To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The HeadlinesFOR WHOM THE BELL TOLÉDOS. Spanish leaders are trading insults in a heated, increasingly political clash over the Basque regional government’s recent request to borrow Pablo Picasso’s Guernica for an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, reports El Pais. “It makes no sense for everything to be returned to its origin,” said the president of the Madrid governing body, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. “It represents a provincial mindset when culture is universal.” To this, Basque Nationalist Party leader Aitor Esteban accused Ayuso of being the “provincial” one for viewing...

New public art project entitled "Three Mirrors"—commissioned by digital art platform Circa—will be shown in nine cities

utopia then and now: the ideal as method
 
As part of Utopia Then and Now, we explored the shifting boundaries of the ideal world through the lens of architecture, art, technology, and design. By looking back at radical 1960s visions and forward toward lunar colonies and regenerative fabrics, we gathered a collection of insights on what it means to build a better way of being. Across disciplines, the first chapter of our renewed editorial focus reveals a decisive shift away from singular visions of ideal worlds toward something more complex, unstable, and human. Utopia no longer appears as a fixed destination. Instead, it emerges as a tool, a question, and often a contradiction.
 
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Chiseled from wood, Aleph Geddis’ spindly, playful, vaguely alien wooden sculptures evoke an enigmatic tension between identity and glyph. His organic, hand-worked objects teeter between abstraction and figuration like retrofuturistic icons. The artist lives between Japan, Bali, and Orcas Island in Washington. “This split has been incredibly generative, allowing me to carry my practice with me and respond to very different environments and energies,” he tells Colossal. Scale is a constant source of fascination. Geddis has recently been working on a series he calls Littles, which are “inspired by the way children disappear into dreamy, imaginative worlds while playing with toys,” he says. “They feel...

SEOUL DESIGN AWARD 2026 INVITES FOR SUBMISSIONS
 
The Seoul Design Award 2026 has officially opened its call for entries, marking its 7th edition as the world’s global award dedicated to addressing social and climate issues through sustainable design. In a symbolic milestone for the program, designboom is proud to announce an editorial partnership to highlight the growing international status of projects that drive positive impact. Since its launch in 2019, the award has seen an explosive 1,100% growth, reaching 941 entries from 74 countries by 2025. This rapid evolution underscores the award’s role as a leading platform for highlighting how design can transform everyday life and move the world toward a...

Plus, Konstantin Andreevich Somov's birch trees and rhinoceros after Dürer are on sale this month

The crumbling roof of Winston Churchill’s birthplace has been fixed in a £12m conservation project that the restorers hope will preserve the 18th-century country house for the next 300 years

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TRETTITRE’s Retro audio devices with magnetic installations
 
Hi-Fi brand TRETTITRE brings back the retro audio devices with a series of wall-mounted wireless vinyl, CD, and cassette players for triple listening sessions. A rack holds all of them together in a single vertical installation, designed to unify them all like an artwork on the wall instead of making them separate devices. The modular system comes with four parts, starting with the TTT-W, which is a magnetic modular wall rack. It is flushed against the wall, and four circular magnetic pads are placed separately yet connected, resulting in a vertical design piece.
 
The three players that mount to the rack are the TTT-LP3 turntable, the TTT-DP3...

At 96 years old, Dolores Huerta is the face of the 20th-century farmworkers’ rights movement. A relentless advocate of human dignity, she has always been its most persuasive symbol, but as monuments to United Farm Workers co-founder Cesar Chavez come down unceremoniously after abuse allegations, Huerta ascends as an emblem of hope and light. In Los Angeles, a new exhibition reflects “Huerta’s own emphasis on everyday people in the farmworker movement rather than demagogues,” writes Renée Reizman today, proving that the historic labor struggle “doesn’t need Chavez as its main character.”New Yorkers, here's a riddle for you: Where can you spot a family of shrimp, a hot air balloon, a...

good+evil Ways rotating watch adapts from wrist to desk
 
Christo Logan is launching good+evil Ways, a watch whose circular clock is gently perched on a rectangular plinth and rotates on command. This allows its wearer to set the watch rotation at various angles, like a custom driving watch that fits exactly what they’re doing at any given moment. It also means the watch doubles as a mini table clock when off-wrist. Ways is the follow-up to Logan’s first watch, the good+evil Omen, which launched on Kickstarter in 2024. The Omen’s D-shaped steel case allows it to rest on its side when not worn, but that of course yields a sideways clock: Thinking it would be a fun challenge to make a watch work in this...

