A Curved Vase Frames Flowers Through Every Stage
 
VITA Vase by HOUBI follows the full arc of a flower’s life, finding beauty not only in full bloom, but in everything that comes before and after. Its forward-curving form was carefully developed to remain balanced while allowing softer, non-rigid stems to follow its curve naturally. Some bend downwards with the vase, while others change direction and find their way back up towards the light. As petals fall, they become part of the composition rather than its end. VITA Vase in Sky Blue with tulips rising towards the light | all images ©HOUBI
 
 
A Vivid Palette Connects VITA to the Elements of Life
 
VITA is about the resilience and continuation of life,...

Tension is boiling over at San Diego’s Institute of Contemporary Art due to a spate of recent firings, exhibition closures, and budgetary concerns, according to reports. Over the course of late July through early August, the ICA laid off nearly half of its personnel, including its entire public-facing visitor experience team and its only curator. […]

Quiet Luxury: GroundedDesign builds Villa Limni in Dubai
 
Located in Jumeirah Golf Estates, Dubai, Villa Limni is a five-bedroom residence renovated by GroundedDesign across 539 square meters of built-up area. The project explores a restrained approach to residential interiors, placing proportion, materiality, craftsmanship, and long-term use at the center of the design. Founded by Bani Singh, GroundedDesign approaches residential architecture as an evolving system rather than a finished object. At Villa Limni, the existing structure provided the starting point for a transformation focused on clarifying its architecture, reorganizing its spaces, and introducing a material palette connected to the surrounding...

Mildred Howard (photo Judy Dater, courtesy Artists' Legacy Foundation)Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other art-world happenings.A Major Milestone for Mildred HowardThe Artists’ Legacy Foundation announced that Mildred Howard is the recipient of its 2026 Artist Award, an unrestricted $25,000 prize bestowed annually to a major painter or sculptor whose work “shows evidence of the hand.” Known for her public art across the Bay Area, alongside a diverse practice spanning assemblage, collage, sculpture, and installation, Howard has inspired countless people by salvaging objects and their histories to convey moving stories...

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At the corner of two narrow streets in Tokyo, an orange compact car slips beneath a white house that seems to have been cut around it. Atelier Tekuto’s Reflection of Mineral occupies an irregular 44.62-square-meter plot, where the client wanted as much living space as possible along with covered parking.
 
Three separate height restrictions pressed against the building from above, and the car claimed its space from below. Yasuhiro Yamashita and his team filled the available envelope and sliced into it until the house became a small polyhedron, with one deep cut at street level forming a sheltered pocket exactly where the vehicle needs to sit.
 
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The Chinese artists set to exhibit at this year’s Gwangju Biennale officially withdrew today from the prestigious exhibition, which opens September 5. The announcement follows a directive issued last week by the Chinese embassy in Seoul ordering China’s artistic team to halt its activities in protest of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation’s decision to allow Taiwanese exhibitors to participate under the name “Taiwan.” On the eve of the exhibition’s opening, the Gwangju Biennale is grappling with a diplomatic dispute triggered by allegations that its organizers renamed the Taiwanese exhibition from the “Taiwan Pavilion” to “The NTMoFA Pavilion,” after its commissioning institution, the National...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized over 22,000 ancient artifacts in Florida last month, including Greco-Roman coins, terracotta and glass vessels, jewelry, and mosaic frames, yielding the largest object recovery in the department's ongoing probe into antiquities smuggling in the state. Dated between 1,000 and 5,000 years old, the objects are said to have originated from sites across Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, Africa, and the Levant. The Tampa Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit partnered with archaeological specialists and researchers at the University of South Florida and the University of Pennsylvania to authenticate, contextualize, and conserve the objects yielded...

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China withdrew from South Korea's Gwangju Biennale this morning, September 3, just nine days after event organizers restored the title of "Taiwan Pavilion" to a group show featuring Taiwanese artists. The announcement, which was first reported by the Korea Times, comes two days before the scheduled opening of the 16th edition of the biennale.Rifts between Taiwan, China, and event organizers surged in mid-August after the biennale axed the name of “Taiwan Pavilion" in their promotional materials and replaced it with the English acronym for the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, “NTMoFA.” Organizers initially refused the name reversal demanded by Taiwan's Ministry of Culture and participating...

