Rena Bransten, an art dealer whose gallery was a fixture of the San Francisco art scene for over 50 years, died Wednesday at the age of 92. Bransten died following a fall after a recent heart attack, her daughter, Trish, told the San Francisco Chronicle. Bransten’s eponymous gallery was founded in 1975 as the successor gallery to Quay Ceramics, which Bransten and Ruth Braunstein launched the year prior. Originally located in a 3,400-square-foot space in Union Square, the gallery became known for elevating artists from California, with a particular emphasis on women artists and artists of color. Among the most high-profile artists represented by Bransten over the years include filmmaker John Waters,...

Welcome to the 326th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists explore the personality of oil paint and find inspiration in conversations with strangers in Central Park.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.Sofie Koenig, Bloomington, IndianaHow long have you been working in this space?Seven months.Describe an average day in your studio.On an ideal day, I wake up around 8:30am and get to the studio before 10am. I find that my paintings suffer if I am working late at night, so I prefer to start...

Embossed Floral Stickers Become Sculptural Letter Elements
 
Tokyo-based label manufacturer Towa Mark, established in 1969, has translated its industrial embossing expertise into a tactile stationery product titled Letter Bouquet. Developed in collaboration with OKUNOTE Tokyo Studio, the project reconsiders the sticker as a three-dimensional compositional element rather than a flat decorative accessory.
 
Halu Maison Letter Bouquet is a modular letter set that enables users to construct a bouquet by layering thick, embossed stickers shaped as flowers and leaves onto a paper base. The components are produced using Towa Mark’s proprietary multi-layer construction method, originally developed for...

The artist brings his “insecure sculptures” to one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most unusual buildings, located in East Hollywood

The superfan of printmaking workshop and publisher Gemini G.E.L. talks about her extensive collection of prints and her excitement for new art-fair discoveries

Long-gestating construction on Barcelona’s famed Sagrada Familia reached a milestone this week when workers completed the upper section of its highest tower—a monument to Jesus Christ that makes the fantastical building the tallest church in the world. Work on the architect Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece commenced in 1882, and only one of its towers reached completion by the time he died in 1926, at the age of 73. But as reported by The Guardian, the chief architect for the project called last Friday—when a 56-foot cross was lifted into position—“a joyful day, wonderful for all the people who have made it possible.” Construction is expected to continue for a decade or so, but The Guardian called it...

Ai Weiwei takes over Manchester’s Aviva Studios with his largest site-specific exhibition to date

The Giacometti Museum and School will open in 2028 with a vast collection of masterpieces, many of which have never been exhibited

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The government of Assam in northeastern India plans to build a new museum space to show the 17th-century Vrindavani Vastra

The DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, founded in 1985 and part of DePaul University, will close at the end of its current fiscal year, on June 30. The school, which faces considerable financial challenges, announced the closure in an announcement to the community Thursday morning. In December, the school laid off 114 out of 1,493 staffers, a greater than 7 percent cut, due to what it called a significant drop in international enrollment, according to WTTW News, which noted that the school had sought to cut some $27.4 million in spending. A report published this month by progressive think tank New America revealed that more than three dozen universities, including DePaul, had steered lower-income students to take...

Artist Judy Baca is pushing back against allegations from former employees who claim she improperly benefited from a $5 million grant tied to the expansion of her landmark mural, The Great Wall of Los Angeles, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The accusations come from 10 former employees of the Social and Public Art Resource Center, or SPARC, the Venice-based nonprofit Baca co-founded in 1976. Several former staff members, including two managers, told the Times that Baca blurred the line between SPARC and her private business, Judy Baca Inc., and personally profited from grant funds intended for the mural’s expansion. Baca, 79, strongly denied the allegations. In interviews with the Times, she...

A Civic Pause Along oaxaca’s Central de Abastos
 
RootStudio’s public transport interventions in Oaxaca reshape the experience of waiting along the Central de Abastos through a system of architecturally considered bus stops designed for BinniBus.
 
Set within one of the city’s most active commercial corridors, the project addresses a stretch where routes, goods, and pedestrians converge from early morning onward. Here, public transport often operates under pressure. RootStudio proposes an alternative, where the waiting period becomes a spatial condition worthy of design attention.
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RootStudio conceives Infrastructure as public art
 
The team at RootStudio extends these public...

