A 2,500-year-old gold collar belonging to the Vix Treasure archaeological find was stolen Friday in broad daylight from a French museum, according to reports in Le Parisien and France 3. The thieves allegedly entered the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais – Trésor de Vix in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Burgundy, around 10:30 a.m. on July 24 by paying the admission fee, acting as regular visitors to the museum. Dijon prosecutor Olivier Caracotch said in a statement to Le Parisien that the thieves smashed the display case holding the gold collar, called a torque, before fleeing the museum through the main entrance. Caracotch added that his office has opened an investigation for organized crime and that the Juridiction...

For decades, Archie Rand’s “Letter Paintings” series has been something of a cult favorite among painters and critics. Now, 44 of them are heading to an unlikely home: the corporate collection of Italy’s Modena FC. New York–based gallery Jarvis Art announced this week that the Italian football club has acquired the group of paintings, which Rand made between 1968 and 1971 while still a teenager. The series was shown in 1983 at the Museum of the Carnegie Institute and reunited in a 1991 exhibition at Exit Art in New York, where it earned a jazzy review from New York Times critic Roberta Smith. The works have rarely been seen together since. The paintings marked an early turning point for Rand. As...

Atelier Arunika turns Rummy’s Rituals into Narrative Furniture
 
The Ramino Series is the debut collection by Indian design studio Atelier Arunika, exploring collectible furniture through postmodern forms, cinematic composition, and a series of pieces inspired by the chance, character, and rituals of the card game Rummy. Designed by Arunika Sarkar, the limited-edition collection draws on the social rituals, personalities, and unpredictability associated with the game rather than conventional material references. Titled The Ramino Series, it approaches furniture as a group of narrative objects, with each piece taking on a distinct character while contributing to a broader domestic composition.
 
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Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman's Lili Elbe receives its first recording ahead of its stateside transition.

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After five years in a maximum-security prison outside Havana, Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was released and exiled to Miami. He's a free man now, but there's not much to celebrate. The US continues to choke the island, driving its people into despair. Justice is scarce both here and there.Meanwhile, everyone's talking about Christopher Nolan's film adaptation of The Odyssey, so we got a certified Homerist to review the film for us. "As a spectacle, the movie is a fantastic success," writes Joel P. Christensen of CUNY Graduate Center. "As a reflection of us, it fails."Now to a delicate subject: the late David Hockney's iPad paintings. Yes, the tablet device...

Based on exactly one recording, Maurice Abravanel is my favorite opera conductor.

THE STORY BEHIND THE ICONIC JUICY SALIF
 
There are few household objects that have generated as much discussion as Philippe Starck’s Juicy Salif. Since its introduction by Alessi in 1990, the aluminum citrus squeezer has been praised as a masterpiece, dismissed as impractical, exhibited in museums, and debated in design schools around the world. More than three decades later, it remains instantly recognizable, not because it extracts lemon juice better than its competitors, but because it fundamentally challenged what an everyday object could be. Juicy Salif is a manifesto, asking whether industrial design should only solve problems or whether it can also provoke humor and conversation.
 
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ODA completes first phase of POST rotterdam
 
Rising behind Rotterdam’s former Central Post Office, ODA’s 155-meter POST tower adds a new vertical figure to one of the city center’s rare prewar survivors. The high-rise stands over the Postkantoor’s open courtyard, its pale grid of arches visible beyond the early twentieth-century masonry. From the street, the two buildings read at different scales, but the connection becomes sharper around the base, where the tower picks up the older structure’s proportions and vaulted geometry.
 
Designed by Gustav Cornelis Bremer and built between 1916 and 1923, the Postkantoor remained standing after the Rotterdam Blitz erased much of the historic core in 1940....

Lo scorso 12 dicembre è scomparso all’età di 89 anni l’artista e fotografo emiliano Franco Vaccari (Modena, 1936-2025); per ricordarlo, Museion, il museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Bolzano, ha allestito una mostra, la prima in assoluto dopo la sua morte, intitolata “Feedback. Gli Ambienti di Franco Vaccari”, a cura di Frida Carazzato e Luca Panaro, visitabile fino al 13 settembre 2026.
“Feedback. The Environments of Franco Vaccari”, exhibition view at Museion, 2026. Photo: Luca Guadagnini, courtesy Museion, Bolzano
Mosso dall’iniziale interesse verso la “poesia visiva” e per quelle che amava definire “forme anonime di poesia”, Franco Vaccari era attratto dai segni apparentemente...

