A group of eight preservation societies filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the president’s plans for a two-year renovation of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Last week, the Kennedy Center’s board approved to close the institution for two years, beginning after its July 4 celebrations for the US’s 250th anniversary, so that it could undergo renovations. The extent of the planned renovations remains unclear. President Donald Trump said in February the Kennedy Center is “tired, broken, and dilapidated.” In their suit, which was first reported on by the Washington Post, the plaintiffs describe the Kennedy Center as “a defining landmark within the monumental core of the...

Switzerland’s Museum Rietberg has transferred ownership of 11 looted artifacts to Nigeria, according to the city of Zurich, which oversees the museum. They are just a few of the estimated thousands of works of art taken when British forces raided Edo, the capital of the Kingdom of Benin (now Edo state in modern-day Nigeria), in 1897. Dispersed among collections in the West, these objects have been the focus of a long—and in recent years, highly publicized—effort to retrieve them on the part of the Nigerian government. Though known as collectively as the Benin Bronzes, the artifacts, which date from the 16th to the 19th centuries, were fashioned in a variety of materials, including wood, ivory, brass, and...

Curators at the gallery are now piecing together the transatlantic journeys of Eleonora Susette, an enslaved woman who travelled from present-day Guyana to Amsterdam and back

CONSIDER EXPOSED-BRICK WALLS, and the thought arises that bricks can be both functional and aesthetic, on display even as they disappear into the work of dividing space. Kamrooz Aram’s suite of five collages Variations on Glazed Bricks, 2021, calls attention to this ambiguous condition of being both structural and decorative—as it applies not just to […]

On March 18, the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) in San Francisco announced plans to sell its building in the city’s downtown Yerba Buena neighborhood. The museum has been temporarily closed since December 2024 due to financial constraints, and this move is the latest in a bid to ensure a more “viable operating model” for the institution’s future, […]

One of many related responses to a 500-year-old painting of baby Jesus. (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic)“Looksmaxxing” might not be a word in the Bible, but that hasn't stopped others from using the term in response to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's latest acquisition — a Mannerist painting of an infant Jesus who outshines everyone else in the frame. That's just the tip of the iceberg in the incredulous comments on the museum's Instagram post of the painting, “Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist” (1512–13), recently identified as a long-lost work by Italian painter Rosso Fiorentino. Others have noted baby Christ's unusually muscular form (particularly...

The agreements will see an artist-in-residence pilot programme established with the Misk Art Institute in Riyadh and collaborations with Museums Victoria in Australia

The French government has stepped in to stop the sale of a newly identified drawing by Hans Baldung, according to the Art Newspaper, throwing a last-minute wrench into what was shaping up to be a major Old Master auction in Paris. The small portrait, dated to 1517 and attributed to the German Renaissance artist, was slated to hit the block at French auction house Beaussant Lefèvre, carrying an estimate of $1.74 million to $3.5 million. Two days before the auction, France’s culture ministry declared it a national treasure, triggering a 30-month export ban and effectively pulling it off the market.  That kind of intervention is rare but not unheard of in France, where the state can halt sales to give local...

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The Róng Museum of Art, designed by Büro Ole Scheeren, is taking shape in Shenzhen’s Nanshan District as a cultural institution embedded within a larger urban campus. With its organic surfaces and glimmering facade, the project signals a shift across the Chinese city where growth in technology is translating into the creation of landmark cultural spaces. Inside, the museum focuses on visual culture across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with works on view bridging art, architecture, design, and film.
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Ibrahim Mahama, a Ghanaian artist whose work has appeared in an array of shows ranging from the Bienal de São Paulo to the Venice Biennale, was hospitalized after he was attacked on Saturday in Tamale, Ghana. Mahama alleged that his attackers were part of a special operations police unit known as the Black Maria. According to Mahama, officers with the unit made their way through a traffic jam and entered a bus that the artist was riding following a visit to a mosque. After a passenger questioned their actions, Mahama began recording the incident on his phone. “They broke into our bus, forced me to open my phone, and deleted the pictures,” Mahama told 3news.com. He has since called the beating that...

As speculation about humans colonizing the moon and Mars ramps up, it’s increasingly likely that we’ll see attempts at living in places previously unthinkable. For Henry Wood, the potential for inhabiting Mars, in particular, has inspired a series of wooden figures with quite a turbulent backstory. “The premise of this growing body of work is that in the not-too-distant future, humanity will establish a doomed colony on Mars,” he tells Colossal. Each figure has a specific history, their difficulties and demise carved into wood. The character he refers to as Scott, for example, found himself stranded at the South Pole, while an onslaught of ice from the sea buried Franklin. The title of the series fits...

