a colorful world outside Mexico city
 
Quetzalcóatl Park, located about an hour outside of Mexico City, is the sprawling, serpentine creation of Javier Senosiain Aguilar. Although started years ago in 2007, the park is still a work in progress. The water fixture, mosaiced and shaped like the head of a snake, spews water into a small reserve. A greenhouse is bathed in a shattered rainbow of light coming through a stained-glass roof. Its grassy mazes create vertiginous paths where visitors can lose themselves in the Mexican architect’s spiraling, psychedelic, and lush garden.
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In 2003, a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin successfully defended a dissertation based on meticulous research across French, Spanish, and English. Kevin D. Roberts’s Slaves and slavery in Louisiana: the evolution of Atlantic world identities, 1791-1831 articulated an argument about how enslaved people resisted bondage by forming alternative social and cultural structures, contending that Black Americans “employed a variety of tools — cultural traditions, secret and overt resistance, and a distinctive ideology of politics ‘from the ground up’ — to tweak, alter, and challenge” white supremacy. Like most dissertations, it wasn’t necessarily groundbreaking but rather an example of...

The third edition of the Counterpublic Triennial, Coyote Time, has expanded significantly across five main sites and opens tomorrow, Thursday, September 10, in St. Louis. But as artistic director and co-founder James McAnally explains, this expansion moves beyond mere scale, aiming to support artistic practices rooted in real change. The triennial frames itself as an invitation to experience public space differently, guided by core concepts such as accountability, access, climate, infrastructure, agency, and Native sovereignty.Unlike traditional biennials, Counterpublic relies on a curatorial "ensemble" rather than a team, balancing individual authorship with a collective voice to present multiple...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Jean-François Leroy (1956–2026)French photographer who founded an influential photojournalism festivalHe co-founded and directed the leading photojournalism festival Visa Pour l’Image, bringing attention to world conflicts and environmental disasters and bolstering the careers of photographers. He was also a photographer in his own right, and edited Photo Magazine during the late 1980s. Lucien Smith (1989–2026)Fixture of NYC's downtown art sceneArtist Lucien Smith (1989–2026) (photo Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)The abstract painter and nonprofit founder channeled the community...

How does one write an art history of testicle-shaped disco balls? Does one begin with the most recent iteration of disco balls and trace their way back, through the raucous hollers and blacklit rooms of a Southern Californian gay bar, and a fine-dining restaurant in Norway? Or does one draw a line from the first depictions of testicles in Paleolithic cave art to “the day disco died” in 1979 and the unrelated spate of humorous genital-themed art born in the decades since?They say no time is like the present, especially in this case — because, presently, the Grammy-winning country music star Kacey Musgraves is perching herself on a giant suspended testicle-shaped disco ball night after night in front of...

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) preemptively closed three of its London locations last Friday, September 4, as its unionized staff went on a planned, two-day strike that weekend. Making up over half of the organization's workforce, some 700 workers organized under the Prospect Union's heritage division and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) took part in the strike. The strike led the V&A to close the East Museum, the East Storehouse, and the Young V&A (its children's museum in Bethnal Green) through Saturday, September 5. Many staff members rallied outside the three locations throughout the action, equipped with punny and confrontational signs calling for fair pay and access to...

The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, has named Kathleen V. Jameson as its next director. She officially began in the role on Tuesday. She replaces Raphaela Platow, who stepped down last year at the end of a four-year contract.   A scholar of late 19th- and early 20th-century American art, with an emphasis on photography and works on paper, Jameson was most recently the executive director of Pennsylvania’s James A. Michener Art Museum, a role she held from 2018 to 2019. Previously, she was president and chief executive of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 2010 to 2017. While there, she led the development of a strategic plan for the institution, which included the creation of a...

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the newly inaugurated institution spearheaded by collectors George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, may finally have opened to the press and founding members after $1 billion in costs and more than a decade of bureaucratic wrangling, but a new lawsuit alleges that the museum should’ve faced yet more hurdles during its construction. The Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday that the museum is currently the subject of four lawsuits by contractors, one of whom is J.E. Snyder Electric, which worked on the museum as a subcontractor for Siemens Industry, Inc. and not directly for the Lucas Museum. Per the LA Times report, J.E. Snyder Electric’s lawsuit centers on whether the Lucas...

The D. Daskalopoulos Collection announced a donation of 51 artworks to four museums across Greece and Scotland. The majority of the works will be spread across the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOMUS), and the National Gallery of Greece, all in Greece, with three pieces heading to the National Galleries of Scotland. The donation continues the collection’s “commitment to making contemporary art accessible to wider audiences,” the announcement stated. It added, “This initiative seeks to ensure the long-term preservation of the works while sustaining an ongoing dialogue with the art of the future.” The National Gallery of Greece will receive 29 modern artworks by...

The Freelands Foundation has awarded £100,000 (approximately $135,000) of unrestricted funding to three organizations annually for the next five years, totaling £1.5m (roughly $2 million). The recipients are Wolverhampton Art Gallery, selected for its youth art incubator; Burton Futures, an educational outreach project from the North Devon gallery Burton at Bideford; and Signal, an arts charity in the remote town of Barrow-in-Furness […]

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APPLE PUTS TWO SCREENS INTO ONE FOLDING BODY
 
Apple’s first foldable iPhone starts with a familiar idea: a phone that still works like an iPhone when it is closed. The difference arrives when the device opens. iPhone Duo pairs a 5.4-inch outer screen with a 7.6-inch inner display, turning something pocket-size into a much larger surface for reading, watching video, drawing, or keeping two apps open side by side. Both screens use the same proportions, so whatever is on screen carries across without the abrupt resizing that can make folding devices feel like two separate products.
 
The inner display gets some of the most interesting design attention. Apple has given it a nano-textured surface that cuts...

