Six years ago, the director of Hong Kong’s M+ museum, Suhanya Raffel, told cultural strategist András Szántó, in an interview for the book The Future of the Museum, that in the years to come museums will need to “stand together and work to help one another to deliver a more sustainable baseline.” Collaboration, she went on, “will be a key aspect of the next chapter of museum work.” Her words seem to have been prophetic: on Friday morning in Hong Kong, M+, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris announced a wide-ranging cultural alliance unprecedented in its scale. At the heart of the alliance is an agreement that the three institutions will treat their respective...

DBM DESIGNS FIRST INTERNATIONAL ISABEL MAYFAIR in ABU DHABI
 
Located within The Galleria on Abu Dhabi’s Al Maryah Island, Isabel Mayfair is a 580-sqm hospitality venue designed by Dubai-based practice DBM (Design by Mahsa), founded by artist and interior designer Mahsa Gholizadeh. Commissioned by BNF Hospitality, the interior establishes the London restaurant brand’s first international outpost. Rather than replicating the British flagship, the design constructs an architectural narrative around an imagined muse named Isabel, integrating bespoke artworks, architectural metalwork, and craft-driven finishes directly into the structural envelope.
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Tra il 1924 e il 1929 Aby Warburg compose il suo Atlante Mnemosyne disponendo su pannelli rivestiti di tela nera centinaia di riproduzioni fotografiche, dalle monete antiche alle pubblicità dei giornali, per rintracciare la sopravvivenza delle forme attraverso i secoli e le culture, in un montaggio sempre provvisorio in cui il senso nasceva dagli accostamenti più che dalla successione cronologica. A quel modello guarda Portolano, la personale con cui Davide Benati (Reggio Emilia, 1949) torna alla OTTO Gallery di Bologna, trasformando le sale espositive in un atlante della propria iconografia. Il titolo della mostra rimanda ai manuali nautici in cui i piloti annotano coste, fondali e approdi sicuri, strumenti...

Credit: Márcia Falcão I was invited to attend two of the opening days of Frieze London and, arriving in my home city, I was immediately reminded of its extraordinary energy, gathering pace around the nucleus of the Regent's Park venue. The art on display was more than equal to the occasion. A-listers from across the wider cultural landscape, including film, music and fashion, mingled with professionals, enthusiasts and cultural icons from London’s eclectic art scene, all seemingly loving,...

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. $4,500 Artist GrantsFeaturedThe Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for $4,500 and $1,000 artist grants from a total pool of $13,000. Two artists will each receive $4,500 and four artists will each receive $1,000. This is an international open call, and all visual media is eligible. The Hopper Prize provides a direct path to get your work in front of an international community of curators, artists, gallerists, and arts administrators. Additional exposure is available via a 30 artist shortlist, an online...

Marian Goodman Gallery in New York has hired curator Ebony L. Haynes as senior director, global head of curatorial affairs. Haynes, who will join the gallery in late November, is the first person to occupy the newly created role. She arrives from David Zwirner, where she is global head of curatorial projects. In 2020 Haynes […]

Sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard, known for her craggy, majestic wood forms carved from cedar, died at her home in New York on October 27 of Alzheimer’s disease. She was eighty-four. Over a career spanning five decades, von Rydingsvard transformed humble four-by-four chunks of wood into towering shapes whose puzzling bumps and hollows gave them the […]

Despite months of controversy, the United States managed to get Alma Allen’s enormous sculptures to Venice for this year’s Biennale. Getting them home, however, is proving more difficult. The American Arts Conservancy, the nonprofit behind the US Pavilion, is roughly $1 million short of the funds needed to cover the exhibition’s costs, including dismantling the show and shipping the artworks back to the US, according to a report in The New York Times. Jenni Parido, the pavilion’s commissioner, has been appealing to potential donors for help. In a letter obtained by the Times, she acknowledged that the final stages of the project had become difficult. “While we have accomplished a tremendous amount in...

