BUFFALO, NEW YORK—A new study suggests that Indigenous Andeans in Peru have more copies of the gene for amylase, a saliva-based digestive enzyme, than any other population in the world, according to a Live Science report. Amylase breaks down complex starches into simple sugars, making starches easier to digest. Omer Gokcumen of the University of Buffalo and his colleagues examined data from more than 3,700 people to track the average number of salivary amylase genes in 85 populations from around the world. The team members determined that Andeans in Peru and the Akimel O’odham people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico had the highest average numbers of the genes. The researchers focused on the...

Fashion, animals, Venice, photography and emotions.

Welcome to the 341st installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Daniel Correa Mejía fillsrns his shared studio with seeds, family photographs, and music that puts him in a painting trance.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Daniel Correa Mejía, Berlin, GermanyHow long have you been working in this space?Thirteen years.Describe an average day in your studio.I come around 12pm to my studio and start painting almost right after lunch. Every day I paint for around four hours, and with the rest of the time...

Nature-Oriented Resort Embedded in Wuhan’s Lakeside Landscape
 
Located on the north shore of Houguan Lake in Wuhan, Wuhan Urban Construction Kaiyuan Senbo Resort is Central China’s first integrated suburban resort featuring iconic ‘Giant Banyan Treehouse’ hotel rooms. Developed by DAHLIN Architecture, the resort integrates architecture with nature, offering six distinctive room types, including treehouses, boat houses, and pumpkin carriage cottages, creating an immersive natural living experience. All units prioritize water views. The project leverages the forest and lake landscape along the north shore of Houguan Lake, adopting a village-like layout that allows the buildings to follow the water’s...

Self-taught photographer Duane Michals, known for unconventional and deeply personal narrative image sequences incorporating handwritten text, died in Manhattan on June 9 of pneumonia. He was ninety-four. His death was announced by New York’s DC Moore Gallery, which represented him. Mystical, metaphysical, and frequently touched by whimsy, his boundary-breaking work reflected his abiding interest in […]

David Hockney has died aged 88, his influence on contemporary art is immeasurable.

President Donald Trump wants to fast-track the construction of his proposed triumphal arch to be sited in Arlington, between the Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial, just across the Potomac River. The plan, which would see work happen year-round and for 20 hours a day, was revealed in a 24-page assessment by the National Park Service, according to a report by the Associated Press. The goal is to finish construction in three years. The assessment, part of a historic preservation review that began last Friday, includes details like the need for 320-foot-tall cranes to construct the 250-foot-tall arch, which be more than twice the height of the Lincoln Memorial. Work would be conducted in two...

Good Morning! Iconic British artist David Hockney has died at 88. A court in The Hague said the Mauritshuis does not have to return 25 valuable artworks—including eight Rembrandts—to the heirs of its former museum director. Fallout continues from a viral artist residency “scandal” that misled artists. The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. British artist David Hockney has died at 88. He “passed away peacefully at home on June 11, 2026, one month short of his 89th birthday,” stated his publicist, Erica Bolton. One of contemporary art’s most influential figures, Hockney never stopped painting what he loved, even late into his life. This included the people and places the artist encountered over the course of...

Charlotte Colbert's Venice exhibition Possible Landscapes hosts a special event featuring a live performance by Birdy

Opened in time for Art Basel, Chloe Wise's Extrasensory transforms KBH.G Basel with an immersive three-channel film installation

The Colombian artist Delcy Morelos describes her hometown of Tierralta as “a paradise full of butterflies and unpaved streets.” In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Morelos spent her days in her grandmother’s garden, running barefoot and gleaning what it meant to live in connection with the land. When paramilitary and guerrilla troops moved in, though, the region was plunged into a chaotic state of grief and fear. In her earliest works, Morelos translated the death and destruction plaguing her home into two-dimensional compositions. As she details in a new segment for Art21, acrylic painting was not long her primary mode of working, and quickly, she returned to the earth, incorporating soil, straw, and...

Conductor Eun Sun Kim and soprano Elza van der Heever play to their strengths in a piercing revival of Elektra at San Francisco Opera.

