Jasmine Little, a Los Angeles–based painter who made lush still lifes and etched ceramic vessels dense with historical references, has died at 41. La Loma, her Los Angeles gallery, announced her death on Friday. No cause of death was provided. In a statement, gallery owner Kirk Nelson, who worked with Little since 2019, described her as “a force of nature” and her work as “a reflection of her essence–at times tender, at times emotional, often naughty, always curious, and filled with wonder, beauty, pain–the whole astonishing rainbow of feeling, being.” “Even though I worked alongside her for years, I don’t know how this young artist from Joshua Tree sgraffito’d mythologies onto stone as if...

Znamy Się designs optical salon and clinic’s interior in Wrocław
 
Znamy Się design studio takes over the interior design of AUGA, an optical salon and specialist clinic in Wrocław, Poland. The concept is structured around the biological process of vision, translating the anatomy of the eye into spatial organization, material selection, and lighting design.
 
The project takes the human eye as its primary reference. The overall layout reflects the path of light as it travels through the eye, from cornea and lens to retina and neural transmission. This sequence is interpreted architecturally as a progression from the entrance area through the retail space and into the consulting rooms. The interior is...

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San Diego Opera presents a strongly directed and cast revival of Il barbiere di Siviglia. 

For Michael Pederson, happenstances of infrastructure, nature, and the urban landscape present endless opportunities for the imagination. His playful miniatures scale the stems of weeds, reimagine gaps in walls, and reinterpret coincidences. Tiny structures and signs draw our attention to marvels of nature, like the seven-centimeter-tall “Mount Paltry,” or invite viewers into mysterious realms beyond civilization. Tapping into everyday occurrences and impressions, Pederson transforms the mundane into moments of wonder and delight. If you’re in Seoul, see Pederson’s work in the show Room for Wonder at Groundseesaw until June 4.

Artists and photographers have always played with perception. They use cropping, extreme close-ups, motion blur, unusual lighting and digital manipulation to dissolve recognisable subjects into simple colour, texture and form. Practitioners throughout the 20th century, from Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy to Wolfgang Tillmans and Barbara Kasten, expand the medium’s traditional role as recording of reality. In this round-up, we spotlight five artists longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize, who join this illustrious list. Each one plays with materials and form to create mesmerising scenes of abstraction.  David Parfitt  Colour Correction (2024) David Parfitt is a London-based photographer whose commercial...

dongqi Design Reworks Three Structures into mixed-use complex
 
dongqi Design has transformed three existing structures in downtown Shanghai’s Jing’an District into a mixed-use complex integrating retail, exhibition, food and beverage, and office programs. The project reconfigures a three-story brick–concrete building facing the street to the north, an 8-meter-high former factory building, and a single-story brick-concrete structure to the south into an interconnected yet functionally distinct ensemble.
 
The northern three-story building accommodates a leisure area on the ground floor, with office spaces on the second and third levels. A dark gray external sunshade curtain system has been added to the...

Ramadan Mubarak and Happy Lunar New Year! For long, many in art, academia, and popular culture have trumpeted the Marquis de Sade as a symbol of poetic transgression against society's stiff mores. He was put on a high pedestal despite being a certified rapist who took orgiastic pleasure in hellish torture and abuse. Among his spiritual followers, so to speak, was one Jeffrey Epstein from Manhattan's Upper East Side. The latter had friends in high windows who celebrated him as a business and math guru with slightly eccentric taste in women. In a must-read essay by Ed Simon this week, he draws essential parallels between the morally corrupt aristocracies of then and now, and explains how the seeds of...

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Portraiture has always carried an enduring authority, shaping how individuals are remembered and how communities understand themselves. To look at a face is to encounter a convergence of history, politics and desire, where visibility becomes a form of power. In a visual culture dominated by speed and repetition, the considered portrait still insists on slowness, presence and attention. It proposes recognition as an ethical act rather than a passive exchange. At its most potent, portraiture asks who is seen, who is excluded and who decides the terms of that visibility. These questions sit at the heart of Catherine Opie’s work. Catherine Opie is widely recognised as one of the most influential photographers of...

