Recent rulings in California and New Mexico against the social media giants seem to promise greater accountability, but in practice they may erode free and creative expression online

Creative Folkestone has named Philippine Nguyen as its new Chief Executive, succeeding Alastair Upton MBE later this year.

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Along the Skellefte River in northern Sweden, this faceted Lithium Crystal Sauna catches the water, the trees, and the recovering ground around it. Bigert & Bergström’s pink project stands at the center of WasteLand, a climate action park built on the former Scharin industrial site, where contaminated land has been remediated over seventeen years and opened as a public landscape for art, ecology, and gathering.
 
The fully functioning sauna is the permanent centerpiece of the park, which opens in connection with Society Expo 2026 under the motto From Waste to Promise.
 
WasteLand has taken shape in one of the region’s former polluted industrial areas, and brings...

For some working artists, summer in Chicago is a time to get into the (stiflingly hot) studio; others might prefer to participate in an idyllic residency in some charmed lakeside Wisconsin or Michigan town. Blessedly, despite the corn sweat, Chicago’s gallery and museum scene is eager to provide fresh work for the Midwestern mind. The city’s summertime pride is certainly accompanied by an enthusiasm for the work of local emerging artists, seen in spaces like Prairie and Hans Goodrich. The sweltering heat also brings a simmering interest in local history and political positioning, as is the case at the National Museum of Mexican Art and Logan Center Exhibitions. And on the South Side, the long-awaited Obama...

A new augmented reality app will enable devotees of the ancient city of Pompeii to explore the city as it was in 79 C.E., before the disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius—as well as during the historic catastrophe, in which some 2,000 are believed to have perished, possibly in ghastly fashion, including asphyxiating amid clouds of ash or even having their bodily fluids vaporized by burning gas. Besides seeing the sky go dark on that fateful day, they’ll be able to see gladiators fighting in the amphitheater or, if less violently inclined, take in a play at the theater. It will all be visible using a new app, Portyl, that relies on detailed reconstructions achieved with the latest advances in LiDAR,...

Lionel Messi. Cristiano Ronaldo. Contemporary Art? New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is bringing soccer fever to the Whitney Museum of American Art. While nations duke it out for a World Cup title on soccer fields across Mexico and the United States, New Yorkers who participate in an art project announced by the Mayor’s Office today will receive free admission to the Whitney.From July 11 through the end of the month, anyone who presents a completed World Cup-inspired art poster will get into the museum for free. (Visitors under the age of 25 already get free admission.) Rich Tu, the artist who designed FIFA's official poster for the New York and New Jersey portion of the global soccer event, created...

Photographer and activist Misan Harriman has said on social media that he will leave his post as director of London’s Southbank Centre after his current contract expires in the fall. The revelation comes after considerable criticism leveled at him over some social media posts, which he alludes to in the video, saying it came after his decision was already made. “It’s semi-public knowledge that my term is coming to an end anyway, my actual term at Southbank, my second term,” said Harriman. “I had decided way before this madness that I was going to do two terms. It takes a long time to find whoever the next chair will be, and that process will begin at some point. I’ll update you more on dates and...

Pratt Manhattan Gallery’s new exhibition, Beyond Digital: Living Systems & Distributed Intelligence, is a group show featuring work by seven artists from Pratt Institute’s Digital Arts alumni community. Curated by artist, curator, and co-founder and director of BioBAT Art Space Elena Soterakis, this exhibition brings together artists whose work explores the increasingly blurred boundaries between technology, biology, and the environments we inhabit. At a moment when artificial intelligence, environmental instability, and digital systems are reshaping everyday life, Beyond Digital considers how technology is no longer separate from the natural world, but deeply embedded within living systems. Through...

Exhibitions at Warin Lab Contemporary, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, and STORAGE

Alternating between felted wool, crochet, and embroidery, Holly Guertin summons moments of peace and reflection through nature. Lifelike lambs serenely nod off or stand in front of ornate backgrounds, while vignettes of foliage and flourishes incorporate colorful fiber. In her practice, the artist seeks connections between patterns and adornments and flora and fauna. “The brilliant color work in a hummingbird’s feathers, the spots on a pufferfish, even the stripes in a blade of grass are all ordinary moments of spectacular ornament,” she says. Some of these pieces will be on view in the artist’s solo exhibition Hand in Hand at Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, North Carolina, which runs from...

AMASA Estudio Extends the Life of a Mid-Century Home
 
Casa Xoltic is the rehabilitation of a mid-century house in Coyoacán, a historic residential neighborhood in southern Mexico City. Designed by AMASA Estudio, the project reconfigures an existing dwelling through a series of spatial, material, and programmatic interventions that adapt the house to contemporary domestic life while preserving its original structure.
 
