Mario Trimarchi translates clouds into abstract compositions
 
Mario Trimarchi continues his exploration at the intersection of design, architecture, and art, studying the forms of clouds and capturing their unpredictability through a series of black-and-white ink drawings and small metal sculptures. Clouds as Prayers is the title of this exhibition, presented at the Paula Seegy Gallery in Milan, offering a reflection on design as an act capable of generating attention and silence within a present marked by instability and uncertainty.
‘Prayer for the Return Journey’ – Mario Trimarchi, 2026, various metals | all images by Fabio Viganò unless stated otherwise
 
 
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The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust released a statement on Saturday slamming the recent decision by New York’s Danziger Gallery to offer an AI-generated artwork referencing the famed photographer’s work at the 2026 edition of the AIPAD Photography Show in April. The artwork, which still appears on Danziger’s website, does not contain a title but is headlined A.I. GENERATED, From the prompt: Make a realistic color version of Ansel Adams’ iconic “Moonrise Over Hernandez”. It is listed as printed by master printer Esteban Mauchi. Danziger offered the piece in its booth at the fair—which ran from April 22 to April 26—alongside work by Seydou Keïta, Hoda Afshar, and Matthew Porter, among...

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Constance: A Confession, presented in Brooklyn by Experiments in Opera, satirizes our digital age with style.

Anna Pirozzi makes a welcome return to the Metropolitan Opera, but Turandot remains as thorny as ever.

How do we face worsening ecological change with anything other than despair? This is the question at the heart of Vancouver Art Gallery’s latest exhibition. Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change is the first major show in Canada to examine the intersection of contemporary art and climate change on a global scale. As Curator at Large Eva Respini says: “Artists are not scientists, nor are they journalists, but they have a role to play in asking questions about our future on this planet. In this century shaped by climate change, that act of imagining is both a necessity and a form of resistance.” Research by the World Health Organisation shows that 3.6 billion people already live in...

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I skipped the New York art fairs this season. Went to none, not even the so-called "anti-fair" fairs. It was a choice, a kind of detox. And guess what? I don't feel like I missed anything. Soon after, a spate of auctions culminated in the record-breaking sale of a Jackson Pollock for $181 million at Christie's. I wasn't there either, and I had 181 million reasons to not care.Instead, I kept thinking of pioneering performance artist Linda Montano, who's now 84. She invited our contributor Taliesin Thomas into her home-shrine in Upstate NY, welcoming her in a devotional chicken costume. God bless "Chicken Linda." I urge you to read this profile.I was also thinking about Gabrielle...

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Transforming the Ritual of Letter Writing into Sculptural Design
 
As handwritten letters quietly disappear from daily life, designer Maja Stamenković translates the ritual of correspondence into a sculptural object. Named Love Letters »M«, the collectible side table reimagines the letter M as a three-dimensional form, crowned by a triangular volume inspired by the flap of an opened envelope. The project continues Stamenković’s ongoing Love Letters series of nightstands, where the drawer previously took the form of an envelope.
 
In this new iteration, the envelope is abstracted into geometry and typography: the letter M becomes the structure itself, shifting the series from functional storage...

“Contaminazioni della Storia”, bipersonale di Fulvio Dot e Sandra Zeugna in corso alla Galleria d’arte contemporanea di Monfalcone, mette a confronto due artisti approdati nel corso delle loro carriere a ricerche visivamente antitetiche.
Fulvio Dot, “Game over”, 2025, tecnica mista e ferro su tela, 80×80 cm, courtesy dell’artista
Fulvio Dot lavora per sedimentazione e innesto: i suoi strati di colle, malte, stucchi e teli militari costruiscono palinsesti urbani in cui la Venezia lagunare si incrocia con segnali digitali, icone dei social media, codici binari, errori di sistema. La città è memoria che si corrode e dato che si accumula; la superficie pittorica è una scheda madre in cui il passato...

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Zineb Sedira has long occupied a singular position within contemporary art – an artist whose practice moves fluidly between film, photography, installation and performance to interrogate the fragile architecture of memory, migration and postcolonial identity. Born in Paris to Algerian parents and later establishing herself in London, Sedira has spent decades tracing the emotional residue left by geopolitical rupture, often focusing on the afterlives of displacement and the silences embedded within official histories. Her installations are marked by a cinematic sensibility that privileges atmosphere as much as narrative, creating spaces where archives become living organisms and spectators become participants...

a playground among the olive trees
 
Cheshm Cheran Bazi Playground by ZAV Architects winds through a vast olive orchard in Minoudasht, north-eastern Iran. Set beside the Cheshm Cheran building, a rural complex the studio completed in 2017 for visitor stays and collective farm activity, the playground extends the project into the orchard through a raised network of platforms, bridges, stairs, and play elements.
 
