The opening of a public artwork by French artist JR inspired by Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 1985 intervention The Pont Neuf Wrapped has reportedly been delayed after a storm damaged the installation overtop the River Seine in Paris. As reported by Euronews, the opening planned for this weekend has been postponed to an unspecified date after severe winds mangled part of the artwork on the oldest bridge in the French capital. A statement from Atelier JR, the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, and the Amicale des Ponts de Paris said, “The decision has been taken to postpone the opening of the work to a date after 6 June, which will be set in light of the findings of the condition report.” A full...

More than 100 artists are threatening legal action against the Venice Biennale Foundation for ignoring their demands that the foundation withdraw their names from consideration for the “Visitors’ Lion” awards at the current edition over the inclusion of national pavilions by Israel and Russia. The threat is included in a new announcement published on e-flux. A May 20 letter addressed to the foundation and its president, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, is published in the announcement. It is signed by some 67 artists whose work appears in curator Koyo Kouoh’s exhibition “In Minor Keys,” including prominent figures like Laurie Anderson, Alfredo Jaar, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Walid Raad. Also among...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, has announced Makeda Best will serve as its new Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography beginning in September. Best arrives to the museum from the Oakland Museum of California, where she is deputy director of curatorial affairs. She succeeds Clément Chéroux, who left in 2022 to […]

A spate of new organisations are challenging traditional gallery models to support artists in different ways

a smiley face lands in milan
 
In Milan, inside D1 Milano’s flagship store, a familiar yellow face appears squeezed against the architecture, bright against the city’s polished retail setting. Stuart Semple’s HappyWatch arrives through that same visual pressure, turning his squished smiley motif into a limited-edition wearable artwork made with the Milanese watch brand.
 
The collaboration takes one of Semple’s most recognizable symbols and brings it onto the wrist, where time becomes both object and feeling. HappyWatch is available online worldwide and at the D1 Milano flagship, with the artist framing the piece around pressure, optimism, and the small emotional charge of color.
 
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When New Jersey-based artist and educator Ruth Borgenicht attended university, she studied mathematics. But as she shares in a statement: “Love of math was not enough to invent new ideas in this field—unfortunately for me, that also required genius.” As the saying goes, when a door closes, a window opens, and for Borgenicht, that opportunity came in the form of ceramics. Through precise forms and meticulous stoneware arrangements, the artist creates wall-hung and tabletop sculptures that are in some cases even kinetic, alternating between basket-like vessels and sturdy, elegantly nestled abstract forms. They often hang tapestry-like from a series of nails or unfurl into three-dimensional biomorphic...

On behalf of the McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) announces the six recipients of the 2026 McKnight Fellowships for Visual Artists: Torey Erin, Isa Gagarin, Jay Heikes, Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, Jovan C. Speller, and Erinn Springer. Designed to support mid-career Minnesota artists, the McKnight Fellowships for Visual Artists provide each recipient with a $25,000 stipend, public recognition, professional encouragement from national critics, and a residency facilitated by the Artist Communities Alliance (ACA). The 2026 McKnight fellows were selected from a group of 164 applicants by a national panel of arts professionals. Jurors were Laura Mott, Chief Curator of Cranbrook...

More than one hundred artists participating in the 2026 Venice Biennale have said they will pursue legal action unless their names are removed from the ballot for the event’s Visitors’ Lions awards. Like the conventional Golden Lion awards, the prizes are awarded to the best artist in the main exhibition and best national pavilion. Unlike […]

In the Summer of 1973, photographer Stephen Shore traveled West for a six-week road trip across the US. The record of Shore’s journey was preserved in a “diary” of ephemera: diner receipts, photos, postcards, and notes cataloging what the artist had eaten or documented that day (a practice Shore picked up from his days observing Andy Warhol’s meticulous accounting of expenses in The Factory). Reflecting on the diary in […]

