The ceremony officially kicked off construction on the wing designed by the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo

3d printed ceramic wall adorns electrical substation facade
 
Powerwall by Studio RAP forms a 40-sqm ceramic 3D printed artwork within the facade of a new 150 kV switchstation in Beverwijk, the Netherlands. Designed by Powerhouse Company for energy infrastructure operator TenneT, the building responds to the redevelopment of the area around the Bazaar, where technical infrastructure and large-scale commerce are giving way to a neighbourhood with housing, workspaces, public space, and a renewed connection to the waterfront. The switchstation is conceived as part of this changing urban context, combining its technical requirements with an architectural treatment that addresses its scale and presence along the...

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If you find yourself feeling impatient at the slow, meditative opening scenes of “The Spectacle,” just wait. The short documentary from The New Yorker visits a slew of stunning vistas primarily across Norway, showcasing star-dappled night skies and awe-inspiring mountaintop views. We’re witness to landscapes that appear untouched by humanity, until director Yasmin van Dorp plops us down amidst hordes of tourists. What was a serene environment is suddenly a chaotic display of phones and cameras. A parent attempts to coax their child out atop the famous Norwegian boulder Kjeragbolten for a photo, assistants fluff formal gowns so their wearer appears windswept, and selfie sticks and drone controls abound....

I was heading down to Sunset Park on Sunday afternoon to visit a close friend when, as an absentminded creature of routine, I accidentally embarked on my usual journey to Atlantic Terminal. I’ve made this ultimately harmless mistake multiple times now, but I still get frustrated with myself for arriving somewhere later than I intended because of something so easily preventable. In this instance, however, I was in the wrong place at the right time for once. Because if I hadn’t accidentally sent myself uptown, I wouldn’t have gotten to see this:As one can imagine, my whole day was made because of this serendipitous little treasure named Benji. I’d hazard a guess that many others felt similarly when...

Nyla Innuksuk’s “In the Heart of the South” grapples irreverently with the fraught ethics of an Inuk artist tapping into narratives of collective suffering for her work

The Metropolitan Museum of Art officially broke ground today, September 15, on its forthcoming Tang Wing for modern and contemporary art, designed by Frida Escobedo. The Mexican architect joined Met Director Max Hollein and elected officials in a morning ceremony at the museum's European Sculpture Court. Escobedo, the first woman to design a wing at The Met, also clinched another “first” earlier this year, when she participated in the museum's inaugural public event held entirely in Spanish. At today's ceremony, she began her remarks with a nod to a Spanish expression for groundbreaking — la primera piedra, or “the first stone” — a phrase that made her think of the four piles of...

As we enter the season when many communities remember and honor their ancestors, DC’s art scene centers its own — both those long celebrated and those overlooked or excluded from the mainstream. The National Museum of Women in the Arts highlights Black women quilters creating across time and space, while the National Gallery of Art explores the history of Black American portrait photographers revolutionizing the field. Roberto Benavidez reimagines the art of piñata-making at the Renwick Gallery, while Ahn Chang-Hong channels Korean historical memory into masks, paintings, and sculptures. The Phillips Collection investigates the friendship between three artists — Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark...

Unionized workers at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) have voted to authorize a strike action if they don't receive fair offers for union contracts with their respective institutions. “Staff should be able to afford to live in the city they work in,” said AFAM's Director of Information Technology, Richard Ho, who has worked at the museum for 25 years. “AFAM staff voted unanimously to unionize to address pressing concerns about workplace rights and wages that lag below inflation.”Strike dates have not been set, but the three union groups organized with United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110 also voted to set a strike deadline if...

OAKLAND, Calif. — Mildred Howard works in a magical time signature. Poetics of Memory, the legendary Bay Area artist’s first museum survey, open through October 18 at the Oakland Museum of California, traces a path through more than 50 years of her career, from early copy-machine collages to multimedia assemblages and large-scale gallery installations. Howard has long punctuated the Bay Area landscape through public art commissions, including a giant golden frame installed in San Francisco’s shipyard and blue glass etched with poetry on the city’s Fillmore Street Bridge. Her work plays out in the major key of American history, while sounding the blue notes of everyday experience that make up a human...

Unionized staff at three New York City cultural institutions—the Brooklyn Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art—voted in favor of strike action if they do not receive satisfactory offers on their contracts, Local 2110 UAW announced today. Local 2110 UAW, which represents workers at a broad network of museums and cultural institutions across the country, said its members voted overwhelmingly to authorize the union’s elected bargaining committee to call a strike. No strike deadline has been set, as contract negotiations remain ongoing. “It’s not that we want to strike,” Derrick Charles, a membership associate at the Whitney and union chairperson, said in a...

