Curved and Tropical Displays frame Pierre Hermé Pâtisserie by CCD
 
The Pierre Hermé Paris flagship store in Singapore, designed by CCD, translates the brand’s approach to pâtisserie into a spatial experience. The project establishes a dialogue between the formal refinement of French pastry culture and the climatic and cultural context of Singapore, avoiding direct replication of the Paris boutique in favor of a localized interpretation. The entrance combines references to a Parisian street café with elements of a tropical garden. Sculptural macaron installations are positioned within dense greenery, integrating the brand’s identity with the surrounding environment. This threshold condition...

The Stratford-based museum, opening this month, aims to build on the success of V&A East Storehouse, which has attracted 500,000 visitors since it opened in May last year

TRANSLATING URBAN NOISE AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026
 
During Milan Design Week 2026, ‘THE SOUND OF PREMIUM’ installation by Continental and WOA studio transforms urban noise pollution into an immersive listening experience at BASE Milano. The experience showcases that silence is not a void, but an intentional technical condition as the result of innovation and deep and rigorous research. Visitors are guided through a path that evolves in three distinct phases: chaos, harmony, and silence. The project suggests an ‘urban synthesis’ where sound stops being an invisible interference and turns into a material that shapes the perception of space.
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Francesca Woodman’s (1958–1981) photographic career spanned less than a decade. Yet, during that time, she created some of the best-known self-portraits of the 20th century. The majority of Woodman’s scenes unfold within empty interior spaces, illuminated by shafts of natural light or mirrored surfaces. The artist is usually the sole subject; sometimes she appears nude, other times clothed or shrouded. She might be partially hidden by furniture, appear to be suspended in a doorframe, or lie on the ground. “Haunting” is one of the words most-used to describe her images: they are often blurred, employing long exposure techniques and a black-and-white palette. Woodman operated on both sides of the...

A domestic driving simulator shaped by abstract geometries
 
Nivola is a home driving simulator designed by Adriano Design to integrate technologically complex systems within a domestic environment. The project addresses the relationship between performance-driven devices and the formal, spatial, and symbolic qualities of interior spaces.
 
Contemporary driving simulators are typically composed of exposed mechanical structures, visible wiring, and assembled components optimized for performance. While these configurations emphasize technical capability, they often lack coherence as objects within a living environment. Nivola redefines this typology by organizing and integrating its technical elements within a...

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Using familiar programs as the starting point, Wutopia Lab treats architecture as a medium for constructing parallel realities inside the everyday, spaces where imagination is embedded into ordinary urban life.
 
The Shanghai-based studio’s work reads as a series of interior worlds that sit inside ordinary buildings, shifting perception through light, color, and geometry. The point is not to transport someone elsewhere, but to recalibrate how a place is experienced from within.
 
The studio often refers to magical realism, though in practice this shows up through built decisions rather than narrative framing. A bookstore, a small museum, a reused industrial shell each...

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Brady Lum, the former chief operating officer of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, entered a not guilty plea Tuesday to a federal theft charge stemming from allegations that he misappropriated museum funds. In February, news broke that Lum, 59, had resigned from his position in December after an internal investigation at the museum concluded that Lum was responsible for misappropirating $600,000 over several years. The institution referred the matter to federal prosecutors. On Tuesday, during Lum’s arraignment in federal court in Atlanta, the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia accused Lum of manipulating financial records and authorizing illegitimate purchases for his personal benefit,...

V&A east opens in london: a new museum for a changing city
 
Designed by O’Donnell + Tuomey, V&A East Museum opens in Stratford’s East Bank as a new civic anchor within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. Conceived as a cultural destination and an extension of the public realm, the five-story building positions itself on Waterfront Square, inviting visitors into a space that prioritizes accessibility, curiosity, and collective experience. As Irish architect John Tuomey notes, ‘Since winning the architectural competition in 2015, we have worked with the V&A team to make a new kind of museum, welcoming to a wide audience.’
 
Drawing from Cristóbal Balenciaga’s sculptural tailoring and the...

