Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts auction in July will feature a holy grail, both figuratively and literally in the form of a 13th-century illuminated manuscript devoted to “the epic tale of the quest for the Holy Grail, the story of Merlin and his diabolic birth, and the adventures of King Artur and the Knights of the Round Table.” The highlight lot of the sale is estimated to sell for £1.5 million–£2 million (around $2 million–$2.6 million). The so-called Clermont-Tonnerre Grail is one of only three such manuscripts known to be in private collections, with some 200 others belonging to institutions. As reported by Artnet News, “Numerous versions of the story exist, attributed to numerous...

Anita and Poju Zabludowicz, two art collectors who regularly appear on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, are set to sell £15 million ($20.1 million) at Christie’s next month via an in-person auction in London on June 25 and an online sale. The top lot of the 106 works headed to auction is a Philip Guston painting. Titled Mirror Head (1977), it comes to sale with a high estimate of £5.5 million ($7.38 million). Also headed to auction are works by Beatriz Milhazes, Rose Wylie, Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, Henry Taylor, and Charline von Heyl. Once one of the most visible collecting couples in Europe, the Zabludowiczes appear to have in recent years scaled back some of their operations,...

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Nanni Balestrini “Potere Operaio” 1975, collage su carta, 41,5 x 57 cm. Ph courtesy Frittelli arte contemporanea, Firenze
38 | Inchiesta sull’Intelligenza Artificiale – Potenzialità e limiti (X) / Luciano Marucci
44 | L’artista Romano Notari intimo – Testimonianze (II) / Luciano Marucci
50 | L’altra realtà di Goffredo Fofi – Alternativa e solidale (I) / Luciano Marucci
54 | Ulrich Erben – Oltre la linea / Emanuela Merullo
58 | Biennale Arte 2026 – Neospiritualismo e controstoria / Vito Ancona
60 | Zinelli&Perizzi – Cento e altri cento / Matteo Zacchigna
62 | Edoardo Crisafulli – “L’ombra della Sindone” / Rosetta Savelli
63 | Vladimir Novak...

Paula Kamps, a painter whose softly hued paintings showing flowers and blurring figures gained her recognition in Europe and the US, died at 36. Her Paris gallery, Sans Titre, confirmed her death on Tuesday, but did not state a cause. Kamps’s paintings frequently dealt with the fleetingness of memory. Using thin washes of watercolor and ink, she represented figures and plants that appeared to be either coming into focus or fading away. The painter André Butzer, an admirer of Kamps’s work who on at least one occasion showed her paintings alongside his own, once termed her flows of ink “stains,” seemingly in reference to the fact that they looked like splotches or bruises. She painted landscapes and...

Atlanta’s High Museum of Art has announced Spelman College professor Cheryl Finley as the winner of its 2026 David C. Driskell Prize. Finley will receive an unrestricted $50,000 cash award and will be honored at a gala event to take place September 19 at the High Museum. Named after the renowned African American artist and […]

a record-breaking crossing in Taiwan
 
At the mouth of Taiwan’s Tamsui River, Zaha Hadid Architects’ Danjiang Bridge now stretches between New Taipei City’s districts of Tamsui and Bali. The bridge has opened as the world’s longest single-mast, asymmetric cable-stayed bridge, bringing a new line of movement across one of the region’s most visible estuary landscapes.
 
The project is worth watching for its scale, but also for the way that scale has been handled. Commissioned as part of a wider infrastructure upgrade for northern Taiwan, it is expected to cut roughly twenty-five minutes from commuters’ cross-river journeys while easing pressure on the Guandu Bridge, located further upstream.
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“Color, for me, is a heightened reality,” says J Carino. Through palettes rooted in a dynamic dance between earth and jewel tones, the artist renders lush scenes in which nude figures commune with nature. A sturdy back buttresses a fallen tree, chests and limbs peek through a summer meadow, and a muscular grip cradles a small mule amid a raging flood. Blocks of color and gestural brushstrokes characterize each composition, which question what we deem natural and innate. The intimacies of queer life figure prominently in Carino’s work, which layers bodies and organic motifs into dense expanses. He employs a variety of source materials that range from renderings of live models and videos of himself to...

By Tatou Dede T: How did you end up here, being an artist today? A: I think it depends on how you define the term artist. I was always in theatre since, maybe, kindergarten. When I was a child I used to produce and direct sort of nonsensical plays for my schools, wherever I was, in Oakland, San Francisco, and Berkeley. So every year I produced a very bizarre play that, for some reason, every school had me put on. And then I studied with the Berkeley Rep theater. After that I went to UCLA and...

