Ronald Lauder, a powerful art collector who has patronized institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Trust, and the World Monuments Funds, appears more than 900 times in the set of Jeffrey Epstein–related files that were released by the Department of Justice at the end of January. Lauder, the heir to the Estée Lauder Company, appears to have met with Epstein multiple times in 2017. While there is no direct communication between Lauder and Epstein, their respective assistants emailed frequently to discuss the arrangement of meals and phone calls for them. Epstein and Lauder were often looped into those email chains. How many times the two met, or if they even...

Palestinian residents in the Occupied West Bank village of Sebastia have expressed fear and fury at Israel's plan to seize the town and neighboring archaeological site, formally announced last November. Locals recently told the Guardian that Israel's plan to develop and convert the area into a public attraction aimed at Jewish settlers would “destroy” the village.Situated only a few miles northwest of Nablus, the city of Sebastia, once known as Samaria (Shomron in Hebrew), served as the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel during the Iron Age before the Assyrian invasion and takeover in 722 BCE. Continuously inhabited for approximately 3,000 years, Sebastia is a critical tapestry of...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Richard Gorman (1946–2026)Irish coloristHis subtly playful paintings and works on paper explored the interplay of geometric forms. His art was influenced by Milan, where he lived for some time, and Japan, where he regularly traveled to produce handmade kozo washi paper for his works.Roberta Fallon (1949–2025)Champion of Philadelphia artistsRoberta Fallon in 2013 (photo via Facebook)She was an artist and educator, and co-founder of the arts publication Artblog. She was also a founding member of Philadelphia Sculptors, which sought to provide more opportunities to local artists, and an adjunct faculty...

The Austrian gallery has hired a permanent senior director for its new project space in Manhattan

Frank Lloyd Wright’s so-called Circular Sun House—the last design completed by the famed architect before his death in 1959—is up for sale for $8.8 million. The look is sleek and futuristic, with consummate rhythm and flow. The setting is a hilltop in Phoenix that offers breathtaking views of Palm Canyon and the sun-streaked city below. The listing from Realty ONE Group notes that the house was designed shortly before the opening of Wright’s iconic Guggenheim Museum building in New York in 1959. It was renovated in 1995, and four new air-conditioning units were installed in 2019 (not a bad move in the sweltering conditions of Arizona). Also, per the listing: “Furniture included!” The Circular Sun...

In 2024, the Rubin launched a new annual grant program to support artists, creatives, and scholars who are expanding awareness and understanding of Himalayan art globally, as well as the rich cultural legacy and living traditions of the greater Himalayan region.Over the past two years, the Rubin has supported 32 projects from around the world with grants ranging from $3,000 to $25,000, depending on the scale, impact, and needs of each proposal. The Rubin x Research grants aim to support scholars who are broadening Himalayan art research to generate further knowledge, documentation, and general awareness of the field. The Rubin x Art Projects grants support artists and creatives whose practices give...

From more than 60,000 entries submitted by photographers around the globe, the jurors of the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition had their work cut out for them. They selected 100 images that tell powerful stories and represent diverse regions and types of animals in a huge range of habitats, including areas heavily impacted by human activity. Now, 24 photographers have the chance to win the contest’s People’s Choice Award, which you can vote for until March 18. Contenders include a cozy baby sloth, polar bears relaxing on a sunny day, baby kestrels about to take flight, and many more. In addition to casting your vote, visit the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at London’s...

Rumors have been swirling about London’s Stephen Friedman Gallery, especially after ARTnews reported on Tuesday that the gallery had pulled out at the last minute from a coveted spot at the inaugural Art Basel Qatar, which kicked off Tuesday in Doha.  Now, ARTnews can confirm that the gallery has entered administration—the UK equivalent to bankrupcy proceedings—and is closed to the public. The gallery was founded in London’s Mayfair neighborhood in 1995.  “Stephen Friedman Gallery commenced the administration process on 2 February 2026 to allow for an orderly review of its financial position,” the gallery told ARTnews in an emailed statement Wednesday. “FRP Advisory have been appointed as the...

