After years of testing the waters, Christie’s has decided that pop culture is ready for the big leagues. The auction house confirmed Wednesday that it is launching a dedicated pop culture division, a new global operation that will hold multiple auctions each year spanning film and television, music and musical instruments, sports memorabilia, science and technology, natural history, fashion, and popular design. Josh Benesh, a former Heritage Auctions executive who joined Christie’s as a consultant earlier this year, has been appointed to lead the division as its global head based in New York. The move comes after Christie’s spent years assessing the appetite for the category, most recently with the...

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At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, violinist Audrey Wright wears a field of electronics across her body while her husband and creative partner Geoff Robertson stands nearby with a tablet. As Wright plays, Robertson moves through visual programs that send light across the wearable display.
 
The setup comes from Luminous Being, the project the pair began performing in 2024, but the presentation soon shifts toward something still being built. Together with composer Stephanie Ann Boyd, they are developing PRISMBODY, a new work that takes Boyd’s synesthetic experience of music as its starting point and asks how some part of that personal perception might become visible to...

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled (Go-Go Dancing Platform)" (1991) (photo Adam Milner/Hyperallergic)The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the first major exhibition on Felix Gonzalez-Torres in New York in over 30 years. Opening next June, The Spaces Between is organized in conjunction with the Art Institute of Chicago, which will simultaneously host a different exhibition on the Cuban-born American artist who died from AIDS-related complications in 1996.Titled after a line from an Elizabeth Bishop essay that Gonzalez-Torres had faxed to gallerist Andrea Rosen in 1994, The Spaces Between will bring together more than 40 works spanning installation, sculpture, photography, painting, and video. Dispersed...

The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) has announced that Mexican architect Frida Escobedo will lead the project to expand the museum. The subterranean expansion will be constructed beneath Plaza Perú, the public park that neighbors the museum, and will roughly double the museum’s current exhibition space. New features include temporary galleries, an […]

Paul Laporte, a great-grandson of the well-to-do Sofie Heilbronner, who fled Munich for the United States in 1938, spent the past eight years working to reclaim a painting that belonged to his great-grandmother and had been lost as a result of Nazi persecution. The artwork, Music (Arcadian Scene), 1892, by German painter Albert Lang was returned to Heilbronner’s heirs in a ceremony on September 22 at the German Embassy in Washington, DC. Before Tuesday, it had been held by the Bavarian State Painting Collections, a museum in Munich. A notice from the New York State Department of Financial Services, which administers the Holocaust Claims Processing Office, explains that Heilbronner packed up her artworks...

When Mikiko Ino, president and director of the New York nonprofit KinoSaito, lost her husband, the late abstract painter and the organization’s co-founder Kikuo Saito, she turned to the words he had often repeated.“Kikuo always said there are two deaths: the first is physical, and the second is when nobody talks about you,” Ino recalled. “I decided to never give him the second death.”Ino’s story is one of many heartfelt, candid testimonies in a new report published by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, “Creating Future Memory,” which zeroes in on the obstacles, educational gaps, and structural inequities that dictate who gets to be remembered and how. A total of 145 artists, family members,...

Hollywood mogul and Frieze owner Ari Emanuel objected to calling the actions of the Israeli military in the Occupied West Bank a genocide, criticized rapper Macklemore's pro-Palestinian remarks, and complimented Elon Musk for doing "incredible things for the human race" during an interview on the Daily Show on Monday, September 21. The comments come days before the September 24 opening of New York’s Armory Show, which Frieze owns and effectively operates alongside six other fairs, two exhibition spaces, and its namesake publication. "I don't believe the word genocide is the proper word for what happened in the West Bank," Emanuel told host Jon Stewart without once making mention of Gaza, which a...

The U.K. government has placed a ban on the export of an early-sixteenth-century bronze, valued at $6.2 million, in an effort to give British museums and galleries time to acquire the work and keep it on public display. Seated Nymph was sculpted by the Italian artist Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, also known as Antico, in […]

Seven frog amulets (1410–1310 BCE), faience and gold (image used with permission from the Oriental Museum, Durham University)Most literature about Ancient Egypt, and popular culture for that matter, has favored a glamorous depiction of its treasures and dynastic political power struggles. The artisans and laborers who built the material and visual culture of one of the longest surviving ancient civilizations, however, are often either absent or relegated to the margins.Made in Ancient Egypt (2025), a fully illustrated catalog for an exhibition of the same name at the University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, fills this gap by scientifically reanalyzing existing and lesser-known objects and works of...

