The Riverside Art Museum (RAM) in California has named Vivian Zavataro as its next executive director. She will begin in the role on October 1. Zavataro succeeds Drew Oberjuerge, who served in the top job for more than 13 years and left in June 2025. “The Riverside Art Museum has grown from a beloved community museum into a dynamic cultural institution with an international presence,” RAM board president Patricia Reynolds said in a statement. “I am incredibly proud of the vision, commitment, and collaboration that have brought us to this moment, and excited about what lies ahead with Vivian as our new director.” As director of RAM, Zavataro will also oversee the artistic direction of the Cheech Marin...

Isamu Noguchi’s 41-ton granite sculpture Mississippi Fountain will shortly be installed at the entrance to the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), per reports. The sculpture, completed by the artist between 1961 and 1962, was originally designed to greet visitors at the headquarters of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, located in downtown New […]

In Ben Sledsens’ new body of work, An Apple for the Road, saturated fields of color meet methodical patterns constructed from grasses, leaves, brick, and more. The Antwerp-born artist conceives of vibrant, atmospheric paintings in which life pauses for a moment: there’s a swan hovering over its tinted reflection, a woman just stepping out her front door, and vivid still lifes in which clouds and soft breezes rustle through the windows. Often beginning with drawings on paper before translating the most salient details to the canvas, Sledsens is interested in repetition and the visual power of pattern, which he layers to form dense thickets of willow trees or the tiles lining a boating dock. These motifs set...

For nearly two decades, Vuslat Doğan Sabancı lived two lives. By day, she was one of the most powerful figures in Turkish media, serving as chief executive of Hürriyet, the country’s largest newspaper. At night—after work, dinner, and putting her children to bed—she went to her studio and made art. “Sometimes I would work until six in the morning,” Vuslat told ARTnews on a Zoom call from Istanbul. The strange thing was that almost nobody saw what she made. Vuslat, who goes solely by her first name professionally, drew, sculpted, worked in clay, and experimented with materials for nearly twenty years without exhibiting any of it. There was no gallery waiting for the work and, for much of that...

joshua vides’ mercedes SL500
 
A 1997 Mercedes-Benz SL500 covered in Joshua Vides‘ hand-painted black-and-white linework has surfaced on Bring a Trailer, where it is currently being offered at no reserve. It was one of three cars Vides transformed for his 2025 Los Angeles exhibition, Check Engine Light.
 
The body is wrapped in white before painting across its familiar curves until the physical car began to read like an oversized automotive sketch. Beneath it all sits a 226,000-mile SL500 with a 5.0-liter V8, black leather interior, and the broad proportions that made this generation of Mercedes such a recognizable presence through the 1990s. The auction scheduled to close on August 29th, 2026.
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Chiffon Thomas discovered pretty quickly that New York wasn’t going to work. An artist and sculptor who moved to the city after three years in Los Angeles, Thomas needed a studio with room to weld metal and a parking spot for his van. New York real estate was prohibitively expensive and he went in search of another solution. Detroit and Philadelphia have recently become outposts for artists as New York becomes ever more expensive. The move Thomas eventually made signals that there is another locale joining the mix: New Haven. Thomas bounced between Bushwick and the Bronx. In Bushwick, the industrial spaces outside Manhattan that once attracted artists are now increasingly rented for all-night raves,...

School’s back in session in the art world, too — this fall, exhibitions on textbook artists like Abstract Expressionists Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, and modernist Constantin Brancusi are landing at The Met, the Whitney, and MoMA, respectively. Then there’s the shows writing the textbooks of tomorrow: surveys of artist-filmmaker Arthur Jafa, who remixes and shapes Black visual culture; photographer Taryn Simon, who plumbs American myths and institutions; and conceptual artist (and pathologist!) Teresa Margolles, who takes on death, that cruelest of subjects. Still, it’s not just blockbuster exhibitions this season. There’s something for everyone. For the girlies, a...

Allysa Pierre's "Untitled (the preparator)" (2024) (photo courtesy Access Gallery)Emergency personnel forced entry into Access Gallery in Vancouver on the night of August 14, after a 911 caller mistook a sculpture of an art preparator as a person in need of medical attention, as first reported by the local media outlet CityNews. Officers were dispatched to the downtown address after a witness reported "a person's feet protruding from behind a counter ... and believed medical assistance was required," a spokesperson for the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) told Hyperallergic. Emergency responders broke the gallery lock, breached the front door, and subsequently realized it was a false alarm.As the...

