The Biennale de Lyon has announced Hélia Paukner as its new artistic director, effective February 1, 2027. Pauker will also take over the directorship of the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (macLYON), her appointment maintaining the long-standing partnership between the Biennale and the museum. She succeeds Isabelle Bertolotti, who has occupied both roles since 2019. […]
Wall labels. Press releases. Artist statements. In today’s fast-paced art world, the written word stands at a crucial crossroads — and the stakes have never been higher. But here’s the thing: It’s not just about convenience. It’s about authenticity. Because the way we express ourselves matters. The above paragraph was generated by Claude when prompted to write an introduction for an opinion piece against AI use in art writing, and if it made you recoil in your seat, you may be among those of us who have developed a strong aversion to generative text. You’ll know it when you see it: that uncanny cadence that’s overconfident in style yet hollow in substance, like a motivational LinkedIn post that...
The mirror as an object to look and to be looked at
‘The mirror is, after all, a utopia, since it is a placeless place,’ said Michel Foucault in a 1967 lecture, explaining that in a mirror you see yourself where you are not, ‘in an unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface.’ He then called it a heterotopia as well, since the mirror does exist in reality, where it ‘exerts a sort of counteraction’ on the position you occupy. No other object in a house behaves this way, since everything else in a room is looked at while a mirror hands the room back with its viewer inside it. That duality, between what the object looks like and what it does to whoever stands in front of it, has given...
‘The mirror is, after all, a utopia, since it is a placeless place,’ said Michel Foucault in a 1967 lecture, explaining that in a mirror you see yourself where you are not, ‘in an unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface.’ He then called it a heterotopia as well, since the mirror does exist in reality, where it ‘exerts a sort of counteraction’ on the position you occupy. No other object in a house behaves this way, since everything else in a room is looked at while a mirror hands the room back with its viewer inside it. That duality, between what the object looks like and what it does to whoever stands in front of it, has given...
Perhaps because it appeals to universal truths, we can’t seem to shake classical mythology. Humans, then and now, are freaks, drawn to stories of trickery and violence. Not a pleasant revelation, but it may explain why Nymphaeum, Chicago-based artist Olivia Zubko’s solo show at Western Exhibitions, is so beguiling. The show combines our favored legends with humankind’s most sacred pillars: beauty and bathrooms. In this marriage, Zubko’s work is striking, pervaded by the unsettled discomfort of intimacy.Zubko’s wall sculptures are altars to lavatories, their devotional air echoing historical nymphaeums — monuments consecrated to water nymphs. In the Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods, they were...
President Abelardo de la Espriella ordered that dozens of objects related to LGBTQ+ rights and feminism be taken down from displays at the Museo Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá
Editor’s Note: This story was updated on October 20, 2026, with additional information. The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has issued a formal apology after a misidentified calligraphic artwork belonging to him was put on display at his museum. The news was announced by the South Korean English language newspaper Korea JoongAng Daily, which reported on the incident last week. The work at the center of the controversy was presented in the show “The Korean Table: Food, Nature, and Life” (on view through October 25) as a piece by Park Won-geun (1912–50). Park was socialist activist from North Chungcheong who fought against Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945), a dark period in...
Lizzy Plapinger had barely settled into her studio in a sunny corner of Industry City before visitors spilled into the space on Sunday, October 18, to see a handful of her brightly contrasting geometric paintings laid against her walls for Sunset Park Open Studios.“I just moved in two months ago from Bushwick, and I’m still getting to know the area, but it feels very welcoming,” Plapinger told Hyperallergic. “I like that it’s close to other artists and designers, which makes it feel ripe for collaboration.”When New York artists needed a place to work after being priced out of their communities over the past decade, Sunset Park became one of their last refuges for affordable studio space. Known as...
As negotiations continue at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), unionized staff have publicized their intent to strike across all four London sites on October 29 and 30, citing continued disputes regarding pay and working conditions. The escalation comes after two strike actions at specific locations at the beginning and end of September.Born from accusations of “Amazon-style” working conditions at the newly opened V&A East Storehouse — namely the alleged lack of sufficient breaks for hydration and restroom use — staff organized under Prospect Union’s heritage division and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) voted overwhelmingly in favor of strike action this summer. “Prospect members...
