Earlier this week, Swiss anarchist-hacker Maia Arson Crimew leaked information about Dialog, the secretive, invite-only organization cofounded by right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel in 2006. Among the figures listed on the leaked membership rolls are numerous major art collectors and arts patrons. The organization convenes wealthy and powerful figures in tech, finance, politics, entertainment, and other sectors of American life for an annual retreat to “discuss topics off-the-record.” The existence of Dialog, which has been likened to a more hush-hush version of the World Economic Forum (i.e. Davos), hasn’t been exactly a secret: Last year, Semafor reported that the organization had purchased land...

A legal battle that went on for 11 years over a prized painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani came to a close in April, when billionaire art dealer David Nahmad and his family lost their bid to hold on to Seated Man With a Cane (1918), valued at upward of $25 million. The family had bought the painting at auction in 1996 for $3.2 million. But the Nahmads have not returned the piece, and now, a new ruling in New York Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 16 gives Nahmad 30 days to return the canvas to its rightful owners. A court decided in April that the painting rightfully belonged to the estate of Jewish art dealer Oscar Stettiner, who left the painting behind when he fled Paris ahead of the Nazi occupation....

The organizers of Art Basel have canceled the Baloise Art Prize, the Art Newspaper reports. Established in 1999, the SFr30,000 (roughly $37,000) honor had been presented annually to two artists whose work appeared in the fair’s Statements section, devoted to emerging artists. The prize was historically administered by Swiss insurer Baloise Group, which purchased works […]

Los Angeles, CA—June 18, 2026—Today, Penske Media Corporation (PMC) announced the acquisition of Vox Media and its leading brands: Eater, The Verge, SB Nation, POPSUGAR, The Dodo, Punch, and Thrillist, along with Concert, Vox Media’s premium ad marketplace, and Forte, Vox Media’s first party data platform. PMC was Vox’s largest shareholder prior to the announcement of the deal and acquisition.   Penske Media has created a new subsidiary “PMX”, which will combine PMC’s existing publishing portfolio, which includes Billboard, Variety, Rolling Stone, WWD, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Robb Report, Sportico, SHE Media, StyleCaster, ARTnews, Art in America, Artforum,...

Think for a second about what comes to mind when you hear “soda.” Perhaps fizzy, saccharine, and bright? Then consider the connotations of the word “sour.” Maybe it evokes the zing of a lemon, tanginess, or something sharper. This is the relationship that forms the basis of Sour Soda Studio, a project built upon two decades of illustration experience with a playful and slightly unsettling view of some of the most pressing issues of the Anthropocene. “It didn’t come from a change of direction, or from a manifesto,” says the artist, who prefers to remain unnamed. “It came from something simpler: the need to say different things with a different voice.” In these vibrant, often absurd works with...

The new Museo de Arte Textil de los Pueblos Indígenas y Afromexicanos frames textiles as living heritage and explores ethical collaboration

London Museum has announced that it will open the doors to its long-awaited new home in Smithfield on 28th November 2026,

a mobile hive moves through the city
 
Across the broken green spaces of contemporary cities, where parks, medians, rooftops, and planted edges often sit apart from one another, Nicolas Nielsen imagines Hyve, a beehive that can move between them.
 
His project brings the form of a small autonomous rover together with a living bee colony, proposing a mobile habitat that carries pollination into places where urban development has interrupted natural routes.
 
Designed by Nielsen, a student at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Hyve was presented as a finalist for the 2026 Rimowa Design Prize (see here). The concept responds to the pressures facing bees in cities, from habitat fragmentation to reduced foraging...

Better known as a painter, the artist’s new video and installation show explores extrasensory perception using tropes from science fiction, religion, consumer culture and art history

For its major survey of Helen Frankenthaler, Kunstmuseum Basel has focused on the late American artist’s time in Europe and the influence of Old Masters on her work

The French artist has created a "site-specific experience" for his first Swiss show

The Kazakh collector—a patron and cultural adviser with a focus on Central Asian contemporary art—is a fan of Basel’s Museum Tinguely and single-artist stand presentations

Knicks fans across New York City may be on their way to celebrate the team’s NBA Finals win with a ticker-tape parade this morning, but at least one New Yorker won’t be celebrating just yet. Brooklyn-based artist and designer Gavin Snider has accused Devon Rodriguez—he of the viral subway drawings on TikTok—of copying two recent paintings of Knicks fans and Madison Square Garden. In an Instagram post on Tuesday, Snider said he had been hired in May by the team’s marketing agency to paint a scene outside MSG to commemorate the team’s first NBA Finals appearance in 25 years. The work was shared to the Knicks’s social channels before Game 1 and then again this past weekend after the team won. Then,...