On elections day next week, ballots in Philadelphia will include a question to formalize the office for local arts and culture—Creative Philadelphia—into a permanent part of the city’s government. The ballot’s Question 2 asks, “Shall the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter be amended to establish and define the functions of Creative Philadelphia, an office headed by […]

ÁLVARO URBANO REVISITS CASA CUEVA AT MUSEO JUMEX
 
An architectural history can begin with the person tending the garden. In Helen, at Museo Jumex in Mexico City, Álvaro Urbano approaches Casa Cueva through the botanical imagination of Helen Fowler O’Gorman, the artist who shared the house with her husband, artist and architect Juan O’Gorman. Built in the mid-20th century in Pedregal de San Ángel, the home brought architecture into close contact with the surrounding terrain and vegetation. Urbano draws its histories into an installation where sculpted plants, geological references, and architectural memories occupy the same uncertain present. Curated by Rosela del Bosque and Carolina Estrada García,...

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Documenta Appoints New Curatorial Team MembersLess than eight months away from the 16th edition of Documenta, the German contemporary arts festival has appointed four new curatorial team members: artist and musician Raven Chacon will serve as curator-at-Large, and Osei Bonsu, Timea Junghaus, and Noam Segal will be curatorial advisors.The upcoming iteration, opening on June 12 in Kassel, promises to offer a space for “study, experimentation, and awakening, where artists hold right to expression alongside their artistic creation.” But artists and free...

Every Halloween, black cats return as emblems of witchcraft, bad luck, and the supernatural. Their sinister reputations stretch back centuries: starting in the Middle Ages, people associated cats with heresy and sexual transgression, and their perceived affinity with witches intensified during the trials of Elizabeth Francis and Agnes Waterhouse and their cat Sathan between 1565-1579. But after the Enlightenment, 19th-century French artists and writers began to reclaim the mysterious and devilish qualities foisted onto felines as desirable. Alongside a new bourgeois pet-keeping culture, where caring for animals became associated with progress and enlightenment, bohemian artists and intellectuals began...

At the end of the day, this is who I want to be reading to my children. (screenshot Hyperallergic via X)With everything that's happened in the 1,000+ lifetimes jammed into 2026, I think we've all been waiting for Gay Halloween to rehash the year in popular culture. A recently named phenomenon for the chronically online, Gay Halloween is best described as the costume-based valorization of specific media moments, however iconic, niche, or overlooked they may be. Against the grain of sexy cat costumes and run-of-the-mill superheroes, those blessed with ✨ the vision ✨ devote their resources and talents to fashioning a high-commitment outfit about some bullshit like the hyperpigmentation meme or the...

The Met and Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin have unveiled three original works created during the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Vacheron Constantin Artisan Residency. The brand new program took place over the course of eighteen months, and emphasized preserving and reinterpreting traditional craft techniques. The three works of art produced in the residency are Vessel […]

In Citizen Kim, Jonathan Van Meter’s biography of Kim Kardashian, the author reveals that the billionaire reality TV star and Skims founder owns a painting by Claude Monet. In an excerpt published by The Hollywood Reporter, Van Meter writes that Kardashian bought the Monet because of Clueless, the 1995 film starring Alicia Silverstone. “Kim bought a Monet not because she had visited the famous Water Lilies at l’Orangerie in Paris or under the art world tutelage of Kanye West,” Van Meter writes. Clueless was released when Kardashian was 14, and she has called it one of her favorite films. Silverstone’s character, Cher Horowitz, is the daughter of a hard-nosed litigator, much like Kardashian’s late...

Two Republican members of the House of Representatives want to know more about how the Smithsonian Institution evaluates proposed exhibits after a museum display tied US-made munitions to the destruction of civilian’s homes in conflict zones. “The Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency is concerned that the Smithsonian Institution (Smithsonian) does not properly review proposed exhibits in its museums,” says a letter to outgoing Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch III, penned by subcommittee chairman Tim Burchett of Tennessee along with Georgia’s Brian Jack. The move comes in the wake of a July hearing at which Anthea Hartig, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American...

The World Monuments Fund has raised $62 million, tripling its endowment and beating its fundraising goal eighteen months ahead of schedule. This will give the New York–based preservation organization a financial cushion to protect monuments around the world. The organization’s endowment net assets are now expected to pass $100 million by 2028. The money raised […]

The popular art space on the Astoria waterfront is adding a one-acre area that will feature three large-scale works by founding artist Mark di Suvero

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi, "In the Ruined Palace at Sōma, Masakado's Daughter Takiyasha Uses Sorcery to Gather Allies" (c. 1844) on view in The Horror Show at the Academy Museum (all photos Matt Stromberg/Hyperallergic unless noted)LOS ANGELES — Horror films may have historically been relegated to second-class status in the cinematic canon, viewed by some critics as vulgar fright fests that lack the gravitas of “serious” filmmaking. But there is no denying the captivating power they have exerted over audiences, channeling our deepest fears about life, death, the world around us, and the unknown onto the silver screen. Now on view through July at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, The...

