The English usician will co-organise a show at the UK's Hepworth Wakefield next year

As Donald Trump finished his record-length State of the Union address earlier this year, a group of artists drove to a cul-de-sac off Echo Park Lake in L.A. and got to work. The three men dressed in loose-fitting work pants and hoodies unloaded two laser projectors (one for backup), some lenses, a laptop and battery packs onto carts and brought them to the middle of a pedestrian bridge that crosses over the 101. In the anonymity of darkness, the members of the guerilla art collective VJayBombs set up their gear with the confidence of practice. Within minutes, the projector was warming up and aligned with the 100-foot-tall wall of the L.A. Downtown Medical Center. Then, a final review of the video to be...

A year and a half ago, the billionaire Bill Koch spun his massive Aspen estate on the market for $125 million, making it one of the most expensive homes for sale across the globe. That hefty sum likely wasn’t palatable for most people, and the price has since dropped to $99 million—no measly asking price either. Now, still searching for a buyer, Koch is putting the 52-acre spread up for auction. From July 7 to 17, you’ll have chance to bid on Elk Mountain Lodge, as the property is known. Concierge Auctions is handling the sale, alongside Steven Shane of Compass, who’s held the listing since it debuted in January 2025. “I’ve seen firsthand how auctions can unlock extraordinary outcomes across...

Last July, French president Emmanuel Macron announced hat one of his country’s great cultural treasures, the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, would be loaned to the British Museum. Six months later, in December, heritage group Sites & Monuments appealed to the French supreme courtto stop the move of the monumental but fragile artifact. Last week, the court shot down the organization’s attempt, reports Le Journal des Arts. Sites & Monuments cited Bayeux deputy mayor Loïc Jamin saying “This exhibition in London will undoubtedly be an opportunity to increase the notoriety of the Tapestry with a kind of prefiguration of its presentation in its future museum in Normandy.” But, the organization wrote,...

Giacomo Manzù: The Artist and his Dealer explores the decades-long relationship between the Italian artist and Rosenberg's father

June marks Pride Month, a time when communities around the world celebrate LGBTQIA+ identities while reflecting on the history of the movement and the ongoing fight for equality. Its origins are often traced to June 28, 1969, when a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in Lower Manhattan was met with resistance from patrons and local community members. The six days of protests that followed, known as the Stonewall Riots, became a turning point in the struggle for LGBTQIA+ rights and helped galvanise a new era of activism. More than five decades later, Pride continues to honour that legacy while creating space for visibility, solidarity and celebration. Art has long played a vital role in this story, offering a...

Late last week, Rodney Mims Cook Jr., the chairman of the US Commission of Fine Arts, became the first US official to participate in St. Petersburg’s so-called “Russian Davos” in nearly a decade, according to reports. The St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, is designed to attract foreign investment in Russia, but has seen a drop in attendance of high-profile Western leaders since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. In a stark reminder, Ukrainian drones struck oil and military targets on the outskirts of St Petersburg as the major, four-day forum prepared to open June 3, reported the BBC. “Given such distinguished guests and the importance of...

Thomas Bangalter made a name for himself as one half of the French electronic-music duo Daft Punk starting from the early 1990s through the group’s dissolution in 2021. A name but definitely not a face—he and his partner, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, famously presented themselves as robots replete with all-concealing mechanistic helmets and gloves. After Daft Punk’s rise from underground dance music heroes to chart-topping pop insurgents, Bangalter followed different muses in different directions. In 2022, he made music for a ballet called Mythologies that was issued as an album a year later. In 2023, he worked on Chiroptera, an ambitious performance project with artist JR and choreographer Damien Jalet...

a coffee shed grows among plane trees in luxun park
 
At the edge of Shanghai’s Luxun Park, a rust-colored coffee shed sits low to the ground, slipped between the existing building and the park landscape by SHISUO Design Office. With its design led by architects Sanif and Changshan, the 290-square-meter project turns a small café commission into a public threshold, holding coffee service, sheltered movement, and outdoor gathering beneath one folded roof.
 
The project occupies a complicated site where an existing glass-roof canopy had to remain in place and five mature plane trees already claimed the ground. Instead of treating these trees as obstacles, the architects used them to set the rhythm of the...

