The expression “wherever you go, there you are” is often wielded to describe futile attempts to escape hangups, anxieties, and a variety of unwanted emotions. Although this truism is typically offered as a negative, it can also be read as a positive that provides comfort and stability amid new environments. In I Bring Home with Me, Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo recreates his Accra studio in an architectural reproduction within Roberts Projects’ Los Angeles gallery. Boafo is known for his stylized portraiture of Black people, whose skin the artist renders in swirling gestures made with his fingers. This exhibition presents a collection of paintings embedded within the life-sized replica, created in...

Atlanta Contemporary has named Lauren Haynes’s as its new executive director, effective March 16. She replaces interim ED Everett Long, who had been in the position since last summer. Haynes brings a wealth of curatorial experience to her new role, from institutions throughout the United States. She was most recently vice president of arts & culture and head curator at the Trust for Governors Island. Governors Island, in New York Harbor, has robust arts programming, including exhibitions, site-specific installations, residencies, and an art fair. Before that, Haynes worked at the Queens Museum; Duke University’s Nasher Museum in Durham, N.C.; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary in...

MoMA PS1 has announced the artist lineup for the sixth edition of its Greater New York exhibition, which highlights emerging and mid-career contemporary artists every five years. Taking over the museum's transformed school building starting April 16, the cross-borough survey will celebrate MoMA PS1's 50th anniversary with a bevy of site-specific installations, new commissions, and rarely seen work by 53 artists and collectives living and working across New York City. A complete list of participants is included at the end of this article.This year, Greater New York will coincide with the Whitney Biennial for the first time in the show's history. According to MoMA PS1's press release, the...

An investigation into the Nanjing Museum, one of China’s premier state-run cultural institutions, found that decades of systemic mismanagement and corruption enabled the secret sale of national treasures into the private art market.  According to the South China Morning Post, the scandal erupted last September after the museum was accused of selling donated paintings, prompting an investigation by Chinese authorities that has since focused on a former director. The publication reported that five paintings from a 137-work collection donated in 1959 by the family of collector Pang Laichen were found missing during a court-ordered inventory last June conducted at the request of Pang’s heirs. One of the...

The Minneapolis-based designer discusses his viral anti-ICE protest signs

One of the sculptures will remain on long-term display at the Washington, DC, museum

John Phelan, a prominent art collector and the current Secretary of the Navy, is revealed to have flown on the private plane of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2006, according to a report by CNN. Flight logs note that he flew from London to New York on March 3 of that year. The flight came four months before Epstein was first indicted in Florida for felony solicitation of prostitution. CNN reports that a close friend of the secretary confirmed that Phelan was on the flight, “but emphasized it was the only time Phelan interacted with Epstein and that he was invited to fly by Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne, who died in 2021.” Cayne also appears on the manifest. The manifest comes from a release of...

Longtime Bard College president Leon Botstein, who has helmed the influential liberal-arts school since 1975, is under fire after the release of email communications with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, that suggest a relationship more personal than had been previously disclosed. On Monday, the New York Times reported that Botstein had sent Epstein a grateful note regarding a 2012 trip to the Caribbean that he recently claimed not to remember in detail—including whether his visit included time on Epstein’s notorious private island. David Wade, a spokesman for Botstein, told the Times in a statement last week that his client got very sick and stayed in a bungalow but...

The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has announced the winners of the three prizes it gives out for each edition of its Made in L.A. biennial. Ali Eyal has won the Mohn Award, which comes with $100,000 and a Hammer-produced monograph on his work. Carl Cheng, who is in his 80s, won the Career Achievement Award, which comes with $25,000. Greg Breda was selected by public vote of visitors to the exhibition to receive the Public Recognition Award, which also comes with $25,000. Eyal and Cheng were selected by a jury that included Gean Moreno, director of the Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Margot Norton, chief curator of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; and Daniela...

Newly released documents show the close relationship between the two men continued for years after Epstein’s first criminal conviction

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Zaha Hadid Architects and C.Y. Lee & Partners will design the National Innovation, Creativity and Finance Center in Taipei, a 175,000 square meter complex that brings together the city’s stock exchange, futures exchange, and depository and clearing corporation within a single public-facing development in the Beimen district.
 
The site sits at the junction of Zhongxiao West Road and Bo’ai Road, where foot traffic from Taipei Main Station flows past the Beimen Gate and the historic post office. Because trains, buses, and the MRT converge within a few minutes’ walk, the project has an everyday intensity shaped by commuters and office workers. Into this...

