The NYC-based music criticism collective on their three picks for August 2026.

Amazon MGM Studios dropped this week the trailer for The Thomas Crown Affair, a remake of the acclaimed 1968 film that will open in theaters on March 5, 2027. Directed by and starring Academy Award–winning actor Michael B. Jordan, the trailer already hints at the art-related plot points for the film. About 12 seconds into the trailer, Jordan’s Thomas Crown faces some built-in bookshelves that slide apart to reveal a hidden room where he stores his stolen paintings. On a metal rack, resembling the sliding vertical racks often used in museum and gallery storage, are four paintings. Crown holds another canvas in his hands to add to his collection of looted masterpieces. By ARTnews’s estimations, these...

After 20 years of delays, allegations, and recalibrations, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation will open the doors to its Frank Gehry-designed Abu Dhabi outpost on December 11. The 30-gallery museum will join seven other cultural institutions on Saadiyat Island, including the Zayed National Museum and Berklee Abu Dhabi."The museum’s art collection is uniquely local and global, centred in the region but with works from all continents," Guggenheim Director and CEO Mariët Westermann said in a statement. She expressed that the museum will showcase the "experimental character of art since 1960," including abstractions, storytelling, painting, and moving images. In the past 16 years, the art activism group Gulf...

The boutique fair is attracting increasingly ambitious exhibitors while leaning into the mountain town's distinctive character

British-born sculptor Tony Cragg will be awarded the European Culture Prize this year at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on September 4. The award, which has been given out each year since 2012 by the European Cultural Forum, honors pioneering European artists across several disciplines and artistic spheres. Born in Liverpool, Cragg has been a […]

Earlier this month, a team of researchers at Santa Clara University in California launched an AI chatbot called AI Provenance Research. The tool is intended to enable anyone to ask questions about Nazi-looted artworks and receive answers based on information culled from a searchable, illustrated online database with over 40,000 entries. The news was recently reported by the Jewish News of Northern California. The group is made up of three business school colleagues: management professor Michael Santoro and analytics professors Haibing Lu and Michele Samorani. The database use AI to corral the vast array of existing provenance data that are spread across different archives, databases, and catalogues, in many...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Two tiny lightbulbs dangle from five feet of wire, blinking on and off to the rhythm of human breath. Magnets attached to the bulbs pull them together or push them apart at random, mimicking the relationships between people — or communities. “I was inspired when I drove by the bridge outside and saw Treasure Hill,” Taiwanese artist Jia-Jhen Syu, whose installation was part of the larger project, “The Third Memorial,” displayed at the artist residency in April and May, told Hyperallergic. Tucked away in a small forested area on the banks of the Xindian River in Taipei City lies the Treasure Hill Artist Village. Founded by retreating soldiers in the 1940s, the former anti-aircraft...

Unionized workers at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) East Storehouse, a publicly accessible museum storage site, have voted unanimously to strike over alleged "Amazon-style" working practices.On Wednesday, July 29, all of the Storehouse employees who voted in a union ballot said they would go on strike, citing being "denied sufficient time during the day for toilet breaks or for drinks," according to a press release shared by Prospect, the union that represents them. The union is demanding that the museum give employees two paid breaks per day, a request it said the museum has failed to adopt.

Stephanie Wiles, who’s held the post of Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery since 2018, will retire in the spring next year, according to a statement to the Yale community made earlier this week by university president Maurie McInnis and provost Scott Strobel.  In their letter, McInnis and Strobel acknowledged […]

Although no longer involved with Inhotim, Paz appears to be reviving its model of art pavilions in a botanical landscape

62 possible monuments for new york’s high line
 
New York’s next High Line Plinth commissions remain several years away, though the debate around them has already begun. High Line Art has released 62 proposals for the seventh and eighth editions of the monumental public art program, scheduled to occupy the elevated site above Tenth Avenue in 2029 and 2030. Early visualizations place giant fruit, fragmented bodies, illuminated signs and unfamiliar creatures against the towers of Manhattan’s West Side.
 
The complete selection spans artists working across sculpture, installation and performance. Here, designboom takes a closer look at twelve proposals by familiar artists, moving from Kathleen Ryan’s...

“I was incredulous. Really?” That was Kim Sajet’s take when her former Smithsonian colleague, Anthea M. Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, was subjected to hostile questioning during a congressional hearing last week, according to a new interview with The New York Times. “I could see that it was going to become a real witch hunt,” she continued. “I didn’t wish that on my colleagues and I didn’t wish that on the Smithsonian.” Sajet is nearly a year past her decision to step down as director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery after President Donald Trump announced his intention to fire her. She’s in the Midwest instead, having started a new stint as...

