Four nights of rare video screenings and experimental music, including the UK premiere of Mother and a three-night Cafe OTO residency.

The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has appointed Frank Feltens chief curator, effective August 17. Feltens arrives to the institution from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, where he was associate director for curatorial affairs and curator of Japanese art. He succeeds José Carlos Diaz, who departed last autumn to serve as senior director of curatorial affairs and chief curator at the Pérez […]

At Cranbrook Academy of Art, no two doors are exactly alike. That was by design. Architect Eliel Saarinen believed even the smallest details deserved thoughtful consideration. Each door across Cranbrook’s historic campus serves the same purpose, yet each possesses its own distinct character—a reminder that creativity is found not in repetition, but in the possibilities created by difference. With this spirit in mind, Cranbrook Academy of Art is reopening graduate applications for Fall 2026. Applications will be accepted from June 22 through August 15 for a limited number of available openings in select programs. For artists and designers considering graduate study, this additional application period...

Jewelry worth an estimated €4 million ($4.57 million) was stolen from a decorative arts museum in northeastern France’s Alsace region early on Sunday morning, less than a week after another heist at an archaeological museum on the other side of the country. According to French reports, soon after 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, masked thieves smashed through a door to the Lalique Museum in Wingen-sur-Moder, which is dedicated to Art Deco and Art Nouveau designer René Lalique. Next, they broke through six glass display cases and snatched about 20 pieces of jewelry, which were mostly made of crystal, a source told Le Parisien. Though alarms went off, for reasons that are still unclear, a security monitoring company...

Artist Jonathan Bruce Williams sued New York’s Kai Matsumiya last month, alleging that the gallery still owes him more than $16,000 for two artworks that sold from his 2025 show there. Located near Tribeca, one of the city’s most densely populated gallery districts, Kai Matsumiya was founded in 2014 and has shown artists such as Steffani Jemison, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Hadi Fallapisheh. The gallery’s exhibitions have earned acclaim from critics, with a 2020 Surface profile terming the space the “New York Art Gallery Where Anything Can Happen”; the gallery won the Armory Show’s Gramercy International Prize that year. Filed in the Civil Court of the City of New York, Williams’s lawsuit...

The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) presents Reassembly: the Class of 2027 Thesis Exhibition, which brings the culminating work of 3rd-year MFA candidates to the Bard College main campus in Annendale-on-Hudson, NY, and the newly-acquired Massena Exhibition Center in Barrytown, NY.  Reassembly will begin with an evening of performances at Olin Hall on the Bard College campus at 7pm on Friday, July 10th. The exhibition’s opening reception at Massena will take place on Saturday, July 11th. Reassembly will remain on view through Sunday, July 20th.“The exhibition demonstrates a wide breadth of contemporary approaches to art-making,” writes Mike Curran, the exhibition...

While most of the country was celebrating United States’s 250th birthday, the Trump White House launched its latest broadside against the Smithsonian Institution: a 162-page report from the Domestic Policy Council detailing supposed “ideological capture” at the National Museum of American History. The report, released on July 4, alleges the museum “purposely presents America as a problematic country irredeemably conceived, founded by deeply flawed men, and still operating today as an instrument of systemic racism and oppression. In the Museum’s current telling, the country is, above all, defined by white supremacy, slavery, conquest, exclusion, hierarchy, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and systemic...

Minnesota Street Project Foundation presents the 2026 San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF), taking place July 23–26, marking 10 years since the inaugural fair in 2016. Highly anticipated and one of the largest, free, annual Bay Area arts events, SFABF celebrates art publishing and print culture by bringing together independent publishers, artists, designers, collectors, and enthusiasts from around the world. Since its establishment 10 years prior, SFABF continues to serve as a platform for independent publishing, placing the unique history of the Bay Area in dialogue with national and international communities. SFABF26 features an expansive roster of 160 exhibitors, including 30 international and 48...