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The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) announced Friday that it has a $600 million fundraising campaign in the works. The goal is to support the institution’s long-term health—and it is nearly 80 percent of the way there. As it approaches the final stretch of the campaign, the museum is announcing the public phase of the campaign, which it is calling “For the Benefit of All the People.” It is the largest fundraising campaign in the museum’s history and, according to the museum, the largest by a cultural organization in Ohio. In an emailed interview, CMA director William M. Griswold said the campaign “emerged from our recognition that institutions must continually invest in their future,” adding that...

An exhibition in Oslo shows how the Norwegian artist hoped to build on the Freia chocolate factory frieze with even more ambitious work

In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about Pan-Africanism through a travelling exhibition now open at the Barbican in London, and speaks to researcher Daisy Fancourt on art and health. For the Work of the Week, digital editor Alexander Morrison discusses a colourful Barbara Hepworth sculpture.

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Artist Mickalene Thomas, widely known for her boldly colorful, rhinestone-adorned portraits that lionize Black women, has joined New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery. She will have a solo show at the gallery in January 2028. The artist will maintain longstanding relationships with three of her existing galleries: Yancey Richardson in New York; Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris; and Baldwin Gallery in Aspen, Colorado. (Thomas has in the past also been represented by New York–based Lehmann Maupin, Kavi Gupta and Rhona Hoffman both in Chicago, and Los Angeles’s Susanne Vielmetter, as well as working on a project basis with New York-based Lévy Gorvy Dayan.) For her work, dealing with concepts of race, queerness,...

Exhibition traces how the artist’s draughtsmanship was integral to his work

This summer the artist directs Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Glyndebourne Festival in East Sussex

Did these panoramic landscapes foreshadow the artist’s untimely death?

flowers as craft’s enduring challenge
 
Spend enough time looking at contemporary craft and a pattern begins to appear. Glassmakers, ceramicists, textile artists, paper sculptors, beadworkers, and woodcarvers often arrive at the same subject: flowers. Henri Purnell builds delicate blossoms from thousands of glass beads. Julia Oleynik shapes flowers petal by petal in clay. Lilla Tabasso recreates blooms in glass, while Ann Wood, Judith Rolfe, and Sourabh Gupta turn sheets of paper into stems, leaves, and petals. In Japan, Yoshihiro Suda carves flowers and weeds from wood with remarkable precision.
 
Contemporary craft is constantly evolving, embracing new technologies, materials, and processes. Yet one of...

IN CONVERSATION WITH LIzA LASEROW BERGLUND FROM NODIC KNOTS
 
Continuing the Navigators of Design series, a 10-part interview initiative produced in collaboration with Most Studios, the conversation shifts from independent eyewear to the spatial foundations of interior design. For this second feature, the series profiles Liza Laserow Berglund, Co-founder and Chief Creative Director of the Stockholm-based rug and textile brand Nordic Knots, to explore how the brand consciously resists the pressures of modern, accelerated consumption. By prioritizing the slow, deeply tactile nature of traditional textile production, the studio establishes an enduring presence that transcends fleeting novelty.
 
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david hockney leaves behind a six-decade artistic legacy
 
David Hockney, one of the most influential artists of the past century, passed away on June 11th, 2026, at the age of 88. The British painter built a career that spanned more than six decades, producing an expansive body of work that spanned painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, and digital media. From the swimming pools of Los Angeles to the changing seasons of Yorkshire and Normandy, Hockney developed a visual language defined by vivid color, close observation, and a persistent curiosity about how images are made.
 
Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, Hockney emerged as part of a new generation of British artists in the early 1960s after...

For vibrato fanciers, of course, discovering Supervia is like hitting the mother lode.

An art therapy professor asked her students to imagine a therapeutic treatment plan for a queer Arab woman who feared retaliation under the Trump administration for supporting pro-Palestine protests. For that, the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC), one of the foremost art schools in the country, placed her on leave. It’s a prime example of the rot authoritarianism introduces into democratic society — something we have to “fight at every turn,” Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian writes in an opinion piece today. Mere minutes away from the SAIC, the Obama Presidential Center, opening to the public on Juneteenth, feels like a dispatch from an alternate timeline — a vision of public life built...

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gentle monster stages a surreal vegetable landscape
 
Gentle Monster launches its 2026 Veggie Collection with a series of immersive retail installations that bring oversized agricultural landscapes inside shopping environments.
 
Debuting across Los Angeles, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, and Bangkok, the pop-ups, where oversized tomatoes, broccoli-like creatures, and plush vegetable characters occupy retail floors, extend the Korean eyewear brand’s long-running strategy of pairing product releases with large-scale experiential environments.
 
