Growing up as a queer kid in the ‘80s, I was well aware from an early age that I was different, and that different was not okay, especially living in Missouri,” says New Mexico artist Anthony Hurd, who recently shifted away from abstracts, to delve into what may be deemed “controversial” figurative work. Not only […]
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“Nature created him as a gift to the world,” wrote Giorgio Vasari of Raphael in the 16th-century compendium The Lives of the Artists. Roughly 500 years later, the sentiment still holds true. Born in 1483 in Urbino, Italy, a small center of 15th and 16th-century art and culture, Raphael embodies the ideal of the Renaissance man: In his 37 years, he established himself as a painter rivaling Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, ran a thriving studio, and expanded into architecture and design. Yet it’s the humanism of his art, reflecting his own empathic personality, that continues to resonate across time and space.Sublime Poetry, opening this weekend at the Metropolitan Museum, is the first comprehensive...

An exhibition at Hope 93 gallery brings together seven years worth of work that together reflects “a time of upheaval”

The Golden Lion-winning artist's first Asian solo show will feature works spanning multiple media, including a new commission

Antonio Homem, who started working with the storied gallerist Ileana Sonnabend in the 1960s and went on to oversee her collection and maintain her and husband Michael Sonnabend’s legacy as supporters of some of the most important figures of post-war contemporary art, has died at the age of 86. The news was announced by the Sonnabend Collection Mantova, a museum Homem helped open in the north of Italy in 2025. Born in Portugal in 1939, Homem moved to Switzerland as a teenager and studied engineering before he solidified his interest in the arts upon meeting Ileana Sonnabend, who convinced him to work at her gallery in Paris in 1968. In an interview for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Homem...

A trek to Haiti’s Citadelle Laferrière, a Unesco World Heritage site that has been undergoing conservation for 25 years

Welcome to the 330th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists listen to their paint and create molds out of high-heeled shoes.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Georgina Arroyo, Westchester, New YorkHow long have you been working in this space?I've been making work on and off here since I got this job, in 2023.Describe an average day in your studio.I don't technically have a traditional "studio" at the moment, so my process is a bit compartmentalized. I now make most of my work at my...

Cristopher Canizares, an integral partner at Hauser & Wirth, has announced his intention to depart the juggernaut art gallery in order to start his own artist talent management agency, Artnews reports. Canizares spent sixteen years at the Marc Payot–helmed gallery and assumed a number of roles during his tenure—he had his hands in sales and exhibition planning, […]

The 16th edition of Chaco boasts a plethora of affordable works by Latin American artists in an inclusive atmosphere

Countless bands and musical artists have celebrated new album releases on late-night television, but no one has done so with quite the art world flair as BTS, the mega-famous K-pop boy band fronted by art enthusiast and collector RM. (The other six members are Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook.) Fresh off a four-year hiatus, BTS’s new album Arirang came out on Mar. 20. The band was interviewed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night. But instead of performing their new single “SWIM” in Studio 6B, Fallon played a previously recorded video from a secret live performance at the Guggenheim Museum earlier that day. In the video, Fallon stands in front of a circular stage on the...

In this week's episode, Ben Luke talks to the curator of a landmark new Matisse exhibition in Paris, discusses the art market in Hong Kong with our chief contributing editor Gareth Harris, and takes a closer look at a Dali painting that inspired Elsa Schiaparelli, as an show devoted to the designer opens at London's V&A

As controversy mounts over Russia’s plans to mount its first Venice Biennale pavilion since the nation’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, 37 members of the European Parliament signed a letter that calls for the European Union to cease all funding to the Biennale. The EU has not publicly stated how much money it gives to the Biennale, which is not just the top art exhibition in Europe but the biggest show of its kind anywhere in the world. But according to the letter, which was obtained by Politico on Friday, the EU has granted around 2 million euros to the Biennale over a three-year period. “Under no circumstances should Russia, a state subject to extensive European Union sanctions on trade, goods and...

Good Morning! Guillaume Cerutti is stepping down from his relatively new role as president of the Pinault Collection. Forgotten in storage for nearly a century, one of Napoleon’s two-cornered hats has been identified and will go on display in June. Precious Okoyomon’s Whitney Biennial installation of around 50 hanging stuffed animals and dolls has gone on view after a delay. The Headlines SACKED. Guillaume Cerutti has been dismissed from his plush position as president of the Pinault Collection, with its museums in Paris and Venice, according to a report by Glitz. The Art Newspaper later confirmed he is stepping down. The surprising departure comes only 13 months after the...