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...
kenko’s tiny pieni III camera captures lo-fi photos without a screen
Japanese photography brand Kenko Tokina has released the Pieni III, a tiny digital camera that weighs just 18 grams and hangs around the neck like a pendant. Measuring 53 millimeters (2 inches) wide, the working camera is small enough to fit between two fingers, with a familiar silver top and circular lens that recall the proportions of an old film camera. It arrives in four colors, including pastel pink Strawberry and pale blue Soda, alongside Milk and Black.
The Pieni III also has a curious omission. There is no screen or viewfinder, and thus leaves photographers to point the lens toward a subject and press the shutter without...
Japanese photography brand Kenko Tokina has released the Pieni III, a tiny digital camera that weighs just 18 grams and hangs around the neck like a pendant. Measuring 53 millimeters (2 inches) wide, the working camera is small enough to fit between two fingers, with a familiar silver top and circular lens that recall the proportions of an old film camera. It arrives in four colors, including pastel pink Strawberry and pale blue Soda, alongside Milk and Black.
The Pieni III also has a curious omission. There is no screen or viewfinder, and thus leaves photographers to point the lens toward a subject and press the shutter without...
In an interview conducted earlier this month, after the first large-scale demonstrations in Paris, Jenny Holzer addressed the protests that have continued to roil the city in the weeks since. “It’s gruesome that kids have to fight for a better education or for teachers to be paid properly, for their schools to be clean,” the artist told T: The New York Times Style Magazine. “I worry about the kids’ safety.” The occasion for the interview was Holzer’s solo show at Musée d’Orsay, which includes an LED panel work that bears a message penned by the French writer Émile Zola in 1860: “I think of the future and see it so dark, so dark that I shrink back terrified.” A different part of the show...
Tenured faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are decorating the university's surveillance cameras with googly eyes, rhinestones, and glitzy decorations to protest its investment in what they call "Big Brother technology." Faculty members Catherine D'Ignazio, Marah Gubar, Tanalís Padilla, Dwai Banerjee, and Karrie Karahalios began decorating the cameras in August, four months after the student newspaper, The Tech, reported that MIT would be spending over $3 million on more than 500 surveillance cameras from 2025 to 2026. According to the report, the cameras can be activated to identify faces and objects with AI, and are stationed in exterior locations and academic...
It has been widely reported that the Kennedy Center is at the center of a power struggle between the Trump administration and preservationists, as the president wants to rename it in his own honor and insists that the decaying building must close for renovations. He has threatened that it will be razed if he does not get his way. Now, CNN reports that donors who have given artwork to the institution are trying to reclaim their gifts, fearing for their safety amid a renovation and in the wake of layoffs. They are not convinced that the leadership, largely appointed by Trump, values the artworks as part of the institution’s holdings. According to an internal document reviewed by CNN, officials have been...
This article includes spoilers for You Can See Everything, a new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes now playing theatrically in the US. Did it seem strange to you that Elizabeth Holmes’s X account remained so active after she reported to prison in 2023? You are not alone, and You Can See Everything, a new documentary about the businesswoman that was directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, may offer some reasons for the weirdness of her social media in the past few years. As stated in the film, Holmes’s fiancé, Billy Evans, has been helping man her X account, which has opined on issues ranging from the assassination of Charlie Kirk to whether or not she is a fan of Taylor Swift. Evans claims in the...
Master’s students at the Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) staged protests during the school’s graduation exhibition to demand action against overcrowded facilities. Demonstrators gathered at the entrance to the design school show during its opening on Saturday. In an open letter to the board of DAE, posted on October 9, students claim that they have been […]
Anselm Kiefer’s Schwarze Flocken, 2007, which is over 36 feet high and 23 feet wide, considered too large to exhibit for nearly two decades, has finally found a home. Last week, it was shown to the public for the first time in a freestanding concrete pavilion built specifically to house the work in Germany. Schwarze […]
Canada, an esteemed New York gallery, faced the threat of closure last year after a backer filed two lawsuits against the space’s founders. A New York court ruled that the gallery could remain open, and neither lawsuit appears to be active, with the most recent filings for both posted at the start of this year. However, in the year and a half since the lawsuits were filed, three of Canada’s partners—including one of the gallery’s founders—left the operation. Five artists have also exited the gallery, among them Joan Snyder, who was added to Luhring Augustine’s roster last week. Jean Lignel, a French collector, filed his lawsuits in February 2025 with the New York County Supreme Court. One of his...