Ahead of the June 11 kickoff of the 2026 World Cup, revisit a pair of essays by Michael Fried and Tim Griffin on Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, a ninety-minute film in which seventeen cameras follow the French football legend Zinédine Zidane for the entirety of a 2005 match in Madrid. […]

As Dave Krugman traverses the streets of New York City, camera in hand, he seeks patterns. Throughout his wide-ranging practice spanning portraits, automobiles, tourism, and more, he studies “humanity’s intersection with cities and how people are influenced by their immediate environment,” says a statement. Whether in the countryside or the middle of an urban hub, rhythms and typologies emerge. The Brooklyn-based photographer began documenting windows throughout New York City several years ago, and his aptly named series compiles a cross-section of his captures over the past half decade. Taken at night, these virtually infinite portals into individual lives are illuminated from within. Krugman focuses...

Thinking about a career in the cultural sector? MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise at Central Saint Martins equips students with critical and creative thinking to lead cultural projects globally.The course has been developed in response to the increasing need for multi-skilled individuals who can apply creativity to management, collaboration and cultural leadership. It is designed for emerging and established creative practitioners, cultural producers and professionals looking to expand their practice through critical, entrepreneurial and collaborative approaches. With cohorts across London and Hong Kong, MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise foregrounds peer and collaborative learning, and benefits from the cultural...

Curated by Candice Hopkins (citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation), Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 is the first major exhibition to position performance as an origin point for contemporary Native art. It traces a lineage of artistic experimentation that emerged in the late 1960s, a period defined by political activism, renewed engagement with Indigenous aesthetic traditions, and a profound reassertion of identity and self-determination.It is grounded in the pivotal year 1969, when Indian Theatre: An Artistic Experiment in Process was first published in Santa Fe at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and the Indians of All Tribes occupied Alcatraz...

The exhibition, opening in March 2027, will pair one of MoMA’s prized possessions, “Broadway Boogie Woogie”, with “Victory Boogie Woogie” on loan from the Netherlands

Arthouse Glasgow has launched a new annual award with The Glasgow School of Art, naming MFA student Kate Glenn as its inaugural recipient.

For the first time, Yinka Shonibare's Mr. and Mrs. Andrews without their Heads will be displayed alongside Gainsborough's Mr and Mrs Andrews

Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action. is both a major retrospective and a timely tribute to one of the great pioneers of kinetic and participatory art.

Dearest by Zeinab Diomande is a zine presenting a collection of paintings that, while not a formal series, share a cohesive visual language exploring themes of liquidity and the passage of time, achieved through the use of thinned paint and water. The pieces employ texture as a storytelling device, reflecting the rituals and ceremonies of the artist’s alter egos within imagined worlds.
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Opera Theater of St. Louis's summer festival opened last night and Parterre Box is celebrating by launching a new feature: custom travel guides!

Emma Hoffman reports on the glimmers of ecstatic artistry in Lise Davidsen's all-Schubert recital at Carnegie Hall with James Baillieu.

Contemporary art is undergoing a profound shift in how it is made, experienced and understood. At Aesthetica, we are responding to this moment with clarity, ambition and intent. What we are witnessing is not simple progression but a fundamental reconfiguration of how art circulates, gains meaning and operates within wider cultural systems. Across Aesthetica 20, we are building a living framework where exhibition, discourse and publication function as a single connected structure. The Future Now Symposium sits at the centre of this, extending the Aesthetica Art Prize into a space where ideas are exchanged, tested and developed in real time. We are not simply presenting contemporary art, we are interrogating its...

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The director of the Museo Galileo, who has led the Leonardotheka project, says it sets a “compelling precedent for how cultural institutions can and must retain intellectual ownership of their digital endeavours”

at the venice biennale 2026, clay bricks become vessels of memory
 
For the Venice Art Biennale 2026, artist Dana Awartani fills the Saudi Arabian Pavilion with a vast earthen mosaic landscape composed of more than 29,000 hand-crafted clay bricks. Titled ‘May your tears never dry, you who weep over stones’, the installation draws together references from historic mosaic traditions across the Arab world, creating a meditation on cultural heritage, loss, and collective memory. The project, realized through nearly 30,000 hours of artisanal labor, places the knowledge and skills of master craftspeople at its core.
 
At a time when many traditional practices face disappearance, Awartani foregrounds craft as a...