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Nel cuore storico di Bologna, alla Galleria de’ Foscherari, la mostra Continental, personale di Eva Marisaldi, realizzata in collaborazione con Enrico Serotti e curata da Leonardo Regano, si presenta come un progetto che dichiara fin dall’inizio di non volersi concentrare sullo spazio territoriale o sui confini geografici europei e asiatici, ma piuttosto rivolge la sua attenzione «alla politica, alla storia e all’identità» di quella determinata area geografica. In questo senso, Marisaldi sembra muoversi lungo una traiettoria che richiama il pensiero di autori come Edward Said[1] o Homi Bhabha[2], per i quali i confini non sono linee precise che separano in modo netto, ma spazi di incontro.
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a conceptual Bluetooth speaker for Swiss sportswear brand On
 
Cloudbeat is a conceptual Bluetooth speaker developed by InOutGrid for Swiss sportswear brand On, extending the company’s sustainability framework into consumer electronics. The project examines how circular design strategies commonly applied to apparel and footwear could inform the development of small electronic devices.
 
The speaker is conceived as a response to the growing volume of electronic waste, much of which results from limited repairability and low recycling rates. Cloudbeat integrates repairability as a primary design principle, structuring its construction to support maintenance, disassembly, and material recovery. The product is...

A first date, a shared kiss: This is how plenty of college romances begin. Yet, far fewer of these scenarios forge an internationally recognized pop-art brand. Read the full article on DABS MYLA but clicking above!
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South Africa has withdrawn its participation from the 2026 Venice Biennale following a months-long dispute over an artwork addressing Palestinian grief in Gaza.The move comes after the country's right-wing culture minister Gayton McKenzie scrapped a pavilion proposal by artist Gabrielle Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo. An independent committee had selected the artist and curator in December to represent the country at the international art event. The two had proposed including a performance centering Gaza. Goliath and Masondo had planned to memorialize the lives of Gazans killed by the Israeli military, including the poet Hiba Abu Nada, as part of the ongoing performance series Elegy. The duo also...

The editors of The Siren have been thinking about the parallels between our current political moment and the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel 1984 for quite a while, but the escalating efforts by the Trump Administration to wage war against immigrants and silence critics compelled us to devote our latest issue to highlighting those connections. After witnessing the killing, torture, and forced expulsion of immigrants by federal agents, as well as the execution of US citizens and the criminalization of activists, we have no choice but to conclude that Orwell’s "Hate Week" has arrived. We’ve done our best to bring the perspectives of those who are under attack, and who have survived totalitarian...

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday amid attacks on civil liberties and marginalized communities, museums and galleries in the nation’s capital are opening exhibitions that question what it means to be an American. The National Gallery of Art presents 115 works in Dear America while other shows focus on individual artists such as Mary Cassatt and Nick Cave, all in the pursuit of exploring “Americanism” as a facet of education, expression, and aesthetics. Meanwhile, exhibitions like Making Their Mark at National Museum of Women in the Arts complicate the idea that “American” is a uniform, monolithic identity, instead critiquing it as a social, racial, and gendered...

2,000-year-old footprint, Lunan Bay, Scotland ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND—Erosion caused by storms at eastern Scotland’s Angus Beach revealed an ancient clay surface marked with the footprints of animals and barefooted humans, according to a statement released by the University of Aberdeen. Local dogwalkers spotted the markings in the clay and alerted council archaeologist Bruce Mann, who called in a team from the University of Aberdeen. “We knew we were dealing with a really rare site and that this discovery offered a unique snapshot in time—but it was also clear that the sea would soon take back what had so recently been revealed,” said team leader Kate Britton of the University of Aberdeen. The researchers...

