To mark her 45th birthday, the pop music superstar and art collector gave generously to the revered New York City museum

A PURPLE TEXTILE REFLECTS SUNLIGHT AND RELEASES HEAT
 
A new purple cooling fabric developed by researchers at Zhengzhou University in China and the University of Adelaide in Australia challenges the idea that the coolest option must be white. The experimental textile combines color with passive radiative cooling, using microscopic fibers containing a metal-organic framework and zinc oxide nanoparticles to reflect much of the sun’s energy while releasing heat. In outdoor tests, the material remained up to 6.2°C cooler than conventional purple cotton under direct sunlight.
 
The research addresses a basic contradiction in the design of cooling textiles. White fabrics are effective because they reflect...

After almost a decade of delays and controversies, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson launch a giant space to house a 40,000-piece collection spanning from comics to Star Wars materials to a Frida Kahlo self-portrait

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C’è un’accezione dell’interferenza che il senso comune tende a scartare, bollandola come rumore da eliminare: quella, di matrice fisico-ingegneristica, per cui due segnali quando si incontrano invece di sommarsi generano un terzo pattern imprevisto, che non apparteneva a nessuno dei due. È da questo significato tecnico, e non da quello colloquiale di guasto o disturbo, che muove Interference. The image is never just an image, la collettiva a cura di Francesca Leoni e Davide Mastrangelo (Vertov Project) che dal 2 settembre anima gli spazi della Fondazione Dino Zoli di Forlì come prologo all’undicesima edizione di Ibrida Festival delle Arti Intermediali (17-20/09/2026).
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Atlas Re-Edificatoria documents buildings’ renovations in spain
 
Atlas Re-Edificatoria brings together photographs documenting the renovation of buildings with works by contemporary artists from Catalonia and elsewhere in Spain, primarily sculptures and installations. The exhibition places these practices in dialogue to identify shared approaches, visual languages, and concerns between construction and contemporary artistic practice.
 
The photographs are drawn from the archive of architectural photographer Adrià Goula and originate from his artistic project Re-Edificatòria. Presented as an atlas, the project organizes the photographs into seventeen chapters, each corresponding to a significant phase or...

Leisurama Homes and postwar vacationing
 
It’s 1965 in Culloden Shores, Montauk, a small beach community at the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, and a crop of identical homes have sprouted up. They are a brand of vacation homes called Leisurama, complete with a befittingly midcentury logo of bouncing letters. They were prefabricated and a few grand and came with Melmac plates, Murphy beds, and the postwar promises of summer fun and middle-class vacationing. When the Montauk Historical Society exhibited original goods that came in the Leisurama Homes, they complemented the online tour with a quote from architect William Morgan: ‘the Leisurama story is rarely told without some tale of a woman going to...

Siamo tutti coscienti che l’epoca nella quale viviamo non è più quella della libertà selvaggia o primitiva: quei tempi sono finiti, quegli spropositi si sono esauriti. La nostra epoca è quella della complessità e la complessità si vede nel dettaglio o nella somma di dettagli. Ecco perché pensando alla storia della rivista Juliet, e che ha visto un dialogo pluriennale tra migliaia di immagini e di artisti, mi fa venire in mente l’idea del “dettaglio”.
Copertina realizzata dall’artista Luigi Ontani (acquarello su carta) per il n. 29 di Juliet, dicembre 1986. Courtesy collezione Juliet; David Bowes, “Poika (Boy)”, 1995, pittura su tela, cm 41 x 33. Foto di Alessio Curto, courtesy collezione...

 
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”  – Italo Calvino / “Invisible Cities”
 
When we arrive at a new city, we instinctively try to locate ourselves and feed our inner GPS with points of reference. If there is a river or coastline, surrounding hills or mountain ridges, that makes it easy. In addition to these natural markers, the built environment can also function as a reference: an open square, an ancient religious structure, an arena, an extensive, long public throughfares, bridges, and buildings. Within this last category, naturally,...

A group of Vietnam veterans filed for a temporary restraining order on Friday to stop progress on one of Trump’s projects to alter the landscape of the nation’s capital, a 250-foot triumphal arch.  The plaintiffs are veterans Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes, and Jon Gundersen, along with architectural historian Calder Loth, who are represented by the Public Citizen Litigation Group, of Washington, D.C. They filed their motion for a 14-day restraining order on Friday, after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote on X on Thursday that “excavation work” for the arch would come within two weeks, promising that the arch would be “one of the Great Pieces of American Architecture, honoring the history and...