The shortlist for the 2026 Film London Jarman Award has been revealed, highlighting four artist filmmakers

The Trellis Art Fund has named the dozen artists making up its 2026 Milestone Grant cohort. Each will receive an unrestricted grant of $100,000, disbursed in two installments over a two-year period. Among this year’s recipients are sculptor and installation artists Kelly Akashi; performance artist Ei Arakawa-Nash, who is representing Japan at this year’s Venice Biennale; conceptual […]

Raised in a wealthy, well-connected family in England, the young Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) glommed onto stories her mother and grandmother told of Celtic folk tales about mythical beings in Ireland. Her imagination ran rampant as a child, and a rebellious spirit earned her expulsion from more than one convent school for antics like writing backwards and even trying to levitate. Later, her father insisted she be presented to the court of King George V at a debutante ball and was expected to “marry well.” Art and fantasy continued to call to Carrington, though, and not to be sallied by social convention, she attended the Chelsea School of Art, discovered Surrealism at the 1936 International Surrealist...

Good Morning! New York’s Supreme Court ordered dealer David Nahmad to return a contested Amedeo Modigliani painting to the heirs of a Holocaust victim within 30 days.  Paula Cooper Gallery has won the inaugural Art Basel Gallery Legacy Award. The Louvre museum is “at the end of its rope,” said its president. The Headlines A MODIGLIANI MESS. On Tuesday, the New York Supreme Court ordered billionaire art dealer David Nahmad to return a prized Amedeo Modigliani within 30 days to the grandson of the late Jewish dealer Oscar Stettiner, reports The Art Newspaper. In April, Stettiner’s grandson, Philippe Maestracci, won the 11-year-old legal dispute to obtain the painting, titled Seated Man With a...

After success at the Met as Turandot and before a historic Medea, soprano Anna Pirozzi talks to Harry Rose about her voice, her repertoire, and where her "second explosion of career" is taking her.

Video Artists International brings us back to a time when opera was carried over the airwaves by great voices—and a tire company.

Award-winning MAP Bengaluru is expanding while plans are unveiled for a new 240-acre sculpture park in India's spectacular Nilgiri Mountains.

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ECHO ZEN RETREATS: A RESIDENCE ORGANIZED AROUND OUTDOOR LIVING
 
Designed by VP Architectural Studio, Echo Zen Retreats is a residential complex located on the island of Kefalonia, Greece. The project explores Mediterranean outdoor living through a composition of interconnected indoor and outdoor spaces, where architecture is organized around landscape, climate, and daily use.
 
The layout unfolds from private bedroom suites toward shared living areas centered on the kitchen and dining spaces. Large openings establish visual continuity between the interiors and the surrounding landscape while introducing natural light throughout the residence.
 
Outdoor living forms a central component of the design....

Found auto rubber; bicycle pedals and chains: You may not see it at first glance, but these are the building blocks of Kim Dacres's dazzlingly meticulous sculptures. The New York native braids bike tire inner tubes and douses her assemblages in industrial spray paint, creating art that “smells like home, like the city, like places I’m going.” On the occasion of Dacres's current solo exhibition at Charles Moffet Gallery, writer Daria Simone Harper talks to the artist about her practice of material and metaphorical reclamation.Breaking news: A mama duck and her brood of ducklings were found waddling sweetly in the reflective pool at the Frick Collection in Manhattan, whose staffers even built a...

HONG KONG’S HARBOURFRONT ACTIVATED BY DESIGN AND ART
 
Ahead of its phase one opening in 2027, Central Yards is rewriting the rules of civic infrastructure on Hong Kong’s Central Harbourfront. The ambitious 1.6-million-square-foot ‘groundscraper’ development by Henderson Land Group has transformed its temporary pedestrian passageway into an active cultural canvas. Connecting the bustling route between IFC Mall and the Central Ferry Piers, this urban spine incorporates a vibrant, multi-sensory art bridge and an architectural coffee kiosk. Together, these site-specific interventions invite passersby to find a moment of pause within the city’s relentless flow, previewing a new era of experience-led...

