textiles of different kinds, died in May at the age of 86. Her death was acknowledged by sources including curators and the magazine Textile/Art. Arcier was born in 1939 in Bellac, France, and made her way as an office worker and self-taught artist who “from 1970 on, produced her most striking works, crocheting wool and cotton, and knitting metal—with each piece demanding up to a year’s work,” according to Centre Pompidou’s AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions. “Through her appropriation of this female cultural apprenticeship, she wittily conjured up her social confinement,...

Beaufort Castle, a 900-year-old Crusader fortress in Lebanon, was reportedly struck directly by Israeli airstrikes on May 27, according to footage posted on social media and local reports. The news follows intense Israeli strikes on the ancient city of Tyre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Lebanon that is home to some of the region’s most significant Phoenician and Roman ruins, as well as a large civilian population. As reported by the Associated Press, the Israeli military released footage appearing to show troops at Beaufort Castle after advancing for several days through villages surrounding Nabatiyeh. The capture of Beaufort Castle—a strategic outlook—is a major development in Israel’s...

The issues raised by the dealer James Danziger’s AI-generated photo are profoundly and irrevocably human

The bill, signed into law by the governor on 2 June, allows artists to create companies to help them monetise their labour and retain intellectual property rights

Given the heat generated during firing, it’s rare to see paper incorporated into a ceramics practice. For Seoul-based artist Jongjin Park, though, the two go hand-in-hand. Park recently won the 2026 Loewe Craft Prize, a prestigious annual award celebrating innovative makers, for his striking sculpture “Strata of Illusion.” A rectangular shape with an open top and slouching side, the piece features countless folded layers made from paper towels dipped in watered-down ceramic slip. Inspired by the distinctive, rippled textures and minuscule lines within stacks of paper, Park “wanted to break through the traditional boundaries and stereotypes inherent in ceramics as a medium,” he tells Colossal. “To...

When soccer fans converge on Dallas this month for World Cup games, the aesthetically inclined ones will encounter a city home to art museums, galleries, and public art. And yet, the city will be missing a major and longstanding public artwork, after conservationist artist’s beloved mural was painted over in May. Florida-based artist Robert Wyland has filed a $25 million federal lawsuit against FIFA and the owners of the building where his mural had appeared for a quarter-century, who, he says, painted over Ocean Life (1999), one of a hundred murals he painted around the world to raise consciousness about marine pollution and conservation efforts. The eight-story-high, 17,000-square-foot mural showed...

A portrait Lucian Freud spent years insisting was not his will go on public display for the first time this summer after researchers uncovered evidence that appears to prove he painted it after all. The work, Man in a Black Scarf, will be shown in “Benton End: A Paradise of Pollen and Paint” at London’s Garden Museum, according to The Guardian. Freud painted the portrait in 1939 while studying at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Hadleigh, Suffolk. The sitter is believed to be John Jameson, heir to the Jameson whiskey family.  The painting’s journey to a museum wall has taken nearly four decades. In 1985, Christie’s cataloged the work as a Freud. Then Freud said it wasn’t,...

what I’m looking at: freddie yauner faces the world
 
Across farms, wooded paths, and London streets, Freddie Yauner walks with a mirrored face catching the world in motion. His ongoing project What I’m Looking At centers on a reflective mask that covers the wearer’s face, turning portraiture into a moving view of whatever sits in front of them. Trees slide across the surface. A path cuts through the center of the head. Sky, brick, grass, water, and passing bodies replace the features we expect to read first.
 
The gesture is simple, and that is where its pull begins. The mask allows the camera to see what the wearer sees, reflecting color, texture, light, and movement back outward. Instead of showing...

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...

Our round-up of the latest art publications

The acquisition, from the collection of William P. Healey, will form the basis of an exhibition opening at the museum in August

With bodies composed of ghostly ferns, flowers, and fungi, Molly Devlin’s fantastical and ethereal acrylic portraits invite us into a dreamy woodland realm. Her works tap into the beauty and resilience of living creatures, from a white bear cloaked in translucent butterflies to a diminutive mouse composed of different lifecycle phases of a dandelion. Part fauna and part flora, each elegant animal is a reminder of nature’s interconnectedness. Devlin is currently working toward a solo exhibition opening in early August at Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. She’s also finishing up a mural in collaboration with S.V. Williams along the American River in Sacramento. See more on Instagram. Do stories and...

