Turn the Tide media installation sets inside Climate Pledge Arena
 
Inside Climate Pledge Arena, a large-scale media installation titled Turn the Tide transforms two interior walls into an architectural interface combining environmental imagery, lighting, and motion. Designed by Digital Kitchen within the arena by Populous, the installation spans nearly 400 feet across the building’s east and west walls. The intervention is integrated into the spatial environment of the arena, which is recognized as the world’s first net-zero carbon certified arena. Rather than functioning as a standalone display, the project embeds media systems directly into the architectural surfaces, connecting visual content with...

Mythology, landscapes, and technology converge in the meticulous, Afrofuturistic sculptures of Ekow Nimako. Using thousands of black LEGO bricks, the Ghanaian-Canadian artist explores legends and folklore of the African diaspora, creating figurative embodiments of allegorical creatures and spiritual beings. Through a single, modular medium, he highlights a wide range of cultural phenomena, from graffiti writing in his series Building Black GRAPHICA to sprawling metropolises in Building Black CIVILIZATIONS. Recently, Nimako has been working on a collection inspired by African ceremonial masks, interstellar travel, machines, and geometric forms. Some of the works seen here are currently on view in Building Black...

The Hear Act of 2025, which now only needs president Trump’s signature to become law, extends and expands the reach of its 2016 predecessor

LEGO-styled mini Apple workstation by Watt IV
 
Design studio Watt IV recreates the 1979 LEGO brick with a printed screen and keyboard into a 3D printed workstation with a hidden Apple Mac Mini M4 inside. Partly designed from nostalgia, the device, named M2x2, comes with studs on top reimagined as functional nodes: one hides a media control knob, while the other works as a wireless charger for an Apple Watch or AirPods. The body is printed in bone white PLA+, the same color family as the original LEGO Space computer brick and the original Apple Macintosh 128K, which launched in 1984. The form follows the sloped brick geometry: a rectangular base, a face angled at 45 degrees, and two studs on top. 
 
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Over the past six months, a cohort of makers from the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts community has grown together via its Artist Grant Initiative. Supported by the Windgate Foundation, this award provided eight emerging artists with an unrestricted $10,000 grant and an online mentorship program with artist Vivian Chiu and maker and designer Cedric Mitchell. “It was inspiring to spend time with a group of artists who are navigating their own paths while thinking seriously about how their work lives in the world. The cohort brought curiosity, honesty, and a real openness to the process. It reminded me that building a creative life is as much about community and dialogue as it is about the work itself,”...

The members of the advisory board of Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum have penned a scathing letter to the leadership of DePaul University, which houses the museum, to reconsider its decision to shutter the 40-year-old institution on June 30, which was announced last month. The letter is addressed to school president Robert L. Manuel, provost Salma Ghanem, and other leaders as well as the board of trustees of the university, which is sited in the Windy City’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. It is signed by advisory board chair Scott J. Hunter, a retired professor who taught at the University of Chicago, along with other board members including artists Brendan Fernandes, Rachel L.S. Harper, and Melissa Leandro;...

The activist group Art Not Genocide Alliance released an open letter this week demanding that the Venice Biennale prevent Israel from participating in this year’s exhibition. The letter has been signed by nearly 200 artists, curators, and arts workers associated with this year’s edition of the Biennale. Among the signatories to the letter are curators Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo and Rasha Salti, two members of the team tasked with realizing the vision of the late curator Koyo Kouoh. Kouoh died last May just months after being announced as the curator of the 2026 Venice Biennale.  There are also dozens of artists included in the main exhibition, “In Minor Keys,” who signed the letter, as well as artists or...

After 15 months of bargaining with a New York University (NYU) administration accused of violating labor law on multiple fronts, the 900-plus professors who make up Contract Faculty United - United Auto Workers (CFU-UAW) have voted by a 90% supermajority to authorize a strike.How did we get here? For years, NYU’s handsomely paid administrators have consolidated power over university life while casualizing the school’s teaching force, not only by hiring part-time adjuncts but also by creating a second tier of full-time contract faculty like myself. These contingent workers often have responsibilities equivalent to those of tenured colleagues, but lack commensurate pay, benefits, and protections. Although...

