Tensely contorted or standing pin straight, Ben Zank’s signature faceless subjects evoke ineffable yet familiar emotions. The New York City-based photographer has a knack for turning ordinary settings and unaccompanied figures into strangely perplexing sights. Mismatched socks, bold garments, and awkward poses go a long way in evoking a visceral response through his lens, tapping into a sort of uncanny realism. Zank’s work traveled to Festival Cargo Les Photographiques—a.k.a. The Cargo Festival—in Saint-Nazaire, France last summer. Since its debut in 2022, the annual event typically features several outdoor exhibition areas, highlighting contemporary photographers. The artist’s plein air installation...

As cuts to federal grantmaking continue to cause deep rifts in operating and project funding across the nonprofit sector, private funders and stewards of mission-driven work are in high demand. In 2025, the Vilcek Foundation launched an open call for grant applications, coinciding with this increased need. This new initiative furthered the organization’s overall grant-giving, expanding its mission as it celebrates its 25th anniversary. The foundation is currently seeking applications for the 2026 Vilcek Foundation Grants, now in its second annual cycle. Eligible nonprofit organizations that uplift and celebrate immigrant contributions to the arts, sciences, culture, and society through their programs and...

Thaddeus Mosley in 1957. (courtesy Karma and the estate of Thaddeus Mosley) Thaddeus Mosley’s carved wood sculptures first came to New York in 2004 when the poet Nathaniel (“Nate”) Mackey curated the debut exhibition of his work at CUE. I went because I love Nate’s work both as poet and editor and am interested in anything he does. I had never heard of Mosley before and was not sure what I would see. His exhibition reminded me of something I had long known: There are many artists of color that the art world blithely ignores. A year later, still thinking about Mosley’s sculptures, I decided to invite myself to his studio in Pittsburgh, even though I was not writing for any art magazine and I did not...

Contemporary art curator Liz Munsell has been named Vice President of Curatorial Arts and Programs at Powerhouse Arts, a creative arts nonprofit based in Brooklyn’s Gowanus, the organization announced this week. Munsell has previously held curatorial leadership roles at the Jewish Museum in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Harvard University.  In her […]

James and Kathryn Murdoch are working with MCH Group, the parent company of Art Basel, on a new festival meant to rival the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and other “ideas”-driven gatherings that convene the world’s wealthy and powerful. While details remain scarce and no formal announcement has been made, Vanity Fair’s Nate Freeman reported that he confirmed the in-the-works event with multiple sources. According to Freeman, the project is a joint venture between Lupa Systems, James Murdoch’s investment firm, which holds a controlling stake in MCH, and Futurific, an organization cofounded by Kathyrn Murdoch that produced PBS’s six-part docuseries A Brief History of the...

In this week's episode of The Week in Art, Ben Luke discusses the newly-enlarged New Museum, talks to Georgina Adam about her new book on the latest generation of art collectors, and hears from the curator of a new exhibition on botany at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford

Human homes on moon, mars, space and underwater
 
The most frequent medicine taken on the International Space Station is sleeping pills because astronauts in orbit live in a light cycle that doesn’t match their biology. Their bodies don’t know when to sleep or when to wake, and the disruption lasts for weeks or months, affecting their performance, mood, and physical health.
 
For SAGA Space Architects, the Copenhagen-based architecture and space studio founded by Sebastian Aristotelis and Karl-Johan Sørensen, this is not a spacecraft problem. It’s the home design’s fault, and for those who want to go to the Moon, Mars, and the ocean floor and live there, the structure has to adapt to their needs...

VCUarts invites the public to experience the two-part 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition, curated by Egbert Vongmalaithong, Assistant Curator of the ICA, and guest curator Taylor Jasper, the Susan and Rob White Associate Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center. The exhibition unfolds across two rounds at VCU’s Institute for Contemporary Art at the Markel Center in Richmond, Virginia, presenting the work of graduating MFA students in Craft/Material Studies, Graphic Design, Kinetic Imaging, Painting + Printmaking, Photography + Film, and Sculpture + Extended Media.The MFA Thesis Exhibition marks the culmination of two years of sustained inquiry, intensive research, and rigorous studio practice. The resulting...

Czech culture minister Oto Klempíř dismissed Alicja Knast from her post as director of Prague’s National Gallery, generating scrutiny over what precipitated the decision. Within the Czech Republic, the dismissal has been viewed by some as a politically motivated gesture. Knast took up the position in 2021, having been appointed to the role by Lubomir Zaoralek, a Social Democrat who was then serving as culture minister. Klempíř, a member of the right-wing Motorists party, became culture minister last year. Before becoming culture minister, Klempíř was the lead singer of the funk rock band J.A.R. Many artists in the Czech Republic have raised concerns about his ability to allocate funds appropriately....

