Art history, in Hess' painting, is comprised of tiny renditions of famed works that are patch-worked together. They appear like reams of unfurled toilet paper that form vortices. One spiral extends into the past. Another spiral contains the twenty-first century... Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
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Los Angeles may be recovering from a bit of an art hangover after our dizzying fair week, but there are several excellent shows worth a closer look this month. At Vielmetter, Hayv Kahraman draws on personal loss to create mystical visions of resilience. Painters Jesse Wiedel and Cole Case focus on our nation’s complexities and contradictions, asking what freedom really means at this pivotal moment in time. Relatedly, a two-gallery Wally Hendrick retrospective and a deep dive into Wallace Berman’s Verifax collages emphasize the enduring vitality and revolutionary spirit of these 20th-century countercultural figures. And at Loyola Marymount University’s Laband Art Gallery, a Noni Olabisi survey gives...

The National Capital Planning Commission, widely expected to approve the plans, will hold its final vote in April

The relentless Israeli and American airstrikes on Iran have caused significant damage to the Qajar-era Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the heart of Tehran.One of the oldest monuments in Iran, the Golestan Palace became a symbol of the Qajar dynasty's power in the 18th and 19th centuries. According to UNESCO, the damage was caused by a shockwave from a nearby airstrike on March 2. Photos from the site show debris of shattered windows, damaged ceilings, and broken marble statues.As of Friday afternoon, March 5, US and Israeli attacks have killed over 1,300 people in Iran. President Donald Trump launched hostilities against the country last weekend without approval from Congress, killing...

The motif of eight horses galloping (八骏图) in traditional Chinese ink paintings indicates strength, victory, and power. One common greeting with the arrival of the Year of the Horse, the current cycle of the Lunar New Year, which began February 17, is “may success arrive with the horse” (马到成功). Certainly, the year so far has been anything but slow.Artist Singha Hon’s gorgeous rendition of this motif for 2026 queers the image of galloping horses by bringing in images from New York Chinatown’s working class. In her painting, the horses gallop together but tend to each other, more an image of mutual aid than military conquest. (Horses, after all, are herd animals.) In the body of a foal are...

The Hasselblad Foundation has named South African photographer Zanele Muholi as the recipient of its 2026 Hasselblad Award. The prize, which includes 2 million Swedish kronor (US $218,000), a Hasselblad camera, and a gold medal, is considered the world’s most prestigious given in recognition of a living photographer. Past recipients include Nan Goldin, Alfredo Jaar, Ingrid Pollard, Cindy Sherman, Dayanita […]

Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan is speaking publicly for the first time about the museum’s long-awaited David Geffen Galleries. The interview, which went live today, appears in the relaunch of True Colors, Vanity Fair’s art-world newsletter written by Nate Freeman. The newsletter will now land in inboxes weekly on Fridays with interviews, art-market intelligence, and dispatches from across the art world. The debut edition features Govan discussing the museum’s controversial new building designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, a $720 million structure set to open to the public next month after years of construction, debate, and rising costs. In the interview, Govan framed the...

Sotheby’s is preparing to bring works from the collection of the late dealer and financier Robert Mnuchin to auction this May in New York, adding a fresh trove of blue-chip material to a season the house hopes will build on its blockbuster November and a strong start to the spring sales. The consignment is made up of 24 works from the personal collection Robert assembled with his wife Adriana Mnuchin, long known among collectors for its focus on museum-quality examples of postwar abstraction and modern art. The sale will be led by Rothko’s monumental 1957 canvas Brown and Blacks in Reds, estimated at $70 million to $100 million, along with a second Rothko from 1949 estimated at $15 million to $20...

WASHINGTON, DC — On Sunday, March 1, a “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” appeared in Farragut Square, a public park located near the White House. Waterproof stickers resembling the terrazzo stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are printed with Epstein’s likeness below the names and titles of politicians, billionaires, arts patrons, and other figures mentioned in the recently released batch of 3 million files related to the convicted sex offender. The installation names around 20 people in total, including Epstein himself, sex trafficker and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, arts patron Les Wexner, billionaire and Museum of Modern Art trustee Leon Black, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Microsoft...

The artist presents her first solo outing in New York

Pedro Friedeberg, an artist affiliated with the Mexican offshoot of the Surrealist movement and who is now best known for his absurdist designs, including the iconic Hand-Chair, died on Thursday in San Miguel de Allende. He was 90, according to his New York gallery, Ruiz-Healy Art. Friedeberg’s diverse practice included paintings dense with dreamy imagery and design objects that looked like body parts and animals. Though commonly labeled a Surrealist, he bristled against being associated with that movement. When a W magazine journalist made the error of claiming that he was the last of the Surrealists in 2024, Friedeberg said, “That’s a terrible mistake. I’m neither a Surrealist nor the last of...

