Faith Ringgold, “Tar Beach II” (1990), silk screen on silk with pieced fabric (photo Jasmine Weber/Hyperallergic)“The first step towards a cure is admitting you have a problem,” Josh Kline writes in “New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art,” which appeared online last week and immediately set the art circles I belong to abuzz. The problem, as Kline sees it, is pretty unarguable: New York City’s deeply inequitable real estate market is having an impact on what art is made, where it is shown, how it is sold. “Meaningful art, relevant for society and our time, may not be sustainable under the current conditions here,” he says.Why bother writing a response to a piece whose basic premise...

It’s been almost eight years since Swedish painter and occultist Hilma af Klint’s retrospective Paintings for the Future at the Guggenheim Museum in New York tore a hole through the canon of abstraction in art history. With its record-breaking attendance, the show catapulted the late mystic from the throes of relative obscurity in North America and established her as a pioneer of the movement who had slipped under the radar in part because of her devotion to spiritualism and Theosophy. Although contentious, the newfound spotlight on af Klint stimulated public interest in the sacred and the supernatural, invoking a new feminist artist collective that both questions and resists the sidelining of alternative...

We hope you had a lovely Easter, if you celebrate. And even if you don't, I think you'll still get a kick out of the absolutely fantastic costumes from the Easter Bonnet Parade over the weekend, including egg cartons as headwear, birdcage veils, and a whole family of shrimp.We spent the morning at the press preview for the Duchamp exhibition at MoMA, spanning the entire sixth floor. It's encyclopedic, thought-provoking, and sometimes surprising. Stay tuned for more detailed coverage, but to start, know that he didn't quit painting for lack of talent. See for yourself when it opens to the public on Sunday — I'd budget a couple of hours. You know that feeling when an artist's...

Cover of Discipline: A Novel by Larissa Pham (Random House, 2026)“People are always writing from their own lives,” says Christina, the protagonist of Larissa Pham’s debut novel, Discipline. “You can’t ever change what’s already happened to you, but when you write about it, you can reframe it. Take control of it, maybe.” This casual self-awareness from both the character and the author will be familiar to most autofiction fans. They might even be tired of it by now. Christina, a 20-something-year-old writer and former painter haunted by a youthful affair with her professor, Richard, is similar to the struggling creatives that headline books by autofiction mainstays — Rachel Cusk, Ben Lerner,...

Visiting Agata Ingarden at Triangle-Astérides, Lucy McKenzie at Crac Occitanie, and Marlie Mul at Mécènes du Sud

BERKELEY, Calif. — We feel the playful and puckish energy of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha from the beginning of “Untitled (Trip & Theresa)” (c. 1970s), the first of a series of three short film experiments, as she points to each word of a conceptual exercise written on the wall behind her, smiling and dancing as the camera zooms out. I didn’t expect to be so moved by seeing Cha smile, and this early moment stayed with me for the rest of my time with the exhibition. This candid glimpse of the artist’s personality encapsulates the way Multiple Offerings, currently on view at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), humanizes an artist who has become larger than life, sometimes overshadowed by...

Two former museum employees point to quiet changes related to programming and language that they think are decidedly telling

The Black Gold Museum opened this week in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia as part of the country’s Vision 2030 initiative, the goals of which include diversifying the country’s economy and transforming its socioeconomic landscape. As its name more than implies, the new museum, which was announced in September 2020, deals with the intersection of oil and contemporary art. (Saudia Arabia has the world’s second largest oil reserves, after Venezuela.) The Black Gold Museum takes a mostly positive spin on petroleum, telling the story of life before and after the discovery of oil “in a creative and innovative way,” according to a publicity video about the museum. The Black Gold Museum’s...

South Seas, a resort located on Captiva Island in Florida, has purchased all twenty-two acres of the Robert Rauschenberg property located on the same island, according to reports. South Seas, which reportedly spent $45 million on the deal, announced the sale on March 31, inciting the dismay of many in the local community who wanted to see the artist’s […]

Founded in 1879, the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the nation’s oldest museums—and one of its greatest. Spanning two connected buildings and covering nearly one million square feet, it is also one of the largest, making a visit to the Art Institute a potentially intimidating endeavor. Ask 10 people what to see there, and you may get 10 different answers. Some will direct you to the Impressionist galleries, where world-famous works by Van Gogh, Caillebotte, and Seurat lie in wait. Others will tell you to go to the Surrealist section, which houses quite a few treasures. And still others—locals, most likely—will urge you visit some of the less often visited corners of the museum, notably the basement...

