The Vancouver Art Gallery has announced Eva Respini and Sirish Rao as its co-CEOs. The appointment caps a yearlong stint for the pair as interim-co CEOs, following the March 2025 departure of Anthony Kiendl, who went on to lead the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Respini will continue in the dual roles of co-CEO and […]

For the fourth year running, the Switzerland-based MCH Group, the parent company of the Art Basel fair, recorded an increase in revenue and profit in the first half of 2026. The company’s net profits also quadrupled from CHF 4.4 million ($5.3 million) last year to CHF 18.4 million ($22.1 million), despite geopolitical conflicts and trade […]

For the second installment in the series, Jan Tumlir and Jeffrey Stuker follow the beginnings of the algorithm through wayward cartographers, gamblers, poets, and bomb physicists

The late feminist director Barbara Hammer's films are not always easy to digest, with their syncopated cuts, layered edits, and general refusal of linear narratives. And yet, her playful and persistent curiosity — along with her insistence on foregrounding what she witnessed and experienced of lesbian sexuality, life, and history, beginning at a time when few other out lesbians were making films — has ensured her place in the cinematic record. And so it is no surprise that in addition to being at the center of the excellent new documentary directed by Brydie O'Connor, Barbara Forever (2026), Hammer's extensive work and archive continue to be restored and preserved. You can catch the latest...

The collective Secret Handshake has installed playable arcade rigs featuring its game “Operation Epic Furious: Nuuk ‘Em All” in Washington, DC, and Nuuk, Greenland

The remains of a Roman temple have been unearthed by archaeologists in Germany’s Taunus region. According to experts, the discovery is especially notable given it still contains well-preserved foundations and fragmentary statues of ancient deities. Storm damage revealed an unusual arrangement of stones that comprised part of a previously unknown settlement near the Roman fort of Kapersburg in Hesse. A rectangular structure was identified upon further excavations. It is 16-and-a-half feet long with a smaller central chamber that is surrounded by nearly 20-inch walls. The sanctuary may have been an ambulatory temple, with a central sacred chamber surrounded by a covered walkway. One side of the central chamber...

a lamborghini designer’s RUF-modified porsche goes on sale
 
Luc Donckerwolke has spent his career designing some of the most recognizable cars on the road. He worked at Lamborghini on the Murciélago and Gallardo, later led design at Bentley, and today oversees design across Hyundai Motor Group. Among the cars in his own collection, though, sits a tiny 1970 Porsche 914/6, one of the more humble shapes to emerge from Porsche in the last century.
 
Donckerwolke acquired the car in 2020 and sent it to RUF in Pfaffenhausen, Germany, where it underwent an extensive rebuild. The finished car is now up for sale through Bring a Trailer, bringing this very personal Porsche back into public view. To those with...

CHICAGO — If you’ve ever been enraptured by a piece of driftwood, awed by its organic intricacy, its improbable whorls, its magical provenance, then the Kenzi Shiokava exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is for you. (If you’ve never felt this way, I honestly don’t know what to say.)Shiokava died in Los Angeles in 2021, shortly before his 83rd birthday. Raised in Brazil by shopkeeper parents who had immigrated from Japan, he followed a sister to LA at the age of 25 and never left. In 1968, he entered the Chouinard Art Institute, earning a BFA, then went on to get an MFA from Otis. He rented a studio near Watts, where the largest urban rebellion of the Civil Rights Era had erupted just a...

Earlier this month, a monumental, metallic spiral appeared on the High Line to coincide with New York Fashion Week. The elevated, art-filled public park on the West Side of Manhattan runs from Gansevoort Street near the Whitney Museum of American Art to 34th Street near Hudson Yards. Commissioned by Bulgari as part of its Serpenti Infinito series, which celebrates its famous Serpenti collection through artistic partnerships, the temporary installation invited visitors to walk through an enormous coil titled “auroBOROS: Urban Memory and Collective Dream.” The brainchild of artists Marco Canevacci and Yena Young, who helm the studio Plastique Fantastique, “auroBOROS” spent nearly two weeks wedged...

Thomas Kaplan, the world’s largest Rembrandt collector, has by long made a habit of collecting and selling the Dutch artist’s work. Now, it has been revealed that the American businessman and owner of the Leiden Collection was in fact the buyer of Rembrandt’s St John on Patmos (ca. 1660), which sold for $9 million in December last year, according to The Art Newspaper. Kaplan said he acquired St John on Patmos, making it his 18th piece of work by Rembrandt, to preserve the artwork by ultimately “returning to the public domain, a breathtaking late masterwork that has been hidden from sight for over a century” while adding to “the core narrative of our collection.” The last time the painting was...