The Headlines BRINGING OUT THE BEST. The Museum of Modern Art in New York finally has a new chief curator of photography: Makeda Best, who has served as deputy director at the Oakland Museum of California since 2023, reports the New York Times. The plum position “has influenced, implicitly or explicitly, so much of how we understand the medium,” said Best, who starts in September. It has also been vacant for almost four years. “I’m someone who’s very much committed to big stories from the collection,” added Best, offering by way of example the legacy of historic MoMA photo curator Edward Steichen, who spearheaded deep acquisitions from the Farm Security Administration during the Great...

anicka yi installs a different kind of clock at ny’s king art center
 
Anicka Yi is asking visitors to listen to the earth with Message from the Mud, a fictional archaeological dig at Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley, bringing hidden microbial activity to the surface through a series of living columns installed within the site’s pond. Twenty Winogradsky columns rise from a pond, filled with mud, soil, pond water, egg yolks, and shredded newspaper. Over time, algae, cyanobacteria, and microbial colonies bloom into vivid bands of color, transforming the installation into a living record of environmental activity. For the artist, the project is all about creating the conditions for nature...

Parterre Box previews Kathryn Lewek's upcoming Salome with clips of her as another unhinged lady of antiquity.

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PLATO is honored to present Broken Vessels, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Cindy Bernhard, featuring a new body of paintings that explores spiritual rupture, transcendence and the relationship between the human body and the divine. The public opening is scheduled for Thursday, June 4, from 6 to 8 PM in the gallery’s ground floor space. The show will be on view through July 11. At the center of the exhibition is the metaphor of the vessel: the body as a container for spirit and belief. Drawing from archetypal associations between gold and divinity, Christian mysticism and contemporary existential anxiety, Bernhard’s monumental six-foot paintings depict fractured golden forms that...

Maria Kataeva makes a promising US debut in an otherwise uneven revival of Il Barbiere di Siviglia in San Francisco.

The opening of the French street artist's newest public work and tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude has now been delayed

In 2022, Michelle Sank encountered a stranger on a Cape Town Promenade and spontaneously asked to take their photograph. It became the first in a powerful body of work, capturing the city’s drag queens. Drag Daughters follows six young men who grew up in townships, often facing rejection or having to hide their identities, who now strive to make a difference in their communities. Now on display at Het Zuid-Afrikahuis in Amsterdam, the series includes empowering portraits that move beyond the conventional depictions of drag in pageants or nightclubs, instead placing them in unassuming or domestic settings. In a country still navigating the legacies of Apartheid, alongside ongoing social challenges, the...

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Nómada Estudio Urbano reanimates underutilized kindergartens
 
Fundación FEMSA, Fundación Placemaking, and Nómada Estudio Urbano transformed kindergarten environments in Mexicali and Tijuana into child-friendly spaces informed by desert identity, adaptive reuse, and community participation, as part of LAPIS (Lugares Amigables para la Primera Infancia). The interventions explore the role of play in placemaking, reimagining everyday playgrounds as environments that support childhood development, social interaction, and a sense of belonging.
 
For more than a decade, Nómada Estudio Urbano has investigated how public spaces across Northern Mexico can function as platforms for participation, creativity, and...

eandro erlich questions reality through architecture
 
Leandro Erlich takes over Paris’ Grand Palais with his first major monographic exhibition in the French capital, bringing together landmark installations, new works, archival material, and an extensive presentation of models and studies. The retrospective traces more than three decades of a practice devoted to questioning reality through participation and spatial experience.
 
For more than thirty years, the Argentinian artist has transformed the ordinary into something strangely unstable. A staircase becomes an infinite void, a building facade turns into a stage for impossible acts of gravity, clouds drift indoors, and a domestic interior suddenly...

