Vivian Maier was born in New York on 1 February 1926. The street photographer spent the majority of her life between France and the USA, working as a nanny for several Chicago families. It was only after her death in 2009 that her 150,000 image archive was discovered. In the same year as Maier was born, across the city, Allen Ginsberg arrived on 3 June. His was a life of fame and notoriety, producing poetry, photography and activism that was foundational in the Beat Movement. His radical literary works left an indelible mark on American counterculture, with his renowned poem Howl becoming the subject of an obscenity trial in 1957. As far as artistic figures go, these two could perhaps not be further apart....

I like to use this recording to annoy Mariah Carey fans by proving that whistle register doesn't count.

the cave: an underground museum proposed for norway
 
In Sunnfjord, Norway, where the hillside drops toward the water, PAX Architects imagines a cave-like museum that seems to disappear underground.
 
The proposal, called The Cave, is a 1,500-square-meter visitor center for Astruptunet, the former home and working landscape of painter Nicolai Astrup, and was selected as a finalist in an open competition that drew 164 entries.
 
The Danish studio’s design embeds the built space inside the slope rather than beside the existing museum cluster. From Astruptunet, the new volume is meant to vanish behind terrain and vegetation.
 
From the nearby village and county road, it reads as a narrow crevice in the...

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At 97-years-old, Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc (b. 1928) continues to surprise and delight audiences. He has dedicated his career to engaging the public, whether that be through employing optical effects, crafting sensory encounters or encouraging physical interaction. His goal is to make us feel part of the artwork, and, this summer, Tate Modern’s show does exactly that. It presents over 60 pieces spanning from the late 1950s to the 2020s, including interactive installations, light sculptures and abstract paintings – all curated to form a “maze-like” experience. It’s all about making audiences “aware of the role they can play in bringing art to life.” Light. Colour. Action are the three words...

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È certo che ogni avvenimento del passato continui a persistere ostinatamente nel flusso della storia politica, sociale e culturale contemporanea di un Paese. Talvolta questa presenza risulta così viva e profonda da modellare il presente e influenzarlo, offrendo racconti parziali e significativi. In questo senso, la storia non viene più intesa come un percorso esclusivamente individuale, bensì come un’esperienza condivisa, capace di instaurare un rapporto vivo con chi la incontra. Proprio all’interno di questa relazione si aprono nuovi spazi di comprensione, rendendo visibili dinamiche che spesso rimangono implicite.
MarÍa Leguízamo, Gerson Vargas, “Unos pocos buenos amigos”, installation view,...

OUKA ‘stayable gallery’ opens in Japan’s woodcarving town Inami
 
Located in Inami, Toyama Prefecture, OUKA is the seventh accommodation developed by Bed and Craft, a hospitality initiative focused on connecting visitors with Japan’s regional craft traditions. Situated along the Daimon River in a town known for its woodcarving heritage, the project occupies a renovated Showa-era residence that has been transformed into what Bed and Craft describes as a ‘stayable gallery,’ a hybrid space where accommodation, architecture, and craftsmanship intersect.
 
Founded in 2016, Bed and Craft has developed a network of restored buildings throughout Inami, a town home to more than 80 woodcarving studios. In...

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casa langosta opens near todos santos
 
Between the desert and the Pacific in Baja California Sur, Mexico, Casa Langosta sits low among cacti, scrub, and pale sand, with the Sierra de la Laguna Mountains holding the horizon behind it. The new Modernist-style residence, designed by architect Raquel Font of Studiofont, opens as the first flagship property by Nereidas, a hospitality concept built around design-led stays in distinct private houses.
 
Set ten minutes from the northern edge of Todos Santos, the property occupies an 8,000-square-meter plot near Agua Blanca, where the landscape shifts between dry terrain and open ocean views. The house brings together three bedrooms, a commercial-grade kitchen, and...

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Bridging ancestral techniques with contemporary clay craft
 
For 3daysofdesign, Studio davidpompa introduces Can Natural, a new edition of one of the studio’s most established collections, developed by master craftsmen in Los Reyes Metzontla, Puebla. Emerging from an ongoing exploration of materiality and surface, the new finish reveals a warmer, more natural tonal quality, highlighting the depth, texture, and tactile honesty of clay. This new clay reflects not only a different aesthetic but also a distinct material process and regional identity. This clay development marks the beginning of a collaboration between davidpompa and 1050°, a cooperative of master artisans from Mexico dedicated to preserving...