Mexican artist Elina Chauvet stands with her installation “Zapatos Rojos” (2009–) (photo courtesy the artist)How should credit be given when an art practice elevates an ordinary object into a globally understood symbol? Mexican artist Elina Chauvet, best known for her public stagings of “Zapatos Rojos (Red Shoes)” (2009–) addressing femicide and gender-based violence in Mexico, says that the project was reproduced in Bucharest last month without her knowledge or name. “Zapatos Rojos” takes the form of dozens or hundreds of pairs of red shoes publicly displayed in site-specific formations. Each pair of shoes connotes the absence of a femicide victim, or a disappeared woman or girl. Chauvet began...

A recent ten-day “symphony of disappearing sounds” brought attention to the fragility of the Western Hemisphere’s largest saltwater lake

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will welcome the public to its brand-new David Geffen Galleries on May 4, with members able to get a gander beginning April 19. Described by the New York Times’s Michael Kimmelman as a “curvaceous concrete sandwich,” the $724 million Peter Zumthor–designed building has been more than twelve years in the making, its construction closely […]

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced 223 recipients of its annual fellowship, including 76 artists, fine arts researchers, architects, designers, and photographers. Among this year's fellows are Iranian-American artist and fine arts professor Sheida Soleimani; Leeza Meksin, co-founder of the Brooklyn artist-run gallery Ortega y Gasset Projects; New York-based sculptor American Artist; video artist Kenneth Tram; Ukrainian-born sculptor Alina Tenser; and Sonya Clark, known for her use of human hair as a medium in works exploring the Black American experience. A full list of visual arts recipients is included at the end of this article. The 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship cohort spans 55...

The Guggenheim Foundation has named the 223 recipients of its 2026 fellowships. Those recognized with the honor, considered one of the most prestigious in the world, this year comprise the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows. Among them are painters, filmmakers, photographers, choreographers, writers, poets, economists, architects, scientists, anthropologists, engineers, historians, translators, and mathematicians. Fifty-five disciplines […]

The forthcoming expansion will add gallery space, a patio and an outdoor event area

The Chicago-based Joyce Foundation will relaunch its Joyce Awards, which have supported artists working in the Great Lakes region since 2004. The foundation will do so under a new funding model, having taken a year-long pause following its 2024 awards cycle. The awards will pivot from a project-based grant of $100,000 to an unrestricted grant of $100,000 that will go directly to each of the four selected artists. Accompanying the $100,000 unrestricted grant is a $40,000 grant that will go to a Great Lakes–based nonprofit organization, selected by a winning artist, that will help them “help realize, expand, or deepen their work in the region,” according to a release. The Joyce Awards will also be...

Native Americans were using dice for gaming long before Bronze Age societies in the Old World, according to a new Colorado State University study. Research published in the journal American Antiquity by Robert J. Madden, a PhD student at CSU, presents evidence that dice were made by hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12,000 years ago. Games of chance are considered humanity’s earliest structured engagement with the idea of randomness, the intellectual precursor to probabilistic thinking. Until now, they were thought to have originated in the complex societies of Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley beginning around 5,500 years ago. Aware that Native Americans have a long history of dice...

The Pavilion of the Holy See at this year’s Venice Biennale will focusing on listening by way of commissioned sound works by artists and musicians including Brian Eno, FKA Twigs, Jim Jarmusch, Patti Smith, Devonté Hynes, Laraaji, Kali Malone, Caterina Barbieri, and Terry Riley. The work in the pavilion will take the form of a “sonic prayer” and is inspired by the 12th-century abbess and musical composer Saint Hildegard of Bingen. Under the title “The Ear Is the Eye of the Soul,” the works by 24 artists will be presented in two venues: the Mystical Garden of the Discalced Carmelites, in the Cannaregio district of Venice, and the Complesso di Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, in Castello. The exhibition is...

In a letter reviewed by the Italian publication la Repubblica, the European Commission (EC) has accused the Venice Biennale of violating EU sanctions against Russia, Artnews reports. Specifically, the violation has to do with the Biennale’s plans to include the Russian Pavilion in its 2026 edition.  “In our view,” the letter reads in part, “the fact that—within the […]

Do I need to go to art fairs? I don’t have gallery representation and galleries don’t seem very interested in new artists at those events. Should I just stay home? —home alone in Chicago Nobody needs to go to an art fair. It’s optional. Art fairs are places to look at art, buy art, and meet professionals. If you’re not interested in those things, don’t go. Nobody will miss you if you decide it’s not worth it. They won’t even know you’re missing.But that’s the problem, isn’t it? People only remark on the absence of galleries, not the absence of artists. You won’t be missed. You won’t be talked about either. What you get out of any art fair experience depends on your ability to assess...