Nine of the objects will stay in Switzerland despite the change of ownership

New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD) had filed a letter of complaint about a speech by Zubeyda Muzeyyen

The culture ministry of Mexico has called on eBay to remove sale listings for 195 pre-Colombian artifacts, claiming they were obtained by way of “illicit extraction” and that they should be returned to their country of origin. As reported by The Art Newspaper, the case was made public when Mexico’s secretary of culture, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, wrote in a posting on X that the Orlando, Florida–based enterprise Coins Artifacts was selling objects deemed part of Mexico’s cultural heritage by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). In a letter sent to eBay, Curiel de Icaza demanded that the company “immediately suspend the sale and return the items to the Mexican government,”...

Calvin Tomkins, who wrote defining profiles of scores of leading artists, bringing their work to a broad public in crystalline prose that was insightful, generous, and witty, died on Friday. He was 100, according to David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, where Tomkins published numerous profiles. Remnick did not state where Tomkins died in the obituary he wrote for the New Yorker’s website. For more than 60 years, Tomkins immersed himself in the contemporary art world, meeting with his subjects over many months to report stories for the New Yorker, whose staff he joined in 1960. The body of work that he assembled amounts to an unrivaled history of the art of his era—a time of seismic aesthetic...

Prada’s current ad campaign for its Spring/Summer 2026 collection is an unsettling affair, and no surprise its maker is an artist known for disturbing video art and sculptures: Jordan Wolfson, whose past works have featured a gyrating cyborg, chained-up puppets, and other terrors. Wolfson’s art is famous—and, in some cases, notorious—for its depictions of violence, both of the physical and emotional variety. A VR work that he produced for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, for example, allowed visitors to witness a man being bludgeoned by a version of Wolfson himself wielding a baseball bat. Another VR work made last year for the Fondation Beyeler, a museum just outside Basel, Switzerland, body-swapped its...

On the top floor of Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s Gundlach Building, a vast body of work from 58 artists comes together for Let Us Gather In a Flourishing Way. The impressive ensemble is both a survey of contemporary Latinx painting and a lively dialogue between a spectrum of artists with diverse backgrounds, experiences, identities, languages, and creative mediums. Let Us Gather In a Flourishing Way is a major exhibition that has slowly unfolded over the course of several years. Curator Andrea Alvarez—the architect and driving force behind the project—has spent much of this time immersed in research and collaborating closely with each artist throughout the process, refining every detail of the show. Eamon...

A man, identified in court documents as Alexander Weis, wreaked catastrophic havoc at the Seattle Center’s Chihuly Garden and Glass museum on Monday evening, causing $240,000 worth of damage to the facilities and destroying several glass sculptures of plants by Dale Chihuly, the Seattle Police Department reported this week.  The man, purportedly Weis, who is now in police custody, […]

a curved canopy tops the Floating white Pavilion in Songyang
 
Studio RE+N introduces an open-air steel pavilion at the summit of a terraced tea mountain in Songyang County, Zhejiang Province, China. Positioned approximately 500 meters above sea level, the 85-square-meter structure operates as both a viewing platform and a rest point within an active agricultural landscape. Located within the Organic Tea Valley of Xinxing Town, the project engages with an environment shaped by tea cultivation and previously accessible only through narrow picking paths.
 
The design adopts a minimal intervention strategy, placing a lightweight structure on slender supports to reduce impact on the terrain. The pavilion’s...

Golda Schultz and Jonathan Ware present Dark Matter(s), an intriguing program of songs, at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.

Each year, Foam presents the Talent Award. The prize spotlights extraordinary new image-makers who are shaping the future of photography. This edition was a record-breaking one, with almost 3,000 submissions from 107 countries. Particularly exciting, the 2026 award marked the first time the Foam Talent Call welcomed artists of all ages in the early stages of their career. Those that submitted reflect a remarkably wide range of narratives, perspectives and artistic approaches. Many consider the constant global change and uncertainty of our times, addressing themes such as political oppression, mental health, religion and faith, displacement and the search for cultural identity. Technological developments are...

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William Guanbo Su and Ann Hallenberg are compelling in The English Concert's presentation of Handel's Hercules at Carnegie Hall.

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DESIGNBOOM CHECKS INTO MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026!
 
