roppongi crossing 2026 examines japan through the lens of time
 
At the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, the eighth edition of Roppongi Crossing assembles 21 artists and artist groups to map Japan’s contemporary art scene through the single, elastic concept of time. First launched in 2004 as a recurring snapshot of the present moment, the triennial returns with the subtitle What Passes Is Time. We Are Eternal., bringing together more than 100 works across painting, sculpture, video, craft, sound, zines, and community-based practices. For this edition, the museum’s curators are joined by two internationally active Asian guest curators, widening the frame to include artists working in Japan regardless of...

In the autumn of 2022, Max and I walked up the iconic steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to visit Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color. As the young son of a professional classicist, and a burgeoning one himself, my museum partner already knew about the ancient history of painted statues when we began to explore the galleries. Max’s knowledge seemed the exception rather than the rule. During our tour of the exhibition, as we wove between ancient works and their modern polychromatic restorations, we came across parents and children transfixed in front of these colorful re-imaginings — and, by the look of it, the parents’ reactions ranged from disbelief to intrigue to disgust. “It...

Their presence is implied. They’ve built gravity-defying structures from shopping carts, stacked newspapers, and plywood. They’ve hung laundry and left crushed beer cans scattered across surfaces, and yet the real subjects of Alvaro Naddeo’s paintings are never seen. Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
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Administration officials discussed adding multiple images of Trump to the “America’s Presidents” exhibition, and a second official portrait of the sitting president, even though the first has never gone on view

Roman game board, with pencil marks outlining the incised lines HEERLEN, THE NETHERLANDS—For the first time, archaeologists have used AI technology to help them decipher the rules of an ancient board game, according to a statement released by Antiquity. The small, mysterious stone artifact was originally discovered at the Roman site of Coriovallum, modern day Heerlen, in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. It had sat mostly unnoticed in the collection of The Roman Museum for decades, until it recently caught the attention of Leiden University archaeologist Walter Crist, who specializes in ancient games. “We identified the object as a game because of the geometric pattern on its upper face and...

Maxilla fragment of Mesolithic girl GREAT URSWICK, ENGLAND—The Independent reports that human skeletal remains found deep within the Heaning Wood Bone Cave in Great Urswick, Cumbria, represent evidence of Britain’s oldest known “northerner.” When the cranial fragments were first discovered in 2023, it was believed that they belonged to a male individual. However, further analysis recently conducted by researchers at the University of Lancashire concluded that they instead came from a young girl between two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half years of age. Not only that, radiocarbon dating indicated that she lived at least 11,000 years ago during the Mesolithic period, making her the oldest known human to...

The British artist’s exhibition explores Freud’s housekeeper as a poltergeist figure

I first saw John Altoon’s paintings in 1984 at the now-defunct Edward Thorp Gallery. Since then, I have learned as much about him as possible, by both looking at his work and talking with people who knew him — particularly the poet Robert Creeley, who collaborated with him on an artist’s book and portfolio titled About Women (1966), and the dealer Nicholas Wilder, who first exhibited his work in 1965. I have long wondered why Altoon, a brilliant and beloved maverick in the Los Angeles art scene of the 1950s and ’60s, who died at age 43 in 1969, has generally flown under the radar outside of California. John Altoon: Drawings, a small, thoughtful exhibition at Franklin Parrasch Gallery, offered some...

new images document a 1967-built masterwork
 
The Kappe House in Rustic Canyon, California has been listed for sale, bringing newly released photographs of its midcentury interiors into view. Designed in 1967 as the personal residence of architect Ray Kappe — who co-founded SCI-Arc together with Thom Mayne of Morphosis — the house stands as one of Southern California’s most studied works of residential modernism.
 
Set on a steep, wooded site in Pacific Palisades, the structure hovers above the hillside on a framework of vertical concrete supports and expansive redwood beams. The terrain passes beneath the building to leave the natural landscape largely intact. From the street, a sequence of steps...

