Learning from Duchamp's Correspondence

The Barjeel Art Foundation, the organization that facilitates the celebrated trove of modern and Arab art assembled by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, has broken ground on its first dedicated museum in Sharjah, due to open in January 2028. Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi announced the news on Instagram yesterday alongside a photograph from a recent visit to the 38,750-square-foot site on Sheik Mohammed Bin Zayed Road earmarked for the museum, noting that Abdelmoneam Essa of Architecture Corner Consultants has been tapped for the project. Essa’s design draws on sketches and photographs by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi of architecture in the Al Rigga neighborhood, he added. The Barjeel Art Foundation, the independent collecting...

Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer behind such durable hits as Cats (1981), Phantom of the Opera, and Evita, has teased a new musical about the early 20th century theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting, the Mona Lisa. The news was first reported by the British publication The Stage. Lloyd Webber had already announced he was currently working on a musical based on the 2006 film The Illusionist. Speaking to entertainment journalist Frank DiLella after the April 7 opening of Lloyd Webber’s Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway, the composer told him: “The other one I’m working on is the true story of the theft of the Mona Lisa. It’s a true story about how the Mona Lisa disappeared for three years and...

The restaurant inside the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is eliminating its front-of-house staff and replacing traditional service with QR-code ordering. Cardamom, the museum’s in-house restaurant operated by DDP Restaurant Group, will shift to a counter-service model this week, with customers ordering via their phones rather than through servers. Sixteen hosts and servers are being laid off as part of the transition, though kitchen staff and bartenders will remain, according to reporting by MPR News.  The company framed the change as a long-considered business decision tied to uneven traffic and rising costs. Because Cardamom’s crowds fluctuate with museum programming and seasons, staffing has often...

Criselda Vasquez's parents posing in front of the artist's painting “The New American Gothic” (2017) (photo courtesy the artist)Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained the father and portrait muse of California-based Chicana painter Criselda Vasquez, the artist said in an Instagram post. “My father and one of his workers were detained by ICE while simply on their way to work,” Vasquez wrote on April 3. “Our entire family is heartbroken, and my mother is completely devastated.” The family has not publicly named Vasquez's father. Vasquez noted in her post that he had been in the United States for over 40 years now.In an April 13 email to Hyperallergic, Vasquez said that...

Last March, Trump handed down an executive order that dictated a reduction of the statutory functions of the governmental entities he deemed “unnecessary.” One of these was the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which, according to a settlement signed on April 9, will now be allowed to continue its operations.  The settlement comes with the […]

Stacked Volumes Organize Layered living space by anonym studio
 
Located within an established residential enclave in Bangkok, Thailand, oom house by anonym studio is conceived as an extension to an existing dwelling, introducing additional space while maintaining continuity with its surroundings. The project reconsiders conventional housing typologies through a design approach centered on curved geometry and spatial continuity.
 
Positioned adjacent to the original house, the new structure is defined by a series of curved lines that inform both plan and elevation. These curves operate as spatial devices, enabling adjacent areas to remain connected without rigid separation. This approach establishes a...

Steve DiBenedetto, who began exhibiting in the 1980s, has become one of the best painters of his generation. A bundle of contradictions, restlessly moving between figuration and abstraction, he loves to push the paint around in his work — adding, scraping, changing — as he seeks links between the body and visionary states. The otherworldliness we encounter in his work is comic and unnerving, the perfect combination for these upside-down times.The title of his current exhibition at Derek Eller, Spiral Architect, brings together two of his ongoing preoccupations — a line that winds around a center and the designer of a functional environment. Together, they underscore DiBenedetto’s conception of a...

Late last week, the Trump administration published plans proposing to make exterior improvements to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a building adjacent to the White House. In a 15-page proposal, the administration calls for painting the French Second Empire–style building’s facade white, with renderings of the repainted building from various angles. CNN reported on Saturday, however, that Trump has privately called for using a “magic paint with silicate” on the building, which has a slate-gray granite front. In an expert analysis leaked to CNN, Trump claimed that the magic paint would “strengthen the stone, keep water out, prevent staining, be easy to apply, and rarely require painting.”...