Bright yellow flooring cuts through the silver-green trees, while deep red steel frames trace curved routes across the grove. The structure moves around trunks, rises into the canopy, and drops back toward the ground, keeping the orchard present from every angle.
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The previously popular bipartisan legislation was undone by Republican additions about “biological women” and allowing Trump to override its location on the National Mall

The artist’s new large-scale sculptures in Madison Square Park pay homage to the island’s diaspora and its most beloved figures

Brent Sikkema (photo courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Company)A federal jury has found Daniel Sikkema guilty for his role in the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, the New York art dealer Brent Sikkema.The 75-year-old gallerist was stabbed 18 times in his Rio de Janeiro townhouse in the early hours of January 14, 2024, in a brutal crime that shocked the art world and left Sikkema's loved ones searching for answers. The main suspect was soon identified as Alejandro Triana Prevez, a Cuban security guard and delivery driver living in Brazil who claimed that he had been contracted by Daniel Sikkema to commit the crime. He was arrested by Brazilian law enforcement four days after the incident. Prevez remains...

In Columbia University’s MFA show, artist Alejandro Valencia loudly names the elephant in the room: The Manhattan school’s institutional failure to come to terms with Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. “DYNAMO (RATM01)” (2026) is included in the Visual Arts + Sound Art Class of 2026’s thesis exhibition, on view at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery through this Sunday, May 24. The work resembles an engine room, alluding to the institution's hidden machinery. Its three modules feature sundials, evoking the university campus’ iconic central landmark, but compressing and constricting what they precariously hold. Columbia’s 2026 graduating MFA cohort had to weather a storm on the way...

After a day of Googling why my back hurt (sedentary computer lifestyle, inflamed SI joint), it only made sense that the art fair I attended the same afternoon would contain some element of human-technology body horror.When I arrived at the Thursday press preview for Focus Art Fair, dedicated to Asian art and held at Chelsea Industrial through Sunday, May 24, it seemed fitting that I would walk into a lobby filled with digital elements. I immediately met a recording of myself on a computer screen, but this version of me had a giant eyeball superimposed on her. The interactive installation, "What if two eyes don't work together?" by South Korean artist Hwia Kim, is the first taste visitors get of the...

English Heritage, a charity that manages over 400 historic sites across England, unveiled their reconstruction of a 4,500-year-old building at Stonehenge on Friday. The $1.34 million, 23-foot-high Kusuma Neolithic Hall, which will open this summer, aims to help visitors imagine the lives of Stonehenge’s prehistoric builders. The hall is based on the footprint of a long-vanished building at the nearby Neolithic archaeological site Durrington Walls and was built over nine months by more than 100 volunteers. Under the guidance of award-winning experimental archaeologist Luke Winter, the volunteers used only prehistoric tools, including stone axes, and locally sourced materials such as reed thatch, pine timbers,...

Daniel Sikkema, the estranged husband of murdered New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, was found guilty Friday in a Manhattan federal court, according to the Wall Street Journal. Daniel Sikkema faced charges tied to a murder-for-hire plot that prosecutors said led to the dealer’s killing at his vacation home in Rio de Janeiro in 2024.  The case has gripped the art world since Brent Sikkema, the founder of the Chelsea gallery then known as Sikkema Jenkins & Co., was found stabbed to death in Brazil at age 75. Prosecutors argued that Daniel Sikkema orchestrated the killing from New York amid a bitter divorce and custody dispute involving the couple’s son. Federal prosecutors accused Daniel Sikkema of...

Legislation aimed at advancing the construction of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum in Washington, DC, failed in the House on May 21 after Democrats rejected changes added to the bill by Republicans in March, the New York Times reports. According to Politico, the bill, presented by Republican Representative Nicole Malliotakis, of New York, was […]

Unionized staff at the Ohio State University's (OSU) Wexner Center for the Arts have officially called for the renaming of the institution and other campus buildings named after Les Wexner, the university's billionaire benefactor who had granted convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein power of attorney over his massive fortune for decades. In its official statement to the university, Wex Workers United said that the retail magnate's name “does a profound disservice to the incredible artists we work with and to our community members who deserve to engage with art without feeling complicit in supporting human traffickers, rapists, and pedophiles.”A union representative who spoke to...