German artist Henrike Naumann, known for her installations of furniture and household objects addressing the turmoil of German reunification and showing how aesthetic choices affect political ideology, died in Berlin on February 14. She was forty-one. Her husband, Clemens Villinger, wrote in a statement that her death arrived “after a cancer diagnosis that came far […]

MIAMI — The first time Bex McCharen tried to photograph their extended biological family in the mountains of Virginia, something felt off. The camera created a distance rather than a connection; the intimacy wasn’t there. But in Miami, waist-deep in the Atlantic Ocean with their queer and trans friends, the opposite happens: Images arrive with ease. Bodies drift toward the lens without self-consciousness. Water softens everything. “The ocean is like church for us,” McCharen said. “It’s where we go to feel accepted, held, and whole.” The photos that emerge from these gatherings, depicting friends floating and laughing, form the raw material for Queer Atlantics, their newest body of work. On...

CHICAGO — Seeing a sculpture by Diane Simpson is nothing like seeing a sculpture by any other artist. Chicagoans can currently experience this in person on the rooftop terrace of the Art Institute of Chicago, where her first three outdoor sculptures ever are on display, and at the gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey, which features two classics in a group show.Sculpture in the round traditionally proceeds in logically continuous increments. As you circle a baroque Bernini or modern Rodin or postmodern Charles Ray, you and the sculpture are on the same three-dimensional plane of existence. Not so with a Simpson. From one angle it appears deep, but from another flat; here it looks angled, there not. The different...

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Hoping for a "Tristan for the ages" in New York next month, John Danaher considers five versions of Tristan's Act III "Muss ich dich so verstehn" for "Perspectives on an Aria."

Under the baton of Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale proves they have a magic touch in a program of Rameau and Handel.

Alfred Freddy Krupa works in ink, a medium through which questions of history and responsibility come sharply into focus. His practice emerges from a distinct artistic lineage, turning it into something fresh and modern, testing what that legacy can mean in the present. His studies in Zagreb provided a grounding in European modernism, whilst time spent in Japan introduced him to the discipline and restraint of Japanese aesthetics. Krupa developed a visual language out of these experiences, that treats tradition less as something to safeguard than as something to examine, unsettle and reshape. Krupa’s involvement in the arts stems from a childhood immersed in creativity. His grandfather, Alfred Krupa Sr., was...

The alleged scheme was revealed by Paris prosecutors on the same day as reports emerged of a leak damaging a work in the museum’s Italian paintings gallery

This spring, David Hockney will unveil a major new work at Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK, as part of the gallery’s 15th-anniversary celebrations. The piece, a massive 22-by-32-foot installation, will transform the museum’s floor-to-ceiling window in the Sunley Gallery overlooking Margate’s beaches and the North Sea.Running from April 1 to November 1, the window work depicts a sunrise in Normandy, based on an iPad painting Hockney created in 2020. Clarrie Wallis, the director of Turner Contemporary, said in a statement that “illuminated at night, the work becomes a point of light on the seafront.” Turner Contemporary, which opened in 2011 and welcomed over 322,000 visitors in the 2023-24 year, is...

Wassily Kandinsky’s Le Rond Rouge (1939) will headline Christie’s 20th/21st Century evening sale in London on March 5. The house put a £15.5 million high estimate, or about $21.3 million, on the Russian modernist heavyweight’s painting, which measures 35 inches by 45.7 inches.It was painted when Kandinsky lived in Paris with his wife Nina toward the end of his career. The couple moved to France from Germany in 1933 to escape the growing hostility of the Nazi regime. Kandinsky quickly immersed himself in the Paris’ avant-garde art circles and developed a new visual vocabulary that pushed his work into unexpected directions.“Le Rond Rouge is recognized as a key work from Kandinsky’s Paris period: a...

The artist's practice used found objects to explore the impact of the Cold War globally

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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The HeadlinesMAMBO SACKING. Italian curator Eugenio Viola has been fired from his position as artistic director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota (MAMBO), which he held since 2019, reports The Art Newspaper. In a statement, Viola said he was abruptly dismissed following his “decision to raise concerns with the board in September 2025 regarding the progressive deterioration of working conditions—concerns shared by several team members.” He added: “I leave with my integrity intact, having acted in good faith, supported my team and consistently maintained ethical standards.” Meanwhile,...

