Unique decorative and architectural elements may point to a previously unknown group in present-day Veracruz

The point of art, arguably, is to make us ask questions, including such open-ended queries as: What the hell is that? Indeed, that’s a question one might ask while staring at the latest artwork posted by President Donald Trump to his social media platform Truth Social. Late on Sunday night, he posted an image of an artwork—apparently a framed painting—that sets out to provide a full picture of American history. Represented here are George Washington, American soldiers planting their nation’s flag at Iwo Jima during World War II, an astronaut on the moon, and Trump himself, as well as such quintessentially American icons as the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore. So far, so simple. But what, exactly,...

Thomas Doyle, a man who was once described by a federal judge as a “career criminal,” pleaded guilty Friday to wire fraud in a scheme involving a Gustave Courbet painting that eventually ended up in the collection of Jon Landau, Bruce Springsteen’s longtime manager.  According to the New York Times, Doyle persuaded London dealer Patrick Matthiesen to send him Courbet’s Mother and Child on a Hammock, painted around 1848, after promising to broker its sale. Matthiesen trusted Doyle to find a buyer and handle the transaction on his behalf.  Doyle later told the dealer he had sold the painting for $550,000 in August 2024. Prosecutors say that never happened. Instead, authorities say Doyle quietly...

Before the days of of Reddit, Facebook, and most other social networks, DeviantArt was fostering an online community dedicated to artists and art lovers. Featuring a vast array of exciting and innovative projects across photography, painting, design, comics, and much more, the platform has spent the last 25 years connecting creators, collectors, and sellers working in every style and medium. DeviantArt is now home to a diverse, active global community of more than 108 million members. Offering far beyond the traditional social networks, the platform enables users to discover art, build audiences, and grow their creative businesses—all within a single ecosystem. “At its heart, DeviantArt is an art...

pli office hosts open call for paris design week exhibition
 
French publishing house and creative studio Pli office – a brainchild of paf atelier founder Christopher Dessus – has launched an international open call for ‘Tout est Chaos’, a curated exhibition taking place from 10–13 September 2026 during Paris Design Week. The exhibition invites emerging designers, artists, architects, makers, and multidisciplinary creatives to submit objects and installations responding to the theme of chaos: not as destruction, but as a generative force capable of revealing new forms, narratives, and possibilities. The open call closes on 30 June 2026.
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The Swiss Institute (SI) has purchased space at 250 Bowery that will serve as the New York nonprofit’s first permanent home in its nearly forty-year history. The new digs, which are directly across the street from the New Museum’s recently expanded campus, comprise the ground floor and basement of a modern luxury residence and formerly […]

A figure carrying a small suitcase crosses the gangplank onto an ocean liner. A woman stands amid a city street, waiting for a tram. And a man in a fedora heads toward historic steps in what is perhaps a European city. Yet if you look a little closer, you’ll see the roofs resemble milk cartons. The tram rolls in amid books stood on end. And in the distance beyond the docked ships… a giant coffee mug? Since 2013, Derrick Lin has created miniature dioramas on his desk. Hand-painted figures inhabit settings constructed from cardboard and found objects, often with a nostalgic twist. And in a nod to the the tableaux’s tiny characteristics, he playfully pops in references to the scale of the real world, hence...

ZU-studio reconstructs a Basque farm for contemporary living
 
The reconstruction project by zU-studio is located on a hilltop site in the Basque Country. The original farm had a 23 by 23 sqm footprint and was historically divided into four equal parts, housing four families. The renovation reconfigures the building into a single-family residence, maintaining the scale and presence of the original structure while introducing a new internal organization adapted to contemporary living requirements.
 
From the outset, the project combines a new interior structure with a material approach that references the existing building. The northern and southern facades are constructed in stone, reusing materials from the...

The New York–based Swiss Institute has acquired the ground floor and lower level of 250 Bowery, which will become its permanent home when it opens in spring 2027. In an interview, Swiss Institute director Stefanie Hessler described the move as a “new chapter” in the institution’s history as it celebrates its 40th anniversary. The organization had been looking for about 2.5 years for a new home while also securing the funds needed to purchase the space. “We wanted to find a space that matches the profile of Swiss Institute,” Hessler said, noting that it was important that the new location “has that downtown feel and character to it that will allow us to show forward-looking exhibitions and invite...

