The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) in San Francisco announced this week that it will look to sell its building in the city’s Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood, which also includes some of the city’s other top cultural organizations. The decision to sell is part of “a series of strategic steps to ensure a sustainable and impactful future for The Museum,” according to a release, which includes stabilizing the organization’s finances and ensuring that its endowments are not drained. The release also noted that this “new vision” for the CJM will allow for “greater flexibility and ensure a viable operating model.” Founded in 1984, the CJM has been closed to the public since December 2024, and in...

Almost two decades ago, while she was an architecture student at El Camino College, Lauren Halsey began conceiving a sculpture park for South Central, the Los Angeles neighborhood where she grew up. At long last, that sculpture park has finally arrived and is now open to the public. Curated by Christine Y. Kim and organized by the arts organization Los Angeles Nomadic Division, the park is officially titled sister dreamer lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles. It is in many ways the grandest expression to Halsey’s desire to meld past and present in the hope of creating a future in which “Black people can experience themselves differently and not feel...

Art Dubai is the latest fair to be upended by the ongoing conflict between the US, Israel, and Iran. With Iran continuing to stirke the United Arab Emirates, leading to eight dead and 157 injured and damage to Dubai International Airport, the emirate’s leading art fair announced that its upcoming ediiton will not be held as planned in April. Instead, the fair said in a statement Thursday that it will be moving foward in an “adapted format” on May 14 to May 17 at the resort Madinat Jumeirah, its longtime venue. “Following our last communication, we have remained in close dialogue with all our stakeholders and across these discussions, there remains a clear sense that maintaining the platform that Art...

why the ultimate home is Kosuke Tsumura’s nylon coat
 
What if the boundary between body and city dissolved into a thin, translucent membrane of nylon? What if architecture stopped being something we enter and became something we carry? In the long-running project FINAL HOME, Japanese designer Kosuke Tsumura reframes shelter as a wearable condition, collapsing fashion, architecture, and survival into a single system. Established in 1994 under the umbrella of the Miyake Design Studio, FINAL HOME asks: if home disappears due to disaster, war, or economic collapse, what can clothing become?
 
Tsumura positions utopia as an applied method embedded in everyday life through a three-decade experiment in...

A bold new structure has appeared in Cary Park in Cary, North Carolina: the latest sculptural pavilion by Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY. The work is titled “L’Ile Folie,” which nods to the architectural tradition of the folly, a landscape feature that was all the rage with wealthy estate owners in the 18th and 19th centuries. Often nostalgic and resembling ruined miniature castles or bucolic village buildings, follies were generally non-functional and conceived as pure decoration. Fornes, however, reimagines this practice with an eye toward the future rather than the past. The pavilion “gives this tradition a contemporary meaning: memorable, playful, and slightly surreal,” says a statement. Fornes is...

Earlier this week, the National Women’s History Museum—a nonprofit that organizes mostly virtual exhibitions that “illuminate the stories of women who have shaped our past and who continue to inform our shared future”—announced that Meryl Streep made a seven-figure donation to the Washington, D.C.-based institution. According to a statement, the Academy Award-winning actor has been a long-time supporter of the National Women’s History Museum, which was founded in 1996 by Karen Staser. The museum plans to use the funds to expand its digital initiatives. “The National Women’s History Museum has long been a catalyst for bringing forward the stories that deepen our understanding of who we are,”...

Following the success of the Aga Khan sale in October, works from the collection of Seattle-based Mary and Cheney Cowles will be sold in London in April

The wildly popular TV series “The Sopranos” aired its much-hyped season finale almost 20 years ago. The critically acclaimed show, starring the late James Gandolfini as troubled mob boss/family man Tony Soprano, premiered on HBO in 1999 and ran for six seasons. “The Sopranos,” often credited with initiating a golden age of prestige television, is now the subject of an exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image. “Stories and Set Designs for The Sopranos” is on view at the Queens, New York, museum through May 31. It includes script notes and newspaper clippings from “Soprano’s” showrunner David Chase’s personal archive, plus ground plans and production photos from MoMI’s collection. The...

Finding Acid house's enduring appeal, one born from its ability to play dumb.

Welcome to the 329th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists repurpose school supplies and collect faces on the subway.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.Lex Marie, Washington, DCHow long have you been working in this space?My studio is at the school where I am currently pursuing my MFA. I'm about halfway through the two-year program.Describe an average day in your studio.My studio routine has changed drastically since school started. These days, I begin my studio day around 9am after...