This fall, Atlanta’s High Museum of Art will commemorate its centennial with the unveiling of significant recent acquisitions, some of which will be displayed in its American and African Art collection galleries. These acquisitions include a rare painting by Jacob Lawrence, a quilt by Carolyn L. Mazloomi, and a work by folk artist Grandma Moses. […]

Whether it’s scenes from the subway, streets, or Times Square, visions of New York City are often hectic and crowded. For Erin Milez, the hustle and bustle, but moreover the cramped spaces and tightness, characterize a new body of work going on view this month in Everything the Light Touches at Monya Rowe Gallery. Milez recently moved from New York to Seattle, and she began to examine the nature of human connection, or the lack thereof, in urban spaces. Her expressive paintings draw on the visual language and subject matter of artists like George Tooker and Jacob Lawrence, who approached the theme of urban life through distinctive, figurative compositions. There’s also an unmistakable nod to the blocky,...

A 1923 WAREHOUSE becomes A SHARED HOME FOR DANCE
 
MAD reveals designs for Danshuis, a center for dance that will transform a 9,500-square-meter art deco warehouse in Rotterdam (find designboom’s previous coverage here). Designed by Ma Yansong’s studio and located on the south bank of the River Maas, the project will bring professional and amateur dance under one roof when it is scheduled to open in 2030. The building stands beside Fenix, Rotterdam’s museum of migration, also designed by MAD.
 
The former warehouse, dating from 1923, will house fourteen dance studios alongside an open podium, gym, exhibition space, café, and a rooftop Salle des Fêtes for large-scale public programs. A vertical foyer...

Medina will curate the 25th iteration of one of Latin America’s second-oldest biennial, opening in November 2027

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In its latest attempt to bring the Smithsonian Institution to heel, the Trump administration is threatening to cut off discretionary grants and is accusing the organization of violating federal antidiscrimination law. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Vince Haley, assistant to the president for domestic policy, wrote a letter to the Smithsonian’s board of regents on August 28, warning that the Smithsonian may lose support from executive agencies. Congress provides the majority of the Smithsonian’s funding, more than $1 billion a year. The letter was earlier reported on by the Washington Post. As Burgum and Haley outline, the White House Domestic Policy Council recently issued a report, “Saving...

Before the iPhone essentially turned all of us into documentarians, the Super 8 camera offered a more democratic approach to filmmaking. Kodak introduced the analog format in 1965 with an eye toward amateurs and hobbyists interested in capturing the world around them, and today it remains a stalwart of the discipline, particularly for those drawn to the grainy, nostalgic qualities of shooting on film. Ed Sayers, director and founder of the annual Super 8 competition and community called straight 8, tapped into the camera’s equalizing legacy for his latest project. Bringing together 40 collaborators in 25 countries across five continents, Super Nature is a collective ode to our planet. Rather than travel the...

Cartographical works tied to famous works of fiction will feature in an exhibition at Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Opening days of Seoul's Art Week show the South Korean market entering a more mature, if less ebullient, phase

Cover of Whistler: A Novel by Ann Patchett (Harper, 2026)Artists and authors are taking the Year of the Horse quite seriously. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey hit theaters this summer, featuring the classic Trojan horse and all it stands for: things both passed down orally and things unspeakable. And just a month before that came Ann Patchett’s Whistler, her 10th novel for adults, which also takes this year’s zodiac quite seriously — the book is named for a horse in a story within the story.Patchett is known for her character-driven tales, and for writing literary fiction that remains accessible. She is perhaps best known for her 2001 breakaway hit Bel Canto, based on the Japanese...

CRYSTALS FOLLOW THE FLIP
 
Motorola’s latest razr arrives with 35 Swarovski crystals scattered across its quilted PANTONE Meteorite shell, but the detail that gives the collaboration its logic sits directly in the phone’s hinge. A larger 32-facet crystal occupies the mechanical joint, catching light each time the device opens and closes.
 
‘The hinge is the heart of the razr interaction,‘ Motorola North American Marketing Director Maria Jose Martin tells designboom. ‘It’s the exact point of movement that turns every flip into a brilliant reveal.‘ On a phone whose identity has always depended on that movement, the crystal becomes part of the gesture instead of sitting somewhere purely...

German painter Kerstin Brätsch has been named the winner of the twentieth Zurich Art Prize. She will receive CHF130,000 ($161,000), of which CHF30,000 ($37,000) is prize money and CHF100,000 ($124,000) will go toward production costs for a solo exhibition by the artist at Zurich’s Museum Haus Konstruktiv, to open in June 2027. Born in Hamburg […]

Gloria Steinem, the feminist activist who furthered the modern women’s movement, died at 92 years old, as confirmed in an Instagram post. “She spent her recent years doing the two things she loved most: being in community with others and writing. She has welcomed hundreds of guests into her living room for Talking Circles, a tradition she insisted will continue long after she is no longer with us,” the post explained. “As Gloria wrote in her forthcoming book, An Unexpected Life, ‘I have now lived for more than fifty years in this brownstone, in rooms that have witnessed lives before mine, and will know others after I am gone.’ This book, along with her commitment to her home becoming a center for...

