TINY VINYL BUILDS A TURNTABLE FOR ITS SMALLEST RECORDS
 
Tiny Vinyl expands its miniature music format with a compact turntable designed specifically for four-inch records. The tabletop player uses a belt-driven platter rotating at 33.3 RPM, pairing the company’s palm-sized discs with hardware scaled to match. Finished in black leatherette, the device resembles a suitcase turntable that has spent a little too long in the wash.
 
The records themselves remain compatible with conventional turntables, so the new player is less a technical necessity than an attempt to create a complete ecosystem around the format. Each traditionally pressed release holds one track per side, with up to four minutes of playback,...

A new study based on aerial surveys suggests the pre-Columbian Aquiry civilisation had a much more developed and dispersed footprint than previously thought

110 years ago, Thomas Lupo’s grandfather opened the American Wood Column Corporation in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. Specializing in architectural woodwork including decorative moulding, columns, balusters, corbels, and more, the historic family-owned company is shutting down after more than a century. A new documentary directed and produced by filmmaker and photographer Joshua Charrow takes viewers on one final walk-through of the factory. A vast collection of about 6,000 handmade wooden molds—many of them reverse carved molds—cover the walls and correspond to numbered samples for reference. “My grandfather bought these molds used, and they were used,” Lupo explains. “So they’ve got...

The Musée du Louvre in Paris has loaned twenty-six artworks from its Islamic art collection to the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition “From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art,” which runs from September 25 through January 18, 2027. This marks the first time these works will be on view in the U.S., and the National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in […]

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Frieze London Is About to Get Less ShittyOne of the most demoralizing aspects of attending an art fair — and there are many — is surely using the restrooms, which are either sad Coachella-style portapotties or perfectly functional yet drab facilities with one absurdly labeled “exhibitors only” stall. Maybe that's why Frieze London invited artist Gray Wielebinski to reimagine its public bathrooms “as a site of refuge and exposure” (that's a real quote from the press release) for its upcoming September edition. Wielebinski is...

Seven of the institution’s buildings along the south side of the National Mall in Washington, DC, are closed until further notice

Depicting motherhood proves that “the genre exacts its toll regardless of how rigorous the treatment”

At 93 years old, Yoko Ono has witnessed multiple generations take up the questions at the heart of her practice, which at its core is about our humanity and responsibility to one another. Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed's dispatch from recent performances of Ono's works — including "Cut Piece" — traces her oeuvre as a living organism in itself, bringing new lessons with each iteration:

“Each monitor is ‘Unplugged,’ filled with a sheet of paper, and turned into a frame”

Left to right: Yoko Ono, Simone Forti, John Cage, and David Tudor. Photographed on the evening of Toshi Ichivanagi's performance at Ono's Chambers Street loft in New York, January 1961. (photo by Minoru Niizuma, © Yoko Ono)About a dozen years ago, I happened to be simultaneously writing two different essays about two of the most influential artists of the 20th century who are almost exact contemporaries: Simone Forti (born in Italy in 1935) and Yoko Ono (born in Japan in 1933). Only two years apart, these women had many other things in common besides age: They were both transcultural migrants whose early lives were shaped by the deprivations of fascism and war. Both experienced discrimination —...

steel canopy frames Barcelona’s logistics hub entrance Gate
 
The project is a new access gateway for the Zona Franca Logistics Park in Barcelona, one of the most significant logistics platforms along the Mediterranean Corridor. Rather than simply resolving a functional requirement, the design takes the opportunity to redefine the idea of an infrastructural threshold, turning the entrance into a spatial and territorial marker for the wider landscape. Conceived as a threshold device, the structure moves beyond the traditional notion of a gate. A triangulated steel lattice forms an irregular, faceted volume, its mesh-clad vertical faces carrying the signage that identifies and brands the park. The modulation...

The Smithsonian Institution on Thursday closed seven buildings on the National Mall, citing a failure of the temperature-control system. Visitors were turned away today from a swath of Smithsonian museums and facilities on the south side of the National Mall between Jefferson Drive and Independence Avenue SW, including the Smithsonian Castle, the Arts and Industries Building, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of Asian Art, the National Museum of African Art, and the S. Dillon Ripley Center. A Smithsonian spokesperson confirmed to The Washington Post that the facilities were closed after chilled water used to regulate temperature and...

