No one in my experience both live and on records could swagger, spin out roulades, and ripple through Rossini and Handel like Samuel Ramey.

chanel installs a construction site for fw 2026 show
 
For its Fall Winter 2026 show at the Grand Palais in Paris, Chanel transforms the historic glass hall into a vibrant construction landscape. Bureau Betak installs towering cranes, rendered in primary colors and illuminated from within, that fill the vast nave beneath the iron-and-glass dome. The installation reframes the runway as an architectural site in progress, where cranes appear almost monumental against the scale of the Grand Palais, their lattice structures echoing the structural logic of the building itself.
 
Arranged across the runway in red, blue, yellow, green, and white, they form a geometric field of vertical markers that punctuate the...

Iraqi artist Ali Eyal remembers being nine years old, gazing out at the Baghdad skyline from a car on a Ferris wheel. Burn that image into your mind, his mother told him, knowing the city would never be the same. It was 2003, and mere days later, the United States and its allies would launch their invasion of Iraq, raining airstrikes down on the city. “I felt like I became a kid when I looked at a TV this morning,” Eyal told writer Renée Reizman last week, two days after the US and Israel began their bombardment of Iran, triggering a cascade of destruction and panic across the Gulf region. In a must-read profile, the Los Angeles-based artist, who is showing a painting and a suite of drawings in this...

Before hearing Samuel Ramey as Zaccaria in Nabucco, I had always been more interested in higher voices.

PLAT ASIA expands the baiyinkulun steppe resort with small suites
 
PLAT ASIA completes the Volcano-In Hotel of Arrivals, a low-impact hospitality retreat set within the Baiyinkulun Steppe & Volcano Tourism Resort in Inner Mongolia, China. Positioned on the southern slope of a dormant volcanic landscape, the project extends the same tourism development that also includes the studio’s nearby Volcano-In Visitor Center (find designboom’s previous coverage here). Completed in December 2025, the resort hotel disperses a cluster of small, volcanic-shaped guest suites across the fragile grassland terrain, framing panoramic views of the surrounding steppe, lakes, and sandy plains. 
 
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In alcuni artisti la creatività è fortemente intrecciata al vissuto, mentre in altri la componente autobiografica è meno influente. Alla prima categoria di sicuro appartiene Robert Mapplethorpe, la cui produzione fotografica è connessa a un’esistenza diventata, nell’ultimo decennio, molto crudele e a una biografia personale che diventa sociale. All’osservatore capita così, di fronte alle sue fotografie, di non poter fare a meno di sentire il vissuto dell’artista, incrociandolo con le immagini, anche quando – e ne è la maggioranza – le immagini hanno un tono distante e opposto al dolore esistenziale. Un vissuto che si dipana, sia nella vita vera sia nella fotografia, anche pensando agli...

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Galerie Philia Brings Human After All to Seoul
 
Galerie Philia presents Human After All in Seoul, an exhibition that gathers a new generation of Korean designers within a former bathhouse whose architecture carries decades of transformation.
 
The project continues the gallery’s ongoing approach of staging contemporary design within buildings that hold strong architectural character. Over the past decade, Galerie Philia has organized exhibitions in iconic buildings by designers such as Jean Nouvel and Le Corbusier, where it composes contemporary objects within spaces shaped by culture.
 
In Seoul, the gallery returns three years after Surfaces and Cavity at Define Seoul, introducing a new curatorial...

Column Chair: a modular seating system by Yuhan (Ivan) Gu
 
The Column Chair by New York–based industrial designer Yuhan (Ivan) Gu is a modular seating system structured around movable cylindrical cushions. The design combines a curved wooden frame with a woven rope grid, forming a seating object that allows different configurations and postures through the repositioning of its soft elements.
 
Rather than defining a fixed ergonomic position, the chair approaches seating as a flexible system that responds to the body’s shifting movements. Curved wooden side structures establish the main frame and provide structural stability, while a subtly arched base introduces a slight rocking motion. This curved base...

Amid Israel's bombardment of Lebanon, which has already displaced an estimated half a million people in the days since the US-led assault on Iran began, Joumana Asseily temporarily closed the doors of her Beirut gallery. The gallerist founded Marfa' Projects in 2015 as a venue for regional art in the city's Port District. Five years later, thousands of tons of inappropriately stored ammonium nitrate exploded nearby, killing over 200 people. The impact of the blast damaged Marfa' Projects and several other galleries. At the time, Asseily told Hyperallergic that she would renovate and rebuild the space.Last week, on March 5, Asseily closed the venue out of caution as Israel bombarded the...