BERLIN — At the center of Petrit Halilaj’s An Opera Out of Time at Hamburger Bahnhof, the artist's first major institutional presentation, is a re-presentation of his opera Syrigana, first performed with the Kosovo Philharmonic at an outdoor venue near his hometown of Runik, Kosovo, on June 25th, 2025. A conventional curatorial conceit, restagings of performances without performers often fail when they reach for too much fidelity to the original. With Syrigana, however, the original objects and music are used to create something similar but distinct. At the Hamburger Bahnhof, the props, costumes, and set pieces of the musical are staged in vignettes throughout a large hall: a life-sized horse...

Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture has appealed to UNESCO to provide additional protection for the nation’s cultural heritage as the U.S.–Israel–Iran conflict spills into its southern borders. According to a ministry statement on Wednesday, Culture Minister Ghassan Salamé spoke by phone with Khaled El-Enany, director-general of UNESCO, urging the United Nations agency to intervene on Lebanon’s behalf. The minister reportedly told El-Enany: “In light of the current security situation in Lebanon and in the region, [we ask you] to intervene with neighboring states or belligerent parties to remind them of the need to take all preventive measures, during this armed conflict with Lebanon, to protect and...

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Russia will have a presence at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, four years after canceling its pavilion in 2022, just after the country attacked Ukraine. Having loaned its pavilion to Bolivia in 2024, Russia this year will present group exhibition “The Tree Is Rooted in the Sky.” The show will feature the work of more than fifty musicians, […]

The Watermill Center in Water Mill, New York, has named Charles Chemin as its new artistic director. The Paris-born Chemin since 2020 has served as artistic director of the center’s International Summer Program. He is a protégé and longtime collaborator of director and playwright Robert Wilson, the interdisciplinary arts space’s founder. Wilson died last August; Chemin succeeds him in the […]

This week has shown that there’s still a lot of money sloshing around London’s art market; Christie’s three-pronged 21st/20th century evening sale on Thursday took £197.5 million ($265 million), one day after Sotheby’s modern and contemporary auction brought £131 million ($175 million).The result marked a 52 percent increase on the house’s equivalent sale last year, achieving a 96 percen sell-through rate by lot and 98 percent by value. There were also new artist records set for Henry Moore, Toyen, and Dorothea Tanning. Four works by Cecily Brown, Bridget Riley, Lucian Freud, and Frank Auerbach were withdrawn before kick-off, and carried a collective high estimate of nearly £17...

The duo has won a court order to force an art dealer to reveal details of his transactions with an unnamed intermediary

The House of Timefulness is designed around the passage of time
 
StudioLowe Design has developed the House of Timefulness, a daytime hospice center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The project explores how architecture can structure the experience of time for hospice patients, whose daily lives are shaped by heightened awareness of its limits. Through material selection, spatial sequencing, and environmental integration, the building emphasizes gradual change across days, seasons, and longer cycles of aging and weathering.
 
The design responds to critiques of contemporary medical environments that prioritize efficiency and constant activity. In contrast, the House of Timefulness introduces spaces organized...

Ben Luke talks to The Art Newspaper's Melissa Gronlund about the outbreak of war in a region that has invested heavily in arts and culture, while Ben Sutton discusses the 82nd Whitney Biennial in New York. Plus, a newly-discovered Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum.

Before digital fonts and the ability to reproduce graphics on a large scale, there were sign painters. Today, printers can spit out countless posters and ads, but there was a time when hand-painted promotional signage was needed for retail windows, and business names were often rendered just the same. Of course, it’s a trade that virtually died out with the advent of new technologies, which made it cheaper and faster to produce public messaging. In the way of LPs and film cameras, though, just because there were new methods in daily use, it certainly doesn’t mean that the art form doesn’t live on. A new book published by Letterform Archive, Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’...

Russia’s decision to put on a show in Venice has prompted criticism from Russian dissidents and Ukrainian artists

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a set built in real time for Marie Adam-Leenaerdt fw 2025 show
 
For her Fall/Winter 2026 presentation in Paris, Marie Adam-Leenaerdt transformed the conventional fashion show format into a collective act of making, designed by villa eugénie. Guests arrived to find stacks of compact black stools placed around an empty hall. Each attendee picked up a seat and positioned it along taped lines on the floor, gradually shaping the runway space themselves. The set evolved in real time, turning the audience into quiet collaborators in the spatial choreography of the show.
 
