WHAT HAPPENS TO MATERIALS AFTER THE EXHIBITION?
 
Japanese designer Takuto Ohta explores the afterlife of temporary architecture with log x, a furniture project developed from approximately 200 Yoshino cedar logs originally used for an exhibition. Sourced from Nara Prefecture, the timber had been milled with a kerf — a deliberate slit intended to reduce cracking as the wood dries — and was left without a clear purpose once the installation came down. Ohta acquired the entire batch, irregularities included, and brought it to SKWAT in Kameari, Tokyo, where the material became the basis for a two-month design experiment.
 
Instead of beginning with a predetermined collection, Ohta worked directly with the...

Rock, Paper, Scissors will bring together more than 200 works by people in criminal justice settings

CROCODILES TAKE ON THE BEACH
 
Peleg Design brings a little reptilian assistance to windy beach days with Crococlips, a set of crocodile-shaped grips designed to keep towels securely in place. Attached to the corners of a towel, the compact accessories clamp onto the fabric and help prevent it from folding, shifting or taking an unscheduled trip across the sand when the wind picks up.
 
The idea follows the studio’s familiar formula of combining function with visual humor. Rather than disguising the mechanism, Crococlips turn the gripping action itself into the joke: the crocodile’s open jaws close around the textile, transforming a straightforward fastening device into a characterful beach companion....

a bamboo lotus rises in ubud, bali
 
Pablo Luna Studio completes a bamboo pavilion for yoga in Bali whose roof spreads outward to recall a lotus when seen from above. The reference is literal enough to read from the air, while the building feels looser from the ground, where the petal edges extend beyond a circular floor deck and a sparse ring of bamboo supports. Set on a planted slope beside a river, the shala sits slightly above the terrain, with the forest continuing right up to its edge.
 
The architects began developing Lotus Yoga Shala in 2021 and describes it as one of the first buildings through which the practice explored biomimicry. The broad lotus silhouette was maintained throughout the long...

The recent release of A-level and GSCE data for UK students and schools has renewed calls to ‘revitalise arts education’

OPPOSITE OFFICE TAKES DOWNSIZING TO THE TREETOPS
 
Munich-based architecture practice Opposite Office has opened its latest workplace inside a tree on the historic campus of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Named Baumhaus Office, the approximately one-square-meter structure responds to a fairly terrestrial problem: Munich’s high office rents. Since much of the studio’s work already takes place across changing international locations, the architects began questioning whether an internationally operating practice needed a large permanent headquarters at all.
 
The answer is a tiny elevated workspace designed for two to three architects, temporarily installed in one of the campus trees while Opposite Office...

Since its launch in 1990, The Art Newspaper has developed into a multi-platform brand that has upheld its reputation as the ‘journal of record’ for the art world

HUT-SPOT stands on the edge of the forest, where the vegetation of the Romagna hills in Italy is gradually reclaiming an asphalt clearing, a former tennis court abandoned for decades. It is a threshold between two worlds with different logics. Here, at this point of transition between the artificial and nature reclaiming its space, the pavilion finds its meaning, gathering pruning waste and dry branches from the forest into a modular structure that forms a zigurat within a parallelepiped grid: a layering of waste that is both primitive and contemporary.

François Prost captures Japan’s quirky Love Hotel facades
 
Photographer François Prost unveils Love Hotel, a photo series capturing the facades of Japan‘s love hotels during a 2023 road trip from Tokyo to Shikoku Island. The collection focuses on roadside architecture, showcasing faded signage and colorful facades that reflect a specific aspect of Japanese popular culture. This visual documentation shifts away from conventional depictions of Japan, instead painting a vernacular portrait of the area, highlighting the, often overlooked, design elements of these unusual establishments.
all images by François Prost
 
 
Love Hotel series to be published as monographic photo book
 
The series explores...

The Hong Kong-based artist also discusses the importance of art history and personal history in her work, and the importance she places on the location she is exhibiting in

The gallery's founder, Princess Nouf bint Abdulaziz Al Saud, wants to platform local Saudi and regional artists

The media library and music school are built against an ochre cliff, which gives them unique character. The aim here was to place a modern construction in one of Europe's most beautiful medieval towns, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and characterized by the golden hue of its maze of quaint alleyways with old townhouses.

Brick is one of Colombia's most widely used materials, helping its local architecture stand out globally. This is due to the excellent quality of the clay found in several regions of the country. In addition to cladding most of the buildings that define Bogota's urban landscape, the material is used in all its forms, from adobe to floor tiles in rural homes.

Transborder designs Arctic Ocean museum in wood, aluminum, and local stone.

Mexican sculptor Pedro Reyes has developed a multidisciplinary practice that spans sculpture, architecture, social engagement, and activism. Trained as an architect, Reyes approaches sculpture as both a material and a collective process, combining traditional stone carving with participatory projects that address contemporary social issues. His work frequently explores transformation, whether through physical materials or community action, positioning sculpture as a tool for reimagining social realities. In a 2025 interview with Louisiana Channel, Reyes discusses the influence of architecture on his artistic practice, the concept of "social sculpture," and the importance of preserving craft traditions in an...

