When we think of tarot cards, there’s a standout that probably pops to mind right away: the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. It was illustrated by British occultist and artist Pamela Coleman Smith, and more than 100 years after its publication, it remains the most widely used deck by readers. But the cards are far from being the first. Later this month, The Morgan Library & Museum presents Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions, which delves into this centuries-old tradition of divination. The exhibition celebrates some of the earliest examples alongside modern artists’ versions. Three surviving decks from the 15th century, commissioned by the Dukes of Milan, tap into the lively Italian court culture that...

The New Museum will hold the largest-ever survey exhibition of works by filmmaker and multimedia artist Arthur Jafa this September, the institution announced on Tuesday, June 9. Titled I Am Tony in honor of the late jazz drummer Tony Williams, the exhibition will fill two floors of the New Museum's recently expanded Manhattan building in a showcase of works from Jafa's nearly four-decade career interrogating “Black being.” The survey, scheduled to open on September 24, will run through January 4, 2027.I Am Tony will feature some of Jafa's most iconic works, including “Love is the Message, The Message is Death” (2016), a video montage set to Kanye West's “Ultralight Beam” that...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Valentine Willie (1954–2026)Champion of Southeast Asian artIn 1996, he founded Valentine Willie Fine Art, a gallery and consultancy dedicated to Southeast Asian modern art, establishing presences in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines, and helping shape the region's art market and broaden international awareness. He helped organize Faith + The City (2000–2002), a survey of around 40 Filipino artists that traveled to major institutions in the region, widely considered one of the first major international presentations of Filipino art. “We are not an island," he told an interviewer in...

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

The Guggenheim Museum in New York announced today that it would host livestreams of a selection of World Cup matches on Friday afternoons this summer. The livestreams will take place at Frank Pub’s, a pop-up at the Wright, the Guggenheim’s restaurant. In a release, the museum described the program as a way to create “a space for people to grab a bite, watch the World Cup, and share in the excitement together.” The experience will be free to members and free with that day’s admission ticket to the museum. Opening an hour before each game begins, the museum will show the following matches: Canada vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina (June 12), US vs. Australia (June 19), Norway vs. France (June 26), Match 88 in...

From digital data and technology to the environment, healthcare, and the body, graduate students from across the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Davis, are pushing boundaries with their experimental research and creative expression. The results, varied in medium and discipline, are on display at the Arts & Humanities 2026 Graduate Exhibition. 20 Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts, and PhD students in Art History, Art Studio, Design, and Performance Studies are taking part in this year’s presentation, on view through June 20 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.“Our graduate students are on the cutting edge of technology, design, and the arts,” said...

Carmen Maria Machado spent exactly one semester as a journalism major. She was recently shuffling through old papers, riddled with feedback from her professor: “too many adjectives.”“She didn’t know what to do with me,” Machado recalled. Several major-switches later, she landed on photography, “the thing that I took the most pleasure in.”Most readers associate Machado with indelible short stories on gender, selfhood, and queerness and her memoir In the Dream House (2020), a poignant account of domestic abuse narrated through dozens of refracted, genre-specific lenses. But the author has also spent the last decade quietly building relationships with visual artists and writing about their work....

Your Birth is My Birth, a collaboration between artists Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Frésquez, feels at once vast and intimate. Entering the show at Jane Lombard Gallery is like stepping into a fantastical yet strangely comforting grove — what the artists call their “Kanekalon forest” after the synthetic hair brand, a continuation of their ongoing Hairland series begun in 2017.Created from the textured fiber, enormous biomorphic sculptures cascade from the ceiling and emerge from the ground. Kanekalon hair, sold crimped, becomes smooth only with heat. To achieve the silky texture in these works, the artists steamed, cut, and sewed together lengths of hair by hand, clamping the strands to welded metal...

TIME AND SPACE: A new constellation, shaped by imagination
 
Time and Space is a mechanical timepiece developed through a collaboration between artist Oliver Jeffers and watchmaker Anicorn. Drawing on themes that frequently appear throughout Jeffers’ work, including time, memory, exploration, and the cosmos, the project translates these ideas into a wearable object through symbolism, storytelling, and handcrafted detailing.
 
At the center of the design is a dial conceived as a constellation. Rather than depicting celestial bodies, the composition is formed by four symbols representing milestones in human invention and collective progress. These miniature indexes reference fire, ideas, knowledge, and...