With Los Angeles’s Lucas Museum of Narrative Art finally open to the press, the institution’s chief executive has responded to layoffs and high-profile departures that took place last year in the run-up to the inauguration. In a New York Times profile of the Lucas Museum, a private museum opened at a cost of $1 billion by collectors George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, Tracey Bates, the CEO who replaced Sandra Jackson-Dumont as the institution’s leader in January, suggested that the turnover had not impacted operations. Lucas, Bates told the Times, “has always been the chief curator.” Moreover, she said, “the planning, the mission, vision and values of this organization have never changed.” In fact,...

The sculpture, of an art preparator whose torso is concealed in a crate with their legs sticking out, prompted a late-night rescue mission at Vancouver’s Access Gallery

A trove of 700 Viking Age silver objects and fragments has been discovered in a man’s garden in Rebild, North Jutland Museums announced, marking the largest-ever find of its kind in Denmark. The anonymous homeowner was planning to build a new terrace in his garden when he found the treasure. “It should have just been a few hours of hard gardening work removing stubborn grass, stones and gravel for a new tiled terrace, but it turned out to be the biggest surprise of my life,” he said. “After half an hour of digging, my grip hit something that made a strange sound. At first I thought it was old iron or fence wire and some potsherds, but when I started digging with my hands, I was suddenly able to fish...

By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Parker 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...

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September welcomes the rituals of renewal — back to school! — and recognition, as the end of the year approaches. While the seasonal light and shadows cast dramatic beauty across the Hudson Valley, galleries and museums match the mood with robust exhibitions. This month, Shaker Outpost features graceful ceramics by Paula Greif, and September presents a survey of artworks by the self-taught Black Arts Movement artist Reginald Madison. Dynamic fabric pieces by Holly McCabe take over the tattoo studio and gallery space at Distortion Society, while the Hessel Museum at Bard College presents the work of legendary gallerist, poet, and artist Betty Parsons. The Kleinert/James Center for the Arts at Byrdcliffe...

Created from bamboo and printed Japanese paper, Jacob Hashimoto’s elaborate installations cascade from the ceiling to create a vibrant “cloud canopy.” In his latest exhibition titled Giant Arc, ripples of color and pattern stretch from wall to wall as the nearly 75,0000 kite-like elements cluster, repeat, and tease the floor. The monumental work, which just went on view at SFMOMA, marks the largest piece the artist has created to date. As sun streams through the museum’s large windows and mixes with the light of the gallery, the feel of the installation changes throughout the day. Hashimoto conceives of the experience as a conduit to wonder for visitors of all ages, focusing on formal compositional...

Stephan Jost, who has served as CEO and director of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto since 2016, will exit both roles at the end of the year, the museum announced. Jost did not reveal his future plans, but suggested that his departure was spurred by the early achievement of some long-term objectives. […]

A new English translation of Puccini's La fanciulla del West gallops into a high school in Pacifica with as much grit and gumption as its titular frontierswoman.

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‘Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee’ brings together work of Beverly Buchanan and Dionne Lee that highlights histories hidden in the environment

There are several HDs that look interesting, but what I most looking forward to is the Manon with Nadine Sierra.

This week, London’s Serpentine Galleries announced the launch of a six-month fellowship program, commencing in September, that will award four artists working with artificial intelligence grants of £10,000. The inaugural cohort of the fellowship includes Reina Mun, Alice Bucknell, Alfredo Salazar-Caro and Auriea Harvey.  Serpentine has long demonstrated support for artist-cum-technologists. In 2019, the gallery […]

From the stillness of a lily-specked pond to a nostalgic carousel perched on top of a spindly stand, Hans Op de Beeck’s latest works delve further into a realm of meditation and solitude. His forthcoming solo exhibition, Vanishing Point at Almine Rech, highlights his characteristically monochromatic sculptures, which he often coats in matte gray. Many are life-size, inviting viewers to stand quietly near a calm figure seated on a chaise lounge beside a fawn or peer into a framed seascape in which definition is only wrought by contrasts in light and shadow. Scale, lifelike detail, and an array of objects, figures, and animals in different settings lend Op de Beeck’s sculptures a kind of wünderkammer...