The recent heat waves that have set France abroil—shuttering museums, sparking wildfires, and sending citizens plunging into the Seine—have taken their toll on the famed gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny in Normandy. Among the casualties are the thousands of nasturtiums directly descended from those planted by the Impressionist more than a hundred years ago.  Lining the gardens’ central […]

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has announced a raft of new acquisitions, including works by artists entering the collection for the first time. Among these are Marie Bracquemond, T. C. Cannon, LaToya Hobbs, Stacey Kranitz, Lorraine O’Grady, and Christina Quarles. The gallery purchased O’Grady’s Mlle Bourgeoise Noire Goes to the New Museum, 1981/2007, a […]

In a ceremony that took place on Tuesday, August 19, the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky returned twenty-four cultural items from its collection to the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, both of which hail from Oklahoma. This is the first time the museum has repatriated items under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation […]

The Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, has announced that Caitlín Doherty as its new executive director. She will assume the post in October. Doherty is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in Florida. She joined the institution joined the instiuttion in 2017, following a tenure as chief curator at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan. At the time of her appointment to MOCA Jacksonville, its board said she possessed an “X factor, that rare quality that sets an individual apart.” Her nine years at MOCA Jacksonville saw the museum’s endowment double, attendance steadily increase, and its collection expand. MOCA Jacksonville celebrated its centenary in 2024 with a major...

A recently discovered website is using images of paintings by Jordan Casteel to represent the work of a seemingly fictitious artist named Rebecca Tremblay. The site has also purportedly been contacting people about exhibitions and other opportunities.  Casteel says she does not know who is behind the site. On August 17, she posted a message to her verified Instagram account […]

The booming market for South Asian art has been flooded with forgeries. With auction sales for South Asian art exceeding $100 million in 2025 alone, both major names and middle-market artists are finding their work targeted by forgers. “We are seeing an awful lot more dodgy stuff on the market,” Charles Moore, of London’s Grosvenor […]

Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center and the artist Olalekan Jeyifous are refuting accusations by some museum visitors that his work was made using generative AI, reports MPR News. Jeyifous, born in Nigeria and living in New York, is also an architect and designer, and uses some of the digital tools that are often employed in those fields. His first museum solo, “Hydricosmic Litanies,” is organized by the Walker’s associate curator for visual arts, Taylor Jasper. The show, which includes video, sculpture, and soundscapes, draws on African diasporic cosmologies in treating topics like colonization, industrialization, and technological advancement as it impacts our relationship to the environment. It also...

Minneapolis police have identified one of two people they believe stole roughly $80,000 worth of artwork from the studio of 80-year-old artist Leon Hushcha, in a burglary that involved a UPS vest, a handcart, and, apparently, another artist. Ricardo Andres Bassat, 56, has been charged with felony burglary and is due in Hennepin County District Court on Monday, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune. Police are still looking for his alleged accomplice. Court records, the Star Tribune reported, describe Bassat as an “amateur artist who is familiar with different styles of artwork.” The burglary happened early on June 2 at Hushcha’s studio in Minneapolis’s North Loop neighborhood. Surveillance footage...

Gagosian sent out a decidedly sparse press release about Jordan Wolfson’s first show with the gallery in New York, set to open September 18 at its 555 West 24th Street space in Chelsea. The description of the new work to be shown reads, in its entirety: “A selection of new uniformly scaled sculptures incorporates emblematic color and black-and-white photographs, sourced online and from personal and academic archives, that resonate with art history, popular culture, and Wolfson’s own preoccupations.” Other than that, there’s mention of a conversation between the artist and Ottessa Moshfegh (the writer of such novels as Lapvona, Death in Her Hands, and My Year of Rest and Relaxation) to be published in...

The controversy surrounding the renaming of the “Taiwan Pavilion” at the upcoming edition of the Gwangju Biennale, opening next month, has escalated to an international diplomacy dispute. The self-governed island’s culture ministry says it “strongly protests” the Korean biennial scrubbing the agreed-upon name from its presentation, vowing to take “necessary action” if the exhibition’s organizers breach the agreement. “[Taiwan] will firmly participate in the Gwangju Biennale under the banner of ‘Taiwan Pavilion,’” the Ministry of Culture reiterated on Thursday, the second statement this week addressing the matter. The dispute dates to June when the Taiwanese Culture Ministry first...

 
Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
   
The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
The post Future Relics: The Art of Morgan Sorensen first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
The post Human/Nature: Animals Go Underground In the Paintings of Matthew Grabelsky first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

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.

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...

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

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...

 
Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...

In the forest nothing stands still. Time layered through thoughts and feelings, leaves kicked and crunched as we walk. The trees talk to each other, sending mycelium messages, carbon gifts, and warnings of drought or illness. From ancient wisdom to popular culture, it’s all here.
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, did it make a sound? Of course it did. And if Jo Stapleton was there to capture the moment, there would be a visual symphony of light, shape and form to follow.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, this beautiful collection of 100 images by Jo Stapleton is an expressionist photographic account of her interactions with trees, forest and woodland, later remembered and...

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here. We also mark an...

The Undercurrent Surfaces There are moments in a country’s creative consciousness when the atmosphere tilts. For many of the designers showing at Zurich Fashion Week 2026, the seeds were sown during last year’s pre‑events. And so, after more than twelve months of preparation, this was the week their work stepped fully into the light — an undercurrent now rising into a transformative movement in modern style. As I walked into the Kongresshaus Zurich this February, the first edition of Zurich...