L-Shaped White Brick volume outlines Rosa Parks School Group
 
Rosa Parks School Complex by Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés is located within the Gratte-Ciel ZAC, a large-scale urban renewal project redefining the center of Villeurbanne, France. Positioned at the entrance to the future district, the building establishes a transition between planned developments to the west and the existing urban fabric to the east.
 
The school project is organised in an L-shaped configuration along the site’s peripheral boundaries. This arrangement articulates connections between adjacent neighbourhoods while structuring internal courtyards and circulation. The north-west corner is treated as a pivotal element, marking the...

Diya Vij, vice president of curatorial and arts programs at the Brooklyn nonprofit Powerhouse Arts, will be New York City's next culture commissioner. Rumors about Vij's pick for the top job at the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) have circulated in the local art community for weeks, until the New York Times broke the news today, February 28.Vij, who was a member of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's transition team, will succeed Laurie Cumbo just four months after joining Powerhouse Arts. An experienced curator with a community-forward approach, she has held several key positions at Creative Time, the High Line, and elsewhere. She has even worked at the DCLA from 2014 to 2019. Vij got her start as a...

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Artist Tod Lippy has been following reports about art world figures who maintained friendships and correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—even after his crimes were public—and been left with the nagging sense that the consequences have been too mild. Billionaire collector Leon Black still sits on the board of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, for example, as does Ronald Lauder. Some have stepped down—French museum director Jack Lang resigned his post, as did School of Visual Arts chair and former museum director David A. Ross—but for Lippy, the penalties haven’t gone far enough. So on Saturday morning, as hordes descend on the Santa Monica Airport for the latest edition...

Samantha Hankey’s Composer is the standout in the Wiener Staatsoper’s episodically sublime Ariadne auf Naxos revival.

Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!

Diya Vij, a curator and current vice president of curatorial and arts programmes at Powerhouse Arts, has been picked to be New York City’s next Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) commissioner, sources with knowledge of the pick told ARTnews. The New York Times confirmed the news on Saturday. Considered to be one of the most important jobs in the city’s arts ecosystem, the commissioner is a hotly watched role whenever a new mayor enters office. The DCA is the largest municipal funder of the arts in the US and provides funding to over 800 cultural organizations throughout the city’s five boroughs. Last fiscal year, the DCA provided $245 million in funding. Naturally, the ascension of Mayor Zohran...

Artist Cara Romero (b. 1977) is an enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe. She has spent much of her life between the contrasting settings of the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, California, and the urban sprawl of Houston, Texas. Romero’s visual storytelling is informed by this identity, representing Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, countering dominant narratives of Native American experiences and showcasing the diversity within Indigenous nations and communities. Phoenix Art Museum presents a landmark display of the photographer’s work, representing the first major museum exhibition dedicated solely to her oeuvre. Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) features...

Just north of Cusco in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, a small studio draws on ancient Peruvian traditions. The town of Urubamba is home to Ceramicas Seminarios, a workshop founded by husband and wife Pablo Seminario and Marilú Behar in 1980. For decades, the pair and their team have been crafting sculptures, functional wares, and decorative objects rooted in the culture of the valley. As a child, Seminario was fascinated by huacos, pre-Columbian ceramic works often utilized for Andean rituals and ceremonies rather than everyday life. This interest developed throughout his university years and beyond, as he researched the various techniques and designs that characterized Peru’s ancient cultures. Seminario...

This week, we've got one drama after another. Beleaguered Louvre president Laurence des Cars quits after a historic heist under her watch. The next morning, a new leader is announced. It's Christophe Leribault from the Palace of Versailles, a true museum animal who ran a few during his career. Meanwhile, the Berlinale turns into a shitshow because of Germany's old penchant for censorship. We watched legends like Wim Wenders get tied up in knots at a press conference, saying dumb things like, "We have to stay out of politics." Chomsky broke our hearts first, and then Wenders followed. What's a Gen X to do? Also, congrats to the 111 artists who were picked for In Minor Keys, curator Koyo...

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Regional Museum La Cacaotera pays tribute to Cacao Heritage
 
Regional Museum La Cacaotera, located within the Malecón intervention area of Villahermosa, aims to promote learning about cacao culture in the state of Tabasco, the largest producer of this good in Mexico. The museum project was undertaken by the collaborative team of Laboratorio Regional de Arquitectura, Taller | Mauricio Rocha, and Samuele Xompero after the demolition of the building that once housed the National Union of Cacao Producers, and which had suffered severe structural damage. The building’s architecture incorporates the formal memory of its predecessor, but with a new program dedicated to showcasing the transformation of cacao into...

