how can humans actually live beyond earth?
 
Inside a 1,700-square-foot structure at NASA‘s Johnson Space Center in Houston, four people are currently spending 378 days pretending Earth is 140 million miles away. Ross Elder, Ellen Ellis, Matthew Montgomery, and James Spicer entered Mars Dune Alpha on October 19th, 2025, and will remain inside until October 31st, 2026 as part of NASA’s second Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or CHAPEA, mission.
 
Designed by BIG and 3D printed by ICON, the habitat gives each person a private room while fitting in work areas, communal spaces, a medical station, and places to grow food. The crew exercises, maintains the habitat, cultivates crops, and heads...

“Just because an artist is not thinking directly about politics while making a work does not mean they are outside the political context,” said Xuxa Rodríguez, curator of “Turn the Volume Up!,” the newest exhibition at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art. The timely—or timeless—exhibition surveys art’s place in both the great and mundane moments of social justice. While it would not be wholly inaccurate to call it a show of protest art, that label doesn’t capture the full scope of Rodríguez’s imagination. Using the ideological drama of the United States’ 250th anniversary as fuel, she has reanimated a century-spanning archive of posters, paintings, sculptures, and photographs into...

In an exclusive interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Venice Biennale Foundation President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco stood by the decision to include Russia in the 61st Venice Biennale this year despite pushback from the Italian Culture Ministry and the European Commission.The Venice Biennale Foundation faced immense criticism, calls for boycotts, and a widely circulated open letter demanding revision after it announced this March that Russia would return to its pavilion for the 61st edition amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, stating that the Biennale administration “rejects any form of exclusion or censorship of culture and art.”Buttafuoco told Corriere della Sera that he would do...

Kerstin Brätsch, a German-born painter known for vivid, playful abstract paintings and maximalist installations, is the winner of the 2027 Zurich Art Prize. The annual award comes with about $37,000 in prize money and about $123,000 toward production costs of a solo exhibition at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, the prize’s co-sponsor (along with Zurich Insurance Company Ltd.). Brätsch was born in Hamburg, Germany, and studied art in New York and Berlin. She currently teaches painting at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. She has shown her work internationally for nearly two decades, most recently at museum exhibitions in Porto, Bonn, Oslo, Rome, and Munich. She’s known for studied old-world...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Geles Cabrera (1926–2026)Mexican sculptor who explored the expressiveness of the human bodyShe explored the expressive potential of the body when muralism dominated Mexican art, moving fluently between figuration and abstraction, gesture and sensuality. In 1966, she founded Museo Escultórico, an exhibition space in Coyoacán, where she showed her work for decades. In 2024, she received the Bellas Artes Medal in Visual Arts, Mexico's highest artistic honor. Helch (c. 1991–2026)British street artist "Boris is Helch" graffiti on the M4 rail crossing (photo Tadeusz Hare via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA...

During Stephan Jost’s tenure, the leading art museum in Toronto has launched construction of a new contemporary art gallery, added more than 18,000 pieces to its collection and navigated plenty of drama

This week, London’s Serpentine Galleries announced the launch of a six-month fellowship program, commencing in September, that will award four artists working with artificial intelligence grants of £10,000. The inaugural cohort of the fellowship includes Reina Mun, Alice Bucknell, Alfredo Salazar-Caro and Auriea Harvey.  Serpentine has long demonstrated support for artist-cum-technologists. In 2019, the gallery […]

Anonymous Was a Woman (AWAW) in collaboration with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has named the 2026 recipients of funds from AWAW’s Environmental Art Grants program. Twenty-seven projects led by women-identifying artists from across the United States and its territories whose work addresses ecological concerns will receive grants of up to $20,000 […]

From the stillness of a lily-specked pond to a nostalgic carousel perched on top of a spindly stand, Hans Op de Beeck’s latest works delve further into a realm of meditation and solitude. His forthcoming solo exhibition, Vanishing Point at Almine Rech, highlights his characteristically monochromatic sculptures, which he often coats in matte gray. Many are life-size, inviting viewers to stand quietly near a calm figure seated on a chaise lounge beside a fawn or peer into a framed seascape in which definition is only wrought by contrasts in light and shadow. Scale, lifelike detail, and an array of objects, figures, and animals in different settings lend Op de Beeck’s sculptures a kind of wünderkammer...