The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, has announced that it is the recipient of a seismic $15 million gift from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, the largest in the institution’s 105-year history. The foundation has donated regularly and significantly to the Phillips since the 1990s, with past gifts supporting a variety of initiatives as well as […]

Contemporary art has increasingly turned towards the edges of perception, where science, philosophy and lived experience begin to blur. Across installation, moving-image and immersive sculpture, artists are no longer content to represent the world as it appears; instead, they construct environments in which alternative ways of knowing can be felt, sensed and momentarily inhabited. In this expanded field, Laure Prouvost has become a defining figure, developing a practice that transforms language into sensation and thought into atmosphere. Her work resists fixed interpretation, instead unfolding through humour, fragmentation and poetic association. With We Felt A Star Dying opening at the Grand Palais, she...

Independent launched Independent 20th Century in 2022 in the Battery Maritime Building, a Beaux-Arts landmark overlooking New York Harbor. This fall, the fair is moving uptown to Marcel Breuer’s former Whitney Museum building, now Sotheby’s global headquarters. The fifth edition of Independent 20th Century will run from September 24–27 at the Breuer, bringing together 56 exhibitors and presentations devoted to artists and movements from across the 20th century. More than 130 artists will be featured, with roughly 80 percent of the presentations dedicated to one or two artists. For Independent founder Elizabeth Dee, the move marks more than a change of address. “This is a rebirth of a new concept for...

The fair's first edition at Sotheby’s landmark Madison Avenue home will feature an expanded roster of international galleries

As Brendon Burton continues to pursue the strange corners of rural North America, the Portland-based photographer has discovered a newfound interest in the people who once inhabited them. No longer entirely devoid of human figures, his isolated landscapes step into the walls of abandoned homes and provide a setting for enigmatic narratives. Burton’s quiet introduction to life through the presence of domestic, intimate objects allows the viewer to piece together a speculative story about their previous owners. From a pair of worn boots and aged portraits to a patterned quilt resting upon a bed that was once made for the last time, photography introduces an element of permanence, preserving existence while...

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

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Unesco has increased support following confirmed damage to protected archaeological sites across southern Lebanon

The Art Works is a central feature of the NGS’s 2026-30 strategic plan, which focuses on improving access to Scotland’s national art collection

Charting the Turkish city's history through the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, the V&A claims that the show will be “the first exhibition in the UK to
tell this story in full”

The Washington, DC institution has received a $15m gift from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, the bulk of which will go to shoring up its finances, infrastructure, staffing, conservation and digital systems

Jongjin Park captures the memory of paper in porcelain
 
In Seoul, Jongjin Park works with materials that seem almost incompatible at first glance, bringing the softness of paper into the heat and permanence of porcelain. The Korean ceramic artist has developed a process that begins with ordinary sheets, dipped in watered down ceramic slip, tinted with hand mixed pigments, then folded, stacked, compressed, and fired until the paper disappears.
 
What remains is a ceramic body that still carries the memory of each crease, layer, and pressure mark, as if the kiln has translated a temporary material into something geological.
 
Park’s work sits at the meeting point between hand, fire, and material...

Egyptian artist Eman Khalifa has had a 30 year career as an entrepreneur and single mother raising a family, but art and creativity have always been there.

What happens when materiality becomes the driving force of design? How can a cultural infrastructure express its own identity? The Spanish Design Pavilion for World Design Capital Frankfurt Rhein-Main 2026 brings together the country’s creative innovation to address contemporary challenges through a reinterpretation of Gaudí‘s architectural legacy. Conceived as a reversible cultural infrastructure, the project activates public space while expanding the conversation around material use, circularity, and reuse. Rather than reproducing historical forms, the pavilion adopts a contemporary, operational approach. It highlights collaboration among Spanish industry, design and culture, exploring structural...

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Sagrada Família lights up tower of Jesus Christ for inauguration
 
One hundred years after Antoni Gaudí’s death, the Sagrada Família inaugurates the tower of Jesus Christ, bringing new significance to the basilica’s tallest and most symbolic structure (find designboom’s previous coverage here). Rising 176 meters above Barcelona and completed externally with the installation of its monumental cross, the tower is formally blessed on June 10th, 2026, during a ceremony led by Pope Leo XIV. A large-scale light spectacle created for the occasion transforms the tower into a luminous tribute to Gaudí’s creativity, vision, and enduring architectural legacy. Interior works within the structure are scheduled...

