In piano parlance, an étude is a technically tricky piece of music typically practiced to push a musician beyond their limits. Following that logic, the name of Florentina Holzinger’s final Venice Biennale performance, CLOSING ÉTUDE, suggests that after seven months of her propriety-imploding, waste-wonderland SEAWORLD VENICE, there are feats of endurance still ahead. Part performance, part installation, SEAWORLD VENICE opened at the Austrian Pavilion in May with the piercing peal of a colossal bell salvaged from the Venice Lagoon. In line with her body-first philosophy, a nude Holzinger served as its human clapper. The bell, sans artist, continues to mark the passage of time, ringing every hour over the...

As you enter Andrew Edlin Gallery in Tribeca, Paulina Peavey’s jewel-like visions command your attention. Gleaming against cobalt-blue walls, their vivid, almost embryonic folds hold droplets, petals, and eyes, while reds, blues, and yellows overlap like stained glass. Peavey attributed her work to Lacamo, a nonbinary spirit who began communicating with her in the 1930s, envisioning that humanity was evolving toward “one-gender perfection.”This work is featured in Conduits of the Unseen: Women Artists Imagine Other Worlds, an exhibition that brings together 17 women artists whose work emerges through spirit communication. Amid the growing popularity of occult-themed exhibitions, this one stands out by...

A monumental sculpture by artist Alicja Kwade will be removed early from public display in Paris, where it was installed part of the public program of the Art Basel Paris fair. The piece is situated on the Avenue Winston Churchill, on the doorstep of the Grand Palais, where the fair is taking place; it went on view today and will be removed on Friday, rather than Sunday, her Paris gallery, Mennour, told ARTnews in an email. “Unfortunately, only on view today and tomorrow, as it has to be dismantled, along with other sculptures, because of the announced riots and people who simply want to resort to violence,” Kwade told her nearly 100,000 followers in an Instagram post on Wednesday. “Protest is good, but...

More than 50 galleries across Düsseldorf and Cologne have signed a letter condemning the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's Düsseldorf faction for allegedly referencing postwar conceptual artist and political activist Joseph Beuys and poet Heinrich Heine in the promotion of an upcoming cultural policy event. The AfD event in question, “Cultural Policy From the Right,” is scheduled to take place in Düsseldorf on Monday, October 26, and consists of a walking tour of the city's arts and cultural venues followed by a topical lecture from the party's Bundestag (parliament) member Matthias Helferich. (Hyperallergic has contacted several signatories and was not able to independently...

Visitors attending the inaugural VIP preview day of the 2026 edition of Art Basel Paris yesterday were forced to wend their way through concrete anti-ram barriers encircling the landmark Grand Palais where the event is hosted, the New York Times reports. Fair officials confirmed to visitors that they had additionally beefed up security, providing twenty-four-hour […]

A piece of roof material struck and killed Rogério Renato Mateucci, a Brazilian university rector, while he was on a walking tour of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Friday, October 16. Heavy winds dislodged the piece of debris that struck the educator, who died instantly, a spokesperson with the Scottsdale Police Department told Hyperallergic. His death is currently under investigation as a weather-related incident, the spokesperson added. Mateucci had been the rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná in Brazil since 2022, and earned multiple degrees in higher education leadership as a member of the Marist Catholic order. "The Foundation extends its...

The Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec’s new space will display dozens of works by the province’s most famous Modern artist

Bondi Beach, a neighborhood east of central Sydney, is about as iconic a surf spot as they come. Its eponymous crescent beach glows with golden sand, and its cliffs frame stunning scenery. In December 2025, it was also the site of a tragic terrorist attack, when two men opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration, killing 15 people. (Gun deaths, let alone mass shootings, are exceedingly rare in Australia, especially compared to the U.S.) At Bondi, heroism and a sense of community converged in its beautiful setting, reinforcing pride of place. And it’s again home, at least temporarily, to “the world’s largest free to the public sculpture exhibition.” Sculpture by the Sea organizes an annual outdoor...

The far-right government in Colombia removed more than 30 works from the permanent displays of the Museo Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, citing “political indoctrination.” The works removed included dozens of objects related to LGBTQ rights and feminism. The decision led to protests outside the museum, drawing hundreds. Six other Colombian institutions issued a joint […]

Rogério Renato Mateucci, the rector of a Brazilian university, died last week on at the architect’s former home and studio in Arizona

More than 120 artists will take part in the first Rubaiya Qatar across Doha.