In the Bayan-Ölgii province of western Mongolia, Kazakh Mongolians are the largest ethnic group. The sparsely populated nation abuts the Altai Mountains, some of which belong to Russia and China and across which sits Kazakhstan. Over the past several decades, migration between Kazakhstan and Mongolia has increased due to changing political climates, trade, and tourism. For Welsh photojournalist Claire Thomas, this northern region’s unique nomadic culture proved to be a veritable wellspring of astonishing encounters as she observed its 21st-century adaptations. Forthcoming from Hemeria, Altai: Hunters and Herders of Mongolia is a trove of intimate photographs chronicling Thomas’ immersion in this part of...

MoMA PS1 has named the fifty-three artists and collectives whose work will be featured in this year’s iteration of the Queens-based institution’s quinquennial Greater New York survey, set to open April 10 and run through August 17. For the first time since 2010, it will coincide with the Whitney Biennial; it will be followed by the New Museum Triennial, […]

The Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, has named Olivia Colling as its new executive director and Laura Smith as its artistic director. Both are natives of Yorkshire and are being promoted from within the institution. The announcement comes as the gallery, named for renowned British sculptor Barbara Hepworth, prepares to celebrate its fifteenth anniversary. […]

Onetime French culture minister Jack Lang has resigned his role as president of L’Institut du Monde Arabe over his links to financier Jeffrey Epstein. The ties between Lang, who held key roles in the French government between the 1980s and the 2000s, and Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in jail in 2019, were revealed in […]

British Pakistani curator and writer Nav Haq has been announced as the curator of Lahore Biennale 04, which will open in spring 2027. Haq, whose research is rooted in what a press release describes as “values of coexistence and progressive internationalism, developed in response to the conditions of an increasingly multipolar 21st century world,” is […]

The Biennale Certificate in Philosophy and Art: Seeds of the Future is a four-day advanced certificate program designed by the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) and philosopher Giovanbattista Tusa (Visiting Faculty, Independent Study and Dissertation director) for curators, artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners seeking to engage with the living context of the Venice Biennale. Over four days, participants will move through a sequence of philosophical orientations — Rooting, Growing, Branching, and Cultivating Futures — that frame art as a mode of world-disclosure and situated intervention. The program integrates theoretical reflection, embodied experience, and...

Amaya Kampot Homestay is set within the landscape of Kampot
 
Amaya Kampot Homestay is a residential hospitality project by re : edge architecture informed by the social, cultural, and environmental context of Kampot, Cambodia. The design responds to local communities, vernacular building traditions, and the region’s urban, rural, and natural landscapes, positioning the project within its specific geographic and cultural setting.
 
Kampot has historically been characterized as a small-town destination associated with rest and retreat. In recent years, increased tourism development along the Kampot River has reshaped the area’s built environment. In response to this shift, the project adopts a...

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The organisation has also launched a special programme for the semiquincentennial of the US's founding

Juan Diego Flórez's charm and artistic sensibility remain as vibrant as ever, as seen at a recent Carnegie Hall recital.

Parterre Box highlights a busy few months of Verdi performances for Marina Rebeka and Ludovic Tézier with an exciting sample of their debuts in Nabucco.

Around one-fifth of participating galleries are either first-time participants or returning to the fair after a hiatus

The best design shows reveal how creativity, science, innovation and technology intersect – influencing the very world around us. Those working in the space blend traditional art with bold new methods, creating something striking and unexpected. These five international exhibitions shine a spotlight on the pioneers pushing the discipline forward, inviting audiences behind the scenes of their practice. Together, they trace the complex and fascinating evolution of design, unpack the methods and thinking behind the work, and explore how these ideas resonate within contemporary culture and everyday life. Hella Jongerius: Whispering Things  Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein | Opens 14 March  Hella Jongerius is...

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MAD completes Lishui Airport in china
 
MAD completes the 2,267-hectare Lishui Airport in China, set within the foothill valleys of Lishui’s ‘forest city,’ and defined by a vast silver-white roof that reads as a white-feathered bird poised for flight. The roof absorbs nearly 100 meters of elevation change and embeds the terminal into the surrounding mountains (see designboom’s previous coverage here).
 
