An interdisciplinary team, including archaeologists from the University of Innsbruck, has mapped the remains of a previously unknown Roman town in Lower Austria. Researchers think the settlement could be the lost city of Claudivium, abandoned over 1800 years ago. The news was reported by several sites, including Arkeonews, following a September 25 announcement by the University of Innsbruck. The site, located at the hamlet of Stein/St. Pantaleon-Erla, is just a few miles east of the ancient Roman military installation of Lauriacum, part of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Danube Limes. It has been known since the 1970s for yielding Roman artifacts, but an organized investigation did not commence until 2017,...

Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and his Republican counterpart John Cornyn of Texas have filed an amicus (or “friend of the court”) brief defending their own Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, which was signed into law in 2016, against claims of unconstitutionality by Austrian defendants seeking to hold on to Nazi-looted works by Egon Schiele. The senators filed the brief on September 18 in the Southern District of New York in the case Reif v. Republic of Austria, in which Timothy Reif, a descendant of Austrian Jewish performer Fritz Grünbaum, who was killed at the Dachau concentration camp in 1941, sued the government of Austria along with the Albertina Museum and the...

A new project by the artist Molly Gochman features large-scale reproductions of artefacts from the museum’s collection on its glass façade

Visual artists Christine Sun Kim, Rodney McMillian, Vincent Valdez, and Chip Thomas are among the 20 recipients of this year's MacArthur Fellowship, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced today, September 29.Each fellow receives an unrestricted financial award of $800,000 that is issued in quarterly installments over five years. The MacArthur Foundation describes the program as a no-strings-attached fellowship awarded to those "who show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future." Fellows are nominated by external parties and selected by an independent committee. Since 1981, the foundation has awarded 1,195 MacArthur fellowships in disciplines...

Twelve years after premiering in New York, back then at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler’s epic film River of Fundament will return to the big screen in an eight-hour event at the Masonic Hall of New York, on West 23rd Street in Chelsea. On November 14, the film’s three acts, which run for nearly five and a half hours in total, will be separated by intermissions to allow the audience “to move throughout the adjoining spaces of the Masonic Hall’s largest ritual meeting space, the Grand Lodge of the Free & Accepted Masons of New York, a congregation founded in 1782,” according to a press release. “Food and libations will be offered, extending the experience beyond the...

Detail views of a large-scale mosaic on two sides of a hall underneath the Baths of Trajan in Rome (photo Anthony Majanlahti/Hyperallergic)ROME — In the newly opened Museo delle Terme di Traiano, or Museum of the Baths of Trajan, visitors can now view the largest surviving wall mosaic in the Roman world.Directly across from the Colosseum in Rome rises the Oppian Hill, 2,000 years ago a densely constructed neighborhood and today a sunny park where immense pieces of the huge public Baths of Trajan still protrude from the earth. It has already produced some of archaeology’s wonders: underneath the Baths, the richly decorated rooms of Emperor Nero’s Domus Aurea, or “Golden House,” can be visited in a...

Frieze and Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism revealed the list of programs for the first edition of Frieze Abu Dhabi. The fair is set to take place from 19 to 22 November this year at Manarat Al Saadiyat, a cultural space in Saadiyat Island, an emerging hub for the arts in Abu Dhabi. […]

A drawing that has spent decades in an Italian collection is now believed to be a previously unknown work by Édouard Manet. The small red-chalk study shows a child crouching on the ground, according to The Guardian, which first reported the discovery. Francesco Baccanelli, an Italian art historian who encountered the work in a private collection in northern Italy, told the outlet he became interested after noticing that its mount carried an old attribution to Manet. He subsequently brought it to the attention of Emily Beeny, chief curator at the Legion of Honor at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and a specialist in French art. Their research, which will appear in the October issue of The Burlington...

