During the past 12 months, the art world lost some of its most dedicated collectors, who were known for the outsize holdings as well as their patronage of institutions, many of which benefited from their largess. Agnes Gund and Barbara Jakobsen were longtime trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Dorothy Vogel was a librarian whose holdings of postwar art transformed the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Susan Marx helped make the Aspen Art Museum what it is today. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston would be 700 artworks less rich without the generosity of John P. Axelrod, and the Blanton Museum of Art can now tell a fuller story of Latinx art thanks to a donation of 5,000 works from Gilberto...

Funding trouble has been brewing at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam since at least 2023, when the museum began negotiating with the Dutch Ministry of Culture over the budget for a much-needed building renovation. In the summer of 2025, two years into the negotiations, museum director Emilie Gordenker told the New York Times that the current situation was “dangerous for the art and dangerous for our visitors.” The necessary repairs were so urgent that Gordenker worried the museum—one of the top tourist destinations in Amsterdam—might have to close. On October 8 came news that the museum has reached an agreement with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science following mediation talks that both...

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Mary Deleary to Lead IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) has appointed Mary Deleary (Chippewas of the Thames First Nation) as the new director of its Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, effective October 19. Currently heading the university's Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts, Deleary graduated from IAIA with a BFA in Museum Studies in 2010 and later earned a PhD in Native American Art History from the University of Oklahoma. She holds a deep expertise in Anishinaabe leadership practices,...

2020 Music Group group on ambient agnostics, on-demand music, and The Wealth of Nations on Ice

Students in France are approaching their third week of protests over a host of ills in the country's education system, spanning dilapidated infrastructure, teacher shortages, underfunding, and overburdened schedules. What began as a protest at one underdeveloped high school in Paris last month has surged into nationwide strikes including students, staff, parents, and activists, with more than 6,000 arrested, the overwhelming majority of whom are minors, according to France's interior ministry.As the French government begins considering negotiations with students, police have brutalized and injured demonstrators at many protests. Saint-Denis Mayor Bally Bagayoko was tear-gassed while blockading...

To celebrate the retrospective exhibition Future Pastime featuring the work of futurist Syd Mead opening at the Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery in San Francisco this evening, we are showing previews of paintings from the show as well as the full article which Silke Tudor wrote on the late legendary industrial designer in Hi-Fructose Issue 33. […]
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Selena Surreal offers a piercing performance. (all photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)Mamdani’s New York is anything but a drag, as even the performance queens are taking their work to the next level in the commie corridor-inflected, sensorial extravaganza called Pleasure Dome: Continuum at SoMad. Brooklyn drag has always been known for its conceptual girth, but now Amygdala, the reigning diva of the L train, has hatched a Manhattan variety show at the Madison Square Park-adjacent multimedia art space, one that takes advantage of the strange, narrow room by distributing performances around it so there are no bad seats.Yesterday, October 7, the first iteration of the performance featured projections on...

The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMΣT) won this year's European Museum Academy Art Museum Award, edging out the Rijksmuseum and FENIX Museum of Migration in the Netherlands, Hastings Contemporary in the United Kingdom, Museum Gugging in Austria, and the National Gallery of Slovenia.The academy conferred the award during a September 26 ceremony in Alicante, Spain, after the museum was shortlisted for the honor earlier in the month. Each year, a panel of judges visits award applicants across Europe, granting the distinction to the museum or gallery that best addresses its role as a social institution. "Quality of production, originality of thought and a heartfelt belief in making a positive...

Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland has proposed a bill calling on the Smithsonian to preserve and permanently exhibit artifacts related to the Trump administration's escalating aggression against the institution's museums and research centers, which Trump accused of “extreme political activism.”Introduced yesterday, October 7, the “Preserving and Remembering the History of Trump and other Tyrants Act” directs Smithsonian officials to collect “artifacts reflecting the rise of governmental propaganda, corruption, and authoritarianism” under both of Trump's presidential terms to create a permanent display at the National Museum of American History (NMAH). Among the...

traces of ink turn performance’s physicality into graphic form
 
Athens Epidaurus Festival is one of Greece’s most important cultural institutions and one of Europe’s longest-running festivals. For 70 years, it has brought together leading Greek and international artists in theater, music, and dance. This year’s Festival visual identity was created by Polkadot Design. A human gesture, a trace of ink, and a manual process form the basis of a visual language that reflects the physical nature of the performing arts.
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Movement makes the poster an open-ended visual experience
 
The process behind the identity was entirely manual: a rotational gesture leaves a trace of...

