The British Museum was briefly evacuated Saturday after staff discovered what was described as a “suspicious device” inside a restroom, prompting a police response at one of the world’s most visited museums. The Metropolitan Police were called to the museum’s Bloomsbury headquarters around 2:50 p.m. local time after reports of a suspicious package, according to The Independent. Officers investigated the object and later determined it posed no threat. Visitors were allowed back into the museum shortly after 4 p.m. and normal operations resumed. In a statement, the museum said it had also received what it described as “malicious communications” before the evacuation. “The safety and security of...
Pietro Terlizzi wraps Lima House in brick, timber, and wood
Lima House is a single-family residence designed by Pietro Terlizzi Arquitetura, conceived to create a domestic environment that integrates characteristics associated with both mountain and coastal landscapes within the urban context of São Paulo, Brazil. The architectural approach prioritizes openness, with a reduced number of internal walls and an emphasis on openings toward the exterior, allowing landscape elements to extend into the interior spaces.
Developed as a new construction, the 400-sqm residence is organized across three levels: a garage on the lower floor, social areas on the ground floor, and private spaces on the upper floor. The...
Lima House is a single-family residence designed by Pietro Terlizzi Arquitetura, conceived to create a domestic environment that integrates characteristics associated with both mountain and coastal landscapes within the urban context of São Paulo, Brazil. The architectural approach prioritizes openness, with a reduced number of internal walls and an emphasis on openings toward the exterior, allowing landscape elements to extend into the interior spaces.
Developed as a new construction, the 400-sqm residence is organized across three levels: a garage on the lower floor, social areas on the ground floor, and private spaces on the upper floor. The...
RETROCORE: A Modular System Inspired by Space Age Lighting
WOLOLOW: RETROCORE is a modular wall and ceiling lighting system, drawing from the visual language of Space Age design and retro-futurist interiors. Conceived as a system rather than a standalone fixture, it is composed of individual light panels that can be arranged into custom configurations ranging from small accent installations to larger architectural compositions.
The project evolved from WOLOLOW’s first crowdfunding campaign, which introduced a sculptural lamp inspired by mid-century visions of the future. The experience of developing, manufacturing, and distributing that product informed the design and production strategy behind...
WOLOLOW: RETROCORE is a modular wall and ceiling lighting system, drawing from the visual language of Space Age design and retro-futurist interiors. Conceived as a system rather than a standalone fixture, it is composed of individual light panels that can be arranged into custom configurations ranging from small accent installations to larger architectural compositions.
The project evolved from WOLOLOW’s first crowdfunding campaign, which introduced a sculptural lamp inspired by mid-century visions of the future. The experience of developing, manufacturing, and distributing that product informed the design and production strategy behind...
A.J. Goldmann on the Salzburg Festival's revolving doors, both in its administration and in its delectable production of Il viaggio a Reims.
The immortal Renata Tebaldi, just about 29 years old as Saint Joan in a RAI broadcast of Giovanna d'Arco from 1951.
Antony Gormley opens ‘what holds us’ in italy
Inside the former cinema-theater of Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Antony Gormley turns the body into a small city. This latest exhibition, What Holds Us, moves through the gallery’s 14th-century walls, theatre space, thresholds, and exterior views, using the Tuscan hill town as both setting and structural pressure. Stone, clay, concrete, iron, and cardboard all enter the work, each material carrying a different sense of weight, fragility, and time.
The exhibition, on view from May 9th to September 13th, 2026, begins with the question held in its title. What supports a body? What contains it? What gives the built world its feeling of permanence,...
Inside the former cinema-theater of Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Antony Gormley turns the body into a small city. This latest exhibition, What Holds Us, moves through the gallery’s 14th-century walls, theatre space, thresholds, and exterior views, using the Tuscan hill town as both setting and structural pressure. Stone, clay, concrete, iron, and cardboard all enter the work, each material carrying a different sense of weight, fragility, and time.
The exhibition, on view from May 9th to September 13th, 2026, begins with the question held in its title. What supports a body? What contains it? What gives the built world its feeling of permanence,...