Without urgent action, “the unique value of the landscape could be lost forever”, city council’s chief executive warns

Stagger Repurposes Seating as a Geometric Acoustic Wall
 
Haworth stackable chairs from the mid-1990s were repurposed as Stagger, an acoustic installation by Umbel Acoustic Design. The project intentionally recontextualizes furniture that was intended to disappear when not in use, transforming it into an ornamental acoustic surface. The chairs are removed from the wall and used as intended whenever Umbel holds acoustic training events or lectures. Soft red tubing replaces the originally clear chair feet to express the depth and interlocking nature of the layout. Off-the-shelf red hooks safely support the chairs, the arrangement of which recalls the alternating wedges of anechoic chambers. Birch plywood...

Today, we’re excited to kick off our annual Pride series with the first of several interviews with queer and trans elders in the art community. First up is Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia’s moving conversation with British painter Jamie Nares, who opens up about embracing her identity as a trans woman, finding belonging in New York City, and what she’s working on next. After all, she says, “I’m now 72 and I’ve never been so full of ideas in my life.”Meanwhile, in the news, what do you get when you mix the art market with gambling? That’s what Kalshi, a US government-regulated sports betting company, is about to find out. Matt Stromberg reports today on its new art offshoot, which it claims...

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adidas gives stan smith a surprisingly square makeover
 
Adidas reimagines one of its most recognizable sneakers with the launch of the Stan Smith SQ, a square-toe reinterpretation that introduces a bold geometric twist to the tennis icon. Preserving the DNA that has defined the silhouette for more than five decades, the new model replaces the familiar rounded front with a sharply sculpted square toe, transforming the classic design into a contemporary fashion statement.
 
The Stan Smith SQ retains many of the elements associated with the original sneaker while subtly shifting its proportions. A glossy leather upper wraps the shoe in a clean white finish, complemented by the signature perforated three-stripe...

30,000 handmade bricks, Lanza Atelier's a serpentine marks the 25th Serpentine Summer Pavilion with a celebration of gathering, locality & experience.

Marie Watt’s circle stitches collective memory
 
The work of artist Marie Watt often begins with people sitting together, hands moving across fabric as stories pass from one voice to another.
 
While the setting can range from a museum, a school, a community space, or the artist’s studio, the gesture stays close and direct. Needles thread through wool as lines of stitching follow handwriting and a shared space gathers the presence of many hands.
 
Watt’s practice offers a deeply human view into the question of what craft can become. The Seattle-born artist, a member of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation of Indians, works across printmaking, painting, textiles, and sculpture.
 
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L’architettura quattrocentesca di Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel a Venezia si fa teatro di un dialogo vibrante, eppure straordinariamente eloquente con le opere di Su Xiaobai. La mostra raccoglie trentacinque lavori che ripercorrono la parabola creativa dell’artista, dai primi esperimenti con la lacca risalenti al 2003 fino alle sue più recenti evoluzioni. L’esposizione è curata da Stephen Little, curatore di arte cinese e capo dei dipartimenti di arte cinese, coreana e del sud – sudest asiatico al LACMA.
A render of the works by Su Xiaobai at Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel, image credit © Su Xiaobai Foundation, 2026. Courtesy of the Su Xiaobai Foundation
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Vivian Maier was born in New York on 1 February 1926. The street photographer spent the majority of her life between France and the USA, working as a nanny for several Chicago families. It was only after her death in 2009 that her 150,000 image archive was discovered. In the same year as Maier was born, across the city, Allen Ginsberg arrived on 3 June. His was a life of fame and notoriety, producing poetry, photography and activism that was foundational in the Beat Movement. His radical literary works left an indelible mark on American counterculture, with his renowned poem Howl becoming the subject of an obscenity trial in 1957. As far as artistic figures go, these two could perhaps not be further apart....

I like to use this recording to annoy Mariah Carey fans by proving that whistle register doesn't count.

At 97-years-old, Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc (b. 1928) continues to surprise and delight audiences. He has dedicated his career to engaging the public, whether that be through employing optical effects, crafting sensory encounters or encouraging physical interaction. His goal is to make us feel part of the artwork, and, this summer, Tate Modern’s show does exactly that. It presents over 60 pieces spanning from the late 1950s to the 2020s, including interactive installations, light sculptures and abstract paintings – all curated to form a “maze-like” experience. It’s all about making audiences “aware of the role they can play in bringing art to life.” Light. Colour. Action are the three words...

