SUNGLASSES DESIGNED TO STAY CLOSE TO THE WATER
 
XYZ Integrated Architecture reduces a familiar summer accessory to its most indispensable parts. Developed specifically for pools, beaches, and other places where conventional eyewear tends to become inconvenient, Water Glasses combines individual lenses with lengths of paracord, removing the frame, hinges, and rigid arms normally used to hold sunglasses in place. The result sits somewhere between optical equipment, necklace, and a particularly useful piece of summer jewelry.
 
Instead of being folded into a case whenever the wearer enters the water, the lenses slide naturally below the chin or remain suspended around the neck. The cord therefore works...

MAC Cosmetics has joined forces with Jean-Michel Basquiat’s family and estate for its latest limited-edition collaboration, inspired by the late artist’s creative signatures. Debuting direct-to-consumer and in select MAC stores on Thursday, the six-piece collection ranges in price from $29 for loose powder pigments in three shimmering gold, taupe and white shades to $120 for a four-piece set of Basquiat Artist Brushes, which come in different shapes and sizes and are inspired by the paintbrushes Basquiat used for his own artwork. “Basquiat took ordinary things and put his spin on them, and that’s very similar to what we do here at MAC,” said MAC Cosmetics global creative director, Nicola...

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in Manila has appointed art historian, critic, and curator Carlos Quijon Jr. chief curator of its Contemporary Art Museum. Quijon arrives at the institution from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he has spent the past two years as the inaugural Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives […]

In a recent report, the National Park Service (NPS) has stated that Trump’s proposed United States Triumphal Arch would “result in impacts to the integrity of historic properties” in the nation’s capital.  The proposed arch is a gilded, 250-foot-tall monument that would be situated within Memorial Circle at the western end of the Arlington Memorial […]

From happenstance and humor to solemnity and tension, the images topping the 2026 Pure Street Photography Awards run the gamut of daily scenes. The annual contest is organized into two categories: black-and-white and open. Reflections of New York City meet dramatic views of urban spaces and pensive tableaux in rural communities, emphasizing timely and candid moments that center diverse human experiences. This year, eight winners were selected from nearly 1,600 entries submitted by photographers in 50 countries. An exhibition of 158 of the top images is slated to pop up at Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, India, from November 20 to 22. The open call is also now live for the 2027 edition, and you can see more and...

WASHINGTON, DC — Police arrested 16 protesters who unfurled banners bearing portraits of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) victims on the marble floor of the Hart Senate Office Building yesterday, August 5, according to a statement issued by Women's March.  The protesters were members of the Women’s March advocacy organization and had staged a “die-in” while holding banners representing the tombstones of people who were killed by ICE agents or died in ICE custody. They had gathered to call out senators who had financed ICE’s violence and were preparing to leave Washington for the August recess, the group said.Capitol Police has not yet responded to Hyperallergic’s inquiries about the...

Seven Smithsonian locations in Washington, DC, closed today, August 6, due to a "mechanical issue." According to the institution's announcement on X, the affected museums include the National Museum of the American Indian, Hirshhorn Museum, National Museum of Asian Art, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Castle, Arts and Industries Building, and the S. Dillon Ripley Center. A Smithsonian representative told the Washington Post that the buildings had stopped receiving cold water from their cooling system. The city is experiencing yet another swampy summer, with today's heat index values reaching near or above 100 degrees (~38 Celsius).  An exterior of The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture...

Dealer Elizabeth Mulholland, who for the last two decades has served as director and then partner at New York’s Andrew Kreps Gallery, is heading west to serve as a senior director at megadealer David Zwirner’s Los Angeles outpost.  “I genuinely wish Liz the best,” Kreps told ARTnews. “It’s a big life decision, and I’m supportive. She made a huge contribution to the gallery and I’m forever grateful.” Founded in 1993, Zwirner’s gallery empire expanded to Los Angeles in 2023, when he opened a 15,000-square-foot showroom in East Hollywood and a 30,000-square-foot Melrose Hill flagship, adding to its portfolio of galleries in New York, London, Paris, and Hong Kong. He joined Gagosian, Hauser &...

