Six national nonprofit organizations devoted to the national parks, history, and science have sued the Trump administration over its censoring of signage it disapproves of in national parks across the U.S. The plaintiffs in the sixty-page suit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court of Masachusetts, include the National Parks Conservation Association; the American Association for State and Local History; the Association of National Park Rangers; the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks; the Society for Experiential Graphic Design; and the Union of Concerned Scientists. The suit names as defendants the U.S. Department of the Interior, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and Jessica Bowron, the comptroller...

Saudi Arabia commissioned Domingo Zapata to paint what’s being called the largest mural ever created—at a size, as the New York Post’s “Page Six” put it, of 540,000 square feet, or about nine football fields. The New York–based Zapata—who the Post notes “has painted stars including Kim Kardashian and Sofia Vergara, and painted with the last pope”—said he has been given “a blank check” to create a work with a team of some 100 collaborating artists over the course of four to six years. Zapata called his future work “the Middle Eastern version of the Sistine Chapel” and as reported by Artnet News, said, “As an artist, having the freedom to create without boundaries is incredibly...

On Wednesday, the V&A in London reopened several galleries dedicated to design from the past 126 years. The newly installed Design 1900-Now spaces, which had been closed since November, showcase 250 objects from the 20th and 21st centuries, from a first edition of Kim Kardashian’s coffee table book Selfish, published in 2015, to a bottle of Finlandia vodka from 1969-70, to a “Crate” chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1934. The collection is a reminder of how design infiltrates everyday life, whether through technology, trendy toys, or modes of communication. The galleries are not organized chronologically, but around six themes: automation and labor, housing and living, crisis and conflict, consumption...

alexandre de betak presents ‘chashitsu hikari schürli’
 
Alexandre de Betak unveils Chashitsu Hikari Schürli during Gstaad Art Week, a light installation set inside a traditional Swiss barn in the Bernese Oberland. The project treats light as primary material, structuring space through reflection, absence, and modulation. The artist reveals spatial conditions already latent within the rural structure, transforming the barn into a perceptual environment shaped by shadow, mirror, and movement.
 
The project draws a conceptual line between the schürli, a small Alpine farm shed, and the chashitsu, the highly codified Japanese tea ceremony space. Although geographically distant, both share an economy of...

French police raided the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris on Monday as part of an investigation into its former president, ex–culture minister Jack Lang, who resigned earlier this month amid scrutiny over his past ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The cultural institution was one of several premises searched, France’s National Financial Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. Earlier this month, prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation into Lang and his daughter, Caroline, on suspicion of aggravated tax fraud and money laundering after their names appeared among hundreds of public figures listed in newly released Jeffrey Epstein files. Both have repeatedly denied any involvement in...

What happens when working creatives, career pivoters, and lifelong makers plug into serious art and design education? Pratt Institute’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) has the answer on view — online at Production Corner and in person at the SCPS Exhibition Space in Manhattan.Developed by one of the world’s leading institutions for art and design education, these curated platforms spotlight the ambitious, portfolio-ready work of SCPS students, alumni, and faculty. More than a final critique, Production Corner and the SCPS Exhibition Space are professional launch pads: public-facing forums that showcase completed coursework and certificate projects with equal attention to concept,...

Practically glowing in contrast to their dark backgrounds, Clare Celeste’s large-scale installations of foliage and flowers spring vibrantly to life. Made from layers of paper cutouts, myriad leaves and blooms invite viewers to immerse themselves in a jungle-like atmosphere. Most recently, Celeste completed compositions for Riem Arcaden Munich, Cartier, and the American Museum of Natural History. Find more on the artist’s Instagram. Cartier American Museum of Natural History Riem Arcaden Munich Detail of Riem Arcaden Munich American Museum of Natural History Cartier Cartier
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Around the inaugural edition of Art Basel's latest outpost in Doha

‘Design 1900 – Now’ at the V&A
 
The V&A Museum in London has opened its newly revamped Design 1900 – Now galleries, expanding its view of contemporary design to include pop cultural artifacts, like the first ever youtube video upload, that have shaped the past three decades.
 