The fair’s 20th edition will be rescheduled to mid-May and have a “more focused and flexible format”, as Iranian strikes in the UAE show no signs of abating

Around a decade ago, Shinsuke Inoue sourced a piece of Japanese wood and carved a depiction of his child, “wanting to preserve their likeness in three dimensions,” the artist tells Colossal. The affectionate expression of a loved one in sculptural form spurred a new passion for woodcarving, specifically with an emphasis on the human figure. Inoue’s pieces possess a kind of elemental groundedness or gravity that makes their restrained, sometimes hard-to-read expressions remarkably alluring. The figures often look straight ahead, and at the right angle, they make powerful eye contact with the viewer. And not unlike the way a small, meaningful smile or tiny frown can emerge from the most minute twitch of...

This spring, Powerhouse Arts presents the inaugural edition of CONDUCTOR: Art Fair of the Global Majority, a new international art fair spotlighting artists and galleries from across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, and Indigenous Nations worldwide.Taking place in Brooklyn from April 30 through May 3, 2026 (with a VIP Opening on April 29), the fair brings together 27 gallery exhibitors and 17 special projects, offering an expansive platform for artists whose work is shaping the future of contemporary art.Curated by Fair Director Adriana Farietta in collaboration with Powerhouse Arts President Eric Shiner, CONDUCTOR reflects a shared vision to expand...

david altrath captures vienna’s palmenhaus in film series
 
In the fourth chapter of his ongoing photographic series Greenhouse, German photographer David Altrath turns his lens on Vienna’s historic Palmenhaus, a monumental glass-and-steel structure from the late 19th century. Through Altrath’s cinematic compositions, the Palmenhaus emerges as a living archive of design, climate, and culture, captured in soft tones.
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the images depict the sensory richness of the greenhouse
 
With Greenhouse pt. 4, Hamburg-based photographer David Altrath reactivates the atmospheric power of the Palmenhaus. His photos invite the viewer to linger, to notice the interplay of structure and...

“Necrophiliac Spring” was owned by the Italian fashion designer and led her to create the Tears Dress, one of her most famous creations

As part of Bass Month at the Box, Niel Rishoi considers six versions of "Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni" from La sonnambula for Perspectives on an Aria.

Over the past 28 years, Art Paris has become a key moment in the cultural calendar. This April, the fair returns to the Grand Palais, offering an ambitious programme that supports the French scene, whilst fostering dialogue with artists and galleries from around the world. The 2026 edition welcomes 165 galleries from 20 countries, with 60% made up of French institutions, reflecting the fair’s ability to remain both regional and cosmopolitan. This year’s edition offers audiences the chance to witness the breadth of contemporary talent, encounter established masters and discover new voices on the scene. Each year, the fair invites guest curators to tackle the themes and ideas that are defining our current...

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Kéré Architecture plans healthcare campus in burundi
 
In Bubanza, around 30 kilometers north of Bujumbura, Burundi, Francis Kéré and Kéré Architecture design the Ineza Clinic, a decentralized healthcare campus embedded into a steep, north-facing hillside. Conceived to support the region’s rural population, the project complements an existing general hospital while introducing dedicated maternity and surgical care. A primary spine road organizes the site, ascending from the national route below to a visitor zone above, stitching together ten pavilions distributed along the terrain.
 
The buildings follow existing contour lines, reducing excavation and preserving the hill’s natural profile, allowing...

The out-of-the-way Maastricht offers travel complications and inferior accommodation—but its intimate size is its advantage

MARA UPDATES ITS DIGITAL IDENTITY  
Italian furniture company, Mara, enters 2026 with an ambitious vision, evolving into a central protagonist in the global interior design and architectural landscape. The brand is preparing for a high-intensity calendar of international appointments, most notably the Salone del Mobile.Milano in April (Hall 22, Stand A25) and Orgatec in October. Following a year of significant milestones in London, Amsterdam, and Paris, Mara aims to exceed these achievements by further strengthening its role as a strategic partner for complex contract and residential projects. 
 
In parallel, the company’s design evolution is mirrored by a complete renewal of the digital identity,...

Balmuda’s pocket watch-inspired The Clock
 
Telling what time it is isn’t what Balmuda has in mind, but allowing users to experience what it could feel like using lights, relax time, and sounds. Named The Clock, the pocket watch-shaped device features no hands, but a system called the Light Hour. It’s a dial that uses illumination rather than physical markers to show the time. The light moves across the face in a slow, pendulum-like arc, a reference the design team made explicit by visiting the Foucault pendulum at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo during development. 
 
