claves designs a restaurant for the late hours
 
At Le Poisson Volant in Paris, dinner gradually gives way to a nightclub as the evening progresses. Large illuminated ceiling panels cast a soft glow over the dining room before the lighting becomes sharper and the music takes over. The venue opened on October 2nd at 5–7 rue Marguerite-Moret.
 
Designed by Parisian interior architecture studio Claves, the new restaurant and club occupies the former L’International music venue in the city’s 11th arrondissement. Its interiors bring together Brutalist geometry and decorative references drawn from Chinese restaurants of the 1980s, creating an atmosphere that changes considerably between dinner and the early...

Interactive playground by WON JI LIM EXPLORES rituals of control
 
Created by Chicago-based South Korean artist Won Ji Lim, Shifting Center (2026–ongoing) is a participatory sculptural installation that translates personal rituals of control, such as counting, checking, and aligning objects, into a physical, interactive environment. Measuring approximately 9 × 9 × 6 feet, the modular structure is constructed from metal pipes and connectors, forming a framework reminiscent of a playground jungle gym. The installation integrates suspended objects, woven membranes, transparent pockets, balancing mechanisms, and a series of rule-based activities that visitors can physically enter and navigate.
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If you planned to visit Art Basel Paris but just learned that it’s closing for the weekend ahead of Saturday’s planned protests, there’s some good news: for now, at least, several satellite fairs plan to welcome visitors for part or all of the weekend—while keeping an eye on the surrounding social and political context as it evolves in real time. As of Thursday night, Asia NOW and Paris Internationale told ARTnews they are staying open as planned, through October 24, while exhibitors at OFFSCREEN said they received official confirmation that the fair will remain open through Sunday, October 25. (OFFSCREEN organizers did not respond to a request for confirmation by the time of writing.) Outsider Paris...

Turiya Adkins (photo Clyde Nichols); Timothy Yanick Hunter (photo Spring Morris), and Clifford Prince King (photo Clifford Prince King; images courtesy Studio Museum)Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Studio Museum in Harlem Names Three Artists-in-ResidenceMultidisciplinary artist Turiya Adkins, artist and curator Timothy Yanick Hunter, and photographer and filmmaker Clifford Prince King have been selected as the Studio Museum’s yearlong artists-in-residence for 2026–27. Starting this November and through October 2027, the three will have individual studio spaces in the...

A marble sculpture fragment depicting the cuirass-clad torso of a Roman emperor hammered for $34.3 million at Sotheby’s on October 21, nearly three times its $12 million estimate and the highest amount ever fetched by a Roman antiquity at auction. Artnet News reports that the hammer price topped the $28.6 million commanded by a bronze […]

Expansion plans for Miami Beach’s Bass Museum of Art have been released by Los Angeles–based architectural firm Johnston Marklee, which was selected in April to lead the project. The designs incorporate three elements—pavilions, a patio, and a stage—in a 22,000-square-foot area at the southwest corner of the museum’s campus. These new, rectangular pavilions will offer […]

An alleged member of the four-person team that broke into the Louvre last October, stealing crown jewels worth roughly $100 million, has been denied release, Le Figaro reports. The suspect, Rachid H., 40, has been detained since November 2025, and will remain in pre-trial detention, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday. On the morning of Sunday, October 19, 2025, the gang used a truck-mounted motorized ladder to break into the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery through a second-floor window. Once inside, they smashed two display cases and grabbed eight pieces of jewelry. (A crown once owned by Empress Eugénie was dropped in their haste.) As alarms sounded, they fled and escaped on two motorized scooters. The...

Rose Wylie, "Opera Singer and Teapot" (2024), oil on canvas“What is an ‘old-age style’? Is it the same as a ‘late style’?” asks Linda Nochlin at the start of her 2008 essay, “Old-Age Style: Late Louise Bourgeois.” As our understanding of an artwork evolves with the artist’s age, the essay examines Bourgeois’s enduring aesthetics and interests throughout her seven-decade career, focusing particularly on the soft and hard qualities of her work. Nochlin, the esteemed feminist art historian, meditates on the relationship between a work made early in an artist’s career and one made at the end of their life, asking how the latter changes our understanding or interpretation of the former....