Water has long operated as both mirror and medium in contemporary art, a site where aesthetics meet ethics and where planetary narratives unfold with unsettling clarity. In the context of climate crisis, the ocean becomes a charged archive, recording histories of extraction, exploration and ecological fragility. Julian Charrière’s Midnight Zone arrives with provocation, inviting viewers to descend into a realm that is at once materially remote and conceptually urgent. His exhibition proposes immersion as a mode of thought, asking us to consider how knowledge is shaped by depth, darkness and the limits of perception. Rather than offering spectacle for its own sake, the artist frames water as a living...

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The non-profit, which uses art to connect communities on either side of the Mexico-US border, had to move its stand the day before Frieze's preview

The Japanese American artist’s colourful Superposition Gallery stand is both eye-catching and imbued with personal history

Local galleries that stayed nimble during recent socioeconomic headwinds have emerged from the market downturn

A new painting by the artist Alexis Rockman, made using tar from Los Angeles’s famous La Brea Tar Pits

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Four miles and a world apart from Frieze, Post-Fair is in its second iteration this year, offering an antidote to the chaos of art week for gallerists, collectors and visitors alike

Il CRAC Puglia di Taranto ospita la mostra “Paesaggi”, con le opere di Aldo Damioli e Giovanni Pulze, a cura di Roberto Vidali, e accoglie in contemporanea la donazione di trenta opere che l’Associazione Juliet consegna agli archivi del CRAC, in occasione delle celebrazioni per “JULIET 45 YEARS”. La mostra mette a confronto due pittori italiani di impianto figurativo e concettuale che rimandano a un pensiero che va oltre la superficie della tela dipinta.
Aldo Damioli, “Venezia New York”, 2013, acrilico su tela, cm 80 x 100, courtesy l’Artista
La traccia di fondo che unisce questi due autori si incentrata sul ruolo che il loro lavoro ha avuto nella pittura del nuovo millennio e sui rapporti che...

Telling time on other planets with mechanical clock
 
Chronova Engineering builds an interplanetary clock, a mechanical device that can tell what time it is on other planets using rotating discs. It tells the time by copying how each planet spins, as each planet has its own dial, and each dial is connected to the gears. Since every planet spins at a different speed, the gears are built with different ratios: Earth takes about 24 hours to spin once, Mars takes about 24.6 hours, Jupiter spins much faster, and Saturn spins fast too. Because of this, each dial shows the real day cycle of that planet, so the clock doesn’t calculate time digitally. Instead, it copies planetary spin, uses gear ratios, and shows...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Yesterday, February 26, Frieze LA kicked off with an exceptionally crowded opening and a reportedly brisk first day of sales at Santa Monica Airport. However, alongside the blue-chip paintings and emerging artists on view, the fair also illustrated — intentionally or not — issues being confronted outside of the tent, such as class, labor, and immigration. It made palpable the tension between the kind of capitalism that the art fair represents and which our art ecosystem rests upon — and indeed which artists need to survive — and the progressive values that many in the art world profess to support. Against such a backdrop, what is the role of the art fair?Outside the tent,...

Despite the many books and exhibitions on photographer Lisette Model, her largest body of work was a well-kept secret: more than a thousand photographs of the East Coast jazz scene taken between the early 1940s and 1959. Model didn’t just dabble in jazz — she dove into it, capturing greats like Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie as they lit up a sparkling musical universe. How and why, then, did these images from such an esteemed photographer remain hidden until today? Audrey Sands, associate curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, uncovers this grim tale of government repression in Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures (2025), a...

Giancarlo Politi, publisher, art critic, and founder of Flash Art, one of the most  influential contemporary art magazines to emerge from Europe’s postwar era, died on February 24. He was 89. News of his death was first reported in the Italian-language press.  Founded in 1967 in Rome, Flash Art was among the first regularly published magazines dedicated exclusively to art criticism—and one of the earliest to circulate internationally. Over decades, it expanded to include editions in French, Polish, Chinese, Spanish, German and Russian-language editions. Yet each edition sought to map the art world as an interlinked entity, presenting it not as a scatter of far-flung scenes but as a constellation of...

