When the Victoria and Albert Museum’s newest branch, known as the V&A East, opens in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London next month, visitors will be greeted by a monumental sculpture by the London-based artist Thomas J Price. A Place Beyond, an 18-foot-tall bronze figure, stands to the left of the museum entrance and is Price’s tallest sculpture to date. Like many of Price’s most well-known pieces, A Place Beyond depicts a young Black person in casual, contemporary dress. She is holding a cell phone—also a recurring attribute in Price’s work—and calmly looking out into the distance, her face coolly vacant, her pose almost regal. According to a statement from the museum, the woman in...

In the summer of 2024, a dazzling “Blue Room” emerged from the ashes of Pompeii during the new and ongoing excavations within the central region (Regio IX) of the ancient Italian city. The striking Egyptian blue that covered its walls immediately indicated to archaeologists that the room was not an ordinary domestic space —  it likely served as a sacrarium, a shrine where Romans in the household could undertake rituals or store sacred objects. But how much money did these expensive pigments cost wealthy Romans? A new article published in the journal Heritage Science reveals the splendor of luxury paints and estimates the extravagant price of purchasing Egyptian blue to cover an entire room in the first...

On Wednesday, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Chuck Schumer (D-New York) sent an open letter to Ed Forst, administrator of the General Services Administration questioning the organization’s management of its Fine Arts Program and the Fine Arts Collection. The GSA cares for over 26,000 artworks and artifacts owned by the US government, including murals, paintings, sculptures, and environmental artworks by artists from Mark Rothko and Louise Nevelson to Jacob Lawrence and Philip Guston. In the letter, the senators note that the GSA has posted 46 buildings that have been identified for “accelerated disposal,” a process that expedites the sale of the properties, which are home to numerous...

The artist collective allowed buyers to decide the fate of a cow’s life (thankfully they chose a sanctuary over the slaughterhouse), but the intended awareness-raising gave way to polarising digital discourse

At Windsor Castle, a one-of-a-kind architectural marvel isn’t a structural part of the building itself or even a full-size feature. Here, you’ll find Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House, widely regarded as the largest and most famous in the world. Designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, the house was built between 1921 and 1924 and contains items and furnishings conceived of by hundreds of the leading craftspeople and artisans of the day. Queen Mary, consort to King George V between 1910 and 1936, was an enthusiast of all things miniature. Her dolls’ house even contains scale versions of nearly 600 real books in its library, including works by literary giants like A.A. Milne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Colour (Skira, 2025) reassesses a major 20th-century modernist whose work has long resisted categorization. Edited by Vartan Karapetian and Marie Tomb, the first English-language monograph devoted to the artist brings together works from the Janibekyan Collection and the National Gallery of Armenia alongside holdings from museums and private collections across Europe, Asia, and North America. Through paintings, archival documents, correspondence, and memoirs, the book situates Galentz as a cosmopolitan modernist whose work demands to be read across borders rather than within national canons.Haroutiun Galentz occupies a difficult place in 20th-century art history. A survivor of...

At TEFAF Maastricht, the Van Gogh Museum acquired Virginie Demont-Breton’s L’homme est en mer, a painting from 1887–88 that now counts as only the third painting by a woman in the institution’s collection, according to Artnet News. As reported by senior editor Kate Brown, the painting of a woman looking longingly while holding an infant—presumably pining for the titular man at sea—was purchased by the Amsterdam museum with public funds dedicated to acquisitions for a price between €500,000 and €1 million ($543,000 and $1.1 million). The sale on TEFAF’s opening day was brokered by Gallery 19C from Dallas-Forth Worth, where the work had been in a private collection for 20 years. “Van Gogh had...

“Turner and Constable,” a show at London’s Tate Britain museum that pairs works by J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, has become a smash hit, with some 185,000 people attending since its opening in November. Now, it turns out one of those visitors was none other than King Charles himself. He visited the show on Tuesday, the Tate announced Friday, confirming reports in the British media that he’d been toured around “Turner and Constable” by Amy Concannon, a senior curator of historical British art with the museum network. According to the Independent, the King let out a “wow” before a painting by Turner, whose seascapes and landscapes move perilously close to abstraction—an avant-garde...