In her 1977 feature essay “The Aesthetic of Indifference,” art historian Moira Roth looks back on the “bigoted conviction” and “embittered passivity” that marked literature, film, and visual art during the censorial McCarthy period of the mid-1950s. To develop her conception of “indifference”—a paralytic disaffection of “liberal and self-critical” minds in the face of reactionary […]

The Headlines HISTORY WILL TELL? On July 4, as Americans celebrated the nation’s 250th anniversary, the White House published a scathing attack on the Smithsonian Institution, in particular its National Museum of American History, reports the New York Times. Titled “Saving America’s Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage,” the 162-page report by the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, led by Vince Haley, formally accuses the institution of bias. The Smithsonian Institution “has not met its obligations to the American People,” states the report, adding that National Museum of American History...

Jupiter Artland is taking its high street art programme nationwide, launching Jupiter+ Nation in Dumfries with Lindsey Mendick’s Growing Pains.

Easel bridge serves as both infrastructure and public furniture
 
The Easel Bridge is a 10-meter pedestrian crossing located in Yucun, Moganshan, Zhejiang Province, China, spanning Fuxi Creek. The structure, designed by XBTW OFFICE, introduces a spatial system composed of four inclined planes, transforming the act of crossing into a sequence of bodily positions oriented toward viewing, leaning, pausing, and interaction. One side of the bridge functions as an easel-like surface, enabling on-site sketching of the surrounding mountains, creek, and townscape. The opposite side is configured as a continuous backrest, positioning users between the landscape and ongoing drawing activities. The bridge therefore...

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Drawing on her experience as a textile designer and her family’s artistic heritage, Susan Maddux investigates the relationships between fabric, painting, and sculpture. If some of her longer pieces evoke the folds of kimonos, for example, it’s not a coincidence. Tapping into both her Hawaiian upbringing and Japanese heritage, the artist creates vibrant works that drape on the wall like elegant cloaks hung up after a walk. A small piece titled “Mantle” is redolent of the historical clothing worn to keep the shoulders warm. Other works feature conceptual or metaphysical names, such as “Flourish” and “Thrum.” Maddux sometimes stacks the bunches of folds several feet high, mirroring human...

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Martin Margiela is releasing more than 200 objects from his personal archive in a landmark Paris auction, spanning his career from 1984 to 2008

A painting by the 18th-century artist was given to the museum by Dallas-based collectors Richard and Luba Barrett, alongside two other works

The Baltic state is bidding to bolster its nascent art market

timeless pieces in classic materials
 
There is an allure to the design objects of Sophie Lou Jacobsen. The feeling that pulls you in has an air of mid-century nostalgia, the pomp and circumstance of an afternoon tea at the Plaza Hotel. Her pieces are formed in silver, glass, crystal – all the materials found in our grandmothers’ cupboards, only to be brought out on special occasions. Yet what makes her work sparkle is its quotidian sensibility. The champagne flutes beg to be held when the clock strikes 5pm. The Porter, a silver toast rack, looks its best when stacked full of a freshly cut loaf.
Disco Aperitivo by Sophie Lou Jacobsen, set design by Maria Giuditta Vettese and Chiara Talacci, creative...

The accelerating rise of a homogenized, worldwide aesthetic is forcing creators to confront a critical reality: design trends are effortlessly transcending geography, but local identity is paying the price. The fifth episode of the Room For Dreams podcast tackles a head-on investigation into whether a boundaryless market is quietly erasing design diversity. Recorded live at Milan Design Week 2026 in cooperation with INDX|GLOBAL, host Claire Broadka of designboom sits down with Sachi Gupta, Shilpi Sonar, Krithika Subrahmanian, and Sumit Dhawan to map out the reality of the borderless creator.
 
Surviving in this climate requires a radical mindset shift, with the panel introducing the vital necessity of...

Akira Ikezoe’s schematic paintings, on view in the Whitney Biennial and Greater New York, are unmistakably his. Teeming with frogs, robots, and bears caught up in flowcharts of labor and industry, their dark humor resonates deeply with our current moment. Curator Sofia Thiệu D'Amico met the artist at his studio to discuss environmental catastrophe, parenthood, his childhood in Japan, and more.More, as always, including John Yau on Charles Seliger’s intricate cellular visions and A View From the Easel with Arghavan Khosravi, whose ethereal shaped paintings alchemize familial memory and art history.—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor Akira Ikezoe’s Frogs and Bears Have Something Urgent to Tell...

