As the United States approaches the dubious milestone of 250 years, we look to art as an exemplar for independence of expression. This summer, artistic freedom reigns in Upstate New York. At the Hudson River Museum, photographs of Black cowboys and cowgirls by Ron Tarver offer poignant visions of American power. The inaugural Upstate Photography Biennial at the Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) is an exciting group exhibition that highlights regional talent, while a solo show of photos by Linda McCartney takes center stage at Fenimore Art Museum. Wassaic Project presents an incredible summer exhibition — my favorite this season — installed throughout seven floors, and Jack Shainman Gallery’s...
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...
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...
Georgia O’Keeffe, “Pedernal” (1945), pastel on paper (image courtesy the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum)Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light, a new documentary directed by Paul Wagner, begins by asserting that the American artist remains largely unknown in Europe.This seems unlikely, and in any case incidental to the story. Anyone who has opened an art history textbook can recognize one of the most important painters of the 20th century. After this initial hiccup, the film launches into clichéd descriptors from a cast of authorities: O’Keeffe was driven, passionate, fearless, committed, astounding. Thankfully, the documentary soon finds its rhythm, unspooling in a slow, patient manner that honors...
For most of the last century, watercolour was treated as the polite cousin of the art world. Oil had the... Read More
obama presidential center museum opens in chicago
On Chicago’s South Side, the Obama Presidential Center Museum opens as both a presidential archive and a public call to participation. The museum opened to the public on June 19th, 2026, and occupies four exhibition levels inside the new center, bringing visitors through nearly 35,000 square feet of immersive galleries shaped by Ralph Appelbaum Associates.
Working with the Obama Foundation Museum team, RAA has developed the museum as a layered experience around democracy, public service, and the lives of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. The project moves through personal history and national history at once, placing the Obamas’...
On Chicago’s South Side, the Obama Presidential Center Museum opens as both a presidential archive and a public call to participation. The museum opened to the public on June 19th, 2026, and occupies four exhibition levels inside the new center, bringing visitors through nearly 35,000 square feet of immersive galleries shaped by Ralph Appelbaum Associates.
Working with the Obama Foundation Museum team, RAA has developed the museum as a layered experience around democracy, public service, and the lives of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. The project moves through personal history and national history at once, placing the Obamas’...
Métis artist Rosalie Favell (all photos by and courtesy the artist)This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June.Rosalie Favell knows who she is, but she wasn’t always so sure of it. Living and working in Ottawa, Favell is a lesbian Métis artist who both questioned her identity and found the answers through her family and personal archives. Through autobiographical photography, personal text, and digital collage, Favell extrapolates truths of her ancestry and sexuality that were hiding in plain sight, and inserts herself where she wants to be — where she knows she belongs. A traveling retrospective celebrating 40...
Wang Yizhou (b. 1968, Jiangsu, China) currently lives and works in Shanghai. For more than three decades, he has remained... Read More
Welcome to the 342nd installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Ashley Chew nurtures community and connection in her studio as an antidote to exclusionary spaces in the art world.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.Ashley Chew, New York, New YorkHow long have you been working in this space?Four years.Describe an average day in your studio.Aside from painting, I am also an illustrator; this determines my day. I work with many brands so at any given time I could be painting on textiles, product bottles,...
Market Objects Become Contemporary Baroque Ornaments
Alburrigueresco is an artistic research and material production project by Mexican artist and architect Alfredo Tamayo. The work reinterprets elements of Mexican Baroque architecture through contemporary commercial objects and materials associated with informal trade. The public art roject emerges from the observation of downtown Mexico City, where viceregal architecture coexists with a dense saturation of goods, colors, temporary structures, and popular economies.
Rather than using traditional architectural materials, the project works with objects commonly found in markets, street stalls, food businesses, and commercial displays: plastic cups,...
Alburrigueresco is an artistic research and material production project by Mexican artist and architect Alfredo Tamayo. The work reinterprets elements of Mexican Baroque architecture through contemporary commercial objects and materials associated with informal trade. The public art roject emerges from the observation of downtown Mexico City, where viceregal architecture coexists with a dense saturation of goods, colors, temporary structures, and popular economies.
Rather than using traditional architectural materials, the project works with objects commonly found in markets, street stalls, food businesses, and commercial displays: plastic cups,...
