Decision comes just days after city planning department determined fountain eligible for National Register of Historic Places designation

The end of the year is quickly approaching and so is the season of giving. By choosing to shop with us this year, you’re supporting independent publishing and allowing us continue to share important stories every day. This year’s Colossal Gift Guide highlights some of our favorite art and design products. From world-renowned artist tools and one-of-a-kind calendars to quirky bags and detailed monographs, we’ve curated everything you need to be named Best Gift Giver of the Year. Grouped by each unique recipient—whether it be your creative sibling, grandkids, or that one uncle whose vibe is impossible to identify—there’s something here for everyone on your list. Grab a cup of tea, get cozy, and...

A Norwegian citizen has filed a lawsuit against MoMA PS1 alleging negligent supervision and oversight after she was injured on-site in the museum’s screening room in 2022. The complaint outlines that Andrea Kroksnes suffered from lasting medical problems and economic loss due to a wall-mounted panel that fell and struck her, causing an acute concussion. Case documents reveal that Kroksnes is pursuing monetary damages exceeding $150,000 as well as covered legal costs, interest, and further relief as determined by the court. According to the complaint, Kroksnes visited the museum in Queens on October 29, 2022, to see Palestinian artist Jumana Manna’s mid-career survey Break, Take, Erase, Tally. While seated...

The auction world’s cliché about taste is that it follows the money. Sara Friedlander would like to flip the script. “You want to know my hierarchy?” she asked me as we stood in arms reach of the second “nurse” painting Richard Prince ever made and just a few feet away from a blazing yellow Warhol Last Supper, both part of the Edlis | Neeson Collection that will anchor Christie’s 21st Century Sale. “Client first. Art second. Market…distant third.” That’s not the kind of line one would expect from someone who was just named chairman of Post-War & Contemporary Art for the Americas at Christie’s.  She’s brought a staggering parade of private collections to auction—Barney Ebsworth,...

Light Work, an artist-run, non-profit organization, has been supporting emerging and under-recognized artists working in photography since 1973. To help us continue our work and receive something in return, shop at our First Annual Holiday Market! We’ve gathered an incredible selection of signed photo books, limited-edition prints, and one-of-a-kind art objects — all generously contributed by artists from our residency and exhibition programs, along with a few special friends and collaborators. For more than 50 years, Light Work has championed photographers and visual artists from around the world. This year’s sale helps fuel that mission, directly supporting our Artist-in-Residence Program,...

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) graduate programs, ranked among the top two in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, applaud experimentation and encourage students to cross disciplines and explore concepts unbound to any one medium or academic department in the realization of impactful work. Program offerings include MFA, MA, MArch, MDes, MS, and Low-Residency MFA degrees, including a new MFA in Comics!  For those interested in joining the SAIC community, the reduced application fee deadline for graduate programs is December 1. The final application deadline is January 10, 2026.  For a list of programs, application requirements, and to apply online, visit saic.edu/gradapp. To join...

According to ARTnews‘s sources, Utah-born, Mexico-based sculptor Alma Allen has been picked to represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale, which is set to open next May. The pavilion’s commissioning curator is Jeffrey Uslip, according to sources, who say the official announcement cannot be made until after the government shutdown has ended. The Baer Faxt newsletter first reported the news. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Allen and Uslip were working with a commissioning institution, as is common for the US Pavilion. The Washington Post reported on Thursday that another pavilion proposal, by artist Robert Lazzarini, had been selected, but it was subsequently dropped by the State...

The French national audit has published its report on the Louvre’s security, excerpts of which were leaked to press shortly after a trove of crown jewel were stolen from the museum. The report, known as the Cour des Comptes, found that only 39 percent of the museum’s rooms had cameras as of 2024. A security audit begun in 2015 determined the museum was not prepared for an emergency, only resulted in a tender for system upgrades at the end of last year. “It will take several years to complete the project, which, according to the museum, is not expected to be finished until 2032,” the report said, as quoted by Reuters. It added that the museum had funds to make the improvements, but instead spent...

studio museum: a lighthouse on 125th street
 
The Studio Museum in Harlem officially opens its purpose-built new home to the public on Saturday, November 15th. Today, November 6th, designboom attended a preview of the building and heard presentations from Studio Museum team Thelma Golden and Raymond J. McGuire, along with architects Pascale Sablan and Erin Flynn.
 
