Works by Adébayo Bolaji and Kate Jackson weire unveiled yesterday at Darlington and Heighington stations, both in the UK's County Durham

The collection of British socialite, collector, and arts patron Pauline Karpidas will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s London on September 17 and 18.Described by the house as the “greatest collection of Surrealism to emerge in recent history,” it includes masterpieces by René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Leonora Carrington, and Max Ernst. The sale is expected to fetch £60 million ($81 million), the highest estimate ever placed on a single collection at Sotheby’s in Europe.The collection, which also comprises unique pieces of furniture, adorned Karpidas’ London home. She was inspired to start collecting 50 years ago after an encounter with the late Greek American gallerist Alexander Iolas, who...

Bongiana Architetture extends modest rural house in Veneto
 
Set amidst a small valley of vineyards in Veneto, Italy, Texturised House by Bongiana Architetture is a carefully measured extension of a modest rural building. A contemporary retreat designed to host family celebrations and intimate gatherings, where architecture shapes atmosphere through light and raw materiality. The project is grounded in the principle of raw purity: rough surfaces, exposed materials, and details reduced to their essence. Each wall and floor is the result of a specific interpretation, turning every surface into a visual and tactile narrative.
 
The structure reveals its own body with pride, in a play of textures that multiplies...

In a digital age, painting may seem quaint, but its appeal endures, among artists, scholars and collectors

The London sales of mostly Surrealist art have the highest estimate ever placed on a single collection by the auction house in Europe

play pavilion with LEGO bricks designed by sir peter cook 
 
Serpentine and the LEGO Group unveil the Play Pavilion designed by Sir Peter Cook in London’s Kensington Gardens. The public art project coincides with World Play Day on June 11th, 2025, and rightfully so with the playful and vibrant flair of the pavilion. It is on view from June 11th to August 10th, 2025. The only orange on the horizon, the Play Pavilion by Sir Peter Cook partially comes to life with the use of LEGO bricks. Outside, these colorful blocks create protruding, tactile installations resembling topography. A kaleidoscopic roof shaped like a small bowl cocoons the architecture, colored in orange to match the similar shade of the base....

If you love the astonishing vocal works of J. S. Bach, John Elliott Gardiner’s 2013 book is a deeply rewarding read.

Anna & Eugeni Bach installs blue ring in barcelona’s mnac
 
Anna & Eugeni Bach completes Crown of Eyes, an installation hovering six meters above the central hall of Barcelona’s Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC). The twelve-meter-wide, celestial blue ring is suspended as a contemporary tribute to Francesc d’Assís Galí (1880–1965), one of Catalonia’s most visionary artists, the painter and educator behind the monumental dome murals of the Palau Nacional. The project forms the centerpiece of MNAC’s expansive exhibition on Galí, revealing his wide-ranging legacy as a painter, pedagogue, and exile whose influence rippled through generations, from Joan Miró to Llorens Artigas.
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Snap AR glasses with see-through lenses
 
Snap Inc. has announced the release of its new lightweight AR glasses with see-through lenses that double as a wearable computer. Unveiled at the Augmented World Expo 2025, the immersive Specs is slated for a 2026 release with a slew of features as part of the upcoming Snap OS update. With the Snap AR glasses and their see-through lenses, users can translate 2D information into 3D floating objects before their eyes using the integrated language models, including OpenAI and Gemini. There’s also a real-time transcription for around 40 languages, and it can understand even the non-native accents with ‘high accuracy.’ For developers, they can generate 3D objects...

VONDOM PRESENTS MADISON COLLECTION DESIGNED BY EUGENI QUITLLET
 
Vondom’s Madison collection, designed by Eugeni Quitllet, draws inspiration from the dynamic and evolving character of New York. Reflecting the city’s vital attitude, a place where deep-rooted traditions mingle with the modern pulse, the collection integrates this duality directly into its design, offering a versatile range of chairs. It embodies a ‘changing spirit’ that combines modern aesthetics with classic lines, all stemming from a singular structure capable of manifesting four distinct personalities. This adaptability, according to designer Eugeni Quitllet, captures the very essence of his vision:
 
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Günther Uecker, an iconic artist of the postwar era who redefined abstraction not with paint but with nails hammed into his canvases, died on Tuesday at 95. His passing was announced by his New York gallery, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, which did not specify a cause of death. The German press agency dpa reported that he had been hospitalized in Düsseldorf. Uecker was one of the main artists associated with ZERO, an avant-garde group that was founded in 1957 by Otto Piene and Heinz Mack. Uecker joined later on, in 1961, though he had already been exhibiting with the movement, which wound up extending far beyond Germany and came to include artists such as Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely. Uecker, however, was always one of...