Ruffini has been the focus of an international forgery scandal dating back to 2016

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During Paris Art Week, on October 22 and 23, Christie’s will present a sale dedicated to French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, who was instrumental in the careers of Impressionist artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The sale will feature 62 pieces of work that have remained in his family trust, among them, paintings from Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Pablo Picasso, Eugène Boudin, and Alfred Sisley. It is estimated to bring in €30 million to €43 million ($35 million to $50 million), with the works expected to go on display at Christie’s Paris from October 16 through 22. On October 22, the collection will hit the auction block and the following day some works will be...

The organizers of Untitled Art, Miami Beach have just revealed the 166 galleries that’ve been tapped to participate in its 15th edition, which will take place from December 2 through 6, with a press preview day on December 1st. This year’s iteration of the fair will welcome fifty-two first-time exhibitors, as well as nine more galleries […]

Days after a far-right Israeli politician took a sledgehammer to a Palestinian monument, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu order the dismantling of 40 additional Palestinian memorials in the Occupied West Bank, as first reported by Israel's Channel 14. Smotrich outlined his request in a letter in late August, five days after Zvi Sukkot, a member of the Knesset for Smotrich's right-wing Religious Zionist Party, broadcasted his destruction of a memorial in Madama Village. Inscribed in the stone facade were the names of Palestinians who have been killed by Israel. Netanyahu denounced Sukkot for taking the law into his own hands, while Smotrich defended his...

Next April, New York will get one last glimpse into the elusive mind of Yayoi Kusama. David Zwirner announced today an exhibition of work from the final decade of Kusama’s life at one of its Chelsea spaces—a period the dealer described to The New York Times as “arguably […] the most extraordinary and successful decade of her career.” Kusama died on August 14 in Tokyo at age 97, leaving behind an iconic oeuvre of abstractions and an art world remade by the rise of her global brand. At the time of her death, she was the most expensive contemporary female artist and, in 2023, the best-selling artist, generating $80.9 million at auction. That same year, Kusama struck a partnership deal with Louis...

Noeuds Marins turns Hand-Tied Knot into glass light sculpture
 
Noeuds Marins (Glass Knot) by François Hurtaud transforms a figure-eight knot into a limited-edition light sculpture. Drawing on a knot the designer learned to tie in Brittany during childhood, the project translates a familiar manual gesture into a fixed glass form illuminated from within.
 
Traditionally tied and untied by hand, the knot is preserved here as a permanent object. When lit, the sculpture projects a braided shadow onto the surrounding wall. While the knot itself remains static, its shadow changes according to the viewer’s position and the conditions of light within the space, creating a shifting relationship between object and...

The winner of the ninth Nam June Paik Prize is Japanese visual artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda. The biannual award comes with a ₩50 million ($36,807) purse and a solo exhibition at the Nam June Paik Art Centre in Yongin, South Korea. “I am deeply honored to receive the Nam June Paik Prize. I had the privilege of meeting Nam June Paik in his later years, and his work continues to resonate with the questions behind my own,” Ikeda said in a statement upon receiving the prize nomination. Known for his explorations of sound, Ikeda began making music from digital audio glitches in the 1990s. His immersive 65-minute audiovisual performance superposition (2012), which took place at the Barbican Centre and...

This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2025 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft.As one of humanity’s oldest crafts, natural pigment-making occupies the intersection of science, agriculture, and art. It requires curiosity and ingenuity to see a marigold flower, for instance, and know that it can stain fabrics with beautiful shades of mustard yellow to gold; to know, as our ancestors did, that they also have anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory properties. The blue color of denim traces its roots to indigo, a dye crop cultivated and processed by West Africans and their descendants throughout the...