The European Commission, an independent arm of the EU responsible for enforcing EU law, has given the Venice Biennale 30 days to “clear its name” regarding the inclusion of the Russian Pavilion in the 2026 edition, according to a report by La Repubblica, which reviewed the letter. The letter, invoking the charge that the Biennale had violated EU sanctions against Russia, asks the exhibition to “respond to these allegations” and “inform us of any corrective measures you intend to adopt.” At stake is a €2 million ($2.3 million) grant that the commission is prepared to “suspend or terminate” entirely that would go toward the realization of the 2028 edition. If the Biennale reverses course on...

Jeremy Frey is one of the most celebrated Indigenous weavers in the country. Hailing from Maine, he learned traditional Wabanaki weaving techniques from his mother and through apprenticeships with the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance. His art balances tradition with innovation, while imbuing each object with new ideas and creating a market for objects that haven’t traditionally been part of the contemporary art gallery ecosystem. Through experimentation, he has forged a singular aesthetic that embraces the fusion of craft, design, and contemporary art, while being influenced by forms of every kind and developing his own techniques that push the artform to new levels.Frey was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship...

a riverfront warehouse reworked for public use
 
In China‘s Nanhai District, this Yongping Warehouse has seen a renovation by Atelier cnS which reworks a row of riverfront industrial buildings into a landscaped rooftop public space. Once tied to river trade, the warehouses now occupy a stretch of waterfront that is gradually opening to residents, with access and visibility taking on new importance.
 
From a distance, the project is defined by a series of translucent, domed canopies that gather across the roofline. Their low, clustered profile reads as a continuous form hovering above the existing brick volumes. The gesture is simple and easy to read, and gives the site a recognizable presence along the...

Cover of On Censorship by Ai Weiwei (Thames & Hudson, 2026)It’s hard to maintain dignity and self-respect when your mouth is gagged. You keep your head low, lips tight, and social media feed squeaky clean. You distrust friends and colleagues you used to run your mouth to. You feel temporary relief when it’s not you who’s snatched from bed in the middle of the night and sent to a remote detention camp. But you know you’re living on borrowed time: How long can you silence the very thing that makes you human? Censorship, writes dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in a small but mighty new book, “strips innocence from the young and kindness from the elderly. It discourages people from valuing justice,...

AI Radio System Uses Nostalgia to support Memory and well-being
 
TBWA HAKUHODO announces the unveiling of Radio Time Machine, a pioneering AI-powered device that automatically generates era-specific radio-like audio content, historical news, and popular music. This innovative project, initially implemented in collaboration with Nichii Gakkan, a leading care facility operator in Japan, aims to stimulate memories, cognition, and communication while enhancing the well-being of residents in elderly care settings.
 
TBWA HAKUHODO sees AI and digital devices as more than tools for convenience; they could also enrich human experiences and relationships. Applying its ‘Human Innovation’ philosophy, the agency...

The embattled Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra bring Adams and Dvorák to Carnegie Hall.

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In 1912, André Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto. The work described Surrealism as “pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.” It was a statement that came to define a moment that, one hundred years later, continues to play a defining role in contemporary art. To consider Surrealism is to conjure up names like Breton, Salvador Salí or René Magritte, but many female artists pushed the artform forward in ways that have long been overlooked. VISU Contemporary, in Miami...

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English composer is busy working on a production inspired by one of the most audacious thefts in art history

uncanny valley opens in new york city
 
The Haas Brothers’ Uncanny Valley at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York brings together eighty-five works that present objects as active presences within a dreamlike, speculative reality.
 
Installed across sculpture, furniture, ceramics, painting, and digital work, the exhibition moves without hierarchy. A beaded plant, a low table, and a fur-covered creature occupy the same space, each following its own internal logic. The show reads as a continuous environment where distinctions between art and design give way to a shared condition of movement and interaction.
 
Across scales, from handheld vessels to towering figures, the works establish a setting where...

room for dreams unveils live talkS and cinema program
 
As we are fast approaching Milan Design Week 2026, designboom unveils the full program of live talks, films and daily rituals that will take place throughout the week at ROOM FOR DREAMS. Alongside the immersive installations that will be on view at ME Milan Il Duca, conversations, social encounters and the cinema space all contribute to the multilayered exploration of dreams as design tools for cultural and social transformation. The result is not a static showcase, but a temporal ecosystem of ideas that evolves over the course of the week, inviting visitors to move between reflection, immersion, and speculation.
 
As part of the social programming, we...

