A Paul Klee painting famously owned by the philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin is currently stuck in Israel as a result of the war waged by Israel and the United States in Iran. The work was to make its American debut earlier this month. As noted in a Hyperallergic review and then reported out by the New York Times, Klee’s Angelus Novus (1920) was supposed to appear in “Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds,” an exhibition that opened last week at the Jewish Museum in New York. Instead, the work is represented by an authorized facsimile and a note in the wall text that reads: “Due to current conditions affecting international transport, the shipment of the original artwork has been temporarily...

A replica of a monument toppled during protests in 2020 has been erected near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building as Donald Trump frames the explorer as a national hero

Sore feet, lean pockets, sustainability woes—what’s a 21st-century art fair really good for, some might wonder? Surpassing the skepticism, this edition of Art Basel Hong Kong offered a compelling glimpse at the talent flourishing across Asia. Sure, Pace Gallery’s Modigliani made the early headlines—but by our reckoning, the fair belonged to Asia’s modern masters and its next generation of stars, some who sorely deserve their spotlight.   Bright spots abounded in the curated sectors, with especially strong showings from Discoveries and Insights, respectively dedicated to emerging artists and thematic presentations. With a simple sheet and smart lighting, Ho Chi Minh’s Vin Gallery staged a...

In what the iconic French museum calls “the most ambitious restoration in the history of the Department of Paintings,” the Louvre has announced that it will remove its Peter Paul Rubens “Marie de’ Medici” paintings from public view in order to turn their gallery into a “restoration studio” where the paintings can be fully restored. The process will take four years, […]

The 78th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on Nieves Gonzalez, the art of Grip Face, The landscapes of Jennifer Nehrbass, the soft sculptures of Ela Fidalgo, the stitched urban landscapes of Laura Ortiz Vega, the art Jeffrey Gibson, Yu Jin Young’s once transparent figures, and the paintings of Fatima De Juan.  Plus […]
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Portrait of Pat Steir in 2018 by Grace Roselli, Pandora's BoxX Project (all images © Pat Steir, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)Pat Steir, the trailblazing feminist artist known for expanding the possibilities of abstract painting with her iconic Waterfall (1988–) series, died yesterday, Wednesday, March 25, at the age of 87. Her death was confirmed by her husband, Joost Elffers, and her niece, Lily Sukoneck-Cohen. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1938, and having traveled extensively throughout her life, Steir died in New York City, the place she considered her true home.Steir was raised by artists. She resisted her father’s unconventional urging to pursue poetry rather than painting, and...

Novelist Karma Brown muses in LitHub about the shared pursuits of art conservation and fiction writing, grounded in a visit to the Art Gallery of Ontario:I began to view my first draft like a piece of art arriving to the AGO in a wooden packing crate. It already exists, so you’re not creating something from scratch. But it has layers of grime, or holes, that need to be removed or repaired before you can see it clearly. During our many visits, the conservator showed me examples (both her own, and others she didn’t work on) of how it isn’t always possible to restore something to its precise, original state. The goal isn’t perfection, she explained, which is also true for a completed novel on the...

The United Kingdom’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has accepted several recommendations from a report last year aimed at increasing access to the arts in the country. One of these would require international visitors to pay an entry fee to visit the UK’s national museums, according to a report in the Financial Times. The initial report, reviewing the Arts Council England, was published last December and led by Baroness Margaret Hodge, a former member of Parliament. It was then sent for review by the UK government, which has accepted several of the recommendations in the report. Per the FT article, the implementation of charging international visitors to enter national museums is...

