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Céleste Boursier-Mougenot makes movement the score
 
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is widely known for turning ordinary objects into unexpected instruments and revealing the musical potential of everyday materials and situations. For ‘points de suspension’, presented at Frac Normandie in Caen as part of the Normandie Impressionniste Festival, the French artist’s exhibition brings together sound and movement, taking place in the cloister and galleries of a former seventeenth-century convent.
 
For ‘envolée’, the artist installs a circular structure that recalls the bandstands, structures that once gave life to public gardens, at the center of the courtyard. Eight swings hang beneath antique church...

I just came back from a dreamy residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Northern California. The place is special not just for the breathtaking views of the Marin Headlands but also for the kind people who run it. I'm grateful to Louisa Gloger, Holly Blake, MJ Brown, and others on Headlands' team. Shoutout also to the amazing Bay Area artists, writers, activists, and other Hyperallergic readers I got to meet in the past few weeks.   Meanwhile, our excellent editorial has been holding down the fort, putting out lots of must-reads. Check out Erin L. Thompson's deep dive into the convicted antiquities dealer behind priceless objects held at dozens of museums across the United States,...

HOW THESE COLORFUL ELECTRONIC TATTOOS MONITOR YOUR HEALTH
 
Forget bulky adhesive patches and clinical-looking wearables. Engineers at Pennsylvania State University have developed a conductive ink that can be painted directly onto the skin, creating colorful electronic tattoos capable of monitoring heart, muscle, and brain activity. Applied like face paint and customizable with food coloring, the temporary electrodes conform closely to the body’s surface, offering a more comfortable and accurate alternative to conventional wearable sensors. The technology is detailed in a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
 
The water-based conductive ink dries in less than ten...

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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...

The July 17 passing into law of Japan’s Bill Concerning Punishment of the Desecration of the National Flag and Related Acts has sparked concerns regarding the creation and display of art around the country. The new law, which represents a victory for the right-wing government of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, subjects those found guilty of defiling or […]

inside the spiral
 
Before I visited Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty back in 2017, I thought I knew it well. The earthwork has been photographed from above for more than half a century, with its 1,500-foot coil of basalt and earth dotting Utah’s Great Salt Lake.
 
That familiar image disappeared once I stepped onto the simple open-air labyrinth. I was surrounded by an endless stretch of earth and uninterrupted sky, and each curve was followed by another reach of pale salt. The pathway had a single route, which kept turning as the landscape continued to repeat itself.
 
Spiral Jetty’s only destination is its own center (or exit), and by then you lose all sense of direction or scale. Smithson wrote that...

A painting by French artist Pierre Soulages known as Peinture 161 x 200 cm, 14 novembre 1958, is the subject of a new lawsuit where the plaintiffs allege that it was stolen from their family nearly fifty years ago, as first reported by Crain’s New York. The painting was sold at a Christie’s auction last […]

British politicians, including Your Party MP Jeremy Corbyn and Green Party MP Siân Berry, are demanding an investigation into the British Museum’s alleged recent decision to amend informational displays at the museum that had the word “Palestine” was removed.  The controversy first arose earlier this year, when the Telegraph reported that the British Museum had made the decision to remove […]

Allison Littrell, Morgan Elder, and Gabrielle Datau of Los Angeles-based Murmurs gallery announced plans to shut down operations in an Instagram post on July 14. The gallery has operated out of a space in the Downtown Los Angeles neighborhood for the past seven years, and its final exhibition was a solo show of work by […]

On July 14, two Congressional representatives—Dina Titus (D-Nevada) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) proposed a bill that would protect public artworks commissioned by the U.S. government. The PRESERVE Act (“Protecting Resources and Ensuring Stewardship of Enduring Records of Visual Expression Act”) would require the General Services Administration, which manages federal agencies, to identify any artworks contained within government buildings deemed “surplus property” and form a committee to oversee the future of said artworks. “Publicly commissioned art should never become collateral damage when federal buildings are sold or otherwise disposed of” said Titus, a co-sponsor of the bill, in a statement....

Cueing a collective sigh of relief on both sides of the English Channel, the millennium-old Bayeux Tapestry was not damaged during its contested voyage from France to London’s British Museum, according to French culture ministry officials, speaking to AFP on Thursday.   “I am able to confirm that there was no visible alteration and that the tapestry traveled well,” said Delphine Christophe, France’s general director of heritage and architecture, speaking Thursday, July 16, after the medieval tapestry was unpacked for the first time since its historic arrival in England on July 10, where it is being loaned in a diplomatic gesture of goodwill from France. The tapestry was boxed in a suspended casing...

