la source vive rises above lake geneva
 
On the wooded heights above Lake Geneva in Évian, France, La Source Vive appears between the trees with a rounded copper skin, half-hidden by the slope and the older timber silhouette of La Grange au Lac nearby. The new music hall brings another presence to Les Mélèzes, the musical ensemble formed by the two venues.
 
Initiated by Aline Foriel-Destezet, the project brings together Patrick Bouchain and Philippe Chiambaretta, with PCA-STREAM leading the architectural development. Its position beside La Grange au Lac is central to the story.
 
The earlier hall, built by Bouchain in 1993 for the Rencontres Musicales d’Évian, is known for its timber structure,...

Entriamo in conversazione con Riccardo Freddo, Head of Museum and Institutional Relationships per Rosenfeld Gallery, Londra. In seguito a comprovate esperienze internazionali tra Roma, Parigi, Los Angeles e New York, dal 2023, anno di fondazione della residenza The Place of Silence, Umbria, il curatore formula un nuovo format che fa dialogare la scena internazionale contemporanea e il patrimonio storico-artistico e paesaggistico italiano, secondo i principi della sostenibilità e valorizzazione. Ce ne parla in questa intervista.
Riccardo Freddo, ritratto, photo Eleonora Pascai, courtesy Riccardo Freddo
Sara Buoso: Vorresti parlarci dei principi e della genesi del tuo progetto curatoriale diffuso in Italia? Le...

INTERVIEW WITH ALBERTO CAVALLI ahead of homo faber 2026
 
Following a widely acclaimed 2024 edition, which saw Italian director Luca Guadagnino transform the San Giorgio Maggiore island into a poetic Journey of Life, the Homo Faber Biennial returns to Venice for its fourth edition this September. Organized by the Geneva-based Michelangelo Foundation, the cultural showcase at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini invites audiences in an international celebration of craftsmanship, where hundreds of master artisans and rising stars from around the world come together to demonstrate the skill, talent and creativity that goes into crafting objects by hand.
 
Through its flagship event, alongside a global digital artisan...

This holiday weekend is a strange one. As heat waves wash over much of the United States, so do mixed feelings toward the nation’s 250th birthday today, punctuated by rays of hope — like the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold birthright citizenship this week. Here at Hyperallergic, we’ve been embracing moments of possibility and discovery. John Yau’s review of a group of little-known works by Phillip Guston — influenced in part by his wife, poet Musa McKim, and their larger poetry community — is an example of art history’s ever-yielding worlds. This spirit also resonates in Aruna D’Souza’s feature, examining artists who have upended and subverted the meaning of Lady Liberty. One work she...

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Temporary Urban Platform Activates a Vacant Development Site
 
GAS STAND (Grow and Spread) is a temporary urban activation project by team raw row, developed for Osaka Gas Urban Development on a portion of the site planned for a future mixed-use building that will include the Daigas Group headquarters. Located along Midosuji, Osaka’s principal north–south boulevard, the project temporarily transforms the undeveloped site into a public platform for community activities, informal gatherings, and everyday use before permanent construction begins.
 
Rather than leaving the site vacant during the pre-construction period, the intervention introduces a temporary spatial framework that supports public occupation...

weave robotics introduces isaac 1
 
Weave Robotics’ Isaac 1 is the latest attempt to bring a useful robot into the home without making it walk on two legs. Built in San Francisco, the machine sits on a wheeled base, rises from three feet to five feet nine inches, and uses two articulated arms to handle basic domestic chores, with laundry positioned as its main area of work.
 
The robot is now available for preorder ahead of its first California deliveries in fall 2026, with wider US availability expected in 2027. At $7,999, or $449 a month through a subscription plan, Isaac 1 is clearly aimed at early adopters.
 
Still, its design is interesting because it moves away from the humanoid fantasy that has...

Tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry when it goes on view at the British Museum this fall sold out in just over 24 hours this week, reports the Telegraph. The museum said it was the biggest day of ticket sales in its history. Depicting the Norman conquest of England 1066 and made there in the 1070s, the Bayeux Tapestry (technically an embroidery) is an astonishing 230 feet long and, according to the British Museum, features 58 detailed scenes, each rendered in colored wool on flax. On loan from the Bayeux Museum in Normandy, it will be displayed at the British Museum from September 10, 2026, to July 11, 2027, the first time in its nearly 1000-year history the work has been publicly exhibited on British soil....