We dream in hotels, jet-lagged, suspended between time zones, held in transient comfort. What if our dreams weren’t just nocturnal illusions, but blueprints for a better world?
 
During Milan Design Week 2026, designboom checks into the ME Milan Il Duca hotel with ROOM FOR DREAMS, a site-specific takeover transforming the iconic Aldo Rossi-designed hotel into an immersive laboratory for creative hope. Through a series of large-scale installations, a dedicated cinema space, live talks, workshops and social encounters, the project interrogates the state of dreaming as a tool for architectural and social transformation.
our ROOM FOR DREAMS location: the iconic...

the new museum exhibits early visions of new humans
 
Proposing an unsettling vision of humanity, New Humans: Memories of the Future takes over the New Museum‘s recently completed expansion. The museum’s Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni curates the show by gathering more than a century of artists’ responses to moments when technology and society reframed the meaning of being human. Across four floors of the OMA-designed building, earlier visions of the future are presented alongside present-day questions that remain unresolved.
 
For Gioni, this moment of change feels symbolic, and he tells designboom during an interview ahead of the opening: ‘We are living in a moment in which some changes in...

Luigi Brugnaro makes clear however that he feels the event should be a place for “diplomacy and openness”

Christie’s decides Hong Kong is the best place to sell the forest landscape

Rock and Roll: Synthetic Incubators for a Post-Human Nature
 
The project Rock and Roll proposes a system of synthetic incubators positioned within the Inglewood Oil Field, LA, reconfiguring a former industrial site through a combination of architectural prototypes and speculative ecological processes. The design by Zihua Mo and Chunyu Ma explores how constructed systems can operate as active agents within environmental regeneration, shifting focus from human-centered occupation toward autonomous, responsive infrastructures.
 
At the core of the proposal is the development of ‘Homunculi,’ conceived as architectural entities with embedded sensing and reactive capabilities. These full-scale prototypes...

When I met Dolores Huerta during a workshop in 2020, her quiet conviction and grounding strength illuminated the room. Smiling and assured, she was exactly the person I’d grown up hearing about, the leader who continues to guide generations of organizers. At the end of the meeting, she led the group in the chant that she originated in 1972: “Sí, se puede.”The world is aching this week in the wake of the revelation that Cesar Chavez, with whom she co-founded United Farm Workers, assaulted her and two young girls during the movement. Staff Writer Isa Farfan reports on California schools and institutions covering up their statues and reassessing the legacy of Chavez after the allegations came to light,...

Cesare Siepi and Giulio Neri give a reference rendition of the Grand Inquisitor scene.

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La vita ci costringe il più delle volte a comportarci in determinati modi per rispettare convenzioni sociali e costumi. La maschera pirandelliana che siamo obbligati ad indossare è qualcosa che allo stesso tempo limita e blocca la forza espressiva dirompente che ognuno di noi conserva all’interno di sé. Filippo Janez Bertoni, con la collaborazione di numerosi altri artisti, parte proprio da questa concezione per cercare di creare, con il medium del processo interpretativo, una maschera nuova, vera, che permetta a tutti coloro che vogliano indossarla di liberare le più profonde pulsioni creative ed eliminare le inibizioni.
Filippo Janez Bertoni, “Vera Sonora”, einLaden, Kassel, happening 24.01.26,...

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Multi-colored lengths of fabric billow in the breeze in the work of Thomas Jackson, challenging the relationship between nature, human intervention, and consumerism. “Rooted in the tension between nature and artificiality, the installations pose questions about how we interact with the environment and how we might find equilibrium with it,” the artist writes in a statement. “All of my photographs strain credulity by design,” Jackson says. “At first blush, they can appear to be digital fabrications, but in truth, they are entirely in-camera, printed with minimal post-production.” The undulating swathes of fabric in his ethereal photographs initially appear to float and drape on their own, almost...

“How hard could it possibly be?” was the question I asked myself after setting a hypothetical but realistic budget of $500 at the Affordable Art Fair. I soon realized that I had my work cut out for me: I spent the entire three-hour opening last night combing through the 90 exhibitor booths to see if any work was actually available in that range. The fair, which advertises a range of global art priced between $100 to $12,000, returned to the Starrett-Lehigh building in Chelsea for its spring run through this Monday, March 22. It positions itself as an approachable environment for first-time and young collectors while also welcoming veteran enthusiasts. There's something for everyone here when it comes...

