In 2020, as the art market scrambled to move online, Loïc Gouzer tried something smaller. After years staging blockbuster evening sales at Christie’s as chairman of post-war and contemporary art, he launched the app Fair Warning. Its premise was simple: sell one work at time to a tightly screened group of collectors. Five years on, that constraint defines the company. Fair Warning has sold roughly $81.9 million worth of art not through volume, but through a steady cadence of tightly edited offerings. Its results suggest that the model can work. Last November, an Andy Warhol portrait of Brigitte Bardot from 1974 sold for $16.7 million, the highest publicly reported price for the artist that year. A year...

The Fundación Banco Santander in Spain has announced that it will return the Gelman Collection, which includes several important works of 20th-century Mexican art, to Mexico by 2028, according to a report by dpa. The planned return comes after an open letter signed by more than 200 art professionals last month that accused the Mexican government of an “institutional blunder” by allowing part of the Gelman Collection to travel to Spain, where they were meant to be house permanently in a private museum in Santander, in the north of Spain. In January, the foundation for the Madrid-based bank announced that it would manage 160 of the approximately 300 works that had been amassed by Jacques and Natasha Gelman,...

The New York gallery The Hole has closed its Los Angeles space after struggling to pay bills and artists

Although work by graffiti-turned-gallery artist Keith Haring (1958–90) remained highly collectible after his death of AIDS at 31, there has been a surge of interest in it of late, with pieces by him bringing millions at auction, a traveling exhibition in 2023, and collaborations by the estate with such popular brands as Polaroid, Converse, Swatch, Casetify, and Uniqlo. Now, according to a report in Hypebeast, two of the four automobiles that Haring decorated in the last 10 years of his life—a 1963 Buick Special and a 1971 Land Rover Defender III—will be the highlight of “Keith Haring: In the Street,” a nine-day exhibition in New York City. Both automobiles are painted top to bottom in Haring’s...

Archaeologists have long known that the ancient peoples of North America—not unlike us—played a lot of games. Going back millennia, cultures around the world developed myriad ways to keep entertained, and for a long time, it was thought that the first dice ever used could be traced to the ancient Eastern European and Near East cultures of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and the Caucasus. But according to a new paper by Robert Madden, published by Cambridge University Press, games of chance developed much, much earlier than originally thought—halfway around the world. Researchers previously believed that the earliest dice originated about 5,500 years ago, but Madden shares that examples excavated in North...

Just days after a federal judge put the kibosh on President Donald Trump’s $400 million plan to renovate the White House with a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, the administration filed an emergency motion to undo the ruling. On Friday, the Trump Administration filed a motion in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia arguing that US District Judge Richard Leon’s decision to halt the project has left the White House “open and exposed” and “threaten[s] grave national security harms to the White House, the President and his family, and the President’s staff,” according to Reuters. Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that construction must halt while a lawsuit brought by the National...

The fate of the 4,000 objects—including works by Christina Ramberg, Roger Brown, Martin Puryear and Edra Soto—remains unclear

The museum has acquired the beloved US illustrator’s ‘The Dugout’, his 1948 painting of Chicago Cubs players

Belu-Simion Fainaru, the artist set to represent Israel at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, has issued a reply to the participating artists and curators demanding the country’s exclusion over its sustained bombing of Gaza. “As an artist, I do not support cultural boycotts,” Fainaru told Artnews in a statement. “I believe in dialogue and exchange, especially in challenging […]

Two former employees say the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C., altered content on its website and canceled long-planned programming preemptively to avoid angering the Trump administration. Speaking on condition of anonymity, one ex-staffer told Politico that museum administrators appeared to be “trying to proactively fall in line as to not then be forced to change.” The changes come amid a broader effort by President Donald Trump and his administration to control museums through executive orders, singling out institutions within the federally funded Smithsonian Institution, which he accuses of indulging in “anti-American ideology.” In a social media post last August, he said...

From April 9 to 12, EXPO CHICAGO returns to Navy Pier, hosting hundreds of galleries, site-specific projects, talks, and multi-disciplinary programming both downtown and across the city. This week is one of the most exciting times for the Chicago-area art scene, and we’re excited to share our annual preview of what we’re most looking forward to! Aliza Nisenbaum, “Hitomi” (2022), oil on linen, 66 x 57 inches 1. Aliza Nisenbaum at Anton Kern and Regan Projects Presented by Anton Kern and Regan Projects, Aliza Nisenbaum’s vibrant portraiture portrays her subjects in bold chromatics. Nisenbaum’s smaller-scale works presented at the fair echo one of her larger projects: a celebratory mural titled...

Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds traces the Swiss-German artist’s departure from the Bauhaus and his experience throughout the political upheaval of the 1930s prior to his death in 1940. The first US museum exhibition to explore Paul Klee’s powerful creative output from the final decade of his life, Other Possible Worlds at the Jewish Museum highlights 100 paintings and drawings from across Klee’s career, including rarely shown works from the 1930s to 1940s. This broader context dramatically frames the artist’s late practice, during which Klee’s lifelong individuality and imagination prevail as a form of resistance to Nazi ideology and persecution.Born in 1879 in Switzerland to a music teacher and...

When we think of somewhere we’ve been, what are the first things to come to mind? Perhaps there are memorable smells, a sense of other people being around, or a particular quality of light. But what if we remembered landscapes and experiences through plants? For Hillary Waters Fayle, flower petals, seeds, and foliage combine into a kind of album of various places, which she then uses to create bold cyanotypes. The artist has long worked with botanicals and other organic materials, notably embroidering foraged leaves and feathers with meticulous geometric designs. With the series Portraits of Place, which she’s been pursuing for the past six years, Fayle precisely arranges individual petals and leaves into...

Benjamin Bernheim opens up to Emma Hoffman about what really makes a French tenor ahead of his New York recital debut.

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Karolina Wiktor creates a new language born from absence
 
Karolina Wiktor’s Cartography of Motherhood at the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw brings together drawing, gesture, and sound to trace the artist’s experience of post-stroke aphasia through the lens of motherhood. Following a ruptured aneurysm and strokes in 2009, Wiktor rebuilt her practice around visual and concrete poetry, developing the Czcionka Braku (Font of Absence), a typographic system born of incomplete, illegible letters recorded during acute aphasia.
 
‘Stroke and aphasia are highly complex conditions, and aphasia is among the most challenging disabilities overall. Rehabilitation must be holistic,’ the artist tells...

Spring in Upstate New York might just be my favorite time and place in the world— I love that sense of hope, renewal, and relief as those ceaseless gray days finally surrender to color. Speaking of, there's some pretty great art on view in the region, as our favorite Upstate art writer, Taliesin Thomas, proves in her guide this month.Today, a new survey finds that art museums and organizations led by people of color are disproportionately understaffed, relying heavily on volunteer work to serve their communities. Also in the news, artist Ali Cherri, who won the Silver Lion Award for best film feature at the 2022 Venice Biennale, files a war crimes complaint against Israel for a Beirut strike that...

Wolfgang Holzmair's performance was amazing in its personal and intimate approach.

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MJ Fraser builds lamps using trees from his childhood garden
 
Trees From The Garden is a collection of lamps by MJ Fraser, developed from impressions of trees found in the designer’s childhood garden. Each piece is formed using individual moulds taken from sections of bark and branches, resulting in distinct variations across the series. The lamps are fabricated primarily from a biodegradable thermoplastic, establishing a material system that combines organic reference with synthetic processing.
 
The project reconsiders the use of trees in design by focusing on external surface qualities rather than conventional timber extraction. Instead of processing wood into standardized elements, the approach...

big carves not a hotel Setouchi villas into the hillside
 
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) completes NOT A HOTEL Setouchi, a resort of three distinct villas on the remote island of Sagishima, Japan, marking the Copenhagen-based studio’s first built work in the country. Set on a 30,000-square-meter site on the southwestern cape of the island, the project integrates directly into the hillside’s natural contours, with load-bearing walls made from soil excavated on-site using the traditional rammed earth technique. 
 
The design (find designboom’s previous coverage here) draws openly on Japanese vernacular architecture, reinterpreting its logic through a Scandinavian sensibility. Glass facades dissolve the...

Five video works by Angelica Mesiti (b. 1976) are now on view at Museum Tinguely in Basel. It’s the first comprehensive solo show of the Paris-based artist to open in Switzerland. Mesiti has worked at the intersection of performance, sound and video since the early 2000s, creating pieces that explore the ways in which nonverbal communication – like dance, music and movement – can build connections between people. It’s an approach that has led to international recognition, including representing Australia – her home country – at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. Museum Tinguely’s exhibition is, fittingly, called Reverb – in reference to both acoustic reverberation, and the way human...