Negli ultimi anni il paesaggio industriale è tornato al centro dell’attenzione di artisti, fotografi e istituzioni. Non soltanto come testimonianza di una stagione produttiva conclusa, ma come patrimonio visivo capace di raccontare le trasformazioni economiche e urbane che hanno attraversato l’Europa dalla seconda metà del Novecento a oggi. In questo contesto si inserisce High Voltage, la mostra curata da Nicola Bigliardi presso StayOnBoard Art Gallery, che mette in dialogo le opere di Gabriele Basilico, Andrea Chiesi e Günter Pusch.
Gabriele Basilico, Andrea Chiesi, Günter Pusch, ”High Voltage”, installation view, 2026, courtesy StayOnBoard Art Gallery, Milano
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In 2026, mobility itself has become a status symbol

GRIMM marks its 20th anniversary with a new Amsterdam gallery and an artist residency programme at Château Val Croissant in Provence.

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Porsche turns three of its iconic 911 sports cars into one-off tributes to Buzz Lightyear, Woody, and Jessie ahead of the release of Toy Story 5. Revealed on the red carpet at the film’s world premiere in Los Angeles, the bespoke vehicles have been created by Porsche’s Sonderwunsch division, which specializes in highly customized commissions. Developed in collaboration with Disney and Pixar, the project translates the personalities of the beloved characters into drivable automotive designs while supporting a charitable initiative benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the American Red Cross, and Starlight Children’s...

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Italian culture workers and arts collectives announced this week that they would be joining trade unions and other organizations across the country in participating in a “general cultural strike” on June 12. The strike will focus on supporting Palestine and championing workers’ rights. The organizations who communicated on Monday that they’d be part of the effort include […]

Galerie Templon has closed its Chelsea outpost in New York after four years in the location, Artnet News reports. Headquartered in Paris since its 1966 founding, the gallery joins the London-based Stephen Friedman and Timothy Taylor, both of which shuttered their New York branches in recent months. Mathieu Templon, who oversaw the New York space and is the son […]

Last Friday, three men who were convicted of stealing priceless golden artifacts from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands were sentenced to serve 47 months apiece in prison. In January of 2025, three thieves used dynamite and a crowbar to breach a door to the museum. They ultimately made off with golden treasures that included the helmet of Coțofenești, […]

Belgian Surrealist René Magritte’s iconic 1959 painting Le château des Pyrénées is undergoing conservation after a young visitor to the Israel Museum pierced it with a pine cone. Ha’aretz reports that a six-year-old boy was visiting the Jerusalem institution with his family when he discovered the pine cone in the museum’s sculpture garden and used it to puncture the canvas several […]

Three men have each been sentenced to 47 months in prison for the theft of ancient Romanian gold from a Dutch museum, marking a major development in the 16-month-long case. In the pre-dawn hours of January 25, 2025, a band of thieves blasted open several windows at the Drents Museum in the city of Assen, ultimately absconding with a cache of Iron Age gold artifacts from the exhibition “Dacia—Empire of Gold and Silver” and triggering a diplomatic conflict between Romania and the Netherlands. Among the stolen loot was the prized golden helmet of Cotofenesti, dated to the 5th century B.C., as well as Dacian gold spiral bracelets unearthed in sacrificial pits.  Shortly after the theft, Romanian Prime...

From the beaded phrases of Jeffrey Gibson’s sculptural weavings to Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s canoe series to Raven Halfmoon’s fingerprint-textured tributes, a new exhibition marks the largest presentation of American Indigenous work in the U.K. to date. Opening next week, Hold to This Earth at Yorkshire Sculpture Park features nearly 70 pieces by 38 artists, which in turn represent 35 Tribal Nations. “(The artists) reference and honour ancestral knowledge whilst being steadfastly contemporary, asserting a powerful presence and countering narratives of erasure that too often position Indigenous cultures only in terms of the past,” says a statement from Tia Collection, from which the pieces are drawn....

