Jagdish Swaminathan, "The Sign and the Altar" (1964), oil on canvas (photograph © Christie’s Images/Bridgeman Images; all images courtesy Yale University Press)What links Indian artist Abanindranath Tagore, Mexican poet Octavio Paz, and Martinican philosopher Frantz Fanon?Spanning five decades and three continents, these luminaries sought to decolonize Western imperial frameworks through art and literature, within the emergent “Third World.” The catchall term that reeks with prejudice, coined by French anthropologist Alfred Sauvy, initially described African, Latin American, and Asian nations that were not aligned with the capitalist Western bloc during and after the Cold War. It has now been replaced...
first 3D printed airport building in bergamo, italy
The dubbed first 3D printed airport building in Bergamo, Italy, is made up of lime-based mixture that can help capture and reduce carbon emissions. Designed by WASP, the structure acts as a small service building inside the logistics park of Milan Bergamo Airport. It has restrooms, a rest area for customs personnel, and walls that were printed by a machine rather than laid by hand. The team calls it Ol Casél, a phrase in the local Bergamo dialect that means ‘the little house,’ which lives up to how it is.
The whole structure, from the first line of printed material to the day it was handed over, took 19 days, with the printing itself taking...
The dubbed first 3D printed airport building in Bergamo, Italy, is made up of lime-based mixture that can help capture and reduce carbon emissions. Designed by WASP, the structure acts as a small service building inside the logistics park of Milan Bergamo Airport. It has restrooms, a rest area for customs personnel, and walls that were printed by a machine rather than laid by hand. The team calls it Ol Casél, a phrase in the local Bergamo dialect that means ‘the little house,’ which lives up to how it is.
The whole structure, from the first line of printed material to the day it was handed over, took 19 days, with the printing itself taking...
The Central Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, located within the Giardini della Biennale, has undergone a complete renovation ahead of the opening of the show’s 2026 edition in May. The total budget for the renovation was €31 million ($36 million); public funding was supplied by the the Italian Ministry of Culture’s National Plan for Complementary Investments of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). The project is also part of the Culture Ministry’s “Great Cultural Heritage Attractors” program, which includes the enhancement of 22 sites around Venice that are connected to the Biennale. Construction for the renovation, which has introduced a stark contrast between white walls and black...
Six years after the city of Wilmington, Delaware, took it down in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests that roiled the United States, the National Park Service plans to reinstate a statue of Caesar Rodney—a signer of the Declaration of Independence who enslaved more than 200 people at the plantation he owned—in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. As reported by the Washington Post, which cited Interior Department documents obtained by the paper, the statue’s resurrection is a planned part of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration this summer. The statue would stand for up to six months on a concourse on Pennsylvania Avenue in the plaza named in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. When asked to confirm...
A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed early Sunday on the White House grounds, as part of President Trump’s effort to restore the explorer’s public standing after monuments to him were removed across the country in 2020. The sculpture was placed on the north side of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building facing Pennsylvania Avenue, according to the New York Times. It is a replica of a statue that protesters in Baltimore tore down and dumped into the Inner Harbor during the racial justice protests that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Fragments of the original were later recovered from the water by a team organized by the Maryland artist Tilghman Hemsley. His son, Will Hemsley,...
The portrait has been deemed “a work of major historical and artistic interest“ for France’s national heritage
Any dog owner can appreciate the kind of unfettered, often visceral reactions canines have to everything from their favorite treats to a scurrying squirrel to another dog passing by the window. Their lack of inhibition and legendary fidelity bring comfort, routine, and goofiness to our daily lives despite their total unawareness of their effects on us. For Stephen Morrison, curiosity and play find their way into vibrant, quirky paintings that “invite viewers to rediscover the magic and absurdity often obscured by the routine,” he says. Morrison’s practice has lately revolved around trompe l’œil compositions of everyday objects and tableaux in which dogs’ features appear unexpectedly. A snout stands...