Rachel Jump
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Rachel Jump’s Website
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Berlin Art Week marks its 15th anniversary with more than 300 events, major exhibitions and citywide programming
In 2022, the artist created a massive celebration of Black and queer culture at New York’s historic Park Avenue Armory
La Coopérative-Musée Cérès Franco is reopening to show its eclectic collection after a major renovation
The artist chronicled Amsterdam life in the 1970s
ARoS Aarhus has unveiled As Seen Below, James Turrell's largest Skyspace within a museum and the 100th Skyspace created during the artist's career.
MK Gallery explores the rarely seen colour photography of Jacques Henri Lartigue in a major exhibition featuring more than 150 works
while others wove wicker, Paweł grunert set it free
Long before collectible design became a global category, Paweł Grunert was building his own universe from wicker, roots, branches, steel, and imagination. Working from a barn studio outside Warsaw, the Polish designer developed a special body of work, creating chairs, thrones, and sculptural forms, thinking about furniture as a vehicle to tell a story and experiment with space. Today, his legacy lives on through After I’m Gone, I’ll Return in the Form of a Chair, an exhibition at Warsaw’s OBJEKT gallery that brings together historical works alongside the final pieces completed during the last months of his life.
For curator Aleksandra Krasny,...
Long before collectible design became a global category, Paweł Grunert was building his own universe from wicker, roots, branches, steel, and imagination. Working from a barn studio outside Warsaw, the Polish designer developed a special body of work, creating chairs, thrones, and sculptural forms, thinking about furniture as a vehicle to tell a story and experiment with space. Today, his legacy lives on through After I’m Gone, I’ll Return in the Form of a Chair, an exhibition at Warsaw’s OBJEKT gallery that brings together historical works alongside the final pieces completed during the last months of his life.
For curator Aleksandra Krasny,...
SCHINDLER RESHAPES THE ELEVATOR EXPERIENCE
Shifting from pure performance to experiential engineering, Schindler reimagines vertical mobility as an extension that integrates into a building’s architectural concept. This vision takes shape through five elevator design themes offering material honesty, dynamic lighting, and integrated media to transform the daily transit into an immersive experience. In an interview with designboom, the Chief Technology Officer at Schindler Group, Donato Carparelli, shares insights into how elevators can transcend their mechanical function to become an integral part of the built environment and engage the senses of those who move through it.
‘With this range, we’re...
Shifting from pure performance to experiential engineering, Schindler reimagines vertical mobility as an extension that integrates into a building’s architectural concept. This vision takes shape through five elevator design themes offering material honesty, dynamic lighting, and integrated media to transform the daily transit into an immersive experience. In an interview with designboom, the Chief Technology Officer at Schindler Group, Donato Carparelli, shares insights into how elevators can transcend their mechanical function to become an integral part of the built environment and engage the senses of those who move through it.
‘With this range, we’re...
The premier episode of the Room For Dreams podcast series, produced in collaboration with INDX|GLOBAL, features an engaging panel discussion centered on materializing the future through the lens of Indian architecture and design. Recorded live at Milan Design Week 2026 and moderated by Claire Broadka of designboom, the conversation brings together three visionary architects: Rachna Agarwal, custodian of Studio IAAD and Zoera; Vaibhav Dimri, founding partner of Anagram Architects; and Dinesh Panwar of Urbanscape Architects.
The dialogue moves far beyond surface-level sustainability to challenge how the industry thinks about the lifespan of a building. The guests open up about the raw realities of modern...
The dialogue moves far beyond surface-level sustainability to challenge how the industry thinks about the lifespan of a building. The guests open up about the raw realities of modern...
Leyla Gencer had a long European career but never sang at the Met.
Happy Juneteenth! This year, the US’s newest federal holiday — inaugurated during the Biden presidency to commemorate the end of slavery here — also lands on the nation’s 250th anniversary. An uneasy collision, to say the least. And yet remembering need not only be solemn. It can take the form of coming together, of celebration. We’ve put together a handy guide of what to do on the holiday around New York City, including DJ sets and drumming performances at the Bronx Museum, a free performance series at South Street Seaport, sound baths at the Studio Museum, and a ton more.Meanwhile, the Obama Center in Chicago, which is teeming with fantastic art, officially opens to the public today. Dubbed the...