Eva Respini and Sirish Rao will serve as co-CEOs at the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG), effective immediately, the museum announced today. Respini will also serve as chief curator, overseeing the institution’s artistic vision, exhibition strategy, collection development, and the ongoing project to erect a new building. Rao, meanwhile, will also be executive director, leading operations, earned revenue, and finance along with overseeing community outreach, institutional partnerships, and interdisciplinary programming. Respini and Rao have led the museum jointly on an interim basis for a year and a half, since CEO and executive director Anthony Kiendl left the corner office, which he had occupied since 2020....

Ann Temkin, the Museum of Modern Art’s chief curator of painting and sculpture for 18 years, will retire from the role in January 2027, the museum announced Monday. She will, however, continue to shape the New York institution’s programming, taking on a newly created position as an adviser to the director, Christophe Cherix, ahead of the museum’s centennial in 2029. Temkin joined MoMA in 2003 as a curator of painting and sculpture and was promoted to head of the department in 2008, becoming the first woman to hold the position. Her tenure marked a major departure from the curatorial approach established at the museum by her predecessor, William S. Rubin, who shaped its presentation of modern art...

Brooklyn art publication Hyperallergic, which has long touted free access to readers as a crucial aspect of its mission, is now routinely paywalling a portion of its articles and requiring readers to sign in to view the majority of its content, Urgent Matter reports. Readers were alerted to the changes in a September 16 email. […]

Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art are preparing to strike starting Monday, October 5, if they don't reach what they consider a fair contract with the museum. After voting earlier this month to authorize strike action in conjunction with the Brooklyn Museum and American Folk Art Museum unions, the Whitney union has timed its deadline around the preview week for late Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's retrospective, which opens to the public on October 11.The inaugural three-year contract between the Whitney and staff organized under UAW Local 2110 expired in June this year. The wage floor for entry-level employees went from $17 to $24 an hour throughout the course of the initial...

Emily Mae Smith, “Petite Muse at Work” (2026) (photos Rebecca Schiffman/Hyperallergic unless indicated otherwise)Walking into Emily Mae Smith's show at Petzel Gallery, all I could think was, "I wonder if she is getting enough credit for her anthropomorphic broomsticks now that Wicker is coming out." Though voluptuous brooms abound in her paintings, they are complemented by witch-like bunnies and eyeball-filled grapes (what good company for such seemingly strange subjects). All are connected by the artist’s technical skill and a darkness that haunts each work. This is intentional: The title, Transit of Venus, refers to the astronomical alignment when Venus moves between Earth and the Sun, appearing...

The Milwaukee Art Museum on September 9 transferred two stoneware vessels made by enslaved potter David Drake to his relatives. The pots had been given to the museum by the Chipstone Foundation earlier this year. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the return was the result of an agreement between the museum and an LLC […]

Forty-one architecture student volunteers build a school toilet
 
In a small primary school in Suphanburi Province, forty-one volunteers spent eleven days learning to build the one thing their annual camp had never designed before: a toilet. For years, the AKU ASA Volunteer Camp has served as a meeting ground where architecture students and local craftsmen exchange skills that are otherwise fading from one generation to the next. Song Phi Nong Primary School needed a small sanitary facility, and its site offered little more than open ground shaded by a mature Nontri tree.
 
The volunteers arrived with almost no construction experience and eleven days to close that gap. Instead of repeating the pavilions and...

Former employees claim that officials at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, opted not to undertake repairs of leaks in the building’s roof overhangs months ago. Now, officials are saying the center must close temporarily due to risks associated with those same leaks. The anonymous former employees shared internal documents with Congress on Thursday, reports the New York Times. In a letter to Congress, the former employees say this betrays that the infrastructure problems are being exaggerated. The Kennedy Center rejected this claim in a Friday statement quoted by the Times, saying that the severity of the problems has only recently come to light. “The Kennedy Center has known for...

In the Buddhist tradition, mandalas are devotional images that represent the universe, their precise geometry and motifs depicting holy realms and a sense of order through symbolic references to the elements and astrology. Tibetan Buddhist monks painstakingly create colorful sand renditions as part of their mindfulness practice. Once complete, the pieces are ritualistically destroyed—the sand is customarily returned to moving water—to illustrate the impermanence and transience of life and the cosmos. For artist Mu Pan, the mandala inspires the foundation of a series of vivid works on paper. In his current solo exhibition, Micro MUniverse at Hashimoto Contemporary, the Brooklyn-based artist composes...