The monumental outdoor environment, “El Santuario del Agua” (The Water Sanctuary), is located in one of the world’s largest lithium reserves

A Dynamic Steel Envelope Defines the House of Iron Doors
 
Located in the hillside district of Okrokana overlooking Tbilisi, the House of Iron Doors by TIMM Architecture explores the relationship between enclosure, light, and adaptability through a dynamic architectural envelope. The project reinterprets the typical residential condition of the area through introverted architecture and controlled openness. The surrounding neighborhood is characterized by individual houses hidden behind high perimeter fences, creating a fragmented streetscape defined more by walls than by architecture. Instead of replicating this condition, the project proposes a different strategy: the house itself becomes the...

A newly exhumed tomb in central Panama has revealed stores of riches as well as signs of human sacrifice. As reported by ZME Science, scientists working at the 1,000-year-old burial chamber known at Tomb 3 in El Caño Archaeological Park found stashes of gold as well as remains of a central buried figure surrounded by others who were likely sacrificed. “Besides the remains, the ‘Lord of Tomb 3’ lay swaddled in a fortune of gold, including massive gold pectorals, gold earrings, and intricate gold ornaments depicting crocodile teeth and bat wings,” according to ZME. The site located 120 miles southwest of Panama City was a necropolis for the Gran Coclé culture that thrived by way of “a highly...

A legal conflict between two art-dealing New York brothers over the names of their respective businesses has escalated from accusations of breach of contract to allegations of physical assault.  An October 21, 2025 complaint filed by Harry Hutchison against Projjal Dutta and Aicon Contemporary says that on April 11, Hutchison was at work on the second floor at 35 Great Jones Street in New York when he was “accosted” by Dutta. “He was assaulted, beaten, and battered” by Dutta, says the complaint, causing “severe and permanent injuries” and “pain, shock, and mental anguish” as well as considerable medical expenses and the loss of the ability to “perform his normal activities.” In a response,...

While the Metropolitan Museum of Art just announced a sizable Lee Krasner–Jackson Pollock exhibition for the fall, it now appears that that show isn’t the only grand one for a postwar painter on the docket at the New York institution. Last week, the Met posted a job posting for a researcher who would work on a retrospective for Cy Twombly due to open in 2029. “Cy Twombly will be a retrospective exhibition of the artist comprising paintings, sculptures and drawings,” the listing notes. “It will examine the artist’s trajectory between two continents and how ancient myths, literature and travel influenced his work.” Spokespersons for the Met and the Cy Twombly Foundation did not respond to...

Olayami Dabls is careful to call attention to the distinction between material culture and fine art. After working as an artist and curator for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in the 1970s, Dabls shifted directions and founded the MBAD African Bead Museum in 1994 to reintroduce African culture and healing into the Detroit community. The artist had noticed that much of the African American history museum’s collections were regarded with fear and misunderstanding, particularly as they were viewed through a colonial, European lens. With MBAD, Dabls decided to honor ancestral creation and directed his energy to fulfilling “a need in our community to offer a true experience, free of...

In September 2024, officials reported that the National Museum of Sudan in the country’s capital city, Khartoum, had been subjected to looting by members of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during Sudan’s ongoing civil war. Now, museum officials have made public the extent of that looting. “More than 60% of the museum’s holdings were looted,” said Ghalia Jar Al-Nabi, the Sudanese director of the General Authority for Antiquities and Museums, according to a report by NBC News. “For months of the war, no one could know what became of these museums.” Several of the museum’s display cases are currently empty, Al-Nabi added, confirming that gold and jewelry from Sudan’s ancient kingdoms had...

KINGSBURY, Tex. — I never thought a piece of utopia could be found in the middle of Texas. It feels audacious to entertain such a possibility when, miles north and south, detention centers imprison and sicken children and families. Where, like in much of the nation, the histories and rights of Black, Indigenous, and trans peoples and women are being erased, and where schools increasingly impose doctrine rather than encourage intellectual growth.And then to encounter a semblance of a body politic grounded in care for what is shared — land, air, water — outside of an Indigenous tradition was unexpected.For the past two years, I have been visiting the nonprofit art center Habitable Spaces in Kingsbury, a...