Installed within the museum’s existing architecture, the refreshed exhibition traces design from the late 20th century into the present, presenting over 250 works across fashion, product design, graphics, and technology. The framing is broad, with industrial design displayed alongside social media, collectible toys, and politically-charged garments. 
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Ahead of his performance in Les pêcheurs de perles with Washington Concert Opera, Parterre Box features the unusually elegant Anthony León performing Mozart.

Good Morning! A restitution battle over a Franz Marc painting in the collection of the Folkwang Museum in Germany heats up. As of last Friday, Sotheby’s has raised its buyers’ fees worldwide. British artist and Turner Prize winner Tai Shani has withdrawn a Phaidon monograph following sexual assault allegations against owner Leon Black revealed in the latest Epstein files. The Headlines FEE HIKE. Sotheby’s has raised its buyer’s premiums worldwide, with the move coming into effect last Friday on February 13, The Art Newspaper wrote. These non-negotiable fees, added on top of a lot’s hammer price, are a key revenue source for auction houses, which have felt the pinch from a three-year art market...

A reconstruction of an early YouTube watch page shows the 19-second clip "Me at the zoo" from 2005

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TUWAIQ SCULPTURE EXHIBITION OPENS IN RIYADH
  As the capital of Saudi Arabia continues its rapid cultural metamorphosis, the seventh edition of Tuwaiq Sculpture Symposium and Exhibition arrives to punctuate the city’s skyline with 25 large-scale works. The exhibition, which runs from February 9 to 22, 2026, occupies Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Street (Al Tahlia), turning a site once defined by water desalination into a into a temporary urban installation. By positioning these large-scale artworks along a historic axis of innovation, the program explores how public art can act as a catalyst for urban renewal and quality of life.
banner: Emergence by Wafa Alqunibit
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paul bernier architecte shapes lake brompton house in canada
 
On a wooded, sloping site overlooking the water in Quebec, Canada, Lake Brompton House by Paul Bernier Architecte takes form as a three-wing, single-story residence that fans outward to frame views of the lake. The project is positioned high on the terrain, using its elevation to open toward the landscape while allowing the surrounding mature forest to remain visually dominant. The house breaks into distinct arms that follow the topography and orientation of the site, forming three converging wings organized around a central point of circulation.
 
This fan-shaped composition allows each volume to respond to light, views, and the gradient of the...

Happy Lunar New Year and Ramadan to our readers who celebrate. May this be a year of peace, health, and prosperity for us all. May it also be a year when artists can make a living from their work, when autocrats are overthrown, when traffickers and their accomplices are brought to justice, when art ceases to be an investment tool, and when bad-faith art writing sponsored by billionaires vanishes from this world. Enjoy reading! —Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief Sarula Bao, Think!Chinatown’s Lantern Residency artist, holds up her handcrafted puppet to celebrate the Year of the Horse on Mott Street in Manhattan. (photo Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic)Chinatown Sets the Year of the Fire Horse AglowAll along Mott...

BERLIN DESIGN WEEK IS BACK IN FULL SWING
  Berlin Design Week returns to the German capital from May 28 to 31, 2026. Under the theme DESIGN REAL, the festival marks a strategic shift toward design with substance — solutions that address real-world problems and drive change across the spectrum of architecture, product design, and research. Joining the 2026 edition as the official media partner, designboom takes on the task to amplify the festival’s international reach and connect Berlin’s vibrant community with a global audience.
Berlin Design Week returns from May 28 to 31, 2026 | all images courtesy of Berlin Design Week
 
 
THE FESTIVAL BECOMES AN INTERNATIONAL STAGE FOR DESIGN
 
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Little known outside his native Sweden, the artist was a master of marble, but also created grotesque and erotic drawings

For the Sacramento-born artist, who faced wartime incarceration for his Japanese ancestry as well as homelessness, art was a way to survive crises

Catherine Opie talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work

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The latest exhibition at MASS MoCA grapples with the rapidly advancing technologies that are reshaping daily life. From AI and algorithms to computer-aided design, Technologies of Relation brings together 12 creatives who move beyond the oft-referenced binary of digital innovation as “good” or “bad,” instead offering more nuanced viewpoints. The goal: “to reframe how we relate to each other, to our devices, and to our future.” This show acknowledges that contemporary tools can indeed “manipulate, marginalise, and oppress us,” whilst also asking how they might be resisted, redirected and wielded more ethically. “Artists have long been key to identifying the colonialist logic, racism and...