A Kind of Paradise, on view at Museum Rietberg in Zurich, brings together twenty artists who treat colonial‑era photography not as a sealed historical record but as material that can be unsettled, reworked, and reclaimed.The show unfolds across four sections – Shapeshifters, Confrontation, Care, and In the Photo Fantastic – each offering a different tactic for dealing with images that have shaped, distorted, or erased histories. Rather than smoothing over the contradictions of the colonial archive, the artists lean into them. They cut, annotate, stitch, and reimagine photographs that once claimed to define entire cultures. In Shapeshifters, the absence of photographic archives becomes a generative...

Cheryl Finley, the director of visual arts and culture at Spelman College who oversees the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective, has been awarded the David C. Driskell Prize dedicated to figures whose work is important to the realms of African American art and art history. Established by Atlanta’s High Museum of Art in 2005, the prize includes $50,000 and has been granted in the past to the likes of Alison Saar, Naomi Beckwith, Amy Sherald, Mark Bradford, and Rashid Johnson. Finley has directed the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective since 2019, when she began work on the program for Black arts professionals, scholars, and curators in and...

Good Morning! The family of a Jewish collector claims a Cézanne watercolor on loan for a recent Fondation Beyeler exhibition was lost due to Nazi persecution. The online prediction platform Kalshi has launched a category for art auctions.  Artists Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian to launch new residency program in Menorca. The Headlines RETURNING TO SENDER. An 1888 Paul Cézanne watercolor of the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, featured in the Fondation Beyeler‘s recent exhibition dedicated to the artist, once belonged to a Jewish collector whose heirs are mounting a case to prove it was lost due to persecution during the Nazi era, reports the Art Newspaper. A provenance researcher for the family...

Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the earth, and yet there is so much we have yet to understand about these vast and biodiverse expanses. Even though we’ve recorded tens of thousands of marine creatures over the decades and scientists are discovering new species all the time, we’ve really only scratched the surface. According to The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census, up to 90 percent of ocean life remains a mystery. A major collaborative program involving Schmidt Ocean Institute and many others, Ocean Census is accelerating the pace at which marine life is found and documented. Between April 1, 2025, and March 31, 2026, alone, the initiative’s researchers officially discovered 1,121 new species...

We’re Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau’s relationship with his estranged father. Lau’s father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau’s life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father’s sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father’s unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father’s passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai‘i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his...

Don't expect any sweeping statements from Franz Welser-Möst 's polished, if dramatically inert, Fidelio.

Die Walküre heralds the end of an era for the Los Angeles Philharmonic — and the arrival of a new generation of Wagnerians.

inside the hive
 
Artists collaborating with bees offer a softer model of making that’s shaped by patience, shared labor, and a willingness to let another species enter the work. Inside the warm dark of a hive, sculpture begins with a surface, a cavity, or a frame left open to a world that moves by scent, temperature, and collective instinct.
 
The artist may prepare the form, coat it in wax, place a queen at its center, or set an object among thousands of workers, but from that point the work starts to belong to a different order of making.
Ren Yue, Yuansu II, 2013-15. image courtesy the artist
 
 
making room for another species
 
This is where the work begins to connect with themes of soft...

Among the institutions that were hit are the National Art Museum of Ukraine and the National Chornobyl Museum, Ukraine’s culture ministry reports

Since 1970, Rencontres d’Arles has been a major moment in the contemporary art calendar. The renowned photography festival takes place at more than 40 exhibitions, in venues right across the southern French city. Here, heritage sites and historic buildings meet pioneering lens-based practitioners who are working at the cutting-edge of the medium. The event spans the entire summer, celebrating established and emerging artists in equal measure, often placing them in direct dialogue. 2026 continues this rich trend, presenting prestigious figures from a new perspective, whilst offering a platform to those who are following in their footsteps. The 57th edition offers narratives rooted in various regions of the...