Museums and cultural organisations must embrace our vital role in bringing people together, whether friends or strangers

International Women’s Day may have officially come and gone, but the real fight continues the other 364 days of the year. The book is one front, not least because of the systematic exclusion of women from art historical narratives and institutions. This week, Julia Curl considers a book that resurfaces the timely story of Austrian-American photographer Lisette Model, who was targeted by the FBI during the Red Scare, like so many other leftist Jewish refugees. That and much more for your reading list below.— Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate EditorFrom Our CriticsThe Jazz Pictures the FBI SilencedFearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a...

Chehel Sotoun, part of a UNESCO World Heritage landmark in the Iranian city of Isfahan, was damaged following airstrikes in the area, according to Iranian state media. The report comes one week after Golestan Palace in Tehran suffered significant damage from aerial bombardment linked to US-Israeli strikes on Iran.  A roughly minute-long video posted to X by Iranian state media appears to show doors blasted open. The grand windows of the 17th-century Chehel Sotoun Palace seem to have shattered. The report noted that the office of Isfahan provincial government, located approximately 100 meters from the palace, was targeted by a strike on March 9. The entire palace complex was inscribed on...

Julian Cox will step down as deputy director and chief curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) on April 13 after eight years in the dual roles. His departure comes after the AGO backed out of purchasing a work by Nan Goldin, sparking controversy. The museum had been set to acquire her 2024 video Stendhal Syndrome in partnership with […]

Thaddeus Mosley, a self-taught artist who became an internationally known sculptor and a beloved Pittsburgh public figure, died on Friday, March 6, at the age of 99.Members of the artist’s family, including Pittsburgh City Councilor Khari Mosley, one of his six children, announced that he had died at his home after spending time in hospice care.In a statement he shared on social media, Khari Mosley described his father as a “dedicated family man, ubiquitous community pillar, and an inimitable creative force who embodied the hard-working ethos of his blue-collar Western Pennsylvanian roots and the innovative essence of the classic jazz music that served as his spiritual inspiration.”For more than 70...

Kent County Council, led by the Reform party, cited financial pressures as a reason for the forthcoming sale, while stating that the works had not been offered to any of the county’s museums or galleries

Artforum revisits Daniel Herman’s 2004 essay on Yves Klein’s air architecture

Researchers from Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum recently discovered that Ancient Egyptians used a 3,000-year-old version of Wite-Out to amend mistakes on their papyrus creations, The Art Newspaper reported Monday.  Using x-ray fluorescence spectrometry, scholars determined that the ancient off-white fluid was composed of calcite, huntite, and miniscule flecks of yellow orpiment, a highly toxic sulfide of arsenic that […]

The Hasselblad Award is one of the world’s most prestigious accolades in photography. The prize – comprising a gold medal, camera, solo show and SEK 2,000,000 – has been given out annually since 1980, and its honourees read like a who’s who of contemporary image-making. Previous winners include Alfredo Jaar, Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, Graciela Iturbide, Jeff Wall, Nan Goldin and Wolfgang Tillmans, as well as icons of the 20th century like Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and William Eggleston. Now, Zanele Muholi (b. 1972) joins this list, becoming the 2026 laureate. Muholi has paved new ground by using the camera as a tool for visual activism, first and foremost claiming...

While most of us will pass by stray stones and piles of rubble without much of a second thought, Elizabeth Saloka sees tons of potential. From a couple of rock piles outside of her regular supermarket to crumbling curbs or demolished structures, she sifts through a variety of shapes and sizes to find rocks that may eventually transform into vibrant mimics of common household items, boxed sandwiches from Pret a Manger, or Babybel brand snacking cheese. “Last fall, I bought a ton of marble scraps off a sculptor in Woodstock for like, $10 off Facebook,” Saloka tells Colossal. “For sandwiches and cakes, crumbling asphalt parking lots are good. When I lived in Sunset Park, they demolished a building a couple...

The Pacific Northwest is perhaps the wildest, most breathtaking region in the continental United States. With its combination of mountain ranges, conifer forests, lakes, rivers, and ancient sequoias looming over the California coast, the geography and texture of Wyoming, Montana, California, and Oregon return us to North America’s primordial past. It reminds us of when […]
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A new home designed by Equipo de Arquitectura begs the question: is it a house in a forest or a forest in a house? The name of the project sheds some light on that, aptly titled “Un Bosque en la Casa,” or “A Forest in the House.” Bricks, steel, glass, and concrete combine in a single-story contemporary home that’s all corners, volume, and apertures, while the trees and tropical plants around it organically soften its angles. Architects Horacio Cherniavsky and Viviana Pozzoli took the lead on this new home in San Bernardino, Paraguay, challenging the notion that nature is in direct opposition to development. “‘A Forest in the House’ proposes an alternative approach to harmonizing the built form...