Christine Ruiz-Picasso, who helped found a museum in Málaga, Spain, dedicated to the Cubist artist, died on April 6 at 97. She died at her home in Provence, France, according to Europa Press.   In a press release announcing her passing, the Museo Picasso Málaga described Ruiz-Picasso, who was Picasso’s daughter-in-law, as an “essential figure in the creation of this institution and a tireless advocate of the artistic legacy of Pablo Picasso.” The release continued, “Her artistic sensibility and commitment to culture made her a respected figure in the museum and culture spheres.” She was born Christine Pauplin in 1928 in France. She met Paul Ruiz-Picasso at some point in the 1950s and together they...

The National Gallery in London has selected Kengo Kuma and Associates, the Tokyo-based firm known for designing the V&A Dundee in Scotland, to design its new extension as part of Project Domani, the institution’s £750 million ($995 million) campaign to transform its campus and expand its collection into the 20th and 21st centuries. Two UK-based firms, BDP and MICA, will collaborate with Kuma on the project, which is subject to ratification at the end of a standstill period ending April 16. The new wing will be built on the site of St. Vincent House, which currently houses a hotel and office complex and will be demolished as part of the expansion. The new wing, expected to open in the early 2030s, will add...

The Hole, a gallery known for exhibiting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists, is accused in legal filings of being in significant arrears on rent. The New York–based gallery has reportedly closed its Los Angeles outpost, and artists and workers have alleged that it has has been late in sending payment, according to new report in the Art Newspaper.  “I’ve been here for 15 years and after two extra-successful years, sales were down significantly starting at the end of 2023. For everyone in our zone, not just for us,” Kathy Grayson, the gallery’s founder, told the Art Newspaper. “I’m recalibrating things here to focus on New York and getting everything stabilised again. The up can often be...

Researcher Michelle McKeown of University College Cork explores the surface of the midden island off the coast of Culasawani, Fiji. QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA—According to a Phys.org report, a study of a small island in the Fiji archipelago led by Patrick D. Nunn of the University of the Sunshine Coast determined that it consists of shellfish remains and fragments of pottery. Nunn and his team members examined four test pits and 20 narrow core samples taken from different areas of the shell island, which covers less than an acre. Radiocarbon dating of clam shells in the samples indicates that they are about 1,200 years old. Early settlers of the Fiji Islands, who arrived around A.D. 760, are thought to have...

Papyrus fragment P. Fouad inv. 218 LIÈGE, BELGIUM—According to a statement released by the University of Liège, a 2,000-year-old fragment of papyrus recovered from the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo preserves 30 previously unknown verses written by Empedocles of Agrigentum, a Greek philosopher who lived in the fifth century B.C. The work of Empedocles had been known only through quotes recorded by later authors, such as Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch. Papyrologist Nathan Carlig of the University of Liège realized that the papyrus fragment, labeled P. Fouad inv. 218, was an unknown fragment of Physica, a poem written by Empedocles. These verses concern the philosopher’s...

We love a festival that feels like a world in itself. This summer, Harry Styles builds exactly that

Nothing and nobody is perfect. Imperfections can be found everywhere. From June 18 to 21, experience how these defects and shortcomings, these imperfections and flaws, can lead to fascinating discoveries and beautiful creations at the 2026 Bosch Parade. This edition’s theme, Powered by Defects, pays a contemporary tribute to the large and small wrongdoings in the world.  Dedicated to painter Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516), the biannual parade honors the artist’s fascination with the fantastical and absurd. Bosch is known for his symbolic paintings, often tying in gruesome representations of the afterlife and human desire and fear. He is also regarded as one of the earliest genre painters, depicting common...

The Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize returns to Photo London 2026, showcasing emerging female photographers and global perspectives.

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Northcote House sits within a compact site in Melbourne, Australia, designed by LLDS as a reworking of a Victorian terrace. The narrow plot runs east to west, with a design that raises the ground plane to form a roof garden, giving back outdoor space within a dense urban condition.
 
This elevated landscape carries a brown roof that supports local ecology while extending the life of the house beyond its footprint. Beneath it, a hall-like volume gathers kitchen, dining, and entry within a single continuous space. The scale recalls nearby factory lofts and church halls, where openness supports shared occupation.
 