On the ground at the opening of Massimiliano Gioni’s maximalist “New Humans” 

For months Russia and Ukraine have been trading deadly drone strikes, and over the last couple of days Russia launched its most extensive drone campaign yet. A March 24 Russian strike in the historic center of the city of Lviv damaged a 17th-century Bernardine monastery that includes a church devoted to St. Andrew, designed by Italian architects in a Mannerist style.  Founded in the late Middle Ages, the historic center of the city was named a World Heritage Site in 1998; per UNESCO, it was “preserved virtually intact … along with many fine Baroque and later buildings.” The organization added it to its List of World Heritage in Danger in 2023. While not naming the perpetrator, UNESCO released a...

eeg device lize integrates neuro sensing into minimal form
 
LIZE is a conceptual wearable device designed to support mental health by responding to the user’s brain activity. Excessive exposure to digital content can cause cognitive fatigue and negative mental states. LIZE aims to reduce these effects through adaptive AR experiences. Electrodes placed on the forehead and behind the ears measure brain signals (EEG) in real time. Based on this data, the device adjusts AR visuals and algorithms, creating a calmer and more restorative environment for the user.
 
Developed as a neuro-responsive headset, the project explores how brain sensing can move beyond clinical equipment into a more accessible and...

Alcuni progetti non si lasciano riassumere in un elenco di attività e prodotti perché la loro logica è fondamentalmente processuale: ART.it – Art in Transition, ideato da Cristina Francucci, ex direttrice dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, e sviluppato sotto la responsabilità scientifica di Maria Rita Bentini nell’arco di oltre un anno con il coinvolgimento di cinque istituzioni – le Accademie di Bologna, Catania e Ravenna, l’Alma Mater Studiorum e l’Università di Macerata – appartiene alla categoria dei progetti in cui il metodo di lavoro è anche, e forse soprattutto, il risultato. Finanziato nell’ambito del PNRR attraverso il MUR per le istituzioni AFAM, il progetto formativo si...

Asher Remy-Toledo, a beloved New York cultural producer, died on February 22 in Medellín, Colombia, at age 62. Hyphen Hub, an international art organization he founded and directed, confirmed his death from Hodgkin’s lymphoma in an Instagram post on February 27. He is survived by his partner, Stephen McGroarty. Over the course of more than 30 years in New York and abroad, Remy-Toledo founded and directed a range of influential media art initiatives, including his eponymous gallery and Hyphen Hub, which became his cornerstone in 2013. Asher was one of my close friends and collaborators. He was kind, accepting, and loved the weirdest things about me (and everyone, for that matter). We had intense, emotional...

prewood: a compact timber insertion in tokyo
 
In Tokyo, VUILD completes prewood, a compact timber building that occupies a narrow urban gap with a precise, modular approach. Set within a dense streetscape, the project fits between neighboring structures with a quiet confidence, its vertical cedar facade introducing a distinct texture while maintaining the rhythm of the street.
 
The exterior reads as a stacked composition of wooden panels, articulated through subtle shifts in depth and angled cuts. Openings are placed with restraint, offering glimpses of activity inside while preserving privacy along the tight frontage. The material remains untreated, allowing the cedar to weather gradually, its surface...

Marica Vilcek, an art historian who, with her husband Jan, cofounded the grant-making Vilcek Foundation, died on Monday in New York. She was 89, according to the foundation, which said she died peacefully at her home. The Vilcek Foundation is an unusual one, since it funds endeavors in both art history and biomedical science, the respective fields of Marica and Jan. Just like the foundation’s creators, both of whom moved from Czechoslovakia to the US, many of the grantees were immigrants—a purposeful choice on the part of the organization, whose mission statement mentions that its activities are meant to raise “awareness of immigrant contributions in the United States.” Countless artists and art...

In communities throughout Switzerlands’s Appenzell Hinterland and Midland regions, a unique tradition with enigmatic origins unfolds around the New Year. Known as Silvesterchlausen, the custom entails a group of boys and men who don remarkable, handmade costumes with masks and headdresses that represent rural, wild, and natural scenes. “Silvesterchlausen,” a dreamy short film by writer and director Andrew Norman Wilson, highlights this regional seasonal event, which occurs on December 31 and January 13. The first date marks the turn of the new year on the Gregorian calendar, while January 13 denotes the same on the Julian calendar. The ornately dressed mummers, in groups of six, polyphonically yodel and...