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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Between 2010 and 2023, more than 1,243 council-run youth centres closed, according to UNISON. Meanwhile, one in three people in the UK say their local areas are in decline, with 13,000 high street shops closing in 2024. Across the country, council restrictions, diminishing spaces, gentrification and enduring prejudices see many communities under threat of erasure. Photographer Sophie Green presents a vivid portrait of the communities, subcultures and social gatherings that shape contemporary Britain, forming a vital archive of a changing nation. For over a decade, she has documented how rituals and traditions build connection, belonging and shared identity. From the adrenaline thrill of banger racing, to the...

THE SIGNATURE EDITION, FROM OPEN CALL TO PROTOTYPE
 
Canadian designer Marc-André Fauteux has won ‘Elevate All-New Nissan MICRA: The Signature Edition’, the open international competition Nissan ran with designboom, with a concept that turns the car’s exterior into a moving canvas of asymmetric color and graphic form. The winning design has now been built as a full-scale prototype.
 
The contest, launched in August 2025, asked designers, artists, and creative thinkers worldwide to reinterpret the visual identity of the all-new MICRA through color, material, and graphic expression, without changing the car’s form. More than 1,000 people entered and eleven finalists were shortlisted. Graphic and...

Tell me, who needs an eight-story gallery in Manhattan that feels like a mall, plus cavernous outposts in Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Geneva, Seoul, and Tokyo? Who needs a roster of 135 artists, including a battery of estates? Who needs those so-called “museum-quality” exhibitions that reframe art history for us through the narrow lens of a bottom-line-oriented dealer? Pace, a mega gallery, made headlines this week after it slashed one-third of its artists and one-fifth of its staff. Its CEO, Marc Glimcher, blamed a "broken" gallery model for the cuts, the same model he helped create. The good news is that Pace is now more true to itself: a business that was made to sell art. The bad news: It's the...

C’è un momento, entrando nella mostra Egg di Flora Yukhnovich presso Victoria Miro a Venezia, in cui diventa evidente come il vero tema abbia ormai poco a che fare con il Rococò. La questione centrale riguarda piuttosto il destino della pittura dentro un ecosistema estetico dominato da sovrapproduzione, iperstimolazione e consumo accelerato delle immagini.
Flora Yukhnovich, “Egg”, installation view at Victoria Miro Venice, 5 May–4 July 2026, © Flora Yukhnovich. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro
Per anni Yukhnovich è stata raccontata come la pittrice che ha riportato il Settecento nel contemporaneo: Fragonard filtrato mediante l’astrazione gestuale, Boucher radicato nell’ambiente...

For much of Tuesday, June 2, the second floor of Sotheby’s headquarters at Manhattan’s Breuer Building was off limits. Security guards turned away employees hoping to access the floor, which, when not used as a traditional gallery, is where the auction house stages its biggest and most closely watched auctions—including the $236 million Gustav Klimt painting that last year broke the record for any work of modern art sold at auction. According to sources familiar with the matter, even senior staff were left wondering what exactly was going on upstairs. The answer, it turns out, was a Jackson Pollock. According to multiple sources, Sotheby’s had quietly organized a private auction for Number 19, 1951, a...

The Mexican Ministry of Culture has demanded the suspension of an auction in Colorado, reports the Latin American news channel TeleSUR. Organized by Artemis Fine Arts in Louisville, Colorado, and scheduled for today, the sale, titled “Fine/Visual Art, Ancient, Ethnographic Art,” includes 80 artifacts of Mexican origin. The works were flagged by Mexico’s federal agency, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), one of whose roles is to protect the country’s cultural heritage. “Our heritage is not an object of profit,” Culture Secretary Claudia Curiel de Icaza said. “Its defense is a permanent commitment to the memory and cultural sovereignty of Mexico.” Under Mexican federal...

