The prominent gallery Hauser & Wirth has been cleared of the charges against alleging they breached the British-imposed sanctions against Russia, Artnet reports.  The Swiss gallery, which has locations UK locations in London and Somerset, was charged by the U.K. Crown Prosecution Service last November, together with the art shipping company Artay Rauchwerger Solomons, for selling an […]

An important collection of modern art amassed by Werner Merzbacher, a Swiss collector who died in 2024, is currently the subject of a legal battle centered around the late businessman’s will and who really gets the right to control the paintings he owned. Merzbacher, who generated his fortune through a fur business and currency trading, gained many of the artworks in his possession through his grandfather-in-law, Bernhard Mayer. His collection included a range of high-quality Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Fauvist, and German Expressionist artworks, with artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Max Beckmann, and Alexej von Jawlensky represented in his holdings. He appeared on the...

South African artist Kate Gottgens recently took to social media to accuse Cape Town gallery SMAC of failing to either pay her for works the gallery had sold or return the works if they were still in the gallery’s possession.  On July 2, she posted an image of her painting Audible Doom (2011) to Instagram. In the green-hued, hazy scene, a female figure, apparently with a bag over her head, stands on a ledge, seemingly addressing several other shadowy figures. Gottgens asked, “Has anyone seen this painting?” She said that SMAC displayed it at the Miart fair in 2022 and that it did not sell. It was not returned to her “in spite of many requests over the last 4 years,” she wrote in the post, which...

The lively flora and fauna of a tiny Filipino island commingle with harrowing memories of California prisons in the surreal works of Gil Batle. Entirely self-taught, Batle honed his skills while incarcerated over the course of 25 years, drawing and eventually tattooing in a clandestine practice. Today, he’s immigrated to his parents’ native country, where he continues to reflect on the decades he spent in confinement. Batle’s Double Life is a new body of work that explores these dual experiences. On white porcelain plates, the artist renders strange, unsettling compositions in which violence and a desire for freedom pervade every inch. Bird cages—common symbols for incarceration— are aplenty, while...

Escorted in secret by police under the cover of darkness, the millennium-old Bayeux Tapestry finally arrived to London’s British Museum on Friday. The long-awaited but controversial loan from France was welcomed at 2:48 am by a “select crowd,” including France’s ambassador to the UK, per British reports. A large black box within a gridded, aluminum casing designed to keep the relic suspended to avoid damaging vibrations was removed from a yellow truck, as some teary-eyed witnesses looked on. \“I did well up a little bit when I saw it coming off the lorry,” said Millie Horton-Insch, curator of the museum’s Bayeux Tapestry exhibition. The French loan to the UK of the 70-m-long embroidery is thought...

Welcome to the 345th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Adam de Boer fashions lush scenes on canvas using Indonesian batik-dyed fabric, which he waxes and boils himself.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.Adam de Boer, Los Angeles, CaliforniaHow long have you been working in this space?Five years.Describe an average day in your studio.I usually arrive by 8:30am and spend the first 30 to 45 minutes catching up on emails and social media correspondence. For the next 10 hours, I work on my batik...

The auction house reported $507m total sales for the first six months of the year, with three timepieces among among its top five highest-priced lots

A Lightweight Climate Device Rethinks the Future of Greenhouses
 
Architectural designers Hermine Demaël and Stephen Zimmerer, in collaboration with Dr. Evelyn Beaury, present Greenhouse Prototype 2, an interdisciplinary installation developed at the New York Botanical Garden’s Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. The project combines architectural design and scientific research through a lightweight, mobile climate device designed to create a controlled micro-environment for plants and people.
 
The installation explores how future greenhouse structures could evolve from sealed enclosures into more permeable habitat refuges capable of supporting species under changing environmental conditions. Through passive...

