A fifty-eight-year-old Paris man on April 14 won a painting by Pablo Picasso valued at more than €1 million (about $1.2 million) in a raffle. Ari Hodara, a software engineer, is now the owner of the Spanish master’s 1941 Head of a Woman, depicting Picasso’s longtime muse and lover Dora Maar, a celebrated photographer and Surrealist in […]

On Tuesday afternoon, police were called when an activist super-glued herself to a display cabinet at the Bode Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island. The news was reported by the German magazine Monopol. The action was claimed by New Generation, a successor movement to Last Generation, a German/Italian group of climate activists best known for gluing themselves to roadways. Last Generation disbanded in January 2025. The woman, dressed like Germany’s Economic Affairs Minister, Katherina Reiche, and wearing a mask of the minister’s face, glued herself to a glass case containing coins and held up a sign reading “Katherina Super-Reiche.” “I’m Katherina Super-Rich and I stick to money!” New...

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The Olympus Perspective Playground, a short-run and site-specific series of exhibitions, was traveling across Europe between 2013 — 2017. The concept saw artists, designers, and technicians constructing sequences of immersive environments which photography enthusiasts and professionals were invited to explore with a camera in hand.
 
Conceived by Studio Leigh Sachwitz and produced by flora&faunavisions (not The Storytelling Company), the interactive project operates as a fully built system. Walls, lighting rigs, circulation paths, and signage are developed together with each installation, so the experience reads as one continuous spatial script. Visitors received an Olympus...

Art Dubai has released the exhibitor list for its 2026 “special edition,” a scaled-back fair that will run May 15–17 at Madinat Jumeirah, with a VIP preview on May 14, bringing together roughly 75 presentations across galleries, institutions, and partners.  The revised format, announced amid ongoing regional instability and rising costs across the fair circuit, places a tighter focus on galleries with longstanding ties to the region: roughly 60 percent of participants in this edition hail from the Gulf and Southwest Asia, alongside a smaller contingent of international players. The exhibitor list reflects that balance. Regional mainstays such as The Third Line, Lawrie Shabibi, Carbon 12, Ayyam Gallery,...

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London removed material from at least two recent exhibition catalogs at the request of a Chinese printing company, according to documents obtained by The Guardian through freedom of information requests. The report found that certain maps and images were flagged as violating China’s censorship laws. Partnering with foreign printing companies isn’t unusual among major arts institutions; both the British Museum and Tate do so, as the report notes. In the V&A’s case, however, the episode has underscored the controversy inherent in outsourcing production: by choosing a Chinese printer over more expensive British or European options, the museum subjected its publications to...

Artsy and Artnet are being brought under the same ownership, consolidating two of the art world’s largest online platforms across data, media, auctions, and e-commerce. The companies said Wednesday that they will continue to operate as separate brands, even as they combine their underlying infrastructure and data. The move follows Beowolff Capital’s acquisition of a controlling stake in Artsy and its decision last year to take Artnet private, bringing both businesses under the same umbrella. Jeffrey Yin, who has led Artsy since 2024, will serve as chief executive of the combined company, with Beowolff founder Andrew Wolff as chairman.  The tie-up comes amid a broader wave of consolidation across the...

The Massachusetts liberal arts college Hampshire College announced this week that, after nearly six decades in operation since being founded in 1965, it will shut its doors for good; the institution’s board cited “financial pressures…compounded by shifting external factors” as being among the reasons for closure.  “We have long known that addressing these issues is essential to establishing […]

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The real estate firm Cushman and Wakefield has accused Sotheby’s of failing to pay a $10.2 million commission on sale of its former New York headquarters, Artnet reports. Last week, Cushman and Wakefield filed a lawsuit against Sotheby’s alleging that the auction house breached a commission agreement attached to the sale of 1334 York Avenue to Weill Cornell Medicine, a transaction […]