British Swedish curator and writer James Taylor-Foster has been appointed executive director of Para Site in Hong Kong. He succeeds Billy Tang, who departed the role last May after leading the contemporary arts nonprofit for three years. The organization was overseen in the interim by deputy director Junni Chen. Taylor-Foster arrives to Para Site from ArkDes and Moderna Museet in Stockholm, where he […]

Madeleine Grynsztejn, one of the key figures of Chicago’s art scene, will leave her post as director of the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art at the end of the year, bringing to an end an 18-year-long tenure that has seen a range of celebrated retrospectives and a dramatic expansion of the institution’s collection and operating budget. In a phone interview, Grynsztejn pointed out that next year will mark the MCA’s 60th anniversary, and said that she felt it was time to step aside and allow someone else to take up her mantle. “I asked myself, who should be on the dais in January 2027? Should it be the person who brought the museum to this moment for the last 20 years, or should it be the person who...

Multidisciplinary artist Trevor Paglen, known for his work investigating the hidden systems of tech and power, has been named the winner of the fourth LG Guggenheim Award. Established in 2023 by New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and South Korean tech company LG as part of the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative, a five-year […]

Earlier this month, a group of plaintiffs filed a series of lawsuits against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) alleging that employees of the government agency used ChatGPT to decide which National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants should be canceled. The AI chatbot was used to determine whether the grants’ requests were related to diversity, equity, […]

Signatories include the artists Alfredo Jaar, Yto Barrada, Rosana Paulino, Meriem Bennani and Cauleen Smith, along with the curators such as Binna Choi and Carles Guerra

Black Concrete Volumes Shape Casa Mavra in Valle de Bravo
 
Two angular volumes of black concrete define Casa Mavra, a residence in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, designed by TAC Taller Alberto Calleja. The project is organized as a composition of intersecting forms that open toward the surrounding landscape while maintaining a strong connection to the ground. A continuous rising wall establishes the main sequence of entry. Extending from the street toward the interior, this element integrates a water feature that runs alongside the circulation path, marking the transition into the house. The wall continues through the project, organizing spatial distribution and ultimately transforming into roof planes that extend...

Along with its reputation as the driest and lowest national park in the U.S., Death Valley is also one of the hottest places on Earth. It holds the air temperature record of 134 degrees Fahrenheit, recorded in 1913. But in spite of its macabre name, Death Valley is anything but lifeless. And over the past couple of weeks, a rare “superbloom” demonstrates just how vivacious it can be. For photographer Dr. Elliot McGucken, who focuses on landscapes and nature, the visual cacophony of wildflowers foregrounding the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes or dramatic mountains like Telescope Peak are an endless source of fascination. Death Valley’s predominant flower displays are magenta and yellow—Phacelia and Desert...

A passionate cartographer reveals fascinating histories—and what we lose with the demise of printed maps

In 2020, photographer Rania Matar returned to the Lebanese capital of Beirut in the aftermath of the infamous port explosion. There, she encountered a sentence scrawled on an abandoned building: “Where do I go?” The question stuck with her, indicative of a nation that has faced turmoil, conflict and upheaval for decades. She herself left the country in 1984, during the Lebanese Civil War, and recognises her own experience in many other women who face the painful decision of whether to stay or leave. Now, that graffiti has become the title of a new exhibition and accompanying book. Matar explained that the name “was taken from the writing on the wall of an abandoned silk factory in Kfarmatta, south of the...

John Danaher on the world-premiere recording of Clémence de Grandval's wild and worthy Mazeppa, the latest release from the operatic archaeologists at Palazzetto Bru Zane.

Balshaw says a proposed 'tourist tax' would be a better source of revenue for UK museums

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Trevor Paglen is this year’s winner of the LG Guggenheim Award for technology-minded artists, the New York museum revealed on Tuesday. Through the prize, he will win $100,000, a vast sum that he said will support the costs of his work, which contends with surveillance technology and AI. “This is very expensive work to do,” Paglen told ARTnews. “The R&D costs are insane. So this definitely helps me fund a project I didn’t know how to fund, one that’s pretty expensive. That’s really exciting.” Paglen, who won a MacArthur “genius” fellowship in 2017, is best known for photographs that appear to represent placid skies, abstracted landscapes, and shimmering stars. In fact, all of these pictures...

Superflux creates speculative designs for collective futures
 
Design studio Superflux analyzes our current world through the lens of speculative designs in hopes of crafting and building safer and more critical collective futures and climates. Founded in London by Anab Jain and Jon Ardern, the studio has spent fifteen years curating a practice around a specific ethos: that the most effective way to change what people do today is to make them experience what tomorrow can look like. 
 