At the center of each installation stands an oversized tomato sculpture surrounded by what Gentle Monster calls ‘Veggiemon’, a cast of playful vegetable...

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Dal 9 al 13 giugno 2026 si svolge a Bologna la dodicesima edizione di Opentour, la piattaforma dedicata alla promozione dei giovani talenti dell’arte contemporanea che continua ad arricchire la città trasformandola in un grande laboratorio diffuso di ricerca, confronto e sperimentazione artistica. Al centro del programma di Opentour è la rassegna Giovani talenti in galleria che, coinvolgendo simultaneamente 31 gallerie e spazi privati di Bologna, costituisce il fulcro della manifestazione, creando un dialogo diretto tra la formazione accademica e il sistema dell’arte contemporanea.
Opentour 2026, Openshow, ph. Alessandro Para, courtesy Accademia delle Belle arti di Bologna
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The cliché has it backwards. You’re supposed to judge a book by its cover. That’s the entire point. “Don’t judge... Read More

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All’interno di Mezz’aria Community Hub, a Bologna, una mostra abita un’area della struttura inutilizzata da anni per ragionare sulla condizione generativa che l’estetica dell’oggetto e del luogo industriale abbandonato comportano, creando un intreccio di sguardi che crea suggestioni immersive e spunti per ulteriori riflessioni.
AA.VV., “Failing Supreme”, installation view at Mezz’aria Community Hub, Bologna, courtesy of the artists
Alla base dell’ideazione della mostra Failing Supreme il gruppo curatoriale Infrarosso composto da Anna Zanette, Greta Virdis e Aurora Taiti è partito proprio dal ragionamento sul luogo. Mezz’aria Community Hub è un progetto di rigenerazione urbana, un...

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This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June.Sarah Schulman says she's "one of those New Yorkers who can't leave New York." In her nearly seven decades in the city, the novelist, playwright, and filmmaker has co-founded the Dyke March, conducted 187 interviews with members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), reported on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and drawn pedagogy from Audre Lorde, who was her college professor. Though widely recognized for her documentaries and nonfiction books, including Conflict Is Not Abuse (2016) and Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993...

A group of scientists at the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes have published a study introducing a newly developed method that they say will help authenticate artworks—and identify potential forgeries. The report was published in the June 2026 issue of Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on cross-disciplinary research involving physics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering research. The research, conducted by Francois Berkmans, Ludovic Nys, and Maxence Bigerelle, focuses on how surface metrology—essentially, the texture and topography of a painting’s brushstrokes—can be used like a fingerprint to zero in on the...

Arizona’s Phoenix Art Museum, the largest art museum in the American Southwest, has received a gift of 185 works made by Indigenous artists from the William P. Healey Collection of Native American Art, the institution announced on June 2nd. Artists featured in the Healey trove include Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Allan Houser (Apache) and Jaune-Quick-to-See Smith (Confederated Salish and Kootenai).  In celebration of the acquisition, […]

Dr. Steven Nelson in front of Sam Gilliam’s "Blackberry, Bar and Green" (1977) (photo courtesy Dana Peterman)Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.A New Leader for the Sam Gilliam FoundationThe foundation, established in 2023 to care for Sam Gilliam’s legacy by elevating emerging artists and mobilizing civic activism, has named its inaugural executive director. Dr. Steven Nelson, who comes to the role from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, will begin his tenure immediately. Nelson was a graduate student in the 1990s when he...

Jean Shin, whose artworks are ecosystems in themselves, recently unveiled a memorial to two fallen trees in a Brooklyn cemetery. For the Amp, run by the Asian American Arts Alliance, Mimi Wong reports:Shin proposed Offering (2026) as a way to give the elderly trees a proper burial and honor the history of where they were rooted. In the winter, the grave was dug. Along with Dannielle Tegeder from the feminist artist collective Hilma’s Ghost, Shin led a procession to the open grave ringing bells. In the spring, the site was transformed into a Korean-inspired tumuli mound planted with native wildflowers. Mudang Jenn, a Korean shaman, blessed water with mugwort, a traditional medicinal herb, which was then...