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Glacier Project translates icy landscapes into an urban artwork
 
Developed by Dayuan Design in collaboration with the ocean conservation nonprofit N.O.C., Glacier Project is a sustainable exhibition and spatial installation that examines the relationship between glaciers, oceans, cities, and human activity. Presented under the theme Resonance of the Extremes, the project translates climate change from a distant environmental condition into a spatial and sensory experience that can be encountered within Shanghai’s urban setting.
 
Rather than relying solely on data or visual representation, the installation gives physical form to the interconnected systems of glaciers, oceans, and cities. The exhibition...

Sarabande Foundation’s new space features artist studios as well as a cafe and an education space

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Art Bridges Foundation have teamed up for the nationwide loan programme spanning from Huntsville, Alabama, to Big Horn, Wyoming

A focused exhibition of Bridget Riley’s early black-and-white paintings opens today at Dia Beacon, bringing together works created between 1961 and 1964.

Tallinn Art Hall will reopen following a €13 million, five-year transformation that has radically expanded Estonia’s oldest contemporary art institution.

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Hideki Noda’s ?320°F is an overwhelming and thrilling collision of absurdist humour and feverish philosophy

The Francois Tomb fresco cycle, now on show at Rome's National Etruscan Museum, is the state's third major acquisition in two months

Tickets for this year's event will cost £3,500 a head to raise funds towards the museum's billion-pound transformation

Animal-human hybrids, colour, forests, geometry and steel meets landscapes.

The Taiwanese musician has fulfilled a long-held ambition to own a work by the French artist, buying a painting at Sotheby’s New York

Es Devlin will open her first European retrospective at the Design Museum this autumn, bringing together three decades of work

Although Ernest Ansermet is most often associated with orchestral music, his 1964 recording of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is still my favorite.

This Fourth of July weekend, we’re sticking to the essentials: water, sunscreen, and art. Amid an avalanche of propaganda on the United States's 250th anniversary, critic Aruna D’Souza offers an illuminating art history of the Statue of Liberty. Artists from Faith Ringgold to Claes Oldenburg, she explains, have long wielded the monument as a tool of protest and creative expression — a particularly potent reminder as Trump strives to stifle them completely.Also today, Ed Simon revisits the mythologies and ideals baked into the work of the Hudson River School painters, regarded as quintessential American artists. Two centuries later, what can we learn from their scenes of both settler colonial...

A show about big installation art in the age of the huckster-in-chief

L’apparente, seconda personale di Alessandro Roma (Milano, 1977) alla CAR Gallery di Bologna, si configura come un momento di approfondimento di una ricerca che ha trovato nella ceramica smaltata il terreno privilegiato in cui la dialettica tra pittura e scultura smette di essere una questione formale per diventare una domanda filosofica sull’essenza stessa del visibile. Il titolo sembra suggerire che ciò che appare non sia mai semplicemente dato, ma costituisca piuttosto una soglia in perpetuo divenire, uno strato di realtà che si offre alla percezione trattenendo al tempo stesso qualcosa di irriducibile allo sguardo, un’intuizione che le opere in mostra declinano con una coerenza tanto più efficace...

Last July, Amy Sherald announced that she was canceling the National Portrait Gallery stop of her solo exhibition American Sublime because of concerns that the Smithsonian Institution had attempted to censor her painting of a Black trans woman, Arewà Basit, posing as the Statue of Liberty.Lindsey Halligan, a special assistant to President Donald Trump, responded to Sherald’s decision with satisfaction. “The Statue of Liberty is not an abstract canvas for political expression — it is a revered and solemn symbol of freedom, inspiration, and national unity that defines the American spirit,” she said in a statement at the time.But all national symbols, whether flags, statues, or personifications of...