Jeffreen M.H. Ash will depart from her role as executive director of the Chicago cultural nonprofit Threewalls on September 30. She has spent eleven years at the contemporary art organization, whose mission is to support Black artists through collaboration and community and within Black feminist and diasporic traditions. “It has been a privilege to create […]

New York’s El Museo del Barrio said this week that it regretted renting space to a group that organized an event at which 9/11 conspiracy theories were freely aired. Titled “Turning the Tide: 9/11 25 Years Later” and staged between September 10 and 13, the four-day event was held at the museum earlier this month to mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. It was organized by the International Center for 9/11 Justice, whose stated goal is to create “a society that is no longer shaped by the false official account of 9/11.” According to the New York Times, the event pushed false narratives about 9/11, including ones that were centered around the notion that the Twin Towers...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Lucia Laguna (1941–2026)Brazilian painter and collage artistThe Brazilian artist drew from her immediate surroundings in Rio de Janeiro’s lush North Zone in her paintings and collages. She exhibited her work at the 2012 São Paulo Biennial and received numerous solo shows across the United States, South America, and Europe. "Lucia had an urgent curiosity about the art that informed the development of her own practice, but was undeniably inspired by her immediate surroundings in Brazil," gallerist Sadie Coles told Hyperallergic. "The construction of her compositions, depicting the flora and fauna...

The Art Institute of Chicago has announced that it will return Jean Metzinger’s painting Woman with a Fan (1913) to the family of Jewish art collector Emanuel Lewenstein. The museum acquired the painting from New York’s Sidney Janis Gallery in 1959, but provenance research by the Mondex Corporation—an organization founded in 1993 that works to […]

In tender paper collages featuring woodland creatures in relief, Kanako Abe imagines dreamlike scenes reminiscent of childhood narratives and folk tales. Giant wolves, diminutive bunnies, and curious deer wander through a Narnia-like realm that we glimpse through foliage-filled portals. In her practice, “the paper becomes a canvas for stories untold, where every cut is a deliberate step into a world where imagination and reality intertwine,” a statement says. Paper-cutting has long been a central tenet of Abe’s practice, which she recently applied to an ambitious forthcoming book project in collaboration with young adult novelist Caryl Lewis. The Paper Girl, published by Frances Lincoln Ltd., follows the...

A trove of 934 Roman silver denarii was discovered by an amateur archaeologist with a metal detector in a field in Wesseling, Germany. The coins date to the time of the Roman emperor Hadrian. When his metal detector wouldn’t stop beeping last year, Oliver Riedl called authorities and a group of experts began digging immediately to discover the biggest collection of coins from this time period in the country, per the local archaeology office. The 6.8 pounds of silver was likely buried deliberately in the second half of the second century CE, according to the LVR Office for the Preservation of Archaeological Monuments in the Rhineland. “Of course, we can only speculate about the motives, but it’s very...

Remuseum’s latest report explores the role of artificial intelligence in US art institutions, highlighting five areas where the technology can be particularly impactful

On the death and resurrection of Dave Green's 2026 film Coyote vs. Acme

the kitchen moves outside
 
Lume Traveler has taken one of the bulkiest parts of a caravan interior and pushed it outside. Its new Ranger places the kitchen in a pull-out module along the body, turning food prep into an outdoor act and giving the compact cabin more room to breathe. The aluminum trailer measures 5.19 meters long including its drawbar and just over two meters wide, with an empty weight of 1,150 kilograms.
 
That move sets up the whole plan. A fixed Auping queen bed fills the rear, while an enclosed bathroom and a small seating area fit into the remaining interior. Designed for two people, the Ranger also gains a pop-up roof that lifts once parked, opening up the low-profile cabin...

A real-estate crisis, fraught politics, and a market downturn have all factored into Heidi's move

The Art Institute of Chicago will return Jean Metzinger’s painting Woman with a Fan (1913) to the family of Jewish art collector Emanuel Lewenstein, the museum has announced. The museum bought the painting from New York’s Sidney Janis Gallery in 1959, but despite research into its provenance, gaps remained, including its location before and during World War II. Working with the Mondex Corporation, which specializes in the recovery of art and other assets looted during World War II, the museum discovered that the painting was part of the Lewenstein collection, which was sold under duress in Amsterdam after the German invasion of the Netherlands. The museum’s website describes the painting as “most...

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“Do you ever think about concrete?” opens the trailer for The History of Concrete, a documentary released in select theaters in the U.S. last Friday. If your answer is no, the quirky new feature by filmmaker John Wilson may mean you can’t get it out of your head. Wilson is known for the cult-favorite, comedic HBO docuseries How To with John Wilson, which he described as being “kind of like that show Planet Earth, except if it was only in New York and David Attenborough was forced to film everything himself.” His movie debut is primed for absurdity, delving into something that’s immanently mundane yet fundamental to the way we live. The film captures concrete’s ubiquity in urban sidewalks,...