From the moment visitors approach the new museum on West 125th Street in New York, the design signals the meeting of its mission with its urban context. The project replaces the earlier commercial structure adapted in 1982 for the institution, and marks the first time the museum has had a home created expressly for its program.
 
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Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, known for his use of humor to question social structures and systems of power, has been named the winner of the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie. Established in 2000, the prize is generally considered Germany’s premier award for contemporary artists. Cattelan was unanimously selected for the honor by a jury comprising Emma […]

Once scheduled to be on view at the Smithsonian's National Portrait gallery, Amy Sherald's American Sublime is now on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art after the artist pulled the exhibit, asserting that she could not 'comply with a culture of censorship" Read the full article on the exhibition from our recent issue, after it premiered at the SFMOMA by clicking above!
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The City of San Francisco will take apart and temporarily store the iconic Vaillancourt Fountain following an 8–5 vote by its Arts Commission, which determined it to be a safety risk. Completed in 1971 by Canadian artist Armand Vaillancourt, the 710-ton Brutalist concrete structure was built to circulate 30,000 gallons of water but has been […]

Los Angeles County Museum of Art leadership has declined to voluntarily recognize LACMA United, the union that hundreds of its staff voted to form last week, opting instead to pursue a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election. The decision effectively delays the unionization effort, as NLRB elections are paused during the federal government shutdown, the union noted in a statement released today. In late October, LACMA employees across departments formed a union in association with the AFSCME Cultural Workers United District Council 36. The union has called for pay that reflects the rising cost of living and long-term job stability, as well as “fairer compensation, expanded benefits and increased...

A 137-carat diamond owned by the Medicis and the Habsburgs and long thought to have vanished has spent decades in a bank vault in Canada, according to The New York Times. The so-called Florentine Diamond was secreted away when the Habsburg family fled to Canada during World War II, and questions about it in the years since were deflected—until the terms of a 100-year vow were met and the family decided to divulge details of the treasure. “The less people know about it, the bigger the security,” said Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen, a grandson of Charles I, the emperor of Austria-Hungary who transplanted the diamond to Switzerland around the end of World War I. (Charles was a nephew of Franz Ferdinand, whose...

Across a wide range of media, from painting to textiles to works on paper, Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) developed a practice that merged history, activism, formal inquiry, and global influences. Born and raised in Harlem, New York, her work evolved from her awareness of politics and social issues in the 1960s and 1970s, which she channeled into “an incisive narrative about the historical sacrifices and achievements of Black Americans,” says Jack Shainman Gallery. Opening this month at the gallery, a retrospective spans Ringgold’s explorations of textiles, sculpture, and works on canvas. She is renowned for her story quilts, which combine fabric and embroidery with painted tableaux of Harlem, jazz clubs,...

The board of the Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM) on November 4 ousted Sasha Suda from her role as the institution’s director and CEO, which she has held since 2022. According to Philadelphia magazine, the dismissal took place via an email in which she was informed that she was being terminated for cause. The Toronto-born Suda joined the Philadelphia […]

Curator and researcher Vasyl Cherepanyn has been named curator of the 14th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, to take place in summer 2027. A cofounder of Kyiv’s Visual Cultural Research Center, which organizes the Kyiv Biennial, Cherepanyn is known for his work centering post-Soviet Eastern Europe. He intends the 2027 Biennale to respond to Berlin’s […]

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The much-anticipated report from the Cour des comptes points to issues with the management of the Paris museum and calls for a rethink of priorities

