Phil Buehler’s Wall of Tears installation, featuring the names of 18,457 children killed in Gaza between October 7, 2023, and July 19, 2025, has been refused display by a local council in the Australian state of New South Wales, reports the Guardian. The installation was meant to be exhibited at the Shoalhaven Regional Gallery in Nowra on Tuesday and was organized by Shoalhaven Friends of Palestine. The council told the organizers to look into hiring “armed guards” in case “community conflict” arises. “We were like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’ but we still wrote back to them and said we would meet all the requirements you want. We didn’t even know where we could get armed guards, or if...

The US embassy in Moscow put a warning on its website Saturday, alerting US citizens of “a credible threat of a mass casualty event” at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in Moscow. The palace museum and large park reserve are 10 miles from the Kremlin. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it followed the warning from US officials and detained a teenage boy on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, reports Bloomberg. The Russian state-run news agency Tass reported that the teenager had been posting videos on TikTok holding an automatic weapon while wearing tactical gear and a balaclava. He simultaneously posted photos of the Tsaritsyno with the caption “I found a place.” According to the FSB,...

Duchamp’s decades-long relationship with the Brazilian artist had a profound impact on both their lives and art

The transcribed recordings of the British photographer cover many aspects of her life and at times feel like eavesdropping

In Juneau, the world premiere of the Tlingit-language opera Ḵutulagaaw: The Tlingit-Russian Battles raises new questions about cultural ownership while singing a song all its own.

Artsy names 10 emerging artists to watch in 2027.

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Pace CEO Marc Glimcher responded to ARTnews about reports of financial losses and the gallery’s direction. Brady Lum, former COO of the High Museum of Art has been sentenced to one year in federal prison. For the first time, lawmakers in Italy are examining a new bill to facilitate the restitution of art and cultural items looted between 1933 and 1945. The Headlines KEEP UP THE PACE. Pace CEO Marc Glimcher responded to ARTnews about reports of financial losses and the gallery’s direction. “Everything is turning,” Glimcher said over the phone, noting a “record” Art Basel Paris last...

The best Renoir publications, from a study of his influential later period to an intimate portrayal by his film-maker son Jean—selected by the curator Christopher Riopelle

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At the 2026 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Brussels-based artist Adrien Lucca and a team of scientists presented Parallel World, a living garden illuminated to suggest how flowers might appear to a moth. The installation brings real plants beneath a computer-controlled LED system to create a small indoor meadow that changes appearance at regular intervals. Delicate stems rise above dense foliage, with pink blossoms scattered throughout. As the lighting shifts, the garden takes on an entirely different color composition, even as every flower stays exactly where it is.
 
Under the bluish light, green leaves turn brown or nearly black, while the flowers become unusually...

SMART HOME TECH MOVES INTO THE BATHROOM
 
Smart home technology is expanding beyond living rooms and kitchens directly into the bathroom. Driven by growing interest in home automation and sustainable living, the toilet is receiving its most significant engineering update in decades. Intelligent water-based hygiene replaces single-use paper with adjustable water streams and warm-air drying, reducing environmental waste while improving daily care.  
To integrate this functional shift into modern interiors, manufacturer VitrA Bathrooms partnered with Noa Design Studio on the V-Care 3 Smart Bidet Toilet Collection. Defined by architectural clarity, the design proves that integrated electronic features can...

Proposed law would bring the country in line with others that created such bodies years ago

Star Khani transforms Brighton’s architecture into an emotional map of migration, memory and belonging

Yes, you miss the champagne sparkle and lilt of the best French versions but look at what you gain by hearing these grizzly tales in ETA Hoffmann's own language.

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Built99 gathers 99 selected architectural studios in New Delhi on November 14, 2026, marking the live culmination of its inaugural edition. Titled ‘India, in Global Conversation,’ the event translates months of regional analysis and international evaluation into an in-person forum alongside editors and jurors from designboom and ArchDaily. Conceived as an active dialogue connecting Indian architecture and design practice with global design institutions, the gathering sets aside standard award ceremonies to examine the foundational ideas, material ethics, and critical impact driving each practice’s portfolio. Built99, India, in Global Conversation...

Happy Election Day. Today, voters across the country are casting their ballots on races that could not only impact the balance of power in Congress, but also decide the future of democracy in the United States. If you’re an artist or cultural worker, there are several key states to watch, where issues including arts funding, artistic freedom and censorship, and the incursion of AI on creative professions are now at stake. We compiled a dedicated Midterm Election Guide highlighting House, Senate, and Gubernatorial races that may prove decisive for arts and culture, especially as Trump and his allies ramp up their attacks on history, heritage, and diverse communities.But as we’ve always emphasized here at...

yont studio turns listening into a spatial experience
 
For YONT Studio, music is a way of thinking about atmosphere, memory, and how people experience a space. The Berlin-based creative studio, with Turkish roots, works across interiors, installations, objects, and visual storytelling, drawing on the everyday rituals and cultural moments that shape how we live. This connection between sound and space comes into focus in its latest collaboration with Telekom Electronic Beats, a tape installation that invites visitors on an open-ended road trip (find designboom’s previous coverage here). Visitors can sink into salvaged car seats, load a cassette, and set off without a destination or a digital feed. The...

