Late last month, the Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists (WAPA) filed a complaint against Douglas J. Burgum, the US Secretary of the Interior, and the Bureau of Land Management in the US District Court for the District of Wyoming. In the case, filed July 24, WAPA, a Wyoming-based nonprofit representing field archaeologists, academic researchers, and museum professionals, calls for the court to “halt ongoing unlawful transfers of, and denial of research access to, archaeological resources owned, administered, curated, or regulated by the United States” under the 1990 statute known as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). NAGPRA requires museums and federal...

With less than three weeks until the start of the fall semester, over 400 members of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's (SAIC) community have resumed their calls for the reinstatement of Savneet Talwar. The professor was abruptly put on leave last spring after one of her class assignments mentioned violence against Palestinian civilians. Talwar, chair and tenured professor of SAIC's graduate art therapy and counseling program, was informed by the administration in April that a student had accused her of discrimination over a hypothetical case study, sparking an ongoing investigation from the school. “Professor Talwar should not be suspended and brought under investigation for mentioning...

Advocates, politicians, and artists are ramping up their campaigns against the sale of Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) building and archive, which they say would be a devastating loss to Scotland's cultural history.Due to financial troubles, the CCA permanently closed its doors in January, leaving the fate of its building and archival collection uncertain. The Sauchiehall Street headquarters previously housed the Third Eye Centre, founded in 1974 by Scottish playwright Tom McGrath, which welcomed artists such as actor Whoopi Goldberg, poet Allen Ginsberg, and painters Steven Campbell and Ken Currie. The CCA replaced the Third Eye Centre after it closed in 1991 and helped retrieve...

Unknown artist, “Statue of Trajan from Minturno” (end of the 1st century–beginning of the 2nd century CE), marble, to the left of four marble busts (image courtesy the Saint Louis Art Museum, all other photos Eileen G’Sell/Hyperallergic)ST. LOUIS — A lilac arcade of undulating arches, a box redolent of honey and rose petals, a slender-necked vessel of iridescent glass. Flouting the masculine connotations of the Roman Empire, Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan, at the Saint Louis Art Museum, honors the era’s sensuality of a kind that resonates today as felicitously feminine. Organized by Lucrezia Ungaro, archaeological curator of the city of Rome, with curator Hannah Segrave leading...

Fra Angelico’s Fiesole Altarpiece, made between 1420 and 1423, has been returned to its original setting at the convent of San Domenico following a lengthy restoration. The two-year process, funded by the cultural-preservation nonprofit Friends of Florence, rehabilitated the work from a prior sixteenth century restoration, and repaired the altarpiece’s painting as well as wooden support. The work […]

During his lifetime, Johannes Vermeer was well regarded, though hardly famous. Unlike his compatriot Rembrandt, whose critical fortunes declined during his lifetime but never left the public consciousness, Vermeer simply disappeared until the mid-19th century. In the 1860s, French art historian Théophile Thoré plucked him from obscurity and nicknamed him the “Sphinx of Delft” for his enigmatic paintings and slim presence in the historical record.Since then, Vermeer has become a modern obsession, his work inviting considerable scholarly examination and becoming the subject of various works of film and fiction, not to mention the sold-out 2023 exhibition at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Art historian Andrew...

The Australian Museum has returned 18 ancestral remains to the people of Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island). The news was reported by the Art Newspaper following a July 27 announcement by Chile’s National Cultural Heritage Service. The repatriated human remains (known locally as Ivi Tupuna) include 17 skulls and one sample of hair, which have been in the museum’s collection since the late 19th century. They were among a number of objects and remains removed from Rapa Nui by an 1882 German naval expedition and were acquired by the Australian Museum in 1883. The remains were returned in a ceremony at Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, Chile, after which they were flown to Rapa Nui....

A major work by a lauded Renaissance artist, newly restored, has again taken up residence in the very church for which it was originally painted. Fra Angelico’s Fiesole Altarpiece (ca. 1420–1423) has been restored to the Church of San Domenico, just north of Florence, where the artist once was a Dominican friar. Born Guido di Pietro in Tuscany around 1395, Fra Angelico was dubbed Fra Giovanni di Fiesole when he entered an order of Dominican friars in that hillside town around 1420. After his death, his fraternity would rename him again, calling him Fra Angelico, or “angelic brother.” Giorgio Vasari, the Renaissance artist and biographer of artists, would write of him, “I am sometimes in astonishment,...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Milan Knížák (1940–2026)Czech performance artist, sculptor, and musicianThe Czech artist was associated with the Fluxus movement, performing happenings and noise music concerts around the country. He also served as director of the Czech National Gallery in Prague between 1999 and 2011, and was a professor of intermedia at the city's Academy of Fine Arts. In 2010, he won the nation's Medal of Merit, and his work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Gallery in London, and more. "His work challenged conventional understandings of art and...

