President Donald Trump announced the idea of building a triumphal arch, modeled on Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, at a holiday party last December. At the time, he said that planning and construction of the proposed arch should be domestic policy chief Vince Haley’s “primary thing.” The project’s architect, Nicolas Leo Charbonneau, a principal at the firm Harrison Design and leader of its “Sacred Architecture Studio,” told the New York Times that “the intent of the arch is a celebration in America of 250 years of greatness, freedom, and posterity, for which we can only thank the wisdom of our founders and God’s providence.” The proposal was met with almost immediate pushback from the general...

Unionized staffers at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, have demanded that the institution remove top funder Les Wexner’s name from its moniker following the discovery of his close ties to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. According to a May 21 post to their Instagram, Wexner Workers United (WWU), under the […]

Manuel Segade, the director of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain’s national museum of 20th century art, has been threatened by lawmakers with removal from his post if he fails to complete an inventory of the museum’s collection by December 31st of this year, ARTnews reports.  Following his appointment in 2023, Segade has […]

Combined, the prizes will provide as much as $113,200 for acquisitions at the fair

A new residency exclusively meant for Indigenous artists working with neon for the first time is launching as the result of a collaboration between the Walker Youngbird Foundation, a Native-led nonprofit supporting Indigenous artists, and Lite Brite Neon Studio, a neon fabrication workshop based in Kingston, New York. “I have always been fascinated with light […]

Works by famed Canadian figures including Emily Carr, Tom Thomson, Jean Paul Riopelle and Takao Tanabe also notched major results

Jack White, who growled and grinded as the singer/guitarist of the White Stripes and has since positioned himself as a primal rock god on his own, is showing a new side as a sculptor with a show opening in a London gallery run by none other than Damien Hirst. As chronicled in the Financial Times, he two artists first met in 2021, when White was readying a new outpost of his Nashville-based Third Man Records store in Soho, across the street from Hirst’s studio. White played a show from Hirst’s balcony for the opening and caused a scene: “The guerrilla concert brought the neighbourhood to a standstill; a crowd of thousands sang along to The White Stripes’ driving anthem, ‘Seven Nation Army.” When...

Tens of thousands of works were taken and most were never returned, but Museo del Prado identified 166 from its collection and is leading the return efforts

Photography is often touted as the most democratic and accessible medium in the visual arts. Today, the majority of us carry phones equipped with powerful, easy-to-use cameras that capture our lives and the world around us, transforming each of us into a documentarian at a moment’s notice. This omnipresence shapes our understanding of art and culture and often serves as a critical tool for political and social change. The same is true for a forthcoming exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985 transports viewers to the mid-20th century, when the medium rose to prominence not only for artists but also for organizers, activists, and cultural icons....

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With Slow Dream, OF A brings a dark botanical landscape into the Great Pavilion at the Chelsea Flower Show 2026, where the garden appears to rise from the floor as a living object. Presented from May 19th to 23rd, the installation marks the second expression in the studio’s ongoing OF A GARDEN series, following Moon Garden, first shown during Frieze Week London 2025.
 
OF A works across objects, environments, exhibitions, and landscapes. With this series, the studio, founded by Ralu Emandi and Laura Lim Sam, treats the garden as a sculptural body.
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At this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, OF A‘s Slow...

A government spokesperson claims that Helmut Ditsch’s photorealist painting was removed for maintenance, but a leading historian places it within a history of cultural and historical erasure

You might know Anni Albers for her revolutionary, abstract woven artworks that helped pave the way for textiles to gain broad acceptance as a museum-worthy form. And perhaps you’re familiar with her incisive essays and books on weaving and design, art prints, fabric designs (some of which are still in production), or formative time spent in the weaving programs at two legendary schools: the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College, as a student and a teacher, respectively. But you might not know about the artist’s obsession with white blouses, how much she delighted in English-language idioms, and her penchant for extra-crispy Kentucky Fried Chicken. Packed with lively detail and illuminating anecdotes,...

Welcome to the 338th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Kevin Callahan marks three years in his studio after losing his partner of 39 years and moving to a new home. He still finds reasons to smile as he paints and draws under the California sun.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.Kevin Callahan, Oakland, CaliforniaHow long have you been working in this space?Three years.Describe an average day in your studio.I’m an early riser and usually am out working around 9am. My morning starts with NPR...

