The Thai Ministry of Culture has named jiradej-pornpilai meemalai: BAAN NOORG as the artistic director of the Fifth Thailand Biennale, ArtReview reports. Emily Chin-Jie Lee, Gesyada Siregar, and Tyuki Imamura will serve as curators of the event, to take place December 2027 to April 2028 in Rayong, on the east coast of the Gulf of […]

Exhibitor numbers for the fair's 2022 edition are still down from pre-pandemic levels, and its collectors and galleries are largely from Colombia

THE BATMAN RETURNS BATMOBILE GOES UNDER THE HAMMER
 
One of Gotham City’s most recognizable pieces of machinery is leaving the cave. Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies are putting the screen-used Hero Batmobile from Tim Burton’s Batman Returns up for auction on November 23, 2026, marking the first time this particular car has crossed the auction block. Built for the 1992 film starring Michael Keaton, the vehicle carries an estimate of $5 million to $7 million — presumably without Alfred included.
 
The car served as the primary Hero Batmobile during filming and has been screen-matched to the majority of the movie’s driving sequences. Stretching 19 feet 8 inches — just under six meters...

Built throughout the 1960s and ’70s, the Aylesbury Estate is an enormous public housing complex in South East London that at its peak, boasted 11,000 residents. Like other social projects of this kind, Aylesbury has struggled with violence and vandalism throughout its run, and in 2005, local officials decided to demolish the estate and rebuild in phases rather than rehabilitate the existing structures. Living and working in South East London for nearly four decades, Harriet Mena Hill was familiar with the area, but it wasn’t until 2018 when she was commissioned to teach a summer program for young residents that she really engaged with the project. She made large portraits from wool, blending dyed roving to...

Arthur Jafa’s survey I Am Tony at the New Museum in New York is full of the artist’s characteristic gallows humor that ironizes even the most morbid images and brings to the surface the solemnity of low culture. Occupying two levels of the Lower Manhattan institution, the exhibition is densely packed with work that ventures beyond the video art that has made Jafa one of America’s most important living artists. The largest exhibition of his work to date, its ambitions — which it achieves with mixed results — seem to be to engage in the same themes Jafa has continually mined, this time in even more idiosyncratic and brash ways. These include the history of Black music, religion and secularity,...

A former senior employee at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Australia is said to have drained $8 million from the institution’s coffers over a six-year span, The Guardian reports. The staffer, who has not been publicly named, is said to have spent the money on mobile phones, which he purchased through a museum […]

The fair’s Presents section for younger galleries, often among its most vibrant sectors, features bold stands organised by ambitious dealers who understand the costs of doing business

20 basketball hoops branch in toronto
 
At the entrance to Toronto’s Biidaasige Park, a bright red trunk splits into a canopy of basketball hoops. More than twenty rims sit at the ends of curving steel branches, some low enough for an easy shot and others hovering overhead. Alexandre Arrechea’s Orange Functional translates a piece of familiar court equipment to suggest an oversized fruit tree, and anyone arriving with a basketball can play it. The sculpture currently stands in the plaza of Old Firehall 30 as part of the Lassonde Art Trail.
 
The basic idea predates its Toronto setting by well over a decade. Arrechea developed Orange Tree in 2010 as a branching structure whose ends terminate in basketball...

At 77 years of age, Filipina artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya received the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Visual Arts. This marks the first time a woman has ever received the honor. The Order of National Artists, established in 1972, is the country’s highest national recognition for Filipinos who have made distinct and significant contributions to art in the Philippines. The distinction was conferred on September 1 on the recommendation of the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. The recognition honors Endaya’s more than five decades of pioneering work in feminist and socially engaged art. Since the 1970s, Endaya’s social realist paintings,...

