At the Art21 gala with the downtown darling and Greater New York standout

Finland’s political leadership will not attend the Venice Biennale this year if the Russian Pavilion goes on view as planned, marking the latest escalation of European opposition to Russia’s return to international exhibition. In a statement released Thursday, Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture said that its position is that Russia must not be allowed to participate “as long as Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine continues.” However, Minister of Science and Culture Mari-Leena Talvitie said some public officials from Finland will still attend in order to support Finnish arts and culture. While the move stops short of a full withdrawal, Finland’s decision underscores growing political...

This was supposed to be a profile of Tania El Khoury, the multidisciplinary Lebanese artist, winner of the 2026 Creative Capital Award, Distinguished Artist in Residence and Associate Professor of Theater & Performance at Bard College, and founding director of the school’s Center for Human Rights & the Arts. But then war broke out. On March 2, two days after the United States and Israel launched their first coordinated strikes on Iran, the latter began its brutal bombardment of Lebanon. As of writing this, over 2,294 Lebanese have been killed by Israel, including 177 children and 91 healthcare workers. At least 357 of these deaths took place on April 8, dubbed Black Wednesday, when Israel dropped over 100...

Low exhibitor turnover and deliberative buying underscore a market built on long-term connections, while younger dealers shape the city’s evolving cultural context

Having lived my entire adult life under right-wing authoritarian Viktor Orbán’s regime, his colossal defeat at Hungary’s parliamentary elections last Sunday by Tisza, the largest opposition party, still feels hard to believe. Witnessing people in my hometown, Budapest, erupt with joy — dancing in the streets, strangers high-fiving each other — makes me hopeful that after 16 years, the Orbanization of culture and the instrumentalization of art institutions to broadcast the regime’s ethno-nationalist, conservative Christian agenda may finally be coming to an end.The Hungarian art scene now stands at a watershed moment, much like in 1989 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the task of restoring...

The first thing one encounters upon entering Joan Semmel’s Soho loft is an eerie oil self-portrait of the artist sitting on a stool, the flash of her camera exploding in a ring of light. Her silver-framed work, “Mirrored Screen” (2005), rests on a wall near the entrance of her second-floor Spring Street studio, where she has lived and worked for more than half a century. It almost looks like a mirror when Semmel stands in front of it, with her arched eyebrows and dark eyes, although her long, dark, wavy hair is now gray, streaked with white. The piece is part of a series on locker rooms she made more than 20 years ago, when she was interested in narcissism in popular culture. Her fitness center on...

Nearly a year after Spain’s Supreme Court ruled that the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) must return the Sijena Monastery murals to the Royal Monastery in Aragon, in northeastern Spain, the Barcelona museum still hasn’t let go of the disputed—and delicate—13th-century artworks. The ruling, in May 2025, followed more than a decade of legal battles between the Aragonese government and MNAC. The Sijena murals—often referred to as the “Sistine Chapel of Romanesque art”—were removed from the monastery in 1936, after it was set on fire during the Spanish Civil War. They were restored by MNAC, transferred to canvas, and have been on view there, controversially, since 1961. The museum was able...

keit bakery opens in berlin with minimalist interiors
 
KEIT Bakery in Kreuzberg, Berlin, designed by Studio Michael Burman, presents bread-making through a compact interior defined by stone, wood, and steel. The project brings a textural minimalism to a familiar program and backdrops production and display with an expressive material palette.
 
The layout reads immediately through its centerpiece. A large counter traces a curved path across the room, guiding both movement and attention. Formed from a reclaimed millstone, the surface has been cut into three segments and reassembled into a continuous, fan-like sequence. Its mass carries a sense of age and use, while the geometry introduces a controlled sense...

In a bold crossover, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the slender works of 20th-century Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti inside its Ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendur this summer. Made possible by a loan from the Paris-based Fondation Giacometti, Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur will showcase 17 of the artist’s sculptures within and around the first-century BCE Roman Period temple. The late artist’s foundation will loan 14 of the works for the exhibition, and The Met will contribute three works from its own collection. The temple honors the Egyptian goddess Isis, a deity associated with motherhood, magic, and healing, and her two brothers. The majority of the forthcoming exhibition’s 17...

DETROIT — Much of art history is a cycle of creation, fascination, forgetting, and rediscovery. In Detroit, the work of mid-century modern sculptor, designer, and sound artist Harry Bertoia is enjoying a moment of being found once again, both metaphorically and in a very literal sense. As a major sculpture long thought lost resurfaces in the city, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bertoia’s alma mater, sets its sights on a retrospective show to mark the 90th anniversary of the artist’s arrival.In 1970, Detroit’s J.L. Hudson Company, a destination department store founded in 1881 and commonly known as Hudson’s, commissioned an installation by the artist for the Genesee Valley mall in Flint, Michigan. The...