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the soccer net becomes a monumental crocheted artwork
 
For REEFLINE’s Big Goals installation on Miami Beach, PlayLab transforms one of football’s most recognizable objects, the soccer goal, into a large-scale textile artwork. Installed between 11th and 12th Streets on Miami Beach, the project features two oversized goals whose nets have been hand-crocheted with images of sea dragons, scorpions, starfish, and constellations. Produced by artists Jessica Trosman and Emiliano Miliyo alongside women artisan cooperatives in Argentina using reclaimed textile materials, the installation brings contemporary craft into dialogue with public space and environmental awareness.
 
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REDESIGNING LIFE AFTER CRISIS
 
The Seoul Design Award 2026 has issued its final call for entries to the global creative community to submit projects that address daily human survival, community infrastructure, and ecological recovery amidst modern disasters. Operating as the world’s only public design award dedicated exclusively to sustainable daily life, the competition accepts works spanning Product, Visual, Digital/AI, Spatial/System, and Service/Social innovation from individual designers, teams, or enterprises. Best of all, submission to the platform is entirely free, ensuring that impactful, problem-solving design remains universally accessible to change-makers from every corner of the...

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La Galleria de’ Foscherari di Bologna ha inaugurato Merci Satie, una personale dedicata al rapporto tra Aldo Mondino e la musica, costruita attorno alla figura di Erik Satie. Più che un semplice omaggio, il percorso espositivo mette in scena una domanda da sempre centrale nella ricerca dell’artista: come può la pittura trattenere ciò che per natura scorre, come il suono, il ritmo, il movimento di un corpo? Satie, figura fondamentale della musica tra Otto e Novecento, diventa per Mondino non soltanto un riferimento culturale, ma quasi un metodo. Nella sua musica, infatti, convivono leggerezza, ironia, malinconia e sospensione; gli stessi elementi che Mondino traduce in immagini attraverso la...

On June 16, Robert Kuzovkov, a Russian artist and political dissident, was killed outside his home in Biała Podlaska, a city in eastern Poland. Kuzovkov, 44, who often used the artistic name Semyon Skrepetsky, was a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and other world leaders.  A representative for the […]

The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) revealed last week that a painting depicting a Black man draped in an American flag had been intentionally damaged last month. The piece, titled “Man in the Garden,” was on view as part of a solo exhibition of work by artist Clarence Heyward titled “Eden,” which explored […]

As Washington, DC, gears up for massive celebrations for America’s 250th birthday, artists and institutions are exploring and exploding the very concept of American aesthetics — and what American art can and should achieve. While Trump attempts to reshape DC in his image, including re-erecting a monument to an enslaver in Freedom Plaza, the city feels like the epicenter of an urgent artistic reckoning. From Faith Ringgold’s bloody flag painting at the National Gallery of Art to Gail Rebhan’s collages created with US census verbiage, national iconography, identity, and material culture challenge a myopic view of American art history. Note that significant street closures during the 250th celebrations...

For Kim Dacres, every Tuesday morning unfolds in the same way. Each week, the native New Yorker and West Harlem resident journeys through her beloved neighborhood, scavenging for the materials that form the bedrock of her artistic practice: tires and bicycle parts. Last month, I joined the artist for what she calls “Tire Tuesday,” a ritual of collecting rubber that she transforms into busts and sculptures in tribute to her community. At our first stop, Bolt Bike Shop on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, we were greeted by Marcelo and Nelson, two shopkeepers whom the artist has developed a bond with since she began collecting there in 2021. As Dacres excitedly received her weekly haul of found rubber, I...

BASEL — Ahead of Art Basel’s flagship fair this week, the Financial Times ran a headline: “Only the spectacular will do.” The statement underscores the immense pressure on galleries at the Swiss art fair, running June 18 to 21, to stand out in a volatile market with high prices and reportedly fewer buyers. The event opened within weeks of Pace Gallery’s massive downsizing and claims that the market was “broken”; meanwhile, among the exhibitors not returning to Basel this year, Tim Blum shuttered his gallery in Los Angeles and Tokyo last summer, and Nice’s Air de Paris, founded in 1990, declared bankruptcy. Against this backdrop, the obvious question is how participating galleries, 290 this...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.David Hockney (1937–2026)British painter who made the everyday otherworldlyBest known for paintings that imbued the everyday with an otherworldly stillness, psychologically precise portraits, and crystalline pool scenes, Hockney also explored printmaking, photography — even stage design for ballet and opera — across his prolific career of more than half a century. He was also a pioneer of LGBTQ+ rights — one of the first popular artists to create work depicting gay relationships, and one of the few to publicly denounce censorship of queer imagery. Read the obituaryRobert Kuzovkov aka "Semyon...