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The gig economy is a “labour market characterised by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work, as opposed to permanent jobs.” In the UK, this encapsulates 2.8 million people, with roles spanning transport services, food delivery, digital roles and content creation. It’s almost impossible to know how many people work in these positions worldwide, although some estimates put the numbers as high as 1.5 billion. Photographer Salvatore Vitale presents an exploration of how the gig economy is reshaping labour and revealing the contradictions of digital capitalism. He uses film, photography and installation to document the everyday realities of people whose lives are increasingly governed by...

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In 2026, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago marks its 50th anniversary, a milestone that prompts reflection on photography’s shifting status within the cultural landscape. Founded in 1976 and initiating its collection in 1979, the museum has amassed more than 18,000 objects by over 2,000 artists, forming a collection that charts half a century of aesthetic, political and technological change. The anniversary exhibition MoCP at Fifty: Collecting Through the Decades functions as both a celebratory gesture and a critical enquiry into how institutions shape photographic history. It offers an opportunity to look back at the museum’s evolving priorities and consider how these...

Il maestoso Palazzo de’ Toschi, luogo che durante Arte Fiera era già stato deputato a ospitare precedenti mostre di Art City, torna a farsi scenario espositivo anche in questa edizione 2026, accogliendo un progetto di stampo concettuale che ragiona sulla nozione di realtà, rappresentazione e illusione, all’interno del campo dell’arte, utilizzando gli strumenti che le sono propri.
Francisco Tropa, “Miss America”, installation view at Palazzo de’ Toschi, ph. Carlo Favero, courtesy Banca di Bologna
La mostra dal titolo Miss America curata dal direttore di Arte Fiera uscente, Simone Menegoi, è la prima personale in Italia di Francisco Tropa, uno degli artisti portoghesi più significativi...

Prolific director Frederick Wiseman, whose pathbreaking documentaries shed light on aspects of society hitherto in shadow, died on February 16 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was ninety-six. News of his death was announced by his family through his distribution company, Zipporah Films. First gaining wide acclaim for his 1967 film Titicut Follies, which exposed the […]

The British Museum acknowledged that it had updated certain displays in its Middle East Galleries with “terms such as ‘Canaan,’” the Biblical Hebrew name for the Southern Levant region, amid news reports accusing the institution of erasing Palestinian history.Canaan refers to an ancient region that encompassed modern-day Palestine, Israel, Syria, and Jordan. According to some academic sources, the term first emerged around 1500 BCE, and the region's earliest inhabitants settled in Jericho in the modern Occupied West Bank. In the Old Testament, Canaan also refers to the land promised to the Jewish people by God. “Some labels and maps in the Middle East galleries have been amended to show ancient...

The annual event, now in its 36th edition, connects younger generations to the energetic and deeply symbolic Indigenous performance art

After weeks of Arctic temperatures, the Year of the Fire Horse has finally brought the heat to New York City. Today, February 17, Lunar New Year festivities ran along the stretch of Chinatown's Mott Street on a glorious 45-degree-Fahrenheit afternoon. Carrying a handcrafted puppet in the shape of a horse, illustrator and educator Sarula Bao summoned good tidings by taking a new approach to a traditional Chinese folk art form.This year, Bao was selected for the Lantern Residency, an annual initiative organized by cultural nonprofit Think!Chinatown (T!C) that invites artists to create and showcase their interpretation of the paper lantern, a traditional staple in celebrating the Lunar New Year. Through her...

The Trump administration must restore exhibits examining the role of slavery in early United States history after a preliminary ruling by a Philadelphia federal judge yesterday, February 16. Last month, federal employees descended on the President’s House in Independence National Historical Park, a site overseen by the National Park Service (NPS) that once held the country's first presidential mansions. Following a Trump mandate to remove public displays that paint US history in a “negative light,” officials dismantled the outdoor exhibition Freedom and Slavery in Making a New Nation. The city of Philadelphia responded by suing the NPS and the Department of the Interior (DOI), arguing that the...