Beyoncé Knowles turned 45 on September 4, and to mark the occasion, the global superstar entertainer made an unusual birthday gift, of $2 million, not to herself but to the Studio Museum in Harlem.  “Art tells all our stories; the past and the present, but is not always accessible to everyone,” said Beyoncé in a press release. “I have always been impressed with the Studio Museum in Harlem because of its intention to make the museum an integral part of the community. I have been introduced to several of my favorite young and upcoming Black artists through exhibits at the Museum. It is a place of inspiration where all audiences can discover new stories through the canvases of diverse storytellers that...

A Continuous White Volume Integrates the Complete DJ Setup
 
MÖDEK imagine sound is a Spanish design studio founded by José Pérez in 2005, specializing in furniture for DJ booths. The EVOLUTION series consolidates a complete DJ setup within a single continuous white volume, using a monocoque body with integrated equipment recesses and concealed cabling.
 
The EVOLUTION base model features a precisely sized recess for two turntables and a mixer, with a cantilevered laptop tray integrated directly into the structure. The configuration keeps the working surface visually clear while eliminating visible supports beneath the laptop.
 
EVOLUTION PRO develops the same monocoque structure with a raised...

Evgeny Titov, locally infamous for his production of Salome where the titular heroine wears a paper mask for the entire performance, returns with Szymanowski's shimmering King Roger.

Scrolling on Instagram, I stumble upon a clip of a 25-year-old guy from Chicago walking by the water after finishing work at his finance job. He tells us that he’s on his way to his downtown apartment, where his girlfriend and his new puppy are waiting for him, and that later he plans to go get beers and watch college football with his friends. “And I gotta say, I don't think life gets much better than this,” he concludes, brimming with positivity. “It's mid 70s, the sun is out … Is this peak? I think I'm peaking right now.”What a lovely reminder to be grateful for life’s little things, I think to myself. Inspired, I share the video with my wife, because I want her to peak, too....

Ci sono artisti che costruiscono il proprio immaginario partendo da un mondo già esistente e altri che, al contrario, sembrano ricomporlo ogni volta da capo, attraverso frammenti, immagini, oggetti e presenze sottratte alla realtà. Il lavoro di Valerio Murri si muove in questa seconda direzione. La sua pittura nasce dall’accostamento di elementi riconoscibili che, una volta trasferiti sulla tela o sulla carta, perdono la loro consueta collocazione e iniziano a raccontare qualcosa di diverso. Nato nel 1968 a Viareggio, dove vive e lavora, Murri arriva alla pittura dopo gli studi universitari in Scienze politiche e attraverso una formazione artistica progressivamente sviluppata nel tempo. La pittura diventa...

Kehinde Wiley’s artwork at the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic continues to cause a stir. Erin Scavino, director of Art in Embassies in a podcast interview with Sean Spicer, called the painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) “aesthetically terrifying” last week, but now in an unearthed radio interview from April, US ambassador Leah Campos described the painting as a lesbian picnic, according to the New York Times. In the interview conducted in Spanish, Campos said that she saw a “huge painting of a picnic in a park with flowers and some lesbians.” She wrongfully contends in the interview that the Biden administration wanted being “that ideology here to the Dominican people.” The...

This spring, El Museo del Barrio and Aspen Conexión hosted “The Rise of the U.S. Latino Art Market: Lessons from Latin America,” a half-day symposium in El Museo’s iconic Teatro space. The event brought together artists, curators, museum directors, market insiders, and more to discuss the most pressing issues facing Latinx art in the art world and how to continue to grow its infrastructure. (ARTnews served as the media sponsor.) The idea for the event was dreamed up by Aspen Conexión, a division of the Aspen Institute focused on the Latinx community. Previously called Latinos & Society, it was founded, according to executive director Pilar Frank O’Leary, “around a simple but important idea that...

Through her sinuous approach to the human figure, Cabrera forged a distinctive sculptural language and challenged conventions

Christine Sun Kim's archive of deafness in pop culture, Guadalupe Rosales's East Los Angeles memoir, Kent Monkman's pulls back the curtain on a Vermeer painting — it's choose your own adventure in art books this fall. We've got far too many novels, catalogs, essay collections, and photography books coming out over the next three months to pick from, but these 15 caught our eye. Read on for a story within a story, an artist's take on Moby-Dick from our resident Mellville fan, Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang, and much more. Happy reading! —Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editorEast of the River: A Memoir of Los Angeles Girlhood by Guadalupe Rosales | One World, September 8In...