Simultaneously recalling elements of fungi, coral, and botanicals, Megan Bogonovich’s vibrant sculptures poke at the boundary between nature and the artificial, the unique and the manufactured. The artist’s uncanny botanical ceramics are created using a series of bespoke plaster molds, embellished with intricate details that resemble blossoms or mushroom caps. Duplicated shapes are disguised with a range of glazes, textures, and embellishments that resist pure repetition yet hint at a sense of the inorganic. A collection of new sculptures by Bogonovich go on view this week in the artist’s solo exhibition presented by JLG Projects at Jane Lombard Gallery in New York City. Fertile Ground opens on November...

Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Stephen Costello make their returns to the Met later this month and Grand Tier Grab Bag anticipates their performances by sharing them in the Act II duet from Don Carlo recorded in Munich this spring as well as a taste of Willis-Sørensen's Liebestod

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The Phillips Collection was founded amid a president’s calls for a return to “normalcy”, and today the museum is addressing a city and a country grappling with a similar dynamic

Some museums have closed, falling victim to Covid-19 and a slowing economy, while others are scaling back or regrouping

Vision Chair rethinks how the human body interacts with seating
 
The Vision Chair by Levitask and designer Klaus Kummer represents the outcome of over forty years of research into posture and ergonomics. The chair challenges the conventional 90-degree seating position by proposing a dynamic alternative defined as Elevated Seating, a posture concept that distributes body weight more evenly and supports natural spinal alignment.
 
Kummer, originally trained as a cabinet maker before moving into industrial design in Germany and Scandinavia, combines traditional craftsmanship with ergonomic engineering. His approach prioritizes the body’s natural movement rather than constraining it to fixed angles. The...

The Gagosian show will feature a dozen of Cornell’s most recognisable works

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vibrant steel facade links Dokkaebi Market and Seoul’s city fabric
 
The Dokkaebi Market Customer Support Center, designed by YZA, is a public complex supporting the traditional Dokkaebi (Goblin) Market in Nowon-gu, Seoul. Positioned at the entrance to the market, the building occupies a transitional site, where a quiet residential alley to the south meets the dense commercial activity of the market to the north. Within this dual context, the project was developed as an architectural gateway connecting two distinct urban conditions.
 
The program integrates several public functions, including a parking tower for market visitors, a customer support office, public restrooms, a community space, and a...

human washing machine appears at expo 2025 osaka
 
There’s a human washing machine at Expo 2025 Osaka that splashes water and blasts air around the user’s body to clean them up on its own. A project by Science Corporation, the bathing capsule is designed to automatically clean a person while they sit inside. The concept is to wash the entire body using micro- and ultrafine bubbles, all the while measuring the user’s physical condition using the embedded sensors. 
 
Inside the Future Human Washing Machine, the official name of the project presented at Expo 2025 Osaka, the lower part of the body is covered with microbubbles, each about 3/1000 of a millimeter wide, while the upper body and head are...

My first reaction in 1974 wasn't good. The production was full of stairs, and I was afraid Montserrat Caballé would fall at any moment.

DeRoche Projects completes rammed earth tennis court in ghana
 
Backyard Community Club in Accra, Ghana, designed by DeRoche Projects, introduces a model for community space in a city with limited access to green and recreational areas. Centered on a clay tennis court, the project combines sport, learning, and ecological practice within a compact urban site. It also represents Ghana’s first use of a precast rammed earth system, adapting a traditional building material for contemporary, scalable construction.
 
The most significant technical leap of the project lies in the pioneering use of precast rammed earth panels, developed specifically for Ghana’s climatic and labor conditions. Traditional rammed...

