At a ceremony held on November 9, the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University in the UK formally returned 39 sets of ancestral remains to the Naga people of India. The remains, primarily human skulls, were taken during the British colonial rule of India and Burma (now Myanmar) and have been in the museum’s collection for more than a century. A delegation of almost 30 community members from Nagaland, an Indian state bordering Myanmar, traveled to Britain for the handover. The Pitt Rivers claims to hold the largest collection of Naga artifacts in the world, most of which were acquired by John Henry Hutton, an anthropologist and colonial administrator in the Indian Civil Service, and a second...

Apparently scrambling to secure his legacy after the blue tsunami of midterm triumphs for Democrats, President Donald Trump proclaimed the White House's Oval Office, Outer Oval Office, and Cabinet Room a joint national monument on Thursday, November 3. The proclamation rests on the same historic preservation law the president invoked to significantly diminish two cultural sites in Utah earlier this year. The proclamation is not legally binding, meaning a future president could simply reverse it. Trump has outfitted the Oval Office with gold frames and trim, Mar-a-Lago maximalism, and his approximations of Louis XIV's Palace of Versailles in an aesthetic that former President Barack Obama said looked...

LOS ANGELES — Susan Silton’s four-decade retrospective at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery documents her multifaceted investigations into queerness, illness, the environment, and the politics that surround these topics. As a conceptual artist, she works in multiple media, including prints, photography, video, installation, and performance. Focused on inclusivity and community engagement, her projects are often collaborative and participatory.Silton was already an established graphic designer when she produced the political print “Target” (1991), which superimposes labels denoting gender, nationality, and sexual orientation onto an image of a man with a target on his back. Critical of a culture...

Actor Eric Rasmussen revealed this week that he had removed his contribution to an installation by Denniston Hill in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale because the residency program appeared to support the “eradication” of Israel, in Rasmussen’s view. In an op-ed published by the Jewish Journal on Monday, Rasmussen wrote that he had combined two drawings by his mother of Adolf Hitler drawn from a notebook she kept during her childhood. The resulting work, transferred to an acetate panel, was included Denniston Hill’s installation, an exquisite corpse–style work titled Chimera (2026) that is located in the Giardini section of Koyo Kouoh’s main exhibition. The piece features contributions by...

marumi house and its sculptural sauna
 
NIKO Design Studio has completed Umino Marumi, a two-story wooden guesthouse on a hillside overlooking the Pacific coast of Chiba, Japan. With its enormous circular facade opening and exposed timber structure, the house makes an unusual addition to the surrounding residential neighborhood. In the garden, a much smaller companion building takes shape as a sauna hut, its curved roof designed to accommodate the trees growing around it.
 
Completed in 2025, Marumi was conceived as a second home where the owners could gather with family and friends, while also creating a welcoming presence within the local community. The architects approached this ambition through an...

The Julia Stoschek Foundation will reopen in its Düsseldorf space in April 2027, just in time for the organization’s 20th anniversary. “Selfish in Bed”—a group exhibition curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen comprising 52 works from 43 artists in the foundation’s archive—will inaugurate the newly renovated galleries. “Selfish in Bed” takes its title from a Sarah Lucas […]

Hundreds gathered around Anish Kapoor’s iconic Cloud Gate, knows as the “Bean,” in Chicago’s Millennium Park on Sunday in an attempt to shift the sculpture seven inches to the left. Despite the crowd’s best efforts, the silver 110-ton stainless steel sculpture could not be moved. ARTnews reports that the stunt was based on a viral […]

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO—According to a statement released by the University of New Mexico, a team of researchers led by Kari Schleher of the University of New Mexico identified geological sources of azurite used by Ancestral Pueblo communities some 1,400 years ago. Azurite is a copper mineral with a vivid blue color used as a pigment or paint. The scientists analyzed two samples of azurite obtained from sources in New Mexico and Utah known to have been mined by Ancestral Pueblo people. Then they analyzed the isotopes of lead, strontium, and copper in 12 azurite specimens recovered in the Four Corners region. Most of these samples were found to have collected in the Lisbon Valley. Two of the samples came from...