The cutting-edge French art fair is the latest to join an expanding cohort of global players opening in Italy

fala installs mirrored pavilion at porto’s book fair
 
The architects at fala atelier transform a 10-square-meter book fair stand into a spatial installation for Circo de Ideias in Porto, Portugal. Working within a 3-by-3-meter footprint and a limited budget, the project refuses the neutrality expected of a standard exhibition stand.
 
The structure is assembled from leftover metal profiles of varying sections, repainted in a fresh, almost excessive color palette ranging from acid greens and electric blues to teals and greys. Twenty-four pieces in total are organized around a slightly displaced central column, introducing a sense of instability into an otherwise orthogonal logic. Profiles of the same...

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Mark Rothko (Daugavpils, 1903 – New York, 1970) è uno degli artisti più iconici del Novecento: oltre ad aver rivoluzionato la storia della pittura in quanto riferimento imprescindibile per una certa e ben frequentata linea di ricerca astratta, il suo linguaggio ha mantenuta intatta la sua vitalità con il passare del tempo. Al di là di ogni considerazione storicizzante, il suo lavoro è capace di suscitare oggi le stesse emozioni e lo stesso coinvolgimento del periodo in cui era una novità dirompente. A distanza di quasi vent’anni dall’ultima retrospettiva istituzionale a lui dedicata in Italia (6/10/2007 – 6/01/2008 al Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma), l’artista è al centro di un altro...

Billionaire art dealer David Nahmad, who spent eleven years attempting to prove in court that he was the rightful owner of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 painting Seated Man with a Cane, has lost his case. New York Supreme Court judge Joel M. Cohen on April 3 ruled that the canvas in fact belonged to the estate of Jewish antiques dealer Oscar […]

In a rare instance of an individual pursuing such charges, Ali Cherri, a Franco-Lebanese filmmaker and artist, has filed a civil complaint against the Israeli army with the French War Crimes Unit, per a press release. Cherri, who submitted the complaint on April 2 alongside the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), is denouncing the Israeli authorities’ November 2024 […]

I went into the painter Cinga Samson’s otherworldly debut exhibition at White Cube without knowing anything about him. After looking at the large oil paintings featured on the gallery’s two floors, I read the press release and learned that Samson is South African, and the exhibition title, Ukuphuthelwa, is an isiXhosa word meaning “unable to sleep.” The press release tells us: “Unlike the English word ‘insomnia,’ the isiXhosa term carries no negative connotation and accordingly, for Samson, sleeplessness is not a condition to be cured but a state of spiritual alertness, a sensitivity that deepens in the dark.”With this in mind, I looked again at the exhibition, went home and pored over the...

The poet and painter Pamela Sneed reads a poem in which she dreams she meets all her friends in urgent care. A packed room is gathered around her inside Sacred and Profane, her exhibition with the visual and performance artist Carlos Martiel at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in SoHo. The Leslie-Lohman, the first institution of its kind in the world, has recently become a haven for the elevation and preservation of art by and for an “us” that has been subject to unrelenting and escalating political attacks. Who are we? Lesbian. Gay. Bisexual. Transgender. Queer. Questioning. Intersex. Plus. Plus. Black. Brown. Indigenous. People of Color. Sneed: “We are all in urgent care.” Sneed reads on a double bill with...

New Yorkers donned their pastels on Sunday, April 5, bringing a blossom of spring to an otherwise dreary day outside Manhattan’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral for the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival. Starting at 10 am, participants and onlookers alike mingled in the street, exchanging awe at the creativity and flora of their neighbors. Cameras were abundant, as were hats with towering bouquets, mountains of twisted balloons, and eggs of all kinds — by the dozen, of the Fabergé variety, crocheted, hatching dragons, and nestled in hairdos. These eggs came by the double-dozen, and then some.Shelby Isaac and Savannah Velor in their Fabergé egg-inspired pieces The parade originates from its antithesis,...

Thomas Zipp, the German punk musician, painter, and installation artist with a relentlessly critical eye, has died. His gallery, Berlin’s Galerie Barbara Thumm, announced the news on social media, writing that he “passed away far too soon.” “Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with his family,” the gallery added. “Dear Thomas Zipp, may you rest in peace.” With a zeal for immersion, Zipp reimagined site-specific art as a kind of psychological theater, filling gallery spaces worldwide with multilayered, scenographic installations. Populated by objects and emptied of people, these environments alluded to fields such as religion, medicine, politics, and history, but viewers were asked to make...

