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Angie Nixon's primary victory in Florida is a step forward for affordability, labor rights, and working families. It may also be a win for the arts. The now-official Senate candidate and Democratic Socialist started a bookstore and community art space in her native Jacksonville, dedicated to uplifting Black culture and local artists. Plus, did you know she co-wrote a comic book with her daughter? BRB, moving to Florida (words I never thought I'd write...)There's more to cheer on today. The Speed Museum is repatriating two dozen artifacts to the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, including sacred objects that belong in rituals and ceremonies — not behind glass. “Family members can now come...

EXPLORING KEY DESIGNs FROM THE A’ DESIGN AWARD AND COMPETITION
 
Straight from the list of A’ Design Award and Competition winners, designboom curates a wave of interior concepts and furnishings that challenge standard design practices. Spanning sculptural forms and unexpected material applications, these selected works emphasize individual character, prompting us to re-evaluate how we inhabit and interact with everyday spaces.
 
Established in 2008, the international juried award honors outstanding innovation across more than 100 creative categories. To ensure integrity, each entry is evaluated through a strict, meritocratic process by a panel of renowned academics, industry experts, and journalists....

A SINK LEAVES THE WALL
 
Greek designer Konstantinos Gournas reconsiders one of the home’s most static fixtures with WS | Wash Station, a mobile structure built around a reclaimed marble sink. Removed from its original setting, the basin is preserved with its existing marks, patina and traces of use intact, allowing its former life to remain visibly present rather than being polished away.
 
A new stainless-steel frame gives the heavy marble element an unexpected degree of freedom. Mounted on wheels, the sink becomes an autonomous water station that can shift between rooms, uses and spatial configurations. What was once designed to stay exactly where it was installed can now simply roll elsewhere.
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a party balloon becomes A hands-on lesson in sound
 
A 3D printed instrument by Co:Creation Lab uses a replaceable party balloon as its sound box, turning the physics of resonance into something users can adjust and feel. Called the Balloon Banjo, the small playable object combines seven printed components with fishing line or nylon strings and a conventional round balloon, creating a DIY instrument that doubles as a simple experiment in acoustics.
 
Plucking a string sends the sound into the balloon, where the volume of air affects the resulting resonance. Inflate the balloon more or less and the character of the sound changes; alter the tension of the strings and it shifts again. 
 
The way the...

Il corpo è stato uno dei grandi dispositivi attraverso cui la modernità ha costruito immagini, identità e gerarchie dello sguardo. Per secoli il corpo femminile è stato soprattutto una superficie sottoposta alla rappresentazione: osservata, idealizzata, frammentata secondo codici estetici definiti dall’esterno. Intimate Anatomies, la mostra presentata da Hauser & Wirth a St. Moritz, propone una prospettiva diversa: indagare l’instabilità della presenza fisica e la sua resistenza a ogni definizione definitiva.
Cathy Josefowitz, Maria Lassnig, Carol Rama, “Intimate Anatomies”, installation view at Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz © Estate of Cathy Josefowitz / © Maria Lassnig Foundation / © Archivio...

France has endured record-breaking successions of heatwaves this summer, which have led to massive wildfires and a spike in the normal death rate, according to French public health services. Gardeners are also struggling with the scorching heat, including at one of the country’s most cherished landmarks: Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny, Normandy. “It’s incredibly sad,” Rémi Lecoutre, deputy head gardener at the Claude Monet House and Gardens museum, told France 24. “This is the first time it has happened to this extent. It’s awful.” Lecoutre showed reporters where nasturtiums typically grow at this time of year, now among the flowers entirely killed off by the heat. He and a team of...

when the ground stops behaving like ground
 
Most houses begin with an assumption that rarely has to be said out loud, which is that the ground will stay where it is. A foundation locks the building to a site, and everything above it is organized around that fixed point. But in some areas, flooding makes the agreement suddenly uncertain. Water crosses the garden, reaches the walls, and can turn a foundation into one of the home’s biggest vulnerabilities.
 
Across Vietnam, Ecuador, the Netherlands, and the River Thames, a growing body of residential architecture starts from a different premise. Amphibious houses sit on land through ordinary conditions and rise when floodwater arrives, while floating homes...

