The art space Para Site is set to depart its location in Hong-Kong’s Quarry Bay district, which it has occupied for the last decade. In honor of the organization’s 30th anniversary, the nonprofit says it will embark on a “nomadic” program throughout the city next year. Para Site was founded in 1996 by the Hong […]
A fatal shooting in the Las Vegas Arts District claimed the life of 15-year-old Carth Onasi Jacobs-Rodgers during the First Friday arts festival on Tuesday, October 6.Officers heard gunshots at the monthly event at around 10:17 pm, according to a report from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD). The shooting left two individuals injured, while Jacobs-Rodgers was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to local outlet 8News. A 17-year-old suspect was arrested and taken into custody and faces charges of murder with a deadly weapon and two counts of attempted murder with a deadly weapon."This is just a shock for everyone," Alexxis Ryan, who performed with her band, The X-Flowers, during the...
The Danish artist Jens Galschiøt also gave out 3D-printed miniatures of the sculpture to visitors of the Strasbourg exhibition
Jens Galschiøt's “The Orange Plague” (2025), displayed as the artist hands out 3D-printed miniatures of the sculpture as souvenirs (all photos courtesy the artist)While President Donald Trump prioritizes adding his signature yellow-gold touch to historic fixtures within the Capitol, the European Parliament has satirized his self-monumentalizing proclivities by installing a gilded statue on its premises. The Strasbourg building is temporarily displaying Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt's “The Orange Plague” (2025), which depicts a naked Trump sitting on the shoulders of a scrawny man straining under his weight.Composed of copper and coated in 23-karat gold leaf, Trump's slumping figure...
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London is launching a voluntary exit scheme for all staff. The news comes following a series of strikes organized by staff in two unions: Prospect and Public and Commercial Services (PCS). Union members held a strike at the V&A’s South Kensington site at the end of September. This […]
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has continued to speak out regarding the Parthenon Marbles, vowing to “ramp up” his country’s efforts to retrieve the marble sculptures from the British Museum, The Guardian reported. Mitsotakis has claimed that United Kingdom Prime Minister Andy Burnham was supportive of restitution efforts before assuming his current role, adding that he would raise the issue upon meeting Burnham. “Unfortunately [talks] have not progressed,” Mitsotakis confirmed at a conference in Athens when asked about a “hybrid” deal with the museum to repatriate the fifth-century BCE marbles in exchange for other antiquities, namely, objects from the National Archaeological Museum in...
In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Ingrid Wiener (1942–2026)Viennese ActionistPart of the Viennese Actionism movement in the 1960s and '70s, the Austrian artist integrated photography, painting, collage, and text into tapestries that were alternatively documentary, abstract, and surreal. She also collaborated with artists like Valie Export and Dieter Roth, and expanded into media like film. Scott Froschauer (1968–2026)Sculptor, painter, and maker of public art Scott Froschauer (photo @sfroschauerart via Instagram, screenshot Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic)He made large-scale art installations for multiple editions of Burning Man in the...
Imagine you’re a hotshot young New York gallerist whose rapidly rising artist has been invited to show in a group exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). But between this fall’s booths at Frieze London and Art Basel Paris, a detour to Venice, and micromanaging your unpaid interns, you can only go for a day. So, tragically, there’s no time to fit in your regular visit to Erewhon, for which there’s simply no New York equivalent, especially because the $36,000 initiation fee for the Kith Ivy padel club that houses the city’s only Erewhon tonic bar is prohibitive in this art market. Well, I have good news for the few who can relate to these circumstances: LACMA announced this week...
A mobile version of the Epstein files reading room was parked near the museum on Tuesday, with Epstein survivors in attendance, as part of a campaign to pressure MoMA to cut ties with Black
This October, art shows in the city home in on the everyday and its ability to reveal greater truths about existence, perception, and history. From the human-made detritus and barren landscape of the High Desert, Ry Rocklen creates nuanced portraits of place and family. At Regen Projects, Elliott Hundley charts the uncharted reaches of his subconscious by securing hundreds of found images to panels with pins. Meanwhile, Jordan Nassar practices tatreez, traditional Palestinian embroidery, in his multi-panel works that engage not only with art history but with cultural erasure and destruction. And a retrospective on the work of LA-based artist Susan Silton showcases her participatory practice and deep engagement...
