Two years after shutting its doors, MAM São Paulo returns to the same pavilion with an exhibition built to push Brazilian art past representation
"I felt like a restless suburban teenager coming down to the big city looking for glamour.”
the Roar recurs across Ferdi B Dick’s animal sculptures
South African-born sculptor Ferdi B Dick builds many of his animal sculptures around a recurring gesture: an open mouth with an extended tongue, capturing the form of a roar. Rather than representing aggression, Dick connects the gesture to release and exhalation, drawing a parallel with Simhasana, the lion’s breath in yoga practice.
The motif appears throughout his practice at different scales, from mirror-polished stainless-steel public sculptures to gallery works and cast crystal. In Embrace the Amazing Whale, the gesture takes the form of an 8-meter-tall public sculpture on the waterfront of Zhanjiang, China, installed in December 2023. Lion...
South African-born sculptor Ferdi B Dick builds many of his animal sculptures around a recurring gesture: an open mouth with an extended tongue, capturing the form of a roar. Rather than representing aggression, Dick connects the gesture to release and exhalation, drawing a parallel with Simhasana, the lion’s breath in yoga practice.
The motif appears throughout his practice at different scales, from mirror-polished stainless-steel public sculptures to gallery works and cast crystal. In Embrace the Amazing Whale, the gesture takes the form of an 8-meter-tall public sculpture on the waterfront of Zhanjiang, China, installed in December 2023. Lion...
Billionaire hedge funder and ARTnews Top 200 collector Kenneth C. Griffin has made the largest-ever donation in the history of higher education, giving $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh. The school will launch a purpose-built Miami outpost with $2 billion of the gift, which also supports the main campus to the tune of $1 billion. It’s additionally the largest gift Griffin has ever given. The Miami campus, located in the city’s Wynwood district, will support more than 3,500 students, from college to PhD levels, with nearly 300 faculty and over 600 staff. Construction is slated to get underway in 2027, with the first students enrolling in 2028. The Pittsburgh gift will be divided...
Manuel Álvarez Bravo, "El ensueño (Daydreaming)" (1931) (courtesy Yancey Richardson gallery)A small room sprouts off the side of Yancey Richardson’s sunlit Chelsea gallery, and though it’s about the size of a parking space, it often contains the best stuff. Right now, it holds a suite of nine photographs by the Mexican photographer and modernist titan Manuel Álvarez Bravo.If you’re unfamiliar with Álvarez Bravo’s work, it’s worth a visit. The show features some of his most famous images, printed during his lifetime, that together echo an erotic, dreamy vision of solitude; all but one depict lone figures. In my favorite, “Los perros durmiendo ladran o Los sueños han de creers (Sleeping Dogs...
For the eighth iteration of its “Artycapucines” collection, Louis Vuitton collaborated with the Keith Haring Foundation to create 13 new bag designs dedicated to the work of late American artist Keith Haring, WWD reported. The bags will feature Haring’s bold graphic imagery, including his signature Running Heart and Radiant Baby dancing figures among the compositions. The designs will further incorporate such craft techniques as traditional leather marquetry and laser printing that transform Louis Vuitton’s iconic Capucines handbag into a wearable canvas. Some highlights from the new 13-piece collection include the Capucines Nano Running Heart evening clutch derived from Haring’s eponymous 1984...
The New York–based Artists Rights Society (ARS), which represents more than 120,000 artists for licensing images of their works in the United States, has announced a partnership with Samsung Art Store to display the work of ARS-represented artists on Samsung TVs. The collaboration launches with the work of LeRoy Neiman, who is known for his expressionist depictions of sports, leisure, and other facets of Americana. A collection of 33 of Neiman’s work is now available to license via the Samsung Art Store, with more artists on deck to join his work in the coming months. “LeRoy Neiman’s work has always had a remarkable ability to connect with audiences through its energy, color, and celebration of...
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), the federal agency responsible for promoting preservation of America’s historic places, announced that it has terminated its consultation work on President Trump’s Triumphal Arch Project. The ACHP will send its final comments to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum by October 7. In a letter to the National Park Service […]
The Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum is nothing short of controversy. In its latest, the museum is being sued by a blind man over a lack of audio guides at the exhibition, according to The Telegraph. The lawsuit was filed by Yusuf Ali Osman, a registered blind man who has no sight in both eyes, with the law firm Leigh Day. A letter was sent to the museum by the law firm outlining that the British Museum failed to comply with the Equality Act. “The Museum is committed to making the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition as accessible as possible and has worked with specialist access consultants to inform the exhibition experience,” said a spokesperson for the museum in a statement. “Provisions include a sensory...