È certo che ogni avvenimento del passato continui a persistere ostinatamente nel flusso della storia politica, sociale e culturale contemporanea di un Paese. Talvolta questa presenza risulta così viva e profonda da modellare il presente e influenzarlo, offrendo racconti parziali e significativi. In questo senso, la storia non viene più intesa come un percorso esclusivamente individuale, bensì come un’esperienza condivisa, capace di instaurare un rapporto vivo con chi la incontra. Proprio all’interno di questa relazione si aprono nuovi spazi di comprensione, rendendo visibili dinamiche che spesso rimangono implicite.
MarÍa Leguízamo, Gerson Vargas, “Unos pocos buenos amigos”, installation view,...

Interior Gallery Photos by and ©Tim Hursley, courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum  As a world-class institution showcasing one of the most impressive collections of American art spanning five centuries, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has firmly placed Bentonville, Arkansas on the global cultural map. And, except for a few major holidays, the museum […]
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Between 2010 and 2023, more than 1,243 council-run youth centres closed, according to UNISON. Meanwhile, one in three people in the UK say their local areas are in decline, with 13,000 high street shops closing in 2024. Across the country, council restrictions, diminishing spaces, gentrification and enduring prejudices see many communities under threat of erasure. Photographer Sophie Green presents a vivid portrait of the communities, subcultures and social gatherings that shape contemporary Britain, forming a vital archive of a changing nation. For over a decade, she has documented how rituals and traditions build connection, belonging and shared identity. From the adrenaline thrill of banger racing, to the...

Tell me, who needs an eight-story gallery in Manhattan that feels like a mall, plus cavernous outposts in Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Geneva, Seoul, and Tokyo? Who needs a roster of 135 artists, including a battery of estates? Who needs those so-called “museum-quality” exhibitions that reframe art history for us through the narrow lens of a bottom-line-oriented dealer? Pace, a mega gallery, made headlines this week after it slashed one-third of its artists and one-fifth of its staff. Its CEO, Marc Glimcher, blamed a "broken" gallery model for the cuts, the same model he helped create. The good news is that Pace is now more true to itself: a business that was made to sell art. The bad news: It's the...

C’è un momento, entrando nella mostra Egg di Flora Yukhnovich presso Victoria Miro a Venezia, in cui diventa evidente come il vero tema abbia ormai poco a che fare con il Rococò. La questione centrale riguarda piuttosto il destino della pittura dentro un ecosistema estetico dominato da sovrapproduzione, iperstimolazione e consumo accelerato delle immagini.
Flora Yukhnovich, “Egg”, installation view at Victoria Miro Venice, 5 May–4 July 2026, © Flora Yukhnovich. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro
Per anni Yukhnovich è stata raccontata come la pittrice che ha riportato il Settecento nel contemporaneo: Fragonard filtrato mediante l’astrazione gestuale, Boucher radicato nell’ambiente...

Jamie Nares (photo Charlie Rubin, courtesy the artist)This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June.In sublime canvases animated by choreographies of sweeping motion, Jamie Nares captures the bravura of a brushstroke. The London-born artist has also made experimental films, photography, and music rooted in the spirit of the No Wave movement into which she was thrust when she relocated to New York City in the mid-1970s. In our interview, Nares, who came out as transgender in 2019 and changed her artist name in 2024, leads us through her distinct personal and artistic evolutions, journeys paved by a search for truth....

The mystery of the central Stonehenge altar stone—a 6 ton, approximately 16-foot-long micaceous sandstone megalith—has posed a tantalizing question to researchers and amateur history buffs for decades: how did such a colossal rock come to rest at the center of the most famous prehistoric monument in England? A new study published on Thursday in the […]

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas is unveiling its newly renovated facilities to the public on June 6th and 7th after undergoing a $150 million expansion project. The updated layout was developed by Safdie Architects, the same firm that designed the first iteration of the museum in 2012. These expansions will […]

Tavares Strachan is an artist whose interests, references, and approaches to making stretch so broadly, it’s not surprising that one of his more well-known works is an encyclopedia. Created in 2018, the 2,400-page volume contains 15,000 entries on individuals, events, places, and more that are critical to understanding our shared history, and yet were omitted from the Encyclopedia Britannica. This inverse book-cum-sculpture is one of many pieces within Strachan’s oeuvre that question the narratives we collectively disseminate. Born in Nassau, the Bahamian artist is one of the leading conceptual artists working today, and his first monograph, out this month from Phaidon, peers into decades of his expansive...

