carlo ratti imagines a hospital campus as a civic landscape
 
In Brescia, the future of one of Lombardy’s major healthcare institutions is being drawn by a team led by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati as a campus of gardens, glazed wings, and public routes.
 
The winning proposal for the new Main Hospital and Children’s Hospital of ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia has been unveiled at Teatro Grande, bringing together CRA, Park Associati, and Politecnica Building for Humans with Openfabric, DOTDOTDOT, Eckersley O’Callaghan, and Studio Mattioli.
 
The project, selected through an international design competition, reworks the existing hospital campus through the lens of One Health, linking medical treatment with...

Pierre-Olivier Costa, the president of the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MuCEM) in Marseilles, France, has been suspended from his position following allegations of sexual and moral harassment. The general manager of the museum, Véronique Haché, has also been suspended; both suspensions will last a maximum of four months. As of July 2nd, Anne-Marie […]

W16 mistral ‘blanc éternal’ evokes a digital model
 
Bugatti‘s porcelain white W16 Mistral ‘Blanc Éternel’ is traced with fine black lines that look almost hand-drawn over its own skin. The one-of-one commission comes through Bugatti Sur Mesure with Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM) Berlin, and brings the last roadgoing W16 Bugatti into conversation with a much older material culture.
 
The car is framed as a return to a story that began fifteen years ago, when Bugatti worked with KPM on the Veyron Grand Sport ‘L’Or Blanc.’ That earlier car took cues from a white porcelain vase designed for KPM by Enzo Mari, whose royal-blue brushstrokes suggested a way to read the volume of a hypercar...

The country’s heritage minister criticised curatorial choices in “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present”, drawing widespread rebukes including from the leader of the New Democratic Party

Phillips has sold $1.9 million worth of art from the holdings of disgraced art advisor Lisa Schiff—and the sales are not finished yet. According to a list provided by a Phillips spokesperson, the house has so far sold 231 pieces from Schiff’s collection of contemporary art. The result of $1.9 million is roughly in line with an estimate set two years ago. In September 2024, Artnet News reported that bankruptcy trustees had retained Phillips to sell some 220 pieces from Schiff’s collection—as well as the inventory of her defunct business, Schiff Fine Art—to benefit her creditors, with a combined presale estimate of about $2 million. Schiff’s creditors include collectors Candace Carmel Barasch and...

Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism has released renderings of the forthcoming Dar al Funoon, a Frank Gehry–designed performing arts venue set to rise in the UAE capital city. Construction has begun on the project, one of the last undertaken by the noted Canadian American architect before his death last winter. The venue is […]

As controversy has continued to swirl around a mass of important Mexican artworks that were partially rediscovered in the holdings of Spain’s Banco Santander earlier this year, the bank spoke at length about the matter for the first time, saying it had done nothing illegal by planning to bring the trove to Spain, where it will go on view at Faro Santander in September. Amassed by the late collectors Jacques and Natasha Gelman during the 20th century, the Gelman Collection is particularly rich in works by Frida Kahlo, with 10 paintings by her. There are also pieces by Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, and other giants of Mexican modernism. These works are currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico...

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani and the speaker of the city council have announced their first budget, totaling $125.8 billion. That will include some $323.8 million for the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), its highest-ever appropriation, as part of the city’s 2027 fiscal year budget, per a report in Hyperallergic.  That figure represents a more than 6 percent increase from last year’s allocation of $299.6 million, which was also a record. DCLA is the largest cultural funding agency in the US, giving direct subsidies to the 39 member institutions of the Cultural Institutions Group (CIG), which includes major institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1,...

Rosenstein’s traumatic experiences during wartime run through her art, which fuses Surrealism, biomorphic abstraction and figuration

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THEY SHOOK ON IT. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York’s City Council have approved $323.8 million in funding for culture, reports Hyperallergic. That’s a record amount of yearly funding. Specifically, the $323.8 million will go to the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), representing a seven percent increase over last year’s $299.6 million and more than $100 million more than the City Council initially proposed. In a statement, Mamdani said the budget was part of his mission to make life more affordable for New York artists. “A crushing affordability crisis has...

A life-size bronze sculpture depicting Laocoön and his sons fetched a record £13.6 million ($18.1 million), inclusive of fees, at Sotheby’s London on July 1, Artnet News reports. The figure is the highest amount ever achieved by a Neoclassical sculpture at auction and far surpassed the work’s presale estimate of £2 million to £3 million […]

The last few mornings, as I’ve walked with my dog up the ravine behind my house, two fawns seem to bound of thin air, racing in unison through the trees until far enough way that they stop, stare, and wait for us to pass. It’s not uncommon to see several does grazing in the same woods, and I’ve always wondered where they sleep. Photographer Katherine Wolkoff followed a similar curiosity as she traversed the grassy meadows of Block Island, which sits a few miles off the coast of Rhode Island, for her series Deer Beds. Flattened by lean cervid bodies, tall grasses reveal the areas where deer bed down. They don’t typically sleep in the same place every single night, but a home range area may have several...