On Thursday, President Donald Trump came one step closer to building his $400 million White House ballroom, when an arts commission packed with allies approved designs for the project. Instead of holding a preliminary vote, the Commission of Fine Arts bypassed the usual review process and gave its final approval of the proposal; this means it will not be subject to further review by the CFA. The seven-person commission voted six-to-zero in favor of the plans; the ballroom’s original architect James McCrery recused himself. The vote came despite mass opposition to the project, with the panel’s secretary Thomas Luebke saying during the meeting that he had received thousands of messages from concerned members...

Glenn Ligon, “Blue (for JB) #18” (2025), carbon ink and acrylic on torinoko paper (all photos Daria Simone Harper/Hyperallergic)I became acutely aware of my own body as I stepped into Hauser & Wirth on a particularly frigid afternoon in January and met a blast of that stifling, artificial warmth. Even as I was thawing out, a chill ran through me as I peered at a selection of works on paper by Glenn Ligon. I was swallowed up in the pits of blue.As my gaze cascaded over these resplendent works, I was drawn immediately to “Blue (for JB) #18” (2025). Made of carbon ink and acrylic layered atop a pulp-based torinoko paper, it is almost purely abstract, save for the faint outline of black letters blotting...

s house: a pavilion among the trees
 
Huddled within a site defined by mature trees, S House by PL.architekci stands in the wooded outskirts of Poznań, Poland. The residence occupies the landscape sensitively, and takes shape as a contemporary home that humbly settles into its surroundings.
 
From the outset, the architects set aside the idea of a compact, centralized mass. Instead, they proposed a low pavilion that traces the existing vegetation. The house reads as a horizontal presence filtered through trunks and branches, its perimeter adjusting to preserve the character of the plot. The building frames the existing trees on-site, allowing them to remain the main spatial markers.
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The area, known as a “graveyard of the Atlantic”, is the site of thousands of shipwrecks waiting to be discovered

You’ve probably heard the idiom, “the elephant in the room,” to describe when there’s some uncomfortable and obvious problem that no one is addressing—the kind of issue that feels as though it’s taking up all available space. But what if yet another megafauna came stampeding onto the scene? That’s where Berlin-based artist Itamar Gov’s large-scale installation comes in. The Rhinoceros in the Room is a towering, inflatable sculpture that fills a medieval church nave at Kunstmuseum Magdeburg in Germany. Gov draws inspiration from Renaissance engraver Albrecht Dürer’s iconic rhinoceros woodcut, which the artist created in 1515 without having ever seen one of the animals himself. His rendering...

As of press time, some 250 cultural figures from around the world have signed an open letter in support of Devyani Saltzman, the former director of London’s Barbican Centre. Saltzman left abruptly earlier this week, just a few weeks after Abigail Pogson was appointed chief executive. Notable signatories include artists John Akomfrah and Isaac Julien, filmmaker Mira Nair, curators Mark Sealy and Zoé Whitley, writers Salman Rushdie and Kiran Desai, and Saltzman was named director of arts and participation in February 2024, and was tasked with reimagining the future of the institution. Her mandate, according to a post on LinkedIn, was to build a “future-facing programme that reflects the complexity and...

Bard College has launched an “independent review” of its president’s ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after newly released emails from the Department of Justice revealed close links between the two. The liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, made the announcement in a statement from its board of trustees on Thursday. The board said it had retained the outside law firm WilmerHale to review the email correspondence. The New York Times reported that Dr. Leon Botstein, the college’s president since 1975, had long maintained that his relationship with Epstein was strictly philanthropic, aimed at securing a sizable donation to bolster Bard’s flagging finances....

Isaiah Zagar, an artist who created one of Philadelphia’s great public art attractions, died on February 19 due to complications from heart failure and Parkinson’s Disease, which he had been diagnosed with in 2023. His death was confirmed by Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens (PMG), the nonprofit organization that tends to the eponymous artwork. His creations “defined the spirit of Philadelphia,” writes the Philadelphia Inquirer. Zagar’s work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and the Brandywine Workshop and Archives. He received grants from the National Endowment...