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) has appointed Kevin Tervala chief of curatorial affairs and exhibitions. Tervala joins the institution from the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), where he has served as chief curator since 2023. In his new role, he will assume responsibility for the Minneapolis museum’s curatorial division, overseeing collections, exhibitions planning and […]

One of the few monuments honoring an Arab-American in the United States is the subject of a new participatory art project that turns the decades-old sculpture of a slain Palestinian-American icon into an expansive, living artwork.Outside the public library in Santa Ana stands a memorial statue to Alex Odeh, a Palestinian-American poet, civil rights leader, and scholar who was assassinated in 1985. Created by Algerian-American artist Khalil Bendib in 1994, it depicts Odeh holding a book in one hand and a dove in the other, symbolizing his work as a peace activist. The bronze statue has been vandalized several times over the past three decades — it was splashed with red paint in 1996 and 1997, and in 2020,...

Trevor Winkfield, "Voyage II" (1996), acrylic on linen (all photos courtesy Tibor de Nagy gallery)The English-born Trevor Winkfield has taken a unique path that has yet to be fully recognized for its unlikeliness, depth, and breadth. After attending art school in Leeds and getting his master’s degree from the Royal College of Art in 1967, he moved to New York in 1969, where he continued to publish a poetry magazine, Juillard (1968–72), and made a name for himself among a group of writers and artists known as the New York School. He worked for Arthur Cohen, who sold books and ephemera on 20th-century Modern Art movements such as Dada and Surrealism and made entries to Cohen’s encyclopedic catalogs. These...

A photo of late professional dancer O'Shae Sibley attending a class at the Ailey Extension's drop in program (photo Whitney Browne for Ailey Extension, courtesy Ailey Extension)Nearly three years since the attack, Dmitriy Popov was handed a 20-year sentence today, July 16, over the fatal stabbing of Black gay professional dancer O'Shae Sibley at a gas station in Midwood, Brooklyn. The sentencing comes after Popov was convicted of manslaughter as a hate crime in June, as the 2023 stabbing happened after he and a group of friends confronted Sibley's group with homophobic slurs because the dancer was vogueing to music at a gas pump.“O’Shae Sibley was simply being himself — a Black gay...

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—An international team of researchers have analyzed teeth from 152 formerly enslaved Africans whose remains were unearthed on the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena in 2007 and 2008 ahead of a construction project, according to a Live Science report. After the slave trade was outlawed in the British Empire in 1807, some 27,000 people were transported to St. Helena by the Royal Navy, which was tasked with enforcing the ban on slave ships. At the time, Royal Navy personnel reported that the newly freed people spoke multiple languages, including Congo and Benguela dialects. But an estimated 8,000 of these individuals, many of whom were malnourished and in poor health, died on the island....

Two former managers of a prominent Shanghai auction house have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for orchestrating an extensive fraud scheme that led one collector to spend about RMB 500 million ($74 million) on counterfeit or grossly overpriced artifacts. Hong Kong media reported on Wednesday that the collector, from Shandong province, purchased more than 40 items from Shanghai Jiahe Auction Co., Ltd., only to discover that authentication documents revealed many were forgeries or had been assigned artificially inflated valuations. The two former managers were convicted in four cases and sentenced to 14 years and six months and 12 years in prison, respectively. According to the court judgment, the pair...

Zendaya faced backlash for wearing a pair of 3,000-year-old Iranian gold discs at a London photocall for Christopher Nolan's forthcoming adaptation of The Odyssey earlier this month. The discs, mounted in 18-karat gold and diamonds, were recently made into earrings by jeweler Glenn Spiro as part of his Materials of the Old World collection, and subsequently acquired by London jewelry house Barron London, who stated that they are part of the company’s private collection and not for sale. However, they did not belong on the red carpet at all. Described as a “voracious collector,” mesmerized by special artifacts “regardless of their provenance,” Spiro said in an interview about the collection,...

Excavated foundations of a barracks at the Fort Anne National Historic Site, Novia Scotia, Canada NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA—The Annapolis Valley Register reports that the foundations of a barracks built by the British in 1752 have been uncovered at Nova Scotia’s Fort Anne National Historic Site. The fort was constructed by Scottish settlers in 1629 to protect Annapolis Royal harbor. The barracks measured about 145 feet long and almost 40 feet wide, and was eventually torn down in 1795. Parks Canada archaeologist Rebecca Dunham spotted the building on historic drawings and documents while researching the area before a tent was erected on the site for a park event. “It was a large brick building, two-story...