Rather than replacing the building, the project focuses on extending its lifespan through transformation. The existing house remained largely intact, but its compartmentalized layout and underutilized spaces no longer supported contemporary patterns of living. The intervention reorganizes the...

Good Morning! Misan Harriman, chair of London’s Southbank Centre, is resigning following accusations of sharing antisemitic posts. The Louvre and Eiffel Tower close early due to crushing heatwave. Murals from the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project in Manhattan’s Bellevue Men’s Shelter could be lost for good. The Headlines YOU CAN’T FIRE ME, I QUIT. The chair of London’s Southbank Centre, Misan Harriman, is resigning following accusations that he shared antisemitic posts after the April 29 stabbing of two Jewish men, as well as videos allegedly containing conspiracy theories, according to the Times of London. Harriman denied the accusations and said he had always planned to...

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Parterre Box shines a light on Liparit Avetisyan, who made his Met debut as Alfredo earlier this spring.

From a major drawing exhibition, launch of a new foundation and a landmark Hong Kong show, Frank Bowling is entering a remarkable new chapter

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‘Persistence’ implies that the former prime minister is to blame for the 1943 Bengal famine, which historian Andrew Roberts says is inaccurate

The portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter was reportedly discovered during a search of a house in the town of Champigny-sur-Marne

we+ rethinks craft as a way of understanding materials
 
Founded in Tokyo by Toshiya Hayashi and Hokuto Ando, design studio we+ approaches materials less as resources to be shaped than as collaborators to learn from. Across projects involving microalgae pigments, industrial waste, Styrofoam, seaweed, and even mist, their work asks how materials can shape the design process instead of simply being shaped by it.
 
For we+, craft is not something fixed or nostalgic. It is an active way of working with materials and understanding their qualities through making. As the design team explains to designboom, craft is the practice of understanding materials through the hands and body, intervening in them, and giving...

Artist Brenda Goodman has always been one of one. Coming up in a scene dominated by men with sexist ideas about what made art worthy, she painted, tore, and sculpted her own creative journey while exploring her queer identity. “I take risks with my work,” Goodman, who turns 83 in July, told artist Mala Iqbal. “I don’t sit still and do the same thing over and over again.” They met at her studio and spoke about six decades of her practice and life, the latest installment of our queer and trans elders series.Meanwhile, News Editor Valentina Di Liscia and reporter Rebecca Schiffman take us inside Pace gallery’s massive cuts to both its roster and staff, announced earlier this month. Artists and...

The second episode of the Room For Dreams podcast series introduces a compelling dive into how architecture can embrace the future without losing its soul. Recorded live at Milan Design Week 2026 in cooperation with INDX|GLOBAL, this episode features architects Arun Sharma and Jaskaran Singh as they unpack the true meaning of the digital vernacular.
 
The conversation turns the typical tech anxiety on its head, reframing artificial intelligence not as a threat to heritage, but as an unexpected ally for keeping local identity alive. The architects describe a fast-evolving landscape where algorithms do not dictate aesthetics, but instead quickly decode traditional building practices — speeding up...

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Markus Klinko is an internationally recognised artist whose images have become part of the visual memory of our era

Dwelling: home as a shifting system of memory, routine, and use
 
Dwelling is a self-initiated research and exhibition project developed by students of the Faculty of Architecture and Design at STU in Bratislava. The work investigates how memory, everyday routines, and human presence continuously shape residential interiors. Through immersive spatial installations, projections, sound, and archival materials, the exhibition reveals housing as a dynamic and evolving environment.
 
The project approaches the home as an ongoing process rather than a fixed design object. It considers how routines, habits, personal adaptations, and accumulated traces of use continuously shape domestic environments over time. The...

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

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Beleaguered by Brexit, this year, record auctions and a promising crop of fairs and events are helping to boost the week

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From Louise Bourgeois and Taryn Simon to Bruce Nauman and Ana Mendieta, Paul Carey-Kent selects his standout discoveries from Art Basel 2026.

Tra i meriti di Josef Albers, uno è forse il più sottile: aver costruito opere che restituiscono allo sguardo pigro esattamente il nulla che merita, e allo sguardo paziente qualcosa di completamente diverso. La critica tende a descrivere il lavoro di Albers come «variazioni sul tema»: lo studio dello spettro cromatico declinato nella geometria del quadrato. È una formula che, pur non mentendo, tradisce per difetto. Registra il cosa – la ripetizione della forma, la modulazione del colore – ma lascia nell’ombra il perché: il fatto che quella forma non sia mai fine a sé stessa, ma il dispositivo attraverso cui Albers mette in tensione la materia pittorica e la percezione di chi la guarda. Ed è...