Mary Iverson paints bucolic, sweeping landscapes reminiscent of the late nine-teenth century that look as if were discovered in the dusty corners of an underrated thrift store. At first look, I assume the canvases are found objects, painted over and re-imagined as something quite different than the original painter intended. This is only partially true. […]
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Sheep Grazing Shapes a Regenerative Urban Heath System
Heath Hiking is a landscape proposal that investigates the reintroduction of heathland ecology within an urban context in London. Located between Hampstead Heath and Brent Cross, the project examines how fragmented city edges can be reconfigured into a continuous ecological corridor that supports both human activity and non-human systems.
The proposal is grounded in the historical and environmental significance of Hampstead Heath, extending its landscape logic toward Clitterhouse Playing Fields. It focuses on heathland as a semi-natural, low-nutrient ecosystem that has largely disappeared from contemporary urban environments. The design explores how...
Heath Hiking is a landscape proposal that investigates the reintroduction of heathland ecology within an urban context in London. Located between Hampstead Heath and Brent Cross, the project examines how fragmented city edges can be reconfigured into a continuous ecological corridor that supports both human activity and non-human systems.
The proposal is grounded in the historical and environmental significance of Hampstead Heath, extending its landscape logic toward Clitterhouse Playing Fields. It focuses on heathland as a semi-natural, low-nutrient ecosystem that has largely disappeared from contemporary urban environments. The design explores how...
Mark Rothko and his first wife, Edith Sachar, put down roots in a small apartment within a Greek Revival townhouse in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood in the 1930s. There, the late abstract expressionist—famously known for his color field technique—created the painting titled “Thru the Window,” inscribing the back with the building’s address, “313 E 6th,” along with his signature. The entire multifamily building sold for $45,000 in the 1970s to pioneering filmmaker Emile de Antonio, known for his documentaries on the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War. Later, artist Alfred Leslie used the garden level as his studio.After a fire destroyed the top floor of the prewar dwelling in...
As with most conversations about money, understanding how artists fund their practices and lives is rarely discussed and always of intrigue. Mason Currey dives into this underexplored topic in his new book Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life. Currey is known for documenting the day-to-day routines of hundreds of artists, writers, filmmakers, designers, musicians, and more. Making Art and Making a Living is in the same vein, revealing how family money, day jobs, schemes, and more have buoyed artists through the ages. In partnership with EXPO Chicago and the Chicago Athletic Association, we’re thrilled to celebrate the launch of Currey’s new book. Join us on April 8 for...
Russia has been warned by Venice’s mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, that if its pavilion peddles propaganda at the upcoming biennial, it will be shutdown.Brugnaro was addressing media at the opening of the Venice Biennale’s revamped Central Pavilion, which cost €31 million and took 16 months to complete. “If the Russian government were to carry out propaganda, we would be the first to close the pavilion,” Brugnaro told the Ansa press agency.Russia’s decision to reopen its pavilion for the first time since invading Ukraine four years ago has polarized the art world. Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco—who has not opposed the move—and Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli—who has—have...
Jan Erik Waider has a knack for capturing shorelines, volcanic eruptions, and glaciers at their most mesmerizing—shrouded in mist, glowing in the darkness, or illuminated by pale northern light. His atmospheric photographs of icy seas and rugged landscapes from Iceland to the Antarctic, focus on dramatic forms and cast remote places into a dreamy ethereality. Most recently, Waider captured a striking phenomenon in the Baltic Sea, just off the coast of northern Germany. Fresh ice formed a thin layer on the rolling surface, creating faceted, polygon-like shapes that moved gently and rhythmically with the waves without breaking apart. Waider’s aerial drone perspective creates an otherworldly, almost totally...
The exhibition at the Grand Palais includes more than 300 works from the last 13 years of the artist’s life
The painter was influenced by Pointillism and Cubism, but had a distinctive style that transcended both movements
Show examines the rich legacy of Yves Klein’s father Fred Klein, his mother Marie Raymond and his widow Rotraut Klein-Moquay
Ahead of his first season as the Music & Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic, how much longer can — and should — Gustavo Dudamel stay quiet about the situation in his native Venezuela?