The 16th Gwangju Biennial, opening this fall in South Korea (Sept 5-Nov. 15, 2026), has announced the names of the 40-some artists and groups who will be included in the exhibition. The list was first published by e-flux. The Biennial’s curator, “fast-rising” Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen, was announced in April 2025. Ho represented Singapore at the 2011 Venice Biennale, and organized the Asian Art Biennial in 2019. The title of Ho’s show, “You Must Change Your Life,” is drawn from the last line of Rainer Maria Rilke sonnet “Archaic Torso of Apollo.” The show focus on the continuous practice of change and transformation. The inaugural edition of the Gwangju Biennial opened in...

The Museum of Modern Art has announced a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian’s years in New York—in particular, the influence of the city’s boogie-woogie music scene on his art. The exhibition will bring together 30 of Mondrian’s paintings either made or completed between his move to New York in 1940 and his death there in 1944. A pioneer of 20th-century abstraction, Mondrian began as a figurative painter before co-founding the De Stijl art movement—an international collective dedicated to non-representational art—in 1917. After moving to Paris in 1919, he continued to develop his theories on abstract art, eventually settling on the format for which he is best known:...

“There was a moment when I was walking between forests and mountains in Tepoztlán, Mexico, while dandelions floated across my face,” Alexis Mata says. “In that instant, I experienced a strange sensation, as if I were standing on another planet, in another time, confronted with an entirely new landscape.” As the dainty seeds drifted through the air, Mata began to think about the ways life forms travel and embed themselves in new ecosystems. He was drawn to the idea of landing, of rooting and growing, which quickly became the basis for a poetic exhibition at Thinkspace in Los Angeles. “Lost Landing” (2026), oil on canvas, 160 x 160 centimeters Titled Lost Landing, the show features Mata’s glitched...

“Ice burns, and it is hard for the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost,” wrote A.S. Byatt in Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice. Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami characterizes ice in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman as a capsule that preserves the past “cleanly and clearly,” but possesses no future. In the ephemeral performance “MIZU,” frozen water takes on the form of a woman in an enchanting and emotive meditation on memory, time, and impermanence. “MIZU” is the brainchild of puppeteer and director Élise Vigneron’s Théâtre de L’entrouvert and Companie Furankaï, which encompasses the work of choreographer and circus artist Satchie Noro. The composition...

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

Supported by an ingenious production and strong performances, Antonia Bembo's Ercole Amante makes a successful Paris Opera debut.

So much color in this beautifully agile voice.

The Serpentine Pavilion is one of the most anticipated events in the international architecture calendar. Since 2000, the annual commission in London’s Kensington Gardens has invited leading architects to design a temporary pavilion on the Serpentine Galleries’ lawn. Its inaugural structure was designed by the late Zaha Hadid, with subsequent contributions coming from the likes of Herzog & de Meuron, Oscar Niemeyer, Sou Fujimoto and others. The project has become a leading platform for experimentation and innovation, offering visitors the chance to experience cutting-edge design in a public setting. 2026 is a landmark year for the Serpentine, marking a quarter of a century since Hadid’s first commission...

Alla cerimonia di premiazione del Nikon Photo Contest a Tokyo nell’ottobre 2025, una giovane fotografa cinese ha attirato la mia attenzione. Si chiama Fang Xianhui e, con la sua opera “Mom’s scent”, si è distinta tra i partecipanti di 180 Paesi, vincendo lo Special Encouragement Award nella categoria foto singola. I giudici hanno definito la scena di cottura del pane al vapore, scattata in un villaggio rurale dello Shanxi, come un “campione di emozioni che colpisce dritto al cuore”: nessuna narrazione grandiosa, nessuna tecnica abbagliante, ma solo la più semplice essenza della vita quotidiana. Ciò che mi ha incuriosito ancora di più è che non era la prima volta che calcava un palcoscenico...

Al Magazzino del Sale di Cervia, la seconda edizione di Endless Summer conferma la solidità di un progetto che sceglie di sottrarsi alla grammatica convenzionale della mostra collettiva per assumere, piuttosto, la forma aperta di una costellazione curatoriale. Ideato da MAGMA APS e sviluppato come ciclo triennale (2025-2027), il progetto prende in prestito dal celebre documentario di Bruce Brown l’immagine impossibile di un’estate perpetua, trasformandola in una metafora percettiva e mentale: non una stagione, ma uno stato di sospensione in cui desiderio, memoria e dissolvenza convivono simultaneamente.
Riccardo Baruzzi, “Silvia”, 2010, stampa a getto d’inchiostro su carta, dittico, 45 x 38 cm...

