Onassis Foundation transforms historic Athens arcade
 
The Onassis Foundation is launching Six Rings, a fashion and culture destination at 99 Patission Boulevard in Athens, Greece, in December 2026. Developed under the artistic direction of Afroditi Panagiotakou, the Foundation’s Artistic Director, and Stavros Karelis, Head of Fashion, the project takes the form of a two-story house bringing together international fashion brands, emerging Greek designers, contemporary art, and independent local businesses.
 
Six Rings is part of the Foundation’s ongoing renovation of Matala Arcade, a historic complex in central Athens. Its visual identity comes from British artist Tim Etchells, who has designed a neon...

DESIGNBOOM X INDX|GLOBAL: ROOM FOR UTOPIAS 
 
Continuing designboom and INDX|GLOBAL’s podcast series filmed during designboom.paris, the second installment of Room for Utopias spotlights contemporary Indian architects and designers rethinking community living, spatial design, and client psychology. Across in-depth panel discussions, the series shifts focus toward spatial choreography and user behavior, examining how layout decisions either isolate or bring people together, and how the architect’s hand often shapes what clients need most, but seldom know how to articulate.
 
Designing Lives, Not Just Spaces pairs episodes 03 and 04 to challenge the limits of conventional architectural briefs. Hosted by...

It was raining like crazy when I cast my vote yesterday in Iowa, a blood-red state so battered, beleaguered, and embittered by an affordability crisis and farm debt and crumbling infrastructure that it just might — just might — swing. It’d been a steady stream all day, a poll worker told me, and she didn’t mean the rain. The vox populi doesn’t just speak from the ballot box. In Houston, for instance, a memorial’s been talking: Dozens of “I Voted” stickers now adorn a roadside tribute to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a man ICE murdered in July, in an impromptu participatory artwork that is now being echoed in shrines to others around the country. “I voted for you,” someone wrote. It makes me...

Following landmark elections in February, Art Dhaka debuts as the city’s first commercial hybrid art fair, aiming to boost the country’s private art sector

Despite the city’s cultural richness, its galleries are struggling, caught between increasingly cautious established collectors, and enthusiastic youngsters with (for now) limited budgets

Sharjah Design Centre to launch as a regional design hub in 2029
 
Opening in 2029 as part of the Sharjah Creative Quarter in the UAE, the Sharjah Design Centre (SDC), designed by Taller de Arquitectura – Mauricio Rocha in collaboration with architect Daniel Rosselló, the institution connects material research, design experimentation and manufacturing under one roof. The purpose-built facility aims to connect designers, researchers and manufacturers through a shared infrastructure for developing and producing new work. Its ambition extends beyond providing space for exhibitions and studios. The center seeks to address the gap between developing an idea and bringing it into material form.
 
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DOMINION ENERGY SUBSTATION WRAPS IN MULTI-TIERED FACADE
 
Designed by Atelier Manferdini, inVisible is an architectural envelope intervention that wraps Dominion Energy’s Crystal Substation at the corner of South Hayes Street and South Fern Street in Arlington County, Virginia. Developed as part of an infrastructural upgrade to replace aging equipment, increase capacity, and support rising energy demand in National Landing, the project conceals utilitarian power conversion equipment behind a multi-layered civic facade composed of custom ceramic tilework, folded aluminum rainscreens, and programmable LED lighting systems.
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Calling all photographers! Our fifth annual Booooooom Photo Awards are officially open for submissions. This year’s categories are Portrait, Nature, Street, Colour, and for the first time-ever, a special Student category. Our friends at Format are once again partnering with us to make it all happen. We’re thrilled to have an elite panel of judges joining us this year to help highlight the most outstanding work. Each category winner will receive a $1,000 USD cash prize, editorial and social coverage, a feature in our printed publication, and some goodies from some of our friends. Plus, we’re giving away three lifetime Format website subscriptions.
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STUDIO IN THE WOODS MARKS 20 YEARS OF HANDS-ON TIMBER LIVE-BUILDS
 
