The underpainting, a quite conventional portrait of a man, was previously believed to be by a different artist

waa (wearchitechanonymous) rethinks retail through color
 
waa (wearchitechanonymous) designs ERDOS Land, a 2,600-sqm factory store within the ERDOS headquarters complex on the outskirts of Ordos city, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The project integrates retail, leisure, and tourism functions, housing all of the brand’s labels under one roof and accommodating up to 700 visitors per day during peak seasons. An additional 700 sqm of space supports a children’s play area, a café, and a tourist center.
 
The design approach is rooted in an exploration of how color shapes perception within spatial environments. Instead of modifying individual pigments, the project emphasizes the relationship between...

HISTORIC TOWNHOUSE REIMAGINED FOR THE MODERN HOSPITALITY ERA
  Hidden behind the bustling streets of Paris, the Hôtel de Pourtalès is a former private mansion that has been transformed into a secluded luxury apartment hotel. Once a private townhouse built by architect Félix Duban for Swiss-born banker and art collector Count James-Alexandre de Pourtalès in 1839, this neoclassical building has been reimagined as a luxury destination for those who value privacy and design. Since 2002, the building has been listed as an official historical monument with every contemporary intervention carefully balanced to preserve its aristocratic soul. For designboom, a stay during Paris Design Week offered an intimate...

david černý’s shipwreck tower to rise above prague
 
First unveiled in 2019, the 135-meter-tall Top Tower has now received approval from city officials, paving the way for it to become the tallest building in the Czech Republic, surpassing Brno’s AZ Tower by nine meters. Rising in Prague’s Nové Butovice neighborhood, the sculptural landmark, co-designed by artist David Černý and architect Tomáš Císař of Black n’ Arch, resembles a vertical shipwreck and is envisioned as a mixed-use hub with residences, offices, and a generous public realm at its base. Crowned by a sky-high observation deck, the project promises to offer sweeping views across the capital and its surrounding landscape.
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Galleries reported satisfactory sales amid a global slump, noting that the relatively low prices and high volume of Japan's market are serving its domestic scene well

the Oldest public art collection is at Kunstmuseum Basel
 
Kunstmuseum Basel is inviting visitors to experience its unparalleled holdings spanning seven centuries of artistic production. Founded in 1661 as the world’s oldest public art collection, the museum today houses over 4,000 paintings, sculptures, videos, and installations, alongside some 300,000 drawings and prints in the Kupferstichkabinett. Highlights include masterpieces by Hans Holbein the Younger, Konrad Witz, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Alberto Giacometti, Helen Frankenthaler, Andy Warhol, Pamela Rosenkranz, and many more. Its curated presentations guide audiences through the Old Masters, the 19th century, Classical...

The posters, being sold as part of a book, are “a tribute to Palestinian resilience and a tool for global solidarity”

A thrilling Dior debut in Paris for new creative director Jonathan Anderson, an earthy, wood-themed jewellery collection at Christie’s London by Natasha Wightman, a must-see doll’s house at the Rijksmuseum and shoe king Manolo Blahnik sponsors a V&A exhibition about Marie Antoinette

Meta unveils Ray-Ban Display and OAKLEY Vanguard
 
Meta introduces Ray-Ban Display with a neural wristband and OAKLEY Vanguard AI glasses that come with earbuds-free (video) calls and an autocapture feature. Unveiled during the Connect event on September 17th, 2025, the devices house optical modules with transparent lenses. In the Meta Ray-Ban Display, the module contains a small projector that places text or images on the lens surface, while Vanguard replaces the projector with OAKLEY PRIZM lenses for outdoor vision but keeps the same lens mount. Both models share a camera unit positioned at the top corner of each frame, containing a 12-megapixel sensor, autofocus motor, and protective cover. Microphones and...