The architectural language of the airport embodies a deep connection to its environment. A feather-like shell, composed of lightweight aluminum panels, is supported by 14 umbrella-shaped columns, inspiring a sense of lightness and flow. Extending 30 meters, a dramatic cantilever frames the entrance,...

Traditional printing presses as working LEGO sets
 
A LEGO Ideas suggests two working printing presses that, once built, can show users how images are printed and transferred onto paper. There are two toy machines involved: a lever-operated plater press, based on the Albion press and built from 312 pieces, and a roller-based press next to it, built from 163 pieces. 
 
The maker, named PrintNerd, says that both models draw inspiration from historic presses that are still used by printers today. Instead of creating LEGO printing presses that are just for display, the suggested ones are fully functional. Their aim is to bring this piece of history in the age of digital media back to the forefront, allowing...

Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center by Studio Gang opens in nyc
 
Studio Gang completes the 74,000-square-foot Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center for the NYC Department of Design and Construction and NYC Parks & Recreation in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Targeting LEED Gold, the civic project establishes a multi-level public hub for fitness, recreation, and learning, consolidating a gym, pool, track, classrooms, and community programs within a sculpted brick volume, punctuated by large arched windows, that opens directly onto a new shaded plaza.
 
Named after Shirley Chisholm, the Brooklyn-born activist, educator, and the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress, the center positions itself as...

If you've had Bad Bunny's "NUEVAYoL" playing on loop in your brain, if you've pledged to call the Super Bowl "el Super Tazón" for the rest of your life, if you're considering swapping out all the mid-century furniture in your apartment for white plastic chairs, if you don't even known which football teams played on Sunday night ... then you might be one of millions of people who were moved, transfixed, and inspired by the Puerto Rican singer's historic half-time performance. Today, we explore how the show took on a second life online, in the form of myriad memes that pulse with joy and resistance. Against the backdrop of Trump's violent crackdown on people from Latin America...

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The very first Biennale was founded in 1895 in Venice, as an international exhibition designed to bring artists from across Europe together in the Giardini gardens, fostering exchange and dialogue between nations. Originally established as a celebration of artistic innovation, it created a precedent for large-scale exhibitions that could combine national pride with cross-cultural engagement. Over time, the Biennale expanded its remit beyond painting and sculpture to include architecture, film, performance and multimedia works. It is a festival of ideas, a convergence of memory, place and political reflection, where art ceases to exist in isolation and becomes a catalyst for social engagement. Biennales have...

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Amina Agueznay and Meriem Berrada present Asǝṭṭa, a monumental installation exploring craft, memory and transmission at the Arsenale. From the exhibition ‘Ankabouth’ 2015-2016. Courtesy Fondation Société Générale Morocco © Yasmina Bouzid The Kingdom of Morocco […]

FRENCH PLACE, realtà nata a Londra nel 2020, inaugura la nuova sede di Milano con CORALE. L’impianto critico della mostra permette alle ricerche degli artisti di incontrarsi in un magico e spontaneo punto di tangenza, secondo una visione che sostiene la libertà e l’opacità delle singole poetiche. CORALE rispecchia una condizione polifonica, un ecosistema in cui il visitatore si muove tra progetti e identità diverse.
AA.VV, “CORALE”, installation view, ph Francesco Paleari, courtesy of FRENCH PLACE
La pratica di Matthias Odin, primo artista in residenza, coniuga l’esperienza del situazionismo francese, ancorato alla nozione di psicogeografia coniata da Debord, alla circolarità del movimento...

Bad Bunny's iconic crowd dive during the Super Bowl half-time show (all screenshots Hyperallergic, via Instagram)One week after receiving three Grammy awards for the 2025 album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny made history last night when he delivered the Super Bowl half-time performance almost entirely in Spanish. The right-wing fury surrounding the “Benito Bowl,” a label inspired by Bad Bunny’s birth name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, primed his Super Bowl performance to be heavily meme-able well ahead of its occurrence. But he knocked it out of the park (or scored a touchdown, or whatever) with countless references channeling the landscape, history, and culture of Puerto...

Every year, a plastic called polyethylene terephthalate, commonly referred to as PET, is used to produce around 600 billion bottles and other packaging. Think juice containers, detergent jugs, soft jars, and shampoo bottles, plus myriad other items like carpeting, synthetic fabrics, and industrial applications. Tons upon tons of these single-use plastics end up in landfills or even floating in the ocean. Spanish design firm PET Lamp set out give another purpose to these otherwise short-lived materials. Partnering with artisans in communities from Chile to Ethiopia to Australia, the company celebrates both Indigeneity and sustainability, drawing upon time-honored global craft traditions while supporting local...

