please do not eat miwa ito’s desserts
 
Please do not eat Miwa Ito’s desserts. The flan is glass, the cherry is glass, and the little shine of caramel on top is glass too. It looks like something lifted from a kissaten table, but it comes from a furnace in Osaka, where Ito turns molten material into food, vessels, animals, and strange little characters who take on a cartoon logic.
 
The Japanese glass artist and sculptor works with a material that usually reads as cool, delicate, and untouchable, then pushes it toward appetite. Her ramen bowls, gyoza, fried rice, hot dogs, donuts, and sweets look soft and warm. It’s that contradiction that gives her work its pull. But even beyond their visual draw,...

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All’interno del nostro quotidiano vi sono immagini che lasciano impresse un segno, un ricordo, qualcosa che sappiamo per certo possa poi definire la nostra storia. Nel nuovo spazio di Piazza Teresa Noce 17, Torino, la neonata Associazione Olfacta Project, fondata dall’artista olfattiva Francesca Casale, ha inaugurato lo scorso 6 giugno la mostra dal titolo “Strade a doppio senso” bi personale degli artisti Carola Allemandi e Lorenzo Gnata, a cura di Filippo Mollea Ceirano.
AA.VV., “Strade a doppio senso”, 2026, photo credits Lorenzo Gnata, courtesy Olfacta Project
Al suo interno i ricordi sono accompagnati dalle sinfonie olfattive create da Casale, vicine alle note del sandalo e descritte dalla...

three school volumes sit at the edge of Parma’s rural landscape
 
Located in Sissa, a town in the lower Emilian plain near the Po River in Parma, Italy, the primary school by AAA office occupies the transition between the urban edge and the surrounding agricultural landscape. Developed during the executive design phase following an integrated procurement competition, the project revises the original proposal through changes to its proportions, structural system, and construction details, with the objective of strengthening the relationship between the building and its context. The two-story school accommodates up to 250 students and includes ten classrooms, six laboratories, four of which can be subdivided...

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3D-prints become hand-bent furniture in copenhagen
 
During 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen, among the emerging designers gathered at Ukurant, Oberdoerfer & Krebs presented 3D-printed seating that leaves the machine unfinished, with heat and hand-bending completing each piece after printing.
 
The Danish studio’s Bend Chair and Bend Stool begin with the familiar language of large-scale extrusion, then shift away from the fixed profile that has come to define much of the field. The pieces are printed, reheated, and bent by hand, with the final shape held between programmed geometry and manual force.
 
The studio, founded by design duo Jasper Krebs and Bruno Oberdoerfer, works with large-scale 3D printing as a...

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In the weeks following the news that Pace had laid off dozens of staff and cut as many artists, an insidious narrative began to take hold in some corners of the art world. That narrative went something like this: “The gallery model is broken. This was an inevitable consequence.” The problem with this rhetoric is that it came largely from the same people responsible for advancing the very system they now claim is beyond repair.This week at Hyperallergic, we did what independent journalism does best: pull back the curtain on the official messaging and center the people rather than the powerful. In an incisive opinion piece, Barbara Pollack challenges a former art fair leader’s lukewarm New York Times take...

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.

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stuffed animal shrine reimagines remembrance in kyoto
 
A newly established Stuffed Animal Shrine in Miyama, Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture, proposes an unusual addition to Japan’s long tradition of memorial rituals. The shrine is dedicated to stuffed animals, framing them as companions deserving gratitude, remembrance, and ceremonial care. Operated by the Mofumofu-kai Stuffed Animal Hospital, the project combines elements commonly associated with Shinto shrines and practice, environmental stewardship, and childhood memory.
 
Located within a 28-hectare forest, the shrine views stuffed animals as objects that accompany people through different stages of life. Its stated mission is to reconnect people with...

Brundibár at the Opéra Comique combines whimsy with historicity to sobering effect.

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. Exhibizone Grand Prize – 2026: Grants, Exhibition, Publication, Promotion, SalesFeaturedReady to showcase your art on a global stage and win cash grants? Submit your strongest artworks to be part of Exhibizone Grand Prize, returning in 2026 for its 13th annual juried edition with cash prizes and global exposure. With no theme restrictions, artists creating in any style or medium can submit work that feels bold, personal, abstract, figurative, or conceptual. Selected artists receive cash prizes, an online...

