She bought a Van Gogh portrait as early as 1908 as an orphaned teenager, and three years later became the first woman in her city to own a car

ETH ZURICH TRAINS ROBOTIC HAND TO WALK ON ITS FINGERS
 
A robotic hand has apparently decided it no longer needs the rest of the robot. Researchers at ETH Zurich’s Soft Robotics Lab have developed an autonomous five-fingered hand that can walk across different surfaces, steer itself, recover after falling over and interact with objects — all using the same fingers normally reserved for grasping. Rather than adding wheels or legs to the system, the team turns the hand itself into a mobile robot, allowing its fingers to alternate between supporting, moving and manipulating its body.
 
The prototype is based on a commercially available anthropomorphic hand equipped with five fingers and 20 actuated joints,...

paris becomes a city to look at
 
The flâneur wanders through Paris, a city that is changing quickly, with new streets and boulevards, covered passages, cafés, department stores, advertisements, and shop windows reshaping the experience of the French capital. Walking is no longer only a way of getting from one place to another; it also becomes a way of watching what is happening around you, from the people moving through the streets to the buildings, fashions, signs, and goods on display.
 
This change is particularly clear in the Parisian arcades, where the street moves indoors and becomes a covered passage lined with shops, cafés, and other places to stop and look. Structures such as the Passage des...

Titled “Mushrooms”, the work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia reflects nations‘ feeble responses to crises and the artist's uncertainty about the future

The partnership will allow MA Curating students at the Courtauld Institute of Art to gain practical experience within the National Portrait Gallery

Isn't it fun to see the Virgin Queen spew out some coloratura?

If you survived day one of the New York fair flurry, you have my respect — Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara has read his share of booth press releases over the past 24 hours, too, and offers a one-sentence dispatch on the best and worst of the Armory Show to spare your eyes. (See what I did there?)Meanwhile, Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia beholds the “monstrous mise en abyme” that is Independent 20th Century at the Breuer Building, where overlooked and marginalized artists get their due.More must-reads below, including reviews from Venice of the Biennale’s Polish Pavilion and an exhibition on the handmade dolls repatriated to an Indigenous Australian community after a professor stole them over 70 years...

CÉLESTE BOURSIER-MOUGENOT TAKES CLINAMEN OUTDOORS in athens
 
After floating through the grand interiors of Paris’ Bourse de Commerce and New York’s Park Avenue Armory, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s clinamen is moving outside. From September 26th to December 5th, 2026, the French artist’s endlessly shifting sound installation occupies the renovated Onassis Mandra in Athens, where hundreds of white porcelain bowls drift across three circular pools, colliding softly to create an ever-changing aquatic score.
 
First conceived in 1997, clinamen has never been a fixed installation. Water, porcelain bowls, circular basins, and the gentle currents set the vessels in motion, and yet every presentation...

Emirati heritage shapes the layout of Al Maktoum Archives
 
At Dubai’s Al Maktoum Archives, Kart Group brings the warmth of a traditional majlis into a government workplace. Palm-frond weaving, hand-tufted wool, and CNC-cut marble carry Emirati heritage into the interior, integrating cultural references into the everyday setting of the archive.
 
Designed by Mustafa Khamash and his team at Kart Group, alongside contractor EMKAY, the 8,000-sqft headquarters occupies Level 2 of Dubai’s Emirates Towers. The working institution safeguards historical records, private manuscripts, and cultural narratives documenting the Maktoum family’s lineage and the emirate’s evolution. The design combines the...

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the all-electric torcal still wants you to hear it
 
Bentley has spent more than a century building cars around large engines, so its first fully electric model arrives with a slightly strange problem. What should a Bentley sound like once combustion disappears? For the new Torcal, the answer involved bringing musicians into the process.
 
Drums, viola and bass guitar were recorded around the rhythm of the marque’s V8, then turned into a driving soundtrack that changes with speed and throttle input. The driver can switch it off, though its existence says plenty about how Bentley is approaching the move to electric power.
 
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Jonathan Abbott takes the helm at the museum after 15 years as chief executive of GBH in Boston

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, has named Jonathan Abbott as its new director and CEO. Abbott arrives to the institution from public media company GBH, the country’s largest producer of multiplatform content for PBS and partner to NPR and PRX (Public Radio Exchange), where he spent fifteen years as director. He succeeds interim […]

I wish I could tell you that the Armory Show this year was radically different or better than recent editions at the Javits Center in Manhattan, but it was the same melange of dreadful hotel-lobby art next to countless inoffensive works that “explore identity and memory” with only a slim minority of memorable standouts, many of which were in the Focus section, dedicated to art from the Caribbean and curated by the phenomenal María Elena Ortiz of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and although people were wheeling and dealing as usual, the fair seemed awfully quiet and downcast, making the financial sector trade show on the floor below — same thing minus the art — seem like a riot in...

