A page missing from The Archimedes Palimpsest, the oldest extant copy of writings by the ancient Greek mathematician, was rediscovered at the Museum of Fine Arts in Blois, France. One side of the page, which had been missing for 120 years, contains part of Archimedes’s treatise On the Sphere and the Cylinder, while the other was covered over with an illumination sometime in the 20th century. The Palimpsest dates back to the 10th century in Greece and features several written works by Archimedes, parts of which were erased in the Middle Ages so as to reuse the parchment for other material. “This practice of recycling was common at the time for such animal-skin writing materials, which were extremely...

The family of the Op Art pioneer hopes to secure a new chapter for his foundation in Aix-en-Provence after years of neglect and funding woes

Authored by cultural economist Clare McAndrew and published by Art Basel and UBS

Newly published text messages between leaders at the University of North Texas (UNT) reveal that administrators feared “any barking from Austin” over plans to cancel an exhibition featuring artwork critical of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Urgent Matter reports that the communications show school president Harrison Keller and provost Michael McPherson discussing “Ni De Aquí, Ni De Allá,” an exhibition of work by Brooklyn artist Victor Quiñonez, one week before the show was canceled this February. “Our group met this morning regarding the gallery show. We believe all pieces that are of concern can be removed and the rest of the exhibition can continue. You ok with that?” McPherson...

‘Seahorse’ ridges for concept wireless gaming controllers 
 
Concept wireless gaming controllers LEVION fits pre-teens’ hands using a ridged design inspired by the form of seahorses. Designed for a set of thumbstick caps on PlayStation controllers, the project is aimed at players between the ages of 9 and 12. The designer’s reference for the shape was the seahorse because it holds its body in a vertical position. It has a curved spine that bends from the head to the tail, and along the length of its torso, the seahorse has a series of bony rings that create this series of rigid slides. 
 
Then, the head of the seahorse sits at the top of that curve, and the snout extends forward. These four...

Welcome to the 328th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists invent their own alphabet and investigate the collapse of the universe.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Lusmerlin Lantigua, Columbia, Maryland, and Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaHow long have you been working in this space?In my Maryland studio, three years. In my Philadelphia studio, on and off for four years now.Describe an average day in your studio.I start with sunlight whenever possible: stretching, reading, and sitting outside...

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The Biennale of Sydney, the most important biennial in the Pacific region, denied discrimination in its current edition after some members of Australia’s Jewish community repeatedly claimed that curator Hoor Al Qasimi had selected for participants with anti-Zionist politics. One prominent Jewish group, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, had initially been invited to preview the Biennale ahead of its public opening this weekend. “If there are works with a pro-Palestinian bias, fine,” president David Ossip told the Australian Financial Review in a report from February that labeled the invitation a “peace offering.” “But I will call it out if they are not balanced with anything from another point of...

A relic of the transatlantic slave trade that has anchored a major gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture since its opening will soon leave Washington, DC. According to the Associated Press, the museum plans to remove a timber fragment from the São José-Paquete de Africa, a Portuguese slave ship that sank off the coast of Cape Town in 1794 while carrying more than 400 captive Africans. The 33-pound piece of wood, displayed in the museum’s “Slavery and Freedom” exhibition since 2016, will return to the Iziko Museums of South Africa when its loan agreement expires this year. Museum officials say the artifact’s final day on view will be March 22. The...

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. The 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...

O-Boy smartwatch sends emergency alerts via satellite
 
O-Boy is a satellite-based emergency smartwatch developed by the Brussels design studio Futurewave. The device is designed for situations in which mobile phone networks are unavailable, allowing users to transmit emergency alerts through satellite communication. The project combines industrial design, antenna engineering, and embedded systems within a wearable format intended for use in remote environments.
 
The concept addresses the limitations of conventional mobile networks, which cover only part of the Earth’s surface. In remote locations such as mountains, open water, or isolated work sites, access to communication infrastructure can be limited...

From 2nd to 5th March, Indra Gallery in London hosted NEITHER / NOR: The Intimate Geography of Contradictions, a group... Read More

At Performance Space, a showcase of Hanoi- and Saigon-based artists

Chilean architect receives industry’s highest honor
 
Smiljan Radić Clarke has been named the 2026 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the profession’s most widely recognized international honor. The announcement celebrates a body of work that invites people to experience architecture through atmosphere, material presence, and a sense of discovery. He becomes the second architect from the country to receive the honor, following Alejandro Aravena, who won the prize in 2016.
 
Born in Santiago, Chile in 1965 and working there since establishing his studio in 1995, Radić has built a reputation for architecture that feels deeply personal and site-attentive. Across houses, cultural buildings,...