This Mireille duet unites Andrée Esposito and Alain Vanzo and shows the timbral and stylistic qualities that made them exemplary.

Può l’arte curare le cicatrici invisibili di una comunità? Nella mostra Le ferite di Bologna, curata a Villa delle Rose da Ludovico Pratesi, Marco Bassan e Chiara Lorenzetti (Spazio Taverna) per il Settore Musei Civici del Comune di Bologna, dieci artisti italiani di diverse generazioni affrontano altrettanti traumi cruciali della storia bolognese. L’esposizione si configura come un viaggio analitico e catartico attraverso dieci traumi storici che hanno segnato la coscienza civile della città, in cui ogni artista è stato invitato a confrontarsi con una specifica “ferita” cittadina operando su un unico, identico supporto: un foglio di carta artigianale Amatruda. La texture materica della carta si fa...

observation becomes a design method for KIBEKOUMUTEN bench
 
Observation.01 is a furniture project by KIBEKOUMUTEN Inc., led by designer Masahiro Kibe, that investigates how material behavior can inform design decisions. Developed around Kvadrat Argo 2, a long-pile textile, the project examines the relationship between material, structure, and form through an iterative process of observation rather than predetermined outcomes.
 
The project began with the characteristics of Kvadrat Argo 2 and a question about the role of material in the design process. Instead of applying the textile to an existing object, the design evolved through a series of full-scale mock-ups that examined the fabric’s behavior at...

Nearly a month after a federal judge ordered that President Trump’s name be removed from the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., a tarp affixed to the outside of the building is still partially obscuring it from view. This obstruction has prompted another order from US district […]

Raphael’s epic fresco cycle, the Loggias, is getting a makeover.  The Vatican Museums launched a restoration of the Renaissance masterpiece this week, unprecedented in scale: more than 20 experts are set to clean the artwork spanning 65 meters (nearly 215 feet) in the Apostolic Palace, also known as the Pope’s residence. The project will last five years, addressing a slew of restoration concerns accrued over the centuries, the weather being chief among them. According to Italian media, windows will be installed to stabilize the corridors’ climate. Created between 1517 and 1519 by Raphael for Pope Leo X, the Loggias are divided into 13 bays on the second floor of the Apostolic Palace, overlooking a...

Just when you're about to give up on this power-hungry, money-obsessed, star-fucking art world and its market-driven media, people like Ed Woodham come along and restore your faith in what art can do for society. The decades-long practice of the 69-year-old Atlanta-born artist, curator, and educator is thoroughly rooted in community. He's most known for leading Art in Odd Places, a public art group he originally co-founded as part of Atlanta's cultural programming for the 1996 Summer Olympics. After the September 11 attacks, when he was living in New York, Woodham relaunched the group as a response to the dwindling of public space and the quashing of civil liberties under the condemnable PATRIOT...

The "Keith Herrings" at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade on June 20 (photo AX Mina/Hyperallergic; all other images courtesy M Eilo)Hyperallergic’s tarotscope series is a combination of tarot with astrology, a reading for the collective readership combined with cards for the major astrological signs, grouped by their elemental associations. These are developed by AX Mina, a Hyperallergic contributor and producer for Five and Nine, a podcast about magic, work, and economic justice. These tarotscopes have a special focus on the arts and creative practice, for each solstice and equinox, to mark the turning of the seasons.I spent my Juneteenth and Summer Solstice weekend at the Mermaid Parade in Coney Island,...

The Box in Plymouth, England, has been named the winner of this year’s UK Art Fund Museum of the Year Award. The annual £120,000 ($158,000) honor is the most prestigious museum prize in the nation and the largest of its kind in the world. The institution, located in the southwestern part of the country, beat […]

Three years ago, in the summer of 2023, the Irish government formed a committee to advise museums and other cultural institutions on matters related to restitution and repatriation. That endeavor, known as the Advisory Committee on the Restitution and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage, presented its final report last month. According to The Art Newspaper, the report aims to address the “practical and legal impediments” that can prevent some institutions from properly responding to claims, whether related to colonial-era artifacts or cultural property looted during the Nazi regime. Therefore, the government should establish a national advisory panel to oversee such claims, along with funding to address...