Several Paris museums including the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée de l'Orangerie, and the Musée National Picasso will be closed on Saturday, October 24 ahead of planned protests calling for educational reform, lower cost of living, and an end to police violence. The announcement, reported by French media, follows Art Basel Paris's publicized decision to end the fair early on Friday night and close for the two remaining public days. Private foundations and commercial galleries also announced their preliminary Saturday closures. The Fondation Cartier website notes that it will be closed on Saturday and Sunday, while Fondation Louis Vuitton states that it will be closed on Saturday. Some...

tune x3 brings back tactile dials and switches
 
Préssec imagines a return to the tactile controls of traditional audio equipment with its Tune X3 headphones. The concept places a series of knurled dials and switches directly onto the earcups, including a dedicated control marked for bass and treble. Volume and active noise cancellation receive their own physical controls as well. These adjustments, often handled through a companion app, become part of the brushed aluminum headphones themselves and allow listeners to reach up and change the sound by feel.
 
The bass and treble adjustment is perhaps the most interesting detail. Borrowing from the familiar controls of stereo receivers and mixing consoles, the...

New York's "palpable air of self-deprecation, self-satisfaction, and terrifying self-actualization" through the eyes of a Londoner

Barbara Hepworth had quite a night at Christie’s in London on Wednesday. Three of her sculptures were the top-selling lots in the auction house’s modern British and Irish art evening sale, including one that set a new record for a unique work by the British artist. The star of the evening was Sculpture with Colour (Eos), from 1946, which sold for £6.19 million ($8.3 million), within its £5 million–£8 million estimate. The sculpture, carved from a single block of pale Hopton Wood stone, takes its name from the Greek goddess of dawn. (All sale prices include buyer’s premium.) Two more Hepworth sculptures followed. Figure (Sunion), from 1960, brought in £4.12 million ($5.5 million), while Sea Form...

Turkish authorities have seized a marble head depicting the ancient Greek god Zeus in Izmir’s Konak district in western Turkey. The sculpture, which is believed to date to the Roman period around 2,000 years ago, was recovered during an operation conducted by the İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office with officers from the Anti-Smuggling and Intelligence branches of the provincial police department. Three unnamed suspects were detained in the course of the operation and charged with violating Turkey’s Law No. 2863 on the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage. According to the Turkish news agency Demirören, the three were arrested after appearing in court. Authorities have not revealed how the...

On an average day in December 2022, the Pasadena-based surrealist classicist painter John Griswold got an Instagram DM from musician Phoebe Bridgers. “I remember she said ‘big fan,’” Griswold told Hyperallergic, “and I thought that was pretty funny, given the fact that, to quote a common epithet of hers, she’s ‘Phoebe Fucking Bridgers.’” The indie darling went on to ask Griswold if he had ever painted on a guitar, and from there a collaborative artistic relationship was born. Griswold, known for his intimate tableaux and animated collages that evoke Renaissance and Baroque iconographies, has now painted multiple instruments for Bridgers, including another guitar she has been taking on tour...

This weekend, the New York-based artist celebrates her family history and diaspora communities in the culmination of her museum residency

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Quebec City’s Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec on October 21 unveiled its new Espace Riopelle–Michael Audain Pavilion to the public. Dedicated to Jean Paul Riopelle, one of the most significant Canadian artists of the twentieth century, the structure will display some 130 works by the artist, including paintings, sculptures, and prints, drawn from the […]

For two centuries, Westminster Abbey has harbored a mystery: Whose skeleton was discovered within a Roman sarcophagus unearthed beneath its foundations? Two Anglo-Saxon abbots are in the running, according to a new archaeology study. The limestone sarcophagus was discovered in 1820 and officially excavated in 1869 from what is now a grassy strip along the north side of the abbey’s nave. In the Middle Ages, it was the yard of the Great Sacristy, built during the reign of Henry III. How, then, did a fourth-century Roman sarcophagus end up beneath the yard? Deepening the mystery, no Roman artifacts were found in successive investigations of the site, even though the sarcophagus bears a Latin inscription to one...