SINCE COMING TO POWER IN 2018, Mexico’s “Fourth Transformation” political force has often found itself at odds with the country’s left-leaning arts and culture sectors. The movement—which mixes populism with selective neoliberal austerity—quickly cast contemporary art as an expression aligned with the ideology of the old regime. Individual artists have been publicly denounced by former […]

Art Dubai today announced that its 2026 fair would not take place in April as planned but instead would be held May 14–17 in an “adapted format” at its longtime home, the resort Madinat Jumeirah. The event, which is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, is a lodestar of the region’s burgeoning arts scene. The 2026 iteration was to […]

Helen Legg, currently the director of Tate Liverpool, has been named the new artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, a role she will assume in June 2026. In her new position, Legg will be responsible for the Academy’s exhibitions, collections and public programming. The Royal Academy stands out among art institutions—founded in 1768 […]

A bold new structure has appeared in Cary Park in Cary, North Carolina: the latest sculptural pavilion by Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY. The work is titled “L’Ile Folie,” which nods to the architectural tradition of the folly, a landscape feature that was all the rage with wealthy estate owners in the 18th and 19th centuries. Often nostalgic and resembling ruined miniature castles or bucolic village buildings, follies were generally non-functional and conceived as pure decoration. Fornes, however, reimagines this practice with an eye toward the future rather than the past. The pavilion “gives this tradition a contemporary meaning: memorable, playful, and slightly surreal,” says a statement. Fornes is...

Around a decade ago, Shinsuke Inoue sourced a piece of Japanese wood and carved a depiction of his child, “wanting to preserve their likeness in three dimensions,” the artist tells Colossal. The affectionate expression of a loved one in sculptural form spurred a new passion for woodcarving, specifically with an emphasis on the human figure. Inoue’s pieces possess a kind of elemental groundedness or gravity that makes their restrained, sometimes hard-to-read expressions remarkably alluring. The figures often look straight ahead, and at the right angle, they make powerful eye contact with the viewer. And not unlike the way a small, meaningful smile or tiny frown can emerge from the most minute twitch of...

As part of Bass Month at the Box, Niel Rishoi considers six versions of "Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni" from La sonnambula for Perspectives on an Aria.

Over the past 28 years, Art Paris has become a key moment in the cultural calendar. This April, the fair returns to the Grand Palais, offering an ambitious programme that supports the French scene, whilst fostering dialogue with artists and galleries from around the world. The 2026 edition welcomes 165 galleries from 20 countries, with 60% made up of French institutions, reflecting the fair’s ability to remain both regional and cosmopolitan. This year’s edition offers audiences the chance to witness the breadth of contemporary talent, encounter established masters and discover new voices on the scene. Each year, the fair invites guest curators to tackle the themes and ideas that are defining our current...

Not much to say here. Legendary bass Mark Reizen was born in the USSR and thus never got to tour much to the west.

 
Who doesn’t love a good photo book? To flick through the pages, be enlightened, educated, distracted and absorbed into another world through another’s eyes? Totally fantastic!
We’re here to share our Photobook Favourites – a selection of our favourite photography books recommended by the Shutter Hub community, an archive of titles we’ve enjoyed, and a reference point for you to explore. Las Pelilargas, Irina Werning, GOST
For 18 years photographer Irina Werning travelled across Latin America to seek out those with long hair to uncover and understand its cultural significance. Her book Las Pelilargas (the long-haired ones) brings together this body of work in an exploration and celebration of...

Photography remains one of the most vital ways we examine society, culture and the intimate contours of human experience. The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026, hosted at The Photographers’ Gallery in London from 6 March to 7 June, continues this tradition, foregrounding the ways contemporary photographers challenge perception, narrative and the politics of representation. Established in 1996, the Prize identifies and rewards artists for an exhibition or book that has made a significant contribution to photography in the previous twelve months. Over three decades, it has become a barometer for innovation and social engagement, spotlighting work that is aesthetically compelling while deeply...

Dal 20 marzo al 30 maggio 2026, la Galleria Continua / Paris Marais ospita Guardatori, la nuova personale di Manuela Sedmach. In questa occasione l’artista approfondisce il tema dello sguardo e della relazione silenziosa tra opera e spettatore, attraverso una pittura stratificata in cui l’immagine emerge lentamente dalla materia, aprendo uno spazio di riflessione tra percezione e visione.
Manuela Sedmach, “Em lugar algum”, 2024, acrilico su tela, cm 47 x 57, courtesy l’Artista e Galleria Continua
Elisabetta Zerial: Nel progetto Guardatori sembra emergere un ribaltamento di prospettiva: non è più soltanto lo spettatore a osservare l’opera, ma è come se le figure dipinte restituissero lo sguardo....

