a larger museum landscape for Riehen
 
In Riehen near Basel, where the Fondation Beyeler sits between parkland, village streets, and the open edge of the Swiss landscape, Peter Zumthor’s long-awaited extension is preparing to enter public view. Beginning this autumn, the museum will gradually open its expanded ensemble, with the full opening scheduled for January 2027.
 
The project marks a major shift for the institution, extending the museum beyond Renzo Piano’s 1997 building and into a broader cultural landscape. A formerly private landmarked park will open to visitors, nearly doubling the size of the grounds and bringing century-old trees, ponds, and open meadows into the museum experience. The...

Un viaggio a Parigi che non è mai accaduto. Memorie costruite da Google Street View. Indumenti che suggeriscono un corpo da tempo assente. Attraverso la fotografia, la performance e l’installazione spaziale, Yilun Liu esamina come l’esperienza è sempre più plasmata da immagini, rappresentazioni e tecnologie digitali. Poiché la vita quotidiana è sempre più legata a schermi, archivi e piattaforme online, il suo lavoro si interroga su come le persone distinguono tra l’esperienza diretta e le rappresentazioni che sempre più spesso la sostituiscono. Nata in Cina e attualmente residente a Londra, Yilun ha studiato architettura prima di sviluppare una pratica che combina fotografia, performance, media...

Frieze London returns to Regent's Park this October with 171 galleries, new curated section The Code Universe, Artist-to-Artist presentations

The 1959 painting 'The Castle of the Pyrenees' is being restored at the Israel Museum

Duane Michals, one of the 20th century’s most important photographers, known for making sequences of images that conveyed enigmatic narratives and defied the conventions of the medium, died on Tuesday, June 9, at 94, in a Manhattan hospital. The news was confirmed by DC Moore Gallery, which had represented him since 2013. “A person of immeasurable intellect, charm, wit and kindness, Duane always questioned the many paths of the human condition and through his art pointedly captured what is not always readily seen nor spoken,” DC Moore director Edward De Luca told ARTnews in an email. “His six decades of art making, including the most recent short films he posted on the internet, have proven Duane’s...

Alex Israel transforms the surfboard fin into a monumental sculptural form in Upside Down at Gagosian Davies Street

The book, estimated at up to £600,000, is the first original edition to appear at auction in more than a century

"How many performance artists does it take to change a lightbulb?"

Jason Castriota unveils coach-built JC9, a carbon fiber supercar
 
At the Miller Motorcars 50th Anniversary celebration, Legends, Jason Castriota reveals the JC9, a one-off supercar that reinterprets the golden age of endurance racing through a contemporary lens. Built as a special commission in collaboration with Miller Motorcars, the vehicle is based on the iconic Porsche Carrera GT and preserves the donor car’s naturally aspirated V10 engine and manual transmission. Fully clothed in a new carbon fiber body, the project marks the ninth automotive design in Castriota’s career, lending the car its name.
 
Drawing inspiration from the sports prototypes that dominated endurance racing between the 1960s and...

Dépendance, the iconoclast, 23-year-old Brussels gallery that built a trusted reputation as an “artists’ gallery,” is closing. “Galleries come and go. Some are short-lived but leave a clear trace, others endure for decades without changing much. Dépendance has been there for twenty-three years and now we feel it’s time to say good-bye,” stated the gallery (spelled in all lowercase) via press release sent last night. Co-founded by Michael Callies, a former artist, and Stephan Jaax, a former banker, the gallery resisted expansion during its over two-decade-long history. With its single location in the city, Dépendance was a highlight of the Brussels’ gallery scene, while also promoting its...

ARTnews and Artforum, two of the world’s leading authorities on art, announced Thursday the launch of New York’s first-ever dedicated Art Week, dubbed Art Week NYC. The upcoming four-day event, set to run November 11 to Novvember 14, will bring together public programming, neighborhood walking tours, artist talks, gallery openings and more. Among the highlights are a Midtown hub programmed by ARTnews and sister magazine Art in America, featuring conversations with top figures in the art world, and ARTnews editor-led tours in each of New York’s top gallery districts, from the Upper East Side to Chinatown. Artforum, meanwhile, will partner with galleries on openings themed to different neighborhoods, and...

