Beloved painter Mr. Wash is building a Compton arts center to support formerly incarcerated artists like himself, Jane Horowitz reports for the Los Angeles Times:The goal is to expand the property into a hybrid complex — designed by Morphosis Architects — featuring three artist studios where artists in residence will stay for six months, an art supply store, and a small-business incubator.The vision is not simply creative. Mr. Wash sees the center as a replicable model for rehabilitation through the arts — one that begins with creative expression inside prison walls and extends, through structured support, into stable reentry. The self-taught Mr. Wash ran workshops while incarcerated, helping develop...

Dartmouth students are renewing their efforts to rename the campus’s Black Family Visual Arts Center, a building that was funded via a donation contributed by Leon Black, a billionaire investor and longtime associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  The issue was raised at the first Dartmouth Student Government meeting of the spring term, where freshman Oscar Rempe-Hiam said […]

The future of a 5th-century church in Glasgow, known locally as “Govan Old,” has been in a state of flux for the past decade. In 2016, according to a report by the BBC, the Govan Heritage Trust began managing the site (Govan is the name of a district in southwest Glasgow) and announced a plan to “develop the church into a self-sustaining community-run cultural, museum and business complex.” Several years prior, in 2008, the Govan Old congregation joined forces with two other local churches to form the Govan & Lighthouse Parish Church, now housed at the nearby New Govan Church. The location of the original Govan Old Parish Church was an active site of worship from the 5th century AD until 2007. The...

The Getty Center, the main campus for the Getty Foundation’s two Los Angeles museums, announced that it will close for renovations for about a year. The closure is expected to last from spring 2027 to spring 2028, meaning that the institution will reopen in time for the Olympics. The last public day of the museum will be in about 11 months from now, on March 15, 2027. In a release, the Getty termed the renovations “modernization initiatives,” which would be the first since the museum opened in 1997. The goal, per the release, is to “elevate the overall visitor experience, enhance accessibility, strengthen energy resilience and support the long-term stewardship of the site’s iconic campus.” The...

There was a time when monuments were meant to be visited; now, it seems, they can be owned—at least in parts. A section of the original staircase from the Eiffel Tower will go up for auction in Paris on May 21, CNN reported, offering collectors the chance to take home a fragment of one of the world’s most recognizable tourist attractions. Aspiring bidders will need more than just deep pockets—the estimate is set at $140,000-$175,000—they’ll also need deep real estate. The piece stands nearly nine-feet-tall and spans more than five feet across. The lot, handled by Artcurial, comprises 14 steps from the spiral staircase that once linked the tower’s second and third levels. Installed for the...

The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in Maine closed on its purchase of a new building in the city’s downtown, as well as two adjacent parking lots late last month. The building, previously owned by MaineHealth, a major regional hospital system and the largest private employer in the state, was sold for $14 million. The plan is for the PMA to move its administrative offices to the new Free Street building, which is next door to the museum as a way to open up space for more galleries in its main building. “This acquisition is a milestone for PMA, allowing the next generation of our institution to grow in place in the Arts District,” Marcie Parker Griswold, head of communications for the museum, said in a...

Lyric Opera of Chicago announces its 2026-27 season.

Galicia, Spain-based artist Abi Castillo continues to create iterative self-portraits through her evolving ensemble of ceramic personas. Her delicate yet emotive figures are an invitation to consider the inner self, transformation, and the beauty of the natural world. Femininity, nature, and symbolism play a central role within Castillo’s sculptures, contrasting with the notion of concealment and ambiguity. “This ambivalence between mysticism and drama, between monstrosity and beauty, is all very present,” she explains in an artist statement. Though each ceramic character is distinct, her body of work carries overarching formal motifs including colorful hairstyles and wide eyes with light blue irises....

Greece has introduced sweeping new legislation aimed at protecting its cultural property from forgery and damage, marking the country’s first comprehensive legal framework for crimes against art and collectibles. The bill, approved by Parliament in late January, establishes strict criminal penalties calibrated to the severity of the offense, including prison sentences ranging from six months to ten years and fines of up to €300,000 in the most serious cases. It also broadens the legal definition of art-related fraud to encompass issues of provenance, condition, and attribution, while clarifying what constitutes protected cultural property—extending coverage to “cinemas of historical importance.” Per...