WASHINGTON, DC — The National Park Service (NPS) deinstalled an iconic 24-foot-tall sculpture by late artist Joel Shapiro from the grounds of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today, September 2. Before dawn, crews began wrapping, disassembling, and moving “Blue” (2019), one of 10 inaugural works of visual art on display when the Kennedy Center’s 4.6-acre REACH campus opened in September 2019. The Kennedy Center did not provide a reason or advance notice of the work’s deinstallation, but the NPS issued a street-closure notice earlier this week indicating that the removal would be complete by Wednesday afternoon. The teardown project has caused major delays on Rock Creek and Potomac...

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P·P·O·W appoints Trey Hollis Managing Partner as the New York gallery enters a new period of international expansion.

Ally Van Tillo, founder of the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt, has died, leaving an extraordinary legacy of remembrance and activism.

Tate show provides a decent selection of the artist’s work but somewhat unravels in its attempt to fully assess her star status

Major expeditions, numerous attempts, and strokes of luck characterize how many of the top images in the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards came to be. Francisco Castro Escobar, for example, was surprised to see a rare lesser horned owl, sometimes referred to as “the ghost of the desert,” perched on a cactus in northern Chile during a dawn hike. “The largest owl in Chile gets this nickname because seeing one is so rare that it’s like an apparition,” Escobar says. The image also took the grand prize for the Chile/Colombia contest. Audubon Photography Awards runs two parallel opportunities, one for photographers in the U.S. and Canada and the other for those based in Chile and Colombia. This year, the...

The monumental cobalt-colored sculpture of a cavorting stick figure that has greeted visitors to the Kennedy Center for the past seven years is being taken down and carted away, a victim of the Trump administration’s ongoing attempts to reshape the Washington, DC, landscape. Titled Blue, the twenty-four-foot high painted aluminum work is the creation of […]

EVERY APARTMENT TURNS TOWARD THE ATLANTIC
 
On a downtown block in West Palm Beach, Florida, CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati takes one of coastal real estate’s familiar hierarchies as the starting point for a 25-story housing tower: who gets the view. MiMar, developed with Jeff Greene under the states’s Live Local Act, brings affordable and market-rate apartments into the same building above the historic Datura Fire Station. Affordable housing makes up 40 percent of its residences, while the architecture works to give every home the same basic privilege, a view toward the Atlantic.
 
The tower achieves this through a zig-zag facade that repeatedly angles its residential modules toward the water. Each fold...

VENETIAN BLINDs BECOME A modular LIGHTING SYSTEM
 
Keker Collection by Reza Raeisifar repurposes discarded aluminum Venetian blind slats, originally designed to control and block light, as components for a modular system that directs and distributes illumination. By transferring a familiar architectural element into a new lighting application, the project uses recycled material to develop a family of adaptable lighting objects.
 
Keker began in 2018, when Raeisifar encountered an old, unused Venetian blind in a storage space and began exploring how its material and structure could be reused. The idea developed further through an invitation to propose a lighting design for the interior of the Afarinesh...

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"The politics of the closet gave Curry permission to subvert any performance of masculinity"

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Clio Sze To paints in the same way she walks around her home in Paris. Setting out with an open agenda and allowing her route to evolve organically, the artist meanders through the city with an eye toward the patterns and textures that comprise the landscape. When she returns to the studio, the sights transform into impressionistic pieces that capture the feeling of a contemplative hour spent on foot. In her forthcoming solo exhibition Échos, Sze To presents a suite of oil paintings based on photos she captures on her walks, which become fodder for her stylized composites. Passersby appear in several scenes, although the changing seasons and time of day are a central focus for the artist. The shifting light...

Serpentine names its first Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellows to explore how AI is reshaping art, culture and public life.