Like a hall of mirrors or a Borgesian labyrinth, Duchamp's oeuvre asks us to look at the past reflecting endlessly into the future. In an interview today, scholar Thierry de Duve praises a kind of mise en abyme in MoMA's new Duchamp show, which features not one but seven “boîtes-en-valise” — the artist's clever miniature exhibitions-in-a-box, created decades before his first museum retrospective. This is "Duchamp's typical genius," de Duve tells Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang. “I think he anticipated the logic of the museum.” Read their conversation, in which de Duve muses on what it means to live in a “post-Duchamp” world.Also today, our writers bring you art-fair...

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The Belgian city’s MoMu fashion museum celebrates the 40th anniversary of the designers’ international breakthrough

The artist's new show at the National Portrait Gallery offers plenty of reasons to be cheerful

David Bowie (1947-2016) is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. This spring, a major new immersive experience dedicated to him is opening at London’s Lightroom, in close collaboration with the Bowie Estate. The 360° show – titled You’re Not Alone – promises to transport visitors inside the artist’s “iconic performances and creative mind”. From Space Oddity through Diamond Dogs, Heroes and ★, You’re Not Alone offers audiences the opportunity “to feel they have travelled through time to experience Bowie up close and first-hand.” But this is not about perpetuating the myths or characters often associated with Bowie, like Aladdin Sane, Halloween Jack,...

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C’è qualcosa di inevitabile nel modo in cui un corpo cade. Nel modo in cui una caviglia cede, devia, costringe l’intero sistema a riorganizzarsi. È da questa immagine semplice, fisica, quasi banale che Carlos Antonio Castro Lobato costruisce la sua prima personale italiana, Tobillo Torcido (Caviglia storta), ospitata fino al 29 aprile 2026 negli spazi di terzospazio a cura di Giulia Mariachiara Galiano. L’artista messicano, classe 2003, in residenza presso la Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa di Venezia, porta in mostra tre opere che insieme compongono un discorso in cui narrazione autobiografica e riflessione collettiva non si escludono ma si alimentano a vicenda. Non un percorso, non un sistema, ma un...

A new DVD recording of La Juive boasts considerable musical strengths in spite of a frustrating production.

What a shaded and elegant delivery William Mattteuzzi brings to this lilting setting of D'Annunzio's "O falce di luna calante"!

Few contemporary photographers are as synonymous with black and white as Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025). The Brazilian activist, documentarian and photojournalist is world-renowned, notably for images made in the Amazon rainforest and the Serra Pelada gold mine, Brazil. Now, a new collection of Salgado’s pictures, titled Glaciers, is dedicated to some of the planet’s most remote places. It spans from dramatic ice fields in Patagonia to the Himalayas’ towering peaks. Salgado also travelled to Antarctica to capture its ice shelves, as well as to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, a hugely volcanic region. The book features 65 duotone photographs, depicting sweeping vistas, massive crevasses, wind-swept snow...

Un sottile raggio di luce diafana attraversa l’intera stanza, accarezzando ogni piccolo dettaglio racchiuso nelle opere di Alessandro Piangiamore (Enna, 1976). “La polvere ci mostra che la luce esiste”, il titolo della mostra allestita alla Repetto Gallery di Lugano, rimanda a un capitolo contenuto all’interno del saggio del filosofo francese Georges Didi-Huberman “La conoscenza accidentale. Apparizione e sparizione delle immagini” (2011). L’esposizione, visitabile sino al 26 giugno 2026, presenta una selezione multimediale dei lavori dell’artista, alcuni dei quali inediti, che comprende sculture, installazioni e video art. Nel loro insieme essi sono inseriti con l’intenzione di conferire...

By Kristine Schomaker The work hits immediately. Not one piece — all of it, simultaneously. Large sculptural assemblages covering the walls, a freestanding sculpture in the middle of the room, a piece suspended from the ceiling. The whole gallery feeling like its own solar system, each work a satellite orbiting something enormous and unspoken. Last night, four humans splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after flying around the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years. Artemis II...

Daring reimaginings of Cocteau and Wilde take the stage at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

The 10th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women is a remarkable intersection of creativity, place and dialogue. This year, the Prize has entered a nomadic phase, leaving its long-standing London base to partner with Museum MACAN in Jakarta. By focusing on Indonesia, the Prize acknowledges a vibrant art scene, where ancestral craft traditions coexist with contemporary experimentation. Five artists – Betty Adii, Dzikra Afifah, Ipeh Nur, Mira Rizki and Dian Suci – have been shortlisted, their work spanning painting, ceramics, installation, video and sound. Each practice navigates questions of identity, memory, environment and social justice, offering reflections that resonate both locally and...

