Allison Littrell, Morgan Elder, and Gabrielle Datau of Los Angeles-based Murmurs gallery announced plans to shut down operations in an Instagram post on July 14. The gallery has operated out of a space in the Downtown Los Angeles neighborhood for the past seven years, and its final exhibition was a solo show of work by […]

On July 14, two Congressional representatives—Dina Titus (D-Nevada) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) proposed a bill that would protect public artworks commissioned by the U.S. government. The PRESERVE Act (“Protecting Resources and Ensuring Stewardship of Enduring Records of Visual Expression Act”) would require the General Services Administration, which manages federal agencies, to identify any artworks contained within government buildings deemed “surplus property” and form a committee to oversee the future of said artworks. “Publicly commissioned art should never become collateral damage when federal buildings are sold or otherwise disposed of” said Titus, a co-sponsor of the bill, in a statement....

Cueing a collective sigh of relief on both sides of the English Channel, the millennium-old Bayeux Tapestry was not damaged during its contested voyage from France to London’s British Museum, according to French culture ministry officials, speaking to AFP on Thursday.   “I am able to confirm that there was no visible alteration and that the tapestry traveled well,” said Delphine Christophe, France’s general director of heritage and architecture, speaking Thursday, July 16, after the medieval tapestry was unpacked for the first time since its historic arrival in England on July 10, where it is being loaned in a diplomatic gesture of goodwill from France. The tapestry was boxed in a suspended casing...

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) has appointed Kevin Tervala chief of curatorial affairs and exhibitions. Tervala joins the institution from the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), where he has served as chief curator since 2023. In his new role, he will assume responsibility for the Minneapolis museum’s curatorial division, overseeing collections, exhibitions planning and […]

One of the few monuments honoring an Arab-American in the United States is the subject of a new participatory art project that turns the decades-old sculpture of a slain Palestinian-American icon into an expansive, living artwork.Outside the public library in Santa Ana stands a memorial statue to Alex Odeh, a Palestinian-American poet, civil rights leader, and scholar who was assassinated in 1985. Created by Algerian-American artist Khalil Bendib in 1994, it depicts Odeh holding a book in one hand and a dove in the other, symbolizing his work as a peace activist. The bronze statue has been vandalized several times over the past three decades — it was splashed with red paint in 1996 and 1997, and in 2020,...

Trevor Winkfield, "Voyage II" (1996), acrylic on linen (all photos courtesy Tibor de Nagy gallery)The English-born Trevor Winkfield has taken a unique path that has yet to be fully recognized for its unlikeliness, depth, and breadth. After attending art school in Leeds and getting his master’s degree from the Royal College of Art in 1967, he moved to New York in 1969, where he continued to publish a poetry magazine, Juillard (1968–72), and made a name for himself among a group of writers and artists known as the New York School. He worked for Arthur Cohen, who sold books and ephemera on 20th-century Modern Art movements such as Dada and Surrealism and made entries to Cohen’s encyclopedic catalogs. These...

A photo of late professional dancer O'Shae Sibley attending a class at the Ailey Extension's drop in program (photo Whitney Browne for Ailey Extension, courtesy Ailey Extension)Nearly three years since the attack, Dmitriy Popov was handed a 20-year sentence today, July 16, over the fatal stabbing of Black gay professional dancer O'Shae Sibley at a gas station in Midwood, Brooklyn. The sentencing comes after Popov was convicted of manslaughter as a hate crime in June, as the 2023 stabbing happened after he and a group of friends confronted Sibley's group with homophobic slurs because the dancer was vogueing to music at a gas pump.“O’Shae Sibley was simply being himself — a Black gay...

Two former managers of a prominent Shanghai auction house have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for orchestrating an extensive fraud scheme that led one collector to spend about RMB 500 million ($74 million) on counterfeit or grossly overpriced artifacts. Hong Kong media reported on Wednesday that the collector, from Shandong province, purchased more than 40 items from Shanghai Jiahe Auction Co., Ltd., only to discover that authentication documents revealed many were forgeries or had been assigned artificially inflated valuations. The two former managers were convicted in four cases and sentenced to 14 years and six months and 12 years in prison, respectively. According to the court judgment, the pair...

