Karolina Halatek’s Echo explores light, space, and perception
 
Echo by Karolina Halatek, located within Istanbul’s renowned Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM), offers a somaesthetic exploration of light, space, and perception. Its open form allows visitors to enter the installation. They can pause and observe the relationship between their body and the space. The shift in perspective, from an external, object-oriented point of view to an inward gaze, creates a new dimension, a new reality in which the viewer becomes the central point. In the context of working with trauma, the body’s memory plays a crucial role. As Gabor Maté notes: ‘People who have experienced trauma often disconnect from their bodies...

Whether it’s a large-scale wallpaper reproduction of Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” or pages of deconstructed Artforum magazines, David Daigle’s detailed punch-cut compositions delve into the material and conceptual possibilities of layers, depth, and what is revealed or concealed. Daigle’s forthcoming exhibition, The Death of Beauty at Track 16, investigates intersections of identity, consumer culture, and desire through a kind of sedimentary approach to commercial imagery, which he excavates with precise holes each revealing tiny tableaux. This method of décollage, which involves building up the surface and then removing elements, literally peels away the meanings and intentions behind...

Paul and Mara McCarthy of The Box sit down to discuss the history of their influential LA gallery, and the circumstances led to its recent closure.

Twenty-three years before releasing his breakout film Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death, and while still working primarily as a cinematographer, artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa wrote a review of the Hughes brothers’ Menace II Society in the Summer 1993 issue of Artforum, using the LA crime drama as a springboard for expressing Jafa’s larger impressions of the […]

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Idan Gilony reflects on food as a medium, leaving fashion behind, creative risk and why meaningful experiences matter more than aesthetics alone.

Only two mourners were present at the funeral of renowned British figurative painter David Hockney, who died June 11 at the age of eighty-eight The Guardian reports. In accordance with the artist’s wishes, Hockney’s partner, Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima, and his great-nephew, photographer Richard Hockney, who worked as his model and assistant, attended the intimate […]

Madonna collects her. Her work sets auction records for women artists. Netflix is developing a series about her. She’s the subject of an opera. Now, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo has another claim to fame. “Frida: The Making of an Icon,” opening this month at London’s Tate Modern, has pre-sold 41,000 tickets, a record for the institution, reports the Guardian. That beats the 32,000 advance sales for the museum’s 2017 David Hockney exhibition. “We’re pretty blown away by it,” Catherine Wood, Tate Modern’s interim director, told the publication. The museum is billing the show as the first major exhibition to explore how Kahlo became a “global icon” and a major influence on a generation of...

By Melanie Chapman There is much to appreciate about the new pop-up exhibition Hospital of Emotions, currently on view at St. Vincent Medical Center (2131 W. Third Street, Los Angeles) until July 31. But if you want to maximize the benefits of your visit, avoid the bombardment of images now flooding the internet and even consider not reading this review. Like seeing all the best parts of a movie by watching the trailer, it is better to just go, and go soon, with as little advanced exposure as...

a room above the bike racks
 
In Munich, a small timber structure now rises above the bicycle racks outside a residential building, its pale pink frame lifting a room-sized volume into a pocket of street space usually given over to passing traffic.
 
Called ZuHaus, the temporary structure by architect Clemens Hoyer turns a familiar edge of the road into a place that can be booked, occupied, furnished, and tested by the people who live around it.
 
The project will stand from May 29th to July 31st, 2026, as a real-world urban laboratory, or Reallabor, asking what can happen when a parking bay is treated as shared neighborhood infrastructure. Instead of treating the street as leftover space, Hoyer gives it a...

For Willie Cole, the convergence of material and concept are as important as emotional and even spiritual links to history. Whether repurposing salvaged musical instruments, creating enigmatic visages from stacked stilettos, or arranging hundreds of single-use plastic bottles across a surface, his imaginative sculptural assemblages tap into a range of global traditions, eras, and social and environmental issues. Cole explores our associations with physical objects by removing them from the context within which we’re accustomed to encountering them. Time-honored African masking traditions and figurative sculptures made of high heels meet modern symbols of labor and culture, such as repeated ironing board...