At the center of the concept is a simple, utilitarian object: a folding plastic stool branded with the designer’s name. Lightweight and...

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Despite some fine performances, Così fan tutte at the Livermore Valley Opera doesn't quite click into place.

Dakotaraptor, a fossilized skeleton of which was discovered a little more than 20 years ago by paleontologists in South Dakota, was an extremely lethal prehistoric predator. Its feathered body, powerful legs, and huge jaw gave it an advantage as it roamed its territory some 66 million years ago. But it was really its so-called “sickle claw,” a huge, taloned toe that measures 9.5 inches on the outer curve. For artist Grant Garmezy, the ancient creature presented a unique opportunity to render a life-size sculptural version. Specializing in meticulously detailed, accurate representations of nature in glass, he took on the challenge of recreating the Dakotaraptor’s 14-foot length from snout to tail. “The...

Before the artist’s former home was bombed in the war, two little-known paintings in the 1930s depicted its exterior in an unexpected colour

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Ateno embeds Olen resort into a cliff overlooking the Aegean Sea
 
Ateno Architecture Studio’s Olen Resort unfolds across a seaside, amphitheatrical plot in Syros, Greece, characterized by a steep southward slope and an uninterrupted view of the Aegean Sea. The primary challenge of the project was to satisfy complex functional requirements while respecting the morphology of the terrain. Olen is a composition of three morphological units: a Point, a Line, and a Plane. A residential complex arranged on three levels, combining submerged and above-ground structures.
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a Point, a Line, and a Plane: three morphological units shape Olen
 
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Painting made of recycled computer floppy disks
 
Artist Taylor Smith turns obsolete computer floppy disks into large-scale portrait paintings made up of these recycled storage devices. Hand-assembled into the canvas, hundreds of these materials become the base for screen-printed and painted portraits of figures, from Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn to David Bowie and Abraham Lincoln. The result sits between mosaic, pop art, and archives using recycled computer floppy disks.
 
In each artwork, the faces and bodies are from a grid of floppy disks, each one a different color, each one carrying its own printed label. If viewers look closely, they can (almost) read the labels on the recycled computer floppy...

Marek Kounovský designs Eski.Sub glass speaker
 
The Eski.Sub is a glass loudspeaker by Marek Kounovský – MK Designers that draws inspiration from the visual language of Brutalist architecture and the cultural atmosphere of London’s UK grime music scene. The project examines the relationship between sound, urban context, and emotional listening experiences, positioning the loudspeaker as both an audio device and a spatial object.
 
The design references the material expression and structural clarity associated with Brutalist architecture. Through its glass construction, the speaker emphasizes transparency and physical presence, allowing the internal components to remain visually accessible while...

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The Sony World Photography Awards, one of the most anticipated photography announcements of the year, has revealed the 30 finalists and 65 shortlisted entries in the 2026 Professional competition. We’re sharing five striking images from the selection, narrowed down by a jury from over 430,000 submissions across 200 countries and territories. These photographs showcase diverse approaches to the landscape – whether they be natural, or human-made. From melting ice sheets to imposing border walls, the images challenge viewers to reflect on our changing climate and the structures of power that shape our world. Liam Man, Standing on New Ground, (2026). From When Mountains Move. “The state of Earth’s...

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The Black Arts Movement emerged as a profound cultural awakening and radical reimagining of representation, galvanised by mid-20th century civil rights struggles and sustained by a belief in art’s transformative power. Writers, musicians, visual artists and performers sought not merely to reflect the world but to remake it, centring Black identity, dignity and autonomy within a cultural landscape that had long marginalised these voices. At its core, the movement insisted that creative production was inseparable from political engagement, asserting that culture could not remain neutral in the face of systemic oppression. Themes of self-definition, collective empowerment and the reclamation of history resonate...

Benché di primo acchito pittura e immagine digitale sembrino afferire a due dimensioni antitetiche, la prima connessa ai tempi lunghi del lavoro manuale, alla fisicità dei materiali e a una secolare genealogia stilistica e iconografica che spesso si vuole esangue, la seconda alla smaterializzazione, alla planarità retroilluminata, all’automatismo inventivo e all’assenza di prospettiva storica, diversi pittori hanno focalizzato le loro ricerche sull’esplorazione delle reciproche influenze e delle possibili integrazioni tra queste due sfere.
Flavio de Marco, “Screen Life”, installation view at Villa delle Rose, 2026, ph. Ornella De Carlo, courtesy MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna |...