“My process is a constant negotiation with gravity,” says Soojin Choi. The artist creates intimate ceramic sculptures depicting a pair entwined in an unknottable embrace, their limbs a seemingly endless tangle. With pockets of negative space peeking through, the characters pose in a precarious balance. “I intentionally minimize ground contact to prioritize the specific gestures and the psychological tension between the two figures, giving the work a sense of lightness and emotional presence,” the artist adds. A long-time resident artist at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Choi is formally trained as a painter, a background that informs the sweeping, gestural marks of her pieces. The figures are...

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The Together for Palestine Fund Art Auction brings together artists including Brian Eno, Jeremy Deller, Es Devlin, Nan Goldin, and Elias & Yousef Anastas, founders of AAU ANASTAS, who are contributing works to raise funds for humanitarian relief in Gaza.
 
Organized in collaboration with Choose Love, the initiative channels proceeds toward emergency support, with the auction functioning as both a fundraising mechanism and a shared cultural gesture. The platform is straightforward to navigate, with works presented alongside estimates and context, making participation for accessible for both collectors or first-time bidders. In this sense, the Together for Palestine operates...

New Museum describes itself as “Manhattan’s only museum devoted exclusively to contemporary art.” It reopened last week after a 60,000-square-foot expansion, envisioned by Pritzker Prize-winning architecture firm OMA. The project was headed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas, in collaboration with Executive Architect Cooper Robertson. When New Museum was founded in 1977 in a one-room office, it became the first contemporary art institution established in New York since WWII. But it wasn’t until 2007 that its first purpose-built space opened. That structure was designed by SANAA, founded by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. Their flagship building – constructed on a former parking lot on the Bowery...

Opera directors could learn a thing or two from Deaf Broadway's vivacious performance of Jeanine Tesori's Violet.

Fashion designer Yinghan Qian is profoundly influenced by Zen philosophy. The Buddhist practice literally means “meditation,” teaching that enlightenment is achieved through the realisation that we are already enlightened beings. In Qian’s designs, this concept comes to the fore as a foundational way of understanding existence and transformation, informing how she works with materials and symbols, and allowing new contexts to emerge throughout the making process. This approach sets her work apart from other artists, transforming fashion design into a form of self-examination. As Harpaar’s Bazaar China writes: “Lacrynette is reminding us that in the future fashion world, it may not be the loudest...

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desert traditions translate to speculative shelters
 
In many parts of the world, architecture begins from conditions that are already under strain. Displacement stretches across years. Climate reshapes land and movement. Systems that support living remain uneven or absent. Within this context, utopia shifts away from distant projections and moves into how spaces are created, shared, and sustained over time.
 
Jordanian-Palestinian designer Abeer Seikaly works from this position. Her practice centers on traditional textiles and material systems that respond to instability while drawing from long-standing knowledge embedded in craft. Rather than isolating design from its context, she builds through it to...

The greatest bass performance I ever experienced was actually four – four performances in four roles.

Something tells me that Frida Kahlo herself would strongly disapprove of the Museum of Modern Art’s latest ad campaign — er, show. Néstor David Pastor López critiques the “clumsy interpolation” of an exhibition, which draws on an opera about her relationship with Diego Rivera.In this edition, we also remember the luminous and gestural work of Pat Steir, who passed away at age 87 this week. Artist Claudia Hart also shares a touching remembrance of the late Asher Remy-Toledo, a champion of media art who supported her and many others in the New York City art scene.More news and reviews below, including the New School’s plans to lay off 15% of its workforce, Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia’s latest...

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The Antwerp Six exhibition at MoMu – Fashion Museum Antwerp 
 
The MoMu – Fashion Museum Antwerp celebrates the Antwerp Six designers with a major exhibition dedicated to their crafts and histories. 40 years after the group’s London debut, the museum highlights their works in an authorized show, which runs on March 28th, 2026 through January 17th, 2027. It is the first time all six have been brought together for an in-depth survey of their individual paths and collective impact in the design and fashion industry. The exhibition starts in Antwerp in the 1970s, when Dirk Bikkembergs, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene, and Marina Yee were still...

workac combines passive performance with expressive form
 
WORKac‘s Riverhouse in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, turns floodplain constraints into a defining architectural gesture that merges climate resilience with spatial clarity and formal precision. The project is conceived as a compact, elevated volume defined by a faceted blue metal roof that folds inward to carve out a central courtyard. Conceived to meet Passive House standards, the residence is raised above the ground in response to floodplain conditions. The timber-clad base supports a sharply articulated upper shell, where integrated solar panels and precise openings give the house a clear, almost graphic presence within its wooded...