What would the swan song of a home sound like? For a group of artists in Seattle, one of the most expensive cities in the United States, it’s an ephemeral exhibition. Amanda Manitach reports on the poignant performances, video works, and impermanent installations that take over abandoned homes in the weeks before their demolition. Leave it to artists to fight gentrification by tenderly bringing an old building back to life.Also today, we remember the masterful illusions and anti-hierarchical work of artist Julio Le Parc, who passed away at 97 years old. More on his legacy below, plus your guide to art shows in Los Angeles this summer and some good news from New York, where SNAP recipients can now join a free...

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From Tai Shani to Ekow Eshun, seven leading art world figures reflect on Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys, the main exhibition, as well as the national pavilions and other collateral and institutional exhibitions

Sónar+D 2026 explores new digital art in Barcelona
 
What if the future of digital connectivity is rooted in moss-covered phone booths and robotic brushstrokes? Sónar+D 2026 imagines a world where the rigid boundaries between the biological and the algorithmic dissolve, repurposing Barcelona’s gothic Llotja de Mar as a laboratory for critical constructive reflection. The Festival’s exhibition program proposes a shift away from corporate-driven tech, favoring a playful, human-centric experience that invites curiosity rather than passive consumption. Through an active media partnership, designboom not only highlights must-see events but also joins this exploration for a talk, bridging the gap between...

Photography, at the threshold of its bicentenary, becomes here less a medium than a condition of perception itself. Remember Me at the Bourse de Commerce gathers image, archive, and gesture into a single unfolding field where memory is not stored but constantly reassembled. The exhibition operates through proximity rather than sequence, allowing works to collide, echo and refract one another in shifting constellations. Across centuries of practice, photography is treated not as a linear history but as a series of recurring questions about presence and disappearance. The result is an environment where looking becomes an act of reconstruction, and where the photograph is never fully settled into its own time....

The landmark institution uses experimental methodologies and cross-discipline collaborations to bring people closer to the UAE’s past—and to encourage the historians of the future

American artist Trevor Paglen (b. 1974) has investigated the politics of images for years – examining the machinations of AI, data sets and surveillance through series like Bloom, which appears on the cover of his new book, How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI, published by Verso Books. Bloom (2020) is a series of large-scale images of flowers that have been reinterpreted by computer vision algorithms from original photographs taken during the spring lockdown. He’s also been doing a similar thing with landscapes of the American West, as well in Clouds, where skyscapes are overlaid with lines indicating what algorithms – such as those in guided missiles, drones and self-driving cars – “see”...

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Il manifesto programmatico della 61esima Biennale d’Arte di Venezia, stilato dalla curatrice svizzero camerunense Koyo Kouoh, scomparsa lo scorso maggio, è una vera e propria dichiarazione poetica che emoziona, incuriosisce, riempie di speranze e aspettative. Parla di pratiche artistiche che aprono portali, rinnovano e nutrono in un “invito all’incanto”, a dare importanza al riposo fisico ma soprattutto spirituale; il presupposto è che “la poetica libera” e che gli artisti, individuati come “interpreti essenziali della condizione sociale e psichica, catalizzatori di nuove relazioni e possibilità” possano insieme generare bellezza.
Otobong Nkanga, “And Still, Here We Are”, 2026,...

More than 100 prominent French artists have signed an open letter that calls for the termination of a partnership between Centre Pompidou and the South Korean business conglomerate Hanwha Group, per multiple reports.  Following a four year partnership agreement initially signed in 2023, the Centre Pompidou and Hanwha planned to open the new “Centre Pompidou […]

The Department of Education has proposed a new “accountability” system that would judge higher-education programs largely by graduates’ earnings, prompting concern from liberal arts institutions and education advocates who argue that this is a test that music, visual arts, and filmmaking programs would, by their nature, be likely to fail. The proposed guidelines, known as the Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) and Earnings Accountability rule, are intended to provide students with information about the costs and economic prospects of their intended degree programs while, as the name implies, holding those programs accountable for their graduates’ outcomes. The framework would apply across...