President Donald Trump escalated his battle with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Friday, ordering signage outside the institution to flag what an executive order calls “inaccurate information” presented in its exhibits. The extraordinary directive comes amid intensifying Republican scrutiny of the Smithsonian branch, which was the subject of a recent 162-page report accusing its director, Anthea M. Hartig, of replacing “historical education” with “extreme political activism.” According to the order, the signage will tell visitors that the museum’s exhibits “should be renovated” to align with the report and direct them to locations where, in the administration’s view,...

Concrete and Glazed Ceramics Anchor Renovation by LOBB Studio
 
LOBB Studio renovates a ground-floor duplex in Josep Lluís Sert’s Les Escales Park in Barcelona, preserving the building’s exposed concrete structure and vaulted slabs while restoring original glazed ceramics and introducing new materials including red microcement, travertine, natural oak, and a three-meter panel of Onyx Picasso marble.
 
Designed by Josep Lluís Sert and completed in 1974, Les Escales Park received the FAD Architecture Prize the same year. Fifty years later, LOBB Studio undertook the renovation of one of the complex’s ground-floor duplex apartments in Barcelona’s Pedralbes district. The residential complex is based on...

Earlier this week, French customs near the Swiss border gifted an artwork by Marc Chagall to a nearby museum in France, after it had been languishing in bureaucratic purgatory, forgotten on a warehouse shelf for over 20 years, reported ICI Besançon. In 2006, French authorities stopped a truck carrying artworks from France into Switzerland, and seized an etching by Chagall, along with a 1959 drawing by modern sculptor and painter Ossip Zadkine, because they lacked required certificates for removing them from the country. The two people transporting the works were arrested and fined for hiding the artworks, according to the Times of London. Afterwards, both artworks were effectively forgotten for nearly 20...

Joyce Kozloff attends the opening reception for Local Editions: Prints by New York Artists (2018) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (photo Taylor Hill via Getty Images)Artist and activist Joyce Kozloff has taken off the mask after 41 years, disclosing in a new interview with Art Journal Open that she was among the founding members of the Guerrilla Girls. She also revealed that “Liubov Popova” was her assigned pseudonym within the collective, whose members took the names of late women artists to maintain their own anonymity. In 2016, she published a (sneaky) biographical essay in Hyperallergic that both examined and lauded the Russian artist's creative evolution and career milestones throughout her...

Vanderbilt University's new San Francisco arts and design campus will bear the name of Nvidia co-founder Jensen (Jen-Hsun) Huang after the billionaire committed millions to the institution. The university announced this week that the AI chipmaker and his wife, Lori Huang, gifted $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design.The controversial campus will replace the nearly 120-year-old California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco's last remaining private art school. The beloved nonprofit institution, which grants bachelor's and master's degrees across artistic disciplines, was purchased by Vanderbilt amid financial struggles caused by a...

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum has named Cathleen Chaffee as its new artistic director and Jillian Jones as its new executive director. Both will begin in their roles November 1. The two were promoted from within: Chaffee is currently chief curator at the institution, while Jones is deputy director. The pair replace Janné Siren, who left […]

Joyce Kozloff, the renowned Pattern and Decoration artist and founder of the feminist magazine Heresies (1977–93), has revealed herself to be a founding member of the feminist action group Guerrilla Girls. She made the disclosure in an interview published July 22 in Art Journal Open. The Guerrilla Girls collective was formed in 1984 in response to the exhibition “International Survey of Painting and Sculpture” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which included the work of 169 artists, fewer than 10 percent of whom were women. Using the tagline “the conscious of the art world,” the Guerrilla Girls’s anonymous members embarked on a poster campaign targeting institutions and figures in the art...

The Thomas Jefferson statue from sculptor George Lundeen's home in Loveland, Colorado. (Courtesy George Lundeen).President Donald Trump continues to furnish the White House Rose Garden with statues of his favorite predecessors, most recently adding a bronze of the third US President, Thomas Jefferson. Made by Colorado-based artist George Lundeen, the statue portrays the founding father seated on a bench with a quill in his hand and the Declaration of Independence on his lap. He looks into the distance, as if he's pausing to ponder while authoring the historical document. The Jefferson piece marks the fifth addition to Trump's Rose Garden, which already contains sculptures of George Washington,...

