Poh Sin Studio’s installation interprets the Garden of Eden
 
Eden – Abu Dhabi Edition is a large-scale installation by artist Pamela Tan of Poh Sin Studio that examines the relationship between constructed environments and natural forms. Drawing conceptual reference from the mythical Garden of Eden, the project presents an abstracted landscape composed of organic structures and controlled material language.
 
The pavilion is conceived as an immersive, all-white environment that emphasizes form, texture, and spatial sequence. Through the enlargement and repetition of natural motifs, the work encourages close observation of subtle details and alters conventional perceptions of scale. The restrained...

Arnulf Rainer, the Austrian artist whose relentless drive for experimentation made him a key figure of Europe’s postwar scene, died on December 18 at 96 at his home in Austria. His death was confirmed by his gallery Thaddaeus Ropac. Born in Baden, Austria, in 1929, Rainer spent more than seven decades searching for new modes of expression, producing a body of abstract work that is most closely associated with the Art Informel movement. He is best known for his Übermalungen (“overpaintings”), a technique he began in 1952 in which he layered dense strokes of pigment over existing images—at first his own images, and, from 1953 onward, those of other artists such as Italian painter Emilio Vedova....

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Ruko U11MINI 4K (RC3) makes aerial photography accessible to everyone
 
Ruko introduces the Ruko U11MINI 4K (RC3) Screen Remote Controller Edition, an ultra-compact drone designed to make aerial photography more accessible for beginners, travelers, and everyday creators seeking a streamlined, phone-free flying experience. Building on the original, the new version arrives with an integrated screen remote controller that connects automatically on startup, removing the need for a smartphone and simplifying setup from the first flight. With AI-assisted takeoff and landing, GPS, and 8K resolution to name a few, the drone is positioned as an easy-to-use yet capable tool for capturing high-quality aerial imagery...

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Théâtre de l'Athénée Louis-Jouvet mounts a raucous production of Hervé’s Le petit Faust. 

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A New North-Side Extension at Avram Iancu International Airport
 
Ground Studio de Arhitectură designs the new north-side departures extension at Avram Iancu International Airport in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The structure is set to accommodate increasing passenger volumes while redefining the architectural presence of the terminal. Conceived as both an infrastructural expansion and a design intervention, the project positions the terminal as a clearly legible component of the city’s evolving urban framework.
 
The primary extension is located on the northern side of the terminal, projecting approximately 18 meters toward the runway to provide additional passenger regrouping areas in response to the growing...

Six artists were shortlisted for Chinese contemporary art prize worth $130,000

In the midst of a busy season, we’ve selected five exhibitions that offer a welcome change of pace. Spanning Europe and Asia, they invite viewers to reflect on themes of ecology, endurance, history — or simply the passage of time. From retrospectives of Marina Abramović to new work by John Akomfrah, this list is a testament to the power of art to help us slow down, engage with key issues and enjoy the present moment. Monira Al Qadiri: ChameleonArken, Ishøj | Until 6 April “Oil is everywhere: in your phone and your cosmetics, in the fuel tank of a jet, in the children’s plastic lunch box, in your new shoes − even in your chewing gum. Petrochemicals, converted from oil, saturate our contemporary life...

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Da qualche tempo, a Venezia, si accende (letteralmente) un evento interessante: Murano illumina il mondo, che quest’anno ritorna per la sua terza edizione, e la città finge sorpresa, come fa sempre, ma in realtà sembra sapere da tempo che quando dodici artisti e designer internazionali decidono di unirsi alle fornaci più celebri dell’isola, qualcosa di irrimediabile succede. È il vetro, materia antica e capricciosa, che torna a parlare con voce nuova sotto le Procuratie Vecchie: non più lampadari, o non solo, ma creature sospese che trasformano l’aria stessa. Il Comitato Scientifico ha selezionato dodici artisti per prendere l’idea di lampadario, stringerla fino a farla scricchiolare e portarla a...

Robert Mnuchin, the Wall Street pioneer who became one of New York’s most respected art dealers and a fixture at blue-chip auctions, died on Friday at his home in Bridgewater, Connecticut. He was 92. His death, first reported by the New York Times, was confirmed by his stepdaughter, Lisa Hedley Wick.  Mnuchin was unusual in having two long and highly successful careers. At Goldman Sachs, he was a central figure in the rise of block trading in the 1960s and ’70s, helping build the firm’s institutional equities business under managing partner Gustave Levy. By 1978, the Wall Street Journal described him as “the acknowledged dean of block traders,” rivaled only by Salomon Brothers’ Michael...