A site-specific project emerges from the conservation of the museum’s 16th-century building

The US State Department is now accepting design proposals for the 2027 Venice Biennale of Architecture, with stipulations echoing its application process for this year’s Venice Biennale: designs should “exemplify America’s exceptionalism,” and “advance and complement U.S. foreign policy and public diplomacy objectives.” Per the proposal submission guidelines, the ideal architectural design would “promote the achievements of American architectural communities and enhance America’s global competitiveness in the creative and built environment sectors.” The commission should also “offer constructive artistic and cultural channels to counter negative perceptions and advance safety and security...

About two months ago, footage of trembling beagles imprisoned at a biomedical research facility in Wisconsin, and of the tear-gassed activists who tried to rescue them, went viral. Photojournalists captured the dogs huddled together. They look into the cameras. They look at us — the humans who put them there. It feels dreadful to return the gaze, to acknowledge the intense pain one species can cause another. Yet, it is essential to do so, as Thomas W. Laqueur argues in a new book. The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History (2026) offers an expansive, accessible survey of canine presence in Western art from the Palaeolithic period onward. Brilliant, full-color reproductions of 250 artworks fill the book's...

Four panels of an interconnected painting by Norman Rockwell have gone on public view for the first time at the headquarters for the White House Historical Association, a “non-profit, non-partisan organization” a short walk from its namesake in Washington, D.C. The work ran under the headline “So You Want to See the President!” in the Saturday Evening Post after it had been commissioned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s press secretary Stephen Early in 1943. As reported by Artnet News, “After publication, Rockwell gave the paintings to Early, but following the press officer’s untimely death in 1951, they went to his daughter and were later lent to the White House between 1978 and 2022, becoming an...

Photographer and activist Misan Harriman said he will step down from his post as chair of London’s Southbank Centre. Harriman’s announcement comes weeks after a series of right-wing tabloids scrutinized his response to the April 29 attack in north London’s Golders Green. In a video uploaded to Instagram, Harriman, who has helmed the arts organization since 2021, said he had decided to depart the leadership position prior to the criticism from British media in May. A photographer of exceptional range, Harriman, born in Nigeria, became the first Black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover in September 2020. “It’s semi-public knowledge that my term is coming to an end anyway, my actual term,” Harriman...

Tokyo Gendai, a key event in Tokyo’s fall contemporary art fair season, has announced the list of exhibitors that will participate in its 4th edition. Set to take place at the convention center Pacifico Yokohama from September 11th to the 13th, the event will take up Gendai’s longstanding mission to bring international attention to the […]

The Iron Age city of Sardis in western Turkey has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, marking a milestone in one of the longest-running archaeological projects in history. Every year since 1958, archaeologists have returned to the ancient city as part of the Harvard-Cornell Exploration of Ancient Sardis, and excavations are still ongoing. Once the capital of the Iron Age kingdom of Lydia, Sardis stood at the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the Anatolian Plateau, a position that endowed it with a rich cultural legacy and a striking array of well-preserved ruins. Speaking to ScienceDaily, Benjamin Anderson, associate professor of history of art and visual studies at Cornell’s College of Arts and...

The organizers of Untitled Art, Houston have revealed the ninety-five galleries slated to participate in its sophomore edition, to take place October 2–4, with a preview day of October 1. Like the inaugural edition, held last year, the fair will occupy the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston. The 2026 edition features eleven […]

The pioneering perceptual artist James Turrell marked a career milestone this month with the opening of his 100th Skyscape, a site-specific architectural installation with a simple construction: a domed structure with an oculus pointed toward the sky. Now permanently on view at ARoS in Aarhus, Denmark, “As Seen Below” is the latest iteration of the iconic series, which has been installed in 26 countries. Spanning more than 50 feet high and 130 feet wide, the enormous dome most often opens up to an unfiltered sky, although various “color shifts” seal the oculus and instead cast brilliant color around the space. Read more about the project previously on Colossal, and reserve your tickets on the...

The digital art showcase’s third edition, at Art Basel’s hometown fair, offered much-needed historical context while prompting a fundamental question: who is this for?