The board of the Smithsonian Institution in a June 9 statement reasserted its independence and its power to hire and fire, effectively pushing back against President Donald Trump’s May 30 announcement on his Truth social media platform that he was dismissing National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet. The National Portrait Gallery is one of twenty-one […]

As a conceptual artist myself, I instinctively approached Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology (2025) with an eagerness to explore the visual storytelling within. I wanted to know: What is represented here? Is this anthology mostly painting and sculpture, or does it delve into photography, community, and performance art — mediums that often go underrepresented in traditional anthologies? The answer was immediate and powerful: This book does not limit itself. It expands. It pulses with artistic forms born of necessity, urgency, collaboration, and activism. Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, performance, graphic design, and artist books, the volume maps Puerto Rican visual...

LOS ANGELES — Police State, a 10-day durational performance by activist, artist, and Pussy Riot creator Nadya Tolokonnikova, transforms the cavernous warehouse of the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles into a site of carceral confinement and government surveillance.  Since last Thursday, June 5, Tolokonnikova has occupied a recreation of a drab, Russian prison cell during the museum’s open hours, and will continue to do so through this Saturday, June 14. Through small peepholes in the corrugated metal structure, the public can watch as she creates soundscapes that echo through the space, remixing various sources including recordings from actual prisons, a live LA Police...

Installation view of work by Rebekka Federle-McCabe (all images Jen Torwudzo-Stroh unless otherwise noted) CHICAGO — University campuses provide a protected space for intellectual, creative, and personal exploration. The work produced in such spaces can be questioning, probing, and thoughtful — but not necessarily fully formed. Substitute Equal Amounts presents the work of seven graduate students and emerging artists from the University of Chicago at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. Even at the highest level, group shows are an unwieldy endeavor with each artist bringing different perspectives. Part One attempts to unify the ideas presented through an exhibition text riddled with statements...

Jerry Gogosian, an Instagram account known for its acerbic commentary on all matters related to the art market, will be wound down by its creator, Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, who said on Tuesday that she had “grown out” of the project. “I have so loved and enjoyed being Jerry, but it is time to let it go,” Helphenstein wrote. She formed the account in 2018 and has since gone to amass 151,000 followers. In its seven-year run, Helphenstein has used the account to pithily opine on matters ranging from auction records to artist representation, mock dealer Larry Gagosian (the account’s namesake), and document her travails at art fairs across the globe. Prior to starting the account, Helphenstein had run her...

The Texas Historical Commission (THC), a group that oversees preserved sites in the state, announced that a series of buildings repurposed by minimalist artist Donald Judd and overseen by two artist foundations, has been added to a national register that gives protected status to long-standing cultural sites. The listing makes the artist’s compound in the West Texas town entitled to preservation efforts in the future. The designation, approved by the U.S. National Park Service in May 2025, was part of an application sent in by the Texas commission this fall that aimed to expand a pre-existing military district to include the Judd Foundation, which share a location. Now, what was previously the town’s Fort...

Through a multidisciplinary approach spanning painting, photography, sculpture, and installation, British artist Hew Locke OBE RA interrogates “the languages of colonial and post-colonial power, and the symbols through which different cultures assume and assert identity,” says P·P·O·W, which will present a series of the artist’s boat sculptures at Art Basel this month. Locke has long been interested in the time-honored traditions and spectrum of histories associated with watercraft. For Those in Peril on the Sea (2011), for example, he incorporated 70 model boats that, when suspended from the ceiling, appeared to float in a colorful, eclectic flotilla. The artist combined customized models along with...

CHICAGO — Two of the most delightful solo shows up in Chicago right now concern human bodies. Both are playful and witty, full of bright color and unexpected shapes. One gleefully declares itself corporeal: Huguette Caland’s Bribes de corps, a series of whimsical and abstracted body parts painted in the 1970s, on view at the Arts Club. The other makes no such claims. And yet, Petal Fold, Rabbit Ear, Inside Reverse, an exhibit at Compound Yellow of idiosyncratic origami models recently made by Hai-Wen Lin, has a relationship to human anatomy just as important. Art need not explicitly state its concerns, though it may. Subtlety and obscurantism fall within the bounds of artistic prerogative, as do boldness...

Since President Trump announced last month that he had fired the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) director, Kim Sajet, for her supposed proclivity toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), the longtime museum leader has reportedly shown up for work anyway. In a statement issued Monday, June 9, the Smithsonian Institution clarified that only its secretary, Lonnie G. Bunch, wields the authority to determine “personnel decisions” with supervision from its Board of Regents. Seventeen members, including Vice President JD Vance, conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, and six congressional representatives and senators from both political parties, comprise the institution’s...