FINAL CALL TO ENTER A’ DESIGN AWARD AND COMPETITION 2026
 
The window is closing for the 2026 edition of the A’ Design Award, the world’s most diverse design competition. With the final deadline on February 28 and results set for May 1, this is the ultimate moment for the international creative community to step into the spotlight. Whether you are crafting furniture, building skylines, or designing for social change, the platform offers an unparalleled opportunity to have your work validated by a global audience. A curated selection of past winners shows the diverse spectrum of categories, proving that innovation knows no bounds. From the glow of lighting products and the immersive nature of art...

The work, depicting a sunrise in Normandy, is part of the Margate gallery's 15th anniversary celebrations

Winking mother-of-pearl and exuberant paintings dot the walls of a show in Manhattan celebrating work by queer Palestinian, Jordanian, Syrian, and Egyptian artists — aptly titled after the Arabic preposition meaning "of us” or “from us.”Staff Reporter Rhea Nayyar spoke with some of the artists about the exhibition, which allows them to find one another amid the weaponization and erasure of LGBTQ+ Arab identity. Elias Rischmawi described their work as a "fuck you" to assumptions about their family and queerness; their art, a deeply felt homage to lineage and love, is all the rebuttal they need.—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor Elias Jesús Rischmawi, “Triumvirate” (2023) (photo by Studio...

Drawing Architecture Studio revisits imperial clocks in china
 
Drawing Architecture Studio presents The Clock House No.2 at the 7th Shenzhen Bay Public Art Season in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, on view until April 19th, 2026. Commissioned for the public art program, the Beijing-based practice reinterprets the historical automaton clock as architecture, using low-cost industrial components to construct a structure that chimes and glows every fifteen minutes.
 
Where the clocks once gifted to emperors represented technical virtuosity and expensive craftsmanship, this installation adopts a deliberately rough and economical construction. It is assembled from corrugated PVC panels, ventilation fans,...

LEGO recreates claude monet’s painting as a brick set
 
LEGO reproduces Claude Monet’s 1899 Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies painting into a buildable set, in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Comprising 3,179 bricks, the project reinterprets the artist’s impressionist brushwork, from the layered strokes to the atmospheric colors of the flowers and greenery. The LEGO set replicates the painting, housed in The Met’s collection, as discrete tiles. When placed, these small blocks begin to paint a bigger picture, a landscape made of an arched bridge, a reflective pond, and a cluster of lilies and trees.
 
The Claude Monet LEGO set comes with tactile tiles that, when put together,...

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Iceland is home to 269 named glaciers of nearly every type. Amongst them, Vatnajökull – Europe’s largest by volume – is unmatched in size, covering 8% of the country’s total landmass. However, since 1900, Icelandic glaciers have lost around 20% of their surface area, with almost half of that loss occurring since the turn of the millennium. The effects are both local and global, contributing to rising sea levels and influencing volcanic systems. In December 2025, scientists issued stark warnings that Iceland’s hidden “ice volcanoes”, like Bárðarbunga, could be showing signs of renewed activity after a decade of relative quiet. “Our northern hemisphere glaciers function as barometers for...

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Il lavoro di Jonathan Lyndon Chase si costruisce attorno a una riflessione sulla memoria come esperienza incarnata, sull’identità come processo relazionale e sull’appartenenza come spazio vissuto. Philadelphia, città d’origine dell’artista, diventa il luogo da cui osservare e restituire una geografia affettiva fatta di case, fisicità e relazioni.
Jonathan Lyndon Chase, “Keep thinking nobody does it like you here comes the sunset”, installation view at Gió Marconi, Milan, photo: Fabio Mantegna, courtesy the artist and Gió Marconi, Milan
In Keep thinking nobody does it like you here comes the sunset, personale dell’artista alla Galleria Gió Marconi, la dimensione domestica emerge come motore...