Marisa Aragón Ware grew up wandering through the Rocky Mountain forests of Colorado, where she reveled in nature’s diversity. There, she learned about woodland wildflowers, fungi, birds, and more with the help of her dad, who is a scientist. Over time, her fascination with organic forms made its way into an evolving art practice. Based in Boulder, Ware continues to spend time in the woods, taking inspiration from flora and fauna alike. Through a meticulous process of cutting and scoring paper, she creates delicate curves to imitate the volume of leaves or bones and defines feathers, insect wings, and petals with precise veins and edges. Paper became Ware’s medium of choice because she finds beauty and awe...

This summer, the Los Angeles art scene is doing what it does best: challenging, complicating, and questioning the status quo. Oxy Arts will convert into a workshop for radical thought on race and resilience; Joan art center’s exhibition on Ulises Carrión highlights how the Mexican-born artist expanded the book into its own art form. Meanwhile, influential publisher Semiotext(e) fuses theory and vernacular culture in a showcase at the ICA LA. A show of punk ephemera and memorabilia at the Skirball recaptures some of the nascent movement’s raucous energy, and at the Huntington, an exhibition coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence asks how the promises of that founding...

SEATTLE — As the sun sank on a cold day in late February, a steady stream of visitors crossed a stranger’s lawn and filed through the front door of a small bungalow in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. Inside, a topsy-turvy living room was drenched in a fresh coat of bright red paint. Upside-down chairs sprouted from the ceiling, and thrift-store lamps dangled, their shades nearly grazing the heads of guests who, clutching plastic cups of Two-Buck Chuck, tapped their feet to the swell of cello, guitar, and melodica coming from somewhere within the crowd. A hand-painted statement written in black across the crimson wall laid out the terms of this heady bacchanal: The house had only a few days left to...

Lucian Freud, "Sleeping by the Lion Carpet" (1995–96) (all images courtesy Sotheby's)A masterpiece by British artist Lucian Freud is headed to auction this summer. Freud’s widely exhibited nude painting of model Sue Tilley, “Sleeping by the Lion Carpet” (1995–96), could fetch up to £35 million (~$47 million) at Sotheby’s in London on June 24. The grandson of Sigmund Freud is known for deeply observed portraits of friends and family that capture his sitters’ psychological gravitas and visceral physicality. Freud met Tilley, an unemployment office manager, through the Australian performance artist and fashion designer Leigh Bowery, who has also been featured in the artist's paintings...

Loewe unveiled a new campaign on Monday celebrating the fashion brand’s 180th anniversary, complete with a capsule collection, an anniversary magazine, and an animated film, much of which nods to the house’s long-standing connections to the art world. Under former creative director Jonathan Anderson, the fashion brand played up that connection through numerous high-profile collaborations with artists ranging from Lynda Benglis to Richard Hawkins. Many of Anderson’s collections were filled with references to visual art. That era was summed up with an exhibition in Shanghai in 2024. Anderson left the brand last year to lead Christian Dior, but Loewe has continued to draw on the art world for both...

A proposed “earnings test” in the works at the Department of Education (ED) would put many graduate arts programs in the United States at risk, per a new report from the New York Times. The proposed test, which the ED plans to implement by July 1st, 2026, is designed to measure the financial return on […]

The issues raised by the dealer James Danziger’s AI-generated photo are profoundly and irrevocably human

Given the heat generated during firing, it’s rare to see paper incorporated into a ceramics practice. For Seoul-based artist Jongjin Park, though, the two go hand-in-hand. Park recently won the 2026 Loewe Craft Prize, a prestigious annual award celebrating innovative makers, for his striking sculpture “Strata of Illusion.” A rectangular shape with an open top and slouching side, the piece features countless folded layers made from paper towels dipped in watered-down ceramic slip. Inspired by the distinctive, rippled textures and minuscule lines within stacks of paper, Park “wanted to break through the traditional boundaries and stereotypes inherent in ceramics as a medium,” he tells Colossal. “To...

