Brazilian police say they have identified the man they believe organized last year’s theft of eight Henri Matisse works from one of São Paulo’s most important libraries, a case that shocked the country’s cultural sector and remains unresolved. According to Art Review,  authorities have named Laéssio Rodrigues de Oliveira Silva as the alleged architect of the December 2025 theft from the Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, Brazil’s second-largest library. Investigators say Rodrigues de Oliveira Silva coordinated the operation while drawing on a long history of thefts involving rare books, manuscripts, and other cultural artifacts. The heist unfolded on the final day of an exhibition titled “From Book...

On Saturday, French museum Centre Pompidou-Metz sent out a curious media blast headed by two grainy images. The first depicted a ripe banana duct-taped to a blank white wall—unmistakably, Maurizio Cattelan’s viral artwork Comedian—and the second featuring just the duct-tape on the wall. The news: Cattelan’s banana had been stolen from the eastern French museum. In reality, little was lost in the scuffle over the conceptual work. Per the museum, Staff replaced the fruit “as quickly as possible” with a fresh banana and a strip of tape, as they usually do about every three days. The value of the controversial piece, a limited edition of which famously sold at auction for $6.24 million in 2024, lies...

a puerto rican landscape inside el choliseo
 
Inside San Juan’s Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot, Bad Bunny’s No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí residency turns the arena into a landscape of mountain paths, weathered concrete, plantain leaves, and the familiar roofline of a Puerto Rican home. Designed by STURDY. with Adrian Martinez in collaboration with Bad Bunny, the production builds its atmosphere through place before scale, as the island’s architecture and terrain are at the center of the performance.
 
The residency, which ran across thirty nights in 2025 with early tickets reserved for Puerto Rico residents, was a major cultural event for San Juan. Its staging gave that larger moment a physical...

New York City in the 1980s felt like a very different place. Imagine subway cars cloaked inside-out in graffiti and Times Square without the monumental LED screens. Evidenced by the likes of photographers Steven Siegel, Willy Spiller, and Jamel Shabazz, not to mention Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style (1982), a period of intense, new, rough-around-the-edges energy was canonized. The era marked the birth of hip hop and New Wave, MTV, iconic fashion, legendary nightlife, and Pop Art. In 1978, just prior to the economy reeling during a major recession, a 20-year-old Keith Haring (1958-1990) moved to Manhattan to study at the School of Visual Arts. “I arrived in New York at a time when the most beautiful paintings...

The argument that you can do good from the inside of an institution ravaged by the Trump administration no longer washes

Historic European cities now occupy a rare and productive tension. Shaped by centuries of memory, architecture and ritual, they continue to operate as living cultural systems rather than fixed historical artefacts. Within them, heritage is not a static condition but an active framework through which identity is continuously negotiated. These cities function most powerfully when preservation and transformation are held in productive relation rather than opposition. The question is not whether cities change, but how they manage to evolve while retaining the depth of their rich accumulated histories. Bruges exemplifies this condition with particular clarity. Its UNESCO World Heritage status situates it within a...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Julio Le Parc, a pioneer of Kinetic Art and winner of the Venice Biennale Grand Prize, has died at 97 in Paris. Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, i.e. the duct-taped banana, was stolen from the Centre-Pompidou Metz. The British Museum says its decision to postpone a lecture titled “The Ancient History of Israel and Judah” was “not censorship.” The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born pioneer of kinetic art, died on May 30 in Paris, at 97, reports ARTnews. The artist’s health had declined in recent days, but he remained deeply engaged with his work until...

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The duct-taped banana installation was swiftly restored after its "perishable element" went missing on Saturday afternoon

The museum rescheduled a May lecture on Ancient Israel and Judah upon learning that a significant number of participants intended to disrupt the event

the art of sari drapes
 
In the FAQ for the Sari Series, the founder Malika Verma addresses a question that people must ask her constantly: what are her favorite sari drapes? The answer is succinct and detailed, noting not just the drape of the the traditional garment found in India and South Asian, but the region it comes from: ‘Personal favorites include Boggili Possi from Andhra Pradesh, Yakshangana Kasi from Karnataka, and the Kotapad drape from Orissa.’ Verma, the founder of Border&Fall, an agency dedicated to craft and design that works between India and New York City, began this project over ten years ago with the intention to crystallize knowledge of sari draping and create a freely accessible...

camille henrot brings ecological grief into the domestic sphere
 
Camille Henrot’s film In the Veins centers on what it means to raise children in a world shaped by climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and ecological grief. Presented this year at LUMA Arles and now receiving its Scandinavian premiere within Paper Planes, Henrot’s largest solo exhibition in Scandinavia to date at Copenhagen Contemporary, the work moves between wildlife rehabilitation centers, scenes of caregiving, children’s gestures, cyclical rhythms, and fragmented observations on maintenance, repetition, vulnerability, and survival.
 