Artforum and ARTNews announce a four-day event inviting collectors, patrons, and art enthusiasts to experience the city’s vibrant art landscape

Good Morning! Ukrainian drones struck and set on fire the Defense of Sevastopol museum in Crimea. Self-taught photographer Duane Michals has died at 94. Brussels’ 2003-founded dépendance gallery is closing. The Headlines CRIMEA CULTURAL CONFLICT. Yesterday, Ukrainian drone strikes on supply chains to Russian-controlled areas also set ablaze a war museum in the Russian-annexed region of Crimea, called the Defense of Sevastopol, reported Reuters. Images showed the roof of the 19th-century building on fire, and according to a statement by Sevastopol city official Mikhail Razvozhayev, the museum’s early 20th-century panorama painting by Franz Roubaud, The Siege of Sevastopol, was damaged. However,...

“Matter is memory, and memory is a medium,” says artist Annalise Neil, whose surreal cyanotypes brim with animals, fungi, geological specimens, shells, and more, which she augments with watercolor. Recently, the artist has been adding rich, earthy tones with natural dyes such as wild strawberry leaf, oak gall, loquat leaf, and chestnut. She has used botanical teas to shift the natural blue color of the cyanotypes for quite a while, but the sepian tonality has emerged as a larger focus lately that allows her to layer hues like browns and purples. Neil’s experiences in nature profoundly influence her individual pieces in a process that she poetically describes as “melting, rolling, pinching, sanding,...

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woven VHS tapes transform obsolete media into a tapestry
 
In Stories Seen and Heard (2025), Polish artist Kuba Święcicki transforms discarded VHS tapes and cassette recordings into a monumental woven installation, asking what happens when obsolete technology becomes a craft material.  Encountered as part of Visteria Foundation’s Craft Days exhibition, the work explores how memories survive long after the devices designed to store them have disappeared.
 
Suspended against the gallery wall, the installation unfolds as a dense black tapestry constructed entirely from magnetic tape. At its center, hundreds of interwoven strips create a reflective surface that catches and diffuses light, producing an...

The founder of Heni art services is behind a major Barbara Hepworth show at London's Courtauld Gallery

A newly discovered archaeological site has revealed a massive rock face covered in art that is believed to be ancient

ARNO COENEN ARTWORKS ENHANCE TAIWAN’S HUANNAN MARKET
 
Three large-scale public artworks by the Dutch artist Arno Coenen transform the Huannan Market in Taipei, Taiwan, into a cultural landscape. The art project, titled ‘The Flavour Dragon’, designed by the same artist behind the world-renowned Horn of Plenty at Markthal in Rotterdam, is a cross-cultural collaboration between Taiwan and the Netherlands, bridging innovative artistic approaches with traditional craftsmanship and aesthetics.  
Hosted by Taipei’s central food hub, the public artworks include a six-meter-tall dragon sculpture, a series of eight large ceramic plates, and a printed ceramic mural depicting cultural landmarks in Taiwan. The...

You may know Carmen Maria Machado as the author of the acclaimed short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, or her memoir In the Dream House, a candid chronicle of abuse in a queer relationship, or her many other published works. But the Cuban-American writer, who was a photography major in college, has also long collaborated with visual artists. Today she speaks to Associate Editor Lakshmi Rivera Amin about her latest venture as a guest curator of painter Rocío García’s exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art — a show she hopes will inspire us “to be interested in both the violence and power of the state, and the power as we exchange it between people.”Also today: a major Arthur Jafa...

Yes, the Met had Birgit Nilsson - so they let the volcano that was Gertrude Grob-Prandl's voice slip through their fingers.