Excavation, Tel Aziz, Egypt MIT RAHINA, EGYPT—According to an Ahram Online report, an excavation conducted by a team of researchers from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, Peking University, and the Shandong Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has uncovered a limestone structure at the site of Tel Aziz that may have been part of a temple dedicated to King Apries of the 26th dynasty, who ruled from about 589 to 570 B.C. The site of Tel Aziz is located in what is thought to have been the center of the ancient city of Memphis. The site also yielded five headless sphinx statues, stone blocks inscribed with hieroglyphic texts dedicated to the god Ptah and cartouches of King Apries, pottery, glass...

Iron Age footbath, Tel ʿEton, Israel RAMAT GAN, ISRAEL—According to a statement released by Bar-Ilan University, archaeologist Avi Faust and his colleagues looked for evidence of older adult residents in a building at Tel ‘Eton, a site in south-central Israel. “By analyzing household artifacts rather than skeletal remains, we have a more effective way to identify elders and uncover their roles and influence within the family,” Faust said. In addition to the household artifacts, the team members examined the architecture and activity areas within the dwelling, which had multiple rooms, two floors, and was likely destroyed in the eighth century B.C. during an Assyrian military campaign. Faust and his...

For residents of the Upper Midwest and Canada—the land of lakes—ice shanties are ubiquitous winter fixtures. From the huge temporary villages that emerge on Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago for sturgeon-spearing season to ramshackle, hand-built huts dotting Ontario’s Lake Simcoe, these vernacular structures are designed around openings or hatches in the floors so that hardy northerners can fish through holes drilled in the ice. It’s this unique tradition, combined with artistic flair, that serves as the inspiration for Art Shanty Projects. Every winter, the Minneapolis-based program initiates an interactive series of projects on the lima bean-shaped Lake Harriet, located a few miles southwest of downtown....

bialetti’s stovetop icon reimagined
 
A speculative Hermès x Bialetti Moka Pot revisits one of the most familiar objects in domestic design and filters it through an equestrian lens. The project has been conceived by designer Jane Morelli as a speculative collaboration and imagines how the Parisian house and the Italian coffee maker might converge.
 
The concept’s core is the classic Bialetti Moka Pot, iconic for its compact build of faceted aluminum. In this proposal, the upper chamber is recast in Hermès orange with a sculpted horse forming the lid’s finial and body. The animal’s legs extend down the sides of the upper chamber to transform the pot into a small stovetop design...

The letter's signatories have criticised the Barbican's communication around Devyani Saltzman's departure

In this week’s episode, Ben Luke heard about surprise cuts at the National Gallery, a new exhibition at the Mauritshuis, and the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi

While balancing atop a precarious stack of bolsters and tables, a young juggler sends four bright balls up into the air. A fellow performer stands on the floor nearby, observing the skillful toss against the backdrop of a wall-mounted tent in bright, primary colors. Veiled in a warm glow, the photo by Constanze Han offers a rare glimpse into a practice session at Escuela Nacional de Circo, Havana’s center for circus performance. “Founded after the Cuban Revolution, the school was part of a broader effort to make professional arts education accessible to young people across the island,” Han shares. “With Soviet support in the late 1970s, it blended technical rigor with Cuban creativity and style,...

Winter exhibitions from CAC Brétigny to Le Crédac

Caitlin Vincent's new book Opera Wars paints a persuasive picture of the problems facing opera today, though her solutions leave something to be desired.

The announcement comes after a court dismissed Gabrielle Goliath’s attempt to have her project reinstated—a ruling that has been met with anger by members of South Africa’s art world

“The pictures from The Last Resort still hold very well. When I get to the Pearly Gates, those are the ones I’d probably get out first.” Martin Parr died at home in Bristol on 6 December 2025. He was an icon of British documentary photography, driving the popularisation of colour images in the mid-20th century and turning an astute and humorous lens on the nation. This spring, the Martin Parr Foundation honours his legacy with an exhibition of his renowned series, The Last Resort. Shot around the English seaside town of New Brighton between 1983 and 1985, the body of work confirmed Parr’s international reputation as a titan of photography. The show includes a full set of images from the original...