The nonprofit, which has moved around the Upper West Side, Tribeca and points in between since its founding 40 years ago, will open at 250 Bowery next spring

This week, revisit “Fragments of a Tesseract,” avant-garde filmmaker Hollis Frampton’s feature essay on proto-cinema pioneer Eadweard Muybridge, published in Artforum’s March 1973 issue. Starting with a study of biographical details and early-career work that often go unnoticed and proceeding to Muybridge’s more famous experiments in “animal locomotion,” Frampton unites disparate ends of the photographer’s practice […]

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The Headlines VENEZUELA FALLOUT. The painter Onai Quiñonez is one of thousands still missing since Venezuela’s devastating double earthquake on Wednesday, June 24, reports Hyperallergic. His family has issued a call for help in rescuing the artist, whom they believe remains trapped under rubble from his collapsed residential building in the coastal town of Caraballeda in La Guaira. “We need to give visibility to Onai’s situation,” his sister-in-law, Mariela Roa, said via WhatsApp message. “He is alive, he is fighting, he’s been under the rubble for 41 hours,” she added, noting at the time that official rescue services had not yet made it to the site. Quiñonez’s wife, the artist Laura...

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The sculpture project at Palazzo Rota Ivancich aims to turn our notions of human supremacy on their head

The Public Accounts Committee scrutinises the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in its report, accusing the government department of a ‘lack of leadership’

Leoncillo Leonardi (1915–1968), known as Leoncillo, was one of the most important Italian sculptors of the post-war period.

Morris's eight decades at the easel left him among the last of the original Surrealists

Interval One, a new annual programme pairing emerging artists with major historical figures launches with Scarlet Topley and Ed Ruscha.

oxman grows color through bacterial pigmentation
 
As the textile industry faces increasing scrutiny over the environmental costs of dyeing and finishing, OXMAN explores whether color can be cultivated rather than applied. The latest textile research of the studio, Vigils, investigates a process in which pigmented bacteria grow directly on textile surfaces, allowing color to emerge through biological activity. The project imagines color not as a finish added at the end of production, but as something that lives and grows within the material from the start.
 
The idea draws inspiration from natural systems. From flower petals and butterfly wings to berry skins and tiger stripes, color in nature emerges...

The third episode of the Room For Dreams podcast confronts one of the most pressing dilemmas in modern urban planning: how to breathe in new life into old structures without erasing their history. Recorded live at Milan Design Week 2026 in cooperation with INDX|GLOBAL, this dynamic session gathers a panel of architects — Kiran Gala, Vivek Gupta, and Carl Bhesania — to unpack the complex realities of adaptive reuse.
 
Quickly cutting through standard historical preservation cliches, the architects reveal a complex, structural excavation process, walking us through the high-stakes decisions behind what to physically preserve, what to update, and exactly when a feature must be replaced for modern safety and...

Launching this October in Fitzrovia, ANTESALA is a new permanent exhibition space dedicated to Latin American art

An early-2000s payphone turns into an AI communication device
 
2147: A Voice from the Future is an interactive installation by Divina Machina, the digital art and design studio of designer and engineer Cris Olmedo and Qs Ventures, presented during Sónar+D 2026 at Llotja de Mar in Barcelona. Following its previous presentation during Milan Design Week 2025, the project repurposes an original Telefónica payphone from the early 2000s, transforming an obsolete telecommunications object into an interface for real-time conversations with an artificial intelligence that speaks from the perspective of the Earth.
 
The installation is based on an original Telefónica public telephone, retaining its existing...

Giannina Arangi-Lombardi never sang at the Met.

As Pride month comes to an end, Ed Woodham is here to remind us that queer and trans artists deserve to be celebrated every day of the year. The artist and founder of Art in Odd Places has spent decades advocating for public art as just what it sounds like — a public good, not a private commodity.Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara spoke with Woodham about the costs of art-world success and why he has never sought it out. “What I value about Pride is not the branding,” he says. “It’s the resistance. It’s the refusal to be erased.” Read on for the full interview, a candid and galvanizing testimonial to carry us into the dog days of summer.Speaking of which: Dog people, this one’s for you. The Dog’s...

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Da chi viene scritta la storia? Come possiamo ripensare il futuro attraverso gli occhi di chi vive le violenze e le ingiustizie di questo tempo? Sono queste alcune delle domande che pone Nalini Malani con Of Woman Born, progetto site-specific commissionato dal Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) di New Delhi con l’attenta curatela della direttrice artistica Roobina Karode e presentato presso i Magazzini del Sale come evento collaterale della 61° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia nel 2026.
Nalini Malani, “Of Woman Born”, 2026, camera di animazione con 9 iPad, audio, dimensioni variabili, installation view. Collezione Kiran Nadar Museum of Art © Nalini Malani
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A ship, water, plants, sheep and heads.

All’interno del nostro quotidiano vi sono immagini che lasciano impresse un segno, un ricordo, qualcosa che sappiamo per certo possa poi definire la nostra storia. Nel nuovo spazio di Piazza Teresa Noce 17, Torino, la neonata Associazione Olfacta Project, fondata dall’artista olfattiva Francesca Casale, ha inaugurato lo scorso 6 giugno la mostra dal titolo “Strade a doppio senso” bipersonale degli artisti Carola Allemandi e Lorenzo Gnata, a cura di Filippo Mollea Ceirano.
AA.VV., “Strade a doppio senso”, 2026, photo credits Lorenzo Gnata, courtesy Olfacta Project
Al suo interno i ricordi sono accompagnati dalle sinfonie olfattive create da Casale, vicine alle note del sandalo e descritte dalla...