President Donald Trump announced the idea of building a triumphal arch, modeled on Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, at a holiday party last December. At the time, he said that planning and construction of the proposed arch should be domestic policy chief Vince Haley’s “primary thing.” The project’s architect, Nicolas Leo Charbonneau, a principal at the firm Harrison Design and leader of its “Sacred Architecture Studio,” told the New York Times that “the intent of the arch is a celebration in America of 250 years of greatness, freedom, and posterity, for which we can only thank the wisdom of our founders and God’s providence.” The proposal was met with almost immediate pushback from the general...

Unionized staffers at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, have demanded that the institution remove top funder Les Wexner’s name from its moniker following the discovery of his close ties to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. According to a May 21 post to their Instagram, Wexner Workers United (WWU), under the […]

Manuel Segade, the director of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain’s national museum of 20th century art, has been threatened by lawmakers with removal from his post if he fails to complete an inventory of the museum’s collection by December 31st of this year, ARTnews reports.  Following his appointment in 2023, Segade has […]

Combined, the prizes will provide as much as $113,200 for acquisitions at the fair

A new residency exclusively meant for Indigenous artists working with neon for the first time is launching as the result of a collaboration between the Walker Youngbird Foundation, a Native-led nonprofit supporting Indigenous artists, and Lite Brite Neon Studio, a neon fabrication workshop based in Kingston, New York. “I have always been fascinated with light […]

Works by famed Canadian figures including Emily Carr, Tom Thomson, Jean Paul Riopelle and Takao Tanabe also notched major results

Jack White, who growled and grinded as the singer/guitarist of the White Stripes and has since positioned himself as a primal rock god on his own, is showing a new side as a sculptor with a show opening in a London gallery run by none other than Damien Hirst. As chronicled in the Financial Times, he two artists first met in 2021, when White was readying a new outpost of his Nashville-based Third Man Records store in Soho, across the street from Hirst’s studio. White played a show from Hirst’s balcony for the opening and caused a scene: “The guerrilla concert brought the neighbourhood to a standstill; a crowd of thousands sang along to The White Stripes’ driving anthem, ‘Seven Nation Army.” When...

Tens of thousands of works were taken and most were never returned, but Museo del Prado identified 166 from its collection and is leading the return efforts

Photography is often touted as the most democratic and accessible medium in the visual arts. Today, the majority of us carry phones equipped with powerful, easy-to-use cameras that capture our lives and the world around us, transforming each of us into a documentarian at a moment’s notice. This omnipresence shapes our understanding of art and culture and often serves as a critical tool for political and social change. The same is true for a forthcoming exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985 transports viewers to the mid-20th century, when the medium rose to prominence not only for artists but also for organizers, activists, and cultural icons....

a garden lifted into object form
 
With Slow Dream, OF A brings a dark botanical landscape into the Great Pavilion at the Chelsea Flower Show 2026, where the garden appears to rise from the floor as a living object. Presented from May 19th to 23rd, the installation marks the second expression in the studio’s ongoing OF A GARDEN series, following Moon Garden, first shown during Frieze Week London 2025.
 
OF A works across objects, environments, exhibitions, and landscapes. With this series, the studio, founded by Ralu Emandi and Laura Lim Sam, treats the garden as a sculptural body.
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slow dream at chelsea flower show 2026
 
At this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, OF A‘s Slow...

Nature 2.0: an AI robot in a hybrid biological-mechanical body
 
Monsieur Plant’s Nature 2.0 is a robot equipped with artificial intelligence that stands before us, not as a cold, autonomous entity, but as a body traversed, inhabited, and transformed by nature. Its clothing subverts contemporary codes: baggy pants and a loose-fitting sweatshirt, both made of plant-based foam. Clothing, a cultural and social symbol, becomes an extension of life.
all images courtesy of Monsieur Plant — Christophe Guinet
 
 
Monsieur Plant explores links between nature and technology
 
At the heart, an opening reveals an unexpected interior: not metallic circuits, but an intertwining of earth, roots, and organic matter....

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You saw them here first. This summer, we spotlight the exciting new talent emerging from the UK’s leading art schools. Graduate shows are where major careers begin, offering an early glimpse of the artists and makers set to shape the future of contemporary visual culture. They also demonstrate the importance of arts education, demonstrating how creativity influences every aspect of the world around us. Discover how the class of 2026 is responding to the defining issues of our time across a wide range of disciplines. Arts University Plymouth: Graduate Shows 2026 | 21 May – 30 July In Plymouth, this season is dedicated to propelling the designers and makers of tomorrow into the creative industries. The...