In a world not so unlike our own, during a time not that long ago, a mother wolf sits comfortably upon an abandoned tree stump in a clearing in the woods. Surrounded by carefully rendered flora and fauna, the creature is positioned upright with impeccable posture and human-like mannerisms. Her hind legs are crossed at […]
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Devon Booker, a five-time All Star guard for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns, has visited James Turrell’s fabled Roden Crater three times—and even struck up something of a friendship with an artist who called him an “amazing person … taking it to another level, and that’s what all artists try to do.” As reported in a lengthy profile in The Athletic, the sports section of the New York Times, Booker first traveled to Roden Crater in 2020, when he was introduced to an artwork in a dormant volcano that Turrell has been toiling away at for more than 50 years. Booker has also been talking about an imminent visit with fellow NBA star Steph Curry (“who recently purchased a piece by Turrell”), and even...

Artists Christian Rebecchi and Pablo Togni, who work as NEVERCREW, have a knack for bringing the immensity of nature to developed urban spaces. Their colorful, large-scale murals take a playful tack when it comes to portraying animals, often merging them with other objects such as instant photos or, most recently, a plastic punch-out toy. “Souvenir,” completed this year in Vienna, combines motifs of a large bear with other Arctic components, such as icebergs, a seabird, and a steamship. “The natural environment appears transformed, filtered, made artificial: it is no longer a space experienced through relationship, but a distant construction,” the artists say in a statement. The work is “almost a...

A vast concrete beauty that has been 20 years in the making is opening on 19 April, aiming to serve the local community and provide a welcoming focal point for the Los Angeles area

step inside the newest show at TOTO GALLERY·MA
 
At TOTO GALLERY·MA, Suzuko Yamada: Parallel Tunes presents architecture as a field of simultaneous voices.
 
designboom attended the exhibition in Tokyo, which marks the first solo presentation of Japanese architect Suzuko Yamada. It briges her built work and ongoing ideas into a single environment. Rather than isolating projects, the gallery is treated as a continuous setting shaped by fragments, drawings, and installations that register shifts in scale and tempo as one moves through it.
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parallel tunes: spatial composition as polyphony
 
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hermès frames time as theater at Watches and Wonders 2026
 
At Watches and Wonders Geneva 2026, Hermès frames time as a performative medium, staging its latest horological releases within a kinetic scenography by Jean-Simon Roch. Conceived as a mobile installation where watchmaking mechanics interact with theatrical machinery, the project positions movement as narrative. Within this shifting environment, the maison unveils three new skeleton timepieces: Hermès H08 Squelette, Arceau Samarcande, and Slim d’Hermès Squelette Lune, each exposing its inner workings like apertures into a hidden temporal world.
 
Composer Pierre Ronin scores a soundscape that animates the scenography, transforming it into a...

A joint letter, published by the Society for Iranian Archaeology, condemns the “irreversible damage” to cultural sites caused by US-Israeli missile strikes

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My first encounter with Rama Duwaji's art was while waiting in line for the restroom at the Levantine bistro Huda in East Williamsburg back in 2024. It took me a second to realize that I was looking at an NYC-mandated first-aid poster, transformed into a stunning artwork in what I can now recognize as Duwaji's signature style.The Texas-born, Syrian-American artist has created illustrations and animations for the New Yorker, Tate Modern, and BBC, among other outlets and institutions. Last November, Duwaji became a household name after her husband, Zohran Mamdani, swept the New York City mayoral race in a historic victory that inspired and delighted millions. A private person by nature, she was...

Where the blue sky breaks through the tree canopy or light reflects onto the surface of a pond, illustrator Masha Foya summons moments of joy and surprise. The Kyiv-based artist’s dreamlike illustrations often portray spaces and individuals in emotional or experiential states, as if the entire environment morphs into a single living being. Hands clasp over the arc of a foliage tunnel, for example, and a plane sails through an aperture shaped like a bird in flight. Seemingly enclosed spaces often converge with the sky or the cosmos, alluding to the boundlessness of imagination and feeling. The work shown here comprises both personal and commissioned projects. Foya is currently working on developing a number...