On June 4, when Pace announced that it would cut 50 artists from its roster and lay off 50 employees, CEO Marc Glimcher framed the decision as a response to a larger industry problem and a gallery model he deemed “unfixable.” Later that day, according to staff, Glimcher told employees during a surprise Zoom town hall that he took personal responsibility for the situation and acknowledged that the decisions that led Pace to this point were his own.But workers inside the gallery say the cuts unfolded quickly and without clarity, affecting the most unprotected staff members — and among the impacted artists who knew what was coming, some questioned how the announcement was handled. After going through...

Though separated by roughly 6,000 miles, the New Museum and Korea’s Ulsan Art Museum have never been closer. The two institutions today announced a multi-year partnership as part of the Hyundai Translocal Series, an initiative by the Hyundai Motor Company. The collaboration begins with a new commission by Singaporean multimedia artist and writer Ho Tzu Nyen. The work will be installed in the glass elevators of the New Museum’s recently inaugurated OMA redesign, and in Ulsan, a coastal city north of Busan.  Ho is one of Singapore’s most visible living artists, having represented the city-state at the 2011 Venice Biennale with his multi-channel video installation The Cloud of Unknowing. The work...

Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal announced Tuesday that he will dedicate $50 million, the entirety of his discretionary budget for the next fiscal year, toward the arts, reports the New York Times. Hoylman-Sigal, who assumed office in January, told the Times that this decision came as a direct response to President Donald Trump and his attempts to remake the nation’s cultural institutions. During his second administration, Trump has taken over the Kennedy Center and attempted to rename it after himself; ordered the changing of displays at historic sites that examine the history of enslavement in the US; proposed a triumphal arch and sculpture garden of American heroes; and cracked down on...

Albert Einstein once said that “the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” For Dr. Elliot McGucken, the sublime enigmas of nature form the basis of his explorations of landscape and light. McGucken traverses North America’s most beautiful and striking terrain, including Death Valley where he captured a wildflower superbloom earlier this year. He revels in all kinds of natural phenomena, from the vicissitudes of the Rocky Mountains to brown bears fishing in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve to the ghostly, flood-carved walls of Antelope Canyon. He also happens to be a physicist whose...

Turner Prize–winning artist Helen Cammock has removed her video installation Persistence from display at London’s National Portrait Gallery after the work drew complaints that it mischaracterized onetime British prime minister Winston Churchill. The 2023 video had been on view for nearly a year when criticism began to land regarding a voice-over in which Cammock mentioned […]

"What distinguishes this millennia-old city and the franchise cornerstone it spawned is a blind insistence on not changing in the face of everyone moving on"

The 2026 edition of Art Basel’s Switzerland fair came to a close on Sunday, and in a follow-up report on the results, Art Basel said that the top-selling offerings of the six day event included Pablo Picasso’s Le peintre et son modèle dans un paysage, which Hauser & Wirth sold for $35 million. Rounding out […]

An extensive compilation of work produced by the globally renowned Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei will soon be transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s museum. The vast project archive, which includes 1,500 rolls of architectural drawings, fifty architectural models and 1,000 linear feet of manuscripts, is a gift to the university made by the […]

To open a new film from Art21, artist Lenka Clayton encapsulates her way of thinking and making: “Looking at things that are supposed to behave a certain way and purposefully misunderstanding how they should be used, it’s really important to me,” she says. The Cornwall-born artist works across media, creating both meditative animations via typewriter and immersive installations of gathered artifacts. Collecting is central to Clayton’s practice both materially and conceptually, and she often works from her own experiences, particularly those around becoming a parent and her life in Pittsburgh (she even started an open-source residency program for artist mothers). In the short documentary, we see...

When we think of traveling circuses, the “big top” tent likely springs to mind with its acrobats, clowns, tightrope walkers, and other entertainers and pageantry. Sometimes the traditions are controversial, such as the use of elephants and lions for performances. But visions of bedazzled animals or the swinging trapeze are nevertheless etched in our collective memory. In the former U.S.S.R., the tradition took on a whole new meaning. Circuses had been nationalized in 1919, a few years before the Soviet Union was formed. Along with theater, opera, and music, the genre was also co-opted by the socialist government as a propaganda machine, turning family-friendly entertainment into a channel for Communist...

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis does its best to give magic in its summer productions of Roméo et Juliette and A Streetcar Named Desired. 

Sena Jurinac, a celebrated Mozart and Strauss singer here as the Composer, a signature role.

Marco Mazzucconi è un punto fermo della storia degli anni Novanta in Italia. La sua serie di “Informale visto dall’uomo e visto dal cane” è qualcosa di incredibile: porta in superficie la pittura e allo stesso tempo ci fa pensare. Ci lega alla realtà e al modo di percepirla, ci rimanda alla verità e all’interpretazione della stessa, ci parla della forma e dei pensieri che su questa si possono ricamare. Inoltre, si tratta di opere ineccepibili, eseguite con cura maniacale e di grande professionalità. Altro ciclo, declinato in varie maniere, ma sempre di grande forza espressiva e di grande intuizione, è quello che s’intitola “Chance di un capolavoro”. Questo ciclo, declinato nelle sagome di...