At the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, painting bears witness to trauma, displacement and the slow work of healing. Tesfaye Urgessa, The Fragile Mind, 2025. Oil and lacquer on canvas. Copyright of the artist. Tesfaye Urgessa’s Roots […]

Lady Charlotte Schreiber started to record her daily purchases in a meticulous manner from April 1873. Was this simply a means to remember the cost and particular provenance of a piece or had she already started to consider that one day she would assemble a complete catalogue of her collection? It is possible that such detailed accounts of current stock also enabled her to gather details easily together when she wished to sell off particular pieces from her collection. In fact, the first two unpublished Ceramic Memoranda Journals do not include purchase lists; rather they are littered with lists of objects for sale, revealing for the first time the extent to which Charlotte actively purged her collection in...

Raphael Chikukwa and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe prepare to host a landmark 2026 gathering that redefines global museum practice Raphael Chikukwa, Director, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare. Photo by Roberto Ruiz. For the first […]

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At least four activists were arrested outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City on Wednesday morning, September 17, while forming a blockade in protest of two tenants they say are profiteering from Israel’s violence against Palestinians.  Tucked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard complex (BNY), a group of city-owned buildings where tenants pay no real estate taxes, the surveillance drone manufacturer Easy Aerial is listed as a “Fine Art/Photography” business. The company has ties to both the Israeli military and the United States Department of Homeland Security. Not far away, Crye Precision, a textile producer that has allegedly supplied apparel for the Israeli military — a claim the company denies —...

The building in Marfa, Texas, was badly damaged by fire in 2021, wrecking a three-year restoration project that was about to complete

An extinct variety of manganese blue paint is one of the many inextricable ingredients of Jackson Pollock’s 1948 masterpiece Number 1A, according to the authors of a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The nearly nine-foot-wide canvas, splattered with paint that evokes an expansive celestial atmosphere, is a mainstay in the teeming galleries of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Using a technique called Raman spectroscopy to study the molecular makeup of the painting’s pigment, the paper’s five authors—from Stanford University, City College of New York, and MoMA’s conservation department—identified manganese blue, a synthetic paint popular in...

Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Happy Wednesday! A round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week: Marian Goodman Gallery Takes on Edith Dekyndt: Dekyndt has a multidisciplinary practice that explores time, light, and space through minimalist video, sculpture, installation, and performance. The gallery will debut her work at Art Basel Paris in October. Salon 94 to Represent Raven Halfmoon: Known for monumental clay and stoneware figures that fuse traditional coil-building with bold glazes and inscribed text, Halfmoon (Caddo Nation) has work in the...

There has been much discussion lately about what many consider inflated prices for works by young and emerging artists, but few reporters—or even members of the trade—are willing to put numbers to it. Artnet News editor-in-chief Naomi Rea did, in a column ahead of Art Basel in June, writing, “Now, $30,000 gets you a résumé-light emerging artist. The art market has lost its grip on price-setting—and dealers must recalibrate.” But how much should a collector pay then? Longtime adviser and Baer Faxt founder Josh Baer has just offered his answer. In the latest edition of his free No Reserve newsletter, Baer gives advice on what he calls “ultra-emerging” artists, writing that the most a collector...

In 2022, Molly Crabapple noticed that several images uncannily resembling her distinctive illustrations of the Aleppo skyline and portraits of protesters had spread across the web. She realized that artificial intelligence companies had hoovered up her work, along with billions of other images on the Internet, to train models that convert blocks of text into images. When she typed her name into programs such as DALL-E, DreamStudio, and Stable Diffusion, they each spat back sloppy facsimiles of her sketch of the ravaged Syrian city.  “It’s not a good knockoff,” Crabapple told Hyperallergic. “The ultimate goal is never to be as good as the art — the goal is to be good enough to get on the page, get...

The Speaker of Stones card from the Mixed Signals tarot deck by M Eilo (all images courtesy M Eilo) 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. What I love about the fall equinox is the very gentle crossfade into longer nights, presaging a major shift in seasons....

