A tarot deck may seem like an easy gift for someone who loves tarot. But what if they already have... Read More

Proposed cut of eight positions would put the collections at risk, the museum's curators say

Artists from the city have long struggled to gain exposure beyond their home—but now things could be changing

Agnieszka Kurant turns art crates, freeports and AI into a speculative game of chess.

The Quantum Effect at OGR Torino
 
At OGR Torino, The Quantum Effect, an expansive exhibition on art and quantum theory, illustrates the seemingly unknowable principles of quantum mechanics with mirrors, monkeys, and monoliths. To enter the exhibition, one must pass through a series of mirrors that create a dizzying sense of disorientation. Turn a corner, and there’s a projection of those reflective halls being played back to the viewer. It’s a visual collapsing of perception that speaks to the uncertainty of the universe. Here, curators Daniel Birnbaum and Jacqui Davies create a world in which Mark Leckey, Yayoi Kusama, and Tomás Saraceno come into dialogue with Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and...

HOW INDIAN ARCHITECTURE IS WRITING A NEW SCRIPT FOR GLOBAL DESIGN
 
Built99 arrives to bridge Indian architecture and design with the global creative sphere, spotlighting practices defined by low-impact construction, native materials, and cultural responsiveness. Backed by designboom and ArchDaily, the initiative introduces an annual list celebrating 99 nominated studios whose work actively challenges conventional building practices. The goal is clear: ensure this regional contextual intelligence takes its rightful place in shaping the future of contemporary architecture and design.
Built99 brings Indian architecture into the global conversation | all images courtesy of Built99
 
 
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I'm not sure if Eleanor Steber's strongly founded marble tower is a lyrical improvement, but I just can't imagine this being sung better. Can you?

Smart, powerful, thoughtful women are at the center of today’s issue. First, two absolute giants in the form of race and aesthetics scholar Anne Anlin Cheng and artist and director Patty Chang join forces for a conversation about the latter’s show at Stanford, the afterlives of Asian-American violence, and so much more. It’s a rare treat to peek into the machinations of two great minds — not least to see them deepen each other’s thinking, as happens here. “I definitely tend to think about beauty as a kind of covering up, you know, like hiding blemishes or imperfections,” Chang says at one point. “But I like this idea about the relationship, the closeness between beauty and violence. I’d like...

BIG’ rethinks refugee settlements as cities, not temporary camps
 
BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) and to.org propose Refugee Future Cities, a comprehensive urban masterplan for Bidi Bidi in northern Uganda that challenges the approach to refugee settlements as temporary places of shelter. Home to approximately 230,000 refugees, the settlement continues to expand, with the proposal designed to accommodate an additional 155,000 residents while connecting Zones 1 and 2.
 
The project approaches Bidi Bidi refugee camp as a city, integrating residential areas with public spaces, education, healthcare, local production, and economic opportunities. Refugee settlements are often planned as temporary places of shelter,...

GARTON GROUP ARCHITECTURE builds CASA BLACK IN PLAYA GRANDE
 
Sited in Playa Grande along Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, Casa Black is a private residence designed by Garton Group Architecture. Organized along an extended linear axis, the home mediates between communal gathering areas and secluded retreats, establishing continuous thresholds that connect domestic routines with the surrounding tropical landscape.
 deep roof overhangs shelter the home within its tropical garden | all images ©Garton Group Architecture
 
 
STONE-LINED CORRIDOR LEADS TO TIMBER-CEILINGED COMMUNAL LIVING
 
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the original walkman headphones return
 
Sony has revived the headphones that came with its first Walkman in 1979, bringing the familiar MDR-3 design back as the new MDR-3R. The wired headphones retain the slender silver headband and brightly colored foam ear pads of the original, now updated with a USB-C connection for contemporary devices. Nearly five decades later, the design looks remarkably familiar, down to its small circular speakers and exposed metal supports.
 
