choi+shine brings crochet to a new scale
 
Across landscapes and public spaces, Choi+Shine Architects’ lace works appear first as figures hovering in mid-air. Crochet, usually held close to the body, is expanded into something people can walk beneath. It casts patterned shadows, it filters light, and it gathers visitors under a structure whose surface still reads as handcrafted.
 
The Amsterdam-based studio was founded by Jin Choi and Thomas Shine in 2003. Together with the help of a community of volunteers, the duo works between architecture, public art, and textile practice. Before they’re suspended for public display, their projects are created through a process which involves drawings, digital...

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UPSTATE NEW YORK — At Scenic Hudson’s River Center on Friday, saris hanging from clotheslines billowed gracefully in a serene, tent-like installation. Organized by Eve Morgenstern, founder of the climate and art nonprofit Soon is Now, Museum of Fishes & Greens was the result of a collaboration between the Food Studio Collective and local artists in the Sundarbans forest in India, who are featured in a short documentary discussing how they navigate ecological precarity while sustaining households, markets, and biodiversity.This conscientious show kicked off my romp through the seventh annual Upstate Art Weekend (UAW), a celebration of art around the Hudson Valley region and beyond held from June 25 to 29....

As a street photographer, I set out on walks with no destination, only the intent to notice. On these walks, I often take stock of the city's temperature, and during the heat of the 57th New York City Pride March yesterday, June 28, I felt as if I had drifted into an idyllic fever dream. As the march proceeded down Fifth Avenue and looped up and around Seventh Avenue, the parade’s energy dispersed a feeling which I could perhaps only describe as a radiant chaos. During the march, the NYPD functioned more like ornaments, their force relented. With at least the appearance of tension softened, friction took a back seat to the joy emanating from marchers and observers alike. Maybe the heat had softened me,...

A Texas tattoo artist has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving a box of political pamphlets and zines featuring “anti-government and anti-Trump sentiments,” prompting outrage from First Amendment advocates.Thirty-nine-year old Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada was one of eight defendants sentenced to lengthy prison terms by a Texas federal court last week for their alleged roles in a 2024 protest that turned violent. On July 4, 2025, protesters had gathered outside of Prairieland Detention Center, where the federal government holds undocumented immigrants whom it plans to deport. The demonstration, billed by the Trump administration as an orchestration by “Antifa terrorists,” took a...

At the Royal Museum for Central Africa on the outskirts of Brussels are four monumental wall maps from 1910 depicting Belgian colonial interests. They are dense with information: the exchange rates of resources, pricing structures tied to extraction, and, more chillingly, the market value assigned to enslaved people. These were not simply records of an empire, but instruments that diagrammed how land could be occupied and made profitable. It's an image that stuck with me since I first saw them last winter — perhaps because it’s the clearest example I have seen of violence embedded in systems of land measurement, but also because they were originally installed to persuade viewers to invest in the...

Three Swiss museums have returned 18 royal and religious artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin to Nigeria, marking another significant repatriation of the so-called Benin Bronzes. A handover ceremony took place today at the University of Zurich between Swiss Federal Councillor Elisabeth Baume-Schneider and Nigeria’s Minister of Culture, Hannatu Musa Musawa. The university returned 14 objects from its Ethnographic Museum, while two additional Benin Bronzes came from Museum Rietberg Zurich and another two from the Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève.  The Benin Bronzes refer to the approximately 5,000 bronze sculptures, ceremonial objects, and ivory carvings looted by British forces from the Kingdom of Benin, in...

It is what it is. (all screenshots Hyperallergic; image via X)From Kolkata to Patagonia, the likeness of Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi continues to be bastardized on a monumental scale, as evidenced by the recent unveiling of the tallest statue honoring the decorated athlete in the city of Cutral Có. Valiantly contributing to the global phenomenon of truly unfortunate commemorative statues, the 85-foot-tall (~26-meter) rendition of the athlete kneeling behind a World Cup trophy went viral for its unintentional lewdness after it was installed earlier this month.Anyways, happy Pride ... (via X)Self-taught Patagonian sculptor Aldo Beroisa's design placed the somewhat phallic trophy right in front of...

