Authorities are searching for two unmasked men who bought tickets to the Museum of Applied Arts, smashed a display case, snatched the valuable necklace and walked out

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This is not a church
 
Manifest 16, the ‘European Nomadic Biennial,’ found its home in Germany’s Ruhr area. More specifically, it activated twelve churches across the cities of Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Duisburg, and Bochum, transforming them into hybrid exhibition and community places that cheekily spoke to the title of its 30th edition: ‘This is not a church.’ Through contemporary art, walks through these cities, architectural interventions (and a bit of basketball), the event proposes new ways to inhabit the numerous churches in the region that have fallen out of use.
Abrade (2022) © Cudelice Brazelton IV | image © Manifesta 16 Ruhr / Anna Jocham
 
 
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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...

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designboom shop drop: design your quiet moments
 
In an overstimulating world, this designboom shop drop quietens your life. It helps you curate calm through sound, scent, light, and texture. The objects are crafted to cultivate tranquility and intentional living, whether at home, at work, or on the move. From immersive acoustic devices and natural incense rituals to luminous wall art and sculptural organization, the drop’s handpicked series of objects empower you to transform daily spaces into sanctuaries of rest.
 
explore DESIGNBOOM SHOP drop highlights below:
Airframe by TEEV (top image also)
 
 
Product: Airframe
Brand: TEEV
Price: $89
 
The Airframe picture frame by TEEV offers a literal portal...

Na Bothain guest cabins sit above the Isle of Raasay Distillery
 
Perched above the Isle of Raasay Distillery overlooking Skye’s Cuillin mountains, Na Bothain is a collection of guest cabins designed by Córr to extend visitor accommodation while creating a deeper connection between brand, landscape and guest experience. Responding carefully to the island’s dramatic topography, each cabin has been positioned to maximise privacy, frame expansive coastal views and sit lightly within the landscape. Drawing inspiration from the simplicity and honesty of Scotland’s bothy tradition, the architecture adopts a restrained material palette and uncomplicated forms that allow the surrounding environment to become...

The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall's Talk of the Town!

John Yohalem reviews pianist Steven Blier's warm, witty, and worldly autobiography, From Ear to Ear.

An amateurish production of Le siège de Corinthe, combined with heavy-handed conducting, at Pesaro weakens the defenses of one of Rossini's most topical operas.

How C40 turns climate targets into city policy
 
The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group brings together nearly 100 major cities around a shared approach to urban climate action. Founded in 2005, the network has evolved from a forum for mayors into a more structured system for setting targets, developing climate plans, reporting emissions, and sharing policy tools. Its importance lies in the framework it provides for turning a global climate objective into decisions made at municipal level. 
 
That framework starts with the Climate Action Planning Framework (CAPF), which asks cities to align their climate strategies with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C ambition. Cities are expected to establish...

Cooper Hewitt’s tiny Staircase Masterpieces
 
In 2006, Cooper Hewitt put a collection of staircases on display that no one could climb. The exhibition was called Made to Scale: Staircase Masterpieces, The Eugene & Clare Thaw Gift, and it consisted of a collection of miniature model staircases, finely crafted from wood and metal, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Looking at these tiny, swirling helixes and delicate balustrades, there’s a certain artisanship that makes them more than utilitarian tests of interior architecture.
spiral staircase model in English style, late 19th century | all images gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw
 
 
The Eugene & Clare Thaw Gift to the institution
 
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A range of politicians and public figures have criticized the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for its forthcoming controversial John Galliano show, including dealer Arne Glimcher, the founder of Pace Gallery, one of the biggest such entreprises in the world. A New York Times report published on Friday revealed that the Met has privately faced criticism over the exhibition for Galliano, a fashion designer who was convicted of a hate crime in France in 2011 for antisemitic comments. He later apologized for these comments and went to rehab. He returned to the industry as creative director of Maison Margiela, a role he held from 2014 to 2024. The Galliano show is poised to be the Costume Institute’s big...

From a high platform in the Broadway Junction station, I see a forlorn cloud hovering over the rooftops of East Brooklyn. The sky around it is perfectly clear. The next morning, I find it still standing in the same spot, but it’s faded, famished. That’s how bad things have gotten: The loneliness epidemic has now reached the clouds. Espresso in Williamsburg, watermelon juice in Ditmas Park, writing session in Ridgewood, soccer camp in Bed-Stuy. At a street corner, a mural by @blkopslife shows a hand holding a famous 1964 photo of Malcom X leaning on the shoulder of his tuxedoed friend, Muhammad Ali. It’s in a Black neighborhood that’s been almost completely gentrified.Dolly Parton suddenly dies at 80....