Amsterdam-based fashion brand Scotch & Soda released a collection this week that is inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat and features some of the artist’s work. The collection is a partnership with the Basquiat estate, via the global licensing agency Artestar. In a press release, Scotch & Soda said that like Basquiat, who is best known for bold paintings featuring dozens of different figures and colors in energetic and at times chaotic compositions that drew inspiration from 1980s “New York City’s rich culture,” it too draws from “the vibrant culture of Amsterdam as an ever-evolving source of inspiration.” The collection, first announced last year, offers options in both men’s, women’s, and...

In May, the 2026 Venice Biennale, curated by the late Koyo Kouoh, will open with the theme In Minor Keys. In December 2025, the Israeli Ministry of Culture announced that Belu-Simion Fainaru will be representing Israel at the 61st International Art Exhibition. The Israeli Pavilion in the Giardini remains closed, supposedly for renovation, but the Biennale has made a very deliberate and demonstrative choice to allocate Israel a space in the Arsenale while its national pavilion is shut, instead of forcing them to seek an alternative space in the city or, like last year, during the Venice Biennale of Architecture, to not participate at all.In other words, the current administration of the Venice Biennale of Art...

On Thursday, the School of Visual Arts announced that starting next year, it will no longer offer a masters of arts degree in curatorial practice. The update was shared with faculty via an email from Steven Henry Madoff, who founded the department in 2013 and has been chair of the two-year program for the past 14 years. The sudden announcement follows years of financial difficulty for the New York art school. And, earlier this month, David A. Ross, chair of the MFA art practice program at SVA, abruptly resigned after ARTnews revealed that he had a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and appears a number of times in newly-released emails. In his letter to faculty, Madoff explains that he informed SVA...

The artist introduces her new exhibition at Baltimore's Art Hall

An Industrial compound Recast at Office Scale for Agrosemillas
 
With these newly completed Agrosemillas Offices, Spanish firm Impepinable Studio presents a playful and more colorful take on the industrial workspace. The project is located in El Peral, Cuenca, within Madrid’s broader agricultural territory, where expansive fields and logistics sheds dot the horizon. The 280 square-meter building, which takes shape with repurposed shipping containers, sits inside an agro-industrial compound conceived for heavy vehicles and storage infrastructure.
 
The setting is direct and exposed. Large sheds, silos, and paved yards shape an environment which follows harvest cycles, alternating between quieter periods and...

Who said parking garages were just for cars? British artist and color devotee Liz West has transformed a single floor of a typical concrete structure into an immersive chromatic environment fit for skating, dancing, and basking in a rainbow glow. To create “Our Colour,” West covered hundreds of existing lights in the Cabot Circus Car Park with pigmented theatre gels. Without its usual traffic, the space instead becomes an open canvas for the artist’s interest in experiencing color in a more direct and physical way. “Does colour change the way you feel? What does it feel like to be inside a rainbow? I was to invite visitors to drench themselves in the spectrum and allow them to question their individual...

Surrounded in her Massachusetts studio by pins, glue, and piles of brightly colored paper strips, a visitor might initially mistake Lisa Nilsson for a reclusive arts and crafts teacher. But as her nimble hands purposefully curl the paper into shapes, and then magically weave the shapes into identifiable forms, a new impression emerges. Read the full article by clicking above!
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BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, the genre-defying debut film from artist Kahlil Joseph, takes over 180 Studios

TELFAR introduces Modular, a unisex footwear system built around a single sculptural sole and designed for broad, real-world wear.

The space is conceived as both a production hub and public-facing gallery, strengthening long-standing collaborations with L.A.based artists

Paul&Albert examine history as a continuously revised construct
 
Writing History by Paul&Albert is an autonomous art installation developed for Museum aan de A in the Netherlands. The project examines history as a dynamic and continuously revised construct through a robotic system that writes and erases content directly onto glass.
 
At the center of the installation is an industrial robot arm housed within a custom-engineered glass and steel enclosure. The robot repeatedly inscribes text and images onto the glass surface using a marker, then removes them with a sponge. This cyclical action renders visible the process through which present events transition into recorded history, emphasizing the instability...

Ahead of their opening in Don Carlo in Dallas tonight, Christopher Corwin chats with Nicole Car and Étienne Dupuis — and offers a special edition of Chris's Cache!

Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Grammy-winning Intelligence makes a largely successful East Coast debut at Virginia Opera.

From dramatic aquatic encounters to deep caves to fish and amphibians closely guarding their eggs, there’s an entire world below the surface that few of us ever really get to see. That’s where images like those in the annual Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) come in, glimpsing some of the darkest depths and most alluring and fragile ecosystems on the planet. The top prize of the 2026 competition, which has been running annually since 1965, goes to Matthew Smith for his capture of two young elephant seals in the Falkland Islands. Additional winning images include Natalie Yarrow’s tableau of hinge-beak shrimp inside a pink barrel sponge, Khaichuin Sim’s observation of the controversial annual...

In his pioneering book Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait, writer and curator Phillip Prodger states: “A great portrait is a psychological exploration, an artistic journey into a person’s heart and soul.” It’s a perfect summary of the power of the camera to go beneath the surface, going beyond a simple snapshot to explore representation, visibility and identity. The artists featured in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2026 longlist create works that undoubtedly make this journey into the very essence of the sitter. Some images reveal the complexities of the human psyche, making the invisible, visible, whilst others draw from distinct cultural ideas of belonging and selfhood, or play with the...

Colonialism, mental health, African folklore, Burma and Nordic prints.

Belarus-born, US-based hedge fund billionaire Igor Tulchinsky will sponsor the British Museum’s display of the Bayeux Tapestry

When it comes to themes of climate crisis and environmental destruction, Nick Brandt (b. 1964) is one of the most compelling photographers working today. Since the early 2000s, he has focused his lens on the progressive disappearance of the natural world, joining contemporary names like Edward Burtynsky, with his striking aerial views, and Mandy Barker, known for her arrangements of ocean plastic, in making the devastating impact of human activity on Earth plain to see. Now, Gallerie d’Italia, Turin, presents The Day May Break. The light at the end of the day, a “global series in four chapters” that focuses on animals, environments and people devastated by climate change. Brandt’s choice of locations...

Nella sua seconda personale presso la Nicelle Beauchene Gallery di New York, intitolata The gifts, Quentin James McCaffrey costruisce un insieme di dipinti inseriti in ambienti orchestrati con cura, dove tappeti, bouquet, miniature, tendaggi e superfici riflettenti assumono un ruolo strutturale. Non si tratta di abitazioni, ma di configurazioni concettuali in cui ogni componente definisce proporzioni, angolazioni e traiettorie ottiche. L’ordine è essenziale e privo di ornamenti superflui, mentre l’illuminazione stabilisce legami e relazioni tra le forme.
Quentin James McCaffrey, “Mirror with Landscapes”, 2026, oil on canvas over wood panel. Center panel: 12″ x 16″ x 1 1/2″; Side Panels: 12″ x...

The DePaul Art Museum, the contemporary art museum of DePaul University in Chicago, will shutter permanently on June 30. The contemporary art institution’s closure comes as the school struggles with budget cuts forced by a steep decline in international graduate enrollment, a rise in demand for financial aid, and an increase in the cost of benefits. […]

The second cut on disc 39 of his most recent double album, “The Fall-Off Is Inevitable” unfolds J. Cole’s life and professional career through a backward-moving narrative. Directed by Palestinian-American filmmaker Ryan Doubiago, the track’s accompanying music video visually captures the feeling of reminiscence, as the rapper looks back on his journey thus far. Though each scene takes place within the same studio walls through a looping cycle, viewers move through a multitude of defining moments: a funeral scene, a wedding, writing music in solitude, and rewatching home videos from 1992. Because it’s shot on film, the grain and warm color grading strengthen the through line of nostalgia and memory....

For our second annual Illustration Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners from each of the following categories: Editorial, Personal, Advertising & Promotional, Product & Packaging, Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Student category: Bella Han.
Bella Han is a freelance illustrator from China and a first year student in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual Arts (Class of 2027). This work is part of a series illustrating one of the most famous Qing Dynasty stories in China, which depicts the opulent yet tragic life of Zhenhuan, a concubine of Emperor Yongzheng, who later became Empress Dowager after his death.
This year’s awards were...

After more than two decades as a commercial textile designer, often working digitally, Amy Gross was drawn to making something that felt more immediate and tactile. “I started making beaded jewelry, something I could hold and feel,” she tells Colossal. The beading techniques gradually merged with canvases, which over time became more three-dimensional. They were “less about adornment and more about personal stories I felt I needed to tell,” she says. These eventually became sculptural objects, representative of the natural world that has long been a source of wonder and curiosity for the artist. “Aggregating Vivarium” Gross’ imaginative compositions of flora, fungi, and sometimes even fauna tap...