A little over six years after being targeted by arsonists during wide-ranging protests in Santiago, Chile, the Violeta Parra Museum has been reopened to the public, the Art Newspaper reports. Beginning in October of 2019, citizen grievances with the Chilean government regarding the cost of living and metro fare prices gave way to explosive protests that went on to last for months, and […]

San Francisco is welcoming a new permanent exhibition space for late modernist sculptor Ruth Asawa this coming May, further entwining the artist's legacy of artwork, public activation, and education advocacy within the city on the centenary of her birth year. The space, an extension of the artist's family-run estate, Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. (RAL), will open on May 9 at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood with an exhibition curated by two of Asawa's daughters, Addie Lanier and Aiko Cuneo — both of whom have spent 20 years working on RAL. Referencing the artist's practice of omitting titles for individual works, Ruth Asawa: Untitled will include a variety of...

The writer's fourth novel is a work of art for a new age of mechanical reproduction

When Frode Bolhuis got his start as a sculptor, he worked classically, with monumental figures made of bronze and metal—the kind of thing you see in a public square or park. But then the Dutch sculptor discovered the simplest of mediums, polymer clay, and his art practice exploded into a technicolor world of hue and […]
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In 2020, as the art market scrambled to move online, Loïc Gouzer tried something smaller. After years staging blockbuster evening sales at Christie’s as chairman of post-war and contemporary art, he launched the app Fair Warning. Its premise was simple: sell one work at time to a tightly screened group of collectors. Five years on, that constraint defines the company. Fair Warning has sold roughly $81.9 million worth of art not through volume, but through a steady cadence of tightly edited offerings. Its results suggest that the model can work. Last November, an Andy Warhol portrait of Brigitte Bardot from 1974 sold for $16.7 million, the highest publicly reported price for the artist that year. A year...

The Fundación Banco Santander in Spain has announced that it will return the Gelman Collection, which includes several important works of 20th-century Mexican art, to Mexico by 2028, according to a report by dpa. The planned return comes after an open letter signed by more than 200 art professionals last month that accused the Mexican government of an “institutional blunder” by allowing part of the Gelman Collection to travel to Spain, where they were meant to be house permanently in a private museum in Santander, in the north of Spain. In January, the foundation for the Madrid-based bank announced that it would manage 160 of the approximately 300 works that had been amassed by Jacques and Natasha Gelman,...

Although work by graffiti-turned-gallery artist Keith Haring (1958–90) remained highly collectible after his death of AIDS at 31, there has been a surge of interest in it of late, with pieces by him bringing millions at auction, a traveling exhibition in 2023, and collaborations by the estate with such popular brands as Polaroid, Converse, Swatch, Casetify, and Uniqlo. Now, according to a report in Hypebeast, two of the four automobiles that Haring decorated in the last 10 years of his life—a 1963 Buick Special and a 1971 Land Rover Defender III—will be the highlight of “Keith Haring: In the Street,” a nine-day exhibition in New York City. Both automobiles are painted top to bottom in Haring’s...

Archaeologists have long known that the ancient peoples of North America—not unlike us—played a lot of games. Going back millennia, cultures around the world developed myriad ways to keep entertained, and for a long time, it was thought that the first dice ever used could be traced to the ancient Eastern European and Near East cultures of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and the Caucasus. But according to a new paper by Robert Madden, published by Cambridge University Press, games of chance developed much, much earlier than originally thought—halfway around the world. Researchers previously believed that the earliest dice originated about 5,500 years ago, but Madden shares that examples excavated in North...

Belu-Simion Fainaru, the artist set to represent Israel at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, has issued a reply to the participating artists and curators demanding the country’s exclusion over its sustained bombing of Gaza. “As an artist, I do not support cultural boycotts,” Fainaru told Artnews in a statement. “I believe in dialogue and exchange, especially in challenging […]

From April 9 to 12, EXPO CHICAGO returns to Navy Pier, hosting hundreds of galleries, site-specific projects, talks, and multi-disciplinary programming both downtown and across the city. This week is one of the most exciting times for the Chicago-area art scene, and we’re excited to share our annual preview of what we’re most looking forward to! Aliza Nisenbaum, “Hitomi” (2022), oil on linen, 66 x 57 inches 1. Aliza Nisenbaum at Anton Kern and Regan Projects Presented by Anton Kern and Regan Projects, Aliza Nisenbaum’s vibrant portraiture portrays her subjects in bold chromatics. Nisenbaum’s smaller-scale works presented at the fair echo one of her larger projects: a celebratory mural titled...