Animals arrive early in a human’s life, populating alphabet books, cartoons, bedtime stories,...

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.

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....

$181.2 million for a Jackson Pollock? Astronomical numbers dominated the headlines during this spring’s marquee auctions. But beneath the record-breaking sales is a more complicated story: The art market is not healthy, gallerist Marc Straus writes today. Read on for his take on what the less glitzy lots reveal about the market, and the smaller galleries suffocating while the trophy sales suck up oxygen. Here’s a more cheerful story — a new joint project between Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze and Miotto Mosaic Art Studios adorning Brooklyn’s Borough Hall Station. Part mosaic and part collage, it is playful, joyful, and a little bizarre (just how I like it), capturing aliens, birds, and even leopard-headed...

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

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New York’s marquee auctions made record figures for established names, but precious few by young artists. Meanwhile, struggling gallery sector is impacting primary contemporary market

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SECURITY ARCHETYPE SHIFTS TOWARD HIGH-DESIGN PRODUCTS
 
Beyond mere protection, Brown Safe transforms security into high design, crafting safes and vaults that are as aesthetically sophisticated as the treasures they house. Although security remains the core priority, the products transcend traditional utility, adapting to the nuances of contemporary living. Through an expansive palette of bespoke materials and finishes, each unit is reimagined as a sculptural element. Whether configured as a built-in element or a freestanding piece, every safe strikes a rigorous balance between form and advanced technical function, from precise climate control systems to industrial-grade fire protection.
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DBEW Award ceremony and forum premier in Milan
 
Launched during Milan Design Week 2026 at the ADI Design Museum, the DBEW (Design Beyond East and West) Award introduces a new approach to recognizing creative talent across disciplines and cultures. Bringing educators and students into the spotlight together, the initiative explores how design education can evolve in response to artificial intelligence, global mobility, and increasingly collaborative modes of practice.
 
Co-organized by Kookmin University and the ADI Design Museum, the award seeks to identify emerging multidisciplinary talent while fostering educational frameworks that support sustainable and future-oriented design practices. Distinguishing...

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...

Tamara Dean (b. 1976) turns the camera upon herself for High Jinks in the Hydrangeas, a series in which the Australian photomedia artist takes on the roles of director, subject and image-maker. In some shots, her body is submerged within massive pink blooms. For others, she clings onto bending branches, seeming to defy gravity. This is Dean’s most personal collection to date. “The figure moving through these landscapes became the woman I aspired to be: one who could fly, shoot an arrow, climb trees and clap clouds of thunder. Yet, she was also vulnerable and curious, introverted and gentle. During editing, I expected to confront my body with the same criticisms I would ordinarily inflict upon myself....

When Frank Relle first encountered a swamp, he felt an internal shift. “I went in once, and something happened; I changed, and then I kept going back.” In the years since, Relle has continued to explore Louisiana by water, spending nights camping and photographing with a lighting system rigged to his flatboat. The resulting images capture cypresses in bayous and lakes. These are otherworldly, towering trees which can live as long as 1,000 years. “I’m alone in the boat, but not alone in any real sense,” Relle explains. In fact, he is surrounded by life: not only plants, but alligators, cormorants, deer, frogs, herons, raccoons and osprey. “The swamp at two in the morning is one of the loudest places...

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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...

"Sofia’s crime is not her betrayal of the documentarian’s fiduciary duty to biographical explication but the tasteful neutering of Marc’s histrionic import"

"What still amazes me, and what I envy, is this: Fried intuited that his taste in contemporary art had a historical basis"

"You don’t need opera, the grandeur of apparitions and murderous confessions, to access horror. Not in America, anyway"

"Spaulding attempts to repair a critical vocabulary that has long known what to do with Duchampian skepticism, but is much less sure about Beuysian belief"

"Side by side, the books make a case for the permeability of her fiction and her criticism; you can hear them like Pyramus and Thisbe whispering through walls"

The British Museum was briefly evacuated Saturday after staff discovered what was described as a “suspicious device” inside a restroom, prompting a police response at one of the world’s most visited museums. The Metropolitan Police were called to the museum’s Bloomsbury headquarters around 2:50 p.m. local time after reports of a suspicious package, according to The Independent. Officers investigated the object and later determined it posed no threat. Visitors were allowed back into the museum shortly after 4 p.m. and normal operations resumed. In a statement, the museum said it had also received what it described as “malicious communications” before the evacuation. “The safety and security of...