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The late 13th century illuminated manuscript is estimated to sell for £1.5m-£2m this summer

IRIS CERAMICA GROUP EXPANDS INTO THE SPHERE OF SCENT
 
During Clerkenwell Design Week 2026 in London, Iris Ceramica Group goes beyond its visual signature and tactile sphere to dive into a new dimension, introducing its first fragrance in collaboration with Campomarzio70. To experience the fragrance firsthand, the ceramic brand transforms its showroom into a multi-layered activation, strengthening its role as an immersive hub within the design scene of one of Europe’s most dynamic creative capitals.
the language of matter and innovation experienced through an olfactory dimension | all images courtesy of Iris Ceramica Group
 
 
THE INTERPLAY OF PHYSICAL MATERIAL AND SENSORY PERCEPTION 
 
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Museum Rietberg exhibition showcases more than a dozen artists from around the world whose work reimagines mostly colonial-era images

Christo (1935–2020) never treated space as neutral. Across a practice developed in tandem with Jeanne-Claude, he recast it as something provisional – something that could be tightened, sealed, withheld or briefly made strange. Born in Bulgaria and later based in Paris, his early years under political constraint shaped a lifelong interest in restriction as material condition. What might appear, at first glance, as acts of concealment were in fact acts of disclosure: buildings wrapped, coastlines interrupted, monuments turned temporarily unreadable. In each case, the familiar was not erased but delayed, forcing attention back onto the act of looking itself. The work did not sit in space so much as...

UV Lab’s Wooden Installation Reframes Public Space in Lyon
 
Installed at Les SUBS in Lyon, ARCADIA by UV Lab is a site-responsive architectural installation developed as a long-term project unfolding between 2025 and 2027. Conceived as both a public structure and an evolving spatial environment, the wooden installation reinterprets the historical idea of Arcadia through a contemporary urban context. The project was realized in collaboration with students from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (ENSBA).
 
Drawing from the ancient Greek concept of Arcadia as a place of refuge and collective gathering, the project examines the relationship between ecological thinking, public space, and...

Half-open, half-closed; glimpses, but not passageways. Haegue Yang’s Venetian blinds, Alex Paik writes in a review of her show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, invite the viewer to meditate on doublings, inversions, and asymmetries: a Korea arbitrarily divided by the US military, a composer driven to exile, star-crossed lovers at opposite ends of the galaxy. On the other end of Los Angeles, the Huntington juxtaposes two very different powerhouse writers: 19th-century English novelist Charlotte Brontë and sci-fi pioneer Octavia E. Butler, uncovering layers of motherhood, career, friendship, family, and loss through their personal effects. “Speak well, and tell a good story,” Butler wrote...

I've never been shy about my adoration of Anna Moffo.

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The end of free universal museum entry risks deterring visitors and creating a two-tier system

The little understood art form is explored in the collected essays of 12 leading scholars

Radian centers EXR around modular electric power system
 
Dutch startup Radian introduces its first production motorcycle, the EXR, a competition-ready electric enduro bike designed to challenge combustion-powered racing platforms across off-road disciplines. Developed over three years by a team with roots in electric superbike racing, the motorcycle pairs a 70-horsepower drivetrain with a patent-pending battery-swapping system that lets riders replace depleted packs in less than 30 seconds without tools. Radian plans to launch the EXR in selected European markets from Q4 2027, offering the bike for both competitive and recreational riding.
 
The EXR uses Radian’s curved InfiniPack battery system, designed...

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The Library of the Four Winds is an enquiry into how space becomes thought, and how architecture can temporarily shift from monument to meeting ground. Conceived by Es Devlin for the Temple of the Four Winds at Castle Howard, the work reframes Vanbrugh’s baroque architecture as a vessel for collective reading, speaking and listening. Rather than treating the Temple as a static historical artefact, Devlin activates it as a living editorial space, where books, voices and bodies circulate as equal material. The installation proposes that knowledge is not archived but continually re-authored through proximity and participation. In doing so, it extends Devlin’s long-standing interest in temporary societies,...

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La mostra La pelle del paesaggio (The Skin of the Landscape) di Alessandro Roma (1977, Milano) alla galleria Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix Gallery, Londra, conferma l’interesse da parte dell’artista di portare avanti una personale e suggestiva visione del paesaggio tra continuità e metamorfosi. Forte di un sodalizio con la galleria già dal 2017, questo appuntamento riflette un continuum coerente di ricerche, culminando in nuove sperimentazioni tecniche ed estetiche volte a ripensare la percezione della natura e del paesaggio.
Alessandro Roma, “La pelle del paesaggio”, installation view, ph A. Christie, courtesy of Keiko Yamamoto and the Artist
Due distinte sezioni della mostra, tra loro continue, trattano...

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CHICAGO — I didn’t know anything about Larissa Borteh when I first saw her paintings at Devening Projects, an artist-run gallery that has introduced me to early exhibitions by wonderful artists including Peter Shear and Sean Sullivan. Borteh’s merging of image and elongated mark reminded me of fingerpainting. Built up by thinned, viscous oil paint, Borteh’s tactile surfaces dance smoothly between still life and ethereal abstractions. Are we looking at plants in a state of beautiful decay, ghosts, deities, fairylands, or something from a dream? The world Borteh conjures up is in constant transformation, but we are never sure of the outcome. The material individuality of her works stands out at a time...