Keisha Scarville, a photographer known for her work about people in diaspora and identities in flux, is the 2026 winner of the Brooklyn Museum’s Uovo Prize, the institution announced on Thursday. Through the award, Scarville will take home $25,000 and receive a Brooklyn Museum commission. Her work will also be featured on the facade of the art storage space operated by Uovo in Bushwick. “Receiving the 2026 UOVO prize deeply affirms my creative journey,” Scarville told ARTnews in an email. “I have profound respect for all the previous recipients, so joining such an inspiring group of artists is an immense honor. Because I grew up in Brooklyn, this award feels especially meaningful, connecting my roots...

In UNNATURAL, opening at The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, Rush builds what feels like a speculative natural history museum

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.

From unassuming hunks of Carrara marble and limestone, Matthew Simmonds carves realistic, miniature gothic cathedral arches, stairwells, and colonnades. Often based on architectural details of real places, such as cities around Tuscany and Germany’s Bamberg Cathedral, the sculptures portray intimate details of corners, vaulted ceilings, arcades, and stairwells that can sometimes be peeked through additional apertures. The artist’s meticulously carved marble and limestone forms reveal smooth, ornate interiors while highlighting the natural quality of the stone. Lately, Simmonds has been working consistently on a range of commissions, and he’s taking advantage of a current quiet period to return to...

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solidnature transforms stone into atmospheric material
 
For David Mahyari, natural stone is far more than a building material. It is a record of geological time, a medium of artistic expression, and a catalyst for immersive design. The owner of SolidNature has spent the past decade redefining how architects, designers, and audiences experience stone, transforming it from a conventional surface into a material capable of atmospheric storytelling and emotion.
 
Operating between craftsmanship, technology, and design culture, SolidNature works with some of the world’s most striking natural stones and translates them into architectural environments, collectible pieces, and large scale installations. The...

Cannupa Hanska Luger was unaware of the news of a young tourist dying on an island off Australia’s eastern coast while he was making “Volume III White Bay Power Station”

a residential observatory by VRANTSI in the canyonlands of Utah
 
The Desert Observatory House by Vrantsi is a conceptual residential observatory proposed for the canyonlands of the American Southwest. Located within the expansive desert landscape of Utah, the project explores how architecture can emerge from geological conditions rather than stand apart from them. The design interprets the surrounding mesas, cliffs, and stratified terrain through a series of elongated, low volumes that appear to rise from the ground like rocky outcrops. The architectural composition consists of several prism-shaped forms positioned across the site. Their inclined surfaces and sharp geometries reference the fractured rock...

The artist was as much an explorer of gender, class and body image as of saucy pleasure

From a painting by a leading Australian Indigenous artist to a bejewelled book of Shakespeare poems, a Modernist beach buggy and a fine Greek marble, here are some of the works to look out for at the fair

The New Yorker's personal collection spans centuries, from ancient Etruscan stone works to paintings by Salman Toor

Titled Rewind / Repeat, the exhibition is presented by Gagosian in collaboration with the artist’s estate

Are art awards meant to provide artists with recognition and material support, or to reinforce power structures and maintain the status quo? Damien Davis argues it's the latter in an opinion piece just in time for awards season. Give it a read.Also today: disturbing revelations from the University of North Texas, which nixed an artist's anti-ICE show last month, Michael Glover on Lucian Freud's paintings of "lostness," Lori Waxman on a quirky mid-century modernism show, and a tribute to Pedro Friedeberg, inventor of the "Hand Chair," who died last week.—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief Beeple “Regular Animals” (2025) during the Art Basel Awards Night in Miami Beach on December 04, 2025...

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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...

Laura Phipps, the new director of the Gochman Family Collection (photo by and courtesy Roeg Cohen)Laura Phipps, former associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been tapped as the new director of the Gochman Family Collection (GFC). The news comes as the New York City organization prepares to open a permanent exhibition space along the Hudson River Valley this coming fall, creating a home for its renowned selection of contemporary Indigenous art.Co-founded in 2021 by philanthropist Becky Gochman and former gallerist Zach Feuer, the GFC is a private lending collection that primarily amplifies living Indigenous artists — including Cara Romero, Marilou Schultz, Ishi Glinsky, and Raven...

Award season now arrives less as a sequence of events than as a continuous atmosphere. Announcements blur into ceremonies, ceremonies into press cycles, press cycles into speculation about the next stage. The art world has begun to mirror this rhythm, producing its own awards, its own stages, its own moments of recognition that appear to consolidate value and, more importantly, authority in real time. These developments often arrive framed as care. Recognition. Visibility. Support. They emerge at a moment when artists are navigating shrinking public funding, rising costs, and increasingly precarious conditions. The alignment is difficult to ignore. What is being offered as recognition often operates as a way...