Key Jo Lee, Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, reflects on how ‘UNBOUND’ redefines Blackness through cosmology, science fiction, and ancestral vision David Alabo, […]

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Osei Bonsu, Senior Curator of International Art, Africa and Diaspora at Tate Modern, on how artists redefined modernism in Nigeria through independence, imagination, and cultural synthesis Installation view of ‘Nigerian Modernism’ at Tate Modern, 8 […]

Koulla Xinisteris, curator of ‘Still We Rise’, reflects on remembrance, resistance, and the enduring power of art in this collaborative exhibition bringing together works from the Ifa Lethu Foundation and the SABC Art Collection, Johannesburg […]

Forty years after it first opened its doors, Saatchi Gallery remains one of those rare institutions where art doesn’t merely decorate walls but expands the way we perceive the world. Since 1985, the gallery has been both a catalyst and a compass for contemporary culture – a place where risk, experimentation and imagination collide. Founded on the belief that art should reflect its own time, Saatchi offered a platform for untested ideas and unfiltered emotion, creating a space in which the new could be truly seen. In the decades since, it has launched careers, sparked controversy, and defined an era. The Long Now, opening in November 2025, marks this legacy not through nostalgia, but through renewal: a...

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There’s just one week left to submit your work for Do You Like Love? – the next book from Shutter Hub Editions!
What does love look like? Sometimes it comes with lust and desire, sometimes with deep-rooted care from the heart, and other times it’s a disguise for something that isn’t love at all.
Love can be found in the quieter gestures of everyday life. It can look like kindness, the people and places you hold dear, moments of care and support, or the small comforts that bring you peace: a cup of tea, a single flower, a familiar corner of home.
We’re re-imagining some of our favourite themes from the last decade. In 2015 we exhibited Do You Like Love?  as part of Photomonth East London...

“I am still in ecstasy over this,” said artist Molly Crabapple on the phone today, November 5. Millions of us feel the same way — Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral election yesterday sparked celebrations across the world, including at a bar in Williamsburg where Crabapple danced and cheered with her friends and fellow organizers. “There was an Italian TV crew that interviewed me while I was drunk off my ass and asked if I was afraid of Trump sending in ICE to New York,” she explained. “I said that he’s gonna send them in anyway, and at least now we have a mayor who will fight.” Crabapple should know. A born-and-bred New Yorker and an accomplished artist and writer, she...

After an emergency board meeting at the Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM), Director and CEO Sasha Suda was dismissed from her post yesterday, November 4. Initially reported in Philadelphia Magazine, Suda was ousted via email shortly after completing three years of her five-year contract with the museum and less than a month into the institution’s controversial rebrand. The email reportedly stated that Suda was terminated for “cause” effective immediately, without any further explanation. The museum declined to comment further in a public statement shared with Hyperallergic, citing the termination being “an internal matter.” PhAM confirmed in the statement that Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and...

In Ninon Hivert’s multimedia work, an object’s afterlife is an unfolding story—discarded items retaining the memory of a body, its gestures, and its relationship to its environment. She works like an archaeologist, observing with patient attention before translating a found object anew, capturing the textures of contemporary urban life in the process. Hivert’s study of the forgotten object began by documenting in photographs, then later in clay sculpture, the uncertain gestures of cast-off clothing. In recent work, she has expanded focus to a more general cast of quotidian items. Isolating artifacts at moments of abandon, she clarifies the contour of a presence left behind. If the present is built on a...

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Where technology, time, the cosmos, and perception meet, you’ll find the work of Japanese artist Mariko Mori. The artist has long been interested in the relationship between the individual and the universe—existence itself—which she explores through a range of mediums and immersive experiences. She also draws from the Buddhist philosophy of interconnectedness, which centers around the idea that no living being, object, or event exists in isolation. Everything is linked. A recent series of dreamy tondos and luminescent acrylic sculptures make up the artist’s current solo exhibition, Radiance, at Sean Kelly. Comprising abstract, symmetrical, metaphysical forms in bright pastel hues, Mori’s circular...

Painter Laura Ball's hypnotically engaging paintings give the viewer a multi-planed insight to the roiling energy of the subconscious, as well as the dynamics of the equally vital and tempestuous physical world. Read the full article by Kirsten Anderson by clicking above.
The post Capturing the Minotaur: The Art of Laura Ball first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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J'Nai Bridges makes a sophisticated companion to the Morgan Library & Museum's Renoir Drawings exhibit.