Bones recovered from Wonderwerk Cave show varying stages of burning, from unburnt (#1, at left) to most burnt (#5, at right). TORONTO, CANADA—Science News reports that evidence for the oldest use of fire by hominins has been uncovered in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave by a team of researchers led by Michael Chazan of the University of Toronto. The discovery pushes back the known use of fire by hundreds of thousands of years, based upon traces of fire use dated to one million years ago that had been discovered in the same cave. “I’m very comfortable saying it was between 1.7 and 1.8 million years ago,” Chazan said. He and his colleagues used a luminescence-based method of dating on burned bones from...

Met with opposition and outrage from the moment it was announced, the show gathers historical objects and images, poetry, contemporary art and video interviews

PAPHOS, CYPRUS—The Cyprus Mail reports that Claire Balandier of Avignon University led a team of researchers who investigated the 2,000-year-old defense system of the ancient city of Nea Paphos, which is located in southwestern Cyprus. First, the team members identified traces of a 2,000-year-old square tower carved into bedrock on Fabrika Hill in Kato Paphos, the city’s port. They also found the floor of a second defensive tower near what had been the city’s northwestern gate. An underground water system was unearthed near the city’s theater. Water flowed in a rock-cut channel situated over an underground storage gallery. This system was altered during the Roman period, when a well was added and water...

Hyundai Motor Group announces the open call for the 7th VH AWARD, a global award program and platform amplifying creators whose work engages with the context of Asia. The VH AWARD invites individuals and collectives of Asian descent, based in Asia, or members of the Asian diaspora, to submit screen-based audiovisual art, including video art, motion graphics, animation, games, films, or newly explored areas.   Enhanced Opportunities for Artistic Growth This edition offers increased production grants for all finalists. Furthermore, a new Honorary Mention category will recognize a broader range of voices, offering global exposure and selective access to the online residency.  In June 2027, an international...

More than 20 experts are expected to work on the decorative cycle over five years

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is back with another stunner: a new 223-megapixel composite featuring about 16.5 million stars that have been evolving over several million years. Captured by Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) across 65 hours, the enormous image features Messier 82, also known as the Cigar galaxy, which is located 12 million light-years away. “M82 is a mess, but it’s a beautiful mess,” said NASA fellow Adam Smercina. “We don’t fully understand what’s going on, especially concerning its evolutionary history. What could have triggered such an elevated rate of star formation? How long has this galaxy been driving plumes of material away from its center?” Side-by-side...

Magic is sometimes very close to nothing at all centres on Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and explores football, language and popular culture.

The premiere recording of David T. Little's What Belongs to You reveals a work of both tenderness and artistic tenacity.

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In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern in London, speaks to Alexander Herman of the Institute of Art and Law on the impact of Brexit ten years on, and discusses the Renaissance-era Visconti-Sforza Tarot, on view at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.

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Cosa accade al ritratto quando non riesce più a sostenere la propria immagine, quando essa si ritira prima di formarsi del tutto, o diventa così materialmente densa da non poter più essere vista come immagine? Questa domanda è al cuore di Between Silence and Surface. The Appearance of Skin, curata da Tetiana Bairaka all’Ukrainian Art House di Londra (18 maggio – 30 giugno 2026). Riunendo i lavori dell’artista ucraina Alina Pyatnova, nota come Limpika Lilac, e dell’artista britannico Anthony-Noel Kelly, la mostra esamina il ritratto ai limiti della visibilità, posizionando il medium come un sito di tensione tra iper-presenza e dissoluzione. Attraverso i loro distinti trattamenti della pelle,...

Malani layers mythology, war, and colonial history at the Magazzini del Sale during the Venice Biennale

Sure, we all want love, but what lengths would you go to find it? Swedish animator Anna Mantzaris once again captures the gamut of human emotion in a stop-motion film that plunges headfirst into the pitiful and cringy. As its title suggests, “PLEASE” is about wanting and attempting to find love through increasingly unhinged acts of desperation and neediness. Mantzaris’ signature felt characters light fires for marriage proposals, sob in the chip aisle, and hug puppies while waiting for the train. The writer and director tells Creative Boom that she got the idea for the short film during the early days of the pandemic, when most people were trapped at home. “We became more obsessed with our self-image...

