The Louvre reopened its now-infamous Apollo Gallery on July 22, nine months after a group of thieves lifted $102 million worth of Napoleon era jewels from the Paris museum. The brazen daytime heist took less than eight minutes, during which time thieves, disguised as construction workers, used a monte-meubles, or a moving exterior staircase, to break into the Apollo Gallery. Once inside, they quickly absconded with nine bejeweled objects, including a tiara, a necklace, earrings, and a brooch. Only Empress Eugénie’s diamond-and-emerald-encrusted crown, which the thieves dropped while escaping on scooters, has been recovered. The lavishly decorated Apollo Gallery, however, will no longer house what remains of...

Nine months after a brazen jewel heist left the Louvre scrambling, the museum has finally reopened the Apollo Gallery, where four masked thieves stole eight items valued collectively at $102 million. However, per reports, the space that was once teeming with valuable jewelry is now completely empty.  Christophe Leribault, the freshly appointed director of the […]

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Christine Borland (1965–2026)Scottish artist who explored human fragility through scienceAcross sculpture, photography, printmaking, and works in glass, china, bronze, and more, she incorporated fields like genetics and forensic science into explorations of the fragility of life within systems. One of the Young British Artists, she was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997 and elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2020. She was a professor of fine art at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne. “We were fortunate to work with Christine on a number of projects over the years and to witness...

Two 1970s murals by Chilean artist Julio Escámez, long considered lost, are reemerging in Chillán’s city hall (Chile). Currently in the meticulous process of restoration, the first of the historic artworks is slated for completion in December 2027, ARTnews reports. The murals, titled The Beginning and The End, are being uncovered and restored by a team from the Heritage Unit […]

children leave their mark on haus der kunst
 
Across the marble floor of Haus der Kunst’s central hall, wax-crayon scribbles spread over pale stone and slip through its grid of seams. Ei Arakawa-Nash’s Mega Please Draw Freely began with an invitation that sounds almost suspiciously simple inside a museum: choose a color and draw.
 
Each visitor added to the same surface and lends a dense, changing field that belonged to everyone who played within it. Children left evidence of their presence behind, while the architecture became part of the picture. This permission sets the terms for For Children. Art Stories since 1968, which brought together works made for young audiences by more than twenty...

Major changes are taking place at the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation, which recently revealed that it has received a bequest of Pousette-Dart’s work by the artist’s late widow, Evelyn. The foundation is still examining the items included in Evelyn’s bequest, which it described as “very substantial” and includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, and notebooks, as per ARTnews. […]

An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered three rock-cut tombs dating to Egypt’s New Kingdom period (ca. 1550–1070 B.C.) at the Bubasteion Necropolis in Saqqara. The news was first reported by Ahram Online. Located 40 km southwest of Cairo, Saqqara was an important cemetery of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis. In the second half of the 18th Dynasty (1550—1292 BCE), high-ranking city dignitaries created tombs for themselves in the limestone cliffs at Bubasteion. Hieroglyphic inscriptions in the newly discovered tombs are providing unusually detailed information about the individuals who were buried within them, according to Hisham El-Leithy, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of...

In January, the Bay Area’s California College of the Arts announced that it would close in 2027 after selling its two campuses to Nashville’s Vanderbilt University. Now, Vanderbilt has revealed that its San Francisco campus will open next year as the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, named in recognition of a $75 million donation from Nvidia founder Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang and his wife, Lori Huang. “Technology expands what we can build. Art and design determine why we build it. Together they shape civilization,” Jensen Huang said in a statement. “We are delighted to partner with Vanderbilt University to cultivate the next generation of creators and help San...

The Getty Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have announced the final cohort of grantees for the Conserving Black Modernism initiative, which focuses on preserving the work of Black architects.   This year’s grantees range, which each receive $150,000 for a total of $750,000 for the cohort from an urban park to a shopping mall. The funding will primarily be used to support historic structures report for the buildings that will help guide their future preservation.  The five awardees are the Central City Plaza in Milwaukee, the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanities Center at Texas Southern University in Houston, the Park-Johnson Hall at Fisk...

What good is a ladder without structural integrity? Artist brothers Saman and Sasan Oskouei consider this question in The Weight of Less, an ongoing series of pocked wooden sculptures. From a school desk to a door to an industrial pallet, each humble item is punctured with irregular yet cohesive holes, rendering their former functions impractical. “As layers are removed, the objects lose their original purpose while gaining a new presence,” the artists tell Colossal. “The carved spaces expose hidden rhythms, patterns, and relationships within the material, allowing absence to become an active part of the work.” The brothers are longtime collaborators and previously worked under the name Icy & Sot....