A Foucault pendulum moves so slowly that its motion is almost imperceptible in real time, but over hours it traces...

The New Museum in Manhattan reopened for previews yesterday after a four-year expansion that doubled its exhibition space to the tune of $82 million. Maybe it's because the project has been so long in the making, or because we've always been sensitive about this contemporary sore thumb in the Lower East Side, but we have some serious feels about the museum's new building. Hyperallergic's editors gathered for a very candid dialogue about what worked, what didn't, and why we were all feeling a little less human after visiting New Humans: Memories of the Future, the inaugural exhibition. Read our roundtable and get a sneak peek of the (new) New Museum below.Across the world, the horrors...

Not much to say here. Legendary bass Mark Reizen was born in the USSR and thus never got to tour much to the west.

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Who doesn’t love a good photo book? To flick through the pages, be enlightened, educated, distracted and absorbed into another world through another’s eyes? Totally fantastic!
We’re here to share our Photobook Favourites – a selection of our favourite photography books recommended by the Shutter Hub community, an archive of titles we’ve enjoyed, and a reference point for you to explore. Las Pelilargas, Irina Werning, GOST
For 18 years photographer Irina Werning travelled across Latin America to seek out those with long hair to uncover and understand its cultural significance. Her book Las Pelilargas (the long-haired ones) brings together this body of work in an exploration and celebration of...

Photography remains one of the most vital ways we examine society, culture and the intimate contours of human experience. The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026, hosted at The Photographers’ Gallery in London from 6 March to 7 June, continues this tradition, foregrounding the ways contemporary photographers challenge perception, narrative and the politics of representation. Established in 1996, the Prize identifies and rewards artists for an exhibition or book that has made a significant contribution to photography in the previous twelve months. Over three decades, it has become a barometer for innovation and social engagement, spotlighting work that is aesthetically compelling while deeply...

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Dal 20 marzo al 30 maggio 2026, la Galleria Continua / Paris Marais ospita Guardatori, la nuova personale di Manuela Sedmach. In questa occasione l’artista approfondisce il tema dello sguardo e della relazione silenziosa tra opera e spettatore, attraverso una pittura stratificata in cui l’immagine emerge lentamente dalla materia, aprendo uno spazio di riflessione tra percezione e visione.
Manuela Sedmach, “Em lugar algum”, 2024, acrilico su tela, cm 47 x 57, courtesy l’Artista e Galleria Continua
Elisabetta Zerial: Nel progetto Guardatori sembra emergere un ribaltamento di prospettiva: non è più soltanto lo spettatore a osservare l’opera, ma è come se le figure dipinte restituissero lo sguardo....

After a four-year process and two-year closure, the New Museum has finally returned. Designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas, this 60,000-square-foot expansion doubles the institution's exhibition space and creates more room for artist residencies, public programs, and its "cultural incubator," NEW INC. The inaugural exhibition, New Humans: Memories of the Future, explores what it means to be human amidst cataclysmic technological change across the 20th and 21st centuries through the work of more than 150 artists, scientists, filmmakers, and more. It's certainly bigger, but is it better? Hyperallergic's editors got together after the press preview earlier today to share our thoughts...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Éliane Radigue (1932–2026)French experimental composer She pioneered electronic music in the 1960s through her use of feedback and tape loops. Her work has been performed or exhibited by the San Francisco Art Institute, New York Cultural Art Center, and other institutions around the world.Brad Bucher (1942–2026)Houston arts patron and collectorBucher was known for supporting arts institutions across the city alongside his wife, Leslie, from an artist-in-residence program at Rice University to a gallery at the Glassell School of Art. He was also a dedicated researcher who contributed to the vital work of...