Sami Farra is this artist we selected for this year’s Capture Photography Festival! Sami is an architect and photographer based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Combining image and object, his work questions the photographic medium in its representation of reality, offering a unique vision of our shared environment. Sami’s interest in images developed during his architecture studies which led him to explore the links between photography and architecture in greater depth at CEPV (Centre d’enseignement professionnel de Vevey).
As the winner of our open call Sami’s work will be installed at the Olympic Village Canada Line Station in Vancouver. The images on display are part of a project involving accidental...
As the winner of our open call Sami’s work will be installed at the Olympic Village Canada Line Station in Vancouver. The images on display are part of a project involving accidental...
Matthias Pintscher’s Nuit sans aube at the Opéra Comique conjures up plenty of atmosphere — but not much else.
The scheme will aim to address imbalances in the cultural sector, explore transcultural perspectives and engage with communities
AGWA hosts paola pivi’s most expansive presentation yet
Paola Pivi’s exhibition I don’t like it, I love it at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) brings together one of the most ambitious bodies of work in her thirty-year practice, pairing long-imagined pieces with major new commissions that inhabit the Brutalist architecture of the museum at full scale. Conceived through extended dialogue with AGWA’s curatorial team, the show pushes, as Pivi says, ‘the entire boundary,’ expanding her ongoing investigation of joy, urgency, and the evolving conditions of freedom today. ‘I am one of the luckiest human beings and artists, given the chance to be able to freely express myself,’ the...
Paola Pivi’s exhibition I don’t like it, I love it at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) brings together one of the most ambitious bodies of work in her thirty-year practice, pairing long-imagined pieces with major new commissions that inhabit the Brutalist architecture of the museum at full scale. Conceived through extended dialogue with AGWA’s curatorial team, the show pushes, as Pivi says, ‘the entire boundary,’ expanding her ongoing investigation of joy, urgency, and the evolving conditions of freedom today. ‘I am one of the luckiest human beings and artists, given the chance to be able to freely express myself,’ the...
in mexico, layered form draws from street life and tradition
Located in the historic center of San José del Cabo, Mexico, Laiva Plaza Hotel, designed by RA! and developed by LAIVA, is conceived as an extension of the city. The boutique hotel connects public life with private retreat, integrating into the pedestrian fabric while introducing shared spaces.
The project is organized through a system of interwoven walls that create patios and terraces across different levels, elements that regulate light, ventilation, and privacy. The volume steps back progressively, aligning with the scale of the surrounding fabric and avoiding abrupt contrasts within the historic context.
The rhythmic repetition of the...
Located in the historic center of San José del Cabo, Mexico, Laiva Plaza Hotel, designed by RA! and developed by LAIVA, is conceived as an extension of the city. The boutique hotel connects public life with private retreat, integrating into the pedestrian fabric while introducing shared spaces.
The project is organized through a system of interwoven walls that create patios and terraces across different levels, elements that regulate light, ventilation, and privacy. The volume steps back progressively, aligning with the scale of the surrounding fabric and avoiding abrupt contrasts within the historic context.
The rhythmic repetition of the...
Now that the opening fanfare has died down on the Whitney Biennial, the dust largely settled, we can look at the exhibition with a clear gaze — and an eye toward history. How will this biennial be remembered? Will it be remembered? This year’s edition is muted, somber, moody — frightened, Hyperallergic’s editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara argues. “Barring a few exceptions,” he writes, “I got the sense that the Whitney Biennial is hiding from the world today instead of reflecting on it.” Read his review below.Also today: John Yau remembers Thaddeus Mosley, Israel moves to ban NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji, artists grapple with sexual abuse allegations against labor leader Cesar Chávez, and our art...
Tancredi Pasero is so noble in mien and rich-voiced here, a perfect complement to Caniglia's earthy Leonora who honestly charts the movement from despair to fervent, transcendent faith in this duet.