The high-impact redevelopment of the former Teatro Comunale opera house has attracted widespread criticism and a criminal investigation

The private museum has signed an agreement with Asset World Corporation to establish Mona Bangkok

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GUNIA, the pope, and an angelic Christmas plate
 
Back in 2019, Natalia Kamenska and Maria Gavryliuk, founders of Ukrainian fashion and design brand Gunia, designed a Christmas tableware collection. In it, white ceramic pieces had cherubs and lambs illustrated across their surface, motifs that appear both in everyday and religious images across the country. When Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the Vatican in 2020, he presented  one of these creations to Pope Francis – a symbol of the country’s continued legacy for both maintaining and reinventing its cultural crafts.
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IN CONVERSATION WITH Natalia Kamenska & Maria Gavryliuk
 
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A Church Complex for Worship, Education, and Community
 
Designed by architects Francesco Lipari, Lillo Giglia, and Giuseppe Conti, the new Santa Barbara Parish Complex in Licata, Italy, was selected through a two-stage invited competition promoted by the Archdiocese of Agrigento and the Santa Barbara Parish, with funding from the Italian Episcopal Conference through the ‘8xmille’ program. Conceived as a contemporary ‘campus of faith,’ the complex combines spaces for worship, education, and community activities within a permeable architectural composition that engages with the local urban and cultural context.
 
The project was developed through a collaborative process involving the parish community,...

The medieval embroidery was delivered to the museum from France in the early hours of the morning ahead of the September exhibition opening

American goalie Hope Solo diving for a save. Brazilian soccer superstar Marta, mid-kick, ponytail frozen midair. Joe Gaetjens’s “miraculous” diving header in the 1950 Word Cup — all made with Wrigley’s gum wrappers. Just in time for the World Cup semifinals, check out artist Lyndon J. Barrois, Sr.’s depictions of iconic plays in FIFA history. Crucially, he emphasizes not just soccer’s on-field moments but the politics underlying the sport, staging scenes like women’s rights protests outside a 2022 Iran-Wales match in the wake of the Mahsa Amini’s death in custody of Iranian police.Artist Noore Yazigi also gives form to political convictions in her tattoos incorporating Arabic calligraphy,...

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STILFOLD DECOUPLES DESIGN FROM THE TOOL
 
For the fourth episode of ‘Navigators of Design’, Jonas Nyvang and Tue Beijer, founders of the design technology platform STILFOLD, reveal their revolutionary software-driven approach to liberating industrial design from the rigid constraints and costly bottlenecks of traditional tooling. The 10-part interview series produced in collaboration with Most Studios, invites the visionaries to discuss how the convergence of computational design, robotic fabrication, and AI allows them to completely eliminate conventional limitations.  
Decoupling the creative process from heavy industry’s machinery, STILFOLD grants designers unprecedented freedom to fuse fluid,...

daniel idle hides miniature OLED display inside signet ring 
 
Daniel Idle translates one of the most recognizable digital interfaces in the history of cinema into a piece of jewelry with the Digital Rain Ring, a sterling silver-plated signet ring fitted with a miniature OLED display that loops The Matrix‘s cascading green code. The ring focuses on a single visual gesture, transforming a familiar screen-based graphic into an object worn on the hand. Alongside the code, the display occasionally flashes ‘Wake up, Neo,’ another direct reference to The Matrix.
 
When inactive, the OLED display blends into the black face of the ring, reading almost like an onyx or obsidian stone set within a clean bezel....

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has announced a group of new acquisitions, both gifts and purchases, across its curatorial departments. The artworks range from a 17th-century wall hanging depicting courtly life in India to recent animatronic sculptures by contemporary artist Anicka Yi. In statement, MFAH director Gary Tinterow said of this round of acquisitions include “two works that constitute astounding rediscoveries in their respective fields: Ladies of the Court belongs to a series of 17th-century hangings that have been hailed as the most important Indian textile discovery of the century, while Fernand Khnopff’s evocative triptych has reappeared for the first time since 1912. These purchases and...