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Interconnected Volumes Form Mouvement Flexible Seating series
 
ED Berrios Objet & Mobilier introduces two new editions within its Mouvement series: the Lounge Chair .008 and the Modular Sofa .006. Developed as complementary pieces, the designs investigate soft monolithic forms, asymmetrical balance, and the relationship between furniture, sculpture, and interior space. Produced as limited editions and handcrafted in Italy, both pieces emphasize materiality, proportion, and spatial presence.
 
Mouvement .008 is a lounge chair conceived as a soft monolithic volume. Upholstered in European mineral-tanned bovine nubuck over a solid oak frame, the chair is composed of a seat, backrest, and asymmetrical armrest...

Swoon’s The Life of the Work looks back at more than a decade of work, tracing Caledonia Curry’s journey from the streets into an expansive practice

While increasing their built footprints, US museums also need to expand their accessibility to the public. By failing to do so they risk blowing a chance to democratise new spaces at a critical time

Gasworks is going even more global, expanding its international residencies programme with artists from Palestine, Iran, the Caribbean, Canada and beyond.

fujiko nakaya’s fog fills neue nationalgalerie’s sculpture garden
 
Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya returns to Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie with a site-specific fog sculpture that occupies the museum’s 90-meter-long sculpture garden through October 25th, 2026. Activated throughout the day, the installation sends slowly moving clouds of pure water mist across the garden, where they drift between trees, sculptures, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s landmark architecture before dissipating into the air.
 
Few artists have worked with atmosphere as consistently as Nakaya. Since developing her first fog sculpture for Expo ’70 in Osaka, she has treated weather as a sculptural medium, giving temporary form...

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Sotto l’impulso teorico del suo Presidente, Guillaume Désanges, il Palais de Tokyo non si limita a ordinare una sequenza di mostre autonome, ma si offre come un vero e proprio ecosistema fenomenologico e politico teso a decostruire il sistema del validismo. Questo paradigma, strutturato su severi criteri fisici e psicologici, impone una rigida gerarchia tra corpi considerati normali e anormali in base alla velocità, alle performance e alla produttività capitalista. Désanges rovescia questa dinamica ricordando come la fragilità non sia una condizione eccezionale o marginale, bensì la coordinata ontologica più ampiamente condivisa dall’umanità e da tutto il vivente. Basta un virus, l’avanzare del...

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...

“Spain has an extraordinary, unbroken creative tradition: art, literature, music, research,” says Nieves González. From 16th-century portraitist El Greco to Baroque painters like Diego Velázquez and Bartolomé Murillo, the nation’s art history brims with narrative and intrigue. In the 17th century especially, dramatic contrasts of light and shadow influenced by Italian painter Caravaggio met movement, emotion, and religiosity to create theatrical tableaux. For González, this legacy informs a painting practice that merges past and present. “Creating isn’t something we do. It’s something we are,” the artist says in a statement. “And I come from that; I carry it in my body.” Her expressive...

Ispirata all’omonimo capolavoro di Caravaggio del 1606-1607 (Le sette opere della Misericordia, olio su tela, 390 x 260 cm, realizzato per la chiesa del Pio Monte della Misericordia di Napoli), la mostra, attraverso video, fotografia e scultura, trasforma un tema della tradizione cristiana in una riflessione attuale sulla cura verso gli altri. Abbiamo rivolto a Helen Broms Sandberg sette domande sul significato contemporaneo della misericordia.
Helen Broms Sandberg, “The Seven Works of Mercy”, performance, video still, 2021. Courtesy of the artist
Costabile Guariglia: Quale intuizione l’ha spinta a trasformare la sua esperienza del dipinto caravaggesco in un progetto artistico sviluppato nell’arco...

Opera conductors … my favorite subject!

Akira Ikezoe welcomes me into his studio wearing a long-sleeve t-shirt made by the Cevallos Brothers, with whom he was recently featured in the Greater New York survey at MoMA PS1. That is just one of several large-scale exhibitions and international biennials Ikezoe has participated in over the last few years, including the Sharjah Biennial last year and this year’s Whitney Biennial. As a result, his studio is sparse, save for a few paintings in progress.Ikezoe offers me tea as we recall meeting in 2023 at the Rehearsal Art Book Fair, co-organized by Bungee Space and Accent Sisters. There, Ikezoe introduced me to his Baby Recipes series (2022), in which babies’ body parts become ingredients in...

