a Revised history of early graphic design through women’s work
 
UN/SEEN presents a research-driven publication focusing on women’s contributions to early graphic design practices up to the Bauhaus period. Edited and published by Slanted Publishers, the book compiles previously underrepresented material related to female designers working across book design, poster design, typography, illustration, and packaging.
 
Structured in ten chapters, the publication draws on recent research findings and a wide range of historical examples to document the professional roles and design output of early women practitioners in the field. The material highlights how these designers operated within and contributed to...

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circular ocean-powered complex reimagines energy production
 
Designed as an entry for the prestigious Jacques Rougerie Foundation competition, ‘Baobab Waterfall’ project by Ahmad Eghtesad is a conceptual mixed-use infrastructure proposed for the coastline of Madagascar. The island is rich in natural resources and unique biodiversity, yet severe energy shortages leave a vast majority of the population without electricity. This energy crisis contributes directly to economic hardship and rising crime rates, leading to severely overcrowded correctional facilities. This project seeks to address these interconnected crises through a radical architectural intervention that turns a societal challenge into a...

A new public art project is set to liven up the streets of New York City’s five boroughs as well as nearby parts of New Jersey with soccer ball-themed sculptures created in honor of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The project, titled “The Art of the Game,” was conceived by New Jersey-based arts accessibility initiative […]

There are more than a dozen documented archaeological and historic sites within one mile of the proposed arch location, according to a new report, and additional undocumented materials may be present

When Helene Plotkin purchased a painting of a seated woman at a White Plains thrift store sixty years ago, she bought it because she liked it. A former art student, she admired its colors and brushwork, and the price was right: she remembers it costing under $100. Now, thanks to Ms. Plotkin’s eye, her son’s curiosity, and a little help from the Google chatbot Gemini, her family is more than $250,000 richer.   Verified by specialists as an original canvas by noted Scottish artist F.C.B. Cadell (1883–1937), the work sold to a private buyer at auction June 4 for $189,200 pounds with fees. Though Plotkin, now 88, always treasured the painting—which depicts a chic woman in a dark dress and 1920s-style...

David Hockney, long regarded as one of Britain’s greatest contemporary painters, died yesterday, June 11, at his home in London, aged 88. His survivors include his partner, Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima, and his brothers, John and Philip Hockney. His death was announced by his publicist. Best known for paintings that imbued the everyday with an otherworldly stillness, psychologically precise portraits, and crystalline pool scenes, Hockney also explored printmaking, photography — even stage design for ballet and opera — across his prolific career of more than half a century. He was a restless experimenter, using computer graphics in his work as early as the 1980s and exploring digital painting on his...

British painter David Hockney, known for his bright, pleasure-suffused paintings of 1960s and ’70s Los Angeles, died in London on June 11. He was eighty-eight. His death was announced by his publicist, Erica Bolton. Hockney in the 1960s recuperated figurative painting and, more specifically, the human form, both of which had been previously rejected by the […]

Andy Warhol occupies a strange, almost mystical place in the cultural imagination. There is Warhol the man (“Andy” to his Factory acolytes) and Warhol the monolith. There is the painfully self-conscious Midwesterner and the turtlenecked Rumpelstiltskin, spinning ephemeral straw into art-market gold. There is the son who takes his mother to mass every week and the mop-headed libertine whose debauched parties are legendary. Has there ever been another figure at once so socially awkward and hungry for attention? Has there ever been another American so engrossingly contradictory? Meet radical feminist Valerie Solanas. Remembered for her 1967 “SCUM Manifesto,” a scathing call to arms for the “Society for...

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issey miyake and atelier oï arrive in copenhagen
 
In central Copenhagen during 3daysofdesign, a series of glowing textile forms fills the white rooms of Gallery 2112. Their silhouettes shift between lamp and object, appearing almost like gathered fabric suspended within delicate wire outlines.
 