Pure dementia. Magda Olivero in the finale to Fedora.

Nel 1979, quando il saggio “La Transavanguardia italiana” di Achille Bonito Oliva viene pubblicato su Flash Art, Jean-François Lyotard scrive “La condizione postmoderna”. Entrambi i testi muovono da una condizione di crisi, quella che interessa le metanarrazioni, vale a dire i sistemi narrativi volti a legittimare una visione del mondo lineare e progressiva. Per il francese l’obiettivo è la dialettica dello spirito, per l’italiano è il “darwinismo linguistico”[1] dell’avanguardia. Bonito Oliva contrappone all’istanza collettivistico progettuale che aveva indirizzato le formazioni nate negli anni Sessanta “un ritorno dell’arte ai suoi motivi interni, alle ragioni costitutive del suo...

Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour, known for his radiant, powerful paintings of the faces and landscapes of occupied Palestine, died on August 24 in Jerusalem, following a long illness. He was seventy-nine. His work frequently censored by the Israeli government, Mansour developed a vocabulary of symbols that today functions as a language of resistance. A towering […]

On August 27, two men paid for admission to the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna, before stealing a 200-carat platinum and diamond necklace. The necklace was designed by the French jewelry company Van Cleef & Arpels for Queen Nazli of Egypt, who wore the necklace to her daughter’s wedding to Mohammed Reza Pahlavi […]

The foundation established by Robert Indiana to preserve his legacy is selling the artist’s longtime home on the Maine island of Vinalhaven, despite instructions in his will that the property be transformed into an art space open to the public. The Star of Hope Foundation, as the foundation is called, listed this week Indiana’s former home, a rambling 19th-century Odd Fellows lodge known as the Star of Hope, for $1.4 million, according to the New York Times. A second building Indiana owned, a few doors away, is being offered for $210,000.  Indiana, best known for his “LOVE” series, with its iconic tilted O, moved to Vinalhaven in 1978 and spent the next 40 years living in the Star of Hope, a local...

The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation denied the use of a 1981 portrait by the artist of notorious New York lawyer Roy M. Cohn for the cover of a forthcoming biography, titled American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, because of its negative affiliation with the sitting US president, according to the New York Times. The portrait in question, simply titled Roy Cohn, captures the lawyer’s striking outward stare and scar-split nose head on, surrounded by a black backdrop, a signature of Mapplethorpe’s images during the final decade of his life. At the time it was made, Cohn was the subject of an interview for an issue of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. Writer and book...

The Nam June Paik Art Center in Yongin, South Korea, has named Japanese-born electronic composer and artist Ryoji Ikeda as the winner of the ninth Nam June Paik Prize. Ikeda will receive KRW 50 million ($36,300) during the ceremony at the art center on September 8. The institution will host an exhibition of his work in […]

Two visitors smashed a display case and made off with a platinum and diamond necklace at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna yesterday afternoon, August 27. Per the Viennese daily newspaper Der Standard, the Van Cleef & Arpels necklace was last appraised at $4.6 million by Sotheby's. It was displayed as part of Glanzstücke, an ongoing exhibition featuring over 500 works gathered from the museum's design collection and the French luxury jewelry house. The 200-karat, 673-white diamond necklace was designed in 1939 for Egyptian Queen Nazli on the occasion of her daughter Princess Fawzia's marriage to Iranian Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who later became Iran's last shah.A press...

BRUGES, Belgium — With its cobblestone streets, glossy green canals, and stepped gable townhouses, Bruges has the self-contained and unchanging quality of a scene in a snow globe. Bigger Picture: Connected worlds of Bruges 900-1550 seeks to bust this myth, demonstrating the extent of the city’s historical connection with the rest of the world. The inaugural exhibition of BRUSK — “BRU” for Bruges and “SK” for schone kunsten (“fine art”) — a large new gallery attached to the Groeningemuseum, the show is guest curated by Peter Frankopan, an Oxford medievalist and author of a popular history of the Silk Road. In addition to demonstrating Bruges’s global connections, the exhibition also...