On New Theater Hollywood's "California Gothic: A Bus Tour"

When Austin Bell first visited Hong Kong in 2017, he was struck by the chromatic vibrancy of its public basketball courts. Coming from the U.S., where these surfaces are often the neutral and uninteresting textures of asphalt and other materials, he was compelled to document the range of vivid color combinations, especially within the context of high-rise neighborhoods and urban infrastructure. Bell set out to capture 2,549 outdoor basketball courts around Hong Kong—every single one there is in the region. The resulting series, SHOOTING HOOPS, not only highlights the physical courts but conveys a unique portrait of the region and the spaces where people can mingle. “To me, basketball courts are one of the...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The HeadlinesCRIME SHOW. The well-known Greek dealer Giorgos Tsagarakis, who hosted televised art auctions, was arrested in Athens on Friday on felony charges for trafficking forged and stolen artwork and antiquities, according to The Greek Reporter. Greece’s Organized Crime Division made the arrest and dismantled the dealer’s alleged counterfeit art network following a “smoking gun” social media post featuring illicit items. Investigators then made a series of raids throughout Athens, which led to the seizure of 321 paintings, a majority of which experts said were forgeries, artifacts, and...

In its first production since departing the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera presents a new adaptation of "King of Ragtime" Scott Joplin’s opera Treemonisha.

The exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts will include her masterpiece “The Triumph of Bacchus” as well as the recently unearthed “The Five Senses”

The artist alleges that he was attacked by members of a special operations team known as ‘Black Maria’ while in a vehicle in Tamale, northern Ghana

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  Over time, utopias, often disparaged, have shown their capacity to guide and shape the evolution of the world toward more desirable scenarios. The power of utopia is such that many of today’s widely accepted urban proposals— such as collective housing, garden cities, or mass public transport — were once dismissed as utopian. Over the past century, utopia became a powerful tool for accelerating change. After the First World War, the historian, philosopher, and urbanist Lewis Mumford, author of the book The Story of Utopias, argued that the most important task of the moment was to ‘build castles in the air,’ advocating for a proactive,...

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From 5 to 7 May 2026, Villa Erba hosts the 33rd edition of Proposte 2026, bringing together 87 carefully selected exhibitors from 14 countries. Under the new presidency of Marco Parravicini and the direction of Massimo Mosiello, the fair continues to position itself as a meeting point for creativity, industry, and market forces, as well as a privileged observatory on the evolution of high end furnishing textiles.
 
The 2026 theme, Heritage Forward, frames the edition as both reflection and projection. ‘Proposte represents a heritage built over time thanks to a rigorous selection process and a shared vision’ says Parravicini, emphasizing how...

In these strangest of times, up is down and right is wrong. In DC, President Trump installs a statue of Christopher Columbus outside the White House. It's a replica of a monument to the colonizer that protesters tore down in Baltimore during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. In New York, a Paul Klee exhibition at the Jewish Museum opens without its centerpiece, the famous "Angelus Novus" (1920), due to "current conditions" in Israel, where the work is held. To cheer things up, enjoy Joel Meyerowitz's heart-pleasing photos of Giorgio Morandi’s preserved studio in Bologna and read about the Indian modernists who practiced "Global South" solidarity way before it became an academic buzzword....

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Industrial designer Maxim Tatarintsev, in collaboration with the brand Svoy Design, introduces ‘Caramel,’ a collection of ceramic interior objects that combines lighting and furniture into a modular system. The series includes pendant, ceiling, and wall-mounted light fixtures, along with a side table or ottoman available for both indoor and covered outdoor use. Rather than presenting a fixed set of products, the collection allows users to configure elements into personalized compositions.
 
The concept draws from the designer’s personal reflection on identity and everyday experience. ‘We all come from childhood,’ says Tatarintsev. ‘That is...

This bass aria "Sous les pieds d'une femme" from Gounod's La Reine du Saba used to be a concert favorite

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Bettina Pousttchi transforms a familiar element of urban infrastructure into a monumental sculptural presence in New York City, opening a dialogue between art, architecture, and the city’s layered history. Installed at Rockefeller Center, Vertical Highways V03 (2025) reimagines highway guardrails as vertical, rhythmic forms that echo circulation while suspending their original function. ‘By installing my sculpture Vertical Highways V03 in front of Rockefeller Center, I want to initiate a dialogue of art and architecture that resonates with the urban history of New York City,’ the artist notes.
 