Since President Donald Trump returned to office last year, his administration has made reining in the cultural sphere a core plank of his agenda. Those efforts have included slashing federal funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); attempting to remake the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in his image; and unleashing a relentless barrage of executive orders, attempted firings, and investigations targeting the Smithsonian Institution and its affiliated museums. The campaign reached a fever pitch in July, when the White House released a 162-page report detailing supposed “ideological capture” at the National...

More than 15,300 submissions made their way to the judges for this year’s Close-Up Photographer of the Year, setting a record for the highest number of entries in the competition’s history. From uncanny insects to slime molds to unexpected animal interactions, photographs captured by amateur and professional photographers alike highlight the diverse and sometimes surreal flora and fauna all around us. The contest winners will be announced in January. In the meantime, a photography challenge on the theme of “Close to Home” is open for submissions through the end of the month. Explore some of our favorites from the shortlist below, and learn more on the contest’s website. Joao Pontes, “Suspended”...

Cannabis seeds in situ, Tunnug 1, Siberia GENEVA, SWITZERLAND—According to an Associated Press report, cannabis may have been used some 2,800 years ago by the Scythians in southern Siberia. An international team of scientists discovered cannabis seeds in a monumental tomb at the Tunnug 1 archaeological site in the Uyuk Valley. Analysis of preserved hair also detected the presence of the drug. “It’s extremely rare that we have both preserved plant parts and human soft tissue with the active compounds in it in the same context,” said Gino Caspari of the University of Bern. It is not clear if the cannabis was inhaled or ingested, he added. Critics of the study state that there is not enough evidence...

One of the five deferments President Donald Trump received to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War is now the subject of a new statue mocking him by the Secret Handshake, an anonymous artist collective. On Monday, a gold statue appeared on the National Mall depicting Trump sitting down and holding his right foot, reports the Washington Post. The plaque at the base of the statue says, “We honor the service and sacrifice of our Commander in Chief, Donald J. Trump. He’s a soldier in spirit, who marched to the front lines of dodging the draft, armed with a perfect diagnosis of bone spurs,” a reference to the deferment in question. The inscription adds, “We salute a leader who knows you can’t spell...

KOGAA ADAPTS INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION HALL INTO ŠMERAL ART FACTORY
 
Designed by architecture studio KOGAA as part of its ongoing Making Use research initiative, ŠMERAL ART FACTORY is an adaptive reuse project converting a decommissioned industrial production hall into a cultural venue in Brno, Czech Republic. Sited on the banks of the Svitava River within the historic Šmeral industrial complex, the project introduces exhibitions and public programming while maintaining the structural and material identity of the former manufacturing site.
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STEEL FRAME AND CORRUGATED ROOF BRING DAYLIGHT INTO GALLERIES
 
The spatial sequence begins externally along the riverside cycle...

The Metropolitan Opera has added a live, free video broadcast of Lincoln in the Bardo to its fall lineup on Saturday, 14 November at 8 PM EDT.

As Shanghai art week kicks off, the city's network of galleries, museums, fairs and artist communities offer sources of resilience amid economic upheaval

Plumbing the rhythms of the ocean and marine life, Amy Genser creates undulating abstractions that evoke swells, currents, reefs, and the sea floor. The artist composes elaborate wall works from rolled mulberry paper, acrylic, and wire in which patterns move and converge across swaths of blues and greens. The closer you look, the more colors emerge. Although reminiscent of the sea in many ways, Genser’s works defy instant recognition. At first glance, they may appear topographical, as if a luminous, clear sea is being viewed from above. The rolling forms are redolent of waves but also perhaps the way corals cluster around rock formations. Then, details draw us nearer: bulbous forms with cavities resemble...

