Meanwhile another giant memorial-arch project in Salt Lake City, Utah, has local residents up in arms
American conservatives are once again up in arms about a six-year-old tweet by Zohran Kwame Mamdani, elected last year as New York’s mayor. It was June 2020, and a wave of iconoclasm was sweeping the United States. Minneapolis police had murdered George Floyd, an African American man, the month before, and protesters argued that monuments to Confederate soldiers and leaders, slaveholders, and similar figures didn’t just mark important parts of American history, but rather promoted their white supremacist views. Prominent in this discussion were monuments to Italy’s Christopher Columbus, who, as the Progressive Magazine put it in 2017, “engaged in enslavement, outright theft and the genocide of this...
Data from Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips shows confidence from major single-owner sales is trickling down to the rest of the art market
The Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania, Australia has just announced plans to build an outpost museum in Bangkok; specifically, plans indicate that the new site, called Mona Bangkok, will be located on the banks of the Chao Phraya River. Mona, the largest private museum in Australia, is executing the new museum […]
For the first time in over 20 years, the International Council of Museums has revised its code of ethics to address new and pressing issues facing institutions, including “the rise of digital technologies, the climate crisis, and the ongoing need to address the legacies of colonialism through responsible and ethical museum practice,” per a press release. The revised code was officially adopted in late June at the organization’s 41st Ordinary General Assembly in Paris, following a years-long development process spearheaded by its Ethics Committee and overseen by the executive board. ICOM first adopted a code of ethics in 1986 and last revised it in 2004. The new code—approved by more than 85 percent of...
Why Craft Endures
If it is to endure, craft must be understood not as a remnant of the past but as a methodology for building resilient futures. Craft knowledge is too often framed as heritage: a repository of techniques to be documented, preserved, or nostalgically revisited. Such a reading fundamentally underestimates its contemporary significance. Craft is not valuable because it has survived; it has survived because it has remained valuable.
Resilience can be understood as the capacity to metabolise disruption – economic, climatic, technological – while remaining socially, materially, and culturally rooted. By this measure, craft stands among the most enduring knowledge systems. Its longevity is...
If it is to endure, craft must be understood not as a remnant of the past but as a methodology for building resilient futures. Craft knowledge is too often framed as heritage: a repository of techniques to be documented, preserved, or nostalgically revisited. Such a reading fundamentally underestimates its contemporary significance. Craft is not valuable because it has survived; it has survived because it has remained valuable.
Resilience can be understood as the capacity to metabolise disruption – economic, climatic, technological – while remaining socially, materially, and culturally rooted. By this measure, craft stands among the most enduring knowledge systems. Its longevity is...
The artist and filmmaker discusses her film Amanat, and the forest that inspired it: Arslanbob.
High Line Art has opened the door to public feedback on 62 proposals for the public artwork commissions that will grace the park's plinth in 2029 and 2030. Inaugurated in 2019, the coveted location overlooking 10th Avenue from West 30th Street has exhibited several iconic sculptures, including Iván Argote's giant pigeon titled “Dinosaur” (2024) and Pamela Rosenkranz's “Old Tree” (2023). Earlier this spring, the park welcomed Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s “The Light That Shines Through the Universe” (2026). Crafted in and shipped from Vietnam, the artist's massive sandstone Buddha sculpture channels the beloved, millennia-old pair of Bamiyan Buddha reliefs carved into an Afghan...
The bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease has been detected in a cooling tower at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, though museum officials say the building remains safe for visitors and staff. The discovery comes as city health officials investigate an outbreak of the potentially serious form of pneumonia across Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Legionnaires’ disease is spread by inhaling tiny water droplets contaminated with Legionella bacteria. It cannot be passed from person to person. According to an internal email obtained by the Art Newspaper, routine testing earlier this week found Legionella in the museum’s cooling tower. The Guggenheim said it immediately carried out the...
The prominent gallery Hauser & Wirth has been cleared of the charges against alleging they breached the British-imposed sanctions against Russia, Artnet reports. The Swiss gallery, which has locations UK locations in London and Somerset, was charged by the U.K. Crown Prosecution Service last November, together with the art shipping company Artay Rauchwerger Solomons, for selling an […]
An important collection of modern art amassed by Werner Merzbacher, a Swiss collector who died in 2024, is currently the subject of a legal battle centered around the late businessman’s will and who really gets the right to control the paintings he owned. Merzbacher, who generated his fortune through a fur business and currency trading, gained many of the artworks in his possession through his grandfather-in-law, Bernhard Mayer. His collection included a range of high-quality Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Fauvist, and German Expressionist artworks, with artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Max Beckmann, and Alexej von Jawlensky represented in his holdings. He appeared on the...