Plucked from an estate sale in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for $30, Gertrude Abercombie’s Alderman Merriam’s Shells (1951) sold for $1.35 million at Freeman’s auction house on October 1. The final bid far surpassed the lot’s $250,000 estimate, setting a new auction benchmark for the late Surrealist painter. For Freeman’s New York, success was almost guaranteed. Alderman Merriam’s Shells arrived on the block buoyed by its sensational rediscovery: the enigmatic still life of seashells scattered in darkness had vanished for decades, much to the dismay of Abercrombie’s ravenous market. In reality, it languished in Michigan until a sharp-eyed shopper rescued it from an estate sale. “As happy as we are to...
A bronze book jacket designed by famed Surrealist Salvador Dalí and weighing 330 pounds was swiped from a small private museum in Issoire, France, in an overnight theft this past weekend, Le Monde reports. Encrusted with precious stones, seashells, and cutlery, the cover is believed to have been taken between October 4 and October 5. […]
a G-SHOCK DW5600 for THE PRODUCE AISLE
A banana has a very small window when everything is right. Most would agree that it reaches its prime once the skin turns bright yellow, and a slight scattering of brown freckles begin to appear. BAIT turns that familiar bit of timing into the premise for its latest G-SHOCK collaboration, wrapping the classic DW5600 in the colors and spots of a banana ready to eat. Called Yamagata’s Finest, the watch covers its resin case and band in saturated yellow with scattered brown marks, giving one of G-SHOCK’s most recognizable silhouettes a strangely convincing new skin.
Ripeness comes down to timing, and BAIT takes that connection far enough to make the fruit theme...
A banana has a very small window when everything is right. Most would agree that it reaches its prime once the skin turns bright yellow, and a slight scattering of brown freckles begin to appear. BAIT turns that familiar bit of timing into the premise for its latest G-SHOCK collaboration, wrapping the classic DW5600 in the colors and spots of a banana ready to eat. Called Yamagata’s Finest, the watch covers its resin case and band in saturated yellow with scattered brown marks, giving one of G-SHOCK’s most recognizable silhouettes a strangely convincing new skin.
Ripeness comes down to timing, and BAIT takes that connection far enough to make the fruit theme...
The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi has announced Souraya Noujaim as the next director of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Noujaim, a specialist in Islamic art history and archaeology, was most recently director of the department of Islamic art and heritage at the Louvre in Paris and chief of the French Grand Department […]
Democratic Maryland representative Jamie Raskin, a dogged antagonist to President Donald Trump who attempted to have him removed from office, has introduced legislation directing the Smithsonian Institution to preserve “artifacts reflecting the rise of government propaganda, corruption, and authoritarianism” during Trump’s two terms and place them in a permanent exhibition at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), a museum in the nation’s capital that is part of the Smithsonian Institution. The Preserving and Remembering the History of Trump and other Tyrants Act comes partly in response to Trump’s order last month to have the Department of the Interior place signs outside NMAH, warning...
If you’ve ever wanted to own a Lichtenstein, but can’t afford the multi-million dollar price tag, there is a more affordable and wearable option hitting the market today. In collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, whose highly anticipated exhibition “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New” opens for previews tomorrow, and the artist’s estate, Gap is launching an exclusive retail collection based on the Pop artist’s iconic works. As Roy Lichtenstein was hitting his stride as an artist and leading figure in the American Pop art movement of the 1960s, Gap was establishing itself as a clothing brand that would later become synonymous with casual American style and culture. This collaboration brings...
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...
178 3D printed earth bricks form porous habitat around olive tree
BUSTAN, meaning ‘orchard,’ is a full-scale earthen pavilion developed by the Material Topology Research Lab (MTRL) at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and Weizmann Tree Lab for The Circle exhibition at Design Museum Holon. Built from 178 robotically 3D printed earth bricks, the structure is organized around a living olive tree, treated as the pavilion’s primary client. The bricks are made mainly from locally sourced soil mixed with bio-based plant fibers and mineral binders. Each brick is digitally designed and robotically printed with a specific geometry and surface texture, giving it an ecological function related to...