When Sony introduced the original Walkman TPS-L2, it changed the way people listened to music, making personal audio something that could travel anywhere. Its accompanying headphones were an important part of that shift. Lightweight enough to...

Nvidia CEO depicted looking at alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang, while his wife, Lori Huang, looks on in horror (screenshot @beanexplains via Instagram)After two Astronomer executives were caught canoodling on the jumbotron during a Coldplay concert last year, another tech CEO's extramarital affair has become the meme of the season. Since confessing to his affair with suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang on Sunday, November 8, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has set off a firestorm across the tech and geopolitical spheres and, to our amusement, social media. In a message shared with his employees on November 8, the 63-year-old CEO acknowledged the affair and extended an apology to his wife, Lori Huang, and his two...

One day after the historic rout by the Democrats nationwide on Election Day a week ago, Trump took to the construction site of the sprawling ballroom he is constructing on the grave of the East Wing of the White House, which he abruptly razed in October 2025. “Trump invited reporters into a cavernous construction site and talked about the building project for nearly 20 minutes,” reported PBS, “without mentioning sweeping Republican defeats around the country the night before.” The next day, Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to greenlight the 90,000-square-foot construction project, including the 22,000-square-foot ballroom-cum-military complex. He asked the...

In a new low for an art world we thought had reached rock bottom, Artnet has announced an official partnership with the betting platform Kalshi in an incestuous marriage of two markets known for financial opacity, insider trading, and the most insufferable straight men you've ever met: art and predictions.The news came in a press release ahead of New York's marquee auction week, promising interested budding criminals users an exclusive opportunity to “trade yes-or-no contracts in a peer-to-peer structure” (??) on public art sales. The mechanism is as follows: Artnet will use its Price Database, once nostalgically the realm of wannabe art advisors trying to sound like they have an MBA, to...

Romare Bearden, "Untitled (Family)" (1969) (all images courtesy Coffee Bluff Pictures)A new documentary about Romare Bearden embraces a collage-like sensibility, fitting well with the artist’s most influential work. Romare Bearden: A Life in Collage, soon to screen at DOC NYC, eschews the familiar structure of a linear biography, jumping around to find thematic rhymes through different periods of Bearden’s life. Early on, for instance, the film alludes to Bearden’s family’s participation in the Great Migration, but rather than dwell on his biography, it turns to the recurring motif of trains in his work. The film benefits from generous access to recordings of Bearden himself, who speaks with...

Efforts are underway to restore vernacular architecture and historic signage along the route of America’s most famous highway, which opened 100 years ago this month

The 2027 edition of the Liverpool Biennial, scheduled to open June 5 and continue through September 19, will feature 25 artists and collectives assembled in mind of a newly designated theme: “The Age of Magical Thinking.” “The title draws on psychologist Jean Piaget’s identification of a particular period in childhood development when the lines between reality and make-believe are blurred,” reads a press release. “This is an age when the imagination is powerful; tomorrow is charged with potential and when magical thinking can help to create new, alternative worlds.” Curated by Aimee Harrison and Lucía Sanromán, the exhibition across the city in North West England will include a public art...

The Dubai-based art collector Elie Khouri is building a new private foundation. Set to open in 2028, the Elie Khouri Art Foundation (Ekaf) will house Khouri’s collection, which includes work by over 300 artists, in a coastal villa redesigned by architect Sumayya Vally and her firm Counterspace. Originally from Lebanon, Khouri is one of the […]

The opposition to President Trump’s 250-foot triumphal arch has gained a formidable ally: the Kennedy family. Nine members of the Kennedy family moved on Tuesday to join ongoing litigation in Washington, D.C., seeking to halt the project before construction begins. Echoing a central criticism of the project, the Kennedys argue that the arch would cast a shadow over the graves of their relatives buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The filing adds that the structure would obstruct the solemn sightline from the eternal flame at President John F. Kennedy’s gravesite, across Memorial Bridge to the Lincoln Memorial, “destroying an essential element of the gravesite’s design.” Two of the plaintiffs, Rory...