Harvard Medical School describes scents as “like a key being inserted into a lock” when it comes to our memory. Smells can trigger an emotional response, a vivid recollection or a specific feeling. Consider getting a whiff of a long-forgotten perfume, or a food once cooked by a beloved grandparent. This concept has long been explored by creatives, with olfactory art utilising scent as a way to evoke memories, challenge societal norms and create immersive spaces. Major figures in this space include Anicka Yi, Mike Kelley and Peter de Cupere. Now, artist Keni Li explores this topic in her latest series, Fluid Memory: Wings (2025-2026), which explores how memory can be reconstructed through images, scent...

Nadine Sierra's Gilda at the Metropolitan Opera had that rare quality of sounding both immaculate and spontaneous, as if Verdi's lines were being discovered in the moment rather than executed.

Christo (1935–2020) never treated space as neutral. Across a practice developed in tandem with Jeanne-Claude, he recast it as something provisional – something that could be tightened, sealed, withheld or briefly made strange. Born in Bulgaria and later based in Paris, his early years under political constraint shaped a lifelong interest in restriction as material condition. What might appear, at first glance, as acts of concealment were in fact acts of disclosure: buildings wrapped, coastlines interrupted, monuments turned temporarily unreadable. In each case, the familiar was not erased but delayed, forcing attention back onto the act of looking itself. The work did not sit in space so much as...

Era da tempo che l’inaugurazione della Biennale Arte non suscitava così tanto clamore. La 61. Esposizione Internazionale ha cominciato a far parlare di sé a partire dalle polemiche con cui è stata accolta la pubblicazione dell’elenco degli artisti invitati dalla curatrice Koyo Kouoh, scomparsa a maggio 2025, per la precisa ed escludente polarizzazione geografica di cui è espressione. Al dibattito sulla geopolitica artistica configurata dalla ricognizione, seppure non sappiamo fino a che punto compiuta, della potente critica d’arte camerunese naturalizzata svizzera si sono sovrapposte, nelle settimane precedenti l’apertura, ancora più infuocate diatribe in cui l’arte supposta essere al centro...

Artists iterating on a seemingly mundane object is one of our favorite exhibition concepts. Vintage envelopes, coasters, and matchboxes are just a fraction of the items galleries have offered as unique canvases for small works, and now, we can add nighlights to that list. On view through June 26, DUDD LITE is a collaboration between the design collective Dudd Haus and the gallery The Future Perfect. Curated through an open call that garnered nearly 400 submissions, the playful exhibition presents more than 130 artist-designed nightlights made from stained glass, wood, seashells, ceramic, cotton, and more. The small works hover between sculpture and functional object, each reflecting a distinctive sensibility...

THE THEME OF this year’s Biennale of Sydney is “rememory.” The word is drawn from Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved, and was coined to define a memory that remains in the world, no matter how hidden or repressed. It has a physicality, according to Morrison—you can “bump into a rememory that belongs to someone else,” […]

Every year, there are two major migration events. Birds, insects, fish, and many mammals head north in the spring to nest and breed and return south in the winter to feed and raise their young. Using BirdCast, a tool that’s active seasonally and allows anyone to see bird migration “heat maps” around the U.S., ornithologists tracked a record-breaking one billion birds migrating on a single October night in 2023 (last year, that number reached 1.2 billion). But on the night spanning October 4 to 5, something else really big happened: nearly 1,000 birds died in Chicago after hitting a single building. McCormick Place Lakeside Center is situated along the Lake Michigan shoreline, set apart from other...

Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego enchants and surprises despite the Disnified treatment of its subject matter.

Ospitata negli spazi della Collezione Maramotti, “Cannon Fodder” segna la prima personale di Giuditta Branconi (classe 1998) in un’istituzione d’arte. La mostra si configura come un’esplicita e lucida dissertazione sul presente, inteso come un quotidiano opprimente in cui le dinamiche emotive e politiche si intrecciano in modo inestricabile. È lo stesso titolo, traducibile letteralmente come “carne da cannone”, a esplicitare la dichiarazione d’intenti dell’artista: un riferimento diretto e urticante a quei corpi sacrificabili, a quella materia biologica e sociale destinata a essere sistematicamente consumata da un macrosistema alienante. Da questa premessa si sviluppa una pittura che non è...