Ahead of his new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, Barrie Kosky chats with Kevin Ng in Aix about pretty much everything — except the details of his new Frau.

The Bayerische Staatsoper’s Ring cycle scores another triumph with Tobias Kratzer’s take on Die Walküre.

The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has appointed Frank Feltens as its next chief curator. He succeeds José Carlos Diaz, who departed the institution last October to be the chief curator of the Peréz Art Museum Miami. Feltens will start in his role on August 17. Feltens is currently associate director for curatorial affairs and curator of Japanese art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C. He joined the museum as a postdoctoral fellow in 2016 and worked his way up to the associate director role, to which he was promoted in July 2025. At the National Museum of Asian Art, Feltens has organized thematic exhibitions like “Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980”...

LAYER develops a modular charging ecosystem for Daily Objects
 
Node and Loft series is a family of charging products designed by LAYER for the lifestyle brand Daily Objects. Developed as part of a broader product ecosystem, the collection rethinks everyday charging through a consistent design language that combines modularity, sculptural forms, and domestic functionality. Comprising the Node modular wireless charging system and the Loft charging station, the products organize the charging of phones, earbuds, smartwatches, laptops, tablets, and other devices while integrating into home and workspace environments.
 
Rather than treating charging accessories as purely functional objects, the collection...

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Elizabeth Peyton's painting of Cullinan, now the director of the British Museum, is now on permanent display at the gallery

The kunsthalle in the Baltic capital will relaunch with a survey of modern and contemporary Estonian art after its five-year closure

Pierre-Olivier Costa and Véronique Haché have both been suspended after reports of rising staff discontent and harassment claims against Costa

kengo kuma on architecture rooted in local materials
 
Throughout his career, Kengo Kuma has challenged architecture’s tendency toward uniformity. While twentieth-century modernism enabled the rapid spread of standardized building methods around the world, the Japanese architect has consistently looked toward local materials, regional knowledge, and traditional craftsmanship as the foundations of architecture.
 
For Kuma, craft is not simply a matter of preserving heritage. Rather, it offers a way of understanding the relationship between people, materials, and place. Speaking with designboom, the architect reflects on the lessons contemporary practice can learn from regional building cultures, the...

a three-wheeler designed to heighten the riding experience
 
Rather than solving the practical challenges of urban transport, the Swerv electric trike is designed around a single objective: delivering an immersive riding experience. Created by designer Kerim Taskin through his UK startup Sweren, the three-wheeled vehicle places riders in a low, face-forward position that exaggerates the sensation of speed while encouraging a closer connection with the road. Originally conceived during Taskin’s studies at Imperial College London’s Dyson School of Design Engineering, the project explores how vehicle design can influence perception as much as performance.
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With over 50,000 people still missing in Venezuela after two deadly earthquakes, artists on the ground are mobilizing even as they navigate their own grief. They are aiding in rescue efforts, sourcing food and medical supplies, raising funds for affected loved ones, and providing much-needed emotional support. Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia spoke with members of Venezuela’s art sector, who share stories of pain and resilience.More below, including Mayor Mamdani’s record budget for the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and 10 art shows you should see in Los Angeles this month. We also remember Venezuelan painter Onai Quiñonez and others we lost in the art community this week.—Lakshmi Rivera Amin,...

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Linder's first permanent public artwork, Sirona, is unveiled at London Zoo, honouring pioneering zoologist Joan Procter as part of ZSL's bicentenary

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In occasione del terzo ciclo annuale del progetto di residenza d’artista Artist in Officina, la sensibile congiunzione tra pratiche performative e scultoree di Ekaterina Shcherbakova ha rintracciato gli echi della storiografia composita di Montefollonico, nel territorio senese, rendendoli nuovamente manifesti. Ideata da Paul Gregory e Tessa Singleton, con la collaborazione di Margareth Dorigatti ed Emanuele Fasciani, l’iniziativa prende vita nello storico laboratorio del fabbro del paese, riconvertito per accogliere i percorsi di ricerca di artisti di provenienza internazionale.
Ekaterina Shcherbakova, “FUSA”, 2026, installation view at Cappella Santa Caterina, ph. credit 6PM STUDIO, courtesy of the...

Artist Gloria Blancato was asleep in her bedroom on the early evening of June 24 when she was abruptly awakened by violent tremors. The shaking was so strong that the panes of her windows shattered, exploding into glass shards on her bedspread as the walls collapsed around her. She held on tightly to the doorknob, the ground quivering beneath her, before finding a pair of shoes, slipping them on, and jumping out the window of the two-story building in the port city of Catia La Mar in La Guaira. Her feet are still swollen and her legs bruised from running among the debris, and she and her family have been sleeping outside for the last week. “I send this with my eyes filled with tears,” Blancato said in a...