In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, dealer Adam Lindemann is facing allegations that he installed a 25-foot-tall Julian Schnabel sculpture on a Long Island estate without permission. Filed on August 20 in New York’s Eastern District, the lawsuit was brought by the Nature Conservancy, a preserve in Montauk. Lindemann, the founder of New York’s now-defunct Venus Over Manhattan gallery, has a property next to the vast preserve. Newsday, a publication focused on Long Island’s Nassau and Suffolk Counties, first broke news of the lawsuit on Thursday. Lindemann is accused of trespassing on the Andy Warhol Visual Arts Preserve, which the conservancy currently owns and which was once the property of Pop artist...

On Thursday, China announced that it would withdraw its pavilion from the forthcoming Gwangju Biennale, You Must Change Your Life, over claims that the festival was misrepresenting Taiwan as an autonomous nation through its pavilion name. Central to the dispute is the Biennale’s Pavilion Project, which is separate from the main proceedings. In late August, […]

Los Angeles’s Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opened to the press earlier this week, and the resulting opinions are sharply divided. Founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife, investor Mellody Hobson, and designed by Beijing-based firm MAD Architects, the institution has been closely watched since its inception; its long-delayed opening — plans […]

Through the new partnership, the museum is already in the process of returning five artefacts from a private collection to Ethiopian authorities

Excavation efforts are set to begin within the next two weeks for President Donald Trump’s controversial “Great Triumphal Arch,” according to a statement Interior Secretary Doug Burgum posted on X on Thursday, September 3. The announcement was made before the project has even received the green light from a federal review panel.The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), which evaluates design proposals throughout Washington, DC, preliminarily approved Trump's project on July 9, but issued several comments the president must address before earning the committee's final approval. The NCPC's primary concern is the height of the 250-foot-tall structure, which could violate the 130-foot...

In the Oscar-winning film American Fiction, the irritable protagonist Thelonious “Monk” Ellison describes his work as follows: “I just invent little people in my mind and make them have conversations with each other.” The film, which director Cord Jefferson adapted from Percival Everett’s novel Erasure, grapples with stereotypes and the ways we’re asked to perform our identities. For Monk, this turns into a satirical quest to write a “Black” book under a pen name, which plunges him into an outlandish world of tropes. American Fiction layers farce upon farce and is one of the more searing considerations of the contemporary impulse to leverage identity for nefarious (and capitalist) purposes. In...

LOS ANGELES — After nearly two decades of planning and construction, a spate of layoffs, and staffing controversies, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open its doors to the public later this month in South Los Angeles’s Exposition Park. This week, members of the press were invited to tour the new institution and get a taste of the random and facile smorgasbord of art that awaits visitors. Founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, co-CEO of Ariel Investments, the reportedly $1 billion building designed by Ma Yansong/MAD Architects houses their collection of 40,000 works representing what they call “visual storytelling.” These include illustrations, history paintings, comic...

Bay Area artist Mildred Howard has been named the 2026 recipient of the Artists’ Legacy Foundation’s annual Artist Award, the organization announced on Wednesday.  Howard will receive an “unrestricted merit award of $25,000,” a prize the foundation gives annually to “a painter or sculptor who has made significant contributions to their field and whose work […]

"The chaotic nature of Marseille is as much a protagonist as the art itself"

The National Service for Cultural Heritage financed the project at Casa Mouat in Valparaíso, Chile

Welcome to the 353rd installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Rujuta Rao carries a foldable studio wherever she goes, a poetic embrace of her life between continents and mediums.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.Rujuta Rao, New York CityHow long have you been working in this space?I've had this itinerant studio since January. I usually set it up in public spaces in New York City.Describe an average day in your studio.I tend to work on multiple projects in a circular manner, moving from one to...

For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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Headquartered in Stockton, California, Blackwing is about finding the joy in analog creative tools at a time when digital devices consume our attention. The manufacturer produces its signature pencils in a series of specialized factories in Japan, where the graphite cores are meticulously processed before being sent to a wood shop. In a behind-the-scenes video, the company shares how that process works, followed by how the utensils begin to take shape. Sandwiched between slats of wood, individual pencils are then sliced and trimmed to their characteristic hexagonal shape. Yet another factory takes care of the painting and labeling, where depending on the style, the pencils can receive up to 10 coats of lacquer...

The Fundación Paiz para la Educación y la Cultura has appointed Mexican-born curator Cuauhtémoc Medina, one of Latin America’s best known critics and art historians, curator of the twenty-fifth edition of the Bienal de Arte Paiz, slated to run from November 2027 to February 2028 in Guatemala City and Antigua, Guatemala. Founded in 1978, the […]

In his essay “The Passing Wisdom of Birds,” environmentalist and writer Barry Lopez rued how scientific methodology doesn’t take into consideration our senses or perception, how data is divorced from the experience of nature. “Biology should borrow here from quantum physics, which accepts the premise that, under certain circumstances, the observer can be deceived,” he wrote. “Quantum physics, with its ambiguous particles and ten-dimensional universes, is a branch of science that has in fact returned us to a state of awe with nature, without threatening our intellectual capacity to analyze complex events.” Such is the fascination that grounds the book Inploration: Art Exploring Space to Understand...