Attraverso una pratica che intreccia memoria personale, immaginario mitico e tensione simbolica, Leonardo Devito costruisce visioni in equilibrio tra narrazione e autonomia formale. C’è un momento, nelle sue immagini, in cui il racconto sembra sul punto di chiarirsi, per poi restare sospeso. Le figure abitano uno spazio familiare e insieme instabile, dove memoria personale e immaginario si intrecciano senza mai risolversi del tutto. È in questa soglia tra riconoscibilità e slittamento che la pittura costruisce la propria tensione.
Leonardo Devito, “Coppia al parco”, 30x31x7 cm, terracotta, 2022, courtesy galleria Acappella Napoli
Nato a Firenze nel 1997 e attivo a Torino, Devito sviluppa una pratica...
Leonardo Devito, “Coppia al parco”, 30x31x7 cm, terracotta, 2022, courtesy galleria Acappella Napoli
Nato a Firenze nel 1997 e attivo a Torino, Devito sviluppa una pratica...
Czech photographer Josef Koudelka kept a diary for over 50 years, resulting in 69 journals. Their pages contain details of years spent documenting Roma communities across Europe, the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Prague, and the devastating impact of humans on the landscape. Put simply, they are a rare glimpse inside the mind of an iconoclastic figure, renowned for a life in exile and images that full of immediacy and authenticity. As curator Tomáš Pospěch writes: “Koudelka’s diaries are a ‘cookbook’ of classic photography. He associated with the most renowned photographers. His notes sum up his rich experience, including work created with the now vanishing technology of analog black-and-white...
Photography, at the threshold of its bicentenary, becomes here less a medium than a condition of perception itself. Remember Me at the Bourse de Commerce gathers image, archive, and gesture into a single unfolding field where memory is not stored but constantly reassembled. The exhibition operates through proximity rather than sequence, allowing works to collide, echo and refract one another in shifting constellations. Across centuries of practice, photography is treated not as a linear history but as a series of recurring questions about presence and disappearance. The result is an environment where looking becomes an act of reconstruction, and where the photograph is never fully settled into its own time....
Bedsheets, surreal photography, pearls, smoking and pink twine.
Navid Baraty sees Glass Facades as Systems of Visual Reflection
Hidden City by photographer Navid Baraty explores Manhattan through a photographic study of reflection, capturing how glass facades transform the city into layered and fragmented compositions where architecture, geometry, and perspective overlap.
While photographing from the tops of Manhattan’s skyscrapers, attention is directed toward the reflective behavior of glass surfaces, where streets, skylines, and entire blocks are reprojected onto building envelopes. These reflections produce suspended urban layers in which familiar elements of the city are reorganized and displaced according to changes in light and viewing angle.
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Hidden City by photographer Navid Baraty explores Manhattan through a photographic study of reflection, capturing how glass facades transform the city into layered and fragmented compositions where architecture, geometry, and perspective overlap.
While photographing from the tops of Manhattan’s skyscrapers, attention is directed toward the reflective behavior of glass surfaces, where streets, skylines, and entire blocks are reprojected onto building envelopes. These reflections produce suspended urban layers in which familiar elements of the city are reorganized and displaced according to changes in light and viewing angle.
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Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born artist whose shimmering mobiles, vibrating light installations, and participatory environments helped redefine the relationship between art and its audience, died on May 30 in Paris. He was 97. His son, Yamil Le Parc, confirmed the death to the Argentine newspaper La Nación. The artist had been hospitalized in recent days after a decline in health and died at the American Hospital in Paris. According to his son, Le Parc remained deeply engaged with his work until the end and had been eagerly anticipating a major retrospective scheduled to open at Tate Modern in London on June 11. He had hoped to attend the exhibition, which surveys nearly seven decades of his career. For...
LMTLS creates a sculptural retail environment for SKIN1004
Designed by LMTLS, SKIN1004’s new SoHo flagship transforms retail into an immersive architectural landscape inspired by untouched nature. Sculptural forms, mirrored surfaces, and warm illuminated materials create a sensory environment that blurs the boundary between store, gallery, and exhibition space.
The second flagship store in SoHo, New York, for Korean skincare brand SKIN1004 was designed as an immersive spatial experience that moves beyond the conventions of traditional retail. Rather than focusing solely on product display and sales efficiency, the project translates the brand’s philosophy of ‘untouched nature’ and ‘brown...