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ANTONIOLUPI PRESENTS CARSICO WASHBASIN IN MARBLE 
 
Designed for antoniolupi, the CARSICO washbasin in reimagines the traditional freestanding marble fixture by exposing the raw, internal processes of stone-hollowing. Starting from a solid block of botticino marble, designer Paolo Ulian reveals a honeycomb structure, treating the negative space as a primary aesthetic. The result is a sculptural form that achieves a unique lightness while maintaining the solid presence of stone, allowing light and shadow to play through the exposed drill holes. From workshop tradition to the vanguard of contemporary design, antoniolupi’s release by Paolo Ulian transforms the bathroom fixture into a narrative of subtraction...

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Arte cinetica – un omaggio di Ferruccio Gard a Vasarely è una mostra nata da una coincidenza significativa: il 2026 segna i 120 anni dalla nascita di Victor Vasarely, padre dell’Op Art, e i 50 anni della Fondation Vasarely, istituzione che continua a custodire e diffondere la sua eredità. Nel contempo, Ferruccio Gard celebra i suoi 85, scegliendo di rendere omaggio al maestro ungherese con cui condivide la passione per la percezione, il colore e il movimento.
Ferruccio Gard, “Dinamiche strutturali 4”, 1969, acrilici su tela, cm 40 x 50, courtesy dell’Artista
Vasarely ha definito una grammatica visiva nuova, fondata su moduli geometrici, variazioni sistematiche e un’idea di arte universale,...

A significant number of Canadians are shunning their neighbours to the south, a phenomenon felt most acutely by smaller museums and those along the border

After two years of conservation, the 19th-century Lucknow scroll is on show in New Haven, Connecticut

PLNLstudio reforms sewage tank into a refined living space
 
Rotterdam-based PLNLstudio transforms a former sewage tank into the Trommel no.4 apartment in Amsterdam. This flat is located on the first floor of a unique building designed by SeARCH architects; a striking example of adaptive reuse, where former concrete storage tanks from a sewage treatment plant have been transformed into contemporary living spaces. From the outset, the design approach aimed to embrace the building’s unconventional geometry and raw materiality, integrating the apartment into its architectural context. The material palette reflects this intent with concrete floors, custom-built furniture that echoes the tones of the window...

A first-time operagoer is lured to Thaïs at Opera Idaho by the promise of a new experience… and Neil, the Burmese python

Architecture, memory and the poetics of concrete converge in Brutal Scotland, an exhibition that situates post-war modernism within a broader cultural and emotional terrain. At its core, the show interrogates how built environments embody ideological ambition, social rupture and aesthetic endurance. Photography here becomes not merely documentary but interpretive. The tension between decay and resilience runs throughout, suggesting that these structures are far from static relics. Instead, they operate as living documents of a nation’s evolving identity. In this sense, the exhibition positions Brutalism as a lens through which to reconsider histories of progress, failure and reinvention. Emerging from this...

William Parker's career launch coincided with the closet door fully opening for American male classical vocalists; the cruel irony is that Will was also an early AIDS casualty, gone in 1993 at 49.

Has the history of design influenced how we process and recall music? Art of Noise, on view at Cooper Hewitt in New York, explores this question through an array of archival objects, including band posters, album art and interactive vintage equipment. Split between two spaces, the exhibition’s first half showcases gadgets galore, examining the evolving relationship with product design. From early phonographs to Bluetooth speakers, the show traces technological advancements in sound quality, portability and consumer listening choices, alongside shifting aesthetic preferences amongst the public. Vision 2000, for example, a cassette player and radio designed by Thilo Oerke in 1971, capitalised on the cultural...

Nel contemporaneo, l’emersione di un’opera dipende dalle trame che ne governano accesso e trasmissione epistemica. Curatori, istituzioni, fiere e mecenati formano un ecosistema di validazione di rilevanza che decide quali espressioni affiorano e quali restano ai margini. L’interpretazione della statura intellettuale e la ricezione sociale derivano dal rapporto tra gli agenti, procedure e strumenti coordinati, favorendo il rafforzamento di una egemonia nella sfera performativa.
Frieze London 2025. Photo by Linda Nylind, courtesy of Frieze
La gestione della diffusione delle opere ha subito evoluzioni nel corso del tempo. Nel XIX secolo, enti disciplinari e rassegne canoniche regolavano stili, temi e...

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, with an abundance of invigorating artistic narratives emerging across forms and disciplines, even as the wider climate feels increasingly unsettled. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity to the mayhem of today’s world. You can read the interview here . We...

Led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Yoann Combémorel, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra proves themselves the equal of any major American orchestra in a program of Mahler, Wagner, and Dawson.