Yesterday, the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy, revealed the extent of ongoing €50 million renovation plans spread across the museum. The revamp includes dozens of projects in the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, the nearby Palazzo Pitti, and the Boboli Gardens, some of which have already begun, while others are scheduled to start in the coming months, allowing the museum to remain open. “An operation of unprecedented scale and depth is underway,” said Uffizi director Simone Verde in a statement. “The museum complex will emerge from it even more beautiful, and an ever more essential icon of Italy.” Projects include new, more “visitor-friendly” services, displays, labels and signage, rehung...

A new megalithic funerary monument, one of the many so-called “Giants’ Tombs” scattered around Sardinia, has been uncovered in the central part of the Italian island. The Bronze Age tomb was discovered at Carrarzu Iddia, an archaeological site near the town of Macomer, as reported in Finestra Sull’Arte. The excavation was overseen by two local archaeology and fine art organizations, who were already working in the area. This tomb, and others in Sardinia, was built as a collective burial site around 1800 BCE by the Nuragic people. It was previously unknown due to thick vegetation and other debris concealing the structure, made up of a burial chamber and a semicircular exedra, or an area by the entrance,...

SUNGLASSES DESIGNED TO STAY CLOSE TO THE WATER
 
XYZ Integrated Architecture reduces a familiar summer accessory to its most indispensable parts. Developed specifically for pools, beaches, and other places where conventional eyewear tends to become inconvenient, Water Glasses combines individual lenses with lengths of paracord, removing the frame, hinges, and rigid arms normally used to hold sunglasses in place. The result sits somewhere between optical equipment, necklace, and a particularly useful piece of summer jewelry.
 
Instead of being folded into a case whenever the wearer enters the water, the lenses slide naturally below the chin or remain suspended around the neck. The cord therefore works...

MAC Cosmetics has joined forces with Jean-Michel Basquiat’s family and estate for its latest limited-edition collaboration, inspired by the late artist’s creative signatures. Debuting direct-to-consumer and in select MAC stores on Thursday, the six-piece collection ranges in price from $29 for loose powder pigments in three shimmering gold, taupe and white shades to $120 for a four-piece set of Basquiat Artist Brushes, which come in different shapes and sizes and are inspired by the paintbrushes Basquiat used for his own artwork. “Basquiat took ordinary things and put his spin on them, and that’s very similar to what we do here at MAC,” said MAC Cosmetics global creative director, Nicola...

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The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in Manila has appointed art historian, critic, and curator Carlos Quijon Jr. chief curator of its Contemporary Art Museum. Quijon arrives at the institution from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he has spent the past two years as the inaugural Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives […]

In a recent report, the National Park Service (NPS) has stated that Trump’s proposed United States Triumphal Arch would “result in impacts to the integrity of historic properties” in the nation’s capital.  The proposed arch is a gilded, 250-foot-tall monument that would be situated within Memorial Circle at the western end of the Arlington Memorial […]

From happenstance and humor to solemnity and tension, the images topping the 2026 Pure Street Photography Awards run the gamut of daily scenes. The annual contest is organized into two categories: black-and-white and open. Reflections of New York City meet dramatic views of urban spaces and pensive tableaux in rural communities, emphasizing timely and candid moments that center diverse human experiences. This year, eight winners were selected from nearly 1,600 entries submitted by photographers in 50 countries. An exhibition of 158 of the top images is slated to pop up at Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, India, from November 20 to 22. The open call is also now live for the 2027 edition, and you can see more and...

WASHINGTON, DC — Police arrested 16 protesters who unfurled banners bearing portraits of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) victims on the marble floor of the Hart Senate Office Building yesterday, August 5, according to a statement issued by Women's March.  The protesters were members of the Women’s March advocacy organization and had staged a “die-in” while holding banners representing the tombstones of people who were killed by ICE agents or died in ICE custody. They had gathered to call out senators who had financed ICE’s violence and were preparing to leave Washington for the August recess, the group said.Capitol Police has not yet responded to Hyperallergic’s inquiries about the...

Seven Smithsonian locations in Washington, DC, closed today, August 6, due to a "mechanical issue." According to the institution's announcement on X, the affected museums include the National Museum of the American Indian, Hirshhorn Museum, National Museum of Asian Art, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Castle, Arts and Industries Building, and the S. Dillon Ripley Center. A Smithsonian representative told the Washington Post that the buildings had stopped receiving cold water from their cooling system. The city is experiencing yet another swampy summer, with today's heat index values reaching near or above 100 degrees (~38 Celsius).  An exterior of The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture...

