I was way too productive throughout the three-day weekend. A grueling closet overhaul (five-drawer wooden tallboy vs. fourth-floor walk-up), an overdue bathroom bleachout, a close friend’s 30th birthday party, a drop-in cat-sitting visit that turned into a rare accidental nap, and an arduous round-trip trek to the distant land of Nassau County were accomplished, and yet I still feel haplessly behind on my never-ending to-do list.Looking at the upcoming roster for the rest of the month, I’m positive that I’m not the only one who’ll be letting that to-do list pile up again in favor of ✨immersing myself in the culture✨. Much like my closet door for the better part of the last eight months, the doors...

Lucy McRae on body futurism
 
The body is both the starting point and the testing ground for Lucy McRae’s speculative practice. Through sculpture, film, conceptual fashion, and experimental design, the artist explores how technology might change the way we inhabit ourselves and relate to others. Her work treats the human body as a medium through which possible futures can be experienced and questioned.
  McRae leads Future Sensitive, an art-led speculative lab that brings together scientists, artists, and designers to explore body futurism and post-nature futures. Her interest in the subject developed through a combination of physical training, design research, and technological experimentation. After...

Washington, DC — Approximately 250 protesters gathered beside the Washington Monument on the National Mall on October 8 as part of a National Day of Action event calling for accountability and justice for sexual assault survivors. The protest was just one of more than a dozen “I Am Jane Doe” demonstrations held across the country last week, “from the frat house to the White House,” as described by the Women’s March.The National Day of Action was largely organized in response to allegations that seven Cornell University men, now known as the “Cornell 7,” gang raped a female student and advertised it in a fraternity Snapchat group. When the woman, known as Jane Doe, reported the incident two...

I’ve never put much thought into how I want to be portrayed after I die. Perhaps I’d opt to be plastered on Etsy mugs, tea sets, and journal covers, à la Frida Kahlo (though I doubt I’d have many buyers, or that Kahlo would’ve enjoyed how her self-image is often nowadays detached from the politics and life behind it), or I would begin things early by enlisting an artist to paint their best guess at my posthumous body. Maybe I'd like to be dipped in ink and stamped onto rice paper, as Molly Tenzer does with the roadkill she finds on New York City streets.The lineup at this year’s DOC NYC, which returns to venues throughout the city from November 11 through November 29, offers many reflections on...

A long canoe floats onscreen to the throbbing hum of insects; a frail woman expertly strips bark from a tree. She boils it slowly, a small tamarin monkey curled on her head like a crown. Dipping a blade into a bowl of tree juice, the woman free-hands a series of geometric shapes. Her nails are stained with age and ink, her grip remarkably steady.Directed by Èlia Gasull Balada and Matteo Norzi, The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs (2026) follows artist Sara Flores throughout her rapid ascendance to art world fame as the representing artist of the Peruvian pavilion at the current Venice Biennale. The film will screen at the 50th annual São Paulo International Film Festival starting on October 19, and will...

Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings stick in your mind. They are memorable and congenial. When I went to Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, the first major survey of his work in more than 30 years, at the Whitney Museum, I expected to be surprised by something new the curators dug up in their research into the sources of many of the more than 130 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints on view. I was not initially disappointed. Throughout his life, Lichtenstein credited Hoyt Sherman, his teacher at Ohio State University, with teaching him how to see. Lichtenstein gave his first son the middle name “Hoyt” and, after becoming successful, endowed the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center at the university in the 1990s....

The US must stop treating the things that help make communities as afterthoughts

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Around 1906, Hilma af Klint was living in Stockholm, where she kept a studio. Deeply engaged with Christian esotericism, she channeled her mystic visions into a series of otherworldly paintings that art historians acknowledge to be the first known abstract works in the canon, a paradigm shift in 20th-century art that had previously been credited to Wassily Kandinsky starting around 1910. What continues to awe us today about af Klint’s works is she didn’t view her vibrant paintings strictly as artworks, but as a result of spiritual channeling. Their production also coincided with a period of incredible scientific discovery. Nikola Tesla had just developed the alternating current (AC) electricity system,...

Curator Fatoş Üstek guides us through 11 monumental works on show this year in Regent's Park

sunken plaza likns corporate tower with São Paulo’s public realm
 
Jeronimo Faria Lima by Perkins&Will rethinks the corporate tower through its relationship with São Paulo’s public realm. Located at the intersection of Brigadeiro Faria Lima Avenue and Jeronimo da Veiga Street, the project uses a sunken plaza, pedestrian bridge, and elevated garden to connect the building with the surrounding streets.
 
The first basement level contains a sunken plaza with cafés, social areas, and collaborative spaces, extending public activity into the building. From here, a pedestrian bridge leads to the main lobby, creating a gradual transition between the street and the tower. Transparent enclosures, continuous...