In the weeks following the news that Pace had laid off dozens of staff and cut as many artists, an insidious narrative began to take hold in some corners of the art world. That narrative went something like this: “The gallery model is broken. This was an inevitable consequence.” The problem with this rhetoric is that it came largely from the same people responsible for advancing the very system they now claim is beyond repair.This week at Hyperallergic, we did what independent journalism does best: pull back the curtain on the official messaging and center the people rather than the powerful. In an incisive opinion piece, Barbara Pollack challenges a former art fair leader’s lukewarm New York Times take...

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.

Brundibár at the Opéra Comique combines whimsy with historicity to sobering effect.

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. Exhibizone Grand Prize – 2026: Grants, Exhibition, Publication, Promotion, SalesFeaturedReady to showcase your art on a global stage and win cash grants? Submit your strongest artworks to be part of Exhibizone Grand Prize, returning in 2026 for its 13th annual juried edition with cash prizes and global exposure. With no theme restrictions, artists creating in any style or medium can submit work that feels bold, personal, abstract, figurative, or conceptual. Selected artists receive cash prizes, an online...

This Mireille duet unites Andrée Esposito and Alain Vanzo and shows the timbral and stylistic qualities that made them exemplary.

Può l’arte curare le cicatrici invisibili di una comunità? Nella mostra Le ferite di Bologna, curata a Villa delle Rose da Ludovico Pratesi, Marco Bassan e Chiara Lorenzetti (Spazio Taverna) per il Settore Musei Civici del Comune di Bologna, dieci artisti italiani di diverse generazioni affrontano altrettanti traumi cruciali della storia bolognese. L’esposizione si configura come un viaggio analitico e catartico attraverso dieci traumi storici che hanno segnato la coscienza civile della città, in cui ogni artista è stato invitato a confrontarsi con una specifica “ferita” cittadina operando su un unico, identico supporto: un foglio di carta artigianale Amatruda. La texture materica della carta si fa...

Nearly a month after a federal judge ordered that President Trump’s name be removed from the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., a tarp affixed to the outside of the building is still partially obscuring it from view. This obstruction has prompted another order from US district […]

Raphael’s epic fresco cycle, the Loggias, is getting a makeover.  The Vatican Museums launched a restoration of the Renaissance masterpiece this week, unprecedented in scale: more than 20 experts are set to clean the artwork spanning 65 meters (nearly 215 feet) in the Apostolic Palace, also known as the Pope’s residence. The project will last five years, addressing a slew of restoration concerns accrued over the centuries, the weather being chief among them. According to Italian media, windows will be installed to stabilize the corridors’ climate. Created between 1517 and 1519 by Raphael for Pope Leo X, the Loggias are divided into 13 bays on the second floor of the Apostolic Palace, overlooking a...

Just when you're about to give up on this power-hungry, money-obsessed, star-fucking art world and its market-driven media, people like Ed Woodham come along and restore your faith in what art can do for society. The decades-long practice of the 69-year-old Atlanta-born artist, curator, and educator is thoroughly rooted in community. He's most known for leading Art in Odd Places, a public art group he originally co-founded as part of Atlanta's cultural programming for the 1996 Summer Olympics. After the September 11 attacks, when he was living in New York, Woodham relaunched the group as a response to the dwindling of public space and the quashing of civil liberties under the condemnable PATRIOT...

The "Keith Herrings" at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade on June 20 (photo AX Mina/Hyperallergic; all other images courtesy M Eilo)Hyperallergic’s tarotscope series is a combination of tarot with astrology, a reading for the collective readership combined with cards for the major astrological signs, grouped by their elemental associations. These are developed by AX Mina, a Hyperallergic contributor and producer for Five and Nine, a podcast about magic, work, and economic justice. These tarotscopes have a special focus on the arts and creative practice, for each solstice and equinox, to mark the turning of the seasons.I spent my Juneteenth and Summer Solstice weekend at the Mermaid Parade in Coney Island,...

The Box in Plymouth, England, has been named the winner of this year’s UK Art Fund Museum of the Year Award. The annual £120,000 ($158,000) honor is the most prestigious museum prize in the nation and the largest of its kind in the world. The institution, located in the southwestern part of the country, beat […]

About two months ago, footage of trembling beagles imprisoned at a biomedical research facility in Wisconsin, and of the tear-gassed activists who tried to rescue them, went viral. Photojournalists captured the dogs huddled together. They look into the cameras. They look at us — the humans who put them there. It feels dreadful to return the gaze, to acknowledge the intense pain one species can cause another. Yet, it is essential to do so, as Thomas W. Laqueur argues in a new book. The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History (2026) offers an expansive, accessible survey of canine presence in Western art from the Palaeolithic period onward. Brilliant, full-color reproductions of 250 artworks fill the book's...