Bronze artifacts before cleaning KOJETÍN, CZECH REPUBLIC—Europe Says reports that archaeologists recovered a hoard of bronze objects from an ancient wetland outside of Kojetín in central Moravia. The rare and exceptional discovery was made while a team from the Olomouc Archaeological Center were monitoring construction work along the Brno–Přerov railway line. Dozens of bronze items were intentionally deposited there by members of the Urnfield culture more than 3,000 years ago. These include bronze ingots, fragments of various decorative ornaments, and several bronze tools, including sickles and swords. Many of the items had been deliberately damaged before they were buried. Eight sickles had been...

The Australian Museum in Sydney has returned Ivi Tupuna, or ancestral remains, to the people of Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) 144 years after they were first stolen from the island’s sacred burial sites. A Rapa Nui delegation received the remains in a ceremony in Sydney on July 15. “We are grateful to the Australian Museum […]

Indigenous vessel with scorch marks on the exterior GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA—According to a statement released by the Florida Museum of Natural History, archaeology students uncovered an exceedingly rare, fully intact Native American pottery vessel at the site of a former Spanish mission located in northwest Gainesville. “It’s very unique. Typically, we find things that were broken and discarded,” said Gifford Waters, collections manager at the Florida Museum of Natural History. “You don’t leave things behind that you can still use, so why was this purposefully put into a pit?” The small, bowl-shaped pot, which fits into the palm of a hand, is the only one of its kind among the 7,000 artifacts that...

Since Donald Trump assumed office again, Washington, D.C., has seen new gold-plated statues and UFC fights on the White House lawn. Up next: an IndyCar race involving high-performance machines whizzing around the capital at speeds up to 185 miles per hour from August 22-23. One part of a series of celebrations of the semiquincentennial, the IndyCar race will send those vehicles racing by cultural and historical institutions, including the National Gallery of Art, the National Archives, and three Smithsonian Institution museums—the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Air and Space Museum, and the National Museum of the American Indian—leading to concern about the potential effects of the cars’...

English Heritage has appointed Tim Reeve as its new chief executive. He rejoins the organization after 13 years as deputy director of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the organization announced Tuesday. Reeve will replace interim Geoff Parkin who took over after the abrupt resignation of Nick Merriman due to family health issues in 2025. English Heritage acts as caretaker for the National Heritage Collection, a group of over 400 historic sites and monuments across England, including beloved locations like Stonehenge, Kenwood in Hampstead Heath, the Cenotaph, Hadrian’s Wall and Dover Castle. “I am honored to be English Heritage’s next Chief Executive,” Reeve said in a statement. “It is one of...

Tokyo Jazz Club, a group exhibition and “marketplace” from a collective of artists, galleries, and performers, will be debuting in partnership with Art Week Tokyo this November. A list of participating artists and a full performance program are both forthcoming, but the Club will unfold between November 1st and the 8th. Art Week Tokyo, a […]

Less than two months after opening its $175 million Tang Wing for American Democracy, the New York Historical has replaced 17 objects in its inaugural exhibition with reproductions. Another three objects have been removed entirely. The problem is natural light, reportedly. The new wing’s main exhibition gallery has large windows that flood the space with sunlight, but some of the objects selected for “Democracy Matters,” which opened June 18, are light-sensitive and could be damaged by overexposure, according to the New York Times. Museum officials initially lowered blackout shades over the windows, which solved the conservation problem but created another one. Louise Mirrer, the museum’s director,...

SARDIS, TURKEY—Turkish officials announced that a colossal 2,500-year-old marble statue was uncovered at the ancient Lydian capital of Sardis in western Anatolia, Türkiye Today reports. The larger than lifesize figure—one of the earliest examples of monumental sculpture in the Mediterranean—once stood around seven feet tall and depicts a young man holding a quince in his right hand, perhaps as an offering to a god or goddess. The artwork originally dates to between 470 and 450 b.c., although some aspects of its design, such as its long hair and anatomical posture, more closely resemble an artistic style popular in the previous century. Researchers were particularly intrigued by the figure’s unusual...

a waterfront shaped by fishing and faith
 
Along the Pattani River in southern Thailand, HAS design and research has built a bamboo pier around the routines of the city’s fishing communities and the ecology that supports them. Pattani sits close to the Malaysian border, where Muslim heritage and Malay-Thai histories have shaped a distinct regional identity. The river has long been central to that identity, supplying livelihoods while linking the city to the sea. The new Pattani Fishermen Community Hub places that relationship back at the center of the waterfront.
 