Muriel Hasbun, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice poignantly recounted the effects of El Salvador’s civil war and the migration and exile of its diaspora, died on May 13 from ovarian cancer in Silver Springs, Maryland. She was 64 years old. The news was confirmed by art historian Tatiana Flores. “A beloved member of the DC art scene and a leading advocate for Salvadoran and Central American artists in the diaspora, Muriel’s loss cuts deeply across many communities,” Flores, who curated an exhibition of Hasbun’s at Rutgers University, told ARTnews in an email. “I mourn the passing of a dear friend, her unrealized projects, and the memories that die with her. We left much work unfinished.”...

Good Morning! Dutch archaeologist Wim Dijkman was arrested and then released for taking some of the skeletal remains that are possibly of the fourth Musketeer, D’Artagnan. Congress rejected a bill to build a Smithsonian Museum dedicated to women. The Commission of Fine Arts approved plans to build Trump’s 250-foot triumphal arch. The Headlines ALL FOR ONE, AND ONE FOR ALL? The Dutch archaeologist involved in the recent discovery of what many hope are the remains of the 17th-century musketeer D’Artagnan—found beneath the floor of a church in Maastricht—was arrested and released after retaining some of the excavated skeletal remains, Le Figaro reports. The archaeologist, Wim Dijkman, remains the...

Nature 2.0: an AI robot in a hybrid biological-mechanical body
 
Monsieur Plant’s Nature 2.0 is a robot equipped with artificial intelligence that stands before us, not as a cold, autonomous entity, but as a body traversed, inhabited, and transformed by nature. Its clothing subverts contemporary codes: baggy pants and a loose-fitting sweatshirt, both made of plant-based foam. Clothing, a cultural and social symbol, becomes an extension of life.
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Monsieur Plant explores links between nature and technology
 
At the heart, an opening reveals an unexpected interior: not metallic circuits, but an intertwining of earth, roots, and organic matter....

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In this week's episode, Ben Luke speaks to correspondent Judd Tully on the New York spring auction results and takes a tour of the James McNeill Whistler exhibition at Tate Britain in London. Digital editor Alexander Morrison sees a frieze by Edvard Munch on display in Oslo.

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You saw them here first. This summer, we spotlight the exciting new talent emerging from the UK’s leading art schools. Graduate shows are where major careers begin, offering an early glimpse of the artists and makers set to shape the future of contemporary visual culture. They also demonstrate the importance of arts education, demonstrating how creativity influences every aspect of the world around us. Discover how the class of 2026 is responding to the defining issues of our time across a wide range of disciplines. Arts University Plymouth: Graduate Shows 2026 | 21 May – 30 July In Plymouth, this season is dedicated to propelling the designers and makers of tomorrow into the creative industries. The...

Monster Chetwynd’s Salamander Portal
 
Monster Chetwynd’s Salamander Portal (2026) has three massive, fuschia salamanders crawling across its arc. Their padded toes cling onto a monolithic ring of what looks like to be inscribed stone carrying heavy water marks at the on set of humidity. It appears as if the arc was there for a very long time, or at the very least, pulled out of a Tomb Raider film. Their large black eyes look upon those who enter and exit the portal. It invokes Julio Cortázar’s experience writing about the eyes on an axolotl, a very ancient looking type of salamander, writing that their eyes, “spoke to me of the presence of a different life, of another way of seeing.”
 
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GINZA SIX MELDS ART AND URBAN LIFE IN TOKYO 
 
GINZA SIX evolves as a dynamic cultural platform where art and urban life collide. Under the guiding theme ‘From the Ginza to the World’, the hub presents high-level sensory stimulation with a global creative exchange. The intervention featuring the contemporary artist Julian Opie debuted on September 11, 2025, marking the first time a dynamic, film installation has ever been presented within the building’s central atrium, which was designed by Gwenael Nicolas of Curiosity. This large-scale, floating LED installation, named ‘Marathon. Women.’ invites visitors to experience immersive art while shopping.   Julian Opie’s ‘Marathon. Women.’ figures...