A.J. Goldmann on the Salzburg Festival's revolving doors, both in its administration and in its delectable production of Il viaggio a Reims.

The immortal Renata Tebaldi, just about 29 years old as Saint Joan in a RAI broadcast of Giovanna d'Arco from 1951.

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
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Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born artist whose shimmering mobiles, vibrating light installations, and participatory environments helped redefine the relationship between art and its audience, died on May 30 in Paris. He was 97. His son, Yamil Le Parc, confirmed the death to the Argentine newspaper La Nación. The artist had been hospitalized in recent days after a decline in health and died at the American Hospital in Paris. According to his son, Le Parc remained deeply engaged with his work until the end and had been eagerly anticipating a major retrospective scheduled to open at Tate Modern in London on June 11. He had hoped to attend the exhibition, which surveys nearly seven decades of his career. For...

Bass-baritone Le Bu’s recital with Vocal Arts DC highlighted his linguistic and timbral versatility.

In occasione delle celebrazioni per la Festa Nazionale della Repubblica Italiana, il Consolato Generale d’Italia a Fiume avrà il piacere di ospitare – mercoledì 3 giugno 2026, nella sede della Comunità degli Italiani di Pola, con inizio alle ore 18.30 – la mostra/evento dal titolo “Colors” con il supporto del periodico EccellenzaExcellency dell’editore triestino Giorgio Siderini. L’evento si snoda attraverso una sorta di confronto tra le opere di tre autori di diversa formazione ed estrazione geografica: Elisabetta Bacci, Carlo Fontana e Giovanni Pulze.
Giovanni Pulze “San Francisco Angel” 2018, acrylic on canvas, cm 80 x 80
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“In punta di piedi”. Si è invitati ad assumere un tale atteggiamento quando si attraversano le Tese delle Vergini in occasione della 61.ma Biennale di Venezia. Il Padiglione Italia è rappresentato dal progetto Con te con tutto, personale di Chiara Camoni a cura di Cecilia Canziani che ben si accorda al tema In Minor Keys pensato dalla curatrice Koyo Kouoh, e che nel particolare, è venuto formulandosi sulla base di un sentimento di amicizia e affinità che da tempo legano artista e curatrice, declinandosi al femminile. Questo sodalizio si rende percepibile nell’atmosfera rarefatta e meditativa della mostra, un’atmosfera palpabile e silenziosa che tocca registri intimi, sacrali, regali e relazionali,...

You might first associate Khaled Sabsabi’s name with controversy; he was removed as the Venice Biennale’s Australian pavilion artist last year, then reinstated after public backlash and an independent review. But as with so many participants and works at the so-called Olympics of the art world, that is only part of the story.This week, critic Aruna D’Souza sat down with Sabsabi for a conversation about the trauma of migration, the 132-foot-long piece that came to him in a dream, and the Sufi teachings that influenced his two works in Venice. One is on display in the late curator Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys, a “triumph” of an exhibition that Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara calls “a solid hymn to the...

The Pollock sucks up the oxygen. It is the lead story — important, yes, but also misleading. $181.2 million for a great Pollock, wisely held back until the market could carry it. More astonishing, in some ways, than the $451 million Leonardo, which had its own issues and was painted several centuries ago. This Pollock was made in my lifetime.Not just the Pollock, but a $107.6 million Brancusi. Much of Christie’s evening sale went smoothly, exuberant and beautifully orchestrated. But not so fast. For in this $1.1 billion evening sale, the number of artworks that hammered below low estimate or went unsold was substantial, roughly 30%, including big-ticket items like Agnes Gund’s Twombly. Plus, many had...

