Our round-up of the latest art publications

The best publications about the subject, from a collection of Surrealist writing to a survey of pioneering architects—selected by Elvira Dyangani Ose and Adom Getachew

The San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) laid off eleven employees on August 5 in what it described as an effort to remain sustainable in the wake of rising costs and uncertain funding. The cuts affected multiple departments—including exhibitions, development, and programming—and bring SDMA’s total staff count to 118. “Inflation and rising operational costs are increasing overall […]

Robert Storr speaks about his tenure in this exclusive extract from Massimiliano Gioni’s new book of interviews with biennale artistic directors

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The work, made for the sexcentenary of Oxford's Lincoln College, will be shown alongside other artist-designed tapestries woven at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh

Slur House turns musical continuity into two homes’ dialogue
 
Slur House is a detached annex added to a 15-year-old single-family residence in a suburban residential area of Tokyo, Japan. The project, designed by Yohei Ikai /icai architects, expands the existing lot and establishes a new relationship between the original house and the addition, using the musical concept of a slur, separate notes played in a smooth, continuous manner, as a spatial and formal reference.
 
The existing house was designed by a different architect, but the new annex carries forward three of its defining characteristics: a near-square plan, a pointed roof, and simple white exterior walls. The two buildings are positioned with a...

The Elizabeth Street Garden in Soho appears to have escaped the wrecking ball for good after a decade-long dispute over its future

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York reports a steep drop in enrollment since 2019 and the largest budget deficit in the school’s eighty-year history. Artnews notes that enrollment has declined by 34 percent over the past seven years. The school’s operating budget, which is about $200 million, relies on tuition and is facing a $22 million […]

Wallace Chan’s most ambitious exhibition to date opens in China.

On August 13, the New York–based Joan Mitchell Foundation named fifteen recipients of its 2026 Joan Mitchell Fellowship. Each will receive an unrestricted $60,000 grant, disbursed over a five-year period. The fellows—who variously work in the fields of painting, sculpture, collage, video, sound, and installation—will also receive support in the form of networking opportunities and […]

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town has announced Elvira Dyagani Ose as its new artistic director. Dyangani Ose, who is currently the artistic director of the second Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial, is known for championing artists from Africa and its diaspora, as well as for her artistic vision […]

A former senior executive of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has accused the institution of “soft censorship” for relocating, without explanation, a symposium inspired by its exhibition on race in American and Mexican art last year. The symposium, titled “Color Lines Across the United States and Mexico,” was originally scheduled for May 2025 at the museum’s renowned Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). Scholars, however, later found the virtual attendance option had been canceled, the program removed from the museum’s website, and the event relocated to Dumbarton Oaks, a smaller museum and research center in the city’s Georgetown neighborhood that is affiliated...

Good Morning! Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town has appointed Elvira Dyangani Ose as its next artistic director. Sotheby’s has landed a $450 million tranche of works from the collection of Argentine industrialists Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier. An anonymous group has launched a search engine called The Last Museum, with the goal of eventually “index[ing] all museum art in the world.” The Headlines NEW ZEIT-GEIST. The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MoCCA) in Cape Town has appointed Elvira Dyangani Ose as its next artistic director, with her tenure beginning October 1, ARTnews reported. She succeeds the late Koyo Kouoh, who led the museum from 2019 until her death in May...

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The Barbican is to celebrate Haruki Murakami this October with the European premiere of the first-ever stage adaptation of his... Read More

Le sculture di Anna Maria Maiolino (Scalea, 1942) si accumulano. Si ammucchiano per ripetizione e sono costruite da gesti infiniti e dal tatto. Ma questi piccoli gesti quotidiani non sono solamente pratica artistica: visualizzano come la vulnerabilità e la sensibilità, il tatto e la cura, possono essere un atto di resistenza. La Galleria Ovale del Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) di Lisbona, Portogallo, racchiude queste sculture create per ripetizione. La mostra si intitola Poetic Earth. Alcune delle opere sono state realizzate decenni fa, altre sono state create in situ, proprio in questo spazio a forma di foglia.
View of the exhibition “Anna Maria Maiolino. Poetic Earth”, MAAT, 2026....

Wake up, babe, the winners of the Joan Mitchell Foundation fellowships — one of the most coveted prizes in art — just dropped. Among the artists receiving the $60,000 award are Atlanta-based Krista Clark, Blue Ridge Mountains-based vanessa german, and Lexington, Kentucky-based Dianna Settles. What does the award mean to these artists? “Stability,” sculptor Beatriz Cortez told Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia flatly.Yep. It’s one of the hardest thing in the art world to come by — look no further than the San Diego Museum of Art, which just laid of 11 workers, almost a tenth of its staff. Or even to the continued destruction of Ukrainian cultural sites by the Russian military, affecting almost...

CLAY WITH A SENSE OF PLACE
 
Mexican ceramic atelier SAUDARA approaches clay as more than raw material. Founded by Ivana Sánchez and her mother, María Padilla, the studio creates tableware, vessels and domestic objects that bring a contemporary sensibility to forms rooted in Mexican craft and identity. Rather than treating tradition as something to preserve behind glass, SAUDARA places it firmly on the table, where it can be touched, used and inevitably become part of everyday life.
 