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Survey at the Jeu de Paume shows the prolific photographer's images of rural life and urban gentrification in France and the US

a parasol that children want to carry themselves
 
Japanese design studio torinoko and distributor All Stadium collaborate for a children’s umbrella that encourages sun protection through play. Created in response to increasingly intense summer temperatures, the rain-and-sun umbrella projects playful shadow characters onto the ground, transforming the act of seeking shade into an interactive game, using behavioral design principles to make children want to use one on their own.
 
Named Kage no Otomodachi, or Shadow Friends, the umbrella reveals a series of illustrated companions within its shadow when opened in direct sunlight, inviting children to follow, chase, and walk alongside these figures, naturally...

Bridging the Gap is a show of sculpture that draws inspiration from its immediate environment, using the proximity of Southwark Bridge as a metaphor

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) has announced the first major museum survey of paintings by Carroll Dunham... Read More

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The teetering sculpture of Phyllida Barlow meets the textile poetry of Daisy Parris. 

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«I vestiti sono contenitori di corpi, come i corpi sono, a loro volta, i contenitori delle anime; il vestito è l’ultimo feticcio, il segnaposto che rimane quando qualcuno non c’è più». Questo pensiero di Eugenio Dallari fa subito riflettere su quanto la materialità possa essere connessa con i nostri ricordi e quanto, nonostante il suo essere effimera e trasformabile nel tempo, possa diventare qualcosa che si radica profondamente nel nostro vissuto, presente e passato.
Eugenio Dallari, “Persone”, installazione, 120 x 50 x 50 cm c.a., 2026, courtesy of the artist
La materia è ciò che rappresenta realmente ciò che esiste, qualcosa che possiede una massa e occupa uno spazio, un volume. Se per...

Phoenix Art Museum will soon showcase 100 works by Native American artists tracing creative resilience over the course of a century following its largest-ever gift of Native American art.The trove of 185 artworks — including paintings by Jaune-Quick-to-See Smith (Confederated Salish and Kootenai), Tony Abeyta (Diné) and his father Narciso Abeyta (Diné), and T.C. Cannon (Kiowa and Caddo) — was promised by real estate developer and Western American art collector William Healey, the institution announced last week. In August, the Phoenix museum will display a selection of those works in the exhibition The Way We Came: A Century of Indigenous Art The William P. Healey Collection at Phoenix Art Museum. Artist...

Known for his vibrant palettes and flattened perspectives, Belgian artist Kristof Santy translates common sights and everyday objects into vivid tableaux. His paintings often highlight fruit and vegetables, tabletops, and modes of transportation, particularly those involved in industrial labor. A new body of work continues Santy’s inquiries into the mundane, this time extending into fashions and furnishings. There’s a striped sweater vest with a nearly imperceptible wrinkle hanging from a rod and a modernist chair in fuchsia pushed against a kelly green wall. Earlier investigations appear, too, including a short, roll-up ladder dangling from the door of a helicopter as it hovers in the air sans operator....

Starting July 1, the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio will begin offering free admission to anyone the age of twenty-five and under, as well as to any adult accompanying a child who’s 16 years old or younger. The major shift in accessibility, announced by the museum in a press release on Wednesday, is the […]

The 16th edition of the Gwangju Biennale will debut this September 5 and run until to November 15, and the list of forty-three participating artists and groups has just been announced. The illustrious lineup includes contemporary artist, filmmaker and ex-husband of singer Björk, Matthew Barney; the artist studio CAMP from Mumbai; and Turkish multidisciplinary artist […]

The subject of an auction-bound Lucian Freud nude portrait may be asleep, but the painter’s market is wide awake and keenly watching the rare lot. Titled Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, the painting could fetch between £25 million and £35 million ($33.4 million to $46.8 million) when it hits the block on June 24 at Sotheby’s in London—to the astonishment of its subject, Sussex resident Sue Tilley. The model and frequent Freud muse told BBC Radio Sussex that she was “flummoxed” by the market fervor. “I can’t quite believe it’s happening,” she said. According to Tilley, she met Freud “by luck” in 1993 through a mutual acquaintance, the fashion designer and performance artist Leigh Bowery,...