Apple brings touch to the MacBook Pro after years of resistance
 
Apple has unveiled its first touchscreen MacBook Pro in Cupertino, California, ending a 16-year position on how people should interact with a laptop. Announced on October 28th, 2026, the new 14- and 16-inch models allow users to work directly on the display, reaching past the keyboard and trackpad to manipulate content with their fingers. It is a familiar gesture on an iPhone, though one Apple has long resisted bringing to the Mac.
 
Back in 2010, Steve Jobs argued that vertical touch surfaces were uncomfortable to use for extended periods. Speaking at Apple’s Back to the Mac event, he joked that eventually ‘your arm wants to fall off,’...

CONSTANTA, ROMANIA—Romania Insider reports that an intact Roman sarcophagus has been uncovered in the necropolis on the edge of the ancient city of Tomis, on Romania’s Black Sea coastline. Archaeologists from Romania’s Museum of National History and Archaeology in Constanța said that the burial belonged to a young child. Inside the sarcophagus, the researchers found a well-preserved wooden coffin, clothing, a coin, a clay toy in the shape of a rooster with a rattle, two pendants, and traces of floral garlands. The burial was close to a road that connected the Roman city with the fortress of Histria. The location of the sarcophagus could therefore help researchers understand the extent of the necropolis...

Gretchen Scherer’s paintings of affluent homes, studios, and libraries appear to expand before our eyes. Brimming with ornately framed paintings installed salon-style on richly papered walls, her half-imagined spaces are inspired by real places, which she infuses with a playful brightness and whimsy. When we home in on one particular floral arrangement, framed artwork, or piece of furniture, it seems that there’s a sudden increase in how much more there is to explore. Scherer’s new solo exhibition, In Time at Monya Rowe Gallery, continues the artist’s fascination with historical interiors, from art museums and drawing rooms to palatial halls and ecclesiastical spaces. “A French Cafe with Paintings”...

Police have ramped up security around Dresden’s Zwinger, a Baroque palace complex that houses an internationally renowned porcelain collection as well as Old Master paintings and historic scientific instruments, after two men suspected of plotting a break-in were chased off by a security guard early Tuesday morning. According to Saxony’s criminal police and public prosecutor’s office, the two unidentified men entered the Zwinger’s open courtyard through the Crown Gate sometime between 6:10 and 6:30 a.m. on October 27. Investigators believe they were carrying tools intended for a heist. Whatever they had planned, they didn’t get very far. When a security guard approached them, the men turned around...

Before Derek Jarman became known for his anachronistic, queer film adaptations of the lives of Saint Sebastian, Caravaggio, Edward II, and even the Passion of Jesus, the English artist and activist worked as a set designer. This facet of Jarman, who died from AIDS-related illnesses in 1994, has recently come to the fore with the hyped release of the 4K restoration of Ken Russell's scandalous 1971 horror film The Devils, screening at the IFC Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Nitehawk cinemas in New York in the coming weeks.Adapted from Aldous Huxley's 1952 book The Devils of Loudun and John Whiting's 1961 play The Devils, the film is set in the castled town of Loudun, France, in 1634, in the...

Archaeologists investigate the Schaeffer rock shelter in Ceta Canyon, Happy, Texas. AMARILLO, TEXAS—KFDA reports that some 3,000 artifacts were recovered from the Schaeffer Shelter in south-central Texas. Situated on private property in Ceta Canyon, the rock shelter, discovered in 1949 by Stanley Schaeffer, measures about 20 square feet. Archaeologist Brandon Tully said that different groups of people likely returned to the site over thousands of years, and he estimates that some of the recovered artifacts are between 8,000 and 10,000 years old. “We really don’t have a lot of information about archaic period sites in the Texas Panhandle, especially rock shelters,” Tully said. “Almost all of our rock...