The studio’s collections are built around restrained silhouettes and surfaces that do much of the talking. Expressive glazes, natural clay and subtle variations give otherwise simple forms a distinct presence, balancing...

JETTE SCHEIB EXPLOREs THE GEOMETRY OF LIGHT WITH SOLIS
 
Maison Forestier introduces the Solis collection, a series of pendant lights that balance natural fibers with graphic forms. Designed by Jette Scheib, these luminaires use hand-woven raphia to diffuse a soft glow that mimics the gentle warmth of daylight. By stretching the organic material over rigid metallic frames, the collection creates visual depth with silhouettes that shift subtly with every perspective.
Jette Scheib designs Solis collection for Forestier | all images courtesy of Forestier
 
 
A LONG-TERM ALLIANCE SHAPING FORESTIER’S IDENTITY
 
For the Solis collection, Maison Forestier continues its collaboration with German designer and...

Left to right: Krista Clark, Cameron Clayborn, Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo, Beatriz Cortez (photo Ruben Diaz), Azza El Siddique, Sam Frésquez, Coulter Fussell (photo Jerry Siegel), vanessa german (photo Charlie Rubin), Porfirio Gutierrez, Roscoe Hall, Janet Olivia Henry (photo Christopher Garcia Valle), Erica Lord, Rob Rhee, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Dianna Settles (all courtesy Joan Mitchell Foundation)The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced today the recipients of its 2026 Fellowships, one of the most coveted prizes awarded to visual artists in the United States. The 15 fellows will each receive $60,000 in unrestricted funding distributed over five years, in the spirit of the late abstract artist's...

HANGHAR QUESTIONS THE FLOOR PLAN
 
A three-bedroom apartment. Living room, kitchen, two bathrooms, corridor. For Eduardo Mediero, founder of Madrid-based architecture studio HANGHAR, the familiar shorthand says plenty about how a property is sold and surprisingly little about how it feels to live there. ‘The market has reduced architecture to a system of programmatic labels,’ he tells designboom, arguing that the language of real estate has gradually displaced questions of natural light, cross ventilation, proportion, height and spatial quality. HANGHAR’s domestic work begins by challenging precisely this assumption: that every piece of a home needs a name before someone has even moved in.
 
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The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, announced Wednesday Elvira Dyangani Ose as its next artistic director. She will begin in the post on October 1. In leading the museum’s curatorial program, Dyangani Ose succeeds Koyo Kouoh, who served as executive director and chief curator of Zeitz MOCAA from 2019 until her death, at 57, in May 2025. (At the time of her death, Kouoh was also organizing the 2026 Venice Biennale, which opened posthumously in May; Dyangani Ose was also a member of the Biennale’s Golden Lion jury that resigned en masse.) “It is a privilege to join Zeitz MOCAA. I am thrilled to come on board at this moment to continue its journey as a leading African...

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SHIJI COMMONS transforms two stone houses into community hub
 
Located in Hengshiji Village, Sanzao Town, Zhuhai, China, SHIJI COMMONS by StudioTiltedCircle transforms two traditional stone houses into a contemporary community space. Situated between the village fabric and the surrounding landscape, the project explores how an existing rural structure can be renewed while preserving its material memory and cultural identity. Rather than replacing the old, the project begins with the existing stone walls. Through dismantling, reclaiming, and reusing the original stone, the material is transformed from a structural element into a new spatial interface. Combined with concrete and metal interventions, the new...

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We went to sleep in New York last night, and woke up in Habibi City this morning, according to New York Magazine. I welcome the celebration of this cultural SWANA-sance, but it comes with the realization that I’ll probably never be able to get another ticket to Laylit again. Aside from the looming threats of rain, this week brings plenty to the table — shall we start with some oysters? On Governors Island, Mohawk artist Alan Michelson (Six Nations of the Grand River) challenges the erasure of the Lenape in New York City by invoking shell middens. With almost a million oyster shells from Manhattan restaurants, Michelson’s “The Oyster” (2026) represents both Indigenous futurity and the mollusk’s...

In 1976, Helen Levitt photographed a child balancing between a lime-green car and the sidewalk curb above a stream of runoff in New York City, her birthplace and the subject of most of her six-decade career. Levitt's practice encapsulated the quiet politics and visual poetry that photography can offer us. The recent news of Steidl Verlag's close call with bankruptcy throws into vivid relief the importance of independent photo book publishers, and our editors and critics have several suggestions for anyone looking for a place to start. Choose your own adventure: Walter Chandoha's endearing photos of family felines, Hal Fischer's archive of queer fashion, Sophie Rivera's portraits of...