At Venice's Portuguese pavilion, planetary tremors drive a mise-en-scène of animal intuition and machine perception

Over the past 70 years, pioneering abstract painter Samia Halaby has dedicated herself to examining how we see, how plants grow, how towns are organized, and how abstraction has developed across cultures. The Palestinian-American artist works, as she says, with “both eyes open, to glean principles from nature.” Her paintings are a reflection of this relentless investigation. Halaby was born in Jerusalem in 1936 and lived as a child in Jaffa. During the Nakba of 1948, her family was among the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced when the state of Israel was established. They lived in Beirut, Lebanon, for three years before moving to the United States in 1951. Halaby identifies with Marxist...

When we think of tarot cards, there’s a standout that probably pops to mind right away: the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. It was illustrated by British occultist and artist Pamela Coleman Smith, and more than 100 years after its publication, it remains the most widely used deck by readers. But the cards are far from being the first. Later this month, The Morgan Library & Museum presents Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions, which delves into this centuries-old tradition of divination. The exhibition celebrates some of the earliest examples alongside modern artists’ versions. Three surviving decks from the 15th century, commissioned by the Dukes of Milan, tap into the lively Italian court culture that...

The New Museum will hold the largest-ever survey exhibition of works by filmmaker and multimedia artist Arthur Jafa this September, the institution announced on Tuesday, June 9. Titled I Am Tony in honor of the late jazz drummer Tony Williams, the exhibition will fill two floors of the New Museum's recently expanded Manhattan building in a showcase of works from Jafa's nearly four-decade career interrogating “Black being.” The survey, scheduled to open on September 24, will run through January 4, 2027. I Am Tony will feature some of Jafa's most iconic works, including “Love is the Message, The Message is Death” (2016), a video montage set to Kanye West's “Ultralight Beam” that...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Valentine Willie (1954–2026)Champion of Southeast Asian artIn 1996, he founded Valentine Willie Fine Art, a gallery and consultancy dedicated to Southeast Asian modern art, establishing presences in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines, and helping shape the region's art market and broaden international awareness. He helped organize Faith + The City (2000–2002), a survey of around 40 Filipino artists that traveled to major institutions in the region, widely considered one of the first major international presentations of Filipino art. “We are not an island," he told an interviewer in...

By Victoria Thomas When John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966, he had no idea who she was. More remarkably, Yoko was equally unaware of John. This neutral introduction seems impossible for us today, especially for children of the 1960s. But defying mere nostalgia, The Broad meets this challenge with Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Ono's first LA museum show, which offers a full season of multi-arts media programming, including the installation of seven digital antiwar billboards across Los Angeles....

As Brendon Burton continues to pursue the strange corners of rural North America, the Portland-based photographer has discovered a newfound interest in the people who once inhabited them. No longer entirely devoid of human figures, his isolated landscapes step into the walls of abandoned homes and provide a setting for enigmatic narratives. Burton’s quiet introduction to life through the presence of domestic, intimate objects allows the viewer to piece together a speculative story about their previous owners. From a pair of worn boots and aged portraits to a patterned quilt resting upon a bed that was once made for the last time, photography introduces an element of permanence, preserving existence while...

Grand Tier Grab Bag this week honors the late Limmie Pulliam with a bit of his Verdi Requiem.