San Juan Capistrano Library #1 Amir Zaki No Dust to Settle Diane Rosenstein Gallery April 4 - May 9, 2026 by Jody Zellen The saying "waiting for the dust to settle" might refer to when things will calm down and return to normal. It could be said that "the dust never settles" and there is no state of definitive calmness because everything is in flux, both in life and in art. This might be taking the personal into account by reading too much into the title of Amir Zaki's current exhibition, his...

‘flying vegetation’: a breezy home blooms in vietnam
 
A housing project by H&P Architects, dubbed Flying Vegetation, rises among Vietnam‘s Thai Binh city where a dense urban fabric is opened up by a shared neighborhood garden. The house is recognized at once by its planted facade that mediates the threshold between interior space and the street and uses vegetation as both screen and living surface.
 
Across the front elevation, rows of terracotta pots are held within a light steel frame that rises the full height of the building. The pots are spaced to allow growth and airflow, forming a permeable screen that softens light, reduces dust, and introduces a shifting layer of green. Seen from the street,...

THIS YEAR’S HONG KONG ART WEEK KICKED OFF amid an atmosphere that was equally festive, speculative, and reflective, yet marked by an undercurrent of anxiety. Still, somehow, with the war in Iran, art market uncertainty, and general economic upheaval, the week saw an overwhelming number of events, including the opening of three alternative fairs, several […]

This April, galleries from around the world come together as part of The Photography Show, taking place at the Park Avenue Armory in the heart of New York. Now in its 45th edition, the Fair features 80 galleries, alongside a further 20 photobook exhibitors. The much-anticipated event, hosted by AIPAD, represents a longstanding commitment to deepening the collective understanding of photography’s history, whilst spotlighting some of the most dynamic examples of contemporary experimentation.   Visitors will encounter some of the most dynamic artists working today. Oscura Gallery presents the work of Rania Matar, a Lebanese artist whose portraits of Middle Eastern women explore issues of personal and...

In the little town of Kosciusko, Mississippi, a self-described “unusual artist” named L.V. Hull transformed her home and garden of three-and-a-half decades into an elaborate, continuous artwork. Through found objects and trinkets, paint, and glue she purchased at the local Walmart, the artist created an immersive art environment—a riot of color, patterns, and textures in which creativity merged with daily living. Many of Hull’s works are currently on view in the show Love Is a Sensation at the Mississippi Museum of Art, which celebrates the self-taught artist’s eclectic approach to materials and space. From vibrantly painted everyday objects to idiosyncratic assemblages, Hull’s creativity and...

Kaija Saariaho’s spectral, shattering Innocence makes its Metropolitan Opera debut.

twin steel pavilions reinterpret gable-roof viewing platforms
 
Located in a coastal valley in Xiangshan, Ningbo, China, Twin Pavilions replaces an underused viewing deck with two steel structures overlooking the sea. The project, conceived by the collaborative team between Atelier LuxNox and Found Projects, reinterprets the original gable-roof form as two single-pitch volumes arranged perpendicular to one another. Concrete walls beneath the structures define circulation and form a semi-enclosed courtyard facing the coastline. The two pavilions share a common structural system and material palette while developing distinct identities.
overall view toward the sea | all images courtesy of Atelier LuxNox...

The centre’s art-filled campus will open in June, but visitors to Expo Chicago can get a preview of its art commissions in two special curated sections of the fair

The first major US exhibition of the conceptual artist in more than five decades presents his multi-sensory work and habit of making and remaking as “very, very today”

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We are living in uncertain times. The past 12 months have offered unprecedented political, societal and environmental shifts. Wildfires raged across Europe and America, destroying countless homes and habitats, leaving thousands displaced. The war in Ukraine entered its fourth year, whilst the United States conducted military strikes again Iran. A new Pope was appointed – the first to hail from America. The Artemis II mission saw humans travel further from Earth than ever before. Photojournalists have been there from every key moment, bringing hidden stories to light and documenting history as it happens – from warzones, revolutions and protests to quiet hospital wards and families around the breakfast...