BANDIT9 PARTNERS WITH (RED) to craft LIMITED-EDITION MOTORCYCLE
 
Custom motorcycle studio Bandit9, founded by Daryl Villanueva, partners with global health organization (RED) to launch the (RED)800, a hand-built, limited-edition motorcycle. Limited to a production run of nine units, the vehicle combines high-performance mechanical engineering with a bespoke, sculptural body. A portion of proceeds from each sale supports (RED)’s ongoing initiatives to fund healthcare programs and combat preventable diseases globally.
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ALUMINUM BODY HOUSES DUCATI 821CC TESTASTRETTA L-TWIN ENGINE
 
The motorcycle is powered by an 821cc Ducati Testastretta L-Twin engine, delivering 110 horsepower and...

Following the news that Art Basel Paris will close early on October 23, all outdoor sculptures installed on Winston Churchill Avenue outside the Grand Palais for the fair's accompanying public program will be dismantled as early as tonight, October 22.The main program of Art Basel Paris will end two days early on Friday at 7pm, after the fair's first and now only public day, due to "potential demonstrations across Paris this weekend and in the interest of safeguarding our visitors," organizers told exhibitors in an email sent out today. The fair's public program on Winston Churchill Avenue was scheduled to run from October 21–25, and features works from Simone Fattal, Carmen Herrera, Marcello...

stained glass takes on unexpected forms
 
An ordinary egg carton becomes something unexpectedly precious in the hands of artist Hayden Clay Williams. Its familiar folded shape is reconstructed from fragments of jewel-toned stained glass, with turquoise, amber, and soft pink panels joined by silver-colored seams. Sunlight passes through the delicate structure, scattering patches of color across the surface below. The humble carton, designed to protect fragile eggs, has become an object that needs protecting itself.
 
Williams brings the same playful approach to a traffic cone and a folding wet floor sign, recreating familiar objects in a material usually associated with decorative windows and Tiffany lamps....

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The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has launched the freely available digital catalogue raisonné Robert Rauschenberg: Paintings and Sculptures 1948–1953 on its website today. The digital edition will be complemented by a print version, to be published in winter 2027 by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Gregory R. Miller & Co. The project incorporates comprehensive documentation, new […]

Art Basel Paris closes early — after the VIPs and major collectors have already had their turn.

The collector has viewed progress photographs and agreed to the composition before the artist finishes the work. By the time... Read More

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Fifth edition of the fair will conclude on Friday evening, with demonstrations in Paris expected to resume this weekend

Trackie McLeod turns WAG culture, football and celebrity into contemporary mythology.

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Six artists explore memory, materials and place across Fitzrovia.

Lisette Oropesa casts a spell as the titular sorceress in the Royal Ballet and Opera's fizzy revival of Alcina. 

Increasing the state’s power over works that are designated as “national treasures” runs the risk of damaging the art market

Launch of the building in Germany coincides with reopening of Kunsthalle Würth, which is marking its 25th anniversary with a major exhibition exploring the German artist’s oeuvre

I have chosen "Våren" (The Spring) which is one of my favorite Grieg songs and which is sung perfectly by Anne Sofie von Otter.

More than 120 artists will take part in the first Rubaiya Qatar across Doha.

Köln's current Rigoletto, the debonair Korean baritone Insik Choi, is this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag featured artist.

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A husband-wife duo add star power to San Francisco Opera's stylish revival of Manon.

From the moment she started to sing until the end, all of us sat in complete silence letting this voice engulf us.