Healing wastelands using non-motored bionic tumbleweed ball
To heal the wastelands, designer Yizhuo Guo creates a bionic Tumbleweed plant-inspired ‘nomad’ ball that rolls around to plant seeds. A passive, unpowered biomimetic structure, the device named Wasteland Nomad moves through a damaged landscape without a motor, a power source, or a human operator, and deposits the materials the soil needs to begin recovering. The design draws from the tumbleweed, which is a plant that, once it dries out and detaches from its root, rolls across open ground driven by wind. As it rolls, it disperses seeds using aerodynamics to spread its reproductive material across a wide area. Yizhuo Guo took that behavior and...
To heal the wastelands, designer Yizhuo Guo creates a bionic Tumbleweed plant-inspired ‘nomad’ ball that rolls around to plant seeds. A passive, unpowered biomimetic structure, the device named Wasteland Nomad moves through a damaged landscape without a motor, a power source, or a human operator, and deposits the materials the soil needs to begin recovering. The design draws from the tumbleweed, which is a plant that, once it dries out and detaches from its root, rolls across open ground driven by wind. As it rolls, it disperses seeds using aerodynamics to spread its reproductive material across a wide area. Yizhuo Guo took that behavior and...
Movement, memory and the infrastructures that quietly shape daily life underpin Phoebe Boswell’s latest commission for London’s Underground, where escalators become both conduit and canvas. Water threads through the work as a conceptual and historical force, linking subterranean rivers with human passage above them. The project situates transit as a site of reflection, where repetition and routine open onto questions of belonging and visibility. Beneath the surface of the city, layered geographies and suppressed ecologies echo the lived experiences of those who move through its spaces. Boswell’s intervention reframes the Underground as a place where histories converge, diverge and resurface in unexpected...
La premessa da cui muove la pratica dell’artista olandese Anneke Eussen (Kerkrade, 1978, vive a Vaals), di cui è in corso la prima mostra personale in Italia alla Galleria Studio G7 di Bologna, è l’intuizione della consistenza materica del tempo. La prima conseguenza è l’idea che i materiali (quelli da lei più frequentati sono il vetro, il marmo e il metallo) siano depositari di durate, stratificazioni e momenti vissuti che persistono nella materia anche quando la funzione originaria è venuta meno. In base a questi presupposti, ogni successiva scelta tecnica e compositiva si configura come un gesto di ascolto verso ciò il tempo ha depositato sulla superficie dei materiali infiltrandosi in...
Calvin Tomkins, whose vivid and revealing profiles of contemporary art’s most fabled figures graced the pages of the New Yorker for more than sixty years, died on March 20 at his home in Middletown, Rhode Island. He was one hundred years old. His wife, Dodie Kazanjian, told the New York Times that his death was […]
If it weren’t for being so lightweight and crisp in their facets, Goran Konjevod’s elegant vases could at first glance be mistaken for thin porcelain. Crafted instead from precisely folded paper, the works tap into the relationship between—and associations with—material, form, and function. His meticulous origami compositions combine organic forms with nuanced hues and gradients, creating a sense of visual heft and presence from thin, gauzy material. Konjevod’s work was recently included in Art of the Fold at ACCI Gallery, and “Grey Curves Vase” and “Artist’s Palette Vase” will be part of an exhibition titled The Craft of Paper: Contemporary Takes on Tradition this August at the Robert C....
Exploration and absence form the twin axes of Sophie Calle’s (b. 1953) compelling body of work. From the delicate interplay of text and image to her investigations into the seen and unseen, her art occupies a space between intimacy and universality, curiosity and revelation. Themes of love, memory, longing, beauty, and mortality pulse throughout her practice, inviting viewers to reconsider the boundaries of perception. In her latest exhibition, Something Missing?, opening 26 March at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, Calle presents seven major series alongside additional works spanning nearly four decades. Totalling more than 300 individual pieces of photographs, texts and videos, the exhibition...
A sublime Reginald Mobley and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra are a balm for troubled times in a program of baroque selections and spirituals.