The commission grew from a wider question about how fishing infrastructure could serve the city beyond boat access. Architects Jenchieh Hung...

Robert Rauschenberg’s home at 381 Lafayette Street in New York’s NoHo neighborhood is listed with commercial real estate company Newmark, Artnet News reports. The early-nineteenth-century town house, which Rauschenberg bought in 1965, once housed an orphanage and a convent. It has served as the headquarters of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation since the death of the […]

Installation view of Anna Boghiguian: Weaving Culture (photo Sevak Thomasians, all photos courtesy AHA collective and National Gallery of Armenia)YEREVAN, Armenia — After half a century of traveling around the world, Armenian-Egyptian artist Anna Boghiguian brings her art to Yerevan, at the National Gallery of Armenia. Weaving Culture is a natural history of Armenia illustrated in carpet, with the occasional irruption of people or supernatural beings. Suns, stars, flowers, and animals populate the works, much like the motifs of traditional Armenian rugs. Yet in traditional rugs, celestial bodies and creatures are encoded in smaller, geometric motifs, and are not always recognizable at first sight. In...

A recent report revealed that 524 UK museums closed between 2000 and 2025. But while the government has offered short-term help, structural issues remain unresolved

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Timber cones define Feltham Green Cabin by Burgess Architects
 
Burgess Architects builds Feltham Green Cabin, a new community facility on the High Street in Feltham, London, as the culmination of a five-year project rooted in grassroots ambition and low-carbon design. It is defined by a distinctive conical roofscape. The cabin was commissioned by the London Borough of Hounslow on behalf of the Friends of Feltham Green, a local volunteer group that has long campaigned to improve this historically underserved part of west London. Sitting immediately adjacent to the Green rather than on it, the building activates an underused stretch of the High Street while preserving the open land it serves. The building’s...

Amid the rugged, wave-churned shoreline of France’s Breton coast, a surprising tidbit of pop culture has kept beachcombers returning for more than 40 years. The short film “Silly Little Plastic Cat” transports us to this slice of Brittany, where local residents grew up collecting parts of a 1984 Garfield-themed plastic telephone on the beach—and still do. Photographer and director Zack Grant, founder the production studio 2020 Land, was intrigued by the story, which made news a few years back after the source of the dispersed merchandise was finally discovered. The part of Brittany where the phones wash up is situated along a busy shipping thoroughfare. At some point during their transit in the...

Dmitri Tcherniakov's production of Der Freischütz in Munich may fire a few blanks, but the musicians are all on target.

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West Star, a former Nato HQ near Verona, is expected to host 100,000 visitors annually

how gabriel fontana redesigns sport through sidelined
 
‘Sport is a designed system,’ Gabriel Fontana told designboom when we met during last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. It is a deceptively simple observation, but it shifts the conversation entirely. Stadiums, playing fields, uniforms, scoreboards, even the rules themselves are all designed, yet they are rarely discussed with the same critical attention we give buildings, furniture, or public space. We inherit them, play by them, and rarely ask what values they reinforce or what might happen if they were designed differently.
 
That idea continues to evolve through SIDELINED: A Space to Rethink Togetherness, Fontana’s collaboration with...

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There are good people out there who are aware of their collective power and refuse to be crushed by the powers that be. In Glasgow, the building and archive of the now-defunct Centre for Contemporary Arts are being offered to the highest bidder. The local community is stepping in to stop it. In Chicago, art therapy professor Savneet Talwar was put on leave for the crime of asking students to imagine a treatment plan for a pro-Palestinian protester. Hundreds from the School of the Art Institute's community have signed a petition demanding her reinstatement. There's one group, however, that barely has anyone to fight for its rights: the children held in ICE detention facilities. Today we show you...

Studio KRAFT adds vertical play garden at budapest school
 
The courtyard of Bajza Elementary School, located in Budapest’s densely built sixth district, has been reimagined by Studio KRAFT with landscape architects Open Air Design as a vertical playground that expands opportunities for learning and play. Commissioned by Bajza Elementary School and the Municipality of Terézváros, the intervention replaces what was previously a paved courtyard dedicated almost exclusively to sports with a layered environment of climbing structures, planted retreats, and outdoor classrooms designed for more than 500 students.
 
The architects introduce a series of timber structures that multiply its usable space...