Bon Iver, whose music has evolved over time from sparse acoustic folk to a synthesized sound suggestive of intricate worldbuilding, will release a deluxe 10th-annivesary edition an album that counted as a Gesamtkunstwerk when it helped reposition the band in 2016. For 22, A Million, the group’s third album, artist and designer Eric Timothy Carlson effectively joined Bon Iver as a member and became an integral part of its creative process, such that its distinctive symbolist visual language and iconography figured in the making of the music and vice-versa. In an essay included in the album’s expanded release, scheduled for November 20, Carlson writes, “It takes a particular commitment to ambitiously...
In May We Feed the King, the curator of a palace museum fills in the gaps
The London institution has rearranged its permanent collection to look more closely at the nuances of Morris’s life and politics, while galleries have been transformed
The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has named Stephanie Rosenthal as its new artistic director, starting in early 2027. Rosenthal is currently the director of the (yet to be opened) Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Throughout her career, Rosenthal has held leadership positions at institutions in Abu Dhabi, London, Berlin, Sydney, and Munich. From 2018-2022, she served as […]
Hailing from the French West Indies in the Caribbean—specifically the island of Guadeloupe—and currently based in Montréal, multi-disciplinary artist Eddy Firmin is deeply interested in the history and politics of colonization and identity. His home region’s inextricable ties to the dark legacy of slavery informs a practice that interrogates how knowledge is shared and passed down through generations. Throughout more than three centuries, upwards of 20 million or more people were transported to the Western Hemisphere to be sold as slaves in what is now viewed as one of the most atrocious crimes against humanity ever perpetrated. Millions died due to exhaustion, disease, and brutal transport and living...
A long-hidden private collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Fauvist works valued at about $450 million will go up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York on November 18. The dozen paintings come from the estate of Nelly Blaquier de Arrieta and Carlos Pedro Blaquier, the latter of whom is alleged to have been complicit in […]
Korean-American artist, writer, and composer Johanna Hedva’s exhibition Gravity, My / Favorite Enemy, at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), is created with its own demise in mind. The show’s first work, “The Clock Is Always Wrong (Other Mouth)” (2023–ongoing) consists of a glass vial suspended from the ceiling by hooks and chains with a viscous, ink-black liquid slowly dripping from its spout and seeping into the carpeted gallery floor. This sculpture is said to contain enough of this liquid to last until December — its emptiness will signal the show’s closure. This sense of finality is ever-present in Hedva’s practice across mediums: In addition to their visual art, they are...
Hyperallergic’s tarotscope series is a combination of tarot with astrology, a reading for the collective readership combined with cards for the major astrological signs, grouped by their elemental associations. These are developed by AX Mina, a Hyperallergic contributor and producer for Five and Nine, a podcast about magic, work, and economic justice. These tarotscopes have a special focus on the arts and creative practice, for each solstice and equinox, to mark the turning of the seasons.At the twilight of New York City’s characteristically soupy summer, I had a chance to visit the Morgan Library’s amazing tarot show, which offers 500 years of perspective on a deck system that still feels so...
The permanent commission for the new Lassonde Art Trail reflects on the past, present and future of North America with Monkman’s characteristic quirky twists
AINA Gallery is pleased to announce its grand opening in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. Previously known as Aicon Art, AINA brings its curatorial program of South Asian modern masters from the twentieth century alongside cutting-edge contemporary artists working across South Asia, Africa, and their global diasporas to the new gallery designed by studioMDA.Derived from the Persian and South Asian concept of the mirror (aina /آئینہ), AINA is an exhibition space dedicated to reflection and global artistic dialogues. “AINA Gallery was conceived as a space of clarity and synthesis ... New York has long been a global nexus for artistic exchange, yet non-Western modernisms and contemporary artists of...
Lou Melchior turns everyday objects, shadows and fragments into something stranger in a new solo exhibition at Gallery46.
The museum’s director says F. Holland Day's "The Seven Words" (1898), depicting the artist as Jesus on the cross, is “the most important photograph that people don’t know about”
The documentary “I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies”, premiering at the New York Film Festival, follows the activities of the Tabriz-based artists Nasser Bakshi and Roghayeh Najdi
ANREALAGE SS27 TURNS E-INK INTO A SECOND SKIN
For Spring/Summer 2027, Anrealage takes the idea of a wardrobe update rather literally. Kunihiko Morinaga’s Skin collection, presented during Paris Fashion Week at the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, imagines clothing as an outer layer that can shed, mutate and regenerate. Drawing parallels between biological skin and the interchangeable skins of digital avatars, the designer builds the collection around surfaces that refuse to stay visually fixed. The premise feels familiar to anyone who has changed an avatar outfit in seconds; translating that behavior to the physical body is the more complicated part.