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Photos provided by 21c, with additional photos by Atta Hi-Fructose co-founder Atta visited three 21c Museum Hotels in four days to explore their galleries and the towns around them. Here is his report! 21c locations combine actual contemporary art museum gallery exhibitions which are free and open to the general public (whether you stay there […]
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By Kristine Schomaker I keep thinking about Nomadland. Fern driving her van across that enormous American landscape. Not running from something. Moving toward something she could not quite name yet. That feeling of needing less. Of being, as Dominique Moody says, at home in the world. NOMAD: Dominique Moody and the Assemblage of Home is on view at the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena through January 16, 2027, part of the year-long city celebration for the centennials of Route 66 and the...

 
When we say ‘think of the colour yellow’, what comes up for you? Our latest photobook, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: YELLOW, is bursting with inspiration, from delicate blossoms and ripe lemons to eye-catching clothing and sunny décor.
Across 100 photos, our photographers celebrate all things yellow: some chanced upon in the street or in nature, others meticulously planned. Of course, there are loads of different hues that count as yellow, from acidic brights to mustard, egg yolk, and canary. You’ll find them all in the book!
The cover image, by Jo Martindale, submerges us in a ball pit of yellow plastic balls: it’s immersive, fun, and hard to look away. The yellow we find around us definitely has multiple...

By Jody Zellen Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 3–November 22, 2026 Susan Silton has never been an artist attached to a single medium. Her practice, which spans more than forty years, interweaves photography, design, performance, sculpture, video, audio, and installation. Working as a graphic designer in the 1970s and ’80s shaped her visual acuity and formal sensibilities. Her production is conceptually strong and visually coherent and very little is left to chance. It is a delight...

To celebrate the retrospective exhibition Future Pastime featuring the work of futurist Syd Mead opening at the Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery in San Francisco this evening, we are showing previews of paintings from the show as well as the full article which Silke Tudor wrote on the late legendary industrial designer in Hi-Fructose Issue 33. […]
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The women look concerned, and weary. They are ready to repel an attack. The women look in love, but bored. “When are you leaving,” they might wonder. The women are only half-present. Matted hair, two eyes, a hand, and the rest have either turned inward or run away. The women are multifaceted. Their eyes are […]
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In the “feminist west” that lives on Jennifer Nehrbass’s canvases, women ride horseback and hike in fashionable attire. They appear in head-and-shoulder portraits against fiery backgrounds and nude in pieces where figurative and landscape painting converge. In her work, Nehrbass challenges the common depictions of the U.S. West. “You would always have the man who […]
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By Kristine Schomaker Friday night I stood at the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and watched artists perform five-minute pieces in the open air as the sun went down. ACTION = LIFE, presented by LACE and the Performance Art Museum as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. A marathon of performances. So many friends. So much history in one place. I drove home still feeling it. Thinking about the first performance I ever saw that made me understand what my own work was actually about....

By Kristine Schomaker I learned yesterday that my friend Scott Froschauer died suddenly. I've known him for almost ten years, and I'm still trying to find a place to put this. Scott was a Shoebox artist, one of the early ones. We worked together on several projects, but the one I keep coming back to is an art salon we put together on consent, negotiation, and the male gaze, how the male posture of viewing women frames any sign of femininity as an invitation, and what it would mean to actually...

By Betty Ann Brown "In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world."—Graciela Iturbide Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide creates haunting images that portray the people, places, and events of the extraordinary cultures and geographies of her home country. Iturbide has a unique artistic practice that involves living and working with the people she chooses to photograph. Her process has made possible the strange and wonderful depictions for which she is known. In...

With a creative lexicon featuring yarn, pixels, beeswax, and spray paint, Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega has created a new language for herself, one that speaks to the present and the past by using traditional and contemporary techniques, as well as rural and urban sensibilities, to create a body of work that synthesizes all her […]
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Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.

 
Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...

 
Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
   
The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...