For our fourth edition of the Booooooom Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners, one for each of the following categories: Portrait, Street, Colour, Nature, Student. You can view all the winners and shortlisted photographers here.
It’s our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Colour category, Chanyoung Chung. Born in South Korea and raised in Montréal, Chung came to photography after seven years working as a nurse in Vancouver. Now back in Montréal, he creates still-life images in the studio while also photographing traces of contemporary life beyond it. His work invites reflection on peace, cooperation, and the quiet harmony that can emerge within society.
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Nikyle Begay (Diné, Todích’ííníí - Bitter Water, Totsohní - Big Water, Deeshchiinii - Red Streak People, bįįh bitoodni - Deer Springs People) is a shepherd, weaver, and teacher based in Naabeehó Bináhásdzo (the Navajo Nation) in Sunrise Springs, Arizona. Begay was destined to work with sheep from the very beginning. Following their birth, their grandmother buried their umbilical cord in the family’s sheep corral, a tradition that is said to shape a child’s future path. She prayed that Begay would be the descendant who maintained the family’s sheep flocks and carry her knowledge forward for generations.Her prayers were answered. Begay took to weaving early on, and throughout their career,...

For millennia, humans have navigated seas, rivers, and oceans as avenues for trade, exploration, conquest, and colonization. During the Age of Discovery—an era interwoven with what’s known as the Age of Sail—European explorers and traders embarked on journeys around the world to map previously uncharted continents, trade commodities, and establish new socio-political outposts. Imperial forces competed with one another to control as much as they could, all in the name of wealth and power, and individual landowners and traders profited immensely. But sustaining a presence in far-flung places would never have been remotely possible, nevertheless successful, without slavery. Well into the 19th century,...

“I don’t think that anybody ever starts with a clear plan to sunset, but nor did I think that this would necessarily institutionalize in a way that would make it exist forever,” artist and Chloë Bass told ARTnews in a recent interview about Social Practice CUNY, the initiative she has co-directed for the past five years. “Somewhere in between those two things comes the decision to sunset.” Social Practice CUNY will sunset in February 2027, with its 2025–26 fellowship cohort being its last. Housed at the CUNY Graduate Center, the program provided fellowships to graduate students and faculty at any of the 25 campuses of the City University of New York. In addition to the funds it created, Social...

Staffers at Goldsmiths, University of London’s school of art are pushing back against an internal restructuring plan that their union says will result in “sacking professional services staff in the current academic year, with job cuts for academic staff to follow in September,” the Art Newspaper reports.  The aim of the restructuring plan, “Future Goldsmiths,” is saving £22 million […]

Social Practice City University of New York (SPCUNY), a five-year-old project that provides fellowships and support to social justice-minded artists across the public university system, will shutter next February. Artists and educators Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette founded the program in 2021, in part as a reimagining of higher education following months of virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and the perceived corporatization of the university at large. The independent project announced its February 2027 closure today, Tuesday, April 14. The artist-led network, celebrated for facilitating faculty and student projects that apply the arts to social issues, granted unrestricted fellowships to...

In the mid-20th century, before preservation efforts revived Miami’s Art Deco South Beach neighborhood with bright colors and lavish hotels, the area was a whitewashed holiday haven for retirees. And in a third-floor room of the Colony Hotel, which looked out onto the building’s marquee and the street below, a unique artistic endeavor unfolded. Ukrainian artist Jonko “George” Voronovsky (1903-1982) transformed his humble, long-term residence into a vibrant environment of paintings and objects that he described as “memoryscapes.” Having endured incredible hardship amid the political maneuvers of the U.S.S.R. and the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s, he chose to work in a bright, optimistic style...

Golda Schultz soldiers through illness at the New York Philharmonic.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra explores love and death in an intense, intelligent program featuring soprano Corinne Winters.