The transformation begins relatively quietly....
For Spring/Summer 2027, Anrealage takes the idea of a wardrobe update rather literally. Kunihiko Morinaga’s Skin collection, presented during Paris Fashion Week at the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, imagines clothing as an outer layer that can shed, mutate and regenerate. Drawing parallels between biological skin and the interchangeable skins of digital avatars, the designer builds the collection around surfaces that refuse to stay visually fixed. The premise feels familiar to anyone who has changed an avatar outfit in seconds; translating that behavior to the physical body is the more complicated part.
The transformation begins relatively quietly....
Shezad Dawood joins Hales, with Frieze London 2026 and a first solo exhibition with the gallery to follow.
Amartuvshin Enkhbat is superb in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra in San Francisco — even if the drama offstage is more persuasive than this new production.
Flat design ran the table for a long time. Clean sans-serif type. Muted palettes. Interfaces pared down to whatever was... Read More
The Ashmolean and Samdani Art Foundation launch a new residency and collection programme supporting contemporary Bangladeshi artists.
Es Devlin turns 30 years of projects, models and archives into a magical journey through Other Worlds at the Design Museum.
david altrath photographs germany’s autobahnkirche
David Altrath turns his camera toward the Autobahnkirche Siegerland, a roadside chapel by schneider+schumacher beside the A45 motorway near Wilnsdorf, Germany. His photographic series focuses on the sculptural geometry of the building, tracing the transition from its stark white exterior to the warm, intricate timber structure inside. Completed in 2013, the chapel was designed as a place for travelers to pause beside the motorway. Its exterior translates the familiar pictogram of a church into a three-dimensional architectural form, with two pointed spires rising above a folded white volume. Altrath photographs this silhouette from close and distant...
David Altrath turns his camera toward the Autobahnkirche Siegerland, a roadside chapel by schneider+schumacher beside the A45 motorway near Wilnsdorf, Germany. His photographic series focuses on the sculptural geometry of the building, tracing the transition from its stark white exterior to the warm, intricate timber structure inside. Completed in 2013, the chapel was designed as a place for travelers to pause beside the motorway. Its exterior translates the familiar pictogram of a church into a three-dimensional architectural form, with two pointed spires rising above a folded white volume. Altrath photographs this silhouette from close and distant...
ROYAL ENFIELD REIMAGINES CITY TRAVEL WITH ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE
During Paris Design Week 2026 Royal Enfield invited designboom for a test drive event of the Flying Flea C6 electric motorcycle, presenting its vision of a lightweight, design-driven alternative to conventional motorbikes to Europe. Developed under the sub-brand Flying Flea, the vehicle strips away the complex mechanics, offering an intuitive riding experience that invites a new generation of urban riders to transition from electric bicycles and shared micro-mobility options into the realm of full-fledged electric travel.
‘The idea for the Flying Flea C6 grew directly out of watching people navigate cities on Lime bikes and asking, “Why...
During Paris Design Week 2026 Royal Enfield invited designboom for a test drive event of the Flying Flea C6 electric motorcycle, presenting its vision of a lightweight, design-driven alternative to conventional motorbikes to Europe. Developed under the sub-brand Flying Flea, the vehicle strips away the complex mechanics, offering an intuitive riding experience that invites a new generation of urban riders to transition from electric bicycles and shared micro-mobility options into the realm of full-fledged electric travel.
‘The idea for the Flying Flea C6 grew directly out of watching people navigate cities on Lime bikes and asking, “Why...
A continuous circulation loop reorganizes Lilac apartment
Lilac is one of two ‘family’ apartments in Lisbon designed by BUREAU as the first homes of two ‘brothers, sisters,’ Lilac and Blue. At 44 sqm, the apartment explores how a compact floor area can accommodate everyday routines, objects, and different ways of living. The layout places limited emphasis on privacy, allowing multiple activities to coexist while giving each space its own function and flexibility.
The redesign turns circulation into usable space. The former entrance hall becomes a functional kitchen, while the existing interior bedroom at the center of the apartment is converted into wet areas. A continuous passage wraps around...
Lilac is one of two ‘family’ apartments in Lisbon designed by BUREAU as the first homes of two ‘brothers, sisters,’ Lilac and Blue. At 44 sqm, the apartment explores how a compact floor area can accommodate everyday routines, objects, and different ways of living. The layout places limited emphasis on privacy, allowing multiple activities to coexist while giving each space its own function and flexibility.