Joy Machine is pleased to present Life Forms, a solo exhibition by Janny Baek, on view from March 20 to May 9, 2026. How do we conceive of change? With fear, excitement, or uncertainty? As Janny Baek builds sculptural ceramics of speculative beings and imagined landscapes, she grapples with these questions. The work follows its own dream logic, one that accepts incongruity and dissonance as necessary to play and experimentation. Marbling hunks of colored clay, coiling bases, and molding a singular material into something new is part of an exploratory practice that embraces transformation and its often strange outcomes. Detail of “Dream State” (2024) Life Forms emerges from this dual meaning, invoking...

In the last three years, the deadly civil war tearing through Sudan has not only decimated its population but also destabilized the nation's culture, history, and identity. On top of the more than 150,000 people killed and millions displaced, the looting and destruction of cultural heritage objects, artifacts, archaeological sites, and museums threatens to distort the past and present beyond recognition, fracturing Sudan’s future.Earlier this week, NBC News reported that over 60% of the Sudan National Museum's holdings had been looted in the two years that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had control over the capital city of Khartoum. That statistic came from Ghalia Jar Al-Nabi, director...

Paul&Albert’s Front Door Cabinet for the municipality of Assen
 
Dutch design duo Paul&Albert have created the Front Door Cabinet for the municipality of Assen in the Netherlands. The object organizes tools used by the city for communication and citizen participation while translating the architectural language of domestic front doors into a sculptural cabinet. Rather than designing a conventional storage unit, the project interprets the front door as a symbolic element of the relationship between private households and the public realm. Each door represents an entry point to a different domestic environment, marking the threshold between individual life and the shared space of the city.
 
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On March 9, airstrikes by the US and Israel on the Iranian city of Isfahan damaged the Safavid-era Chehel Sotoun Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and other nearby cultural landmarks. While the Chehel Sotoun Palace was not directly targeted, the damage to it was likely caused by shock waves from missile strikes on the […]

Ben Luke talks to Sarvy Geranpayeh about the continuing violence in the Middle East, discusses the new Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report with its author Clare McAndrew, and speaks to our reporter in Australia, Elizabeth Fortescue, about a new installation at the Sydney Biennale.

A Vermont Studio Center residency provides artists and writers from around the world with the time and space to deepen their creative practice while building a solid network of mentors and friends. Sessions run for two, three, and four weeks, and include resident presentations, open studios, and an acclaimed Visiting Artist & Writer program. Nestled in the Green Mountains, Vermont Studio Center hosts a global community within a historic, pastoral village. The walkable campus provides private studios, a dining hall, and private rooms in shared lodging along the banks of the Gihon River. Residents can explore swimming holes, hiking and biking trails, and the rural charm of neighboring towns as they expand their...

Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke has been named the winner of the 2026 Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most prestigious honor. Born in Santiago to a father and mother who immigrated there from Croatia and the United Kingdom, respectively, he is the second Chilean architect to win the award since it was established in 1979. Though he uses only his father’s […]

The trial comes after the conclusion of a decade-long investigation into the alleged disappearance of works belonging to Picasso's stepdaughter

What is a web to the spider? A home, a tool, simply something they cling to? Tomás Saraceno presents these questions in a new segment from Art21, in which filmmakers visit his Berlin studio and examine the machinations of his collaborative practice, extending from a team of people to the tiny critters beneath our feet. Saraceno continually considers how humans occupy space and how such environments inform the ways we connect with the world around us. This short documentary, which is part of the “Realms of the Real” episode, reviews several of the artist’s projects, from his suspended installations to his more participatory community projects. Several artworks presented in the film have been previously...

Baritone Quinn Kelsey’s recital of English-language art songs in partnership with pianist Craig Ketter was a worthy celebration of Vocal Arts DC’s 35th-anniversary season.

“I never lost interest in the gestures or the faces of this dearest of families. It was here that I came of age and found my first true subject.” For almost thirty years, photographer Emmet Gowin captured personal and tender portraits of his wife, Edith Morris, and her extended family. The series, taken between 1966 and 1994, bears witness to the lives and relationships that shaped the artist over time. Through Gowin’s lens, images of Edith in her bedroom or on a ladder in the yard, of Reva and her sisters, children playing, lounging outside, and funeral onlookers, are captured with tangible care and compassion, reflecting the artist’s close relationship with these subjects. Now, Baldwin Street:...