Interno giorno. Lo studio di Mario Raciti è immerso dentro una magnifica baraonda, sulla quale cadono pochi raggi filtrati dalle persiane, appena scompigliati da un ventilatore a soffitto. Viene strano pensare che, fino al 20 settembre, l’altro capo di questo studio affiorerà dentro la compostezza del Palazzo Reale di Milano. Per preparare le domande che seguono mi sono abbondantemente rifatto al volume di Mario Raciti Scritti e testimonianze, edito da Taut nel 2023 a cura di Iacopo Pesenti. Si è trattato di un passaggio essenziale per superare l’imbarazzo intrinseco del parlare di pittura, e specialmente di una pittura come quella di Raciti, che fa metodo dell’elusione sistematica di tutti i punti di...

With less than three weeks until the start of the fall semester, over 400 members of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's (SAIC) community have resumed their calls for the reinstatement of Savneet Talwar. The professor was abruptly put on leave last spring after one of her class assignments mentioned violence against Palestinian civilians. Talwar, chair and tenured professor of SAIC's graduate art therapy and counseling program, was informed by the administration in April that a student had accused her of discrimination over a hypothetical case study, sparking an ongoing investigation from the school. “Professor Talwar should not be suspended and brought under investigation for mentioning...

The spiral is one of the most ubiquitous, universal symbols. Or perhaps it is more apt to describe the motif as mimicked from nature, where it occurs in the form of seashells, flowers, and curling waves. From Neolithic stone carvings at Newgrange in Ireland to swirling motifs on prehistoric pottery discovered in Thailand, the spiral represents growth, the cycles of life, and evolution. Sometimes two or more interlink, and other times they emerge from an endless line. For artist Jiang Miao, Eastern philosophy is a touchstone. “The spiral symbolizes life, time, and the cyclical order of the universe, while color becomes a vessel for invisible energy beyond the material world,” says Whitestone Gallery, which...

North wall of the Tauchira Gate's southern tower, Ptolemais, Libya PTOLEMAIS, LIBYA—According the Greek Reporter, University of Warsaw archaeologist Anna Urszula Kordas has decoded hundreds of stonemasons’ symbols inscribed into the Tauchira Gate at the ancient city of Ptolemais. For more than a century, visitors to the site have noticed strange markings on the stone blocks that make up the city’s defenses, but these have never been systematically studied until now. By analyzing photographs and utilizing digital mapping software, Kordas was able to organize the 626 inscriptions into two major groups. Some were rough engravings that randomly appear on unrefined or unfinished blocks. Created before the...

Giant's Tomb at the Carrarzu Iddia site, Bortigali, Sardinia BORTIGALI, SARDINIA—Finestre Sull’Arte reports that an archaeological survey conducted by Italian authorities located a previously unknown monumental tomb at Carrarzu Iddia in central-western Sardinia. The megalithic structure belongs to a group of enigmatic Bronze Age burial complexes on the island known as Giants’ Tombs. These were built by the Nuragic civilization as collective burials beginning around 1800 b.c. The vast site features two protonuraghi, or large stone platforms, a residential settlement, a sacred well, and an extensive burial ground. The newly discovered funerary monument had escaped the attention of archaeologists until now...

The Holy Presentation Church is said by officials to be the last surviving building of its kind from the 18th century

In un momento storico in cui le immagini sembrano precedere il loro stesso tempo di apparizione – generate, moltiplicate e consumate con una velocità crescente – la pittura di Ernst Yohji Jaeger pone una domanda essenziale: cosa permette ancora a un’immagine di acquisire presenza? Calamondin, presentata da Crèvecœur a Parigi, affronta la pittura come campo di trasformazione e verifica. Le opere di Jaeger conservano il conflitto tra apparizione e cancellazione, tra forma riconoscibile e superficie in movimento. Ogni quadro registra il percorso attraverso cui una visione conquista la propria necessità.
Ernst Yohji Jaeger, “Calamondin”, exhibition view, Crèvecœur, Paris, 2026. Courtesy of the...

In 2022, New York resident and bonafide feline devotee Dan Rimada felt that something needed to be done to shine a light on the city’s cats. The Big Apple not only has a real feral issue, but many of these creatures make their homes in iconic shops found around the city: bodegas. Over time, locals get to know them and they become fixtures of shelves and countertops. Technically, though, New York City considers it a health code violation to have animals in businesses that serve food. In spite of that, thousands of cats serve as mousers and rat catchers, and a lot of people don’t realize that the snoozy tabby nestled atop the Doritos bags is actually illegal. Rimada founded Bodega Cats of New York to bring...