The British Museum in London stripped the word “Palestinian” from some of its displays about the Middle East amid pressure from a prominent pro-Israel group. The Telegraph reported this weekend that UK Lawyers for Israel had written a letter to Nicholas Cullinan, the museum’s director, seeking the removal of that word, specifically in texts that referred to certain peoples as being “of Palestinian descent.” “Applying a single name – Palestine – retrospectively to the entire region, across thousands of years, erases historical changes and creates a false impression of continuity,” the group reportedly wrote. “It also has the compounding effect of erasing the Kingdoms of Israel and of Judea,...

Henrike Naumann, a sculptor whose installations composed of furniture and design objects associated with East Germany’s troubled past made her a star of the German art scene, died on Saturday at 41. Her death preceded one of her biggest projects to date: the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, where the Berlin-based artist is set to represent the nation alongside Sung Tieu this year. The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), the organization that facilitates the German Pavilion, said in a statement that she died of a “short, serious illness.” “With Henrike Naumann’s passing, we have lost not only a significant figure in contemporary German art, but also a warm-hearted, insightful, and highly...

Austin Opera’s moving production of Fiddler on the Roof grounds itself in lived tradition, to great effect.

The Texas African American Photography (TAAP) Archive is a visual record of Black life in Texas since the 1870s. The collection is 60,000 images strong, ranging from the earliest tin types and crayon drawings, through the 20th century, to contemporary digital photography. Typically operating small studios that provided portraiture, promotional images and event documentation, many of the photographers featured worked within their communities to develop an enduring vision of hope and uplift. The TAAP first began with Alan Govenar’s Living Texas Blues, which collated images of blues musicians from the early 20th century. He began the project in 1984, after realising that these figures were the last...

Karajan’s 1959 Aïda was once treated like gospel, a wall of plush Vienna Philharmonic sound and star power that critics dutifully genuflected before.

Harold “Doc” Edgerton (1903-1990), was a pioneer of high-speed imaging who made it possible to see what the human eye cannot. Frequently cited as “the man who froze time,” the MIT professor of electrical engineering transformed an obscure laboratory instrument – the stroboscope – into powerful flash systems, laying the groundwork for the kind of flash technology found in cameras today. MIT Museum’s aptly-named Freezing Time is, according to Director Michael John Gorman, “the first exhibition to really interrogate Edgerton’s experimental journey in developing his innovative image-making processes.” The display mines the museum’s vast holdings to foreground the apparatus and experiments...

Non si tratta di una semplice retrospettiva del collettivo Opiemme (Torino, 1998), Senza bandiere v.3.0. Divide et impera è piuttosto una dichiarazione d’intenti, una poetica del dissenso visualizzato, che trasforma le opere in scenari di resistenza simbolica. Alla galleria Marignana Arte di Venezia sono esposti alcuni lavori realizzati negli ultimi quindici anni, che insieme funzionano come un manifesto artistico, poetico, sociale e insieme profondamente umano, dove ogni gesto e parola tracciata diventa un atto di lettura critica del presente. Il progetto prende forma attraverso le opere di Davide e Laura Bonatti, Margherita Berardinelli e Stefano Campano, membri del collettivo, riuniti in una pratica...

From Do Ho Suh’s ethereal architecture to Kimsooja’s irridescent mirrors to Lauren Halsey’s fringed tapestry, a new book from Monacelli celebrates a broad spectrum of light and color. Rainbow Dreams features more than 200 installations, sculptures, paintings, photographs, and more that revel in the possibilities of pigment. Bound in a smooth gradient that extends to the pages’ edges, this vivid survey is a celebratory, playful object in itself. Rainbow Dreams features numerous artists previously featured on Colossal, from Nina Chanel Abney and Nick Cave to DRIFT and Katharina Grosse, among many others. The book is slated for release on April 2, and you can pre-order your copy in the Colossal Shop....