“When I look for places in the city to locate my sculptures, or take photographs, it is a bit similar to [mushroom hunting]. I like to observe the city with that gaze for little details.”Read the full article by Silke Tudor by clicking above.
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The frolicking skeleton children, bat-human creatures, and a lizard girl named Claudine embody the wild imagination of Matt Gordon, a mixed-media artist based in Plymouth, Michigan. Read the full article by Andy Smith by clicking above!
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DENVER — In the language of climate, water is dialectical: It is overabundance and scarcity; needed as well as dreaded. Psychologically, it can represent the unconscious, the maternal, the prelapsarian. Artist Deborah Jack disrupts any viewer’s impulse to find recreational soothing in the ocean’s tidal landscape, as she openly critiques the legitimacy of cartography, empire, and ecological adaptation. Jack's six-channel video installation "a sea desalts, creeping in the collapse... in the expanse...a rhizome looks for reason... whispers an elegy instead" (2024) — commissioned for Prospect.6 in New Orleans — comprises her current exhibition, the haunting of estuaries...an (after)math of...

Art Basel Qatar’s first edition doesn’t unfold in a convention center or a sealed-off fairground. Instead, it is embedded directly into the newly built Msheireb Downtown Doha. The fair spans two venues—the M7 building and the Doha Design District—set roughly two blocks apart, close enough that walking between the two doesn’t feel like a chore. M7 is framed as a working hub rather than a neutral exhibition shell. It is designed to support designers from concept to market, with infrastructure meant to encourage collaboration, production, and sustainability across fashion and design.  A short walk away, the Doha Design District offers a contrasting atmosphere. In just two years, it has positioned...

The latest announcements of the key players representing their countries at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

Both London and New York spaces are now shut

A photojournalist for the Icelandic daily newspaper Morgunblaðið for 44 years, Ragnar Axelsson is attuned to capturing the moments that tell a story. Mundane activities, impending tragedies, and tender connections between people and animals all figure prominently in his work and offer a portrait of life that comes from being embedded within a community. Axelsson’s new book, Where the World is Melting, applies this journalistic rigor and sensibility to a personal project documenting the indelible impacts of a warming planet from Greenland to Siberia. In grainy black and white, snow-covered tundras and misty shorelines strikingly glimpse an environment in flux. One image in particular reveals a cloud of...

A roof that carries memory tops guesthouses by YOD Group
 
In a private estate in central Ukraine, Under the Reed Roof Guesthouses by YOD Group rework the image of the Ukrainian hata-mazanka through a restrained yet radical architectural move. The 50-square-meter guesthouses replace the opaque whitewashed walls of the archetype with full-height glazing, amplifying the thatched roof into a dominant, sculptural presence. 
 
Traditional Ukrainian rural houses evolved through necessity and care, with thick plastered walls, periodic maintenance, and thatched roofs that required regular renewal. YOD Group distills this logic into a single architectural gesture. The oversized reed roof becomes both shelter and...

Jeffrey Epstein bragged to his friends about having gotten private access to visit the Musée d’Orsay in Paris with the filmmaker Woody Allen in emails released by the Department of Justice in January. On March 18, 2012, Epstein wrote to a recipient billed only as “junkermann,” “are you in paris„ the govt is going to open the musee dorsay for me and woody alien at 4.. youa re welcome.” The recipient was German entrepreneur Nicole Junkermann, who repeatedly shows up in Epstein’s emails. She wrote back, “Cool I am in brussels today.” Epstein also sent a similar message to Italian businessman Eduardo Teodorani; Epstein urged Teodorani to bring his wife along. Those messages were sent on a...

The Baroque master’s “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy”, which sold at auction for €865,500 in 2014, will go on display in Washington, DC, later this month

Sandra Britt Interiors revamps residence in Fort Lauderdale
 
A contemporary residence in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has undergone an interior renovation led by Sandra Britt Interiors, with an emphasis on architectural planning, material consistency, and sustainable specification. The project focuses on key public areas of the home, using spatial organization and built-in elements to establish a cohesive interior framework rather than relying on decorative intervention.
 
Completed in 2025, the renovation includes the foyer and staircase, living and dining spaces, integrated millwork, and a dedicated wine and liquor display. The design approach prioritizes circulation, proportion, and clarity of form,...

Longstanding preservation challenges are likely to be exacerbated by the current political instability

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Another Side rethinks death as a shared civic experience
 
Another Side Community Center is a civic architecture proposal by Hanqin Tang located in San Francisco’s Mission District, an area characterized by high density, cultural diversity, and a strong local identity. The project examines how architectural space can accommodate both everyday civic activity and ceremonial functions within a single, integrated framework. It proposes a reinterpretation of the funeral home by embedding spaces of mourning, memory, and ritual within a broader community-oriented program.
 
Conceived in response to the limited availability of inclusive civic spaces in dense urban environments, the project brings together...