Zendaya faced backlash for wearing a pair of 3,000-year-old Iranian gold discs at a London photocall for Christopher Nolan's forthcoming adaptation of The Odyssey earlier this month. The discs, mounted in 18-karat gold and diamonds, were recently made into earrings by jeweler Glenn Spiro as part of his Materials of the Old World collection, and subsequently acquired by London jewelry house Barron London, who stated that they are part of the company’s private collection and not for sale. However, they did not belong on the red carpet at all. Described as a “voracious collector,” mesmerized by special artifacts “regardless of their provenance,” Spiro said in an interview about the collection,...

On Wednesday, mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth announced that they will expand their already considerable presence in California with a new gallery opening in tech-friendly, income-saturated Palo Alto. To commemorate the opening, which will take place on October 3, 2026, the Hauser & Wirth Palo Alto will host a festival of public activities and debut an […]

Rafael Pérez Evans transforms Mostyn Cymru with an emotionally charged installation exploring vulnerability, social fracture and the power of collective care

Good Morning! Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill to protect federal artworks, including New Deal-era masterpieces, from possible sale or destruction. France considers withdrawing Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky’s refugee status. Think you need a degree in art history to appreciate a masterpiece? Think again The Headlines PRESERVE, PROTECT, PROSPER. Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced the Preserve Act, a bill aimed at protecting public artworks in federal buildings targeted for sale by the Trump administration, The Art Newspaper reported. The legislation would require the General Services Administration to create an expert committee to safeguard commissioned art, including New...

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Pat Oleszko has received the Whitney Museum’s 2026 Bucksbaum Award, a $100,000 prize presented during each Biennial year to an artist whose work is judged to hold lasting significance for American art. Selected from 56 artists and collectives in Whitney Biennial 2026, the Detroit-born, New York-based artist becomes the thirteenth recipient since the award began in 2000.
 
The announcement places new attention on a practice Oleszko has built across more than five decades, using handmade forms and performance to give political satire a loud, physically comic body.
 
Inside the Biennial, Oleszko occupies the gallery with two works separated by...

Welcome to the 346th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Patrick Guetta repurposes brand imagery to spread environmentalist messages and approaches the streets of Los Angeles as mini museums in themselves.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Patrick Guetta, Los Angeles, CaliforniaHow long have you been working in this space?I’ve been working in this space for two years. First, I had to build the studio itself and give it energy. Little by little, it transformed completely from an empty space into...

A friend of the artist believes he is being held in government custody before being expelled from Cuba, while a human rights organisation has filed a legal petition for his release

The curator moves to Minnesota after more than ten years at the Baltimore Museum of Art

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bump turns a fragmented apartment into a flexible living space
 
Tetris is a residential renovation project by bump studio that transforms a fragmented apartment in Genova, Italy, into a flexible living environment through color, geometry, and custom-designed elements. The project reorganizes the existing layout with a series of interconnected spaces, centered around a sculptural yellow volume that defines circulation, storage, and spatial relationships throughout the home.
 
Before the renovation, the apartment was characterized by a series of irregular rooms arranged around a central corridor, a configuration that limited flexibility and no longer reflected contemporary patterns of living. The redesign...

Researchers have identified what they believe is one of the oldest known representations of the mythical Maya hero Juun Ajaw at the ancient city of Calakmul in Mexico. Their findings, which were based on three years of research and analysis, were published in IdeAs, the online journal of the Institute of the Americas. The authors of the paper, archeologists Daniel Salazar Lama, Ana García Barrios, and Benjamin Esqueda Lazo De La Vega, focused on what is considered the earliest mural painting found at Calakmul, a massive Maya city whose ruins, deep in the Yucatan jungle, were discovered in 1931. Though the mural, which depicts a man in a headdress holding a spear, had been removed for conservation in 2004, the...

Hospital Rooms is celebrating its tenth anniversary with 10 Posters for 10 Years, a fundraising campaign

From portraits taken around Harlem in the 1940s to assignments for Life magazine to the 1963 March on Washington, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) wielded his camera as a tool for social justice. He captured civil rights activists like Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr. in addition to artists and celebrities such as Helen Frankenthaler and Ingrid Bergman. But he may be best known for his candid portraits of families and communities in the segregated South during the era of Jim Crow. All of these and more will be on view in Voices in the Mirror at Jack Shainman Gallery in mid-September, also marking the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation. Parks was spurred to pursue photography in 1937 after seeing...