Designed by LMTLS, SKIN1004’s new SoHo flagship transforms retail into an immersive architectural landscape inspired by untouched nature. Sculptural forms, mirrored surfaces, and warm illuminated materials create a sensory environment that blurs the boundary between store, gallery, and exhibition space.
The second flagship store in SoHo, New York, for Korean skincare brand SKIN1004 was designed as an immersive spatial experience that moves beyond the conventions of traditional retail. Rather than focusing solely on product display and sales efficiency, the project translates the brand’s philosophy of ‘untouched nature’ and ‘brown...
Bass-baritone Le Bu’s recital with Vocal Arts DC highlighted his linguistic and timbral versatility.
It has become that time of evening... to opine during the latest round of The Talk of the Town.
The fields of law, anthropology and natural sciences are not often associated with art. But for Mary Ellen Carroll (b. 1961), they’re tools with which the artistic world can be expanded and challenged. For more than four decades, the conceptual artist has tackled some of the most urgent issues of our times, including environmentalism, architecture and technological infrastructure, immigration and urban legislature, as well as Carroll’s enduring engagement with questions of sexuality and gender, identity and being. Now, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents the first major museum exhibition of their work. One central question lies at the heart of the show: What do we consider to be a work of art? Time...
In occasione delle celebrazioni per la Festa Nazionale della Repubblica Italiana, il Consolato Generale d’Italia a Fiume avrà il piacere di ospitare – mercoledì 3 giugno 2026, nella sede della Comunità degli Italiani di Pola, con inizio alle ore 18.30 – la mostra/evento dal titolo “Colors” con il supporto del periodico EccellenzaExcellency dell’editore triestino Giorgio Siderini. L’evento si snoda attraverso una sorta di confronto tra le opere di tre autori di diversa formazione ed estrazione geografica: Elisabetta Bacci, Carlo Fontana e Giovanni Pulze.
Giovanni Pulze “San Francisco Angel” 2018, acrylic on canvas, cm 80 x 80
Nel lavoro di questi artisti, pur diversi per formazione e per...
Giovanni Pulze “San Francisco Angel” 2018, acrylic on canvas, cm 80 x 80
Nel lavoro di questi artisti, pur diversi per formazione e per...
“In punta di piedi”. Si è invitati ad assumere un tale atteggiamento quando si attraversano le Tese delle Vergini in occasione della 61.ma Biennale di Venezia. Il Padiglione Italia è rappresentato dal progetto Con te con tutto, personale di Chiara Camoni a cura di Cecilia Canziani che ben si accorda al tema In Minor Keys pensato dalla curatrice Koyo Kouoh, e che nel particolare, è venuto formulandosi sulla base di un sentimento di amicizia e affinità che da tempo legano artista e curatrice, declinandosi al femminile. Questo sodalizio si rende percepibile nell’atmosfera rarefatta e meditativa della mostra, un’atmosfera palpabile e silenziosa che tocca registri intimi, sacrali, regali e relazionali,...
You might first associate Khaled Sabsabi’s name with controversy; he was removed as the Venice Biennale’s Australian pavilion artist last year, then reinstated after public backlash and an independent review. But as with so many participants and works at the so-called Olympics of the art world, that is only part of the story.This week, critic Aruna D’Souza sat down with Sabsabi for a conversation about the trauma of migration, the 132-foot-long piece that came to him in a dream, and the Sufi teachings that influenced his two works in Venice. One is on display in the late curator Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys, a “triumph” of an exhibition that Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara calls “a solid hymn to the...
I was a huge fan of Anna Netrebko.
Photography today exists within a state of perpetual transformation. Images circulate endlessly across digital networks, consumed at unprecedented speed and scale, whilst questions surrounding truth, authorship and representation grow increasingly unstable. The medium has moved far beyond its documentary foundations, becoming a space where artists interrogate memory, politics, technology and identity simultaneously. Contemporary photographers are no longer simply recording the world around them; they are constructing new visual languages through which uncertainty, displacement and emotional complexity can be understood. Across museums, galleries and biennials, the image has become a site of negotiation between...
A group of House Democrats will ntroduce legislation aimed at stopping President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery, opening a new front in the growing battle over the administration’s efforts to reshape some of the nation’s most visible public monuments. Representatives Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Dina Titus (D-Nev.) announced this week that they will introduce the Arlington National Cemetery Viewshed Protection Act, which would explicitly prohibit construction of the proposed arch and bar the use of federal funds for the project. The legislation follows a recent vote by Trump appointees on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts approving designs for the monument. The Trump...