The fair leaves its downtown Dallas venue after 18 years for a larger, single-level space on the Southern Methodist University campus

Roman military belt and dagger LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—Mark Driessen and Carol van Driel-Murray of the University of Leiden have reexamined the remains of a man discovered in a well at the Roman fort of Velsen on the coast of North Holland in 1977, according to a La Brújula Verde report. A military belt, a dagger, a ring, a fibula, and a sandal with a studded sole were also recovered from the well. Previous research suggested that the man had been killed in A.D. 28, during a rebellion by the local Frisians over taxes, as recorded by the Roman historian Tacitus in his Annals. Driessen, Driel-Murray, and their colleagues proposed additional possible reasons for the man’s death. First, examination of the...

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GIUSEPPE AREZZI RECONFIGURES PERUGIA NEWSSTAND INTO CULTURAL HUB
 
Located along the historic Sant’Ercolano staircase in Perugia, Edicola 518 is a renewed cultural kiosk and micro-architecture conceived by Italian designer Giuseppe Arezzi. Realized for the Laboratorio di Creatività Contemporanea open call, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture and won by Edicola 518 under the L’Edicola che Vorrei initiative, the project marks the site’s tenth anniversary. Reopening on June 1st, 2026, the intervention repurposes the historic newspaper kiosk typology, shifting it from a commercial sales stall into an open, community-oriented reading hub and public amenity.
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Christopher Le Brun returns to representation with a new body of landscape paintings at Lisson Gallery.

Getty backs 11 global projects rethinking how museums connect visitors with art.

Local businessman Jemal Inaishvili’s institution, the Kvareli Foundation for Contemporary Art, aims to bring Georgian art to a wider audience

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Lukas Bentel leaves MSCHF to pursue solo projects and collaborations.

Mr. Bigglesworth, Jinxy, Keanu, and Thackery Binx all scamper back into the limelight in a new catalog of felines on screen. Released this month from A24, The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats is a playful, exhaustive compendium of the four-legged friends that have appeared in films throughout the ages. From main characters to helpful sidekicks to the accomplices of villains, these furry actors are iconic in their roles, sometimes even stealing the show from their human counterparts. The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats features more than 700 felines across 1,900 stills. Get your copy in the Colossal Shop. The Shadow of the Cat, 1961. Still courtesy of Everett Collection Keanu the cat, 2016. Still © Warner Bros., courtesy...

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Hoda Afshar, Lotus L. Kang, Sasha Kurmaz and Salvatore Vitale have been shortlisted for the 2027 edition of the £30,000 award

Marina Rebeka and Jonas Kaufmann are heading to New York for Tosca, so Parterre Box offers a sample of the two of them in a different Puccini opera.

At the Festival Verdi, the "mondi lontani" of Nabucco and Aida lead back to universal, Verdian virtues.

Maxim Kolomiiets's urgent The Mothers of Kherson premieres in Warsaw ahead of its Metropolitan Opera run.

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The show, opening in October 2027, will be organised around seven interlocking building blocks of the Renaissance master’s work

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insects make the material for ori orisun merhav’s sculptures
 
Brussels-based designer Ori Orisun Merhav is experimenting with a natural polymer produced by tiny lac insects, transforming their resinous secretions into glowing sculptures and sculptural furniture. Through her research practice Made by Insects, she heats and blows the amber-colored material into clusters of translucent bubbles, some perched on branching steel structures, others suspended as elaborate chandeliers.
 
The material is known commercially as shellac, a substance typically used as a protective coating. Here in Merhav’s hands, it takes on a completely different spirit.
 
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One of my favorite mezzo performances is Tatiana Troyanos in Cavalleria rusticana.

La rappresentazione del cosmo ha attraversato la storia dell’arte assumendo forme e significati differenti: dalla dimensione simbolica delle cosmologie antiche alle visioni scientifiche della modernità, fino alle interpretazioni contemporanee dello spazio extraterrestre. In questo orizzonte si colloca MOON, mostra personale di Pierdonato Taccogna, curata da Giulia Sirchia alla galleria Il Casino delle Muse di Palermo.
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Il progetto espositivo si inserisce nell’ambito della ricerca che l’artista conduce intorno alla Space Art, ma individua soprattutto nella luce il principio strutturale della propria indagine pittorica. Non si tratta...