German art historian Henry Keazor has reattributed a work on paper to Pierre-Auguste Renoir that had previously been labeled a forgery. Keazor is the founder of the Heidelberg Forgery Study Collection (HeFäStuS), which is “a collaboration with the three state criminal investigation offices of Berlin, Bavaria, and Baden-Württemberg, which provide forgeries from their evidence rooms as loans for research and teaching purposes,” according to its website. Students at the University of Heidelberg, where Keazor is a professor of modern and contemporary art history, have first-hand access to its 140 forgeries of artists like Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dalí, and Alberto Giacometti, so they can “can become...

The woman portrayed in Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” (1948), Christina Olson, has become one of the most iconic figures in American art. Less familiar, perhaps, is the woman who also posed for this painting: his wife, Betsy James Wyeth. Dubbed the “chief architect of the Wyeth mystique,” Betsy shaped the Wyeth brand, Andrew’s life, and art for over seven decades in undeniable ways. Though she rarely occupied the spotlight herself, her influence was everywhere: she handled his business affairs, controlled his public image, wrote books about his art, and maintained his catalogue raisonné. She also served as a creative advisor, critiquing his paintings and giving them their titles.By Design:...

Excavations in the former crematorium area of ​​the Dachau concentration camp, Germany DACHAU, GERMANY—Human bone fragments were found in a layer of ash at the site of the Dachau concentration camp in southern Germany, according to a Daily Express report. More than 200,000 people, including Jews, political opponents, priests, and resistance fighters, were imprisoned at Dachau during a 12-year period. The ashes were uncovered during an excavation of a well-preserved facility near the crematorium where Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) units trained dogs to terrorize and attack prisoners. Thirty-five kennels were also uncovered at the site. The dogs were used to round up prisoners attempting to escape the camp, and...

Rhizome has announced a pilot program to offer artist and partner channels on video.rhizome.org (VRO), a self-hosted video platform. The program took shape after Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) was censored by Vimeo in May of this year. Rhizome and EAI worked together to migrate more than 3,000 artist videos from EAI’s 5,000 strong collection, which […]

Galleries that participated in this year’s Art Basel Paris will see their invoices reduced by 20 percent after the fair closed early owing to planned protests, Artnews reports. Welcoming VVIP visitors on October 20, and hosting preview days on October 21 and 22, the event opened to the public on October 23. Fearing not only […]

TRENTO, ITALY—Phys.org reports that new investigations at Riparo Mochi, a rock shelter near the border of France and Italy, suggests that hunter-gatherers from Spain entered Italy earlier than previously thought. Previous excavation of the site uncovered a type of pointed stone tool known as a Noailles burin, thought to have been used to engrave or carve grooves in hard materials such as bone and antler by the people of the Noailles culture. A recent excavation at the rock shelter conducted by Fabio Santaniello of the University of Trento and his colleagues uncovered more than 7,500 artifacts, including an intact hearth surrounded by marine shells, Noailles burins, and other tools. Microscopic analysis of...

Frog bone samples CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by Bournemouth University, analysis of thousands of frog bones recovered from a settlement in the Cambridgeshire Fens has determined that the amphibian bones were likely left behind by birds of prey. More than 8,000 frog bones were recovered from a ditch at the site of a roundhouse. Some had suggested that the remains could be evidence of a mysterious frog cult practiced from about 400 B.C. to A.D. 43, but no cut marks were found on the bones, making it unlikely that the animals were killed by humans. Researchers led by Paul Clarkson of Bournemouth University first radiocarbon dated the bones to about 1,700 years ago, when the waters...