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Sundaram Tagore Gallery opens a new London space in St James’s with a group exhibition exploring identity and global art.

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When Moffat Takadiwa sees a pile of rubbish—old technology parts, personal care items, clothing—he doesn’t just see a bunch of junk. The Harare, Zimbabwe-based artist has spent the better part of two decades collecting thousands upon thousands of pieces of plastic and metals foraged from landfills near the city’s Mbare neighborhood, where heaps of electronic equipment waste, also known as e-waste, ends up in illicit dump sites. In his studio, vast collections of colorful objects are meticulously sorted into collections. Takadiwa is known for his elaborate sculptures made from what he describes as “everyday consumer residue”—discarded computer keyboard keys, toothbrush heads, plastic combs,...

The Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma and Associates, whose previous museum projects include V&A Dundee, will design the building located on the site of St Vincent House

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Set on a steep forested hillside in the Maresme near Barcelona, House 144º explores how to build on a sloping site without reshaping the landscape. Designed by Pineda & Monedero and Jaime Prous Architects as a single-story, nearly zero-energy home for a retired couple, the project is positioned lightly above the terrain, preserving existing trees and topography. Rather than maximising footprint through excavation, the house adopts a minimal-impact strategy that allows the ground to remain largely untouched and used for parking.
 
The house is organised on a single level, placed midway along the slope and supported by a lightweight steel...

Back-to-back casts in the Metropolitan Opera's revivals of Madama Butterfly and La traviata offer ample opportunity for soprano-gazing.

Intimacy is never simple. It is a tension between visibility and concealment, between the everyday and the exceptional, a fragile architecture of perception and emotion. In Under the Sunlight, There is No True Intimacy, No.223 charts this territory with a lens that hovers between observation and empathy, illuminating moments that are at once fleeting and enduring. Desire is the undercurrent of the work, a force that navigates social expectation while asserting private freedom. The exhibition evokes the pulse of life in its subtle rhythms: a glance exchanged in a sunlit corner, the quiet geometry of bodies in motion, the way urban and natural spaces seem to whisper with latent meaning. These photographs do not...

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Thomias Radin’s Echoes of Ka at Esther Schipper explores Caribbean philosophy, Gwoka dance and embodied painting through immersive installation.

New public art project entitled "Three Mirrors"—commissioned by digital art platform Circa—will be shown in nine cities

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As part of Utopia Then and Now, we explored the shifting boundaries of the ideal world through the lens of architecture, art, technology, and design. By looking back at radical 1960s visions and forward toward lunar colonies and regenerative fabrics, we gathered a collection of insights on what it means to build a better way of being. Across disciplines, the first chapter of our renewed editorial focus reveals a decisive shift away from singular visions of ideal worlds toward something more complex, unstable, and human. Utopia no longer appears as a fixed destination. Instead, it emerges as a tool, a question, and often a contradiction.
 
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Chiseled from wood, Aleph Geddis’ spindly, playful, vaguely alien wooden sculptures evoke an enigmatic tension between identity and glyph. His organic, hand-worked objects teeter between abstraction and figuration like retrofuturistic icons. The artist lives between Japan, Bali, and Orcas Island in Washington. “This split has been incredibly generative, allowing me to carry my practice with me and respond to very different environments and energies,” he tells Colossal. Scale is a constant source of fascination. Geddis has recently been working on a series he calls Littles, which are “inspired by the way children disappear into dreamy, imaginative worlds while playing with toys,” he says. “They feel...

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The Seoul Design Award 2026 has officially opened its call for entries, marking its 7th edition as the world’s global award dedicated to addressing social and climate issues through sustainable design. In a symbolic milestone for the program, designboom is proud to announce an editorial partnership to highlight the growing international status of projects that drive positive impact. Since its launch in 2019, the award has seen an explosive 1,100% growth, reaching 941 entries from 74 countries by 2025. This rapid evolution underscores the award’s role as a leading platform for highlighting how design can transform everyday life and move the world toward a...

Plus, Konstantin Andreevich Somov's birch trees and rhinoceros after Dürer are on sale this month

The crumbling roof of Winston Churchill’s birthplace has been fixed in a £12m conservation project that the restorers hope will preserve the 18th-century country house for the next 300 years

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TRETTITRE’s Retro audio devices with magnetic installations
 
Hi-Fi brand TRETTITRE brings back the retro audio devices with a series of wall-mounted wireless vinyl, CD, and cassette players for triple listening sessions. A rack holds all of them together in a single vertical installation, designed to unify them all like an artwork on the wall instead of making them separate devices. The modular system comes with four parts, starting with the TTT-W, which is a magnetic modular wall rack. It is flushed against the wall, and four circular magnetic pads are placed separately yet connected, resulting in a vertical design piece.
 