GARZA TRANSLATES BYREDO FRAGRANCES INTO SPATIAL INSTALLATION
 
Designed by Mexican creator Leonardo Garza for BYREDO’s official launch in Mexico, Matter / Memory is an interactive spatial installation that translates five of the brand’s signature fragrances into physical materials, tactile movement, reflection, and acoustic soundscapes. Moving away from conventional visual representations of scent, the design approaches each fragrance as a distinct memory, reinterpreting its sensory notes through raw, tactile mediums and structured spatial experiences.
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In Memoriam honors those we recently lost in the art world.Peter Nagy (1959–2026)Artist and gallerist who shaped art scenes in New York and New DelhiHe co-founded the East Village gallery Nature Morte in 1982, one of the earliest artist-run galleries in the neighborhood, which showed artists such as Louise Lawler, Gretchen Bender, and Keith Sonnier during its six-year run. He fell in love with India and its art in 1992, reopening Nature Morte in New Delhi five years later, helping to build the city's gallery system. In 2016, he co-founded the influential Lower East Side gallery Magenta Plains.An accomplished artist in his own right, his post-conceptualist work merged painting with photocopy technology....

Unionized staff across all four branches of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London announced their intention to strike on October 29 and 30, citing stalled negotiations and allegations of “Amazon-style” working conditions at the newly opened V&A East Storehouse. The announcement follows two planned strikes in September at three V&A museums by workers represented by Prospect Union’s heritage division and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). The V&A preemptively closed the three locations in response to the strike threat, a move it described in a statement at the time as a “difficult decision.” Staff at the V&A East Storehouse, a publicly accessible museum storage facility in East London,...

A new book traces three decades of Angelbert Metoyer’s Afrofuturist practice.

Among Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s favorite activities since he took office is pooh-poohing climate change initiatives while, almost surreptitiously, working to conserve swathes of the state he represents. Now, a group of environmental activists has found a way to make him sweat. A life-size statue of the Republican governor was unveiled in Tallahassee last week, only to begin melting in the Florida sunshine. As DeSantis’s silver-colored face slowly slipped away, a dastardly-looking skull appeared underneath. According to The Guardian, it was all part of the plan. The installation, titled DENIAL, was made from gallium, a metal that melts at just 85.6 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature that Florida...

Earlier this month, the publisher Faber & Faber announced that it was pulling the books of Sally Rooney from UK shops due to the Irish novelist’s support for Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian group designated as a terrorist organization by the UK government. Now, dozens of artists and writers have signed an open letter that appeared in the New Statesman on Wednesday in protest of the UK government’s policy. Among the signatories are artists John Akomfrah and Ben Rivers, art historian William Dalrymple, writer and Joyland magazine editor Stephanie Wambugu, and novelist and critic Kate Zambreno. Other prominent signatories include film director Jonathan Glazer; novelists Patricia Lockwood, Ben Lerner, and...

The FOG Design+Art fair has announced seventy-six exhibitors for its 2027 edition, which runs January 21–24 at the Fort Mason Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The fair, which received 30 percent more applications than last year, will see a 20 percent increase in exhibitors, or thirteen more participants. The primary FOG pavilion features […]

From bottom-trawling fishing boats to increased ocean acidity, shipwrecks and other maritime heritage are in peril throughout the world

cosima von bonin’s plush animals arrive at paris’ petit palais
 
Paris’ Petit Palais has acquired some unusual residents for Art Basel Paris 2026. A velvet St. Bernard has joined the figures in its historic sculpture gallery, while leather octopuses and mohair whales occupy the same grand setting. The animals belong to Dollys & Beaux, an installation by Cologne-based artist Cosima von Bonin, whose oversized fabric creatures, created first for LOEWE, bring a peculiar sense of humor to the museum’s collection of classical sculpture.
 
The gathering includes a bulldog and a pair of scallops, along with hermit crabs that extend the artist’s strange little animal kingdom. Some have been dressed in silk...