A captivating Asmik Grigorian leads the Bayerishce Staatsoper's revival of its Holocaust-set Salome. 

Ilana Walder-Biesanz discovers how Houston Grand Opera is celebrating 250 years of America and 100 years of Carlisle Floyd with a new production of Of Mice and Men.

Parks. Railway stations. City halls. Hotels. Theatres. Abstract artist Tada Minami (1924-2014) was committed to practice that spanned beyond the confines of the museum. She often left her creations in urban spaces, where they have since formed an integral part of everyday life. Across an almost 70-year career, she covered huge ground, varying her approach to both material and scale. Her works include massive, stainless-steel sculptures that appear to rise sharply skywards; glass and acrylic constructions that reflect the environment; and “Illuminated Walls,” which contain richly-coloured light. Tada is emblematic of a postwar Japan that was rapidly modernising, transforming itself into the nation of...

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The Flemish master's largest-known work, in London's Whitehall, will now be accessible at close quarters, thanks to a newly-installed lift

The artist’s sculpture “Back to Venice” (1988) will also be offered at Christie’s London’s in March

This performance features Samuel Ramey in what I consider one of the most powerful deliveries of this aria on record.

Lo spazio del contemporaneo è lo spazio digitale; la maggior parte del nostro quotidiano si svolge a contatto con strumenti digitali, con display iper-connessi e con flussi incessanti. Byung-Chul Han legge il digitale come zona che produce, paradossalmente alle premesse originali, solitudine e frammentazione, “uno sciame di individui isolati” (Nello sciame, 2013). Invece, tra le pieghe di una città analogica che interroga il rapporto tra icone e contemporaneo come Venezia, una mostra collettiva apre su una prospettiva alternativa.  Restiamo umani! Utopie e Distopie nell’Era Digitale presso lo Spazio Berlendis a Venezia conclude la prima edizione del Premio Berlendis (promosso da Marignana Arte e...

Thaddeus Mosley, known for his dramatic abstract sculptures made from reclaimed wood, died on March 6 at his home in Pittsburgh. He was ninety-nine. Drawing from disparate influences including Constantin Brancusi, Isamu Noguchi, and African sculpture, Mosley turned out “sculptural improvisations,” as he called them, for over seventy years before finally achieving broad acclaim in […]

Each year, on 8 March, countries around the world come together to celebrate International Women’s Day. The annual event was first held in 1911, when over one million people in Austria, Denmark and Germany took to the streets to mark the occasion. Today, it continues to be a moment to acknowledge the remarkable contribution of women and girls to society and to collectively demand more be done to achieve gender justice. To celebrate International Women’s Day 2026, we’re spotlighting 10 global exhibitions of women artists. Many address issues that are intimate and personal, often treated with taboo by society, but that continue to resonate with millions worldwide. Tracey Emin considers the body as a site...

According to lawsuits filed on Friday, two employees of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) used ChatGPT to determine whether previously approved National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants should be canceled based on proximity to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion frameworks. One suit each was filed against DOGE and the NEH by a group of plaintiffs […]

È online il bando per partecipare alla 108ª Collettiva Giovani Artisti della Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, lo storico appuntamento dedicato alla scoperta e alla promozione dell’arte contemporanea emergente. Rivolta ad artiste e artisti under 30 che vivono o hanno scelto di risiedere nel Triveneto, la Collettiva è aperta a tutti i linguaggi del contemporaneo – pittura, scultura, installazione, video, performance e pratiche processuali – e prevede una sezione specifica dedicata al concorso per l’immagine grafica della manifestazione. Per il secondo anno consecutivo, l’iniziativa è parte integrante di CreArt 3.0 #stringing_together, progetto finanziato nell’ambito del Programma Europa Creativa....