Here, A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE presents the latest chapter of its ongoing collaboration with Swiss design studio atelier oï, continuing a conversation that began in fashion and now extends into lighting design.
 
Making its debut at Copenhagen’s annual design festival, the exhibition introduces new additions to the O Series, a portable lighting collection first unveiled during Milan Design Week in...

A series of 20-day furloughs are set to hit all staff at the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, South Carolina. In a statement to The Post and Courier, the museum cited “financial pressure” and “a shift in the political and funding environment,” as the rationale for the measure.  The museum intends to carry […]

Artwork panel in Sala Keimada of Cueva Palomera, Burgos, Spain BURGOS, SPAIN—According to a SciNews report, Ana Isabel Ortega Martínez of the Royal Burgos Academy of History and Fine Arts and her colleagues have obtained new radiocarbon dates for the occupation of Sala Keimada, a hard-to-reach chamber in Cueva Palomera, which is the main entrance to northern Spain’s Ojo Guareña cave system. Most of the rock art found in the cave system is located within Sala Keimada, Ortega Martínez explained. The radiocarbon dates were taken from charcoal samples, drawings, and bones found scattered throughout Sala Keimada. The oldest date indicates that the site was used some 13,700 years ago. The most recent date,...

The word “celebration” doesn't feel especially appropriate when it comes to acknowledging the 250th anniversary of the United States in these trying times, but we can recognize that this milestone certainly presents both a welcome and critical opportunity for reflection. As this occasion brings a wealth of complex emotions, intersecting perspectives, trailblazing innovation, and grotesque histories to the forefront, the arts landscape would rightfully remind us that it's worth commemorating our abilities to both document and channel these complexities. With that, art also provides us with the tools to not only imagine but also build our future.Hyperallergic presents 25 art-related events across...

Oscar Tuazon’s new commission for the New York City Aids Memorial revisits Burton’s final public work

Gold rings BAD CAMBERG, GERMANY—EuroNews reports that a Celtic wagon burial has been discovered in central Germany. Hesse state archaeologist Udo Recker said that the tomb, which was found during work to build a solar park, is more than 2,000 years old and belongs to the Hunsrück-Eifel culture. It contained several gold rings of varying sizes, weapons, and a beak jug made by the Etruscans of central Italy. Traces of a two-wheeled wagon, including metal fittings from the wheel hubs and axle caps as well as iron tire fittings, were also recovered. The presence of a wagon in the tomb indicates that the deceased was a man of high status, Recker added. X-rays and CT scans show that additional artifacts remain in...

Many in the artworld might be surprised to learn that one of the last projects the legendary art collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund worked on before her death last fall involved the 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted this year in North America.   The project, Art of the Game, involved commissioning 23 contemporary artists—mostly nominated by high-profile museum curators—to design large-scale soccer ball sculptures celebrating the 23rd World Cup, which will be installed all summer long, and perhaps longer, around New York and New Jersey. Art of the Game is organized by the ARTS 14C, a nonprofit based in Jersey City, New Jersey, and the NYNJ Host Committee, the body organizing FIFA’s eight local World Cup...

The vibes are as high as the humidity in New York City in anticipation of Game 5 between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs this Saturday evening, June 13. But the stakes were just raised off-court too, now that the San Antonio Department of Arts and Culture has its own challenge for the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA).In a video on social media, the Texan city's arts and culture department called on the DCLA to make a deal: Whoever loses Game 5 has to post their favorite public artwork from the winning city. "We love supporting art, film, and music in our city," San Antonio's team says. "We also love our Spurs."“Oh, it's on, Go Knicks!!! 🧡💙🗽” DCLA responded in...

ESKISEHIR, TURKEY—Four headless terracotta figurines have been unearthed at Kanlitaş Höyük, a Neolithic mound in northeastern Turkey, Türkiye Today reports. Ali Umut Türkcan of Anadolu University said that the artifacts, made in the Porsuk cultural tradition, were discovered in lower layers of fill in rectangular buildings at the site. He suggests that the heads may have been broken off the figurines when these buildings were ritually closed. The four baked clay sculptures all depict women. The largest measures almost five inches long, while the other three are just over two inches long. Similar figures have been found in other Neolithic settlements in Anatolia, but the ones found at Kanlitaş Höyük...