BUSTAN, meaning ‘orchard,’ is a full-scale earthen pavilion developed by the Material Topology Research Lab (MTRL) at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and Weizmann Tree Lab for The Circle exhibition at Design Museum Holon. Built from 178 robotically 3D printed earth bricks, the structure is organized around a living olive tree, treated as the pavilion’s primary client. The bricks are made mainly from locally sourced soil mixed with bio-based plant fibers and mineral binders. Each brick is digitally designed and robotically printed with a specific geometry and surface texture, giving it an ecological function related to...
Zurich-based dealer Eva Presenhuber has told ArtNews that she is closing her Vienna space when its lease ends in December, citing a sluggish local art market and rising expenses. Presenhuber, who has been in business for thirty-five years, opened her Viennese outpost in April 2022 and described it as a “sentimental” venture in her native […]
After a summer of back and forth with its staff over strikes, pay and working conditions, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is launching a voluntary exit scheme as part of its strategy for 2026 through 2030. A spokesperson for the museum told ARTnews that “Like many organizations, the V&A is facing rising operating costs, driven by inflation, economic uncertainty, and reduced visitor spending. While we continue to receive government support, below-inflation settlements mean a real-terms reduction in funding over the coming years. As a result, our organizational strategy for 2026-2030 is underpinned by a cautious approach to financial planning and we’re exploring a wide range of measures to reduce...
When something’s stable, dependable, and strong, we might say it’s “like a rock.” Similarly, when things become difficult and challenges feel immovable, we might find ourselves “between a rock and a hard place.” These idioms suggest that perhaps especially when we face challenges, we find ways to beat the odds. And Simon Laveuve’s idiosyncratic, post-apocalyptic dwellings detail just that. The artist’s 1/35-scale miniature domiciles perch atop stilts and boulders. Laveuve pairs tiny chairs, boxes of produce, fishing gear, and other daily essentials with objects that appear to have been scrounged from who-knows-where and repurposed into useful tools and furniture. While figures never occupy the...
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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The 150kg cover, embellished with gold, precious stones and pearls, was burgled from the C. Karoutzos Contemporary Art Centre in central France on Sunday night
Cecilia Vicuña talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to film-makers, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work
Noujaim previously served as the United Arab Emirates-based museum’s scientific, curatorial and collections management director
Yeondoo Jung’s Wonderland brings children’s drawings to life
Korean artist Yeondoo Jung collected 1,200 drawings from children between the ages of five and seven, selecting 17 to reconstruct as large-format photographs. Working with teenage models, costume and prop designers, and locations across Seoul, the artist carefully translated the imagined worlds from sketches into physical scenes, including details that could not exist according to the usual rules of photography. Twenty years later, this painstaking process feels especially relevant as images that once required sets, costumes, models, and physical tricks can now be created instantly. ‘When producing the work back in 2004, digital cameras...
Korean artist Yeondoo Jung collected 1,200 drawings from children between the ages of five and seven, selecting 17 to reconstruct as large-format photographs. Working with teenage models, costume and prop designers, and locations across Seoul, the artist carefully translated the imagined worlds from sketches into physical scenes, including details that could not exist according to the usual rules of photography. Twenty years later, this painstaking process feels especially relevant as images that once required sets, costumes, models, and physical tricks can now be created instantly. ‘When producing the work back in 2004, digital cameras...
COLLECTIVE IMAGINATION AS THE DRIVER OF ARCHITECTURAL FORM
Founded on the principle that collective imagination is required to draw and produce new forms, Paf atelier crafts radical, human-centric environments across architecture, scenography, and immersive narrative. The practice unlocks fresh possibilities for human interaction as it bridges bold geometric expressions with deep emotional resonance. Drawing inspiration from travel, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and active dialogue beyond the traditional desk, the studio translates abstract concepts into tangible landscapes that inspire visitors to explore their surroundings with renewed curiosity and joy.
‘It is my job to dream with new aspects,...