By Tm Gratkowski With intent and the will to do it her own way, there is a gallery in the most unlikely of places, off the 210 freeway on Lincoln Avenue in Pasadena. Imagine walking into the parking lot of an old lumber yard, stumbling down a paved area past old materials, equipment, and a small cluster of shed-like buildings. Nothing new, no signs, just your average ubiquitous Southern California lot. As you wander in you notice a little welcoming front porch and tucked away in the corner is...

With bodies composed of ghostly ferns, flowers, and fungi, Molly Devlin’s fantastical and ethereal acrylic portraits invite us into a dreamy woodland realm. Her works tap into the beauty and resilience of living creatures, from a white bear cloaked in translucent butterflies to a diminutive mouse composed of different lifecycle phases of a dandelion. Part fauna and part flora, each elegant animal is a reminder of nature’s interconnectedness. Devlin is currently working toward a solo exhibition opening in early August at Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. She’s also finishing up a mural in collaboration with S.V. Williams along the American River in Sacramento. See more on Instagram. Do stories and...

Sculpture in the UK finds one of its most concentrated and historically continuous centres in Leeds and the wider Yorkshire region, where institutional frameworks, collections and landscapes collectively sustain the medium as both practice and discourse. Rather than functioning as isolated venues, spaces such as Leeds Art Gallery, the Henry Moore Institute and Yorkshire Sculpture Park form an interconnected ecology in which sculpture is studied, exhibited and rethought across generations. This is not simply a matter of heritage, but of ongoing curatorial and artistic experimentation that positions material form as a living question rather than a fixed category. The Summer of Sculpture programme at Leeds Art...

È da un semplice processo di recupero, archiviazione e metamorfosi che nasce “Come una diga”, ultima personale di Giovanni Longo, inaugurata presso l’Accademia d’Ungheria e aperta al pubblico fino 4 giugno 2026. Nel centro storico della Capitale, le strutture scheletriche di Longo, provenienti da cicli scultorei differenti ma strettamente interconnessi, sono le protagoniste di un’esposizione ragionata, che racconta l’andamento di una ricerca decennale, paradigmatico del percorso dell’artista calabrese. Un viaggio che pone al centro delle opere accolte negli spazi di Palazzo Falconieri il recupero di materiali lignei e la loro riformulazione.
Giovanni Longo, “Come una diga”, installation view...

L’intreccio non si lascia ridurre a tecnica nella ricerca di Yuhe Luo, ma si rivela come struttura del pensiero che precede il gesto e ne orienta la costruzione. Formata al Royal College of Art in Textile Design (Londra), l’artista sviluppa una pratica in cui il gesto del tessere supera la dimensione materiale per trasformarsi in una logica più profonda, capace di mettere in relazione ritmo, tempo e percezione. La tessitura, in questo senso, non appartiene a un singolo materiale ma è una modalità di organizzazione del tempo, una forma di articolazione del reale che si manifesta attraverso ripetizioni, variazioni minime, accumuli e discontinuità.
Yuhe Luo, “The Fluid City”, 2025, 3D printing, yarn,...

In Sydney’s Circular Quay, a 6.5-meter-tall installation spins, twirls, and totters amid a public thoroughfare. Titled “There, Now, Here,” the kinetic artwork is by the Brooklyn-based duo Wade and Leta and is in almost constant motion, thanks to wind, motors, and willing participants hopping on a see-saw. With black and white stripes alongside a more muted palette, the colors of the playground-style project reference Dorothea Mackellar’s beloved poem “My Country,” which professes her devotion to the Australian landscape and what she dubs the “sunburnt country.” Harnessing the washed-out tones of a sun-bleached environment, the artists present their signature bold works in more subtle hues, as...

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I decided I’d take ‘never made it to the Met’ as an excuse to submit a post about why French soprano Denise Duval (1921-2015) is special to me.

Madison Schindele surveys the endlessly diverse offerings of Berlin's 2026-27 opera season.