Once owned by a US vice president, the print was acquired by the Shah’s wife and is now at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

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Tschabalala Self will bring a contemporary ‘everywoman’ Lady in Blue to Trafalgar Square this September

Ho parlato con lo scultore di Zagabria, Vladimir Novak, per diverse settimane questa primavera, culminando in una conversazione, “Tra scultura e città”, organizzata da Residency Unlimited a New York. Il lavoro recente di Novak si concentra su questioni scultoree relative alle risposte fisiche degli oggetti nello spazio in modi sorprendenti. Ciò include meccanismi accuratamente calibrati, come l’uso di piccole macchine leggermente decentrate e posizionate dietro le quinte che animano l’opera e le interazioni con il pubblico che le attivano.
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For a structure that was completed nearly 90 years ago, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge possesses a kind of timeless modernity. It’s been the subject of countless photographs, often seen in the background from Baker Beach or from the overlook in Marin County. Its towers rise 500 feet from the roadway, but we typically can only see the structures from that level. For photographer Marcin Zając, a drone’s-eye view revealed a unique perspective of this iconic landmark. Zając’s image is one of 101 finalists in the 2026 International Aerial Photographer of the Year, marking the second year of the competition. Photographers around the world submitted nearly 1,600 entries, with the top honor awarded to...

Post-Fair, an alternative art fair held in a Santa Monica post office that was launched by gallerist Chris Sharp in 2025, will expand to Paris this October. The innovative fair’s first international edition will debut during Art Basel Paris and be staged in two buildings in the Marais, a swerve from its highly specific locational origins. Post-Fair Paris […]

“Listen closer and you’ll hear the Benedictines at the nearby monastery”

Mickalene Thomas, known for her paintings and photo-based collages, is being sued by photographer Barbara Karant for alleged copyright infringement. The suit, filed in Illinois’ federal district court in May, alleges that Thomas appropriated Karant’s images without attribution or consent, according to court documents obtained by Hyperallergic. “In installation after installation, and in collage after collage, […]

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.78 Organizations Get Warhol Foundation GrantsFor its spring 2026 grant cycle, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts awarded $5,166,000 to 78 museums, university art galleries, and other institutions across 26 states and abroad. It's also the first time the foundation has a “Project Grants for Small-Scale Organizations” category, which helps fund artists' projects at spaces with annual operating budgets below $200,000. Recipients include the art and mysticism nonprofit Golden Dome in Los Angeles, which will use the funds to design...

“Improbable but not impossible” is how Brazilian artist Ana Elisa Egreja describes the unexpected companions in her vibrant still lifes. Combining the architectural motifs, animals, and fare common in her native São Paulo with elements from abroad, Egreja positions domestic spaces as sites of change, where migration and cross-cultural pollination come to bear. In a new suite of 15 oil paintings, the artist draws on the long tradition of Dutch Golden Age still lifes alongside the contrived qualities of collage. Tablescapes filled with fresh flowers and shiny produce also contain cellophane-wrapped snacks and canned goods. Egreja acknowledges flight as a rich symbol of freedom and migration, and birds swirl...

Cultural workers affiliated with the Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) plan to protest during United States Ambassador to Italy Tilman Fertitta's scheduled visit to Venice on Friday, July 17.In the wake of its historic demonstrations in support of Palestine on May 8, the last preview day of the 61st Venice Biennale, ANGA will mobilize en masse on the day Fertitta — a billionaire Trump ally — plans to park his 384-foot superyacht in the Italian city as part of a months-long cruise around the country in “celebration of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.”On Instagram, ANGA said it is staging a protest commencing in Venice's Campo San Zaccaria because “the United...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday denied President Trump’s request to restore his name to the facade of John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in the latest setback to the institution’s legal battle against the federal courts. In their decision, three judges from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said that President Trump had failed to prove that the arts complex would be “irreparably injured” by the removal, as his attorneys had argued in previous court filings. President Trump’s name was affixed to the center’s marble facade in December, after a board comprised of his allies voted to rebrand the institution.  The decision triggered swift backlash from...

The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) has announced David Odo as its new director. Odo, who specializes in nineteenth-century photography of Japan joins the institution from the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens, where he is director and chief curator. He succeeds Halona Norton-Westbrook, who departed last summer to helm the Modern Art Museum of […]

After last year's wildfires devastated Altadena, California, photographer Kevin Cooley set out to document the plants that survived. For the Los Angeles Times, Marah Eakin writes:Driving around town, looking at the lots and the wreckage, Cooley says he started to notice the bits of nature that were trying to persevere. He spotted a begonia poking through a burned fence on his neighbor’s property and snapped a photo, and soon he was accumulating more and more similar images. Cooley says if you’d told him before the fire he’d be taking so many pictures of flowers, he’d have scoffed, but now images like one he captured recently of a group of blooming roses in front of a cluster of dead vines remind...