South African artist Kate Gottgens recently took to social media to accuse Cape Town gallery SMAC of failing to either pay her for works the gallery had sold or return the works if they were still in the gallery’s possession. On July 2, she posted an image of her painting Audible Doom (2011) to Instagram. In the green-hued, hazy scene, a female figure, apparently with a bag over her head, stands on a ledge, seemingly addressing several other shadowy figures. Gottgens asked, “Has anyone seen this painting?” She said that SMAC displayed it at the Miart fair in 2022 and that it did not sell. It was not returned to her “in spite of many requests over the last 4 years,” she wrote in the post, which...
The lively flora and fauna of a tiny Filipino island commingle with harrowing memories of California prisons in the surreal works of Gil Batle. Entirely self-taught, Batle honed his skills while incarcerated over the course of 25 years, drawing and eventually tattooing in a clandestine practice. Today, he’s immigrated to his parents’ native country, where he continues to reflect on the decades he spent in confinement. Batle’s Double Life is a new body of work that explores these dual experiences. On white porcelain plates, the artist renders strange, unsettling compositions in which violence and a desire for freedom pervade every inch. Bird cages—common symbols for incarceration— are aplenty, while...
Welcome to the 345th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Adam de Boer fashions lush scenes on canvas using Indonesian batik-dyed fabric, which he waxes and boils himself.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.Adam de Boer, Los Angeles, CaliforniaHow long have you been working in this space?Five years.Describe an average day in your studio.I usually arrive by 8:30am and spend the first 30 to 45 minutes catching up on emails and social media correspondence. For the next 10 hours, I work on my batik...
Three timepieces are among the house's top five highest-priced lots this year
A Lightweight Climate Device Rethinks the Future of Greenhouses
Architectural designers Hermine Demaël and Stephen Zimmerer, in collaboration with Dr. Evelyn Beaury, present Greenhouse Prototype 2, an interdisciplinary installation developed at the New York Botanical Garden’s Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. The project combines architectural design and scientific research through a lightweight, mobile climate device designed to create a controlled micro-environment for plants and people.
The installation explores how future greenhouse structures could evolve from sealed enclosures into more permeable habitat refuges capable of supporting species under changing environmental conditions. Through passive...
Architectural designers Hermine Demaël and Stephen Zimmerer, in collaboration with Dr. Evelyn Beaury, present Greenhouse Prototype 2, an interdisciplinary installation developed at the New York Botanical Garden’s Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. The project combines architectural design and scientific research through a lightweight, mobile climate device designed to create a controlled micro-environment for plants and people.
The installation explores how future greenhouse structures could evolve from sealed enclosures into more permeable habitat refuges capable of supporting species under changing environmental conditions. Through passive...
The high-impact redevelopment of the former Teatro Comunale opera house has attracted widespread criticism and a criminal investigation
The private museum has signed an agreement with Asset World Corporation to establish Mona Bangkok
Liang Wang
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Liang Wang’s Website
Liang Wang on Instagram
GUNIA, the pope, and an angelic Christmas plate
Back in 2019, Natalia Kamenska and Maria Gavryliuk, founders of Ukrainian fashion and design brand Gunia, designed a Christmas tableware collection. In it, white ceramic pieces had cherubs and lambs illustrated across their surface, motifs that appear both in everyday and religious images across the country. When Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the Vatican in 2020, he presented one of these creations to Pope Francis – a symbol of the country’s continued legacy for both maintaining and reinventing its cultural crafts.
Gunia ceramics | all images courtesy of Gunia
IN CONVERSATION WITH Natalia Kamenska & Maria Gavryliuk
Not only...
Back in 2019, Natalia Kamenska and Maria Gavryliuk, founders of Ukrainian fashion and design brand Gunia, designed a Christmas tableware collection. In it, white ceramic pieces had cherubs and lambs illustrated across their surface, motifs that appear both in everyday and religious images across the country. When Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the Vatican in 2020, he presented one of these creations to Pope Francis – a symbol of the country’s continued legacy for both maintaining and reinventing its cultural crafts.