A pedestal that once supported a Lenin monument in Kyiv that has remained empty ever since 2013 may soon host a statue of a Cossack leader Ivan Mazepa, who is revered by many in Ukraine as a national hero. A 12-foot-tall red quartzite sculpture of Vladimir Lenin stood on the pedestal at the intersection of two main roads in Kyiv for almost 60 years, until it was toppled during the Euromaidan Uprising. The Euromaidan demonstrations had begun the previous month when then-president Viktor Yanukovych declined to sign an agreement with the European Union, thereby strengthening the country’s ties with Russia. Within a few years of Euromaidan, the Ukrainian government had outlawed Soviet symbols, including...

terracotta goes parametric
 
In Beijing’s Sanlitun district, Hermès’ new flagship appears behind a rose-pink and terracotta screen, its glass volume softened by a porous ceramic layer that catches the daylight from the street. The five-story building was designed by RDAI, with Mamou-Mani collaborating on the facade, bringing computational design and ceramic craft into a single architectural skin.
 
The project’s strongest gesture sits on the outside. Across the building, ceramic tiles form a semi-transparent veil that gives depth to the facade while allowing light to pass through. The surface reads differently depending on distance: a warm, continuous volume from afar, then a patterned mesh of...

The National Museum Cardiff in Wales may close for much-needed repair work, according to a workers’ union claim that it is in early discussions about a temporary closure in the wake of work last year to address what the institution’s director general described as the building’s “deteriorating condition.” As reported by the BBC, “The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) said it understands that Amgueddfa Cymru, which runs the site, is ‘considering the possibility’ of temporary closure but that ‘no final decisions have been made.’” The union told the BBC that the talks related to “the impact on staff, the protection of collections and the future operation of the museum” after...

Lionel Messi, the Argentine superhero of soccer who is the highest-scoring player in World Cup history as of last week, has been monumentalized in a remote town in Patagonia. The stats: 85 feet tall, 70 tons in weight, and $130,000 to fabricate. As reported by the New York Times, the statue by artist Aldo Beroisa follows from other creations of his including statues of dinosaurs and Jesus, and has been in the works for more than a year. “This is going to be our Sistine Chapel,” said the mayor of Cutral Có, a town in the Patagonian desert that commissioned the work. “You can manage to convey what Christ looked like, or in the Last Supper—what the apostles looked like is open to interpretation. But with...

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This week, the United States marks its 250th birthday, arguably no closer to agreeing on how that story should be told—or who gets to tell it. Under the second Trump administration, museums have become one of the clearest arenas for that struggle. These are places where America’s myth of exceptionalism collides with its lived reality: a contested memory of race, class, and political ambition. As the unfolding case of the Smithsonian attests, museum leaders occupy a pivotal position in American public life, balancing obligations to historical truth, institutional stakeholders, and the communities whose record they are entrusted to keep.   Against this backdrop, the California African American...

Houston, Texas’s Menil Collection has announced the acquisition of more than seventy works of art made by American painter and printmaker Terry Winters, a New York City-based chronicler of botanical eccentricities and mathematical patterns who’s been exhibited at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Over forty of […]

The Vatican Museums last week inaugurated a major restoration of Raphael’s Loggia, an epic fresco cycle decorating a 213-foot-long corridor in the Apostolic Palace, where the pope lives. A team of twenty experts has been assembled to clean the Renaissance masterpiece, which depicts fifty-two scenes from the Old and New Testaments, each of which is […]

Herculaneum papyrus scroll in the process of being scanned NAPLES, ITALY—Scientists have fully “unwrapped” an entire carbonized papyrus scroll preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, CNN reports. Known as PHerc. 1667, the scroll is one of a library of texts found in the eighteenth century at a villa in the ancient city of Herculaneum. Information from PHerc. 1667 was gathered with a CT scan and then the papyrus was virtually unrolled. Advanced artificial intelligence, trained to identify ink on the papyrus, then detected 20 columns of text on the nearly five-foot-long scroll. “Today—after years of interdisciplinary work combining advanced imaging, artificial intelligence, academic...

In the Peruvian Amazon, the Shipibo-Konibo people (sometimes also spelled Shipibo-Conibo) have made their home around the verdant Ucayali River basin for millennia. Their visual culture is richly informed by their belief systems and the environment in which they live, where foraged clay, wild cotton, and plants used to make pigments have sustained a steadfast artistic tradition known as Kené. The exhibition Akinananti at White Cube illuminates the work of artist Sara Flores, whose meticulous patterns rendered with organic, handmade inks continue an ancient Indigenous tradition. The gallery says, “In the Shipibo language, ‘Akinananti’ describes work done together with love and joy—a practice and...