Marking the 20th anniversary of the architectural live-build summer school Studio in the Woods (SiTW), a new documentary short titled Crossing, Lookout, Horizon records the initiative’s 2026 session hosted at the Architectural Association’s (AA) Hooke Park campus in Dorset, UK. Founded two decades ago by Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio alongside architects Meredith Bowles, Kate Darby, Gianni Botsford, and Peter Clegg, with early mentorship from Ted Cullinan, the program functions as a hands-on pedagogical alternative to traditional studio-based design education. viewing completed projects in the forest
 
 
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Across ancient Mesopotamia, lamassu figures assumed the form of a winged goddess. In the ancient Assyrian Empire, giant bulls or lions with human heads and wings represented the deities, which artisans often carved at a monumental scale to protect cities and palaces. For Albuquerque-based Esther Elia, who is of Assyrian and Irish descent, lamassu are anything but a relic of the distant past. Through sculpture, paintings, and textiles, the artist explores contemporary Assyrian experience through pattern, fashion, and autobiography. Her solo exhibition, Bazaar Ashuraya at Hecho a Mano, centers around a new collection of acrylic paintings, plus tile mosaics and functional objects. Elia delves into the theme of...

Fernando Calvillo was a leader and community representative in Oklahoma's art community (all images courtesy OVAC, unless otherwise noted)Fernando Calvillo, an esteemed artist and leader in Oklahoma City's arts community, died in a high-speed collision between two trains in the province of Toledo, Spain, on Wednesday, October 28. He was aboard with his husband, Lawrence Naff, who is expected to recover from serious injuries at a local hospital. The crash, which Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente attributed to computational failure and human oversight, claimed the lives of at least 68 other people and comes just nine months after another crash in southern Andalusia in Spain, which claimed the...

For its latest “Power” issue, New York Magazine commissioned Berlin-based artist Simon Denny to illustrate the article “So Few People, So Much Influence,” about 26 AI engineers, founders, and thinkers whose “influence on the AI landscape far outstrips their fame.” These include people like Logan Graham of Anthropic, whose job is to try and push AI models to do terrifying things like build a bioweapon or enact a cyberattack; Beth Barnes, the founder of METR, a nonprofit that tests AI models before they are released; and Brandan Foddy of Mercor, which trains AI models to take over more jobs and industries. The article, a collaboration with Transformer, a Substack newsletter about the power and...

The Baghdad Modern Art Group was established in 1951 by two of Iraq’s most influential artists, Jewad Selim (1919–1961) and Shakir Hassan Al Said (1925–2004), and grew to engage many of Iraq’s leading artists, architects, poets, and more. Together, they sought to develop a new art form, one that negotiated a time of globally inflected modernism from Baghdad, an Abbasid city (est. 762 CE) that traces its lineage to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia. In All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group at NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, Dr. Nada Shabout brings together the artists from this circle, as well as those whom its work influenced, both at the time and in the following...

If someone had described Los Angeles youth culture in the late 1990s, they might have invoked towheaded surfers, Sunset Strip hair bands, Beverly Hills teens, and the graffiti-soaked clubs that harbored New Wave and punk. Thanks to Guadalupe Rosales, our view of that time is now much more expansive. Since 2015, the Los Angeles artist has collected the stories of the city’s Chicanx and Latinx youth — in particular, women and girls — via a pair of wildly popular Instagram pages, @veteranas_and_rucas and @map_pointz, which have become a collective archive of pre-internet adolescent life in the ’80s and ’90s. Big hair. Lined lips. Body-hugging tanks and baggy jeans. Not to mention the party flyers...

One of Yoshitomo Nara’s largest paintings is also one of his most subtle. Instead of glaring defiantly at the viewer, the child at the center of In the Milky Lake / Thinking One (2011) has her eyes closed and a somewhat serene expression on her face. Her body is half-submerged in a pale pool of water. On November 19, the monumental painting will be offered by Loïc Gouzer’s Fair Warning app with an estimate of $10 million to $15 million. Measuring 8.5 feet by 6 feet, it’s the largest Nara painting ever to appear at auction. The work has been in private hands for 14 years and will be exhibited in Chelsea at 534 West 22nd Street, which has been designed to resemble a Japanese temple, from November 6–19....

