English Heritage, the independent charity that maintains the vast National Heritage Collection, has appointed Tim Reeve as its new Chief Executive. He will begin his new role in November. English Heritage oversees some four hundred historic sites and monuments throughout England, including Stonehenge, Hadrian’s Wall, and the Westbury White Horse, as well as more than […]

A nine-year-old child in detention at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center asked for legal aid and to help them "get out of this jail." (all images courtesy Allison Gill)One letter spells out “AYUDA POR FAVOR” (“HELP PLEASE” in Spanish). Another translates to “I am nine years old. Can you help me get out of this jail? We are children, not criminals.” These messages and other similar ones sprawl across the 91 pages that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized in February from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. Almost six months later, ICE has released scans of nine of those pages to podcast host Allison Gill after she filed a lawsuit in March.

The National Museum of Asian Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., will play home to 26 works on loan from Paris during the run of “From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art,” an exhibition opening September 26 and continuing into January 2027. As reported by The Art Newspaper, “The exhibition will feature a number of stunning objects that have never been shown in the United States, among them a bronze statue from Islamic Spain known as the Lion of Monzón (10th-11th century) and a particularly large decorated ceramic Ottoman bowl dated to around 1480. Spanning the 7th century to the 19th century and territory from present-day Spain to India, the works due to cross the Atlantic...

The Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh (CAM Raleigh), North Carolina is selling its longtime home in the city’s Warehouse District. The building has been listed the commercial real estate firm CBRE for an undisclosed sum. CAM Raleigh, which describes itself as a “non-collecting contemporary art museum,” was established in 1983 as the City Gallery of […]

The spiral is one of the most ubiquitous, universal symbols. Or perhaps it is more apt to describe the motif as mimicked from nature, where it occurs in the form of seashells, flowers, and curling waves. From Neolithic stone carvings at Newgrange in Ireland to swirling motifs on prehistoric pottery discovered in Thailand, the spiral represents growth, the cycles of life, and evolution. Sometimes two or more interlink, and other times they emerge from an endless line. For artist Jiang Miao, Eastern philosophy is a touchstone. “The spiral symbolizes life, time, and the cyclical order of the universe, while color becomes a vessel for invisible energy beyond the material world,” says Whitestone Gallery, which...

DA BUREAU designs new IYKYK Smash Burger restaurant
 
Designed by DA BUREAU, IYKYK is the first smash burger restaurant in Yerevan, Armenia. Conceived as more than a single interior, the 100-sqm project establishes a scalable architectural and visual identity intended to guide future locations. The design combines interior architecture, brand identity, and custom-built elements into a unified system that can be replicated while maintaining a consistent spatial language across the growing restaurant chain.
 
The project’s design code draws on references to American street culture of the 1980s, incorporating modular forms, retro fast-food imagery, and the brand’s signature orange color. References to...

Earlier this week, the Art Bridges Foundation announced that two museums—The San Diego Museum of Art and The Westmoreland Museum of American Art—are the recipients of the second annual Bridgemaker Prize. The prize, which this year comes with a $75,000 award to support future projects, is given to Art Bridges’ museum partners whose institutional endeavors […]

The Holy Presentation Church is said by officials to be the last surviving building of its kind from the 18th century

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Most CD players ask the disc to disappear as soon as it begins playing. Press eject, slide it into a tray, wait for the lid to close, and the object vanishes while the music continues. SYITREN’s RM1 removes that familiar sequence. The disc stays exposed at the center of a transparent square, spinning in full view as its printed surface catches light and blurs into color. Album art becomes active, even when the image was never designed to move.
 
SYITREN builds the RM1 from two acrylic panels held apart by metal corner posts. The spindle passes through the front sheet, so the CD clips directly onto the hub instead of entering through a door. That exposed hub is the smartest...

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, which recently announced that it will open December 11, has named Valerie Hillings as its inaugural director. Hillings joins the institution from Raleigh’s North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMAA), where she has served as director since 2018. Her appointment marks her return to Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, where she was curator and […]

In un momento storico in cui le immagini sembrano precedere il loro stesso tempo di apparizione – generate, moltiplicate e consumate con una velocità crescente – la pittura di Ernst Yohji Jaeger pone una domanda essenziale: cosa permette ancora a un’immagine di acquisire presenza? Calamondin, presentata da Crèvecœur a Parigi, affronta la pittura come campo di trasformazione e verifica. Le opere di Jaeger conservano il conflitto tra apparizione e cancellazione, tra forma riconoscibile e superficie in movimento. Ogni quadro registra il percorso attraverso cui una visione conquista la propria necessità.
Ernst Yohji Jaeger, “Calamondin”, exhibition view, Crèvecœur, Paris, 2026. Courtesy of the...