By the standards of geological epochs, Kaaterskill Falls in Upstate New York is positively youthful. Generated by melting glacial runoff eroding the sandstone and shale at the foot of the Catskills’ South Mountain during the middle Pleistocene — a spritely 130,000 years ago — Kaaterskill is a spectacular two-stage waterfall that seems to almost bounce down its 260-foot (~79-meter) height. Two centuries ago, that cascading waterfall would inspire a 25-year-old engraver born in Lancashire, England, who wanted to forge a new American aesthetics. Thomas Cole’s “Kaaterskill Falls” of 1826, on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, heralded that new movement.Painted at his...

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.The Swiss Institute's New HomeThe Swiss Institute in New York City is acquiring a new permanent home at 250 Bowery, just across the street from the freshly renovated New Museum. The organization tapped architectural firm Johnston Marklee to renovate the space, which will open next spring with The Environment, a group exhibition inspired by a participatory project led by filmmaker Bud Wirtschafter in the 1960s Lower East Side. It's a milestone moment for the Swiss Institute, which will own its location for the first time in its four-decade...

The National Gallery in London announced that it has acquired a significant history painting by 18th-century artist Angelica Kauffman. The work is now on view at the museum.  Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes (1787–88) is the first work by Kauffman to enter a UK national collection in nearly two centuries. Another painting by the artist was bequeathed to the National Gallery in 1835 but was later transferred to Tate Britain, as the museum is now known, when it opened in 1897. Tate Britain lent the work to Guildhall in Plymouth, and it is believed to have been destroyed during World War II in the 1941 Plymouth Blitz. Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes depicts a Greek...

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New York’s Lyles & King, known for its championship of emerging artists and its keen eye for talent, has shuttered. The gallery had opened in a restaurant basement on the city’s Lower East Side in 2015 before moving to Chinatown in 2020, becoming one of the first of a wave of galleries to open there. […]

The discovery of lead during renovation work at Paris’s historic Palais Garnier—opened in 1875 and summoned as inspiration for Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera (and even more famously for Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical adaptation)—has “throw[n] a tight schedule of venue closures and the projected budget into disarray,” according to a report in Le Figaro. Planned restoration work that was supposed to take two years is now projected for five, with evaluation for the best method to extract the lead to be undertaken this summer. “Depending on the method chosen, the duration of the Palais Garnier stage’s closure will be determined this fall,” Le Figaro reports. “Barring any...

New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs is set to receive its highest ever allocation of $323.8 million in this year’s city budget. The announcement came after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, City Council Speaker Julie Menin, and other council members reached a “handshake agreement” on a balanced $125.8 billion Fiscal Year 2027 budget […]

DORYUN CHONG is the artistic director and chief curator of M+, Hong Kong, overseeing all curatorial activities and programs across the museum’s three main disciplinary areas of design and architecture, moving image, and visual art. If you could have attended any show in art history, which one would it be? The legendary “Magiciens de la […]

Memory may not be a tape-recorder, but in Sasha Gordon’s work, it serves as a device for the initial transportation. Characters wander this fluxing landscape—be it a drive-through window, a master bedroom, or white suburbia—shifting through the dynamic background of her dream-like haze. As a viewer of Gordon’s narrative paintings, you are intruding on intimate […]
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An artist has demanded the organizers of Manifesta 16 remove an installation from the exhibition in Essen, Germany, alleging that a piece in the show plagiarizes one of her earlier works.  The piece, titled Elevation and made by the Turkish sculptor Nasan Tur, consists of reclaimed church pews installed on their side inside St. Gertud Church and engraved with anonymous musings submitted by the public. Bochum-based artist Dorothee Bielfeld told the German outlet Waz that the Elevation’s central visual motif—meter-high upright pews, transformed by their reorientation into oblique towers—closely resembles her 2010 work Aufrichten (Raising Up), created for Ruhr.2010, a cultural campaign in Germany’s Ruhr...

Will Sweeney is a commercial artist based in the UK. With a big reach and an enormous imagination, his illustrations adorn album sleeves, shirts for big fashion brands, toys in Japan, and almost any other sort of wearable or product one could imagine. Recently, we asked Sweeney to describe a bit of the machinations that […]
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A word to the wise: no matter how frazzled you are while preparing to leave town for a family vacation, make sure you don’t forget anything on the sidewalk when you drive away. Especially if you are the type of family that takes valuable, framed artwork on road trips. Andrés Hurtado, a 57-year-old man from Murcia, was visiting Seville with his family when an artwork leaning against a garage door caught his eye while on a walk around the city center. He picked it up, particularly taken by the wide gold frame. Unbeknownst to Hurtado, the painting belonged to a local family and had been reported missing on Saturday, June 27. The owners, accustomed to taking a beloved artwork with them on vacation, had...