In a marked break from the norm, the Gwangju Biennale Foundation—the organizer of Asia’s oldest contemporary art Biennale—has announced an open call seeking an artistic director for the 17th Gwangju Biennale, which is slated to take place in 2028. This is a fresh approach that the event is implementing in order to pay homage to […]

GUAREÑO, SPAIN—According to an article in The Greek Reporter, the wheels and parts of a 2,500-year-old miniature bronze chariot have been discovered in a monumental building at the Tartessian site known as Casas del Turuñuelo in southwestern Spain. In the area where the chariot parts were found, archaeologists had previously uncovered an altar shaped like a bull hide. The ceremonial vehicle is thought to have been used to hold embers, burned incense, or aromatic resins. It features bronze components joined with iron fittings; a central iron axle; and decorations on the frame resembling twisted rope, two griffins, and Achelous, a Greek river god who is portrayed with bull-like horns and a protruding tongue....

Assyrian stele in situ, Nineveh, Iraq MOSUL, IRAQ—The National reports that an Assyrian stele that stood more than six feet tall has been uncovered near the Sun Gate in the eastern wall of the ancient city of Nineveh by a team of archaeologists from Iraq and the University of Chicago. Ali Obaid Shalgham of Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities said that the marble stele dates to the seventh century B.C., during the last years of the Assyrian Empire. Although the cuneiform text on the stele has not been fully translated, it is thought to record building projects carried out by King Ashurbanipal, who ruled Assyria from 668 to 631 B.C. He is shown in relief on the front of the monument, while two other Assyrian...

Unique decorative and architectural elements may point to a previously unknown group in present-day Veracruz

Before the days of of Reddit, Facebook, and most other social networks, DeviantArt was fostering an online community dedicated to artists and art lovers. Featuring a vast array of exciting and innovative projects across photography, painting, design, comics, and much more, the platform has spent the last 25 years connecting creators, collectors, and sellers working in every style and medium. DeviantArt is now home to a diverse, active global community of more than 108 million members. Offering far beyond the traditional social networks, the platform enables users to discover art, build audiences, and grow their creative businesses—all within a single ecosystem. “At its heart, DeviantArt is an art...

pli office hosts open call for paris design week exhibition
 
French publishing house and creative studio Pli office – a brainchild of paf atelier founder Christopher Dessus – has launched an international open call for ‘Tout est Chaos’, a curated exhibition taking place from 10–13 September 2026 during Paris Design Week. The exhibition invites emerging designers, artists, architects, makers, and multidisciplinary creatives to submit objects and installations responding to the theme of chaos: not as destruction, but as a generative force capable of revealing new forms, narratives, and possibilities. The open call closes on 30 June 2026.
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The Swiss Institute (SI) has purchased space at 250 Bowery that will serve as the New York nonprofit’s first permanent home in its nearly forty-year history. The new digs, which are directly across the street from the New Museum’s recently expanded campus, comprise the ground floor and basement of a modern luxury residence and formerly […]

A figure carrying a small suitcase crosses the gangplank onto an ocean liner. A woman stands amid a city street, waiting for a tram. And a man in a fedora heads toward historic steps in what is perhaps a European city. Yet if you look a little closer, you’ll see the roofs resemble milk cartons. The tram rolls in amid books stood on end. And in the distance beyond the docked ships… a giant coffee mug? Since 2013, Derrick Lin has created miniature dioramas on his desk. Hand-painted figures inhabit settings constructed from cardboard and found objects, often with a nostalgic twist. And in a nod to the the tableaux’s tiny characteristics, he playfully pops in references to the scale of the real world, hence...

ZU-studio reconstructs a Basque farm for contemporary living
 
The reconstruction project by zU-studio is located on a hilltop site in the Basque Country. The original farm had a 23 by 23 sqm footprint and was historically divided into four equal parts, housing four families. The renovation reconfigures the building into a single-family residence, maintaining the scale and presence of the original structure while introducing a new internal organization adapted to contemporary living requirements.
 
From the outset, the project combines a new interior structure with a material approach that references the existing building. The northern and southern facades are constructed in stone, reusing materials from the...