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the 20 recipients of its annual MacArthur Fellowships, colloquially called “Genius Grants,” which comes with $800,000 in unrestricted funds. This year’s cohort includes four artists: Christine Sun Kim (based in Berlin), Rodney McMillian (Los Angeles), Vincent Valdez (Houston and San Antonio), and Chip Thomas (Flagstaff, Arizona). The subject of a recent Whitney Museum survey, Kim is known for her works that challenge institutions and audiences to confront their own ableism, particularly as it relates to Deafness. One of her best-known series is “Degrees of Deaf Rage” (2018–19), drawings in charcoal and oil pastel that which humorously...

Imagine this — you make a significant sale that covers your apartment and studio rent for the month and a chunk of some credit card debt, and before you know it, your beloved dachshund stops eating and suddenly needs a couple of teeth extracted. In the blink of an eye, you’re another $1,400 (at best) in the hole you’ve been persistently digging yourself out of. Even worse, the problem spreads, and the dog needs more teeth removed within months.Animal companions may be some of the most meaningful bonds of a lifetime, but it’s no walk in the park to account for exorbitant veterinary care while running on the check-to-check treadmill. A 2025 study by PetSmart Charities found that 94% of responding...

After a summer of never-ending heatwaves and natural disasters exacerbated by the climate emergency, it’s clear that immediate, systemic work is necessary to mitigate the human impact on our world. Environmental advocacy is top of mind for many artists, some of whom confront the issue directly in their work and activism. In a community biology lab in Brooklyn, one group of artists is doing their part by exploring renewable, biodegradable art materials as an alternative to the synthetic options readily available in stores.In Source Material: Genspace Biomaterials Studio BioArt Exhibit, a three-day show at Flux IV in Queens during Climate Week, artists from Sunset Park’s Genspace lab centered the artistic...

Two weeks after jointly voting to authorize strike action with the Whitney Museum's union amid stalled contract negotiations, unionized staff at the Brooklyn Museum and the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) are preparing to vote on ratifying tentative agreements with their respective institutions. In contrast with the Whitney union, which recently set a strike deadline of October 5, the tentative agreements with AFAM and the Brooklyn Museum emerged before either union publicized a strike date, potentially averting the escalation altogether. All three museum unions have organized under UAW Local 2110, which represents the labor force across myriad cultural institutions in New York City and nationwide. A...

Reuben “Rube” Goldberg (1883-1970) was known for his comic strips, political cartoons, and unique inventions. His most enduring legacy, however, is arguably the Rube Goldberg machine. Still bearing his name, these contraptions are often comical or playful due to their “overengineered” nature, using complex sequences of simple chain reactions like rolling ramps, weight and pulley systems, domino chains, and pendulum swings. “Busy Bodies,” created by animator Kate Renshaw-Lewis, is a short film inspired by these straightforward yet intricate mechanisms. The animation presents an imaginative process for what seems to be the creation of red rubber gloves and the packaging of vague fish products. As...

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Some of the books in Es Devlin’s new installation still show signs of use. More than 2,000 volumes fill an eight-meter-wide triangular shelf, including copies taken from her studio. There is James Gleick’s Chaos, Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. The books are arranged by color, a visual order imposed on a collection built over years of reading.
 
Called An Infinite Library, the sculpture turns above a circular mirror at the Design Museum in London. Projections move across the shelves while Devlin’s recorded voice reads selected passages. It occupies the final room of Es Devlin: Other Worlds, her first retrospective in...

The organizers of Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB) have announced that the 2026 iteration, which runs December 4–6, will include 272 exhibitors from more than forty countries and territories. This number represents a reduction from 2025, which hosted 285 galleries. Bridget Finn, ABMB’s director told ArtNews that “this reduction is more about refinement than contraction,” […]

Lawsuits related to a Cranach diptych at the Norton Simon Museum of Art and a group of watercolours at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum were filed two days before a 2024 California statute expired

Known for his fantastical paintings of hybrid flora and fauna, Jon Ching channels the otherworldly in vibrant and meticulously detailed canvases. His precise renderings of regal creatures conjure elemental energies like fire and water, merged with the personalities of mammals, birds, and marine life. Inspired by his island upbringing on O’ahu, Hawai’i, Ching continues to turn to nature as a boundless source of wonder and solace. The Los Angeles-based artist’s forthcoming solo exhibition, Path of Least Resistance at KP Projects, highlights recent portraits of owls, hummingbirds, fish, orchids, and more. Navigating both the socio-political realities of the past few years and the daily challenges and...