The Pollock sucks up the oxygen. It is the lead story — important, yes, but also misleading. $181.2 million for a great Pollock, wisely held back until the market could carry it. More astonishing, in some ways, than the $451 million Leonardo, which had its own issues and was painted several centuries ago. This Pollock was made in my lifetime.Not just the Pollock, but a $107.6 million Brancusi. Much of Christie’s evening sale went smoothly, exuberant and beautifully orchestrated. But not so fast. For in this $1.1 billion evening sale, the number of artworks that hammered below low estimate or went unsold was substantial, roughly 30%, including big-ticket items like Agnes Gund’s Twombly. Plus, many had...
Nicola Florimbi, "Art Class" (2026), acrylic on canvas (all photos courtesy Corbett vs. Dempsey)CHICAGO — In our media-saturated world, in which everything has been seen and done, leaving us in a perpetual déjà vu state of witty citations, exhumed tropes, or dazzling fabrications, it’s rare to be surprised by an artist’s debut exhibition. There are many reasons why I was instantly taken by the acrylic paintings in Nicola Florimbi’s Rooms at Corbett vs. Dempsey. The first was the absence of irony in her subject matter — depictions of individuals interacting in settings that seem both out of time and of this moment. This is one of the many engaging paradoxes of Florimbi’s work. There are 10...
Pattie Gonia accused the Patagonia brand of attempting to “erase an activist” by suing her for attempting to trademark her name. (photo Mitchell Overton, all courtesy Pattie Gonia)Activists and LGBTQ+ advocates are voicing public outrage against the outerwear brand Patagonia after it sued the drag queen Pattie Gonia for trademark infringement. Pattie Gonia, the drag persona of Oregon-based LGBTQ+ and environmental activist Wyn Wiley, took to Instagram this week to accuse the company of attempting to “erase an activist” when it sued her in January for the meager sum of $1 plus attorneys' fees. Those fees would add up to around $1 million, according to Pattie Gonia. The drag queen claims to have...
The mad dash between subway lines in Brooklyn’s Borough Hall subway station has just gotten a little more colorful. In the corridor connecting the 2, 3, 4, and 5 subway lines, Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze’s mosaic “May Your Road Be Light and Fun” (2026) will now envelop passersby across a 110-foot leg of their journey. MTA Arts & Design announced the new installation on May 28, as a joint project between Amanze and Miotto Mosaic Art Studios, a workshop based 50 miles north of New York City. In an array of glazed and matte ceramic pieces, Amanze’s drawings are brought from the paper to tiled underground walls. "May Your Road Be Light and Fun" (2026) (© ruby onyinyechi amanze, NYCT Borough Hall, MTA...
Toronto-based Kurdish artist Roda Medhat pushes the boundaries of fabric into the realm of sculpture, exploring the ways in which traditional West Asian textiles can be translated into various media. As digital fabrication and 3D scanning cross paths with memory and material, Medhat’s practice asks “how we carry our stories, and what happens when those stories are translated into new, synthetic languages?” The artist’s new solo exhibition, titled From the Loom, fills Toronto’s Abbozzo Gallery with large-scale sculptures in conversation with a new series of textile works. Known in part for his neon installations, the artist also presents several glowing light-based works encased within glass or...
A painting by renowned British Mexican Surrealist Leonora Carrington that had been missing for decades is set to go on view at London’s Freud Museum this summer, marking the first time the work will be seen by the public. Villa Pilar, 1940, will appear in the exhibition “Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal.” The show collects the […]
Two political appointees at the Treasury Department have been pushing for the manufacture of prototypes of a $250 bill with Trump’s face on it, The Washington Post reports. The artist who designed the mock-up of the bill, the British painter Iain Alexander, told the Post that he’d spoken to the president about the design, and […]
Anthony Haden-Guest says nearly 100 of his cartoons have spent the past 15 years hanging in a Hamptons mansion owned by socialite and collector Libbie Mugrabi. Now he wants them back. In a lawsuit filed this week in New York State Supreme Court, first reported by the New York Post, the veteran critic, cartoonist, and fixture of New York society accused Mugrabi of refusing to return 97 original drawings that were allegedly entrusted to her for a planned exhibition that never took place. The complaint alleges that roughly 15 years ago Haden-Guest provided the drawings to Mugrabi for a show at her Southampton home. Under the arrangement, according to the filing, the works would be framed at Mugrabi’s expense,...