Solo shows of strong women artists provide inspiration in gloomy times

'Future Goldsmiths' marks the third restructure programme at the south London-based university in five years

Fanglin Luo is a London-based emerging artist and curator whose interdisciplinary practice moves between performance, painting and photography. Her work has a foundation in both art theory and fashion design, weaving together visual and conceptual languages to examine identity, feminism and the complexities of transcultural memory. Luo’s works have been exhibited internationally, from the UK and France to the USA and Japan. In 2025, she presented at the London Design Festival and won the Silver Award at the Light From The Other Shore: 2025 New York International Art Competition. One of Luo’s earlier works is video piece ME & GODDNESS & ME, inspired by the artist’s experience walking alone at night in...

I had heard the renowned Dutch soprano on recordings and was an admirer of hers. I was unprepared, however, for such a truly memorable evening.

The National Pavilion of Qatar has announced that Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija will bring together a group of musicians, poets, chefs, and artists from the Arab world for its exhibition at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to open on May 9. The show, “Untitled (a gathering of remarkable people),” is being cocurated by Tom Eccles, executive director […]

Amid groves of trees, meadows, and aging infrastructure, Cinga Samson’s dreamlike tableaux are bathed in eerie light, as if spotlit or illuminated by the moon. The South African artist is known for his use of deep, dark pigments such as carbon black and Prussian blue, complemented by the occasional teal or purple and pops of bright white in t-shirts or sneakers. His figures, engaged in enigmatic activities, look on with spectral, all-white eyes. Green and brown foliage camouflages individuals who gather in fields, sort through mysterious items, and appear to converge with other beings like large birds. The work seen here is currently on view in the artist’s solo exhibition at White Cube called...

The embattled Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra bring Adams and Dvorák to Carnegie Hall.

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In 1912, André Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto. The work described Surrealism as “pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.” It was a statement that came to define a moment that, one hundred years later, continues to play a defining role in contemporary art. To consider Surrealism is to conjure up names like Breton, Salvador Salí or René Magritte, but many female artists pushed the artform forward in ways that have long been overlooked. VISU Contemporary, in Miami...

Thanks to Elly Ameling, I made it through college.

David Bowie (1947-2016) is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. This spring, a major new immersive experience dedicated to him is opening at London’s Lightroom, in close collaboration with the Bowie Estate. The 360° show – titled You’re Not Alone – promises to transport visitors inside the artist’s “iconic performances and creative mind”. From Space Oddity through Diamond Dogs, Heroes and ★, You’re Not Alone offers audiences the opportunity “to feel they have travelled through time to experience Bowie up close and first-hand.” But this is not about perpetuating the myths or characters often associated with Bowie, like Aladdin Sane, Halloween Jack,...

Few contemporary photographers are as synonymous with black and white as Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025). The Brazilian activist, documentarian and photojournalist is world-renowned, notably for images made in the Amazon rainforest and the Serra Pelada gold mine, Brazil. Now, a new collection of Salgado’s pictures, titled Glaciers, is dedicated to some of the planet’s most remote places. It spans from dramatic ice fields in Patagonia to the Himalayas’ towering peaks. Salgado also travelled to Antarctica to capture its ice shelves, as well as to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, a hugely volcanic region. The book features 65 duotone photographs, depicting sweeping vistas, massive crevasses, wind-swept snow...

By Kristine Schomaker The work hits immediately. Not one piece — all of it, simultaneously. Large sculptural assemblages covering the walls, a freestanding sculpture in the middle of the room, a piece suspended from the ceiling. The whole gallery feeling like its own solar system, each work a satellite orbiting something enormous and unspoken. Last night, four humans splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after flying around the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years. Artemis II...

Gen Z has made headlines recently for turning to analog media and the slower pace of life synonymous with a pre-internet world. Alongside DVDs and print magazines, snail mail has also been on the rise as more people flock to spaces untouched by an algorithm or AI. Even before the endless scroll subsumed much of our collective psyche, though, Gabriella Marcella was already combating digital fatigue through the design studio Risotto. Marcella founded Risotto in 2012, just after graduating from university, where she fell in love with risograph printing. She purchased her first machine secondhand and set up shop in her bedroom before moving to the Glue Factory, a former warehouse that still houses the studio along...