In the ever-expanding pantheon of open-world video games where combat, survival, crafting, and anarchy reign, the simple idea of taking a virtual walk while chatting with a few friends might seem pointless. A new video game from Melbourne-based developer House House begs to differ, though, turning a casual stroll across dreamy landscapes into a uniquely collaborative game, where puzzles and the lengths required to solve them take center stage. Some areas of Big Walk render players speechless, forcing you to devise innovative ways to communicate. It might just be the antithesis of Fortnite or Grand Theft Auto. This friendly, casual, and playful approach to game design may come as no surprise from the makers of...

BUFFALO, NEW YORK—A new study suggests that Indigenous Andeans in Peru have more copies of the gene for amylase, a saliva-based digestive enzyme, than any other population in the world, according to a Live Science report. Amylase breaks down complex starches into simple sugars, making starches easier to digest. Omer Gokcumen of the University of Buffalo and his colleagues examined data from more than 3,700 people to track the average number of salivary amylase genes in 85 populations from around the world. The team members determined that Andeans in Peru and the Akimel O’odham people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico had the highest average numbers of the genes. The researchers focused on the...

Fashion, animals, Venice, photography and emotions.

Welcome to the 341st installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Daniel Correa Mejía fills his shared studio with seeds, family photographs, and music that puts him in a painting trance.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Daniel Correa Mejía, Berlin, GermanyHow long have you been working in this space?Thirteen years.Describe an average day in your studio.I come around 12pm to my studio and start painting almost right after lunch. Every day I paint for around four hours, and with the rest of the time I...

Nature-Oriented Resort Embedded in Wuhan’s Lakeside Landscape
 
Located on the north shore of Houguan Lake in Wuhan, Wuhan Urban Construction Kaiyuan Senbo Resort is Central China’s first integrated suburban resort featuring iconic ‘Giant Banyan Treehouse’ hotel rooms. Developed by DAHLIN Architecture, the resort integrates architecture with nature, offering six distinctive room types, including treehouses, boat houses, and pumpkin carriage cottages, creating an immersive natural living experience. All units prioritize water views. The project leverages the forest and lake landscape along the north shore of Houguan Lake, adopting a village-like layout that allows the buildings to follow the water’s...

Self-taught photographer Duane Michals, known for unconventional and deeply personal narrative image sequences incorporating handwritten text, died in Manhattan on June 9 of pneumonia. He was ninety-four. His death was announced by New York’s DC Moore Gallery, which represented him. Mystical, metaphysical, and frequently touched by whimsy, his boundary-breaking work reflected his abiding interest in […]

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David Hockney has died aged 88, his influence on contemporary art is immeasurable.

President Donald Trump wants to fast-track the construction of his proposed triumphal arch to be sited in Arlington, between the Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial, just across the Potomac River. The plan, which would see work happen year-round and for 20 hours a day, was revealed in a 24-page assessment by the National Park Service, according to a report by the Associated Press. The goal is to finish construction in three years. The assessment, part of a historic preservation review that began last Friday, includes details like the need for 320-foot-tall cranes to construct the 250-foot-tall arch, which be more than twice the height of the Lincoln Memorial. Work would be conducted in two...

Good Morning! Iconic British artist David Hockney has died at 88. A court in The Hague said the Mauritshuis does not have to return 25 valuable artworks—including eight Rembrandts—to the heirs of its former museum director. Fallout continues from a viral artist residency “scandal” that misled artists. The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. British artist David Hockney has died at 88. He “passed away peacefully at home on June 11, 2026, one month short of his 89th birthday,” stated his publicist, Erica Bolton. One of contemporary art’s most influential figures, Hockney never stopped painting what he loved, even late into his life. This included the people and places the artist encountered over the course of...