WASHINGTON, DC — A group of sculptures installed at Freedom Plaza on Friday, May 22, includes a statue of a Revolutionary War officer who enslaved at least 200 people during his lifetime. The equestrian monument of Caesar Rodney, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, had been removed by the city of Wilmington in Delaware in June 2020, amid historic Black Lives Matter protests against racist violence.The sculpture, created by artist James Edward Kelly,  joins a long-standing bronze statue of Casimir Pulaski, an American Revolutionary general who was born in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The identities of the other 11 sculptures are unknown, but the Interior Department told Hyperallergic that...

Welcome back! We hope you had a lovely Memorial Day Weekend. Is it just me who thinks of this period as the secret start of summer? (I'm really hoping I won't regret these words, especially after the year we've had ...) But the art world is indeed (thankfully) slowing down. We've wrapped up the last of the fairs, and we're about to enter the summer slumber, insofar as that exists in New York. There are many lovely ways to welcome it: Enjoy the dreamy weather with a visit to Roberto Lugo's brand-new love letter to Puerto Rico in Madison Square Park. Or visit nonagenarian legend Betye Saar's personal collection of Black dolls at the New York Historical, a promised gift on the...

A Russian military strike on Kyiv and the surrounding area killed four people and did significant damage to one of the country’s oldest museums, the National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU), as well as the Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum, and other cultural heritage sites, in addition to several schools and many residential buildings, per reports. The […]

The Bergen Assembly, a triennially occurring platform for art in Bergen, Norway that was conceived as an alternative to the biennial format, has just announced the “convenors” of its 2028 edition: frequent collaborators Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos. Since 2018, Pietroiusti and Ramos have worked together on their long-term, interdisciplinary festival and research project “The […]

Home to some of London’s most iconic landmarks, the City of Westminster sees around 25 million of tourists every year. Add that number to residents and professionals who transit through central London daily, and we’re talking lots of people using the Underground, a.k.a. the Tube. Fortunately for travelers, eight stations are getting restroom upgrades with a big assist from Hugh Broughton Architects. When the Victorians established the first underground train network in the mid-to-late 1800s, they incorporated arched details and tile work that is preserved today, often augmented with contemporary nods to the city’s history and culture. Opened in 1863 along the Metropolitan Line, Baker Street is one of the...

A federal jury in Manhattan on May 22 found Daniel Sikkema guilty of hiring a hit man to kill his estranged husband, esteemed New York gallerist Brent Sikkema. The divorcing couple had been involved in a bitter custody fight over their teenage son. The ruling brings to a close a case that has gripped the […]

In Ava Roth’s sculpture practice, a finished piece is the result of careful planning and tending, but the outcome can only be predicted so much. Whether creating wooden frameworks or organic embroideries, the artist leaves it to bees to create the ultimate form. Roth has long invited the honeycomb-building insects to play a role in her work, often adding wonderfully bulbous constructions that occasionally disrupt the artist’s carefully placed boundaries. Wooden pieces are mandala-like and take on the quality of low reliefs once the bees have done their part. Recently, she leapt into the three-dimensional realm via ceramics and a time-honored tradition of repair in her series Kintsu-Bee. The new body of...

German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, known for his work documenting European subcultures, has been named the winner of the 2026 Roswitha Haftmann Prize. Established in 2001, the honor, which is accompanied by a no-strings-attached cash purse of 150,000 Swiss francs ($191,000), is named for late Swiss dealer Roswitha Haftmann and is administered by Kunsthaus Zürich. It […]

Time has become one of the defining anxieties of the contemporary age. Climate scientists speak in countdowns, governments negotiate against shrinking deadlines, and daily life unfolds beneath a constant awareness that ecological systems are changing faster than human institutions can respond. However, art has the capacity to recalibrate those pressures, shifting attention away from urgency alone and towards deeper, older rhythms embedded within landscape, memory and collective experience. Climate Clock, unveiled as part of Oulu2026, approaches environmental consciousness through this expanded understanding of time. Rather than framing climate change solely as catastrophe, the project considers duration,...

Iain Bell and Lydia Steier's Medusa stuns in Brussels.