Ahead of his new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, Barrie Kosky chats with Kevin Ng in Aix about pretty much everything — except the details of his new Frau.

The Bayerische Staatsoper’s Ring cycle scores another triumph with Tobias Kratzer’s take on Die Walküre.

In occasione del terzo ciclo annuale del progetto di residenza d’artista Artist in Officina, la sensibile congiunzione tra pratiche performative e scultoree di Ekaterina Shcherbakova ha rintracciato gli echi della storiografia composita di Montefollonico, nel territorio senese, rendendoli nuovamente manifesti. Ideata da Paul Gregory e Tessa Singleton, con la collaborazione di Margareth Dorigatti ed Emanuele Fasciani, l’iniziativa prende vita nello storico laboratorio del fabbro del paese, riconvertito per accogliere i percorsi di ricerca di artisti di provenienza internazionale.
Ekaterina Shcherbakova, “FUSA”, 2026, installation view at Cappella Santa Caterina, ph. credit 6PM STUDIO, courtesy of the...

Greek National Opera's Medea in the ancient theater at Epidaurus is an intermittently rewarding exercise in nostalgia.

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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...

Un corpo cammina. Attraversa quindici paesi, consuma le suole, accumula polvere e incontri. Quando questo corpo entra in un’istituzione, come Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, emblema del meccanismo dell’arte internazionale, qualcosa nel sistema si inceppa. Algebra è costruita su questo inceppamento. Il corpus di Paulo Nazareth non disgiunge esperienza e produzione: il cammino è già opera, l’incontro è già forma. Migrazione, diaspora, confine e memoria non sono temi da rappresentare, sono i presupposti operativi entro cui l’indagine emerge. Ogni immagine, oggetto o documento nasce da un sentiero e conserva la tensione tra vissuto e diffusione.
Floor: Paulo Nazareth, “Cadernos de Africa”,...

The 79th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on sculptor Willy Verginer, the black and white world of Murayama Tomoaki, the graphic art of Jimi Biscuits, Harriet Mena Hill’s painted rubble, the art of Pabaja,  Plus a Special Insert Section featuring the art of Marigold Santos, surrealist painter Philip Bosmans, the universal art […]
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In 1975, Stuart Pearson Wright entered the world as a product of artificial insemination, his father’s identity kept anonymous for the entirety of his life even to this day. This fact would fuel Wright’s early, burgeoning interest in expressing himself through the arts and a later rise to prominence in portraiture. In interviews, he would […]
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In 2007, Magnhild Kennedy indulged a lifelong fascination by moving to London. “I have had London on my mind since I was a teen. I wanted to live there even before my first visit,” she says. Growing up in Trondheim, Norway, from the age of sixteen onward she devoured every image and word in issues […]
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In selvicoltura uno snag è un albero morto che resta in piedi: un organismo cessato e tuttavia non ancora restituito al suolo, più una soglia che un cadavere. Non è un residuo inerte, ma un ecosistema in attività, cavo abitabile per uccelli, insetti, pipistrelli, funghi, licheni – vivo di una vitalità che non è più la propria. È da questa figura sospesa che muove Old Snag, prima personale dell’artista norvegese Ingeborg Tysse (Stavanger, 1992) negli spazi di Société Interludio, a Cambiano (Torino), accompagnata da un testo critico di Caterina Avataneo. Il dato non è secondario: i tre ciliegi morti che reggono l’installazione provengono dai dintorni della galleria, prelevati da quello stesso...

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The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

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

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

By Victoria Thomas When John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966, he had no idea who she was. More remarkably, Yoko was equally unaware of John. This neutral introduction seems impossible for us today, especially for children of the 1960s. But defying mere nostalgia, The Broad meets this challenge with Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Ono's first LA museum show, which offers a full season of multi-arts media programming, including the installation of seven digital antiwar billboards across Los Angeles....