ZDA Reorients a 1937 residence for contemporary living
 
Designed by ZDA – Yuri Zagorin Alazraki, Casa Kiki is the renovation of a California-style residence originally built in 1937 in Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico City. Rather than treating the house as a preserved historical object or replacing it entirely, the project reconfigures the existing structure through a contemporary spatial strategy that responds to climate, landscape, and changing patterns of domestic life. The intervention retains the original architectural character while reorganizing the program around natural light, thermal comfort, and stronger connections between interior and exterior spaces.
 
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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! The London branch of the Artist Pension Trust is closing to the dismay of participating artists. “Combative” former head of the Barnes Foundation has died at 79. Historians rebut White House attack against the National Museum of American History. The Headlines ARTIST PENSION DISTRUST. The London chapter of the New York–founded Artist Pension Trust (APT) is shuttering, and now participating artists claim the trust that promised a “mutual assurance program” by pooling and selling their art is in fact “unlawful,” the Financial Times reported. Over 40 artists allege APT...

The School of London artist, equally at home in Soho society and rural Scotland, was also a noted painter of celebrities

A new reading of the life and work of Beuys is no hagiography, seeing Beuys as someone who was fiercely determined and created myths about himself

Topics covered in the publications range from a Renaissance sculptress and Baroque Rome to 1930s Manchester and Frida Kahlo

Valerie Brathwaite, an artist whose sculptures utilized sinuous forms that intentionally recall both geographic formations and curvaceous bodies, died on Monday. The news was announced via the artist’s Instagram page, whose bio memorably terms her a “Sculptress & Dj.” She was either 87 or 88. In the second half of the 20th century, Brathwaite rose to become one of the most important artists working in Venezuela. Working in ceramic, drawing, and less classifiable mediums, the Caracas-based artist produced abstractions that drew parallels between bodies and landscapes, showing that the two were always intimately related. Her work has often been seen as a response to her upbringing on the island of...

The British Museum in London broke its own single-day ticket sale records last Wednesday, thanks to the impending one-year loan of the Bayeux Tapestry. Ticket-seekers hoping to see the artefact this fall queued online for up to 9 hours, with up to 80,000 people waiting by mid-afternoon. Within 24 hours, all available slots were sold out.  […]

Although Amelia Cross subscribes to the belief that our sartorial choices are a way to signal who we are and what we care about, she also knows there are more subliminal details hiding in personal style. A nametag curling at the edges or a pen bleeding through a shirt pocket stand in stark contrast to a perfectly pressed collar or shiny brogues, but each also has the potential to conceal or obscure. These covert elements are what the London-born artist is most interested in unpacking. After receiving a degree in bespoke tailoring at the London College of Fashion, followed by a master’s in painting at the Royal College of Art, Cross began to meld the two disciplines. “I originally painted figureless...

Frieze has announced Athens-based artist Theo Triantafyllidis as the winner of the 2026 Frieze London Artist Award. Triantafyllidis, who trained as an architect, is known for a practice combining performance and installation with gaming and VR technology. His Feral Metaverse (Spider), 2026, a monstrous spider with which visitors can engage, will greet attendees at this […]

British national Jonathan Hornby is the first from his country to be convicted of violating the UK’s sanctions on exports of luxury goods to Russia, imposed in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which was launched on February 24, 2022. Hornby, managing director of a logistics company, attempted to send four artworks to Russia in February 2024, according to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Government officials seized the shipment, which was linked to Hornsby’s businesses, Global Customs Systems UK Limited and In Time Worldwide Express Limited, at Heathrow Airport. He pleaded guilty to the charges at Westminster Magistrates Court on July 1. “This conviction shows the...

gaudí’s architecture shapes schiaparelli’s latest couture
 
Daniel Roseberry’s latest haute couture collection for Schiaparelli begins with architecture. After visiting Antoni Gaudí’s buildings in Barcelona, the creative director found himself questioning the creative formula that had defined his previous season. The resulting fall/winter 2026–27 collection, The Call of the Void, translates Gaudí’s organic forms, sculptural construction, and material experimentation into couture garments that replace traditional silks and satins with silicone, latex, and hand-crafted surfaces. Roseberry adopts Gaudí’s approach to material, structure, and nature, using couture as a medium for architectural...

Mesdames et Messieurs, this summer's broadcasts from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence begin this weekend!

Large, a major new contemporary art centre on Paris's Île Seguin, opens with an ambitious inaugural exhibition curated by Cecilia Alemani

Several books out this summer use art as a springboard—we speak to some of their authors

where old chairs begin to change
 
Inside Charlotte Kingsnorth’s central London studio, discarded chairs wait beside rolls of mohair, carved timber, blocks of foam, and surfaces treated to resemble bark or lichen. Some arrive with recognizable midcentury frames intact. Others have already begun their transformation, their wooden arms disappearing into swollen upholstery as soft bodies gather around the original structure.
 