Founded on the principle that collective imagination is required to draw and produce new forms, Paf atelier crafts radical, human-centric environments across architecture, scenography, and immersive narrative. The practice unlocks fresh possibilities for human interaction as it bridges bold geometric expressions with deep emotional resonance. Drawing inspiration from travel, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and active dialogue beyond the traditional desk, the studio translates abstract concepts into tangible landscapes that inspire visitors to explore their surroundings with renewed curiosity and joy.
‘It is my job to dream with new aspects,...
Who knew that Giulietta Simionato was so excellent in the Rossini coloratura repertoire?
Jaguar Type 01 brings its electric design language to production
After revealing the Type 01’s interior back in August, including its distinctive full-length central ‘spine,’ Jaguar now unveils the finished electric GT in New York, marking the first production model in a new generation for the British marque. Designed, engineered, and built in the UK, the Type 01 is an all-electric four-door grand tourer developed on Jaguar’s dedicated Electric Architecture (JEA). Its arrival introduces a new approach to the proportions, performance, and occupant experience of Jaguar’s next generation of electric vehicles.
The Type 01 is defined by a long bonnet, low roofline, and stretched silhouette, with...
After revealing the Type 01’s interior back in August, including its distinctive full-length central ‘spine,’ Jaguar now unveils the finished electric GT in New York, marking the first production model in a new generation for the British marque. Designed, engineered, and built in the UK, the Type 01 is an all-electric four-door grand tourer developed on Jaguar’s dedicated Electric Architecture (JEA). Its arrival introduces a new approach to the proportions, performance, and occupant experience of Jaguar’s next generation of electric vehicles.
The Type 01 is defined by a long bonnet, low roofline, and stretched silhouette, with...
In playful, anthropomorphized sculptures, Hannah Lim takes inspiration from historical ceramics, classical Chinese literature, and her British-Singaporean heritage. For several years, the London-based artist has been interested in the 17th- and 18th-century design phenomenon known as Chinoiserie, in which European producers mimicked Chinese and other Asian motifs, appropriating a variety of regional aesthetics that catered to a Western market. “In my own work, I attempt to reclaim and re-imagine this practice in a more conscientious way,” Lim says in a statement. “My sculptures often draw inspiration from specific cultural styles or processes.” The snuff bottle represents a consumer trend that emerged...
Perhaps best known for her luminous portraits in collaboration with legacy magazines and fashion houses, photographer Elizaveta Porodina has also captured the smaller, yet no less striking, creatures walking this planet. Commissioned for the climate-focused publication Atmos, a radiant series of images highlights beetles, butterflies, and mantises in her signature ethereal style and saturated color. The body of work focuses on the concept of biomimicry and accompanies a feature on Janine Benyus, who coined the term. The portraits shown here are also included in Porodina’s new monograph Found Dreams, edited by Nadine Barth and released by Prestel, alongside her more cinematic, fashion-focused imagery. Pick up...
This year, an international team of scientists announced the discovery of a new species of wild cat in Bolivia, and research initiatives like Ocean Census continue to document hundreds of new marine species annually. Yet species are probably disappearing faster than we can find them. It’s difficult to gauge what goes extinct every year when we’re still so far from comprehending just how many different types of organisms there are in the first place. Possibly thousands of species disappear every year, however, and at a rate accelerated by human-caused habitat loss, pollution, and climate change. For Amok Island, who was born in Amsterdam and is currently based in Fremantle, Western Australia, the fragility...
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s performance of “As with rosy steps the morn” from Handel’s Theodora is a masterclass in the confidence to simply hold space.
Jason Travis
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Mitridate, re di Ponto at the Teatro di San Carlo showcases some energetic performances — and some unfortunate stage busyness.
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....
Christian Badach
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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.
By Lacey Argus Sovern, a nonprofit art gallery and healing justice center in Los Angeles, sticks out like a vibrant castle in the midst of the harsh greys of urban Los Angeles. The bright shades of pink and elaborate designs that adorn its concrete walls draw you in, as if calling you to explore the treasures within. The gallery's current showing is Into the Pluriverse, running from June 25 through October 8, 2026. Into the Pluriverse is a group exhibition inspired by the Zapatista term...
The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.
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...
By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...