SHAANXI, CHINA—According to a statement released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qiaomei Fu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his colleagues analyzed genomes obtained from 169 sets of human remains unearthed at Shimao, a Neolithic site in northwestern China, and the surrounding area. Occupied between 4,200 and 3,700 years ago, Shimao covered nearly 1,000 acres and was surrounded by a defensive wall. The study suggests that the people who lived at Shimao descended from local groups and had genetic ties to the Yangshao culture, which was also located on the Loess Plateau of the Yellow River. Genetic links to different cultural groups to the south were detected in the remains of the people of Shimao as...

Rafael Pérez Evans transforms Mostyn Cymru with an emotionally charged installation exploring vulnerability, social fracture and the power of collective care

Good Morning! Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill to protect federal artworks, including New Deal-era masterpieces, from possible sale or destruction. France considers withdrawing Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky’s refugee status. Think you need a degree in art history to appreciate a masterpiece? Think again The Headlines PRESERVE, PROTECT, PROSPER. Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced the Preserve Act, a bill aimed at protecting public artworks in federal buildings targeted for sale by the Trump administration, The Art Newspaper reported. The legislation would require the General Services Administration to create an expert committee to safeguard commissioned art, including New...

five decades of artistic mischief and inflatable absurdity
 
Pat Oleszko has received the Whitney Museum’s 2026 Bucksbaum Award, a $100,000 prize presented during each Biennial year to an artist whose work is judged to hold lasting significance for American art. Selected from 56 artists and collectives in Whitney Biennial 2026, the Detroit-born, New York-based artist becomes the thirteenth recipient since the award began in 2000.
 
The announcement places new attention on a practice Oleszko has built across more than five decades, using handmade forms and performance to give political satire a loud, physically comic body.
 
Inside the Biennial, Oleszko occupies the gallery with two works separated by...

A friend of the artist believes he is being held in government custody before being expelled from Cuba, while a human rights organisation has filed a legal petition for his release

The curator moves to Minnesota after more than ten years at the Baltimore Museum of Art

bump turns a fragmented apartment into a flexible living space
 
Tetris is a residential renovation project by bump studio that transforms a fragmented apartment in Genova, Italy, into a flexible living environment through color, geometry, and custom-designed elements. The project reorganizes the existing layout with a series of interconnected spaces, centered around a sculptural yellow volume that defines circulation, storage, and spatial relationships throughout the home.
 
Before the renovation, the apartment was characterized by a series of irregular rooms arranged around a central corridor, a configuration that limited flexibility and no longer reflected contemporary patterns of living. The redesign...

Researchers have identified what they believe is one of the oldest known representations of the mythical Maya hero Juun Ajaw at the ancient city of Calakmul in Mexico. Their findings, which were based on three years of research and analysis, were published in IdeAs, the online journal of the Institute of the Americas. The authors of the paper, archeologists Daniel Salazar Lama, Ana García Barrios, and Benjamin Esqueda Lazo De La Vega, focused on what is considered the earliest mural painting found at Calakmul, a massive Maya city whose ruins, deep in the Yucatan jungle, were discovered in 1931. Though the mural, which depicts a man in a headdress holding a spear, had been removed for conservation in 2004, the...

Hospital Rooms is celebrating its tenth anniversary with 10 Posters for 10 Years, a fundraising campaign

From portraits taken around Harlem in the 1940s to assignments for Life magazine to the 1963 March on Washington, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) wielded his camera as a tool for social justice. He captured civil rights activists like Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr. in addition to artists and celebrities such as Helen Frankenthaler and Ingrid Bergman. But he may be best known for his candid portraits of families and communities in the segregated South during the era of Jim Crow. All of these and more will be on view in Voices in the Mirror at Jack Shainman Gallery in mid-September, also marking the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation. Parks was spurred to pursue photography in 1937 after seeing...

Designed by the American Modernist architect Herb Greene, the Prairie House in Oklahoma is the subject of a new preservation campaign

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Artefacts including terracotta statues and fossilised fish were recovered by the Carabinieri Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale through six separate investigations

Roger Norrington conducted Rossini's Semiramide in Pesaro '94 and made the Orchestra part of the drama in a way I still have never heard duplicated in a Bel Canto opera.

‘Sunflowers’ does not make the list—and there are other surprises

AI, desert, caves, mental health and seasons.