The Undercurrent Surfaces There are moments in a country’s creative consciousness when the atmosphere tilts. For many of the designers showing at Zurich Fashion Week 2026, the seeds were sown during last year’s pre‑events. And so, after more than twelve months of preparation, this was the week their work stepped fully into the light — an undercurrent now rising into a transformative movement in modern style. As I walked into the Kongresshaus Zurich this February, the first edition of Zurich...

Elvira Dyangani Ose is leaving her role as director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) three months early. Dyangani Ose in 2021 became the first woman and the first person of color to helm the institution since its 1987 founding. Her five-year contract was to have expired in July, but she will leave in April.  In January, Dyangani […]

Just one day after Laurence des Cars resigned as director of the Louvre, Christophe Leribault has been announced as her successor. French daily Le Parisien reported that Leribault, since 2024 the director of the Palace of Versailles, was appointed to the role by President Emmanuel Macron, who announced the change at a February 25 Council of Ministers meeting. This […]

Following the announcement that she'll make her Met debut next season, Grand Tier Grab Bag brings Italian soprano Erika Grimaldi to your attention with a duet from Manon Lescaut.

Donna Gottschalk (b. 1949) grew up in the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side in the 1950s, where she spent much of her time wandering the streets and observing her neighbours. This backdrop, often violent and homophobic, shaped her and the way she saw the world: raw, real and up close. She began photographing as a teenager, at the same time she became involved in the early lesbian, trans and gay rights movements. Here, she turned the lens on the daily lives of her chosen family – friends, lovers, siblings and fellow activists. The result is a tender portrait of people living on the margins, at a time when gay relationships were still illegal in the US. We Others, on display at The Photographers’...

 
The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives.
Our first edition is devoted to blue. A colour of depth and distance. Vast as the sky and as still as water. Blue evokes calm, melancholy, serenity and sorrow. Delicate cornflowers, robust denim, precious jewels, and the deepest ocean.
From literal to abstract interpretations, and alternative processes, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: BLUE shares photographers’ wide range of creative expressions.
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La mostra Onion di Michael Beutler, ospitata negli spazi di Pinksummer all’interno di Palazzo Ducale, a Genova, si configura come un ambiente esperienziale che lavora per sottrazione piuttosto che per accumulo. Più che presentare un insieme di opere da osservare, Beutler costruisce una situazione in cui il visitatore è invitato a rallentare e a rinegoziare il proprio rapporto con lo spazio e con il tempo, trasformando la fruizione in un atto intenzionale, fondato su una relazione diretta e non mediata con la struttura.
Michael Beutler, “Onion”, 2026, installation view at PINKSUMMER, Genova. Photo © Federico Ghillino. Courtesy PINKSUMMER and the artist
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The women portrayed in Prudence Flint’s paintings are caught in moments of quiet, reflection, and impermanence. They appear fixed in a moment of repose ripe for interruption. Perhaps they are lying on the grass, or changing an infant’s diaper, or awash in warm water mid-shower. Regardless, there is a certain mood shared among her works. Read the full interview with the artist by clicking above!
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The Venice Biennale has revealed the 105 artists and collectives and six artist-led organizations participating in the main exhibition its sixty-first iteration, to take place May 9–November 22. Titled “In Minor Keys,” the show was conceived by Cameroon-born curator Koyo Kouoh, who died last summer as she was putting it together. The exhibition is being […]

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Cosa accade quando il disegno rinuncia a fissare l’apparenza statica delle cose per inseguire la dimensione processuale di un’azione in corso? Il disegno come pratica di registrazione del movimento umano è il fulcro della ricerca di Morgan O’Hara (Los Angeles, 1941), artista che fin dagli anni Ottanta ha sviluppato un metodo per trasformare la mano in strumento sismografico capace di catturare in tempo reale i flussi gestuali attraverso cui si manifesta la vitalità dei corpi in movimento. La mostra che lo Studio la Linea Verticale di Bologna le dedica raccoglie un cospicuo nucleo di disegni recenti realizzati con questa tecnica, che l’artista definisce Live Transmission, un procedimento attraverso...