Davóne Tines leads a thought-provoking program in San Francisco reconsidering patriotism, dissent, and spirituality as the United States faces down its quarter millennium crisis.

These five artists, each longlisted for the 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize, use sculpture as a testing ground for ideas that cannot be contained on a flat surface. They often expand beyond the gallery walls, instead placed in public spaces, creating art that engages with the masses. The selected artists treat three-dimensional form as a way to examine systems — economic, social and institutional — that shape daily life. They invite us to reconnect with the environment and recognise our place in the natural world. Edina Seleskovic  Sarajevo Olympic Journey (2024)  Edina Seleskovic is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice centres on creating inclusive, participatory experiences that challenge traditional...

La ceramica come materia che conserva memoria del gesto, come superficie su cui si stratificano segni e tempo, come forma ambivalente tra l’arcaico e il contemporaneo: è questo il territorio espressivo in cui Fiorenza Pancino (1966, S. Stino di Livenza, Venezia) situa la propria ricerca, radicata nella tradizione faentina ma capace di trascenderla per farsi riflessione esistenziale. La personale “Oro vivo”, curata da Margherita Maccaferri negli spazi di BoA Spazio Arte, riunisce un corpus di opere recenti attraverso cui l’artista restituisce un percorso di alchimia spirituale volto a trasformare il dolore, la rabbia e le emozioni più oscure in una forma di bellezza contemplativa.
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French police have detained nine people in relation to a ticketing fraud scheme that may have cost the Louvre €10 million ($12 million). The Paris prosecutors’ office reports that two Louvre staffers, several tour guides, and a person thought to be the organizer of the scheme are among those being held. “Based on the information available to […]

The Hammer Museum  in Los Angeles has announced multidisciplinary artist Ali Eyal as the winner of the 2025 Mohn Award. The institution presents the laurel every two years, in connection with its Made in LA Biennial. The prize honors underrecognized and emerging artists from the Los Angeles area, whose work the biennial was established to support. Eyal will receive $100,000 and […]

LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a statement released by Leiden University, a groundbreaking ancient DNA study has provided new information about a pivotal transitional period in prehistoric Europe. The research underscored the remarkable genetic stability in the Low Countries and shed new light on the mysterious origins of the so-called Bell Beaker culture. A team of geneticists and archaeologists analyzed the genomes of 112 individuals who lived in the Rhine–Meuse region of the Low Countries—today’s Netherlands, Belgium, and northwestern Germany—between 8500 and 1700 b.c. The data revealed that when Europe’s first farmers arrived from Anatolia around 4,500 years ago, Low Countries...

Il Principe burial on display at the Museum of Ligurian Archaeology, Genoa, Italy GENOA, ITALY—A Paleolithic teenaged boy whose remains were discovered in northwest Italy's Ardene Candide cave in 1942 immediately earned the nickname Il Principe, or “the Prince,” because of the richness of the grave goods found in his 27,500-year-old burial. Researchers noticed that he had also suffered traumatic injuries to his upper body, but at the time they were unable to establish exactly what had happened to him. According to a statement issued by the University of Montreal, an international team of researchers has finally determined that the young man was likely attacked by a bear. The team reexamined the boy’s...

Black pigment layer on teeth from Dong Xa, Vietnam DONG XA, VIETNAM—Although many people across the world today strive to maintain pearly white teeth, this has not always been the case everywhere. For centuries, in various parts of Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, certain cultures actually viewed blackened teeth as a sign of beauty. This is particularly the case in Vietnam, where tooth blackening has been well documented in modern times, but archaeologists have long wondered about when the practice first began. According to a Science report, a new study suggests it dates back at least 2,000 years. A research team recently examined examples of discolored teeth found on individuals buried at the late...

Hieu Chau compares his dense, dynamic compositions to his always active mind. Playing with scale and proportion, the Vietnamese artist renders surreal scenes in which flora and fauna converge and figures interact with the outside world as if in a dream. Chau, who was trained as a painter, now works digitally, although his pieces capture the grainy textures and gestures of a physical medium. The artist recently published a book collecting his projects from the last decade, and you can find explore an archive of these pieces on Instagram. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Surreal Dreams...