La retrospettiva Materia e Percezione, al Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, riunisce oltre cento opere realizzate in venticinque anni di ricognizione estetica, offrendo una lettura approfondita del percorso espressivo di Carol Bove, tra le figure più autorevoli della prassi scultorea moderna. Il progetto curatoriale rinuncia a una sequenza cronologica lineare per privilegiare accostamenti sperimentali che mettono in luce l’interconnessione tra impianti, schemi tessili e ambientazioni costruttive. Mediante una gestione accurata dell’illuminazione e dei dispositivi di orientamento, la mostra accompagna il visitatore seguendo un itinerario scandito da aperture inquadrate, in cui la volumetria di Frank Lloyd...

Valerian blos shows Speculative design in the light of materials
 
There is a dinner table at the center of Valerian Blos’s practice. Not a real one, though he has built a few, and this table appears in Substance of Power, a performance installation where guests sit beneath red light, surrounded by neuron-shaped ceramic dishes and architectural miniatures slowly crumbling under piles of vermillion sand and cracking salt. Each evening, the guests are invited to taste something: a substance, an idea, a truth they would rather not confront. The substances change each night. One evening it was mercury, then, plastic. Another, the quiet accumulation of technological consumption entering the body with the food...

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When photographer Frank Relle was nine years old, he remembers sneaking out of the house he grew up in in New Orleans just before daybreak to catch the sunrise—an event he found frustratingly difficult to explain to others, as much as he wished to share the experience. It was only years later that he discovered the camera, and he reflects on this time now through the lens of an excerpt from the essay “Between Yes and No” by Albert Camus: “A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.” Relle adds, “The swamp was that opening for me. I do not fully understand how. I went in...

After more than six years, a mystery woman captured in a portrait that was acquired by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in 2020 has been identified, Artnet reports. The painting, which the museum acquired at auction at Sotheby’s, was signed J. Schul and dates back to the eighteenth century. It depicts a young Black woman, bedecked with pearls and holding […]

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.A Canceled Biennale Show Finds a New HomeGabrielle Goliath will independently present three new suites of her performance project Elegy, which mourns victims of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, during the forthcoming 61st Venice Biennale after her eponymous proposal for the South African Pavilion was notoriously axed. “Palestinian lives will be grieved,” declared a press release from the artist's team this week. Kudos to the venue that agreed to host the work — the Chiesa di Sant’Antonin in Castello, a historic church dating back to the seventh...

Tad Smith, chairman of Doodles and former CEO of Sotheby’s, has agreed to buy most of the assets of digital collectibles platform Candy Digital.He wrote on X that he’s “doubling down” on his “commitment to digital collectibles, adding that “when the transaction closes in a week or two, I will also serve as CEO.”The acquisition comes at a pivotal moment for Candy Digital, which launched in 2021 amid heightened interest in NFTs and blockchain-based collectibles. Backed by investors including Michael Rubin, Mike Novogratz, and Gary Vaynerchuk, the platform quickly secured partnerships with major entertainment and sports entities, including Major League Baseball, DC Comics, and Netflix. At its peak,...

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has elected to shut down the AI text-to-video generator Sora just months after its official app launch in September. Before Sora had even officially been disseminated to the public, in 2024, artists and creatives who were given access to the beta version were quick to reject the technology, penning an open letter in […]

When El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego arrived at the San Francisco Opera in 2023, one critic suggested that its staging, with its arresting tableaux blending imagery from the work of both Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, would be fit for a museum exhibition. Taking the cue, the Museum of Modern Art has mounted just such a show.Frida and Diego: The Last Dream, which opened this past weekend, coincides with a new production of the critically acclaimed opera scheduled for the Metropolitan Opera in May. It is billed as a “first-of-its-kind collaboration” between the two institutions, a modest, cross-disciplinary experiment of sorts for which MoMA invited renowned British stage and costume designer Jon Bausor to...

For Olaf Hajek, difference isn’t about opposition but rather about identifying connections. The Berlin-based illustrator renders dense, uncanny compositions that nod to Surrealist icons like Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. Nature and culture entwine, and magic and mystery veil each scene. These dreamlike moments of intrigue ask the viewer to suspend preconceived notions and instead, enjoy the allure of the ambiguous. Hajek is an avid traveler and cultural consumer, offering him a vast repository of images from a variety of sources and locales. Folklore, vernacular traditions, spiritual practices, and natural motifs blend into a distinguishable aesthetic. “What interests me is not so much their...

