Every United States election season, a few candidates capture national attention. This year, one of those names is Democrat James Talarico, who is running for Senate against Republican Ken Paxton. A former theater kid turned language arts teacher now serving his fourth term in the Texas House of Representatives, Talarico would become the first Democrat elected US Senator since the 1980s if he wins.Talarico has largely built his platform tackling education, a tough battle in a state that has seen eight school district takeovers since 2020. Among the bills he has co-authored is one that focuses on fine arts funding for public schools. Over the past years, the Texas arts scene has sat at the nexus between funding...

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.

Ana Mendieta, “Guanaroca” (1981, printed 1994) (all photos Anna Souter/Hyperallergic)LONDON — Barely there but deftly constructed, Ana Mendieta’s Siluetas could be anywhere. Some are almost invisible in her documentary photographs. In one from 1979, a human form is impressed into the mud among similar natural shapes on a dried-out riverbank. In another from 1978, a few shimmering leaves, flowers, and branches sketch out the ghost of a woman against a dark tree trunk. Ana Mendieta, a major survey exhibition at Tate Modern, however, asks us to take notice: of the earth, the power of the female body, and the artist’s remarkable practice. The exhibition eschews a chronological approach, opting to...

Egypt has sought the return of ancient mummified remains from the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, which controversially removed those remains from its galleries last month. The mummified head, which belonged to a man named Nekht who lived sometime between 1985 BCE and 1797 BCE, was taken off view in October. In its place then appeared a new sign: “We have removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect.” Speaking to the Times of London at the time, a museum representative clarified that the curators felt that they did not have the consent required to continue to exhibiting the head. “In the absence of such consent, we believe removing ancient Egyptian human remains from...

Between 2022 and 2024, the National Gallery in London was the site of three of the most public-facing protests by Just Stop Oil, the environmental activist group that controversially splashed liquids across two van Gogh paintings and hammered at the display case of a Velázquez (without causing any lasting to the paintings themselves). The protests earned a mixture of admiration and condemnation, and the actions’ detractors now even include the National Gallery’s director, who addressed Just Stop Oil in a new Telegraph profile. Gabriele Finaldi, the director of the National Gallery since 2015, called the Just Stop Oil protests “a sad thing” and seemed to suggest that the group’s activism was...

JAN-MICHA GAMER DISMANTLES ARMCHAIR INTO NINE DOMESTIC OBJECTS
 
Designed by Jan-Micha Gamer, Raw Material: Armchair, or Armchair as Resource, is a circular design study that deconstructs a single discarded leather armchair into nine distinct functional objects forming a domestic ensemble. Salvaged from municipal bulky waste, the multi-component seating typology serves as a material test case, investigating how complex, heterogeneous consumer goods can be comprehensively repurposed to replace virgin resources without downcycling.
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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 […]

Fiat’s tiny Multiplina brings 1950s microcar charm into the electric age.

Hyperallergic’s monthly Opportunities Listings provide a resource to artists, art workers, and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their work. Subscribe to receive this list of opportunities in your inbox each month. Sign up here! Awards & GrantsAsian Cultural Council – 2027 Fellowships & GrantsACC provides artists, arts professionals, and scholars with support for research and cultural exchange between Asia, the US, and within Asia. Read more on Hyperallergic.Deadline: November 16, 2026 | asianculturalcouncil.orgLower Manhattan Cultural Council — Manhattan Arts GrantsManhattan-based individual artists, collectives, and non-profit organizations working across all artistic...

Looking back on the "Letter from London" column, which cataloged (and critiqued) Britpop-era London

The Shrine of King Taharqa at the Ashmolean will be recoloured through a digital projection

On view at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City through April 11, 2027, Barbara Takenaga: Awestruck presents the artist’s first comprehensive survey in nearly a decade. Bringing together 40 works spanning her career since the early 2000s, the exhibition reveals the many approaches to abstraction that have shaped Takenaga’s practice. The exhibition is organized by Jessica May, Ph.D., Executive Director, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and Tae Edell, Independent Curator. The exhibition examines Barbara Takenaga’s intricate compositions through four thematic sections: an emphasis on process, a masterful confusion of scale, an embrace of illusion, and reverent nods to art history....

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The Whitney Museum of American Art has appointed Nolan Jimbo as Arnhold Associate Curator. He begins his new role organizing exhibitions, public programs, and publications on November 16. Jimbo comes to the Whitney from the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), where he served as an assistant curator with a focus on Asian diasporic artists […]

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...

The Core Residency Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) awards residencies to exceptional, highly motivated emerging artists and critical writers committed to developing a sustainable practice. The residency term is from September 2027 to July 2029. Fellows are provided with a private studio space and regular studio visits from artists and curators. They also receive free and discounted classes at the MFAH’s Glassell School of Art and may request access to fabrication studios, including those for painting, printmaking, digital and film photography, sculpture, jewelry, and ceramics. Additionally, fellows have access to the MFAH and its galleries and collections; its two house museums for...

DC Lab will provide a platform for international artists and galleries

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! A group of French galleries have sent a letter of complaint to Art Basel Paris for closing two days early in October due to a planned protest and for failing to consult them. Workers at the Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem) in Marseille said they will strike tomorrow to protest the return of the museum’s president today, Pierre-Olivier Costa. The District of Columbia and the state of Virginia filed a lawsuit Saturday to stop President Donald Trump from building his triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery. The Headlines THANKS FOR ASKING. A group...

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

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The quinquennial curatorial team expands with the appointments of Osei Bonsu, Raven Chacon, Timea Junghaus and Noam Segal

The life of the enigmatic artist, who died in August, was filled with paradoxes and was not without controversy

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BEYOND HUMAN-CENTERED ARCHITECTURE
 
“Post-human utopias” is a productive framework for asking what comes next for the built environment. Architecture and design have largely been organized around a singular human figure, what Rosi Braidotti (2013) critiques as the humanist “Man” who is taken as the measure of all things. The result is a progressively sanitized world where microbes, insects, weeds and damp are shut out in the name of hygiene, control and legibility.
 