London-based photographer Peter Li considers the cathedrals, basilicas, and historic spaces he captures to be “living vessels of light, symmetry, and time.” Soaring ceilings, gilded filigree, and saintly stained glass windows both reflect religious traditions and create a sanctuary for such practices. Whether in the luminous Gothic style or awe-inspiring Baroque, these spaces are also often architectural marvels, which Li documents through an almost portrait-like approach. Many of his panoromas span 180 degrees and offer a symmetric, reflective view of the space through a meticulous stitching process. This perspective accentuates the dramatic, all-consuming effect of standing beneath ascendant rib vaults...

3D Drawing has been at the core of Morling’s artistic practice for roughly a decade. Read all about the artist's work by clicking above.
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“The world I build has no constraint, no logic. Everything is possible,” says Pontiroli. “My objective is to shake our imagination by developing a universe based on the absurd and the senseless.” Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
The post Sometimes You Just Have To Hug That Walrus: The Humorously Surreal Paintings of Bruno Pontiroli Twist Our Relationship with the Animal World first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Eugenio Viola will leave the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) in May after seven years in the dual roles of artistic director and chief curator. The museum announced the news on its social channels on February 6, praising his “avant-garde and professional vision” and saying his departure followed a “comprehensive and ongoing review […]

Marina Rebeka comes tantalizingly close to triumph in Cherubini’s Médée at Théâtre des Champs Elysées.

For all of the “progress” associated with advancing technologies and the purported conveniences of having tiny, powerful computers at our fingertips, there are certainly some drawbacks. Smartphones today—and their millions of apps—are data-collecting devices as much as they are portals to search engines, maps, social media, the news, and anything else on the internet. And the market for regular hardware upgrades and software updates can trap us in a perpetual loop, spending big money for faster speeds and the newest features. There’s certainly some merit in phones and gear that are a bit “less smart.” Just as the Luddite Club, members of which prefer to switch off or use “dumb phones,” citing...

Documentary photography began to be used as social reform evidence in the 19th century, with early practitioners using the camera to record social conditions and urban poverty. This was truly solidified in the 1930s, when the Great Depression in the USA saw figures like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans turn the lens on human dignity within the economic crisis, whilst later war photography from Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson brought global conflicts to home audiences. Since the dawn of the medium, the camera has gone hand-in-hand with social activism and consciousness. These five exhibitions foreground the masters of the craft, from those like Brassaï and Helen Levitt, who pioneered the field during the...

It was many decades ago that I first listened to the Solti Ring Cycle.

In November 2025, Mental Health UK reported that more than one in three adults were using an AI chatbot to support their mental health or wellbeing. There were many reasons why: these tools fill gaps in overstretched systems, provide ease of access and anonymity. Yet further studies point to a darker side, revealing the potential for harmful advice and, ultimately, worse outcomes. Then there’s the issue of “sycophancy” – where researchers warn of chatbots’ tendency to flatter, reinforce bias, and bend the truth. What remains less examined, however, is not whether these systems can genuinely “feel,” but why humans continue to engage with them emotionally, even in the full knowledge that they are...

A Parigi, presso lo spazio espositivo Parliament Gallery, figure e immagini si dissolvono e sfumano senza scomparire. Tramite il colore a olio e diversi altri media l’artista Helmut Stallaerts crea una rappresentazione visiva che interpreta il nostro tempo. Lo spazio è qualcosa che viene meno, si dilata e si assottiglia, è una variabile. Ciò che rimane è la nostra presenza, che perdura anche senza il riferimento tangibile della nostra figura aprendosi alla rappresentazione più intima e profonda di noi stessi.
Helmut Stallaerts, “The Return”, 2025, olio e cera su tela, courtesy Parliament Gallery
La tecnologia adatta, connette e manipola l’uomo, creando una struttura comunicativa che lo estrania...

Revisiting Sean Keller’s essay on the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Their presence is implied. They’ve built gravity-defying structures from shopping carts, stacked newspapers, and plywood. They’ve hung laundry and left crushed beer cans scattered across surfaces, and yet the real subjects of Alvaro Naddeo’s paintings are never seen. Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
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German artist Henrike Naumann, known for her installations of furniture and household objects addressing the turmoil of German reunification and showing how aesthetic choices affect political ideology, died in Berlin on February 14. She was forty-one. Her husband, Clemens Villinger, wrote in a statement that her death arrived “after a cancer diagnosis that came far […]

Hoping for a "Tristan for the ages" in New York next month, John Danaher considers five versions of Tristan's Act III "Muss ich dich so verstehn" for "Perspectives on an Aria."