Gravestone of "Boston" in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Masschusetts BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS—Live Science reports that conservationists identified the gravestone of a formerly enslaved man who died in Boston in the early eighteenth century. The stone is located in the Granary Burying Ground, which was established in 1660 and contains more than 5,000 graves. “I was reviewing the photos of headstones, and then I noticed that the stone only had one name,” said Kelly Thomas of the Historic Burying Grounds Initiative for the Boston Parks and Recreation Department. She noted that enslaved people were often known by just one name. A search of historical records revealed that the man had been named...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA—According to a Türkiye Today report, Emmanuel Macron, president of France, handed over 23 artifacts to Ahmed Al-Charaa, president of Syria, during a meeting held at the Umayyad Mosque. Loaned to the Arab World Institute in Paris in 2011, the objects were scheduled to be returned in 2014, but the outbreak of civil war in Syria canceled those plans. The collection, including a section of a frieze from the ancient city of Palmyra, will be housed in Syria’s National Museum in Damascus. To read about another artifact from ancient Syria, go to "Model Homes: Sealing the Evidence."
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KENT, OHIO—According to a Science News report, Metin Eren of Kent State University and his colleagues reviewed evidence collected at all 15 sites in North America where Clovis stone tools have been found with the remains of mammoths, mastodons, or gomphotheres. “Archaeologists routinely assume these localities represent evidence that Clovis people hunted these multi-ton animals, and in turn invoke that evidence to claim humans had a role in the extinction of these large mammals,” Eren said. But the team's review of the information could not rule out the possibility that Clovis people had scavenged the carcasses of these animals. Microscopic wear patterns found on Clovis points can be caused by hunting,...

For more than three decades, Rob Hann has pursued the inimitable and notable, turning his lens toward public figures like Tom Hanks, David Byrne, Chloe Sevigny, Ray Lotta, Willem Dafoe, and many others. He also ranges across the breadth and length of the U.S., traversing storied highways like U.S. 89 in Arizona, a popular route to the Grand Canyon, or U.S. 90 in Texas, which passes through the artistic enclave of Marfa. Not unlike the way he captures portraits of people, his characterizations of the country’s endearingly quirky and remote places highlight individuality, presence, and the passage of time. Hann’s subjects range from handmade road signs and vintage buildings to peculiar local attractions like...

Ambur Braid's biggest dramatic soprano assignment yet — the Dyer's Wife in Aix — is occasion for Parterre Box to feature her in some of her old repertoire.

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Formafantasma has been appointed Serpentine’s Lead R&D Fellows, Ecology, beginning a multi-year project to rethink how the institution works

Fausto Cleva, in this glorious Fanciulla from the old Met, demonstrates all the great skills of opera conducting

Climbable multiplayer sculpture wins Frieze London Artist Award

Slawn heads to New York with three monumental paintings, including the original artwork behind Nike’s Nigerian national team kit for the World Cup.

Inscription from Acmonia that mentions a torch-bearing statue BANAZ, TURKEY— La Brújula Verde reports that nine inscriptions have been discovered in western Turkey at the site of the ancient Phrygian city of Acmonia. One of the inscriptions says that Demades, son of Dionysogenes, commissioned a torch-bearing statue, or lampadephoros. Demades was a priest who was known to scholars from an earlier inscription dated to A.D. 68. His lampadephoros is thought to have lit Acmonia’s main street to benefit the city’s residents. Another priest, Hierocles, son of Menander, and his son Hermogenes erected a statue of Demeter Karpophoros, a goddess associated with fertility and the harvest, according to the text of...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—According to a Phys.org report, E. Grace Veatch of the Smithsonian Institution and her colleagues have reevaluated the idea that Homo floresiensis, a small-brained hominin that stood about 3.5 feet tall, hunted dwarf elephants and controlled fire. First, the researchers examined fresh tooth marks left on the bones of a goat consumed by an Indonesian Komodo dragon held at Zoo Atlanta. They then compared the fresh tooth marks with marks on more than 3,100 fossilized bone fragments from extinct dwarf elephants (Stegodon florensis insularis) and some 7,000 rodent bones found in Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, where fossils of Homo floresiensis, or the “hobbit,” were...

