The two foremost satellite fairs of Mexico City Art Week are drawing record crowds and feature strong presentations by artists and galleries from across Mexico and throughout the Americas

One of the seven wonders of the ancient world, according to traditional lists, the Lighthouse of Alexandria once loomed over the Mediterranean city’s harbor during Egypt’s Hellenistic age. At 460 feet tall, it was second only to the Great Pyramid of Gaza in height. The lighthouse, also known as the Pharos of Alexandria, was commissioned by Ptolemy I Soter (c. 367–283 B.C.), a Macedonian Greek general under Alexander the Great who became pharaoh of Egypt; it was seen to completion by his son and successor, Ptolemy II Philadelphus. During the Ptolomaic dynasty, which lasted 300 years, Alexandria was a center of Greek culture in Egypt. Located on the island of Pharos off the coast of Alexandria, the...

STUDIO FOR NEW REALITIES REDESIGN PUBLIC PLAYSPACE
 
Studio for New Realities shapes the new lakeside playground pavilion for Plaswijckpark in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as an all-season destination that combines play, learning, and experimentation. It also restores a direct relationship between the park and the waterfront. During the design process, children help shape the project by voting for their favourite play equipment, contributing to a building that supports every kind of activity: playing, creating, eating, concentrating, and experimenting. The new space replaces a former theatre and restaurant complex with a multifunctional space that reconnects the historic family park to the Bergse...

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Das Wunder der Heliane fuses sex with the sacred at a simmering performance at the Opéra National du Rhin.

“I guess you could say I’m like a film director but my movies have only one frame.” These are the words of Jeff Wall, one of the 20th century’s most influential photographers. His images synthesise the essentials of camerawork with elements of other artforms, including painting, cinema and literature. The result is elaborate and detailed pieces that look as though they have been plucked from the big screen, telling a complete narrative in a single still. They invite the viewer in, prompting them to question the story they’re seeing. There’s a whole group of contemporary artists who pursue this distinct visual language, think Todd Hido, Gregory Crewdson or Holly Andres. These five artists, all...

ZakkaGyou designs Petokka decoration set for cleaning robots
 
Petokka is a decorative accessory designed for robotic vacuum cleaners, developed by Tokyo-based studio ZakkaGyou. The product consists of two main components, a face element and a pair of ears, that attach to existing cleaning robots, transforming their appearance into simplified animal-like figures, such as cats or dogs. The decoration does not alter the robot’s functionality but introduces a visual layer that interacts with the robot’s movement during operation.
 
As the robot moves through domestic spaces, the flexible ears bend when passing under furniture, and the face elements shift slightly when encountering obstacles. These...

Why are we so obsessed with the Epstein files? Because they've long stopped being about just one depraved pedophile and have come to symbolize the endemic depravity of the world's richest elites. It's no surprise that the art world is implicated. There isn't much difference between a corporation's board of directors and a museum's board of trustees. It's more or less the same money, same power dynamics, and the same creeps crawling through the corridors. But another world is possible. Please read Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian's opinion piece on how we got here in the first place, and what we need to do to encourage an arts ecosystem that doesn't sustain itself with...

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In a city defined by reinvention, the Gropius Bau presents Peter Hujar / Liz Deschenes: Persistence of Vision, a striking intergenerational dialogue in photography that challenges the boundaries of the medium. Bringing together two artists whose practices span nearly half a century; the exhibition foregrounds the clarity of vision that defines their work while exploring photography as a material and conceptual practice. Hujar and Deschenes treat light, chemistry, space and perception as integral elements of image-making, expanding photography far beyond simple representation. This is the first major exhibition in Berlin for both artists, situating their work in conversation with contemporary practice and...