More than four decades after she helped shape feminist film and performance, Susan Kleckner is finally receiving the institutional recognition she was long denied. Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner, on view at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through April 5, 2026, is the first comprehensive retrospective of the pioneering feminist artist, filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. Bringing together nearly 100 works, many never before publicly exhibited, the exhibition seeks to reposition Kleckner as a foundational figure in feminist, queer, and activist art histories.Active from the 1970s onward, Kleckner worked across film, photography, performance, collage, and...

After more than two decades as a commercial textile designer, often working digitally, Amy Gross was drawn to making something that felt more immediate and tactile. “I started making beaded jewelry, something I could hold and feel,” she tells Colossal. The beading techniques gradually merged with canvases, which over time became more three-dimensional. They were “less about adornment and more about personal stories I felt I needed to tell,” she says. These eventually became sculptural objects, representative of the natural world that has long been a source of wonder and curiosity for the artist. “Aggregating Vivarium” Gross’ imaginative compositions of flora, fungi, and sometimes even fauna tap...

Rachida Dati, France’s culture minister, is stepping down from her post to run for mayor of Paris in next month’s election, she told the Financial Times in an interview Wednesday. Dati was appointed minister of culture by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in 2024 as part of President Emmanuel Macron’s new-look centrist cabinet, following an election that saw Macron pivot to the right. Le Monde‘s read of her term at culture minister was scathing, writing that it “resembled more a series of publicity stunts. than genuine achievements,” and that she “neglected live entertainment, failed on the reform of public broadcasting and stumbled on the Louvre issue.” A controversial figure in France, Dati is a...

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The New York-based publisher sees opportunity in the city’s large community of artists

Designer: Tamara von Arx The Undercurrent Surfaces There are moments in a country’s creative consciousness when you sense a tilt in the atmosphere. For many of the designers who participated in Zurich Fashion Week 2026, the seeds were sown at last year’s pre‑events. After a year of preparation, this was the moment their creations stepped into full beam. As I walked into the Kongresshaus Zurich this February, the first edition of Zurich Fashion Week (ZFW) humming to life around me, the...

Elvira Dyangani Ose is leaving her role as director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) three months early. Dyangani Ose in 2021 became the first woman and the first person of color to helm the institution since its 1987 founding. Her five-year contract was to have expired in July, but she will leave in April.  In January, Dyangani […]

Just one day after Laurence des Cars resigned as director of the Louvre, Christophe Leribault has been announced as her successor. French daily Le Parisien reported that Leribault, since 2024 the director of the Palace of Versailles, was appointed to the role by President Emmanuel Macron, who announced the change at a February 25 Council of Ministers meeting. This […]

Following the announcement that she'll make her Met debut next season, Grand Tier Grab Bag brings Italian soprano Erika Grimaldi to your attention with a duet from Manon Lescaut.

Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Emptiness 2026 Art Awards: Exhibition, Publication, Sales, and Global PromotionFeatured What is emptiness in your art? Is it solitude or serenity, absence or possibility, loss or quiet fullness? For the 5th edition of the Emptiness 2026 juried international art call, we invite artists worldwide to reveal the emotional and conceptual layers of solitude, serenity, and existential depth through meaningful artistic expression. Selected artists will be showcased in a smart exhibition and receive Artsy features,...

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Donna Gottschalk (b. 1949) grew up in the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side in the 1950s, where she spent much of her time wandering the streets and observing her neighbours. This backdrop, often violent and homophobic, shaped her and the way she saw the world: raw, real and up close. She began photographing as a teenager, at the same time she became involved in the early lesbian, trans and gay rights movements. Here, she turned the lens on the daily lives of her chosen family – friends, lovers, siblings and fellow activists. The result is a tender portrait of people living on the margins, at a time when gay relationships were still illegal in the US. We Others, on display at The Photographers’...