Sable Elyse Smith, “Coloring Book 111” (2022), screen printing ink, oil stick, and oil pastel on paper (all photos Liz Kim/Hyperallergic)AUSTIN — A sustained critique of the United States carceral system runs through Sable Elyse Smith's work. Clockwork at the Contemporary Austin, the culmination of her winning the 2026 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, consists mainly of paintings appropriating prison coloring books for visiting children on the first floor, and large-scale sculptures and installations on the second. Seen as a whole, Smith’s work co-opts Minimalism’s repetition and seriality as a metaphor for structural injustice, drawing attention to the rhythmic qualities of...

The Ecuadorian Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture on July 19 named a team led by Japanese architecture firm SANAA as the winners of the competition to design the new National Museum of Ecuador in the capital city. Collectively known as SANAA + A0-CPA-JHS and additionally comprising Quito, Ecuador-based firms Estudio A0 and Caá Porá Arquitectura; Mexico City’s Taller Capital Landscape; and Harlem, New York-based-Jerome […]

Italian art critic and curator Cloe Piccoli has been selected as the new artistic director of Milan’s miart fair for a term extending from 2027–29. The announcement, made by trade fair and exhibition organizer Fiera Milano on July 22, described Piccoli’s appointment as part of the fair’s development path, “drawing on the wealth of relationships, […]

The small settlement of Pyramiden on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard is literally frozen in time. A former mining outpost for the Soviet Union, industrial operations ceased in 1998, and residents relocated. It wasn’t until 2007 that a handful of new inhabitants made the settlement home. Because Pyramiden was abandoned in a cold climate, it remains impeccably preserved, with remnants of its once-thriving settlement still visible. French photographer Damien Aubin visited the Arctic region and documented the still, serene environment blanketed in snow. “The place has not been abandoned. It has been left in suspension,” he says. Classroom, Pyramiden Pyramiden’s buildings and the objects inside are...

The United States has repatriated a collection of cultural artifacts illegally taken from Indonesia’s Papua region, the Associated Press reports. The handover took place on Wednesday July 22, when FBI director Kash Patel visited Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto’s residence in Jakarta. The returned artifacts are part of the cultural heritage of the Dani and Asmat tribes and […]

ŠURANY, SLOVAKIA—A Roman military camp dated to the late second century A.D. has been discovered in southwestern Slovakia, Live Science reports. Five entrance gates, fortifications, and a curved ditch-and-rampart system have been identified at the site. The camp is thought to have been used by troops under the command of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned A.D. 161–180) during conflicts with Germanic tribes known as the Marcomanni. “We are clearly investigating a place that disappeared immediately after the military conflict between the Romans and the Germans,” said Matej Ruttkay of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Skeletons and parts of skeletons have been found in ditches, wells, and shallow graves,...

The director of the 2028 iteration of the Aichi Triennale, one of the largest international art festivals in Japan, will be Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, the event’s organizing committee announced on Friday. Mustafa presently serves as chief curator of Singapore Art Museum, and was chosen for his distinguished track record and his ability to offer a […]

Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw’s 65ft-long “Hot Dog in the City” is back on display in New York on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding

YEREVAN, ARMENIA—Public Radio of Armenia reports that a fragment of a polychrome mural has been found at the Erebuni archaeological site, a fortress founded in the eighth century B.C. in the Kingdom of Urartu. The mural has been dated to the end of the seventh century B.C. or the beginning of the sixth century B.C. by a team of French and Armenian researchers. To read more about Armenian archaeology, go to "Around the World: Armenia."
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Gold buckles and coins MLJET, CROATIA—Reuters reports that a shipwreck found more than 10 years ago off the southern coast of Croatia near an island in the Adriatic Sea dates to the seventh or eighth centuries A.D. After analyzing finds from the site, archaeologists have also determined that the vessel was carrying a high-ranking person and their entourage when it sank. Gold coins; buckles decorated with rubies, emeralds, and pearls; and a gold signet ring bearing a picture of the emperor were found among the wreckage, said Pavle Dugonjic of the Croatian Conservation Institute. “This is an impressive amount of gold, the largest ever found on a shipwreck in the entire Mediterranean [region],” said Igor...