After a long, rainy summer, the Bay Area art scene is beginning to thaw out, with galleries returning from summer vacation and museums kicking off the fall. The country seems to be spiraling ever further towards authoritarian chaos, but a small flame of resistance burns bright in our cultural spaces. This season’s lineup of exhibitions brings together artists and activists across generations, at large institutions and small art spaces alike, offering modes of resistance and community through art. Be it a celebration of local Filipino artists, the newly renovated Museum of the African Diaspora’s exhibition on Blackness and the cosmos, the formal experimentations of Jim Melchert, or Suzanne Jackson’s...

In 2006, I interviewed Stephen Westfall about his longtime interest in the possibilities of a skewed grid, among other subjects. He came to this grid by connecting Agnes Martin with Paul Klee; he also discussed vulnerability and planar abstraction, and the different sources from modern signs and symbols he could tap into:  In my work, there’s Navajo rugs, Walker Evans, and NASCAR scoreboards. You see this stuff and then you go back to start thinking about a structure that has all that without advertising any single one of those things; a structure that might breed another structure in and of itself, and all those things are in it. The relationship of vulnerability with planar abstraction and the culture of...

International auction house Sotheby’s has secured a major consignment of fifty-five works from the collection of cosmetics magnate Leonard Lauder, who died this past summer at the age of ninety-two. The trove, worth roughly $400 million, will go on the block in New York this November, according to the New York Times, which broke the […]

In a monumental new installation, Raúl de Nieves brings Catholic imagery, Mexican folklore, and tarot into dazzling view. For “In Light of Innocence,” Pioneer Works’ Main Hall transforms into a vibrant sanctuary complete with 50 stained glass-like panels that reach up toward the heavens. The individual pieces are fitted into the space’s windows, with a larger lightbox mural radiating from below. De Nieves is known for utilizing common materials, including wood, glue, tape, and, for this project, brilliantly colored acetate that allows light to filter into the open hall. Along with swapping plastic for glass, the artist also upends the typical cathedral environment with non-religious imagery and...

There hasn’t been much news about the much-anticipated Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic Samo Lives since the film was first announced in January 2022. (Filming was supposed to have begun that fall.) But earlier this week, New York blog EV Grieve noted signs alerting neighbors that filming has begun around the East Village’s Tompkins Square Park.Samo Lives is directed by Julius Onah, whose credits include The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) and Luce (2019), and stars Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Basquiat. No other actors have been announced yet, though based on EV Grieve’s grainy photos, someone has been cast to play Basquiat’s friend and frequent collaborator, Andy Warhol.Basquiat’s connection to the East Village...

In so-called “granary trees,” acorn woodpeckers drill remarkable pegboard-like patterns in which they store thousands upon thousands of acorns for food over the winter. And the Austral pygmy-owl, endemic to parts of Argentina and Chile, can be identified by its high-pitched toot. These are just a few of the incredible array of bird species represented by the top entries in this year’s Audubon Photography Awards. The 2025 contest comprises two groupings emphasizing migration, with submissions welcome from Canada and the U.S., along with Chile and Colombia. From there, entries are categorized into themed awards like the Youth, Conservation, Birds Without Borders, and Birds in Landscape prizes. 2025 Female...

The world of multi-disciplinary artist Floria Sigismondi is a surrealist dystopia. The Italian born, Canadian raised photographer and filmmaker has created a dark paradise born of a potent blend of decadent decay, dark theatrics, high fashion, seedy environments, and a subverting look at what constitutes the nature of beauty. Read the full interview by Kirsten Anderson with Floria Sigismondi by clicking above.
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The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has announced José Carlos Diaz as its next senior director of curatorial affairs and chief curator. Diaz arrives to PAMM from the Seattle Art Museum, where he has served as deputy director of art since 2022. He succeeds Gilbert Vicario, who departed as chief curator this past February. Diaz […]

West of Naples, along the Tyrrhenian coast, sits the storied Lake Avernus. Situated in a volcanic crater, its Latin name is synonymous with hell or the underworld, and to the ancient Romans, it was considered the portal to Hades. Dante Alighieri echoed the belief in his seminal Inferno. More recently, Anish Kapoor set out to explore the notion in a striking new entrance to the Monte Sant’Angelo subway station in central Naples. “In the city of Mount Vesuvius and Dante’s mythical entrance to the Inferno, I found it important to try and deal with what it really means to go underground,” the artist says. Kapoor is renowned for large-scale sculptures and installations that tap into visceral psychological...