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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TALLINN, ESTONIA—Estonian Public Radio reports that a well-preserved fourteenth-century papal seal, or bulla, belonging to Pope Clement V was unearthed in Tallinn, Estonia’s capital city on the shore of the Baltic Sea. Archaeologist Mihkel Tammet of Muinasprojekt said that the bulla was found in a medieval layer that also contained ceramics and other artifacts. He thinks it may have been brought to the site with waste and soil carried from Old Town to fertilize fields and gardens. “Only three papal bullae—papal seals—are known from Estonia, and all of them are attached to documents in the Tallinn City Archives,” added historian Ivar Leimus. To read about silver and gold coins unearthed in feature...

SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA—The Santa Barbara Independent reports that ancestral remains and artifacts have been returned to the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians by the Yale Peabody Museum and Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The repatriation took four years to organize under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), which became law in 1990. “Our ancestors and their belongings were stolen from their resting place, a place where their families and communities prayed and grieved, leaving them to rest,” said Kathleen Marshall of the Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center. The earliest collection of these objects occurred in 1877,...

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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If you were to rip open a tattered matchbox, what might you find hidden in its confines? And what’s lurking behind biological renderings and advertisements? Jason Limon imagines a playful world in which vintage illustrations are the colorful veneer concealing a vast, three-dimensional universe populated by skeletons. The San Antonio-based artist has long painted otherworldly scenes dominated by life after death, when bony figures are stripped of their identities and instead function as anonymous entities. Tapping into emotion and personal experience, Limon continues to conjure the uncanny through a cheeky approach to one of the most universal symbols. “Matchbook Tiger,” 12 x 9 inches In his most recent...

MK Gallery presents the first major L.S. Lowry exhibition in over 13 years, bringing together more than 140 paintings and drawings.

The Royal College of Art has launched a new network of creative education partnerships across the UK and Ireland

“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it,” wrote stoic philosopher Lucius Seneca. The phrase appeared in his essay “De Brevitate Vitae,” or, “On the Shortness of Life,” which he scratched into papyrus around 49 A.D. Nearly 2,000 years on, his words reflect what is still a fundamental concern of life—how to spend it wisely? For artist Marc Padeu, the notion of humans’ futile control of time forms the basis of a new suite of works in Memento Vivere, on view starting tomorrow at Larkin Durey. Padeu is known for merging scenes of daily life with references to Renaissance religious paintings. Among his newest works, “La promesse et l’agneau” (“The promise...

Zany gags keep Zar und Zimmermann zipping along at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

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...

Acclaimed British photographer Peter Marlow (1952-2016) was known for his journalistic attention to people and happenings in conflict zones and political interactions. Throughout his career, though, he also embarked on numerous personal documentary projects like Liverpool: Looking Out to Sea, which he completed in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the city experienced sharp economic decline—its historic docks were no longer viable for global industry. He was also president of Magnum Photos twice. One of Marlow’s more meditative projects revolved around 42 Anglican cathedrals across England. The Anglican Christian tradition stems from the establishment of the Church of England following the English...

Rarely do artists conceive of work that is prescient and, decades on, more urgent than when it was created. One who has accomplished this is certainly Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), whose interdisciplinary practice merged photography, land art, sculpture, film, and more. And in a large-scale, immersive survey of her work that opens today at Tate Modern, more than 120 pieces revisit the groundbreaking artist’s key series and empathetic exchange with land and nature. Mendieta is best known for her Silueta Series, in which she impressed the shape of the human body in water, mud, rock, and forests. These sometimes consisted of outlines “drawn” onto surfaces, such as a gunpowder tribute on a fallen tree, which...

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One Italian soprano continues to save the day in bel canto roles at La Scala; this week Parterre Box features Marta Torbidoni.

Many years ago, when the Met was deciding who the next principal conductor/music director was going to be, it seemed to be a tie between YN-S and Fabio Luisi.

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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Earlier this month, Karen Harvey announced that Shutter Hub would begin a new chapter under the stewardship of its community, marking the organisation’s most significant evolution to date. It was also one of its most radical acts, placing the future of Shutter Hub into the hands of the people who have helped shape it over the past decade.
Since its beginnings, Shutter Hub has championed a democratic approach to photography, creating opportunities that are open, accessible, and driven by community rather than hierarchy. The creation of a Community Team is a natural continuation of those values, ensuring that the organisation’s future is informed by a diverse network of practitioners, educators, curators,...

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