Two dozen cultural treasures will head home to Native American communities tonight, August 19, following a ceremony at the Speed Art Museum in Kentucky, where they are currently housed. The Louisville museum’s first repatriation under the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) includes artifacts that belong to the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, such as beaded bags, a turtle amulet, and a cradle board.In 2023, Speed curators connected with tribal representatives to determine which items in the museum’s collection were due for repatriation under NAGPRA. The act stipulates that items associated with a "particular Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization" must be...

Jonathan Carver Moore says he cashed in his own retirement account to start his gallery on the edge of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood in 2023. He has mounted strong presentations at art fairs from Chicago to Miami. But artists, collectors and dealers say he has been guilty of chronic non-payment and withholding artworks, according to an extensive report in the San Francisco Standard.  Nine artists and gallery representatives who have done business with Moore say they have thousands of dollars outstanding from the dealer, or that he hasn’t returned their work to them despite numerous requests. Seven artists wrote to Moore jointly this month, demanding payment and the return of unsold work in a...

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam recently received an exceptionally well-preserved 17th-century drawing book as a donation from the prominent Van Eeghen family in the Netherlands, the museum announced. The book, which has been in the safekeeping of the Van Eeghen family for more than three centuries, contains approximately thirty drawings, many of which depict biblical scenes. […]

The cat’s out of the bag. This September and October, Bonhams is selling items from one of the most extensive private collections of cat-related artworks, decorative objects, jewelry, and collectibles: the Sandy Lerner Cat Collection. In all, Sandy Lerner, co-founder of tech company Cisco Systems and founder of cosmetics label Urban Decay, is parting with nearly 1,000 lots spanning centuries from her Ayrshire Farm estate in Virginia. Not all are feline-focused, however. The fall sale of the Sandy Lerner Collection will take place in four parts in New York and Massachusetts, with two of the four auctions highlighting Lerner’s more than 40-year passion for collecting objects featuring cats in some form,...

On Tuesday, a federal judge granted the Trump administration permission to proceed with paint tests on the Eisenhower Executive Building. Trump’s desire, which is to coat the granite facade with white paint, has been met with significant pushback from historians who say that covering the historic building’s granite exterior with paint could trap moisture and […]

For many artists, designers, and writers, the daily project is a fruitful, if not invigorating, exercise. Whether it emerges in the form of a morning sketch or collection of objects gathered during walks, disciplined creativity has a certain allure, and many of us long for a regimen that pushes through blocks, demanding that we make even in the most uninspiring conditions. This is true for Damien Hoar de Galvan, who embarked on a daily sculpture project at the beginning of 2024 from his home studio in Milton, just outside of Boston. He decided that, for the next 12 months, he would fashion a small wood assemblage each day. “I thought it would be a good way to change up how I was making things, new...

The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, has surrendered 24 objects from its collection to their Native American communities of origin, the US Department of the Interior announced in May. The items in question are considered “sacred objects” or “objects of cultural patrimony,” according to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). According to the notice, the official handover of the objects, which belong to the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes based in Oklahoma, is scheduled for this summer, on or after June 11. As reported in the Courier Journal, this is the first time the Speed has returned items to Indigenous tribes via NAGPRA. Sirene Martin, assistant curator and...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Bou Meng (1941–2026)Cambodian painter who survived the Khmer RougeHis ability to paint propaganda portraits of then-Cambodian dictator Pol Pot and other leaders, including China's Chairman Mao Zedong and North Korea's President Kim Il Sung, led to his being one of only seven people known to have lived through the Khmer Rouge torture center in Cambodia. He was one of the most recognizable figures of Cambodian genocide remembrance, notably testifying before the national courts against a prison chief in 2009. Later, he began painting murals of holy scenes in meditation centers and Buddhist temples....

Some of New York’s most prominent cultural institutions reportedly are getting off the hook on paying fines for fire code violations. Gothamist reports that the city is not collecting fines from institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Museum of the City of New York. A reporter reviewed dozens of summonses the Fire Department (FDNY) issued to these museums between 2023 and 2025, the vast majority of which are for fire alarms sounding in the absence of any emergency.  These museums operate on city-owned property and receive capital investments from the city. The FDNY issues the violations not to the individual museums, but rather to the Department...