All images courtesy of CHOI&CHOI Gallery and the artist Sculptor Yu Jinyoung garnered international acclaim for her striking figures, whose bodies are often partially transparent. These are individuals “who wish to become invisible,” she says: “those who exist free from external attention and interference.” These explorations of both intentional isolation and somber loneliness have always […]
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Gagosian will present a major exhibition devoted to René Magritte and his influence on contemporary art this fall, bringing together museum and private loans alongside newly commissioned works by living artists in London during Frieze week. Opening September 24 at the gallery’s Grosvenor Hill space, “This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte” will feature paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and photography spanning the Belgian Surrealist’s career. The exhibition pairs Magritte’s iconic imagery—including his pipes, bowler hats, apples, and cloud-filled skies—with works by contemporary artists from multiple generations, several of them created specifically for the show. The...

Tact Inoue builds HEAT-PRESSed ARTIFICIAL WOOD furniture series
 
MOCKY is a furniture series by Tact Inoue that explores the structural and formal possibilities of artificial wood. Rather than relying on conventional joinery, the project uses heat and pressure to fuse components made from artificial wood, creating organically distorted joints, protrusions, and irregular connections.
 
The furniture is made from artificial wood composed of wood flour and resin, a material commonly used for decking. When heated and compressed, the components adhere to one another, forming fused structures that also gain strength through the process. Unlike natural wood, which typically requires carefully designed...

LONDON — The Bayeux Tapestry, an 11th-century, 230-foot (~70-meter) linen that illustrates the story of the Norman conquest, has just returned to England after nearly a millennium for a forthcoming exhibition at the British Museum. Was David Hockney taking the piss out of this event by presenting an even longer 295-foot (~90-meter) composite iPad “painting," titled “A Year in Normandie” (2020–21), at Serpentine Galleries in March?Hockney, who died last month at age 88, argued against the Bayeux Tapestry’s loan from the French government due to the risk to the object, a concern expressed by numerous historians and scholars. Yet his Serpentine show, entitled A Year in Normandie and Some Other...

Two painters are suing The Hole Gallery in New York City and its owner, Kathy Grayson, alleging that the gallery owes them a combined sum of about $50,000 in outstanding sales proceeds. Brooklyn-based artist Daniel Um and Paris-based painter Nastaran Shahbazi filed a lawsuit against Grayson and her gallery in a Manhattan court last Thursday, June 16, seeking allegedly withheld payments.According to documents filed by Um and Shahbazi's attorney, The Hole is accused of "refus[ing]" to pay two artists for artworks the gallery took on consignment, in violation of state laws governing consignment agreements between artists and dealers. Grayson declined to comment on the lawsuit. So did Jeff Kinkle, the...

Tate has announced Jessica Morgan as its new director. Morgan arrives to the London institution from New York’s Dia Art Foundation, where she has served as director for over a decade. She succeeds Maria Balshaw, who departed this past spring after nine years in charge. Morgan will step into her new role in January 2027. […]

Juliana Huxtable's "Untitled in the Rage (Nibiru Cataclysm)" (2015) is one of the works that Anne and Arthur Goldstein donated to the museum. (image courtesy Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University)Self-portraits by Robert Rauschenberg and Laura Aguilar, a painted skateboard, and a photographic series of hairstyles from Mark Bradford are among the more than 70 artworks bound for the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The acquisitions are part of a gift from collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein announced by the museum on Wednesday, July 15. The gift brings together works by household names, emerging artists, and long-underrecognized painters and photographers. Troy Lamarr Chew...

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range rover adds a fifth silhouette
 
Range Rover is stretching its familiar high-riding shape into a lower, sleeker grand tourer. The newly previewed Range Rover GT becomes the fifth model in the family, joining the full-size Range Rover, Sport, Velar, and Evoque as a vehicle shaped for long distances. Its roofline drops into a coupé-like arc while the body sits close around large wheels. A tapering rear gives the prototype a stance closer to a performance car than the brand’s existing SUVs. It is also the first all-electric Range Rover developed on Jaguar Land Rover‘s Electrified Modular Architecture (EMA) platform.
 
The GT expands the grand touring formula while keeping the all-terrain reach built...

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Tom Wesselmann's former Cooper Square studio will welcome visitors for the first time this September.

LIGHT RECASTS THE FLIP PHONE AS AN ANTIDOTE TO DISTRACTION
 
Brooklyn-based technology company Light presents the Light Phone Flip, its fourth device and first clamshell handset. Conceived as an alternative to app-heavy smartphones, the model removes social media feeds, infinite scrolling, and other attention-driven platforms, concentrating instead on essential communication tools within a compact format.
 
The design responds to repeated requests from users, particularly younger generations, seeking a flip phone that feels durable, current, and properly supported. Rather than recreating the basic handsets already on the market, Light combines its custom-built LightOS operating system with the physical...