The new collections hub page speaks to an “institutional commitment to accountability and transparency”, the museum’s director Tristram Hunt said

cinema drifting into dream
 
Cinema begins to shift when it no longer guarantees that one thing follows another for a reason. Narrative usually secures that relation. It tells us why something happens, what it leads to, who it belongs to. But there is a body of films where this chain loosens, to replace causality with association, recurrence, and displacement. In these films, meaning does not arrive through progression. It accumulates through proximity, stretching the plot until it begins to lose its shape and start resembling a dream state.
 
Across films by filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel, David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, and Charlie Kaufman, this shift appears gradually, in the way scenes return without...

LAYERED MOONLIGHT ANIMATES an INTERIOR of SHIFTING REFLECTIONS
 
Located in Xi’an, MC bar is conceived as a retreat detached from the rhythm of the city, offering a slower and more introspective mode of urban life. Drawing on the imagery of ‘tasting malt between cliffs under the moonlight’, the project brings together space, light, and material to construct an atmospheric experience that oscillates between reality and imagination. A series of circular pendant lights forms the most recognizable feature of the interior, their geometry evoking the crescent moon. Each fixture varies in thickness and reflectivity, producing a layered lighting effect that is both bright and soft. As visitors move through the...

TUWAIQ SCULPTURE 2026 SHIFTS FROM MONUMENTS TO INTERACTION
 
As the seventh edition of Tuwaiq Sculpture concludes, curators Lulwah Al Homoud, Sarah Staton, and Rut Blees Luxemburg are reframing the role of the monument within Saudi Arabia. Rather than creating static objects to be admired from a distance, the 2026 exhibition introduces the concept of the convivial tool — sculptures designed for physical engagement, such as sitting, climbing, and communal gathering. By selecting works that invite the public to touch and inhabit the art, the curatorial team seeks to provide a nourishing infrastructure that supports the daily rhythms and social closeness of Riyadh’s inhabitants.
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Jessye Norman really embraces elements of the song falling somewhere between classical art song and popular ballad.

John Yau once remarked to Jasper Johns that the materials he uses — newsprint, hot wax, bedsheets — must be a conservator’s nightmare. “Yes,” Johns responded. “It’s falling apart, just like me.” Timed to an exhibition at Gagosian focusing on his work from the 1970s, Yau meditates on the ironic, decisive, and groundbreaking work of this giant of American art in a must-read piece today. For all that Johns accomplished, Yau writes — and that’s a lot — his love for art and other artists remains. Nothing stays in time, his work acknowledges, but what a gorgeous meantime. Also today, Naib Mian tells us about the man behind Khajistan — an Instagram compendium of cheeky visuals and found...

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Sweeping exhibition will include more than 1,000 works by US artists, including paintings, photographs, sculptures and pieces of decorative art

After 22 years in partnership dealing in Old Master, Modern and contemporary art, dealers Edmondo di Robilant and Marco Voena will form independent firms with the next generation

 
There’s just two weeks left to submit your work for The City Series: Cambridge!
An ongoing series of publications, The City Series sets out to explore the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, showcasing images that respond to a place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
The inaugural volume explores a city that has welcomed us, and been home to nearly a dozen Shutter Hub exhibitions – Cambridge.
Rather than defining Cambridge by landmarks or narratives, we invite photographers to approach the city openly, perhaps through people, atmosphere, details, routines, abstractions, or moments that feel personal or unexpected....

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A Berlino, presso Kornfeld Galerie, è possibile visitare una mostra che tramite il colore rimanda all’accettazione dell’imprevedibilità, del passare del tempo e dell’irreversibilità degli eventi. La mostra, curata da Charles Moore, espone le opere dell’artista Nick Dawes che da anni sperimenta la casualità dell’effetto del colore tramite un processo nel quale l’attenzione, la cura e l’accettazione dell’imprevedibilità del segno sono elementi essenziali utili a creare una struttura visiva che emerge direttamente dall’interazione del gesto con la materia.
Nick Dawes, “Trace Elements”, installation view, courtesy Kornfeld Gallery, Berlin
Tramite un processo lento, ragionato e basato...