Dropping in on Ian James, founder of Los Angeles Chinatown gallery Leroy’s

Utah’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced on Friday that it’s investigating two incidents of vandalism near Moab, in which people carved names and other markings into or near prehistoric petroglyphs. ArtNews reports that one incident occurred on along the Utah Scenic Byway 279, which runs parallel to the Colorado River, and the other by […]

Elie Khouri, the French-Lebanese philanthropist and entrepreneur, who is readying his contemporary art foundation, the Elie Khouri Art Foundation (Ekaf), to open in 2028 in Dubai, has appointed architect Sumayya Vally of Counterspace to design the foundation. This year, Khouri appeared on ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list. The foundation will house its own permanent collection. Although, Khouri’s art collection features paintings by Julie Curtiss and Gunther Förg along with pieces by Carol Bove, Dana Schutz, Kehinde Wiley, and more. He started collecting in the late 2000s by acquiring a work by the Lebanese painter Nabil Nahas. Since then, he has been adding 30 to 35 works every year to his collection....

Exhibitors will receive a 20% discount on stand fees, following a strongly worded letter from France's gallery association to Art Basel

Jeanine De Bique, appearing in recitals in Fort Worth and New York this fall, casts a spell in this week’s Grand Tier Grab Bag.

Show at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection looks at how Egidio Costantini helped artists such as Max Ernst and Lucio Fontana turn their sculptures into glass artworks

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Ask a seasoned collector about their first acquisition, and you’re likely to hear that they began with limited-edition prints. Often accessible in price point yet bearing the artist’s signature and maybe even hand embellishments, prints are the perfect entry point for people interested in living with art each and every day. For the holidays, our partners at Joy Machine have graciously curated a special collection of limited-edition prints for the budding collector in your life. Liz Flores: “Untitled” (2026) Sentrock: “Better Days Ahead” (2026) Mar Figueroa: “Untitled” (2024) Anna Valdez: “Untitled” (2026) Cody Hudson: “Self-Sufficiency Mono Print (Tangerine Variant)” (2024) Stevie Shao:...

Researcher Matt Waters stands next to a sediment core sample pulled from an ancient Maya Lowlands lake. AUBURN, ALABAMA—Reuters reports that mercury contamination has been identified at additional Maya sites. The Maya used the red pigment cinnabar, which contains mercury, in ceremonies and funerary rites, and to paint murals and decorate temples. A previous study confirmed mercury contamination at the Maya site of Tikal in Guatemala. Now, Matt Waters of Auburn University and Savanna Wooten of the Jones Center at Ichauway have identified mercury in core samples taken from lake beds at the sites of Coba and Xcach, which are located on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. The study found a mercury spike at Coba...

Sword and scan of the lower end of the sword and its scabbard COLMAR, FRANCE—A fifth-century cemetery A.D. has been excavated in northeastern France by archaeologists from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP), Live Science reports. The cemetery was used between about A.D. 450 to 500, around the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire. The graves of 11 adults, three children, and two horses buried with their harnesses have been uncovered. Silver bird-shaped brooches, glass bead necklaces, and a bone comb have been recovered from the women’s graves. A sword, a wooden scabbard, a shield, and a javelin have been unearthed in the men’s burials. A Germanic short sword...

More than 15,300 submissions made their way to the judges for this year’s Close-Up Photographer of the Year, setting a record for the highest number of entries in the competition’s history. From uncanny insects to slime molds to unexpected animal interactions, photographs captured by amateur and professional photographers alike highlight the diverse and sometimes surreal flora and fauna all around us. The contest winners will be announced in January. In the meantime, a photography challenge on the theme of “Close to Home” is open for submissions through the end of the month. Explore some of our favorites from the shortlist below, and learn more on the contest’s website. Joao Pontes, “Suspended”...

The Metropolitan Opera has added a live, free video broadcast of Lincoln in the Bardo to its fall lineup on Saturday, 14 November at 8 PM EST.

