Hand stitching translates geometric systems into textile relief
 
Ceren Muftuoglu transforms digitally constructed geometric systems into tactile surfaces through meticulous hand stitching. The project explores repetition, rhythm, and subtle disruptions. Working at the intersection of painting, textile and relief, the artist creates highly ordered compositions that shift between visual precision and the irregularities inherent in making by hand. Each work begins digitally, where Muftuoglu constructs geometric patterns and establishes the underlying system of repetition. The composition is then transferred onto cotton canvas, which is painted with acrylic to create a carefully controlled ground. Using cotton...

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Diagonal geometries shift the movement of Midosuji upwards
 
Set along Osaka’s iconic Midosuji, 2050 Coffee’s new branch by TEKI Design introduces a new angle to the city’s historic axis. Through diagonal geometries and a vertical spatial experience, the café transforms everyday movement into discovery while reflecting 2050 Coffee’s vision for a more sustainable future. 
 
Midosuji, the boulevard running through Shinsaibashi, began in the Edo period as a pilgrimage route connecting the Kita Mido and Minami Mido temples. During the early Showa era, it developed into Osaka’s primary north–south axis, linking Umeda and Namba and contributing to the city’s subsequent urban growth. Today, the...

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The US House of Representatives has unanimously moved to hold Leon Black, the billionaire financier and one of the world’s top collectors, in criminal contempt of Congress, the New York Times reports. The contempt charge is related to Black’s dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, whom Black had paid $158 million for financial advice between 2012 and 2017. The House Oversight Committee, which had also unanimously recommended the contempt charge to the full House, subpoenaed Black this past June, and he met with the committee in a closed-door interview on June 26. However, Black has not submitted to a deposition and “refused to answer questions about nondisclosure agreements that he had...

On Monday, two new lawsuits were filed in Los Angeles in the hopes of recovering long-disputed, but so far unsuccessful, claims for the return of Nazi-looted art from renowned museums, reports the Los Angeles Times. Their timing is no coincidence. The heirs or representatives of Jews who lost artworks during the Holocaust are hoping that the passage of a new law in California and a second one at the federal level will turn the tables in their favor. Those laws include one that was passed in California in 2024, while the second, known as the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act of 2025, was signed by President Trump in April. Both are designed to facilitate the restitution of artworks taken “as a...

ASTON MARTIN BRINGS THE AMB SERIES TO THE ROAD
 
Aston Martin and Brough Superior introduce the AMB 002 Roadster, their first motorcycle designed and certified for use on public roads. The new model follows the track-only AMB 001, unveiled in 2019, and the AMB 001 Pro of 2022, extending the collaboration between the British marques beyond the circuit. Developed from scratch rather than adapted from either predecessor, the AMB 002 is limited to 300 individually built examples, with first deliveries scheduled for the third quarter of 2027.
 
The roadster combines compact proportions with sculpted carbon fiber bodywork shaped by the Aston Martin Design Studio. A smooth carbon fiber fuel tank rises toward the...

Ticket sales for the National Gallery’s forthcoming Renoir exhibition have topped twenty-two thousand, setting a record for the London institution. Bookings opened to members on August 4, and to the general public on August 25. The museum’s previous best-selling show was 2024’s “Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers,” which booked 15,654 tickets in the same amount […]

Emerald Vysions turns the face into a cinematic stage 
 
For Toronto-based makeup artist Emerald Vysions, the face becomes a small-scale stage for images, emotions, and cinematic memories. Working on her own face, the artist reinterprets film stills through saturated pigments, graphic lines, metallic textures, rhinestones, feathers, and highly constructed lashes. Vysions extracts the visual language of movie scenes and compresses it into eye looks that can be read in a single glance.
 
A film normally exists at a distance, projected onto a screen, framed by a rectangle, and experienced through the collective act of watching. Emerald Vysions relocates fragments of that spectacle onto the body. The screen...