Simon Boccanegra has never felt as foreboding or prophetic as it did at a recent performance at La Fenice.

Each spring, Somerset House unveils a large-scale installation in its famed courtyard. The free, public artwork is an opportunity for audiences to encounter some of the most exciting figures working in contemporary art. This year, this opportunity goes to Dana-Fiona Armour (b. 1988), who defines herself as an artist-researcher, often collaborating with scientists and statisticians in her work. Serpentine Currents combines sculpture, technology and science, to raise awareness of issues surrounding marine ecosystems and changing ocean conditions. The three-part sculpture is modelled on a 3D scan of an endangered sea snake species. LED lights react to historic and predicted ocean data from the British...

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zha to design key cultural buildings in Hangzhou, china
 
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) is selected to design key cultural buildings within the Qiantang Bay Cultural District, a major canal-side regeneration project in Hangzhou, China. Anchored by the Qiantang Bay Central Water Axis in Xiaoshan district, the scheme transforms former industrial land along the Zhedong Canal into a continuous landscape of parks, gardens, and civic spaces.
 
Conceived as a green corridor threading through the city, the Central Water Axis reorganizes the canal basin into a sequence of landscaped terraces and waterfront promenades. New bridges and pedestrian paths stitch together both sides of the canal, reconnecting surrounding...

Concluso il fitto programma di eventi che ha animato Catanzaro nell’annualità 2025, Performing prosegue come piattaforma di ricerca e produzione artistica permanente, mentre è già in fase di preparazione l’edizione 2026 del festival.
Luana Perilli, backstage di “Cantalamissa”, 2025, courtesy Performing Catanzaro
La prima edizione del festival itinerante delle arti performative contemporanee, promosso dall’Accademia di Belle Arti di Catanzaro con il sostegno del Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca e il coinvolgimento di undici istituzioni AFAM e universitarie, si sposta ora dalla dimensione dell’evento a quella del processo. Laboratori, residenze e co-progettazioni trasformano Catanzaro...

Meet sprout, a portable humanoid robot with antenna eyebrows
 
Sprout by Fauna Robotics is a portable humanoid companion and robot that uses its antenna eyebrows and light animations to express emotions. Already built to operate for its ‘Creator Edition,’ the device can move either indoors or outdoors without needing any restricted zones. Just like the other humanoid companions, it can walk, kneel, crawl, and sit. It can also wave, dance, and jump, as well as grip and place objects in different places.
 
The portable humanoid robot is flexible for developers too because they can carry out manipulation tasks on the device using the built-in mapping and localization support. It means that Sprout can be...

Nederlands Fotomuseum – the Dutch National Museum of Photography – has more than 6.5 million objects in its archives. That makes it one of the most significant collections in the world. Founded in 2003, the gallery is a mainstay of Dutch history, tracing how the camera has equally documented and influenced the course of the nation’s identity. This almost unparalleled influence is only set to grow, with the collection estimated to reach 7.5 million by 2028. It is only natural, then, that the museum would eventually outgrow its surroundings. This month, Nederlands Fotomuseum opens a new site at the renovated Santos warehouse in Rotterdam, offering innovative ways for visitors to experience the art and...

"It is depressing to see how you are once again being dragged through the mud. I’m still proud to call you a friend.”That's a line from a correspondence between David A. Ross, chair of the MFA art practice program at New York’s School of Visual Arts, and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. It's just a snippet of a sickening chain of emails between the two men, revealed with the last release of Epstein files. The two also discussed the idea of an exhibition about "girls and boys ages 14–25, where they look nothing like their true ages." Epstein suggested titling it "Statutory." Ross sounded thrilled.   The good news is that Ross resigned yesterday from his post at SVA, after pressure from...

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A long-awaited exhibition of Dörte Eißfeldt (b. 1950), one of Germany’s foremost experimental photographers, opens in Berlin this February. It’s an exciting survey of an artist known for harnessing unconventional methods to develop images that defy categorisation – such as inverting positives and negatives, or taking multiple exposures. Eißfeldt’s body of work spans everything from snapshots of everyday life to heavily abstracted compositions that foreground texture and materiality. It’s an approach that has let to widespread acclaim; in November 2025, she received the prestigious Prix Viviane Esders. Plus, her pieces are held in major collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern...