MYCELIUM REIMAGINES DISPOSABLE PHOTOGRAPHY
 
Sree Krishna Pillarisetti introduces Soft-pixel, a digital camera project with an enclosure crafted from mycelium, hemp, and PHA bioplastic. The design proposes a compostable shell for a device that keeps photos stored locally rather than in the cloud, inviting a fresh look at the concept of a disposable camera and what elements of it should be discarded.
 
Pillarisetti’s exploration into fungus-wrapped electronics began with Soft-Drive, his Parsons thesis, which encased a memory card and heat sink in mycelium, hemp, and PLA. Soft-pixel advances this by replacing PLA with PHA, a material change that contributes to its eco-design recognition.
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MK Gallery reveals the Lowry beyond mills, crowds and matchstick men.

ArtTactic’s latest report on attitudes to the market suggests rising confidence—but previous moments of optimism were short-lived

Paul Carey-Kent on Gabriel Orozco’s 35-year retrospective at White Cube Bermondsey.

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Installation view of Glenn Ligon's “Rückenfigur” (2009) in Glenn Ligon at the Brant Foundation in New York, 2025 (photo Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic)Midterms are tomorrow, marking the first nationwide election since President Donald Trump started his second term in the Oval Office. In the wake of Trump’s financial and ideological crackdowns on Smithsonian, unapproved pet projects around the US Capitol, devastation to cultural landscapes through border construction, and dozens of other policies targeting history and heritage, many will be lining up at the polls with arts and culture policies on their minds. Because Congress ultimately decides appropriations for federal arts entities, such as the...

Pace Gallery’s CEO Marc Glimcher is looking ahead and washing over the headlines over the last week regarding the gallery’s financial accounts. “We’re all off the bottom, we just had a record art fair at Art Basel Paris, and we’ve had sellout shows of primarily young artists—everything is turning,” he told ARTnews in a phone interview on Monday, noting that the business is already back in the black and will open a new location in Europe “fairly soon.” Pace Gallery has been shifting its real estate portfolio recently. Back in June, Pace’s London property was put on the market, with the gallery saying it was seeking a “less corporate” space in the British capital, while in September, Pace...

The publishing industry is already preparing for spring, but we're still stuck on all the delights and challenges of this fall's slate of art books. Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara recommends an exploration of Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg's secret garden of pressed plants, an art form in its own right; critic Natalie Weis sinks into painter Celia Paul's kinetic prose. Catalogs on Salman Toor, Roy Lichtenstein, and more to discover below. —Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editorRoy Lichtenstein: Like New, edited by Alex Da Corte and Meg Onli | Whitney Museum of American Art, November 3In this publication, the Whitney frames its Roy Lichtenstein show as a “radical” picture as...

Dutch art historian, critic, and curator Rudolf “Rudi” Fuchs died in Amsterdam on October 25 at the age of eighty-four. A former director of the Stedelijk Museum and one of the Netherlands’ most influential museum leaders, Fuchs was an early proponent of placing works of different periods and styles in conversation with one another. Refreshingly […]

In a dreamy development for the fall auction season, another Surrealist standout has resurfaced on the market. After seven decades out of public view, Leonora Carrington’s Fil d’Or (1953) will appear at Heritage Auctions in New York on November 10, with an estimate of $250,000–$350,000. Its title translates from the French to “gold thread,” a term traditionally referring to the delicate metal wire used to ornament luxury textiles. The cosmic bird Carrington depicts appears to be composed of intersecting threads, all emanating from a single source: the golden galaxy pulsing in place of a heart. She employed a technique developed by her former partner, the artist Max Ernst, known as grattage, in which...

Through abstract, prismatic acrylic paintings to garment-like sculptures and textile collages, Jeffrey Gibson explores questions of identity, lineage, and cultural translation. Working across media, the artist intricately beads monumental works and incorporates a wide range of fabrics and materials. Jeffrey Gibson: A Real Love Thing at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center delves into the cross-disciplinary breadth of the artist’s practice throughout the past decade. Fifteen works amplify his interest in pattern, queer iconography, and his Indigenous Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee heritage. Drawing on the early and continuing influence of music, the artist often integrates song lyrics into...