The London exhibition, which opens 12 November, will explore the artistic and personal relationship between two of the Bloomsbury Group's most famous painters

The mission of the Roman J. Witt Residency Program is to support the production of new works of art at the University of Michigan. Open to both established and emerging artists and designers, the program awards one residency each academic year.The 2027-28 Witt Residency is organized in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). The residency will culminate in an exhibition at UMMA’s Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery, opening in March 2028.The 1,200-square-foot Stenn Gallery is a glass-walled, street-facing space on UMMA’s ground floor. Its location and glass frontage offer opportunities for projects that consider public visibility, the movement of people through campus, or the...

The Fall 2026 lineup of art and architecture books from Yale University Press has both beauty and erudition. Exhibition catalogues from our museum publishing partners include Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism (Art Institute of Chicago), Roy Lichtenstein: Like New (Whitney Museum of American Art), and The Bayeux Tapestry (British Museum). Owen Davies explores the Art of Divination across time and geography; Witold Rybczynski is characteristically eloquent on What Architecture Is; Neil Levine analyzes The Sculpture of Donald Judd; and Louis Shadwick gives us a brilliant new biography of Edward Hopper.To learn more, visit...

Miles Greenberg’s mother took him to see Marina Abramović perform The Artist Is Present at the Museum of Modern Art when he was just 12 years old. The experience would serve as the zero point for the New York-based Canadian artist’s own performance-based practice, and the birth of his unyielding desire to “see [his] work at a museum, where it would be approached as a sculpture.” Later training under playwright Robert Wilson, choreographer Édouard Lock, and the very “grandmother of performance art” who spurred his interest in the medium, Greenberg began developing works that ironically share more with the histories of painting and sculpture than a lineage of performance. He has stood on plinths as...

Artnet reports that the nonprofit printmaking organization Print Center New York (PCNY) has announced the appointment of Yukiko Yamagata as executive director. She began the role on November 9 and succeeds Judy Hecker, who led Print Center for a decade. “Leading Print Center is truly a dream role,” Yamagata told Artnet. “I’m really driven by […]

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has continued his social media campaign to stump for exhibitions staged by the city’s museums, this time focusing on a survey of West African modernist architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, whose praises he sang on Instagram early this morning. Titled “Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa,” the 400-work show surveys architectural projects in Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, and Cameroon produced during a period of decolonization that began in some countries in the late 1950s. Curated by Martino Stierli and Ikem Stanley Okoye, the show features architectural models and archival imagery, as well as some contemporary artworks....

Saioa Hernández makes a no-hold-barred house debut in The Metropolitan Opera's prematurely dusty Tosca.

The 10-year initiative is supported by a grant from the UK-based John Kobal Foundation

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The initiative will also include a solo exhibition, a library to study the artist's work, and a postdoctoral research position

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The designer shares her love of books and what luxury means to her

Arts at CERN and beyond
 
When asked, ‘What does CERN do?’ most people would probably scratch their heads and respond, ‘Physics.’ As the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, it most certainly does physics, but another thing it does—alongside maintaining a Large Hadron Collider and developing inventions like the World Wide Web—is invite artists from around the world to produce work in tandem with the sciences. Through its artist residencies, commissions, and programs, it has invited the likes of Tomás Saraceno, Ryoji Ikeda, and other renowned artists to create works that, much like the laboratory’s research, demystify the world around us.
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GLOBAL STAGE FOR PROJECTS THAT DARE TO RETHINK HUMAN PLAY
 
What gives contemporary design international cultural weight? For Expo 2027 Belgrade, the Compasso d’Oro International Award suggests the answer lies in human play. Curated by ADI with the BIE under the theme ‘Design for Humanity at Play,’ the initiative calls for recently launched products, services, and interactive experiences. Moving from online submissions into tangible public space, shortlisted projects will inhabit a dedicated pavilion in Belgrade’s Best Practices district.
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ENTERING THE ADI COMPASSO D’ORO HISTORICAL COLLECTION
 
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Consider this 1959 Italian-language blowout from Palermo, with Franco Corelli’s infiammatissimo Don José

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For Objects of Common Interest, design and music share an interest in bringing different elements together to create something unexpected. The Athens- and New York-based studio, founded by Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis, works across objects, interiors, and spatial installations, exploring how form, color, material, and perception can shape the way we experience our surroundings. Their playlist moves between emotional melodies, hypnotic repetition, and experimental sounds, echoing the different qualities they explore through design.
 