Once owned by a US vice president, the print was acquired by the Shah’s wife and is now at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

The Tefaf Summit during the fair in Maastricht explores the impact of art beyond economics, and how culture’s role in public policy can be rethought

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesHOUSE OF CARDS. The Chilean architect Smiljan Radic has won the famed Pritzker Prize, the industry’s top accolade, which was delayed because of Tom Pritzker’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, according to the New York Times. In an email, Radic said his designs “all try to reach a certain austerity.” By that he means “stripping the work of excess.” The effect is lyrical and experimental, rather than cold or harsh, and in close dialogue with natural elements. Radic’s work “favors fragility over any unwarranted claim to certainty,” the jury said. “His buildings appear...

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TROP designs residential park for housing complex
 
Yanlord The Park is a residential courtyard landscape designed by TROP for a high-density housing development in Shenzhen, China. Located between a cluster of residential towers, the project transforms a constrained ground plane into a layered garden promenade that supports daily community life. Instead of functioning as decorative greenery, the courtyard organizes circulation, gathering spaces, and planting into a three-dimensional landscape where residents can move, pause, and interact.
 
The site presented several typical urban challenges. Tall buildings restricted sunlight and views, while circulation routes occupied much of the available ground area,...

Concept electric robotaxi lunar has no steering wheel
 
Lucid Group unveils the concept electric robotaxi Lunar that can drive on its own without using any steering wheel and control buttons. A look inside the cabin shows that it can sit up to two passengers and in front of them lies a centered horizontal digital screen that projects the navigation and entertainment. The two-door concept electric robotaxi Lunar, which the company plans to put up on Uber as part of their partnership, comes with a silhouette that slopes from a high roofline down toward a short rear deck. The exterior body carries no beltline moldings, which are the trim strips that run along the doors on most production vehicles. 
 
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yorgos lanthimos on the autonomy of photographs
 
On the occasion of Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs, an exhibition curated by Michael Mack, on view at Onassis Stegi in Athens from March 7th to May 17th, 2026, the filmmaker offered an unusually candid reflection on his evolving relationship with the still image. Known internationally for the singular cinematic universes of films such as Dogtooth, The Favourite, and Poor Things, Lanthimos speaks about the autonomy of photography, a medium that has increasingly shaped his creative practice over the past few years.
 
One of the recurring themes throughout the press conference discussion was the sense of independence photography offers compared to the...

El Departamento draws from Berlin nightlife for store interior
 
Architecture and interior design studio El Departamento has designed the Berlin flagship store for the streetwear brand Nude Project, located on Alte Schönhauser Straße. The project develops a retail environment shaped by references to Berlin’s nightlife culture of the 1970s, combining fashion display with a scenographic spatial narrative. Drawing on the legacy of entrepreneur and nightclub owner Rolf Eden, the design explores the visual language associated with the city’s historic club scene through a deliberately expressive and kitsch material palette.
 
Led by Marina Martín and Alberto Eltini, the studio conceived the store as a...

On Franklin Street in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, one non-commercial gallery fosters “a small, stubbornly human space for friction,” writes Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang. Friction — the ubiquitous buzzword that captures the simultaneous delight and discomfort of doing things the slow way — is at the heart of artists Pap Souleye Fall and Char Jeré’s current show at Subtitled NYC. It also reflects the overall spirit of this little exhibition space and of a burgeoning movement to reject our culture of optimization in favor of a bumpier, more intimate, less alienating experience.In the news, pride will not be the capital sin that sends Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to hell, but it's...

Christopher Purves in Saul - the clarity, the range, the expression, the drama!

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Al centro della pratica di Shenlu Liu si trova un intreccio sottile tra gesto manuale, materia e spazio, in un linguaggio poetico e meditativo. Nata a Pechino nel 2000, Liu ha studiato Fashion Design (Knitwear) al Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology e ha completato un MA in Textiles al Royal College of Art di Londra, laureandosi con distinzione. La sua pratica si colloca deliberatamente oltre i confini dell’artigianato, trasformando maglia, tessitura, ricamo e simulazione digitale in strumenti concettuali capaci di restituire esperienza sensoriale e attenzione al corpo, alla percezione e al tempo, in dialogo con la dimensione immateriale della contemporaneità. Attraverso video, stampe digitali...

Leipzig, Germany-based artist Alexander Endrullat has traded traditional Intaglio printing plates for discarded laptops. His ongoing series titled Off the Grid emerged from a familiar yet annoying scenario: owning an older device that can no longer be updated, rendering it practically unusable. Endrullat’s frustration led him to a moment of impulsivity as he pushed his device through a printing press, coincidentally discovering the distinctive technique. “One of the most interesting aspects of the process is how clearly the progressive destruction of the devices becomes visible after each print,” the artist explains. With each pass through the device becomes increasingly altered, revealing details about...