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Mark Rothko (Daugavpils, 1903 – New York, 1970) è uno degli artisti più iconici del Novecento: oltre ad aver rivoluzionato la storia della pittura in quanto riferimento imprescindibile per una certa e ben frequentata linea di ricerca astratta, il suo linguaggio ha mantenuta intatta la sua vitalità con il passare del tempo. Al di là di ogni considerazione storicizzante, il suo lavoro è capace di suscitare oggi le stesse emozioni e lo stesso coinvolgimento del periodo in cui era una novità dirompente. A distanza di quasi vent’anni dall’ultima retrospettiva istituzionale a lui dedicata in Italia (6/10/2007 – 6/01/2008 al Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma), l’artista è al centro di un altro...

Billionaire art dealer David Nahmad, who spent eleven years attempting to prove in court that he was the rightful owner of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 painting Seated Man with a Cane, has lost his case. New York Supreme Court judge Joel M. Cohen on April 3 ruled that the canvas in fact belonged to the estate of Jewish antiques dealer Oscar […]

In a rare instance of an individual pursuing such charges, Ali Cherri, a Franco-Lebanese filmmaker and artist, has filed a civil complaint against the Israeli army with the French War Crimes Unit, per a press release. Cherri, who submitted the complaint on April 2 alongside the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), is denouncing the Israeli authorities’ November 2024 […]

A little over six years after being targeted by arsonists during wide-ranging protests in Santiago, Chile, the Violeta Parra Museum has been reopened to the public, the Art Newspaper reports. Beginning in October of 2019, citizen grievances with the Chilean government regarding the cost of living and metro fare prices gave way to explosive protests that went on to last for months, and […]

When Frode Bolhuis got his start as a sculptor, he worked classically, with monumental figures made of bronze and metal—the kind of thing you see in a public square or park. But then the Dutch sculptor discovered the simplest of mediums, polymer clay, and his art practice exploded into a technicolor world of hue and […]
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Archaeologists have long known that the ancient peoples of North America—not unlike us—played a lot of games. Going back millennia, cultures around the world developed myriad ways to keep entertained, and for a long time, it was thought that the first dice ever used could be traced to the ancient Eastern European and Near East cultures of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and the Caucasus. But according to a new paper by Robert Madden, published by Cambridge University Press, games of chance developed much, much earlier than originally thought—halfway around the world. Researchers previously believed that the earliest dice originated about 5,500 years ago, but Madden shares that examples excavated in North...

OTTAWA, CANADA—Hürriyet Daily News reports that Canada has returned 11 artifacts to Turkey in a ceremony at the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa. The Canada Border Services Agency seized the artifacts, which were in transport from Istanbul to Vancouver, in January 2024. Officials at the Department of Canadian Heritage then worked with Turkish authorities to review the case. Canada’s Federal Court later ruled that the artifacts are protected under Turkey’s legislation on the protection of cultural assets and must be returned. Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said that the items include seven manuscript pages, some of which had been detached from larger works, rare...

SINDH, PAKISTAN—New radiocarbon dates for Mohenjo-Daro obtained by archaeologists at the Sindh Directorate General of Antiquities & Archaeology indicate that the city on the banks of the Indus River in southwestern Pakistan was occupied as early as 2700 to 2600 B.C., about two hundred years earlier than previously thought, according to an IFL Science report. The site is known for its burnt-brick structures spread over some 590 acres, where at least 40,000 people are thought to have lived. Evidence for a system of water infrastructure, including baths, wells, and sewage pits, has been found among the city ruins. Samples for the new radiocarbon dates were taken in the upper part of the city, from the mudbrick...

Photogrammetric model of submerged harbor on a plateau off Asini, Greece ARGOLIS, GREECE—According to a Greek Reporter article, archaeologists led by Panayiota Galiatsatou of Greece’s Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities have investigated a submerged harbor complex off the eastern coast of the Peloponnese. The platform had been built in shallow water in order to take advantage of the natural harbor and nearby defensive hill. Pottery recovered from within the platform suggests that it dates to the Roman period. This year, the research team examined structures that had been built on top of the platform. These features have roughly square shapes and are made of stones. The team members now think that the stones...