Reckoning with rising restoration costs and deep government budget cuts to the arts sector, several large cultural institutions in France will increase the price of admission for visitors from outside the European Union beginning next year, according to French daily Le Monde. The Louvre in Paris and the Château de Versailles will raise ticket prices […]

A small marble sculpture thought to be a copy of Auguste Rodin, then verified as an “extremely rare” and authentic piece, recently sold for €860,000 ($1 million) at auction. The 11-inch figure of a sitting woman, Despair (Le Désespoir) (1892), had gone missing after being sold at auction in 1906. After the current owners contacted auctioneers Aymeric and Philippe Rouillac about another matter, a months-long investigation into the sculpture’s origins resulted in confirmation of its authenticity by Comite Rodin, the leading authority on the artist. “So we have rediscovered it,” Aymeric Rouillac told AFP. On June 8, Rouillac opened bidding for Lot 76 at €500,000, before it sold for €860,000 as...

Europe is home to some of the world’s most renowned public transit systems, from the Paris Métropolitain to the Berlin U-Bahn to Stockholm Metro. The latter is incidentally home to a remarkable series of subterranean public art displays, too, the “world’s longest art exhibit” at more than 68 miles long. Artists have been instrumental in the design of the city’s stations since 1957, creating immersive, multi-sensory experiences that go far beyond conveying passengers from point A to point B. For Thibault Drutel, the architecture of underground train stations is central to the experience and aesthetics of journeys, beyond the essential functionality of getting places. Traveling from Hamburg to...

Francesco Filidei’s new opera The Name of the Rose struggles to bridge the past and the present in Milan

From delicately folded paper, Berkeley-based ceramicist Mark Goudy draws inspiration for an ongoing series, Origami. He describes his work as “minimal forms with hidden complexity,” building on a love for simple yet elegant forms that reflect nature’s inherent geometries. In meticulous sculptures that merge form and function, Goudy pulls from his experience as a 3D graphics hardware design engineer. Using algorithmic 3D software, he creates objects that nod to the art of Japanese paper folding. “Many of these forms are designed to balance on the folds—when set on a flat surface, they rock back and forth, naturally settling into their inherent point of equilibrium,” he says. Goudy’s thin,...

A plodding La bohème in San Francisco never quite takes off

The first-of-its-kind case saw Oghenochuko Ojiri, an expert on the BBC's ‘Bargain Hunt’, sentenced to two and a half years in prison earlier this month

Groups representing scientists, teachers and culture workers held a protest outside the institution on Sunday over its deals with oil company BP and Adani Green Energy

A fascinating autobiography that delivers both on the diva anecdotes and on intelligent artistic observations about the singer’s life.

“Although the ocean comprises 95% of Earth’s habitable volume, we continue to live as if the planet ends at the shoreline,” says French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière (b. 1987). His latest show, Midnight Zone, opening at Museum Tinguely, Basel, emerges from the sense of disconnect that exists between people and the ocean. It presents photographs, sculptures, installations and videos that deal with our relationship to Earth as “a world of water” – charting a course from seas and lakes to melting ice sheets. Charrière’s practice is grounded in fieldwork, and, over the years, it has taken him to several “extreme” locations, including volcanoes and nuclear test zones. It’s all part of a wider...

Perth, Australia-born, Sydney-based artist Jack Ball has won the Ramsay Art Prize. The AUD$100,000 (US$65,000) biennial acquisition award was established by the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), Adelaide, in 2017 and is considered the country’s most prestigious honor for an artist under forty. Ball’s winning work is Heavy Grit, 2024, a large-scale installation investigating […]

Joy Machine is excited to announce a joint exhibition with The Jaunt. Opening this week in Chicago, Ventus features paintings, sculptures, and prints by Cody Hudson, Seonna Hong (previously), Seth Pimentel, Stevie Shao, and Scott Sueme. Founded and curated by Jeroen Smeets, The Jaunt (previously) is a travel project that sends artists around the world to experience new locations and cultures. Once they return home, artists create a limited-edition silkscreen print inspired by their journeys. Seonna Hong, “Summer Swimmers” (2025), acrylic on linen, 30 x 24 inches, framed Being outside our comfort zones heightens our senses and opens us up to new experiences and inspiration. The Jaunt is a gust of new...

The Royal Academy of Arts, London, has announced Simon Wallis as its new secretary and CEO, effective this September. Wallis, the director of the Hepworth Wakefield in Yorkshire, England, arrives as the RA continues to struggle to regain its postpandemic footing, having slashed its workforce by 15 percent this past April. He will fill the […]

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Nestled in the rolling Alloa Hills near the Sabarmati River in Gandhinagar, India, Studio Sangath has conceived of a bold, contemporary home using terracotta and recycled brick. Headed up by principal architects Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof, the project serves as a peaceful retreat where its owners can reconnect with nature and host visiting writers, artists, and filmmakers in an environment conducive to creativity. The building’s angular archways, stairs, veranda, and interior surfaces are constructed using compressed bricks made from the powdered waste produced in brick kilns. “The design prioritises harmony with nature, featuring an open interior courtyard that draws the landscape inside,...