Dealer Elizabeth Mulholland, who for the last two decades has served as director and then partner at New York’s Andrew Kreps Gallery, is heading west to serve as a senior director at megadealer David Zwirner’s Los Angeles outpost.  “I genuinely wish Liz the best,” Kreps told ARTnews. “It’s a big life decision, and I’m supportive. She made a huge contribution to the gallery and I’m forever grateful.” Founded in 1993, Zwirner’s gallery empire expanded to Los Angeles in 2023, when he opened a 15,000-square-foot showroom in East Hollywood and a 30,000-square-foot Melrose Hill flagship, adding to its portfolio of galleries in New York, London, Paris, and Hong Kong. He joined Gagosian, Hauser &...

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White Cube now represents Tesfaye Urgessa who is set to debut at White Cube Hong Kong and Frieze Seoul

a waterfront shaped by fishing and faith
 
Along the Pattani River in southern Thailand, HAS design and research has built a bamboo pier around the routines of the city’s fishing communities and the ecology that supports them. Pattani sits close to the Malaysian border, where Muslim heritage and Malay-Thai histories have shaped a distinct regional identity. The river has long been central to that identity, supplying livelihoods while linking the city to the sea. The new Pattani Fishermen Community Hub places that relationship back at the center of the waterfront.
 
The commission grew from a wider question about how fishing infrastructure could serve the city beyond boat access. Architects Jenchieh Hung...

The MET brings together 120+ works by Lee Krasner & Jackson Pollock in first major New York exhibition dedicated to either artist in over 20 years.

A recent report revealed that 524 UK museums closed between 2000 and 2025. But while the government has offered short-term help, structural issues remain unresolved

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Timber cones define Feltham Green Cabin by Burgess Architects
 
Burgess Architects builds Feltham Green Cabin, a new community facility on the High Street in Feltham, London, as the culmination of a five-year project rooted in grassroots ambition and low-carbon design. It is defined by a distinctive conical roofscape. The cabin was commissioned by the London Borough of Hounslow on behalf of the Friends of Feltham Green, a local volunteer group that has long campaigned to improve this historically underserved part of west London. Sitting immediately adjacent to the Green rather than on it, the building activates an underused stretch of the High Street while preserving the open land it serves. The building’s...

Amid the rugged, wave-churned shoreline of France’s Breton coast, a surprising tidbit of pop culture has kept beachcombers returning for more than 40 years. The short film “Silly Little Plastic Cat” transports us to this slice of Brittany, where local residents grew up collecting parts of a 1984 Garfield-themed plastic telephone on the beach—and still do. Photographer and director Zack Grant, founder the production studio 2020 Land, was intrigued by the story, which made news a few years back after the source of the dispersed merchandise was finally discovered. The part of Brittany where the phones wash up is situated along a busy shipping thoroughfare. At some point during their transit in the...

Dmitri Tcherniakov's production of Der Freischütz in Munich may fire a few blanks, but the musicians are all on target.

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Gavin Turk will transform Sir John Soane's Museum with a major exhibition of new works responding to the historic house, its collection & archive.

West Star, a former Nato HQ near Verona, is expected to host 100,000 visitors annually

Forget blue-chip sales and VIP previews. The first details of Frieze 2026 have landed, and the headline commission involves cakes, rims and Dean's Bottom.

Interno giorno. Lo studio di Mario Raciti è immerso dentro una magnifica baraonda, sulla quale cadono pochi raggi filtrati dalle persiane, appena scompigliati da un ventilatore a soffitto. Viene strano pensare che, fino al 20 settembre, l’altro capo di questo studio affiorerà dentro la compostezza del Palazzo Reale di Milano. Per preparare le domande che seguono mi sono abbondantemente rifatto al volume di Mario Raciti Scritti e testimonianze, edito da Taut nel 2023 a cura di Iacopo Pesenti. Si è trattato di un passaggio essenziale per superare l’imbarazzo intrinseco del parlare di pittura, e specialmente di una pittura come quella di Raciti, che fa metodo dell’elusione sistematica di tutti i punti di...

The spiral is one of the most ubiquitous, universal symbols. Or perhaps it is more apt to describe the motif as mimicked from nature, where it occurs in the form of seashells, flowers, and curling waves. From Neolithic stone carvings at Newgrange in Ireland to swirling motifs on prehistoric pottery discovered in Thailand, the spiral represents growth, the cycles of life, and evolution. Sometimes two or more interlink, and other times they emerge from an endless line. For artist Jiang Miao, Eastern philosophy is a touchstone. “The spiral symbolizes life, time, and the cyclical order of the universe, while color becomes a vessel for invisible energy beyond the material world,” says Whitestone Gallery, which...

