The Renoir Museum is getting back two of its paintings that were taken during a pre-dawn raid. The paintings were recovered by the local authorities in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, where the museum is located. Mayor Bryan Masson, a member of France’s far-right National Rally, said in a statement that these “two paintings are far more than works of art. They are part of our city’s history, our cultural heritage and the legacy Auguste Renoir left to Cagnes-sur-Mer. Their recovery is a tremendous relief for the people of Cagnes-sur-Mer and for everyone who cares deeply about our museum.” The stolen paintings were Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano (1910) and Jeune fille au puits (1886), which are...

The inaugural iteration of Santa Fe Invitational will take place April 8–11, 2027 at the Santa Fe Convention Center, hosting some forty-five international galleries as well as artists, collectors, and various local and international institutions. A press release describes SFI as a “cultural summit built around cultivating the relationships, knowledge, confidence, and curiosity,” though further […]

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,” economist and computer scientist Herbert Simon warned in 1971. In our era of digital overload, it feels increasingly urgent—ironically—to remember to slow down. Too often we’re distracted by one thing or the next, looking down at our screens or paying attention to our surroundings just briefly enough to snap a photo before moving on. Jonathan Knight is captivated instead by the quiet moments, the beauty in stillness, and the gentle, gradual changes around us that take time to fully appreciate. Known for his ethereal, minimalist images, Knight conceived of Exhale as a way to explore the nuances of color and “the emotional experience of...

Branchline, a permanent exhibition space for the Gochman Family Collection, will open on November 6 in Katonah, New York, functioning as a new home for the renowned trove of contemporary Native art.Building on the private collection's focus on Indigenous and anti-colonial art, Branchline will present rotating exhibitions of the over 800 works by contemporary Native artists in the Gochman Collection and provide residential and studio spaces for artists. Deriving its name from the network of rail lines that connect Katonah to surrounding areas like Manhattan and Upstate New York, Branchline also encompasses the ancestral and historical lineages informing the featured art."We imagine this as a flexible space...

In dual shows at Kunsthalle Fribourg and Fondation Pernod Ricard, the artist traces how cultural identities change through the ages

 
When we say ‘think of the colour yellow’, what comes up for you? Our latest photobook, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: YELLOW, is bursting with inspiration, from delicate blossoms and ripe lemons to eye-catching clothing and sunny décor.
Across 100 photos, our photographers celebrate all things yellow: some chanced upon in the street or in nature, others meticulously planned. Of course, there are loads of different hues that count as yellow, from acidic brights to mustard, egg yolk, and canary. You’ll find them all in the book!
The cover image, by Jo Martindale, submerges us in a ball pit of yellow plastic balls: it’s immersive, fun, and hard to look away. The yellow we find around us definitely has multiple...

By Jody Zellen Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 3–November 22, 2026 Susan Silton has never been an artist attached to a single medium. Her practice, which spans more than forty years, interweaves photography, design, performance, sculpture, video, audio, and installation. Working as a graphic designer in the 1970s and ’80s shaped her visual acuity and formal sensibilities. Her production is conceptually strong and visually coherent and very little is left to chance. It is a delight...

A painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill will be auctioned at Christie’s as part of its Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale in London on October 21. Amaryllis Lily (1948) carries an estimate of £300,000–£500,000 ($396,000–$661,000). The painting depicts a red amaryllis belladonna, otherwise known as a March lily, blooming in a plant pot situated on a table against a dark backdrop. Churchill gave the painting to his daughter, Lady Mary Soames, who then donated it in 1995 to the Churchill Fellowship. Proceeds from the sale will be used to support Churchill Fellowship’s “Making Space for the Arts” program. “Amaryllis Lily is a striking example of Winston Churchill’s...

16TH-CENTURY PALACE BECOMES flagship for massimo dutti in rome
 
Spanish fashion brand Massimo Dutti opens its new flagship store within the 16th-century Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome. Spanning over 2,000 square meters (21,527 square feet) along Via del Corso, the retail design exhibits its clothing collections within the historic architecture, pairing the palace’s original  features — such as the vaulted ceilings and palatial staircase — with contemporary wooden furniture, large-format rugs, and lightweight displays for fashion.
Spanish fashion brand Massimo Dutti opens its new flagship store within the 16th-century Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome
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Creative Time has commissioned artist Guadalupe Maravilla to make a major installation in the Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York’s Morningside Heights neighborhood. Presented in collaboration with the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, Maravilla’s Consejos de las Estrellas will be on view from December 17, 2026, to February 7, 2027. As with past works by the artist, Consejos de las Estrellas will take the form a sculptural installation that is also “conceived as a sanctuary space—a place for gathering, reflection and respite during a season that can be both celebratory and vulnerable,” per a release. “Both in the way he approaches his work and moves...