Pat Steir, who rose to prominence in the 1980s for her iconic “Waterfall” paintings, which she made by pouring paint onto canvas from atop a ladder, died in Manhattan on March 25. She was eighty-seven. Her death was confirmed by her husband, Joost Elffers, and niece Lily Sukoneck-Cohen, who survive her. Steir was also a cofounder, […]

Museums are “remarkably unwilling to acknowledge their own status as democratic institutions, the bedrock of civic society and our most important public spaces”

Brendan Latimer hitches a ride with members of the "site-responsive opera" movement who are taking their shows out of the opera house — and out of the box.

Lisette Oropesa, Piotr Buszewski, and Luca Salsi feature in a rote revival of Michael Mayer's cloying production of La traviata.

Tish Murtha (1956 – 2013) was a teenager when she found an old camera in a derelict house. By this point, she’d already left school and had taken on variety of jobs, from selling hot dog to working in a petrol station. The discovery was a turning point in Murtha’s life, prompting her to first take a photography course at Bath Lane, Newcastle, before going on to study at the famous School of Documentary Photography at the University of Wales. After graduating, Murtha returned to Newcastle, where she documented the region’s marginalised communities from the inside. Her photographs capture the social impact of industrial decline with honesty, empathy and urgency, offering a powerful account of...

The Smithsonian’s Modern and contemporary art museum in Washington, DC revealed eight recent acquisitions that will be displayed in the garden when it reopens this autumn

The government's favourable response comes three months after the publication of Margaret Hodge's landmark Arts Council England review

The Chinese-Canadian artist explains the thinking behind the body of work she is presenting at Art Basel Hong Kong

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jeyifous rehearses the future through speculative utopias
 
For Olalekan Jeyifous, the future is not a distant horizon but a parallel condition: one that exists beside the present, waiting to be visualized. Trained as an architect but working fluidly across installation, illustration, and public art, the Brooklyn-based artist and designer has built a practice grounded less in solving problems than in reframing them. His work does not propose masterplans or fixed outcomes. Instead, it operates in the fertile terrain of speculation, where design becomes a narrative device and utopia a method of inquiry.
 
‘I think of a lot of these speculative projects as existing in the now, but in an alternate reality,’...

revistula net zero workplace redefines warsaw riverfront
 
ReVistula transforms an existing office building along Warsaw’s Vistula riverfront into a net-zero landmark workplace. Designed by MJZ with Łoskiewicz Studio for Syrena Real Estate, the project reimagines the structure through circular thinking, ecological strategies, and new construction technologies. Instead of demolition, the proposal embraces reuse as a forward looking model for sustainable urban development. Developed with a focus on long term environmental value, the project responds to international tenants seeking spaces aligned with ESG standards. Conceived as both a workplace and a prototype, it demonstrates how existing buildings can...

Can’t dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools, to paraphrase Audre Lorde. For much of his career, Ed Woodham, founder of Art in Odd Places, has worked in performance art, public art, installation, and social practice — those forms created to engage communities outside the white cube. But what do we do when the systems socially engaged art set out to challenge co-opt its forms? Meet Social Malpractice — a workshop, “warning system,” “speculative think tank,” and more. Read Woodham’s opinion piece to learn more about his inspiring work. Also in this issue, Olivia McEwan takes on Tracey Emin’s cult of personality in a review of her retrospective at Tate Modern, Nathan Gelgud...

This performance was introduced to me by Norman Treigle’s granddaughter —very fine mezzo-soprano Emily Treigle; while I was preparing the role of Olin Blitch, and it completely changed my understanding of the character.

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Alternative futures within sónar+D 2026 festival lineup
 
The 2026 edition of Sónar+D returns with a festival lineup that reframes technology in the era of post-AI, the physicality in the digital culture, and the different alternative futures. Set in the historic Llotja de Mar, the event brings together artists, researchers, and thinkers whose work moves across music, design, performance, and digital culture across talks, workshops, installations, and live shows. This year, the program builds a shared theme: technology not as a consumption, but as a tool to question, shape, and actively engage with. Three themes come through: ‘AI & Music’ shows our move towards a post-AI life, ‘Beyond the Screen’...