Masanobu Hiraoka’s hand-drawn film for Max Cooper’s ‘On Being’
 
Animator Masanobu Hiraoka presents a new hand-drawn animated film created in response to On Being, a track and album by electronic musician and creative Max Cooper. The album explores personal reflection, inner experience, and the shared nature of human thought. The film approaches these themes through an intimate visual language rooted in drawing, movement, and transformation, allowing sound and image to exist in quiet dialogue.
Masanobu Hiraoka: On Being | all images courtesy of © Masanobu Hiraoka, 2025
 
 
On Being: Exploring Perception Through Drawing and Sound
 
Masanobu Hiraoka is a Tokyo-based animator known for his hand-drawn...

America's own Faust gets a compelling operatic treatment, courtesy of DC's IN Series

This has been my favorite Christmas song since I first heard this performance, the opening track of Malena Ernman's first Christmas album.

Goodbye, Kennedy Center, and hello, Trump-Kennedy Center. Yes, the autocracy is out in the open, but don't be fooled into thinking that it's all transparent. A lot of evil is still hidden from the public eye. That's where independent journalism, like what you're reading here, comes into the picture. Our stories this week investigate the intersections of power and image-making, asking who benefits from this potent mix. The visual lexicon of the No Kings movement, figure models and museum employees fighting for better working conditions, artists mired in debt, NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani pulling a Marina Abramović at a museum in Queens, and the emergence of "Crusadercore" — these are...

Ben Cullen Williams (b. 1988) is a London-based artist working across sculpture, installation, photography and video. His practice explores the relationship between space, technology and landscape, drawing on both physical and digital processes to interrogate how material systems are shaped, mediated and transformed. In 2021, Williams was longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize for Living Archive: An AI Performance Experiment, a collaboration with Google Arts & Culture and choreographer Wayne McGregor. His latest project, Self Portrait, was developed in collaboration with Google and DeepMind Research Scientist Jason Baldridge. For the work, Williams prompted a generative AI to describe itself before training...

Savelkoul was the fifth person to hold the position of Tefaf managing director in four years

Arquitectura-G completes courtyard house in Aiguablava, spain
 
Arquitectura-G completes Patio House, a single-story residence in Aiguablava, Spain, that distills domestic life into a continuous loop of light, air, and shadow. The architectural team uses the courtyard typology as a spatial tool to mediate between the natural terrain and the built form, creating a dwelling that feels enclosed and open at the same time.
 
A setback from the original plot boundary defines the geometry of the house, a move that preserves a ring of untouched terrain around the perimeter. Within this protected envelope, a roofed porch traces a perfect square, enclosing a 15 × 15 meter courtyard framed by a colonnade. At its...

Ivan Pili è tornato alla pittura dopo un quarto di secolo dedicato alla musica. La svolta è arrivata nel 2014, quasi per caso, durante un concerto in Germania. Da allora, in appena un decennio, si è fatto notare nel panorama dell’arte contemporanea internazionale, esponendo in prestigiose sedi istituzionali, come Palazzo Zenobio a Venezia, Palazzo Sant’Agostino a Salerno e la Reggia di Caserta, oltre a importanti fiere internazionali, tra cui Art Basel Miami, Artexpo New York, Carrousel du Louvre, Frieze Los Angeles, Art Dubai. Il suo lavoro si colloca nell’ambito del genere figurativo iperrealista, ma l’artista sardo rifiuta l’idea che la sua pittura sia un’asettica imitazione del reale. Nei...

Spending most of his life in slavery, David Drake was denied the right to benefit from his own creativity and so to be an artist in every sense—until now

The repatriations are linked to long-running investigations into looting at Bubon and other archaeological sites, as prosecutors in New York step up pressure on museums and collectors

The new union, which 96% of eligible employees voted for, will represent more than 300 employees

Dear Mayor-Elect Mamdani and members of the Arts & Culture Transition Team:As you remake New York into a better home for all those forgotten by the politics of our city, a place where working people and immigrants truly feel the power that belongs in their hands, remember this: Arts and culture are the very vehicles through which we express the power to shape our destinies. We must ensure that every member of our communities can actively participate in artistic and cultural creation and access affordable, local arts programs.Tragically, artists in all disciplines (be it visual arts, dance, film, music, theater, or writing) who are recognized and fairly compensated for their work increasingly come from rich and...