The Met Gala is coming in less than three weeks, and while the annual event has always drawn some form of protest or criticism for its theme, attendees, and context in the grand scheme of things, this year already feels a little on the nose. In posters wheatpasted across New York City, activists are calling for a boycott of the 2026 event, whose lead sponsors, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, have also been appointed honorary co-chairs. The posters take aim at Amazon's alleged exploitation of warehouse and delivery labor, as well as the company's links to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through its cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS). Behind the poster...

"Joju & Maceo [Cleaver], Hydra 1970" from Kathleen Cleaver's family photo album (© Kathleen Neal Cleaver Archive; album photo John Stephens, image courtesy Kathleen Neal Cleaver Archive)Editor's Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission and adapted from When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World by Leigh Raiford, published by Duke University Press on April 14 and available online and in bookstores. Text Copyright Duke University Press, 2026.This photograph by Jeffrey Blankfort is one of the few images in which Maceo and Joju Cleaver appear alone together as siblings, without one or both of their parents, Black Panther Party (BPP) leaders Eldridge Cleaver and...

KAN series Explores Tactile Interaction and Bodily Awareness
 
KAN is a series of three handheld objects by designer Amit Hadar that explores the relationship between material, body, and attention. Each piece is scaled to the palm and is designed to support simple actions such as holding, rotating, or resting. Through these interactions, the objects emphasize tactile awareness and physical engagement.
 
The project is structured around three moments: cooling, movement, and weight. These correspond to different modes of interaction, awakening, refocusing, and grounding, forming a sequence of use that unfolds through direct contact rather than prescribed function.
 
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Chloe Chiasson (The Bennett Prize Round 2 Finalist), “A New Dawn” (2021), oil, acrylic, resin, wood, and a match on canvas, 78.25 x 96 inchesAspiring women painters are invited to apply for The Bennett Prize. The newly increased $75,000 grand prize is the largest offered solely to women figurative realist painters. For the third time, an additional award of $10,000 will be given to one other finalist. The call for entries runs through September 19, 2026. See the complete rules.Dallas, Texas-based artist Amy Werntz won the fourth Bennett Prize in 2025, following winners Shiqing Deng in 2023, Ayana Ross in 2021, and Aneka Ingold in 2019. Notably, Werntz was named a finalist in the second Bennett Prize...

Barbara Buhler Lynes, the preeminent Georgia O'Keeffe scholar, remembers the first time she was enraptured by the artist's oeuvre.It was 1987, one year after O'Keeffe's death. Lynes, a Renaissance art historian at the time, visited the National Gallery of Art’s centennial exhibition in her honor. In an interview with Hyperallergic, Lynes recalled that the dozens of paintings and drawings on view, including a collection of early abstract works, sparked a question that would launch her decades-long scholarship on O'Keeffe: “Why had she turned away from abstraction, which was the most innovative thing happening in American art at the time, to essential representational imagery, which...

With Nixon, Klinghoffer, and Andris Nelsons on the mind, Parterre Box offers a recording of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's recent John Adams outing.

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La Belle Êpqoue – French for Beautiful Era – conjures up images of glittering theatres, excessive parties and flowing champagne. The term defines the years before WWI, when France experienced a period of economic growth that produced a wealth of artistic and cultural developments. In 1913, Galeries Lafayette unveiled its flagship department store, whilst architect Auguste Perret completed the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. The country was the world’s biggest exporter of cars, as well as leading the way in the skies, with Bleriot crossing the channel in 1908. Names like Gaumont and Pathe drove the flourishing cinematic industry forwards, whilst Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque captured this rapid...

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a room, a body, a set of instructions: the birth of the happening
 
Allan Kaprow dissolves the art object in the late 1950s, replacing it with an event, a room, a body, a set of instructions, and the irreducible friction between them. His ‘happening,’ first staged in 1959 at New York’s Reuben Gallery as 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, divides the space into three rooms separated by semi-transparent plastic sheets, where painters, performers, and slide projections operate at the same time, and where participants receive instruction cards telling them when to move, sit, or applaud. The ninety-minute work refuses plot, symbol, and the passive act of looking, proposing instead a ‘plastic composition’ in time...