A new AI tool is aimed at revealing the gender imbalance in gallery rosters. Hall W Rockefeller, who designed the program, is using it advance the mission of her art organization, Less Than Half, which aims to raise the profile of women artists. The AI tool analyzes a gallery’s artist roster to determine the percentage of male, female, and non-binary artists represented. Though the tool is not perfect, it purports to be capable of identifying artists who identify as non-binary, as well as decipher the genders breakdown of art collectives and duos. Any institution that appears to meet the diversity benchmark can display a “Less Than Half Approved” digital sticker on its website. “I want people to notice...

Protesters gathered outside the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York on October 6 to call for the removal of billionaire Leon Black from the museum’s board of directors in light of his long-term relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Black is currently embroiled in a civil lawsuit accusing him of raping a […]

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The Asian Art Biennial has announced its list of participating artists for its tenth year. The biennial will take place at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, from November 7th to February 28th. The exhibition is curated by Lu Pei-Yi, and is called Mrahul Tminun · 共織 · Co-Weaving. It will feature more than […]

Tang Contemporary has shuttered its branch in Hong Kong’s Wong Chuk Hang neighborhood as it faces accusations from multiple parties of nonpayment, the Art Newspaper reports. Among those seeking remuneration are the gallery’s landlord, its logistics provider, and several artists. The announcement of the closure came on August 29, ten days after a legal notice […]

New York’s iconic Chrysler Building, standing on land owned and leased by the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, is transferring ownership to the commercial real-estate company Tishman Speyer and other investors, who are planning an extensive overhaul of the Art Deco landmark after years of neglect. The $235-million deal includes a 150-year ground lease with future rent to be paid to Cooper Union, which plans to use the funds to restore full-tuition scholarships to all undergraduates by 2028. (Students currently receive half-tuition scholarships valued at $22,275 per year, plus the prospect of extra aid based on needs and merits.) Cooper Union, a private college founded by the industrialist...

Survey Finds That Gen Z Collectors Are the Art World’s Biggest Spenders The latest “Survey of Global Collecting” from Art Basel and UBS has found that Gen Z collectors are the art market’s biggest spenders. The survey also found that this cohort of young high-net-worth collectors is more likely to purchase directly from artists rather […]

A Hong Kong branch of the gallery Tang Contemporary Art closed in June amid accusations of overdue payments to its artists as well as its landlords and service providers. Vivian Har, director of the Hong Kong location, confirmed to the Art Newspaper (TAN) that the gallery is facing “major operational challenges across the region.” Founded in Bangkok in 1997 by Zhjeng Lin, Tang continues to operate showrooms there and in Beijing, Seoul, and, as of 2024, Singapore; the gallery also expanded its original Bangkok space that year. The gallery has regularly taken part in prominent international fairs including Art Basel in Hong Kong and Miami Beach, Frieze Seoul, Expo Chicago, the Armory Show in New York, and...

Stumbling upon a battered end table or lost mitten is an opportunity for magic in Woo Jin Joo’s mind. The Seoul-born artist is known to gather furniture, garments, and other objects that have been left behind while walking near her home in London or commuting to her studio in Deptford. “I am not actively looking for anything in particular, but I discover them by happenstance, and they become meaningful; they provoke my imagination,” she says. “This is how I feel like we conjure meaning in our lives.” Combined with clay and shiny, viscose thread, these found items transform into uncanny sculptures that often meld animal bodies with domestic fixtures. Human-sized figures cloaked in costumes of white...