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has appointed Nicholas R. Bell director and CEO. Bell, who since 2019 has served as president and CEO of the Glenbow museum in Calgary, Alberta, will take up his new roles on July 6. He succeeds Josh Basseches, who stepped down late last year after a decade at the helm of the institution, which […]

In the age of the internet, we’re fortunate to have virtual access to museum collections around the world, thanks to objects in the public domain and programs like The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative. Through a searchable digital catalogue, visitors to the museum’s website can see hundreds of thousands of objects, many images of which are available for download. And it’s not alone—other institutions like the Art Institute of Chicago, The National Gallery of Art, and The Cleveland Museum of Art, among others, make pieces in their collections accessible to all. The thing is, digital images don’t always give us the full picture, so to speak. Even two-dimensional paintings and...

At the intersection of fashion, art, and the uncanny, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin have for four decades challenged the ways we perceive images. Can Love Be A Photograph – 40 Years of Inez & Vinoodh, at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, offers a monumental survey of a career defined by its refusal to settle, blending the quotidian with the surreal and the personal with the performative. Their work operates in the liminal space where digital manipulation, intimacy, and high-gloss fashion imagery converge, revealing both the extraordinary and the unsettling within everyday life. “Inez & Vinoodh have been able to create something utterly fantastic; an invisible reality that looks artificial but is not. A...

The construction of Grundtvigs Kirke in Copenhagen took nearly two decades, beginning in fall of 1921 and finally reaching completion in 1940. Designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, it transforms the humble brick into a masterpiece of Expressionist architecture. Its pointed interior arches and vaulted ceiling, stepped crenellations, and hulking exterior nod to medieval Gothic and Romanesque styles while also exhibiting a profoundly modern sensibility. David Altrath, a Hamburg-based photographer whose work emphasizes urban and architectural elements, captures Grundtvigs’ details in an atmospheric cumulative portrait. Bathed in mellow, golden light, the church’s pale yellow bricks appear to glow,...

Akhnaten has lost none of its power or glitz at the Los Angeles Opera.

Fyodor Chaliapin, the very great Russian basso, to this day owns the role of Massenet's Don Quichotte.

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Alicja Kwade “Siège du Monde”, 2025, marmo Azul Macaubas bronzo con patina nera, 96,5 x 54 x 58 cm. Photo Roman März, courtesy dell’artista e Galleria Continua
38 | “Al di là della pittura” – Rilettura di due film creativi di Luca Maria Patella e Marinella Pirelli / Luciano Marucci
46 | Inchiesta sull’Intelligenza Artificiale – Potenzialità e limiti (VIII) / Luciano Marucci
50 | Produzione creativa e identità – Riflessioni sulla genesi e l’evoluzione (XXI) / Luciano Marucci
54 | India – al PAC di Milano / Emanuele Magri
56 | Ismaele Nones – Tra passato e presente / Roberto Vidali
58 | Emilia Marasco – Arte visiva e scrittura / Elisabetta...

Alla Galleria Massimo Minini l’incontro tra Sheila Hicks e Paolo Icaro non è un semplice dialogo tra due pratiche all’apparenza contrastanti, ma un campo di giocosa tensione. Da un lato la materia nuda, opaca, essenziale di Icaro; dall’altro le vibrazioni cromatiche di Hicks. La distanza è evidente, quasi strutturale. Ed è proprio lì che il progetto trova la sua forza.
“Live Wires. Sheila Hicks and Paolo Icaro”, installation view, 2026, courtesy of the artists and Galleria Massimo Minini, ph. Petrò Gilberti
Seduta vicino alla sua opera “The Captured Comrades” (2026), nobile e statuaria, Sheila osserva con uno sguardo vispo il via vai che la circonda. È lo sguardo di una donna che ha vissuto...

Americans are uniquely disconnected from our food. More than 10 percent of the working population is employed in agricultural sectors, but it’s rare for the average person to grapple with—let alone witness—the number of people involved in growing, harvesting, packaging, and ultimately getting dinner onto their plate. Given that many farms, restaurants, and other food-related businesses employ those who are undocumented, these sectors have also been targeted for deportation, further pushing the people who keep them running into the shadows. For Narsiso Martinez, this essential labor has long been the central point of his practice. The Oaxaca-born artist is known for painting tender portraits on produce...