The works, which span prehistory to the time of contact with Spanish colonisers, were identified in Hidalgo state during construction of a passenger train line

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After years of supporting the Henry Street Settlement, a social services nonprofit on New York’s Lower East Side, via a partnership which ended in December of 2025, the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) has announced that the new beneficiary for its Park Avenue Armory fair in 2026 will be the Whitney Museum of American Art, Hyperallergic reports. […]

Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center has decided to cut ties with its longtime internal restaurant, Cardamom, after the eatery said it planned to switch over to a QR code ordering system, thereby eliminating its front-of-house staff.  As a result of its decision, Cardamom would cut sixteen hosts and servers, retaining only kitchen staff and bartenders, MPR News reported; the museum certainly feels […]

Sotheby’s has returned to profit after several loss-making years, though the underlying financial picture remains complicated. The auction house posted a $53 million pre-tax profit in 2025, according to financial documents reviewed by the Financial Times, a turnaround from a $190 million loss the year prior. Sales rose nearly 20 percent to $7.1 billion, lifting revenue from its core auction business 26 percent to about $1 billion. Full-year figures released by Sotheby’s show a broader improvement across the business. The company reported total revenue of $1.4 billion in 2025, up 21 percent year-on-year, alongside an adjusted EBITDA of $363 million, one of the highest levels in its history. The rebound...

Transverse section of a fragment of charcoal ash observed under an environmental scanning electron microscope JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Analysis of charcoal found at the site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in northern Israel shows that early hominins used readily available tree species for firewood, according to a statement released by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For tens of thousands of years, hunter-gatherers repeatedly returned to Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, which was situated near a lake. Ethel Allué of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, Naama Goren-Inbar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an international team of scientists examined more than 250 pieces of charcoal from an...

The Denver Art Museum has returned a marble head of a bearded man stolen from the ancient city of Smyrna to Turkey. This marks the latest in a growing list of successful restitutions tied to the country’s renewed campaign to reclaim its cultural heritage from museums worldwide.  The sculpture’s provenance indicates it was likely carved in the fifth century BCE in Smyrna—the ancient Greek name for present-day Izmir. Situated on Turkey’s Aegean coast, the city is among the world’s oldest continuously inhabited seaports and trade centers, a distinction that has also made it a frequent site for archeological excavations and, inevitably, a target for illicit antiquities trafficking. According to...

The organizers of the British Art Show have announced the theme and artists for the event’s tenth and largest edition, to open this fall. The traveling contemporary art exhibition, held every five years, is the largest recurring show of its kind in the UK and features recent works by the country’s artists. Curated by Ekow […]

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE—According to a Phys.org report, Weronika Tomczyk of Dartmouth College and her colleagues examined more than 300 dog bones recovered from the site of El Castillo de Huarmey in northern Peru, where a royal tomb of the Wari Empire was uncovered. “Only some remains were found in undisturbed contexts, while most came from the fill disturbed by the looters’ activity in the 1980s,” Tomczyk said. She and her colleagues focused their study on mandibles or tibias in an effort to avoid sampling the same dog more than once, resulting in a group of at least 20 individuals of various ages, from puppy to senior dogs. Most of the bones, which range in size, showed minimal butchery marks. Some of...

By Katherine Kesey In the last few years, Los Angeles's Melrose Hill neighborhood has quickly become one of the city's most walkable arts districts. This past Saturday night, there were nearly ten coordinated openings, and I attended almost all of them. Taken individually, the shows were equally captivating. Together, they were a warm and exciting medley of passionate color, lighthearted mystery, and wry humor. Hannah Tishkoff, Beyond Love There is No Belief. 2026. Acrylic, oil, and pennies...

A small group of high-value works from the collection of entrepreneur and philanthropist Jennifer Gilbert will go to auction at Sotheby’s this spring, with proceeds directed toward Lumana, a Detroit-based arts nonprofit she is developing. The works will be split across Sotheby’s May contemporary sales and its June design auction. The top lots include Joan Mitchell’s Loom II (1976), estimated at $5 million to $7 million, and Kenneth Noland’s Circle (1958), carrying a $4 million to $6 million estimate—an ambitious figure that, if achieved, would set a new high-water mark for the artist.  Other works by George Rickey and Harry Bertoia round out the group, which leans heavily on midcentury...

LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by King’s College London, the location of a property purchased by William Shakespeare in 1613 has been pinpointed on a previously unknown plan identified by Lucy Munro of King’s College London. Located in the Blackfriars neighborhood of central London, the property was situated in the gatehouse of the medieval priory that gave the neighborhood its name, but scholars had been uncertain as to where that gatehouse stood on the site. Munro recovered two documents from the London Archives and one from England’s National Archives that helped resolve this problem. The first document is a plan of the Blackfriars precinct that was drawn in 1668, after the Great...

Feline antics are notoriously chaotic. “The cat is, above all things, a dramatist,” author and Egyptologist Margaret Benson is to have said. Sacred to ancient Egyptians, domestic cats share more than 95% of their genetic makeup with tigers, and they can leap five times their height and turn into veritable spring mechanisms when startled. Also, would the Internet be the same without cat memes? For Léo Forest, these lovable, independent, wily, and territorial creatures provide an endless source of inspiration for dynamic pencil drawings. The Paris-based artist’s playful works tap into the physical and emotional quirks of cats, from brawling pairs to individuals in the midst of grooming, scratching, or...

Opening this weekend, the Green-House incorporates a historic 1895 cast-iron and glass structure and serves as the “new front door” to the famed burial ground

Dozens of staffers at Artnet and Artsy have been laid off following the consolidation of the two companies under UK-registered investment firm Beowolff Capital, Artnews reports. The cuts came one day after the announcement of the merger between Artnet—the operator of an online auction database, a sales arm, and the widely read digital publication Artnet News—and Artsy, an […]

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The country’s ministry of culture has written to the UN body for “immediate and swift intervention to protect” the Chama' Citadel after reports of damage by Israeli forces

Ecological design defines Pentaspace’s nature-integrated school
 
Heartfulness International School in Hyderabad, India, designed by Pentaspace Design Studio, integrates architecture and landscape to form a campus organized around ecological principles. Conceived for pre-primary education, the project explores how spatial design can support learning environments that are closely connected to natural systems.
 
The design is structured around the integration of a developing forest within the campus. Vegetation is incorporated as an active component of the architecture, shaping both spatial experience and environmental performance. Vertical planting systems are installed along cable frameworks, forming a...

In this week's episode, Ben Luke gets a sneak peak of London's new V&A East Museum, speaks to California-based correspondent Jori Finkel about the new home of Lacma's collection, and learns about a work by William Blake on show at the National Gallery of Ireland

In a converted 18th-century chapel on the grounds of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a strange form creeps through openings in the architecture. One can imagine its clipper- and knife-footed tendrils scurrying across the floor as it spills from an upper aperture and even slithers around part of the building’s exterior. Its otherworldly genesis is at the hands of Nicola Turner, known for her monumental, contorted textile installations that often heave and surge from structures and public spaces. Turner’s solo exhibition, Time’s Scythe, comprises forms made of recycled wool and horsehair, which she hand-stitches inside of mesh to create the bulging, knotted forms. “This is Turner’s first large-scale...

SoCal goes Scandi in two recent concerts, with one featuring an appearance by Lise Davidsen.

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Marcel Duchamp and the object, reactivated
 
Marcel Duchamp’s bicycle wheel, its spokes spinning above a wooden kitchen stool with no destination in mind, is arguably the most consequential non-artwork in the history of art. Not a sculpture in the traditional sense, not quite an object either, it hovers in a suspended state between utility and thought, action and speculation. Paired with Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal rotated ninety degrees and signed with the pseudonym R. Mutt, these objects inaugurated a shift in how form, authorship, and meaning are understood that has never fully resolved itself.
 
What Duchamp initiated was a slow-release mechanism, a way of thinking that drifts, mutates, and...

I listen to about as much art song as I do opera and could have filled every day of April with favorite selections.

ALL-IN-ONE AVANT TOILET OPTIMIZES ARCHITECTURAL SPACE
 
The Avant by Roca is an all-in-one toilet solution, leveraging a minimalist aesthetic to suit a diverse range of bathroom layouts and styles. Its primary innovation lies in the integration of the cistern into the bowl – a move that adapts and simplifies the plumbing installation while reducing its flush noise. Delivering a quieter and more comfortable user experience, the toilet is available in an electric and non-electric model, both championing a sleek design and enhanced practicality.
wall-hug Avant toilet maximizes spatial potential | all images courtesy of Roca
 
 
OPTIMIZING THE  BATHROOM WITH SUSTAINABLE DESIGN  
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David Altrath frames a suspended jungle inside a brutalist icon
 
David Altrath’s photographic series captures the Barbican Conservatory not simply as a greenhouse, but as a spatial paradox embedded within one of London’s most uncompromising architectural ensembles. Conceived in 1982 as part of the Barbican Centre, the conservatory unfolds as a suspended ecosystem where over 1,500 plant species occupy a rigid Brutalist framework of exposed concrete, steel, and glass.
 