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Negli ultimi anni il paesaggio industriale è tornato al centro dell’attenzione di artisti, fotografi e istituzioni. Non soltanto come testimonianza di una stagione produttiva conclusa, ma come patrimonio visivo capace di raccontare le trasformazioni economiche e urbane che hanno attraversato l’Europa dalla seconda metà del Novecento a oggi. In questo contesto si inserisce High Voltage, la mostra curata da Nicola Bigliardi presso StayOnBoard Art Gallery, che mette in dialogo le opere di Gabriele Basilico, Andrea Chiesi e Günter Pusch.
Gabriele Basilico, Andrea Chiesi, Günter Pusch, ”High Voltage”, installation view, 2026, courtesy StayOnBoard Art Gallery, Milano
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From the beaded phrases of Jeffrey Gibson’s sculptural weavings to Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s canoe series to Raven Halfmoon’s fingerprint-textured tributes, a new exhibition marks the largest presentation of American Indigenous work in the U.K. to date. Opening next week, Hold to This Earth at Yorkshire Sculpture Park features nearly 70 pieces by 38 artists, which in turn represent 35 Tribal Nations. “(The artists) reference and honour ancestral knowledge whilst being steadfastly contemporary, asserting a powerful presence and countering narratives of erasure that too often position Indigenous cultures only in terms of the past,” says a statement from Tia Collection, from which the pieces are drawn....

Matthew Travisano has such doubts about Douglas Cuomo's opera recently seen at Opera Parallèle.

Supported by an ingenious production and strong performances, Antonia Bembo's Ercole Amante makes a successful Paris Opera debut.

So much color in this beautifully agile voice.

Alla cerimonia di premiazione del Nikon Photo Contest a Tokyo nell’ottobre 2025, una giovane fotografa cinese ha attirato la mia attenzione. Si chiama Fang Xianhui e, con la sua opera “Mom’s scent”, si è distinta tra i partecipanti di 180 Paesi, vincendo lo Special Encouragement Award nella categoria foto singola. I giudici hanno definito la scena di cottura del pane al vapore, scattata in un villaggio rurale dello Shanxi, come un “campione di emozioni che colpisce dritto al cuore”: nessuna narrazione grandiosa, nessuna tecnica abbagliante, ma solo la più semplice essenza della vita quotidiana. Ciò che mi ha incuriosito ancora di più è che non era la prima volta che calcava un palcoscenico...

Al Magazzino del Sale di Cervia, la seconda edizione di Endless Summer conferma la solidità di un progetto che sceglie di sottrarsi alla grammatica convenzionale della mostra collettiva per assumere, piuttosto, la forma aperta di una costellazione curatoriale. Ideato da MAGMA APS e sviluppato come ciclo triennale (2025-2027), il progetto prende in prestito dal celebre documentario di Bruce Brown l’immagine impossibile di un’estate perpetua, trasformandola in una metafora percettiva e mentale: non una stagione, ma uno stato di sospensione in cui desiderio, memoria e dissolvenza convivono simultaneamente.
Riccardo Baruzzi, “Silvia”, 2010, stampa a getto d’inchiostro su carta, dittico, 45 x 38 cm...

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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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 […]
The post Crystal Bridges Opens Impressive New 114,000 Square Foot Expansion first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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...

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For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

Cindy Bernhard
PLATO is honored to present Broken Vessels, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Cindy Bernhard, featuring a new body of paintings that explores spiritual rupture, transcendence and the relationship between the human body and the divine. The public opening is scheduled for Thursday, June 4, from 6 to 8 PM in the gallery’s ground floor space. The show will be on view through July 11. At the center of the exhibition is the metaphor of the vessel: the body as a container for spirit and belief. Drawing from archetypal associations between gold and divinity, Christian mysticism and contemporary existential anxiety, Bernhard’s monumental six-foot paintings depict fractured golden forms that...

By Tm Gratkowski With intent and the will to do it her own way, there is a gallery in the most unlikely of places, off the 210 freeway on Lincoln Avenue in Pasadena. Imagine walking into the parking lot of an old lumber yard, stumbling down a paved area past old materials, equipment, and a small cluster of shed-like buildings. Nothing new, no signs, just your average ubiquitous Southern California lot. As you wander in you notice a little welcoming front porch and tucked away in the corner is...

Grace Dodds
 
 
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