Three works of religious art were stolen from two churches in the Spanish city of Valladolid, the latest in a string of thefts from museums and churches across Spain and Europe. Two works disappeared from the Church of San Pablo: a small Station of the Cross depicting Jesus falling for the second time, decorated with a silver relief, and a 17th-century copy of an Ecce Homo by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales. A nearby church, Vera Cruz, meanwhile lost a roughly two-foot-tall polychrome wooden carving of an angel carrying a torch, according to El País. The thefts occurred only days apart, and authorities are investigating whether the same person was responsible. The prior of San Pablo suspects its...

Although Hew Locke’s practice revolves around geographically bound objects—superimposed drawings of Guyanese homes and his suspended flotilla among them—the artist traces the reaches of empire that extend far beyond any singular era or point on a map. How people, capital, cargo, and ideas traverse the globe has long been central to Locke’s work, an investigation he continues in The Wanderers on view at P·P·O·W. Returning to the artist’s Odyssey series, the solo presentation hangs a fleet of miniature ships from the gallery ceiling. The flotilla features a wide array of boats, from tankers and fishing vessels to the towering galleons of the 16th century, which Locke embellishes with tiny pennants...

Kosuke Ajiro
GR gallery is pleased to present Excavation Record I – Sayonara, the first solo exhibition in the United States by Japanese artist Kosuke Ajiro. The exhibition introduces Ajiro’s distinctive practice through the figure of the archeologist, who ventures into a whimsical and enigmatic imagined realm known as the “Kingdom of Sally.” Across the exhibition, each work reveals a fragment of this mysterious world, uncovering earthbound creatures and curious details before opening onto a vast, fantastical expanse. Moving between the familiar and the otherworldly, Ajiro’s works invite the viewer on a journey of mystery, magic, transformation, and discovery. As the story gradually reveals itself,...

The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art has named Bhutanese mixed-media artist Pem Lham the winner of the 2026 Rubin Museum Himalayan Art Prize. The honor is presented annually to a contemporary artist from the Himalayan region. It is attended by a $30,000 cash award, making it the largest prize of its kind in the world. […]

Having helped establish Henry Street as a New York art destination, the dealer now has a new gallery name, a new space and a new director

Artadia, the nonprofit known for giving unrestricted grants to artists across the United States, has named Allison Derusha its new executive director. Derusha, an arts fundraiser and strategist who has worked at the Guggenheim Museum, the American Ballet Theatre, the National Academy of Design, and SculptureCenter, takes over from Bora Kim, who has served as interim executive director since January and will serve as deputy director under Derusha. Kim stepped into the role following the departure of Patton Hindle, who left Artadia to become director of arts at the Knight Foundation. Derusha comes to the organization with more than 25 years of experience in the arts and philanthropy. According to Artadia, she...

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What does it take to preserve an artist’s legacy? “You can only learn how to do this by doing it,” Solana Chehtman, director of artist programs at the Joan Mitchell Foundation, offered in response to a question that animates an ambitious new report titled Creating Future Memory: Building the Field of Artist Legacy Stewardship, published by the Mitchell Foundation. “There are so many ways in which people can have a hand in this work, and we want to a raise awareness and give visibility to efforts happening around the country.” Related Articles The ARTnews Accord: Solana Chehtman and Chris Sharp on Why Artists Should Take Estate Planning Seriously Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces 2024 Fellowship...

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts could not inscribe “renovated and restored by President Donald J. Trump” on the venue’s facade, dealing another setback to the Trump-appointed Kennedy Center’s months-long campaign to memorialize the president somewhere on the institution’s premises. US District Judge Christopher R. Cooper, who has presided over several legal challenges brought by Trump over the issue, wrote that any such change to the Kennedy Center would violate his earlier ruling, which held that his name was illegally inscribed on the building last December. “Simply put, defendants cannot install memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything...

gelareh house grows outward into the orchard
 
On the outskirts of Tehran, a weekend villa by Iranian architect Firouz Firouz has been expanded into a permanent home by ZAV Architects. The owners enlarged the property by acquiring three neighboring orchard plots, giving the locally-based studio room to extend the 200-square-meter house while preserving its existing structure. From the original orthogonal volume, a series of curved vaults branches outward through the site, turning a compact villa into something that reads almost like a building caught in the middle of growing.
 
The new pieces settle into open patches between the fruit trees. Rounded walls and staggered roofs stay low to the ground, moving...