The 250th anniversary of Constable’s birth has seen a flurry of publications about the great painter and his work. This rich and ingenious study reveals how his art and life were shaped by the yearly cycles of the weather

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exploring how architecture can persist beyond demolition
 
In Disassembly and Memory, Japanese artist and architectural designer Go Izumita dismantles an abandoned agricultural shed in rural Aomori and reconstructs its materials into a monumental sculpture inspired by megaliths. By transforming a structure on the verge of disappearance into a new landscape, the project explores the relationship among architecture, memory, and the traces of human presence. The sculptural project explores how architecture can persist beyond demolition.
 
The work was created from an abandoned agricultural shed located in Fujisaki, a rural town in northern Japan. Rather than preserving the structure in its original form, the...

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bethan laura wood on color and material
 
When Bethan Laura Wood comes to mind, the two colorful dots that adorn her cheeks are the first thing one may recall. They give her a sense of whimsy that suggests she speaks exclusively in limericks. Nevertheless, when chatting with the designer whose color and pattern-soaked pieces have become a staple of contemporary design, it becomes clear that her work is grounded in a rigorous technical and cultural curiosity. Her interest in laminates had her laser focused on the interiors of banks. While travelling, she was keenly attuned to the types of crates used to carry fruits in each country. In conversation with designboom, Wood reveals her approach to design,...

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REIMAGINING AN INDUSTRIAL SITE AS A GLOBAL CULTURAL LANDMARK
  The Municipality of Gabrovo in Bulgaria has issued a call for architects to breathe new life into a monumental piece of the city’s industrial history. This competition offers a rare opportunity to design a world-class venue, the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Centre for Contemporary Art, by reclaiming and adapting the expansive volumes of a former Textile Technical School. Far from a routine renovation, the project is backed by an institutional mandate and international co-financing, establishing a professional commission rather than a mere conceptual exercise. This initiative invites designers to engage with a site of significant cultural weight,...

helena minginowicz paints on materials designed to disappear
 
Polish artist Helena Minginowicz turns some of the most ordinary objects of everyday life into unexpected artworks. Living and working in Poznań, she uses an airbrush technique to paint faces, bodies, animals, and fragments of text onto paper towels, tissues, napkins, beauty masks, and other disposable materials. Using these ephemeral surfaces as her canvas, the artist explores themes of fragility, perception, memory, and the fleeting nature of contemporary existence. Her works are currently included in Let’s Face It, a group exhibition on view at Warsaw’s Galeria Lotna dedicated to contemporary approaches to representation and...

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Sculpture in the UK finds one of its most concentrated and historically continuous centres in Leeds and the wider Yorkshire region, where institutional frameworks, collections and landscapes collectively sustain the medium as both practice and discourse. Rather than functioning as isolated venues, spaces such as Leeds Art Gallery, the Henry Moore Institute and Yorkshire Sculpture Park form an interconnected ecology in which sculpture is studied, exhibited and rethought across generations. This is not simply a matter of heritage, but of ongoing curatorial and artistic experimentation that positions material form as a living question rather than a fixed category. The Summer of Sculpture programme at Leeds Art...

È da un semplice processo di recupero, archiviazione e metamorfosi che nasce “Come una diga”, ultima personale di Giovanni Longo, inaugurata presso l’Accademia d’Ungheria e aperta al pubblico fino 4 giugno 2026. Nel centro storico della Capitale, le strutture scheletriche di Longo, provenienti da cicli scultorei differenti ma strettamente interconnessi, sono le protagoniste di un’esposizione ragionata, che racconta l’andamento di una ricerca decennale, paradigmatico del percorso dell’artista calabrese. Un viaggio che pone al centro delle opere accolte negli spazi di Palazzo Falconieri il recupero di materiali lignei e la loro riformulazione.
Giovanni Longo, “Come una diga”, installation view...