Art historian Hall W. Rockefeller has designed an AI tool that shows the gender balance of any gallery’s roster of artists. Rockefeller designed the tool to advance the mission of “Less Than Half,” an artist network she founded to advocate for the recognition of women artists. The program allows users to check whether a gallery […]

Tucked away in the West Village, actor Julianne Moore doesn’t seem to live like her Hollywood counterparts. She resides in a two-bedroom duplex with her husband, film director Bart Freundlich, that is also home to work by Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, and Robin Rice. “My taste is consistent, though it has evolved. I love modernism. But this apartment is prewar, and you have to address that. It’s not tiny, but it’s not massive, either, so materials and choices become even more important,” she told Architectural Digest for a feature in its upcoming November issue. Her home in the West Village was constructed in the 1920s as a residential hotel with most of the units being used as...

Quarto publishes visually-rich books for artists of all mediums and skill levels. Explore highlights from the 2026 collection!Light & Color in the Watercolor LandscapeBy Vladislav YeliseyevDiscover the secrets to capturing depth, atmosphere, and emotion in your watercolor landscapes with Light and Color in the Watercolor Landscape. Acclaimed artist and instructor Vladislav Yeliseyev shares his proven techniques for harnessing light and shadow, creating luminous colors, and refining compositions to enhance realism and impact.Frida Kahlo at HomeBy Suzanne BarbezatDiscover the intimate spaces that shaped one of the world’s most iconic artists. This compelling visual biography traces Kahlo’s life through the...

After 16 years, the Biennale Jogja Foundation, which runs the Biennale Jogja, will cease operations. The foundation has organized 8 editions of the biennale and of the Khtaulistiwa Symposium and of Asana Bina Seni, an artist and curator development program. The Biennale Jogja focuses on art and artists around the equator in Southeast Asia. In […]

Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland introduced the “Preserving and Remembering the History of Trump and other Tyrants Act” bill on October 6. The six-page bill directs the secretary of the Smithsonian to “collect, preserve, and display … artifacts reflecting the rise of governmental propaganda, corruption, and authoritarianism due to the two presidencies of Donald J. […]

MADRID — The long-awaited exhibition Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Sweet Revenge at the Museo Reina Sofía opens with an emphasis on Madrid’s role in the artist's life. Gonzalez-Torres briefly lived here as a Cuban child refugee in 1971 before moving on to Puerto Rico and New York. While this marks his first large-scale solo exhibition in the Spanish capital, it follows a landmark show at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela in 1995, just before his death from AIDS-related complications; a 2000 group show (No es sólo lo que ves: Pervirtiendo el Minimalismo) at the Reina Sofía itself; and a 2021 exhibition at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona framed by the COVID-19...

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Burgundy wood, white marble, and blue define Chiquita’s interior
 
Chiquita by SahuquillodeArriba is a 59-sqm café, bookshop, and wine bar in Valencia’s El Botànic neighborhood, designed for product designer Gloria Izquierdo. The project combines coffee, books, and wine in a continuous interior that uses color, material contrasts, and custom furniture to connect the different functions.
 
A full-length ash wood bookcase stained deep burgundy runs along one side of the space, extending into the bathroom and serving as the interior’s main architectural feature. Opposite it, a continuous bench and small white marble tables introduce lighter surfaces, while the textured ceiling is finished in soft blue....

“I left my hometown / My hometown appears,” begins a poem by artist Shuling Guo titled “Temple II,” which shares its name with her forthcoming solo exhibition at Hollis Taggart. Drawing on sacred symbolism and nature, Guo delves into her memories of growing up in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, China, and the area’s unique mixture of spiritual and folk traditions. Her dreamlike, symmetrical works speak to the harmony of the cosmos as much as they nod to the balance of life and the sublime. Guo’s paintings in Temple II explore memory, presence, and loss, and their creation coincided with both the birth of her daughter and the death of her grandmother. Burgeoning blossoms, delicate flames, and glowing...