Brussels gallery dépendance, whose exciting young roster, thoughtfully curated shows, and commitment to remaining small earned it a reputation as an “artists’ gallery,” has announced its forthcoming closure. The gallery will cease operations at the June 27 close of its current exhibition, a solo show of British painter and sculptor Alexandra Metcalf. Its project space VIEW, […]

Frieze London has named the 172 galleries set to participate in its 2026 iteration, while Frieze Masters has announced 140 participants. Both fairs will take place October 14–18 in Regent’s Park, with Frieze London centering contemporary art and Frieze Masters focusing on that made in the twentieth century and earlier, including the work of ancient civilizations. “Both […]

As collector Jochen Raiß (1969-2022) scoured flea markets and antique stalls for the better part of three decades for snapshots, he began to notice a running theme. Over time, he amassed a trove of photos by anonymous photographers with an unusually high number of portraits of women posing in trees. Swiss newspaper Züricher Tagesanzeiger asked, “What are they all doing up there?” And German paper Der Spiegel posited that the arbor-climbing might be a “forgotten popular sport.” Whatever the reason, the mystery is nearly as fun as the photos. A hardcover edition of Women in Trees from Hatje Cantz, published in German and English, follows two titles published in 2016 and 2017 that celebrate these quirky...

Independent 20th Century, a fair dedicated to shaking up the public’s established understanding of 20th century art, has just announced the specifics of its fifth edition, which will take place in the Breuer building—the home of Sotheby’s global headquarters in New York—and run from September 24–27 of this year.  The fair, Independent said, will host fifty-six exhibitors and welcome […]

Fibula EMMEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a report in the NL Times, more than 3,000 artifacts were recovered during environmental work in the Nieuwe Drostendiep stream valley in the northeastern section of the Netherlands. The objects include tools from the Paleolithic period and the Bronze Age; medieval jewelry and jewelry dated to the second century B.C.; and materials from the Eighty Years’ War, fought in the sixteenth century, and World War II. In particular, archaeologists found a gold ring dated to the third or fourth century A.D. and a fibula dated to the tenth or eleventh century A.D. “We are proud of the rich history of our beautiful and unique landscape. These remarkable finds emphasize this...

Black Polished ware hemispherical bowl with incised decoration NICOSIA, CYPRUS—The Cyprus Mail reports that an ancient ceramic vessel has been reclaimed from an online auction and returned to Cyprus after a year-long investigation. Cypriot officials who monitor online activity determined that the vase was in the hands of a collector in Canada, who eventually agreed to repatriate it. Researchers from Cyprus’ Department of Antiquities determined that the engraved, black-polished hemispherical bowl dates to about 1900 B.C. For more on the archaeology of Cyprus, go to "In the Time of the Copper Kings." The post Private Citizen Returns Ancient Vessel to Cyprus appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.

Researchers observed lesions and fractures on the woman's cranium. YORK, ENGLAND—Cuts found on the inside of an Iron Age woman’s skull suggest that her brain may have been cut out before burial, according to a CNN report. The woman’s remains were discovered with those of a teenaged boy in 2000 under a cairn in northern Scotland. Laura Castells Navarro of the University of York and her colleagues said that the cut marks were found in areas of the woman’s cranium where ligaments attached the brain to the skull, which reinforces the idea that the brain had been deliberately removed. The researchers also determined that the base of the woman’s cranium may have been fractured by an intentional, targeted...

Un viaggio a Parigi che non è mai accaduto. Memorie costruite da Google Street View. Indumenti che suggeriscono un corpo da tempo assente. Attraverso la fotografia, la performance e l’installazione spaziale, Yilun Liu esamina come l’esperienza è sempre più plasmata da immagini, rappresentazioni e tecnologie digitali. Poiché la vita quotidiana è sempre più legata a schermi, archivi e piattaforme online, il suo lavoro si interroga su come le persone distinguono tra l’esperienza diretta e le rappresentazioni che sempre più spesso la sostituiscono. Nata in Cina e attualmente residente a Londra, Yilun ha studiato architettura prima di sviluppare una pratica che combina fotografia, performance, media...

“Matter is memory, and memory is a medium,” says artist Annalise Neil, whose surreal cyanotypes brim with animals, fungi, geological specimens, shells, and more that she augments with watercolor. Recently, the artist has been adding rich, earthy tones with natural dyes such as wild strawberry leaf, oak gall, loquat leaf, and chestnut. She has used botanical teas to shift the natural blue color of the cyanotypes for quite a while, but the sepia tonality has emerged as a larger focus lately, which allows her to layer hues like browns and purples. Neil’s experiences in nature profoundly influence her individual pieces in a process that she poetically describes as “melting, rolling, pinching, sanding,...