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Bologna è la città dell’Alma Mater Studiorum, l’Università di Bologna, da quasi mille anni presidio di conoscenza. ART CITY Bologna 2026, alla sua quattordicesima tappa, per questa edizione ha scelto di proporre lo Special Program Il corpo della lingua, curato da Caterina Molteni. I lavori degli artisti proposti si inseriscono e dialogano perfettamente con varie sedi universitarie. Il corpo della lingua significa parlare di esperienza fisica, vocale e di relazione fra corpi, saperi e spazi. Il titolo rende omaggio all’omonimo saggio di Giorgio Agamben, in cui il filosofo delinea una vera e propria anatomia del linguaggio.
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HAMS and, Studio renovates a single-story residence in Hakone
 
HAMS and, Studio takes over the renovation of a 60-year-old single-story house located on a forested hillside in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The site sits halfway up a mountain, reached by the local mountain railway, with the Owakudani volcanic valley rising behind it. Zoned as a low-rise residential area, the neighborhood is characterized by a mix of permanent homes and vacation houses, each maintaining a high level of privacy through generous setbacks. Surrounded by tall cedar trees and sloping gently toward the north, the site reflects Hakone’s long-standing identity as a quiet summer retreat with limited direct southern...

Cúre & Penabad develops mixed-use housing unit in Overtown
 
PROJECT PEACH is a mixed-use infill development by Cúre & Penabad located along NW 14th Street in Overtown, Miami. Conceived in response to the city’s intersecting challenges of housing affordability, climate resilience, and urban density, the project proposes a compact building type that integrates community-serving programs with affordable housing on a small urban parcel.
 
The project occupies a 3,500-sqft site, approximately half the size of a typical residential lot in Miami, and introduces a model largely absent from the city’s contemporary development patterns: a mixed-use residential building on a narrow infill site. Developed as the...

There is a particular kind of shame that comes with losing your own work.Not the spectacular kind. Not the kind that arrives with a public failure or a dramatic ending. This shame is quieter. It settles in the body. It convinces you not to tell anyone. It suggests that if you were more responsible, more successful, more organized, this would not have happened. It tells you that asking for help would only confirm what you already fear, that you were never supposed to need it in the first place.Years ago, I couldn’t afford the payment on a storage unit in the neighborhood of Greenpoint in north Brooklyn, where I had been keeping a large portion of my work. Sculptural components, unfinished pieces, modular...

L, an artist whose sculptures and paintings imbued galleries and museums across the US with spiritual potential, has died. ARTnews was unable to confirm a cause of death for L, whose passing was announced this week by various galleries that had shown the artist’s work. The Los Angeles–based artist would have been either 41 or 42. In exhibitions staged by art world institutions ranging from Documenta to the Getty Center, L showed work that had an explicitly spiritual purpose. The artist created sculptures consisting of objects suspended in mineral oil, which they described as “spells.” A spiritual practitioner as well as an artist, L meant for these works to help their viewers reach a higher state. In...

Spanning the 50-foot stretch between a hipster tea shop and a bar proudly displaying anti-ICE posters in Bushwick, a public installation by Brooklyn-based artist and photographer Phil Buehler confronts passersby with the names of the estimated 18,500 children killed by Israel in Gaza from October 2023 to July 2025. Amid freezing temperatures on Thursday, February 5, many pedestrians scurried past the list of names on Buehler’s temporary “Wall of Tears,” which is fastened to a fence at 12 Grattan Street with zip ties. Others walking by paused to read the names listed on the banner.Buehler is a Bronx-raised photographer whose public art projects have included portraits of the empty beds of Ukrainian...

Quil Lemons, “Raheem” (2017) from the series GLITTERBOY (image courtesy the artist)It’s a cold Saturday afternoon in downtown San Francisco. Despite the weather, the streets are crowded with determined shoppers. I’m feeling rather pleased with myself, having just scored a pair of jeans at 50% off, when I wander into one of those shops that sell nothing but Christmas decorations. After a few minutes wading through a thicket of fake trees, Santas, and reindeer, I’m about to turn around to leave, when I see it.Presented with improbable dignity in a golden box is a hanging ornament in the shape of the Trevi Fountain that comes with a “complimentary papal blessing.” Its roughly shaped details would be...