Jamie Nares (photo Charlie Rubin, courtesy the artist)This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June.In sublime canvases animated by choreographies of sweeping motion, Jamie Nares captures the bravura of a brushstroke. The London-born artist has also made experimental films, photography, and music rooted in the spirit of the No Wave movement into which she was thrust when she relocated to New York City in the mid-1970s. In our interview, Nares, who came out as transgender in 2019 and changed her artist name in 2024, leads us through her distinct personal and artistic evolutions, journeys paved by a search for truth....

After a visitor to the Bunker Hill Monument in Massachusetts complained that a panel contained a quote expressing “woke” feminist ideology, the National Park Service ordered a review of materials at the site. As a result of the review, the Washington Post reported Thursday, the organization ordered the removal of three quotes at the site. The one that drew the initial complaint, referencing women’s suffrage, was not set for removal. While the panel quotes have not yet been removed, a spokesperson for the Interior Department characterized the removal order to the Post as a “routine exhibit refresh.” “Through President Trump, we have encouraged Americans to visit our cultural and historic sites and...

The Argentine-born, Paris-based artist, who died at age 97, had been hoping to attend the opening of his retrospective at Tate Modern next week

The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., has begun removing references to Donald Trump from the institution, one week after a federal judge ruled that his name had been added illegally to the prestigious performing arts center.  In a memo dated June 4, the center’s attorneys instructed staff to immediately remove Trump’s name from signs, letterheads, and email signatures, restoring the institution’s legal name: “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.” More extensive changes—including removing Trump’s name from the building’s facade, as well as from templates, brochures, and website pages—must be completed by June 12, the memo states.  The memo follows a May 29 decision by U.S....

The New School in Manhattan has laid off 19 full-time faculty and 68 staff members as it confronts a cumulative $160 million structural budget deficit attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and declining student enrollment.  In a public statement this week, New School President Joel Towers billed the cuts as part of a “redesign” of the school, which is facing a 20% drop in enrollment since 2021, including a record low of 8,900 students this fall. The cuts account for about 6% of full-time faculty and staff, respectively, Towers said, and would put the university on track to a "balanced budget" in 2028. American Association of University Professors (AAUP) President Todd Wolfson condemned the cuts as...

Police and federal authorities are investigating a suspected act of arson at the Museum of African American History in Boston after a package containing materials for an upcoming Juneteenth celebration was set on fire outside the institution this week. According to Boston police, the incident occurred around 8 a.m. on Wednesday at the museum’s African Meeting House site on Beacon Hill. Security footage reportedly shows a man opening a package, scattering some of its contents, and setting several items on fire in an alley behind the historic building. The package contained materials intended for the museum’s upcoming Juneteenth celebration, according to museum president and CEO Noelle Trent. Boston police...

The mystery of the central Stonehenge altar stone—a 6 ton, approximately 16-foot-long micaceous sandstone megalith—has posed a tantalizing question to researchers and amateur history buffs for decades: how did such a colossal rock come to rest at the center of the most famous prehistoric monument in England? A new study published on Thursday in the […]

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas is unveiling its newly renovated facilities to the public on June 6th and 7th after undergoing a $150 million expansion project. The updated layout was developed by Safdie Architects, the same firm that designed the first iteration of the museum in 2012. These expansions will […]

More than 100 works by an international lineup of artists respond to the historic village along the Erie Canal

In July, the World Heritage Committee meets in Busan, South Korea, to decide which places will be added to the World Heritage List — and what it will take to safeguard them. As it weighs new inscriptions, the Northern Lowlands of South America face a blunt question: Given the region’s abundant rock art, why are there so few legal protections — and only one World Heritage inscription?The answer is not ignorance. South American states still carry a 19th-century script of nation-building, shaped by colonial racial hierarchies. The authorized heritage discourse, a term coined by Laurajane Smith, continues to be used to consolidate a single national history and a supposed civilized identity, privileging...

Amid heightened scrutiny over insider trading and state gambling regulations, the prediction market platform Kalshi has ventured into the rarefied space where fine art and big money meet, launching a section dedicated to art markets. In addition to gambling — or engaging in “trading on the outcome of future events,” as Kalshi puts it — on who will be elected LA’s next mayor, or which team will win the World Cup, users can now bet on whether or not Andy Warhol will break his auction record this year, if Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of Gertrud Loew” (1902) will sell for more than $40 million at a Sotheby’s auction later this month, or other auction results for works by blue-chip artists including...