Huang Ziyue is part of a generation of artists grappling with the unstable and ever-shifting boundaries between selfhood and the digital world. The artist specialises in “creating online personas.” She builds a narrative world that exposes the violence of internet politics on marginalised communities, whilst critiquing the colonisation of our imagination by capitalism. Ziyue’s work, grounded in extensive media research, is absurdist and playful, prompting audiences to reflect on the constriction of online identities. In her hands, selfhood becomes something shaped by inwards and outward lives. It is a constant dialogue, a give and take, between our interior realities and the systems in which we operate...

From dusky woodland scenes to fantastical landscapes populated by mythical creatures, Shannon Taylor’s vibrant dioramas spring to life inside vintage cosmetic compacts. Sourced from flea markets, vintage shops, friends, and anywhere else they might appear, the vessels themselves are often brimming with character, but they let on little about what resides inside. Tiny mermaids, unicorns, and a range of flora and fauna made with watercolor on paper beckon us into a Polly Pocket-sized realm. In addition to the inclusion of her work in Common Waters at Arch Enemy Arts, Taylor is preparing for a solo exhibition titled Minor Mending at Modern Eden in San Francisco, which opens on August 6. She also curated a show...

My favorite Verdi performance is the iconic 1960 RCA recording of Otello with Jon Vickers in the title role and the Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus under the baton of the masterly Tullio Serafin.

In una mattina grigia e piovosa, di quelle che prolungano il risveglio fino alla vista del primo raggio di sole, promesso dai buchi nel tappeto di nubi da cui filtrano chiazze di luce, il corpo a testa in giù di Florentina Holzinger all’interno di una campana sospesa nel vuoto scandisce i rintocchi del dong, gettando la laguna nel silenzio. Due battelli accolgono una folla in trepidante attesa di essere traghettata verso la location della prima edizione veneziana della performance “Etudes”, ovvero una piattaforma galleggiante nel mezzo della laguna che serve da platea dove l’acqua e l’isola sullo sfondo si trasformano in un teatro con un palco fluttuante, una nave cargo verde scuro equipaggiata di...

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By Melanie Chapman Timed in conjunction with the Taschen publication "My Education," the first book-form retrospective of photographer Bruce Weber's multi-decade career, the new exhibition now on view at Fahey Klein Gallery, Bruce Weber: Try a Little Tenderness, is worth more than one visit. Likely due to Weber's genre-defining success as a fashion photographer for Calvin Klein, GQ, Vogue, etc., particularly at its height in the 1980s and '90s, the line for the recent gallery opening...

Angelo Dolojan
it’s all very interesting what is happening by Angelo Dolojan is a zine featuring drawings created over the course of a year. The work weaves together observation, memory, dreams, documentation, and manifestation into a continuous visual exploration.
 
 
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“Qui pro quo” è una locuzione che segnala un’incomprensione o un malinteso, in sostanza un evento singolare che trae in inganno una delle parti coinvolte nella linea retta del discorso. Il “qui pro quo” costituisce, di conseguenza, un punto di flesso, una piega improvvisa verso direzioni inattese. È questa una delle prime sensazioni che si ricavano alla vista delle opere di Anna de Castro Barbosa attualmente esposte a FRENCH PLACE. La sua ricerca si sviluppa tra scultura e installazione e riflette su temi quali la percezione, la frammentazione e l’instabilità delle forme.
Anna de Castro Barbosa, “Il Quiproquo”, installation view, ph Francesco Paleari, courtesy of FRENCH PLACE, Milano
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By Barbara Patterson Zarina Van Ranzow's debut solo exhibition featuring work from her ongoing series Let it Bleed and Music for Lovers opened on May 8 at STONE/AGE Studios in East Los Angeles. Drawing from archival photographs of the artist's family and portraits of a variety of musicians, the series adapts photographic content into oil and airbrush paintings that pick up where the camera leaves off. Diffusing the harsh, resolute forms that photography's understanding of the subject...

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Il lavoro di Xiyan Chen si colloca in un territorio di frontiera in cui i sistemi computazionali smettono di essere strumenti e cominciano a comportarsi come organismi. Attraverso installazioni video e ambienti generativi, l’artista esplora la logica ricorsiva condivisa dai processi biologici e da quelli digitali. Il codice, nella sua pratica, non rappresenta la natura: la ripete, ne riproduce la struttura profonda attraverso le stesse regole di ramificazione, proliferazione e collasso che governano sistemi viventi. Eternal Genesis: Reversal of Duality 2.0 è uno degli esiti più compiuti di questa ricerca. A prima vista, il lavoro appare scarno: asterischi, & commerciali e segni presenziano nello schermo...