Team uniforms at milano cortina 2026 olympic games
 
The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics has begun, and we’re taking a look at the stylish designs of the teams’ uniforms, from Mongolia and Haiti to Finland and Canada. Running between February 6th and 22nd, the Games becomes a fashion platform for the athletes to wear the sportswear as a symbol of their national identities. Across all the Milano Cortina 2026 uniforms, the themes of movement, climate, and tradition come through, brought about by the main design idea of the Games, ‘human gesture.’ It is the movement of the body, either as a form of action or communication. Because of this, many uniforms use fluid lines, soft shapes, and flowing...

Few contemporary public art projects have simultaneously stirred such artistic, theological, and political controversy as Notre-Dame Cathedral’s new stained glass windows. It’s no surprise, then, that the artist awarded the commission in 2024, the French figurative painter Claire Tabouret, has faced extraordinary scrutiny. In December, the public finally encountered the artist’s vision in “Claire Tabouret: In a Single Breath” at the Grand Palais, which featured life-sized maquettes of the six stained-glass windows slated to replace the 19th-century works of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Jean-Baptiste Lassus. Tabouret, known for her vividly colored, tautly emotional portraiture, has imagined a...

Joanne Greenbaum may be the only artist who came of age in the 1980s to extend the visual innovations of Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, and Asian ink painting into fresh, unexpected territory in which marks can convey stillness and accelerating movement. She achieved this by reintroducing the hand and drawing into painting at a time when it was dominated by a stylized aesthetic, while utilizing different media and processes in each work: Using oil paint, acrylic, flashe, oil stick, ink, ballpoint pen, colored pencil, markers, and other diverse, seemingly incommensurable materials, she stains the canvas, creates flat and feathery shapes, and defines open-ended, linear constructions. The result is a...

Cougar Mountain Cave, Oregon Cordage found in Oregon's Cougar Mountain Cave FORT ROCK BASIN, OREGON—According to a report in Haaretz, archaeologists have discovered two small pieces of hide connected by a cord in Cougar Mountain Cave rock shelter, which they believe is the earliest known evidence of sewn hide. It’s unclear exactly what the pieces of hide were used for, though they could have been part of a coat, a moccasin, or a tent. The artifacts date to between 12,900 and 11,700 years ago, when a warming trend reversed and the northern hemisphere grew colder and more arid, necessitating the development of warm garments. The researchers also found a great deal of cord made from plant fiber at Cougar...

Happy Friday! Qatar has unveiled ambitious details for its inaugural quadrennial contemporary art exhibition set to coincide with neighboring Frieze Abu Dhabi in November.   Fallout from the Epstein saga continues with new revelations of ties to SFMOMA. A small Michelangelo sketch of a foot just sold for a record $27.2 million. The Headlines QATAR’S NEXT MOVE. The first Art Basel Qatar comes to a close Saturday, but the Gulf emirate is already eyeing its next major art event: a new contemporary art quadrennial in Doha called Rubaiya Qatar , strategically timed to coincide with its neighbor’s launch of Frieze Abu Dhabi this November. On Friday, Qatar Museums, the organizers of the quadrennial, revealed...

Aqueduct tunnel MONTOPOLI DI SABINA, ITALY—A team of archaeologists and speleologists have identified underground aqueduct tunnels and natural springs that supplied water to the Villa of the Casoni in the ancient town of Sabina northeast of Rome, La Brújula Verde reports. Built in the Roman Republican period, the villa occupied two terraces, with a garden, fountain, and circular pool on the lower platform, and a residential area on the upper terrace. The late eighteenth-century scholar Sperandio had written about the existence of ancient aqueducts at the site. During a recent field survey, the researchers rediscovered this tunnel system some 980 feet from the villa. These tunnels, which were dug out of the...