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Later this month, SFMOMA’s Roberts Family Gallery will fill with nearly 75,000 hand-built kites. Jacob Hashimoto’s Giant Arc, opening August 22nd, 2026, gathers bamboo and Japanese paper from floor to ceiling, forming a canopy that thickens into clouds and loosens into open air. The pieces hang indoors, beyond the reach of weather, though the logic of flight remains visible in every thin rib and taut surface. A familiar object has multiplied until it reads as architecture.
 
The kite begins with a peculiar proposition: make an image light enough to leave the ground. Decoration has to work with lift, balance, tension, and the changing force of air. A painted face may stretch, and a...

"The building has drawn much criticism, particularly in a city known for its innovative architectural history."

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) in Brazil has announced Flávia Almeida as its next president, Art Review reports. Almeida, who is currently the institution’s vice president, will take the reins from Heitor Martins, who is leaving in September, after twelve years in the role. Almeida has a strong background in business and […]

English Heritage, the independent charity that maintains the vast National Heritage Collection, has appointed Tim Reeve as its new Chief Executive. He will begin his new role in November. English Heritage oversees some four hundred historic sites and monuments throughout England, including Stonehenge, Hadrian’s Wall, and the Westbury White Horse, as well as more than […]

The National Museum of Asian Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., will play home to 26 works on loan from Paris during the run of “From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art,” an exhibition opening September 26 and continuing into January 2027. As reported by The Art Newspaper, “The exhibition will feature a number of stunning objects that have never been shown in the United States, among them a bronze statue from Islamic Spain known as the Lion of Monzón (10th-11th century) and a particularly large decorated ceramic Ottoman bowl dated to around 1480. Spanning the 7th century to the 19th century and territory from present-day Spain to India, the works due to cross the Atlantic...

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The Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh (CAM Raleigh), North Carolina is selling its longtime home in the city’s Warehouse District. The building has been listed the commercial real estate firm CBRE for an undisclosed sum. CAM Raleigh, which describes itself as a “non-collecting contemporary art museum,” was established in 1983 as the City Gallery of […]

The spiral is one of the most ubiquitous, universal symbols. Or perhaps it is more apt to describe the motif as mimicked from nature, where it occurs in the form of seashells, flowers, and curling waves. From Neolithic stone carvings at Newgrange in Ireland to swirling motifs on prehistoric pottery discovered in Thailand, the spiral represents growth, the cycles of life, and evolution. Sometimes two or more interlink, and other times they emerge from an endless line. For artist Jiang Miao, Eastern philosophy is a touchstone. “The spiral symbolizes life, time, and the cyclical order of the universe, while color becomes a vessel for invisible energy beyond the material world,” says Whitestone Gallery, which...

DA BUREAU designs new IYKYK Smash Burger restaurant
 
Designed by DA BUREAU, IYKYK is the first smash burger restaurant in Yerevan, Armenia. Conceived as more than a single interior, the 100-sqm project establishes a scalable architectural and visual identity intended to guide future locations. The design combines interior architecture, brand identity, and custom-built elements into a unified system that can be replicated while maintaining a consistent spatial language across the growing restaurant chain.
 
The project’s design code draws on references to American street culture of the 1980s, incorporating modular forms, retro fast-food imagery, and the brand’s signature orange color. References to...

The Holy Presentation Church is said by officials to be the last surviving building of its kind from the 18th century

the compact disc stays in view
 
Most CD players ask the disc to disappear as soon as it begins playing. Press eject, slide it into a tray, wait for the lid to close, and the object vanishes while the music continues. SYITREN’s RM1 removes that familiar sequence. The disc stays exposed at the center of a transparent square, spinning in full view as its printed surface catches light and blurs into color. Album art becomes active, even when the image was never designed to move.
 
SYITREN builds the RM1 from two acrylic panels held apart by metal corner posts. The spindle passes through the front sheet, so the CD clips directly onto the hub instead of entering through a door. That exposed hub is the smartest...