Nel contesto del progetto di EDICOLA480, di 480 Site Specific, con la direzione artistica del curatore Massimiliano Bastardo, l’intervento di Jona Fierro – artista napoletano, classe 1997 – si presenta come una soglia percettiva più che come una semplice installazione. Come il fuoco brucia la foresta e come la fiamma incendia i monti – Residuo #01 (2025) non costruisce un racconto lineare, né cerca di restituire un’immagine spettacolare della distruzione. Al contrario, si colloca deliberatamente nel tempo che segue l’evento, in quella dimensione sospesa in cui ciò che resta diventa l’unico elemento attraverso cui interrogare ciò che è accaduto.
Jona Fierro, “Come il fuoco brucia la foresta...
Jona Fierro, “Come il fuoco brucia la foresta...
Each year, Foam presents the Talent Award. The prize spotlights extraordinary new image-makers who are shaping the future of photography. This edition was a record-breaking one, with almost 3,000 submissions from 107 countries. Particularly exciting, the 2026 award marked the first time the Foam Talent Call welcomed artists of all ages in the early stages of their career. Those that submitted reflect a remarkably wide range of narratives, perspectives and artistic approaches. Many consider the constant global change and uncertainty of our times, addressing themes such as political oppression, mental health, religion and faith, displacement and the search for cultural identity. Technological developments are...
Contemporary culture is increasingly defined by spectacle, self-performance and the circulation of images that shape how identity is imagined and consumed. Museums now grapple with the challenge of presenting art that not only critiques these forces but also inhabits their visual language. The exhibition A Whole New World at Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean embraces precisely this tension, transforming the gallery into a theatrical terrain of attractions and immersive encounters. Spanning nearly two decades, the show surveys the practice of Simon Fujiwara through environments that echo the dramaturgy of theme parks. Fantasy and critique become inseparable as visitors move through...
After several years of closure, the New Museum on Manhattan's Lower East Side is reopening today with a new look and expanded galleries. We attended a press preview earlier this week and came back with mixed feelings. Read our candid, messy thoughts below, plus Aaron Short's report on the business side of the $82 million facelift. This week's edition is packed with must-reads. Leila Seyedzadeh, an Iranian artist living in New York, writes about her feelings these days as her home city of Tehran is under unceasing bombardment. David Markus, a contract professor at NYU, explains why he and his colleagues plan to strike soon. Curator Sadaf Padder acquaints us with the artists heralding Islamic...
Nel cuore di Firenze, una stanza vetrata al piano terra dello storico Hotel Torre Guelfa interrompe il ritmo pedissequo delle vetrine commerciali e degli ingressi alberghieri, infiltrandosi silenziosamente nel corpo della città: è lo spazio espositivo indipendente Marameo. Qui nasce Liminale, la mostra di restituzione della residenza d’artista di Luca Granato, curata da Lucrezia Caliani e visitabile fino al 3 maggio 2026. Durante la serata inaugurale si è tenuta anche Cartografia di un corpo, intervento performativo site-specific della danzatrice e performer Irene Lombardi, realizzato insieme al DJ e musicista elettronico Andrea Lenzi. L’incontro tra esposizione e performance – divenuto nel tempo...
Say you just landed from Mars and walked straight into the 2026 Whitney Biennial. Would you be able to tell from the show that the country is teetering on the precipice of fascism? That two American citizens have been shot dead in broad daylight by masked federal agents? That hard-working immigrants are being rounded up in Home Depot and Walmart stores and sent to concentration camps? That the current government unabashedly kidnaps and assassinates foreign leaders and lays claim to their countries’ oil?How about the fact that artists have been silenced and denied opportunities for their political views, including at the Whitney itself, where a program was put on hold and its leader sacked over a cohort’s...
Featuring Maxwell Graham, Galerie Buchholz, Pirates of the Carbomb Infantry, and Triest
The Outsider Art Fair has enriched New York City’s art world since its inception in 1993, presenting eclectic and idiosyncratic artists who challenge traditional fine art hierarchies. The fair serves as an egalitarian anchor during unstable times in the art market and the United States, marking an optimistic moment to watch art quickly sell off the walls and a range of visitors express genuine delight. The event, this year featuring 68 exhibitors at Chelsea’s bustling Metropolitan Pavilion through Sunday, March 22, has long been an antidote to the sterile, pretentious nature of a blue-chip gallery fair.What exactly qualifies as “outsider art,” though? “Self-Taught,” “Folk,” “Visionary,”...