The London-born designer has spent more than a decade turning familiar furniture into something harder to name. Her chairs sprout furry limbs, develop heavy bellies, or seem to swallow their own frames. A narrow rail might emerge through the upholstery like a bone, while wooden armrests...

Jemma Appleby has won the Royal Academy’s £35,000 Charles Wollaston Award for the most distinguished work in the Summer Exhibition 2026.

IWM London will open the UK’s first exhibition dedicated to exploring how war affects children

In the Trump administration’s latest attack on the Smithsonian Institution, the White House published a 162-page report on July 4 accusing the organization of “extreme political activism” and “anti-White activism.” The document is a severe escalation of President Trump’s ongoing crackdown on diverse narratives and the telling of United States history. His administration goes after specific museum exhibits in the new report, including something as innocuous and well-meaning as a butterfly-shaped protest prop symbolizing resilience among undocumented immigrants. It seems a fitting time, then, to revisit work that prods, challenges, and even mocks authority from the margins. Don’t miss Natalie...

I think Patanè did far more than just hold it together: he did full honor to Verdi.

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gèngjin composes a temporary pavilion out of fabric and bamboo
 
Veil Tower, designed by gèngjin Architecture Office, is a temporary pavilion set within a dense moso bamboo grove in Xianning, Hubei, China. Developed as a fully recyclable installation, the project combines a raw bamboo framework with a suspended black fabric enclosure to investigate low-tech construction, reversible assembly, and the relationship between bodily movement and landscape. Drawing on the centripetal spatial logic of ancient Chu ritual architecture, the pavilion transforms a clearing in the forest into a space defined by framed views, filtered light, and controlled perception.
aerial view of the Veil Tower in the grove | image by...

Harmony Korine’s EDGLRD has teamed up with Converse to push the Chuck 70 into unfamiliar territory, transforming the classic silhouette... Read More

Gensler positions landscape as the foundation of future tourism
 
Global design firm Gensler unveils the conceptual masterplan for a 522-hectare tourism destination in Vang Vieng, Laos, proposing a long-term framework that reflects the country’s evolving tourism ambitions. Located across the villages of Pakpor and Phoudindeng in Vientiane Province, the project moves beyond the conventional resort model by organizing hospitality, recreation, cultural programs, and infrastructure around the landscape and ecological systems of the house. As Laos seeks to diversify its tourism economy, the proposal positions Vang Vieng’s natural environment and cultural identity as the foundation for future development rather...

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Prima ancora di nominare un’origine, origo ne assume la morfologia. Nella sua struttura grafica e sonora, la parola comincia e finisce con una “o”, figura minima del cerchio, della cavità, della soglia. In questa doppia apertura si inscrive una temporalità non lineare, un movimento che non procede verso un punto inaugurale, ma ritorna, ricomincia, si riavvolge incessantemente nella materia. L’origine non appare come un luogo remoto da raggiungere, né come mito pacificato del principio, ma come una condizione di rientro, una possibilità di esporsi nuovamente a ciò che precede il corpo e insieme lo sostiene.
Delcy Morelos, “origo”, installation view at the Barbican, London, 15 May – 31 July...

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Designer Jonathan Anderson has once again taken inspiration from the work of sculptor Lynda Benglis for his latest fashion show. The creative director of Dior since 2025, Anderson presented the house’s Fall Winter 2026-27 Haute Couture Show at the Musée Rodin in Paris on Monday, marking his second haute couture collection for Dior. “The collection responds, in the language of couture, to the work of American sculptor Lynda Benglis,” a description published on Dior’s website reads. “Many of the artist’s works begin in two-dimensional materials that are transformed, through knotting, pleating or moulding, into three. The art of couture enacts a similar shift: fabric is given sculptural form,...

More than a year after President Trump ordered his administration to investigate so-called "race-centered ideology" at the Smithsonian Institution, the White House has published a new report accusing museum leadership of promoting "extreme political activism."Published on July 4, "Saving America's Story" was authored by the Trump-appointed Domestic Policy Council. Throughout the 162-page document, the council scrutinizes how the institution’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) portrays topics such as race, immigration, and gender. Sunday's report follows the administration's March 2025 executive order demanding an end to "divisive narratives” across the Smithsonian's 21...

The White House on July 4 issued an acidic 162-page report that accused the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH) of “extreme political activism” and lambasted its leadership for having “explicitly adopted an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political […]

“It is that miraculous connection between artist and subject, the self and the world beyond, that is the fever dream of all great art,” Dale Tucker, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s senior editor, writes in Points of View: 100 Connections to Art. Composed of short essays written by The Met’s staff, the compendium zeroes in on 100 objects in the museum’s permanent collection, offering new perspectives on artworks through five themes: “Relationships,” “Self,” “Politics,” “Spirituality,” and “Environment.” Edited by The Met’s CEO and director, Max Hollein, and published last month, Points of View is the museum’s first publication to encourage dialogue across its various...