Whether playing a game of Uno on the back patio by the light of a headlamp or wading into a preternaturally still body of water on a pitch-black night, the figures in Aron Wiesenfeld’s works calmly exist amid an air of mystery. His enigmatic paintings and drawings entice viewers into a world of timeless intrigue, delving into the power of visibility and imagination. Uncanny lighting creates silhouettes and deep, hidden distances. And individuals gaze at things just beyond the frame or move into unseen spaces. Wiesenfeld’s vignettes are often set during dusk or in darkness, where the background gradually fades away. Many pieces summon a subtle tension, such as in “Transfer,” where a black dog looks away...

Rising stars Chelsea Lehnea and Ricardo José Rivera are the protagonists of this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag.

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Upcoming exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, will feature 26 works from the Louvre, some of which have never been shown in the US

Reeve will become chief executive officer of the organisation at which he started his career

Who doesn't love a slightly murky archival recording?

The bonkers, bewildering Die ägyptische Helena begets a suitably lush musical and creative treatment at Bard SummerScape.

Jelena e Nataša Prljević sono artiste, operatrici culturali ed educatrici serbe. Nel 2018 a New York, insieme all’artista Joshua Nierodzinski, hanno dato vita a HEKLER, una piattaforma collaborativa transnazionale che esplora le relazioni tra ospitalità e conflitto attraverso programmi come Assembly, Host e Medium. Questa pratica ha ispirato Four Waters, a Ljubanje, in Serbia, una casa indipendente, un punto d’incontro e un rifugio per artisti e comunità, che fonde strategie artistiche, curatoriali, pedagogiche e organizzative, ponendo al centro il potenziale liberatorio del lavoro collaborativo e collettivo.
Jelena Prljević, “Baba Bosiljka Prljević, Ljubanje”, 2020. Ph courtesy of the...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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Just in time for this month's theme of filth or dementia, a review of Terrence McNally's Master Class from Central City Opera.

A selection of recent work by artist Emma Steinkraus. Based in Lexington, Virginia, Steinkraus  
   
   
   
   
 
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Beatriz Morales (Città del Messico, 1981) vive e lavora tra Hidalgo e Berlino. La sua pratica si origina nella pittura, ma ne sottopone progressivamente a verifica i confini, estendendo il gesto cromatico alla fibra, alla scultura e all’installazione. Il passaggio dalla superficie allo spazio non coincide tuttavia con un abbandono del linguaggio pittorico. Il colore continua ad agire come principio strutturante, assumendo consistenza materiale, profondità simbolica e valore culturale. Tecniche tessili, fibre vegetali e pigmenti non sono trattati come semplici risorse formali, ma come depositi di conoscenza. La materia trattiene temporalità, gesti, economie, storie di estrazione e pratiche di trasmissione....

By Victoria Thomas Photographer and ceramic artist Catherine (Cathy) Opie first shocked and rocked the fine art world with her self-portraits during the late 1990s. Today, her decades of work — often termed confessional — now serve as context for the far more enigmatic Holding Blue installation, on view at Regen Projects through July 3. The Los Angeles-based artist identifies as a leather dyke, lesbian cowboy, an elder, and as "Mama Cathy," with a mustachioed male alter-ego named Bo. Opie is...

Prima istituzione d’arte contemporanea fondata oltre la vecchia Cortina di Ferro, il Ludwig Múzeum di Budapest si conferma un osservatorio geopolitico e culturale imprescindibile per decifrare le traiettorie dell’Est Europa. Nato nel 1989 dalla lungimirante donazione dei collezionisti tedeschi Peter e Irene Ludwig, il museo ha esordito nel 1991 tra le mura storiche del Palazzo Reale di Buda, per poi trovare la sua collocazione definitiva, nel 2005, negli spazi monumentali e avveniristici del Müpa, l’avamposto architettonico del Palazzo delle Arti affacciato sul Danubio.
István Csákány (Sepsiszentgyörgy, 1978), “The Sewing Room / Ghost Keeping”, 2012 (dettaglio dall’installazione). Veduta...

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“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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