My experiences with live performances of Handel's operas/oratorios has been hit or miss, mostly miss.

As of March 2025, 721 people had been to space, according to the USAF. But this number is set to change. In recent years, space tourism has become a fascination of the ultra-rich – amongst them Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Virgin’s Richard Branson. Earlier this year, pop star Katy Perry garnered attention and criticism for her 11-minute flight aboard Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket. These ideas are the foundation of Fotografiska Tallinn’s latest exhibition: Space: A Visual Journey. It features 14 internationally acclaimed artists who are grappling with big questions around who gets to experience space, how and why. The line-up includes Mackenzie Calle, whose World Press Photo-winning series The Gay Space...

The Afro-Brazilian artist’s first institutional exhibition in the United States pairs a new outdoor work on Museum Hill with a gallery survey of tactile sculptures that reflect on resilience, memory, and reclamation. Sonia Gomes, Ó […]

The hues in Cowan's work are distinct, matched and paired among disparate findings from various locales. Read Andy Smith's full article on this unique glass artist by clicking above...
The post Amber Cowan Reshapes History with Her Glass Works first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Cinta Vidal’s intricate paintings often foster favorable comparisons to graphic prints by M.C. Escher, especially the latter’s impossible constructions. Any similarity is largely incidental: Where Escher revealed the subtle harmonies that unite the incongruent, Vidal reaches for something more intimate and human. Read the full article by clicking above!
The post Macro Verse: The Paintings of Cinta Vidal Allow us To Become Gravity-Defying Voyeurs first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

San Diego Opera's Pagliacci puts a play within a play within a play.

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A landmark satellite exhibition tracing Romania’s overlooked role in Zimbabwe’s liberation and the enduring politics of artistic solidarity Paul Gwichir, Untitled, 1970. Green Serpentine, 43 x 16 x 28cm. Courtesy of Gunter Péus Collection. Catinca Tabacaru Gallery […]

At the heart of Saodat Ismailova’s first solo UK institutional exhibition, Melted into the Sun, opening at BALTIC, is a meditation on thresholds, transitions and the suspended state of being where history and myth converge. The exhibition, which runs from 8 November 2025 until 7 June 2026, unfolds around the world premiere of Swan Lake (2025), a double-channel film that juxtaposes the remnants of post-Soviet Central Asia with intimate visions of collective memory, loss and hope. Alongside key works such as Zukhra (2013), As We Fade (2024) and Melted into the Sun (2024), Ismailova investigates the political and psychic tremors of her homeland and the fragile spaces where consciousness can flourish or be...

Photography has always been a playground for abstraction and experimentation. In the 20th century, pioneers like Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy challenged conventional image-making with photograms, transforming light and shadow into art. Today, artists such as Barbara Kasten, with her geometric Constructs, and Wolfgang Tillmans, through monumental cameraless works, continue to expand the medium’s possibilities. In 100 Ideas that Changed Photography, Mary Warner Marien lists abstraction as Number 67 – a reminder of its enduring impact. In this round-up, we spotlight five contemporary creatives, previously featured in Aesthetica Magazine, who manipulate materials and form. They use microscopes, mirrors,...

Seoul-based Ayoung Kim (b. 1979) is at the forefront of digital innovation in contemporary art. She employs generative AI, video game engines and live-action footage to explore the relationships between data, humans and the environment. Over the past decade, her career has accelerated rapidly; she has become internationally recognised as a Prix Ars Electronica award-winner, with works held in the Tate and MMCA collections, and has exhibited at the Mori Art Museum, Palais de Tokyo, and the Venice Biennale, among others. Kim joins a generation of artists using new technologies in both celebration and critique, alongside figures such as Cao Fei, who builds digital worlds reflecting China’s rapid urbanisation,...

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