In un momento storico in cui le immagini sembrano precedere il loro stesso tempo di apparizione – generate, moltiplicate e consumate con una velocità crescente – la pittura di Ernst Yohji Jaeger pone una domanda essenziale: cosa permette ancora a un’immagine di acquisire presenza? Calamondin, presentata da Crèvecœur a Parigi, affronta la pittura come campo di trasformazione e verifica. Le opere di Jaeger conservano il conflitto tra apparizione e cancellazione, tra forma riconoscibile e superficie in movimento. Ogni quadro registra il percorso attraverso cui una visione conquista la propria necessità.
Ernst Yohji Jaeger, “Calamondin”, exhibition view, Crèvecœur, Paris, 2026. Courtesy of the...

RETHINKING THE ELECTRIC KICKBOARD
 
South Korean design agency Second White developed VtoV 2000 in 2023 as a conceptual electric scooter proposal presented to Hyundai. Rather than introducing a production-ready vehicle, the unrealized project examines how the increasingly common kickboard could evolve into a safer and more credible component of future urban transportation.
 
Electric scooters have become a familiar answer to the last-mile problem, offering an affordable and relatively low-impact alternative to cars and motorcycles for short journeys. Their rapid spread, however, has also introduced accidents, uncertain road etiquette, and pavements dotted with abandoned vehicles — convenience, it turns...

In 2022, New York resident and bonafide feline devotee Dan Rimada felt that something needed to be done to shine a light on the city’s cats. The Big Apple not only has a real feral issue, but many of these creatures make their homes in iconic shops found around the city: bodegas. Over time, locals get to know them and they become fixtures of shelves and countertops. Technically, though, New York City considers it a health code violation to have animals in businesses that serve food. In spite of that, thousands of cats serve as mousers and rat catchers, and a lot of people don’t realize that the snoozy tabby nestled atop the Doritos bags is actually illegal. Rimada founded Bodega Cats of New York to bring...

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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! As budgets tighten, museums are joining forces to buy expensive artworks they could not afford on their own. A UK tech firm is using AI and knowledge graphs to strengthen art authentication.  Collectors are increasingly using freeports to defer taxes, protect valuable artworks, and manage sales more strategically. The Headlines TEAMWORK, DREAMWORK. Museums are increasingly joining forces to buy expensive artworks they could not afford alone, a reflection of rising prices, tighter acquisition budgets, and growing pressure to diversify collections, Artnet News reported. Shared...

PASO NARA temporary pavilion appears in Chihuahua’s square
 
Located at the intersection of Avenida Independencia and Calle Victoria in Chihuahua’s historic Plaza de Armas, PASO NARA is a temporary pavilion that responds to the need for shade within one of the city’s busiest pedestrian routes. Developed as a student project at the Instituto Superior de Arquitectura y Diseño (ISAD), the intervention introduces a sheltered space for rest within the continuous movement of the public square.
 
Positioned within an area formerly occupied by vehicular traffic and now incorporated into the city’s pedestrian network, the pavilion is defined by a conical form and curved timber envelope that distinguish it...

Whether playing a game of Uno on the back patio by the light of a headlamp or wading into a preternaturally still body of water on a pitch-black night, the figures in Aron Wiesenfeld’s works calmly exist amid an air of mystery. His enigmatic paintings and drawings entice viewers into a world of timeless intrigue, delving into the power of visibility and imagination. Uncanny lighting creates silhouettes and deep, hidden distances. And individuals gaze at things just beyond the frame or move into unseen spaces. Wiesenfeld’s vignettes are often set during dusk or in darkness, where the background gradually fades away. Many pieces summon a subtle tension, such as in “Transfer,” where a black dog looks away...

Rising stars Chelsea Lehnea and Ricardo José Rivera are the protagonists of this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag.

Upcoming exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, will feature 26 works from the Louvre, some of which have never been shown in the US

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Reeve will become chief executive officer of the organisation at which he started his career

Currently the director of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Hillings worked on the Abu Dhabi project from 2009 to 2018

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Srishti Gupta was arrested in April this year, fitting a broader pattern of crackdowns on activists

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In the voluptuous ceramics of En Iwamura, sweeping lines of clay frame minuscule eyes and noses that just barely emerge from the earthen material. The artist is based in the iconic pottery town of Shigaraki in Japan’s Shiga Prefecture and is known for his expressive yet abstract sculptures. Evoking playful depictions of masks and busts, the works are often vibrant in color, featuring bold gradients or two-toned combinations. Iwamura has long drawn on the concept of Ma, or “間,” which translates to gap or pause. In the artist’s practice, the idea appears both conceptually and holistically. He’s interested in the ways we measure and understand the spaces between ourselves and others and how those...