The historic site will operate as a permanent exhibition space as well as a cultural centre, managed by the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus)

The Greek collector who heads her family’s shipping firm is showing works from her collection at the Hellenic Centre during Frieze London that reflect on perceptions of Greece past and present

A new curatorial thread at the 2026 edition of the fair presents a visual history of how LGBTQ+ artists across the globe, from Bahman Mohassess to Ruth Bernhard, contributed to Modern art

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From birch plywood and select solid maple, birch, cherry, and other native hardwoods, Chicago maker and designer Bill Groot crafts handmade Lap Easels in small batches. The ingenious device is a portable, adjustable support that sits comfortably on your lap or tabletop. It’s perfect for a multitude of creative activities, like drawing and painting, reading books and magazines, writing, relaxing with a screen, holding a cookbook, and more. The Lap Easel’s strong and lightweight design features five angled height settings to reduce hand and neck fatigue, and basic supplies can be tucked into the body compartment. Order yours today in the Colossal Shop. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a...

In its third revival, Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of Don Giovanni nails its predatory Don — but falls short dramatically with its donne.

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Ahead of the world premiere of Lincoln in the Bardo next week, Carmen Paddock looks at how presidents in opera can be both symbols of an idealized past and trenchant commentaries on the present.

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Sometimes I arrive at a building and don’t take a photograph for the first hour. I walk around. I look at the light, the floor, the ceiling, the way one room leads into another. I pay attention to the materials and how they change depending on where I stand. Sometimes I know the building well from photographs. Sometimes I have travelled a long way to see a place I have been curious about for years. Other times, I arrive with very little idea of what to expect. Usually, I have an idea of what I am looking for. It is quite often wrong.
 
Once I am actually there, the building starts to feel different. A photograph can give you an idea of a place, but it can never really tell you...

FIAT MULTIPLAY CONCEPT DEBUTS AT 2026 PARIS MOTOR SHOW
 
Fiat has unveiled Multiplay at the 2026 Paris Motor Show, a concept car that combines the space of an MPV, the character of an SUV and the versatility of a pickup truck. Measuring 4.45 meters in length, the vehicle explores how a single design could accommodate the changing needs of family life, from school runs to weekend adventures. At its heart is an adaptable architecture that allows the car to physically transform between two configurations. For now, Multiplay remains a design experiment rather than a preview of a specific production model.
 
The transformation revolves around a sliding rear module called Metamorfosi, developed around the...

PRADO MASTERPIECES ARRIVES AT POWERHOUSE ARTS
 
Making its US debut at Brooklyn’s Powerhouse Arts until December 20, 2026, Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado transforms classical paintings into three-dimensional, navigable environments. Created by ACCIONA Cultura in exclusive collaboration with Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado, the 30-minute free-roam virtual reality installation invites visitors to step inside the canvas and explore classic art together. Driven by academic curatorship and faithful replication, the experience combines original storytelling, meticulous spatial design, and immersive soundscapes, turning passive viewing into an intimate, shared sensory...

I went for Nilsson, but the star for me was the exceptional Mignon Dunn.

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Opera Baltimore strikes out with an uninspired production of Don Giovanni. 

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I find it unfathomable that Frederica Von Stade is 81 years old, for to me she is eternally 31.

By Kristine Schomaker I keep thinking about Nomadland. Fern driving her van across that enormous American landscape. Not running from something. Moving toward something she could not quite name yet. That feeling of needing less. Of being, as Dominique Moody says, at home in the world. NOMAD: Dominique Moody and the Assemblage of Home is on view at the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena through January 16, 2027, part of the year-long city celebration for the centennials of Route 66 and the...

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,” economist and computer scientist Herbert Simon warned in 1971. In our era of digital overload, it feels increasingly urgent—ironically—to remember to slow down. Too often we’re distracted by one thing or the next, looking down at our screens or paying attention to our surroundings just briefly enough to snap a photo before moving on. Jonathan Knight is captivated instead by the quiet moments, the beauty in stillness, and the gentle, gradual changes around us that take time to fully appreciate. Known for his ethereal, minimalist images, Knight conceived of Exhale as a way to explore the nuances of color and “the emotional experience of...

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

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

“I left my hometown / My hometown appears,” begins a poem by artist Shuling Guo titled “Temple II,” which shares its name with her forthcoming solo exhibition at Hollis Taggart Downtown. Drawing on sacred symbolism and nature, Guo delves into her memories of growing up in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, China, and the area’s unique mixture of spiritual and folk traditions. Her dreamlike, symmetrical works speak to the harmony of the cosmos as much as they nod to the balance of life and the sublime. Guo’s paintings in Temple II explore memory, presence, and loss, and their creation coincided with both the birth of her daughter and the death of her grandmother. Burgeoning blossoms, delicate flames,...

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To celebrate the retrospective exhibition Future Pastime featuring the work of futurist Syd Mead opening at the Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery in San Francisco this evening, we are showing previews of paintings from the show as well as the full article which Silke Tudor wrote on the late legendary industrial designer in Hi-Fructose Issue 33. […]
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Stumbling upon a battered end table or lost mitten is an opportunity for magic in Woo Jin Joo’s mind. The Seoul-born artist is known to gather furniture, garments, and other objects that have been left behind while walking near her home in London or commuting to her studio in Deptford. “I am not actively looking for anything in particular, but I discover them by happenstance, and they become meaningful; they provoke my imagination,” she says. “This is how I feel like we conjure meaning in our lives.” Combined with clay and shiny, viscose thread, these found items transform into uncanny sculptures that often meld animal bodies with domestic fixtures. Human-sized figures cloaked in costumes of white...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...