Independent 20th Century is an art fair within an auction house inside a building that used to be a museum, a monstrous mise en abyme that perfectly encapsulates the art world today.The fifth edition of Independent’s dedicated modern art fair opened today, September 24, at the Breuer Building in Manhattan, a Brutalist landmark that was purchased by Sotheby’s in 2023. The cool, imposing structure served as the long-time home of the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1966 to 2014, and later briefly housed the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s contemporary galleries, followed by the Frick Collection, which used the space temporarily during renovations. If I were the Breuer Building, I’d need a...

Heirs to Jewish banker Salomon Flavian claim they were not consulted before the sale, meanwhile Sotheby's argues the work may have not been forcibly taken at all

VENICE — I have spent much of my career as a crip curator and art historian thinking about how access is often treated as an afterthought — the ramp added late, the caption burned in at the last minute, the interpreter budgeted only if funds remain. What startled me most about Liquid Tongues, Bogna Burska and Daniel Kotowski’s installation for the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, is that access is not appended to the work; it’s the entire epistemology. As a disabled visitor, I did not have to translate myself to enter it; the pavilion had already done the work, in every direction at once.Curated by Ewa Chomicka and Jolanta Woszczenko and produced by Zachęta National Gallery of Art, the...

Thirty-six antiquities, collectively valued at more than $5 million, including a stone relief looted from the ancient site of Palmyra, have been retuned to Syria, New York investigators announced on Wednesday. Among the group are 14 “extraordinary” mosaics stolen from a Roman-era villa in Syria linked to antiquities dealer Georges Lotfi, a former source for the Manhattan district attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit who was, in a dramatic turn of events, charged in 2022 with criminal possession of stolen artifacts from Syria and Lebanon. (He is currently wanted by New York authorities and Interpol.) Wednesday’s restitution included a monumental section of flooring dating to the 3rd century BCE and...

A painting that well-placed observers surmise was painted by Francisco de Goya will be on view in a forthcoming exhibition timed to commence 200 years after the celebrated Spanish artist’s death. After posing a question related to whether or not the work is truly by Goya, The Art Newspaper reported, “A full technical investigation of the work has yet to be completed but everyone involved, including Spain’s culture ministry and Madrid’s Museo del Prado, is operating under the assumption that the answer is ‘yes.’” The painting, titled El milagro de la aparición del eucaristo al San Pascual Bailón (The miracle of the appearance of the Eucharist to Saint Paschal Baylón), was bought at auction in...

The El Museo del Barrio in New York has expressed regret at providing rental space for a conspiracy-filled conference on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, as first reported by the New York Times.The East Harlem museum, which houses a trove of artworks by artists of Latin American descent, rented out part of its building to the International Center for 9/11 Justice for “Turning the Tide: 9/11 25 Years Later." The conference ran from September 10 through September 13, with first responders, elected officials, and victims' family members, among others, participating. Speakers included Bill Manning, the former chief editor-in-chief of Fire Engineering magazine, who theorized that the buildings fell from...

Aperture, the nonprofit photography publisher founded in 1952, opened its new home last week. The organization has taken the first two floors of a building on the Upper West Side at Columbus Avenue and West 78th Street, across from the American Museum of National History. The decision to move uptown from its previous location in […]

ARTnews Top 200 collectors Benedikt and Lauren Taschen have spent the past eight years restoring the Adelman Residence, a 5,000-square-foot mid-century modern home designed by architects Thornton Abell and O’Neil Ford in 1956. The Taschens bought the home in 2018 (it was listed for $13,900), and, over the years, have refurbished the tennis court, original to the property from when it was part of Charlie Chaplin’s estate; the pool, the gardens, and the guest house; as well as all the interior architectural details like the cork floors, sliding Shoji screens, and a small wood-paneled elevator. It’s just been listed by Carolwood Estates for $25 million. Barnard Taschen founded Taschen Books in 1980. It is...

For its next director, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles has gone with a figure whose expertise lies outside the art world. Jonathan Abbott, the former head of the public media organization GBH, was announced as the institution’s new director on Thursday, formally filling a post that was held in an interim capacity by curator Ann Goldstein. She had taken the leadership role after Johanna Burton left in 2025 to lead the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia. It is an unconventional choice for this museum, which, like most major art institutions in the US, has given the directorship to people well-known to industry insiders. Abbott, who begins in his new role as director and CEO at MOCA today,...