The redesign turns circulation into usable space. The former entrance hall becomes a functional kitchen, while the existing interior bedroom at the center of the apartment is converted into wet areas. A continuous passage wraps around...
Reuben “Rube” Goldberg (1883-1970) was known for his comic strips, political cartoons, and unique inventions. His most enduring legacy, however, is arguably the Rube Goldberg machine. Still bearing his name, these contraptions are often comical or playful due to their “overengineered” nature, using complex sequences of simple chain reactions like rolling ramps, weight and pulley systems, domino chains, and pendulum swings. “Busy Bodies,” created by animator Kate Renshaw-Lewis, is a short film inspired by these straightforward yet intricate mechanisms. The animation presents an imaginative process for what seems to be the creation of red rubber gloves and the packaging of vague fish products. As...
Known for his fantastical paintings of hybrid flora and fauna, Jon Ching channels the otherworldly in vibrant and meticulously detailed canvases. His precise renderings of regal creatures conjure elemental energies like fire and water, merged with the personalities of mammals, birds, and marine life. Inspired by his island upbringing on O’ahu, Hawai’i, Ching continues to turn to nature as a boundless source of wonder and solace. The Los Angeles-based artist’s forthcoming solo exhibition, Path of Least Resistance at KP Projects, highlights recent portraits of owls, hummingbirds, fish, orchids, and more. Navigating both the socio-political realities of the past few years and the daily challenges and...
By Betty Ann Brown "In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world."—Graciela Iturbide Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide creates haunting images that portray the people, places, and events of the extraordinary cultures and geographies of her home country. Iturbide has a unique artistic practice that involves living and working with the people she chooses to photograph. Her process has made possible the strange and wonderful depictions for which she is known. In...
Niklas Roy is fascinated by the convergence of art and technology. From robotics to gaming systems, the Berlin-based artist and inventor creates quirky yet thought-provoking sculptures and installations that investigate relationships between creativity, science, and tech. His mechanical contraptions are often infused with a lighthearted twist that prompts viewers to think critically and get involved. And his most recent project draws on one of the most fundamental types of technology humans have ever developed: telling time. “Glashütte Trash Clock” is named for the town in Saxony, Germany, where the artist participated in a residency this year. It’s also the birthplace of the nation’s renowned...
Tenet Vocal Artists's first-ever opera production, of Monteverdi's Orfeo, soars to Platonic ideals.
Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Arch Enemy Arts Call for ArtistsFeaturedArch Enemy Arts is seeking submissions for an annual group exhibition in January 2027. This spotlight exhibition of new and emerging talent has no themes or direction in subject matter, although the gallery focuses on representational, dark surrealism, magical realism, post-graffiti, pop-surrealism, narrative, illustrative, and figurative work across a range of artistic mediums. The exhibition is open to artists worldwide, who are invited to submit up to three works for...
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The Metropolitan Opera gets its freak on — or about as close as it can — in a revival of its Coney Island-set production of Così fan tutte.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin opens Philadelphia's symphonic season in typically sunny style with programs feautring Beethoven, Brahms, and Bernstein.
By Victoria Thomas Lauren Cross, PhD is the Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts for The Huntington. The gifted artist, author, and scholar moves through the world of material objects with a detective's nose for sleuthing out lost context and hidden figures, and a Griot's gift for connecting narrative dots to unearth treasure. She is the unstoppable force behind the first major museum retrospective to explore the untold history of ceramic innovator Doyle Lane, with more...
With a creative lexicon featuring yarn, pixels, beeswax, and spray paint, Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega has created a new language for herself, one that speaks to the present and the past by using traditional and contemporary techniques, as well as rural and urban sensibilities, to create a body of work that synthesizes all her […]
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Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.
The 80th Issue of Hi-Fructose is coming soon! It includes a cover a feature on the paper collages of Lola Dupre, the Fluffy Vases of Shishi San, the installation paintings of Evgenia Voinar, Debbie Lawson’s textile sculptures, painter Rob Browning’s stark surrealism. Plus a Special Insert Section focused on the art of Jeff Sheridan, Andrea […]
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By Lacey Argus Sovern, a nonprofit art gallery and healing justice center in Los Angeles, sticks out like a vibrant castle in the midst of the harsh greys of urban Los Angeles. The bright shades of pink and elaborate designs that adorn its concrete walls draw you in, as if calling you to explore the treasures within. The gallery's current showing is Into the Pluriverse, running from June 25 through October 8, 2026. Into the Pluriverse is a group exhibition inspired by the Zapatista term...
Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...
By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...
For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...