Łukasz Twarkowski merges theater and cinema onstage
Before Oracle begins at Onassis Stegi in Athens, a camera captures the audience and projects its image onto a screen. Spectators appear as grainy black-and-white figures, their faces transformed into a strange, almost anonymous collective portrait. Those who have come to watch find themselves becoming the spectacle. It is an introduction to the work of Polish director Łukasz Twarkowski, in which live performance and cinema become inseparable. Twarkowski brings theater and cinema into a shared space, making the process of filming part of the performance. The stage divides horizontally into two visual fields: the live theatrical action unfolds below, while...
Before Oracle begins at Onassis Stegi in Athens, a camera captures the audience and projects its image onto a screen. Spectators appear as grainy black-and-white figures, their faces transformed into a strange, almost anonymous collective portrait. Those who have come to watch find themselves becoming the spectacle. It is an introduction to the work of Polish director Łukasz Twarkowski, in which live performance and cinema become inseparable. Twarkowski brings theater and cinema into a shared space, making the process of filming part of the performance. The stage divides horizontally into two visual fields: the live theatrical action unfolds below, while...
Celebrating the ACE's 80th anniversary, the publication tells only half the story
A new biography of Edward Hopper by Louis Shadwick reveals that all six of the painter’s early oil compositions, made before he enrolled in art school, are copies of the work of other artists. Shadwick found that the original works appeared as color plates in Art Interchange, a widely read periodical for amateur artists that […]
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...
yvonne mak builds floating castle from low-carbon concrete
Visual artist Yvonne Mak’s installation Sandbag Castle addresses the environmental impact of conventional cement by showcasing low-carbon concrete alternatives. Positioned in the Dommel river beside Eindhoven’s Van Abbemuseum Café, the five-meter-wide by three-meter-high structure consists of hundreds of stacked, sandbag-shaped concrete forms resembling a castle.
Sandbag Castle by visual artist Yvonne Mak floating in the Dommel river | all images ©Yvonne Mak
sandbags and warning flags critique protective infrastructure
The installation by artist Yvonne Mak incorporates several key design elements to communicate its structural and...
Visual artist Yvonne Mak’s installation Sandbag Castle addresses the environmental impact of conventional cement by showcasing low-carbon concrete alternatives. Positioned in the Dommel river beside Eindhoven’s Van Abbemuseum Café, the five-meter-wide by three-meter-high structure consists of hundreds of stacked, sandbag-shaped concrete forms resembling a castle.
Sandbag Castle by visual artist Yvonne Mak floating in the Dommel river | all images ©Yvonne Mak
sandbags and warning flags critique protective infrastructure
The installation by artist Yvonne Mak incorporates several key design elements to communicate its structural and...
The Broad museum in Los Angeles will send 164 works to the Fondation Louis Vuitton, in Paris. It will be the most extensive exhibition the institution has ever mounted outside of Los Angeles. The show will run from April 21 through August 30 of next year. The art will return for the opening of the […]
The best Kahlo publications, from an incisive art-historical study to a facsimile of the artist’s diary—selected by the Tate curator Beatriz García-Velasco
Hélia Paukner will lead both the Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale and macLYON.
For his Faena Art commission, the Abu Dhabi-based artist Christopher Joshua Benton is creating a 28ft-tall sculpture that doubles as a public site
The Broad brings 164 works from Los Angeles to Paris for a major 2027 exhibition.
Daniel Dorsa
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Melanie Spector pays tribute to the great soprano — and her mentor — Martina Arroyo.
Vera Molnar’s algorithms, interruptions and imaginary machines come to the V&A.
Neil Levine, a historian and former friend of the artist, tells us about his publication, which offers a personal perspective on the Minimalist master
VINCENT DARRÉ BRINGS FANTASY TO PARIS’ LE MAGNIFIQUE HOTEL
French designer Vincent Darré has brought his theatrical imagination to Hôtel Le Magnifique, a hotel on Rue de la Gaîté in Paris’ 14th arrondissement. Located in a neighborhood historically associated with theaters, cabarets, and the artistic life of Montparnasse, the project transforms hospitality into an immersive experience shaped by fantasy, mythology, and the performing arts. The building itself carries an unusual history, having originally housed Les Mille Colonnes, a renowned theater dating back to the early 19th century. Its historic façade now introduces a series of interiors where decorative elements, unexpected colors, and...