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In occasione di Art City Bologna 2026, la Fondazione Carlo Gajani ospita “A body engineered by water”, mostra personale di Claudia Amatruda incentrata sui temi del corpo, dell’acqua e del femminismo. La mostra sarà visitabile per tutta la settimana di Art City, fino a domenica 8 febbraio (ad eccezione di mercoledì 4 febbraio, giorno di chiusura). Sabato 7, in occasione della White Night, ci sarà un talk speciale guidato da Fuorisedia con il collettivo Parsec, con introduzione dello storico dell’arte Giuseppe Virelli e letture della scrittrice Anna Papa. Per saperne di più abbiamo deciso di incontrare le curatrici Sara Papini e Fuorisedia.
Claudia Amatruda, “Operation Theatre (OT) n.1_Hypersea”,...

Music Director Eun Sun Kim is at the center of the repertory, and a long Wagner arc is now officially underway

“Imagine a world based on a different logic; a universe comprised of the absurd and paradoxes,” prompts Bruno Pontiroli, whose paintings explore the sometimes grotesque tension between the familiar and the uncanny. The artist is known for his absurdist paintings of animals with overly long legs, contorted bodies, or myriad mutant-like heads or limbs. They’re often set amid woodlands or meadows evocative of 18th- and 19th-century academic landscape paintings or depictions of formal hunts. Instead, both domesticated and wild animals graze as normally as they would without dozens of heads or udders attached in unnatural places around their bodies. “De mal en pis” (2025), 70 x 80 centimeters There’s...

“A line is a line, whether it’s wool or oil,” says Zavaglia, who was trained as a painter. “The art world is finally embracing it. They're breaking down this hierarchy of art and craft.” Read the full article on the artist by clicking above.
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With works that simultaneously convey the awe of nature and the whimsy of fairy tales, Clémentine Bal sculpts a world full of wonder and imagination. Read Liz Ohanesian's full article on the Hf 63 cover artist by clicking above.
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Fashion reflects and influences culture. The 2026 Vilcek Prizes in Fashion & Design highlight immigrants elevating fashion through design practice, material innovation, makeup, and hairstyling. As part of its mission to uplift immigrants working in the arts and sciences, the Vilcek Foundation has awarded $250,000 to four immigrant fashion professionals: Peter Do, Jacques Agbobly, Marcelo Gutierrez, and Uyen Tran.  These prizes underscore the significance of immigrants and fashion to culture in the United States by recognizing the foreign-born individuals who bring their voices, cultural memories, and immigrant experiences to their work. Their unique creations not only capture the current cultural landscape...

Loneliness and longing in Emi Yagi's new novel

The organizers of the SITE Santa Fe International Biennial today announced the appointment of Ekow Eshun as curator of the biennial’s thirteenth iteration, opening summer 2027 and running through 2028. Eshun, a former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, was the first Black person to helm a major UK arts institution. He is currently […]

A Bologna nelle giornate del 2, 7 e 8 febbraio 2026, in occasione di Art City, presso Alchemilla torna il format Artisti Marziali, nato nel 2024 e curato da Veronica Santi. Il progetto, dalla natura sperimentale, ha l’obiettivo di approfondire e indagare le pratiche artistiche degli autori chiamati a partecipare attraverso dei dialoghi della durata di quaranta minuti, strutturati da uno scambio di domande poste a turno.
Artisti Marziali | Federico Tosi vs Davide Sgambaro, 2025, ph. Luca Peruzzi
Ogni incontro prevede il confronto diretto tra due artisti, in una conversazione libera. Non vi sono interventi di curatori, galleristi, giornalisti o direttori museali e, privo di moderatori, il dialogo si svolge...

Wenting Zhu and the team at Beauty of Science have released another visual ode to nature’s processes. “Crystal Garden: Seasons” combines organic compounds and pigments to create a kaleidoscope of colorful growths that spring up and crawl across the tiny, round vessels. Zhu, who is the studio’s lead science artist, writes about the project: “Garden serves as a metaphor for the meeting of the natural and the man-made. A garden is a space where nature and human intention intertwine: neither wholly wild nor entirely artificial.” Find more on Beauty of Science’s Behance and website. You also might enjoy the studio’s study of molds and salt. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a...

Parterre Box highlights two recent Verdi Requiems of interest with a pair of Libera mes from Asmik Grigorian and Anna Netrebko.

I don't know if it's overrated because I don't think anyone rates it, but for pure party disc joy not much beats this 2018 recording of the original 1847 version of Verdi's Macbeth.