Hurvin Anderson talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

Around 75 exhibitors due to take part will not attend, following the US-Israel war in Iran

The California-based artist discusses her new body of work, on show at Thaddaeus Ropac in London

A very haunting Hugo Wolf song sung exquisitely here by Arleen Auger.

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Francesca Woodman’s (1958–1981) photographic career spanned less than a decade. Yet, during that time, she created some of the best-known self-portraits of the 20th century. The majority of Woodman’s scenes unfold within empty interior spaces, illuminated by shafts of natural light or mirrored surfaces. The artist is usually the sole subject; sometimes she appears nude, other times clothed or shrouded. She might be partially hidden by furniture, appear to be suspended in a doorframe, or lie on the ground. “Haunting” is one of the words most-used to describe her images: they are often blurred, employing long exposure techniques and a black-and-white palette. Woodman operated on both sides of the...

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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will welcome the public to its brand-new David Geffen Galleries on May 4, with members able to get a gander beginning April 19. Described by the New York Times’s Michael Kimmelman as a “curvaceous concrete sandwich,” the $724 million Peter Zumthor–designed building has been more than twelve years in the making, its construction closely […]

The Guggenheim Foundation has named the 223 recipients of its 2026 fellowships. Those recognized with the honor, considered one of the most prestigious in the world, this year comprise the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows. Among them are painters, filmmakers, photographers, choreographers, writers, poets, economists, architects, scientists, anthropologists, engineers, historians, translators, and mathematicians. Fifty-five disciplines […]

For our fourth edition of the Booooooom Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners, one for each of the following categories: Portrait, Street, Colour, Nature, Student. You can view all the winners and shortlisted photographers here.
It’s our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Colour category, Chanyoung Chung. Born in South Korea and raised in Montréal, Chung came to photography after seven years working as a nurse in Vancouver. Now back in Montréal, he creates still-life images in the studio while also photographing traces of contemporary life beyond it. His work invites reflection on peace, cooperation, and the quiet harmony that can emerge within society.
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For millennia, humans have navigated seas, rivers, and oceans as avenues for trade, exploration, conquest, and colonization. During the Age of Discovery—an era interwoven with what’s known as the Age of Sail—European explorers and traders embarked on journeys around the world to map previously uncharted continents, trade commodities, and establish new socio-political outposts. Imperial forces competed with one another to control as much as they could, all in the name of wealth and power, and individual landowners and traders profited immensely. But sustaining a presence in far-flung places would never have been remotely possible, nevertheless successful, without slavery. Well into the 19th century,...

In the mid-20th century, before preservation efforts revived Miami’s Art Deco South Beach neighborhood with bright colors and lavish hotels, the area was a whitewashed holiday haven for retirees. And in a third-floor room of the Colony Hotel, which looked out onto the building’s marquee and the street below, a unique artistic endeavor unfolded. Ukrainian artist Jonko “George” Voronovsky (1903-1982) transformed his humble, long-term residence into a vibrant environment of paintings and objects that he described as “memoryscapes.” Having endured incredible hardship amid the political maneuvers of the U.S.S.R. and the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s, he chose to work in a bright, optimistic style...

Golda Schultz soldiers through illness at the New York Philharmonic.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra explores love and death in an intense, intelligent program featuring soprano Corinne Winters.

Fanglin Luo is a London-based emerging artist and curator whose interdisciplinary practice moves between performance, painting and photography. Her work has a foundation in both art theory and fashion design, weaving together visual and conceptual languages to examine identity, feminism and the complexities of transcultural memory. Luo’s works have been exhibited internationally, from the UK and France to the USA and Japan. In 2025, she presented at the London Design Festival and won the Silver Award at the Light From The Other Shore: 2025 New York International Art Competition. One of Luo’s earlier works is video piece ME & GODDNESS & ME, inspired by the artist’s experience walking alone at night in...