L’intreccio non si lascia ridurre a tecnica nella ricerca di Yuhe Luo, ma si rivela come struttura del pensiero che precede il gesto e ne orienta la costruzione. Formata al Royal College of Art in Textile Design (Londra), l’artista sviluppa una pratica in cui il gesto del tessere supera la dimensione materiale per trasformarsi in una logica più profonda, capace di mettere in relazione ritmo, tempo e percezione. La tessitura, in questo senso, non appartiene a un singolo materiale ma è una modalità di organizzazione del tempo, una forma di articolazione del reale che si manifesta attraverso ripetizioni, variazioni minime, accumuli e discontinuità.
Yuhe Luo, “The Fluid City”, 2025, 3D printing, yarn,...

Photography, at the threshold of its bicentenary, becomes here less a medium than a condition of perception itself. Remember Me at the Bourse de Commerce gathers image, archive, and gesture into a single unfolding field where memory is not stored but constantly reassembled. The exhibition operates through proximity rather than sequence, allowing works to collide, echo and refract one another in shifting constellations. Across centuries of practice, photography is treated not as a linear history but as a series of recurring questions about presence and disappearance. The result is an environment where looking becomes an act of reconstruction, and where the photograph is never fully settled into its own time....

Art world figure Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, who gained notoriety with pithy, irreverent gossip and commentary delivered under the pseudonym Jerry Gogosian, was found deceased in a São Paulo hotel room on May 31. Brazilian television network Globo reports that her body was discovered in a room at the Rosewood São Paulo by her plastic surgeon, […]

The British Museum elected to postpone a Jewish Culture Month event that was scheduled to take place last Thursday, May 28th due to concerns that the talk—a lecture on Ancient Israel and Judah—might be disrupted by protests.  “In recent days, we were informed that a significant proportion of registered attendees were individuals intending to deliberately […]

In Sydney’s Circular Quay, a 6.5-meter-tall installation spins, twirls, and totters amid a public thoroughfare. Titled “There, Now, Here,” the kinetic artwork is by the Brooklyn-based duo Wade and Leta and is in almost constant motion, thanks to wind, motors, and willing participants hopping on a see-saw. With black and white stripes alongside a more muted palette, the colors of the playground-style project reference Dorothea Mackellar’s beloved poem “My Country,” which professes her devotion to the Australian landscape and what she dubs the “sunburnt country.” Harnessing the washed-out tones of a sun-bleached environment, the artists present their signature bold works in more subtle hues, as...

When Craig Hubbard moved from Brooklyn to Venice Beach in 2013, he had an established creative career as an animator and comic book colorist, but it had been a long time since he had picked up a camera. The golden hour hues of the West Coast’s legendary sunsets reacquainted him with lens-based work, and he began documenting the areas he frequented in his spare time. “As an avid surfer and former skater, I gravitate toward skateparks and water,” he tells Colossal. And with the ocean, of course, come the waves. Venice Beach is a funky, coastal Los Angeles neighborhood that has retained its laid-back, surf-loving vibe despite new developments. Surfers await swells in areas like the Breakwater and the...

Ever since Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan first made a splash at Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 with the artwork Comedian, 2019, which consists of a banana affixed to a gallery wall with a single piece of duct-tape (in an edition of three). In the last six years, the work has been both a press […]

New York City in the 1980s felt like a very different place. Imagine subway cars cloaked inside-out in graffiti and Times Square without the monumental LED screens. Evidenced by the likes of photographers Steven Siegel, Willy Spiller, and Jamel Shabazz, not to mention Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style (1982), a period of intense, new, rough-around-the-edges energy was canonized. The era marked the birth of hip hop and New Wave, MTV, iconic fashion, legendary nightlife, and Pop Art. In 1978, just prior to the economy reeling during a major recession, a 20-year-old Keith Haring (1958-1990) moved to Manhattan to study at the School of Visual Arts. “I arrived in New York at a time when the most beautiful paintings...

Historic European cities now occupy a rare and productive tension. Shaped by centuries of memory, architecture and ritual, they continue to operate as living cultural systems rather than fixed historical artefacts. Within them, heritage is not a static condition but an active framework through which identity is continuously negotiated. These cities function most powerfully when preservation and transformation are held in productive relation rather than opposition. The question is not whether cities change, but how they manage to evolve while retaining the depth of their rich accumulated histories. Bruges exemplifies this condition with particular clarity. Its UNESCO World Heritage status situates it within a...

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I decided I’d take ‘never made it to the Met’ as an excuse to submit a post about why French soprano Denise Duval (1921-2015) is special to me.