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion, a New Yorker, famously said this. The exhibitions we recommend you trek out to see — and it’s a high bar, given these subfreezing temperatures — center that age-old practice. A show on storytelling at the Morgan Library & Museum, with a 3,000-year scope, should prime you well for those that follow. Explorations of the legacy of national revolutions form the basis of Goya’s depictions of the savagery of the Spanish War of Independence in the 19th century as well as Alison Nguyen’s tracing of the unexpected currents of Vietnam’s war for liberation in the 20th. Two shows offer very different ways to tell the contemporary tale of Indigenous...

In 1979, with the publication of The Lowbrow Art of Robt. Williams, Williams unintentionally coined a term that would come to define an art movement. But he began intentionally carving out its place in the world long before... Read the full article on Robert Williams by clicking above.
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When Victoria Dugger encountered Jasper Johns’ “Flag” during a visit to the Museum of Modern Art in 2024, she found herself contemplating similar ideas. The encaustic painting is one of Johns’ most recognizable works and revels in ambiguity: although it bears stars and stripes, it’s not an exact representation of Old Glory, nor is it solely a gestural, abstract work. Instead, “Flag” prompts questions about motif, material, and meaning that defy any singular narrative. For Dugger, Johns’ multivalent approach felt particularly apt 70 years later. On the eve of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, she began a body of work that reflects a similar set of inquiries through the lens of Blackness,...

As a child, Artem “Alfred” Nakache (1915-1983) was afraid of water. The youngest of 11 children in a Jewish family that emigrated from Iraq to Constantine, Algeria, Alfred eventually overcame his terror of the depths and actually excelled at swimming. He became so skilled that by the mid-1930s, he had won both local and French national competitions—Algeria was under the control of France at the time—and moved to Paris to pursue his competitive career. He would, however, be impacted by an unthinkable tragedy, indelibly linked to what he would eventually accomplish. A short film by director and artist Florence Miailhe titled “Papillon,” which is nominated for an Oscar this year, is based on...

In an all-Mozart program with the San Francisco Symphony, Golda Schultz shows that her soubrette days are behind her.

Photographer Samuel Laurence Cunnane travels around the world by van, capturing fleeting scenes that result in luminous images, revealing remarkable beauty hidden in plain sight. The Irish artist makes his London debut at Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery with Blue Road, a show that encourages viewers to look more intently in moments of stillness. It is the fifth exhibition in the RC Foundation Project Space Exhibition series, which showcases the next generation of emerging international artists. The titular work depicts a stretch of newly tarmacked road that appears as a deep blue river, gleaming in the early evening light. Elsewhere, dense green foliage parts to reveal a figure in the distance, obscured...

The recent highly hyped studio recording of Puccini's Turandot left me greatly disappointed.

February is LGBT+ History Month in the UK. Today, we’re sharing what’s going on in the art world over the next few weeks and beyond, from museums hosting dedicated tours to upcoming exhibitions not to be missed throughout the year. Discover must-visit destinations, delve into archives and learn something new. Re/Assemble, People’s History Museum, Manchester | Until 3 January In 1988, 20,000 people gathered in Manchester to protest against Section 28 – a clause in the Local Government Act that prohibited the “promotion of homosexuality” by schools and local authorities. It became the largest LGBTQIA+ demonstration in British history. This exhibition features newly commissioned artworks by Anna...

Con More Than This, la Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna accoglie un progetto espositivo che mette in tensione due dimensioni in apparenza inconciliabili: l’istituzione museale storica e una pratica pittorica radicalmente contemporanea, nata all’interno di un contesto formativo e laboratoriale. La mostra, curata da Daniele Capra, riunisce dodici artisti formatisi all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia nell’ambito dell’Atelier F, restituendo non tanto una “scuola” intesa in senso stilistico, quanto un metodo condiviso fondato sul lavoro, sul confronto e sulla continuità del fare.
AA.VV., “More Than This”, installation view at Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, 2026, ph. Irene Fanizza, courtesy...