Mimi Plumb spent more than five decades observing the western United States subtle disquiet and enduring beauty. She was born in 1953 and raised in the San Francisco suburb of Walnut Creek. As a teenager, she began taking photographs, capturing the rhythms of suburban life during a decade of profound upheaval. In her early series The White Sky, Plumb depicts adolescents navigating uniform streets and abandoned construction sites, rendering the harsh Californian light with an intensity that amplifies both the absurdity and the pathos of everyday existence. Her images convey an empathy for her subjects whilst also registering the tension between human aspiration and the constrictions of environment. Her work...

In Pain Chain Lucia Tkáčová mette in gioco per la prima volta in modo diretto la propria storia personale, assumendo l’autobiografia non come racconto, ma come materia strutturale dell’opera. Il progetto nasce da un’esperienza prolungata di convivenza con la dipendenza – non vissuta in prima persona, ma interiorizzata attraverso legami familiari segnati dall’alcolismo – e si concentra su quella zona grigia e spesso invisibile che è la codipendenza: una condizione relazionale che produce identità fragili, senso di colpa, iper-responsabilità e annullamento del sé.
Lucia Tkáčová, “Pain Chain”, installation view at Albumarte, Roma, ph. Giorgio Benni, courtesy Albumarte
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In 2014, Matt Saunders traveled to Dallas to see “The Art of Leadership: A President’s Personal Diplomacy” at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, an exhibition of paintings by the former president. He puzzled over the works in a column published in Artforum’s Summer 2014 issue: “The ex-president defines himself as a painter, but do […]

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will go dark for two years while it undergoes renovations. President Donald Trump wrote in a statement posted to Truth Social that the center “will close on July 4th, 2026, in honor of the 250th Anniversary of our Country, whereupon we will simultaneously begin Construction of […]

The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), a leading light of the Glasgow experimental and contemporary art scene and a mainstay in the larger Scottish art scene, is closing after thirty-three years in operation. All thirty-nine of it staff will lose their jobs. The Art Newspaper reports that Creative Scotland, which owned the building in which […]

Con Same old, same old, Berlinde De Bruyckere – artista belga nata nel 1964 – torna a interrogare una delle questioni più radicali della sua ricerca: la persistenza del corpo come luogo di conflitto, memoria e trasformazione. La mostra, ospitata da Galleria Continua a San Gimignano, si configura anche come un estratto e una rielaborazione del progetto presentato dall’artista a Frieze Masters, estendendo e approfondendo in un contesto più raccolto e meditativo alcune delle traiettorie emerse in quella occasione. Non si tratta di una semplice trasposizione, ma di un nuovo montaggio critico, capace di far emergere connessioni latenti tra opere e temi ricorrenti.
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A stark, sweltering performance of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk shocks the Komische Oper Berlin.

Photography’s relationship to fashion has long been defined by surface and spectacle. This year, a series of exhibitions across Europe foreground a different set of concerns: memory, authorship and the politics of representation. Nhu Xuan Hua’s digitally reworked family photographs are marked by migration and intergenerational silence, whilst Rico Puhlmann’s fashion imagery is reimagined by a new generation of photographers. Elsewhere, carefully staged still lifes, queer portraiture and redefined fashion bodies point to photography’s continued capacity to adapt. The exhibitions gathered here question who is visible within photographic history and on what terms, pushing the trajectory of the medium in...

 
The Shutter Hub OPEN 2026 opened on 19 January 2026 at Art at the ARB at Cambridge University and launched on the 24 January with a private view attended by over 200 guests. The exhibition, which runs until 02 April 2025 and will be part of the Cambridge Festival, brings together 120 international photographers in a selected exhibition promoting the future of photography through diverse and creative imagery – taking over four floors of the ARB building at Cambridge University, transforming the space and covering the walls with hundreds of images printed by our favourite newspaper print partners Newspaper Club.
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With dye-like paints on raw linen, Pedro Pedro creates vivid still lifes. He depicts bounties of fruit, large
bouquets of flowers in full bloom, piles of clothes, and tables overflowing with art supplies—juxtaposing
both tidy and disheveled scenes of abundance throughout his body of work... Read the full article by clicking above!
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Written and edited by Tanlume Enyatseng, this studio conversation brings Congolese painter MUMBY and photographer Hélène Feuillebois together to reflect on presence, visibility, and the quiet labour of being seen in contemporary Paris. © Hélène […]

‘Sunkissed’ examines visual culture in a rapidly transforming Gulf Ahaad Alamoudi, Those Who Don’t Know Falcons Grill Them (still), (2018). Image courtesy of the artist. Ahaad Alamoudi’s exhibition ‘Sunkissed’, presented at Sharjah Art Foundation, unites […]