Museums in the UK are being forced to reckon with the country’s colonial past once again, after an investigation published by the Guardian on March 7 revealed that these institutions collectively hold over 263,000 items of human remains from across the world. Through freedom of information (FoI) requests, the Guardian determined that around 37,000 items […]

One hundred eighty-three artists, curators, and art workers participating in the Sixty-First Venice Biennale have signed an open letter demanding that Israel be excluded from the event, saying that the Biennale’s “complicity with the attempted destruction of Palestinian life must end.” Among the signatories to the missive, which was organized by the Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) are artists Sophia […]

After nearly ten years in New York, London-based gallery Timothy Taylor will close its stateside outpost after the conclusion of its current show of James Prapaithong; thereby joining the ranks of many other New York City galleries that have shuttered in recent months, ARTnews reports.  “In light of current market conditions, the gallery has made the decision to […]

Known for his atmospheric photographs of landscapes, interiors, and urban centers that feel mysteriously locked in a not-so-distant past, Andrew Moore’s enigmatic images invite us into a slippage of time. Often—but not always—devoid of people, his scenes have a timelessness about them, as if they could have unfolded at any point over the past several decades. Sometimes it feels as though someone may have just walked by; others, it’s as if no one has viewed the scene for many years. In his current solo exhibition, Theater, the artist’s photographs of grand staircases, aging stages, and box office ticket booths hearken to a bygone era before screens. Additional compositions featuring a bar, art...

The beleaguered John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will close for two years to undergo renovations following a unanimous vote from the board, which is helmed by Donald Trump, the New York Times reported on Monday. In a press release, the Center indicated that the facilities will close down in July following an Independence Day celebration.  […]

ABOVE: “Gaza Cinderella”, Northern Gaza Strip, 2012: “Although her drawing was filled with soldiers, helicopters, and tanks, the girl who drew the picture only spoke about her intense fear of missile strikes. When a building or other structure is targeted in Gaza, it is often hit with a barrage of several missiles to ensure its […]
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Graph paper is commonly used for plotting, well, graphs, plus other spatial and mathematical visualizations. But for Pejac, its potential goes way beyond a two-dimensional gridded surface. The artist, who is known for his trompe-l’œil paintings and playful street art interventions, often turns to the precise geometry of gridded sketchbooks in order to challenge perception and think instead about depth and movement. From a group of kids tossing snowballs—wait, they’re cubes from the grid itself—to a construction worker carving out a silhouette of the famous Sistine Chapel motif of God and Adam’s hands touching, Pejac challenges our sense of space and the possibilities of the “blank slate.” Find...

Embroidery as an art form is often overlooked as a craft, but that is part of its appeal to Burbank, California-based artist Michelle Kingdom, who uses embroidery to express her innermost thoughts and escape to her imaginary world. Michelle Kingdom’s unexpected approach to embroidery is like a painter’s, and some have dubbed her work as […]
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A fashionable bat, a melancholy sun, and a springtime spirit with seasonal allergies are just a few of the characters conceived by Cat Johnston. Drawing on childhood memories, folk art, and nature, the London-based illustrator and model maker creates expressive sculptures and puppets that inhabit dreamlike realms. Invoking historical costumes and cartoonish and emotive faces, Johnston’s otherworldly cast seems both familiar and strange, as if children’s book protagonists have sprung to life or converged with a strange dream. Recent characters comprise a series of gods representing sunburn, hay fever, and insomnia, which also—rather inconveniently—are the sun, flowers, and the moon. Johnston recently...

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Parterre Box answers the question, "how can a singer do both Tristan and Nemorino within a few month of each other?" with a clip of a recent role debut from Michael Spyres.

Gordon Parks is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, Park was drawn to photography as a young man. He dedicated his life to documenting the realities of American culture, focusing on social justice, race relations, the civil rights movement and the African American experience. In 1942, he spent time capturing the neighbourhoods and communities of Washington D.C., images that would become foundational documents of Black life. More than 80 years later, Beverly Price photographs the same streets. Her work centres the experiences of children, showing them in moments of joy and reverie, reminding audiences that childhood needs to be...

“More is more” is the phrase most associated with Maximalism – a design philosophy defined by its celebration of bold colours, layered patterns and rich textures. It has roots in 17th century Baroque and Rococo, resurfacing in the 1980s with the Memphis Group’s rejection of minimalism. Today, it’s experiencing a renaissance in the form of so-called “dopamine décor” and is being picked up by a new vanguard of creatives. Enter Precious Seronga, an emerging Tanzanian artist whose new book, Afro Maximalism, “celebrates an aesthetic of excess, women of colour and African textiles.” Right now, it’s being stocked in an array of “non-traditional” creative spaces, such as London salons and...