Good Morning! Multi-hyphenate artist Daniel “Danny” Simmons has died at age 72.  Only two people attended David Hockney’s funeral last week, per his last wishes. At the Obama Presidential Center opening on June 19, the former president warned against those who “see government as nothing more than a way to divvy up the spoils.” The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. Artist, activist, philanthropist, and community leader Daniel “Danny” Simmons has died at 72, reports ARTnews’ Brian Boucher. Simmons was the older brother of hip-hop star Russel Simmons and rapper Joseph Simmons, known as Rev Run, of the group Run-DMC. The three brothers co-founded the New York gallery Rush Arts and the Rush...

Interaction design determines not just how technology works, but who it works for. At the George Washington University's Corcoran School of Arts and Design, faculty are bringing this concept directly into the classroom by centering those most excluded and impacted by design. The Interaction Design program allows students to learn whose needs are prioritized, whose voices are omitted, and how design choices create or dismantle power structures through rigorous human-centered research, prototyping, and ethical inquiry.In emphasizing and teaching the critical design process, the Interaction Design program at the GW Corcoran is developing a pedagogy of partnerships through several of its classes, such as...

Basquiat – Headstrong at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art brought together 50 works focused on the human head

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June.Far too many queer elders are not as widely known as they should be, precisely because their queerness, and often their gender, led others to place barriers in their path. And yet, many have carried right along regardless. Flavia Rando is one such person. A Brooklyn native, a child of immigrants, a lesbian who came out in her late teens in 1961, Rando went on to join the Gay Liberation Front and Radicalesbians, found her own photo research business, participate in the first art exhibition to include the word lesbian in the title, and wheat-paste her work and that of other...

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According to dealer Martyn Downer, the silver plate of the exiled monarch could be “the only coffin plate of a Queen of England that will ever be on the market”

Opening to the public on 25 June, Hypha Gallery South Bank will feature 800 sq. m of gallery space

eva jospin turns discarded cardboard to immersive landscapes
 
For decades, conversations about the future have been dominated by innovation. New technologies, new materials, faster systems, smarter tools. Yet some of the most compelling visions of tomorrow are emerging from a very different place: the preservation of craft, material knowledge, and the human capacity to shape meaning through making. Few artists embody that shift more powerfully than Eva Jospin.
 
Working primarily with discarded cardboard, the French artist constructs vast forests, grottoes, architectural follies, and imaginary landscapes that seem to exist somewhere between archaeology and fantasy. Through thousands of cuts, layers, and...

self-powered capsule tests water quality
 
Researchers from Yonsei University in South Korea, working with collaborators from the University of Bath, Renmin University of China, and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, propose a self-powered floating capsule that detects water quality and disinfects microorganisms without batteries, external power sources, or chemical additives. Published in Nature Water, the study presents an all-in-one device designed for decentralized water treatment, addressing a global challenge that continues to affect billions of people without reliable access to safe drinking water.
 
The floating-induced detection-guided disinfection (FDGD) capsule combines water...

The exhibition ‘Salon’ at the Irish venue features work by artists including Denzil Forrester and Margot Bergman, as well as an eccentric assortment of chairs

An arena-like space by Ferruccio Laviani provided a fitting stage for the Italian manufacturer’s increasingly sophisticated design collection.  
It was a bit surreal, to be honest with you. I’d tripped along to the MARA stand at this year’s Salone del Mobile to conduct an interview with long-established (and, no, that’s not an euphemistic way of saying older) Italian designer Ferruccio Laviani, who, as well as contributing to the manufacturer’s increasingly sophisticated product portfolio, had created their fair-stand concept – a kind of micro abstraction of an ancient arena in which visitors, upon entering, found themselves surrounded by the brand’s latest products, displayed on ascending...

From Old Masters like Tintoretto to contemporary Kantarovsky, the medium's brilliance shines across the city

Happy belated Father's Day to all my fellow dads, stepdads, and father figures out there. To celebrate the occasion, we've rounded up 10 contemporary artists who have made compelling work about the fathers in their lives.  In our Queer Elders series for Pride Month, Staff Reporter Rhea Nayyar interviews Métis artist Rosalie Favell, who confesses: “I came out as a lesbian before I came out as an Indigenous woman.” Worth a read. Also, check out our list of art shows to see in Upstate New York this summer and a review of a new documentary about painter Georgia O’Keeffe. Happy Monday. —Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief 10 Contemporary Artists Reckoning With Fatherhood You’ve seen Goya’s...