Art Paris torna al Grand Palais, gioiello dell’architettura della Belle Époque, dal 9 al 12 aprile 2026. Questa 28ª edizione ospita circa 165 gallerie. Offre un programma ambizioso in una Parigi che da un po’ di tempo, dopo la Brexit sta vivendo un rilancio e una vera e propria rinascita artistica. Si tratta di una fiera socialmente impegnata, che affronta tante tematiche contemporanee attraverso progetti affidati a curatori ospiti, che si concretizzano in una serie di mostre dedicate e collocate all’interno della fiera.
Art Paris 2026 at Gran Palais, Paris, ph. Emanuele Magri
Ci sarebbero svariati temi su cui soffermarsi ma in questa edizione sono da evidenziare due temi portanti. Uno è...

The two Expo Chicago satellite fairs compliment the main event with accessible settings filled with ambitious presentations

The upgrades, set to start in March 2027 and estimated to cost between $600m and $800m, will include a new tram from the parking structure to the museum’s hilltop campus

The administration of President Donald Trump has revealed a plan for a proposed triumphal arch that would occupy a traffic circle between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Monument. Intended to celebrate the United States’s 250th anniversary, the arch would be 250 feet tall, more than double the height of the 99-foot-high Lincoln Monument, which it would face from […]

A three-year, $7 million restoration and preservation project at Fallingwater, the iconic Stewart Township home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, has recently been completed, according to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Chief among the concerns that needed to be addressed were moisture degradation within the original interior finishes, general leaks and the conservation of doors and windows. A […]

According to Arkeonews, a 200-year-old hillfort has been freshly discovered at Köstrimägi in Tartu County, Estonia, providing new insights into the lives of the ancient Balkans.  What is a hillfort, you ask? Characteristic of the late Bronze Age or Iron Age periods of European history, hillforts generally refer to fortified, elevated settlements that were surrounded by barriers—usually made […]

Gen Z has made headlines recently for turning to analog media and the slower pace of life synonymous with a pre-internet world. Alongside DVDs and print magazines, snail mail has also been on the rise as more people flock to spaces untouched by an algorithm or AI. Even before the endless scroll subsumed much of our collective psyche, though, Gabriella Marcella was already combating digital fatigue through the design studio Risotto. Marcella founded Risotto in 2012, just after graduating from university, where she fell in love with risograph printing. She purchased her first machine secondhand and set up shop in her bedroom before moving to the Glue Factory, a former warehouse that still houses the studio along...

ABOVE: “Spatial Awareness”, 54″ x 250″, hand-knit with wool, 2025, photo by Chris Rettman From her dining room table in Oklahoma City, Kendall Ross knits brightly colored, intricately patterned sweaters and vests—some so large that referring to them as wearables is a bit misleading. Her textile pieces are often emblazoned with diary-like messages that speak […]
The post Kendall Ross Comments Directly on the Craft Vs. Art Debate first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

In 2019, Kayla Mahaffey reached a turning point with her art. The Chicago-based artist had a solo show at Line Dot Editions in April of that year. Titled Off to the Races, the series of paintings centered around children ready to hit the road. Some sat with their growing legs crouched in tiny cars or […]
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At Copenhagen Contemporary, Kengo Kuma and his team have honed in on the Japanese concept of komorebi, which reflects the unique interplay of light and shadow that occurs when the sun filters through the trees. The monumental, site-specific installation “Earth / Tree” harnesses this fleeting condition through a suspended canopy of wooden slats. Curved with a central opening, the diaphonous structure floats above a brick platform and a pile of rubble. These two organic materials bridge Nordic and Japanese cultures, which both value craftsmanship and continuity with the landscape. Kuma—who was recently awarded the bid to design the new National Gallery in London—often focuses on “soft architecture,”...

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Fashion, at its most daring, becomes an instrument of thought, a compelling medium that negotiates between material, imagination and culture. Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art explores this premise fully, presenting the work of Elsa Schiaparelli as a fusion of couture, Surrealism and performance. The exhibition situates her visionary designs alongside the artworks, stage costumes and collaborations that made the House of Schiaparelli one of the most radical forces of the 20th century. Over 400 objects, including 100 ensembles, 50 artworks, accessories, jewellery and archive material, trace the trajectory from her first Paris boutique to the present-day creations of Daniel Roseberry. “For me, dress...