VENICE — The Indian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale is to visual art what minor tones are to music: striking notes that invite contemplation and convey depth. Geographies of Distance: Remembering Home interprets the Biennale’s theme, “In Minor Keys,” through the rich diversity encompassed by India's name. The exhibition offers a polysemous reading of home in a country where time and space are measured on a vast scale, bringing together disparate experiences of place, memory, distance, and belonging.The exhibition represents all of India: from the sun-baked earth of the southern state of Tamil Nadu to the stepped architecture of Ladakh in the north, to houses at the foot of the Himalayas, and...

Thanks to an inventive “Wanted” campaign by the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans in France, aimed at tracking down hundreds of WWII-era looted artworks, one painting has just been found, the museum’s director told ARTnews. A 17th-century painting by Dutch artist Willem Cornelisz Duyster, titled Un Buveur (The Drinker) and stolen in 1940 from the Orléans museum, was located last month at an auction house in Switzerland and is on its way back home to the French museum, Le Journal de l’Art reported earlier. After being presented with the evidence of the theft, “the possessor of the work immediately agreed to restitute it at no cost,” said Olivia Voisin, the museum’s director. The painting is...

A federal judge sentenced the former chief operating officer of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to one year in prison and one year of supervised release for stealing more than $600,000 from the museum. Brady Lum, 60, served as the High Museum’s COO from January 2019 until December 2025, when he resigned. He began siphoning money from the museum in September 2019, around nine months into the job, until November 2025, when it was discovered. Lum’s theft involved the purchase of “non-business items and services for himself, including expensive guitars and other music equipment, personal music lessons, and woodworking equipment, through direct supplier invoicing and the High Museum’s corporate credit...

The Art Newspaper reports that the Italian parliament is weighing a new law that would create a formal process for returning art and cultural artifacts that were stolen by Nazis and Italian authorities under Benito Mussolini during World War II. The proposal was introduced by a member of Brothers of Italy, the party headed by […]

Just one week after the Pace Gallery reported 35.5% losses, CEO Marc Glimcher has announced that the gallery is looking for new London outpost, as it put its Hanover Square location on the market in June. Pace published its 2024 accounts with Companies House, the British government’s business register, last week. The filing was ten […]

WARSAW, POLAND—Phys.org reports that fragments of a Celtic bronze helmet have been uncovered at Łysa Góra, a fortified settlement dated to the Early Iron Age in northeastern Poland. The site is strategically situated on the Orzyc River and close to an amber-rich region, which placed it in position to control the flow of amber and other goods to central Europe. The crushed helmet had been thrown into a pit with iron adzes and a scythe. Similar helmets have been recovered from graves belonging to the Celtic warrior elite in France and Austria. “The helmet is a symbol of power and direct evidence of long-distance contacts,” said Bartłomiej Kaczyńsky of the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw. The...

A renovation project at the historic building—the original home of the Whitney Museum of American Art—has uncovered works by Robert E. Locher and Cecily Brown

New York’s Dia Art Foundation will co-present a two-part exhibition of work by the Indigenous Australian artist d harding to be split between Dia Chelsea and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney. The New York component will open in February, with the other part slated for March; both will run into August of next year. “A through line in harding’s practice is the concept of transfer—a consideration of how histories are carried through materials, techniques, and places, transporting ancestral knowledge into dialogue with the spaces in which their work is encountered,” Dia curator Jordan Carter said in a statement. “Presented in parallel at two institutions, bridging Australia and the...