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Documents, photographs, drawings, paintings—and even a sketch of the artist on his deathbed
The sprawling new campus on Chicago's south side includes a rousing museum and commissions by Mark Bradford, Maya Lin, Richard Hunt, Martin Puryear and many more
Nello spazio del foglio i segni tracciati da Kazuko Miyamoto si muovono liberi. Gli ideogrammi animano la superficie della pagina in una raffinata sequenza di passi e movimenti, alla stregua di una danza, come i tocchi di inchiostro e colore sono coinvolti in un moto perpetuo di aggregazione e disgregazione. Sulla carta non esiste possibilità di correzione e ripensamento, e ciò non per puntigliosa ed esteriore regola di gioco, ma perché la scrittura rappresenta il diagramma continuo d’un fluire a cui sono ignote le soste.[1]
Kazuko Miyamoto, “Dancing around the entrance to the cellar”, exhibition view, courtesy Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Roma
Se in alcuni casi, come Untitled (hair) (1984), la...
Kazuko Miyamoto, “Dancing around the entrance to the cellar”, exhibition view, courtesy Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Roma
Se in alcuni casi, come Untitled (hair) (1984), la...
Archaeologists from Wessex Research, a British archeological firm, have found a structure that may have been a prototype for Stonehenge. The company announced the find just days before June 21, when thousands of visitors will converge on the ancient stone circle to celebrate the summer solstice. The Wessex Research team made the discovery while conducting required excavations in Bulford, three miles from Stonehenge, ahead of the British Ministry of Defense’s construction of new housing. At the heart of the find were two postholes, 400 feet apart, aligned so the now-vanished poles would point directly to the rising sun at summer solstice and the setting sun at winter solstice—exactly as Stonehenge’s altar...
New York–based artist Teresita Fernández has been revealed as the first artist in a new commissions program for the reopening of the Menil Collection’s Fresco Building in late 2027. The historic structure, which has been closed since 2018, will be repurposed for semi-permanent, site-specific commissions. The reopening will coincide with the fortieth anniversary of inauguration […]
The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, a museum-without-walls whose stated mission is to center women’s history on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., has launched a new augmented reality project called “Unhidden Heroines.” Starting on June 18, anyone with a smartphone (or a computer) will be able to conjure the presence of five women who helped shape the country over the past 250 years and learn about their history and influence. The five virtual monuments will join those honoring iconic (male) figures from American history on the Mall, from Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Jefferson to Martin Luther King, Jr. They are dedicated to Julia Ward Howe (poet who wrote “The Battle Hymn of the...
A New York Supreme Court judge on June 16 gave billionaire dealer David Nahmad thirty days to return Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 painting Seated Man with a Cane to the family of Jewish antiques dealer Oscar Stettiner, who left it in his Paris shop as he fled the Nazis during World War II. The ruling is the latest twist in a […]
In the lead up to the formal opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, former US president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama revealed their first dual portrait on June 15. The portrait was created by Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who currently resides in Los Angeles. Titled The Obamas: Springing Forth, […]
A video work by Helen Cammock that has been on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London for nine months has recently sparked controversy for its claim about former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s role in the Bengal famine of 1943. In the 40-minute video, titled Persistence (2025), Cammock, who won the Turner Prize in 2019, mentions Oliver Cromwell’s conquest of Ireland, which included a famine. In her narration, according to the Guardian, she says, Cromwell “starved people, en masse, a little like the wilful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill.” The controversy was first stirred up in the conservative British newspaper the Telegraph earlier this week, when arts...
All arts festivals abound in sights and sounds, but the Reykjavík Arts Festival invested in a sense seldom given its due: smell. And not just any smell but, suggestively, the scent of “freshly cut grass resting by a fence post, chervil spilling across a sun-warmed sidewalk, a lawnmower shredding dandelions and sorrel, the echo of a distant party, blackcurrants dropping one by one from bare branches.” Those are some of the poetic notes appended to a special scent created for the Reykjavík Arts Festival by Fischersund, a family enterprise led by Jónsi, the lead singer of the Icelandic rock band Sigur Rós, and his artist sisters Lilja, Ingibjörg, and Sigurrós Birgisdóttir. The scent emanated from an...