The Calder Foundation has announced multidisciplinary Japanese artist Yuko Mohri as the winner of the 2025 Calder Prize. The honor is bestowed biannually on “a contemporary artist whose innovative work reflects the continued legacy of Calder’s genius.” Mohri, known for her installations incorporating sound, fruit, found objects, and kinetic elements, will receive $50,000 in cash […]

A parrot confined to a too-small cage, jellyfish floating above fungi and ferns, and a spotted octopus resting as the centerpiece to a flourishing bouquet are a few of the surreal scenes in the works of Martin Wittfooth. The artist is known for his enigmatic paintings that meld flora and fauna to consider interconnection and nature’s endurance. Wittfooth currently splits his time between Savannah and Brockville, although he plans to relocate permanently to the latter this year. Before he begins preparing for a solo exhibition in spring 2027 with Hashimoto Contemporary, the artist is completing a few larger commissions. “Dam” He enjoys the balance between larger bodies of work and singular pieces: “A...

The man accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staffers outside the Capitol Jewish Museum last May now faces multiple terrorism charges, according to the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old Chicago native, was charged in a 13-count superceding indictment unsealed on Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C. The charges include four counts of terrorism while armed and a federal aggravating factor for substantial planning and premeditation to commit an act of terrorism. Rodriguez was previously indicted on hate crime and murder charges in the fatal shooting of Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 26. Both victims were employed by the Israeli embassy...

Excavated erdstall passage, Reinstedt, Germany Medieval horseshoe and ceramic fragments REINSTEDT, GERMANY—According to a La Brujula Verde report, archaeologists from the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology of Saxony-Anhalt discovered a series of peculiar and enigmatic overlapping structures dating from the late Middle Ages to the fourth millennium B.C. Before the construction of wind turbines in late 2025, they identified a trapezoidal ditch characteristic of funerary monuments created by a Neolithic people known as the Baalberg culture. The archaeologists also located later Neolithic burials from the third millennium B.C. and a possible Bronze Age burial mound belonging to the...

The week's sales also saw a near-record for a Canaletto painting and a seven-figure result for a 15th-century Hebrew illuminated manuscript

The London-based artist introduces her exhibition at Culturgest

The newly conserved “Poplars near Nuenen” goes on show in Rotterdam

Ben Luke talks to art market editor Kabir Jhala about the inaugural fair in Doha, explores the debate surrounding a painting of Dürer’s father, and we hear about the synergies between two 20th-century painters

The exhibition showcases 5,000 years of Afghan art and craft

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Close-up Photographer of the Year has announced the winners of its 7th edition, with Western Australia-based Ross Gudgeon’s image of the elaborate internal structure of a cauliflower soft coral taking the top spot. The population of the otherworldly pink marine creatures found in reefs off the coast of New South Wales has seen a staggering decrease in the past few years—90% between 2011 and 2021 alone. Peering up from the base, he portrays the delicate stalks as if they’re towering trees. Additional category winners include close-ups of a wide range of both marine and terrestrial wildlife, from insects and arachnids to mammals and amphibians. Colossal readers might also recognize the work of Barry Webb,...

On 6 December 2025, Martin Parr died at home in Bristol, aged 73. He was an icon of British documentary photography: an astute observer of modern life, who held up a mirror to the nation through an inimitably incisive and humorous lens. Parr was also a tireless image-maker, on shoot in Italy the day before his passing, “working to improve on a photograph he had previously made of tourists outside Duomo Cathedral in Milan.” He dedicated his career not only to producing his own pictures and photobooks – a pursuit which he loved – but to championing the creativity of other people. He did so through The Martin Parr Foundation, which opened at Paintworks in Bristol in 2017 with the aim “to support...