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Son Lux’s newest music video is an atmospheric mini-epic. Last month, the video premiered at MASS MoCA—the piece is a joint commission by the museum and Pioneer Works and made in collaboration with Alex Cook—as an immersive, 17-minute installation titled “Out Into Us (Slow Down),” complementing the release of the band’s ninth studio album. “In the last decade, social media has created a reality in which music is often eclipsed by visuals, served up in an endless buffet of bite-sized and contextless flavors,” says a statement. For this multimedia work, the artists leaned instead toward deeply felt human experiences, like how long it can take to do or understand something. Portraying a...

On November 5, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation declaring the White House’s Oval Office and Cabinet Room as a national monument—a designation that protects the spaces from major alterations in the future. The proclamation, which is not legally binding, does not prohibit any forthcoming president from redecorating, adding new furniture, or making security […]

Tattooed with verdant foliage, the central figure in Kelly Sinnapah Mary’s portraits is both a product of and subsumed by the plant life that surrounds her. Born in the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe, the artist conjures the mythic stories of her home through surreal scenes in which humans, flora, and fauna find a sort of hybrid harmony. Sinnapah Mary’s recurring figure is named Sanbras, which the artist derived from a derogatory children’s book popular in the 19th and 20th centuries. Through uncanny compositions that rely heavily on saturated color and delicate, organic textures, Sanbras appears as a subversive figure who morphs across various bodies of work and nods to the artist’s enduring...

SAQQARA, EGYPT—One of the world’s earliest known autobiographies was written on the walls of the tomb of an Egyptian dignitary named Khuwy, according to a La Brújula Verde report. Khuwy’s tomb was located by Czech archaeologists inside a cemetery in Saqqara that surrounds the pyramid of the 5th Dynasty pharaoh Djedkare Isesi (reigned ca. 2381–2353 B.C.). Dating to around 2400 B.C., it is one of the oldest underground decorated burial apartments. Although most of the upper structure built atop the tomb has not survived, archaeologists found inscribed blocks that once lined its walls. On these, Khuwy described his life and achievements. Among them, he boasts of his moral integrity, stating, “I never...

Photogrammetric image of Rob Roy’s tombstone with different phases of carving highlighted BALQUHIDDER, SCOTLAND—The National reports that new archaeological analysis of the tombstone belonging to Scottish outlaw Rob Roy has revealed that its initial creation predates his death by as much as 1,000 years. Robert “Rob Roy” MacGregor was a prominent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century folk hero who was later immortalized in Sir Walter Scott’s 1818 novel. When he died in 1734, he was laid to rest at Balquhidder Parish Church, where his grave is marked by an elaborately carved stone slab. Recent 3D imaging of the object revealed an unusual cross-like shape that stylistically dates to the early Christian...

Not unlike the way a pearl grows inside a mollusk, wherein an irritant or parasite is gradually coated in a mineral called nacre, Amy Liu’s paintings comprise layers of oil pigment over underpaintings. This preparation technique dates to the early Renaissance, its first use attributed to Jan van Eyck, who added a monochrome glaze to the surface of panels to establish tonal values before building up the picture. In her solo exhibition Pearled Chiaroscuro at Harper’s, Liu taps into the Renaissance in more ways than one. She highlights the convention of deep contrasts and bright highlights known as chiaroscuro, Italian for “light-dark.” It’s an aesthetic we see most famously in the works of Caravaggio,...

WARSAW, POLAND—Excavations within the medieval Great Church of Jesus in northern Sudan’s Old Dongola uncovered a section of the original cathedral floor for the first time, according to an IFL Science report. Old Dongola was the capital of Makuria, a flourishing Nubian kingdom that converted to Christianity in the sixth century A.D. The cathedral once dominated the ancient metropolis, measuring 154 feet wide and 187 long, and standing over six stories high. It was one of the most monumental and important Christian buildings in Nubia, likely serving as the seat of the Bishop of Dongola, one of the most senior Christian figures in medieval sub-Saharan Africa. The recent work was a joint endeavor conducted by...