Gunia ceramics | all images courtesy of Gunia
IN CONVERSATION WITH Natalia Kamenska & Maria Gavryliuk
Not only...
A Church Complex for Worship, Education, and Community
Designed by architects Francesco Lipari, Lillo Giglia, and Giuseppe Conti, the new Santa Barbara Parish Complex in Licata, Italy, was selected through a two-stage invited competition promoted by the Archdiocese of Agrigento and the Santa Barbara Parish, with funding from the Italian Episcopal Conference through the ‘8xmille’ program. Conceived as a contemporary ‘campus of faith,’ the complex combines spaces for worship, education, and community activities within a permeable architectural composition that engages with the local urban and cultural context.
The project was developed through a collaborative process involving the parish community,...
Designed by architects Francesco Lipari, Lillo Giglia, and Giuseppe Conti, the new Santa Barbara Parish Complex in Licata, Italy, was selected through a two-stage invited competition promoted by the Archdiocese of Agrigento and the Santa Barbara Parish, with funding from the Italian Episcopal Conference through the ‘8xmille’ program. Conceived as a contemporary ‘campus of faith,’ the complex combines spaces for worship, education, and community activities within a permeable architectural composition that engages with the local urban and cultural context.
The project was developed through a collaborative process involving the parish community,...
American goalie Hope Solo diving for a save. Brazilian soccer superstar Marta, mid-kick, ponytail frozen midair. Joe Gaetjens’s “miraculous” diving header in the 1950 Word Cup — all made with Wrigley’s gum wrappers. Just in time for the World Cup semifinals, check out artist Lyndon J. Barrois, Sr.’s depictions of iconic plays in FIFA history. Crucially, he emphasizes not just soccer’s on-field moments but the politics underlying the sport, staging scenes like women’s rights protests outside a 2022 Iran-Wales match in the wake of the Mahsa Amini’s death in custody of Iranian police.Artist Noore Yazigi also gives form to political convictions in her tattoos incorporating Arabic calligraphy,...
I first experienced the magic of Seiji Ozawa in 1972 when I was 12 years old.
STILFOLD DECOUPLES DESIGN FROM THE TOOL
For the fourth episode of ‘Navigators of Design’, Jonas Nyvang and Tue Beijer, founders of the design technology platform STILFOLD, reveal their revolutionary software-driven approach to liberating industrial design from the rigid constraints and costly bottlenecks of traditional tooling. The 10-part interview series produced in collaboration with Most Studios, invites the visionaries to discuss how the convergence of computational design, robotic fabrication, and AI allows them to completely eliminate conventional limitations.
Decoupling the creative process from heavy industry’s machinery, STILFOLD grants designers unprecedented freedom to fuse fluid,...
For the fourth episode of ‘Navigators of Design’, Jonas Nyvang and Tue Beijer, founders of the design technology platform STILFOLD, reveal their revolutionary software-driven approach to liberating industrial design from the rigid constraints and costly bottlenecks of traditional tooling. The 10-part interview series produced in collaboration with Most Studios, invites the visionaries to discuss how the convergence of computational design, robotic fabrication, and AI allows them to completely eliminate conventional limitations.
Decoupling the creative process from heavy industry’s machinery, STILFOLD grants designers unprecedented freedom to fuse fluid,...
Tschabalala Self will bring a contemporary ‘everywoman’ Lady in Blue to Trafalgar Square this September
Ho parlato con lo scultore di Zagabria, Vladimir Novak, per diverse settimane questa primavera, culminando in una conversazione, “Tra scultura e città”, organizzata da Residency Unlimited a New York. Il lavoro recente di Novak si concentra su questioni scultoree relative alle risposte fisiche degli oggetti nello spazio in modi sorprendenti. Ciò include meccanismi accuratamente calibrati, come l’uso di piccole macchine leggermente decentrate e posizionate dietro le quinte che animano l’opera e le interazioni con il pubblico che le attivano.
Vladimir Novak, “≈ 30 Steps In Balance”, 2018. © Vladimir Novak, foto di Zvonimir Ferina, per gentile concessione dell’Artista
Qual è il ruolo della...
Vladimir Novak, “≈ 30 Steps In Balance”, 2018. © Vladimir Novak, foto di Zvonimir Ferina, per gentile concessione dell’Artista
Qual è il ruolo della...