The divine Dame Janet Baker never sang at the Metropolitan, sadly for American audiences.

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Miriam Cahn propone una visione e la impone come dato. La retrospettiva al MACRO di Roma, la prima in Italia di questa ampiezza, è un campo di attrito in cui cinquant’anni di opere costringono il corpo a misurarsi con la propria esposizione all’abuso. Guardare, qui, indica essere guardati. Il titolo, Ciò che mi guarda, ribalta la direzionalità dello scrupolo con una minuzia tutt’altro che retorica. Lo spettatore smarrisce qualunque ubicazione esterna: viene convocato in una relazione che esclude neutralità e divario gestibile. Il visivo funziona da contatto diretto, pressione, più che raffigurazione. Curata da Cristiana Perrella e allestita da Didier Fiúza Faustino // Bureau des Mésarchitectures,...

Artist, activist, philanthropist and community leader Daniel “Danny” Simmons has died at 72. His family recently announced his death but did not indicate a location, date or cause, reports the New York Times. Born in Hollis, Queens in 1953, Simmons was older brother to hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons and rapper Joseph Simmons, known as Rev. Run in the rap trio Run DMC. In 1995, the three brothers co-founded the New York gallery Rush Arts (named for Russell’s nickname) and Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, whose mission was to provide exhibitions, events, art education, scholarships, and grants for disadvantaged artists of color. Simmons also founded Corridor Gallery in his Brooklyn loft apartment....

Wolf Trap Opera triumphs in a fizzy, fun Cenerentola.

We had to wait for Marian Anderson to break the color barrier at the Met and many great Black opera singers never had a chance there.

Dallo Studio Tommaseo a una rete internazionale di curatori e artisti: Giuliana Carbi Jesurun racconta il percorso e la visione di un centro culturale che ha deciso di guardare oltre, rivolgendosi a Est, in un progetto che parte negli anni ‘70 e che continua ancora oggi a evolversi.
“Dialoghi Lituani”, 1997, mostra alla Stazione Marittima di Trieste, in primo piano le sculture imbottite di Darius Bastys, foto Tiziano Neppi, courtesy Trieste Contemporanea
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Meeting a politician who strikes you as sincere and authentic is as rare an occurrence as a New York Knicks championship or a peace deal between the US and Iran. But I had this uncommon experience last week when I met New York State Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, an artist and union organizer who's running for Congress. Valdez is as progressive as they come, advocating for Medicare for all, universal rent control, taxing the rich, abolishing ICE, and freedom for Palestinians. She moved to the city in 2015 to become an artist and lived through the ordeal of fulfilling that dream, working jobs at Taco Bell, Trader Joe’s, and Pizza Hut. If she wins this Democratic primary on June 23, she would be making...

Henry, artist Nancy Shaver’s collectibles store in Hudson, New York, is closing after 30 years. Its demise marks the end not only of a beloved retail enterprise, but of a singular, long-running art project. As a shop, Henry is an ever-changing compendium of objects, generally showing the effects of time and use, selected and arranged with purpose. As an artist, Shaver is now perhaps best known for her wall sculptures built up from fabric-covered wooden blocks (“Blockers”), containers filled with objects (“Boxes”) and fabric-covered panels (“Spacers”). Of importance in both Shaver’s art making and her retail activities is how things look together, how they speak to one another, and how their...

Durante i giorni della Biennale, Venezia continua a funzionare come un sistema poroso, dove ogni intervento si innesta su stratificazioni già presenti senza mai cancellarle del tutto. In questo contesto, la Cappella di Santa Maria della Pietà accoglie Vessels of Other Worlds di Wallace Chan come una deviazione silenziosa rispetto al flusso espositivo diffuso in città. Non si tratta di un’occupazione dello spazio, ma di una sua lenta modulazione, in cui la materia sembra reagire più che dichiararsi. L’impatto visivo, per chi entra nell’edificio progettato da Giorgio Massari, è un’alterazione improvvisa della luce: la pietra e i marmi storici della chiesa settecentesca entrano in contrasto con la...