Painter Haroutiun Galentz (1910–1967), orphaned and displaced during the Armenian Genocide, remains one of the 20th century’s most vital yet enigmatic modernist figures. He navigated the impossible demands of Lebanese nationalism, French colonialism, Soviet Stalinism, and Armenian socialism, but his work has been studied differently across these contexts. By reuniting his displaced works and reading them chronologically, Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Colour (2025) argues that the artist developed a singular modernist language rooted in color and psychological portraiture. This language, editors Vartan Karapetian and Marie Tomb claim, was not a rejection of his circumstances but a sophisticated response to...

Aerial view of excavations next to the stadium in Ramat Gan, Israel RAMAT GAN, ISRAEL—According to a statement released by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), archaeologists uncovered a remarkable 1,700-year-old commercial complex in Ramat Gan during excavations next to the Winter Stadium. The site contains a series of workshops, warehouses, pottery kilns, and other industrial spaces that were organized around a network of intersecting streets. “Although buildings and artifacts from ancient periods have been discovered in the area in the past, the results of the current excavation exceeded all expectations,” said excavation directors Yoav Arbel and Lior Rauchberger. In addition to the ruins of...

A trio of paintings by Swedish-born artist Monica Sjöö are at the center of a legal dispute between London-based Alison Jacques gallery and Swedish-American couple Yoed and Natasha Anise. The couple allege that Jacques, who represents Sjöö’s estate, breached contract conditions in selling the paintings to them and subsequently rescinding the sale. The Anises, who […]

Cynthia Blanchard, the former owner of Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and the Dallas-based company 20cDesign have filed a defamation suit against numerous media outlets, as well as the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and its executive director, Barbara Gordon, over coverage of the 2024 sale of some of the tower’s furnishings. The suit, filed […]

CLAY AND PAPER MEET MEDITERRANEAN LIGHT
 
Rooted in southern France, Maison Cédrat draws on the landscapes, architecture and material culture of the Mediterranean for Aura, a lighting collection designed by Pierre Samouilla and Alix Lalucaa. Rather than treating illumination as the final task of an object, the duo approaches light almost as another material — one capable of altering texture, volume and atmosphere as the day shifts around it.
 
The collection brings together three luminaires — Lumia, Écla and Nova — through a dialogue between the mineral weight of clay and the near-weightlessness of handcrafted washi paper. By day, their simple geometries foreground texture and proportion; switched...

BERLIN, GERMANY—The Herald Scotland reports that scholars believe they have identified the first ever documented victim of a trebuchet attack. The new research was presented by University of Bradford archaeologist Jo Buckberry at the biannual European meeting of the Paleopathology Association. During the 1990s, excavations at Scotland’s Stirling Castle uncovered the remains of an individual who likely perished during the siege of the fortress by the English king Edward I (reigned 1272–1307) in 1304. His skeleton was riddled with more than 160 separate fractures to his skull, ribs, vertebrae, and arms. After analyzing each fracture, Buckberry determined that the man, who was in his 20s, suffered...

Angie Nixon, a Florida congresswoman and Democratic Socialist with a track record of supporting universal health care, denouncing Israel's genocide in Gaza, and championing Black arts and culture, won the state's Senate primary race last night in a major upset. With less than a million dollars funding her largely grassroots campaign, she clinched 56% of the votes to beat out retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel and combat veteran Alex Vindman, a moderate with significant party endorsements and $16 million in backing. The 42-year-old Jacksonville native is now set to face incumbent Republican Senator Ashley Moody in the November general election.

From nearly 4,000 entries submitted by 1,338 photographers around the world, a striking selection has been shortlisted for the Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026. The handpicked images represent some of the finest photographic portrait work being made today, from intimate settings in which figures meet the viewer’s eye to candid scenes on city streets and rural expanses alike. Open to professionals and amateurs alike, the competition will select one winner to receives a £15,000 award plus a commission to be added to the collection of London’s National Portrait Gallery. An exhibition of the best entries will also be shown at the museum from November 5 to January 17, and the winner will be announced...