Sculpture uncovered at Mingtepa, Samarkand, Uzbekistan SAMARKAND, UZBEKISTAN—The possible remains of an eighth-century a.d. palace have been uncovered at the Mingtepa archaeological site in southeastern Uzbekistan, according to a KUN.UZ report. Amriddin Berdimuradov, Khusniddin Rakhmonov, and Nigora Makhkamova of the Yahyo Gulomov Samarkand Institute of Archaeology uncovered the palace complex within the citadel at the site. Sculptures have been discovered in the main hall of the palace. The discovery is expected to provide information on early medieval urban planning, architecture, and systems of state administration. To read about excavations of a Silk Road metropolis, go to "Letter from Uzbekistan: An...

Hand-Finished Aluminum and Carbon Fiber Reframes Ducati 821
 
Bandit9 introduces a new iteration of its Ducati 821, combining hand-brushed aluminum and carbon fiber with a surface treatment focused on the relationship between material, finish, and form. The 2026 version features new upgrades and details, with production limited to nine models.
 
The Ducati 821 is based on Ducati’s 821cc Testastretta L-Twin engine, producing 110 horsepower and 65.8 ft-lb of torque, with a 0–60 mph time of 3.3 seconds. The motorcycle is equipped with Brembo monobloc brakes and Sachs suspension at the front and rear. Bandit9, a Saigon-based motorcycle design studio founded by Daryl Villanueva, approaches the model as a...

“When I was really little, I wanted to be one of those stackable chairs you’d see in like a school auditorium,” Felicia Chiao says. “I thought they looked cozy.” This childhood memory is the basis for a playful drawing in which Chiao’s signature characters mound atop one another. Layering reigns in this imagined world as calendars and clocks emerge from the wall in dense piles, while stacks of books and dishes rest on the floor. Chiao is known for her warm illustrations that capture emotion and the variances of mental health through surreal, flower-filled scenes. Working in pencil, ink, and watercolor, the artist renders compositions that feel both timeless and indicative of our current age, in...

Colossal has always called Chicago home. We love highlighting artists and designers in our own community, and the Colossal Shop’s newest collection brings our creative neighbors to a wider global audience. This selection features one-of-a-kind and handmade objects from Chicago-based artists we’re excited to share a city with. From unique ceramic forms to thoughtfully designed apparel, there’s something exciting for everyone. Shop the collection now. Periwinkle Ripple Mugs With rhythmic, stacked silhouettes and looping handles, these one-of-a-kind mugs turn morning coffees into a sculptural experience. Created as a series of 8 exclusively for Colossal, each retro-futuristic mug is uniquely hand-thrown...

Chief curator Cathleen Chaffee and deputy director Jillian Jones will serve as artistic director and executive director, respectively

The decision comes after calls by Ukraine to protect the archaeological site, which is now managed by a Russian Orthodox cleric appointed by Vladimir Putin

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Les Arts Florissants (lightly) stages two Charpentier rarities as a summer wedding gone wrong.

Cher public is exhorted to join the Geplauder when the annual week of broadcasts from Bayreuth begins on Saturday

The Värmlands Vikingacenter in Sweden has reportedly not been able to sail its replica ship this summer due to $6000 worth of damages; Universal disputes the non-payment claims

‘A Symphony in Blue and Yellow’ raises intriguing questions about how the artist wanted to present his masterpieces

I trust, fellow Parterre readers, that we can all agree that Riccardo Muti is a great opera conductor.

Air, baubles, fish hooks, domesticity and dips.

Louis Vuitton is suing a casino, and the timeline alone makes the case. Maryland Live! Casino ran a loyalty promotion... Read More

Victoria Mouraux Durand-Ruel will open Mouraux Durand-Ruel Gallery bringing a new contemporary art space to New York's Chelsea district

Nella cultura odierna orientata all’immagine, gli artisti sono costantemente circondati da riferimenti visivi – dai feed dei social media, alle scene cinematografiche, dalla storia dell’arte e dagli archivi personali. Il curatore e critico francese Nicolas Bourriaud ha descritto questo approccio come “postproduzione”: gli artisti non creano più da zero, ma rimescolano e reinterpretano immagini e simboli culturali esistenti. L’ascesa di Internet ha solo intensificato questo processo. Gli artisti contemporanei ora lavorano con flussi infiniti di immagini online, fotografie trovate e materiali d’archivio, citandoli, rimescolandoli e riappropriandosene mentre li caricano di significati...