The art market is a tough place to survive these days, with even megagalleries like Gagosian and Pace shuttering locations and cutting loose artists, and every day seeming to bring news of another art gallery calling it quits.  So maybe, counterintuitively, this is the perfect moment for the BBC to launch a new reality show that aims to incubate the next great art-dealing duo. The Big Deal with Steph McGovern, which debuts this week, sees “seven pairs of aspiring art dealers battle it out for the chance to win £50,000 [about $67,500] worth of British art.” The series aims to “pull back the curtain” on the art market, says BBC Arts head Suzy Klein, offering “a fresh insight into how art is...

Steven Nelson, the former head of the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts has accused the museum of “soft censorship,” regarding its hushed relocation of a symposium last year titled “Color Lines Across the United States and Mexico.” In an essay published in the academic art history journal October, Nelson […]

Just six months after celebrating its 100th anniversary, the San Diego Museum of Art laid off 11 employees last Wednesday, August 5, citing "rising operational costs" and funding uncertainties.

Archaeologists working near the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu have identified more than 1.5 miles of pre-Hispanic roads, as well as what researchers think could be agricultural terraces and platforms, hidden in the Andean cloud forest. The news was first reported by Heritage Daily, following an August 10 announcement by Peru’s Ministry of Culture. The structures were discovered using LiDAR—an advanced remote sensing technology that can detect man-made features concealed by vegetation cover—during preliminary survey work conducted in July. Notable among the findings is a road at least ¾ of a mile long with features, including a zigzagging route, characteristic of Inca construction. Archaeologists believe...

Ci sono artisti la cui carriera coincide con una lunga ricerca e altri che, raggiunta una determinata soglia, sembrano aver trovato una lingua tanto riconoscibile da poter attraversare qualsiasi soggetto senza modificarne realmente la struttura. È una condizione rara, che appartiene a quei pochi autori il cui immaginario ha ormai assunto la forma di un universo autonomo, capace di assorbire temi, epoche e narrazioni mantenendo pressoché intatta la propria grammatica. Osservando Le Alchimiste, il mastodontico progetto concepito da Anselm Kiefer per la Sala delle Cariatidi di Palazzo Reale, a Milano, a cura di Gabriella Belli, la sensazione è proprio questa: non quella di assistere a una svolta, quanto...

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La pittura contemporanea ha spesso trasformato il ritorno in una narrazione di recupero: un’interruzione superata, una perdita convertita in nuova possibilità. When the Sun Shines Again, la prima grande personale newyorkese di Guimi You presso Lehmann Maupin, usa questa struttura per metterla in crisi. La mostra osserva ciò che accade quando il gesto artistico emerge da periodi di sospensione, quando il fare pittura si intreccia con la cura, l’attesa e forme di vita che tradizionalmente rimangono fuori dalla storia della produzione.
Guimi You, “When the Sun Shines Again”, installation view at Lehmann Maupin New York. Photography by Studio Kukla, courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul...

Knokke Art Fair è una delle fiere d’arte più antiche al mondo e la più longeva tradizione internazionale sulla costa belga, un luogo speciale dove l’arte emoziona, giovani e anziani, curiosi ed esperti. Che sia ammirata tra le solenni mura di un luogo deputato o all’aria aperta (con una scultura site-specific), l’arte suscita emozioni, stimola la riflessione e invita al dialogo.
Vista esterna della location di Knokke Art Fair, edizione 2026
Knokke Art Fair è un evento del tutto indipendente, incentrato sulla qualità basata su un’accurata selezione che si svolge prima dell’apertura della fiera, ed è organizzata da Alexander Tuteleers. In questo luogo, il tempo sembra essersi fermato in...

Fino al 30 novembre 2026 il Parco Archeologico di Pompei ospita la mostra Philip Colbert in Pompeii: Pop Mythology. La mostra, curata da Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, espone oltre trenta sculture monumentali dell’artista britannico tra le quali protagonista assoluto è l’astice antropomorfo, alter ego dell’artista e ormai suo marchio riconoscibile.
Philip Colbert, ph. courtesy of the artist studio
Le opere di Colbert sono progettate per risultare subito leggibili e perfettamente compatibili con le aspettative della comunicazione social. Molti lavori si distinguono per l’uso di colori saturi, monumentalità, ironia pop e kitsch con citazioni della classicità ridotte a segni facilmente riconoscibili e nel...

By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...

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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 […]
The post Future Relics: The Art of Morgan Sorensen first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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 […]
The post The Disconcertingly Honest Self-Portrait Sculptures of Monica Piloni first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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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A selection of recent work by artist Emma Steinkraus. Based in Lexington, Virginia, Steinkraus  
   
   
   
   
 
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By Victoria Thomas Photographer and ceramic artist Catherine (Cathy) Opie first shocked and rocked the fine art world with her self-portraits during the late 1990s. Today, her decades of work — often termed confessional — now serve as context for the far more enigmatic Holding Blue installation, on view at Regen Projects through July 3. The Los Angeles-based artist identifies as a leather dyke, lesbian cowboy, an elder, and as "Mama Cathy," with a mustachioed male alter-ego named Bo. Opie is...

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“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...

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...

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...

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...