Last week researchers at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage of Belgium (KIK-IRPA) announced that they had used scientific analysis to connect a centuries-old Pietà painting to the Italian master Michelangelo. In addition, an independent Italian researcher published a paper which asserted that a marble bust of Christ, housed in a Roman basilica, was a Michelangelo as well. In […]

Twenty-two European ministers are petitioning the organizers of the Venice Biennale to disinvite Russia from the prestigious event’s upcoming sixty-first edition, to open March 9. Inaugurated by Latvia’s Minister of Culture Agnese Lāce, the joint letter bears the signatures of ministers from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, […]

There are many occasions when language fails me, when a poet’s hand seems what is needed to get to the truth of a thing—a man’s life, a work of art, a life of art. This is such a moment. To call the oil paintings of Eyvind Earle “landscapes” is accurate but very sorely wanting. For […]
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In the practices of Beverly Price and Gordon Parks, photography operates on a continuum. Images, for them, are both dynamic and archival, documenting a singular moment that continues to communicate with the viewer long after that time has passed. A Language We Share, opening this month at the Center for Art and Advocacy, probes these expansive and evolving interpretations of the practice by putting Price and Parks in direct conversation. One of the most lauded photographers of his time, Parks (1912-2006) embedded himself in American life from the 1940s onward, creating distinctive images for magazines like Ebony and Glamour and embarking on projects rooted in civil rights and social justice. He considered his...

Performance Space showcases artists from Hanoi & Saigon

Lise Davidsen, Michael Spyres, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin are astonishing in Tristan und Isolde at the Met, while Yuval Sharon's new production is anything but.

The history of photography is often written through movements, technologies and aesthetics, yet it is equally shaped by the restless individuals who carried cameras across borders in search of understanding. Travel photography has long been entangled with questions of representation, power and cultural encounter. Today, contemporary audiences revisit early documentary images not simply as records, but as layered testimonies shaped by the conditions of their time. Against this backdrop, the work of Ella Maillart stands out for its rare combination of curiosity, independence and empathy. Her photographs do not merely catalogue distant landscapes but attempt to trace the rhythms of everyday life across regions...

 
We’re very pleased to announce that the first in our The Colour Library series, BLUE, is now available to order now from the Shutter Hub shop!
The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives. Our first edition is dedicated to blue.
A colour of depth and distance. Blue is a language. Vast as the sky and as still as water. Blue can evoke calm, melancholy, serenity and sorrow.
From literal to abstract interpretations, and alternative processes, within these pages...

Daguerreotypes. Photograms. Double exposure. Today, we’re spotlighting five experimental photography exhibitions. These shows feature a mix of 20th century pioneers, like Lillian Bassman, whose visionary work redefined fashion and fine art photography, alongside contemporary practitioners such as Garry Fabian Miller and Liz Nielsen, who continue to explore light, colour and process in groundbreaking ways. Across these exhibitions, each image challenges perception, interrogates memory and celebrates the material and conceptual possibilities of lens-based medium. This is traditional imagery, reimagined. Liz Nielsen: Interdimensional Timelines  Joseloff Gallery at Hartford School of Art | Until 11 April ...

È con questa domanda che il visitatore è invitato ad attraversare la mostra collettiva Aria Notturna,  in corso alla Galleria Zero…, realizzata in collaborazione con Neue Alte Brücke e Matt Williams, che indaga le risposte dell’ambiente ai mutamenti di stato derivanti dall’oscurità, dai sistemi di illuminazione e di sorveglianza. Strumenti che colpiscono non solo lo spazio della rappresentazione, ma soprattutto quello della percezione, dando vita a una rete immateriale di stimoli e di informazioni.
Racheal Crowther, “Close Call Only (20139 Milano)”, 2026, antenna Diamond D-777 (installata sul tetto), radio scanner Whistler TRX2, frequenze radio, cavo coassiale a specifica militare, gabbia di...

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Parterre Box features a performance from two belcantisti who would rather you not think about their political affiliations.