What emerges through Altrath’s lens is not contrast in the obvious sense, but a gradual negotiation. The heavy geometry of the Barbican’s stepped terraces becomes a scaffold for growth, with vines, shrubs, and trees occupying ledges...

Chairs hung from the ceiling. Colourful playgrounds as interior spaces. Two-metre-high seating towers. This is the world of Danish designer Verner Panton (1926–1998), who is being celebrated by Vitra Design Museum this spring. The retrospective exhibition, Form, Colour, Space, opens in line with the 100th anniversary of Panton’s birth – a centenary which is also to be marked by other major destinations, including the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin and Designmuseum Danmark. Panton is recognised for shaping design in the second half of the 20th century, by taking a playful, sculptural approach to domestic space. This show is a chance to be immersed in his vision, to which colour, textiles and light...

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For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Nature category: Sophie Altemus.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sophie Altemus is a photographer currently studying at Oberlin College in Ohio. Working primarily in the realm of snapshot photography, she carries a camera with her everywhere she goes.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of design variables, you can...

Marble head of a bearded man from Smyrna, Turkey İZMIR, TURKEY—The Denver Art Museum has repatriated a marble sculpture head of a bearded man taken from the site of the ancient city of Smyrna to Turkey, according to a Yeni Şafak report. Records show that the sculpture, thought to have been carved in the fifth century A.D., was unearthed in the city’s agora in 1934, said Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy. “Through cooperation and constructive dialogue with the Denver Art Museum, we have brought this artifact back home,” Ersoy added. The sculpture is now on display at the İzmir Archaeology Museum. To read about marble panels excavated in a Roman villa at Ephesus, go to "Kaleidoscopic...

It’s one thing to marvel at the inner workings of a transistor radio or a timepiece, but for artist Manabu Kosaka, that curiosity reaches a whole new level. Using nothing but paper, the artist makes scale replicas of cameras, watches, gaming consoles, shoes, food, and more with a preternatural attention to detail. Not only does a 35mm film camera include a strap and a back hatch that opens, the lever used to advance the film and other gears are also built into the top, some of which are even moveable. Around ten years ago, Kosaka faced uncertainty about the direction of his work. “During that time, I spoke with a friend who works in art direction, and they suggested that I try creating with simpler...

HIDALGO, MEXICO—According to a Mexico News Daily report, 16 paintings and petroglyphs have been discovered on cliffs near the Tula River and the La Requena Dam, at central Mexico’s El Venado site, which is named for the depictions of deer on rock faces there. Archaeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History investigated the area prior to construction of a passenger train route. The oldest of the newly found artworks has been dated to 4,000 years ago, while the later images were made between about A.D. 900 and the arrival of the Spanish in the early sixteenth century. The rock art includes images of people with shields, headdresses, and weapons. One of the figures is shown...

Until just the past few decades, textiles were generally created with only practical applications in mind. Although fiber and cloth in its myriad forms had been produced for millennia around the globe, fabrics were woven for either domestic or industrial use, and crafts such as knitting, weaving, basket- and net-making, and more were considered purely functional. Think clothing or decor. Even ornate medieval tapestries were conceived as utilitarian objects, used in stone buildings like churches and large homes to soften sounds and insulate against the cold. Within the canon of Western art history, in particular, the hierarchy of fine art has long been quite definite: painting and sculpture were chief among...

An invigorating double bill at the San Francisco Symphony challenges how Bach "should" be performed.

This year, CONTACT Photography Festival celebrates its 30th edition. The Toronto-based event is dedicated to exhibiting, analysing and celebrating lens-based media in all its forms. Over the past three decades, it has attracted over 20 million visitors and presented the work of over 8500 artists, Darcy Killeen, Chief Executive Officer, says: “this is a milestone for our organisation, and we are truly grateful to the thousands of artists who have participated and shared their work with the public in exhibitions and programs across Toronto and on our website.” This year, the featured lens-based and mixed-media artists employ practices variously incorporating themes of decolonization, community-building,...