The nonprofit, which has moved around the Upper West Side, Tribeca and points in between since its founding 40 years ago, will open at 250 Bowery next spring

This week, revisit “Fragments of a Tesseract,” avant-garde filmmaker Hollis Frampton’s feature essay on proto-cinema pioneer Eadweard Muybridge, published in Artforum’s March 1973 issue. Starting with a study of biographical details and early-career work that often go unnoticed and proceeding to Muybridge’s more famous experiments in “animal locomotion,” Frampton unites disparate ends of the photographer’s practice […]

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The sculpture project at Palazzo Rota Ivancich aims to turn our notions of human supremacy on their head

The Public Accounts Committee scrutinises the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in its report, accusing the government department of a ‘lack of leadership’

Leoncillo Leonardi (1915–1968), known as Leoncillo, was one of the most important Italian sculptors of the post-war period.

Morris's eight decades at the easel left him among the last of the original Surrealists

Interval One, a new annual programme pairing emerging artists with major historical figures launches with Scarlet Topley and Ed Ruscha.

oxman grows color through bacterial pigmentation
 
As the textile industry faces increasing scrutiny over the environmental costs of dyeing and finishing, OXMAN explores whether color can be cultivated rather than applied. The latest textile research of the studio, Vigils, investigates a process in which pigmented bacteria grow directly on textile surfaces, allowing color to emerge through biological activity. The project imagines color not as a finish added at the end of production, but as something that lives and grows within the material from the start.
 
The idea draws inspiration from natural systems. From flower petals and butterfly wings to berry skins and tiger stripes, color in nature emerges...

Launching this October in Fitzrovia, ANTESALA is a new permanent exhibition space dedicated to Latin American art

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Da chi viene scritta la storia? Come possiamo ripensare il futuro attraverso gli occhi di chi vive le violenze e le ingiustizie di questo tempo? Sono queste alcune delle domande che pone Nalini Malani con Of Woman Born, progetto site-specific commissionato dal Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) di New Delhi con l’attenta curatela della direttrice artistica Roobina Karode e presentato presso i Magazzini del Sale come evento collaterale della 61° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia nel 2026.
Nalini Malani, “Of Woman Born”, 2026, camera di animazione con 9 iPad, audio, dimensioni variabili, installation view. Collezione Kiran Nadar Museum of Art © Nalini Malani
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A ship, water, plants, sheep and heads.

All’interno del nostro quotidiano vi sono immagini che lasciano impresse un segno, un ricordo, qualcosa che sappiamo per certo possa poi definire la nostra storia. Nel nuovo spazio di Piazza Teresa Noce 17, Torino, la neonata Associazione Olfacta Project, fondata dall’artista olfattiva Francesca Casale, ha inaugurato lo scorso 6 giugno la mostra dal titolo “Strade a doppio senso” bipersonale degli artisti Carola Allemandi e Lorenzo Gnata, a cura di Filippo Mollea Ceirano.
AA.VV., “Strade a doppio senso”, 2026, photo credits Lorenzo Gnata, courtesy Olfacta Project
Al suo interno i ricordi sono accompagnati dalle sinfonie olfattive create da Casale, vicine alle note del sandalo e descritte dalla...

The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

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. Exhibizone Grand Prize – 2026: Grants, Exhibition, Publication, Promotion, SalesFeaturedReady to showcase your art on a global stage and win cash grants? Submit your strongest artworks to be part of Exhibizone Grand Prize, returning in 2026 for its 13th annual juried edition with cash prizes and global exposure. With no theme restrictions, artists creating in any style or medium can submit work that feels bold, personal, abstract, figurative, or conceptual. Selected artists receive cash prizes, an online...

Può l’arte curare le cicatrici invisibili di una comunità? Nella mostra Le ferite di Bologna, curata a Villa delle Rose da Ludovico Pratesi, Marco Bassan e Chiara Lorenzetti (Spazio Taverna) per il Settore Musei Civici del Comune di Bologna, dieci artisti italiani di diverse generazioni affrontano altrettanti traumi cruciali della storia bolognese. L’esposizione si configura come un viaggio analitico e catartico attraverso dieci traumi storici che hanno segnato la coscienza civile della città, in cui ogni artista è stato invitato a confrontarsi con una specifica “ferita” cittadina operando su un unico, identico supporto: un foglio di carta artigianale Amatruda. La texture materica della carta si fa...

The pioneering perceptual artist James Turrell marked a career milestone this month with the opening of his 100th Skyspace, a site-specific architectural installation with a simple construction: a domed structure with an oculus pointed toward the sky. Now permanently on view at ARoS in Aarhus, Denmark, “As Seen Below” is the latest iteration of the iconic series, which has been installed in 26 countries. Spanning more than 50 feet high and 130 feet wide, the enormous dome most often opens up to an unfiltered sky, although various “color shifts” seal the oculus and instead cast brilliant color around the space. Read more about the project previously on Colossal, and reserve your tickets on the...