The study of seventy-nine fingerprints visible in the clay used to form some of the terracotta warriors in Xi’an, China, has revealed that the makers of the statues included not just adult men but also women and children. The research was published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage and reported in the magazine Archaeology News. […]

If Chaïm Soutine hangs up carcasses to dry, Ilana Savdie dissects them with surgical precision. Pairing the Jewish Belarusian and Colombian-American artists seems obvious: Soutine wrestled the turmoil of both World Wars onto canvas, and Savdie melts modern life's cacophony into oozing creatures of our own making. Coming face to face with their work, I felt a strange mix of alienation and recognition at once.It’s odd to stand in a New York City gallery amid these chimeras of two eras roiling with violence and uncertainty. The rebellious, frenetic hand of Soutine, who moved to Paris two years before World War I began and went into hiding during the Nazi occupation in 1940, charged his early paintings on...

Emma Cousin talks to Paul Carey-Kent about art, criticism, illness and a life spent looking.

Anyone who has driven Interstate 25 between Denver and Colorado Springs knows that traffic can get… hairy. And it’s not just drivers whose safety is at risk, as animals like elk, bears, coyotes, and more also need to use the highway to access 39,000 acres of habitat. Cars and pronghorns just aren’t compatible. That’s why Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) set out to build a wildlife-only bridge, the largest of its kind currently in North America, which it completed in December 2025. Within the first nine months since its opening, wildlife-vehicle collisions were already down a whopping 91 percent. Before the crossing opened, dozens of animals were killed by vehicles every year, often up to...

SUBTERRANEAN ART COMPLEX EMBEDDED IN BURGAS EXCAVATION VOID
 
Designed by UNFORMED DESIGN, Ground of Descent won first prize among 145 international entries in the Park Zone 3 competition organized by the Municipality of Burgas and the Burgas 2032 Foundation. The proposal transforms a long-abandoned central excavation, ‘The Hole,’ into a multi-layered public landscape and contemporary art center. Rather than backfilling the site or erecting a large above-ground structure, the design preserves the legibility of the void, embedding the majority of the cultural program below street level to retain surrounding city views and establish a continuous public descent.
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Leslie Roberts’s lawyer says the disgraced gallerist has been key to helping authorities uncover other art-fraud cases

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE STOP JUST WATCHING?
 
When Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou opened SPECTATOR AND SPECTACLE, she posed a question that challenged our relationship with the world around us: ‘What if we are not overwhelmed by spectacle, but starved of it?’ In her opening editorial, The Haçienda Must Be Built, she traced the history of the night, from radical discotheques to the increasingly measured and optimized rhythms of contemporary life, asking what happens when experiences become predictable and images lose their capacity to surprise us. Over the weeks that followed, the chapter explored how architecture, art, fashion, and design might recover that sense of wonder. Again and again, spectacle emerged not...

Boss Design’s The Loop revives discarded furniture
 
When planning a space, Boss Design knows that an interior design studio considers more than its architectural characteristics. The furniture used to populate that room is as much a part of the design as the walls surrounding it.
 
Yet we often encounter the dilemma of interior designs that systematically discard existing pieces to create a space better suited to current needs. Whether due to natural wear from use or changes in furniture trends or personal tastes, hundreds of recoverable pieces are discarded every year in favor of new furniture. This behavior generates a carbon footprint that is both significant and avoidable.
 
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Nested in a natural lava cave in Mexico City’s Pedregal de San Ángel region, a sprawling, mosaic-laden domicile was once home to Juan and Helen Fowler O’Gorman, an architect and artist, respectively. The pair designed the icon of modernist Mexican architecture, called Casa Cueva, in 1954, although it was largely destroyed after the couple sold the home in 1969. At Museo Jumex, Álvaro Urbano presents an homage to the innovations of Casa Cueva, drawing on its gardens and the legacy that Helen left behind, particularly through her 1961 book titled Mexican Flowering Trees and Plants. Written and illustrated while she lived at Casa Cueva, the rich volume documented a variety of the region’s native...

Liverpool’s Bluecoat has named Emer Grant as its new creative director. Grant is the first person named to the position at the museum since its founding in 1927. She joins the contemporary art center—England’s oldest—from Arts Collective Northampton, where she is artistic director and CEO. She will take up her post at Bluecoat in early […]

For the last decade, our good friend and collaborator Jeroen Smeets of The Jaunt, has facilitated journeys for artists to some of the most far-flung places on Earth as part of week-long residencies in destinations of their choosing. Building on the limitless inspiration of travel and seeking to grow The Jaunt community, Smeets first hosted a Winter Camp in 2024 that invited four artists to spend time together in close quarters, hemmed in by winter weather and providing a welcome respite for the cross pollination of ideas, art, food, stories, and adventures. For the third iteration of Winter Camp, Joy Machine and The Jaunt teamed up to bring four artists from balmy California, to the frigid tundra of the...