“In his then-response, one already sees the text deprived”

Demolitions are underway on the Rike Park Music Theatre and Exhibition Hall in Tbilisi, Georgia, prompting outcry from local community members and the architects who designed the two-structure complex. Set against the historic 19th-century buildings that define the capital city's dominant style, the landmark is known as the “Rike Tubes” for its futuristic appearance, a reminder of the country’s modernist push from the 2000s to the early 2010s.The Tbilisi City Hall’s Architectural Service issued the demolition permit in June to the owner, Rike Dom, with the dismantling process commencing last month and due to wrap up by December. In interviews with Reuters and local outlets, many expressed...

The Museo de Arte Colonial in Antigua closed abruptly last December, and its collection of 287 works has been in limbo ever since

The Chinese ambassador to South Korea has ordered China’s artists to withdraw from the 16th Gwangju Biennale, which opens September 5, in protest of the Gwangju Biennial Foundation allowing Taiwanese exhibitors to participate under the name “Taiwan,” South Korean media reported today.  In a meeting with Gwangju Mayor Min Hyung-bae at Gwangju City Hall yesterday, Ambassador Dai Bing expressed his “regret and concern” over the decision to restore the name “Taiwan Pavilion” at the request of Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) reported.  Speaking on behalf of the Chinese Embassy, Dai then demanded Chinese curators and  installation staff to halt their...

The chief executive officer of Sydney, Australia’s Powerhouse Parramatta, a major public museum that’s slated to open in November, has stood aside from her position, per a recent announcement from the government of New South Wales.  John Graham, the NSW arts minister, said in a statement that departed CEO Lisa Havilah had made the move “while investigations into […]

Two municipal employees in the Dutch city of Rotterdam have been dismissed following an investigation into alleged corruption involving construction contracts. They include work connected to asbestos removal at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, one of the country’s most important museums. The employees were among three officials investigated after concerns emerged that municipal contracts had been approved at inflated prices. One of the three has since retired, while the other two were suspended and have now been fired. Rotterdam mayor Carola Schouten said an internal investigation found that the two employees had violated the city’s code of conduct by accepting gifts from companies doing business with the...

By Victoria Thomas Altadena-based artist James Griffith greets me at his studio, located in a refurbished 1920s firehouse diagonally across the street from the gleaming silver lagomorph of the restored Bunny Museum, by saying "Hi, I just started putting a galaxy in the armpit of a penguin." Great cities announce their identities through their monuments. New York City has the Statue of Liberty, St. Louis the Gateway Arch, Chicago the Cloud Gate, Philadelphia the original LOVE sculpture. And...

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—An international team of researchers including Clara Granzotto of the University of Copenhagen and Rebecca J. Stacey of the British Museum has analyzed the proteins in 28 samples of paint taken from 14 Egyptian artifacts ranging in date from 1425 B.C. to A.D. 400, Phys.org reports. The coffins, wall paintings from tombs, painted limestone, and mummy-related plasterwork are currently housed in three European museums. The test results indicate that collagen from cattle was used most often as a binding medium for paint. However, the hides, connective tissues, and bones of sheep or goats, donkeys, and horses—and perhaps even wild antelopes—were also used to make paint adhesives. Plant...

Earlier this year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced its forthcoming exhibition Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous on Instagram, alongside a photograph of the artists by Hans Namuth. Seething, I looked to the comments for affirmation. I didn't have to scroll for long. "Give her a solo show!"Months earlier, I had visited the Pollock-Krasner House in Springs, East Hampton, knowing far more about Jackson Pollock than I did Lee Krasner. I am a painter myself, and I had come to Springs in the wreck of yet another failed relationship … with a painter. I thought I already knew Krasner's story. I thought her story was partly my own.The first stop on the tour was Krasner's studio: a small...

SANTA MARINELLA, ITALY—Traces of a possible Etruscan port have been found some 300 feet off the coast of central Italy, under about five feet of water, according to a Greek Reporter article. Divers under the direction of Mauro Giorgi of Sapienza University were conducting a survey of the seafloor near the remnants of the Etruscan temple at Punta della Vipera when they found carved limestone blocks forming a double row in an L-shape. The large space enclosed by the limestone blocks had been filled with boulders and smaller stones. A gap between the blocks may have helped to keep the structure from filling with silt. It may have served as a landing site for visitors to the temple, which was constructed in the...

TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN—According to a Daryo report, a mural has been found at the Boburtepa site in southern Uzbekistan by Sanjar Abdurakhimov of the Institute of Archaeology of Samarkand and his colleagues. Painted on a layer of clay on the wall of a building thought to have been used as a temple in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D., the wall decoration features tulips and white flowers decorated with thin, wavy red lines. The wall was later covered with a layer of white lime plaster. Researchers plan to investigate further the building's possible function. To read about excavations at a Silk Road metropolis, go to "Letter from Uzbekistan: An Oasis City's Origin Story." Wall mural depicting floral motifs,...