To design beyond this center takes more than a new aesthetic. It asks for a pedagogical and philosophical reorientation of the discipline itself.
 
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FALA ATELIER FITS A HOUSE INTO A SKEWED PORTO PLOT
 
On a compact plot in Porto, Portugal, fala atelier has completed a house that makes an unusually generous amount of room for geometry. Named House Around a Column, the 120-square-meter residence occupies a site of just 60 square meters, surrounded on all sides by neighboring buildings. Its black-and-white marble facade immediately stands out, with an oversized window and colorful geometric accents offering the first clues to what unfolds inside. Rather than attempting to disguise the constraints of its location, the Portuguese architecture studio turns them into the starting point for a carefully orchestrated series of spatial and visual surprises.
 
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A previously unknown Duncan Grant drawing of Vanessa Bell has been discovered after more than 60 years.

The US curator who helped shape the narrative of Japan’s post-war art has returned to Tokyo to collaborate on a show by the acclaimed artist

Artscapy launches a new mid-market auction platform with 0% seller fees and a flat 16% buyer’s premium.

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Carpet Diem and 1000 VASES unite craft works at Espace Commines
 
Curated by Francesco Pirrello, two international design exhibitions, Carpet Diem and 1000 VASES, converge at Espace Commines in Paris from October 23rd to 25th, 2026. The joint event pairs 32 textile pieces with 100 ceramic and glass objects, creating a unified material dialogue within the historic hall. Through a distinctive vertical scenography, the exhibitions explore contemporary interpretations of craft, form, and material boundaries.
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32 TEXTILE WORKS DIALOGUE WITH 100 CERAMIC AND GLASS SCULPTURES
 
Conceived by Hervé Sauvage and Jean-Christophe Vaillant, the exhibition scenography utilizes a pronounced...

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Exploring the forest of ecologicstudio
 
In 2025, a forest emerged in the Triennale Design Museum in Milan. It was DeepForest³, a project by the London-based design studio ecoLogicStudio, co-founded by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto. It was presented as part of the exhibition We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture, curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, who authored the book of the same title. While the installation looked as though a few saplings had risen from the shiny museum floors, what was on display was, in fact, a hypothesis about how domestic space could be transformed by processes inherent to nature, with Poletto describing it as a system constructed with a ‘fully functional...

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.

On the Conceptual artist's daredevil antics and bureaucratic maneuvers

This performance by Marilyn Horne has always stunned me and everyone I play it for.

The Republic of Austria, the Albertina Museum, and the Leopold Museum Foundation—the latter two both in Vienna—filed a response Friday to amicus briefs submitted by two US senators, in which they repeat their claim that the updated Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act violates Article III of the US Constitution and the Tenth Amendment. Austria, the Albertina, and the Leopold are defendants in a suit brought by Timothy Reif, a descendant of Fritz Grünbaum, a Jewish cabaret performer and collector who was killed in a death camp in 1941. Reif is seeking the return of several works by Egon Schiele that he alleges were looted by the Nazis when they seized Grünbaum’s collection. The defendants...

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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...

Ukraine’s prosecutor general reported that a Russian lieutenant general has been charged in absentia for ordering a missile strike that caused significant damage to the Hryhoriy Skovoroda National Literary Memorial Museum in the country’s Kharkiv region in the spring of 2022. As reported by The Kyiv Independent, “According to the Prosecutor General, the Russian lieutenant general who ordered the attack is originally from the village of Chuhuiv in Kharkiv Oblast and commands Russia’s 6th Guards Air and Air Defense Forces Army.” The prosecutor general wrote, “The (lieutenant) general knew for certain that he was attacking not a military target but a monument of Ukrainian culture. Despite this, he...

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...

Tomb, Bursa, Turkey BURSA, TURKEY—According to a Türkiye Today report, a cremation tomb dated to the first century A.D. has been discovered among the 5,000 seats of a theater in the ancient city of Apollonia ad Rhyndacum, which is located in northwestern Turkey. The tomb was made up of a mudbrick chest covered by a gabled roof of terracotta tiles. “What was a tomb doing in a theater area when the city had its own necropolis?” asked Derya Şahin of Bursa Uludag University. “The grave must be a special one. It must carry some meaning, perhaps a trace of sacredness or heroism,” she reasoned. So far, the members of the excavation team have uncovered and reconstructed 42 of the theater’s seating steps....

Detail of the Horses Panel in Chauvet Cave, France PARIS, FRANCE—SciNews reports that a team of researchers including Philippe Walter and Yohan Boulard of Sorbonne University have examined the 37,000-year-old artworks inside Chauvet Cave with ultraviolet fluorescence spectroscopy. Located in southeastern France, the cave contains more than 1,000 drawings and engravings depicting horses, cave lions, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, bears, and bison. By shining ultraviolet light on the cave paintings from about eight feet away, Walter and his colleagues observed that some materials absorbed the light, while others gave off a visible glow. The color of the glow allowed the researchers to identify the materials on...

“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...

Two Philadelphia institutions present delectable performances of sex and filth (of the best kind).

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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...

Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. $4,500 Artist GrantsFeaturedThe Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for $4,500 and $1,000 artist grants from a total pool of $13,000. Two artists will each receive $4,500 and four artists will each receive $1,000. This is an international open call, and all visual media is eligible. The Hopper Prize provides a direct path to get your work in front of an international community of curators, artists, gallerists, and arts administrators. Additional exposure is available via a 30 artist shortlist, an online...

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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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