MGLC, the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Slovenia, has appointed Colombian curator José Roca curator of the 37th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, to take place in 2027. Roca was curatorial advisor of BOG25, the inaugural Bogotá International Biennial of Art and the City and the artistic director of the Twenty-Third Biennale of Sydney […]

Silver Viking Age coin, Damhus, Denmark COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—Live Science reports that a new study of Viking coins from the Damhus hoard, a cache of 226 pennies unearthed in Denmark near the site of the Viking town of Ribe in 2018, suggests that they contain silver recycled from Islamic coins. The 1,000-year-old coins, known as pennies, bear a face on one side thought to represent the Norse god Wodan or Odin, with a stag on the reverse. Thomas Birch of the National Museum of Denmark said that each coin would have been enough to buy ale, bread, or simple tools. Analysis of the coins also shows that when the dies used to stamp them were worn, they were replaced with similar ones, Birch added. At least 30 dies...

Excavation of monumental structure, Bassania, Albania SHKODRA, ALBANIA—According to a report in La Brújula Verde, the foundations of a monumental structure have been excavated on top of a hill overlooking the ancient Illyrian city of Bassania, which is located in what is now northwestern Albania. The rectangular building was aligned with the cardinal points and measured about 45 feet long by 30 feet wide, in proportion with classical Greek temples. Traces of the defensive wall were probably used to mark off sacred territory. Piotr Dyczek of the University of Warsaw suggests that this building was part of the city’s acropolis between the fourth and second centuries B.C., noting that it would have been...

Maya figurine bearing possible numbers, La Blanca, Guatemala AUSTIN, TEXAS—According to a Phys.org report, a small clay “tab” figurine unearthed in northern Guatemala at the Maya site of La Blanca bears columns of dots that may be an early form of number writing. Dated to between 750 and 650 B.C., the figurine lacks a head and face, but more than 300 similar figurines have been found at La Blanca, and some of them show headbands and ear jewelry. This figurine has one column of three dots and two columns of four dots. Because the columns of dots are not symmetrical, researchers led by Julia Guernsey of the University of Texas think they may represent numbers. Their placement on the head area of the...

One of the most enduring traditions in the U.S. is undoubtedly the state fair. The very first was held in Syracuse, New York, in 1841, and throughout the mid-19th century, states launched their own unique takes. Some of the largest and busiest, such as those in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, have been running just about as long as the states have existed. And it’s no coincidence that some of the most well known and beloved events, which usually take place in the late summer or early autumn, represent the nation’s agricultural heartlands. The exhibition State Fairs: Growing American Craft at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery celebrates the unique crafts and customs of these annual...

Bristol-based artist Diana Beltrán Herrera continues to construct elaborate sculptures of flora and fauna in vibrant paper. Over the last few years, Herrera’s work has grown in both scale and subject matter as she incorporates new materials such as paperboard, thread, and cardboard, which have allowed her work to evolve beyond previous forms. The artist’s latest explorations of nature motifs include flower structures, leaf patterns, and most recently, coral formations. Uniquely, coral reefs exhibit fractal and hyperbolic geometry, making them a particularly fascinating subject for sculptural reproduction. Utilizing thread as a structural tool has been especially integral for Herrera’s explorations of...

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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s concert Rigoletto hits some vocal turbulence

A full century after her heyday, Argentine soprano Hina Spani still moves us thanks to her vivid recordings and the savants who have cherished and shared them.

Tornare sui propri passi spesso significa percorrere strade già attraversate, ma con degli occhi del tutto nuovi e con la mente sgombra, per far spazio a nuovi percorsi e nuove figure. Si è rincuorati dalla possibilità di riconoscere i propri riferimenti e, allo stesso tempo, si è spinti a esercitare l’osservazione del nuovo. Questo esercizio di osservazione e di scoperta accade a me quando osservo le tele di Luca Ceccherini (Arezzo, 1993) e accade all’artista quando, grazie al suo ingegno creativo, si appresta a proseguire il suo coerente e solido percorso pittorico, dando una forma e un luogo, ancora e ancora, ai giullari, menestrelli, acrobati, campagnoli e contrabbandieri che da sempre popolano le...

Recently discovered Roman busts, Binyamina, Israel BINYAMINA, ISRAEL—Haaretz reports that two 1,700-year-old marble busts have been discovered in a wine-collection pit at a winepress dated to the Roman and Byzantine periods in northern Israel. One of the busts is inscribed in Greek with the name “Lycurgus,” perhaps referring to the legendary founder of Sparta, or a statesman and orator who lived in Athens in the fourth century B.C. Archaeologists Eliran Oren and Michael Solotskin of the Israel Antiquities Authority said that sculptures may have been buried in the pit to hide them during an invasion. “In the Roman period, statues of this kind were displayed both in public buildings and in the homes of...