At age 19, Charles Seliger received his first solo show at Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery The Art of This Century in 1945, and was one of the youngest artists associated with the emergence of Abstract Expressionism. However, unlike most painters in this nascent movement, he never worked on a large scale, nor did he become a gestural or geometric painter. Devoted to nature and Surrealist automatism, he remained a maverick. That independence explains why he is seldom included in surveys of Abstract Expressionism, especially if they focus on stylistic similarities.In 2010, the year after Seliger died, his then-dealer Michael Rosenfeld presented Charles Seliger: A Memorial Exhibition. Since then, his work has...

Entriamo in conversazione con Riccardo Freddo, Head of Museum and Institutional Relationships per Rosenfeld Gallery, Londra. In seguito a comprovate esperienze internazionali tra Roma, Parigi, Los Angeles e New York, dal 2023, anno di fondazione della residenza The Place of Silence, Umbria, il curatore formula un nuovo format che fa dialogare la scena internazionale contemporanea e il patrimonio storico-artistico e paesaggistico italiano, secondo i princìpi della sostenibilità e valorizzazione. Ce ne parla in questa intervista.
Riccardo Freddo, ritratto, photo Eleonora Pascai, courtesy Riccardo Freddo
Sara Buoso: Vorresti parlarci della genesi del tuo progetto curatoriale diffuso in Italia? Le tue scelte si...

He has conducted some of my favorite opera recordings.

Tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry when it goes on view at the British Museum this fall sold out in just over 24 hours this week, reports the Telegraph. The museum said it was the biggest day of ticket sales in its history. Depicting the Norman conquest of England 1066 and made there in the 1070s, the Bayeux Tapestry (technically an embroidery) is an astonishing 230 feet long and, according to the British Museum, features 58 detailed scenes, each rendered in colored wool on flax. On loan from the Bayeux Museum in Normandy, it will be displayed at the British Museum from September 10, 2026, to July 11, 2027, the first time in its nearly 1000-year history the work has been publicly exhibited on British soil....

Sarabande Foundation’s new space features artist studios as well as a cafe and an education space

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Art Bridges Foundation have teamed up for the nationwide loan programme spanning from Huntsville, Alabama, to Big Horn, Wyoming

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Although Ernest Ansermet is most often associated with orchestral music, his 1964 recording of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is still my favorite.

A show about big installation art in the age of the huckster-in-chief

L’apparente, seconda personale di Alessandro Roma (Milano, 1977) alla CAR Gallery di Bologna, si configura come un momento di approfondimento di una ricerca che ha trovato nella ceramica smaltata il terreno privilegiato in cui la dialettica tra pittura e scultura smette di essere una questione formale per diventare una domanda filosofica sull’essenza stessa del visibile. Il titolo sembra suggerire che ciò che appare non sia mai semplicemente dato, ma costituisca piuttosto una soglia in perpetuo divenire, uno strato di realtà che si offre alla percezione trattenendo al tempo stesso qualcosa di irriducibile allo sguardo, un’intuizione che le opere in mostra declinano con una coerenza tanto più efficace...

"This is a box befitting our times"

New York’s Lyles & King, known for its championship of emerging artists and its keen eye for talent, has shuttered. The gallery had opened in a restaurant basement on the city’s Lower East Side in 2015 before moving to Chinatown in 2020, becoming one of the first of a wave of galleries to open there. […]

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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Face cream ad (left), face cream jar (center), and corset stays (right) BAKER CITY, OREGON—Jefferson Public Radio reports that researchers including Katie Johnson of the Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology investigated the site of the Baker White Pine Lumber Company, which was established in northeastern Oregon in 1910. When the mill closed less than 10 years later, much of the infrastructure was removed from the site. The workforce had been made up entirely of men when the mill opened, but management soon switched to a company town model made up of workers and their families. The more than 8,000 recovered artifacts—including washboard fragments, enamelware basins, shoe polish bottles,...

Gold earrings PHETCHABURI, THAILAND—The Bangkok Post reports that a ninth set of human remains has been unearthed at Don Yai Thong, a burial site in central Thailand dated to between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago. Earlier this year, archaeologists uncovered eight skeletons with bronze vessels placed over the heads and chins of the deceased; glass and stone beads; and gold earrings and bracelets. Bronze vessels were found near the feet of the dead. Six bronze drums have also been uncovered at the site. Phnombootra Chandrajoti of the Fine Arts Department said that the newly found remains belong to a child under the age of 12 at the time of death. The teeth and jaw of either a cow or a buffalo were found near the...