Between 2010 and 2023, more than 1,243 council-run youth centres closed, according to UNISON. Meanwhile, one in three people in the UK say their local areas are in decline, with 13,000 high street shops closing in 2024. Across the country, council restrictions, diminishing spaces, gentrification and enduring prejudices see many communities under threat of erasure. Photographer Sophie Green presents a vivid portrait of the communities, subcultures and social gatherings that shape contemporary Britain, forming a vital archive of a changing nation. For over a decade, she has documented how rituals and traditions build connection, belonging and shared identity. From the adrenaline thrill of banger racing, to the...

June marks Pride Month, a time when communities around the world celebrate LGBTQIA+ identities while reflecting on the history of the movement and the ongoing fight for equality. Its origins are often traced to June 28, 1969, when a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in Lower Manhattan was met with resistance from patrons and local community members. The six days of protests that followed, known as the Stonewall Riots, became a turning point in the struggle for LGBTQIA+ rights and helped galvanise a new era of activism. More than five decades later, Pride continues to honour that legacy while creating space for visibility, solidarity and celebration. Art has long played a vital role in this story, offering a...

Dearest by Zeinab Diomande is a zine presenting a collection of paintings that, while not a formal series, share a cohesive visual language exploring themes of liquidity and the passage of time, achieved through the use of thinned paint and water. The pieces employ texture as a storytelling device, reflecting the rituals and ceremonies of the artist’s alter egos within imagined worlds.
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Opera Theater of St. Louis's summer festival opened last night and Parterre Box is celebrating by launching a new feature: custom travel guides!

Contemporary art is undergoing a profound shift in how it is made, experienced and understood. At Aesthetica, we are responding to this moment with clarity, ambition and intent. What we are witnessing is not simple progression but a fundamental reconfiguration of how art circulates, gains meaning and operates within wider cultural systems. Across Aesthetica 20, we are building a living framework where exhibition, discourse and publication function as a single connected structure. The Future Now Symposium sits at the centre of this, extending the Aesthetica Art Prize into a space where ideas are exchanged, tested and developed in real time. We are not simply presenting contemporary art, we are interrogating its...

L’architettura quattrocentesca di Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel a Venezia si fa teatro di un dialogo vibrante, eppure straordinariamente eloquente con le opere di Su Xiaobai. La mostra raccoglie trentacinque lavori che ripercorrono la parabola creativa dell’artista, dai primi esperimenti con la lacca risalenti al 2003 fino alle sue più recenti evoluzioni. L’esposizione è curata da Stephen Little, curatore di arte cinese e capo dei dipartimenti di arte cinese, coreana e del sud – sudest asiatico al LACMA.
A render of the works by Su Xiaobai at Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel, image credit © Su Xiaobai Foundation, 2026. Courtesy of the Su Xiaobai Foundation
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È certo che ogni avvenimento del passato continui a persistere ostinatamente nel flusso della storia politica, sociale e culturale contemporanea di un Paese. Talvolta questa presenza risulta così viva e profonda da modellare il presente e influenzarlo, offrendo racconti parziali e significativi. In questo senso, la storia non viene più intesa come un percorso esclusivamente individuale, bensì come un’esperienza condivisa, capace di instaurare un rapporto vivo con chi la incontra. Proprio all’interno di questa relazione si aprono nuovi spazi di comprensione, rendendo visibili dinamiche che spesso rimangono implicite.
MarÍa Leguízamo, Gerson Vargas, “Unos pocos buenos amigos”, installation view,...

Interior Gallery Photos by and ©Tim Hursley, courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum  As a world-class institution showcasing one of the most impressive collections of American art spanning five centuries, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has firmly placed Bentonville, Arkansas on the global cultural map. And, except for a few major holidays, the museum […]
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By A. Laura Brody What is the language of bat senses and beaver teethmarks? How does water communicate to soil and roots, and how do we translate the paths left by burrowing insects or the markings of trees? These are questions asked by the Journal of Therolinguistics exhibition at Descanso Gardens' Boddy House, on view now until July 5, 2026. Oscar Salguero has curated a fascinating exploration of the expressive worlds of plants and animals brought to life by international artists Aistė...