Harvard Medical School describes scents as “like a key being inserted into a lock” when it comes to our memory. Smells can trigger an emotional response, a vivid recollection or a specific feeling. Consider getting a whiff of a long-forgotten perfume, or a food once cooked by a beloved grandparent. This concept has long been explored by creatives, with olfactory art utilising scent as a way to evoke memories, challenge societal norms and create immersive spaces. Major figures in this space include Anicka Yi, Mike Kelley and Peter de Cupere. Now, artist Keni Li explores this topic in her latest series, Fluid Memory: Wings (2025-2026), which explores how memory can be reconstructed through images, scent...

ma yansong, carlo ratti, and stefano boeri share stage in milan
 
‘The dream becomes true because someone already saw your dream. They shared your dream.’ Set against the backdrop of designboom’s ROOM FOR DREAMS during Milan Design Week 2026, three of the world’s most influential architectural visionaries – Stefano Boeri, Carlo Ratti, and Ma Yansong – gathered to discuss dream projections with designboom’s Managing Editor Claire Brodka. As leaders in urban forestry, smart-city technology, and organic urbanism, the architects shared a stage together for the very first time to explore how their discipline can move beyond static construction to become a proactive force, designing the future...

Nadine Sierra's Gilda at the Metropolitan Opera had that rare quality of sounding both immaculate and spontaneous, as if Verdi's lines were being discovered in the moment rather than executed.

In three and a half decades as a curator, Elizabeth Ferrer had never faced the need to remove an artwork from an opened exhibition. But a month after she inaugurated a major show of Chicano photography at The Cheech in California, which included a 1969 portrait of Cesar Chavez, horrific allegations of sexual assault against the labor leader hit the front pages of national newspapers. Today in Hyperallergic, Ferrer writes candidly about historical revision, a delicate curatorial calculus, and having to make “a decision I could live with.” If you're in New York, don't miss Roberto Lugo's new sculptural series, an ode to Puerto Rico rising joyfully from the urban meadow that is Madison Square...

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Christo (1935–2020) never treated space as neutral. Across a practice developed in tandem with Jeanne-Claude, he recast it as something provisional – something that could be tightened, sealed, withheld or briefly made strange. Born in Bulgaria and later based in Paris, his early years under political constraint shaped a lifelong interest in restriction as material condition. What might appear, at first glance, as acts of concealment were in fact acts of disclosure: buildings wrapped, coastlines interrupted, monuments turned temporarily unreadable. In each case, the familiar was not erased but delayed, forcing attention back onto the act of looking itself. The work did not sit in space so much as...

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Era da tempo che l’inaugurazione della Biennale Arte non suscitava così tanto clamore. La 61. Esposizione Internazionale ha cominciato a far parlare di sé a partire dalle polemiche con cui è stata accolta la pubblicazione dell’elenco degli artisti invitati dalla curatrice Koyo Kouoh, scomparsa a maggio 2025, per la precisa ed escludente polarizzazione geografica di cui è espressione. Al dibattito sulla geopolitica artistica configurata dalla ricognizione, seppure non sappiamo fino a che punto compiuta, della potente critica d’arte camerunese naturalizzata svizzera si sono sovrapposte, nelle settimane precedenti l’apertura, ancora più infuocate diatribe in cui l’arte supposta essere al centro...

Artists iterating on a seemingly mundane object is one of our favorite exhibition concepts. Vintage envelopes, coasters, and matchboxes are just a fraction of the items galleries have offered as unique canvases for small works, and now, we can add nighlights to that list. On view through June 26, DUDD LITE is a collaboration between the design collective Dudd Haus and the gallery The Future Perfect. Curated through an open call that garnered nearly 400 submissions, the playful exhibition presents more than 130 artist-designed nightlights made from stained glass, wood, seashells, ceramic, cotton, and more. The small works hover between sculpture and functional object, each reflecting a distinctive sensibility...

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Larry Gagosian Gets the Documentary Treatment A new “unauthorized documentary” about the enigmatic dealer is in the works, as first reported by Page Six and confirmed by Hyperallergic directly with the film's creator, the Canadian director and veteran producer Barry Avrich of Melbar Entertainment Group. Avrich said the film will complete his trilogy about the art industry, following Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World (2017) and Made You Look (2020). (He also wrote a book last year about the Knoedler Gallery fraud scandal.) Personally, I am both...

On February 7, the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside, California, inaugurated a show I curated: Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026. The largest exhibition ever mounted by The Cheech, it includes some 150 works by 45 photographers based across the United States. The exhibition and accompanying publication also represent the first comprehensive survey of this history, one that spans six decades, beginning with a pioneering generation of photographers who chronicled the Chicano civil rights movement in the Southwest. These artists — including more recent figures like Laura Aguilar, Ken Gonzales-Day, and Christina Fernandez — have played significant roles in...