When we think of somewhere we’ve been, what are the first things to come to mind? Perhaps there are memorable smells, a sense of other people being around, or a particular quality of light. But what if we remembered landscapes and experiences through plants? For Hillary Waters Fayle, flower petals, seeds, and foliage combine into a kind of album of various places, which she then uses to create bold cyanotypes. The artist has long worked with botanicals and other organic materials, notably embroidering foraged leaves and feathers with meticulous geometric designs. With the series Portraits of Place, which she’s been pursuing for the past six years, Fayle precisely arranges individual petals and leaves into...

Benjamin Bernheim opens up to Emma Hoffman about what really makes a French tenor ahead of his New York recital debut.

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Wolfgang Holzmair's performance was amazing in its personal and intimate approach.

Five video works by Angelica Mesiti (b. 1976) are now on view at Museum Tinguely in Basel. It’s the first comprehensive solo show of the Paris-based artist to open in Switzerland. Mesiti has worked at the intersection of performance, sound and video since the early 2000s, creating pieces that explore the ways in which nonverbal communication – like dance, music and movement – can build connections between people. It’s an approach that has led to international recognition, including representing Australia – her home country – at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. Museum Tinguely’s exhibition is, fittingly, called Reverb – in reference to both acoustic reverberation, and the way human...

Arte cinetica – un omaggio di Ferruccio Gard a Vasarely è una mostra nata da una coincidenza significativa: il 2026 segna i 120 anni dalla nascita di Victor Vasarely, padre dell’Op Art, e i 50 anni della Fondation Vasarely, istituzione che continua a custodire e diffondere la sua eredità. Nel contempo, Ferruccio Gard celebra i suoi 85, scegliendo di rendere omaggio al maestro ungherese con cui condivide la passione per la percezione, il colore e il movimento.
Ferruccio Gard, “Dinamiche strutturali 4”, 1969, acrilici su tela, cm 40 x 50, courtesy dell’Artista
Vasarely ha definito una grammatica visiva nuova, fondata su moduli geometrici, variazioni sistematiche e un’idea di arte universale,...

A first-time operagoer is lured to Thaïs at Opera Idaho by the promise of a new experience… and Neil, the Burmese python

Architecture, memory and the poetics of concrete converge in Brutal Scotland, an exhibition that situates post-war modernism within a broader cultural and emotional terrain. At its core, the show interrogates how built environments embody ideological ambition, social rupture and aesthetic endurance. Photography here becomes not merely documentary but interpretive. The tension between decay and resilience runs throughout, suggesting that these structures are far from static relics. Instead, they operate as living documents of a nation’s evolving identity. In this sense, the exhibition positions Brutalism as a lens through which to reconsider histories of progress, failure and reinvention. Emerging from this...

William Parker's career launch coincided with the closet door fully opening for American male classical vocalists; the cruel irony is that Will was also an early AIDS casualty, gone in 1993 at 49.

Has the history of design influenced how we process and recall music? Art of Noise, on view at Cooper Hewitt in New York, explores this question through an array of archival objects, including band posters, album art and interactive vintage equipment. Split between two spaces, the exhibition’s first half showcases gadgets galore, examining the evolving relationship with product design. From early phonographs to Bluetooth speakers, the show traces technological advancements in sound quality, portability and consumer listening choices, alongside shifting aesthetic preferences amongst the public. Vision 2000, for example, a cassette player and radio designed by Thilo Oerke in 1971, capitalised on the cultural...

Nel contemporaneo, l’emersione di un’opera dipende dalle trame che ne governano accesso e trasmissione epistemica. Curatori, istituzioni, fiere e mecenati formano un ecosistema di validazione di rilevanza che decide quali espressioni affiorano e quali restano ai margini. L’interpretazione della statura intellettuale e la ricezione sociale derivano dal rapporto tra gli agenti, procedure e strumenti coordinati, favorendo il rafforzamento di una egemonia nella sfera performativa.
Frieze London 2025. Photo by Linda Nylind, courtesy of Frieze
La gestione della diffusione delle opere ha subito evoluzioni nel corso del tempo. Nel XIX secolo, enti disciplinari e rassegne canoniche regolavano stili, temi e...

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, with an abundance of invigorating artistic narratives emerging across forms and disciplines, even as the wider climate feels increasingly unsettled. 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 to the mayhem of today’s world. You can read the interview here . We...