The National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) at the Smithsonian has appointed Ching-Ling Wang as the inaugural Nancy Chang Lee Curator of Chinese Art. The art historian and curator begins his new role in November. “I hope to not only uphold one of the finest collections of Chinese art in the world, but to expand […]

Photography is no longer permitted in front of the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum, according to Maxwell Museums, the blog run by arts writer Maxwell Blowfield. Blowfield reported that he visited the museum twice to see the eleventh-century masterwork: the first time as an invited member of the press, and the second time as […]

THE ONLY MATTE ENZO
 
There are rare Ferraris, and then there is the one Ferrari apparently allowed to break its own dress code. RM Sotheby’s is offering a 2004 Ferrari Enzo finished in Matte Nero Opaco, the only Enzo painted in a matte finish by Ferrari from new. Commissioned by a member of the Royal Family of Brunei, the car also became the first Ferrari hypercar delivered by the factory in matte paint — years before muted, non-reflective finishes began appearing everywhere from supercars to family SUVs. Bidding for the car opens on September 23 as part of RM Sotheby’s Sealed September sale.
 
The specification was unusually restrained for a machine designed to attract attention almost by definition....

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In Derrick Jensen’s 1995 book Listening to the Land, Chickasaw poet and environmentalist Linda Hogan said, “There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” Decades on, we continue to grapple with an increasing detachment from nature as unfettered urban development continues, the current administration rolls back environmental protections for emissions and public lands, and escalating reliance on A.I. in work and daily life has led to a massive surge in data center construction. Our collective clamoring for so-called progress and our obsession with creature comforts and endless technological advancements...

Tato Architects / Yo Shimada builds House in Musashi-Koyama
 
House in Musashi-koyama by Tato Architects / Yo Shimada is a home for a family of four on a flag-shaped lot measuring less than 40 sqm in a dense residential district of Tokyo. Facing a large park to the north, the site was created by dividing a plot in two where a single, relatively small house had previously stood. Its limited dimensions presented a familiar challenge in Tokyo: how to accommodate a family home on increasingly subdivided urban land.
 
The initial approach was to stack two full floors within the site’s permitted 60 percent building coverage, placing shared spaces such as the living room on one level and bedrooms and other...

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Following a major building expansion, the New Museum has added ten new members to its board of trustees, expanding its existing slate and bringing its total membership to nearly fifty. The new members are Donald Capoccia, Christina Hribar, Adriane Iann, Ambassador Randi Levine, Jennifer Levitt, Liza Mauer, Debbie Rechler, Juliana Siqueira de Sá, Sara Story, […]

one straw system does it all in ltl architects’ residence
 
LTL Architects completes the All Straw House in New York, a prototype residence developed with Guy Nordenson and Associates and Princeton University that turns highly compacted straw boards into a structural building system. Prefabricated over two months at Princeton’s Architecture Lab, the house is assembled from 16 large straw units whose material properties determine the geometry of the walls and roof. At approximately 370 kilograms per cubic meter, the compressed straw reaches more than three times the density of conventional straw bales and performs simultaneously as structure, insulation, and interior finish. 
 
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Countertenor Carlo Vistoli shows he's got the goods across the repertoire at the Park Avenue Armory.

'Renoir and Love', which opens this October in collaboration with the Musee d'Orsay and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has already sold more than 22,000 tickets

The members-only organisation will open during Accra Cultural Week in October

Berlin's 26-27 season opens with a bang.

C’è un angolo della Biennale in corso in cui il confine dell’opera d’arte sfuma fino a confondersi con la realtà. Alcuni cartelli mettono in guardia visitatori e addetti ai lavori: «Non buttare, opera!», «Do not put trash here please». Tutto il perimetro dell’installazione è circondato da questi cartelli che cercano di evidenziare un confine, tra arte e reale, che di regola in uno spazio espositivo istituzionale non viene messo in discussione. L’installazione in questione è Postscript to the Arabic Edition (1938-2025) dell’artista libanese Walid Raad (Chbanieyeh, 1967) e ciò che può trarre in inganno è la presenza di rifiuti abbandonati tra un dipinto e l’altro.
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President Donald Trump has demanded that the Smithsonian remove what he described as a “strange modernist sculpture” from outside the National Museum of American History and install a thirty-foot-high “Colossus statue” of George Washington in its stead. “He is easily America’s Greatest Hero. Without him, our Country and our Freedoms wouldn’t exist,” wrote Trump in […]

From elemental materials like alabaster, quartz, garnet, and bronze, Debra Baxter assembles jewel-like sculptures that explore consciousness, nature, anatomy, and spirituality. For her most recent body of work on view now in Ascent at Roq La Rue, the artist meanders into a more mystical side of history, infused with a tinge of punk and, somewhat paradoxically, a meditative calm. Baxter contracted Covid in January 2022 that progressed into long Covid, during which she spent more time recuperating than being able to work with the heavy-duty equipment and materials characteristic of her practice. The sculptures on view in this show were initiated five years ago. However, her period of recovery, which she...