ABOVE: “Spatial Awareness”, 54″ x 250″, hand-knit with wool, 2025, photo by Chris Rettman From her dining room table in Oklahoma City, Kendall Ross knits brightly colored, intricately patterned sweaters and vests—some so large that referring to them as wearables is a bit misleading. Her textile pieces are often emblazoned with diary-like messages that speak […]
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In 2019, Kayla Mahaffey reached a turning point with her art. The Chicago-based artist had a solo show at Line Dot Editions in April of that year. Titled Off to the Races, the series of paintings centered around children ready to hit the road. Some sat with their growing legs crouched in tiny cars or […]
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At Copenhagen Contemporary, Kengo Kuma and his team have honed in on the Japanese concept of komorebi, which reflects the unique interplay of light and shadow that occurs when the sun filters through the trees. The monumental, site-specific installation “Earth / Tree” harnesses this fleeting condition through a suspended canopy of wooden slats. Curved with a central opening, the diaphonous structure floats above a brick platform and a pile of rubble. These two organic materials bridge Nordic and Japanese cultures, which both value craftsmanship and continuity with the landscape. Kuma—who was recently awarded the bid to design the new National Gallery in London—often focuses on “soft architecture,”...

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For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Street category: Victor Cambet.
Based in Montréal, Victor Cambet developed photography as a self-taught practice after relocating to Canada from Lyon, France. Drawn to vivid scenes, unusual characters, and the overlooked details of daily life, his work finds beauty in the ordinary.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of...

San Juan Capistrano Library #1 Amir Zaki No Dust to Settle Diane Rosenstein Gallery April 4 - May 9, 2026 by Jody Zellen The saying "waiting for the dust to settle" might refer to when things will calm down and return to normal. It could be said that "the dust never settles" and there is no state of definitive calmness because everything is in flux, both in life and in art. This might be taking the personal into account by reading too much into the title of Amir Zaki's current exhibition, his...

 
There’s just two weeks left to submit your work for The City Series: Cambridge!
An ongoing series of publications, The City Series sets out to explore the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, showcasing images that respond to a place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
The inaugural volume explores a city that has welcomed us, and been home to nearly a dozen Shutter Hub exhibitions – Cambridge.
Rather than defining Cambridge by landmarks or narratives, we invite photographers to approach the city openly, perhaps through people, atmosphere, details, routines, abstractions, or moments that feel personal or unexpected....

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A question scrawled on a wall in Beirut—Where do I go?—forms the emotional core of Rania Matar’s powerful new body of work. Her solo exhibition 50 Years Later – Where Do I Go?, on view at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art through August 2, 2026, coincides with a photobook of the same name. Bringing together approximately 128 color portraits of young women living in Lebanon today, the project reflects on identity, belonging, and the weight of difficult choices. The images are evocative and layered, shaped through a deeply collaborative process in which each participant plays an active role in how she is seen. For many of the women portrayed, the question at the heart of the work is not abstract...

When Frode Bolhuis got his start as a sculptor, he worked classically, with monumental figures made of bronze and metal—the kind of thing you see in a public square or park. But then the Dutch sculptor discovered the simplest of mediums, polymer clay, and his art practice exploded into a technicolor world of hue and […]
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Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here . We also mark an...

When the Bulls Fest—a raging celebration of the iconic and famed NBA team—first happened at Chicago’s United Center in 2022, Kyle Cobban was one of the contributing artists to The Art of the Game exhibition. It’s a piece that encapsulates Cobban’s aesthetic vision. Working with graphite and paper, the Chicago-based artist makes small, detailed drawings […]
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FEELING SEEN is guest curated by Jenna Eady as part of our Curate for the Community series.
Our sense of feeling goes beyond the physical – it’s emotional, atmospheric, and relational. It’s through these feelings that we connect with one another on a deeper level.
FEELING SEEN is about exploring how photography can express both internal and external sensations – whether it’s the rush of anticipation, the dis/comfort of the body, nostalgia of memory or tension of conflict. This project believes in photography’s power to evoke real emotional resonance. Its about creating the space for others to feel something.
The project aims to amplify diverse voices and create opportunities for new perspectives...