The UK artist known for his searing critiques of consumer culture is showing a new series of drawings at the Sir John Soane’s Museum that imagine the future ruins of notable buildings

The Jamaica-born abstractionist's first major survey, which opened at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art last year, moves to the Hammer Museum

A small town in South Carolina may not be the first place you think of when it comes to the Southʼs art scene, but each spring Lake City proves otherwise. For three weeks, storefronts, restaurants, and galleries become a town-wide exhibitionduring the ArtFields Festival, which returns April 15 – May 1, 2027."Dissonance" (detail), porcelain, by Risa Hricovsky won a 2025 Merit AwardNow celebrating its 15th year, ArtFields invites emerging and established artists from across the Southeast to apply. From now through November 1, 2026, artists working in any medium and living in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, or West...

Two up-and-coming sopranos — Chelsea Lehnea and Marigona Qerkezi — make a splash across two nights in Stuttgart.

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Belinda Tate is leaving her post as executive director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Glasgow’s arts community is “in uproar” since a series of crises. The elected board in Arlington County, Virginia, filed a lawsuit against President Trump’s planned triumphal arch. The Headlines MUSICAL CHAIRS. After three years, Belinda Tate is leaving her post as executive director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, reports the Mirror Indy. During her time at the museum, she built a reputation for prioritizing women and artists of color in exhibitions like “Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to...

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In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about life for artists in Gaza one year on from the ceasefire, visits the new Robert Ryman survey at the Barbican in London, and speaks to US artist Katherine Hubbard about her latest installation exploring her mother's illness and memory loss

Six suspects have also been arrested in connection to last month's burglary at the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer

The artist's new series of paintings can be traced back to René Descartes

POPSTICKS REIMAGINES CHOPSTICKS AS INFLATABLE UTENSILS
 
Some ideas begin with a serious problem. Popsticks begins with the possibility of finding yourself without chopsticks, which is apparently enough to justify a little design intervention. Created by designer Liam de la Bedoyere, the playful concept proposes a pair of inflatable chopsticks that can be rolled up, slipped into a pocket, and brought out when dinner calls. Instead of folding through hinges or coming apart into smaller pieces, the utensils rely on air to take shape.
 
The concept is as straightforward as it is unexpected. Each stick can be rolled into a compact spiral when deflated, then inflated into an elongated utensil ready for an...

Midtown got a makeover on Wednesday, and thank the lord it did! Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian has a dispatch from the first iteration of “reigning diva of the L train” Amygdala’s joyous six-person drag show Pleasure Dome: Continuum, “a vibe manifesto for a city that is constantly shattering the old to make way for the new,” all the more urgent in the context of right-wing attacks on drag and queer creativity.Meanwhile, French students are fighting their own political battle as they enter the third week of protests against underfunding, poor conditions, and staff shortages across the national education system. Staff Writer Anna Lee and Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia highlight some of the defining...

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tim walker explores queer history through 250 portraits
 
British photographer Tim Walker turns his fantastical visual language toward Queer history in Fairyland: Love and Legends, a major exhibition opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London today, October 9th, 2026. Curated by Susanna Brown and designed by Walker’s longtime collaborator Shona Heath, the exhibition brings together around 250 specially created portraits of activists, artists, performers, and cultural figures, including Isaac Julien, Ian McKellen, and Chappell Roan. The exhibition brings together five years of work with Queer people and their allies in Britain and beyond, reflecting a new direction in Tim Walker’s...

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Marek Kounovský designs table around the idea of ‘just enough’
 
Designed by Marek Kounovský of MK Designers for Prague-based furniture company Frayer, Handle Table is a bamboo coffee table with concealed storage integrated into its geometry. The design explores the idea of ‘just enough’ by balancing function, material, and form without adding unnecessary details.
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oil-based stain highlights bamboo’s natural texture and form
 
For the table, designer Marek Kounovský of MK Designers draws on the Japanese principle of hodo-hodo, which emphasizes moderation, restraint, and balance. Its reduced form highlights proportion, material, and construction, while the...