As the age-old saying goes, one person's director-signed Paris is Burning (1990) film poster is another artist's future Queer|Art|Mentorship stipend. Well, maybe that's not verbatim, but it's certainly true! The New York City-based nonprofit Queer|Art (QA) has launched its second annual auction exhibition of iconic LGBTQIA+ art and memorabilia in conjunction with the organization's Fire Island-based, transfem-powered fund-rager, Doll Invasion. On view at Participant Inc. and Salma Sarriedine galleries on Elizabeth Street through Sunday, August 30, the exhibition consists of dozens of donated artworks, wearables, archival media, experiences, and collectibles that embody the queer canon....

An arts complex in Tbilisi, Georgia, is being razed despite protests from its architects and some members of the local community. Following approval by Tbilisi’s city government in June, demolition work on the Rike Park Music Theatre and Exhibition Hall—colloquially known as Rike Tubes—began at the end of July and is scheduled to be completed by December. The news was reported by Reuters following a photo-essay documenting the destruction of the complex and that of a second landmark, a Brutalist former flour mill known as Silo, published in Civil Georgia. The Rike Tubes are a connected pair of glass-and-steel structures designed by Fuksas Studio, an Italian architectural firm led by husband-and-wife...

Yayoi Kusama, a pioneer of Pop and Minimalism whose playful glass sculptures, mirrored installations, and polka-dot paintings mesmerized audiences around the world, died on August 14 at a hospital in Tokyo of multiple organ failure. She was ninety-seven. Her death was announced on August 27 by her studio and confirmed by David Zwirner Gallery, her longtime representative.  Widely acknowledged to […]

An 11,000-year-old statue depicting a person on the back of a leopard was unearthed by archaeologists at a Stone Age site in southern Turkey, the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced in a statement on August 25. The find from the Neolithic site Karahan Tepe measures about 28 inches tall and would have sat on a platform along the wall of a larger round building roughly 10 feet in diameter. Notably, the style of the composite statue is “unlike anything seen before,” Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, said. Experts believe the statue may have symbolized masculinity, virility, strength, and courage. “Leopards were common feline predators in the region,” Jens...

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The Lens: a secluded viewpoint aligns Kizhi’s historic churches
 
Set on Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia, Kizhi Island is home to the Kizhi Pogost, a globally recognized masterpiece of traditional timber architecture inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1990. The 18th-century ensemble is celebrated as the only surviving historical complex in Russia featuring two multi-domed wooden churches enclosed within a single precinct: the 22-domed Church of the Transfiguration (1714), rising 37 meters with structural log joinery executed entirely without nails, the nine-domed Church of the Intercession, and an octagonal wooden bell tower. Beyond the central Pogost, the surrounding open-air museum...

Virginia and Leonard Woolf, photographed in 1914 (all photos courtesy The Charleston Trust)SUSSEX, England — Ouch!Yes, there’s often a bit of a sting in Virginia Woolf’s comments, even about people of whom she is fond. “I’ve got a confession to make,” she once wrote. “I’m going to marry Leonard Wolf [correct spelling: Woolf]. He’s a penniless Jew. I’m more happy than anyone ever said was possible.” Is that spoken from a great height or not? After all, she was the daughter of the esteemed author Sir Leslie Stephen, hem hem.“Wolf” and she married. They were both writers. And amongst the remarkable fruits of their union was a decision to open a small press, which in time grew into...

From works made of crystals, shells and stones, to hard-edged abstraction and photography, Toledo bridged many movements and media across her six-decade career, as director Hélio Goldsztejn’s new film shows

Frieze has announced that eighty-four galleries from thirty-six countries and regions will take part in Frieze Abu Dhabi, the first fair presented by Frieze in the area comprising West Asia, North Africa, and South Asia. The inaugural exhibition, led by director Dyala Nusseibeh, will take place from November 19 to 22, 2026, and center on the contemporary exhibition space Manarat Al Saadiyat, in the city’s cultural district. “We are […]

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spyker returns to the quail
 
At The Quail during Monterey Car Week, a metallic green Spyker sat with its butterfly doors raised while Victor Muller stood in front of it, mic in hand. designboom was there as the founder and CEO introduced the C8 Preliator XXV, a car he framed around the physical connection between driver and machine.
 
‘There is nothing between you and the gearbox,‘ Muller said during the unveiling, adding, ‘there is just your hands and the mechanics.‘ The comment suited a coupe whose exposed shift linkage is one of the first things you see through the open cabin.
 
The Preliator name has been around for a decade, first appearing on a C8 concept Spyker presented in 2016. A Spyder...