Time and place define this issue. Inside, artists, architects and photographers examine how we inhabit and interpret the world around us. At the core of their work is a fascination with the now: how it is shaped by history, yet continuously reimagined through creativity. Aesthetica’s June/July edition invites you to engage with a slower, more attentive way of seeing, Here’s a preview of what you’ll discover: Delicate Vignettes | Nuno Serrão’s minimalist images offer small parts of wider narratives, united by cinematic aesthetics and a sensitivity to the wider world. Analogue Landscape | Svetlana Talanova makes works by hand in the darkroom, using photosensitive paper to show how patterns recur across...

Ci sono artisti che producono immagini e poi ci sono artisti che producono sintomi. TuRist appartiene chiaramente alla seconda categoria. Guardando En Marche to the Future – quel Lenin avvolto nella bandiera arcobaleno che marcia mano nella mano con una figura simile a Greta Thunberg trasformata in influencer post-apocalittica del lusso globale – la prima reazione è ridere. La seconda è il disagio. La terza, se si rimane abbastanza a lungo davanti all’opera, è la consapevolezza che quella risata nasconde qualcosa di molto più instabile: il sospetto che il mondo rappresentato dalla scultura non sia una fantasia satirica, ma un ritratto anticipato del presente stesso. Ed è qui che il lavoro smette di...

Attraverso una pratica che intreccia memoria personale, immaginario mitico e tensione simbolica, Leonardo Devito costruisce visioni in equilibrio tra narrazione e autonomia formale. C’è un momento, nelle sue immagini, in cui il racconto sembra sul punto di chiarirsi, per poi restare sospeso. Le figure abitano uno spazio familiare e insieme instabile, dove memoria personale e immaginario si intrecciano senza mai risolversi del tutto. È in questa soglia tra riconoscibilità e slittamento che la pittura costruisce la propria tensione.
Leonardo Devito, “Coppia al parco”, 30x31x7 cm, terracotta, 2022, courtesy galleria Acappella Napoli
Nato a Firenze nel 1997 e attivo a Torino, Devito sviluppa una pratica...

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By Tatou Dede T: How did you end up here, being an artist today? A: I think it depends on how you define the term artist. I was always in theatre since, maybe, kindergarten. When I was a child I used to produce and direct sort of nonsensical plays for my schools, wherever I was, in Oakland, San Francisco, and Berkeley. So every year I produced a very bizarre play that, for some reason, every school had me put on. And then I studied with the Berkeley Rep theater. After that I went to UCLA and...

We’re Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau’s relationship with his estranged father. Lau’s father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau’s life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father’s sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father’s unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father’s passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai‘i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his...

By Melanie Chapman Timed in conjunction with the Taschen publication "My Education," the first book-form retrospective of photographer Bruce Weber's multi-decade career, the new exhibition now on view at Fahey Klein Gallery, Bruce Weber: Try a Little Tenderness, is worth more than one visit. Likely due to Weber's genre-defining success as a fashion photographer for Calvin Klein, GQ, Vogue, etc., particularly at its height in the 1980s and '90s, the line for the recent gallery opening...

By Barbara Patterson Zarina Van Ranzow's debut solo exhibition featuring work from her ongoing series Let it Bleed and Music for Lovers opened on May 8 at STONE/AGE Studios in East Los Angeles. Drawing from archival photographs of the artist's family and portraits of a variety of musicians, the series adapts photographic content into oil and airbrush paintings that pick up where the camera leaves off. Diffusing the harsh, resolute forms that photography's understanding of the subject...

In Perfectly Normal—the exhibition from Dustin Myers that ran at Los Angeles gallery Thinkspace Projects in November 2023—the Southern California artist presented a collection of young characters painted in oils. Posed in the awkward-yet-endearing postures associated with school photographs, the characters’ exaggerated facial features reveal a bevy of emotions. Some are ready for their close-up. […]
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