Despite several organisations presenting plans to run a new cultural space in the location, campaigners have criticised the selling off of the centre’s contents, including its archive

JAMES CHINLUND IMAGINES A FUTURISTIC CITY FOR LOUIS VUITTON
 
For Louis Vuitton’s spring-summer 2027 show, American production designer James Chinlund transformed the historic Cour Carrée du Louvre in Paris into a futuristic urban landscape populated by hovering concept vehicles. Presented on October 6th during Paris Fashion Week, the installation brought 34 sculptural cars into the museum’s courtyard, creating the illusion of a city suspended somewhere between the present and an imagined future. Conceived for Nicolas Ghesquière’s latest collection, the scenography placed automotive design at the center of the runway experience.
 
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Flowers for eyes, a horizon for a mouth… a popsicle for a holy relic? Rafael Silveira has long been interested in what he describes as “visual synonymies,” which he likens to “formal correspondences between seemingly unrelated things, moments in which one image unexpectedly recognizes itself in another.” The Brazilian artist’s surreal paintings replace facial features with landforms, flora, and fauna, sometimes hybridizing animals, figures, and other objects. The works seen here were recently included in the artist’s solo exhibition Popsicledelic Trip at KP Projects Gallery in Los Angeles alongside a show by Silveira’s wife, the artist Flávia Itiberê. A series of vertical pieces with ornate,...

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With ambition to spare, Boston Lyric Opera's William Tell shows that the state of American opera need not be depressing.

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Building the idea of a night out
 
A club facade is an image before it is a place.
 
It was probably this idea that led me, more than a decade ago, to start photographing nightclubs. It began in 2011, during a bike ride along a canal in Burgundy. On a small road cutting through the fields, I came across an old farmhouse that had been transformed into a nightclub. A lightbox sign had been screwed above the door, a laser installed on the chimney, and fluorescent stars added around the entrance. On the gravel lay shards of broken glass and torn flyers. The party had just ended. Standing there with my bike under the bright Saturday morning sun, I was struck by the contrast between the frenzy of the night before...

AMDL CIRCLE and Michele De Lucchi transform Pedrali Pavilion
 
Pedrali has transformed the Pedrali Pavilion, adapting it for permanent use and turning the structure from a one-off architectural wonder into a permanent gathering place for the community.
 
Looking back, few architecture lovers have not heard of the Crystal Palace. Built in London’s Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851, the vast iron-and-glass structure was a technical statement that set a precedent and inspired countless later buildings.
 
In a similar way, Pedrali marked its 60th anniversary in 2023 with a major architectural undertaking: the Pedrali Pavilion. Designed by AMDL CIRCLE and Michele De Lucchi to host the anniversary...

More than 60 artists have donated work including Genieve Figgis, Alvaro Barrington, Joshua Donkor and Sanya Kantarovsky

And then I remembered how much I love Cecilia Bartoli who was a major star when I first got into opera in my teens and remains so today.

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The gallery’s Wong Chuk Hang branch faces accusations of unpaid artist fees and legal action

zweintopf’s sculpture ONLY STANDS WITH CONTINUOUS EFFORT
  A white inflatable sculpture by Austrian artist duo zweintopf floats on the moat beside Ghent’s Gravensteen, asking passersby to physically sustain a symbol of democracy. Titled Perseverance (Goddess of Democracy), the seven-meter-high work reinterprets the Goddess of Democracy erected by Chinese art students on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in May 1989, shortly before the military suppression of the pro-democracy protests. At the Belgian castle, the sculpture remains upright only through the continuous work of a pumping station.
 
Visitors are invited to keep pumping air into the sculpture, with the accompanying exercise described as ‘Train...

The reported acquisition of a work suggests that the London museum is revising its opinion of the late artist

A collection of the artist’s correspondence provides fascinating new insights, from his domestic life to acquisition negotiations

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È la materia, prima ancora che il design, a prendere la parola in “Pottergeist. Archetipi, Simboli, Forme, Immagini”, la mostra che HoperAperta porta alla Pinacoteca Provinciale di Palazzo Pinto di Salerno dal 16 settembre al 30 novembre 2026, nell’ambito della seconda edizione di Salerno Design Week.
Dace Suna, “Down the Rabbit Hole”, 2026, lampada da tavolo in metallo. Produzione Horizon, courtesy HoperAperta
Il progetto, curato da Patrizia Catalano e Maurizio Barberis, con la collaborazione di Martina Barberis Casagrande, individua nella ceramica e nella terracotta un territorio di ricerca nel quale memoria, forma, artigianato e contemporaneità possono incontrarsi senza gerarchie. In mostra, in...