The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, has announced September 25, 2027, as the date it will open its forthcoming Dani Reiss Contemporary and Modern Gallery to the public. Begun in 2022, the project is being collaboratively overseen by Diamond Schmitt, Selldorf Architects, and Two Row Architect. Indigenous leaders and communities were also involved in the […]

Print Center New York has appointed Yukiko Yamagata as its new Executive Director, succeeding Judy Hecker following her decade-long tenure.... Read More

Gareth McConnell brings three decades of photography, political history and rave culture to Stills Edinburgh.

More than £10m in new funding brings IWM Lab at Duxford closer to opening in 2029.

A major Sámi art exhibition at Somerset House explores land, memory, time and cultural survival.

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This 1961 performance from the Bolshoi is a treasure.

Now in its penultimate installation, Tobias Kratzer’s Munich Ring is reaching full maturity—without compromising its humor.

A drunk raccoon, petrol, cosmetic surgery, science fiction and motherhood.

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Calling all photographers! Our fifth annual Booooooom Photo Awards are officially open for submissions. This year’s categories are Portrait, Nature, Street, Colour, and for the first time-ever, a special Student category. Our friends at Format are once again partnering with us to make it all happen. We’re thrilled to have an elite panel of judges joining us this year to help highlight the most outstanding work. Each category winner will receive a $1,000 USD cash prize, editorial and social coverage, a feature in our printed publication, and some goodies from some of our friends. Plus, we’re giving away three lifetime Format website subscriptions.
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Credit: Márcia Falcão I was invited to attend two of the opening days of Frieze London and, arriving in my home city, I was immediately reminded of its extraordinary energy, gathering pace around the nucleus of the Regent's Park venue. The art on display was more than equal to the occasion. A-listers and icons from across the wider cultural landscape, including film, music and fashion, mingled with professionals, students and enthusiasts from London’s eclectic art scene, all seemingly loving,...

By Lorraine Heitzman There is a meticulous elegance to everything Phyllis Green makes, a quality that is immediately apparent in her brilliant fifteen-year survey show at the Laband Art Gallery. Phyllis Green: Of My Own Making is a diverse yet cohesive exhibit, both imaginative and grounded in the textures of commonplace materials such as wood, clay, cloth, and metal. She masterfully applies her vision across multiple disciplines making sculptures that appear simple despite her extraordinary...

By Victoria Thomas Classical music is rarely the currency of activism. We generally turn to less patrician, more hard-edged forms to voice protest and dissent against fascism, tyranny, racial violence, and other sociopolitical ills. But SYZYGY, a new three-movement concerto composed by Courtney Bryan celebrating three visual artists — all women, all women of color — defies this expectation. Bryan's 18-minute composition makes its world premiere on The American Concerto, Volume One, performed...

By Kristine Schomaker I keep thinking about Nomadland. Fern driving her van across that enormous American landscape. Not running from something. Moving toward something she could not quite name yet. That feeling of needing less. Of being, as Dominique Moody says, at home in the world. NOMAD: Dominique Moody and the Assemblage of Home is on view at the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena through January 16, 2027, part of the year-long city celebration for the centennials of Route 66 and the...

 
When we say ‘think of the colour yellow’, what comes up for you? Our latest photobook, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: YELLOW, is bursting with inspiration, from delicate blossoms and ripe lemons to eye-catching clothing and sunny décor.
Across 100 photos, our photographers celebrate all things yellow: some chanced upon in the street or in nature, others meticulously planned. Of course, there are loads of different hues that count as yellow, from acidic brights to mustard, egg yolk, and canary. You’ll find them all in the book!
The cover image, by Jo Martindale, submerges us in a ball pit of yellow plastic balls: it’s immersive, fun, and hard to look away. The yellow we find around us definitely has multiple...