Generative Disruption: Feminist Art from the Collection, opening September 26 at Ruby City, recognizes the contributions of women artists to contemporary art and explores how feminist artistic practices have expanded the possibilities of what art can be, whose stories it can tell, and whose experiences are represented.Beginning particularly in the 1960s and 1970s, feminist artists challenged assumptions about whose experiences were worthy of representation, what subjects could be addressed through art, and what materials, forms, and approaches could constitute artistic practice. Their contributions fundamentally expanded contemporary art, creating new possibilities for generations of artists that followed. For...

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The Metropolitan Opera gets its freak on — or about as close as it can —  in a revival of its Coney Island-set production of Così fan tutte. 

Yannick Nézet-Séguin opens Philadelphia's symphonic season in typically sunny style with programs feautring Beethoven, Brahms, and Bernstein.

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Thomas Kaplan’s Leiden Collection acquired St John on Patmos at Sotheby’s, the 18th work by the Dutch master to enter the collection

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Exhibition shows the results of artists‘ experiments with Japanese traditions and techniques

Book showcases the ground-breaking textile works of the artist who, during her lifetime and since, was overlooked in favour of her husband, Josef Albers

The Hong Kong-raised artist, now based in Berlin, recently returned to his home city for a durational live art exhibition at Tai Kwun Contemporary

COMPASSO D’ORO INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARD OPENS SUBMISSIONS
 
Entries are open until January 20, 2027 for the Compasso d’Oro International Design Award 2027, organized by Association for Industrial Design (ADI) in collaboration with the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE). Centered on the theme ‘Design for Humanity at Play,’ the award invites designers, brands, and institutions participating in Expo 2027 Belgrade to submit projects developed between  January 01, 2023 and December 31, 2026. Framing play as a vital mechanism for connection and speculative thinking, the competition challenges the creative community to explore how design can foster connection, participation, and resilience across...

SOLIDNATURE AND SABINE MARCELIS LAUNCH LIMITED-EDITION CANDLEHOLDERS
 
What began as an ephemeral spatial installation for Amsterdam Fashion Week 2026 has evolved into a series of collectible design objects. Following the enthusiastic response to their collaborative table setting during the event’s opening dinner, natural stone brand SolidNature and Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis have released a limited edition of their sculptural candleholders. Originally arranged across a minimal white table to form a continuous visual gradient, the individual pieces are now available in an exclusive release of 400 carved stone objects. The design draws a direct link between fashion styling and object composition,...

Last September I was most excited by Handel oratorios being performed during the 2025-26 season. This time I’m really looking forward to three of the composer’s operas arriving within a few weeks of each other in Spring 2027.

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Illya Goldman Gubin shapes cardboard through an embrace
 
For Bottega Veneta’s Summer 2027 show, Ukrainian artist Illya Goldman Gubin turns cardboard boxes into stools through an unusually physical process, embracing and crumpling each box with his body before reinforcing it with resin and fiberglass. Each stool begins as an individual box, with its folds and interlocking flaps retained in the final form, recalling the interwoven leather fettucce of Bottega Veneta’s Intreccio. Goldman Gubin uses his own body to give each piece its final form, leaving the marks of that encounter visible on the finished seats.
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Monteverdi's L'Orfeo by Haymarket Opera and The Newberry Consort takes its audience to heaven while its title character goes to hell.

By Victoria Thomas Lauren Cross, PhD is the Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts for The Huntington. The gifted artist, author, and scholar moves through the world of material objects with a detective's nose for sleuthing out lost context and hidden figures, and a Griot's gift for connecting narrative dots to unearth treasure. She is the unstoppable force behind the first major museum retrospective to explore the untold history of ceramic innovator Doyle Lane, with more...

With a creative lexicon featuring yarn, pixels, beeswax, and spray paint, Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega has created a new language for herself, one that speaks to the present and the past by using traditional and contemporary techniques, as well as rural and urban sensibilities, to create a body of work that synthesizes all her […]
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Built throughout the 1960s and ’70s, the Aylesbury Estate is an enormous public housing complex in South East London that at its peak, boasted 11,000 residents. Like other social projects of this kind, Aylesbury has struggled with violence and vandalism throughout its run, and in 2005, local officials decided to demolish the estate and rebuild in phases rather than rehabilitate the existing structures. Living and working in South East London for nearly four decades, Harriet Mena Hill was familiar with the area, but it wasn’t until 2018 when she was commissioned to teach a summer program for young residents that she really engaged with the project. She made large portraits from wool, blending dyed roving to...

CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a pyramid-shaped tomb dated to the late third or early fourth century A.D. has been unearthed at the site of Bir Al-Shaghala in the Dakhleh Oasis by archaeologists from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. Bir Al-Shaghala was part of the necropolis of Mothis, the oasis' capital during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Underneath the pyramid superstructure, the researchers uncovered a mudbrick hall with a vaulted ceiling. Two mudbrick burial chambers were set to the right of the hall. The staircase and the sandstone entrance to the tomb were built in the Egyptian style, with hieroglyphic inscriptions of funerary spells and protections. A cornice decorated with a...