Charlotte Colbert's Venice exhibition Possible Landscapes hosts a special event featuring a live performance by Birdy

Opened in time for Art Basel, Chloe Wise's Extrasensory transforms KBH.G Basel with an immersive three-channel film installation

The Colombian artist Delcy Morelos describes her hometown of Tierralta as “a paradise full of butterflies and unpaved streets.” In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Morelos spent her days in her grandmother’s garden, running barefoot and gleaning what it meant to live in connection with the land. When paramilitary and guerrilla troops moved in, though, the region was plunged into a chaotic state of grief and fear. In her earliest works, Morelos translated the death and destruction plaguing her home into two-dimensional compositions. As she details in a new segment for Art21, acrylic painting was not long her primary mode of working, and quickly, she returned to the earth, incorporating soil, straw, and...

Conductor Eun Sun Kim and soprano Elza van der Heever play to their strengths in a piercing revival of Elektra at San Francisco Opera.

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The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) announced Friday that it has a $600 million fundraising campaign in the works. The goal is to support the institution’s long-term health—and it is nearly 80 percent of the way there. As it approaches the final stretch of the campaign, the museum is announcing the public phase of the campaign, which it is calling “For the Benefit of All the People.” It is the largest fundraising campaign in the museum’s history and, according to the museum, the largest by a cultural organization in Ohio. In an emailed interview, CMA director William M. Griswold said the campaign “emerged from our recognition that institutions must continually invest in their future,” adding that...

An exhibition in Oslo shows how the Norwegian artist hoped to build on the Freia chocolate factory frieze with even more ambitious work

In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about Pan-Africanism through a travelling exhibition now open at the Barbican in London, and speaks to researcher Daisy Fancourt on art and health. For the Work of the Week, digital editor Alexander Morrison discusses a colourful Barbara Hepworth sculpture.

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Exhibition traces how the artist’s draughtsmanship was integral to his work

flowers as craft’s enduring challenge
 
Spend enough time looking at contemporary craft and a pattern begins to appear. Glassmakers, ceramicists, textile artists, paper sculptors, beadworkers, and woodcarvers often arrive at the same subject: flowers. Henri Purnell builds delicate blossoms from thousands of glass beads. Julia Oleynik shapes flowers petal by petal in clay. Lilla Tabasso recreates blooms in glass, while Ann Wood, Judith Rolfe, and Sourabh Gupta turn sheets of paper into stems, leaves, and petals. In Japan, Yoshihiro Suda carves flowers and weeds from wood with remarkable precision.
 
Contemporary craft is constantly evolving, embracing new technologies, materials, and processes. Yet one of...

For vibrato fanciers, of course, discovering Supervia is like hitting the mother lode.

The cliché has it backwards. You’re supposed to judge a book by its cover. That’s the entire point. “Don’t judge... Read More

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Arizona’s Phoenix Art Museum, the largest art museum in the American Southwest, has received a gift of 185 works made by Indigenous artists from the William P. Healey Collection of Native American Art, the institution announced on June 2nd. Artists featured in the Healey trove include Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Allan Houser (Apache) and Jaune-Quick-to-See Smith (Confederated Salish and Kootenai).  In celebration of the acquisition, […]

As collector Jochen Raiß (1969-2022) scoured flea markets and antique stalls for the better part of three decades for snapshots, he began to notice a running theme. Over time, he amassed a trove of photos by anonymous photographers with an unusually high number of portraits of women posing in trees. Swiss newspaper Züricher Tagesanzeiger asked, “What are they all doing up there?” And German paper Der Spiegel posited that the arbor-climbing might be a “forgotten popular sport.” Whatever the reason, the mystery is nearly as fun as the photos. A hardcover edition of Women in Trees from Hatje Cantz, published in German and English, follows two titles published in 2016 and 2017 that celebrate these quirky...