In his poem “My Heart Leaps Up” (1802), William Wordsworth writes: “My heart leaps up when I behold/ A rainbow in the sky … The Child is father of the Man.” The subjective “I” was central to his poetry, as opposed to the self-erasing perspective of another English Romantic poet, John Keats. Over time, the “I” of Wordsworth, who famously defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings … recollected in tranquility,” morphed into the existential angst of the Abstract Expressionist “I.” Spontaneous gestures replaced peaceful recollections.Jasper Johns seemed to reject the tortured, in-the-moment “I” of Abstract Expressionism, ironically commenting on the heroism...

In 1512, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I commissioned German printmaker Albrecht Dürer to create a work of imperial propaganda for display on palace walls and city halls. Known in its time as Maximilian’s “Arch of Honor” and referred to now as the “Triumphal Arch,” the multi-paneled woodcut print, measuring approximately 13 feet (four meters) high, is one of the largest such works ever made. Dürer relied on an entire studio of assistants, students, carvers, and advisors to help him craft the work over a period of more than two years. The New York Public Library (NYPL) possesses several panels of a 1515 first edition, which have been on view at the library since the Polonsky Treasures exhibition...

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The Hole, a New York City-based gallery run by founder Kathy Grayson, has closed its space in West Hollywood after being accused of rent non-payment in multiple court filings, the Art Newspaper reports.  Court filings dating back to 2024 allege that The Hole neglected to pay real estate taxes for several years; other records show that between July and […]

The Centre Pompidou, Paris, is set to unveil a new branch in Seoul in June. Centre Pompidou Hanwha is the result of a four-year partnership agreement between the French contemporary art museum and the Hanwha Foundation of Culture, a nonprofit arts organization established by South Korean finance and retail conglomerate Hanwha in 2007.  The museum will be housed in a disused aquarium […]

New research published in the journal American Antiquity last week posits that the first dice appeared more than 12,000 years ago, much earlier than previously believed. Made by Native Americans, the Pleistocene-era pieces predate all other archeological findings of dice, most of which come from the Bronze Age, by over 6,000 years. Dice represent a recognition of randomness; tools that wield unpredictability. “At the end of the last Ice Age, these are not the people we think are going to be diving into complex intellectual concepts. But they seem to be doing exactly that,” Colorado State University archaeologist Robert J. Madden, the author of the study, told Hyperallergic.Madden’s study is primarily...

“WHAT IS SHIT but baubles worn by bowels?” asks Canadian author (and now artist) Derek McCormack as the fictive version of proto-punk agitator and entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren in an introduction (dated “London, 1953”) to The Shithole Opry Collector’s Guide, an illustrated faux catalogue of fucked-up, Frankensteined bijous. The necromanced preamble doesn’t so much situate the […]

Colossal Members have helped us reach a fantastic milestone! We’re delighted to share that this month, we’ve officially assisted in funding 100 projects in classrooms around the nation via DonorsChoose. These include supplies and materials for K-12 students, some of whom are learning about and experiencing art for the first time. A portion of all Membership fees are allocated to this initiative, and so far we’ve been able to contribute more than $13,000, making a substantial difference in numerous learning spaces. And since we’re based in Chicago, we especially like to support classrooms here at home. Here’s what a few recent recipients had to say after their projects were funded: “These supplies...

ANTWERP PROVINCE, BELGIUM—Layers of rubble from earlier phases of construction were discovered underneath Saint Rumbold’s Cathedral in northern Belgium’s city of Mechelen, according to a Belgian News Agency report. Construction of the current church began in the early thirteenth century. Beneath the floor of the cathedral's northern section, archaeologists found pottery and construction materials dating to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The materials indicate that major alterations were made to the cathedral at that time. Beneath these layers, researchers uncovered an outer wall dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century. An even earlier wall section, which had a different orientation, may...