ABOVE: Gaza Cinderella, Northern Gaza Strip, 2012“Although her drawing is filled with soldiers, helicopters, and tanks, “Amara” only spoke about her intense fear of missile strikes. When a building or other structure is targeted in Gaza, it is often hit with a barrage of several missiles to ensure its complete destruction. The sound of successive […]
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Embroidery as an art form is often overlooked as a craft, but that is part of its appeal to Burbank, California-based artist Michelle Kingdom, who uses embroidery to express her innermost thoughts and escape to her imaginary world. Michelle Kingdom’s unexpected approach to embroidery is like a painter’s, and some have dubbed her work as […]
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Gordon Parks is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, Park was drawn to photography as a young man. He dedicated his life to documenting the realities of American culture, focusing on social justice, race relations, the civil rights movement and the African American experience. In 1942, he spent time capturing the neighbourhoods and communities of Washington D.C., images that would become foundational documents of Black life. More than 80 years later, Beverly Price photographs the same streets. Her work centres the experiences of children, showing them in moments of joy and reverie, reminding audiences that childhood needs to be...

“More is more” is the phrase most associated with Maximalism – a design philosophy defined by its celebration of bold colours, layered patterns and rich textures. It has roots in 17th century Baroque and Rococo, resurfacing in the 1980s with the Memphis Group’s rejection of minimalism. Today, it’s experiencing a renaissance in the form of so-called “dopamine décor” and is being picked up by a new vanguard of creatives. Enter Precious Seronga, an emerging Tanzanian artist whose new book, Afro Maximalism, “celebrates an aesthetic of excess, women of colour and African textiles.” Right now, it’s being stocked in an array of “non-traditional” creative spaces, such as London salons and...

Ogni opera possiede un senso di mistero capace di provocare ulteriori suggestioni. Questo potrebbe essere il giusto avviso con cui visitare la mostra The Bell Jar alla galleria romana MONTI8, co-curata da Massimiliano Maglione. Il progetto, con le opere degli artisti Camilla Alberti, Ruby Chen, Mounir Eddib, Stephen Buscemi, Naomi Hawksley, Steffen Kern, Amber Wynne-Jones è tanto diversificato quanto ben costruito sul rapporto e l’incontro dei diversi lavori. Certi che le opere d’arte rappresentino frammenti di scelte artistiche, i cui significati cambiano a seconda del contesto in cui vengono collocate, la mostra rivela un’acuta indagine attorno alla capacità di disidentificarsi, sdoppiarsi,...

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Il passaggio tra l’inverno e la primavera di quest’anno preannuncia l’incontro, alla Galleria Il Ponte, con la scultura di Mauro Staccioli (Volterra 1937 – Milano 2018), artista in bilico tra due secoli, messo in luce nell’arco temporale dagli anni Ottanta all’inizio dei Duemila. L’esposizione, a cura di Caterina Martinelli, consente un’osservazione nel contesto della sua produzione artistica, più nota per installazioni monumentali rispetto alle derivazioni posteriori in scala ridotta, oggi fondamenta dell’Archivio Staccioli di Volterra insieme a scritti, appunti e progetti. Un lavoro concepito in relazione a un luogo, scevro da rappresentazione e narrazione, eppure armonicamente inserito...

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A un certo momento, nel romanzo di Mary Shelley (Londra, 1797 – 1851), la creatura smette di chiedere di essere amata e comincia a desiderare che chi l’ha rifiutata soffra quanto lei. L’amore si converte in odio e la benevolenza dell’artefice verso la propria opera, come quella della società verso chi ne è escluso, si rivela premessa di violenza. Shelley pubblicò Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus nel 1818, come esperimento narrativo sul limite della scienza, ispirata dai test condotti nel XVIII secolo da Erasmus Darwin sulla rianimazione della materia morta e dal galvanismo.
Motus, “Frankenstein (a love story)”, photo © Andrea Macchia, courtesy ERT-Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione
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Kristine Schomaker and Genie Davis at the Getty By Kristine Schomaker I've known Genie Davis for years. She shows up. That's the first thing you notice about her — and also the thing you never stop noticing, because she just keeps doing it. She's at openings, she's writing reviews, she's telling anyone who will listen about artists she believes in. For over a decade, her blog Diversions LA has been quietly, consistently documenting the Southern California art scene because she genuinely loves...

KRK Ryden's latest solo show "Wet Bread" is now on view at Brassworks Gallery in Portland. Read an interview on the pop surrealist from our archives by clicking above!
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