Tethered to the spiritual realm, blue connotes a sense of serenity and healing in Yoruba culture. It’s also the color of peace, and for Romuald Hazoumè, it’s an apt metaphor for considering the legacy of colonial violence, climate catastrophe, and the global crises transforming life today. In My Blue Period at October Gallery, the artist meditates on the contemporary geo-political landscape through a series of masks made from plastic jugs and found objects, like feathers, netting, and hardened paintbrushes. The expressive sculptures are part of Hazoumé’s series titled masques bidons, or fake masks, which utilizes the functional structures of the vessels—circular openings for mouths, handles for...

IBRI, OMAN—The Oman Observer reports that burial chambers containing human remains and pottery have been excavated in northwestern Oman by archaeologists from Oman’s Department of Heritage and Tourism. The burials have been dated to the third millennium B.C. and attributed to Mesopotamia’s Jemdet Nasr civilization. Walid bin Hamad al Ghafri of the Department of Heritage and Tourism said that the excavation uncovered many beads, in addition to bronze arrowheads, axes, and daggers. Archaeological sites in the region are in danger of destruction due to rapid urban development, he concluded. To read about how people lived in the Omani desert some 5,000 years ago, go to “Oasis Makers of Arabia.”
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MPUMALANGA PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA—Phys.org reports that stenciled rock art has been identified in South Africa, which is known for rock art painted with brushes and fingers. “I wasn’t entirely sure what I was looking at for a while,” said David Pearce of the University of the Witwatersrand. “Then they popped into focus, a bit like optical illusions do,” he explained. The two human-like figures were discovered in the La Rochelle rock shelter in eastern South Africa, where few paintings have been found on the region’s steep cliffs. Pearce said that brush-painted images of hartebeest, eland, and humanoid beings had previously been identified in the large rock shelter. He now suggests that two of the...

Rilès handwrites the Bible, makes a new album and searches for ALL LOVE in East London.

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

Armed with high-magnification macro lenses, filmmaker Sandro Bocci journeyed through coral reefs to document a striking array of color, texture, and pattern. A project for Bocci’s collective Julia Set Lab, the short film homes in on the intricacies of a life form we can’t see with the naked eye. Subtle shifts in gradients, bold color juxtapositions, and a seemingly endless diversity of recurring motifs explode across the frame, revealing the beauty and complexity of the extraordinary organisms growing below the water’s surface. Set to music by Maurizio Morganti, “Iteration” is the second collaboration by the pair, who continue to harness the power of technology to create works at the intersection of...

Heartbeat Opera’s Queeney Todd draws together New York’s queer theater multiverse in a stunning drag production that breathes new life into the opera and leaves the audience in stitches.

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Per Luciano Fabro, fare arte contemporanea significa «inserirsi nelle cose compiendo un processo che si attua nel senso della meraviglia […]». La meraviglia interrompe la familiarità con il mondo, sottrae le cose alla loro evidenza e apre uno spazio in cui la percezione si fa interrogazione. È il thaûma dei Greci: un’esperienza ambivalente, in cui attrazione e spaesamento si compenetrano. Al thaûma risponde sempre il thymós, respiro vitale che anima l’agire ardito. Quello che, “spirando via”, decreta la morte. Quando il thaûma colpisce un individuo, è proprio il suo thymós a sobbalzare e ad animarne il coraggio. È in questa tensione che si apre Luciano Fabro. Abitare lo spazio,...

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Ci sono luoghi in cui il tempo non sembra trascorso, ma rimasto sospeso tra le cose. Alla Villa Augustea di Somma Vesuviana affiora dalle murature, dalle superfici interrotte, dalla terra ancora esposta e dalle strutture che accompagnano lo scavo. È dentro questa temporalità non conclusa che Roberto Maria Lino inserisce Le parole che si intrecciano tra i ricordi i ricordi che si intrecciano tra le parole, installazione nata durante la residenza Art Summit – Vesuvio Contemporary Experience and Residency. L’opera non tenta di restituire un’immagine del passato: si avvicina piuttosto al modo in cui esso continua a raggiungerci, per tracce, permanenze e inevitabili omissioni. Roberto Maria Lino, “Le...

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