Tavares Strachan is an artist whose interests, references, and approaches to making stretch so broadly, it’s not surprising that one of his more well-known works is an encyclopedia. Created in 2018, the 2,400-page volume contains 15,000 entries on individuals, events, places, and more that are critical to understanding our shared history, and yet were omitted from the Encyclopedia Britannica. This inverse book-cum-sculpture is one of many pieces within Strachan’s oeuvre that question the narratives we collectively disseminate. Born in Nassau, the Bahamian artist is one of the leading conceptual artists working today, and his first monograph, out this month from Phaidon, peers into decades of his expansive...

Exhibitions at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Gagosian, and Sant’Andrea de Scaphis

The New School in New York has laid off sixty-eight staffers and nineteen full-time faculty members, more than half of them tenured, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. The cuts were telegraphed earlier this year and come as the university reckons with a $60 million budget deficit spurred in part by declining enrollment. The dip […]

Despite the vocal testimony against the project, the National Capital Planning Commission voted overwhelmingly in favour of the arch

Rodney Mims Cook Jr, the chairman of the commission overseeing Trump's makeover of Washington, is the first US official to attend in nearly a decade—and spoke on a panel calling for a “dialogue of cultures”

Ophelia Arc discusses crochet, compulsion, care, violence and vulnerability

As rising costs and a softer market force dealers to rethink their strategies, galleries across the capital are experimenting with new business models

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...

A few miles northwest of Downtown Los Angeles and Skid Row, St. Vincent Medical Center is considered one of the city’s most historical hospitals, having supported Angelenos since the 19th century. Vacant since 2020, the center is slated to become a full-service campus aimed at supporting people with addiction, mental health concerns, housing insecurity, and more. This transformation will begin in the next few months with a final target opening date in 2028 and a wholesale takeover in the meantime. Through July 31, visitors experience an alternative vision for communal healing, all through the lens of 70 artists. Dubbed the Hospital of Emotions, the pop-up exhibition converts 80 rooms into temporary...

Lubaina Himid's Reading the Label transforms Cork Street into a public artwork exploring clothing, memory and identity

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Elsa Dreisig, Jonas Kaufmann, and Malin Byström lead recent album releases.

In recent years, people have been spending far more time at home. Homes have gradually taken on multiple roles —... Read More

A new chapter has begun for one of Italy’s most important cultural institutions. The Board of Directors of Fondazione La... Read More

Synoptico is a new multimedia performance by Eno Freedman Brodman combining dance, video art and immersive projection

I'm surprised that American soprano Maria Kanyova has never performed at the Met, even though she has loads of high-profile U.S. opera credits.

“Reimagining” is the theme of the 29th edition of PHotoESPAÑA, a photography festival which brings nearly 100 exhibitions to Madrid and other cities across Spain, including Barcelona, Santander, Seville and Zaragoza. In the face of today’s relentless image consumption, where five billion photos are made daily, the event focuses on “curiosity, imagination, liberation and rebellion,” celebrating the past century’s most game-changing approaches to the medium. The 2026 programme includes major solo shows from leading figures, including influential photographic projects of the 1900s. Fundación MAPFRE (6 June – 30 August), for example, pays homage to Richard Avedon’s landmark photobook In the...

London’s cultural dominance has long rested on more than the strength of its institutions. It is a city whose creative identity is built through constant reinvention, where world-renowned museums sit alongside artist-run spaces, where commercial galleries coexist with experimental projects, and where culture remains one of the capital’s most valuable exports. In 2026, that position was formally recognised when Time Out named London the world’s best city for culture, placing it ahead of Paris, New York, Berlin and Cape Town. The ranking reflected the breadth of a cultural ecosystem that continues to evolve despite economic uncertainty, rising costs and global competition. At a time when many cities are...