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO—Science reports that more than 200 teeth have been recovered from a Maya woman’s burial in southern Belize’s Bats’ub Cave by a team of researchers led by Keith Prufer of the University of New Mexico. When the woman was buried, her head had been removed and replaced with a ceramic bowl containing a jade bead. A similar scene was depicted on a bowl left in the grave. The burial took place between about A.D. 250 and 400, but radiocarbon dating shows that the first human tooth was left more than 100 years later. People continued to leave teeth in the cave for more than two hundred years. Genetic analysis of the teeth conducted by David Reich and Esther Brielle of Harvard University...

The Kennedy Center Honors, the marquee event of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will celebrate a host of performers on December 7, even while the institution is at the center of legal and political fights. This year’s honorees are country star Barbara Mandrell, singer and onetime teen idol Paul Anka, actor […]

The organizers of the India Art Fair have named more than 120 participants in its eighteenth iteration, set to run February 4–7, 2027, at the NSIC Exhibition Grounds in New Delhi. Among the returning international galleries are Galleria Continua, neugerreimschneider, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Whitestone Gallery, and David Zwirner. India’s Nature Morte, whose founder, Peter Nagy, […]

GUNMA PREFECTURE, JAPAN—According to a Live Science report, the head and torso of a clay figurine thought to represent a female shaman, or miko, has been discovered in the moat at a fifth-century burial mound at the Nishikaminomiya archaeological site on the Japanese island of Honshu. The surviving pieces of this figurine measure about 16 inches long. Styled with a prominent nose and carefully molded fingers, the figurine was identified by its traditional Japanese topknot hairstyle, bracelets made of clay and red pigment, a red sash painted on the torso, and a rod-shaped implement in one hand. Similar figurines, called haniwa, have been found in other burial mounds, or kofun, which lend their name to the...

COUNTY WICKLOW, IRELAND—An excavation conducted ahead of construction on Threecastles Solar Farm in eastern Ireland uncovered a 9,000-year-old site and flint tools for cutting, sharpening, and scraping, RTÉ reports. “It’s a rare glimpse into the ritual and daily life of a small, nomadic community of people that had travelled up the rivers and the valleys and accessed the rich abundance of resources, including fish and hunting game,” said archaeologist Laurence Dunne. The tools were placed in a pit, he added. People returned to the site some 4,000 years later, around the time farming began in Ireland. In a nearby field, Dunne and his team also found remnants of an enclosure that may have been a...

From California to Oklahoma to Illinois, Black communities are saddling up and grasping the reins of a horse or ornery bull. A thriving culture that’s gained attention in recent years, these competitors form bonds in and out of the rodeo arena, where their animals kick up dust and barrel across the ring. Since 2015, photographer Ivan McClellan has been embedded within these communities across the U.S. His new book, Eight Seconds: Legacy in Motion, is an addendum to his earlier body of work with 91 new images that spotlight the people and places integral to Black rodeo culture. Dantey Eldridge, Oregon, 2025 Published by Damiani, the updated edition features Texan teenager Kortnee Solomon, who’s captivated...

Brady Lum, the chief operating officer for almost seven years, stole more than $600,000 from the Atlanta institution

Brady Lum, the former chief operating officer of Atlanta‘s High Museum of Art, has been sentenced to one year in federal prison for stealing more than $600,000 from the institution. He previously pleaded guilty to the charges in July. Before his sentencing, Lum paid full restitution to the museum and reimbursed $500,000 of its legal […]

The mummified remains of the priest Nekht were recently removed from public view at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Through eloquent linear details and brushy, color-blocked backgrounds, Collins Obijiaku renders tender portraits in oil. Often directly meeting the viewer’s gaze, the striking figures inspired by individuals within the artist’s community command our attention. The artist harnesses a sense of timelessness, with a palette that swings from earthy to jewel-toned and subtle hints of architecture, nature, and art historical iconography that transcend specific eras. Raised in Nigeria’s Kaduna region, Obijiaku recently moved to Chicago, where he has grappled with the emotional resonance of distance and getting used to an entirely new place. “Seen through a sentimental lens, these settings lend the paintings an...

In Juneau, the world premiere of the Tlingit-language opera Ḵutulagaaw: The Tlingit-Russian Battles raises new questions about cultural ownership while singing a song all its own.