Bones recovered from Wonderwerk Cave show varying stages of burning, from unburnt (#1, at left) to most burnt (#5, at right). TORONTO, CANADA—Science News reports that evidence for the oldest use of fire by hominins has been uncovered in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave by a team of researchers led by Michael Chazan of the University of Toronto. The discovery pushes back the known use of fire by hundreds of thousands of years, based upon traces of fire use dated to one million years ago that had been discovered in the same cave. “I’m very comfortable saying it was between 1.7 and 1.8 million years ago,” Chazan said. He and his colleagues used a luminescence-based method of dating on burned bones from...

PAPHOS, CYPRUS—The Cyprus Mail reports that Claire Balandier of Avignon University led a team of researchers who investigated the 2,000-year-old defense system of the ancient city of Nea Paphos, which is located in southwestern Cyprus. First, the team members identified traces of a 2,000-year-old square tower carved into bedrock on Fabrika Hill in Kato Paphos, the city’s port. They also found the floor of a second defensive tower near what had been the city’s northwestern gate. An underground water system was unearthed near the city’s theater. Water flowed in a rock-cut channel situated over an underground storage gallery. This system was altered during the Roman period, when a well was added and water...

Magic is sometimes very close to nothing at all centres on Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and explores football, language and popular culture.

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Cosa accade al ritratto quando non riesce più a sostenere la propria immagine, quando essa si ritira prima di formarsi del tutto, o diventa così materialmente densa da non poter più essere vista come immagine? Questa domanda è al cuore di Between Silence and Surface. The Appearance of Skin, curata da Tetiana Bairaka all’Ukrainian Art House di Londra (18 maggio – 30 giugno 2026). Riunendo i lavori dell’artista ucraina Alina Pyatnova, nota come Limpika Lilac, e dell’artista britannico Anthony-Noel Kelly, la mostra esamina il ritratto ai limiti della visibilità, posizionando il medium come un sito di tensione tra iper-presenza e dissoluzione. Attraverso i loro distinti trattamenti della pelle,...

Approda a Spazio Piera a Trento, dove sarà esposto e attivato dal pubblico fino al 3 luglio 2026, il Lessicogramma dell’abitare del progetto Corrispondenze. Cogliamo quest’occasione per raccontare un lavoro che le artiste, Paola Boscaini e Cristina Materassi, avevano già presentato di recente a Torino e che mette in luce aspetti rilevanti del fare arte delle generazioni più giovani. E giovani lo sono davvero, Boscaini e Materassi, entrambe 29 anni, diplomate all’accademia di Firenze, poi specializzatesi presso l’Albertina a Torino. Nel 2021 hanno avviato Corrispondenze, progetto artistico ed editoriale che definiscono “un duo mobile dislocato in città diverse, che pone al centro della propria...

In Alexis Trice’s dreamy worlds, ethereal looking fish, hounds, shells, and clouds mingle and sparkle like jewels in a crepuscular haze. It’s in a hypnogogic state (where dreams and reality interweave) that they really spring to life: swimming, prancing, basking, and even weeping. Like sand passed through our fingers, though, their seemingly solid forms vanish […]
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Ryan Heshka has a longtime love of science fiction, four-color printed comics from the 1950s and ‘60s and mid-twentieth-century mutant movie characters. In his comic Frog Wife, he taps into these influences while adding in a dose of contemporary themes, drawing upon not just the “anxiety of nuclear annihilation” that inspired so much twentieth-century pop […]
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By Melanie Chapman There is much to appreciate about the new pop-up exhibition Hospital of Emotions, currently on view at St. Vincent Medical Center (2131 W. Third Street, Los Angeles) until July 31. But if you want to maximize the benefits of your visit, avoid the bombardment of images now flooding the internet and even consider not reading this review. Like seeing all the best parts of a movie by watching the trailer, it is better to just go, and go soon, with as little advanced exposure as...

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Calligraphy is an ancient art with roots across the globe, dating back to early Chinese dynasties and Greek civilization, all through the Italian Renaissance. But one glance at a work by San Francisco-based artist Hunter Saxony III, and your understanding of calligraphy will be turned on its head. In an approach that is varied, yet […]
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The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...