For a structure that was completed nearly 90 years ago, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge possesses a kind of timeless modernity. It’s been the subject of countless photographs, often seen in the background from Baker Beach or from the overlook in Marin County. Its towers rise 500 feet from the roadway, but we typically can only see the structures from that level. For photographer Marcin Zając, a drone’s-eye view revealed a unique perspective of this iconic landmark. Zając’s image is one of 101 finalists in the 2026 International Aerial Photographer of the Year, marking the second year of the competition. Photographers around the world submitted nearly 1,600 entries, with the top honor awarded to...
Post-Fair, an alternative art fair held in a Santa Monica post office that was launched by gallerist Chris Sharp in 2025, will expand to Paris this October. The innovative fair’s first international edition will debut during Art Basel Paris and be staged in two buildings in the Marais, a swerve from its highly specific locational origins. Post-Fair Paris […]
“Listen closer and you’ll hear the Benedictines at the nearby monastery”
Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.78 Organizations Get Warhol Foundation GrantsFor its spring 2026 grant cycle, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts awarded $5,166,000 to 78 museums, university art galleries, and other institutions across 26 states and abroad. It's also the first time the foundation has a “Project Grants for Small-Scale Organizations” category, which helps fund artists' projects at spaces with annual operating budgets below $200,000. Recipients include the art and mysticism nonprofit Golden Dome in Los Angeles, which will use the funds to design...
“Improbable but not impossible” is how Brazilian artist Ana Elisa Egreja describes the unexpected companions in her vibrant still lifes. Combining the architectural motifs, animals, and fare common in her native São Paulo with elements from abroad, Egreja positions domestic spaces as sites of change, where migration and cross-cultural pollination come to bear. In a new suite of 15 oil paintings, the artist draws on the long tradition of Dutch Golden Age still lifes alongside the contrived qualities of collage. Tablescapes filled with fresh flowers and shiny produce also contain cellophane-wrapped snacks and canned goods. Egreja acknowledges flight as a rich symbol of freedom and migration, and birds swirl...
Cultural workers affiliated with the Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) plan to protest during United States Ambassador to Italy Tilman Fertitta's scheduled visit to Venice on Friday, July 17.In the wake of its historic demonstrations in support of Palestine on May 8, the last preview day of the 61st Venice Biennale, ANGA will mobilize en masse on the day Fertitta — a billionaire Trump ally — plans to park his 384-foot superyacht in the Italian city as part of a months-long cruise around the country in “celebration of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.”On Instagram, ANGA said it is staging a protest commencing in Venice's Campo San Zaccaria because “the United...
For more than three decades, Rob Hann has pursued the inimitable and notable, turning his lens toward public figures like Tom Hanks, David Byrne, Chloe Sevigny, Ray Lotta, Willem Dafoe, and many others. He also ranges across the breadth and length of the U.S., traversing storied highways like U.S. 89 in Arizona, a popular route to the Grand Canyon, or U.S. 90 in Texas, which passes through the artistic enclave of Marfa. Not unlike the way he captures portraits of people, his characterizations of the country’s endearingly quirky and remote places highlight individuality, presence, and the passage of time. Hann’s subjects range from handmade road signs and vintage buildings to peculiar local attractions like...
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Formafantasma has been appointed Serpentine’s Lead R&D Fellows, Ecology, beginning a multi-year project to rethink how the institution works
Fausto Cleva, in this glorious Fanciulla from the old Met, demonstrates all the great skills of opera conducting
Climbable multiplayer sculpture wins Frieze London Artist Award
Slawn heads to New York with three monumental paintings, including the original artwork behind Nike’s Nigerian national team kit for the World Cup.
In Pioche, Nevada, a movie theater built in 1937 stands in tribute to the immense changes in technology and style over nearly a century. A bold portrait set against a black background by photographer Kevin Boyle captures not only the aging building but a mid-20th-century pastime that taps into nostalgia and small town identity. (Amid preservation efforts, the theater is currently being rehabilitated.) It’s just one of the works in the artist’s ongoing Movieland series, which won the Architecture category in this year’s Hasselblad Masters 2026 contest. Additional categories in the prestigious competition include Wildlife, Landscape, Art, Portrait, Street, and Project//21, which highlights work by entrants...
A Pasolini-inspired Tosca at La Monnaie does not quite find the pleasure in the pain.