Dal 6 al 9 febbraio 2026, in occasione di Arte Fiera, nell’ambito di ART CITY Bologna e ART CITY White Night torna Ababo Art Week con mostre, talk, eventi, installazioni e performance presenti dentro e fuori il centro storico di Bologna, oltre che all’interno dell’Accademia delle Belle Arti di Bologna, che per l’occasione diverrà uno spazio espositivo diffuso capace di esporre la ricchezza di idee e ricerche degli studenti dei vari dipartimenti.
ABABO Open Show 2025, ph Martina Platone, courtesy Accademia delle Belle Arti di Bologna
Partendo da Arte Fiera, la fiera dell’arte di Bologna, sarà possibile visitare fino a domenica 8 febbraio lo stand dell’Accademia delle Belle Arti, presso il quale...

Nederlands Fotomuseum – the Dutch National Museum of Photography – has more than 6.5 million objects in its archives. That makes it one of the most significant collections in the world. Founded in 2003, the gallery is a mainstay of Dutch history, tracing how the camera has equally documented and influenced the course of the nation’s identity. This almost unparalleled influence is only set to grow, with the collection estimated to reach 7.5 million by 2028. It is only natural, then, that the museum would eventually outgrow its surroundings. This month, Nederlands Fotomuseum opens a new site at the renovated Santos warehouse in Rotterdam, offering innovative ways for visitors to experience the art and...

Gothic romance and the dark appeal of a vampire lover

Heavy-hitters: the first complete Ring in its history, Tosca with Marina Rebeka, Jonas Kaufmann, and Ludovic Tézier; plus recitals from Aigul Akhmetshina, Nadine Sierra, Jeanine De Bique, Michael Spyres, and more

Four months after announcing its rebranding as the Philadelphia Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is reverting to its old name, effective immediately. The institution will retain the griffin logo and brand identity that accompanied the October renaming. The museum in a press release said that its board had voted unanimously to drop the […]

Belgium is abandoning its plan to dismantle the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) after being met with stiff resistance from the artistic community. The government had aimed to cancel construction of a high-rise building that was to have served as M HKA’s new home and to strip the museum, the oldest contemporary arts […]

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—According to an RTÉ report, a burial pit containing the remains of at least 10 people, likely young men buried after a battle or a mass execution, was uncovered in eastern England by a team from Cambridge University. One of the bodies had been decapitated, while the positions of others suggest that they had been tied up at the time of death. Disarticulated body parts were also recovered. “We don’t see much evidence for the deliberate chopping up of some of these body parts, so they may have been in a state of decomposition and literally falling apart when they went into the pit,” said team leader Oscar Aldred of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit. One of the men whose remains were...

A diver recovers an amphora from a Roman shipwreck off the coast of Puglia, Italy. PUGLIA, ITALY—ANSA reports that a Roman shipwreck carrying a cargo of amphoras was discovered last summer in the Ionian Sea off the coast of southeastern Italy. Italy’s financial police, who combat smuggling, kept the discovery under wraps until now in order to protect the site while a research strategy could be developed. For more on underwater archaeology in Italy, go to "A Trip to Venice."
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Completed in 1972, the innovative 48-story building known as the Transamerica Pyramid Center quickly became an indelible icon of the San Francisco skyline. Its modernist features include blocky elements, uniform rows of windows, and it’s namesake pyramidical shape, but its design also took its surroundings into consideration, as its tapered shape meant that more sunlight could reach the ground level around it. Inside, the light-filled Annex Gallery is currently home to the similarly towering works of Tara Donovan’s Stratagems series. Made from thousands of recycled CDs that are wrapped around steel supports and placed on concrete plinths, these swirling, reflective spires directly reference skyscraper...

Jennifer Holloway, star of Salome at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, talks with Christina Colanduoni about re-launching her career as a soprano and how her Salome is "just trying not to disappear under everybody else’s rule.”

The vivacious MANON! at Heartbeat Opera makes a strong case for the return of opera in translation.

Chiharu Shiota’s (b. 1972) work is immediately recognisable. Entire rooms are overtaken by red thread, forming dense networks that obscure personal belongings, architectural structures and, at times, sleeping figures. The evocative installations, rendered primarily in red, black and white, give form to the intangible connections we make throughout life. They’re often rooted in the artist’s own experiences, taking the personal and expanding it outwards to comment on universal human concerns like life, death and relationships. Threads of Life is the Berlin-based Japanese artist’s first major solo exhibition in a London public gallery. The intricate takeover responds directly to Hayward Gallery’s...