On March 2, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal for computer scientist Stephen Thaler’s attempt to secure copyright protection for an AI-generated image. The decision upheld a DC Circuit Court ruling which maintained that human authorship is an essential requirement for copyright as per the 1976 US Copyright Act. Thaler’s attempts to attain a copyright for […]

LONDON — Death can be such a miserable nose-dive for any artist. Lucian Freud is deep into the 15th year of his posthumous life as a celebrated figurative painter. Where do the custodians of his reputation take him from here? I am asking myself this question in London, where Lucian stalked abroad in his studio in the city’s W9 area, in his clumpy old boots, for so long, brushes all a-bristle. And, more particularly this morning, in the National Portrait Gallery, an institution that backs up against the National Gallery as if the two were a brace of vain aristocratic duelists. This place has shown Freud off to great effect, more than once within relatively recent memory. Does anyone want to hear the small,...

In mid-2025, the Trump administration rescinded $9 billion in public media funding and foreign aid, including $1.1 billion slated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CBP). CBP, in turn, was responsible for distributing funding to organizations like National Public Radio (NPR), Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and their member stations across the nation. The corporation was established following a 1967 law called the Public Broadcasting Act, but just like that, when the funds were no longer there, CBP voted to dissolve. What did NPR have to say about that? Its “mission will continue, unchanged.” NPR aims “to create a more informed public—one challenged and invigorated by a deeper...

In the spectacular, lofty photos of Dani Guindo, heavy clouds and mercurial pools glow amid an Icelandic landscape. The Spanish artist, based in Reykjavík, seeks unique relationships between light, form, and atmosphere. In Iceland, the vicissitudes of the weather and the stark, glacial landscape continually stoke his interests. Guindo typically uses drones to capture a wide range of angles, from panoramas of glaciers and mountains to vertical shots of silty streams that appear almost abstract. His latest series, Terminus, captures a glacier’s many rivulets amid a rocky landscape, along with a ghostly, rounded outline revealing evidence of the glacier’s earlier phases. The glacier is Múlajökull, which...

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

There is an air of the spectral to Fiona Pardington’s recent photographs of birds. While they are actual specimens, captured in atmospheric light and exhibiting unique plumage and expressions, there’s something a little bit uncanny about them. Are they real? In a sense, yes, but they’re no longer alive. Some no longer even exist. For Pardington, who is of Māori and Scottish descent, natural history specimens provide a unique and striking look at nature. And the photos seen here, comprising part of her series Taharaki Skyside, are slated for the artist’s exhibition in the Aotearoa New Zealand Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year. Pardington’s bold, large-scale portraits of birds native to New...

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...

Laura Phipps has been announced as the new director of the Gochman Family Collection (GFC), a private collection devoted to contemporary Indigenous art. Phipps arrives to the collection from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, where she was an associate curator. In her new capacity, she will serve as a public advocate for Native artists and guide the […]

A guerrilla art installation featuring the names and visages of twenty public figures who’ve been linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared in a public park close to the White House in Washington, DC earlier this month. No individual or group has yet claimed authorship of the “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame,” which consists of […]

On A Body to Live In, Fakir Musafar's documentary about a body-modification pioneer

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.

No one in my experience both live and on records could swagger, spin out roulades, and ripple through Rossini and Handel like Samuel Ramey.

Before hearing Samuel Ramey as Zaccaria in Nabucco, I had always been more interested in higher voices.

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 Hasselblad Award is one of the world’s most prestigious accolades in photography. The prize – comprising a gold medal, camera, solo show and SEK 2,000,000 – has been given out annually since 1980, and its honourees read like a who’s who of contemporary image-making. Previous winners include Alfredo Jaar, Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, Graciela Iturbide, Jeff Wall, Nan Goldin and Wolfgang Tillmans, as well as icons of the 20th century like Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and William Eggleston. Now, Zanele Muholi (b. 1972) joins this list, becoming the 2026 laureate. Muholi has paved new ground by using the camera as a tool for visual activism, first and foremost claiming...

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...

È online il bando per partecipare alla 108ª Collettiva Giovani Artisti della Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, lo storico appuntamento dedicato alla scoperta e alla promozione dell’arte contemporanea emergente. Rivolta ad artiste e artisti under 30 che vivono o hanno scelto di risiedere nel Triveneto, la Collettiva è aperta a tutti i linguaggi del contemporaneo – pittura, scultura, installazione, video, performance e pratiche processuali – e prevede una sezione specifica dedicata al concorso per l’immagine grafica della manifestazione. Per il secondo anno consecutivo, l’iniziativa è parte integrante di CreArt 3.0 #stringing_together, progetto finanziato nell’ambito del Programma Europa Creativa....