Ogni opera possiede un senso di mistero capace di provocare ulteriori suggestioni. Questo potrebbe essere il giusto avviso con cui visitare la mostra The Bell Jar alla galleria romana MONTI8, co-curata da Massimiliano Maglione. Il progetto, con le opere degli artisti Camilla Alberti, Ruby Chen, Mounir Eddib, Stephen Buscemi, Naomi Hawksley, Steffen Kern, Amber Wynne-Jones è tanto diversificato quanto ben costruito sul rapporto e l’incontro dei diversi lavori. Certi che le opere d’arte rappresentino frammenti di scelte artistiche, i cui significati cambiano a seconda del contesto in cui vengono collocate, la mostra rivela un’acuta indagine attorno alla capacità di disidentificarsi, sdoppiarsi,...

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In 2020, photographer Rania Matar returned to the Lebanese capital of Beirut in the aftermath of the infamous port explosion. There, she encountered a sentence scrawled on an abandoned building: “Where do I go?” The question stuck with her, indicative of a nation that has faced turmoil, conflict and upheaval for decades. She herself left the country in 1984, during the Lebanese Civil War, and recognises her own experience in many other women who face the painful decision of whether to stay or leave. Now, that graffiti has become the title of a new exhibition and accompanying book. Matar explained that the name “was taken from the writing on the wall of an abandoned silk factory in Kfarmatta, south of the...

John Danaher on the world-premiere recording of Clémence de Grandval's wild and worthy Mazeppa, the latest release from the operatic archaeologists at Palazzetto Bru Zane.

Boris Christoff's Procida (along with Cerquetti's Elena) lifts Mario Rossi's RAI Torino Vespri to distinction.

Il passaggio tra l’inverno e la primavera di quest’anno preannuncia l’incontro, alla Galleria Il Ponte, con la scultura di Mauro Staccioli (Volterra 1937 – Milano 2018), artista in bilico tra due secoli, messo in luce nell’arco temporale dagli anni Ottanta all’inizio dei Duemila. L’esposizione, a cura di Caterina Martinelli, consente un’osservazione nel contesto della sua produzione artistica, più nota per installazioni monumentali rispetto alle derivazioni posteriori in scala ridotta, oggi fondamenta dell’Archivio Staccioli di Volterra insieme a scritti, appunti e progetti. Un lavoro concepito in relazione a un luogo, scevro da rappresentazione e narrazione, eppure armonicamente inserito...

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A un certo momento, nel romanzo di Mary Shelley (Londra, 1797 – 1851), la creatura smette di chiedere di essere amata e comincia a desiderare che chi l’ha rifiutata soffra quanto lei. L’amore si converte in odio e la benevolenza dell’artefice verso la propria opera, come quella della società verso chi ne è escluso, si rivela premessa di violenza. Shelley pubblicò Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus nel 1818, come esperimento narrativo sul limite della scienza, ispirata dai test condotti nel XVIII secolo da Erasmus Darwin sulla rianimazione della materia morta e dal galvanismo.
Motus, “Frankenstein (a love story)”, photo © Andrea Macchia, courtesy ERT-Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione
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Kristine Schomaker and Genie Davis at the Getty By Kristine Schomaker I've known Genie Davis for years. She shows up. That's the first thing you notice about her — and also the thing you never stop noticing, because she just keeps doing it. She's at openings, she's writing reviews, she's telling anyone who will listen about artists she believes in. For over a decade, her blog Diversions LA has been quietly, consistently documenting the Southern California art scene because she genuinely loves...

La Mestna galerija Nova Gorica presenta Movimento incessante, personale di Arianna Ellero. La mostra è corredata da un testo di Daniele Capra e da una composizione sonora di Stefano Pilia che s’intitola The Suncrows Fall And Tree. Immagini e musica intrecciano pertanto un dialogo a due voci, quasi un contrappunto da manuale, dove la nota musicale cerca il suo alter ego nel segno pittorico, in una continuità con la storia dell’arte che ci riporta in primo piano le azioni musicate di Jannis Kounellis o le antropometrie di Yves Klein. Il passato, allora, ritorna nel senso che il movimento, in questa mostra, può essere inteso anche come fattore temporale del nostro vissuto, come un flusso (o un fluire) che...

KRK Ryden's latest solo show "Wet Bread" is now on view at Brassworks Gallery in Portland. Read an interview on the pop surrealist from our archives by clicking above!
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There are many occasions when language fails me, when a poet’s hand seems what is needed to get to the truth of a thing—a man’s life, a work of art, a life of art. This is such a moment. To call the oil paintings of Eyvind Earle “landscapes” is accurate but very sorely wanting. For […]
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