Designed by the American Modernist architect Herb Greene, the Prairie House in Oklahoma is the subject of a new preservation campaign

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Artefacts including terracotta statues and fossilised fish were recovered by the Carabinieri Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale through six separate investigations

a look inside achille Castiglioni’s historic milan studio
 
Inside the former studio of Achille Castiglioni, bordering Parco Sempione, Milan’s central park, there are gadgets and gizmos, sunglasses and a curling stone. Looking at the late Italian designer’s treasure trove of trinkets that were squirreled away by the architect, it’s easy to wonder if toys ever made their way into his oeuvre of chairs, shelves, and teapots. ‘No!’ remarks Marco Marzini, co-curator of ‘Achille and Bruno, Free to Play,’ Fondazione Achille Castiglioni’s 2026–2027 exhibition on the works of Castiglioni and Bruno Munari. ‘But he collected and preserved countless toys both in his studio and at home, for personal...

What does luxury mean when products are designed for quick obsolescence? Recorded live at Milan Design Week 2026 in cooperation with INDX|GLOBAL, the eighth episode of the Room For Dreams podcast brings together architects Priyanka Mehra, Simran Boparai, Ashmit Singh Alag, and Adreesh Chakraborty to dissect the evolving, often contradictory relationship between exclusivity, sustainability, and purposeful craftsmanship.
 
The panelists hold differing views on the definition of luxury. One perspective relies on traditional markers like privacy, quietness, sensory comfort, and total exclusivity.  Another viewpoint prioritizes public infrastructure, suggesting that high-quality architecture and art should exist...

Roger Norrington conducted Rossini's Semiramide in Pesaro '94 and made the Orchestra part of the drama in a way I still have never heard duplicated in a Bel Canto opera.

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Federico Mentil’s Architecture of Remembrance in the Carnic Alps
 
In three Alpine villages within the municipality of Paluzza, near the Austrian border, architect Federico Mentil reinterprets the design of cremation spaces through a series of interventions that integrate columbaria into existing cemetery structures and their mountainous surroundings. The project addresses the challenge of introducing spaces for cremated remains into historic cemeteries, where columbaria are often added as prefabricated structures along boundary walls. Across the But Valley in the Carnic Alps, Mentil develops three site-specific solutions for the cemeteries of Timau-Cleulis, Paluzza, and Rivo, treating the storage of ashes...

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“Looking at art all week seemed to stretch that moment”

A ten-foot-tall “Iran War Participation Trophy” has been placed on the lawn of the National Mall in Washington D.C., recognizing President Donald Trump. The trophy, which is spray-painted gold and features “#1” and “Participant” embossed on its body and base respectively, is the handiwork of satirical artist collective the Secret Handshake, who created another installation […]

Photos by Robert Berg, Gregory Gorman, courtesy of the Donum; with additional photos by Annie Owens Balancing awe and meditative moments, the sculptures of The Donum Collection populate a sprawling vineyard estate, with many works many commissioned expressly to respond to the lush landscape they inhabit. Seventy works of art, ranging from bronze sculptures by […]
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In the mountains of northern Italy, far from his studio in Madrid, David Oliver was supposed to be resting. It was early 2025 and he had gone with friends to a house in the Dolomites on a retreat to disconnect. Instead, Oliver found himself staring at images on his phone of cities under bombardment in […]
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If you were to rip open a tattered matchbox, what might you find hidden in its confines? And what’s lurking behind biological renderings and advertisements? Jason Limon imagines a playful world in which vintage illustrations are the colorful veneer concealing a vast, three-dimensional universe populated by skeletons. The San Antonio-based artist has long painted otherworldly scenes dominated by life after death, when bony figures are stripped of their identities and instead function as anonymous entities. Tapping into emotion and personal experience, Limon continues to conjure the uncanny through a cheeky approach to one of the most universal symbols. “Matchbook Tiger,” 12 x 9 inches In his most recent...