You’ve seen Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son.” You can picture Frida Kahlo’s family tree. There exists a litany of Dutch masters’ renditions of domestic scenes, children crouching at the ankles of adults. What about depictions of dads today? Fatherhood endures as rich subject matter, and there are a whole host of contemporary artists playing with it, questioning it, turning it over lovingly in their hands.On the occasion of Father’s Day, Hyperallergic has rounded up 10 artists making work that involves dads of all kinds: immigrant dads, absent dads, flawed dads, fellow artist dads, adopted father figures — or an imagined vision of what future fatherhood could be.Arleene Correa ValenciaIn 1996,...

Roman-era curse tablet, Heerlen, Netherlands HEERLEN, THE NETHERLANDS—A curse tablet discovered in the southeastern Netherlands has been analyzed with reflectance transformation imaging and deciphered by Rodney Ast of the University of Heidelberg and his colleagues, according to a report in La Brújula Verde. The lead sheet, dated to the second century A.D., was discovered in a well in what had been the Roman military settlement of Coriovallum. It measures about 3.5 inches long and almost two inches wide. Multiple photographs of the curse tablet were taken under varying lighting conditions, and then digitally combined with a computer into a single image with adjustable lighting to highlight the surface...

Calligraphy is an ancient art with roots across the globe, dating back to early Chinese dynasties and Greek civilization, all through the Italian Renaissance. But one glance at a work by San Francisco-based artist Hunter Saxony III, and your understanding of calligraphy will be turned on its head. In an approach that is varied, yet […]
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"Young Eurymedon” mosaic, Aspendos, Turkey ANTALYA, TURKEY—Türkiye Today reports that a third-century A.D. mosaic depicting a river god has been uncovered at the site of Aspendos in southern Anatolia. The image shows “Young Eurymedon,” a symbol of the Eurymedon River, which flowed near the city. Young Eurymedon wears reed leaves on his head and holds some in one hand as he leans on an amphora from which water flows as a symbol of fertility. Fish swim in the life-giving water. “This discovery not only reveals the artistic richness of Aspendos, but also provides important scientific data on Roman-period Anatolian mosaic art,” said Nuri Ersoy, Turkey’s culture and tourism minister. The mosaic was...

Excavation of Battle of Bunker Hill redoubt, Boston BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS—According to an Associated Press report, an excavation conducted at Breeds Hill, the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill, has uncovered the outline of an earthworks, eight musket balls, and parts of a musket. The earthen walls were quickly built by Americans to slow advancing British forces who occupied Boston in June, 1775. Joe Bagley, city of Boston archaeologist, said that potential locations for the fort were identified with ground-penetrating radar, and the presence of a defensive ditch some three feet deep and six feet wide was confirmed through excavation. American soldiers piled soil from the ditch to form a six-foot-tall square...

The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

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Leyla Gencer had a long European career but never sang at the Met.

Nello spazio del foglio i segni tracciati da Kazuko Miyamoto si muovono liberi. Gli ideogrammi animano la superficie della pagina in una raffinata sequenza di passi e movimenti, alla stregua di una danza, così come i tocchi di inchiostro e colore sono coinvolti in un moto perpetuo di aggregazione e disgregazione. Sulla carta non esiste possibilità di correzione e ripensamento, e ciò non per puntigliosa ed esteriore regola di gioco, ma perché la scrittura rappresenta il diagramma continuo d’un fluire a cui sono ignote le soste.[1]
Kazuko Miyamoto, “Dancing around the entrance to the cellar”, exhibition view, courtesy Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Roma
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Archaeologists from Wessex Research, a British archaeological firm, have found a structure that may have been a prototype for Stonehenge. The company announced the find just days before June 21, when thousands of visitors will converge on the ancient stone circle to celebrate the summer solstice. The Wessex Research team made the discovery while conducting required excavations in Bulford, three miles from Stonehenge, ahead of the British Ministry of Defense’s construction of new housing. At the heart of the find were two postholes, 400 feet apart, aligned so the now-vanished poles would point directly to the rising sun at summer solstice and the setting sun at winter solstice—exactly as Stonehenge’s...