RETHINKING THE ELECTRIC KICKBOARD
 
South Korean design agency Second White developed VtoV 2000 in 2023 as a conceptual electric scooter proposal presented to Hyundai. Rather than introducing a production-ready vehicle, the unrealized project examines how the increasingly common kickboard could evolve into a safer and more credible component of future urban transportation.
 
Electric scooters have become a familiar answer to the last-mile problem, offering an affordable and relatively low-impact alternative to cars and motorcycles for short journeys. Their rapid spread, however, has also introduced accidents, uncertain road etiquette, and pavements dotted with abandoned vehicles — convenience, it turns...

In 2022, New York resident and bonafide feline devotee Dan Rimada felt that something needed to be done to shine a light on the city’s cats. The Big Apple not only has a real feral issue, but many of these creatures make their homes in iconic shops found around the city: bodegas. Over time, locals get to know them and they become fixtures of shelves and countertops. Technically, though, New York City considers it a health code violation to have animals in businesses that serve food. In spite of that, thousands of cats serve as mousers and rat catchers, and a lot of people don’t realize that the snoozy tabby nestled atop the Doritos bags is actually illegal. Rimada founded Bodega Cats of New York to bring...

Arts and culture organizations that received more funding from local governments during the COVID-19 pandemic tended to fare better in subsequent years, a new study suggests.A new report from SMU (Southern Methodist University) DataArts zooms in on data from 10 cities between 2019 and 2024, linking local public investments to stronger performances in the arts sector. From Sacramento and Seattle to New York City and Philadelphia, the study highlights diverging trends across cities — some rebounded from the pandemic and even exceeded their 2019 numbers, while others plummeted. Through data compiled from the first cohort of local arts agencies that are part of the City Arts Data Exchange, a partnership between...

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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! As budgets tighten, museums are joining forces to buy expensive artworks they could not afford on their own. A UK tech firm is using AI and knowledge graphs to strengthen art authentication.  Collectors are increasingly using freeports to defer taxes, protect valuable artworks, and manage sales more strategically. The Headlines TEAMWORK, DREAMWORK. Museums are increasingly joining forces to buy expensive artworks they could not afford alone, a reflection of rising prices, tighter acquisition budgets, and growing pressure to diversify collections, Artnet News reported. Shared...

Tracing the “godly, biological, and machinic” origins of contemporary computation

PASO NARA temporary pavilion appears in Chihuahua’s square
 
Located at the intersection of Avenida Independencia and Calle Victoria in Chihuahua’s historic Plaza de Armas, PASO NARA is a temporary pavilion that responds to the need for shade within one of the city’s busiest pedestrian routes. Developed as a student project at the Instituto Superior de Arquitectura y Diseño (ISAD), the intervention introduces a sheltered space for rest within the continuous movement of the public square.
 
Positioned within an area formerly occupied by vehicular traffic and now incorporated into the city’s pedestrian network, the pavilion is defined by a conical form and curved timber envelope that distinguish it...

Whether playing a game of Uno on the back patio by the light of a headlamp or wading into a preternaturally still body of water on a pitch-black night, the figures in Aron Wiesenfeld’s works calmly exist amid an air of mystery. His enigmatic paintings and drawings entice viewers into a world of timeless intrigue, delving into the power of visibility and imagination. Uncanny lighting creates silhouettes and deep, hidden distances. And individuals gaze at things just beyond the frame or move into unseen spaces. Wiesenfeld’s vignettes are often set during dusk or in darkness, where the background gradually fades away. Many pieces summon a subtle tension, such as in “Transfer,” where a black dog looks away...

Rising stars Chelsea Lehnea and Riccardo José Rivera are the protagonists of this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag.

RURAL MEMORY WITHOUT THE RUSTIC COSTUME
 
Perched at the summit of a mountain in Asturias, Spain, Cabanon Pumar by Spolia transforms an existing three-story house into a 148-square-meter retreat shaped by light, color, and the surrounding cider landscape. Apple trees, rolling hills, and an old llagar frame the building, while morning clouds regularly gather in the valley below, turning the view from the bedroom into something resembling a temporary inland sea.
 