London’s much-loved contemporary craft and design fair, Collect, returns to Somerset House from 27th February to 1st March

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ANNUAL HIGHLIGHT OF INTERNATIONAL INTERIOR AND FURNITURE DESIGN
 
The countdown to the 64th edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano is officially on, set to transform the Rho Fiera Milano from April 21st to 26th, 2026. As the centerpiece of Milan Design Week, the fair hosts over 1,900 exhibitors from 32 countries across a completely sold-out 169,000 square meters of exhibition space. From kitchen and bathroom exhibitions to limited edition pieces, the fair is a highlight of international interior and furniture design. Beyond the traditional booths, the event serves as a strategic infrastructure that consolidates Milan’s role as the capital of contemporary design culture.
  ‘The strength of the Salone has...

Renoir and Love gathers 45 paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, forming the most significant exhibition of his work in the UK for two decades

Nine months after the passing of Koyo Kouoh, the Venice Biennale has named the 111 artists and collectives in the prestigious international exhibition she curated and titled: In Minor Keys. Each artist functions almost as a musical key signature of their own, which together "refuse the orchestral bombast and goose-step military marches and come alive in the quiet tones, the lower frequencies."That description comes from Rasha Salti, one of the exhibition advisors who spoke at yesterday's announcement of the roster. It's an apt invitation to think of curation as an act of composition, with Kouoh's vision singing at every turn.—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor The main pavilion at the...

exutoire renovates narrow tube house in hanoi
 
Exutoire completes 22YB1, a full renovation of an early-1990s tube house in central Hanoi that now accommodates both the architects’ studio and a multigenerational home. The project reworks a three-and-a-half-story structure measuring just three meters wide by 12 meters deep, a typical post-Đổi Mới housing typology, to address long-standing issues of darkness, poor ventilation, and thermal discomfort.
 
Emerging in large numbers during Vietnam’s construction boom of the 1990s, tube houses are defined by their narrow plots and deep plans, often resulting in dim and stuffy interiors. Exutoire reorganizes the core of the building and relocates the...

ressence and terumasa ikeda create ‘astronomy’ watch
 
Ressence presents the TYPE 9 IKE, a watch made with Japanese artist Terumasa Ikeda that has dials moving like planets. Using the brand’s ROCS system, the design shows time through rotating discs instead of hands. The dials move in circles as if they were a system in space, and in fact, the artist uses this movement as the highlight of the visual language. He builds and crafts art as the composition and structure of the watch itself.
 
Terumasa Ikeda works with urushi lacquer and raden. Urushi is a traditional coating method from Japan, while raden uses pieces of shell. These shell pieces then sit inside the surface of his watch with Ressence. For...

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The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives.
Our first edition is devoted to blue. A colour of depth and distance. Vast as the sky and as still as water. Blue evokes calm, melancholy, serenity and sorrow. Delicate cornflowers, robust denim, precious jewels, and the deepest ocean.
From literal to abstract interpretations, and alternative processes, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: BLUE shares photographers’ wide range of creative expressions.
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La mostra Onion di Michael Beutler, ospitata negli spazi di Pinksummer all’interno di Palazzo Ducale, a Genova, si configura come un ambiente esperienziale che lavora per sottrazione piuttosto che per accumulo. Più che presentare un insieme di opere da osservare, Beutler costruisce una situazione in cui il visitatore è invitato a rallentare e a rinegoziare il proprio rapporto con lo spazio e con il tempo, trasformando la fruizione in un atto intenzionale, fondato su una relazione diretta e non mediata con la struttura.
Michael Beutler, “Onion”, 2026, installation view at PINKSUMMER, Genova. Photo © Federico Ghillino. Courtesy PINKSUMMER and the artist
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While Magnhild Kennedy’s masks certainly hide their wearer’s identity, they won’t leave you inconspicuous. Working as Damselfrau, the East London-based artist stitches elaborate disguises from a range of found materials. Beads, feathers, fringe, and various glitzy baubles layer onto mesh panels, sometimes in the form of bright, owl-like eyes or a gilded, regal headdress. Kennedy is in a quieter period of her practice at the moment, working slowly and intentionally on her garments. In addition to the studio pieces, she’s also been hosting maker parties that invite friends and community members to join in the creative process. Follow the latest on Instagram. Do stories and artists like this matter to...