As autumn unfolds across the East Coast, people around the United States are visiting the polls. May we strip the monsters of power and steer this nation out of its ghoulish ambiance and toward soulful care, not continued scare. In step with the changing times, a robust round of exhibitions in Upstate New York invites you to experience the treats of the season. At Ipso Facto Gallery in Hudson, artists explore creative modalities for surviving the technological hellscape of contemporary life, while Public Private Gallery presents outrageous sculptural works by legendary artists Judy Pfaff and Michael David. Ann Street Gallery features dynamic works by the three artists chosen for their 2026 Emerging Artist...

Participating exhibitors at Art Basel Paris are demanding compensation for the fair closing two days early on October 23 due to security concerns over planned protests the next day. The fair was scheduled to take place from October 23-25 with VIP previews occurring in the days leading up. As per Artnet News, the Comité Professionnel […]

In a scene that might be this century’s most faithful depiction of 1980s bohemian New York, a ragtag ensemble crowds around a cluttered dining room table. A mishmash of stemware gleams below the revelers, each importuned to perform a few bars of a song. One self-consciously croons “Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah,” another vibratos a Jehovah’s Witness spiritual, while yet another gamely stumbles through the verses of “How Are Things in Glocca Morra?” from Finian’s Rainbow (1968). As gloriously languid as it is insistently idiosyncratic, the tableau readily summons nostalgia for those who remember and those who do not alike. There are no screens; there are no smartphones. There are instead...

The Vilcek Foundation has announced the twelve recipients of its 2026 grants, totaling $212,000. Founded in 2000 by Czechoslovakian immigrants Jan and Marica Vilcek, the New York–based nonprofit to date has awarded more than $9.6 million in prizes to individuals and over $7.6 million in grants to organizations in its drive to promote the arts […]

Adobe brick with dog paw print KÜTAHYA PROVINCE, TURKEY—La Brújula Verde reports that 4,000-year-old paw prints have been found in adobe brick at Tavşanlı Höyük, a settlement mound in western Anatolia that dates back some 8,000 years. The sun-baked bricks were part of a wall that collapsed during a fire in the Bronze Age. Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, said that the prints had been made by a dog. Erkan Fidan of Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University and his excavation team have also uncovered ceramics, adobe, bone, burnt wood, and flint at the site. To read about other ancient canine prints preserved in brick, go to “They’re Just Like Us.”
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STANFORD, CALIFORNIA—Science Alert reports that Alexander Ioannidis of Stanford University and his colleagues analyzed the genomes of more than 1,000 people who live in French Polynesia; 12 genomes from individuals on the island of Rapa Nui; and the genomes of people native to Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga, and Tahiti. First, the researchers isolated segments of Polynesian ancestry with machine learning, and then they applied an identity by descent method, which can identify common ancestors of living people and people from the past. The study shows that people traveled across Polynesia in small populations, sometimes resulting in a genetic bottleneck of reduced genetic variation that can increase the odds of the...

On October 30, culture workers at the Venice Biennale went on strike in solidarity with a national general strike in Italy, and similar protests by dockworkers at over 110 ports all across the world. According to reporting by Ocula, the global strikes called for an end to the use of ports for transporting arms—art workers […]

Bronze razors, sword, and vessel recovered from Lake Mezzano ROME, ITALY—A bronze sword, axes, arrowheads, daggers, spearheads, pins, and a razor have been recovered from central Italy’s Lake Mezzano by researchers from Italy’s Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape for the Province of Viterbo and Southern Etruria and the Carabinieri Underwater Unit of Rome, according to a Gizmodo report. The sword, which is still sharp, has been dated to the thirteenth century B.C. on the basis of its design. The collection of objects suggests that a settlement made up of dwellings set on piles may have occupied the area during the Bronze Age. The inhabitants may have deposited the objects in the lake...

Kateryna Shovkoplias and Dasha Super explore identity, control and the construction of the self.

FAD Magazine reports that a previously unknown drawing of the Bloomsbury artist Vanessa Bell by the Scottish painter Duncan Grant, also a member of the Bloomsbury Group, has been discovered at Charleston, the former home and studio of Bell and Grant in East Sussex, England. The portrait is thought to be his last drawing of […]

An eye peers from a goblet. A disembodied finger creeps from beneath a curtain. A supine figure, lost in a dream, envisions an uncanny array of game and fruit. For GaHee Park, landscapes, figures, and still lifes merge into seamless, surreal tableaux. Her signature glassy-eyed female characters move through spaces where the boundary between reality and fantasy blurs. Park’s new solo exhibition, Soft Shell at Jessica Silverman, delves into a realm where protection and a sense of security are nebulous. Although she nods to domestic spaces and symbols of comfort and sustenance, such as bowls laden with fruit, there is always something… else. “Woman and Moth in Eclipse” (2026), oil on linen, 35 x 40 x 1...

Richard Lynn provides a comprehensive introduction to the surprisingly wide and unsurprisingly wild world of opera podcasts.