Twenty years ago, National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore set out on a deceptively simple multi-year mission: to create a photo archive of biodiversity. Documenting around a thousand animals each year, his ultimate goal is a portrait catalogue showcasing more than 25,000 species. As of this writing, Sartore has documented 18,567 animals, including the new species of cat recently discovered in Bolivia. In zoos, aquariums, wildlife sanctuaries, and more, he collaborates with conservationists and researchers to document an awe-inspiring yet tiny fraction of life on our planet. Sartore’s Photo Ark project illuminates animals against plain black or white backgrounds, highlighting their distinctive...

When something’s stable, dependable, and strong, we might say it’s “like a rock.” Similarly, when things become difficult and challenges feel immovable, we might find ourselves “between a rock and a hard place.” These idioms suggest that perhaps especially when we face challenges, we find ways to beat the odds. And Simon Laveuve’s idiosyncratic, post-apocalyptic dwellings detail just that. The artist’s 1/35-scale miniature domiciles perch atop stilts and boulders. Laveuve pairs tiny chairs, boxes of produce, fishing gear, and other daily essentials with objects that appear to have been scrounged from who-knows-where and repurposed into useful tools and furniture. While figures never occupy the...

Our critic reports on the bumper crop of young singers at this year's Giargiari Bel Canto Competition in Philadelphia.

Anita Rachvelishvili and Saioa Hernandez are headed back to New York and this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag features them together in a performance from July.

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Who knew that Giulietta Simionato was so excellent in the Rossini coloratura repertoire?

Damien Meade dipinge sculture d’argilla che non esistono più e ognuna delle sue ambigue figure è quanto resta, in pittura, di un corpo messo al mondo solo per essere disfatto. Il suo procedimento comincia sempre con innumerevoli teste e figure da lui modellate, manipolate, fotografate e rimpastate nella materia indifferenziata, spesso nel giro di poche ore per l’impellenza delle successive, finché una di esse non trattiene il suo sguardo abbastanza a lungo da imporre la propria transustanziazione pittorica. Meade racconta di lasciare che in questa prima fase sia l’istinto gestuale a suggerire le forme e, solo in un secondo momento, di intervenire razionalmente a selezionare, tra le creature...

In playful, anthropomorphized sculptures, Hannah Lim takes inspiration from historical ceramics, classical Chinese literature, and her British-Singaporean heritage. For several years, the London-based artist has been interested in the 17th- and 18th-century design phenomenon known as Chinoiserie, in which European producers mimicked Chinese and other Asian motifs, appropriating a variety of regional aesthetics that catered to a Western market. “In my own work, I attempt to reclaim and re-imagine this practice in a more conscientious way,” Lim says in a statement. “My sculptures often draw inspiration from specific cultural styles or processes.” The snuff bottle represents a consumer trend that emerged...

The women look concerned, and weary. They are ready to repel an attack. The women look in love, but bored. “When are you leaving,” they might wonder. The women are only half-present. Matted hair, two eyes, a hand, and the rest have either turned inward or run away. The women are multifaceted. Their eyes are […]
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Da Société Interludio, a Cambiano, La Scia di Gaia De Megni, a cura di Vincenzo Estremo: tre fotogrammi ridisegnati, una lampada senza pellicola e un’ombra che compare solo per poche ore.
Gaia De Megni, “La Scia”, curated by Vincenzo Estremo, installation view. Courtesy Gaia De Megni and Société Interludio © Claudiu Asmarandei
Nel 1915 Max Fleischer mise a punto il rotoscopio, un apparecchio che proiettava un film su un vetro, un fotogramma alla volta, perché un disegnatore potesse ricalcarne i contorni. Dal ricalco nasceva l’animazione: la mano rifaceva il movimento, ventiquattro volte al secondo. Gaia De Megni (1993) fa qualcosa di simile e di opposto. Parte da Stage Fright (Paura in...