The Sámi artist network Dáiddadállu has been announced as the recipient of this year’s Munch Award celebrating artistic freedom. The award is presented annually by the Munch Museum in Oslo, and comes with a monetary prize of NOK 300,000 ($31,200). It is awarded to artists working in the spirit of Edvard Munch, who championed artistic […]

Unionised staff at the New York City museum have voted to go on strike on 5 October if there is no progress in contract negotiations with museum leadership

A new show at the Japanese institution pairs its extensive collection by the Impressionist with recent Modern and contemporary acquisitions

Exhibition at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek includes sensational loans—and some added colour

By Betty Ann Brown "In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world."—Graciela Iturbide Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide creates haunting images that portray the people, places, and events of the extraordinary cultures and geographies of her home country. Iturbide has a unique artistic practice that involves living and working with the people she chooses to photograph. Her process has made possible the strange and wonderful depictions for which she is known. In...

Kun Sok follows fabric and fiber works across The Armory Show 2026, from visible seams to open space and shifting viewpoints.

bureau betak brings nature into dior’s summer 2027 show
 
For Dior’s Summer 2027 women’s show, Bureau Betak transforms Le Bassin Octogonal in the Jardin des Tuileries into a temporary landscape of water, mist and trees. A long white runway cuts across the octagonal basin, surrounded by water and enveloped in drifting clouds of mist. Camphor trees rise from the water around the catwalk, bringing an irregular, living presence to an otherwise highly controlled composition. The solid white runway meets the shifting surface of water, while mist repeatedly obscures and reveals the landscape around it. Bureau Betak places nature directly inside the architecture of the show. The runway behaves almost like a...

Pace Gallery is seeking a tenant with which to share its New York City headquarters, located at 540 West Twenty-Fifth Street in Chelsea. The news was first reported by Puck’s Wall Power newsletter and by Julie Brener Davich in her Substack, The Appraisal. According to Davich, the gallery is offering space on the upper floors […]

JMW Turner’s 1835 canvas Rome, from Mount Aventine will be auctioned at Sotheby’s Old Master Evening Sale in London on December 9, with an estimate of £50 million ($66.2 million). Ahead of the auction, it is on public view at Rome’s Palazzo Rondinini from September 29 to October 1. According to Julian Gascoigne, Sotheby’s senior […]

Niklas Roy is fascinated by the convergence of art and technology. From robotics to gaming systems, the Berlin-based artist and inventor creates quirky yet thought-provoking sculptures and installations that investigate relationships between creativity, science, and tech. His mechanical contraptions are often infused with a lighthearted twist that prompts viewers to think critically and get involved. And his most recent project draws on one of the most fundamental types of technology humans have ever developed: telling time. “Glashütte Trash Clock” is named for the town in Saxony, Germany, where the artist participated in a residency this year. It’s also the birthplace of the nation’s renowned...

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Studio Téré gives a 1960s railway signal box a new public role
 
L’Aiguilleuse is a project by Studio Téré that transforms a former 1960s railway signal box into a small kiosk-bar located at the heart of the Jardins de l’Estuaire, a new public park on the Île de Nantes, France. Originally part of the Nantes-État railway infrastructure, the building once controlled train movements entering the station. As the surrounding railway landscape gradually disappeared, the signal box remained as a small but distinctive fragment of the site’s industrial history.
 
Rather than replacing it, the project gives this existing building a new public use. The former technical building becomes a place for meeting,...

There’s a moment every designer working in digital products eventually runs into: the product itself is genuinely good, the functionality’s... Read More

Stephanie Nebbia on Art Mail, 6,000 painted postcards and bringing a global artist community together at Saatchi Gallery.