We are really pleased to announce that DO YOU LIKE LOVE? is now available to order!
Do you like love? The question came from a conversation, recalled by a friend. Her elderly neighbour used to cry for ‘elp!’ and Jane’s husband Pip would rush to her aide. Sometimes she’d fallen, but rarely; although she was blind she had lived in that house for 60 years, she knew every inch of it. A house filled with memories of her husband, their life together, and her aloneness after his death. On this one day that she called out, she was found sitting with the television on, a black and white film playing out a romantic scene from the 1950s.
‘Do you like love, Pippy?’ she said, ‘I like love.’
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Līmĕn, sostantivo neutro terza declinazione latina: soglia, confine, limite estremo, frontiera. Ci soccorre la molteplicità di significati della parola latina per provare a illustrare il concetto chiave e i progetti fotografici dell’edizione 2026 della Biennale di Fotografia Femminile di Mantova, diretta da Alessia Locatelli e organizzata dall’Associazione La Papessa. “Liminal” è il titolo di questa quarta edizione che, non soltanto, propone lo sguardo femminile sulle dinamiche del mondo (e, in misura minoritaria, anche sulla fotografia artistica), ma soprattutto tenta di portare alla nostra attenzione, e con il fil rouge 2026 più che mai, storie provenienti da luoghi che, seppur marginali,...

LONDON — There’s an unsettling sensation of reading someone’s personal diary upon entering Tracey Emin’s retrospective A Second Life at Tate Modern, for that’s what her entire body of work is. The Young British Artists movement (YBAs) — of which she and Damien Hirst were perhaps the loudest figures in the 1990s — was once described as a mere footnote in art history, but today that’s no longer the case; Emin is now a Dame and was professor of drawing at the Royal Academy from 2011 to 2013. Nevertheless, her work has no art historical anchor: There is no socio-political commentary, no observations about British life or womanhood, nor any subject that lies outside of the immediate orbit — or...

Gabrielle Goliath, who was to have to have represented South Africa at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale before a government official abruptly canceled her exhibition, will instead show her work outside the event. The latest version of Goliath’s Elegy project will be on view at the Chiesa di Sant’Antonin in Venice’s Castello district, near the Biennale’s main exhibition, from May 5 to […]

From factories and barrel-roofed buildings to gabled churches and towers, Charles Young’s sprawling yet diminutive city of paper models continues to grow. Known for his miniature constructions and animations that often double as three-dimensional color studies, the sculptor and animator highlights a wide range of architectural styles with an emphasis on color pairings. Since 2020, Young has been making hundreds of miniature structures inspired by A Dictionary of Color Combinations by Japanese costume designer and painter Sanzo Wada (1883-1967). (There’s even a fun, interactive website based on the book.) So far, Young has completed 258 buildings from the first volume, which focuses on two-color...

The writer and artist discusses her visual work, on view at New York's American Academy of Arts and Letters

Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen captures people in oils with all the precision and clarity of a camera. He then places these incredibly lifelike images in impossible scenes. Uldalen’s models float in blank spaces. They precariously climb staircases that spiral upside down. They fall from buildings that tilt at odd angles. The Oslo-based artist’s work isn’t so […]
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Studio Loan wants to connect LA artists with the space they need — for free By Kristine Schomaker 60% of artists in Los Angeles don't have a studio outside their home. Or one at all. I think about that number a lot. Because space — or the lack of it — shapes everything. What you can make. How you can show it. Whether you can even invite someone in to see the work. Studio visits matter. Not in some abstract networking way, but in the real, tangible way where someone comes to your space, stands...