A hoard of thousands of silver coins was unearthed by an amateur metal detectorist in southern Finland. Experts at Lahti Museums believe it’s the largest Viking-era coin hoard found in the country, Heritage Daily reported. Kalle Lappinen made the find with a metal detector near Sysmä church village on September 3. Archaeologists have since inspected the site and recovered a trove of almost 10 pounds of silver coins, with individual pieces still to be cleaned, separated, and counted. The silver hoard was discovered inside two straw containers nearly 18 inches below the ground and about 40 feet apart. It includes coins, a fragment of silver, a bracelet, a clasp, and a bead. Each object will undergo...

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth has announced Robert Stein as its new executive director and CEO. Stein joins the institution from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where he has served as chief information officer since 2023. He succeeds Andrew J. Walker, who departed in August 2025 after […]

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Christie’s will sell nearly 600 works of modernist art from the same collection under the title “Radiant Modernism.” The sale will occur across multiple dates, the first of which will take place this October during Frieze London. The auction house did not name the seller of the works, though it did say that the pieces all belonged to a private European collection. Christie’s said the works could collectively bring in somewhere between $40 million and $60 million. The nearly 600 works are led by several paintings by Paul Signac, the French painter who, alongside Georges Seurat, pioneered the Pointillist style of the late 19th century, in which little circles of color combine to form landscapes when seen...

FOUR TIMBER BLOCKS of SOCIAL HOUSING IN IBIZA
 
Stefano Boeri Architetti has won the competition for Sa Casa, a new affordable housing complex in Ibiza built around a modular timber system. Developed for Spanish public housing agency Casa 47, the proposal divides roughly 190 apartments among four residential volumes, leaving the center of the site open as a planted communal space. The buildings step and shift across the sloping plot instead of forming one continuous perimeter, creating a series of passages and courtyards that lead toward a public square at the center.
 
The project is planned for Ca n’Escandell, a large public housing development on the edge of Ibiza Town. Here, Sa Casa occupies a...

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The Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University, in Philadelphia, will close permanently at the end of the month, citing low attendance and rising costs. Its last day open to the public with regular hours will be Sunday, September 27.⁠ In a letter to the academy and Drexel communities, Antonio Merlo, president of Drexel, and Suzanne Biemiller, chair […]

JPG Print Shop Reframes Fabrika’s Industrial Interior in Tbilisi
 
Designed by Sandro Kvirikadze, JPG Print Shop transforms an existing Soviet industrial space at Tbilisi’s Fabrika into a contemporary environment for graphic design and urban culture. Plywood structures, stainless steel, and retro-futurist forms introduce a new architectural layer within the existing space, creating a dialogue between industrial memory and contemporary creative culture. The result is a space where design becomes part of the everyday urban experience. The print shop brings together graphic design, fashion, and the culture of on-site customization. Alongside collaborative T-shirts created by notable graphic designers, the...

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Parterre Box offers an (almost) comprehensive introduction to the sopranos headlining Mozart productions in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco this fall.

The voluntary programme will allow consignors to contribute a portion of the hammer price to artists, which Bonhams will match

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Many experts are worried that parts of the so-called One Big Beautiful Act could seriously stymie access to art schools

Architect Daniel Libeskind, whose past projects include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, was also a winner of one of this year’s Praemium Imperiale awards

Wolverhampton Art Gallery, The Burton and Signal are the inaugural recipients of the Freelands Award

architects imagine temporary homes for writers in switzerland
 
At the foot of Switzerland’s Jura Mountains, the Jan Michalski Foundation assembles an unusual small neighborhood for writers and translators arriving for residencies lasting from two weeks to three months. The creatives are given a place not only to work but to temporarily call home. Suspended beneath the Foundation’s vast openwork canopy, nine cabins designed by atelier bonnet architectes, Jean-Gilles Décosterd, Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler Architekten, ELEMENTAL, Mangeat-Wahlen, Studio MK27, Rintala Eggertsson Architects, Schaub Zwicky Architekten, and Kengo Kuma & Associates offer distinct interpretations of how a person should...

This season marks the third annual visit of The English Concert to American shores, this time with a production of Handel’s Alessandro.

“If Emmett Till Lived”, curated by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, draws from the collection of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography to visualise a possible narrative of Till’s life had he not been murdered at age 14

Lucien Smith, an artist whose career spanned painting, public projects, and restaurants, has died at the age of thirty-seven. His death, news of which circulated widely on social media, was first reported by Art News. No cause has yet been publicly revealed. Originally known for his contributions to the abstract painting boom of the 2010s, Smith […]

Historian Lonnie G. Bunch III, who has served as secretary of the Smithsonian since 2019, has announced that he is leaving the institution. Bunch was the first African American person to occupy the post. The Smithsonian in a statement said that he planned to depart by the end of the year.  Bunch’s exit comes more […]

In eclectic productions of Carmen, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Così fan tutte in Salzburg, A.J. Goldmann finds vindication for Markus Hinterhaüser at the end of the intendant's final Festival.

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George Saunders’s unforgettable novel about the greatest sorrow known to humankind—surviving the loss of a child and letting go—work as sung theater by Missy Mazzoli.

Evgeny Titov, locally infamous for his production of Salome where the titular heroine wears a paper mask for the entire performance, returns with Szymanowski's shimmering King Roger.

For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...

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Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"—Honoré de Balzac "Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning."—Miguel de Unamuno Hiroko Yoshimoto's paintings concentrate nature into radiant and dynamic beauty, distilling visual sensation into poetic and environmental significance. Throughout the 2020s, Yoshimoto has worked on two series of paintings about nature: Biodiversity and Of Infinite Variety. Both series are based on observation of the natural...

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...

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...

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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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

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 Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here. We also mark an...