The former New York home of Marlborough Gallery, arguably the world’s pioneering mega-gallery before its collapse and closure in 2024, has found a new owner. Gazelli Art House, which operates galleries in London and Baku, Azerbaijan, has purchased the former Marlborough space at 545 West 25th Street for $7.5 million. Brown Harris Stevens brokers Jeffrey Zoldan and Roger Gillen represented the seller. The sale marks another chapter in the winding down of Marlborough’s legacy. After nearly eight decades in business, the gallery announced in April 2024 that it would cease representing artists, close its exhibition program and begin liquidating an inventory reportedly worth around $250 million, following...

Carmelita Tropicana (photo Carlos David, courtesy the artist)This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June.When the off-Broadway theater Soho Rep moved from its longtime Tribeca space in 2024, it went out with a bang. The final show at the location, Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!, was a fitting tribute to its history as a downtown theater hub. The titular star, Carmelita Tropicana, has been a fixture of New York’s downtown theater and performance art scene since the 1980s. As the alter ego of Cuban-American writer and performer Alina Troyano, Carmelita Tropicana has confronted stereotypes of Latina and queer women,...

Another day, another brazen museum heist in France. French media outlets reported a jewel heist took place early on Sunday morning, July 5, at a museum in the Bas-Rhin region devoted to glassware designer René Lalique. The band of thieves smashed several display cases on the gallery floors and made off with 27 pieces of fine jewelry worth approximately €4 million ~($4.5 million).The museum did not immediately respond to Hyperallergic's inquiries. The institution will remain closed to the public for the next several days in light of the ongoing criminal investigation. Per Le Monde, the burglary at Musée Lalique began at around 5:30am and lasted only a few minutes, echoing the eight-minute raid of the...

769 photographers and astronomers around the world, representing 66 countries, submitted more than 4,000 images to this year’s ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. The shortlisted photos represent a range of phenomena from aurorae and stars to planets and the moon, captured around the globe. Some photographers focus on the juxtaposition of space and the human environment while others take telescopically captured snapshots of distant galaxies and nebulae, creating striking composite images. Winners will be announced on September 17, the day after which the public exhibition will open at London’s National Maritime Museum. The show is also accompanied by the book Astronomy Photographer of the...

Thanks to a gift from a pair of Dallas-based art collectors, the National Gallery in London has added a painting by the 18th century Swiss portraitist and polyglot Angelica Kauffmann to its permanent collection. The painting is Kauffmann’s first history painting in oils to become part of a current U.K. national collection.  Kauffmann’s painting, Achilles […]

An installation by Turkish-German artist Nasan Tur at Manifesta 16, has come under scrutiny for allegations of plagiarism, levied by sculptor Dorothee Bielfeld, who believes that it bears similarities to one of her past works.  Tur’s installation, titled “Elevation (2026),” features upturned church pews placed inside St. Gertrud Church in the German city of Essen. […]

In Dutch Golden Age still-life painting, it’s not uncommon to be treated to tables laden with flowers and food such as fruits, game, and fish. These works were painstakingly rendered; one can practically smell the sea. But the flip side is the temporality of these items, as the painting preserves their freshness, but we know they will ultimately decay. This incorporation of memento mori was intentional, as the inevitability of death was something people meditated carefully on. Flora and fauna in Dutch painting also demonstrate abundance and diversity, from myriad types of foods to hyperrealistic flower arrangements, such as those of Rachel Ruysch, that may have had folkloric hidden meanings. For artist Veks...

David Hockney’s Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) returns to Lightroom for one evening only, marking what would have been his 89th birthday

At Cranbrook Academy of Art, no two doors are exactly alike. That was by design. Architect Eliel Saarinen believed even the smallest details deserved thoughtful consideration. Each door across Cranbrook’s historic campus serves the same purpose, yet each possesses its own distinct character—a reminder that creativity is found not in repetition, but in the possibilities created by difference. With this spirit in mind, Cranbrook Academy of Art is reopening graduate applications for Fall 2026. Applications will be accepted from June 22 through August 15 for a limited number of available openings in select programs. For artists and designers considering graduate study, this additional application period...

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Drawing on her experience as a textile designer and her family’s artistic heritage, Susan Maddux investigates the relationships between fabric, painting, and sculpture. If some of her longer pieces evoke the folds of kimonos, for example, it’s not a coincidence. Tapping into both her Hawaiian upbringing and Japanese heritage, the artist creates vibrant works that drape on the wall like elegant cloaks hung up after a walk. A small piece titled “Mantle” is redolent of the historical clothing worn to keep the shoulders warm. Other works feature conceptual or metaphysical names, such as “Flourish” and “Thrum.” Maddux sometimes stacks the bunches of folds several feet high, mirroring human...