The US Senate on December 19 confirmed Mary Anne Carter as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts. Carter occupied the role during the first Trump presidency. During her first term, she expanded Creative Forces (a creative arts therapy program for US service members and veterans recovering from psychological health conditions) and elevated initiatives […]

The Las Vegas Museum of Art on December 17 released updated renderings of its future home, designed by the office of Pritzker Prize–winning Burkinabé architect Diébédo Francis Kéré. New York–based architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is serving as the architect of record on the project. Influenced by southwestern Nevada’s Mojave Desert, the African savanna’s […]

The British Museum is sending some of its prized art and artifacts on long-term loan to countries that the British Empire previously colonized. While those nations have long called for the repatriation of objects they consider stolen, the institution may be hoping to blunt some of those criticisms by sending valuable historical items—though not always those that come from the recipients of the loans.  A Mumbai museum, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), is now host to a loan of some 80 artifacts, including an ancient wooden model of an Egyptian riverboat and devotional Sumerian statues from 2200 BCE, as well as a Roman mosaic from London and a marble bust of Roman emperor Augustus, the...

Political consultant Mary Anne Carter, who served as the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) during the first Trump administration, will lead the agency again following Senate approval this week. Carter's appointment comes almost a year after Maria Rosario Jackson, a former Biden-appointed chair of the agency, stepped down from the post one day after Trump was inaugurated for a second term. Jackson was the first African American and the first Mexican-American person to lead the federal arts agency. In the 11 months since Jackson stepped down, the NEA rescinded arts grants en masse, notifying awardees that their projects were cancelled as the agency refocused on promoting “skilled trade...

A controversial monument to "victims of communism" in downtown Ottawa will no longer include the names of specific people after the Canadian government reportedly discovered potential Nazi affiliations among the commemorated individuals. The memorial, "Canada, a Land of Refuge," originally proposed under conservative former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, was inaugurated last December by the government of Canada and Tribute to Liberty, an organization formed to build a monument honoring those "affected by communism." Over 500 specific names were reportedly expected to be engraved on the memorial within a year of its unveiling, though Jewish groups and historians raised concerns for years that over half of the...

In a move that prompted immediate questions about its legality, the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., voted on Thursday to add President Donald Trump’s name to an institution he has roiled since taking office in January. The move, following a year-long fascination with a center that has not been a top-of-mind priority for other presidents in the way that it has been for Trump, was met with disapproval from members of Kennedy’s family and legal experts who say it goes against a stipulation put in place after Congress renamed the center in the wake of JFK’s assassination in 1963. As reported by CNN, spokeswoman Roma Daravi said, “The Kennedy...

Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life at the Morgan Library & Museum sets out to trace the impact of the Psalms on “men and women in medieval Europe” from the 6th to 16th centuries. But while the exhibition offers a beautiful and instructive display of manuscript artistry, it risks presenting a sanitized vision of the book's history, one that glosses over the fundamental power dynamics and conflicts inherent in medieval religious life. By framing these "gloriously illuminated" Psalters as impacting Medieval men and women in general, the exhibition risks creating the illusion of widespread engagement and access. In reality, these breathtakingly expensive manuscripts were tools of the...

The Last Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) has released renderings of its new museum building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré. Kéré’s design for the 60,000-square-foot building is inspired by the nearby Mojave Desert, the surrounding Red Rock Mountains, baobab trees, and Las Vegas’s Guardian Angel Cathedral, a Catholic church with an A-frame design built by architect Paul Revere Williams in 1963. The museum’s mosaic-like façade will be constructed from local reddish-brown stone. A roof canopy will create a large shaded plaza by the entrance, and there will also be a sculpture garden. “Las Vegas is a place of architectural marvels and of a timeless, awe-inspiring desert...

When considering Miguel Arzabe’s bold, woven works, it’s unsurprising that he begins by painting two abstract pieces. Vibrant fields of acrylic spread across his canvases before they’re sliced into long strips and reconfigured. Resulting are dynamic compositions that meld art historical traditions with Arzabe’s Bolivian heritage, drawing on longstanding Andean imagery and weaving practices. Next month at Johansson Projects, the Oakland-based artist presents a collection of new wall works and suspended sculptures in Sin Contar Cincuenta. Arzabe refers to his practice as offering a “productive confrontation” of distinct cultures, approaches, and periods, and these new compositions continue his...