The Holy Presentation Church is said by officials to be the last surviving building of its kind from the 18th century

The Hayward Gallery will present Nan Goldin's first major UK exhibition since 2002

In un momento storico in cui le immagini sembrano precedere il loro stesso tempo di apparizione – generate, moltiplicate e consumate con una velocità crescente – la pittura di Ernst Yohji Jaeger pone una domanda essenziale: cosa permette ancora a un’immagine di acquisire presenza? Calamondin, presentata da Crèvecœur a Parigi, affronta la pittura come campo di trasformazione e verifica. Le opere di Jaeger conservano il conflitto tra apparizione e cancellazione, tra forma riconoscibile e superficie in movimento. Ogni quadro registra il percorso attraverso cui una visione conquista la propria necessità.
Ernst Yohji Jaeger, “Calamondin”, exhibition view, Crèvecœur, Paris, 2026. Courtesy of the...

In 2022, New York resident and bonafide feline devotee Dan Rimada felt that something needed to be done to shine a light on the city’s cats. The Big Apple not only has a real feral issue, but many of these creatures make their homes in iconic shops found around the city: bodegas. Over time, locals get to know them and they become fixtures of shelves and countertops. Technically, though, New York City considers it a health code violation to have animals in businesses that serve food. In spite of that, thousands of cats serve as mousers and rat catchers, and a lot of people don’t realize that the snoozy tabby nestled atop the Doritos bags is actually illegal. Rimada founded Bodega Cats of New York to bring...

Rising stars Chelsea Lehnea and Ricardo José Rivera are the protagonists of this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag.

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Who doesn't love a slightly murky archival recording?

The bonkers, bewildering Die ägyptische Helena begets a suitably lush musical and creative treatment at Bard SummerScape.

Jelena e Nataša Prljević sono artiste, operatrici culturali ed educatrici serbe. Nel 2018 a New York, insieme all’artista Joshua Nierodzinski, hanno dato vita a HEKLER, una piattaforma collaborativa transnazionale che esplora le relazioni tra ospitalità e conflitto attraverso programmi come Assembly, Host e Medium. Questa pratica ha ispirato Four Waters, a Ljubanje, in Serbia, una casa indipendente, un punto d’incontro e un rifugio per artisti e comunità, che fonde strategie artistiche, curatoriali, pedagogiche e organizzative, ponendo al centro il potenziale liberatorio del lavoro collaborativo e collettivo.
Jelena Prljević, “Baba Bosiljka Prljević, Ljubanje”, 2020. Ph courtesy of the...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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Just in time for this month's theme of filth or dementia, a review of Terrence McNally's Master Class from Central City Opera.

A selection of recent work by artist Emma Steinkraus. Based in Lexington, Virginia, Steinkraus  
   
   
   
   
 
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Beatriz Morales (Città del Messico, 1981) vive e lavora tra Hidalgo e Berlino. La sua pratica si origina nella pittura, ma ne sottopone progressivamente a verifica i confini, estendendo il gesto cromatico alla fibra, alla scultura e all’installazione. Il passaggio dalla superficie allo spazio non coincide tuttavia con un abbandono del linguaggio pittorico. Il colore continua ad agire come principio strutturante, assumendo consistenza materiale, profondità simbolica e valore culturale. Tecniche tessili, fibre vegetali e pigmenti non sono trattati come semplici risorse formali, ma come depositi di conoscenza. La materia trattiene temporalità, gesti, economie, storie di estrazione e pratiche di trasmissione....

By Victoria Thomas Photographer and ceramic artist Catherine (Cathy) Opie first shocked and rocked the fine art world with her self-portraits during the late 1990s. Today, her decades of work — often termed confessional — now serve as context for the far more enigmatic Holding Blue installation, on view at Regen Projects through July 3. The Los Angeles-based artist identifies as a leather dyke, lesbian cowboy, an elder, and as "Mama Cathy," with a mustachioed male alter-ego named Bo. Opie is...

Prima istituzione d’arte contemporanea fondata oltre la vecchia Cortina di Ferro, il Ludwig Múzeum di Budapest si conferma un osservatorio geopolitico e culturale imprescindibile per decifrare le traiettorie dell’Est Europa. Nato nel 1989 dalla lungimirante donazione dei collezionisti tedeschi Peter e Irene Ludwig, il museo ha esordito nel 1991 tra le mura storiche del Palazzo Reale di Buda, per poi trovare la sua collocazione definitiva, nel 2005, negli spazi monumentali e avveniristici del Müpa, l’avamposto architettonico del Palazzo delle Arti affacciato sul Danubio.
István Csákány (Sepsiszentgyörgy, 1978), “The Sewing Room / Ghost Keeping”, 2012 (dettaglio dall’installazione). Veduta...

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“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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