Stumbling upon a battered end table or lost mitten is an opportunity for magic in Woo Jin Joo’s mind. The Seoul-born artist is known to gather furniture, garments, and other objects that have been left behind while walking near her home in London or commuting to her studio in Deptford. “I am not actively looking for anything in particular, but I discover them by happenstance, and they become meaningful; they provoke my imagination,” she says. “This is how I feel like we conjure meaning in our lives.” Combined with clay and shiny, viscose thread, these found items transform into uncanny sculptures that often meld animal bodies with domestic fixtures. Human-sized figures cloaked in costumes of white...

Flowers for eyes, a horizon for a mouth… a popsicle for a holy relic? Rafael Silveira has long been interested in what he describes as “visual synonymies,” which he likens to “formal correspondences between seemingly unrelated things, moments in which one image unexpectedly recognizes itself in another.” The Brazilian artist’s surreal paintings replace facial features with landforms, flora, and fauna, sometimes hybridizing animals, figures, and other objects. The works seen here were recently included in the artist’s solo exhibition Popsicledelic Trip at KP Projects Gallery in Los Angeles alongside a show by Silveira’s wife, the artist Flávia Itiberê. A series of vertical pieces with ornate,...

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With ambition to spare, Boston Lyric Opera's William Tell shows that the state of American opera need not be depressing.

And then I remembered how much I love Cecilia Bartoli who was a major star when I first got into opera in my teens and remains so today.

È la materia, prima ancora che il design, a prendere la parola in “Pottergeist. Archetipi, Simboli, Forme, Immagini”, la mostra che HoperAperta porta alla Pinacoteca Provinciale di Palazzo Pinto di Salerno dal 16 settembre al 30 novembre 2026, nell’ambito della seconda edizione di Salerno Design Week.
Dace Suna, “Down the Rabbit Hole”, 2026, lampada da tavolo in metallo. Produzione Horizon, courtesy HoperAperta
Il progetto, curato da Patrizia Catalano e Maurizio Barberis, con la collaborazione di Martina Barberis Casagrande, individua nella ceramica e nella terracotta un territorio di ricerca nel quale memoria, forma, artigianato e contemporaneità possono incontrarsi senza gerarchie. In mostra, in...

Twenty years ago, National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore set out on a deceptively simple multi-year mission: to create a photo archive of biodiversity. Documenting around a thousand animals each year, his ultimate goal is a portrait catalogue showcasing more than 25,000 species. As of this writing, Sartore has documented 18,567 animals, including the new species of cat recently discovered in Bolivia. In zoos, aquariums, wildlife sanctuaries, and more, he collaborates with conservationists and researchers to document an awe-inspiring yet tiny fraction of life on our planet. Sartore’s Photo Ark project illuminates animals against plain black or white backgrounds, highlighting their distinctive...

Our critic reports on the bumper crop of young singers at this year's Giargiari Bel Canto Competition in Philadelphia.

Anita Rachvelishvili and Saioa Hernandez are headed back to New York and this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag features them together in a performance from July.

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Damien Meade dipinge sculture d’argilla che non esistono più e ognuna delle sue ambigue figure è quanto resta, in pittura, di un corpo messo al mondo solo per essere disfatto. Il suo procedimento comincia sempre con innumerevoli teste e figure da lui modellate, manipolate, fotografate e rimpastate nella materia indifferenziata, spesso nel giro di poche ore per l’impellenza delle successive, finché una di esse non trattiene il suo sguardo abbastanza a lungo da imporre la propria transustanziazione pittorica. Meade racconta di lasciare che in questa prima fase sia l’istinto gestuale a suggerire le forme e, solo in un secondo momento, di intervenire razionalmente a selezionare, tra le creature...

Da Société Interludio, a Cambiano, La Scia di Gaia De Megni, a cura di Vincenzo Estremo: tre fotogrammi ridisegnati, una lampada senza pellicola e un’ombra che compare solo per poche ore.
Gaia De Megni, “La Scia”, curated by Vincenzo Estremo, installation view. Courtesy Gaia De Megni and Société Interludio © Claudiu Asmarandei
Nel 1915 Max Fleischer mise a punto il rotoscopio, un apparecchio che proiettava un film su un vetro, un fotogramma alla volta, perché un disegnatore potesse ricalcarne i contorni. Dal ricalco nasceva l’animazione: la mano rifaceva il movimento, ventiquattro volte al secondo. Gaia De Megni (1993) fa qualcosa di simile e di opposto. Parte da Stage Fright (Paura in...