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The work—which was praised by Picasso—has taken an improbable route to an exhibition at the Wallace Collection

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Artists Refik Anadol and Cao Fei are among the judges for the London-based Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship

Lea O’Loughlin has been appointed CEO of Acme as Richard Kingsnorth steps down following 30 years with the London-based organisation

Gary Chang’s apartment treats space as a time-shared resource
 
In Hong Kong, architect Gary Chang’s Domestic Transformer turns a 32 square meter apartment into a series of living environments, using sliding partitions, fold-down elements, and ceiling-mounted tracks to accommodate up to 24 configurations. The project is a long-running experiment in how domestic space can be reprogrammed, asking whether a limited footprint has to mean a limited way of living. 
 
Chang moved into the apartment in 1976, when he was fourteen, sharing the home with his parents, three sisters, and a sub-tenant. The apartment was divided into small bedrooms, a kitchen, bathroom, and circulation space. Without a room of his...

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In Ashley Percival’s world, a leopard can, in fact, change its spots. The Cornwall-based illustrator is behind a fanciful menagerie in which poodles, rotund birds, and boot-wearing insects try on a vast array of vibrant costumes. Using a mix of colored pencil, pen, paint, and digital tools, he dreams up cheeky patterns and palettes for common animals, presenting collections of the same species in endlessly alluring grids. Percival recently spent three months in Spain and France immersed in nature, which inspired his latest flocks of birds. “I don’t think about the colors I use. It’s all free flow. I sometimes look at an animal once to get an idea and then draw from my imagination,” he tells Colossal....

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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When a portrait of aviation pioneer Ruth Rowland Nichols was taken while she stood beside her Lockheed Vega aircraft in 1931, she was already one of the most accomplished pilots in the world. That photo was captured the year she also became the first woman to hold simultaneous international records in altitude, speed, and long distance. Nichols’ striking portrait is just one of hundreds of images and illustrations highlighting humans’ pursuit of knowledge in Worlds Unfolding: Science on the Page, published by Princeton University Press. The five-volume tome features more than 625 illustrations and an introduction by engineer and PBS personality Bill Nye. Moreover, it’s an exploration of global science,...

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...

I'm looking forward to the Met's new production of Puccini's La fanciulla del West.

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It is only a concert performance, but no one seems to have told them that; and thank the heavens for that!

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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Le lancette dell’orologio non smettono mai di rincorrere il tempo. Con il loro fare silenzioso, avanzano a poco a poco, rendendo attimi, minuti, ore e giorni, entità che in pochi istanti perdono di valore. Potremmo parlare di circolarità o di eterno ritorno se pensassimo a quel lampo di genio che, dopo generazioni e generazioni, continua ad abitare nella famiglia Buendia, nella lontana e recondita Macondo. Sì, perché alla fin fine, ogni attimo è destinato a ritornare.
Giovanni Anselmo, “Entrare nell’opera”, 1971, stampa fotografica su tela (copia espositiva), Archivio Giovanni Anselmo ETS, Foto © l’Artista, courtesy Archivio Giovanni Anselmo ETS
“Ripensando il Romanticismo nell’arte...

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

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

Hyper Reality è il titolo-tema dell’undicesima edizione del Festival curato a Forlì da Vertov Project. Prologo alla Fondazione Dino Zoli con la mostra collettiva Interference, che riunisce dodici artiste internazionali nel segno dell’interferenza come forza generativa. Forlì torna a essere una Babele di stimoli e visioni, grazie a Ibrida Festival Internazionale delle Arti Intermediali: l’undicesima edizione, dal titolo-tema Hyper Reality, è in programma dal 17 al 20 settembre. Prologo essenziale e complementare sarà la mostra collettiva intermediale Interference, che dall’1 settembre all’11 ottobre metterà in dialogo le ricerche radicali di dodici artiste internazionali.
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Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
   
The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...