In art and life, the future has emerged as both a caution and a possibility. The climate crisis, accelerating technologies and new planetary infrastructures now shape the narratives artists construct about tomorrow. Increasingly, creative practice is less about prediction and more about rehearsal, imagining how humanity might navigate the realities unfolding. The news cycle right now shows a new senseless war, and this, coupled with Gaza and Ukraine, sees the planet inching closer and closer to that doomsday clock.  Immersive exhibitions have emerged as powerful arenas for this speculative thinking, intersecting art, science fiction and design, They allow audiences not merely to observe but to inhabit...

Nello spazio espositivo zerozerosullivellodelmare a Pescara, diretto da Lúcio Rosato, è in corso la mostra “In gioco” del collettivo artistico abruzzese Di Bernardo Rietti Toppeta. La mostra è un’indagine sull’evoluzione del gioco nel tempo e sul gioco inteso come terreno fertile in cui le potenzialità intellettuali dell’individuo possono evolversi, soprattutto recuperando il contatto con la Natura e stabilendo delle connessioni sociali e umane, non soltanto virtuali. Il progetto nasce come riflessione su come la nascita delle nuove tecnologie e lo sviluppo dei videogiochi, abbiano influito soprattutto sulle nuove generazioni e sulla loro percezione della realtà, modificando il loro modo di...

By Kristine Schomaker I keep seeing Liberal Jane's work pop up across different platforms - Instagram, obviously, but also sliding through Facebook, saved in Pinterest boards, shared in group chats. This immersion matters more than I think we acknowledge. These aren't gallery pieces waiting for the right audience to find them. They're already embedded in the actual digital infrastructure where people are trying to survive right now. Caitlin Blunnie has been making this work for seven years,...

Time to Act at Pittsburgh Opera effectively employs Greek tragedy to explore the all-too-common tragedies haunting schools across the United States.

Parks. Railway stations. City halls. Hotels. Theatres. Abstract artist Tada Minami (1924-2014) was committed to practice that spanned beyond the confines of the museum. She often left her creations in urban spaces, where they have since formed an integral part of everyday life. Across an almost 70-year career, she covered huge ground, varying her approach to both material and scale. Her works include massive, stainless-steel sculptures that appear to rise sharply skywards; glass and acrylic constructions that reflect the environment; and “Illuminated Walls,” which contain richly-coloured light. Tada is emblematic of a postwar Japan that was rapidly modernising, transforming itself into the nation of...

In alcuni artisti la creatività è fortemente intrecciata al vissuto, mentre in altri la componente autobiografica è meno influente. Alla prima categoria di sicuro appartiene Robert Mapplethorpe, la cui produzione fotografica è connessa a un’esistenza diventata, nell’ultimo decennio, molto crudele e a una biografia personale che diventa sociale. All’osservatore capita così, di fronte alle sue fotografie, di non poter fare a meno di sentire il vissuto dell’artista, incrociandolo con le immagini, anche quando – e ne è la maggioranza – le immagini hanno un tono distante e opposto al dolore esistenziale. Un vissuto che si dipana, sia nella vita vera sia nella fotografia, anche pensando agli...

The Pacific Northwest is perhaps the wildest, most breathtaking region in the continental United States. With its combination of mountain ranges, conifer forests, lakes, rivers, and ancient sequoias looming over the California coast, the geography and texture of Wyoming, Montana, California, and Oregon return us to North America’s primordial past. It reminds us of when […]
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Lo spazio del contemporaneo è lo spazio digitale; la maggior parte del nostro quotidiano si svolge a contatto con strumenti digitali, con display iper-connessi e con flussi incessanti. Byung-Chul Han legge il digitale come zona che produce, paradossalmente alle premesse originali, solitudine e frammentazione, “uno sciame di individui isolati” (Nello sciame, 2013). Invece, tra le pieghe di una città analogica che interroga il rapporto tra icone e contemporaneo come Venezia, una mostra collettiva apre su una prospettiva alternativa.  Restiamo umani! Utopie e Distopie nell’Era Digitale presso lo Spazio Berlendis a Venezia conclude la prima edizione del Premio Berlendis (promosso da Marignana Arte e...

Art history, in Hess' painting, is comprised of tiny renditions of famed works that are patch-worked together. They appear like reams of unfurled toilet paper that form vortices. One spiral extends into the past. Another spiral contains the twenty-first century... Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
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Sam Gibbons isn’t letting you off the hook. Sex, violence, religion, ego—everything comes together in colorful palettes unrestricted by shape or form. His rare, vibrant paintings are teeming with images both familiar and grotesque, and they’re demanding some careful attention Read the full article form our archives by clicking above.
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