At the intersection of fashion, art, and the uncanny, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin have for four decades challenged the ways we perceive images. Can Love Be A Photograph – 40 Years of Inez & Vinoodh, at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, offers a monumental survey of a career defined by its refusal to settle, blending the quotidian with the surreal and the personal with the performative. Their work operates in the liminal space where digital manipulation, intimacy, and high-gloss fashion imagery converge, revealing both the extraordinary and the unsettling within everyday life. “Inez & Vinoodh have been able to create something utterly fantastic; an invisible reality that looks artificial but is not. A...

Salvador Dalí’s paintings of Christ are among his most polarizing works. Does his rarefied version of religion alienate us from the divine, or push us closer to transcendence? This week, Ed Simon plumbs Dalí’s “nuclear mysticism,” a marriage of quantum physics and Catholic faith that yielded a Crucifixion so unsettling it was physically attacked not once, but twice.In other reads for a most pious or delightfully secular weekend, Emily Drew Miller embraces matzah as a medium to examine political rifts in the Jewish faith; Natalie Haddad takes us inside The Met's new Raphael show; and curator Ryan N. Dennis shares her journey from community engagement to leadership.Plus: Check out our exclusive...

From the moment Martin Parr’s work gained international attention, it challenged conventional ideas about documentary photography and how audiences engage with the everyday world. Parr turned his lens to the overlooked: seaside holidays, domestic rituals, fast-food wrappers, souvenirs and the subtle routines of daily life. Across his career, he elevated the ordinary into the extraordinary, capturing scenes that were simultaneously humorous, absurd and revealing. The exhibition Very Modern and Rather Ugly at Foam, running from 3 April to 12 August, encapsulates this legacy, bringing together the vibrancy, wit and sharp social observation that defined his practice. Visitors encounter a world that feels...

Basterebbe una sola frase per donare la chiave di lettura alla mostra personale di Flaviu Cacoveanu presso Parliament Gallery, a Parigi. Una frase con chiarezza semplice e potente esprime il concetto che si potrebbe dire essere alla base di ogni suo lavoro esposto: “Quello che si può osservare può significare diverse cose, ma ciò che importa davvero è cosa significano per te”. Così si presenta Conceptual Play, una mostra che, giocando con gli elementi della vita quotidiana, finisce per interrogare continuamente l’osservatore, facendolo ragionare sulla realtà che lo circonda e sulla vita stessa.
Flaviu Cacoveanu, “Untitled”, 2026, gelatin silver print on baryta paper in artist’s frame with...

I LISTEN TO PODCASTS on the train, while washing dishes, sometimes while walking around. It’s hard to think of a more passive medium, engineered for split attention—the thought of dedicating one’s attention fully to a podcast is as antithetical as listening to drive-time radio over a hi-fi system at home. Yet on a beautiful Saturday morning in late […]

Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment (BS&E), the parent company of Barclays Center in Brooklyn, has announced “Brooklyn Art Encounters,” a multiyear program aimed at bringing art to the arena’s public, digital, and surrounding spaces. It has named Conceptual artist Paul Pfeiffer, renowned for his uncanny works centering sports figures, as its inaugural artist-in-residence. Pfeiffer, who per […]

Three weeks after Easter in 1961, at Glasgow’s red-brick, resplendent, rococo Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, a 22-year-old man took a rock to Salvador Dalí’s enigmatic 1951 painting “Christ of Saint John of the Cross.” At a red museum in a green corner of a gray city, out of a surfeit of zealous religious conviction, a vandal had torn an eight-foot gash in the body of Christ. It would not be the only act of vandalism perpetrated against the Dalí painting, for a little less than two decades later, another aspiring iconoclast took an air rifle to the canvas, though this time curators had seen fit to seal it behind a thick layer of clear acrylic in preparation for precisely this possibility. In an...

The appointment of new trustees for the Smithsonian Institution has been delayed due to Trump’s efforts to intervene at the organization, the New York Times reports. The trustees, which at the Smithsonian are among the Board of Regents, are traditionally first approved by Congress and then subsequently signed off on by the president; Trump, however, has indicated that he’s […]

CHICAGO — When I learned that an exhibition by Leah Ke Yi Zheng, curated by Myriam Ben Salah and Karsten Lund, would be coming to the Renaissance Society, I timed an engagement I had in Chicago so I could see her work. My only regret was that I did not have enough time to go twice, as I did with her New York debut exhibition at David Lewis Gallery in 2023, which I reviewed. I also realized that I am still learning how to see Zheng’s work, which is one of the great pleasures of looking at art. As much pleasure, intellectual stimulation, and self-reflection as I got from her work, and its engagement with Western oil painting and Eastern ink painting, I feel Zheng is at the beginning of something momentous...