I had heard the renowned Dutch soprano on recordings and was an admirer of hers. I was unprepared, however, for such a truly memorable evening.

Amid groves of trees, meadows, and aging infrastructure, Cinga Samson’s dreamlike tableaux are bathed in eerie light, as if spotlit or illuminated by the moon. The South African artist is known for his use of deep, dark pigments such as carbon black and Prussian blue, complemented by the occasional teal or purple and pops of bright white in t-shirts or sneakers. His figures, engaged in enigmatic activities, look on with spectral, all-white eyes. Green and brown foliage camouflages individuals who gather in fields, sort through mysterious items, and appear to converge with other beings like large birds. The work seen here is currently on view in the artist’s solo exhibition at White Cube called...

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In 1912, André Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto. The work described Surrealism as “pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.” It was a statement that came to define a moment that, one hundred years later, continues to play a defining role in contemporary art. To consider Surrealism is to conjure up names like Breton, Salvador Salí or René Magritte, but many female artists pushed the artform forward in ways that have long been overlooked. VISU Contemporary, in Miami...

David Bowie (1947-2016) is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. This spring, a major new immersive experience dedicated to him is opening at London’s Lightroom, in close collaboration with the Bowie Estate. The 360° show – titled You’re Not Alone – promises to transport visitors inside the artist’s “iconic performances and creative mind”. From Space Oddity through Diamond Dogs, Heroes and ★, You’re Not Alone offers audiences the opportunity “to feel they have travelled through time to experience Bowie up close and first-hand.” But this is not about perpetuating the myths or characters often associated with Bowie, like Aladdin Sane, Halloween Jack,...

By Kristine Schomaker The work hits immediately. Not one piece — all of it, simultaneously. Large sculptural assemblages covering the walls, a freestanding sculpture in the middle of the room, a piece suspended from the ceiling. The whole gallery feeling like its own solar system, each work a satellite orbiting something enormous and unspoken. Last night, four humans splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after flying around the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years. Artemis II...

ABOVE: “Spatial Awareness”, 54″ x 250″, hand-knit with wool, 2025, photo by Chris Rettman From her dining room table in Oklahoma City, Kendall Ross knits brightly colored, intricately patterned sweaters and vests—some so large that referring to them as wearables is a bit misleading. Her textile pieces are often emblazoned with diary-like messages that speak […]
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In 2019, Kayla Mahaffey reached a turning point with her art. The Chicago-based artist had a solo show at Line Dot Editions in April of that year. Titled Off to the Races, the series of paintings centered around children ready to hit the road. Some sat with their growing legs crouched in tiny cars or […]
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For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Street category: Victor Cambet.
Based in Montréal, Victor Cambet developed photography as a self-taught practice after relocating to Canada from Lyon, France. Drawn to vivid scenes, unusual characters, and the overlooked details of daily life, his work finds beauty in the ordinary.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of...

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...

 
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....

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 […]
The post For Frode Bolhuis, The Figure Contains Life’s Mysteries and Its Multitudes first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here . We also mark an...

When the Bulls Fest—a raging celebration of the iconic and famed NBA team—first happened at Chicago’s United Center in 2022, Kyle Cobban was one of the contributing artists to The Art of the Game exhibition. It’s a piece that encapsulates Cobban’s aesthetic vision. Working with graphite and paper, the Chicago-based artist makes small, detailed drawings […]
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FEELING SEEN is guest curated by Jenna Eady as part of our Curate for the Community series.
Our sense of feeling goes beyond the physical – it’s emotional, atmospheric, and relational. It’s through these feelings that we connect with one another on a deeper level.
FEELING SEEN is about exploring how photography can express both internal and external sensations – whether it’s the rush of anticipation, the dis/comfort of the body, nostalgia of memory or tension of conflict. This project believes in photography’s power to evoke real emotional resonance. Its about creating the space for others to feel something.
The project aims to amplify diverse voices and create opportunities for new perspectives...