THE THEME OF this year’s Biennale of Sydney is “rememory.” The word is drawn from Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved, and was coined to define a memory that remains in the world, no matter how hidden or repressed. It has a physicality, according to Morrison—you can “bump into a rememory that belongs to someone else,” […]

On Thursday, the luxury fashion house Chanel and Paris’s Centre Pompidou announced a five-year strategic partnership in support of the contemporary art museum’s significant phase of renovations, which is planned to culminate in 2030 with the reopening of the museum.  The new collaboration between Chanel and Centre Pompidou–the two organizations have previously partnered on initiatives […]

Paris’s Centre Pompidou has announced another five-year partnership, this time with the iconic fashion house Chanel. (Last week, the Pompidou and M+ in Hong Kong announced their plan to lend artworks and collaborate on research projects and exhibitions.) Despite being closed until 2030 while undergoing an over $500 million renovation, the Pompidou has kept busy with new collaborations and satellite museums, including those in Seoul, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, and Brussels. The Pompidou and Chanel began working together in 2019, and in 2024 the luxury brand sponsored the museum’s acquisition of a cache of 21 artworks by 15 contemporary Chinese artists, among them Alice Chen, Chen Wei, Cui Jie, Hu Xioyuan, and...

Every year, there are two major migration events. Birds, insects, fish, and many mammals head north in the spring to nest and breed and return south in the winter to feed and raise their young. Using BirdCast, a tool that’s active seasonally and allows anyone to see bird migration “heat maps” around the U.S., ornithologists tracked a record-breaking one billion birds migrating on a single October night in 2023 (last year, that number reached 1.2 billion). But on the night spanning October 4 to 5, something else really big happened: nearly 1,000 birds died in Chicago after hitting a single building. McCormick Place Lakeside Center is situated along the Lake Michigan shoreline, set apart from other...

Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego enchants and surprises despite the Disnified treatment of its subject matter.

Verdi’s Stiffelio goes Amish in Vienna, featuring a stellar Luciano Ganci in the title role.

Vanessa is spare and compelling in Heartbeat Opera's production.

Tito Gobbi's performance of Rigoletto's "Cortigiani, vil razza dannata" offers the most musically and dramatically complete portrait of Verdi's tortured court jester that I have ever heard.

Now in its sixth year, the Listening Pitch – commissioned by Aesthetica Film Festival and Audible – continues to assert itself as a vital platform for ambitious, sound-led documentary work. What has become clear over time is that this is not simply a funding initiative, but a curatorial position: documentary understood through listening as method, where sound is not illustrative but generative, shaping how stories are formed, contested, and ultimately understood. In a contemporary nonfiction landscape defined by scale and saturation — where short documentary circulates widely across festivals, broadcasters, and platforms — the Listening Pitch offers a space where attention itself becomes the primary...

In an age defined by the incessant circulation of images, photography has become less a discrete medium than an ambient condition. Pictures arrive and depart with such velocity that looking is often reduced to a kind of reflex – a flicker of attention rather than sustained encounter. The photograph, once anchored in the idea of duration, now behaves like a surface of perpetual present tense, endlessly refreshed and endlessly displaced. However, within this saturation, photography festivals have become increasingly important as counter-temporal spaces – environments in which images are slowed, recontextualised and recharged through proximity, scale and sequence. They function as temporary architectures of...

Ospitata negli spazi della Collezione Maramotti, “Cannon Fodder” segna la prima personale di Giuditta Branconi (classe 1998) in un’istituzione d’arte. La mostra si configura come un’esplicita e lucida dissertazione sul presente, inteso come un quotidiano opprimente in cui le dinamiche emotive e politiche si intrecciano in modo inestricabile. È lo stesso titolo, traducibile letteralmente come “carne da cannone”, a esplicitare la dichiarazione d’intenti dell’artista: un riferimento diretto e urticante a quei corpi sacrificabili, a quella materia biologica e sociale destinata a essere sistematicamente consumata da un macrosistema alienante. Da questa premessa si sviluppa una pittura che non è...

If you want to participate in Pat Perry’s new photo project, you’ll have to get comfortable heading outside, grabbing a few friends, and preparing to hunt low and high for obscure spots in your neighborhood. The Detroit-based artist recently launched “Liminal Bingo,” a communal photo hunt designed specifically “for people ages 5 to 105 living in boring places or exciting places.” Open to anyone with an internet connection, the project has a simple premise: grab a camera (phones are okay, although Perry encourages film if possible), and snap photos of his illustrated prompts. When you’ve collected five in a row, you’ve got a bingo! The instructions, though, are less straightforward than the...