Anyone who’s decried the seasonal blip we call autumn knows how rapidly nature can swing from verdant greenery to leafless branches. The same goes for the missed watering of an overlooked houseplant: skip a week and bear witness to browning edges that curl into a crisp. As quickly as these natural changes occur, so do their remedies or downfalls, and soon we’re spotting new buds or depositing the evidence of our negligence in the compost bin. For Álvaro Urbano, the brief period between blossom and decay is one to be preserved. He sculpts common plants from metal, casting vulnerable life forms into a sturdy material and rendering their colors and textures in paint. It’s an act of making “small...

In 1943, Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to design a building for the Museum of Non-Objective Painting in New York. By this time, he was already considered one of the greatest architects of the 20th century, having designed the iconic Unity Temple (1908), Fallingwater House (1937) and Johnson Wax Headquarter (1939). Wright’s inverted-ziggurat design was not built until 1959, delayed by modifications to the design; the rising cost of building materials following WWII; and the death of the museum’s benefactor, Solomon R. Guggenheim. When it opened, the masterpiece was soon recognised as an architectural icon, and more than 60 years on, it welcomes 1.3 million visitors a year. In the words of critic...

Shanghai is China’s only UNESCO-designated City of Design. Its creative industries generated more than ¥2 trillion in 2025 (up from ¥1.64 trillion the previous year), highlighting the city’s expanding influence on the global sector. This month marks the return of Design Shanghai, Asia’s leading international design show, which runs from 19–22 March at the city’s historic Exhibition Centre. The fair will bring together in excess of 500 brands from over 20 countries, with a mission to “position Chinese creativity confidently within the worldwide design conversation.” What’s most evident this year is how centuries-old traditions are continuing to inform contemporary approaches, with craft...

Il lievito non lavora alla luce. Ha bisogno di calore, di tempo, di un ambiente giusto. Non si può accelerare: se provi a forzarlo, muore. Se lo lasci stare, trasforma tutto. Gli artisti, a volte, funzionano allo stesso modo. In biologia si chiama fermentazione: un processo in cui organismi microscopici – invisibili, pazienti – convertono una materia in qualcosa di completamente diverso. Non è magia. È chimica lenta. È la stessa cosa che succede quando un’idea entra in un corpo, ci rimane per mesi, e poi esce trasformata in qualcosa che prima non esisteva, magari in un’opera. Materica, polimaterica, performativa, sonora, non importa. Ora esiste. Vive. C’è. Da questa analogia – precisa, quasi...

Art history, in Hess' painting, is comprised of tiny renditions of famed works that are patch-worked together. They appear like reams of unfurled toilet paper that form vortices. One spiral extends into the past. Another spiral contains the twenty-first century... Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
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Before digital fonts and the ability to reproduce graphics on a large scale, there were sign painters. Today, printers can spit out countless posters and ads, but there was a time when hand-painted promotional signage was needed for retail windows, and business names were often rendered just the same. Of course, it’s a trade that virtually died out with the advent of new technologies, which made it cheaper and faster to produce public messaging. In the way of LPs and film cameras, though, just because there were new methods in daily use, it certainly doesn’t mean that the art form doesn’t live on. A new book published by Letterform Archive, Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’...

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Benché di primo acchito pittura e immagine digitale sembrino afferire a due dimensioni antitetiche, la prima connessa ai tempi lunghi del lavoro manuale, alla fisicità dei materiali e a una secolare genealogia stilistica e iconografica che spesso si vuole esangue, la seconda alla smaterializzazione, alla planarità retroilluminata, all’automatismo inventivo e all’assenza di prospettiva storica, diversi pittori hanno focalizzato le loro ricerche sull’esplorazione delle reciproche influenze e delle possibili integrazioni tra queste due sfere.
Flavio de Marco, “Screen Life”, installation view at Villa delle Rose, 2026, ph. Ornella De Carlo, courtesy MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna |...

Sam Gibbons isn’t letting you off the hook. Sex, violence, religion, ego—everything comes together in colorful palettes unrestricted by shape or form. His rare, vibrant paintings are teeming with images both familiar and grotesque, and they’re demanding some careful attention Read the full article form our archives by clicking above.
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This collection includes work from 60+ artists and also happens to be our biggest volume yet—276 pages and, for the first time, in a much larger format.

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Surrounded in her Massachusetts studio by pins, glue, and piles of brightly colored paper strips, a visitor might initially mistake Lisa Nilsson for a reclusive arts and crafts teacher. But as her nimble hands purposefully curl the paper into shapes, and then magically weave the shapes into identifiable forms, a new impression emerges. Read the full article by clicking above!
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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...