Claes Oldenburg’s (1929-2022) most famous piece of writing is his statement titled “I Am For…” which graced an exhibition catalogue in 1961 and starts: I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. / I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all, an art given the chance of having a starting point of zero. / I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap and still comes out on top. / I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. / I am for all art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and...

Hélia Paukner will lead both the Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale and macLYON.

The Broad brings 164 works from Los Angeles to Paris for a major 2027 exhibition.

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Photos provided by 21c, with additional photos by Atta Hi-Fructose co-founder Atta visited three 21c Museum Hotels in four days to explore their galleries and the towns around them. Here is his report! 21c locations combine actual contemporary art museum gallery exhibitions which are free and open to the general public (whether you stay there […]
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By Kristine Schomaker I keep thinking about Nomadland. Fern driving her van across that enormous American landscape. Not running from something. Moving toward something she could not quite name yet. That feeling of needing less. Of being, as Dominique Moody says, at home in the world. NOMAD: Dominique Moody and the Assemblage of Home is on view at the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena through January 16, 2027, part of the year-long city celebration for the centennials of Route 66 and the...

 
When we say ‘think of the colour yellow’, what comes up for you? Our latest photobook, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: YELLOW, is bursting with inspiration, from delicate blossoms and ripe lemons to eye-catching clothing and sunny décor.
Across 100 photos, our photographers celebrate all things yellow: some chanced upon in the street or in nature, others meticulously planned. Of course, there are loads of different hues that count as yellow, from acidic brights to mustard, egg yolk, and canary. You’ll find them all in the book!
The cover image, by Jo Martindale, submerges us in a ball pit of yellow plastic balls: it’s immersive, fun, and hard to look away. The yellow we find around us definitely has multiple...

By Jody Zellen Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 3–November 22, 2026 Susan Silton has never been an artist attached to a single medium. Her practice, which spans more than forty years, interweaves photography, design, performance, sculpture, video, audio, and installation. Working as a graphic designer in the 1970s and ’80s shaped her visual acuity and formal sensibilities. Her production is conceptually strong and visually coherent and very little is left to chance. It is a delight...

To celebrate the retrospective exhibition Future Pastime featuring the work of futurist Syd Mead opening at the Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery in San Francisco this evening, we are showing previews of paintings from the show as well as the full article which Silke Tudor wrote on the late legendary industrial designer in Hi-Fructose Issue 33. […]
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The women look concerned, and weary. They are ready to repel an attack. The women look in love, but bored. “When are you leaving,” they might wonder. The women are only half-present. Matted hair, two eyes, a hand, and the rest have either turned inward or run away. The women are multifaceted. Their eyes are […]
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In the “feminist west” that lives on Jennifer Nehrbass’s canvases, women ride horseback and hike in fashionable attire. They appear in head-and-shoulder portraits against fiery backgrounds and nude in pieces where figurative and landscape painting converge. In her work, Nehrbass challenges the common depictions of the U.S. West. “You would always have the man who […]
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By Kristine Schomaker Friday night I stood at the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and watched artists perform five-minute pieces in the open air as the sun went down. ACTION = LIFE, presented by LACE and the Performance Art Museum as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. A marathon of performances. So many friends. So much history in one place. I drove home still feeling it. Thinking about the first performance I ever saw that made me understand what my own work was actually about....

By Kristine Schomaker I learned yesterday that my friend Scott Froschauer died suddenly. I've known him for almost ten years, and I'm still trying to find a place to put this. Scott was a Shoebox artist, one of the early ones. We worked together on several projects, but the one I keep coming back to is an art salon we put together on consent, negotiation, and the male gaze, how the male posture of viewing women frames any sign of femininity as an invitation, and what it would mean to actually...

By Betty Ann Brown "In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world."—Graciela Iturbide Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide creates haunting images that portray the people, places, and events of the extraordinary cultures and geographies of her home country. Iturbide has a unique artistic practice that involves living and working with the people she chooses to photograph. Her process has made possible the strange and wonderful depictions for which she is known. In...

With a creative lexicon featuring yarn, pixels, beeswax, and spray paint, Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega has created a new language for herself, one that speaks to the present and the past by using traditional and contemporary techniques, as well as rural and urban sensibilities, to create a body of work that synthesizes all her […]
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Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.

 
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...

 
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.
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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...

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...