Ryan Heshka has a longtime love of science fiction, four-color printed comics from the 1950s and ‘60s and mid-twentieth-century mutant movie characters. In his comic Frog Wife, he taps into these influences while adding in a dose of contemporary themes, drawing upon not just the “anxiety of nuclear annihilation” that inspired so much twentieth-century pop […]
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Thousands of handmade ceramic tiles nest together like a puzzle on the facade of the Torre San Luis hotel in Guadalajara, Mexico. Abstract shapes evocative of a lush garden ecosystem burst across the outdoor wall in a collaboration between Alex Proba and the artisans of Cerámica Suro. Titled “Shape of Movement,” the large-scale public work melds Proba’s organic visual language with a color palette that reflects the local environment. Earthy neutrals, alongside dusty pinks and blues, mimic the sun-drenched landscape, while the dynamic forms appear as if they’re mid-motion. “The work is about the movement we carry through spaces every day,” Proba shares. “I wanted the mural to feel as if the...

By Melanie Chapman There is much to appreciate about the new pop-up exhibition Hospital of Emotions, currently on view at St. Vincent Medical Center (2131 W. Third Street, Los Angeles) until July 31. But if you want to maximize the benefits of your visit, avoid the bombardment of images now flooding the internet and even consider not reading this review. Like seeing all the best parts of a movie by watching the trailer, it is better to just go, and go soon, with as little advanced exposure as...

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The divine Dame Janet Baker never sang at the Metropolitan, sadly for American audiences.

Miriam Cahn propone una visione e la impone come dato. La retrospettiva al MACRO di Roma, la prima in Italia di questa ampiezza, è un campo di attrito in cui cinquant’anni di opere costringono il corpo a misurarsi con la propria esposizione all’abuso. Guardare, qui, indica essere guardati. Il titolo, Ciò che mi guarda, ribalta la direzionalità dello scrupolo con una minuzia tutt’altro che retorica. Lo spettatore smarrisce qualunque ubicazione esterna: viene convocato in una relazione che esclude neutralità e divario gestibile. Il visivo funziona da contatto diretto, pressione, più che raffigurazione. Curata da Cristiana Perrella e allestita da Didier Fiúza Faustino // Bureau des Mésarchitectures,...

Wolf Trap Opera triumphs in a fizzy, fun Cenerentola.

Dallo Studio Tommaseo a una rete internazionale di curatori e artisti: Giuliana Carbi Jesurun racconta il percorso e la visione di un centro culturale che ha deciso di guardare oltre, rivolgendosi a Est, in un progetto che parte negli anni ‘70 e che continua ancora oggi a evolversi.
“Dialoghi Lituani”, 1997, mostra alla Stazione Marittima di Trieste, in primo piano le sculture imbottite di Darius Bastys, foto Tiziano Neppi, courtesy Trieste Contemporanea
Veronica Rinaldi: Ci potrebbe raccontare com’è nata Trieste Contemporanea?
Giuliana Carbi Jesurun: Trieste Contemporanea è nata perché in una Trieste che voleva essere contemporanea era doveroso guardare a Est. I nostri Dialoghi con l’arte...

Durante i giorni della Biennale, Venezia continua a funzionare come un sistema poroso, dove ogni intervento si innesta su stratificazioni già presenti senza mai cancellarle del tutto. In questo contesto, la Cappella di Santa Maria della Pietà accoglie Vessels of Other Worlds di Wallace Chan come una deviazione silenziosa rispetto al flusso espositivo diffuso in città. Non si tratta di un’occupazione dello spazio, ma di una sua lenta modulazione, in cui la materia sembra reagire più che dichiararsi. L’impatto visivo, per chi entra nell’edificio progettato da Giorgio Massari, è un’alterazione improvvisa della luce: la pietra e i marmi storici della chiesa settecentesca entrano in contrasto con la...

Calligraphy is an ancient art with roots across the globe, dating back to early Chinese dynasties and Greek civilization, all through the Italian Renaissance. But one glance at a work by San Francisco-based artist Hunter Saxony III, and your understanding of calligraphy will be turned on its head. In an approach that is varied, yet […]
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The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

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In the popular imagination, artists are often thought to create for the sake of creating, unfettered by the demands of the market-driven world outside their studios. Though many well-known artists have muddled the boundaries between art and commerce (Jeff Koons comes to mind), the two realms have a contentious relationship. Business savvy artists are often […]
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