Baldernock is a small parish located in the hills just north of Scotland’s largest city. It’s only seven miles between the village and Glasgow city center, but its atmospheric moorland and rolling fields, dotted with sheep, feel a world away. For photographer Camille Lemoine, who currently lives in Glasgow and grew up in Bladernock, the familiar rhythms of small town life, agriculture, and the country’s legendarily mercurial weather lend themselves to a series called Down Tower Road. Intimate images capture steel gray clouds, gnarled trees, elegant grasses, and clusters of purple heather. Lemoine also emphasizes the presence of the female body, whether communing with the earth in a narrow track through a...

For the 13th edition of Design Shanghai, Hu Yuehua presented a bold bouquet intersecting organic forms and human craft traditions. “Weaving Nature” is a large-scale composition of indigo and ochre leaves, blooms, and growths stitched together from dyed cotton and linen. Tightly nested in a wall-like garden, the individual pieces form a dense field of color and texture. Loose threads, raw edges, and tight rows of pleats radiate across the upright piece, merging evidence of the artist’s hand with the natural forms she depicts. Design Shanghai concluded last week, but you can see more of the projects on display at the annual event on its website. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a...

With Gustavo Dudamel in the spotlight at Parterre Box this week, Grand Tier Grab Bag foreshadows one of the New York Philharmonic's upcoming operatic engagements.

El último sueño de Frida y Diego at the Lyric Opera of Chicago is a visual and sonic wonder, but a weak libretto dampens its effect.

Riding a bike. Singing. Going to a football match. These are everyday activities for most people, but not for Iranian women. Instead, they are part of a wealth of experiences that have been restricted for women and girls since the 1979 Revolution. In the decades before the Revolution, the women’s movement in Iran had made important strides. The right to vote and to take their rightful place in various contexts was improved, and more and more doors opened in society. But since, a series of laws once again limited women’s rights in the public arena and laid the foundations for a gender-segregated reality. Creative duo Atoosa Farahmand and Oscar Hagberg depict the lives of women and girls in Iran, marked by...

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A Milano la quindicesima edizione della fiera italiana dedicata alla fotografia si è presentata come luogo di incontro e influenza delle più interessanti ricerche nell’ambito dell’immagine. Tramite uno sguardo mirato alla rappresentazione della complessità del contemporaneo, la direttrice Francesca Malgara, ha delineato il tema della Metamorfosi come ambito che interpreta al meglio i cambiamenti repentini tipici della realtà del nostro tempo, mettendolo in collegamento con i profondi cambiamenti avvenuti all’interno del linguaggio fotografico e aprendo il dialogo all’universo di riflessioni sulla realtà che questa tematica suscita.
MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas 2026, ph. Zima Studio, courtesy MIA...

Like a miniature chapel with enough space for one person to stand comfortably, Judith Schaechter’s glowing installation, “Super/Natural,” invites viewers to reflect on nature. An exhibition of the same name just opened at Claire Oliver Gallery and pays homage to biophilia, a theory positing that humans seek connections with nature through an innate attraction. Schaechter celebrates this propensity with a cornucopia of florals, insects, birds, and other imaginative organic forms. “The vernacular of stained glass is one of worship and mythology,” Schaechter says. “Super/Natural turns this a bit on its head, creating a secular sanctuary for contemplating beauty, nature, and our relationship to it.”...

Experimentation, modernism and the shifting boundary between art and commerce define Lillian Bassman: Bazaar and Beyond, a compelling new exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Drawing on a transformative gift from the artist’s estate, the presentation reframes fashion photography as a site of radical visual inquiry rather than mere commercial output. Across more than 60 works, the exhibition reveals a practice grounded in process, materiality and reinvention. Here, the magazine page becomes an arena for aesthetic risk, where gesture and atmosphere displace clarity and precision. The show foregrounds the tension between control and spontaneity, tracing how Bassman’s work resists fixity. As Max...