Exhibitions at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Gagosian, and Sant’Andrea de Scaphis

The New School in New York has laid off sixty-eight staffers and nineteen full-time faculty members, more than half of them tenured, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. The cuts were telegraphed earlier this year and come as the university reckons with a $60 million budget deficit spurred in part by declining enrollment. The dip […]

BURGOS, SPAIN—Researchers led by Sonia Díaz-Navarro of the University of Burgos examined the skeletons of 48 children recovered from Camino del Molino, a 5,000-year-old circular burial cave in southeastern Spain, according to a Phys.org report. The bones of more than 1,300 people were deposited at the site over a period of more than 700 years. More than 90 percent of the children in the study exhibited changes to their bones associated with disease. About 67 percent had porous bones, in addition to changes related to respiratory diseases. “The pattern we see probably reflects a broader burden of recurrent or prolonged respiratory disease rather than a single pathogen,” Díaz-Navarro said. The children...

Iron object FUKUI, JAPAN—The Asahi Shimbun reports that a piece of iron with a bent end unearthed at the Hayashi-Fugishima archaeological site in central Honshu has been identified as an early saw. The beak-shaped object has a pointed tip, is less than two inches long, and has tiny triangular teeth along its edge. The tool is estimated to date to the late second century a.d. “The artifact could be an important piece of evidence supporting the advancement of ironware culture along the Sea of Japan coast during the Yayoi period,” said Tomokatsu Uozu of the Fukui Prefectural Archaeological Research Center. Similar saws dated to the second and third centuries have been found in China. For more on the Yayoi...

Senwosret III cartouche BENI SUEF, EGYPT—La Brújula Verde reports that a reused stone block carved with the name of the pharaoh Senwosret III has been discovered in central Egypt at Ihnasiya al-Madina, the capital of Egypt during the 9th and 10th Dynasties also known as Heracleopolis Magna. Senwosret III ruled in the 12th Dynasty, from about 1878 to 1840 B.C. The inscription includes his coronation and birth titles. A cartouche including the name Osiris Na Rief, a god who was worshipped in the region in the late Pharaonic period and the Ptolemaic era, was also found. Hisham El-Leithy of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said that traces of a Roman-era basilica; a Doric Greek temple; the head of a...

Ophelia Arc discusses crochet, compulsion, care, violence and vulnerability

By A. Laura Brody What is the language of bat senses and beaver teethmarks? How does water communicate to soil and roots, and how do we translate the paths left by burrowing insects or the markings of trees? These are questions asked by the Journal of Therolinguistics exhibition at Descanso Gardens' Boddy House, on view now until July 5, 2026. Oscar Salguero has curated a fascinating exploration of the expressive worlds of plants and animals brought to life by international artists Aistė...

A few miles northwest of Downtown Los Angeles and Skid Row, St. Vincent Medical Center is considered one of the city’s most historical hospitals, having supported Angelenos since the 19th century. Vacant since 2020, the center is slated to become a full-service campus aimed at supporting people with addiction, mental health concerns, housing insecurity, and more. This transformation will begin in the next few months with a final target opening date in 2028 and a wholesale takeover in the meantime. Through July 31, visitors experience an alternative vision for communal healing, all through the lens of 70 artists. Dubbed the Hospital of Emotions, the pop-up exhibition converts 80 rooms into temporary...

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Elsa Dreisig, Jonas Kaufmann, and Malin Byström lead recent album releases.

I'm surprised that American soprano Maria Kanyova has never performed at the Met, even though she has loads of high-profile U.S. opera credits.

Ulrich Erben (Düsseldorf, 1940) da oltre mezzo secolo insiste sulla pittura come pratica di conoscenza con una coerenza che rivela la tenuta della sua convinzione profonda che la superficie dipinta possa essere il luogo in cui si manifestano gli aspetti fondamentali dell’esperienza visiva. Anzitutto, la natura relazionale della percezione, poiché nessun colore esiste da solo, ma ogni tono si definisce in rapporto a ciò che lo circonda. Per questo la struttura compositiva delle sue opere è ridotta all’essenziale: non ci sono distrazioni narrative o forme che inneschino associazioni automatiche. Rimane solo il colore che preme contro il colore, la linea che separa e al tempo stesso connette, la...

How many people actually heed the warnings about not feeding ducks waddling around public parks? If you’ve taken a flippant approach to these guidelines in the past, we recommend you watch AJ Jeffries’ new animation, “DUCKS.” What opens as an innocuous jaunt around a pond quickly turns into a dark comedy full of strange contortions and feathered villains sure to pop into your head the next time you throw a chunk of bread. Jeffries is also behind this ridiculous story of a struggling horse, and you can find more of his work on Instagram, Vimeo, or Behance. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per...