In Pioche, Nevada, a movie theater built in 1937 stands in tribute to the immense changes in technology and style over nearly a century. A bold portrait set against a black background by photographer Kevin Boyle captures not only the aging building but a mid-20th-century pastime that taps into nostalgia and small town identity. (Amid preservation efforts, the theater is currently being rehabilitated.) It’s just one of the works in the artist’s ongoing Movieland series, which won the Architecture category in this year’s Hasselblad Masters 2026 contest. Additional categories in the prestigious competition include Wildlife, Landscape, Art, Portrait, Street, and Project//21, which highlights work by entrants...

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A Pasolini-inspired Tosca at La Monnaie does not quite find the pleasure in the pain.

“Identità mutanti”, “Il latte dei sogni”. Il tema dell’identità oltrepassa il secolo scorso, attraversa le Biennali e le riflessioni critiche di FAM, le tendenze Queer e le metamorfosi di Barney per bagnare le rive di Santarcangelo. La 56esima edizione di Santarcangelo Festival, se da un lato deve ancora fare i conti con un corpo collettivo ereditato dalla sua storia, si sofferma su quello individuale. Se il nuovo direttore (Luigi De Angelis) dovrà – tra le altre cose – riportare soprattutto il festival alla sua storia di gratuite pratiche di inclusione cittadina e di coinvolgimento popolare, l’attuale programma dell’edizione diretta da Tomasz Kireńczuk mette al centro il corpo...

Mesdames et Messieurs, this summer's broadcasts from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence begin this weekend!

Prima ancora di nominare un’origine, origo ne assume la morfologia. Nella sua struttura grafica e sonora, la parola comincia e finisce con una “o”, figura minima del cerchio, della cavità, della soglia. In questa doppia apertura si inscrive una temporalità non lineare, un movimento che non procede verso un punto inaugurale, ma ritorna, ricomincia, si riavvolge incessantemente nella materia. L’origine non appare come un luogo remoto da raggiungere, né come mito pacificato del principio, ma come una condizione di rientro, una possibilità di esporsi nuovamente a ciò che precede il corpo e insieme lo sostiene.
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Sotto l’impulso teorico del suo Presidente, Guillaume Désanges, il Palais de Tokyo non si limita a ordinare una sequenza di mostre autonome, ma si offre come un vero e proprio ecosistema fenomenologico e politico teso a decostruire il sistema del validismo. Questo paradigma, strutturato su severi criteri fisici e psicologici, impone una rigida gerarchia tra corpi considerati normali e anormali in base alla velocità, alle performance e alla produttività capitalista. Désanges rovescia questa dinamica ricordando come la fragilità non sia una condizione eccezionale o marginale, bensì la coordinata ontologica più ampiamente condivisa dall’umanità e da tutto il vivente. Basta un virus, l’avanzare del...

By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...

Ispirata all’omonimo capolavoro di Caravaggio del 1606-1607 (Le sette opere della Misericordia, olio su tela, 390 x 260 cm, realizzato per la chiesa del Pio Monte della Misericordia di Napoli), la mostra, attraverso video, fotografia e scultura, trasforma un tema della tradizione cristiana in una riflessione attuale sulla cura verso gli altri. Abbiamo rivolto a Helen Broms Sandberg sette domande sul significato contemporaneo della misericordia.
Helen Broms Sandberg, “The Seven Works of Mercy”, performance, video still, 2021. Courtesy of the artist
Costabile Guariglia: Quale intuizione l’ha spinta a trasformare la sua esperienza del dipinto caravaggesco in un progetto artistico sviluppato nell’arco...

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