On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York broke ground on its new modern and contemporary art wing, named for emeritus trustee Oscar L. Tang and his wife H. M. Agnes Hsu-Tang. The project had been in the works since 2014, but plans accelerated in 2021 when Tang and Hsu-Tang, two of the world‘s top collectors, gifted the museum $125 million toward renovating the its modern art wing. At the time, it was the largest capital gift the museum had ever received. In 2022, the Met announced Mexico City–based architect Frida Escobedo as the project designer, and in 2025 revealed the long-awaited designs for new wing, scheduled to open in 2030. The groundbreaking event was attended by Tang and Hsu-Tang...

Today, in honor of the 800th anniversary of Saint Francis of Assisi’s death, a new digital platform dedicated to the eponymous basilica was launched by Haltadefinizione, part of the Gruppo Panini Cultura, in collaboration with the General Custody of the Sacred Convent of Saint Francis. The platform, called Preserving Assisi, is free to access and digitally preserves the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi’s architecture, as well as its masterpieces by Giotto, Cimabue, Simone Martini, and Pietro Lorenzetti. It was created by a team of specialists who mapped the Basilica’s interior and exterior spaces and its major decorative schemes using ultra-high-resolution gigapixel photography and three-dimensional...

Dear Reader, The New York Times recently asked dozens of 10-year-olds what the world will be like in 2050. Some are hopeful: a woman will finally be president of the U.S., people will be more kind, and everyone will have a pet fox. Others, though, feel as if they’ve been plucked straight from a dystopian hellscape: world wars, monarchic rule supplanting voting, embedded brain sensors that send your thoughts straight to an app, and the end of human civilization entirely. Whether optimistic or not, these children mention A.I. again and again. In their futures, it’s an inextricable fixture of life. A.I.’s exponential growth has accelerated fears about its power, prompting numerous executives and...

BENGHAZI 2050 BUILDS AN ADAPTABLE FRAMEWORK FOR THE CITY
 
Benghazi, the historic port city on Libya’s Mediterranean coast, is looking toward 2050 with a new planning framework developed by a consortium including A&O TEC, Prior+Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), Homa, Buro Happold, Systematica and Fichtner. Conceived amid a period of urban growth, infrastructure investment and renewal, Benghazi 2050: Next Generation City Plan sets out to coordinate future development while reconnecting the city with its waterfront, historic center and expanding neighborhoods. Rather than defining a single architectural intervention, the proposal combines a spatial vision with a digital platform intended to guide...

The art world is back up and running this September, and Tribeca is the place to be for big art in small places. Walking down Broadway and across Walker and White Streets, I am struck by how many new galleries are popping up, and even more so by how impactful and story-driven most of the exhibitions are. Many of these shows spotlight young artists, like Giuseppe Francalanza at Chapter NY, whose dreamy, ethereal paintings remind me of High Renaissance Italian masterpieces; he's only 26, and this is his first solo exhibition in the United States. Or there's Mia Goldstein, who's even younger (born in 2001!), at Journal Gallery. Her work follows the ethos of "paint what you know," and for her, that...

A Florida family was sold over 200 forged Andy Warhol artworks by an international network of suppliers, authenticators, dealers, and distributors, as alleged in a civil racketeering lawsuit filed on September 9.Real-estate investor Richard Perlman filed the suit in a Miami-Dade county court, stating that he, along with his wife and son, spent over $6.7 million between 2023 and 2024 on fraudulent Warhol prints of Superman, Queen Elizabeth, and other famous figures. First reported by the Wall Street Journal, the complaint alleges that the works were painted in Peru, smuggled into the United States, and falsely authenticated as genuine pieces by a network of art dealers."This case involves a multi-million-dollar...