New York–based artist Teresita Fernández has been revealed as the first artist in a new commissions program for the reopening of the Menil Collection’s Fresco Building in late 2027. The historic structure, which has been closed since 2018, will be repurposed for semi-permanent, site-specific commissions. The reopening will coincide with the fortieth anniversary of inauguration […]

A New York Supreme Court judge on June 16 gave billionaire dealer David Nahmad thirty days to return Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 painting Seated Man with a Cane to the family of Jewish antiques dealer Oscar Stettiner, who left it in his Paris shop as he fled the Nazis during World War II. The ruling is the latest twist in a […]

Skull of a 10-year-old girl who may have died of the plague around 5,000 years ago in Siberia OXFORD, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that evidence for an outbreak of plague some 5,500 years ago has been identified in DNA samples taken from the remains of hunter-gatherers buried in cemeteries in southeastern Siberia. A second outbreak likely occurred between 400 and 600 years later. Ruairidh Macleod of the University of Oxford and an international team of researchers suggest that the hunter-gatherers were infected by the plague bacteria (Yersinia pestis) through butchering or eating raw marmots, a type of ground squirrel that can act as a reservoir for plague today. The disease likely then spread from person to...

Handaxe, Fureidis Cave, Israel HAIFA, ISRAEL—Flint scrapers and handaxes; the bones of fallow deer, gazelle, and ancient horses; and evidence for the controlled use of fire some 300,000 years ago have been discovered in northern Israel’s Fureidis Cave by researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority and the University of Haifa, according to a report in La Brújula Verde. The well-preserved site was occupied by members of the Acheulo-Yabrudian culture, before the arrival of Neanderthals and modern humans in the region. Sites of similar age have been found at Qesem Cave in central Israel and Tabun Cave in northern Israel. Study of the intact site at Fureidis Cave could reveal more information about the...

Think for a second about what comes to mind when you hear “soda.” Perhaps fizzy, saccharine, and bright? Then consider the connotations of the word “sour.” Maybe it evokes the zing of a lemon, tanginess, or something sharper. This is the relationship that forms the basis of Sour Soda Studio, a project built upon two decades of illustration experience with a playful and slightly unsettling view of some of the most pressing issues of the Anthropocene. “It didn’t come from a change of direction, or from a manifesto,” says the artist, who prefers to remain unnamed. “It came from something simpler: the need to say different things with a different voice.” In these vibrant, often absurd works with...

Raised in a wealthy, well-connected family in England, the young Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) glommed onto stories her mother and grandmother told of Celtic folk tales about mythical beings in Ireland. Her imagination ran rampant as a child, and a rebellious spirit earned her expulsion from more than one convent school for antics like writing backwards and even trying to levitate. Later, her father insisted she be presented to the court of King George V at a debutante ball and was expected to “marry well.” Art and fantasy continued to call to Carrington, though, and not to be sallied by social convention, she attended the Chelsea School of Art, discovered Surrealism at the 1936 International Surrealist...

After success at the Met as Turandot and before a historic Medea, soprano Anna Pirozzi talks to Harry Rose about her voice, her repertoire, and where her "second explosion of career" is taking her.

La Galleria de’ Foscherari di Bologna ha inaugurato Merci Satie, una personale dedicata al rapporto tra Aldo Mondino e la musica, costruita attorno alla figura di Erik Satie. Più che un semplice omaggio, il percorso espositivo mette in scena una domanda da sempre centrale nella ricerca dell’artista: come può la pittura trattenere ciò che per natura scorre, come il suono, il ritmo, il movimento di un corpo? Satie, figura fondamentale della musica tra Otto e Novecento, diventa per Mondino non soltanto un riferimento culturale, ma quasi un metodo. Nella sua musica, infatti, convivono leggerezza, ironia, malinconia e sospensione; gli stessi elementi che Mondino traduce in immagini attraverso la...

One of the most enduring traditions in the U.S. is undoubtedly the state fair. The very first was held in Syracuse, New York, in 1841, and throughout the mid-19th century, states launched their own unique takes. Some of the largest and busiest, such as those in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, have been running just about as long as the states have existed. And it’s no coincidence that some of the most well known and beloved events, which usually take place in the late summer or early autumn, represent the nation’s agricultural heartlands. The exhibition State Fairs: Growing American Craft at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery celebrates the unique crafts and customs of these annual...