“Sunflowers” is the star of an Amsterdam exhibition exploring the use of the colour yellow by Van Gogh and a range of artists

In 1922, type designer William A. Dwiggins coined the term “graphic design” in his newspaper article New Kind of Printing Calls for New Design. The phrase reflected the rapidly expanding worlds of branding, commerce and advertising in Europe and the USA. More than one hundred years on, graphic design is a ubiquitous part of modern life, delivering information and entertainment to mass audiences. Rong Jia is a part of this thriving industry, working as a visual communicator across a range of cultural, commercial and digital contexts. Her extensive and impressive list of clients include Houston Grand Opera, SWA Group, Small Door Vet, Sky Zone Trampoline Park, City of Sugar Land, Vortex and more. Her...

Geological time spans Earth’s 4.54 billion-year history – a scale so large that it’s difficult to imagine. Measured against the brevity of a human being’s 73-year-on-average lifespan, it’s a number that can feel almost impossible to grasp. Glasgow-based artist Ilana Halperin (b. 1973) is hoping to change that. Her exhibition What Is Us and What Is Earth, opening at Fruitmarket in Edinburgh, “seeks to map the incomprehensible vastness of geological time” through sculpture, drawing and photography. When Halperin turned 30, the artist realised she shared her birthday with the Eldfell volcano, which formed off the coast of Iceland during a surprise eruption on 23 January 1973. The coincidence...

Nella pittura di Alice Neel, il volto non coincide mai con un luogo di riconoscimento, ma diventa territorio di attrito simbolico. Le figure rifiutano adesioni immediate e sfuggono a qualsiasi convenzione rappresentativa, mostrandosi come campi attraversati da incongruenze politiche e relazionali. Alla Pinacoteca Agnelli, I Am the Century riattiva questo dispositivo metodico, sottraendo le opere ad appropriazioni storicizzanti e proponendole come strumenti di esplorazione visiva. La ritrattistica di Neel non celebra la stabilità dei caratteri né organizza ciò che appare secondo gerarchie prestabilite. Ogni creazione nasce dall’incontro irregolare con il soggetto, talvolta conflittuale. Il volto si...

"I want to do with carpets anything that I can with all the instruments that exist, so no one can even do anything with them in the coming 100 years,” boldly declared Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed in an email, as if penning his personal manifesto... Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
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A South African court ruled against artist Gabrielle Goliath in her effort to reinstate her pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale after it was abruptly canceled by South African Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie earlier this year. Judge Mamokolo Kubushi of the country’s North Gauteng High Court issued the verdict without explanation following a February 11 hearing, and […]

“For me, it always starts with joy,” explains Aunia Kahn. The Detroit-based artist uses a handful of materials—gouache, pastels, pencils, and gold ink—to create rich, velvety portraits that evoke folk art patterns, surrealist themes, and celestial iconography. Reclaiming the importance of play in the creative process has been a powerful catalyst for Kahn, who had previously experienced a loss of joy in making amid life-threatening health challenges. “That playfulness led me straight back to my roots, to growing up in Michigan and spending time in Canada, to the German and Polish folk art that filled my grandparents’ home,” she says. “I realized that world of bold color, rich pattern, and...