Madison Schindele surveys the endlessly diverse offerings of Berlin's 2026-27 opera season.

Time and place define this issue. Inside, artists, architects and photographers examine how we inhabit and interpret the world around us. At the core of their work is a fascination with the now: how it is shaped by history, yet continuously reimagined through creativity. Aesthetica’s June/July edition invites you to engage with a slower, more attentive way of seeing, Here’s a preview of what you’ll discover: Delicate Vignettes | Nuno Serrão’s minimalist images offer small parts of wider narratives, united by cinematic aesthetics and a sensitivity to the wider world. Analogue Landscape | Svetlana Talanova makes works by hand in the darkroom, using photosensitive paper to show how patterns recur across...

Tamara Dean (b. 1976) turns the camera upon herself for High Jinks in the Hydrangeas, a series in which the Australian photomedia artist takes on the roles of director, subject and image-maker. In some shots, her body is submerged within massive pink blooms. For others, she clings onto bending branches, seeming to defy gravity. This is Dean’s most personal collection to date. “The figure moving through these landscapes became the woman I aspired to be: one who could fly, shoot an arrow, climb trees and clap clouds of thunder. Yet, she was also vulnerable and curious, introverted and gentle. During editing, I expected to confront my body with the same criticisms I would ordinarily inflict upon myself....

Ci sono artisti che producono immagini e poi ci sono artisti che producono sintomi. TuRist appartiene chiaramente alla seconda categoria. Guardando En Marche to the Future – quel Lenin avvolto nella bandiera arcobaleno che marcia mano nella mano con una figura simile a Greta Thunberg trasformata in influencer post-apocalittica del lusso globale – la prima reazione è ridere. La seconda è il disagio. La terza, se si rimane abbastanza a lungo davanti all’opera, è la consapevolezza che quella risata nasconde qualcosa di molto più instabile: il sospetto che il mondo rappresentato dalla scultura non sia una fantasia satirica, ma un ritratto anticipato del presente stesso. Ed è qui che il lavoro smette di...

"You don’t need opera, the grandeur of apparitions and murderous confessions, to access horror. Not in America, anyway"

A.J. Goldmann on the Salzburg Festival's revolving doors, both in its administration and in its delectable production of Il viaggio a Reims.

The immortal Renata Tebaldi, just about 29 years old as Saint Joan in a RAI broadcast of Giovanna d'Arco from 1951.

Attraverso una pratica che intreccia memoria personale, immaginario mitico e tensione simbolica, Leonardo Devito costruisce visioni in equilibrio tra narrazione e autonomia formale. C’è un momento, nelle sue immagini, in cui il racconto sembra sul punto di chiarirsi, per poi restare sospeso. Le figure abitano uno spazio familiare e insieme instabile, dove memoria personale e immaginario si intrecciano senza mai risolversi del tutto. È in questa soglia tra riconoscibilità e slittamento che la pittura costruisce la propria tensione.
Leonardo Devito, “Coppia al parco”, 30x31x7 cm, terracotta, 2022, courtesy galleria Acappella Napoli
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Bass-baritone Le Bu’s recital with Vocal Arts DC highlighted his linguistic and timbral versatility.

In occasione delle celebrazioni per la Festa Nazionale della Repubblica Italiana, il Consolato Generale d’Italia a Fiume avrà il piacere di ospitare – mercoledì 3 giugno 2026, nella sede della Comunità degli Italiani di Pola, con inizio alle ore 18.30 – la mostra/evento dal titolo “Colors” con il supporto del periodico EccellenzaExcellency dell’editore triestino Giorgio Siderini. L’evento si snoda attraverso una sorta di confronto tra le opere di tre autori di diversa formazione ed estrazione geografica: Elisabetta Bacci, Carlo Fontana e Giovanni Pulze.
Giovanni Pulze “San Francisco Angel” 2018, acrylic on canvas, cm 80 x 80
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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...

We’re Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau’s relationship with his estranged father. Lau’s father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau’s life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father’s sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father’s unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father’s passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai‘i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his...

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...

Angelo Dolojan
it’s all very interesting what is happening by Angelo Dolojan is a zine featuring drawings created over the course of a year. The work weaves together observation, memory, dreams, documentation, and manifestation into a continuous visual exploration.
 
 
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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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