They illustrate details backed by data, science, and facts, allowing their imagined futures to no longer stand as theories but as actionable methods. Where forecasting extends from data, speculative design builds from...

ELEVATE ALL-NEW NISSAN MICRA: THE SIGNATURE EDITION 
 
Nissan, in collaboration with designboom, has announced the 11 finalists of Elevate All-New Nissan MICRA: The Signature Edition, an international design competition launched on August 11, 2025. Open to creatives worldwide, the contest invited designers, architects, students, and visual thinkers to reinterpret the exterior identity of the all-new Nissan MICRA without altering its original structure. Following a multi-phase selection process reviewed jointly by Nissan and designboom, the finalists now move forward as contenders for a Signature Edition that will be the final winner set to be revealed on March 30, 2026.
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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The HeadlinesHEAR, HEAR. The HEAR Act was adopted by the House of Representatives on Monday, and now heads to President Trump for approval, reported the New York Times. The bipartisan bill is designed to make it easier to restitute Nazi-looted artworks by extending the original 2016 act, which expires later this year. However, new amendments to the bill have some worried that it goes too far, making it hard for current owners of potentially looted artworks to fairly defend themselves. Notably, the bill states that looted art should be considered a violation of international law, giving the US legal...

Lorena Bradford might not be a household name, but she really should be. The first head of Accessible Programs at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, Bradford started monthly tours in American Sign Language, established a program for individuals with memory loss, and brought in medical students to learn soft skills to apply in their caregiving. "I was a sub-department of one," she joked to writer Emma Cieslik, who spoke with Bradford over Zoom and at the NGA about her own circuitous path into the profession, and the future of the field of museum accessibility. The Trump administration, of course, has taken its toll, but she's hopeful for the future.Also today, we've got something of...

Boris Christoff's Procida (along with Cerquetti's Elena) lifts Mario Rossi's RAI Torino Vespri to distinction.

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Il passaggio tra l’inverno e la primavera di quest’anno preannuncia l’incontro, alla Galleria Il Ponte, con la scultura di Mauro Staccioli (Volterra 1937 – Milano 2018), artista in bilico tra due secoli, messo in luce nell’arco temporale dagli anni Ottanta all’inizio dei Duemila. L’esposizione, a cura di Caterina Martinelli, consente un’osservazione nel contesto della sua produzione artistica, più nota per installazioni monumentali rispetto alle derivazioni posteriori in scala ridotta, oggi fondamenta dell’Archivio Staccioli di Volterra insieme a scritti, appunti e progetti. Un lavoro concepito in relazione a un luogo, scevro da rappresentazione e narrazione, eppure armonicamente inserito...

Ryan Vizzions is archiving the objects left at the site of Renee Good's murder. (all photos by and courtesy Ryan Vizzions)Ryan Vizzions, a photojournalist from Atlanta, had already arrived in Minnesota when federal immigration agents murdered poet and mother Renee Nicole Macklin Good. For the last five years, the traveling photographer has been living out of his small van as he travels across the country for a photo survey exploring what it means to be American in all 50 states. He was taking photos at Lake Superior when he learned of Good’s killing, and drove immediately to the street where agents shot Good in her car. He arrived in time for a massive vigil held in Good’s memory. Nearly two months...

Eugene Gordon's photographs of 1980s Queens (all photos Lakshmi Rivera Amin/Hyperallergic)You’ll hear The New York Sari before you see it.Anoushka Shankar’s sitar, Arooj Aftab’s voice, and Alice Coltrane’s harp spill into the hallway outside the one-room exhibition, on view at the New York Historical through April 26. Suchitra Mattai’s “she arose (from a pool of tears)” (2024), a Bharatnatyam dancer made from used and loved saris, greets visitors at the entrance. The small but mighty show serves as a primer on South Asian history in New York, framed conceptually and visually through the sari in all its infinite pleats, drapes, and patterns.Co-curators Salonee Bhaman and Anna Danzinger...

Artforum revisits J. Hoberman’s 2011 essay on midcentury cinema as proto-Pop art.

The Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) has named Mumbai-based curator and artist Jitish Kallat as the new president of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Kallat, a KBF board member and the curator of the biennale’s second edition in 2014–15, will oversee the selection of the curator for the biennale’s seventh iteration. He takes the reins from Biennale cofounder Bose Krishnamachari, who stepped […]

Six volcanic-stone boxes found at Templo Mayor reveal a ceremony linked to Moctezuma I’s imperial expansion

For Chris Perani, the most diminutive details—the kind that are virtually impossible to see with the naked eye—are an endless source of wonder. His ongoing series, Wings, focuses on the prismatic effect of insects’ anatomy in what he describes as “extreme macro.” The images reveal details we’d otherwise only be able to see clearly beneath a microscope, and a meticulous process illuminates undulating, scaled surfaces that resemble chromatic pixels, stained glass, or even beadwork. Perani uses special lenses that magnify objects up to 10 times, but he also takes up to 2,000 carefully measured shots of each specimen. He then digitally stacks them to achieve incredible clarity and dimension. Each...

NeSpoon continues to embellish the sides of residential complexes and facades of historic buildings around the world with her striking murals. Taking the deceptively simple concept of lace and translating it to an architectonic scale, the artist adds a striking element of whimsy and a nod to craft that peek out around city corners. As far as we can tell, lace has been around since at least the early 16th century, and it may have originated in Venice. Over the centuries, as the practice evolved and its popularity grew, so did its styles and the techniques used to create it. There’s bobbin lace, which involves fiber attached to small bobbins, which are used to braid or twist the thread into a delicate fabric....

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A trolley. A dining table. A mahjong board. In Jessie Li’s work, everyday objects expand to become investigations into personal memory and family archives. The Chinese-born artist, now based in West Yorkshire, creates participatory, site-specific installations that transform overlooked urban spaces into sites of dialogue. She collaborates with local residents and artists, using interviews and fieldwork to create spaces where marginalised voices can be heard. These are pieces that see silence transformed into story.  Li trained initially in Chinese painting and art history before moving into video installation and interdisciplinary media. She later completed a BA in Digital Media Art at the University of...

If I must choose a single bass performance, it is still Boris Christoff’s Boris Godunov.

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A un certo momento, nel romanzo di Mary Shelley (Londra, 1797 – 1851), la creatura smette di chiedere di essere amata e comincia a desiderare che chi l’ha rifiutata soffra quanto lei. L’amore si converte in odio e la benevolenza dell’artefice verso la propria opera, come quella della società verso chi ne è escluso, si rivela premessa di violenza. Shelley pubblicò Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus nel 1818, come esperimento narrativo sul limite della scienza, ispirata dai test condotti nel XVIII secolo da Erasmus Darwin sulla rianimazione della materia morta e dal galvanismo.
Motus, “Frankenstein (a love story)”, photo © Andrea Macchia, courtesy ERT-Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione
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Kristine Schomaker and Genie Davis at the Getty By Kristine Schomaker I've known Genie Davis for years. She shows up. That's the first thing you notice about her — and also the thing you never stop noticing, because she just keeps doing it. She's at openings, she's writing reviews, she's telling anyone who will listen about artists she believes in. For over a decade, her blog Diversions LA has been quietly, consistently documenting the Southern California art scene because she genuinely loves...

David Fox and Dan Johnson report on Yannick Nézet-Seguin's recent performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia and New York.

In art and life, the future has emerged as both a caution and a possibility. The climate crisis, accelerating technologies and new planetary infrastructures now shape the narratives artists construct about tomorrow. Increasingly, creative practice is less about prediction and more about rehearsal, imagining how humanity might navigate the realities unfolding. The news cycle right now shows a new senseless war, and this, coupled with Gaza and Ukraine, sees the planet inching closer and closer to that doomsday clock.  Immersive exhibitions have emerged as powerful arenas for this speculative thinking, intersecting art, science fiction and design. They allow audiences not merely to observe but to inhabit...

Three more months of The Talk of the Town means that we need your most sizzling takes!

Daguerreotypes. Photograms. Double exposure. Today, we’re spotlighting five experimental photography exhibitions. These shows feature a mix of 20th century pioneers, like Lillian Bassman, whose visionary work redefined fashion and fine art photography, alongside contemporary practitioners such as Garry Fabian Miller and Liz Nielsen, who continue to explore light, colour and process in groundbreaking ways. Across these exhibitions, each image challenges perception, interrogates memory and celebrates the material and conceptual possibilities of lens-based medium. This is traditional imagery, reimagined. Liz Nielsen: Interdimensional Timelines  Joseloff Gallery at Hartford School of Art | Until 11 April ...

Photography remains one of the most vital ways we examine society, culture and the intimate contours of human experience. The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026, hosted at The Photographers’ Gallery in London from 6 March to 7 June, continues this tradition, foregrounding the ways contemporary photographers challenge perception, narrative and the politics of representation. Established in 1996, the Prize identifies and rewards artists for an exhibition or book that has made a significant contribution to photography in the previous twelve months. Over three decades, it has become a barometer for innovation and social engagement, spotlighting work that is aesthetically compelling while deeply...