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Guangyi Luo ha ricevuto una formazione specifica per controllare i pattern. La sua esperienza nel design della moda e nella stampa le ha insegnato come gestire la ripetizione, l’equilibrio e l’organizzazione delle immagini su una superficie. In Interwoven Shadows, l’artista rovescia questa padronanza tecnica contro l’uniformità. L’opera ripete le sue forme floreali senza permettere che la ripetizione produca monotonia; l’ordine si stabilisce, ma poi viene di continuo destabilizzato.
Guangyi Luo, “Interwoven Shadows”, 2025, digital print, courtesy of the artist
Presentata a Between Worlds presso il Museo MIIT di Torino (3–7 settembre 2026), l’opera tessile di Luo è tornata in Italia per la...

By Kristine Schomaker Friday night I stood at the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and watched artists perform five-minute pieces in the open air as the sun went down. ACTION = LIFE, presented by LACE and the Performance Art Museum as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. A marathon of performances. So many friends. So much history in one place. I drove home still feeling it. Thinking about the first performance I ever saw that made me understand what my own work was actually about....

Al giorno d’oggi la fotografia di dating app ha accumulato praticanti sufficienti da assomigliare quasi a un genere a sé: una confederazione eterogenea di artisti che usano la telecamera per documentare la specifica, nuova texture epocale del romanticismo condotto alla velocità di uno swipe. Per la maggior parte, si accontenta dell’ironia: screenshot di match, rievocazioni in scena di una “situationship”, un saggio visivo ironico sul ghosting. What if we were lovers? di Tia Liu, un progetto in corso iniziato nel 2023 e il corpus principale del suo portfolio online, è meno protetto dall’ironia, più vulnerabile, più paziente. Piuttosto che esasperare in accezione caricaturale l’app di dating, la...

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By Kristine Schomaker I learned yesterday that my friend Scott Froschauer died suddenly. I've known him for almost ten years, and I'm still trying to find a place to put this. Scott was a Shoebox artist, one of the early ones. We worked together on several projects, but the one I keep coming back to is an art salon we put together on consent, negotiation, and the male gaze, how the male posture of viewing women frames any sign of femininity as an invitation, and what it would mean to actually...

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By Betty Ann Brown "In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world."—Graciela Iturbide Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide creates haunting images that portray the people, places, and events of the extraordinary cultures and geographies of her home country. Iturbide has a unique artistic practice that involves living and working with the people she chooses to photograph. Her process has made possible the strange and wonderful depictions for which she is known. In...

By Victoria Thomas Lauren Cross, PhD is the Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts for The Huntington. The gifted artist, author, and scholar moves through the world of material objects with a detective's nose for sleuthing out lost context and hidden figures, and a Griot's gift for connecting narrative dots to unearth treasure. She is the unstoppable force behind the first major museum retrospective to explore the untold history of ceramic innovator Doyle Lane, with more...

Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.

Dream to Cure Water ©Ciril Jazbec; Image courtesy of Wellcome Photography Prize 2025 The Wellcome Photography Prize 2027 is now accepting submissions from photographers and image-makers around the world that “sparks curiosity, offers fresh perspectives and starts important conversations.” The competition, which is approaching its 30th anniversary, is free to enter and seeks ambitious images that explore how health is experienced, represented, and understood. Entries can explore experiences of illness and care, disability, mental health, aging, scientific discovery, biomedical research, climate change, environmental health, infectious disease, healthcare, community wellbeing, or any other subject at the...

 
Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...

The Glen Most people have experienced a “thin place” even if they don’t necessarily realize it or give it a name. When I learned about them a few years ago, I was able to recall some of these places from my own past, even though I didn’t know the terminology at the time. I’m currently listening to The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, and the knights are forever leaving the comforts of Camelot to seek adventure. On their journeys, they often come across places in the woods where the atmosphere changes, time takes on a different quality, and the boundary between the ordinary and the otherworldly becomes uncertain. When I saw the work of photographer, film, and television director Lev L. Spiro, I...