Friedrich Kunath describes that he aims to make his paintings “feel like songs.” The logo for the band Oasis turns up in a top corner of “Sometimes I’m Almost There,” and there is a kind of surreal, set-like quality to his vibrant, cinematic works. “Kunath explores themes of distance and (re)location, where a longing emerges between the place you’re in and the place you’re destined to be,” says a statement for his exhibition The Nearest Faraway Place, presented by Pace in Seoul. The artist taps into art history with compositions redolent of the tradition of Weltlandschaft, or “the world landscape,” which can be traced to the Northern Renaissance. There’s also a strong nod to the Hudson...

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On the heels of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film adaptation, John Danaher muses on operatic iterations of Homer’s Odyssey.

Che cosa accade quando un’immagine ci è familiare e, nello stesso istante, sfugge al riconoscimento? Quando un luogo sembra custodire qualcosa che abbiamo già visto, pur senza riuscire a collocarlo nella nostra esperienza? La pittura di Marina Rheingantz nasce dentro questa zona instabile, dove la percezione precede la certezza e il ricordo si forma attraverso frammenti, atmosfere, tracce.
Marina Rheingantz, “Miope”, installation view at White Cube Seoul, courtesy White Cube Seoul
In Míope, la mostra presentata da White Cube a Seoul, l’artista costruisce paesaggi in cui il visibile appare sempre sul punto di dissolversi. La materia pittorica conserva una forte presenza fisica, mentre forme,...

Opera Philadelphia's production of Mitridate, re di Ponto proves more puerile than perhaps its 14 year-old composer intended.

I am very much interested in La Scala's upcoming opening night with Verdi's Otello.

Il genere delle impressioni di viaggio ha una lunga e complessa storia che, sin dal diciassettesimo secolo, ha svolto un ruolo significativo nel plasmare l’immaginario occidentale dei paesi non-occidentali. Artisti e studiosi hanno viaggiato nel mondo per spedizioni coloniali, scientifiche o archeologiche producendo schizzi, disegni, dipinti e letteratura che ritraevano le civiltà che incontravano. Le culture del passato e del presente erano comunicate attraverso rappresentazioni di frammenti architettonici e rovine, ornamenti, oggetti, abbigliamento, costumi e tradizioni. Il mondo naturale, inoltre, era registrato in pubblicazioni botaniche e zoologiche. Nel loro insieme, queste impressioni di viaggio...

Ha ancora senso pensare alla mostra come a un evento temporaneo, una parentesi chiusa tra le quattro pareti di una galleria che si accende e si spegne a orari stabiliti? La ricerca di Lin Wu – curatore indipendente e ricercatore formatosi tra la Tsinghua University e il Royal College of Art di Londra – nasce da una crepa profonda nel modo in cui viviamo la cultura e la distanza. Nel saggio teorico in cui formalizza la sua metodologia curatoriale di Physical-Digital Curatorial Practice (PDCP), Wu mette in discussione un equivoco che ha impoverito la curatela digitale negli ultimi decenni, ossia l’idea che il PDCP sia una semplice combinazione di formati espositivi fisici e digitali e che la tecnologia...

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La forza dell’arte di Cecilia Vicuña (1948, Santiago del Cile) risiede nell’intensità dell’approccio rituale e performativo, da cui traggono origine le molteplici forme della sua espressione: poetica, pittorica, tessile-scultorea, relazionale. Osservarla mentre conduce una performance e ascoltarla parlare del suo lavoro, come è capitato al pubblico intervenuto all’inaugurazione della sua mostra al Castello di Rivoli – la prima personale in un museo italiano – rivela l’aspetto sciamanico del suo operare artistico.
Cecilia Vicuña, “El glaciar ido (The vanished glacier / Il ghiacciaio scomparso)”, 2026. Installation view, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino. Photo...

 
Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...

By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...

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

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

By Julie Faith There is something strange about returning to a place you once knew well after being away for a long time. You recognize the architecture before you recognize what the years have done to you. As I passed through the gate at Corey Helford Gallery, crossed the lot, and headed up the stairs, I felt ridiculously, wonderfully giddy. Kid-in-a-candy-store giddy. I have been away from the gallery and much of the Los Angeles art world, but somewhere between the gate and the stairs, I...

By Victoria Thomas Altadena-based artist James Griffith greets me at his studio, located in a refurbished 1920s firehouse diagonally across the street from the gleaming silver lagomorph of the restored Bunny Museum, by saying "Hi, I just started putting a galaxy in the armpit of a penguin." Great cities announce their identities through their monuments. New York City has the Statue of Liberty, St. Louis the Gateway Arch, Chicago the Cloud Gate, Philadelphia the original LOVE sculpture. And...

 
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...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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