Sam Gibbons isn’t letting you off the hook. Sex, violence, religion, ego—everything comes together in colorful palettes unrestricted by shape or form. His rare, vibrant paintings are teeming with images both familiar and grotesque, and they’re demanding some careful attention Read the full article form our archives by clicking above.
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Parterre Box previews an upcoming performance of Hercules with Ann Hallenberg in some very unique Baroque repertoire.

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Strong performances at Opera Naples can't overcome the cringey nostalgia of Derrick Wang's Scalia/Ginsburg.

It is estimated that by 2030, 1 in 6 people worldwide will be over 60. Meanwhile, 1 in ten children in the UK are now expected to live beyond 100. Yet, as people globally are living longer, many face health and social inequalities that impact later life. A new exhibition at Wellcome Collection, London, asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better. The Coming of Age is the first major museum show to explore experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to the elderly, through art, science and popular culture. More than 120 artworks and objects are featured in the exhibition, including Sebald Beham’s medieval woodcut depicting elders rejuvenated by the mythical fountain of youth, and...

La mostra Converging Trajectories: Ettore Spalletti meets Gino De Dominicis and Franz West indaga i punti di tangenza tra artisti che, pur attraverso linguaggi differenti, hanno condiviso un’idea di arte come esperienza totale. Un percorso che coinvolge sia il piano poetico sia quello storiografico, mettendo in evidenza il legame tra le personalità indagate e la città di Pescara, centro dinamico di sperimentazione nella seconda metà del Novecento. Oltre alla Galleria Vistamare, che ospita la mostra nella sua sede milanese, si ricorda il fratello di Ettore Spalletti, Vittoriano, appassionato collezionista, e Mario Pieroni, che nella sua galleria romana propose nel 1969 un primo confronto tra l’artista...

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L’ingannevole equivalenza visiva tra un’immagine fotografica e il frammento di realtà in essa immortalato si fonda su una serie di riduzioni successive: il volume degli oggetti collassa sulla superficie del negativo, la materia si dissolve in traccia ottica e la profondità spaziale si traduce in graduazioni di luce e ombra. Nataly Maier (Monaco di Baviera, 1957) inizia alla fine degli anni Ottanta a interrogarsi su cosa accade a livello visivo e concettuale quando si tenta di restituire alla fotografia quella consistenza fisica e volumetrica che essa può soltanto suggerire attraverso codici rappresentativi. Alla Fondazione Sabe per l’arte di Ravenna la mostra Immagini nello spazio si concentra su un...

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In an era dominated by constant scroll and shrinking attention spans, documentary has emerged as one of the most vital languages in contemporary culture. From the political urgency of Navalny to the cultural resonance of Beckham and the environmental meditation of David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, non-fiction storytelling has become central to how audiences engage with politics, identity and collective memory. Viewers are increasingly drawn to works rooted in truth yet shaped with cinematic precision. Documentary today is not merely reportage; it is authorship, immersion and, often, an act of listening. Across platforms and festivals, audiences are seeking stories that move, challenge and...

Surrounded in her Massachusetts studio by pins, glue, and piles of brightly colored paper strips, a visitor might initially mistake Lisa Nilsson for a reclusive arts and crafts teacher. But as her nimble hands purposefully curl the paper into shapes, and then magically weave the shapes into identifiable forms, a new impression emerges. Read the full article by clicking above!
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For our second annual Illustration Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners from each of the following categories: Editorial, Personal, Advertising & Promotional, Product & Packaging, Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Student category: Bella Han.
Bella Han is a freelance illustrator from China and a first year student in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual Arts (Class of 2027). This work is part of a series illustrating one of the most famous Qing Dynasty stories in China, which depicts the opulent yet tragic life of Zhenhuan, a concubine of Emperor Yongzheng, who later became Empress Dowager after his death.
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The Undercurrent Surfaces There are moments in a country’s creative consciousness when the atmosphere tilts. For many of the designers showing at Zurich Fashion Week 2026, the seeds were sown during last year’s pre‑events. And so, after more than twelve months of preparation, this was the week their work stepped fully into the light — an undercurrent now rising into a transformative movement in modern style. As I walked into the Kongresshaus Zurich this February, the first edition of Zurich...

 
The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives.
Our first edition is devoted to blue. A colour of depth and distance. Vast as the sky and as still as water. Blue evokes calm, melancholy, serenity and sorrow. Delicate cornflowers, robust denim, precious jewels, and the deepest ocean.
From literal to abstract interpretations, and alternative processes, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: BLUE shares photographers’ wide range of creative expressions.
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