Keri-Lynn Wilson and the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra channeled a want for justice into fine music-making in two appearances at David Geffen Hall.

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Olga Treivas, architetto e designer di origine moscovita, è la fondatrice del Treivas Architecture Bureau, studio multidisciplinare con sede a São Paulo in Brasile impegnato in una progettualità multidisciplinare, che spazia dall’oggetto da collezione all’architettura di spazi pubblici. Formatasi e affermatasi in Russia, dove il suo lavoro è stato esposto in gallerie e istituzioni museali dedicate alle arti decorative, Treivas ha poi spostato il baricentro della propria attività in Brasile, modificando materiali, maestranze e temperatura dei suoi oggetti. Le sue creazioni di design si distribuiscono in due principali filiere parallele.
Portrait of Olga Treivas, “Emma in Paraty Peacock Chair”,...

Whether it’s scenes from the subway, streets, or Times Square, visions of New York City are often hectic and crowded. For Erin Milez, the hustle and bustle, but moreover the cramped spaces and tightness, characterize a new body of work going on view this month in Everything the Light Touches at Monya Rowe Gallery. Milez recently moved from New York to Seattle, and she began to examine the nature of human connection, or the lack thereof, in urban spaces. Her expressive paintings draw on the visual language and subject matter of artists like George Tooker and Jacob Lawrence, who approached the theme of urban life through distinctive, figurative compositions. There’s also an unmistakable nod to the blocky,...

Before the iPhone essentially turned all of us into documentarians, the Super 8 camera offered a more democratic approach to filmmaking. Kodak introduced the analog format in 1965 with an eye toward amateurs and hobbyists interested in capturing the world around them, and today it remains a stalwart of the discipline, particularly for those drawn to the grainy, nostalgic qualities of shooting on film. Ed Sayers, director and founder of the annual Super 8 competition and community called straight 8, tapped into the camera’s equalizing legacy for his latest project. Bringing together 40 collaborators in 25 countries across five continents, Super Nature is a collective ode to our planet. Rather than travel the...

By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...

A new English translation of Puccini's La fanciulla del West gallops into a high school in Pacifica with as much grit and gumption as its titular frontierswoman.

There are several HDs that look interesting, but what I most looking forward to is the Manon with Nadine Sierra.

In between performances of Strauss and Mozart, Parterre Box highlights the smolderingly elegant Samantha Hankey.

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Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"—Honoré de Balzac "Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning."—Miguel de Unamuno Hiroko Yoshimoto's paintings concentrate nature into radiant and dynamic beauty, distilling visual sensation into poetic and environmental significance. Throughout the 2020s, Yoshimoto has worked on two series of paintings about nature: Biodiversity and Of Infinite Variety. Both series are based on observation of the natural...

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By Julie Faith There is something strange about returning to a place you once knew well after being away for a long time. You recognize the architecture before you recognize what the years have done to you. As I passed through the gate at Corey Helford Gallery, crossed the lot, and headed up the stairs, I felt ridiculously, wonderfully giddy. Kid-in-a-candy-store giddy. I have been away from the gallery and much of the Los Angeles art world, but somewhere between the gate and the stairs, I...

Nel 1979, quando il saggio “La Transavanguardia italiana” di Achille Bonito Oliva viene pubblicato su Flash Art, Jean-François Lyotard scrive “La condizione postmoderna”. Entrambi i testi muovono da una condizione di crisi, quella che interessa le metanarrazioni, vale a dire i sistemi narrativi volti a legittimare una visione del mondo lineare e progressiva. Per il francese l’obiettivo è la dialettica dello spirito, per l’italiano è il “darwinismo linguistico”[1] dell’avanguardia. Bonito Oliva contrappone all’istanza collettivistica e progettuale che aveva indirizzato le formazioni nate negli anni Sessanta “un ritorno dell’arte ai suoi motivi interni, alle ragioni costitutive del suo...

By Victoria Thomas Altadena-based artist James Griffith greets me at his studio, located in a refurbished 1920s firehouse diagonally across the street from the gleaming silver lagomorph of the restored Bunny Museum, by saying "Hi, I just started putting a galaxy in the armpit of a penguin." Great cities announce their identities through their monuments. New York City has the Statue of Liberty, St. Louis the Gateway Arch, Chicago the Cloud Gate, Philadelphia the original LOVE sculpture. And...

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Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
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The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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