La Mestna galerija Nova Gorica presenta Movimento incessante, personale di Arianna Ellero. La mostra è corredata da un testo di Daniele Capra e da una composizione sonora di Stefano Pilia che s’intitola The Suncrows Fall And Tree. Immagini e musica intrecciano pertanto un dialogo a due voci, quasi un contrappunto da manuale, dove la nota musicale cerca il suo alter ego nel segno pittorico, in una continuità con la storia dell’arte che ci riporta in primo piano le azioni musicate di Jannis Kounellis o le antropometrie di Yves Klein. Il passato, allora, ritorna nel senso che il movimento, in questa mostra, può essere inteso anche come fattore temporale del nostro vissuto, come un flusso (o un fluire) che...

Il MAG – Museo Alto Garda ospita Ultimate Landscapes. L’illusione del ghiaccio, una grande mostra dedicata al progetto che il fotografo romano Claudio Orlandi porta avanti dal 2008: un racconto visivo sulle trasformazioni irreversibili dei ghiacciai, tra le testimonianze più drammatiche e urgenti della crisi climatica contemporanea.
Claudio Orlandi, “Ultimate Landscapes”, installation view at Museo Alto Garda, Riva del Garda (TN), ph. Nicola Eccher, courtesy the artist and Museo Alto Garda
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Claudio Orlandi: Galeotto fu il mio matrimonio, grazie al quale ricevetti in regalo una Reflex e da lì, iniziai a interessarmi alla...

KRK Ryden's latest solo show "Wet Bread" is now on view at Brassworks Gallery in Portland. Read an interview on the pop surrealist from our archives by clicking above!
The post In Blob We Trust: The Art of KRK Ryden first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

At Windsor Castle, a one-of-a-kind architectural marvel isn’t a structural part of the building itself or even a full-size feature. Here, you’ll find Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House, widely regarded as the largest and most famous in the world. Designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, the house was built between 1921 and 1924 and contains items and furnishings conceived of by hundreds of the leading craftspeople and artisans of the day. Queen Mary, consort to King George V between 1910 and 1936, was an enthusiast of all things miniature. Her dolls’ house even contains scale versions of nearly 600 real books in its library, including works by literary giants like A.A. Milne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

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Al centro della pratica di Shenlu Liu si trova un intreccio sottile tra gesto manuale, materia e spazio, in un linguaggio poetico e meditativo. Nata a Pechino nel 2000, Liu ha studiato Fashion Design (Knitwear) al Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology e ha completato un MA in Textiles al Royal College of Art di Londra, laureandosi con distinzione. La sua pratica si colloca deliberatamente oltre i confini dell’artigianato, trasformando maglia, tessitura, ricamo e simulazione digitale in strumenti concettuali capaci di restituire esperienza sensoriale e attenzione al corpo, alla percezione e al tempo, in dialogo con la dimensione immateriale della contemporaneità. Attraverso video, stampe digitali...

There are many occasions when language fails me, when a poet’s hand seems what is needed to get to the truth of a thing—a man’s life, a work of art, a life of art. This is such a moment. To call the oil paintings of Eyvind Earle “landscapes” is accurate but very sorely wanting. For […]
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We’re very pleased to announce that the first in our The Colour Library series, BLUE, is now available to order now from the Shutter Hub shop!
The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives. Our first edition is dedicated to blue.
A colour of depth and distance. Blue is a language. Vast as the sky and as still as water. Blue can evoke calm, melancholy, serenity and sorrow.
From literal to abstract interpretations, and alternative processes, within these pages...

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By Kristine Schomaker I keep seeing Liberal Jane's work pop up across different platforms - Instagram, obviously, but also sliding through Facebook, saved in Pinterest boards, shared in group chats. This immersion matters more than I think we acknowledge. These aren't gallery pieces waiting for the right audience to find them. They're already embedded in the actual digital infrastructure where people are trying to survive right now. Caitlin Blunnie has been making this work for seven years,...

The Pacific Northwest is perhaps the wildest, most breathtaking region in the continental United States. With its combination of mountain ranges, conifer forests, lakes, rivers, and ancient sequoias looming over the California coast, the geography and texture of Wyoming, Montana, California, and Oregon return us to North America’s primordial past. It reminds us of when […]
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