It’s been said that Chicago is an October kind of city. The sentiment feels just as true now as it did when Nelson Algren wrote it 75 years ago; Chicago’s residents are in a perpetual state of fall, bracing themselves for what’s to come. Shifts in longstanding labor arrangements, like the Art Institute’s recent outsourcing of its entire custodial staff, and ominous meteorological changes (summer rainfall levels 28% higher than usual) point to trouble brewing. But art in the city is well-equipped to respond, making space for moments of solidarity, reflection, and imagination. Whether it’s building communities with incarcerated people at Walls Turned Sideways, reckoning with the post-natural world at...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Cat Frazier (1991–2026)Champion of a retro-maximalist internet aestheticThe graphic designer revolted against minimalistic trends in contemporary design and visual culture, revamping the aesthetics of the wilder, rawer early internet through AnimatedText, a 2010s Tumblr page that showcased text-based GIFs and eventually garnered half a million followers. Her work kickstarted an era of web aesthetics we are arguably still in, defined by pop graphics, intentionally "bad" design, and a nihilistic irony. “I think she was one of the great pop artists of the 21st-century internet culture,” writer and critic...

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Chinese artist Liang Shaoji, known for his multidisciplinary silkworm installations, died at age 81 in Shanghai following an illness, announced ShanghART Gallery, his longtime dealer. “It is with profound sadness that ShanghART Gallery announces the passing of Liang Shaoji,” reads the gallery’s social media post. In 1989, Liang began his lifelong project known as the “Nature Series,” defined by his research and art practice involving silkworms and silk farming as a “creation medium” and “collaborative partners.” For these works, Liang introduced silkworms to objects of varying scales—a shoe, plastic cups, shards of ceramics, but also emotionally and physically weightier items like massive...

The Molino de Aliaga, the Peruvian capital’s earliest colonial structure discovered to date, was built by the Spanish conquistador Jerónimo de Aliaga in the 16th century

EDINBURGH, Scotland — A White boy lifts a match to a cigarette. A Black girl floats on a scratched seesaw. A rock band strums from a pickup truck parked between towering housing projects, posters pasted to the door reading, “End Unemployment. GET THEM OUT!”Sandra George’s intimate portraits of urban Scottish life during the 1980s and ’90s reveal a world of both resilience and enduring solidarity. In one photograph, a student is arrested at an anti-nationalist protest; in another, a bouquet is thrust into the air at a rally upon Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. Brown, Black, and White women gather at a community center to discuss their shared grievances; “Every Mother is a Working Mother,”...

Visiting “Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions” at the Morgan Library & Museum

At 33 feet wide and 52.5 feet high, an ancient mosaic recently unveiled to the public may be the largest in the entire Roman world. It sits within the recently opened Museum of the Baths of Trajan in central Rome, which preserves a monumental, early 2nd-century bath complex built by Emperor Trajan covering about 15 acres. To construct the baths on the Oppian Hill, builders repurposed elements of a previous structure, Emperor Nero’s Domus Aurea, or “Golden House,” originally erected between 64 and 68 C.E. It’s unclear if the mosaic originated in that building; archaeologists think it could have also been part of a lavish dwelling that was later incorporated into the compound. But many of the monumental...

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Unionized employees of the Brooklyn Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York, voted overwhelmingly to strike if they do not receive fair contract offers. Local 2110 UAW, which represents organized staff at all three institutions, announced the vote results on September 15. Unionized workers at […]

On September 15, the Metropolitan Museum of Art broke ground on the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, a long-awaited addition that will house the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary art. The new wing is scheduled to open to the public in 2030. The five-story, 126,000-square-foot extension will include 69,500 square feet […]

The prized Russian icon Trinity, painted by Andrei Rublev in the fifteenth-century, has possibly been damaged after the climate-control system in which the work is housed broke down. The icon is currently kept in the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra monastery near Moscow, a Unesco World Heritage site. The work was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church […]

Inspired by shapes and movement found in nature, Pablo Luna Studio conceives of hospitality spaces, wellness retreats, and homes that sympathize with their surroundings. Rather than creating a barrier between outside and inside, the airy structures welcome foliage and the natural landscape into the overall experience, blurring the boundary between structure and environment. The firm, based in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, is dedicated to building with nature, incorporating sustainable materials and taking a climate-responsive approach. “Imagine a home that stays cool in summer without constant air conditioning, or warm in winter with minimal heating, simply by virtue of its design,” the studio says. “This...