“Identità mutanti”, “Il latte dei sogni”. Il tema dell’identità oltrepassa il secolo scorso, attraversa le Biennali e le riflessioni critiche di FAM, le tendenze Queer e le metamorfosi di Barney per bagnare le rive di Santarcangelo. La 56esima edizione di Santarcangelo Festival, se da un lato deve ancora fare i conti con un corpo collettivo ereditato dalla sua storia, si sofferma su quello individuale. Se il nuovo direttore (Luigi De Angelis) dovrà – tra le altre cose – riportare soprattutto il festival alla sua storia di gratuite pratiche di inclusione cittadina e di coinvolgimento popolare, l’attuale programma dell’edizione diretta da Tomasz Kireńczuk mette al centro il corpo...
Mesdames et Messieurs, this summer's broadcasts from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence begin this weekend!
Prima ancora di nominare un’origine, origo ne assume la morfologia. Nella sua struttura grafica e sonora, la parola comincia e finisce con una “o”, figura minima del cerchio, della cavità, della soglia. In questa doppia apertura si inscrive una temporalità non lineare, un movimento che non procede verso un punto inaugurale, ma ritorna, ricomincia, si riavvolge incessantemente nella materia. L’origine non appare come un luogo remoto da raggiungere, né come mito pacificato del principio, ma come una condizione di rientro, una possibilità di esporsi nuovamente a ciò che precede il corpo e insieme lo sostiene.
Delcy Morelos, “origo”, installation view at the Barbican, London, 15 May – 31 July...
Delcy Morelos, “origo”, installation view at the Barbican, London, 15 May – 31 July...
Jon Testa
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Jon Testa’s Website
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Sotto l’impulso teorico del suo Presidente, Guillaume Désanges, il Palais de Tokyo non si limita a ordinare una sequenza di mostre autonome, ma si offre come un vero e proprio ecosistema fenomenologico e politico teso a decostruire il sistema del validismo. Questo paradigma, strutturato su severi criteri fisici e psicologici, impone una rigida gerarchia tra corpi considerati normali e anormali in base alla velocità, alle performance e alla produttività capitalista. Désanges rovescia questa dinamica ricordando come la fragilità non sia una condizione eccezionale o marginale, bensì la coordinata ontologica più ampiamente condivisa dall’umanità e da tutto il vivente. Basta un virus, l’avanzare del...
By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...
Ispirata all’omonimo capolavoro di Caravaggio del 1606-1607 (Le sette opere della Misericordia, olio su tela, 390 x 260 cm, realizzato per la chiesa del Pio Monte della Misericordia di Napoli), la mostra, attraverso video, fotografia e scultura, trasforma un tema della tradizione cristiana in una riflessione attuale sulla cura verso gli altri. Abbiamo rivolto a Helen Broms Sandberg sette domande sul significato contemporaneo della misericordia.
Helen Broms Sandberg, “The Seven Works of Mercy”, performance, video still, 2021. Courtesy of the artist
Costabile Guariglia: Quale intuizione l’ha spinta a trasformare la sua esperienza del dipinto caravaggesco in un progetto artistico sviluppato nell’arco...
Helen Broms Sandberg, “The Seven Works of Mercy”, performance, video still, 2021. Courtesy of the artist
Costabile Guariglia: Quale intuizione l’ha spinta a trasformare la sua esperienza del dipinto caravaggesco in un progetto artistico sviluppato nell’arco...
Madeline Gallucci
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Madeline Gallucci’s Website
Madeline Gallucci on Instagram
Memory may not be a tape-recorder, but in Sasha Gordon’s work, it serves as a device for the initial transportation. Characters wander this fluxing landscape—be it a drive-through window, a master bedroom, or white suburbia—shifting through the dynamic background of her dream-like haze. As a viewer of Gordon’s narrative paintings, you are intruding on intimate […]
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Will Sweeney is a commercial artist based in the UK. With a big reach and an enormous imagination, his illustrations adorn album sleeves, shirts for big fashion brands, toys in Japan, and almost any other sort of wearable or product one could imagine. Recently, we asked Sweeney to describe a bit of the machinations that […]
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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...
The 79th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on sculptor Willy Verginer, the black and white world of Murayama Tomoaki, the graphic art of Jimi Biscuits, Harriet Mena Hill’s painted rubble, the art of Pabaja, Plus a Special Insert Section featuring the art of Marigold Santos, surrealist painter Philip Bosmans, the universal art […]
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