Neanderthal femur fragment from the Goyet Caves in Belgium LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a statement released by Leiden University, Marie Soressi of Leiden University and her colleagues analyzed the genomes of 27 Neanderthals who lived shortly before the species went extinct. These remains were recovered in France and Belgium, and included the bones of a Neanderthal individual recently unearthed at Les Cottés in France. Analysis of this individual’s genome detected connections to Neanderthal populations living outside of Western Europe. It had been previously suggested that a lack of genetic diversity due to shrinking populations contributed to the demise of Neanderthals. The study determined,...

SØFTEN, DENMARK—A Viking textile production site dated to more than 1,000 years ago has been discovered in eastern Jutland, according to an Associated Press report. Archaeologist Liv Stidsing Reher-Langberg of the Moesgaard Museum said that the site features an area where flax may have been processed and more than 80 pit houses where spindle whorls and loom weights have been uncovered. “We have a clear focus on textile production, which makes this settlement different from other kinds of settlements of this period,” she said. Silver coins, glass beads, and pottery have also been recovered. Pollen analysis and carbon dating will be used to date the site and possibly identify plants that were processed....

Homo naledi fossil mandible in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa LEIPZIG, GERMANY—Live Science reports that proteomic analysis of 20 Homo naledi teeth determined that all of the individuals to whom they belonged were female, since they each lacked a gene variant found only in biological males. The 300,000-year-old hominin fossils were discovered in 2013 in a remote chamber in South Africa’s Rising Star cave system by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand and his colleagues. Study of the bones suggests that they represent nearly two dozen individuals who had small brains and upper bodies, but faces, hands, and lower limbs that were more like those of modern humans. Berger and his colleagues...

John Danaher pays an operatic tribute to the writings of James McCourt, an author who captured the spirit of opera as queer and dangerous like no other.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, leading the Met Orchestra, and Joyce DiDonato continue their exploration of Mahler at Carnegie Hall.

Approda a Spazio Piera a Trento, dove sarà esposto e attivato dal pubblico fino al 3 luglio 2026, il Lessicogramma dell’abitare del progetto Corrispondenze. Cogliamo quest’occasione per raccontare un lavoro che le artiste, Paola Boscaini e Cristina Materassi, avevano già presentato di recente a Torino e che mette in luce aspetti rilevanti del fare arte delle generazioni più giovani. E giovani lo sono davvero, Boscaini e Materassi, entrambe 29 anni, diplomate all’accademia di Firenze, poi specializzatesi presso l’Albertina a Torino. Nel 2021 hanno avviato Corrispondenze, progetto artistico ed editoriale che definiscono “un duo mobile dislocato in città diverse, che pone al centro della propria...

In Alexis Trice’s dreamy worlds, ethereal looking fish, hounds, shells, and clouds mingle and sparkle like jewels in a crepuscular haze. It’s in a hypnogogic state (where dreams and reality interweave) that they really spring to life: swimming, prancing, basking, and even weeping. Like sand passed through our fingers, though, their seemingly solid forms vanish […]
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Tra i meriti di Josef Albers, uno è forse il più sottile: aver costruito opere che restituiscono allo sguardo pigro esattamente il nulla che merita, e allo sguardo paziente qualcosa di completamente diverso. La critica tende a descrivere il lavoro di Albers come «variazioni sul tema»: lo studio dello spettro cromatico declinato nella geometria del quadrato. È una formula che, pur non mentendo, tradisce per difetto. Registra il cosa – la ripetizione della forma, la modulazione del colore – ma lascia nell’ombra il perché: il fatto che quella forma non sia mai fine a sé stessa, ma il dispositivo attraverso cui Albers mette in tensione la materia pittorica e la percezione di chi la guarda. Ed è...

Ryan Heshka has a longtime love of science fiction, four-color printed comics from the 1950s and ‘60s and mid-twentieth-century mutant movie characters. In his comic Frog Wife, he taps into these influences while adding in a dose of contemporary themes, drawing upon not just the “anxiety of nuclear annihilation” that inspired so much twentieth-century pop […]
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