Visible accumulations of stone artifacts at the Jojosi site, South Africa TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, evidence of quarrying some 220,000 years ago has been discovered at the Jojosi site in eastern South Africa by a team of researchers led by Manuel Will of the University of Tübingen. It had been previously thought that early modern humans found stones for making tools incidentally as they looked for food. Team member Gunther Möller reassembled more than 350 rock fragments recovered from the site into “refits,” or stones that had been broken apart by knapping. “With these 3D puzzles, we were able to see precisely where and how material was...

For the first time in more than 50 years, NASA launched a mission to the Moon. A lot has changed since 1972, when we last checked in on the enormous, rocky satellite, but there is much to learn—and revisit—when it comes to traveling through deep space and considering what, as NASA describes it, a “long-term return” to our lunar companion could look like. The Artemis II mission, which is currently underway and scheduled to last a total of 10 days, has also released some remarkable images of our home planet. A striking image of the Earth “setting” behind the cratered Moon takes a truly unique view of our planet and prompts us to consider our perspective. It’s reminiscent of one of the most iconic...

American tenor Charles Castronovo performs a bit of Weber's Der Freischütz ahead of the opportunity to hear Berlioz's take on the score at Carnegie Hall next week.

The inaugural New Orleans Opera Festival goes big across the Big Easy.

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When we think of Los Angeles, we often picture seemingly endless sunny skies, postmodern downtown skyscrapers, Hollywood, and beachy enclaves like Venice. But there’s also a mysterious, lurking side of Los Angeles popularized by legendary gangsters like Mickey Cohen and the hardboiled novels of Raymond Chandler, published between the 1930s and 1950s. For Emmy award-winning director and photographer Daniel Sackheim, this gritty, shadowy underbelly lends itself to a series of bold black-and-white photos that highlight the noir valence of this iconic hub. His forthcoming book, The City Unseen, leans into L.A.’s dualities, focusing on historic buildings, trains, and individuals walking through urban spaces....

This spring, Malta Biennale returns for its second edition. Launched in 2024, the event lies at the intersection of contemporary art and cultural heritage, marrying the two together through its exhibitions and historic venues. Across 11 weeks, museums and sites are transformed, adding new layers to the country’s already complex and colourful history, turning the Maltese Islands into a melting pot of international artistic activity. The 2026 theme is Clean | Clear | Cut, with 130 artists from 43 nations presenting work that tackles the topic. Mario Cutajar, Biennale President and Heritage Malta Chairman, says: “The second edition of the Biennale is going to cement the future of this international...

Spring in London brings a wave of artistic innovation, and none more compelling than the archival exhibition of Senga Nengudi at Whitechapel Gallery. Running from 1 April to 14 June, the show offers a glimpse into the work of an artist whose practice spans sculpture, performance and choreography. Nengudi’s work exists at the intersection of the corporeal and the sculptural, exploring the elasticity of materials, the rhythms of movement and the lived experience of the body. Through photographs, films and archival material, the exhibition illuminates the experimentation that defined her most productive period between 1972 and 1982. It is an opportunity to encounter a body of work both historically significant...

C’è una frase di San Giovanni Crisostomo, pronunciata nel 362 d.C., che parla della prossimità dei fedeli ai corpi dei martiri, di cosa significa stare vicini a qualcosa di sacro, di quanto quella vicinanza trasformi chi la abita. È da lì che parte Più di ogni corpo, la mostra che Panorama, spazio espositivo indipendente situato nel sestiere di San Marco, dedica a Chiara Cecconello e Nadezda Golysheva fino al 19 aprile 2026. Il titolo non è un prestito decorativo, piuttosto una soglia concettuale attraverso cui le due artiste, con linguaggi molto diversi tra loro, entrano in dialogo con la Chiesa di San Zulian, che affaccia sullo stesso campiello dello spazio, e con le domande che quella chiesa porta...