Designer Taekhan Yun’s parents run an English school in Cambodia. One day, during a visit, he noticed how the kids were constantly shifting in their chairs, trying to get comfortable. “It made me realize how naturally furniture and spaces are designed around adult standards, while children are often expected to adapt and conform to those environments,” he tells Colossal. That’s when the idea was born to not only create functional pieces that would better suit the students’ needs but to invite them to create their own. Yun has always been interested in participatory creative projects, especially because of “the unexpected outcomes that emerge when people from different backgrounds come together to...

Interior of newly discovered Etruscan tomb, San Giuliano necropolis, Italy ROME, ITALY—According to a report in La Brújula Verde, a second intact Etruscan tomb has been discovered in central Italy’s San Giuliano necropolis by a team of researchers led by Davide Zori of the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project (SGARP) and Baylor University. More than 600 tombs have been identified in the area, but most of them have been looted since the Roman conquest of the region in the third century B.C. The slab closing this tomb had remained in its original position, with no signs of tampering. The remains of at least two individuals have been found inside the tomb, with a spearhead next to one of the sets of...

In the popular imagination, artists are often thought to create for the sake of creating, unfettered by the demands of the market-driven world outside their studios. Though many well-known artists have muddled the boundaries between art and commerce (Jeff Koons comes to mind), the two realms have a contentious relationship. Business savvy artists are often […]
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Parterre Box features soprano Miina-Liisa Värelä, making her title role debut in Die Walküre in Munich next week, in a performance of Tristan und Isolde from 2021.

La ricerca di Senzeni Marasela (Thokoza, Sudafrica, 1977) riflette sulla colonizzazione britannica del Sudafrica e poi ci parla dell’apartheid, ponendo l’accento sulla vita delle donne nere e sul lavoro nelle miniere dell’area intorno a Johannesburg utilizzando materiali tessili e il ricamo. Nella mostra In Minor Keys alla 61. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte a cura di Koyo Kouoh, l’artista presenta The Conversation (2018) e una serie sugli incidenti avvenuti nelle miniere tra il 1960 e il 2024: Coalbrook 435, 1960 (2025), Kinross 177, 1986 (2025), Marikana 34, 2012 (2025), Stilfontein 77, 2024 (2025), Val Reefs 104, 1995 (2025), Welkom 30, 2023 (2025), Comet (2025). Marasela ha un alter ego...

All images courtesy of the artist and GNYP gallery In Aistė Stancikaitė’s painting “Some Time We Walk Together,” two gloved hands are joined by a set of finger cuffs. The connected, silver rings resemble wedding bands. As for the hands, whether they belong to one or two people is up to the viewer to decide. […]
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“Metafisica / Metafisiche” è una straordinaria rassegna enciclopedica che ci fa vedere come nell’arte contemporanea si ritrovino radici che affondano nell’avanguardia storica della pittura metafisica di inizio Novecento. A Palazzo Reale di Milano, con quattrocento opere distribuite in tredici saloni, il curatore Vicenzo Trione, affiancato da una squadra di collaboratori costituita da Anna Luigia De Simone, Anna Calise, Vincenzo Di Rosa e Alessia Scaparra Seneca, dimostra i collegamenti fra la poetica della Metafisica con vari movimenti dell’arte contemporanea, collegamenti estesi anche agli ambiti della fotografia, del cinema, dell’architettura e della moda. Questo complesso e articolato progetto...

Sin dalle origini, si sa, la luce è sinonimo di rinascita: porta con sé speranza, gioia, novità e tutta una serie di connotazioni positive capaci di illuminare il futuro. E se Lucio Dalla cantava “Aspettiamo che ritorni la luce, di sentire una voce, aspettiamo senza avere paura domani”, la medesima luce è un faro che accompagna l’omonima mostra collettiva, curata da Diana Segantini e promossa dalla Fondazione Augusto Rancilio, visibile fino al 5 luglio 2026 a Villa Arconati a Castellazzo di Bollate (MI).
Igor Eskinja, Eskinja, “At your place”, lightbox, plexiglass, 2008; Antoni Taulé, “Seuil de la caverne”, 1986, olio su tela; Nives Widauer, “Moonbrightnight” (dalla serie of moon...