Nicola Florimbi, "Art Class" (2026), acrylic on canvas (all photos courtesy Corbett vs. Dempsey)CHICAGO — In our media-saturated world, in which everything has been seen and done, leaving us in a perpetual déjà vu state of witty citations, exhumed tropes, or dazzling fabrications, it’s rare to be surprised by an artist’s debut exhibition. There are many reasons why I was instantly taken by the acrylic paintings in Nicola Florimbi’s Rooms at Corbett vs. Dempsey. The first was the absence of irony in her subject matter — depictions of individuals interacting in settings that seem both out of time and of this moment. This is one of the many engaging paradoxes of Florimbi’s work. There are 10...

Pattie Gonia accused the Patagonia brand of attempting to “erase an activist” by suing her for attempting to trademark her name. (photo Mitchell Overton, all courtesy Pattie Gonia)Activists and LGBTQ+ advocates are voicing public outrage against the outerwear brand Patagonia after it sued the drag queen Pattie Gonia for trademark infringement. Pattie Gonia, the drag persona of Oregon-based LGBTQ+ and environmental activist Wyn Wiley, took to Instagram this week to accuse the company of attempting to “erase an activist” when it sued her in January for the meager sum of $1 plus attorneys' fees. Those fees would add up to around $1 million, according to Pattie Gonia. The drag queen claims to have...

Toronto-based Kurdish artist Roda Medhat pushes the boundaries of fabric into the realm of sculpture, exploring the ways in which traditional West Asian textiles can be translated into various media. As digital fabrication and 3D scanning cross paths with memory and material, Medhat’s practice asks “how we carry our stories, and what happens when those stories are translated into new, synthetic languages?” The artist’s new solo exhibition, titled From the Loom, fills Toronto’s Abbozzo Gallery with large-scale sculptures in conversation with a new series of textile works. Known in part for his neon installations, the artist also presents several glowing light-based works encased within glass or...

Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. BOAPS–Summer 2026: Grants, Exhibition, Publication, Promotion, Sales, Career BoostFeaturedReady to showcase your art internationally and receive cash grants? BOAPS (Summer 2026 Edition) invites visual artists worldwide, working in any medium, to submit their strongest works with complete creative freedom. This seasonal open call offers $10,000 CAD in annual cash grants and exclusive awards, along with solo and group exhibitions, publication in catalogues and art magazines, global promotion, sales exposure...

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Some of the most exciting designs emerging from the world of sustainable fashion are those utilizing uncommon materials. There are gowns sculpted with grass roots, sequins made from algae, and electrical wires woven into lace. Now, researchers and designers at Aalto University can add another unusual substance to that list: the remains of a 300-year-old wooden shipwreck. In 2019, a hotel in the Finnish city of Oulu undertook renovations that uncovered a 17th-century vessel buried beneath a parking lot. Called the Hahtiperä wreck, the finding was the oldest of its kind in this region, prompting conservators to raise the seven-by-20-meter ship for preservation. A few fragments remained, though, and researchers...

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La Gallery Weekend Beijing giunge quest’anno alla sua decima edizione, un traguardo che trasforma l’appuntamento annuale in un momento di bilancio. Nata nel 2017 con l’ambizione di costruire una piattaforma professionale e internazionalmente orientata per l’arte contemporanea cinese, la manifestazione si svolge dal 22 al 31 maggio nel distretto 798 di Pechino, con un programma che per la prima volta si estende anche oltre i suoi confini abituali, raggiungendo Caochangdi e il CBD Art District.
798 Art District, 2026, ph. courtesy Gallery Weekend Beijing
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Layers of colored pencil and marble dust worked into an oil-like substance flood the linen planes on which Marin Majic works. The Brooklyn-based artist builds upon a foundational drawing, blending various media into a richly textured surface resembling fabric or plaster. Matte finishes radiate across the scenes, appearing like magical glimmers under a night sky. Steeped in mystery, Majic’s works gravitate toward questions of power, impermanence, and the slippery nature of reality. Figures are often alone, whether swimming solo or driving along a mountain pass with no other cars in sight. Insects and animals are similar, although in pieces like “Negative attention,” we’re witness to the demise of the...

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...

Angelo Dolojan
it’s all very interesting what is happening by Angelo Dolojan is a zine featuring drawings created over the course of a year. The work weaves together observation, memory, dreams, documentation, and manifestation into a continuous visual exploration.
 
 
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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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“I have a passion for product design; most of the motifs I draw are related to consumer products,” says Shohei Ochiai. The Tokyo-based artist studied at Tama Art University, where he graduated about a decade ago, and is an admirer of the designs of consumer product company Braun, Memphis Group founder Ettore Sottsass, and famed […]
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