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We’re thrilled to invite you all to the Chicago premiere of Paint Me a Road Out of Here, the award-winning documentary from Aubin Pictures directed by Catherine Gund. Along with Intuit Art Museum and the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at DePaul University, Colossal is co-hosting a screening of the film followed by a conversation between film participant Leah Faria and our editorial director Grace Ebert on March 25. This event is free to attend, but seating is limited. Featuring artists Faith Ringgold and Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Paint Me a Road Out of Here uncovers the whitewashed history of Ringgold’s masterpiece, “For the Women’s House,” following its 50-year journey from Rikers...

Nel suo lavoro più recente, Stephanie Temma Hier indaga il confine poroso tra pittura e scultura, facendo dialogare immagini dipinte e strutture ceramiche in composizioni ibride che mettono in crisi la bidimensionalità dell’immagine. Swan Song si configura come un percorso unitario, in cui cornici, oggetti domestici e figure ricorrenti concorrono a costruire un immaginario sospeso tra quotidiano e straniamento. Attraverso una pratica che intreccia temporalità differenti – l’immediatezza della pittura e la lentezza irreversibile della ceramica – la mostra riflette sui temi della trasformazione, del consumo e del passaggio del tempo, evocando una fine che non coincide con una chiusura, ma con...

Szilveszter Makó’s enigmatic photographs carry layers of mystery and introspection. Standing inside curious block-like backdrops and lain against two-dimensional fields of color and texture, his subjects seamlessly meld into stories in which every detail carries intention. Taking inspiration from art history, the Milan-based artist references Surrealism and grotesque art through his use of chiaroscuro effects via light exploration and contrasting earth tones. Similar to 20th-century Surrealist paintings, Makó’s images delve into uncanny realms and evoke a dreamlike sense of unfettered imagination. It’s no surprise that the photographer was once a painter and has suggested that these impulses may be a...

The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has named the sixty-one artists and collectives slated to participate in the Fifty-Ninth Carnegie International, to take place May 2, 2026–January 3, 2027. Titled “If the word we,” this edition of the quadrennial event is the largest to date and will appear at the Carnegie as well as various institutions across the […]

The Queens Museum in New York has announced Debra Wimpfheimer as its new executive director. A native of Queens, Wimpfheimer has worked for the institution on and off since 2002, most recently as deputy director. She will succeed Sally Tallant, who is set to become the director of London’s Hayward Gallery this July. Wimpfheimer has held senior development positions at the Museum […]

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In works that merge sculpture, fashion, and kite-making, Hai-Wen Lin traverses the thresholds that connect one’s physical self, the mind, and the elements. The artist describes their practice as “an act of reorienting: looking back, looking forward, looking in, looking up.” Using a wide range of materials, Lin creates vibrant, abstract compositions in textile often manipulated with cyanotype patterns or dyed with natural hues such as indigo and turmeric. They make kites “that speak the language of clothing,” blurring definitions of craft, art, garments, and acts of play. “October 8th 2:56-3:56pm Wicker Park; a picnic together // we probably shouldn’t feed the sparrows” (2022), tannic acid-toned...

The inaugural edition, opening in November 2026, positions Doha as a transnational cultural hub through multi-site exhibitions examining water, ecology and global exchange LEFT TO RIGHT: Ruba Katrib, Mark Rappolt, Tom Eccles, and Shabbir Hussain […]

A two-venue exhibition in San Francisco traces Black lineage, movement and collective remembrance through installation, film and printmaking. Trina Michelle Robinson, A still from Transposing Landscapes – A Requiem for Charles Young, 2025. Courtesy of […]

A travelling exhibition, presented in collaboration with Kunsthaus Bregenz, brings drawing, lithography, and sculpture into conversation in Nairobi. LEFT TO RIGHT: Michael Armitage, Vision II (detail), 2022. Lithograph on paper, 70 x 59cm. Maria Lassnig, […]