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In August, British Museum Director Nicholas Cullinan told the Financial Times that the Bayeux Tapestry loan from France was “a very compelling example of international partnership,” and a successful, “reciprocal exchange.” That deal, which took years to form, might even pave the way for a Parthenon Marbles loan, he suggested. But in a provocative opinion piece in today’s The Guardian, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis responded, seizing on Cullinan’s notion of comparing the Bayeux tapestry case to the Parthenon Marbles in the first place, to appeal to British readers who are now experiencing first-hand what it’s like to have their own cherished artifact return to where it was made, in one...

“I try to avoid playing it safe or going for the obvious. Instead, I look at plants from a different perspective and express them in my own way,” South Korean artist Taehyoung Maria Jeon says about a fantastical series of illustrations. “Ironically, having rules is what gives me the freedom to experiment with plant shape.” Although she’s trained as a printmaker and continues to build compositions in layers, Jeon turns to digital methods as she reimagines the specimens cohabitating in her apartment, beginning with leaves and stems before venturing into surreal terrain. Purple veins, red outlines, and a smattering of stars appear on the imagined life forms, their vivid color palettes furthering their...

Reconstruction drawing of the main gate of ancient Apulum ALBA IULIA, ROMANIA—Excavations at the Alba Carolina Fortress in central Romania have found traces of a main gate constructed by the Romans on the east side of the military camp of Apulum, Romania Insider reports. The camp’s southern gate was discovered some 40 years ago, and has been partially reconstructed. Archaeologist Anca Timofan said that the monumental main gate would have had two massive rectangular towers and two access arches separated by a wall, all made with large limestone blocks. The foundation of one of these towers has been uncovered, she added. During the medieval period, the Roman structures were reused to build the fort’s Saint...

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has purchased a newly discovered painting by seventeenth-century Spanish master Diego Velázquez—the first work by the artist to enter its collection, and the first to enter the collection of any West Coast museum. Titled Portrait of Count-Duke of Olivares, the ca. 1626 work is a bust-length portrayal […]

Flue of the heating system from the Gnadental Convent, Basel, Switzerland Green-glazed stove tile BASEL, SWITZERLAND—SwissInfo reports that a nearly intact medieval heating system has been found at the site of Gnadental Convent, which was built outside the walls of the city of Basel around 1231. The heating system consisted of an underground chamber lined with stones to hold heat produced by a firebox channel beneath it. Eight openings allowed warm air to rise from the chamber up into a common room thought to have been used as a dining hall. The monastery was dissolved after the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century, but some of the buildings were repurposed, or new buildings were constructed with...

“Where did George Lucas get this chip on his shoulder?”

PARIS, FRANCE—The Guardian reports that a 65-foot section of ancient wall uncovered in central Paris may be from the ramparts of Lutetia, the original settlement inhabited by the Gallic Parisii tribe. The structure was found under the Hôtel-Diu hospital on the Île de la Cité, near Notre Dame Cathedral. Carbon dating of charred material found along the wall suggests that it burned between 200 and 10 B.C. Julius Caesar’s account of the Gallic Wars mentions that the Gauls burned their town before the Battle of Lutetia against the Romans in 52 B.C. “We may be looking at one of the most important remains ever discovered for understanding Gallic Lutetia,” said Catherine Pégard, France’s Culture...

Blue-chip auction house Christie’s on September 23 revealed the launch of a new division focused on sales of pop culture memorabilia, Artnews reports. The announcement comes on the heels of a sale of sports, music, and historical memorabilia from the collection of Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay that brought in a whopping $105.3 million—the largest […]

Delicate waves, mysterious fissures, and diffused lightning set some of the scenes in Sarah Lee’s dreamy landscape paintings. Moons with strangely direct beams of light and supple mountains cradled by lakes and forests are tinged with magical realism. Most of the works seen here are part of Lee’s current solo exhibition titled Deeper at Albertz Benda, in which the artist highlights different ecosystems and the nature of clarity and concealment. She often titles her works in reference to the colors she employs, such as “Emerald Sky” and “Red Meadow in Mist.” These apparently “empty” landscapes nod to the romantic Western tradition of seascapes and broad, open expanses that pandered to a...

Bronze helmet NEW YORK, NEW YORK—The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has repatriated to Greece looted artifacts that had been held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, according to the Greek Reporter. The objects include five pieces of armor illegally excavated from the island of Crete. The two bronze helmets and three mitrai, or protective pieces worn on the lower abdomen, have been dated to the late seventh century B.C. A review of archaeological publications, archival material, and official records and correspondence has shown that the armor was looted from the site of Afrati in 1964. These pieces will be sent to the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, and reunited with armor unearthed at Afrati...