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Experimentation, modernism and the shifting boundary between art and commerce define Lillian Bassman: Bazaar and Beyond, a compelling new exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Drawing on a transformative gift from the artist’s estate, the presentation reframes fashion photography as a site of radical visual inquiry rather than mere commercial output. Across more than 60 works, the exhibition reveals a practice grounded in process, materiality and reinvention. Here, the magazine page becomes an arena for aesthetic risk, where gesture and atmosphere displace clarity and precision. The show foregrounds the tension between control and spontaneity, tracing how Bassman’s work resists fixity. As Max...

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In Tales from Fractured Minds la memoria personale e identitaria di sette giovani artisti viene analizzata e dissezionata. In un tempo in cui il corpo è terreno politico e l’identità appare costantemente ridefinita e distorta dal ‘fuori’ il ricordo assume una propria dignità e autonomia, trasformandosi in un organismo vivo e puro sentimento umano.
AA.VV., “Tales from Fractured Minds”, 2026, installation view, works by Tatjana Danneberg and Hanna Antonsson, courtesy of the artists and The Address, ph. Alberto Favara
Ad accogliere il nostro sguardo all’entrata di The Address c’è Weekends and beginnings dell’austriaca Tatjana Danneberg, che costruisce, attraverso la raccolta di scatti e...

Happy spring! If you’ve been stuck in a reading slump like me, look no further. We've got a Swedish painter’s gripping portraits of her own aging process, delicious French poster design, a wondrous alchemical manuscript, and more to cure your art book woes this season. Find your next read below, plus Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang’s thoughts on the latest art-world novel to focus on disaffected White women — there's plenty more where that came from — and Nageen Shaikh on the Indian modernist painters who dreamed of international solidarity long before “Global South” became a mainstream term.—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editorPao Houa Her’s new catalog, Rothko’s friendship with...

Film still of Grégory Chatonsky, "Completion 1.0" (2021) (image courtesy the artist)HOUSTON — It’s perfectly normal to fear the AI apocalypse: the loss of jobs, the destruction of natural resources, the bastardization of human creativity for corporate profit, whether or not it will kill us all, etc., etc. Given the way that certain tech billionaires are behaving — and how someone like Grimes, the tech-billionaire-adjacent artist and musician, has been talking lately — it seems like it's become increasingly difficult for that class to notice the difference between a cool sci-fi thought experiment and mass human suffering. There is understandable fear among artists that artificial intelligence...

The organizers of the Paris Internationale, a free gallery-led nonprofit art fair established in 2015, have announced the thirty-four galleries and nonprofits set to participate in its inaugural Milan event, to take place April 18–21, with a VIP preview day on April 17. The debut of Paris Internationale Milano signals an increasing interest in the Italian city […]

Chile’s freshly-inaugurated president, the far-right politician José Antonio Kast, has announced a budget cut of 3 percent across all ministries; this is just one facet of what Kast calls his “emergency” government, which he believes is necessary to address the country’s alleged economic and security crises. This budget cut slashes the funds allocated to Chile’s Ministry of […]

Editor's Note: The following story contains mentions of self-harm. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The most famous work in Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds at the Jewish Museum is defined not by its creator, but by its owner. “Angelus Novus” (1920) is etched into 20th-century history as a source of inspiration for cultural critic Walter Benjamin, who bought it in 1921, and as a symbol of his persecution by the Nazis and subsequent suicide. The political thrust of Klee’s art, together with his search for artistic freedom in the 1930s, the last decade of his life, forms the exhibition’s theme. It opens with...

Any dog owner can appreciate the kind of unfettered, often visceral reactions canines have to everything from their favorite treats to a scurrying squirrel to another dog passing by the window. Their lack of inhibition and legendary fidelity bring comfort, routine, and goofiness to our daily lives despite their total unawareness of their effects on us. For Stephen Morrison, curiosity and play find their way into vibrant, quirky paintings that “invite viewers to rediscover the magic and absurdity often obscured by the routine,” he says. Morrison’s practice has lately revolved around trompe l’œil compositions of everyday objects and tableaux in which dogs’ features appear unexpectedly. A snout stands...