Earlier this week, Swiss anarchist-hacker Maia Arson Crimew leaked information about Dialog, the secretive, invite-only organization cofounded by right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel in 2006. Among the figures listed on the leaked membership rolls are numerous major art collectors and arts patrons. The organization convenes wealthy and powerful figures in tech, finance, politics, entertainment, and other sectors of American life for an annual retreat to “discuss topics off-the-record.” The existence of Dialog, which has been likened to a more hush-hush version of the World Economic Forum (i.e. Davos), hasn’t been exactly a secret: Last year, Semafor reported that the organization had purchased land...
The Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel will not be awarded in 2026, the Art Newspaper reports. Established in 1999, the SFr30,000 (roughly $37,000) honor had been presented annually to two artists whose work appeared in the fair’s Statements section, devoted to emerging artists. The prize was historically administered by Swiss insurer Baloise Group, which […]
Think for a second about what comes to mind when you hear “soda.” Perhaps fizzy, saccharine, and bright? Then consider the connotations of the word “sour.” Maybe it evokes the zing of a lemon, tanginess, or something sharper. This is the relationship that forms the basis of Sour Soda Studio, a project built upon two decades of illustration experience with a playful and slightly unsettling view of some of the most pressing issues of the Anthropocene. “It didn’t come from a change of direction, or from a manifesto,” says the artist, who prefers to remain unnamed. “It came from something simpler: the need to say different things with a different voice.” In these vibrant, often absurd works with...
The Trellis Art Fund has named the dozen artists making up its 2026 Milestone Grant cohort. Each will receive an unrestricted grant of $100,000, disbursed in two installments over a two-year period. Among this year’s recipients are sculptor and installation artists Kelly Akashi; performance artist Ei Arakawa-Nash, who is representing Japan at this year’s Venice Biennale; conceptual […]
Raised in a wealthy, well-connected family in England, the young Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) glommed onto stories her mother and grandmother told of Celtic folk tales about mythical beings in Ireland. Her imagination ran rampant as a child, and a rebellious spirit earned her expulsion from more than one convent school for antics like writing backwards and even trying to levitate. Later, her father insisted she be presented to the court of King George V at a debutante ball and was expected to “marry well.” Art and fantasy continued to call to Carrington, though, and not to be sallied by social convention, she attended the Chelsea School of Art, discovered Surrealism at the 1936 International Surrealist...
After success at the Met as Turandot and before a historic Medea, soprano Anna Pirozzi talks to Harry Rose about her voice, her repertoire, and where her "second explosion of career" is taking her.
Video Artists International brings us back to a time when opera was carried over the airwaves by great voices—and a tire company.
La Galleria de’ Foscherari di Bologna ha inaugurato Merci Satie, una personale dedicata al rapporto tra Aldo Mondino e la musica, costruita attorno alla figura di Erik Satie. Più che un semplice omaggio, il percorso espositivo mette in scena una domanda da sempre centrale nella ricerca dell’artista: come può la pittura trattenere ciò che per natura scorre, come il suono, il ritmo, il movimento di un corpo? Satie, figura fondamentale della musica tra Otto e Novecento, diventa per Mondino non soltanto un riferimento culturale, ma quasi un metodo. Nella sua musica, infatti, convivono leggerezza, ironia, malinconia e sospensione; gli stessi elementi che Mondino traduce in immagini attraverso la...
One of the most enduring traditions in the U.S. is undoubtedly the state fair. The very first was held in Syracuse, New York, in 1841, and throughout the mid-19th century, states launched their own unique takes. Some of the largest and busiest, such as those in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, have been running just about as long as the states have existed. And it’s no coincidence that some of the most well known and beloved events, which usually take place in the late summer or early autumn, represent the nation’s agricultural heartlands. The exhibition State Fairs: Growing American Craft at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery celebrates the unique crafts and customs of these annual...
Bristol-based artist Diana Beltrán Herrera continues to construct elaborate sculptures of flora and fauna in vibrant paper. Over the last few years, Herrera’s work has grown in both scale and subject matter as she incorporates new materials such as paperboard, thread, and cardboard, which have allowed her work to evolve beyond previous forms. The artist’s latest explorations of nature motifs include flower structures, leaf patterns, and most recently, coral formations. Uniquely, coral reefs exhibit fractal and hyperbolic geometry, making them a particularly fascinating subject for sculptural reproduction. Utilizing thread as a structural tool has been especially integral for Herrera’s explorations of...