Non è mai facile descrivere interamente il lavoro di un artista. Un incontro con un’opera d’arte è un’esperienza che unisce, che mette in connessione lo sguardo e lo spazio col proprio pensiero. Ecco, l’intera carriera di Liliana Moro (Milano, 1961) segue questi princìpi: la condivisione, l’ascolto e il dialogo, molto spesso applicati in situazioni pubbliche.
Liliana Moro, “| senza | soluzione di continuità”, 2026, installation view Platea | Palazzo Galeano, courtesy: the artist, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Albisola and Platea | Palazzo Galeano, Lodi, ph credits Alessio Belloni
Allo stesso modo, l’installazione dell’artista che apre la stagione espositiva di Platea è un gesto...

“Wind carries away destinies,” reads the brief synopsis for a short film titled “Jour de Vent,” or “Windy Day.” The sweeping animation was created in 2024 by a team of six graduates—Martin Chailloux, Ai Kim Crespin, Élise Golfouse, Chloé Lab, Hugo Taillez, Camille Truding—from École des Nouvelle Images school in Avignon, France. A cast of characters—including a businessman, a picnicking family, a young couple, a cyclist, an old man and his dog, and a guitarist—spend a seemingly average day at the park. When a powerful gust of wind blows everyone’s day out of proportion, themes of change, acceptance, and connection emerge. Much like the film’s surrender to the flow of life, the team...

For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Street category: Victor Cambet.
Based in Montréal, Victor Cambet developed photography as a self-taught practice after relocating to Canada from Lyon, France. Drawn to vivid scenes, unusual characters, and the overlooked details of daily life, his work finds beauty in the ordinary.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of...

Galicia, Spain-based artist Abi Castillo continues to create iterative self-portraits through her evolving ensemble of ceramic personas. Her delicate yet emotive figures are an invitation to consider the inner self, transformation, and the beauty of the natural world. Femininity, nature, and symbolism play a central role within Castillo’s sculptures, contrasting with the notion of concealment. “This ambivalence between mysticism and drama, between monstrosity and beauty, is all very present,” she explains in an artist statement. Though each ceramic character is distinct, her body of work carries overarching formal motifs including colorful hairstyles and wide eyes with light blue irises. Organic...

San Juan Capistrano Library #1 Amir Zaki No Dust to Settle Diane Rosenstein Gallery April 4 - May 9, 2026 by Jody Zellen The saying "waiting for the dust to settle" might refer to when things will calm down and return to normal. It could be said that "the dust never settles" and there is no state of definitive calmness because everything is in flux, both in life and in art. This might be taking the personal into account by reading too much into the title of Amir Zaki's current exhibition, his...

In the little town of Kosciusko, Mississippi, a self-described “unusual artist” named L.V. Hull transformed her home and garden of three-and-a-half decades into an elaborate, continuous artwork. Through found objects and trinkets, paint, and glue she purchased at the local Walmart, the artist created an immersive art environment—a riot of color, patterns, and textures in which creativity merged with daily living. Many of Hull’s works are currently on view in the show Love Is a Sensation at the Mississippi Museum of Art, which celebrates the self-taught artist’s eclectic approach to materials and space. From vibrantly painted everyday objects to idiosyncratic assemblages, Hull’s creativity and...

 
There’s just two weeks left to submit your work for The City Series: Cambridge!
An ongoing series of publications, The City Series sets out to explore the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, showcasing images that respond to a place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
The inaugural volume explores a city that has welcomed us, and been home to nearly a dozen Shutter Hub exhibitions – Cambridge.
Rather than defining Cambridge by landmarks or narratives, we invite photographers to approach the city openly, perhaps through people, atmosphere, details, routines, abstractions, or moments that feel personal or unexpected....

A Berlino, presso Kornfeld Galerie, è possibile visitare una mostra che tramite il colore rimanda all’accettazione dell’imprevedibilità, del passare del tempo e dell’irreversibilità degli eventi. La mostra, curata da Charles Moore, espone le opere dell’artista Nick Dawes che da anni sperimenta la casualità dell’effetto del colore tramite un processo nel quale l’attenzione, la cura e l’accettazione dell’imprevedibilità del segno sono elementi essenziali utili a creare una struttura visiva che emerge direttamente dall’interazione del gesto con la materia.
Nick Dawes, “Trace Elements”, installation view, courtesy Kornfeld Gallery, Berlin
Tramite un processo lento, ragionato e basato...

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