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The 25th anniversary revival of Dead Man Walking at San Francisco Opera is most moving in its quietest moments

In September 2023, journalist and photographer Barbara Debeuckelaere travelled to Palestine. Her destination was Tel Rumeida in Hebron, the only city in the West Bank with an Israeli settlement at its centre. It was the latest in a series of visits to the region, where she had gotten to know local communities. This time, she had a bag of analogue cameras with her, which she gave to women and girls from eight families. Over the next month, they tenderly documented their lives – capturing domestic moments that are often absent from news stories. The collection of images – which totaled more than 1,000 in just four weeks – became part of ‘Om/Mother, a powerful book that shows the Palestinian women of...

Earlier this month, Naples unveiled Monte Sant’Angelo Station, a subway stop unlike any other. Designed by the internationally acclaimed artist Anish Kapoor, it elevates what is typically a functional, utilitarian space into a sculptural experience, where art, architecture and urban life converge. Spanning more than two decades in conception and construction, Kapoor’s station reimagines public infrastructure as a cultural landmark, redefining not only the Traiano district but the very notion of how a subway can shape perception, movement and imagination. Monte Sant’Angelo Station embodies Kapoor’s enduring fascination with form, void and the body. Its two entrances offer contrasting yet complementary...

Thank you, Leon Botstein, for giving us a chance to hear the Berlioz adaptation of Der Freischütz (or Freyschütz).

An Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) exhibition in Beyoğlu-Karaköy, weaving together historical and contemporary voices 18th Istanbul Biennial Opening Reception. Photo: Muhenna Kahveci The 18th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Christine Tohmé and titled […]

In the vast expanse of the Great Basin Desert, where horizon and sky seem to merge into an infinite continuum, the act of seeing becomes an art form in itself. Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973 – 1976) is less an object to be observed than an experience to be inhabited – a meditation on light, scale, and temporality that dissolves the boundary between the human and the cosmic. The work, monumental yet intimate, situates perception as both subject and medium, asking viewers to reconcile the fleeting present with the immensity of celestial time. In a contemporary art landscape often dominated by urban spectacle, Holt’s desert installation offers a radical recalibration, reminding us that art can be as much...

For photographers, there’s nothing like seeing your images in print. A photo book transforms your project into something lasting and tangible—something people will display on their shelves, gift to friends, or showcase on their coffee tables. But beyond being beautiful objects, photo books can also be a smart way to generate income from your work. And thanks to Lulu, creating and selling them has never been simpler. Skip the Long Publishing Timeline We’ve interviewed many photographers who have published photo books, so we know first-hand that publishing a book can take years—finding a publisher, committing to expensive bulk print runs, and hoping enough copies are sold to cover costs. Lulu changes all...

Figurative artist Jennifer Packer and interdisciplinary artist Marie Watt have been named the recipients of the 2025 Heinz Award for the Arts. The unrestricted $250,000 cash prize, established in 1993 and given annually since 1994 by the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation to honor individuals making major contributions in the arts, is one of the world’s […]

Palestinian artist, educator, and activist Samia Halaby has been announced as the recipient of this year’s Munch Award celebrating artistic freedom. Inaugurated last year, the honor is presented annually by Munch—an Oslo museum devoted to the work of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch—in recognition of artists’ sustained courage and integrity in the face of political and […]

Known for their innovative music videos and dance-worthy tracks, OK Go knows the power of great visuals. Coordination is often the name of the game, from the viral treadmills in “Here It Goes Again” to 64 synced and choreographed smartphones in “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill.” For their latest release, “Impulse Purchase,” the group turned to another means of collaboration: open-source animation. OK Go teamed up with animators Lucas Zanotto (previously) and Will Anderson, along with Blender Studio, to create a digital music video unlike any they’ve made so far. The song “Impulse Purchase” takes Zanotto’s characteristic cartoonish characters, which roll and explode in a variety of playful,...