Ulrich Erben (Düsseldorf, 1940) da oltre mezzo secolo insiste sulla pittura come pratica di conoscenza con una coerenza che rivela la tenuta della sua convinzione profonda che la superficie dipinta possa essere il luogo in cui si manifestano gli aspetti fondamentali dell’esperienza visiva. Anzitutto, la natura relazionale della percezione, poiché nessun colore esiste da solo, ma ogni tono si definisce in rapporto a ciò che lo circonda. Per questo la struttura compositiva delle sue opere è ridotta all’essenziale: non ci sono distrazioni narrative o forme che inneschino associazioni automatiche. Rimane solo il colore che preme contro il colore, la linea che separa e al tempo stesso connette, la...

On Thursday, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach announced that Philippe Vergne, the French curator and current director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal, will join the institution as its artistic director and chief curator in October of this year.  In this newly created position, the longtime arts executive […]

How many people actually heed the warnings about not feeding ducks waddling around public parks? If you’ve taken a flippant approach to these guidelines in the past, we recommend you watch AJ Jeffries’ new animation, “DUCKS.” What opens as an innocuous jaunt around a pond quickly turns into a dark comedy full of strange contortions and feathered villains sure to pop into your head the next time you throw a chunk of bread. Jeffries is also behind this ridiculous story of a struggling horse, and you can find more of his work on Instagram, Vimeo, or Behance. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per...

Softness and resilience. Presence and absence. Vitality and stillness. These are just a few of the dualities that permeate the atmospheric work of Jeanne Vicerial, whose textile-focused practice taps into history and femininity with precision and reverence. A city-wide exhibition of Vicerial’s pieces titled Incarnation: Carte blanche Jeanne Vicerial opens across several historic spaces in Aix-en-Provence this month: Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme, Musée des Tapisseries, Chapelle de la Visitation, and Musée Granet. Situated amid centuries-old architecture and existing museum collections, the artist’s works nod to time, tradition, and remembrance. The show surveys sculptures and installations created...

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...

In Amy Casey’s meticulous acrylic paintings, houses and main street buildings whirl through the air amid debris, teeter in huge piles in the sea, or balance precariously on giant clusters of fungi. Our perception is tested: are the houses really tiny or are their surroundings exceedingly big? That slippage is at the heart of her practice, which confronts our current, often overwhelming information era and its politics, war, the climate crisis, population displacement, and more. “It is hard to process the world and the constant flow of information about it without feeling powerless and paralyzed,” the artist says. “Sometimes life just feels like a neverending shriek.” In her paintings, which are often...

Christopher Corwin speaks to rising bass-baritone Le Bu about his journey from Yancheng, China to the Met (with a stop in Wichita) and what important roles await him.

The fact that Barbara Hannigan has never performed at The Metropolitan Opera is just plain dumb.

There Is A Truth: questo il titolo dell’ottava esposizione di Tracey Emin presso la Galleria Lorcan O’Neill di Roma (30 aprile -18 luglio 2026). Entrare nel piccolo spazio espositivo di Vicolo dei Catinari dà effettivamente l’impressione di essere accolti a contemplare una verità nascosta, il cui significato aleggia tra le tredici opere presenti, per la precisione dodici dipinti e opere su carta e una scultura monumentale in bronzo, realizzati dall’artista britannica durante gli ultimi due anni negli studi di Londra e Margate. La verità rivelata da Emin ha a che fare con il potere curativo dell’arte nelle nostre vite. Come lei stessa ha affermato, There Is A Truth è «una metafora perfetta della...

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...

Il manifesto programmatico della 61esima Biennale d’Arte di Venezia, stilato dalla curatrice svizzero camerunense Koyo Kouoh, scomparsa lo scorso maggio, è una vera e propria dichiarazione poetica che emoziona, incuriosisce, riempie di speranze e aspettative. Parla di pratiche artistiche che aprono portali, rinnovano e nutrono in un “invito all’incanto”, a dare importanza al riposo fisico ma soprattutto spirituale; il presupposto è che “la poetica libera” e che gli artisti, individuati come “interpreti essenziali della condizione sociale e psichica, catalizzatori di nuove relazioni e possibilità” possano insieme generare bellezza.
Otobong Nkanga, “And Still, Here We Are”, 2026,...