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. BOAPS–Summer 2026: Grants, Exhibition, Publication, Promotion, Sales, Career BoostFeaturedReady to showcase your art internationally and receive cash grants? BOAPS (Summer 2026 Edition) invites visual artists worldwide, working in any medium, to submit their strongest works with complete creative freedom. This seasonal open call offers $10,000 CAD in annual cash grants and exclusive awards, along with solo and group exhibitions, publication in catalogues and art magazines, global promotion, sales exposure...
Emerald PANAMA CITY, PANAMA—Phys.org reports that X-ray fluorescence, infrared spectroscopy, and photoluminescence have been used to confirm that five green stones found at two archaeological sites on Panama’s Pacific coastline are emeralds that were mined in Colombia more than 1,000 years ago. The emeralds were recovered from elite burials in the Gran Coclé region, at the sites of El Caño and Sitio Conte, which have been dated to around A.D. 800 to 1000. These tombs also contained artifacts such as gold, pyrite mirrors, and fossilized megalodon teeth. The chemical composition of the green stones from the tombs was then compared with the makeup of 22 emeralds from Ecuador and Colombia. The testing...
Reservoir, ʿAydhab, Egypt CAIRO, EGYPT—According to an Ahram Online report, a series of reservoirs have been excavated at the site of the historic port of 'Aydhab on the coast of the Red Sea. The central reservoir measures some 50 feet long and was made of sandstone and locally sourced coral blocks lined with a waterproof layer of lime plaster. Smaller reservoirs in the water storage system that supplied ships, traders, and travelers were also uncovered. “These installations reflect a sophisticated infrastructure that supported both trade and the movement of pilgrims,” said Sherif Fathy, Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities. Pilgrims traveled through 'Aydhab from Egypt and North Africa to...
Los Angeles’s Getty Center has announced specific plans for its upcoming renovation—most significantly, the museum will be replacing the futuristic tram that’s ferried visitors to the premises since 1997 and updating the system with new tram cars that will significantly reduce wait time and increase capacity. The international people mover manufacturer Doppelmayr will handle the […]
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Bell Gallery at Brown University
Neanderthal teeth recovered from the Payre site in France BURGOS, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Center for Human Evolution (CENIEH), an international team of researchers led by Laura Martín-Francés of CENIEH has examined nine Neanderthal teeth recovered from Payre, an archaeological site in southeastern France, with micro-computed tomography, geometric morphometrics, and analysis of dental tissue proportions. The teeth came from different archaeological levels at the site, which has been dated to the Middle Pleistocene, when changes in climate altered Europe’s landscape. This study of the external shape of the teeth and their internal structures determined that...
On July 1, London museumgoers will get a first look at a painting by Leonora Carrington not seen in over 80 years. The 1940 painting, titled Villa Pillar, will appear in “The Symptomatic Surreal” an exhibition at the Freud Museum tracing Carrington’s development from 1938 to 1941 through her sketchbook drawings and letters. The exhibition had previously opened in March and has been extended to run through August 10. A British-born Mexican Surrealist artist, Carrington has gained recognition thanks to a surge in attention towards women surrealists, a trend formalized with the 2022 Venice Biennale, curated by Cecilia Alemani with the title “The Milk of Dreams,” after a book by Carrington. Carrington...
The hoard of jewelry was found in a ceramic jar. RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA—A collection of more than 100 gold, silver, and gemstone jewelry pieces stored in a ceramic jar was discovered in Diriyah, a settlement that was once a stop on the route that connected Basra in southern Iraq and Mecca on the west coast of Saudi Arabia more than 1,000 years ago, according to a Live Science report. Pilgrimage to Mecca, a trip known as the hajj, is considered a religious duty for adult Muslims who are physically capable of making the trip and financially able to do so. Excavations at the site of Diriyah, conducted by archaeologists from the Saudi Heritage Commission, have uncovered gypsum water basins and the remains of...