Inscribed sandstone lintel unearthed at Tell Abu Saifi, Sinai, Egypt EL QANTARA, EGYPT—Egyptian authorities announced a string of new discoveries at Tell Abu Saifi in northern Sinai that have strengthened the site’s association with the long-lost city of Mesen, according to a Daily News Egypt report. Excavations uncovered a mudbrick enclosure wall, including its gateways, and the remnants of a temple. The most significant find was a massive sandstone lintel that had been broken in half.  The lintel is inscribed on three sides with the titles of Ramesses II, along with a text referring to restoration work carried out on a statue of the deity Horus, who is referred to as the “Lord of Mesen.” Mesen was a...

Taiwanese artist participating in the 16th iteration of the Gwangju Biennale allege that exhibition organizers changed the name of their pavilion in an act of political censorship. The group’s proposal was submitted by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) and accepted under the name “Taiwan Pavilion” but was unilaterally changed on posters promoting […]

In Brussels’ iconic Grand-Place, a summer tradition literally blossoms in monumental style. The city’s Flower Carpet event, which this year celebrated its 24th edition, celebrates art, community, and diplomacy in the heart of Belgium’s capital, which is also the hub of the European Union. From August 13 to 16, the event marked 160 years of friendship between the nation and Japan, inviting artist Hiro Sugiyama to design a city square-sized composition, which he conceived as a tribute to ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai. Titled “Neo Hokusai,” the monumental arrangement comprised more than 750,000 fresh dahlias, covering nearly 14,000 square feet. Framed with ornate patterns, the reimagining of the...

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In Bayreuth, a confident Magnus Vigilius and luminous Jennifer Holloway attempt to elevate Wagner’s populist Rienzi.

I've only heard one performance that could be described as 'filth.'

Raccontare un artista significa, prima ancora che ricostruirne la biografia, confrontarsi con ciò che la eccede, ovvero con quella zona liminale in cui la materia si fa esperienza, memoria e pensiero. È in questo spazio, compreso tra la concretezza dell’opera e ciò che essa continua a generare nello sguardo, che si colloca la ricerca di Pietro Lista. A questa stessa dimensione appartiene Omaggio a Picasso, l’opera grafica realizzata da Lista per sostenere la produzione del docufilm dedicato alla sua ricerca. Trenta esemplari numerati e firmati che assumono un significato ulteriore rispetto alla semplice raccolta di fondi: l’opera entra nel processo di trasmissione della memoria, trasformando il...

Alejandro Aguilar Canela finds profound value in what may be seen as some of our bleakest emotions. Delving into subject matters such as depression, anger, abandonment, fear, individuality, sexuality, and more, Canela strives to understand the multitudes within each, and how their shadowy paths have the ability lead us somewhere brighter. Though occasionally venturing into sculpture, the Austin, Texas-based artist specializes in drawing. His works range in size, with many of his compositions spanning two to four feet wide on both traditional paper and vellum. Canela largely employs graphite and fine line mechanical pencil, welcoming “mistakes” or inadvertent motifs—such as smudges and unplanned...

Brass-making crucibles GUANGZHOU, CHINA—According to a Phys.org report, Chinese researchers have identified the earliest evidence of brass-making in East Asia at the site of Guangzhou. Ancient written Chinese sources allude to the production of brass, a metal alloy made from copper and zinc, as early as the tenth century. Prior to the new study, however, the oldest archaeological evidence dated only to the sixteenth century. Excavations at Guangzhou uncovered an ancient metal workshop in which a team led by Peking University archaeologist Hongyan Xiao found 80 crucibles. The researchers were able to identify tiny droplets of brass that had been trapped on the surfaces of three crucibles dating to the ninth...

Excavation at the site of Á Sondum, Sandoy, Faroe Islands SONDUR, FAROE ISLANDS—All That’s Interesting reports that a centuries-old runestone was unearthed from the ruins of a medieval prayer house at the site of Á Sondum on the island of Sandoy. Runic inscriptions are exceptionally rare in the Faroe Islands, with only a few other known examples. Experts from the National Museum have only partially translated the lettering, but believe that some of the legible characters appear to read “Her hvílur,” meaning “Here lies” or “Here rests” in Old Norse. The object was found embedded in the floor of the chapel-like structure and may have served as a burial marker for a notable individual. Other...