Mary Iverson paints bucolic, sweeping landscapes reminiscent of the late nine-teenth century that look as if were discovered in the dusty corners of an underrated thrift store. At first look, I assume the canvases are found objects, painted over and re-imagined as something quite different than the original painter intended. This is only partially true. […]
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As with most conversations about money, understanding how artists fund their practices and lives is rarely discussed and always of intrigue. Mason Currey dives into this underexplored topic in his new book Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life. Currey is known for documenting the day-to-day routines of hundreds of artists, writers, filmmakers, designers, musicians, and more. Making Art and Making a Living is in the same vein, revealing how family money, day jobs, schemes, and more have buoyed artists through the ages. ​In partnership with EXPO Chicago and the Chicago Athletic Association, we’re thrilled to celebrate the launch of Currey’s new book. Join us on April 8 for...

Jan Erik Waider has a knack for capturing shorelines, volcanic eruptions, and glaciers at their most mesmerizing—shrouded in mist, glowing in the darkness, or illuminated by pale northern light. His atmospheric photographs of icy seas and rugged landscapes from Iceland to the Antarctic, focus on dramatic forms and cast remote places into a dreamy ethereality. Most recently, Waider captured a striking phenomenon in the Baltic Sea, just off the coast of northern Germany. Fresh ice formed a thin layer on the rolling surface, creating faceted, polygon-like shapes that moved gently and rhythmically with the waves without breaking apart. Waider’s aerial drone perspective creates an otherworldly, almost totally...

Ahead of his first season as the Music & Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic, how much longer can — and should — Gustavo Dudamel stay quiet about the situation in his native Venezuela?

Sami Farra is this artist we selected for this year’s Capture Photography Festival! Sami is an architect and photographer based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Combining image and object, his work questions the photographic medium in its representation of reality, offering a unique vision of our shared environment. Sami’s interest in images developed during his architecture studies which led him to explore the links between photography and architecture in greater depth at CEPV (Centre d’enseignement professionnel de Vevey).
As the winner of our open call Sami’s work will be installed at the Olympic Village Canada Line Station in Vancouver. The images on display are part of a project involving accidental...

Matthias Pintscher’s Nuit sans aube at the Opéra Comique conjures up plenty of atmosphere — but not much else.

Tancredi Pasero is so noble in mien and rich-voiced here, a perfect complement to Caniglia's earthy Leonora who honestly charts the movement from despair to fervent, transcendent faith in this duet.

Movement, memory and the infrastructures that quietly shape daily life underpin Phoebe Boswell’s latest commission for London’s Underground, where escalators become both conduit and canvas. Water threads through the work as a conceptual and historical force, linking subterranean rivers with human passage above them. The project situates transit as a site of reflection, where repetition and routine open onto questions of belonging and visibility. Beneath the surface of the city, layered geographies and suppressed ecologies echo the lived experiences of those who move through its spaces. Boswell’s intervention reframes the Underground as a place where histories converge, diverge and resurface in unexpected...

La premessa da cui muove la pratica dell’artista olandese Anneke Eussen (Kerkrade, 1978, vive a Vaals), di cui è in corso la prima mostra personale in Italia alla Galleria Studio G7 di Bologna, è l’intuizione della consistenza materica del tempo. La prima conseguenza è l’idea che i materiali (quelli da lei più frequentati sono il vetro, il marmo e il metallo) siano depositari di durate, stratificazioni e momenti vissuti che persistono nella materia anche quando la funzione originaria è venuta meno. In base a questi presupposti, ogni successiva scelta tecnica e compositiva si configura come un gesto di ascolto verso ciò il tempo ha depositato sulla superficie dei materiali infiltrandosi in...

Exploration and absence form the twin axes of Sophie Calle’s (b. 1953) compelling body of work. From the delicate interplay of text and image to her investigations into the seen and unseen, her art occupies a space between intimacy and universality, curiosity and revelation. Themes of love, memory, longing, beauty, and mortality pulse throughout her practice, inviting viewers to reconsider the boundaries of perception. In her latest exhibition, Something Missing?, opening 26 March at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, Calle presents seven major series alongside additional works spanning nearly four decades. Totalling more than 300 individual pieces of photographs, texts and videos, the exhibition...

Nel contesto del progetto di EDICOLA480, di 480 Site Specific, con la direzione artistica del curatore Massimiliano Bastardo, l’intervento di Jona Fierro – artista napoletano, classe 1997 – si presenta come una soglia percettiva più che come una semplice installazione. Come il fuoco brucia la foresta e come la fiamma incendia i monti – Residuo #01 (2025) non costruisce un racconto lineare, né cerca di restituire un’immagine spettacolare della distruzione. Al contrario, si colloca deliberatamente nel tempo che segue l’evento, in quella dimensione sospesa in cui ciò che resta diventa l’unico elemento attraverso cui interrogare ciò che è accaduto.
Jona Fierro, “Come il fuoco brucia la foresta...