French designer Vincent Darré has brought his theatrical imagination to Hôtel Le Magnifique, a hotel on Rue de la Gaîté in Paris’ 14th arrondissement. Located in a neighborhood historically associated with theaters, cabarets, and the artistic life of Montparnasse, the project transforms hospitality into an immersive experience shaped by fantasy, mythology, and the performing arts. The building itself carries an unusual history, having originally housed Les Mille Colonnes, a renowned theater dating back to the early 19th century. Its historic façade now introduces a series of interiors where decorative elements, unexpected colors, and...
Florence Quivar’s blend of triple cream voice and superior musical expression earned her a discography and videography to rival those of any of her contemporaries.
Goran Tomcic brings reflective sculpture and performance to MOCA London.
Kendalle Getty turns mirrors, sculpture and self-image into a theatrical Paris installation.
In surreal tableaux, mythological creatures interact with flora and fauna within dream-like realms. Insects, stars, metaphysical tendrils, and all-seeing eyes accompany human bodies with the heads of raptors. Rithika Merchant’s strange yet alluring symmetry contains what may be esoteric rituals or communions with the natural world. Each speculative, fable-like narrative taps into our collective anxiety about the environment and hope for healing. Merchant’s vibrant new body of work centers on hybrid creatures and a sense of the sacred, comprising the Mumbai-based artist’s solo exhibition The Dreaming Realm at Galerie LJ. She harnesses elemental phenomena like the earth, plants, fire, water, and the stars...
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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Combining elemental rhythms with human-made materials, DRIFT’s latest sculptural choreography invites visitors to consider their connection to nature in an interactive experience influenced by the planet’s intrinsic processes and systems. “Aeolus” is named for the ancient Greek deity of the wind and comprises an environment characterized by numerous glass rods with tiny lights inside. These are activated by visitors’ movements. “Like wind itself, the work only fully exists through interaction,” say Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, founders of the Amsterdam-based design studio in a statement. “It is both still and in motion, fixed yet constantly changing.” Light and glass were chosen to...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured some remarkable phenomena in space, from the Horsehead Nebula to the unbelievable “Pillars of Creation.” Things just got a little bit wilder with brilliant images of the Lion Nebula (NGC 2392) captured by the telescope’s NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid Infrared Instrument). The shape is formed by the remains of a dying star now at a phase known as a white dwarf, when a very dense stellar core remains as it sheds its outer layers. On NGC 2392, the bright center looks like a little nose. “The central dying star is so hot that its radiation is ‘cooking’ everything from the inside and producing a bubble of ionized hydrogen gas as it does,”...
Sometimes, the first time you hear an oeuvre, it becomes the definitive performance for you.
Our critics assess Kansas's own Ben Bliss in a (nearly) all-American program performed at the Park Avenue Armory and Vocal Arts DC.
An elegant rendition, and an artistically true one.
Patricia Reyes
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Shuto Okayasu
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Yue Zhang
I’m an illustrator/ graphic designer currently based in Beijing. Through illustration, I make connections to everyday life, seeking out beauty in the midst of chaos. My work gives visual form to inner feelings and experiences. I see each creative process as an adventure, specializing in the translation of text into vibrant visual narratives.
This zine《Let’s go to the park》 is an experimental work on visual language, creating narrative solely through visual imagery. It came from some moments when I was just zoning out in the park: from the amusing interactions between a dog and its owner, the swirling ripples in the fountain, the sudden downpour of rain… I blended these unrelated moments...
I’m an illustrator/ graphic designer currently based in Beijing. Through illustration, I make connections to everyday life, seeking out beauty in the midst of chaos. My work gives visual form to inner feelings and experiences. I see each creative process as an adventure, specializing in the translation of text into vibrant visual narratives.
This zine《Let’s go to the park》 is an experimental work on visual language, creating narrative solely through visual imagery. It came from some moments when I was just zoning out in the park: from the amusing interactions between a dog and its owner, the swirling ripples in the fountain, the sudden downpour of rain… I blended these unrelated moments...
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...
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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