Lincolnshire-based artist Anthony Theakston continues his explorations of common birds like barn owls and herons, sculpting their likeness in sleek bronze and ceramic. Smooth wings and bodies contrast the fluffy feathers typical of fowl, as they hunch over or curl up as if taking a nap. Elegant and seemingly primed for flight, the avians perch between abstract and realistic representations. Theakston has several exhibitions and fairs planned for 2026, including Naarden Art Fair and Brussels Affordable Art Fair with DeKunst Salon and the Washington Winter Show and Art Palm Beach with Gladwell and Patterson. He’s also represented by Gallery Bartoux, and you can find more of his work on Instagram. Do stories...

A photographic collaboration between photographer Samuel Pasquie and artist Olivier Charland. It began as an observation of a particular pattern or “quiet repetition” amongst their respective archives. Despite the photographs being taken independently, they nonetheless shared a kind of visual logic. In exploring how individual acts of image-making could converge so often, they look beyond their close, fifteen-year friendship and shared home base, to reflect on “emergence” and the ways in which large-scale patterns can arise from small interactions. As their friend, Samuel Bonneau, writes in the intro text for the book:
“If a resemblance appears, what does it mean? The human mind, primed to detect...

Matthew Polenzani charms the pants off of Philadelphia.

There's plenty of full-on Christmas music to love in Anne Sophie von Otter's "Home for Christmas."

London Art Fair is back for 2026, bringing together a curated selection of leading Modern and Contemporary galleries from the UK and around the world. It’s an event that marks the beginning of the international art calendar, setting the tone for conversations and curation throughout the year. Now in its 38th year, the fair remains an unrivalled destination for collectors and art enthusiasts to discover new work and connect with one another. Visitors can expect the very best mixture of 20th century masters and emerging figures, each one reaffirming London Art Fair’s role as a cornerstone of the UK art market – a place to discover notable pieces, deepen existing connections and kick off the season with...

All’interno della Galleria SECCI, a Milano, NOVO si configura come una piattaforma di ricerca dedicata a pratiche artistiche che lavorano sulle fratture storiche, politiche e simboliche del presente. Il progetto, nato a Firenze e attualmente curato da Marco Scotini, si distingue per una programmazione costruita per affinità concettuali e tensioni condivise, piuttosto che per criteri formali o geografici. In questa intervista, Sara Cirillo, che segue direttamente NOVO, ripercorre la genesi del progetto, approfondisce il lavoro sviluppato con artisti come Doruntina Kastrati e Omar Mismar e anticipa le prossime tappe del programma, che includono José Carlos Martinat, Seba Calfuqueo e Prabhakar Pachute,...

Staffers at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on December 15 and 16 voted to unionize under the auspices of AFSCME Cultural Workers United District Council 36, with 96 percent casting their electronic ballots in favor of doing so. The election was facilitated by the American Arbitration Association and approved by the National Labor […]

Italian Conceptual artist and theorist Franco Vaccari, whose participatory photographic works presaged the logics of social media and helped photography gain recognition as an art form, died on December 12. He was eighty-nine. His death was announced by the Bologna gallery P420, which represents him. Veronica Santi, writing in a 2020 issue of Artforum, characterized […]

"I have a hunch that any successful painting creates work for the viewer,” says the painter Ben Spiers. “I think that's part of the reason why it can be hard to begin the process of looking at paintings seriously..." read the full article on Benjamin Spiers by clicking above!
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At the start of a new short film, a young boy is gifted a present of a stuffed wolf at a family dinner—an animal he’s afraid of. We’re soon transported to a forest, where we witness a wily tale of compassion and friendship. The film has gone viral since it was released in early December, but this animated gem wasn’t created by Disney or Pixar—it’s a grocery store ad. And it’s shed some unexpectedly bright light on both the joys of the holiday season and the inimitable warmth of human-made film. French supermarket chain Intermarché launched its advertisement titled “Le mal aimé,” or “Unloved,” during a season in which Coca-Cola’s annual ad was made with generative AI and news of...

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The process of sublimation is the direct transformation of ice into gas without becoming liquid. Artist Kate Hrynko captures this process in both domestic freezers and natural settings. Faded Ice is a series of ephemeral artworks made by placing paint onto ice, and then documenting what remains after sublimation. The work was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize 2025 These experiments explore how melting alters environmental conditions, referencing albedo loss – a decrease in surface reflectivity that leads to more solar radiation being absorbed rather than reflected, intensifying global warming. Hrynko’s vivid images merge photography and painting, creating abstract compositions that...