 
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.
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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...

“For me, paintings represent an attempt (sometimes more successful, sometimes less so) to grasp a ‘something’ that for some reason deeply moves me, agitates me,” says Turin-based artist Francesco Pirazzi. In atmospheric, dreamlike paintings, deceptively simple architecture, trees, walkways, and other features of the landscape glow amid uncanny lighting. “What drives my research is the feeling that something in reality is slightly off, that before my eyes lies an indecipherable enigma,” Pirazzi says, adding that he enjoys the way painting can encompass both reality and the “unknowable world,” and the ways they irresistibly converge. Deep shadows, minimalist archways, luminescent clouds, and...

Calling from 2066, Brendan Latimer argues that the best way to save opera might be to just blow up the standard repertoire altogether.

American Bach led a stirring rendition of Handel's Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, full of big questions and even bigger musical highlights.

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Le sculture di Anna Maria Maiolino (Scalea, 1942) si accumulano. Si ammucchiano per ripetizione e sono costruite da gesti infiniti e dal tatto. Ma questi piccoli gesti quotidiani non sono solamente pratica artistica: visualizzano come la vulnerabilità e la sensibilità, il tatto e la cura, possono essere un atto di resistenza. La Galleria Ovale del Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) di Lisbona, Portogallo, racchiude queste sculture create con modalità ripetitiva. La mostra si intitola Poetic Earth. Alcune delle opere sono state realizzate decenni fa, altre sono state create in situ, proprio in questo spazio a forma di foglia.
View of the exhibition “Anna Maria Maiolino. Poetic Earth”,...

Ci sono artisti la cui carriera coincide con una lunga ricerca e altri che, raggiunta una determinata soglia, sembrano aver trovato una lingua tanto riconoscibile da poter attraversare qualsiasi soggetto senza modificarne realmente la struttura. È una condizione rara, che appartiene a quei pochi autori il cui immaginario ha ormai assunto la forma di un universo autonomo, capace di assorbire temi, epoche e narrazioni mantenendo pressoché intatta la propria grammatica. Osservando Le Alchimiste, il mastodontico progetto concepito da Anselm Kiefer per la Sala delle Cariatidi di Palazzo Reale, a Milano, a cura di Gabriella Belli, la sensazione è proprio questa: non quella di assistere a una svolta, quanto...

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La pittura contemporanea ha spesso trasformato il ritorno in una narrazione di recupero: un’interruzione superata, una perdita convertita in nuova possibilità. When the Sun Shines Again, la prima grande personale newyorkese di Guimi You presso Lehmann Maupin, usa questa struttura per metterla in crisi. La mostra osserva ciò che accade quando il gesto artistico emerge da periodi di sospensione, quando il fare pittura si intreccia con la cura, l’attesa e forme di vita che tradizionalmente rimangono fuori dalla storia della produzione.
Guimi You, “When the Sun Shines Again”, installation view at Lehmann Maupin New York. Photography by Studio Kukla, courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul...

By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...

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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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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By Victoria Thomas Photographer and ceramic artist Catherine (Cathy) Opie first shocked and rocked the fine art world with her self-portraits during the late 1990s. Today, her decades of work — often termed confessional — now serve as context for the far more enigmatic Holding Blue installation, on view at Regen Projects through July 3. The Los Angeles-based artist identifies as a leather dyke, lesbian cowboy, an elder, and as "Mama Cathy," with a mustachioed male alter-ego named Bo. Opie is...

“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...

By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...

By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...

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...

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...

 
Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...

In the forest nothing stands still. Time layered through thoughts and feelings, leaves kicked and crunched as we walk. The trees talk to each other, sending mycelium messages, carbon gifts, and warnings of drought or illness. From ancient wisdom to popular culture, it’s all here.
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, did it make a sound? Of course it did. And if Jo Stapleton was there to capture the moment, there would be a visual symphony of light, shape and form to follow.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, this beautiful collection of 100 images by Jo Stapleton is an expressionist photographic account of her interactions with trees, forest and woodland, later remembered and...