Nameplate from the tomb of Grand Duke Francesco de Medici NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT—According to a statement released by Yale University, researchers from Yale University and the University of Pisa identified an unknown strain of Plasmodium falciparum in the bones of Cardinal Giovanni de Medici, who died of malaria in 1562. His brother, Grand Duke Francesco de Medici, died of the same disease in 1587. Traces of P. falciparum and P. malariae were detected in his bones. “At the time, both were diagnosed with symptoms, such as intermittent fevers, consistent with malaria,” said Valentina Giuffra of the University of Pisa. “This genetic analysis confirms the historical accounts as well as prior research." The...

The last few mornings, as I’ve walked with my dog up the ravine behind my house, two fawns seem to bound of thin air, racing in unison through the trees until far enough way that they stop, stare, and wait for us to pass. It’s not uncommon to see several does grazing in the same woods, and I’ve always wondered where they sleep. Photographer Katherine Wolkoff followed a similar curiosity as she traversed the grassy meadows of Block Island, which sits a few miles off the coast of Rhode Island, for her series Deer Beds. Flattened by lean cervid bodies, tall grasses reveal the areas where deer bed down. They don’t typically sleep in the same place every single night, but a home range area may have several...

Ahead of his new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, Barrie Kosky chats with Kevin Ng in Aix about pretty much everything — except the details of his new Frau.

The Bayerische Staatsoper’s Ring cycle scores another triumph with Tobias Kratzer’s take on Die Walküre.

In occasione del terzo ciclo annuale del progetto di residenza d’artista Artist in Officina, la sensibile congiunzione tra pratiche performative e scultoree di Ekaterina Shcherbakova ha rintracciato gli echi della storiografia composita di Montefollonico, nel territorio senese, rendendoli nuovamente manifesti. Ideata da Paul Gregory e Tessa Singleton, con la collaborazione di Margareth Dorigatti ed Emanuele Fasciani, l’iniziativa prende vita nello storico laboratorio del fabbro del paese, riconvertito per accogliere i percorsi di ricerca di artisti di provenienza internazionale.
Ekaterina Shcherbakova, “FUSA”, 2026, installation view at Cappella Santa Caterina, ph. credit 6PM STUDIO, courtesy of the...

ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA—Stone quarrying at Sugarloaf Hill in southeastern Australia’s Riverland dates back some 7,000 years, according to a statement released by Flinders University. Researchers from Flinders University and the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation said that chert and silcrete were extracted from the quarry to make tools and weapons that were likely redistributed beyond the Riverland. “The key outcome from our research has been establishing a plausible timeline for the mining of these materials at Sugarloaf Hill,” said Craig Westell of Flinders University. This timeline will help researchers to understand Aboriginal networks in the southwestern region of the Murray-Darling...

Mummified remains of female dog from Rio Muerto, Peru GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA—Phys.org reports that Susan deFrance of the University of Florida and her colleagues analyzed the remains of two dogs whose burials were excavated in southern Peru's Moquegua Valley. The remains of the dogs, buried some 1,100 years ago by people of the Tiwanaku culture, were naturally mummified. The first dog, a female with brown and white fur, was less than one year old at the time of death. She had been placed on a woven mat, perhaps wrapped in twine, and buried in a small pit at the village site of Rio Muerto. The second dog was a puppy no more than three months old at the time of death that had been buried in Omo, a ceremonial...

Whether it’s the atmosphere casting a haze or the fuzziness of memories and dreams, Guimi You’s lush paintings have an aura of wistfulness and quietude. The Seoul-based artist creates dreamy oil compositions that tap into personal experience, passing time, and how one gains perspective and reevaluates their needs or desires as they go through life. You’s canvases are infused with elements of still life and landscape traditions, where anonymous protagonists reflect quietly in a garden, pause in a golden meadow, or stroll through a park in the rain. Cerulean shadows complement the magenta jacket of a woman strolling with her dog along a stream in “Spring Walk,” and a woman sits down at an easel in an...