Each year, Foam presents the Talent Award. The prize spotlights extraordinary new image-makers who are shaping the future of photography. This edition was a record-breaking one, with almost 3,000 submissions from 107 countries. Particularly exciting, the 2026 award marked the first time the Foam Talent Call welcomed artists of all ages in the early stages of their career. Those that submitted reflect a remarkably wide range of narratives, perspectives and artistic approaches. Many consider the constant global change and uncertainty of our times, addressing themes such as political oppression, mental health, religion and faith, displacement and the search for cultural identity. Technological developments are...

Contemporary culture is increasingly defined by spectacle, self-performance and the circulation of images that shape how identity is imagined and consumed. Museums now grapple with the challenge of presenting art that not only critiques these forces but also inhabits their visual language. The exhibition A Whole New World at Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean embraces precisely this tension, transforming the gallery into a theatrical terrain of attractions and immersive encounters. Spanning nearly two decades, the show surveys the practice of Simon Fujiwara through environments that echo the dramaturgy of theme parks. Fantasy and critique become inseparable as visitors move through...

Nel cuore di Firenze, una stanza vetrata al piano terra dello storico Hotel Torre Guelfa interrompe il ritmo pedissequo delle vetrine commerciali e degli ingressi alberghieri, infiltrandosi silenziosamente nel corpo della città: è lo spazio espositivo indipendente Marameo. Qui nasce Liminale, la mostra di restituzione della residenza d’artista di Luca Granato, curata da Lucrezia Caliani e visitabile fino al 3 maggio 2026. Durante la serata inaugurale si è tenuta anche Cartografia di un corpo, intervento performativo site-specific della danzatrice e performer Irene Lombardi, realizzato insieme al DJ e musicista elettronico Andrea Lenzi. L’incontro tra esposizione e performance – divenuto nel tempo...

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La vita ci costringe il più delle volte a comportarci in determinati modi per rispettare convenzioni sociali e costumi. La maschera pirandelliana che siamo obbligati ad indossare è qualcosa che allo stesso tempo limita e blocca la forza espressiva dirompente che ognuno di noi conserva all’interno di sé. Filippo Janez Bertoni, con la collaborazione di numerosi altri artisti, parte proprio da questa concezione per cercare di creare, con il medium del processo interpretativo, una maschera nuova, vera, che permetta a tutti coloro che vogliano indossarla di liberare le più profonde pulsioni creative ed eliminare le inibizioni.
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Who doesn’t love a good photo book? To flick through the pages, be enlightened, educated, distracted and absorbed into another world through another’s eyes? Totally fantastic!
We’re here to share our Photobook Favourites – a selection of our favourite photography books recommended by the Shutter Hub community, an archive of titles we’ve enjoyed, and a reference point for you to explore. Las Pelilargas, Irina Werning, GOST
For 18 years photographer Irina Werning travelled across Latin America to seek out those with long hair to uncover and understand its cultural significance. Her book Las Pelilargas (the long-haired ones) brings together this body of work in an exploration and celebration of...

ABOVE: Gaza Cinderella, Northern Gaza Strip, 2012“Although her drawing is filled with soldiers, helicopters, and tanks, “Amara” only spoke about her intense fear of missile strikes. When a building or other structure is targeted in Gaza, it is often hit with a barrage of several missiles to ensure its complete destruction. The sound of successive […]
The post WAR TOYS: Photographer Brian McCarty Travels to War Zones & Refugee Camps To Communicate Children’s Stories When Words Fail first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Embroidery as an art form is often overlooked as a craft, but that is part of its appeal to Burbank, California-based artist Michelle Kingdom, who uses embroidery to express her innermost thoughts and escape to her imaginary world. Michelle Kingdom’s unexpected approach to embroidery is like a painter’s, and some have dubbed her work as […]
The post The Embodieries of Michelle Kingdom Capture the murky tangle of our interior world first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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Kristine Schomaker and Genie Davis at the Getty By Kristine Schomaker I've known Genie Davis for years. She shows up. That's the first thing you notice about her — and also the thing you never stop noticing, because she just keeps doing it. She's at openings, she's writing reviews, she's telling anyone who will listen about artists she believes in. For over a decade, her blog Diversions LA has been quietly, consistently documenting the Southern California art scene because she genuinely loves...