For Donna Wilson, there’s no reason that knitwear and home decor shouldn’t incorporate a lot of color and elicit joy. From patterned towels and socks to blankets and hot water bottle sleeves, the London-based designer celebrates vibrant patterns and playful creatures, especially in her series of cushions. What’s not to love about a pillow with personality? The soft objects ranging from bolsters to floor cushions to throw pillows are covered in knitted lambswool. Current designs include a larger-than-life banana, a whale, a toadstool, and more. The objects are produced in small batches in what Wilson describes as a “micro-factory” called the Knit Shop in Scotland, where vibrant flora and fauna, not to...

Axes from Kazakhstan (A) and Germany (B) KIEL, GERMANY—According to the Greek Reporter, Matthias Christian Hüls of Kiel University and his colleagues compared two Iron Age axes—one unearthed in a burial mound in Kazakhstan and the other discovered among a collection of tools in northern Germany. Radiocarbon dating determined that the tool from Kazakhstan was made between 357 and 164 B.C., making it several hundred years younger than the burial in which it was found. It may have been left at the site during the construction of a neighboring burial mound, Hüls explained. The ax was crafted from two types of iron. Softer metal was used near the handle, while the cutting edges were made of harder,...

In galleries, magazines, apps and digital storefronts, clarity is often treated as a design preference. It is seen as something... Read More

By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...

For more than four decades, environmental artist Patrick Dougherty has reimagined the technical and sculptural capabilities of one simple material: twigs. Over the years, the North Carolina-based artist completed well over 300 large-scale, site-specific installations in a series he calls Stickworks, using literal truckloads of willow saplings from specialized farms in Canada that grow them for applications like fencing, basketmaking, and more. Where possible, Dougherty has also incorporated materials the local area had to offer. I first stumbled upon the artist’s whimsical constructions in Door County, Wisconsin, where “Happy Go Lucky” sits at Horseshoe Bay Farms near Egg Harbor. By the time I...

For years, the phrase “destination wedding” conjured up a very specific, almost uniform image: a sun-drenched beach, white folding chairs... Read More

C’è una linea invisibile ma potentissima che unisce la frazione di un secondo in cui scatta l’otturatore di una macchina fotografica e la durata temporale di una nota musicale. Luigi Ghirri, tra i più grandi maestri della fotografia contemporanea, definiva questo legame una «strana e misteriosa parentela». Per esplorare questa sinergia profonda, Palazzo dei Musei di Reggio Emilia ha inaugurato la mostra Luigi Ghirri. A Series of Dreams. Paesaggi visivi e paesaggi sonori, un ambizioso percorso espositivo curato da Ilaria Campioli e Andrea Tinterri, con la curatela musicale di Giulia Cavaliere.
Luigi Ghirri, “A Series of Dreams”, installation view, photo Iacopo Pasqui, courtesy Musei Civici di Reggio...

All images courtesy of CHOI&CHOI Gallery and the artist Sculptor Yu Jinyoung garnered international acclaim for her striking figures, whose bodies are often partially transparent. These are individuals “who wish to become invisible,” she says: “those who exist free from external attention and interference.” These explorations of both intentional isolation and somber loneliness have always […]
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La giovane e promettente artista Georgia Gardner Gray dipinge Stonehenge. Se il visitatore si aspetta quadri grigi, si sbaglia completamente: i dipinti esplodono di colore e tensione. A prima vista, i dipinti di Georgia Gardner Gray sembrano provenire dalla galleria di uno smartphone. Foto di un tempo recente, memorie di momenti vissuti. Ma, aspetta, c’è Stonehenge sullo sfondo? Una donna guarda il visitatore, i suoi tatuaggi sulla caviglia e sulla spalla sono come un codice sconosciuto allo spettatore. Le sue mani toccano appena una corona di fiori. Questa non è affatto la vita quotidiana! Il visitatore è forse entrato in un rituale, dove si fanno verticali sulla testa?
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By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...

Common Objects brings together the work of 97 photographers from across the globe to explore the role of the image and its ability to shape perception. Organized not by theme or geography but by visual association, the book draws on the logic of the reference catalog—a structure built for sustained, democratic looking. Within it, photographs from vastly different cultures and contexts find themselves in unexpected proximity, generating connections and contrasts that no single image could produce alone. In this format, the photographs enter into a subtle dialogue with one another, revealing how context, sequence, and framing shape interpretation and inform visual experience.  
   
   
   
   
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