Infinite Grove pavilion reflects a single tree into infinity
 
One tree becomes an endless forest in Infinite Grove, a traveling pavilion by Chang Hao Studio in Shanghai. Two curved mirrored–steel walls reflect a single tree back and forth, creating a forest with no visible edge. First presented in spring at the 2026 Shanghai International Flower Festival, the pavilion has since moved across the city, pairing the same structure with different trees for each season.
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One tree, multiplied, shapes a forest within two walls
 
Infinite Grove is a pop-up pavilion built by Chang Hao Studio around a single tree. Two curved mirrored-steel walls multiply it through reflection,...

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“The parties acknowledge a difference of opinion regarding the future of Kanal,” says a statement from the cabinet of Boris Dilliès, the recently-appointed leader of the regional government

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Some ticket holders have reportedly been turned away from the exhibition because previous visitors had taken too long taking photos

When Jenny Holzer put Truisms on a Times Square billboard
 
In 1982, sentences appeared between advertisements on a giant electronic billboard in Times Square. PRIVATE PROPERTY CREATED CRIME. TORTURE IS BARBARIC. ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SUPRISE. They were not selling anything, offering directions, or announcing a new product. Jenny Holzer had placed her Truisms inside the Spectacolor board, turning one of New York’s most conspicuous commercial surfaces into a vehicle for ambiguous, confrontational statements.
 
The gesture was sharp because Holzer used the visual language used for advertising — the scale, movement and glow of the billboard remaining the same, but instead of selling a product, it...

SEOUL DESIGN AWARD OPENS LIVE EVALUATIONS AND GLOBAL VOTING
 
Chosen from over 1,200 submissions across 91 countries, the Seoul Design Award 2026 top 10 finalists showcase global projects driving sustainable daily living. Built to honor designs that support balance between people, society, and the environment, the competition elevates work tackling urgent social and ecological challenges. In a shift from traditional closed-door judging, the 2026 program brings the ten shortlisted teams to the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on October 14 for on-stage evaluations.  
Expanding public involvement in the selection process, the organization has officially launched its online global public voting phase, inviting...

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The Australian American artist Anita Glesta’s installation will transform the storied overpass for two nights this month to raise awareness of Hudson Canyon’s rich ecosystem

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In the winning video of Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition, Dr. Ning Xu captures the abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD)—a genetic disorder affecting respiratory function. “When people watch cilia beating, they immediately understand that something beautiful and important is happening inside us,” says the Beijing-based researcher. “I think this competition turns microscopy into a shared language.” The marvelous sight is just one of the notable videos from the annual competition, which just celebrated its 16th cycle. This year’s panel welcomed esteemed scientists, researchers, and science communicators who evaluated more than 340 video entries...

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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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Vibrant, amorphous shapes intersect with squiggles and occasional geometric lettering in the murals of Chicago-based artist Emmy Star Brown. She describes her studio practice as a space where her inner child emerges, paring down her expressions to formal qualities of line, shape, and contrast. In her large-scale installations on urban buildings, which draw on her background in visual communications and advertising, both interior and exterior surfaces transform into energetic, edge-to-edge romps of color. Brown’s work is currently on view alongside that of Danym Kwon in The Peace of Wild Things at Joy Machine. See more on the artist’s Instagram. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a...

It’s all things avian at Bird Photographer of the Year, the world’s largest contest dedicated to images of feathered creatures planet-wide. This year, the program welcomed more than 24,000 entries from photographers around the globe, capturing diving penguins, urban denizens, mating rituals, dramatic flights, and more. Highlighting birds of all kinds, the competition emphasizes the diverse appearances and behaviors of the animals and also raises awareness of the challenges they face due human-triggered habitat loss, poaching, pollution, and other factors. Categories include Best Portrait, Bird Behavior, Conservation, Urban Birds, and others, plus three youth categories for budding photographers aged 17...

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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...

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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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By Betty Ann Brown "What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"—Honoré de Balzac "Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning."—Miguel de Unamuno Hiroko Yoshimoto's paintings concentrate nature into radiant and dynamic beauty, distilling visual sensation into poetic and environmental significance. Throughout the 2020s, Yoshimoto has worked on two series of paintings about nature: Biodiversity and Of Infinite Variety. Both series are based on observation of the natural...

By Julie Faith There is something strange about returning to a place you once knew well after being away for a long time. You recognize the architecture before you recognize what the years have done to you. As I passed through the gate at Corey Helford Gallery, crossed the lot, and headed up the stairs, I felt ridiculously, wonderfully giddy. Kid-in-a-candy-store giddy. I have been away from the gallery and much of the Los Angeles art world, but somewhere between the gate and the stairs, I...

 
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.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
   
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...

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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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

 
Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here. We also mark an...