Rather than dressing the house in the usual catalogue of rural nostalgia, the architects work with the building’s existing character while making its new interventions deliberately legible. The renovation opens an interior that was previously dark...

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Upcoming exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, will feature 26 works from the Louvre, some of which have never been shown in the US

Reeve will become chief executive officer of the organisation at which he started his career

Currently the director of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Hillings worked on the Abu Dhabi project from 2009 to 2018

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I swear, we have the luckiest writers in the world. Case in point: Livia Caligor got up close and personal with Iris van Herpen, one of the coolest fashion designers out there — you might be familiar with her dress made out of thousands of hand-formed, iridescent glass bubbles, which Olympic skier Eileen Gu wore to the 2026 Met Gala. At the Brooklyn Museum, visitors can join van Herpen in creating a garment that will evolve over the course of the exhibition. Yes, I’m jealous. Meanwhile, Trump continues his warpath against the Smithsonian. He just proposed the smallest budget of the decade for the nation’s largest museum, education, and research complex. But in good news, Rice University in Houston,...

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Srishti Gupta was arrested in April this year, fitting a broader pattern of crackdowns on activists

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Hello! My name is Rhea, and I’m coming up on my fourth year as a staff writer at Hyperallergic. Our beloved Lisa has kindly handed me the mic for the New York newsletter now that she's based in Iowa City. Thankfully, she's still working with Hyperallergic, but she's certainly a tough act to follow in this particular department. Nevertheless, I’m pleased to share some details about MoMA PS1’s new courtyard commission, in which an interactive garden installation toes the line between Eden and hedon by way of a giant teddybear’s rectum.No, this is not the premise of a fanfiction story for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland … We’re just talking about Precious...

On Tuesday, Spanish National Police and Mossos d’Esquadra, the regional police of Catalonia, announced that they had recovered a 16th century carved wooden relief that had been stolen from the Monastery of Santa Clara de Fitero in nearby Navarre 16 years prior. Per a post by the National Police on social media, the relief had passed through multiple buyers before it was located at an auction house in Barcelona. Police recovered the piece before it could be sold again. The relief, according to El Pais, is a gilded and polychromed wooden carving; while the creator is not known, it is said to be linked to the school of Renaissance era artist Juan de Anchieta. It depicts Saint Bonaventure, a medieval Italian...

Steady on its warpath against the Smithsonian, the White House proposed the smallest federal budget of the decade for the institution earlier this year. But while these preliminary numbers make headlines, quieter measures may pose other funding hurdles for the museum and research network.The President's budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027, outlined in a House subcommittee appropriations bill approved this June, proposes an allotment of $961.3 million in federal funds for the Smithsonian — about 11% below FY26’s $1.08 billion budget. The outlined FY27 figure for the Smithsonian's salaries and expenses comes out to $841.3 million, while the allotment for facilities maintenance and capital projects...

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi took another significant step toward its December 11 opening, naming Valerie Hillings as the institution’s inaugural director. In choosing Hillings, the Guggenheim tapped a trusted name for the high-profile appointment. She spent five years on the Guggenheim’s staff in New York before joining the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project in 2008 as curator and associate director of curatorial affairs. She worked alongside the Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi through 2018, laying the groundwork for its acquisition strategy and curatorial focus on art from West Asia, North Africa, and South Asia from 1960 onward.  “I am honored to return to Abu Dhabi to complete the...

In the voluptuous ceramics of En Iwamura, sweeping lines of clay frame minuscule eyes and noses that just barely emerge from the earthen material. The artist is based in the iconic pottery town of Shigaraki in Japan’s Shiga Prefecture and is known for his expressive yet abstract sculptures. Evoking playful depictions of masks and busts, the works are often vibrant in color, featuring bold gradients or two-toned combinations. Iwamura has long drawn on the concept of Ma, or “間,” which translates to gap or pause. In the artist’s practice, the idea appears both conceptually and holistically. He’s interested in the ways we measure and understand the spaces between ourselves and others and how those...

A seven-foot-tall marble statue from the 5th century BCE has emerged from under what used to be a Roman roadway in the ancient city of Sardis, in western Turkey, reports Heritage Daily. A UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Salihli district of Manisa Province, the city served at the time as the capital of the western satrapy of the Achaemenid Persian empire and of the kingdom of Lydia. According to Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, who posted about the discovery on Facebook, the sculpture, dated between 470 and 450 BCE, is one of the rare surviving examples of monumental marble statuary from the period. After conservation work is complete, the statue will go on view at Turkey’s...