“My goodness, that chair is gorgeous. Look at its body, its material, its design. Must be expensive … what a stunner.” So gushes an unseen woman in the first shot of By Design, Andrea Kramer’s zany film about the pleasures (and perils) of aesthetic obsession. In the center of the frame, a wooden Baumann beckons our gaze from a swanky showroom, to be replaced in the next shot with a woman (Juliette Lewis) crowned in retro bangs. Flanked by two materialistic friends on a bougie LA terrace, she occasionally offers aphorisms while poking at her parfait. Her name is Camille. And all she longs for, we learn from the narrator (Melanie Griffith), “is to be seen.”During their ritual shopping trip to the...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Dóra Maurer (1937–2026) Hungarian neo-avant-garde artistAcross graphic art, photography, films, and paintings, she explored themes of movement and displacement. Her work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and more. Alan Burgess (d. 2026)British painter and educatorHe often painted the same subjects, from trees to the views from polymath John Ruskin's bedroom, over and over again. In 2002, he was selected to paint a grid of 50 trees in celebration of Queen Elizabeth's golden jubilee. He also ran an art class in his retirement. Bill...

Known for his trippy, seemingly infinite transformations, Jake Fried emphasizes the uncanniness of seeing. His newest work, “Strange Light,” is a mesmerizing one-minute animation conceived as a loop, drawn with ink and Wite-Out, then digitally enhanced with otherworldly, glowing hues. An electric green pervades the scenes, dominated by eyes and motifs related to the act of viewing, augmented occasionally with pinks and other pastels. One gets a sense that we’re witnessing a strange trip or a time warp of some kind—or a person who has stayed up way too late—as psychedelic patterns and rhythms present a surreal self-portrait of the artist. See more on Vimeo and Instagram. Do stories and artists like...

The women portrayed in Prudence Flint’s paintings are caught in moments of quiet, reflection, and impermanence. They appear fixed in a moment of repose ripe for interruption. Perhaps they are lying on the grass, or changing an infant’s diaper, or awash in warm water mid-shower. Regardless, there is a certain mood shared among her works. Read the full interview with the artist by clicking above!
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The Venice Biennale has revealed the 105 artists and collectives and six artist-led organizations participating in the main exhibition its sixty-first iteration, to take place May 9–November 22. Titled “In Minor Keys,” the show was conceived by Cameroon-born curator Koyo Kouoh, who died last summer as she was putting it together. The exhibition is being […]

For Marion Pinaffo and Raphaël Pluvinage, a.k.a. Pinaffo & Pluvinage, interaction and play are core tenets of a vibrant multimedia practice. Their kinetic sculptures, which are often participatory and immersive, employ brightly colored wood elements, electronics, and intricate frameworks, sometimes augmented by flowing textiles or colorful smoke that animate with the help of motors or human intervention. Whether installed in a garden, inside a cavernous space, or within a family-friendly museum setting, Pinaffo & Pluvinage’s works invite us to engage with formal elements of shape, material, and scale. The duo released a book last year with Éditions B42 (available in French) that highlights work made during...

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The Ralph Fiennes production of Eugene Onegin at the Paris Opera is just...fine.

London-based artist Faithe Yang can turn her hand to both photography and curation. On each sides of the curatorial line, her focus remains the same. The artist’s work explores queer intimacy and cross-cultural exchange, reinterpreting everyday gestures and relaxed scenes through an “othering” perspective. The result is a unique visual dialogue that often employs site-specific or unconventional settings to boost local relevance. Yang’s practice is rooted in challenging dominant narratives around visibility and migration, opening up vital conversations about what it means to truly belong in contemporary society.  One major curatorial undertaking is When the Monsoon Turns East. The exhibition featured...

George Frideric Handel (born 341 years ago on Monday) composed over 40 operas including many masterpieces, but his Giulio Cesare is the one that everyone knows best.

There were nearly 100,000 submissions to be part of the central exhibition at this year’s PhotoVogue Festival. Titled Women by Women, it highlights 45 artists, photographers and video makers who “explore what it means to see as women, examining the many forms, perspectives and lived realities that womanhood can encompass.” The sheer popularity of its open call underscores this statement. The event returns to Milan for its 10th anniversary in March (during the city’s fashion week), where it positions itself as a forward-looking platform. “At a time when women’s rights and identities are increasingly contested, this edition of PhotoVogue Festival affirms women’s vision as a powerful force in its...