Fumi Nakamura
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Fumi Nakamura’s Website
Fumi Nakamura on Instagram
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s concert Rigoletto hits some vocal turbulence
A full century after her heyday, Argentine soprano Hina Spani still moves us thanks to her vivid recordings and the savants who have cherished and shared them.
Tornare sui propri passi spesso significa percorrere strade già attraversate, ma con degli occhi del tutto nuovi e con la mente sgombra, per far spazio a nuovi percorsi e nuove figure. Si è rincuorati dalla possibilità di riconoscere i propri riferimenti e, allo stesso tempo, si è spinti a esercitare l’osservazione del nuovo. Questo esercizio di osservazione e di scoperta accade a me quando osservo le tele di Luca Ceccherini (Arezzo, 1993) e accade all’artista quando, grazie al suo ingegno creativo, si appresta a proseguire il suo coerente e solido percorso pittorico, dando una forma e un luogo, ancora e ancora, ai giullari, menestrelli, acrobati, campagnoli e contrabbandieri che da sempre popolano le...
Designer Taekhan Yun’s parents run an English school in Cambodia. One day, during a visit, he noticed how the kids were constantly shifting in their chairs, trying to get comfortable. “It made me realize how naturally furniture and spaces are designed around adult standards, while children are often expected to adapt and conform to those environments,” he tells Colossal. That’s when the idea was born to not only create functional pieces that would better suit the students’ needs but to invite them to create their own. Yun has always been interested in participatory creative projects, especially because of “the unexpected outcomes that emerge when people from different backgrounds come together to...
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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Adrian Kay Wong
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Adrian Kay Wong’s Website
Adrian Kay Wong on Instagram
La ricerca di Senzeni Marasela (Thokoza, Sudafrica, 1977) riflette sulla colonizzazione britannica del Sudafrica e poi ci parla dell’apartheid, ponendo l’accento sulla vita delle donne nere e sul lavoro nelle miniere dell’area intorno a Johannesburg utilizzando materiali tessili e il ricamo. Nella mostra In Minor Keys alla 61. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte a cura di Koyo Kouoh, l’artista presenta The Conversation (2018) e una serie sugli incidenti avvenuti nelle miniere tra il 1960 e il 2024: Coalbrook 435, 1960 (2025), Kinross 177, 1986 (2025), Marikana 34, 2012 (2025), Stilfontein 77, 2024 (2025), Val Reefs 104, 1995 (2025), Welkom 30, 2023 (2025), Comet (2025). Marasela ha un alter ego...
All images courtesy of the artist and GNYP gallery In Aistė Stancikaitė’s painting “Some Time We Walk Together,” two gloved hands are joined by a set of finger cuffs. The connected, silver rings resemble wedding bands. As for the hands, whether they belong to one or two people is up to the viewer to decide. […]
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Minhan Lin
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Minhan Lin’s Website
Minhan Lin on Instagram
“Metafisica / Metafisiche” è una straordinaria rassegna enciclopedica che ci fa vedere come nell’arte contemporanea si ritrovino radici che affondano nell’avanguardia storica della pittura metafisica di inizio Novecento. A Palazzo Reale di Milano, con quattrocento opere distribuite in tredici saloni, il curatore Vicenzo Trione, affiancato da una squadra di collaboratori costituita da Anna Luigia De Simone, Anna Calise, Vincenzo Di Rosa e Alessia Scaparra Seneca, dimostra i collegamenti fra la poetica della Metafisica con vari movimenti dell’arte contemporanea, collegamenti estesi anche agli ambiti della fotografia, del cinema, dell’architettura e della moda. Questo complesso e articolato progetto...
Madeline Ludwig-Leone
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Madeline Ludwig-Leone’s Website
Madeline Ludwig-Leone on Instagram
By Victoria Thomas When John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966, he had no idea who she was. More remarkably, Yoko was equally unaware of John. This neutral introduction seems impossible for us today, especially for children of the 1960s. But defying mere nostalgia, The Broad meets this challenge with Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Ono's first LA museum show, which offers a full season of multi-arts media programming, including the installation of seven digital antiwar billboards across Los Angeles....