This performance of Poulenc's "Les Chemins de l'amour" is a gem.

In the forest nothing stands still. Time layered through thoughts and feelings, leaves kicked and crunched as we walk. The trees talk to each other, sending mycelium messages, carbon gifts, and warnings of drought or illness. From ancient wisdom to popular culture, it’s all here.
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, did it make a sound? Of course it did. And if Jo Stapleton was there to capture the moment, there would be a visual symphony of light, shape and form to follow.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, this beautiful collection of 100 images by Jo Stapleton is an expressionist photographic account of her interactions with trees, forest and woodland, later remembered and...

In a world not so unlike our own, during a time not that long ago, a mother wolf sits comfortably upon an abandoned tree stump in a clearing in the woods. Surrounded by carefully rendered flora and fauna, the creature is positioned upright with impeccable posture and human-like mannerisms. Her hind legs are crossed at […]
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Artists Christian Rebecchi and Pablo Togni, who work as NEVERCREW, have a knack for bringing the immensity of nature to developed urban spaces. Their colorful, large-scale murals take a playful tack when it comes to portraying animals, often merging them with other objects such as instant photos or, most recently, a plastic punch-out toy. “Souvenir,” completed this year in Vienna, combines motifs of a large bear with other Arctic components, such as icebergs, a seabird, and a steamship. “The natural environment appears transformed, filtered, made artificial: it is no longer a space experienced through relationship, but a distant construction,” the artists say in a statement. The work is “almost a...

With Nixon, Klinghoffer, and Andris Nelsons on the mind, Parterre Box offers a recording of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's recent John Adams outing.

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La Belle Êpqoue – French for Beautiful Era – conjures up images of glittering theatres, excessive parties and flowing champagne. The term defines the years before WWI, when France experienced a period of economic growth that produced a wealth of artistic and cultural developments. In 1913, Galeries Lafayette unveiled its flagship department store, whilst architect Auguste Perret completed the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. The country was the world’s biggest exporter of cars, as well as leading the way in the skies, with Bleriot crossing the channel in 1908. Names like Gaumont and Pathe drove the flourishing cinematic industry forwards, whilst Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque captured this rapid...

Francesca Woodman’s (1958–1981) photographic career spanned less than a decade. Yet, during that time, she created some of the best-known self-portraits of the 20th century. The majority of Woodman’s scenes unfold within empty interior spaces, illuminated by shafts of natural light or mirrored surfaces. The artist is usually the sole subject; sometimes she appears nude, other times clothed or shrouded. She might be partially hidden by furniture, appear to be suspended in a doorframe, or lie on the ground. “Haunting” is one of the words most-used to describe her images: they are often blurred, employing long exposure techniques and a black-and-white palette. Woodman operated on both sides of the...

For our fourth edition of the Booooooom Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners, one for each of the following categories: Portrait, Street, Colour, Nature, Student. You can view all the winners and shortlisted photographers here.
It’s our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Colour category, Chanyoung Chung. Born in South Korea and raised in Montréal, Chung came to photography after seven years working as a nurse in Vancouver. Now back in Montréal, he creates still-life images in the studio while also photographing traces of contemporary life beyond it. His work invites reflection on peace, cooperation, and the quiet harmony that can emerge within society.
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Fanglin Luo is a London-based early-career artist and curator whose interdisciplinary practice moves between performance, painting and photography. Her work has a foundation in both art theory and fashion design, weaving together visual and conceptual languages to examine identity, feminism and the complexities of transcultural memory. Luo’s works have been exhibited internationally, from the UK and France to the USA and Japan. In 2025, she presented at the London Design Festival and won the Silver Award at the Light From The Other Shore: 2025 New York International Art Competition. One of Luo’s earlier works is video piece ME & GODDNESS & ME, inspired by the artist’s experience walking alone at night...

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By Kristine Schomaker The work hits immediately. Not one piece — all of it, simultaneously. Large sculptural assemblages covering the walls, a freestanding sculpture in the middle of the room, a piece suspended from the ceiling. The whole gallery feeling like its own solar system, each work a satellite orbiting something enormous and unspoken. Last night, four humans splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after flying around the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years. Artemis II...

ABOVE: “Spatial Awareness”, 54″ x 250″, hand-knit with wool, 2025, photo by Chris Rettman From her dining room table in Oklahoma City, Kendall Ross knits brightly colored, intricately patterned sweaters and vests—some so large that referring to them as wearables is a bit misleading. Her textile pieces are often emblazoned with diary-like messages that speak […]
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