Paying homage to a fellow trailblazer of modern architecture

On the blurred boundary between art and architecture

The 78th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on Nieves Gonzalez, the art of Grip Face, The landscapes of Jennifer Nehrbass, the soft sculptures of Ela Fidalgo, the stitched urban landscapes of Laura Ortiz Vega, the art Jeffrey Gibson, Yu Jin Young’s once transparent figures, and the paintings of Fatima De Juan.  Plus […]
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Alcuni progetti non si lasciano riassumere in un elenco di attività e prodotti perché la loro logica è fondamentalmente processuale: ART.it – Art in Transition, ideato da Cristina Francucci, ex direttrice dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, e sviluppato sotto la responsabilità scientifica di Maria Rita Bentini nell’arco di oltre un anno con il coinvolgimento di cinque istituzioni – le Accademie di Bologna, Catania e Ravenna, l’Alma Mater Studiorum e l’Università di Macerata – appartiene alla categoria dei progetti in cui il metodo di lavoro è anche, e forse soprattutto, il risultato. Finanziato nell’ambito del PNRR attraverso il MUR per le istituzioni AFAM, il progetto formativo si...

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In partnership with our friends at Bookmobile, we helped nine artists and photographers create their own books for FREE. We’re beyond excited to share these gorgeous finished projects! This time around the winners were: Caleb Thal, Kyoko Takenaka, Matthew Walton, Olly Geary, Minhan Lin, João Lutz, Angelo Dolojan, Zeinab Diomande, Grace Dodds. Some of them opted to upgrade and enhance certain aspects of their books, and we always love seeing the unique design choices each person makes.
Independently owned and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bookmobile began as a design and typesetting production house in 1982, then started offering print services in 1996, and distribution services in 2004. When your...

In communities throughout Switzerland’s Appenzell Hinterland and Midland regions, a unique tradition with enigmatic origins unfolds around the New Year. Known as Silvesterchlausen, the custom entails a group of boys and men who don remarkable, handmade costumes with masks and headdresses that represent rural, wild, and natural scenes. “Silvesterchlausen,” a dreamy short film by writer and director Andrew Norman Wilson, highlights this regional seasonal event, which occurs on December 31 and January 13. The first date marks the turn of the new year on the Gregorian calendar, while January 13 denotes the same on the Julian calendar. The ornately dressed mummers, in groups of six, polyphonically yodel and...

Brendan Latimer hitches a ride with members of the "site-responsive opera" movement who are taking their shows out of the opera house — and out of the box.

Lisette Oropesa, Piotr Buszewski, and Luca Salsi feature in a rote revival of Michael Mayer's cloying production of La traviata.

Tish Murtha (1956 – 2013) was a teenager when she found an old camera in a derelict house. By this point, she’d already left school and had taken on variety of jobs, from selling hot dogs to working in a petrol station. The discovery was a turning point in Murtha’s life, prompting her to first take a photography course at Bath Lane, Newcastle, before going on to study at the famous School of Documentary Photography at the University of Wales. After graduating, Murtha returned to Newcastle, where she documented the region’s marginalised communities from the inside. Her photographs capture the social impact of industrial decline with honesty, empathy and urgency, offering a powerful account of...

This performance was introduced to me by Norman Treigle’s granddaughter —very fine mezzo-soprano Emily Treigle; while I was preparing the role of Olin Blitch, and it completely changed my understanding of the character.

We are really pleased to announce that DO YOU LIKE LOVE? is now available to order!
Do you like love? The question came from a conversation, recalled by a friend. Her elderly neighbour used to cry for ‘elp!’ and Jane’s husband Pip would rush to her aide. Sometimes she’d fallen, but rarely; although she was blind she had lived in that house for 60 years, she knew every inch of it. A house filled with memories of her husband, their life together, and her aloneness after his death. On this one day that she called out, she was found sitting with the television on, a black and white film playing out a romantic scene from the 1950s.
‘Do you like love, Pippy?’ she said, ‘I like love.’
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Līmĕn, sostantivo neutro terza declinazione latina: soglia, confine, limite estremo, frontiera. Ci soccorre la molteplicità di significati della parola latina per provare a illustrare il concetto chiave e i progetti fotografici dell’edizione 2026 della Biennale di Fotografia Femminile di Mantova, diretta da Alessia Locatelli e organizzata dall’Associazione La Papessa. “Liminal” è il titolo di questa quarta edizione che, non soltanto, propone lo sguardo femminile sulle dinamiche del mondo (e, in misura minoritaria, anche sulla fotografia artistica), ma soprattutto tenta di portare alla nostra attenzione, e con il fil rouge 2026 più che mai, storie provenienti da luoghi che, seppur marginali,...