The discovery of an ancient wall beneath a Paris hospital may have answered a question archaeologists have been arguing about for decades: Where, exactly, did Paris begin? The 72-foot stone-and-wood wall turned up this summer during construction at the Hôtel Dieu hospital on the Île de la Cité, the island in the Seine that sits at the center of modern Paris, according to the New York Times. Archaeologists also found a Gallic spearhead nearby. Carbon dating puts the wall somewhere between 200 BCE and 10 BCE, right around the period when Rome was conquering Gaul. In his account of the Galic Wars, Julius Caesar wrote about a place called Lutetia, a settlement built by the Parisii, the Gallic tribe that...

Any good host knows that when visitors are in town, a visit to the museum is top of the list. And so, on Thursday, the First Lady of the US took China’s First Lady to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C. Melania Trump toured around the museum for 45 minutes with Peng Liyuan, visiting rooms such as the Peacock Room, where Chinese porcelain takes center stage, as well as other rooms that feature Chinese artworks and Asian design. “What better place to introduce the two first ladies to our museum on the occasion of high-level conversations and discussions between our two countries?” Chase Robinson, the museum’s director, told the South China Morning Post. The Peacock Room...

Steven Shearer, a Vancouver-based artist best known for paintings that lace historically inclined portraiture with haunting contemporary sensibilities, was awarded Canada’s prestigious Audain Prize, which comes with $100,000 (around $71,000 in US currency). The annual prize, dedicated to British Columbia–based artists and last year awarded to Brian Jungen, is reserved for “a senior artist in recognition of their outstanding contributions to Canadian art.” It is given out by a selection committee of five curators, this year from institutions including the Audain Art Museum, Capture Photography Festival, Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum at Simon Fraser University, and Vancouver Art Gallery....

Fall festivities from Gladstone to Tenko Presents and Jenny's

“Camille — Here are 10 new slides for the ARCHIVES.” In the winter of 1988, Emma Amos scribbled a note to her friend and fellow artist, Camille Billops, along with a gift: an addition to her quickly multiplying library at 491 Broadway in Manhattan. Billops and her husband, James Hatch, bought the loft in 1973, where they lived and stewarded a compendium of Black artistic history throughout their life together. It came to house periodicals, scripts, photographs, audiotaped interviews, and more. The number of artists immortalized surpassed one thousand.An assortment of ephemera from the Billops-Hatch Collection now accompanies Black Soho, an exciting booth at the Independent 20th Century fair co-produced...

On September 23, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that 36 trafficked or looted antiquities—collectively valued at over $5 million—would be returned to the people of Syria. The repatriation ceremony coincided with the visit of Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The list of […]

Several heirs to Jewish banker Salomon Flavian have taken Sotheby’s to court in Paris over the auctioneer’s sale of a painting by Camille Pissarro. They maintain that the painting was looted by the Nazis and say they were left out of an agreement struck with two of their family members, reports the Art Newspaper (TAN). The case concerns the French Impressionist’s canvas Darse de pêche et bassin Duquesne, Dieppe, après-midi ensoleillée (Fishing dock and Duquesne basin, Dieppe, sunny afternoon), 1902, showing the port city in western France. Sotheby’s London sold the painting in 2024 for £1.2 million ($1.5 million at the time). Sotheby’s indicated that the work was being offered “pursuant to a...

New York’s outdoor art landscape is full of surprises this season, from mounds of oysters on Governors Island and bathing birds near City Hall to a towering corn cob on the High Line and a gargantuan teddy bear in Queens

The Pop pioneer's estate, with support from Almine Rech, has organised an intergenerational pairing of Wesselmann's Americana and Matsuyama's contemporary art-historical mashups

Welcome to the 356th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Lara Saget hauls rocks into her studio and brings glass to life.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Lara Saget, Brooklyn, New YorkHow long have you been working in this space?Working in this studio since 2018. Working in a studio since 2013.Describe an average day in your studio.Preparing for the studio is equally important to my studio time. I start my day with meditation and exercise. I usually arrive at the studio by late morning and have...

Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) announced the thirty-eight recipients of the last round of its A4 Arts Fund, which distributes $500,000 to arts and cultural organizations that support Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Grants are awarded in the amount of $10,000 or $15,000 to organizations with annual budgets under $500,000. A4 received applications […]

The Spring Break Art Show returns to New York to do what it does best: host a labyrinthine art fair in a venue that was very evidently another business's heavily outfitted headquarters before being vacated. This time, visitors land up in the north side of Hell's Kitchen, weaving through the old CBS News offices where 60 Minutes, CBS Sports, and Inside Edition were hosted until earlier this year. While fixtures of the news outlet's branding and functions are still found throughout the 9th floor of 555 West 57th Street, Spring Break's participants continue to touch on politics and current events through their own lens and invite others to do the same. So much so that Everything Is Political,...

PLATFORM: a steel bed frame reimagined as a piece of architecture
 
Amsterdam architect and designer Rik Frans Jansen presents PLATFORM, a bed made from stainless steel and aluminum and dressed by Berlin bedding label Brut Studios at Paris Design Week 2026. Its bolted metal panels and exposed aluminum profiles draw from building construction, bringing materials usually concealed behind walls and ceilings into the domestic interior.
 
Presented at GOOD SELECTION, an exhibition organized by designer Lucas Zito during Paris Design Week 2026, PLATFORM measures 250 × 220 × 50 cm. The bed consists of an aluminum profile frame clad in bolted stainless-steel panels, lifting the sleeping platform above the floor...

Omnipresent, 2018, Lisa Bradley (born 1951), Oil on canvas, 74 1/2 × 55 in. (189.2 × 139.7 cm), Courtesy of the artist., © Lisa BradleyThe Delaware Art Museum is proud to present Lisa Bradley: Beyond Luminosity, opening September 19, 2026. Beyond Luminosity offers a new opportunity to engage with Bradley’s most recent body of work, presented publicly for the first time. The exhibition is organized by DelArt Head Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art Margaret Winslow and Art Bridges Fellow Hilda Delgado.“We are rewarded with each encounter, suspended in a luminous field of color,” says Winslow, reflecting on Bradley’s work.Bradley translates the mysterious into the physical with intimate marks and...

The exhibition featuring shortlisted artists Tanoa Sasraku, Marguerite Humeau, Simeon Barclay and Kira Freije opens to the public on 26 September

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Like the Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin, the first time I found myself in front of a painting by the Spanish-Mexican artist Remedios Varo (1908-1963), I was stunned. Who was this elegant owl-figure with dainty fingers and feet? What was animating the creaturely machine at her side with tentacle-like brushes as hands? And, would I ever be able to look away? Feeling mesmerized and awe-struck by Varo’s Surrealist visions isn’t an uncommon position to find oneself in. A new release from Louisiana Channel interviews three artists and two writers—Schweblin being one—about Varo’s influence, particularly her precise approach to alchemy and visualizing the thin veil between the physical and spiritual...

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ETH ZURICH TRAINS ROBOTIC HAND TO WALK ON ITS FINGERS
 
A robotic hand has apparently decided it no longer needs the rest of the robot. Researchers at ETH Zurich’s Soft Robotics Lab have developed an autonomous five-fingered hand that can walk across different surfaces, steer itself, recover after falling over and interact with objects — all using the same fingers normally reserved for grasping. Rather than adding wheels or legs to the system, the team turns the hand itself into a mobile robot, allowing its fingers to alternate between supporting, moving and manipulating its body.
 
The prototype is based on a commercially available anthropomorphic hand equipped with five fingers and 20 actuated joints,...

paris becomes a city to look at
 
The flâneur wanders through Paris, a city that is changing quickly, with new streets and boulevards, covered passages, cafés, department stores, advertisements, and shop windows reshaping the experience of the French capital. Walking is no longer only a way of getting from one place to another; it also becomes a way of watching what is happening around you, from the people moving through the streets to the buildings, fashions, signs, and goods on display.
 
This change is particularly clear in the Parisian arcades, where the street moves indoors and becomes a covered passage lined with shops, cafés, and other places to stop and look. Structures such as the Passage des...