Yes, you miss the champagne sparkle and lilt of the best French versions but look at what you gain by hearing these grizzly tales in ETA Hoffmann's own language.

Through abstract, prismatic acrylic paintings to garment-like sculptures and textile collages, Jeffrey Gibson explores questions of identity, lineage, and cultural translation. Working across media, the artist intricately beads monumental works and incorporates a wide range of fabrics and materials. Jeffrey Gibson: A Real Love Thing at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center delves into the cross-disciplinary breadth of the artist’s practice throughout the past decade. Fifteen works amplify his interest in pattern, queer iconography, and his Indigenous Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee heritage. Drawing on the early and continuing influence of music, the artist often integrates song lyrics into...

Adobe brick with dog paw print KÜTAHYA PROVINCE, TURKEY—La Brújula Verde reports that 4,000-year-old paw prints have been found in adobe brick at Tavşanlı Höyük, a settlement mound in western Anatolia that dates back some 8,000 years. The sun-baked bricks were part of a wall that collapsed during a fire in the Bronze Age. Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, said that the prints had been made by a dog. Erkan Fidan of Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University and his excavation team have also uncovered ceramics, adobe, bone, burnt wood, and flint at the site. To read about other ancient canine prints preserved in brick, go to “They’re Just Like Us.”
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An eye peers from a goblet. A disembodied finger creeps from beneath a curtain. A supine figure, lost in a dream, envisions an uncanny array of game and fruit. For GaHee Park, landscapes, figures, and still lifes merge into seamless, surreal tableaux. Her signature glassy-eyed female characters move through spaces where the boundary between reality and fantasy blurs. Park’s new solo exhibition, Soft Shell at Jessica Silverman, delves into a realm where protection and a sense of security are nebulous. Although she nods to domestic spaces and symbols of comfort and sustenance, such as bowls laden with fruit, there is always something… else. “Woman and Moth in Eclipse” (2026), oil on linen, 35 x 40 x 1...

Richard Lynn provides a comprehensive introduction to the surprisingly wide and unsurprisingly wild world of opera podcasts.

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San Diego Opera's Rigoletto, starring a persuasive Michael Chioldi, veers traditional—without the mothballs in tow.

There are Bohèmes and Bohèmes, and it is almost a joke word these days, but the French show us how it is properly done.

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Credit: Márcia Falcão I was invited to attend two of the opening days of Frieze London and, arriving in my home city, I was immediately reminded of its extraordinary energy, gathering pace around the nucleus of the Regent's Park venue. The art on display was more than equal to the occasion. A-listers and icons from across the wider cultural landscape, including film, music and fashion, mingled with professionals and enthusiasts from London’s eclectic art scene, all seemingly loving, living...

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By Lorraine Heitzman There is a meticulous elegance to everything Phyllis Green makes, a quality that is immediately apparent in her brilliant fifteen-year survey show at the Laband Art Gallery. Phyllis Green: Of My Own Making is a diverse yet cohesive exhibit, both imaginative and grounded in the textures of commonplace materials such as wood, clay, cloth, and metal. She masterfully applies her vision across multiple disciplines making sculptures that appear simple despite her extraordinary...

By Victoria Thomas Classical music is rarely the currency of activism. We generally turn to less patrician, more hard-edged forms to voice protest and dissent against fascism, tyranny, racial violence, and other sociopolitical ills. But SYZYGY, a new three-movement concerto composed by Courtney Bryan celebrating three visual artists — all women, all women of color — defies this expectation. Bryan's 18-minute composition makes its world premiere on The American Concerto, Volume One, performed...

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

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

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

By Kristine Schomaker Friday night I stood at the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and watched artists perform five-minute pieces in the open air as the sun went down. ACTION = LIFE, presented by LACE and the Performance Art Museum as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. A marathon of performances. So many friends. So much history in one place. I drove home still feeling it. Thinking about the first performance I ever saw that made me understand what my own work was actually about....

Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.

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

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