In 2023, Minnesota-based artist Lydia Hansen set a goal of taking at least one hike every week throughout the entire year to care for her mental health. She began musing about how fun it would be to create crocheted mushrooms that one would encounter with the same surprise they’d feel coming across the real thing. Serendipitously, she ran into one of the trail managers of the park she was exploring and shared her idea. “That turned into my very first Fungi Hunt, which ran for an entire year at the Lost Creek Hiking Trail near Chatfield, Minnesota,” the artist tells Colossal. This summer marks the third iteration of the project, which visitors can explore at Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center in...

The bonkers, bewildering Die ägyptische Helena begets a suitably lush musical and creative treatment at Bard SummerScape.

Jelena e Nataša Prljević sono artiste, operatrici culturali ed educatrici serbe. Nel 2018 a New York, insieme all’artista Joshua Nierodzinski, hanno dato vita a HEKLER, una piattaforma collaborativa transnazionale che esplora le relazioni tra ospitalità e conflitto attraverso programmi come Assembly, Host e Medium. Questa pratica ha ispirato Four Waters, a Ljubanje, in Serbia, una casa indipendente, un punto d’incontro e un rifugio per artisti e comunità, che fonde strategie artistiche, curatoriali, pedagogiche e organizzative, ponendo al centro il potenziale liberatorio del lavoro collaborativo e collettivo.
Jelena Prljević, “Baba Bosiljka Prljević, Ljubanje”, 2020. Ph courtesy of the...

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. […]
The post Human/Nature: Animals Go Underground In the Paintings of Matthew Grabelsky first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Just in time for this month's theme of filth or dementia, a review of Terrence McNally's Master Class from Central City Opera.

A selection of recent work by artist Emma Steinkraus. Based in Lexington, Virginia, Steinkraus  
   
   
   
   
 
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Ma che brutta figura per la lirica!

Beatriz Morales (Città del Messico, 1981) vive e lavora tra Hidalgo e Berlino. La sua pratica si origina nella pittura, ma ne sottopone progressivamente a verifica i confini, estendendo il gesto cromatico alla fibra, alla scultura e all’installazione. Il passaggio dalla superficie allo spazio non coincide tuttavia con un abbandono del linguaggio pittorico. Il colore continua ad agire come principio strutturante, assumendo consistenza materiale, profondità simbolica e valore culturale. Tecniche tessili, fibre vegetali e pigmenti non sono trattati come semplici risorse formali, ma come depositi di conoscenza. La materia trattiene temporalità, gesti, economie, storie di estrazione e pratiche di trasmissione....

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...

Prima istituzione d’arte contemporanea fondata oltre la vecchia Cortina di Ferro, il Ludwig Múzeum di Budapest si conferma un osservatorio geopolitico e culturale imprescindibile per decifrare le traiettorie dell’Est Europa. Nato nel 1989 dalla lungimirante donazione dei collezionisti tedeschi Peter e Irene Ludwig, il museo ha esordito nel 1991 tra le mura storiche del Palazzo Reale di Buda, per poi trovare la sua collocazione definitiva, nel 2005, negli spazi monumentali e avveniristici del Müpa, l’avamposto architettonico del Palazzo delle Arti affacciato sul Danubio.
István Csákány (Sepsiszentgyörgy, 1978), “The Sewing Room / Ghost Keeping”, 2012 (dettaglio dall’installazione). Veduta...

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Entrando negli spazi privati di fondaco in Largo Forcella 8 ad Atri, adibiti a luogo espositivo in occasione della collettiva “Adagio” dei cinque pittori Benyamin Zolfaghari, Enrico Pierotti, Andrea Lucchesi, Lorenzo Di Lucido, Andrea Astolfi, respiro un’aria serena: ad accogliermi c’è uno spazio rimasto fermo nel tempo, intriso di ricordi familiari, una sorta di grotta in mattoni e pietra datata tra Settecento e Ottocento, fatta di cunicoli e scale senza uscita, ampie arcate e nicchie immerse tra luci e ombre, come stanze della memoria o del pensiero umano.
AA.VV., “Adagio”, installation view at fondaco, Atri, 2026, courtesy of the artists
L’artista atriano Andrea Astolfi fa gli onori di casa...

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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 […]
The post Dont Tempt Me: the Art of Kristen Liu-Wong first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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 […]
The post Personal Growth: the Art of Nathan Reidt first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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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...

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.