Discouraged from pursuing an artistic career as a young woman, Kusama went on to inspire millions with her performances, installations, paintings and more

According to archaeologists, the statue's abstract style and depiction of a human on an animal make this discovery significant

The city’s mayor said that two civil servants were found to have accepted “gifts from the municipality’s business contacts in exchange for possible preferential treatment”

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Christopher Corwin remembers the late soprano Ileana Cotrubas — and shares some archival recordings of her in Bellini, Tchaikovsky, Leoncavallo, and Gounod.

Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Hayama Artist ResidencyFeaturedLaunched in 2020, the Hayama Artist Residency offers visual artists from around the world a unique opportunity to spend four weeks in Japan for rest, reflection, and creative inspiration. Selected artists receive roundtrip airfare, a private bedroom, and an $800 stipend to cover meals and local transportation. We welcome applications from visual artists working in any medium and at any stage of their career. Applicants must be at least 21 years old. The residency runs June 1 to 30,...

Le lancette dell’orologio non smettono mai di rincorrere il tempo. Con il loro fare silenzioso, avanzano a poco a poco, rendendo attimi, minuti, ore e giorni, entità che in pochi istanti perdono di valore. Potremmo parlare di circolarità o di eterno ritorno se pensassimo a quel lampo di genio che, dopo generazioni e generazioni, continua ad abitare nella famiglia Buendia, nella lontana e recondita Macondo. Sì, perché alla fin fine, ogni attimo è destinato a ritornare.
Giovanni Anselmo, “Entrare nell’opera”, 1971, stampa fotografica su tela (copia espositiva), Archivio Giovanni Anselmo ETS, Foto © l’Artista, courtesy Archivio Giovanni Anselmo ETS
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In Ben Sledsens’ new body of work, An Apple for the Road, saturated fields of color meet methodical patterns constructed from grasses, leaves, brick, and more. The Antwerp-born artist conceives of vibrant, atmospheric paintings in which life pauses for a moment: there’s a swan hovering over its tinted reflection, a woman just stepping out her front door, and vivid still lifes in which clouds and soft breezes rustle through the windows. Often beginning with drawings on paper before translating the most salient details to the canvas, Sledsens is interested in repetition and the visual power of pattern, which he layers to form dense thickets of willow trees or the tiles lining a boating dock. These motifs set...

Viking textile fragment VARDE, DENMARK—La Brújula Verde reports that textile fragments have been discovered in a Viking woman’s eighth-century tomb at the Skonager site in Western Jutland. The rare bits of cloth were found attached to the front and back of two scoop brooches, known for their concave shape, by researchers from the Vejle Conservation Center. Metallic salts released by the brooches are thought to have inhibited the microbes that would have otherwise destroyed the textile fibers. Repairs made to one of the brooches could indicate that it was a family heirloom. Analysis of these surviving scraps of fabric, conducted by ancient textile expert Lise Ræder Knudsen, could reveal the weaving...

Example of dental calculus attached to an ancient human tooth from the Umeda cemetery in Osaka, Japan OSAKA, JAPAN—According to a statement released by the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), researchers from SOKENDAI, Aomori Public University, and Kyushu University analyzed samples of dental calculus taken from the teeth of eight sets of human remains unearthed at the Umeda cemetery in Osaka. These people lived in an urban environment during Japan’s Edo period, from A.D. 1603 to 1868. The scientists examined bone collagen stable isotope ratios and food-derived proteins in the hardened plaque using palaeoproteomic methods. The ratios of carbon and nitrogen isotopes indicate that the...

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

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

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

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

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

Hyper Reality è il titolo-tema dell’undicesima edizione del Festival curato a Forlì da Vertov Project. Prologo alla Fondazione Dino Zoli con la mostra collettiva Interference, che riunisce dodici artiste internazionali nel segno dell’interferenza come forza generativa. Forlì torna a essere una Babele di stimoli e visioni, grazie a Ibrida Festival Internazionale delle Arti Intermediali: l’undicesima edizione, dal titolo-tema Hyper Reality, è in programma dal 17 al 20 settembre. Prologo essenziale e complementare sarà la mostra collettiva intermediale Interference, che dall’1 settembre all’11 ottobre metterà in dialogo le ricerche radicali di dodici artiste internazionali.
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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...

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

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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