How do we distinguish between the artificial and the real? And perhaps more importantly, why should we? Genesis Belanger makes the tension and anxiety that arise from these questions tangible as she lures viewers into an unsettling world. Known for her ceramic works depicting an uncanny vision of domestic life, Belanger often teases out the dynamic relationships between discomfort, consumption, and capitalism. New pieces like “Dreams of the Luddite” nod to our collective malaise over the ubiquity of technology, portraying a nostalgic world just out of reach. “Care-taken” captures a similarly contemporary dilemma, as it presents a bathroom cabinet with medicines of mixed proportions and the recommended...

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Elina Garanča's aborted first Ariadne may have been the headline item at the Salzburg Festival next month, but this week Parterre Box features the Zerbinetta, Ziyi Dai.

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Teatro Nuovo pays tribute to a historic New York production of Don Giovanni with a talented ensemble.

Jessica Morgan will become the tenth Director of Tate in January 2027

Currently the director of Dia Art Foundation in New York, Morgan will succeed Maria Balshaw as director of the UK museum network from January 2027

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The Portuguese private art collection, which features fine and decorative art from antiquity to the 20th-century, reopened on 18 July

A giant 65-foot hot dog has returned to Times Square. Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw's Hot Dog: The Second Serving

INNER CHILD at Artipelag asks why designers lean towards play
 
Why are so many designers making playful objects now? That is the question at the heart of INNER CHILD: Playing with Design, an exhibition opening at Artipelag in Stockholm this October. Bringing together 100 designers and artists, curators Lidewij Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano argue that the rise of animal-like furniture, tactile materials, handmade objects and childlike forms reflects something larger than an aesthetic trend. They see it as evidence of a changing attitude toward creativity. Bringing together 100 designers and artists, the exhibition grew out of a pattern Edelkoort and Fimmano kept encountering in their work as forecasters and...

“Cultural events, funded by European taxpayers’ money, should safeguard democratic values—values which are not respected in today’s Russia,” a European Commission spokesman said

Due to popular demand, the National Portrait Gallery is extending Thursday opening hours for Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait

Palestinian-American artist Sabri Sundos doesn’t paint people — he “finds” them. After rediscovering visual art while creating an album cover for his music in 2018, Sundos embarked on a series of painting and tatreez embroidery projects dedicated to Palestinian memory, freedom, and identity. Samantha Jensen speaks with the artist about his practice as a love letter to the diaspora, where sorrow and beauty coexist.Meanwhile, in the news, the Art Institute of Chicago is planning to transfer its entire custodial team to an independent contractor, drawing outcry from union workers. Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar also sifted through a sea of memes and artworks after Seattle’s beloved raccoon, Jimothy; see her...

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Star Wars: The Old Republic has one of the more interesting in-game economies among modern MMOs. At the center of... Read More

La giovane e promettente artista Georgia Gardner Gray dipinge Stonehenge. Se il visitatore si aspetta quadri grigi, si sbaglia completamente: i dipinti esplodono di colore e tensione. A prima vista, i dipinti di Georgia Gardner Gray sembrano provenire dalla galleria di uno smartphone. Foto di un tempo recente, memorie di momenti vissuti. Ma, aspetta, c’è Stonehenge sullo sfondo? Una donna guarda il visitatore, i suoi tatuaggi sulla caviglia e sulla spalla sono come un codice sconosciuto allo spettatore. Le sue mani toccano appena una corona di fiori. Questa non è affatto la vita quotidiana! Il visitatore è forse entrato in un rituale, dove si fanno verticali sulla testa?
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Long-running series of quirky advertisements for Bruno Bischofberger’s Swiss gallery has come to an end

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

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Across three pickleball courts in central Pittsburgh, Sharmistha Ray embraces the realm of sport as a canvas for vibrant paintings. Geometry of Play comprises large-scale murals that mark the first artist-designed pickleball courts in the country. While we most often associate outdoor murals with walls, the otherwise nondescript 22-by-40-foot area is ripe for interpretation. Ray translates their vivid, geometric abstractions onto a playable surface, tapping into the sport’s communal nature. The artist has long been interested in themes of belonging, especially through the lenses of queer identity and the inheritance of multiple cultures. Photo by Ross Ribblett In Geometry of Play, target-like spheres,...

The iconic Art Deco architecture of Los Angeles’ Richard J. Riordan Central Library houses more than 10 million items, making it the third largest library in the country. The institution also celebrates its centennial this year. So, what better way to ring in a new century of reading and learning than with the largest pop-up book ever created? Commissioned by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles in partnership with the Los Angeles Public Library, L.A.-based artist and printmaker Daniel González conceived of a monumental ode to knowledge, discovery, and imagination. “Luceros y Penumbras” also nods to the building’s history, taking pride of place in the elegant rotunda surrounded by Dean...

Lucia di Lammermoor at La Scala, starring Rosa Feola, proves as airless as this summer's heatwaves.