Following the recent seizure of several objects from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection in June, the total valuation of looted artifacts surrendered by the museum now stands at a whopping $95 million. In addition to hundreds of small-scale items linked to smuggling schemes, investigators have seized 120 objects worth between $20,000 and $26 million from The Met's holdings since 2017.The Met told the New York Times that the ongoing object recovery is a mutual effort between the museum's own provenance research team, which was instituted in 2023 and recently expanded to a 12-person operation led by former Sotheby's restitution head Lucian Simmons, and investigators from the...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Rune Mields (1935–2026)German conceptual artistRife with geometric forms, musical notes, and monochromatic grids, Mields's body of work lingers in the space between order and expression. The self-taught artist spent five decades nurturing her interest in mathematics, ornamentation, and symbols across diagrammatic paintings and drawings. Her boundless creative energy even extended to her own gravestone at the Artists' Necropolis in Kassel, which she designed in 1992 and titled "La vita corre, come rivo fluente" (Life flows, like a fluctuating river).Bae Young-whan (1969–2026)South Korean...

A 3,700-year-old Greek jug and a 2,000-year-old Turkish bronze statuette of Hermes were among the dozens of ancient artifacts that were seized from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art earlier in June, the New York Times reports. The removals took place thanks to an intervention from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, which altogether has seized […]

This July, Los Angeles is rife with exhibitions that confront present-day challenges and conflicts in ways that are both pragmatic and poetic. Radical Kinship features eight women artists whose practices highlight informal communal networks, while Eva Aguila looks at the essential but contentious roles played by Mexican workers in the United States, framed by her own familial legacy. A career-spanning show on beloved Angeleno artist Barbara Carrasco at Charlie James Gallery showcases her lifelong synthesis of art and activism. And at Cevera Yoon, Jaime Pattison and Maura Brewer adapt the language and tools of the information economy to create haunting soundscapes and geometric abstractions.Vincent Ramos:...

The restoration of an early painting by the Dutch master Rembrandt, titled Let the Little Children Come Unto Me, has uncovered a previously hidden context of the work. Following the removal of layers of overpaint in preparation for a Sotheby’s auction, a bearded man in the frame was discovered to be wearing a turban instead […]

Whether it’s the atmosphere casting a haze or the fuzziness of memories and dreams, Guimi You’s lush paintings have an aura of wistfulness and quietude. The Seoul-based artist creates dreamy oil compositions that tap into personal experience, passing time, and how one gains perspective and reevaluates their needs or desires as they go through life. You’s canvases are infused with elements of still life and landscape traditions, where anonymous protagonists reflect quietly in a garden, pause in a golden meadow, or stroll through a park in the rain. Cerulean shadows complement the magenta jacket of a woman strolling with her dog along a stream in “Spring Walk,” and a woman sits down at an easel in an...

The Estorick Collection and Compton Verney will present the first UK institutional exhibitions dedicated to Carla Accardi

Stand in any forest and look up, and it’s hard not to be mesmerized by the swaying of tall trees and their elegant canopies casting shade onto the woodland floor. But imagine being an ant or beetle and peering up at the stems of wild geraniums, garlic, or buttercups and experiencing the same sensation. For photographer Theo Bosboom, this ground-level view of flowers and plants gave rise to a series that captures them in the way we might photograph a grove of towering, ancient sequoias. Traversing local landscapes around his home in the Netherlands and sometimes venturing across the border into Germany or Belgium, Bosboom explores forests, dunes, public parks, roadside verges, and virtually any place that...

Greek National Opera's Medea in the ancient theater at Epidaurus is an intermittently rewarding exercise in nostalgia.

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San Francisco Opera hosts an exuberant tribute to queerness past and present.

Ai Weiwei's largest site-specific exhibition to date opens at Manchester's Aviva Studios

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Historically, conductors were often viewed as rigid, authoritarian figures. Yannick Nézet-Séguin completely subverts this stereotype.

Un corpo cammina. Attraversa quindici paesi, consuma le suole, accumula polvere e incontri. Quando questo corpo entra in un’istituzione, come Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, emblema del meccanismo dell’arte internazionale, qualcosa nel sistema si inceppa. Algebra è costruita su questo inceppamento. Il corpus di Paulo Nazareth non disgiunge esperienza e produzione: il cammino è già opera, l’incontro è già forma. Migrazione, diaspora, confine e memoria non sono temi da rappresentare, sono i presupposti operativi entro cui l’indagine emerge. Ogni immagine, oggetto o documento nasce da un sentiero e conserva la tensione tra vissuto e diffusione.
Floor: Paulo Nazareth, “Cadernos de Africa”,...