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San Diego Opera's Rigoletto, starring a persuasive Michael Chioldi, veers traditional—without the mothballs in tow.

There are Bohèmes and Bohèmes, and it is almost a joke word these days, but the French show us how it is properly done.

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Silver coin of Antonius Pius SOMOGY COUNTY, HUNGARY—More than 700 coins were discovered at three sites near the Drava River in southwestern Hungary by archaeologists from the Rippl-Rónai Museum, Hungary Today reports. Most of the coins have been dated to the rule of the emperor Constantine (A.D. 307–337), but silver coins dating to the reigns of the emperors Antoninus Pius (A.D. 138–161), Severus Alexander (A.D. 222–235), Aurelian (A.D. 270–275), and Probus (A.D. 276–282) have also been identified. One coin, known as a “consecration coin,” is thought to have been minted to mark the death of Claudius II (reigned A.D. 268–270) and his deification. Pottery, brooches, and fragments of a scale...

Gall wasps, also known as cynipids, have a unique mutual relationship with plants. Their name is derived from the deposits, called galls, which they induce on host plants to support their larvae. The benign growths are created by chemicals that the larvae insert into the plant, drawing on its resources. These phenomena are often very tiny, occasionally appear in clusters, and can range from ruddy brown to vibrant pinks and yellows. Nature photographer Timothy Boomer can’t get enough of them. “Galls can be brought about by many different organisms, but I tend to focus on the ones induced by cynipid wasps because they are the most visually stunning (at least in my opinion),” Boomer tells Colossal. Striped...

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA—China Daily reports that Australian officials have repatriated the looted heads of two statues dating to the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960–1127) to China. The sculptures, which depict a civil official and a military official, were taken from imperial mausoleums near Kaifeng, the Song Dynasty capital in central China. Chinese Ambassador to Australia Liu Jinsong said that the statues once stood guard at ancient tombs—the civil official at the Yongchang Mausoleum and the military official at the Yongyu Mausolem. The National Gallery of Australia acquired the sculptures in 1995. China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration requested their return in 2025. “The return of these...

“Everything Twice” is a quiet meditation on disability and the ways we orient ourselves in the world. Since childhood, Cy Kuckenbaker noticed that one of his eyes drooped, something he attributed to a snowboarding accident. But doctors quickly dismissed that theory, and after innumerable tests and many, many years, the photographer learned he was born with a rare disease. Kuckenbaker chronicles this realization alongside a slow, analog process he began to combat burnout. Utilizing homemade cameras crafted from cardboard boxes and drugstore magnifying glasses, he captured a variety of landscapes and sights on the West Coast. Pairing both the slow processes of labor-intensive photography with that of...

Ominous backrooms? Echoey abandoned spaces? nope. These are the carefully explored and brilliantly captured photographs of instruments by Charles Brooks. Symphonic music can be epic. Grandiose in scale. It sweeps and pans through an architecturally tuned performance space, connecting our brains with the shared resonance of sound. And simultaneously, it can be intimate, reverberating through […]
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In the second half of the 17th century, when early American colonists were well into producing their own furniture, makers drew upon the motifs and techniques common in England. Chests and cabinets were chunky, and chairs and tables often incorporated spool-like legs. In Boston, a particular interpretation of the high-backed Windsor chair emerged, inspiring furniture-maker and artist Aspen Golann to create uniquely sculptural, contemporary iterations as a nod to this heritage. “Meeting Bench,” made in collaboration with chairmaker Peter Galbert, and “Union Settee” pay tribute to the unique early style while also celebrating furniture’s role in how we convene. Golann has long been interested in the...

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Credit: Márcia Falcão I was invited to attend two of the opening days of Frieze London and, arriving in my home city, I was immediately reminded of its extraordinary energy, gathering pace around the nucleus of the Regent's Park venue. The art on display was more than equal to the occasion. A-listers and icons from across the wider cultural landscape, including film, music and fashion, mingled with professionals and enthusiasts from London’s eclectic art scene, all seemingly loving, living...

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By Lorraine Heitzman There is a meticulous elegance to everything Phyllis Green makes, a quality that is immediately apparent in her brilliant fifteen-year survey show at the Laband Art Gallery. Phyllis Green: Of My Own Making is a diverse yet cohesive exhibit, both imaginative and grounded in the textures of commonplace materials such as wood, clay, cloth, and metal. She masterfully applies her vision across multiple disciplines making sculptures that appear simple despite her extraordinary...

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By Victoria Thomas Classical music is rarely the currency of activism. We generally turn to less patrician, more hard-edged forms to voice protest and dissent against fascism, tyranny, racial violence, and other sociopolitical ills. But SYZYGY, a new three-movement concerto composed by Courtney Bryan celebrating three visual artists — all women, all women of color — defies this expectation. Bryan's 18-minute composition makes its world premiere on The American Concerto, Volume One, performed...

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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