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An exhibition featuring works by all eight recipients of this year’s awards will open in New Brunswick this autumn

The State Tretyakov Gallery, which housed Andrei Rublev’s icon until it was transferred to the church in 2023, said museum staff are checking its condition

The opening of the free display was marked by a symposium discussing British and Ukrainian collaboration to protect and preserve the embattled country's cultural heritage

Ab-Anbar Gallery is offering a rare access to contemporary Iranian art as sanctions, war and economic pressures isolate the country’s art scene

If you find yourself feeling impatient at the slow, meditative opening scenes of “The Spectacle,” just wait. The short documentary from The New Yorker visits a slew of stunning vistas primarily across Norway, showcasing star-dappled night skies and awe-inspiring mountaintop views. We’re witness to landscapes that appear untouched by humanity, until director Yasmin van Dorp plops us down amidst hordes of tourists. What was a serene environment is suddenly a chaotic display of phones and cameras. A parent attempts to coax their child out atop the famous Norwegian boulder Kjeragbolten for a photo, assistants fluff formal gowns so their wearer appears windswept, and selfie sticks and drone controls abound....

Although Hew Locke’s practice revolves around geographically bound objects—superimposed drawings of Guyanese homes and his suspended flotilla among them—the artist traces the reaches of empire that extend far beyond any singular era or point on a map. How people, capital, cargo, and ideas traverse the globe has long been central to Locke’s work, an investigation he continues in The Wanderers on view at P·P·O·W. Returning to the artist’s Odyssey series, the solo presentation hangs a fleet of miniature ships from the gallery ceiling. The flotilla features a wide array of boats, from tankers and fishing vessels to the towering galleons of the 16th century, which Locke embellishes with tiny pennants...

Kosuke Ajiro
GR gallery is pleased to present Excavation Record I – Sayonara, the first solo exhibition in the United States by Japanese artist Kosuke Ajiro. The exhibition introduces Ajiro’s distinctive practice through the figure of the archeologist, who ventures into a whimsical and enigmatic imagined realm known as the “Kingdom of Sally.” Across the exhibition, each work reveals a fragment of this mysterious world, uncovering earthbound creatures and curious details before opening onto a vast, fantastical expanse. Moving between the familiar and the otherworldly, Ajiro’s works invite the viewer on a journey of mystery, magic, transformation, and discovery. As the story gradually reveals itself,...

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Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...

By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...

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For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...

Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"—Honoré de Balzac "Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning."—Miguel de Unamuno Hiroko Yoshimoto's paintings concentrate nature into radiant and dynamic beauty, distilling visual sensation into poetic and environmental significance. Throughout the 2020s, Yoshimoto has worked on two series of paintings about nature: Biodiversity and Of Infinite Variety. Both series are based on observation of the natural...

By Julie Faith There is something strange about returning to a place you once knew well after being away for a long time. You recognize the architecture before you recognize what the years have done to you. As I passed through the gate at Corey Helford Gallery, crossed the lot, and headed up the stairs, I felt ridiculously, wonderfully giddy. Kid-in-a-candy-store giddy. I have been away from the gallery and much of the Los Angeles art world, but somewhere between the gate and the stairs, I...

By Victoria Thomas Altadena-based artist James Griffith greets me at his studio, located in a refurbished 1920s firehouse diagonally across the street from the gleaming silver lagomorph of the restored Bunny Museum, by saying "Hi, I just started putting a galaxy in the armpit of a penguin." Great cities announce their identities through their monuments. New York City has the Statue of Liberty, St. Louis the Gateway Arch, Chicago the Cloud Gate, Philadelphia the original LOVE sculpture. And...

 
Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
   
The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

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.

The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

 
Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...

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...