The 79th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on sculptor Willy Verginer, the black and white world of Murayama Tomoaki, the graphic art of Jimi Biscuits, Harriet Mena Hill’s painted rubble, the art of Pabaja,  Plus a Special Insert Section featuring the art of Marigold Santos, surrealist painter Philip Bosmans, the universal art […]
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In 1975, Stuart Pearson Wright entered the world as a product of artificial insemination, his father’s identity kept anonymous for the entirety of his life even to this day. This fact would fuel Wright’s early, burgeoning interest in expressing himself through the arts and a later rise to prominence in portraiture. In interviews, he would […]
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In 2007, Magnhild Kennedy indulged a lifelong fascination by moving to London. “I have had London on my mind since I was a teen. I wanted to live there even before my first visit,” she says. Growing up in Trondheim, Norway, from the age of sixteen onward she devoured every image and word in issues […]
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On a perfect day, I would get up and not snooze,” says Brandi Milne of her ideal day at work. She would then head into the studio at her Huntington Beach, California home, do some warm-up sketches and paint for about eight hours. She would remember to take breaks to stretch. (“That’s really important and […]
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In March 2025, the Euclid mission led by the The European Space Agency (ESA) enabled scientists to capture the highest resolution image ever taken of the dense, glowing center of the Milky Way galaxy. An enormous swarm of stars forms a bulge at the heart of the spiral, and researchers continue to search amid these billions of gaseous orbs for exoplanets, or any planet that’s located outside of our solar system. “The galactic bulge—the central region of our galaxy—is a vast, tightly packed structure filled mainly with old, cooler stars, giving it its characteristic yellow colour,” ESA says. The photograph, which is taken with visible light, allows scientists to pinpoint exoplanets and measure their...

Mark Rothko is known for his “color field” paintings, a genre that was coined in the 1950s to describe his work specifically, along with peers like Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still. These works are generally characterized by their total abstraction and emphasis on clearly delineated areas, or “fields,” of different hues. One might also think of Josef Albers’ seminal series titled Homage to the Square, which delved into the virtually infinite relationships between colors. For Rothko, canvases were often very large, measuring upwards of 10 feet. The works inside the Rothko Chapel in Houston, for example, are architectonic, commanding the viewer’s complete attention and inviting us to slow down and...

In selvicoltura uno snag è un albero morto che resta in piedi: un organismo cessato e tuttavia non ancora restituito al suolo, più una soglia che un cadavere. Non è un residuo inerte, ma un ecosistema in attività, cavo abitabile per uccelli, insetti, pipistrelli, funghi, licheni – vivo di una vitalità che non è più la propria. È da questa figura sospesa che muove Old Snag, prima personale dell’artista norvegese Ingeborg Tysse (Stavanger, 1992) negli spazi di Société Interludio, a Cambiano (Torino), accompagnata da un testo critico di Caterina Avataneo. Il dato non è secondario: i tre ciliegi morti che reggono l’installazione provengono dai dintorni della galleria, prelevati da quello stesso...

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Da chi viene scritta la storia? Come possiamo ripensare il futuro attraverso gli occhi di chi vive le violenze e le ingiustizie di questo tempo? Sono queste alcune delle domande che pone Nalini Malani con Of Woman Born, progetto site-specific commissionato dal Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) di New Delhi con l’attenta curatela della direttrice artistica Roobina Karode e presentato presso i Magazzini del Sale come evento collaterale della 61° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia nel 2026.
Nalini Malani, “Of Woman Born”, 2026, camera di animazione con 9 iPad, audio, dimensioni variabili, installation view. Collezione Kiran Nadar Museum of Art © Nalini Malani
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All’interno del nostro quotidiano vi sono immagini che lasciano impresse un segno, un ricordo, qualcosa che sappiamo per certo possa poi definire la nostra storia. Nel nuovo spazio di Piazza Teresa Noce 17, Torino, la neonata Associazione Olfacta Project, fondata dall’artista olfattiva Francesca Casale, ha inaugurato lo scorso 6 giugno la mostra dal titolo “Strade a doppio senso” bipersonale degli artisti Carola Allemandi e Lorenzo Gnata, a cura di Filippo Mollea Ceirano.
AA.VV., “Strade a doppio senso”, 2026, photo credits Lorenzo Gnata, courtesy Olfacta Project
Al suo interno i ricordi sono accompagnati dalle sinfonie olfattive create da Casale, vicine alle note del sandalo e descritte dalla...

The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

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In Alexis Trice’s dreamy worlds, ethereal looking fish, hounds, shells, and clouds mingle and sparkle like jewels in a crepuscular haze. It’s in a hypnogogic state (where dreams and reality interweave) that they really spring to life: swimming, prancing, basking, and even weeping. Like sand passed through our fingers, though, their seemingly solid forms vanish […]
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