At the intersection of fashion, art, and the uncanny, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin have for four decades challenged the ways we perceive images. Can Love Be A Photograph – 40 Years of Inez & Vinoodh, at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, offers a monumental survey of a career defined by its refusal to settle, blending the quotidian with the surreal and the personal with the performative. Their work operates in the liminal space where digital manipulation, intimacy, and high-gloss fashion imagery converge, revealing both the extraordinary and the unsettling within everyday life. “Inez & Vinoodh have been able to create something utterly fantastic; an invisible reality that looks artificial but is not. A...

From the moment Martin Parr’s work gained international attention, it challenged conventional ideas about documentary photography and how audiences engage with the everyday world. Parr turned his lens to the overlooked: seaside holidays, domestic rituals, fast-food wrappers, souvenirs and the subtle routines of daily life. Across his career, he elevated the ordinary into the extraordinary, capturing scenes that were simultaneously humorous, absurd and revealing. The exhibition Very Modern and Rather Ugly at Foam, running from 3 April to 12 August, encapsulates this legacy, bringing together the vibrancy, wit and sharp social observation that defined his practice. Visitors encounter a world that feels...

Basterebbe una sola frase per donare la chiave di lettura alla mostra personale di Flaviu Cacoveanu presso Parliament Gallery, a Parigi. Una frase con chiarezza semplice e potente esprime il concetto che si potrebbe dire essere alla base di ogni suo lavoro esposto: “Quello che si può osservare può significare diverse cose, ma ciò che importa davvero è cosa significano per te”. Così si presenta Conceptual Play, una mostra che, giocando con gli elementi della vita quotidiana, finisce per interrogare continuamente l’osservatore, facendolo ragionare sulla realtà che lo circonda e sulla vita stessa.
Flaviu Cacoveanu, “Untitled”, 2026, gelatin silver print on baryta paper in artist’s frame with...

Misato Sano’s studio is replete with piles of wooden offcuts, heavy lumber, woodworking equipment, and flowing natural light. The Miyagi-based artist has been sculpting charismatic dogs for several years, steadily adding more distinct characters to her growing pack. Self-portraiture remains a consistent theme within Sano’s practice. Each dog evokes a different emotion mirroring the artist’s personality, ranging from shy and skittish to excited and silly. “Visualizing my inner self through expressions and gestures full of charm and humor has also become an opportunity to deepen my self-love,” she shares. “I Got a Good Idea!” (2025) Sano’s distinctive woodcarving techniques are exemplary of the...

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Ci sono mostre che provano a spiegarti il mondo, e poi ci sono mostre che ti costringono a dubitare del fatto che quel mondo sia mai stato stabile. “Manipolazione di origine controllato” di Roberto Amoroso appartiene con decisione alla seconda categoria. Non offre LE risposte, non consola, non semplifica fa qualcosa di più scomodo: prende il flusso continuo di immagini in cui siamo immersi e lo torce fino a farlo diventare irriconoscibile o forse, finalmente, leggibile.
Roberto Amoroso, “Manipolazione di origine controllato”, exhibition view at 10 & zero uno, Venezia, ph. Filippo Molena, courtesy 10 & zero uno
Alla galleria 10 & zero uno, a pochi passi dai Giardini della Biennale, Amoroso mette in...

When the Bulls Fest—a raging celebration of the iconic and famed NBA team—first happened at Chicago’s United Center in 2022, Kyle Cobban was one of the contributing artists to The Art of the Game exhibition. It’s a piece that encapsulates Cobban’s aesthetic vision. Working with graphite and paper, the Chicago-based artist makes small, detailed drawings […]
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For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Portrait category: Sima Choubdarzadeh.
Originally from Iran and now based in Berlin, Sima is an award-winning documentary photographer with a background in philosophy. For the past decade, her work has focused on migration, identity, and resistance, often centering people living through tension and change.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website...

 
FEELING SEEN is guest curated by Jenna Eady as part of our Curate for the Community series.
Our sense of feeling goes beyond the physical – it’s emotional, atmospheric, and relational. It’s through these feelings that we connect with one another on a deeper level.
FEELING SEEN is about exploring how photography can express both internal and external sensations – whether it’s the rush of anticipation, the dis/comfort of the body, nostalgia of memory or tension of conflict. This project believes in photography’s power to evoke real emotional resonance. Its about creating the space for others to feel something.
The project aims to amplify diverse voices and create opportunities for new perspectives...

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In the process of painting someone, artist Jenny Morgan reveals not only what shows, but what doesn’t show. Her vibrant and emotional oil paintings of figures hover in a place that is between realism and abstraction, where many of her subjects confront their viewer with an electric stare that braves against the vulnerable moment in […]
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