Organizers of the Glasgow International have revealed the full program for the 2026 iteration of the biennial event, set to take place June 5–21. Spanning institutions, artist-run spaces, and community sites, this year’s edition is led by new director Helen Nisbet. It will focus on experimentation and duration, with participating artists exploring such themes as ecology, labor, migration, […]
Tensely contorted or standing pin straight, Ben Zank’s signature faceless subjects evoke ineffable yet familiar emotions. The New York City-based photographer has a knack for turning ordinary settings and unaccompanied figures into strangely perplexing sights. Mismatched socks, bold garments, and awkward poses go a long way in evoking a visceral response through his lens, tapping into a sort of uncanny realism. Zank’s work traveled to Festival Cargo Les Photographiques—a.k.a. The Cargo Festival—in Saint-Nazaire, France last summer. Since its debut in 2022, the annual event typically features several outdoor exhibition areas, highlighting contemporary photographers. The artist’s plein air installation...
Medieval wall painting found inside Durham Castle DURHAM, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Northern Echo, a fragment of a medieval wall painting has been found in northern England at Durham Castle, which was constructed by William the Conqueror in the 1070s and served as the seat of the Prince Bishops of Durham. The artwork, thought to date to the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, had been hidden under plaster and wall paneling dating to the 1950s. Andrew Ferrara of Durham University said that the painting is an outlined masonry design with a central flower and stem motif. “It’s an incredibly rare survival in such an important castle site and really underscores the power and status of the...
Contemporary art curator Liz Munsell has been named Vice President of Curatorial Arts and Programs at Powerhouse Arts, a creative arts nonprofit based in Brooklyn’s Gowanus, the organization announced this week. Munsell has previously held curatorial leadership roles at the Jewish Museum in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Harvard University. In her […]
Masonry block with painting of the god Sucellus LYON, FRANCE—A painting of the Celtic god Sucellus has been discovered in Mancey, a hilltop sanctuary in eastern France, by a team of researchers led by Grégory Compagnon of France’s Archaeological and Archaeometry Laboratory, according to the Greek Reporter. The cult site featured two main structures, paths, and gathering areas. The painted masonry block was found on a small altar covered with plaster in a room inside one of the buildings. This room also contained two statue bases, a large stone table, and an altar with a raised edge. The temple was built in the late third century, Compagnon said, based on a collection of coins found on a clay floor surface...
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—According to a statement released by Hebrew University of Jerusalem, clay ornaments, including 142 beads, pendants, and a tiny, child-sized ring, have been discovered in Southwest Asia. Laurent Davin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said that the ornaments, recovered from four different sites, were made by Natufian hunter-gatherers some 15,000 years ago. “This discovery completely changes how we understand the relationship between clay, symbolism, and the emergence of settled life,” Davin said. The beads were shaped into cylinders, disks, and ellipses. Fibers preserved on some of them show how they were strung and worn. A number of the unbaked clay objects had then been coated in a...
A man, identified in court documents as Alexander Weis, wreaked catastrophic havoc at the Seattle Center’s Chihuly Garden and Glass museum on Monday evening, causing $240,000 worth of damage to the facilities and destroying several glass sculptures of plants by Dale Chihuly, the Seattle Police Department reported this week. The man, purportedly Weis, who is now in police custody, […]
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La vita ci costringe il più delle volte a comportarci in determinati modi per rispettare convenzioni sociali e costumi. La maschera pirandelliana che siamo obbligati ad indossare è qualcosa che allo stesso tempo limita e blocca la forza espressiva dirompente che ognuno di noi conserva all’interno di sé. Filippo Janez Bertoni, con la collaborazione di numerosi altri artisti, parte proprio da questa concezione per cercare di creare, con il medium del processo interpretativo, una maschera nuova, vera, che permetta a tutti coloro che vogliano indossarla di liberare le più profonde pulsioni creative ed eliminare le inibizioni.