ZHENGZHOU, CHINA—Phys.org reports that analysis of a 700-year-old skull recovered from a cemetery in eastern China suggests that the woman had undergone a punitive nose amputation—a practice previously known only through ancient texts. Yawei Zhou of Zhengzhou University said that out of the more than 200 burials unearthed at Sanzhiyuan Cemetery, this woman was the only one who had been buried in a prone position. Her facial bones had also clearly been damaged. Examination and radiocarbon dating of the bones showed that she was between the ages of 40 and 45 when she died, sometime between A.D. 1298 and 1404. CT scans of her skull revealed that her nasal bones, and structures inside the nose, had been...

In tender paper collages featuring woodland creatures in relief, Kanako Abe imagines dreamlike scenes reminiscent of childhood narratives and folk tales. Giant wolves, diminutive bunnies, and curious deer wander through a Narnia-like realm that we glimpse through foliage-filled portals. In her practice, “the paper becomes a canvas for stories untold, where every cut is a deliberate step into a world where imagination and reality intertwine,” a statement says. Paper-cutting has long been a central tenet of Abe’s practice, which she recently applied to an ambitious forthcoming book project in collaboration with young adult novelist Caryl Lewis. The Paper Girl, published by Frances Lincoln Ltd., follows the...

“Do you ever think about concrete?” opens the trailer for The History of Concrete, a documentary released in select theaters in the U.S. last Friday. If your answer is no, the quirky new feature by filmmaker John Wilson may mean you can’t get it out of your head. Wilson is known for the cult-favorite, comedic HBO docuseries How To with John Wilson, which he described as being “kind of like that show Planet Earth, except if it was only in New York and David Attenborough was forced to film everything himself.” His movie debut is primed for absurdity, delving into something that’s immanently mundane yet fundamental to the way we live. The film captures concrete’s ubiquity in urban sidewalks,...

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A new Macbeth summons the forces of hell — and the star power of Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen — for a fiery start to the Met's new season.

Eichenholz is much too rare on stage these days.

In the winning video of Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition, Dr. Ning Xu captures the abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD)—a genetic disorder affecting respiratory function. “When people watch cilia beating, they immediately understand that something beautiful and important is happening inside us,” says the Beijing-based researcher. “I think this competition turns microscopy into a shared language.” The marvelous sight is just one of the notable videos from the annual competition, which just celebrated its 16th cycle. This year’s panel welcomed esteemed scientists, researchers, and science communicators who evaluated more than 340 video entries...

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The 80th Issue of Hi-Fructose is coming soon! It includes a cover a feature on the paper collages of Lola Dupre, the Fluffy Vases of Shishi San, the installation paintings of Evgenia Voinar, Debbie Lawson’s textile sculptures, painter Rob Browning’s stark surrealism.  Plus a Special Insert Section focused on the art of Jeff Sheridan, Andrea […]
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Haley Whitney shines as the mother of us all in The Marigny Opera Ballet's stirring staging of Scarlatti's Cain.

Tamara Wilson completes her first Ring Cycle as Brünnhilde next month, and Parterre Box celebrates with a clip of her in Siegfried.

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By Lacey Argus Sovern, a nonprofit art gallery and healing justice center in Los Angeles, sticks out like a vibrant castle in the midst of the harsh greys of urban Los Angeles. The bright shades of pink and elaborate designs that adorn its concrete walls draw you in, as if calling you to explore the treasures within. The gallery's current showing is Into the Pluriverse, running from June 25 through October 8, 2026. Into the Pluriverse is a group exhibition inspired by the Zapatista term...

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Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...

By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...

For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...

Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"—Honoré de Balzac "Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning."—Miguel de Unamuno Hiroko Yoshimoto's paintings concentrate nature into radiant and dynamic beauty, distilling visual sensation into poetic and environmental significance. Throughout the 2020s, Yoshimoto has worked on two series of paintings about nature: Biodiversity and Of Infinite Variety. Both series are based on observation of the natural...

By Julie Faith There is something strange about returning to a place you once knew well after being away for a long time. You recognize the architecture before you recognize what the years have done to you. As I passed through the gate at Corey Helford Gallery, crossed the lot, and headed up the stairs, I felt ridiculously, wonderfully giddy. Kid-in-a-candy-store giddy. I have been away from the gallery and much of the Los Angeles art world, but somewhere between the gate and the stairs, I...

 
Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
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The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...