Plumbing the rhythms of the ocean and marine life, Amy Genser creates undulating abstractions that evoke swells, currents, reefs, and the sea floor. The artist composes elaborate wall works from rolled mulberry paper, acrylic, and wire in which patterns move and converge across swaths of blues and greens. The closer you look, the more colors emerge. Although reminiscent of the sea in many ways, Genser’s works defy instant recognition. At first glance, they may appear topographical, as if a luminous, clear sea is being viewed from above. The rolling forms are redolent of waves but also perhaps the way corals cluster around rock formations. Then, details draw us nearer: bulbous forms with cavities resemble...

Saioa Hernández makes a no-hold-barred house debut in The Metropolitan Opera's prematurely dusty Tosca.

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Consider this 1959 Italian-language blowout from Palermo, with Franco Corelli’s infiammatissimo Don José

Son Lux’s newest music video is an atmospheric mini-epic. Last month, the video premiered at MASS MoCA—the piece is a joint commission by the museum and Pioneer Works and made in collaboration with Alex Cook—as an immersive, 17-minute installation titled “Out Into Us (Slow Down),” complementing the release of the band’s ninth studio album. “In the last decade, social media has created a reality in which music is often eclipsed by visuals, served up in an endless buffet of bite-sized and contextless flavors,” says a statement. For this multimedia work, the artists leaned instead toward deeply felt human experiences, like how long it can take to do or understand something. Portraying a...

Tattooed with verdant foliage, the central figure in Kelly Sinnapah Mary’s portraits is both a product of and subsumed by the plant life that surrounds her. Born in the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe, the artist conjures the mythic stories of her home through surreal scenes in which humans, flora, and fauna find a sort of hybrid harmony. Sinnapah Mary’s recurring figure is named Sanbras, which the artist derived from a derogatory children’s book popular in the 19th and 20th centuries. Through uncanny compositions that rely heavily on saturated color and delicate, organic textures, Sanbras appears as a subversive figure who morphs across various bodies of work and nods to the artist’s enduring...

UK artist Harry Waine, aka, Jimi Biscuits, oh-so-gently smacks viewers with a one-two punch of color and content that feels like reading retro comics on acid. Fusing punchy, wry humor with stunning and stark graphics, he’s built a following on Instagram, and collaborated with the likes of Paperwallet and various record labels to create a […]
The post “Art Is Slowly Adding the Unnecessary”: An Interview With Jimi Biscuits first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Print Center New York has appointed Yukiko Yamagata as its new Executive Director, succeeding Judy Hecker following her decade-long tenure.... Read More

Gareth McConnell brings three decades of photography, political history and rave culture to Stills Edinburgh.

More than £10m in new funding brings IWM Lab at Duxford closer to opening in 2029.

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All photos by Yubo Dong Ian Davis convenes nondescript characters into enigmatic gatherings. Often male, he calls them “actors.” But what kind of actor? They seem to be always on the brink of chaos or recoiling from its aftermath. Their exact charge is unclear to the viewer, and Davis has said in the past that […]
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With photos provided by Stephen ESPO and Matthew Kuborn, courtesy of ESPO Stephen Powers is a New York-based artist with a bold, straightforward style that combines minimalism, a carnival sideshow joie de vivre, and pristine design. Nothing about his career makes sense. He spurns the dealership model and operates an atelier-style shop in New York […]
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Ominous backrooms? Echoey abandoned spaces? nope. These are the carefully explored and brilliantly captured photographs of instruments by Charles Brooks. Symphonic music can be epic. Grandiose in scale. It sweeps and pans through an architecturally tuned performance space, connecting our brains with the shared resonance of sound. And simultaneously, it can be intimate, reverberating through […]
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Credit: Márcia Falcão I was invited to attend two of the opening days of Frieze London and, arriving in my home city, I was immediately reminded of its extraordinary energy, gathering pace around the nucleus of the Regent's Park venue. The art on display was more than equal to the occasion. A-listers and icons from across the wider cultural landscape, including film, music and fashion, mingled with professionals, students and enthusiasts from London’s eclectic art scene, all seemingly loving,...