Chase, who took up painting in 2022, displayed one of his works at the revered Toronto gallery and launched a line of merchandise benefiting the institution

A former employee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has brought a class-action suit against the museum over a data breach in 2025 that the employee says compromised staff and visitor information.  The breach occurred between July 7 and 11. According to ArtNews, those who illegally infiltrated LACMA’s network accessed “personally identifiable information,” including addresses, dates […]

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Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art has just tapped Kim Conaty as its next director, the institution announced on Wednesday. Conaty, who is presently the chief curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, will assume her new role on October 27. She will succeed John Stomberg—who held the post for a decade and supervised […]

When I was about 10 years old, my parents organized a vacation to a tiny enclave called Orr Hot Springs just outside of Ukiah, California. Nestled in the mountains with a history dating to 1858 as a stagecoach stop with redwoods shading the trails, the property has a uniquely layered architectural history. We stayed in what my dad called “Art’s cabin,” which turned out to have really been built by a guy named Art in the mid-1970s. A giant tree intersected the middle of the structure. Art’s cabin is one of few remaining buildings from the property’s back-to-the-land era, before it became today’s modern yet earthy resort. In 1974, my dad and a group of friends from Berkeley teamed up to buy the hot...

Lisa Havilah had stood aside pending “investigations into governance and procurement”, according to New South Wales’ arts minister

Twelve elevated tanks visualize water loss in Barcelona Pavilion
 
Plou prou? is an ephemeral intervention by Cierto Estudio, h3o architects and Metrònom at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. Selected through the Open Call for Barcelona 2026 World Capital of Architecture, the project invites visitors to rethink the relationship between architecture, water and the climate crisis. The intervention focuses on one of the pavilion’s defining elements: its reflective pools. Far from being static surfaces, the pools are fragile systems affected by heat and evaporation, requiring water to be constantly replenished to preserve their familiar architectural image. Twelve elevated industrial tanks...

Tokyo Jazz Club, taking place in a former capsule hotel during this year’s Art Week Tokyo, will “privilege experience over spectacle” according to organisers

Parterre Box invites you to cool off with a dip in the lake alongside Sonya Yoncheva and Pavel Černoch in Rusalka.

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A 1968 HOUSE HIDES DEEP INSIDE SEOUL
 
Tucked behind a long, narrow alley in Yeonhui-dong, Seoul, Saekdong House by Isak Chung and Jinpyo Hong transforms a residence originally built in 1968 through a combination of renovation and extension. Set deep within a landlocked plot and surrounded by neighboring buildings, the existing single-story house already sat unusually high, with elevated floor and ceiling levels intended to pull in more daylight and preserve views despite its enclosed position.
 
The architects chose not to correct these peculiarities so much as work with them. The entrance passage becomes a gradual transition from the city into a more secluded domestic world, while another inherited feature...

Yayoi Kusama, one of the world's most popular artists, died at a Tokyo hospital on August 14 at the age of 97. Her studio shared the news last night. Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia remembers the idiosyncratic Japanese artist, who reached legend status during her lifetime. If your art history leans Western, you likely know them as Indian “miniature paintings” — but let’s put a stop to that. A recent book on art from the Pahari region reviewed by Nageen Shaikh argues that the term is, well, minimizing. Besides, the name actually derives from the use of the red “minium” pigment, so, bit of a misnomer anyway — and as we know from running an art publication, words matter. History will come...

What is more demented than a thrilling performance of Strauss's Elektra?

For Xanthe Burdett, the boundary between humans and nature is thin, malleable, and always in flux. The Devon-born, London-based artist works largely in a palette of greens, layering leaves and vines atop faint figurative silhouettes. Invoking mythology and ancient cosmologies, her paintings suggest that people and plants are not only interconnected but also intrinsically one. Beginning with a sketch, Burdett employs the Renaissance-era cartoon method of transferring her drawings to canvas, which involves layering a substance like charcoal between the preparatory composition and the substrate and tracing the initial linework. After, the artist adds various greenery until she’s reached a lush density. “They...

Myriad myths and symbols are wrapped up in our captivation with cats. In ancient Egypt, the animals were revered as divine protectors, personified by the deity Bastet. In Japan, it’s hard to walk by shops without seeing a maneki-neko waving from the window. And superstition says that if a black cat crosses your path, it may be bad luck. Although depending who you ask, it could mean good luck… did you happen to notice which direction it was walking? For artist Minyoung Kim, who centers black felines in her eccentric compositions, the fascination comes down to “the contrast between how ordinary and how weird they are,” she tells Colossal. Kim taps into the paradoxes, such as how the animals can be...

More than 65,000 images by photographers in 121 countries presented a staggering challenge for the jurors of this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Of these entries, 100 were selected for the prestigious contest’s shortlist, showcasing the world’s diverse creatures and their habitats. The top images also demonstrate an array of realities across a number of categories, from animal behavior to portraits to photojournalism. Viewers are treated to the beauty and tenderness of inter-species cooperation and also confronted with the poignancy of family and the sometimes troubling impacts of human intervention. Ernest Porter (South Africa), “Mutual Friends,” Manyeleti Game Reserve,...

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This Strauss is demented in the best way possible.