From factories and barrel-roofed buildings to gabled churches and towers, Charles Young’s sprawling yet diminutive city of paper models continues to grow. Known for his miniature constructions and animations that often double as three-dimensional color studies, the sculptor and animator highlights a wide range of architectural styles with an emphasis on color pairings. Since 2020, Young has been making hundreds of miniature structures inspired by A Dictionary of Color Combinations by Japanese costume designer and painter Sanzo Wada (1883-1967). (There’s even a fun, interactive website based on the book.) So far, Young has completed 258 buildings from the first volume, which focuses on two-color...

Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen captures people in oils with all the precision and clarity of a camera. He then places these incredibly lifelike images in impossible scenes. Uldalen’s models float in blank spaces. They precariously climb staircases that spiral upside down. They fall from buildings that tilt at odd angles. The Oslo-based artist’s work isn’t so […]
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Studio Loan wants to connect LA artists with the space they need — for free By Kristine Schomaker 60% of artists in Los Angeles don't have a studio outside their home. Or one at all. I think about that number a lot. Because space — or the lack of it — shapes everything. What you can make. How you can show it. Whether you can even invite someone in to see the work. Studio visits matter. Not in some abstract networking way, but in the real, tangible way where someone comes to your space, stands...

Riding a bike. Singing. Going to a football match. These are everyday activities for most people, but not for Iranian women. Instead, they are part of a wealth of experiences that have been restricted for women and girls since the 1979 Revolution. In the decades before the Revolution, the women’s movement in Iran had made important strides. The right to vote and to take their rightful place in various contexts was improved, and more and more doors opened in society. But since, a series of laws once again limited women’s rights in the public arena and laid the foundations for a gender-segregated reality. Creative duo Atoosa Farahmand and Oscar Hagberg depict the lives of women and girls in Iran, marked by...

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A Milano la quindicesima edizione della fiera italiana dedicata alla fotografia si è presentata come luogo di incontro e influenza delle più interessanti ricerche nell’ambito dell’immagine. Tramite uno sguardo mirato alla rappresentazione della complessità del contemporaneo, la direttrice Francesca Malgara, ha delineato il tema della Metamorfosi come ambito che interpreta al meglio i cambiamenti repentini tipici della realtà del nostro tempo, mettendolo in collegamento con i profondi cambiamenti avvenuti all’interno del linguaggio fotografico e aprendo il dialogo all’universo di riflessioni sulla realtà che questa tematica suscita.
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Experimentation, modernism and the shifting boundary between art and commerce define Lillian Bassman: Bazaar and Beyond, a compelling new exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Drawing on a transformative gift from the artist’s estate, the presentation reframes fashion photography as a site of radical visual inquiry rather than mere commercial output. Across more than 60 works, the exhibition reveals a practice grounded in process, materiality and reinvention. Here, the magazine page becomes an arena for aesthetic risk, where gesture and atmosphere displace clarity and precision. The show foregrounds the tension between control and spontaneity, tracing how Bassman’s work resists fixity. As Max...

In Tales from Fractured Minds la memoria personale e identitaria di sette giovani artisti viene analizzata e dissezionata. In un tempo in cui il corpo è terreno politico e l’identità appare costantemente ridefinita e distorta dal ‘fuori’ il ricordo assume una propria dignità e autonomia, trasformandosi in un organismo vivo e puro sentimento umano.
AA.VV., “Tales from Fractured Minds”, 2026, installation view, works by Tatjana Danneberg and Hanna Antonsson, courtesy of the artists and The Address, ph. Alberto Favara
Ad accogliere il nostro sguardo all’entrata di The Address c’è Weekends and beginnings dell’austriaca Tatjana Danneberg, che costruisce, attraverso la raccolta di scatti e...

Mary Iverson paints bucolic, sweeping landscapes reminiscent of the late nine-teenth century that look as if were discovered in the dusty corners of an underrated thrift store. At first look, I assume the canvases are found objects, painted over and re-imagined as something quite different than the original painter intended. This is only partially true. […]
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