Filippo Janez Bertoni, “Vera Sonora”, einLaden, Kassel, happening 24.01.26,...
Filippo Janez Bertoni, “Vera Sonora”, einLaden, Kassel, happening 24.01.26,...
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST—ABC News reports that France has repatriated a sacred talking drum looted from West Africa’s Ivory Coast in 1916 by French colonial authorities. The 950-pound drum, known as Djidji Ayôkwé, or “panther-lion,” was used by the Atchan people of the Abidjan region to communicate between villages. The drum is thought to have been stolen because it was being used to warn local residents about forced labor recruitment by colonial authorities. “After a long stay far from its land, our sacred drum is finally returning to its people,” said Aboussou Guy Mobio, chief of the village of Adjamé-Bingerville. The drum will go through an acclimatization period to allow the wood to adjust to...
MODENA, ITALY—Sci News reports that Neanderthals may have hunted straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) some 125,000 years ago in northeastern Germany at the site of Neumark-Nord. “The straight-tusked elephant was an iconic species of the European Pleistocene Interglacial ecosystem, sharing the landscape with Neanderthals during the warmer periods of the Middle and Late Pleistocene,” said Elena Armaroli of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. It was not clear, however, if Neanderthals hunted elephants, or if they scavenged their carcasses. Armaroli and her colleagues measured the levels of strontium isotopes in molars from four straight-tusked elephants recovered at Neumark-Nord....
Over the past 28 years, Art Paris has become a key moment in the cultural calendar. This April, the fair returns to the Grand Palais, offering an ambitious programme that supports the French scene, whilst fostering dialogue with artists and galleries from around the world. The 2026 edition welcomes 165 galleries from 20 countries, with 60% made up of French institutions, reflecting the fair’s ability to remain both regional and cosmopolitan. This year’s edition offers audiences the chance to witness the breadth of contemporary talent, encounter established masters and discover new voices on the scene. Each year, the fair invites guest curators to tackle the themes and ideas that are defining our current...
Who doesn’t love a good photo book? To flick through the pages, be enlightened, educated, distracted and absorbed into another world through another’s eyes? Totally fantastic!
We’re here to share our Photobook Favourites – a selection of our favourite photography books recommended by the Shutter Hub community, an archive of titles we’ve enjoyed, and a reference point for you to explore. Las Pelilargas, Irina Werning, GOST
For 18 years photographer Irina Werning travelled across Latin America to seek out those with long hair to uncover and understand its cultural significance. Her book Las Pelilargas (the long-haired ones) brings together this body of work in an exploration and celebration of...
Dal 20 marzo al 30 maggio 2026, la Galleria Continua / Paris Marais ospita Guardatori, la nuova personale di Manuela Sedmach. In questa occasione l’artista approfondisce il tema dello sguardo e della relazione silenziosa tra opera e spettatore, attraverso una pittura stratificata in cui l’immagine emerge lentamente dalla materia, aprendo uno spazio di riflessione tra percezione e visione.
Manuela Sedmach, “Em lugar algum”, 2024, acrilico su tela, cm 47 x 57, courtesy l’Artista e Galleria Continua
Elisabetta Zerial: Nel progetto Guardatori sembra emergere un ribaltamento di prospettiva: non è più soltanto lo spettatore a osservare l’opera, ma è come se le figure dipinte restituissero lo sguardo....
Manuela Sedmach, “Em lugar algum”, 2024, acrilico su tela, cm 47 x 57, courtesy l’Artista e Galleria Continua
Elisabetta Zerial: Nel progetto Guardatori sembra emergere un ribaltamento di prospettiva: non è più soltanto lo spettatore a osservare l’opera, ma è come se le figure dipinte restituissero lo sguardo....
ABOVE: Gaza Cinderella, Northern Gaza Strip, 2012“Although her drawing is filled with soldiers, helicopters, and tanks, “Amara” only spoke about her intense fear of missile strikes. When a building or other structure is targeted in Gaza, it is often hit with a barrage of several missiles to ensure its complete destruction. The sound of successive […]
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