Isn't it fun to see the Virgin Queen spew out some coloratura?

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Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.

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“I try to avoid playing it safe or going for the obvious. Instead, I look at plants from a different perspective and express them in my own way,” South Korean artist Taehyoung Maria Jeon says about a fantastical series of illustrations. “Ironically, having rules is what gives me the freedom to experiment with plant shape.” Although she’s trained as a printmaker and continues to build compositions in layers, Jeon turns to digital methods as she reimagines the specimens cohabitating in her apartment, beginning with leaves and stems before venturing into surreal terrain. Purple veins, red outlines, and a smattering of stars appear on the imagined life forms, their vivid color palettes furthering their...

Delicate waves, mysterious fissures, and diffused lightning set some of the scenes in Sarah Lee’s dreamy landscape paintings. Moons with strangely direct beams of light and supple mountains cradled by lakes and forests are tinged with magical realism. Most of the works seen here are part of Lee’s current solo exhibition titled Deeper at Albertz Benda, in which the artist highlights different ecosystems and the nature of clarity and concealment. She often titles her works in reference to the colors she employs, such as “Emerald Sky” and “Red Meadow in Mist.” These apparently “empty” landscapes nod to the romantic Western tradition of seascapes and broad, open expanses that pandered to a...

In tender paper collages featuring woodland creatures in relief, Kanako Abe imagines dreamlike scenes reminiscent of childhood narratives and folk tales. Giant wolves, diminutive bunnies, and curious deer wander through a Narnia-like realm that we glimpse through foliage-filled portals. In her practice, “the paper becomes a canvas for stories untold, where every cut is a deliberate step into a world where imagination and reality intertwine,” a statement says. Paper-cutting has long been a central tenet of Abe’s practice, which she recently applied to an ambitious forthcoming book project in collaboration with young adult novelist Caryl Lewis. The Paper Girl, published by Frances Lincoln Ltd., follows the...

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A new Macbeth summons the forces of hell — and the star power of Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen — for a fiery start to the Met's new season.

Eichenholz is much too rare on stage these days.

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The 80th Issue of Hi-Fructose is coming soon! It includes a cover a feature on the paper collages of Lola Dupre, the Fluffy Vases of Shishi San, the installation paintings of Evgenia Voinar, Debbie Lawson’s textile sculptures, painter Rob Browning’s stark surrealism.  Plus a Special Insert Section focused on the art of Jeff Sheridan, Andrea […]
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Tamara Wilson completes her first Ring Cycle as Brünnhilde next month, and Parterre Box celebrates with a clip of her in Siegfried.

Haley Whitney shines as the mother of us all in The Marigny Opera Ballet's stirring staging of Scarlatti's Cain.

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By Lacey Argus Sovern, a nonprofit art gallery and healing justice center in Los Angeles, sticks out like a vibrant castle in the midst of the harsh greys of urban Los Angeles. The bright shades of pink and elaborate designs that adorn its concrete walls draw you in, as if calling you to explore the treasures within. The gallery's current showing is Into the Pluriverse, running from June 25 through October 8, 2026. Into the Pluriverse is a group exhibition inspired by the Zapatista term...

By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...

For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...

Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"—Honoré de Balzac "Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning."—Miguel de Unamuno Hiroko Yoshimoto's paintings concentrate nature into radiant and dynamic beauty, distilling visual sensation into poetic and environmental significance. Throughout the 2020s, Yoshimoto has worked on two series of paintings about nature: Biodiversity and Of Infinite Variety. Both series are based on observation of the natural...

By Julie Faith There is something strange about returning to a place you once knew well after being away for a long time. You recognize the architecture before you recognize what the years have done to you. As I passed through the gate at Corey Helford Gallery, crossed the lot, and headed up the stairs, I felt ridiculously, wonderfully giddy. Kid-in-a-candy-store giddy. I have been away from the gallery and much of the Los Angeles art world, but somewhere between the gate and the stairs, I...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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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.

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here. We also mark an...