Etruscan tomb near Vulci, Italy ROME, ITALY—According to the Greek Reporter, an international team of researchers has uncovered a tomb dating to the late seventh century B.C. in a necropolis near the site of the Etruscan city of Vulci. The tomb had three rooms made of large blocks of volcanic stone, but repeated looting in the twentieth century caused the roof and walls to collapse. The resulting layers of rubble protected the remaining artifacts. Archaeologists from Sapienza University, the French School at Rome, and the British Museum recovered local pottery as well as ceramics imported from Athens and Corinth, ceremonial dining vessels, weapons, chariot fittings, a bronze tripod, a lamp made of gypsum...

Single burial, Göbekli Tepe, Turkey ISTANBUL, TURKEY—Researchers led by Julia Gresky of the German Archaeological Institute have discovered intact burials at Göbekli Tepe, according to an IFL Science report. Located in southeastern Turkey, the monumental structures and pillars were built by hunter-gatherers in several stages between 9600 and 8200 B.C. During previous excavations of certain buildings at the site, archaeologists have uncovered fragments of human bones mixed in with debris. A kidney-shaped pit was found to contain the remains of a woman, a young man, and an adolescent girl. The remains of a young woman were found in a flexed position in a single burial. These graves have been dated to between...

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Like the Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin, the first time I found myself in front of a painting by the Spanish-Mexican artist Remedios Varo (1908-1963), I was stunned. Who was this elegant owl-figure with dainty fingers and feet? What was animating the creaturely machine at her side with tentacle-like brushes as hands? And, would I ever be able to look away? Feeling mesmerized and awe-struck by Varo’s Surrealist visions isn’t an uncommon position to find oneself in. A new release from Louisiana Channel interviews three artists and two writers—Schweblin being one—about Varo’s influence, particularly her precise approach to alchemy and visualizing the thin veil between the physical and spiritual...

Isn't it fun to see the Virgin Queen spew out some coloratura?

Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.

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“I try to avoid playing it safe or going for the obvious. Instead, I look at plants from a different perspective and express them in my own way,” South Korean artist Taehyoung Maria Jeon says about a fantastical series of illustrations. “Ironically, having rules is what gives me the freedom to experiment with plant shape.” Although she’s trained as a printmaker and continues to build compositions in layers, Jeon turns to digital methods as she reimagines the specimens cohabitating in her apartment, beginning with leaves and stems before venturing into surreal terrain. Purple veins, red outlines, and a smattering of stars appear on the imagined life forms, their vivid color palettes furthering their...

Reconstruction drawing of the main gate of ancient Apulum ALBA IULIA, ROMANIA—Excavations at the Alba Carolina Fortress in central Romania have found traces of a main gate constructed by the Romans on the east side of the military camp of Apulum, Romania Insider reports. The camp’s southern gate was discovered some 40 years ago, and has been partially reconstructed. Archaeologist Anca Timofan said that the monumental main gate would have had two massive rectangular towers and two access arches separated by a wall, all made with large limestone blocks. The foundation of one of these towers has been uncovered, she added. During the medieval period, the Roman structures were reused to build the fort’s Saint...

Flue of the heating system from the Gnadental Convent, Basel, Switzerland Green-glazed stove tile BASEL, SWITZERLAND—SwissInfo reports that a nearly intact medieval heating system has been found at the site of Gnadental Convent, which was built outside the walls of the city of Basel around 1231. The heating system consisted of an underground chamber lined with stones to hold heat produced by a firebox channel beneath it. Eight openings allowed warm air to rise from the chamber up into a common room thought to have been used as a dining hall. The monastery was dissolved after the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century, but some of the buildings were repurposed, or new buildings were constructed with...

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The 80th Issue of Hi-Fructose is coming soon! It includes a cover a feature on the paper collages of Lola Dupre, the Fluffy Vases of Shishi San, the installation paintings of Evgenia Voinar, Debbie Lawson’s textile sculptures, painter Rob Browning’s stark surrealism.  Plus a Special Insert Section focused on the art of Jeff Sheridan, Andrea […]
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By Lacey Argus Sovern, a nonprofit art gallery and healing justice center in Los Angeles, sticks out like a vibrant castle in the midst of the harsh greys of urban Los Angeles. The bright shades of pink and elaborate designs that adorn its concrete walls draw you in, as if calling you to explore the treasures within. The gallery's current showing is Into the Pluriverse, running from June 25 through October 8, 2026. Into the Pluriverse is a group exhibition inspired by the Zapatista term...

 
Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...

By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...

For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...

Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
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