Tokyo Gendai, a key event in Tokyo’s fall contemporary art fair season, has announced the list of exhibitors that will participate in its 4th edition. Set to take place at the convention center Pacifico Yokohama from September 11th to the 13th, the event will take up Gendai’s longstanding mission to bring international attention to the […]

The pioneering perceptual artist James Turrell marked a career milestone this month with the opening of his 100th Skyspace, a site-specific architectural installation with a simple construction: a domed structure with an oculus pointed toward the sky. Now permanently on view at ARoS in Aarhus, Denmark, “As Seen Below” is the latest iteration of the iconic series, which has been installed in 26 countries. Spanning more than 50 feet high and 130 feet wide, the enormous dome most often opens up to an unfiltered sky, although various “color shifts” seal the oculus and instead cast brilliant color around the space. Read more about the project previously on Colossal, and reserve your tickets on the...

Hyundai Motor Group announces the open call for the 7th VH AWARD, a global award program and platform amplifying creators whose work engages with the context of Asia. The VH AWARD invites individuals and collectives of Asian descent, based in Asia, or members of the Asian diaspora, to submit screen-based audiovisual art, including video art, motion graphics, animation, games, films, or newly explored areas.   Enhanced Opportunities for Artistic Growth This edition offers increased production grants for all finalists. Furthermore, a new Honorary Mention category will recognize a broader range of voices, offering global exposure and selective access to the online residency.  In June 2027, an international...

Magic is sometimes very close to nothing at all centres on Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and explores football, language and popular culture.

The premiere recording of David T. Little's What Belongs to You reveals a work of both tenderness and artistic tenacity.

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Cosa accade al ritratto quando non riesce più a sostenere la propria immagine, quando essa si ritira prima di formarsi del tutto, o diventa così materialmente densa da non poter più essere vista come immagine? Questa domanda è al cuore di Between Silence and Surface. The Appearance of Skin, curata da Tetiana Bairaka all’Ukrainian Art House di Londra (18 maggio – 30 giugno 2026). Riunendo i lavori dell’artista ucraina Alina Pyatnova, nota come Limpika Lilac, e dell’artista britannico Anthony-Noel Kelly, la mostra esamina il ritratto ai limiti della visibilità, posizionando il medium come un sito di tensione tra iper-presenza e dissoluzione. Attraverso i loro distinti trattamenti della pelle,...

John Danaher pays an operatic tribute to the writings of James McCourt, an author who captured the spirit of opera as queer and dangerous like no other.

Approda a Spazio Piera a Trento, dove sarà esposto e attivato dal pubblico fino al 3 luglio 2026, il Lessicogramma dell’abitare del progetto Corrispondenze. Cogliamo quest’occasione per raccontare un lavoro che le artiste, Paola Boscaini e Cristina Materassi, avevano già presentato di recente a Torino e che mette in luce aspetti rilevanti del fare arte delle generazioni più giovani. E giovani lo sono davvero, Boscaini e Materassi, entrambe 29 anni, diplomate all’accademia di Firenze, poi specializzatesi presso l’Albertina a Torino. Nel 2021 hanno avviato Corrispondenze, progetto artistico ed editoriale che definiscono “un duo mobile dislocato in città diverse, che pone al centro della propria...

In Alexis Trice’s dreamy worlds, ethereal looking fish, hounds, shells, and clouds mingle and sparkle like jewels in a crepuscular haze. It’s in a hypnogogic state (where dreams and reality interweave) that they really spring to life: swimming, prancing, basking, and even weeping. Like sand passed through our fingers, though, their seemingly solid forms vanish […]
The post Alexis Trice Paints a Wild-Eye and Feral Chosen Family first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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Ryan Heshka has a longtime love of science fiction, four-color printed comics from the 1950s and ‘60s and mid-twentieth-century mutant movie characters. In his comic Frog Wife, he taps into these influences while adding in a dose of contemporary themes, drawing upon not just the “anxiety of nuclear annihilation” that inspired so much twentieth-century pop […]
The post The Radioactive Surrealism of Ryan Heshka Glows with Nostalgia first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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...

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Calligraphy is an ancient art with roots across the globe, dating back to early Chinese dynasties and Greek civilization, all through the Italian Renaissance. But one glance at a work by San Francisco-based artist Hunter Saxony III, and your understanding of calligraphy will be turned on its head. In an approach that is varied, yet […]
The post Hunter Saxony III Is Pushing the Boundaries of Calligrapghy first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...