From April 9 to 12, EXPO CHICAGO returns to Navy Pier, hosting hundreds of galleries, site-specific projects, talks, and multi-disciplinary programming both downtown and across the city. This week is one of the most exciting times for the Chicago-area art scene, and we’re excited to share our annual preview of what we’re most looking forward to! Aliza Nisenbaum, “Hitomi” (2022), oil on linen, 66 x 57 inches 1. Aliza Nisenbaum at Anton Kern and Regan Projects Presented by Anton Kern and Regan Projects, Aliza Nisenbaum’s vibrant portraiture portrays her subjects in bold chromatics. Nisenbaum’s smaller-scale works presented at the fair echo one of her larger projects: a celebratory mural titled...

Benjamin Bernheim opens up to Emma Hoffman about what really makes a French tenor ahead of his New York recital debut.

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Five video works by Angelica Mesiti (b. 1976) are now on view at Museum Tinguely in Basel. It’s the first comprehensive solo show of the Paris-based artist to open in Switzerland. Mesiti has worked at the intersection of performance, sound and video since the early 2000s, creating pieces that explore the ways in which nonverbal communication – like dance, music and movement – can build connections between people. It’s an approach that has led to international recognition, including representing Australia – her home country – at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. Museum Tinguely’s exhibition is, fittingly, called Reverb – in reference to both acoustic reverberation, and the way human...

Arte cinetica – un omaggio di Ferruccio Gard a Vasarely è una mostra nata da una coincidenza significativa: il 2026 segna i 120 anni dalla nascita di Victor Vasarely, padre dell’Op Art, e i 50 anni della Fondation Vasarely, istituzione che continua a custodire e diffondere la sua eredità. Nel contempo, Ferruccio Gard celebra i suoi 85, scegliendo di rendere omaggio al maestro ungherese con cui condivide la passione per la percezione, il colore e il movimento.
Ferruccio Gard, “Dinamiche strutturali 4”, 1969, acrilici su tela, cm 40 x 50, courtesy dell’Artista
Vasarely ha definito una grammatica visiva nuova, fondata su moduli geometrici, variazioni sistematiche e un’idea di arte universale,...

A first-time operagoer is lured to Thaïs at Opera Idaho by the promise of a new experience… and Neil, the Burmese python

Architecture, memory and the poetics of concrete converge in Brutal Scotland, an exhibition that situates post-war modernism within a broader cultural and emotional terrain. At its core, the show interrogates how built environments embody ideological ambition, social rupture and aesthetic endurance. Photography here becomes not merely documentary but interpretive. The tension between decay and resilience runs throughout, suggesting that these structures are far from static relics. Instead, they operate as living documents of a nation’s evolving identity. In this sense, the exhibition positions Brutalism as a lens through which to reconsider histories of progress, failure and reinvention. Emerging from this...

Has the history of design influenced how we process and recall music? Art of Noise, on view at Cooper Hewitt in New York, explores this question through an array of archival objects, including band posters, album art and interactive vintage equipment. Split between two spaces, the exhibition’s first half showcases gadgets galore, examining the evolving relationship with product design. From early phonographs to Bluetooth speakers, the show traces technological advancements in sound quality, portability and consumer listening choices, alongside shifting aesthetic preferences amongst the public. Vision 2000, for example, a cassette player and radio designed by Thilo Oerke in 1971, capitalised on the cultural...

Nel contemporaneo, l’emersione di un’opera dipende dalle trame che ne governano accesso e trasmissione epistemica. Curatori, istituzioni, fiere e mecenati formano un ecosistema di validazione di rilevanza che decide quali espressioni affiorano e quali restano ai margini. L’interpretazione della statura intellettuale e la ricezione sociale derivano dal rapporto tra gli agenti, procedure e strumenti coordinati, favorendo il rafforzamento di una egemonia nella sfera performativa.
Frieze London 2025. Photo by Linda Nylind, courtesy of Frieze
La gestione della diffusione delle opere ha subito evoluzioni nel corso del tempo. Nel XIX secolo, enti disciplinari e rassegne canoniche regolavano stili, temi e...

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, with an abundance of invigorating artistic narratives emerging across forms and disciplines, even as the wider climate feels increasingly unsettled. 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 to the mayhem of today’s world. You can read the interview here . We...