“Paintings arrive at the studio in all states of disrepair,” shares art conservator Julian Baumgartner, who receives artworks in need of attention all the time. He adds, “It is, however, odd to have a painting arrive in a manner that can’t help but make one wonder just how bad it is.” An anonymous portrait was indeed folded inside a parcel that itself had been mangled enough in transit to make one think, Is this going to be salvageable? For the highly trained painting restorer, though, “Fortune favors the fold.” Baumgartner has seen his fair share of bad overpainting and, in this case, pretty substantial creases, tears, and worn-away paint. He runs Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration, a...

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Nato nel 1971 a Charleston, South Carolina, e attualmente di base a New York, Maxwell Stevens ha stabilito il disegno come pietra angolare della sua pratica, elevandolo a linguaggio visivo autonomo. In questa intervista, l’artista rivela la sua fascinazione per l’immediatezza e la materialità delle opere su carta, dove linea e superficie servono come veicoli dinamici per il pensiero e la riflessione emotiva. Esplorando la tensione tra figurazione e astrazione, Stevens ci invita a vedere il disegno come uno spazio intimo, “palinsestico” che, nella sua semplicità elementale, cattura la complessità frammentata della nostra esperienza contemporanea.
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By Mary Singh Los Angeles has been in a prolonged conversation about monuments. Co-organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art and The Brick, and co-curated by Hamza Walker, Kara Walker, and Bennett Simpson, earlier this year, "MONUMENTS" brought ten decommissioned Confederate statues into the Geffen Contemporary's vast industrial space, placing them in direct dialogue with contemporary works by nineteen artists. Praised by the Los Angeles Times as "the most significant show in an American...

Alla Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, la prima personale istituzionale italiana di Lenz Geerk, Theatre of the Mind, si presenta come un dispositivo percettivo in cui la pittura regola le circostanze dell’apparizione. La mostra elabora un campo in cui sagoma, spazio e tempo non si danno simultaneamente, ma come scansioni differite, in cui la visione arriva sempre leggermente dopo il proprio accadere. Nei dipinti di Geerk non si dispiegano rappresentazioni semplici. Figure, oggetti e situazioni coesistono in configurazioni instabili e gli elementi non tendono a una sintesi, ma rimangono in uno stato di connessione irrisolta, in cui ciò che affiora non coincide mai davvero con ciò che si compie.
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Si entra subito nel cuore del tema centrale osservando le immagini del fotografo colombiano Felipe Romero Beltrán: Bravo è il titolo del progetto che esplora il dramma dell’attraversamento del confine tra Messico e Stati Uniti, costituito dal fiume nel titolo, il Rio Bravo. Eppure, non vediamo figure umane nell’atto di passare il guado, ma soprattutto oggetti, sedie, materassi, pentolame, cortili senza persone, reliquie religiose, e luoghi che ci fanno capire che qualcuno da lì è passato. Come uno spettro. Fantasmi del quotidiano è il leitmotiv della XXI edizione del Festival della Fotografia Europea, realizzata con la curatela di Walter Guadagnini, Arianna Catania, Tim Clark e Luce Lebart.
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By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

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By Lacey Argus It's easy to miss the bite-sized rainbows orbiting around the travertine surfaces of The Getty Center's Main Entrance. Some people breeze by them, eager to visit the various galleries that lie just beyond them. Others dash through them as they rush into a crowded bathroom line. Some briefly glance upward at the towering glass light prisms suspended from the atrium enclosing the space. But not children. If you spend an afternoon amongst these rainbows, you're sure to notice...

W hen we connect over Zoom, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, aka Shoplifter, is in Bentonville, Arkansas preparing to unveil Xanadu, a large-scale, outdoor installation at Format Festival. “It’s going to be like an alien forest that people at the festival roam around in and space out,” says Arnardóttir of the installation, consisting of ten poles ranging in […]
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What do you get when you combine an obsessive urge to create, sleep deprivation, climate change anxiety, and penchant for enchanted nature realms? Amy Casey shows us firsthand, through her infinitely detailed paintings of manmade structures, either clashing or peacefully coexisting with natural environments. In these pieces we might find repetitions of fungi, leaves, and […]
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