Ruth Asawa’s work arrives into the present with a rare clarity, as if her sculptures had been waiting for this moment to be fully understood. In an era where museums are rethinking narratives and audiences are seeking art that feels ethically and materially grounded, her practice reads as both historical and startlingly contemporary. Her forms do not demand attention through spectacle but through quiet insistence, asking viewers to slow down and consider how space is shaped, occupied and shared. The retrospective currently on view across SFMOMA, MoMA and now the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao proposes continuity as a central theme, not only in Asawa’s formal vocabulary but in her understanding of life as an...

Cosa accade quando il disegno rinuncia a fissare l’apparenza statica delle cose per inseguire la dimensione processuale di un’azione in corso? Il disegno come pratica di registrazione del movimento umano è il fulcro della ricerca di Morgan O’Hara (Los Angeles, 1941), artista che fin dagli anni Ottanta ha sviluppato un metodo per trasformare la mano in strumento sismografico capace di catturare in tempo reale i flussi gestuali attraverso cui si manifesta la vitalità dei corpi in movimento. La mostra che lo Studio la Linea Verticale di Bologna le dedica raccoglie un cospicuo nucleo di disegni recenti realizzati con questa tecnica, che l’artista definisce Live Transmission, un procedimento attraverso...

What have I been working on today?" Dustin Yellin considers over a recent phone call… "I wouldn't even know where to start." Read the full article on the artist by clicking above.
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The organizers of the Liverpool Biennial have named Aimee Harrison and Lucía Sanromán as cocurators of the event’s fourteenth edition, to take place June 5–September 12, 2027. Though no theme has yet been announced, the biennial will be influenced by the experiences of youth in Liverpool and around the world. Harrison has served as the Liverpool Biennial’s curator of learning […]

Laurence des Cars today relinquished her role as director of the Louvre. Des Cars had led the Paris institution since 2021. She had tendered her resignation last year, shortly after the broad-daylight theft of $102 million worth of crown jewels from the museum, but President Emmanuel Macron, who had named her to the post, refused to accept it. […]

or our first-ever Booooooom Illustration Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners, one for each of the following categories: Editorial, Personal, Product & Packaging, Advertising & Promotional, Student. Now it is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Editorial category, Hoi Chan.
Hoi Chan is an illustrator from Hong Kong, currently based in New Orleans. His winning illustration is an image he created for The New York Times, “The Beauty of a Silent Walk” (Art director: Sarah Williamson).
A huge thank you to Format for supporting our awards this year. Format is an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally...

Zifan Sun was never formally taught how to make the images in the Held in Blur (2025) series. Instead, they arose from intuition and experimentation, as she turned an acrylic sheet into a handmade diffuser and filter. “I observed how light and botanical forms softened, merged, and dissolved,” Sun recalls. The resulting compositions – depicting fuzzy blooms, out-of-focus leaves and watery distortions – are a celebration of imperfection and what can happen when we trust the process. Readers might be reminded of Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi, whose similarly dreamlike, light-drenched images find beauty in brief moments of everyday life, or even German visual artist Gerhard Richter, for whom...

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under conductor Stéphane Denève plays up the schtick in a concert performance of The Magic Flute – and obscures Mozart's magic in the process.

Varcata la soglia che separa l’ambiente esterno di Piazza Duomo dagli spazi di Palazzo Reale, accessibile mediante un’ampia scalinata in pietra che eleva lo spettatore abbastanza da rendere irresistibile uno sguardo fugace dall’alto, ci si trova in un’ampia sala settecentesca immersa in una luce soffusa. Per accedervi bisogna superare un atrio lungo solo un paio di passi e attraversare una porticina socchiusa da una tenda azzurra, un breve passaggio che inevitabilmente ridefinisce le proprie dimensioni corporee non appena si fa esperienza delle enormi tele dipinte da Anselm Kiefer, disposte a formare uno stralcio di architettura che ricorda dei paraventi, o delle pareti che si piegano su sé...

"Soprano Aleksandra Kurzak will sing the role of Cio-Cio-San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, replacing Sonya Yoncheva, who has withdrawn from the run due to family reasons," says the Met press office.

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