Antonio Pappano's versatility in both German and Italian repertoire and beyond is both rare and impressive.

By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...

“Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being,” philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre posited in Being and Nothingness, published in 1943. It’s in this book that he also shares an anecdote about stepping into a cafe, where he was to meet a friend. In scanning the room with its other patrons, furniture, and noise, he was tuned into the fact that his friend was not there, an experience infused with an acute awareness—an absence that transformed into a kind of presence. Architects of Absence, a group exhibition at Gallery Wendi Norris, plumbs this dialogue between two seemingly contradictory elements. Colossal readers may recognize the work of Dabin Ahn, Selva Aparicio, and Remedios Varo (1908-1963)...

Common Objects brings together the work of 97 photographers from across the globe to explore the role of the image and its ability to shape perception. Organized not by theme or geography but by visual association, the book draws on the logic of the reference catalog—a structure built for sustained, democratic looking. Within it, photographs from vastly different cultures and contexts find themselves in unexpected proximity, generating connections and contrasts that no single image could produce alone. In this format, the photographs enter into a subtle dialogue with one another, revealing how context, sequence, and framing shape interpretation and inform visual experience.  
   
   
   
   
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Whether an opera by Puccini, Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, or Berg, Dimitri Mitropoulos brought to the podium a total understanding and love for each score he touched.

All’interno dell’ex edificio industriale dell’Espace Monte-Cristo, nel quartiere del Père-Lachaise a Parigi, Diseuses de silence si configura come un dispositivo espositivo che non si limita a tematizzare il silenzio, ma lo assume come condizione epistemologica, come forma differenziale della percezione e come campo di tensione tra visibile e dicibile. Ospitata nella sede parigina della Fondation Villa Datris, istituzione fondata nel 2011 da Danièle Marcovici e Tristan Fourtine e dedicata alla promozione della scultura contemporanea in senso espanso, la mostra si inserisce in una traiettoria curatoriale che concepisce la scultura non più come oggetto, ma come ambiente percettivo, struttura relazionale...

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Il principio della sottrazione è il centro attorno al quale si articola la nuova mostra dell’artista Marco Rèa (Roma, 1975), intitolata “Silence is” allestita alla Street Levels Gallery di Firenze. Il principio della sottrazione affonda le sue radici in concetti autentici e lineari legati all’esistenza e alla visione della realtà. Lo stesso Italo Calvino in “Lezioni Americane” definisce la sottrazione come uno strumento concreto per alleggerire il peso del mondo, lasciando integra la sua sostanza. Rèa, con le sue creazioni, attinge da oltre vent’anni a un percorso che attraversa i confini tra street art, sistema dell’immagine e ricerca visiva contemporanea.
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Photos by Robert Berg, Gregory Gorman, courtesy of the Donum; with additional photos by Annie Owens Balancing awe and meditative moments, the sculptures of The Donum Collection populate a sprawling vineyard estate, with many works many commissioned expressly to respond to the lush landscape they inhabit. Seventy works of art, ranging from bronze sculptures by […]
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In the mountains of northern Italy, far from his studio in Madrid, David Oliver was supposed to be resting. It was early 2025 and he had gone with friends to a house in the Dolomites on a retreat to disconnect. Instead, Oliver found himself staring at images on his phone of cities under bombardment in […]
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Diciassette opere, divise fra dipinti su mappa e plate paintings ed esposte alla Pace Gallery, mettono in scena lo stesso soggetto ripetuto fino all’ipnosi: il pino domestico italiano, Pinus pinea, osservato da Julian Schnabel ogni giorno durante le riprese di In the Hand of Dante nei pressi di Villa Borghese. Finite le riprese, l’artista si è rifugiato ad Ansedonia, dove una pineta simile circondava la casa. Lì, en plein air, ha cominciato a dipingere.
Julian Schnabel, “Italy Through Its Trees“, installation view, May 15 – August 14, 2026, ph. courtesy Pace Gallery, New York
Schnabel dichiara, nel comunicato della mostra, che questi lavori non sono immagini di alberi. La materia dei quadri...

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Una donna con un fazzoletto, una gonna, un grembiule e una camicetta – un semplice abito tipico dei piccoli villaggi balcanici – corre intorno a un albero. Ancora e ancora. E ancora. Si ferma. Sette anni dopo, una donna che le somiglia corre intorno a un albero diverso. E ancora. In Round Around, questa donna è e non è solo Sandra Sterle, l’artista croata di performance multimediali, ma è anche un archetipo di altre donne impegnate in lavori ripetitivi in ​​piccoli luoghi decentrati. Ogni video è stato girato a distanza di sette anni (1996/2003/2010/2017/2024), ognuno in un luogo diverso (a Mljet, vicino a Zara, vicino a Spalato, sull’Isola Nuda/Omiš), ognuno con una telecamera diversa....

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By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...