Fibula EMMEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a report in the NL Times, more than 3,000 artifacts were recovered during environmental work in the Nieuwe Drostendiep stream valley in the northeastern section of the Netherlands. The objects include tools from the Paleolithic period and the Bronze Age; medieval jewelry and jewelry dated to the second century B.C.; and materials from the Eighty Years’ War, fought in the sixteenth century, and World War II. In particular, archaeologists found a gold ring dated to the third or fourth century A.D. and a fibula dated to the tenth or eleventh century A.D. “We are proud of the rich history of our beautiful and unique landscape. These remarkable finds emphasize this...

“Matter is memory, and memory is a medium,” says artist Annalise Neil, whose surreal cyanotypes brim with animals, fungi, geological specimens, shells, and more that she augments with watercolor. Recently, the artist has been adding rich, earthy tones with natural dyes such as wild strawberry leaf, oak gall, loquat leaf, and chestnut. She has used botanical teas to shift the natural blue color of the cyanotypes for quite a while, but the sepia tonality has emerged as a larger focus lately, which allows her to layer hues like browns and purples. Neil’s experiences in nature profoundly influence her individual pieces in a process that she poetically describes as “melting, rolling, pinching, sanding,...

Yes, the Met had Birgit Nilsson - so they let the volcano that was Gertrude Grob-Prandl's voice slip through their fingers.

Known for his vibrant palettes and flattened perspectives, Belgian artist Kristof Santy translates common sights and everyday objects into vivid tableaux. His paintings often highlight fruit and vegetables, tabletops, and modes of transportation, particularly those involved in industrial labor. A new body of work continues Santy’s inquiries into the mundane, this time extending into fashions and furnishings. There’s a striped sweater vest with a nearly imperceptible wrinkle hanging from a rod and a modernist chair in fuchsia pushed against a kelly green wall. Earlier investigations appear, too, including a short, roll-up ladder dangling from the door of a helicopter as it hovers in the air sans operator....

By Victoria Thomas When John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966, he had no idea who she was. More remarkably, Yoko was equally unaware of John. This neutral introduction seems impossible for us today, especially for children of the 1960s. But defying mere nostalgia, The Broad meets this challenge with Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Ono's first LA museum show, which offers a full season of multi-arts media programming, including the installation of seven digital antiwar billboards across Los Angeles....

Grand Tier Grab Bag this week honors the late Limmie Pulliam with a bit of his Verdi Requiem.

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Matthew Travisano has such doubts about Douglas Cuomo's opera recently seen at Opera Parallèle.

Dearest by Zeinab Diomande is a zine presenting a collection of paintings that, while not a formal series, share a cohesive visual language exploring themes of liquidity and the passage of time, achieved through the use of thinned paint and water. The pieces employ texture as a storytelling device, reflecting the rituals and ceremonies of the artist’s alter egos within imagined worlds.
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Interior Gallery Photos by and ©Tim Hursley, courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum  As a world-class institution showcasing one of the most impressive collections of American art spanning five centuries, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has firmly placed Bentonville, Arkansas on the global cultural map. And, except for a few major holidays, the museum […]
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By A. Laura Brody What is the language of bat senses and beaver teethmarks? How does water communicate to soil and roots, and how do we translate the paths left by burrowing insects or the markings of trees? These are questions asked by the Journal of Therolinguistics exhibition at Descanso Gardens' Boddy House, on view now until July 5, 2026. Oscar Salguero has curated a fascinating exploration of the expressive worlds of plants and animals brought to life by international artists Aistė...

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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 Tm Gratkowski With intent and the will to do it her own way, there is a gallery in the most unlikely of places, off the 210 freeway on Lincoln Avenue in Pasadena. Imagine walking into the parking lot of an old lumber yard, stumbling down a paved area past old materials, equipment, and a small cluster of shed-like buildings. Nothing new, no signs, just your average ubiquitous Southern California lot. As you wander in you notice a little welcoming front porch and tucked away in the corner is...