Kiaf SEOUL, the largest and oldest international art fair in Korea, will return for its twenty-fifth iteration at COEX, a major convention complex in Gangnam, from September 2–6 this year. The forthcoming edition will include 175 galleries from eighteen countries and territories, and the fair will also feature internal sections that serve to differentiate the […]

Every year, the Central West Astronomical Society (CWAS) of New South Wales celebrates AstroFest, a festival of astronomy during which amateur photographers and scientists from around the globe are invited to submit their best views of the night sky and beyond. This year, the overall prize was awarded to Stefan Buda for his tonal moonscape titled “The Lunar Apennines,” which captures a detailed view of Montes Apenninus. Categories include Deep Sky, Solar System, Wide-Field, Nightscapes, and more, allowing photographers to contribute images of phenomena ranging from distant nebulae and spiral galaxies to the Milky Way and aurora australis, or the southern lights, shining above impressive terrestrial...

The New York State Museum in Albany has been accused of misusing $597, 624 in federal grant funds between 2020 and 2022, the Times-Union reported Wednesday. The finding resulted from a recent investigation by the US Department of the Interior’s Office of Inspector General. The accompanying report, released in late May, found that the museum misused grants provided by the US Geological Survey, given for STATEMAP, its state geological mapping program. The grants were meant to be matched one to one by the museum. But OIG found that museum officials directed staffers to submit inflated time sheets for hours worked on STATEMAP; the institution also allegedly submitted the salaries of two employees not working on...

Combining a living garden, sound, sculpture and poetry, the evolving work will remain on view for more than two years.

Welcome to the 348th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Connor Czora mines the history of porcelain ceramics while teaching the next generation of potters in DC.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.Connor Czora, Washington, DCHow long have you been working in this space?Seven years.Describe an average day in your studio.I work at District Clay Center, where I also teach. Every day, I get to the studio between 1pm and 2pm to catch up on emails before diving into my own work. Ceramics go through...

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a nonprofit organization founded in 1963 by John Cage and Jasper Johns, has announced the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago as the 2026 recipient of the Ellsworth Kelly Award. The $45,000 annual grant supports institutional exhibitions for contemporary artists. The museum will use the funds to mount a […]

Set against uninterrupted backgrounds, the bold, metallic portraits of Kip Omolade float almost deity-like amid vibrant color. Known for his hyperrealistic treatment of chrome-like visages in oil paint, the artist sometimes incorporates spray-painted elements, drawing on the graffiti culture of New York City’s subways during the 1980s and 1990s when Omolade tagged using the moniker “Kace.” The artist also presents the mask-like faces from different vantage points, sometimes with incredible eyelashes, whether peering directly at the viewer or positioned in regal profile. Reflections are typically abstract, showing little indication of the surrounding space beyond perhaps blue skies, the sun, and local...

Oblouková 171 restores a deteriorated townhouse in Žatec
 
Located in the UNESCO-listed historic center of Žatec, Czech Republic, Oblouková 171 by ORA transforms a deteriorated townhouse into a mixed-use building combining guest accommodations, a family retreat, and a craft beer taproom. Developed over an eight-year period, the project extends beyond a conventional restoration, drawing on the building’s multi-generational history while establishing a contemporary program rooted in reuse, repair, and long-term occupation. The renovation adopts an approach based on continuity rather than strict restoration or deliberate contrast. Historic fabric, salvaged materials, contemporary interventions, and...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! A new AI chatbot helps speed up provenance research for Nazi-looted artworks. The new Africa Cultural Initiative wants to build a collaborative arts infrastructure across the continent.  San Francisco’s Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week Returns September 30. The Headlines  END OF THE LINE. Gail Asper, whose family helped fund Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum for Human Rights, says the Asper Foundation will stop supporting the institution over its exhibition “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present.” The Art Newspaper reported that Asper criticized the show for lacking context on...

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Glance of the Sun (Time Pebble C40AS2) draws on cosmology, astronomy and the origins of the universe to create a striking new landmark for the Vitrum life sciences development.

The Unesco World Heritage site, located in northwest England, is home to the UK's largest telescope

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Winfield House, home to American representatives to the UK, is hidden away in Regent’s Park—and has hosted a series of the Dutchman’s masterpieces

The quake has caused damage and disruption to more than a dozen other cultural sites in the Kumamoto Prefecture

The 90s, South Asian art, a keffiyeh, gold and drawings.

gutai begins with a body in motion
 
In a series of grainy photographs from 1956, Saburō Murakami drives his fists and shoulders through a row of paper screens. The sheets split around him, their clean surfaces turning into jagged openings within seconds. His passage leaves behind a painting made through force and contact. The image feels immediate even now because the action is so easy to understand. A body meets an obstacle, which then gives way and leaves art to appear among the torn edges.
 
Gutai is a Japanese avant-garde group founded in 1954 by Jirō Yoshihara. Its name can be translated as concreteness or embodiment, which is a clue to the artists’ interest in direct encounters with the physical...

For generations of students, Simone Forti expanded the possibilities of movement and medium. The choreographer, dancer, and performance artist died on Wednesday, leaving behind a decades-long career rife with collaborations and experiments that redefined postmodern art. Matt Stromberg looks back on Forti’s remarkable life and practice today.In the news, Trump gives two Leo Friedlander sculptures in DC a $5 million gilded retouch à la Mar-a-Lago. More in this edition, including art historian Natasha Seaman on Rembrandt and his more commercially successful Golden Age rival.—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor Simone Forti, Artist of Movement and Chance, Dies at 91 Throughout her lengthy career, she mixed...