MK Gallery presents the first major L.S. Lowry exhibition in over 13 years, bringing together more than 140 paintings and drawings.

The Royal College of Art has launched a new network of creative education partnerships across the UK and Ireland

“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it,” wrote stoic philosopher Lucius Seneca. The phrase appeared in his essay “De Brevitate Vitae,” or, “On the Shortness of Life,” which he scratched into papyrus around 49 A.D. Nearly 2,000 years on, his words reflect what is still a fundamental concern of life—how to spend it wisely? For artist Marc Padeu, the notion of humans’ futile control of time forms the basis of a new suite of works in Memento Vivere, on view starting tomorrow at Larkin Durey. Padeu is known for merging scenes of daily life with references to Renaissance religious paintings. Among his newest works, “La promesse et l’agneau” (“The promise...

Zany gags keep Zar und Zimmermann zipping along at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Acclaimed British photographer Peter Marlow (1952-2016) was known for his journalistic attention to people and happenings in conflict zones and political interactions. Throughout his career, though, he also embarked on numerous personal documentary projects like Liverpool: Looking Out to Sea, which he completed in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the city experienced sharp economic decline—its historic docks were no longer viable for global industry. He was also president of Magnum Photos twice. One of Marlow’s more meditative projects revolved around 42 Anglican cathedrals across England. The Anglican Christian tradition stems from the establishment of the Church of England following the English...

Rarely do artists conceive of work that is prescient and, decades on, more urgent than when it was created. One who has accomplished this is certainly Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), whose interdisciplinary practice merged photography, land art, sculpture, film, and more. And in a large-scale, immersive survey of her work that opens today at Tate Modern, more than 120 pieces revisit the groundbreaking artist’s key series and empathetic exchange with land and nature. Mendieta is best known for her Silueta Series, in which she impressed the shape of the human body in water, mud, rock, and forests. These sometimes consisted of outlines “drawn” onto surfaces, such as a gunpowder tribute on a fallen tree, which...

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One Italian soprano continues to save the day in bel canto roles at La Scala; this week Parterre Box features Marta Torbidoni.

Many years ago, when the Met was deciding who the next principal conductor/music director was going to be, it seemed to be a tie between YN-S and Fabio Luisi.

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Earlier this month, Karen Harvey announced that Shutter Hub would begin a new chapter under the stewardship of its community, marking the organisation’s most significant evolution to date. It was also one of its most radical acts, placing the future of Shutter Hub into the hands of the people who have helped shape it over the past decade.
Since its beginnings, Shutter Hub has championed a democratic approach to photography, creating opportunities that are open, accessible, and driven by community rather than hierarchy. The creation of a Community Team is a natural continuation of those values, ensuring that the organisation’s future is informed by a diverse network of practitioners, educators, curators,...

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Pierre Monteux's career defies time.

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By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...

Memory may not be a tape-recorder, but in Sasha Gordon’s work, it serves as a device for the initial transportation. Characters wander this fluxing landscape—be it a drive-through window, a master bedroom, or white suburbia—shifting through the dynamic background of her dream-like haze. As a viewer of Gordon’s narrative paintings, you are intruding on intimate […]
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Will Sweeney is a commercial artist based in the UK. With a big reach and an enormous imagination, his illustrations adorn album sleeves, shirts for big fashion brands, toys in Japan, and almost any other sort of wearable or product one could imagine. Recently, we asked Sweeney to describe a bit of the machinations that […]
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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

The 79th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on sculptor Willy Verginer, the black and white world of Murayama Tomoaki, the graphic art of Jimi Biscuits, Harriet Mena Hill’s painted rubble, the art of Pabaja,  Plus a Special Insert Section featuring the art of Marigold Santos, surrealist painter Philip Bosmans, the universal art […]
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The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

By Melanie Chapman There is much to appreciate about the new pop-up exhibition Hospital of Emotions, currently on view at St. Vincent Medical Center (2131 W. Third Street, Los Angeles) until July 31. But if you want to maximize the benefits of your visit, avoid the bombardment of images now flooding the internet and even consider not reading this review. Like seeing all the best parts of a movie by watching the trailer, it is better to just go, and go soon, with as little advanced exposure as...