Major expeditions, numerous attempts, and strokes of luck characterize how many of the top images in the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards came to be. Francisco Castro Escobar, for example, was surprised to see a rare lesser horned owl, sometimes referred to as “the ghost of the desert,” perched on a cactus in northern Chile during a dawn hike. “The largest owl in Chile gets this nickname because seeing one is so rare that it’s like an apparition,” Escobar says. The image also took the grand prize for the Chile/Colombia contest. Audubon Photography Awards runs two parallel opportunities, one for photographers in the U.S. and Canada and the other for those based in Chile and Colombia. This year, the...

In between performances of Strauss and Mozart, Parterre Box highlights the smolderingly elegant Samantha Hankey.

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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...

I'm looking forward to the Met's new production of Puccini's La fanciulla del West.

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It is only a concert performance, but no one seems to have told them that; and thank the heavens for that!

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...

Nel 1979, quando il saggio “La Transavanguardia italiana” di Achille Bonito Oliva viene pubblicato su Flash Art, Jean-François Lyotard scrive “La condizione postmoderna”. Entrambi i testi muovono da una condizione di crisi, quella che interessa le metanarrazioni, vale a dire i sistemi narrativi volti a legittimare una visione del mondo lineare e progressiva. Per il francese l’obiettivo è la dialettica dello spirito, per l’italiano è il “darwinismo linguistico”[1] dell’avanguardia. Bonito Oliva contrappone all’istanza collettivistica e progettuale che aveva indirizzato le formazioni nate negli anni Sessanta “un ritorno dell’arte ai suoi motivi interni, alle ragioni costitutive del suo...

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...

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Le lancette dell’orologio non smettono mai di rincorrere il tempo. Con il loro fare silenzioso, avanzano a poco a poco, rendendo attimi, minuti, ore e giorni, entità che in pochi istanti perdono di valore. Potremmo parlare di circolarità o di eterno ritorno se pensassimo a quel lampo di genio che, dopo generazioni e generazioni, continua ad abitare nella famiglia Buendia, nella lontana e recondita Macondo. Sì, perché alla fin fine, ogni attimo è destinato a ritornare.
Giovanni Anselmo, “Entrare nell’opera”, 1971, stampa fotografica su tela (copia espositiva), Archivio Giovanni Anselmo ETS, Foto © l’Artista, courtesy Archivio Giovanni Anselmo ETS
“Ripensando il Romanticismo nell’arte...

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Lasciata alle spalle una torre medievale dell’XI secolo e qualche palazzo cinquecentesco della Serenissima, sperso tra la speculazione edilizia degli anni Sessanta, a pochi passi dalla ottocentesca piazza Erminio Ferretto (intitolata a un partigiano morto nella guerra di liberazione dal nazifascismo) nel centro storico di Mestre, oltrepassato il duomo di S. Lorenzo, attraversato un restaurato cortile con porticato settecentesco, per studiato contrasto sorge il Museo del Novecento M9 (progettato dallo studio di architettura tedesco Sauerbruch Hutton, studio che aveva vinto il concorso internazionale indetto dalla Fondazione di Venezia per la riqualificazione di quell’area urbana), museo  ideato e proposto...

Tra tutte le edizioni di Documenta, quella che si tenne nel 1972, dal titolo Interrogare la realtà – Mondi dell’immagine oggi, apriva una significativa riflessione sui linguaggi dell’arte contemporanea, il mondo reale e le sue rappresentazioni. Il titolo che il curatore Harald Szeemann scelse per la manifestazione risulta quanto mai contemporaneo, permettendo di consideralo come una valida prospettiva per scoprire lo studio dell’artista Luca Valerio (Fondi, Latina, 1966). È evidente come Interrogare la realtà – Mondi dell’immagine oggi presupponga una ricerca artistica che presenta elementi riconducibili all’arte concettuale, quindi caratterizzata da un rigoroso controllo formale e...

Hyper Reality è il titolo-tema dell’undicesima edizione del Festival curato a Forlì da Vertov Project. Prologo alla Fondazione Dino Zoli con la mostra collettiva Interference, che riunisce dodici artiste internazionali nel segno dell’interferenza come forza generativa. Forlì torna a essere una Babele di stimoli e visioni, grazie a Ibrida Festival Internazionale delle Arti Intermediali: l’undicesima edizione, dal titolo-tema Hyper Reality, è in programma dal 17 al 20 settembre. Prologo essenziale e complementare sarà la mostra collettiva intermediale Interference, che dall’1 settembre all’11 ottobre metterà in dialogo le ricerche radicali di dodici artiste internazionali.
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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...

By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...

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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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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