A little more than ten years ago, a particularly—shall we say—interesting painting restoration went viral, spawning memes and earning the piece the cringeworthy nickname “Monkey Christ.” The work, known as “Ecce Homo,” is a century-old portrayal of Jesus in a church in Borja, Spain, that a local octogenarian attempted to restore. The attention “Ecco Homo” brought, which could be viewed as positive or not depending on your perspective, actually bolstered the town’s struggling economy and raised tens of thousands of euros for charity as people pilgrimaged to see the infamously bungled attempt. But it’s far from the only aging artwork to meet disastrous results when someone tried their hand at...

When Amber Creswell Bell began interviewing people for a new project, she asked them one key question: what makes a “good” image? Two answers appeared time and time again. The first, that it stays with you beyond the initial viewing. The second, it must prompt you to see and understand the world differently. There is no doubt that the works featured in this publication do just that. As the author describes, this is not an “elitist anthology of ‘best in show’ artists,” but rather an exploration of “the very humanness of art.” Exposure features 40 contemporary photographers from Australia and New Zealand, each sharing an insight into their practice, ranging from the whimsical to the wild,...

Mapping decolonial futures through material memory, political imagination, and the art of world-making Installation view of Gondwana la fabrique du futur , by Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, during the 36th Bienal de São Paulo © Natt Fejfar / […]

 
AUTO PHOTO Awards 2025’s Peoples’ Choice Award winner Max Edleston takes us behind the scenes and shares the story behind his award-winning image, Dancing in the Rain, and the rest of the images made during the shoot. 
“I’m incredibly grateful and blown away that the public chose my work for the People’s Choice Award. Seeing the absolutely stunning photography in the top 100 has been inspiring. I want to thank all my fellow photographers on that list; your high-quality of work pushes us all to work harder and smarter to create truly exceptional images. I’m also truly honoured that the judging panel highly commended my image in the motorsport category. As someone still finding their feet in the...

«Perché sono grandi architetti? Perché hanno proiettato una piccola città di provincia nel futuro». Con queste parole l’assessore alla cultura del Comune di Reggio Emilia, Marco Mietto, presenta una mostra davvero coraggiosa. “La costruzione della città moderna. Gli archivi degli architetti del Novecento a Reggio Emilia” è il frutto di una monumentale e certosina ricerca d’archivio che ha toccato studi tecnici, famiglie e soprattutto i fondi d’archivio speciali della Biblioteca Panizzi della città. La mostra, curata da Giordano Gasparini e Andrea Zamboni, è accompagnata da un catalogo davvero stupefacente, pubblicato da thedotcompany edizioni, che nelle sue quattrocento pagine riesce a...

On December 15, artists, musicians, cultural workers, and local politicians gathered in New York’s Federal Hall, where the Bill of Rights was introduced, to defend artistic rights in the US. Under the rallying cry “The First Amendment was born here; we will not let it die here,” some fifty participants called for December 15 to […]

“My art has always tried to illustrate the spiritual world leaking into the material world. Two worlds affect and play off each other..." Read the full article on Justin Lovato by clicking above!
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Oluremi C. Onabanjo, The Peter Schub Curator in The Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, reflects on archives, authorship, and Pan-African imagination in Ideas of Africa. Oumar Ka, Untitled (Two […]

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Daniele Spanò è un artista visivo che opera tra regia, scenografia e installazione, elaborando ambienti in cui video, luce e suono costruiscono dispositivi ibridi. Attivo dal 2004, sviluppa progetti multicanale ed espone in Italia e all’estero, dagli Stati Uniti all’Australia. Il progetto Lasciami cadere in mostra a Sala 1 – Centro Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea a Roma esplora l’ambiguità che oggi caratterizza le immagini, in un’epoca in cui il digitale ha saturato lo sguardo. L’artista ha concentrato due anni di ricerca sul tema della caduta in un percorso di dispositivi provvisori: schermi e sculture mostrano la loro vulnerabilità, a volte privi della loro funzione originaria. Le...

A landmark exhibition at the Seoul Museum of Art explores nearness, movement, and cultural negotiation through the work of more than forty UAE-based artists. Dialogue. © Farah al-Qasimi Opening at the Seoul Museum of Art, […]

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In Leading to the Middle, curator Munira Al Sayegh revisits the sites, mentors, and moments that shaped the UAE’s contemporary art ecosystem. Her section of ‘Rays, Ripples, Residue’ traces how influence circulates through communities and […]