The organizers of Art Basel today named the 290 galleries slated to participate in the Swiss fair’s flagship edition, to take place June 18–21 with preview days June 16 and 17. The exhibitors represent forty-three countries; twenty-one galleries will make their inaugural appearances at the event. The fair will unveil two major commissions: a work by Nairy […]

Skeleton of a girl buried next to a collection of bones belonging to a distant female relative, Ajvide, Sweden UPPSALA, SWEDEN—According to a Live Science report, geneticist Tiina Mattila of Uppsala University and her colleagues have completed a genetic study of remains recovered from four multiple burials at Ajvide, a 5,500-year-old hunter-gatherer cemetery on the Swedish island of Gotland. In all, just eight of the 85 graves in the cemetery held the bones of more than one person. The first grave in the study held the remains of a woman and two young children. The children were found to be full brother and sister, while the woman may have been their father’s sister or their half-sister. The second grave...

Neolithic figurine, Starčevo-Criș culture, Romania SFÂNTU GHEORGHE, ROMANIA—According to a Greek Reporter article, a 2.5-inch Neolithic figurine depicting a woman with extended arms was discovered in central Romania, among traces of dwellings, pottery, and charcoal dated to between 5800 and 5500 B.C. National Museum of the Eastern Carpathians archaeologists Dan Lucian Buzea, Dan Călin Ştefan, and Puskás Jozsef were investigating the site of Arcuş when they uncovered the settlement, which had been built by the early farmers of the Starčevo-Criş culture. The figurine was made with clay tempered with chaff and sand fired at high temperatures to produce a brick red color, but darker areas suggest that...

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In Modena, Teodor Currentzis's Ring ohne Worte foregoes words but not gimmickry.

While the three leads do sing the material well, there has been a glut of recordings since then which are more complete and at least as well sung.

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La pratica artistica di Yichun Yao, in mostra fino al 25 febbraio 2026 nella collettiva Rose Jail[1] alla Tache Gallery di Londra, fonde videoarte e narrazione episodica in modalità mockumentary e art comedy. Ricco di idee immaginative e di un’autoironia che ricorda Woody Allen, il suo approccio alle nuove tecnologie oscilla tra lo sviluppo di app all’avanguardia e performance interattive a bassa fedeltà che svelano la “scatola nera” degli algoritmi dell’amore. Utilizzando se stessa come medium sperimentale, l’artista indaga l’ansia diffusa nella società contemporanea di sfuggire alla condizione di single. Di recente, in veste di curatrice, ha organizzato la mostra collettiva online Coded...

As part of Shutter Hub OPEN 2026, we’re pleased to be hosting the Shutter Hub OPEN 2026 Curator’s Talk and Tour alongside a series of in-person portfolio reviews at the Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge, on Thursday 26 March 2026.
We’re starting off the day at 10.30am with the Shutter Hub Portfolio Review – a small number of one-to-one portfolio review sessions with Shutter Hub Founder and Creative Director Karen Harvey MBE.
These focused sessions provide photographers with constructive, practical feedback on their work from an industry professional with extensive experience of curating exhibitions, publishing books, judging international awards and reviewing portfolios across the UK,...

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Il maestoso Palazzo de’ Toschi, luogo che durante Arte Fiera era già stato deputato a ospitare precedenti mostre di Art City, torna a farsi scenario espositivo anche in questa edizione 2026, accogliendo un progetto di stampo concettuale che ragiona sulla nozione di realtà, rappresentazione e illusione, all’interno del campo dell’arte, utilizzando gli strumenti che le sono propri.
Francisco Tropa, “Miss America”, installation view at Palazzo de’ Toschi, ph. Carlo Favero, courtesy Banca di Bologna
La mostra dal titolo Miss America curata dal direttore di Arte Fiera uscente, Simone Menegoi, è la prima personale in Italia di Francisco Tropa, uno degli artisti portoghesi più significativi...

Prolific director Frederick Wiseman, whose pathbreaking documentaries shed light on aspects of society hitherto in shadow, died on February 16 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was ninety-six. News of his death was announced by his family through his distribution company, Zipporah Films. First gaining wide acclaim for his 1967 film Titicut Follies, which exposed the […]

3D Drawing has been at the core of Morling’s artistic practice for roughly a decade. Read all about the artist's work by clicking above.
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