Perhaps the conversation about Rigoletto and disability isn’t limited to physical appearance. What if we broaden the scope of what disability in this opera might look like?

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As The Hands of Gods makes its European debut at Art Basel, the artist reflects on food as archive, the politics of gesture, and building a table that doesn’t ask for permission.  Promotional still for […]

In May 2025, ArtFlow Studio Ltd – a London-based curatorial and creative agency – presented Metamorph, a group exhibition at Espacio Gallery. The show featured over 20 emerging artists (full list of contributing creatives below), who explored how personal identity is shaped and reshaped by social norms and cultural expectations. Curated by ArtFlow founders Hongqian Zhang and Huan Zhou, Metamorph asked: how much of our inner world reflects the outside? The exhibition used painting, installation, video, and digital media to reflect on transformation, perception and the tension between self and society. Questions around identity and perception, like “how much of our internal life is shaped by external...

The American photographer Paul Caponigro famously said: “It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.” This statement encompasses what many artists seek – to create an image that transcends the physical and taps into the essence of a sitter. Likewise, in the National Portrait Gallery article, What Makes a Great Portrait, curator Paul Moorhouse says that his favourite painting has “to do with the capacity of art to intimate truth, however unpalatable.” But is this the only way to make a portrait? Photographer Gerwyn Davies (b. 1985) upends the assump- tion that a portrait must reveal some essential truth about its subject....

Salt sticky hair, ice cream smiles, sandcastles and sun-speckled freckles. Small boats, overfishing, plastic pollution and rising sea levels. As climate change imposes more circumstantial realities on us, the sea becomes ever more important in our everyday lives.
We reminisce on childhood holidays and collecting seashells, dog walks on the beach, and the soothing sound of gently lapping waves. But we must remember, although it’s bigger than all of us, vast and powerful, the sea very much needs us to look after it.
100 images. An ode to the ocean, something for the sea.
 
We are very pleased to announce the release of our next book TO THE SEA! Launching on World Oceans Day, TO THE SEA captures a diverse...

In November 1944, the German administration banned photography in the Netherlands. It was a response to the Nazi regime’s growing precarity in WWII – Allied advancement and resistance activity were both growing by the day – and the prohibition of cameras was a way to prevent intelligence gathering and maintain tight control of the media narrative. Despite the climate of danger and repression, 14 photographers, alongside couriers and dark room assistants, worked in secret to document the occupation. They intended to smuggle the images to the exiled Dutch government in London, offering a stark account of the last months of German rule and, as a result, encourage food drops. These efforts, carried out at...

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“An act of joy and resistance.” This is how Natalie Kane, Curator of Digital Design at V&A, describes Design and Disability, the museum’s latest show. It showcases the radical contributions of Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people to contemporary design and culture, from the 1940s to now, across 170 objects. The exhibition is split into three sections. Visibility spans fashion, photography, graphics, typography and zine culture. It’s exciting to see printed publications front-and-centre here, with contributions from Able Zine, Bed Zine and Dysfluent Magazine. Tools, meanwhile, focuses on how Disabled people have invented, broken, adapted and “hacked” various objects to meet a greater diversity...

California Academy of Studio Arts, a new experimental educational institution in the vein of the renowned Black Mountain College, is set to open on the historic campus that was the longtime home of the now-shuttered San Francisco Art Institute. Known as CASA, the school will offer a class of up to thirty emerging artists a […]

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to carry, the theme of Sharjah Biennale 16 presents a multifaceted and interpretive concept. This edition introduced a departure from past formats, with five curators from diverse national backgrounds curating the expansive exhibition. The curators of Sharjah […]

Undare Mtaki’s textured, soul-infused paintings are redefining Tanzanian identity through ritual, soil, and silence. Writer Anastasia Popova follows his journey from self-built studio to international recognition — and a path that leads, intentionally, to Paris. […]

The fifth edition celebrates emerging Ghanaian artists under the theme’ Butterfly Effect’ Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku, winner of the ellipse 2025 Prize © Courtesy ellipse art projects – 2025 ellipse prize Multidisciplinary artist Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku has […]

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.
 
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100 Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers, Form Publishing
100 Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers captures the voices of around one hundred Ukrainian photographers, whether based in Ukraine or part of the diaspora. The project presents approximately 300...