OVER THE PAST DECADE, Julio Torres has perfected the art of curatorial comedy, a term I’ve just coined. This is a highly sophisticated brand of object-oriented, narrativized humor whose deadpan subtlety makes it categorically distinct from the blunt physicality of straight-male-dominated prop comedy. Ultimately a mode of ekphrasis, Torres’s approach recalls a precocious child opening […]
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MOCA London presents Silvia Ziranek’s BY A THREAD incorporating UNSUNG SONGS, a multimedia installation exploring solidarity, vulnerability and resistance.
Some of the most exciting designs emerging from the world of sustainable fashion are those utilizing uncommon materials. There are gowns sculpted with grass roots, sequins made from algae, and electrical wires woven into lace. Now, researchers and designers at Aalto University can add another unusual substance to that list: the remains of a 300-year-old wooden shipwreck. In 2019, a hotel in the Finnish city of Oulu undertook renovations that uncovered a 17th-century vessel buried beneath a parking lot. Called the Hahtiperä wreck, the finding was the oldest of its kind in this region, prompting conservators to raise the seven-by-20-meter ship for preservation. A few fragments remained, though, and researchers...
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In this week's episode, Ben Luke discusses the disruptions to plans for a new Smithsonian women's museum in Washington DC, speaks with artist Oliver Beer and musician Rufus Wainwright on their recent collaboration, and learns about a painting by Jasper Johns on show at the Guggenheim Bilbao.
Lent by British private collectors, the Van Goghs subsequently went abroad—except for a fake, which is now in a castle in Wales
The influential sculptor and teacher, who died last year, is remembered in a show of her portrait heads and drawings at ATINATI's Cultural Center
Artists in the UK are poorly protected when it comes to insolvencies
Opening on 21 June, Directionless unfolds as a sweeping artist-led exhibition across Hauser & Wirth Menorca and the island landscape of Illa del Rei. Disorientation sits at the centre of the project, shaping both structure and tone. Contemporary practice is framed as a way of moving through instability rather than resolving it. The island becomes a field where architecture, coastline and light reconfigure perception. Meaning forms through proximity between works, site and viewer rather than through a fixed narrative. The exhibition is organised by Rashid Johnson, an American artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, film and installation, and who is widely recognised for his...
La Gallery Weekend Beijing giunge quest’anno alla sua decima edizione, un traguardo che trasforma l’appuntamento annuale in un momento di bilancio. Nata nel 2017 con l’ambizione di costruire una piattaforma professionale e internazionalmente orientata per l’arte contemporanea cinese, la manifestazione si svolge dal 22 al 31 maggio nel distretto 798 di Pechino, con un programma che per la prima volta si estende anche oltre i suoi confini abituali, raggiungendo Caochangdi e il CBD Art District.
798 Art District, 2026, ph. courtesy Gallery Weekend Beijing
Il formato consolidato prevede un Main Sector con trenta gallerie e dieci istituzioni non-profit selezionate da un comitato accademico, affiancato da...
798 Art District, 2026, ph. courtesy Gallery Weekend Beijing
Il formato consolidato prevede un Main Sector con trenta gallerie e dieci istituzioni non-profit selezionate da un comitato accademico, affiancato da...
Layers of colored pencil and marble dust worked into an oil-like substance flood the linen planes on which Marin Majic works. The Brooklyn-based artist builds upon a foundational drawing, blending various media into a richly textured surface resembling fabric or plaster. Matte finishes radiate across the scenes, appearing like magical glimmers under a night sky. Steeped in mystery, Majic’s works gravitate toward questions of power, impermanence, and the slippery nature of reality. Figures are often alone, whether swimming solo or driving along a mountain pass with no other cars in sight. Insects and animals are similar, although in pieces like “Negative attention,” we’re witness to the demise of the...
VINEYARD HAVEN, MASSACHUSETTS—The Vineyard Gazette reports that objects held at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum will be returned to Hui Iwi Kuamo’o, a repatriation organization in Hawaii. The objects include a canoe and a poi pounder donated to the museum by a collector in 1941, and a grass skirt and tapa cloth acquired by a whaler who brought them to Martha’s Vineyard around 1870. These items were eventually donated to the museum in 1956. The museum listed the items for potential repatriation after the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was passed in 1990. Hui Iwi Kuamo’o placed a request for the objects last year, after changes to NAGPRA simplified the return process....