Researcher Michelle McKeown of University College Cork explores the surface of the midden island off the coast of Culasawani, Fiji. QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA—According to a Phys.org report, a study of a small island in the Fiji archipelago led by Patrick D. Nunn of the University of the Sunshine Coast determined that it consists of shellfish remains and fragments of pottery. Nunn and his team members examined four test pits and 20 narrow core samples taken from different areas of the shell island, which covers less than an acre. Radiocarbon dating of clam shells in the samples indicates that they are about 1,200 years old. Early settlers of the Fiji Islands, who arrived around A.D. 760, are thought to have...

Papyrus fragment P. Fouad inv. 218 LIÈGE, BELGIUM—According to a statement released by the University of Liège, a 2,000-year-old fragment of papyrus recovered from the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo preserves 30 previously unknown verses written by Empedocles of Agrigentum, a Greek philosopher who lived in the fifth century B.C. The work of Empedocles had been known only through quotes recorded by later authors, such as Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch. Papyrologist Nathan Carlig of the University of Liège realized that the papyrus fragment, labeled P. Fouad inv. 218, was an unknown fragment of Physica, a poem written by Empedocles. These verses concern the philosopher’s...

Intimacy is never simple. It is a tension between visibility and concealment, between the everyday and the exceptional, a fragile architecture of perception and emotion. In Under the Sunlight, There is No True Intimacy, No.223 charts this territory with a lens that hovers between observation and empathy, illuminating moments that are at once fleeting and enduring. Desire is the undercurrent of the work, a force that navigates social expectation while asserting private freedom. The exhibition evokes the pulse of life in its subtle rhythms: a glance exchanged in a sunlit corner, the quiet geometry of bodies in motion, the way urban and natural spaces seem to whisper with latent meaning. These photographs do not...

Mark Rothko (Daugavpils, 1903 – New York, 1970) è uno degli artisti più iconici del Novecento: oltre ad aver rivoluzionato la storia della pittura in quanto riferimento imprescindibile per una certa e ben frequentata linea di ricerca astratta, il suo linguaggio ha mantenuta intatta la sua vitalità con il passare del tempo. Al di là di ogni considerazione storicizzante, il suo lavoro è capace di suscitare oggi le stesse emozioni e lo stesso coinvolgimento del periodo in cui era una novità dirompente. A distanza di quasi vent’anni dall’ultima retrospettiva istituzionale a lui dedicata in Italia (6/10/2007 – 6/01/2008 al Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma), l’artista è al centro di un altro...

When Frode Bolhuis got his start as a sculptor, he worked classically, with monumental figures made of bronze and metal—the kind of thing you see in a public square or park. But then the Dutch sculptor discovered the simplest of mediums, polymer clay, and his art practice exploded into a technicolor world of hue and […]
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OTTAWA, CANADA—Hürriyet Daily News reports that Canada has returned 11 artifacts to Turkey in a ceremony at the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa. The Canada Border Services Agency seized the artifacts, which were in transport from Istanbul to Vancouver, in January 2024. Officials at the Department of Canadian Heritage then worked with Turkish authorities to review the case. Canada’s Federal Court later ruled that the artifacts are protected under Turkey’s legislation on the protection of cultural assets and must be returned. Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said that the items include seven manuscript pages, some of which had been detached from larger works, rare...

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Arte cinetica – un omaggio di Ferruccio Gard a Vasarely è una mostra nata da una coincidenza significativa: il 2026 segna i 120 anni dalla nascita di Victor Vasarely, padre dell’Op Art, e i 50 anni della Fondation Vasarely, istituzione che continua a custodire e diffondere la sua eredità. Nel contempo, Ferruccio Gard celebra i suoi 85, scegliendo di rendere omaggio al maestro ungherese con cui condivide la passione per la percezione, il colore e il movimento.
Ferruccio Gard, “Dinamiche strutturali 4”, 1969, acrilici su tela, cm 40 x 50, courtesy dell’Artista
Vasarely ha definito una grammatica visiva nuova, fondata su moduli geometrici, variazioni sistematiche e un’idea di arte universale,...