In Tales from Fractured Minds la memoria personale e identitaria di sette giovani artisti viene analizzata e dissezionata. In un tempo in cui il corpo è terreno politico e l’identità appare costantemente ridefinita e distorta dal ‘fuori’ il ricordo assume una propria dignità e autonomia, trasformandosi in un organismo vivo e puro sentimento umano.
AA.VV., “Tales from Fractured Minds”, 2026, installation view, works by Tatjana Danneberg and Hanna Antonsson, courtesy of the artists and The Address, ph. Alberto Favara
Ad accogliere il nostro sguardo all’entrata di The Address c’è Weekends and beginnings dell’austriaca Tatjana Danneberg, che costruisce, attraverso la raccolta di scatti e...

Mary Iverson paints bucolic, sweeping landscapes reminiscent of the late nine-teenth century that look as if were discovered in the dusty corners of an underrated thrift store. At first look, I assume the canvases are found objects, painted over and re-imagined as something quite different than the original painter intended. This is only partially true. […]
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Sami Farra is this artist we selected for this year’s Capture Photography Festival! Sami is an architect and photographer based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Combining image and object, his work questions the photographic medium in its representation of reality, offering a unique vision of our shared environment. Sami’s interest in images developed during his architecture studies which led him to explore the links between photography and architecture in greater depth at CEPV (Centre d’enseignement professionnel de Vevey).
As the winner of our open call Sami’s work will be installed at the Olympic Village Canada Line Station in Vancouver. The images on display are part of a project involving accidental...

Movement, memory and the infrastructures that quietly shape daily life underpin Phoebe Boswell’s latest commission for London’s Underground, where escalators become both conduit and canvas. Water threads through the work as a conceptual and historical force, linking subterranean rivers with human passage above them. The project situates transit as a site of reflection, where repetition and routine open onto questions of belonging and visibility. Beneath the surface of the city, layered geographies and suppressed ecologies echo the lived experiences of those who move through its spaces. Boswell’s intervention reframes the Underground as a place where histories converge, diverge and resurface in unexpected...

La premessa da cui muove la pratica dell’artista olandese Anneke Eussen (Kerkrade, 1978, vive a Vaals), di cui è in corso la prima mostra personale in Italia alla Galleria Studio G7 di Bologna, è l’intuizione della consistenza materica del tempo. La prima conseguenza è l’idea che i materiali (quelli da lei più frequentati sono il vetro, il marmo e il metallo) siano depositari di durate, stratificazioni e momenti vissuti che persistono nella materia anche quando la funzione originaria è venuta meno. In base a questi presupposti, ogni successiva scelta tecnica e compositiva si configura come un gesto di ascolto verso ciò il tempo ha depositato sulla superficie dei materiali infiltrandosi in...

Exploration and absence form the twin axes of Sophie Calle’s (b. 1953) compelling body of work. From the delicate interplay of text and image to her investigations into the seen and unseen, her art occupies a space between intimacy and universality, curiosity and revelation. Themes of love, memory, longing, beauty, and mortality pulse throughout her practice, inviting viewers to reconsider the boundaries of perception. In her latest exhibition, Something Missing?, opening 26 March at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, Calle presents seven major series alongside additional works spanning nearly four decades. Totalling more than 300 individual pieces of photographs, texts and videos, the exhibition...

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Who doesn’t love a good photo book? To flick through the pages, be enlightened, educated, distracted and absorbed into another world through another’s eyes? Totally fantastic!
We’re here to share our Photobook Favourites – a selection of our favourite photography books recommended by the Shutter Hub community, an archive of titles we’ve enjoyed, and a reference point for you to explore. Las Pelilargas, Irina Werning, GOST
For 18 years photographer Irina Werning travelled across Latin America to seek out those with long hair to uncover and understand its cultural significance. Her book Las Pelilargas (the long-haired ones) brings together this body of work in an exploration and celebration of...

ABOVE: Gaza Cinderella, Northern Gaza Strip, 2012“Although her drawing is filled with soldiers, helicopters, and tanks, “Amara” only spoke about her intense fear of missile strikes. When a building or other structure is targeted in Gaza, it is often hit with a barrage of several missiles to ensure its complete destruction. The sound of successive […]
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