If you want to participate in Pat Perry’s new photo project, you’ll have to get comfortable heading outside, grabbing a few friends, and preparing to hunt low and high for obscure spots in your neighborhood. The Detroit-based artist recently launched “Liminal Bingo,” a communal photo hunt designed specifically “for people ages 5 to 105 living in boring places or exciting places.” Open to anyone with an internet connection, the project has a simple premise: grab a camera (phones are okay, although Perry encourages film if possible), and snap photos of his illustrated prompts. When you’ve collected five in a row, you’ve got a bingo! The instructions, though, are less straightforward than the...

“Paintings arrive at the studio in all states of disrepair,” shares art conservator Julian Baumgartner, who receives artworks in need of attention all the time. He adds, “It is, however, odd to have a painting arrive in a manner that can’t help but make one wonder just how bad it is.” An anonymous portrait was indeed folded inside a parcel that itself had been mangled enough in transit to make one think, Is this going to be salvageable? For the highly trained painting restorer, though, “Fortune favors the fold.” Baumgartner has seen his fair share of bad overpainting and, in this case, pretty substantial creases, tears, and worn-away paint. He runs Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration, a...

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Photographer Chester Higgins has spent more than six decades creating images that honor the presence, history, and achievements of people of African descent. Raised in rural southern Alabama during the height of the Civil Rights movement, he discovered photography as a student at Tuskegee University, a path that would eventually lead to a nearly forty-year career as a photographer for The New York Times. Chester Higgins: Shared Memories, an exhibition spanning six decades of his work, is on view at Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York through June 20, 2026. We spoke with him about what it means to respect your subject and tell their story in a way that is ‘unique, embracing, and nonjudgmental.’ Do you...

Nato nel 1971 a Charleston, South Carolina, e attualmente di base a New York, Maxwell Stevens ha stabilito il disegno come pietra angolare della sua pratica, elevandolo a linguaggio visivo autonomo. In questa intervista, l’artista rivela la sua fascinazione per l’immediatezza e la materialità delle opere su carta, dove linea e superficie servono come veicoli dinamici per il pensiero e la riflessione emotiva. Esplorando la tensione tra figurazione e astrazione, Stevens ci invita a vedere il disegno come uno spazio intimo, “palinsestico” che, nella sua semplicità elementale, cattura la complessità frammentata della nostra esperienza contemporanea.
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By Mary Singh Los Angeles has been in a prolonged conversation about monuments. Co-organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art and The Brick, and co-curated by Hamza Walker, Kara Walker, and Bennett Simpson, earlier this year, "MONUMENTS" brought ten decommissioned Confederate statues into the Geffen Contemporary's vast industrial space, placing them in direct dialogue with contemporary works by nineteen artists. Praised by the Los Angeles Times as "the most significant show in an American...

Alla Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, la prima personale istituzionale italiana di Lenz Geerk, Theatre of the Mind, si presenta come un dispositivo percettivo in cui la pittura regola le circostanze dell’apparizione. La mostra elabora un campo in cui sagoma, spazio e tempo non si danno simultaneamente, ma come scansioni differite, in cui la visione arriva sempre leggermente dopo il proprio accadere. Nei dipinti di Geerk non si dispiegano rappresentazioni semplici. Figure, oggetti e situazioni coesistono in configurazioni instabili e gli elementi non tendono a una sintesi, ma rimangono in uno stato di connessione irrisolta, in cui ciò che affiora non coincide mai davvero con ciò che si compie.
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By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

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By Lacey Argus It's easy to miss the bite-sized rainbows orbiting around the travertine surfaces of The Getty Center's Main Entrance. Some people breeze by them, eager to visit the various galleries that lie just beyond them. Others dash through them as they rush into a crowded bathroom line. Some briefly glance upward at the towering glass light prisms suspended from the atrium enclosing the space. But not children. If you spend an afternoon amongst these rainbows, you're sure to notice...

W hen we connect over Zoom, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, aka Shoplifter, is in Bentonville, Arkansas preparing to unveil Xanadu, a large-scale, outdoor installation at Format Festival. “It’s going to be like an alien forest that people at the festival roam around in and space out,” says Arnardóttir of the installation, consisting of ten poles ranging in […]
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What do you get when you combine an obsessive urge to create, sleep deprivation, climate change anxiety, and penchant for enchanted nature realms? Amy Casey shows us firsthand, through her infinitely detailed paintings of manmade structures, either clashing or peacefully coexisting with natural environments. In these pieces we might find repetitions of fungi, leaves, and […]
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