Florence’s famed Uffizi Galleries have revealed that they were the victim of a February cyberattack but have denied that the security systems protecting their collection were compromised. Corriere della Serra reported that hackers allegedly stole access codes, internal maps, and information regarding placement of CCTV cameras and alarms, subsequently issuing a ransom demand via phone […]

Misato Sano’s studio is replete with piles of wooden offcuts, heavy lumber, woodworking equipment, and flowing natural light. The Miyagi-based artist has been sculpting charismatic dogs for several years, steadily adding more distinct characters to her growing pack. Self-portraiture remains a consistent theme within Sano’s practice. Each dog evokes a different emotion mirroring the artist’s personality, ranging from shy and skittish to excited and silly. “Visualizing my inner self through expressions and gestures full of charm and humor has also become an opportunity to deepen my self-love,” she shares. “I Got a Good Idea!” (2025) Sano’s distinctive woodcarving techniques are exemplary of the...

One of the many reasons artists like Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Cy Twombly, and other mid-20th-century pioneers of painterly abstraction were so innovative for their time is the use of the deliberate yet loose brushstroke. Pollock intuitively dribbled and splattered paint on surfaces spread across the floor of his studio, and Kline created bold, monochromatic paintings with just a few deceptively simple, gestural strokes of a large brush. It’s this visceral approach to visual rhythms and color that continues to awe us today. (A major retrospective highlighting both Krasner and Pollock’s work is slated for The Met later this year.) For artist Liza Lou, the calculation of brushstrokes, color,...

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Ci sono mostre che provano a spiegarti il mondo, e poi ci sono mostre che ti costringono a dubitare del fatto che quel mondo sia mai stato stabile. “Manipolazione di origine controllato” di Roberto Amoroso appartiene con decisione alla seconda categoria. Non offre LE risposte, non consola, non semplifica fa qualcosa di più scomodo: prende il flusso continuo di immagini in cui siamo immersi e lo torce fino a farlo diventare irriconoscibile o forse, finalmente, leggibile.
Roberto Amoroso, “Manipolazione di origine controllato”, exhibition view at 10 & zero uno, Venezia, ph. Filippo Molena, courtesy 10 & zero uno
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When the Bulls Fest—a raging celebration of the iconic and famed NBA team—first happened at Chicago’s United Center in 2022, Kyle Cobban was one of the contributing artists to The Art of the Game exhibition. It’s a piece that encapsulates Cobban’s aesthetic vision. Working with graphite and paper, the Chicago-based artist makes small, detailed drawings […]
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For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Portrait category: Sima Choubdarzadeh.
Originally from Iran and now based in Berlin, Sima is an award-winning documentary photographer with a background in philosophy. For the past decade, her work has focused on migration, identity, and resistance, often centering people living through tension and change.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website...

 
FEELING SEEN is guest curated by Jenna Eady as part of our Curate for the Community series.
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.
FEELING SEEN is 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 emotional resonance. Its about creating the space for others to feel something.
The project aims to amplify diverse voices and create opportunities for new perspectives...

In occasione della sua prima mostra personale in Italia Matthias Odin presenta da FRENCH PLACE un nuovo corpus di lavori, frutto della residenza a Milano e nati dalla scoperta di una fabbrica di strumenti bellici dismessa dalla fine degli anni Ottanta, momento in cui i conflitti su scala mondiale sembravano destinati a una definitiva distensione. La nuova collocazione degli oggetti ne sospende la finalità originaria, trasformandoli in sculture minime in bilico tra astrazione e memoria. Nella concezione di Odin l’archeologia industriale dialoga con la storia della città e con la concezione bergsoniana della memoria, intesa come stratificazione.
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In the process of painting someone, artist Jenny Morgan reveals not only what shows, but what doesn’t show. Her vibrant and emotional oil paintings of figures hover in a place that is between realism and abstraction, where many of her subjects confront their viewer with an electric stare that braves against the vulnerable moment in […]
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Growing up as a queer kid in the ‘80s, I was well aware from an early age that I was different, and that different was not okay, especially living in Missouri,” says New Mexico artist Anthony Hurd, who recently shifted away from abstracts, to delve into what may be deemed “controversial” figurative work. Not only […]
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