Sotto l’impulso teorico del suo Presidente, Guillaume Désanges, il Palais de Tokyo non si limita a ordinare una sequenza di mostre autonome, ma si offre come un vero e proprio ecosistema fenomenologico e politico teso a decostruire il sistema del validismo. Questo paradigma, strutturato su severi criteri fisici e psicologici, impone una rigida gerarchia tra corpi considerati normali e anormali in base alla velocità, alle performance e alla produttività capitalista. Désanges rovescia questa dinamica ricordando come la fragilità non sia una condizione eccezionale o marginale, bensì la coordinata ontologica più ampiamente condivisa dall’umanità e da tutto il vivente. Basta un virus, l’avanzare del...

By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...

Ispirata all’omonimo capolavoro di Caravaggio del 1606-1607 (Le sette opere della Misericordia, olio su tela, 390 x 260 cm, realizzato per la chiesa del Pio Monte della Misericordia di Napoli), la mostra, attraverso video, fotografia e scultura, trasforma un tema della tradizione cristiana in una riflessione attuale sulla cura verso gli altri. Abbiamo rivolto a Helen Broms Sandberg sette domande sul significato contemporaneo della misericordia.
Helen Broms Sandberg, “The Seven Works of Mercy”, performance, video still, 2021. Courtesy of the artist
Costabile Guariglia: Quale intuizione l’ha spinta a trasformare la sua esperienza del dipinto caravaggesco in un progetto artistico sviluppato nell’arco...

Opera conductors … my favorite subject!

Entriamo in conversazione con Riccardo Freddo, Head of Museum and Institutional Relationships per Rosenfeld Gallery, Londra. In seguito a comprovate esperienze internazionali tra Roma, Parigi, Los Angeles e New York, dal 2023, anno di fondazione della residenza The Place of Silence, Umbria, il curatore formula un nuovo format che fa dialogare la scena internazionale contemporanea e il patrimonio storico-artistico e paesaggistico italiano, secondo i princìpi della sostenibilità e valorizzazione. Ce ne parla in questa intervista.
Riccardo Freddo, ritratto, photo Eleonora Pascai, courtesy Riccardo Freddo
Sara Buoso: Vorresti parlarci della genesi del tuo progetto curatoriale diffuso in Italia? Le tue scelte si...

He has conducted some of my favorite opera recordings.

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Although Ernest Ansermet is most often associated with orchestral music, his 1964 recording of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is still my favorite.

L’apparente, seconda personale di Alessandro Roma (Milano, 1977) alla CAR Gallery di Bologna, si configura come un momento di approfondimento di una ricerca che ha trovato nella ceramica smaltata il terreno privilegiato in cui la dialettica tra pittura e scultura smette di essere una questione formale per diventare una domanda filosofica sull’essenza stessa del visibile. Il titolo sembra suggerire che ciò che appare non sia mai semplicemente dato, ma costituisca piuttosto una soglia in perpetuo divenire, uno strato di realtà che si offre alla percezione trattenendo al tempo stesso qualcosa di irriducibile allo sguardo, un’intuizione che le opere in mostra declinano con una coerenza tanto più efficace...

Memory may not be a tape-recorder, but in Sasha Gordon’s work, it serves as a device for the initial transportation. Characters wander this fluxing landscape—be it a drive-through window, a master bedroom, or white suburbia—shifting through the dynamic background of her dream-like haze. As a viewer of Gordon’s narrative paintings, you are intruding on intimate […]
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Will Sweeney is a commercial artist based in the UK. With a big reach and an enormous imagination, his illustrations adorn album sleeves, shirts for big fashion brands, toys in Japan, and almost any other sort of wearable or product one could imagine. Recently, we asked Sweeney to describe a bit of the machinations that […]
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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

The 79th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on sculptor Willy Verginer, the black and white world of Murayama Tomoaki, the graphic art of Jimi Biscuits, Harriet Mena Hill’s painted rubble, the art of Pabaja,  Plus a Special Insert Section featuring the art of Marigold Santos, surrealist painter Philip Bosmans, the universal art […]
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In 1975, Stuart Pearson Wright entered the world as a product of artificial insemination, his father’s identity kept anonymous for the entirety of his life even to this day. This fact would fuel Wright’s early, burgeoning interest in expressing himself through the arts and a later rise to prominence in portraiture. In interviews, he would […]
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In 2007, Magnhild Kennedy indulged a lifelong fascination by moving to London. “I have had London on my mind since I was a teen. I wanted to live there even before my first visit,” she says. Growing up in Trondheim, Norway, from the age of sixteen onward she devoured every image and word in issues […]
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