In the “feminist west” that lives on Jennifer Nehrbass’s canvases, women ride horseback and hike in fashionable attire. They appear in head-and-shoulder portraits against fiery backgrounds and nude in pieces where figurative and landscape painting converge. In her work, Nehrbass challenges the common depictions of the U.S. West. “You would always have the man who […]
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Guangyi Luo ha ricevuto una formazione specifica per controllare i pattern. La sua esperienza nel design della moda e nella stampa le ha insegnato come gestire la ripetizione, l’equilibrio e l’organizzazione delle immagini su una superficie. In Interwoven Shadows, l’artista rovescia questa padronanza tecnica contro l’uniformità. L’opera ripete le sue forme floreali senza permettere che la ripetizione produca monotonia; l’ordine si stabilisce, ma poi viene di continuo destabilizzato.
Guangyi Luo, “Interwoven Shadows”, 2025, digital print, courtesy of the artist
Presentata a Between Worlds presso il Museo MIIT di Torino (3–7 settembre 2026), l’opera tessile di Luo è tornata in Italia per la...

By Kristine Schomaker Friday night I stood at the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and watched artists perform five-minute pieces in the open air as the sun went down. ACTION = LIFE, presented by LACE and the Performance Art Museum as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. A marathon of performances. So many friends. So much history in one place. I drove home still feeling it. Thinking about the first performance I ever saw that made me understand what my own work was actually about....

Al giorno d’oggi la fotografia di dating app ha accumulato praticanti sufficienti da assomigliare quasi a un genere a sé: una confederazione eterogenea di artisti che usano la telecamera per documentare la specifica, nuova texture epocale del romanticismo condotto alla velocità di uno swipe. Per la maggior parte, si accontenta dell’ironia: screenshot di match, rievocazioni in scena di una “situationship”, un saggio visivo ironico sul ghosting. What if we were lovers? di Tia Liu, un progetto in corso iniziato nel 2023 e il corpus principale del suo portfolio online, è meno protetto dall’ironia, più vulnerabile, più paziente. Piuttosto che esasperare in accezione caricaturale l’app di dating, la...

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By Kristine Schomaker I learned yesterday that my friend Scott Froschauer died suddenly. I've known him for almost ten years, and I'm still trying to find a place to put this. Scott was a Shoebox artist, one of the early ones. We worked together on several projects, but the one I keep coming back to is an art salon we put together on consent, negotiation, and the male gaze, how the male posture of viewing women frames any sign of femininity as an invitation, and what it would mean to actually...

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By Betty Ann Brown "In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world."—Graciela Iturbide Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide creates haunting images that portray the people, places, and events of the extraordinary cultures and geographies of her home country. Iturbide has a unique artistic practice that involves living and working with the people she chooses to photograph. Her process has made possible the strange and wonderful depictions for which she is known. In...

By Victoria Thomas Lauren Cross, PhD is the Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts for The Huntington. The gifted artist, author, and scholar moves through the world of material objects with a detective's nose for sleuthing out lost context and hidden figures, and a Griot's gift for connecting narrative dots to unearth treasure. She is the unstoppable force behind the first major museum retrospective to explore the untold history of ceramic innovator Doyle Lane, with more...

With a creative lexicon featuring yarn, pixels, beeswax, and spray paint, Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega has created a new language for herself, one that speaks to the present and the past by using traditional and contemporary techniques, as well as rural and urban sensibilities, to create a body of work that synthesizes all her […]
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Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.

The 80th Issue of Hi-Fructose is coming soon! It includes a cover a feature on the paper collages of Lola Dupre, the Fluffy Vases of Shishi San, the installation paintings of Evgenia Voinar, Debbie Lawson’s textile sculptures, painter Rob Browning’s stark surrealism.  Plus a Special Insert Section focused on the art of Jeff Sheridan, Andrea […]
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