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Paul Carey-Kent reviews Jennifer Higgie’s new Andy Holden monograph, Weight of Imagination.

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When the Dance Floor Became the Stage
  Looking back at Vitra Design Museum’s 2018 exhibition Night Fever, the history of club culture reveals a recurring architectural experiment: what happens when the audience is no longer separate from the spectacle? A nightclub does not have a conventional audience. There is no fixed row of seats, no clear division between stage and auditorium, and no guarantee that the person who enters will remain a spectator. Once inside, bodies, sound, light, fashion and architecture begin to become one. The room changes as people move, and the people inside are part of what everyone else is experiencing.
 
This is one of the ideas that emerges from Night Fever: Designing Club...

IN-WASH® VOREA SMART TOILET IS THE NEW BATHROOM ESSENTIAL
 
Roca’s In-Wash® Vorea transforms personal care into a bespoke experience, combining complete hygiene engineering within an all-in-one fixture. Honored with both the Red Dot Award and the iF Design Award, the smart toilet adapts to individual user settings through a slim remote, an intuitive side button, or the Roca Connect app. Its advanced technology remains housed inside a clean, enduring silhouette, uniting smart utility and visual restraint for contemporary bathrooms.
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ROCA PAIRS TACTILE INTERACTION WITH CONCEALED ENGINEERING
 
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Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Arch Enemy Arts Call for ArtistsFeaturedArch Enemy Arts is seeking submissions for an annual group exhibition in January 2027. This spotlight exhibition of new and emerging talent has no themes or direction in subject matter, although the gallery focuses on representational, dark surrealism, magical realism, post-graffiti, pop-surrealism, narrative, illustrative, and figurative work across a range of artistic mediums. The exhibition is open to artists worldwide, who are invited to submit up to three works for...

Earlier this month, a monumental, metallic spiral appeared on the High Line to coincide with New York Fashion Week. The elevated, art-filled public park on the West Side of Manhattan runs from Gansevoort Street near the Whitney Museum of American Art to 34th Street near Hudson Yards. Commissioned by Bulgari as part of its Serpenti Infinito series, which celebrates its famous Serpenti collection through artistic partnerships, the temporary installation invited visitors to walk through an enormous coil titled “auroBOROS: Urban Memory and Collective Dream.” The brainchild of artists Marco Canevacci and Yena Young, who helm the studio Plastique Fantastique, “auroBOROS” spent nearly two weeks wedged...

The UK’s 15 national museums will remain free to all visitors, including those from overseas.

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By Victoria Thomas Lauren Cross, PhD is the Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts for The Huntington. The gifted artist, author, and scholar moves through the world of material objects with a detective's nose for sleuthing out lost context and hidden figures, and a Griot's gift for connecting narrative dots to unearth treasure. She is the unstoppable force behind the first major museum retrospective to explore the untold history of ceramic innovator Doyle Lane, with more...

With a creative lexicon featuring yarn, pixels, beeswax, and spray paint, Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega has created a new language for herself, one that speaks to the present and the past by using traditional and contemporary techniques, as well as rural and urban sensibilities, to create a body of work that synthesizes all her […]
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Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.

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The 80th Issue of Hi-Fructose is coming soon! It includes a cover a feature on the paper collages of Lola Dupre, the Fluffy Vases of Shishi San, the installation paintings of Evgenia Voinar, Debbie Lawson’s textile sculptures, painter Rob Browning’s stark surrealism.  Plus a Special Insert Section focused on the art of Jeff Sheridan, Andrea […]
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By Lacey Argus Sovern, a nonprofit art gallery and healing justice center in Los Angeles, sticks out like a vibrant castle in the midst of the harsh greys of urban Los Angeles. The bright shades of pink and elaborate designs that adorn its concrete walls draw you in, as if calling you to explore the treasures within. The gallery's current showing is Into the Pluriverse, running from June 25 through October 8, 2026. Into the Pluriverse is a group exhibition inspired by the Zapatista term...

 
Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...

By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...

For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park 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 areas...

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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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.
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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...

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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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.