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SOLAR PANELS DOUBLE AS BODYWORK
 
California-based Otherlab introduces Lightfoot, a two-seat electric cargo scooter that integrates a pair of solar panels directly into its clamshell body. Developed for short urban journeys rather than heroic highway pursuits, the vehicle combines the easy approachability of an electric scooter with the storage capacity of something considerably less dependent on a backpack. Its elongated bench accommodates two riders, while the broad rectangular silhouette places solar generation — usually added as an afterthought — right at the center of the design.
 
Inspired by familiar vehicles including the Vespa and Volkswagen bus, Lightfoot wraps its aircraft-grade aluminum frame...

casio brings health tracking to its ring watch series
 
After miniaturizing its digital watches into finger-sized accessories, Casio expands the concept with its first smart ring. The CRW-H001 builds on the company’s recent series of functional ring watches by integrating health monitoring, activity tracking, and smartphone notifications into a full-metal wearable. Available exclusively in China, the device marks a shift from novelty timepiece to connected wearable, reflecting the growing convergence of watches, jewelry, and personal health technology.
 
Unlike Casio’s earlier ring watches, which faithfully reproduced the functions of miniature digital watches, the CRW-H001 introduces biometric sensing...

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From meticulously cut and painted pieces of paper, realistic birds emerge amid foliage and forests in compositions by The Paper Ark. The collaborative practice of Nayan Shrimali and Venus Bird, which focuses on intricate paper reliefs, also centers on ecology by illustrating real species and their habitats around the world. The duo aims to raise awareness of biodiversity and conservation by evoking a sense of wonder akin to how we also often feel in nature. The artists recently exhibited a number of the pieces shown here with Antler Gallery at Seattle Art Fair, and “Great Green Macaws” appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of Audubon Magazine. See more on The Paper Ark’s Instagram. “Hyacinth Macaw”...

In 1906, Devil’s Tower in northeastern Wyoming became the first national monument in the U.S., preserving a little more than 1,300 acres around the 867-foot-tall column of igneous rock. Amid the rolling hills of the plains, it can be seen from miles around, and it’s been a sacred site and gathering place for myriad Indigenous American tribes, who refer to it by names like Bear Lodge or Bear’s House. One oral narrative describes how bears attacked a group of seven girls, and the ground swelled up to push the children toward the sky. There, they became the constellation Pleiades, or the “Seven Sisters,” which can be seen over the monument. In other stories, the distinctive striations around the...

SFMOMA will stage the first museum exhibition of RM's personal art collection. RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me

As ON REPEAT closes at GLASSHOUSE, Marc-Aurèle Debut talks to FAD Magazine about dating apps, emotional vulnerability, repetition ..

At the age of 14, Janice Yang and her family emigrated from South Korea to the U.S. in the wake of a financial crisis that upended their sense of security. (Incidentally, the Korean stock market is experiencing a historic crash this month in the wake of unwinding global trade in the AI sector.) Displaced from everything they knew, her family had to start again. “Our stable economic situation in Korea changed to more precarious working-class reality in the U.S., where repeated business failures left us in a lot of debt,” Yang tells Colossal. For two decades, Yang worked unpaid at her family’s small sushi restaurant, where she dreamed of eventually pursuing her studies to become an artist, all while...

“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...

All images courtesy of CHOI&CHOI Gallery and the artist Sculptor Yu Jinyoung garnered international acclaim for her striking figures, whose bodies are often partially transparent. These are individuals “who wish to become invisible,” she says: “those who exist free from external attention and interference.” These explorations of both intentional isolation and somber loneliness have always […]
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By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...

Common Objects brings together the work of 97 photographers from across the globe to explore the role of the image and its ability to shape perception. Organized not by theme or geography but by visual association, the book draws on the logic of the reference catalog—a structure built for sustained, democratic looking. Within it, photographs from vastly different cultures and contexts find themselves in unexpected proximity, generating connections and contrasts that no single image could produce alone. In this format, the photographs enter into a subtle dialogue with one another, revealing how context, sequence, and framing shape interpretation and inform visual experience.  
   
   
   
   
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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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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...

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...

By Victoria Thomas When John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966, he had no idea who she was. More remarkably, Yoko was equally unaware of John. This neutral introduction seems impossible for us today, especially for children of the 1960s. But defying mere nostalgia, The Broad meets this challenge with Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Ono's first LA museum show, which offers a full season of multi-arts media programming, including the installation of seven digital antiwar billboards across Los Angeles....

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here. We also mark an...

The Undercurrent Surfaces There are moments in a country’s creative consciousness when the atmosphere tilts. For many of the designers showing at Zurich Fashion Week 2026, the seeds were sown during last year’s pre‑events. And so, after more than twelve months of preparation, this was the week their work stepped fully into the light — an undercurrent now rising into a transformative movement in modern style. As I walked into the Kongresshaus Zurich this February, the first edition of Zurich...