Julia Bullock on ten years of living with the life and artistry of Joséphine Baker before Paris performances of Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine

They should sell pay-per-view tickets to this like WWE.

Lasciata alle spalle una torre medievale dell’XI secolo e qualche palazzo cinquecentesco della Serenissima, sperso tra la speculazione edilizia degli anni Sessanta, a pochi passi dalla ottocentesca piazza Erminio Ferretto (intitolata a un partigiano morto nella guerra di liberazione dal nazifascismo) nel centro storico di Mestre, oltrepassato il duomo di S. Lorenzo, attraversato un restaurato cortile con porticato settecentesco, per studiato contrasto sorge il Museo del Novecento M9 (progettato dallo studio di architettura tedesco Sauerbruch Hutton, studio che aveva vinto il concorso internazionale indetto dalla Fondazione di Venezia per la riqualificazione di quell’area urbana), museo  ideato e proposto...

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The Glen Most people have experienced a “thin place” even if they don’t necessarily realize it or give it a name. When I learned about them a few years ago, I was able to recall some of these places from my own past, even though I didn’t know the terminology at the time. I’m currently listening to The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, and the knights are forever leaving the comforts of Camelot to seek adventure. On their journeys, they often come across places in the woods where the atmosphere changes, time takes on a different quality, and the boundary between the ordinary and the otherworldly becomes uncertain. When I saw the work of photographer, film, and television director Lev L. Spiro, I...

Tra tutte le edizioni di Documenta, quella che si tenne nel 1972, dal titolo Interrogare la realtà – Mondi dell’immagine oggi, apriva una significativa riflessione sui linguaggi dell’arte contemporanea, il mondo reale e le sue rappresentazioni. Il titolo che il curatore Harald Szeemann scelse per la manifestazione risulta quanto mai contemporaneo, permettendo di consideralo come una valida prospettiva per scoprire lo studio dell’artista Luca Valerio (Fondi, Latina, 1966). È evidente come Interrogare la realtà – Mondi dell’immagine oggi presupponga una ricerca artistica che presenta elementi riconducibili all’arte concettuale, quindi caratterizzata da un rigoroso controllo formale e...

Hyper Reality è il titolo-tema dell’undicesima edizione del Festival curato a Forlì da Vertov Project. Prologo alla Fondazione Dino Zoli con la mostra collettiva Interference, che riunisce dodici artiste internazionali nel segno dell’interferenza come forza generativa. Forlì torna a essere una Babele di stimoli e visioni, grazie a Ibrida Festival Internazionale delle Arti Intermediali: l’undicesima edizione, dal titolo-tema Hyper Reality, è in programma dal 17 al 20 settembre. Prologo essenziale e complementare sarà la mostra collettiva intermediale Interference, che dall’1 settembre all’11 ottobre metterà in dialogo le ricerche radicali di dodici artiste internazionali.
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La fotografia ha da lungo stabilito la propria autorità su ciò che Roland Barthes ha denominato il ça a été: la traccia di un momento reale fisicamente impressa sull’immagine. Una fotografia indica. Jiayue Wang è un’artista cinese che lavora attraverso fotografia, installazione e immagine in movimento, interrogandosi su ciò che una fotografia inizia a perdere nel momento in cui viene scattata. La sua prima mostra personale in museo, After the Image, di recente tenutasi al Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, ha spinto questa domanda fino alle estreme conseguenze, esplorando ciò che un’immagine diventa una volta che non può più assolvere la sua supposta funzione di testimoniare il reale.
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Il 23 novembre 1962, in una chiesa sconsacrata nel centro di Copenaghen, Alison Knowles eseguì Nivea Cream Piece for Oscar Williams. Una fotografia di quella sera è oggi al Museum of Modern Art di New York. Nella stessa serata Dick Higgins interpretò il Drip Music di George Brecht salendo su una scala – un’invenzione esecutiva che gli interpreti ripetono ancora oggi. Era la prima delle sei sere del Festum Fluxorum, il secondo festival Fluxus della storia dopo quello di Wiesbaden, pianificato da George Maciunas e organizzato sul posto da Arthur Köpcke, dalla sezione danese della società di musica contemporanea e da Knud Pedersen, che dentro quella chiesa teneva la propria biblioteca d’arte.
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Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
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The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

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By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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By Victoria Thomas Photographer and ceramic artist Catherine (Cathy) Opie first shocked and rocked the fine art world with her self-portraits during the late 1990s. Today, her decades of work — often termed confessional — now serve as context for the far more enigmatic Holding Blue installation, on view at Regen Projects through July 3. The Los Angeles-based artist identifies as a leather dyke, lesbian cowboy, an elder, and as "Mama Cathy," with a mustachioed male alter-ego named Bo. Opie is...

“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...