Multiple-headed deities, strange woodland feasts, plants with sprite-like faces, and worlds floating on animals’ backs are just a few of the dreamlike occurrences in the work of Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). The British-Mexican artist, born into an upper-class family in Lancashire, was fascinated by the notion of “other.” She immersed herself in fairytales and folk stories by the likes of Beatrix Potter and Lewis Carroll and rebelled against the strict expectations of high-society women in England. Carrington traveled extensively, soaking up inspiration from classical sculptures and Renaissance paintings in Florence, where she studied art, then attending the first International Surrealist Exhibition in...

Dal 5 al 15 febbraio 2026, in occasione di ART CITY Bologna e Arte Fiera, la mostra Corpo Tessuto presenta una nuova e significativa selezione di opere di Simone Miccichè, artista bolognese la cui ricerca pittorica si concentra sul tessuto come luogo simbolico, linguistico e corporeo. La mostra, curata da Federica Fiumelli e Francesco Liggieri, pone al centro del progetto espositivo il tessuto. Elemento che, però, non è mai semplice soggetto rappresentato, ma diventa metafora della pittura stessa: superficie sensibile, pelle del mondo, archivio di memorie culturali e politiche. Le opere di Miccichè nascono da un’osservazione lenta e analitica delle trame, delle pieghe, dei pattern che attraversano stoffe...

 
There’s just 2 weeks left to submit your work for Feeling Seen, a community-centered photography project inviting you to share what you’re experiencing right now.
We want photographers to capture the essence of their current emotions, sensations, and surroundings. Our sense of feeling goes beyond the physical – it’s emotional, atmospheric, and relational. It’s through these feelings that we connect with one another on a deeper level.
It’s about exploring how photography can express both internal and external sensations – whether it’s the rush of anticipation, the dis/comfort of the body, nostalgia of memory or tension of conflict. This project believes in photography’s power to evoke real...

From more than 60,000 entries submitted by photographers around the globe, the jurors of the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition had their work cut out for them. They selected 100 images that tell powerful stories and represent diverse regions and types of animals in a huge range of habitats, including areas heavily impacted by human activity. Now, 24 photographers have the chance to win the contest’s People’s Choice Award, which you can vote for until March 18. Contenders include a cozy baby sloth, polar bears relaxing on a sunny day, baby kestrels about to take flight, and many more. In addition to casting your vote, visit the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at London’s...

“When I look for places in the city to locate my sculptures, or take photographs, it is a bit similar to [mushroom hunting]. I like to observe the city with that gaze for little details.”Read the full article by Silke Tudor by clicking above.
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The frolicking skeleton children, bat-human creatures, and a lizard girl named Claudine embody the wild imagination of Matt Gordon, a mixed-media artist based in Plymouth, Michigan. Read the full article by Andy Smith by clicking above!
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Concluso il fitto programma di eventi che ha animato Catanzaro nell’annualità 2025, Performing prosegue come piattaforma di ricerca e produzione artistica permanente, mentre è già in fase di preparazione l’edizione 2026 del festival.
Luana Perilli, backstage di “Cantalamissa”, 2025, courtesy Performing Catanzaro
La prima edizione del festival itinerante delle arti performative contemporanee, promosso dall’Accademia di Belle Arti di Catanzaro con il sostegno del Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca e il coinvolgimento di undici istituzioni AFAM e universitarie, si sposta ora dalla dimensione dell’evento a quella del processo. Laboratori, residenze e co-progettazioni trasformano Catanzaro...

An exhibition opportunity foregrounding empowerment, representation and lived experience Unpublished Africa invites African women photographers to submit work for its Women’s Month 2026 exhibition, building on earlier research and exhibitions focused on empowerment and visibility […]