In 2023, Minnesota-based artist Lydia Hansen set a goal of taking at least one hike every week throughout the entire year to care for her mental health. She began musing about how fun it would be to create crocheted mushrooms that one would encounter with the same surprise they’d feel coming across the real thing. Serendipitously, she ran into one of the trail managers of the park she was exploring and shared her idea. “That turned into my very first Fungi Hunt, which ran for an entire year at the Lost Creek Hiking Trail near Chatfield, Minnesota,” the artist tells Colossal. This summer marks the third iteration of the project, which visitors can explore at Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center in...

The bonkers, bewildering Die ägyptische Helena begets a suitably lush musical and creative treatment at Bard SummerScape.

Jelena e Nataša Prljević sono artiste, operatrici culturali ed educatrici serbe. Nel 2018 a New York, insieme all’artista Joshua Nierodzinski, hanno dato vita a HEKLER, una piattaforma collaborativa transnazionale che esplora le relazioni tra ospitalità e conflitto attraverso programmi come Assembly, Host e Medium. Questa pratica ha ispirato Four Waters, a Ljubanje, in Serbia, una casa indipendente, un punto d’incontro e un rifugio per artisti e comunità, che fonde strategie artistiche, curatoriali, pedagogiche e organizzative, ponendo al centro il potenziale liberatorio del lavoro collaborativo e collettivo.
Jelena Prljević, “Baba Bosiljka Prljević, Ljubanje”, 2020. Ph courtesy of 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 […]
The post Future Relics: The Art of Morgan Sorensen first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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 […]
The post The Disconcertingly Honest Self-Portrait Sculptures of Monica Piloni first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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. […]
The post Human/Nature: Animals Go Underground In the Paintings of Matthew Grabelsky first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Just in time for this month's theme of filth or dementia, a review of Terrence McNally's Master Class from Central City Opera.

A selection of recent work by artist Emma Steinkraus. Based in Lexington, Virginia, Steinkraus  
   
   
   
   
 
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Ma che brutta figura per la lirica!

Beatriz Morales (Città del Messico, 1981) vive e lavora tra Hidalgo e Berlino. La sua pratica si origina nella pittura, ma ne sottopone progressivamente a verifica i confini, estendendo il gesto cromatico alla fibra, alla scultura e all’installazione. Il passaggio dalla superficie allo spazio non coincide tuttavia con un abbandono del linguaggio pittorico. Il colore continua ad agire come principio strutturante, assumendo consistenza materiale, profondità simbolica e valore culturale. Tecniche tessili, fibre vegetali e pigmenti non sono trattati come semplici risorse formali, ma come depositi di conoscenza. La materia trattiene temporalità, gesti, economie, storie di estrazione e pratiche di trasmissione....

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...

Prima istituzione d’arte contemporanea fondata oltre la vecchia Cortina di Ferro, il Ludwig Múzeum di Budapest si conferma un osservatorio geopolitico e culturale imprescindibile per decifrare le traiettorie dell’Est Europa. Nato nel 1989 dalla lungimirante donazione dei collezionisti tedeschi Peter e Irene Ludwig, il museo ha esordito nel 1991 tra le mura storiche del Palazzo Reale di Buda, per poi trovare la sua collocazione definitiva, nel 2005, negli spazi monumentali e avveniristici del Müpa, l’avamposto architettonico del Palazzo delle Arti affacciato sul Danubio.
István Csákány (Sepsiszentgyörgy, 1978), “The Sewing Room / Ghost Keeping”, 2012 (dettaglio dall’installazione). Veduta...

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Entrando negli spazi privati di fondaco in Largo Forcella 8 ad Atri, adibiti a luogo espositivo in occasione della collettiva “Adagio” dei cinque pittori Benyamin Zolfaghari, Enrico Pierotti, Andrea Lucchesi, Lorenzo Di Lucido, Andrea Astolfi, respiro un’aria serena: ad accogliermi c’è uno spazio rimasto fermo nel tempo, intriso di ricordi familiari, una sorta di grotta in mattoni e pietra datata tra Settecento e Ottocento, fatta di cunicoli e scale senza uscita, ampie arcate e nicchie immerse tra luci e ombre, come stanze della memoria o del pensiero umano.
AA.VV., “Adagio”, installation view at fondaco, Atri, 2026, courtesy of the artists
L’artista atriano Andrea Astolfi fa gli onori di casa...

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“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 […]
The post Dont Tempt Me: the Art of Kristen Liu-Wong first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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...

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.