Yes, the Met had Birgit Nilsson - so they let the volcano that was Gertrude Grob-Prandl's voice slip through their fingers.

«I vestiti sono contenitori di corpi, come i corpi sono, a loro volta, i contenitori delle anime; il vestito è l’ultimo feticcio, il segnaposto che rimane quando qualcuno non c’è più». Questo pensiero di Eugenio Dallari fa subito riflettere su quanto la materialità possa essere connessa con i nostri ricordi e quanto, nonostante il suo essere effimera e trasformabile nel tempo, possa diventare qualcosa che si radica profondamente nel nostro vissuto, presente e passato.
Eugenio Dallari, “Persone”, installazione, 120 x 50 x 50 cm c.a., 2026, courtesy of the artist
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Known for his vibrant palettes and flattened perspectives, Belgian artist Kristof Santy translates common sights and everyday objects into vivid tableaux. His paintings often highlight fruit and vegetables, tabletops, and modes of transportation, particularly those involved in industrial labor. A new body of work continues Santy’s inquiries into the mundane, this time extending into fashions and furnishings. There’s a striped sweater vest with a nearly imperceptible wrinkle hanging from a rod and a modernist chair in fuchsia pushed against a kelly green wall. Earlier investigations appear, too, including a short, roll-up ladder dangling from the door of a helicopter as it hovers in the air sans operator....

When we think of tarot cards, there’s a standout that probably pops to mind right away: the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. It was illustrated by British occultist and artist Pamela Coleman Smith, and more than 100 years after its publication, it remains the most widely used deck by readers. But the cards are far from being the first. Later this month, The Morgan Library & Museum presents Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions, which delves into this centuries-old tradition of divination. The exhibition celebrates some of the earliest examples alongside modern artists’ versions. Three surviving decks from the 15th century, commissioned by the Dukes of Milan, tap into the lively Italian court culture that...

ANTALYA, TURKEY—Hürriyet Daily News reports that five additional letters in the Sidetic alphabet have been identified, bringing the total to 31. The letters belong to the lost language once spoken in Side, an ancient port city in Anatolia. Sidetic is related to Anatolia’s Lycian and Carian languages. Feriştah Alanyalı of Anadolu University and her colleagues identified the letters in bilingual inscriptions containing 30 to 40 lines of text that they recently unearthed at the site. “The scarcity of inscriptions and the fact that most consist of only one or two lines make decipherment difficult,” Alanyalı said. Scholars generally agree that the words “Siruawn” and “Siruawan” refer to the city...

By Victoria Thomas When John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966, he had no idea who she was. More remarkably, Yoko was equally unaware of John. This neutral introduction seems impossible for us today, especially for children of the 1960s. But defying mere nostalgia, The Broad meets this challenge with Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Ono's first LA museum show, which offers a full season of multi-arts media programming, including the installation of seven digital antiwar billboards across Los Angeles....

Grand Tier Grab Bag this week honors the late Limmie Pulliam with a bit of his Verdi Requiem.

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Negli ultimi anni il paesaggio industriale è tornato al centro dell’attenzione di artisti, fotografi e istituzioni. Non soltanto come testimonianza di una stagione produttiva conclusa, ma come patrimonio visivo capace di raccontare le trasformazioni economiche e urbane che hanno attraversato l’Europa dalla seconda metà del Novecento a oggi. In questo contesto si inserisce High Voltage, la mostra curata da Nicola Bigliardi presso StayOnBoard Art Gallery, che mette in dialogo le opere di Gabriele Basilico, Andrea Chiesi e Günter Pusch.
Gabriele Basilico, Andrea Chiesi, Günter Pusch, ”High Voltage”, installation view, 2026, courtesy StayOnBoard Art Gallery, Milano
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Matthew Travisano has such doubts about Douglas Cuomo's opera recently seen at Opera Parallèle.

Dearest by Zeinab Diomande is a zine presenting a collection of paintings that, while not a formal series, share a cohesive visual language exploring themes of liquidity and the passage of time, achieved through the use of thinned paint and water. The pieces employ texture as a storytelling device, reflecting the rituals and ceremonies of the artist’s alter egos within imagined worlds.
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