Under the baton of Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale proves they have a magic touch in a program of Rameau and Handel.

Il lavoro di Jonathan Lyndon Chase si costruisce attorno a una riflessione sulla memoria come esperienza incarnata, sull’identità come processo relazionale e sull’appartenenza come spazio vissuto. Philadelphia, città d’origine dell’artista, diventa il luogo da cui osservare e restituire una geografia affettiva fatta di case, fisicità e relazioni.
Jonathan Lyndon Chase, “Keep thinking nobody does it like you here comes the sunset”, installation view at Gió Marconi, Milan, photo: Fabio Mantegna, courtesy the artist and Gió Marconi, Milan
In Keep thinking nobody does it like you here comes the sunset, personale dell’artista alla Galleria Gió Marconi, la dimensione domestica emerge come motore...

Non si tratta di una semplice retrospettiva del collettivo Opiemme (Torino, 1998), Senza bandiere v.3.0. Divide et impera è piuttosto una dichiarazione d’intenti, una poetica del dissenso visualizzato, che trasforma le opere in scenari di resistenza simbolica. Alla galleria Marignana Arte di Venezia sono esposti alcuni lavori realizzati negli ultimi quindici anni, che insieme funzionano come un manifesto artistico, poetico, sociale e insieme profondamente umano, dove ogni gesto e parola tracciata diventa un atto di lettura critica del presente. Il progetto prende forma attraverso le opere di Davide e Laura Bonatti, Margherita Berardinelli e Stefano Campano, membri del collettivo, riuniti in una pratica...

From Do Ho Suh’s ethereal architecture to Kimsooja’s irridescent mirrors to Lauren Halsey’s fringed tapestry, a new book from Monacelli celebrates a broad spectrum of light and color. Rainbow Dreams features more than 200 installations, sculptures, paintings, photographs, and more that revel in the possibilities of pigment. Bound in a smooth gradient that extends to the pages’ edges, this vivid survey is a celebratory, playful object in itself. Rainbow Dreams features numerous artists previously featured on Colossal, from Nina Chanel Abney and Nick Cave to DRIFT and Katharina Grosse, among many others. The book is slated for release on April 2, and you can pre-order your copy in the Colossal Shop....

La ceramica come materia che conserva memoria del gesto, come superficie su cui si stratificano segni e tempo, come forma ambivalente tra l’arcaico e il contemporaneo: è questo il territorio espressivo in cui Fiorenza Pancino (1966, S. Stino di Livenza, Venezia) situa la propria ricerca, radicata nella tradizione faentina ma capace di trascenderla per farsi riflessione esistenziale. La personale “Oro vivo”, curata da Margherita Maccaferri negli spazi di BoA Spazio Arte, riunisce un corpus di opere recenti attraverso cui l’artista restituisce un percorso di alchimia spirituale volto a trasformare il dolore, la rabbia e le emozioni più oscure in una forma di bellezza contemplativa.
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Hieu Chau compares his dense, dynamic compositions to his always active mind. Playing with scale and proportion, the Vietnamese artist renders surreal scenes in which flora and fauna converge and figures interact with the outside world as if in a dream. Chau, who was trained as a painter, now works digitally, although his pieces capture the grainy textures and gestures of a physical medium. The artist recently published a book collecting his projects from the last decade, and you can find explore an archive of these pieces on Instagram. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Surreal Dreams...

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What does love look like? Sometimes it comes with lust and desire, sometimes with deep-rooted care from the heart, and other times it’s a disguise for something that isn’t love at all.
Love can be found in the quieter gestures of everyday life. It can look like kindness, the people and places you hold dear, moments of care and support, or the small comforts that bring you peace: a cup of tea, a single flower, a familiar corner of home.
DO YOU LIKE LOVE? is a metaphor for the things that bring us joy and comfort, and for what we offer others to help them feel the same. Within the pages of DO YOU LIKE LOVE?, photographers answer the question – do you like love?
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A bad Facebook experience turned Brown off to social media, but he ultimately brought David Henry Nobody Jr. to Instagram... Read the full article by clicking above!
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