"I think I was born to be a composer," says Kuksi by phone from Lawrence, Kansas, "maybe, secondarily, an artist." Kuksi is certainly an artist, but his great talent is taking careful consideration of every small part—some so tiny that they could easily fall into a crack—as he constructs much larger arrangements. Read the full article by Liz Ohanesian, by clicking above.
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Hangama Amiri translates fragments of her teenage years and family history into quilted portraits and tender tableaus. The artist, who resides in upstate New York and maintains a studio in Red Hook, is interested in recollection and the stories that make us who we are. “There’s an innocence and a special quality in revisiting and reminiscing those memories, especially that my family and I spent those years in migration across Central Asia,” she adds. At just 7 years old, Amiri left her native Kabul and traveled to various countries before settling in Canada as a teenager. This itinerant experience continues to inform the artist’s work, particularly as she seeks to build a larger narrative about...

In the pursuit of clowning, Anthony Roth Costanzo’s Galas may have lost sight of “the seriousness of the theme.”

This autumn, York Art Gallery becomes a vital nexus for contemporary art as Aesthetica presents two exhibitions: the Aesthetica Art Prize 2025 and Future Tense: Art in the Age of Transformation. Both open on 19 September 2025 and run until 25 January 2026, offering audiences an opportunity to experience ambitious and immersive works, curated by the Director of one the UK’s leading art publications.  The Aesthetica Art Prize has, since 2007, established itself as one of the UK’s most influential platforms for emerging and mid-career artists. Far from a conventional competition, the Prize identifies and nurtures talent at a formative stage, providing recognition that often propels artists onto the...

My next production will be Aïda with the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta.

An OOA Gallery exhibition in Barcelona, weaving together historical and contemporary voices Abel Beyene Ethiopia, b. 1995, Behind the cover, 2025. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 119 x 149cm. Courtesy of the artist and OOA Gallery. OOA Gallery […]

Tyler Mitchell’s exhibition Portrait of the Modern Dandy, on view at Gagosian’s Burlington Arcade in London, presents a nuanced exploration of Black identity through fashion, portraiture and visual narrative. The show marks the first public display of Mitchell’s photographs for the Superfine: Tailoring Black Style exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and coincides with the release of his debut monograph, Wish This Was Real (Aperture, 2025). Through this work, Mitchell navigates the interplay of history, style and cultural agency, foregrounding Black self-fashioning as both artistic and political practice. Mitchell’s practice exists at the intersection of fine art, photography...

Local officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning at Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens, the new sanctuary honoring pathbreaking sculptor Alexander Calder, presaging its opening to the public, which is set for September 21. A free public parade, conceived by artist, composer, and musician Arto Lindsay and organized by Juana Berrío, Calder Gardens’ senior director of programs, […]

Rammellzee was a polymath. Shortly following his start in graffiti in the early ‘70s, tagging trains in his hometown, Far Rockaway in Queens, he began developing a theory about life and liberation through controlling letterforms, transforming words and thought into a new kind of warfare against those that use information to control... Read the full article on the artist by clicking above! (photo by Joshua White, courtesy of the Estate of Rammellzee and Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles)
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It's always interesting to hear the master of one role in an opera take on another one.

A Studio Museum in Harlem initiative in New York, weaving together historical and contemporary voices Jeffrey Meris, 2022–23 Artist-in-Residence, in his studio at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Courtesy of the Studio Museum in Harlem. […]

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By Betty Ann Brown “Historically, the portrayal of minorities in movies and television is less than ideal. Whether it’s appearing in...