Nederlands Fotomuseum – the Dutch National Museum of Photography – has more than 6.5 million objects in its archives. That makes it one of the most significant collections in the world. Founded in 2003, the gallery is a mainstay of Dutch history, tracing how the camera has equally documented and influenced the course of the nation’s identity. This almost unparalleled influence is only set to grow, with the collection estimated to reach 7.5 million by 2028. It is only natural, then, that the museum would eventually outgrow its surroundings. This month, Nederlands Fotomuseum opens a new site at the renovated Santos warehouse in Rotterdam, offering innovative ways for visitors to experience the art and...

The dazzling and deeply moving Complications in Sue bodes well for Anthony Roth Costanzo's stewardship of Opera Philadelphia.

La sala espositiva di KAPPA-NöUN accoglie il visitatore con un’installazione che concentra in un unico gesto scultoreo la riflessione di Giovanni Termini (Assoro, 1972; vive a Pesaro) sulla memoria, sul lavoro e sugli strati di esistenza che si sedimentano negli oggetti attraversati da molteplici vite. PostAzione, il titolo di questo progetto espositivo, nella sua formulazione linguistica racchiude un duplice significato: da un lato evoca la posteriorità dell’azione, il venire dopo, l’agire in risposta all’ascolto di memorie precedenti; dall’altro designa la postazione di lavoro, quel luogo quotidiano in cui l’artista compie le sue operazioni trasformative.  Al centro dello spazio, un tavolo da...

Bologna è la città dell’Alma Mater Studiorum, l’Università di Bologna, da quasi mille anni presidio di conoscenza. ART CITY Bologna 2026, alla sua quattordicesima tappa, per questa edizione ha scelto di proporre lo Special Program Il corpo della lingua, curato da Caterina Molteni. I lavori degli artisti proposti si inseriscono e dialogano perfettamente con varie sedi universitarie. Il corpo della lingua significa parlare di esperienza fisica, vocale e di relazione fra corpi, saperi e spazi. Il titolo rende omaggio all’omonimo saggio di Giorgio Agamben, in cui il filosofo delinea una vera e propria anatomia del linguaggio.
Jenna Sutela, “nimiia cétiï”, 2018, Laboratorio didattico del Distretto...

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Dal 6 al 9 febbraio 2026, in occasione di Arte Fiera, nell’ambito di ART CITY Bologna e ART CITY White Night torna Ababo Art Week con mostre, talk, eventi, installazioni e performance presenti dentro e fuori il centro storico di Bologna, oltre che all’interno dell’Accademia delle Belle Arti di Bologna, che per l’occasione diverrà uno spazio espositivo diffuso capace di esporre la ricchezza di idee e ricerche degli studenti dei vari dipartimenti.
ABABO Open Show 2025, ph Martina Platone, courtesy Accademia delle Belle Arti di Bologna
Partendo da Arte Fiera, la fiera dell’arte di Bologna, sarà possibile visitare fino a domenica 8 febbraio lo stand dell’Accademia delle Belle Arti, presso il quale...

 
There’s just 2 weeks left to submit your work for Feeling Seen, a community-centered photography project inviting you to share what you’re experiencing right now.
We want photographers to capture the essence of their current emotions, sensations, and surroundings. Our sense of feeling goes beyond the physical – it’s emotional, atmospheric, and relational. It’s through these feelings that we connect with one another on a deeper level.
It’s about exploring how photography can express both internal and external sensations – whether it’s the rush of anticipation, the dis/comfort of the body, nostalgia of memory or tension of conflict. This project believes in photography’s power to evoke real...

“When I look for places in the city to locate my sculptures, or take photographs, it is a bit similar to [mushroom hunting]. I like to observe the city with that gaze for little details.”Read the full article by Silke Tudor by clicking above.
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The frolicking skeleton children, bat-human creatures, and a lizard girl named Claudine embody the wild imagination of Matt Gordon, a mixed-media artist based in Plymouth, Michigan. Read the full article by Andy Smith by clicking above!
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An exhibition opportunity foregrounding empowerment, representation and lived experience Unpublished Africa invites African women photographers to submit work for its Women’s Month 2026 exhibition, building on earlier research and exhibitions focused on empowerment and visibility […]

Under the artistic direction of Hoor Al Qasimi, the 25th Biennale of Sydney brings together global, First Nations and diasporic practices to examine memory as an active force shaping history, land and collective responsibility Gabriel […]

A medieval English bronze jug, its trans-Saharan journey, and the afterlives of empire—from fourteenth-century England to the royal court of Asantehene Prempeh I The Asante Ewer, c. 1340–1405. England. Leaded bronze. H. 62 cm. British […]