Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized over 22,000 ancient artifacts in Florida last month, including Greco-Roman coins, terracotta and glass vessels, jewelry, and mosaic frames, yielding the largest object recovery in the department's ongoing probe into antiquities smuggling in the state. Dated between 1,000 and 5,000 years old, the objects are said to have originated from sites across Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, Africa, and the Levant. The Tampa Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit partnered with archaeological specialists and researchers at the University of South Florida and the University of Pennsylvania to authenticate, contextualize, and conserve the objects yielded...

China withdrew from South Korea's Gwangju Biennale this morning, September 3, just nine days after event organizers restored the title of "Taiwan Pavilion" to a group show featuring Taiwanese artists. The announcement, which was first reported by the Korea Times, comes two days before the scheduled opening of the 16th edition of the biennale.Rifts between Taiwan, China, and event organizers surged in mid-August after the biennale axed the name of “Taiwan Pavilion" in their promotional materials and replaced it with the English acronym for the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, “NTMoFA.” Organizers initially refused the name reversal demanded by Taiwan's Ministry of Culture and participating...

This fall, Atlanta’s High Museum of Art will commemorate its centennial with the unveiling of significant recent acquisitions, some of which will be displayed in its American and African Art collection galleries. These acquisitions include a rare painting by Jacob Lawrence, a quilt by Carolyn L. Mazloomi, and a work by folk artist Grandma Moses. […]

Whether it’s scenes from the subway, streets, or Times Square, visions of New York City are often hectic and crowded. For Erin Milez, the hustle and bustle, but moreover the cramped spaces and tightness, characterize a new body of work going on view this month in Everything the Light Touches at Monya Rowe Gallery. Milez recently moved from New York to Seattle, and she began to examine the nature of human connection, or the lack thereof, in urban spaces. Her expressive paintings draw on the visual language and subject matter of artists like George Tooker and Jacob Lawrence, who approached the theme of urban life through distinctive, figurative compositions. There’s also an unmistakable nod to the blocky,...

A 1923 WAREHOUSE becomes A SHARED HOME FOR DANCE
 
MAD reveals designs for Danshuis, a center for dance that will transform a 9,500-square-meter art deco warehouse in Rotterdam (find designboom’s previous coverage here). Designed by Ma Yansong’s studio and located on the south bank of the River Maas, the project will bring professional and amateur dance under one roof when it is scheduled to open in 2030. The building stands beside Fenix, Rotterdam’s museum of migration, also designed by MAD.
 
The former warehouse, dating from 1923, will house fourteen dance studios alongside an open podium, gym, exhibition space, café, and a rooftop Salle des Fêtes for large-scale public programs. A vertical foyer...

Medina will curate the 25th iteration of one of Latin America’s second-oldest biennial, opening in November 2027

In its latest attempt to bring the Smithsonian Institution to heel, the Trump administration is threatening to cut off discretionary grants and is accusing the organization of violating federal antidiscrimination law. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Vince Haley, assistant to the president for domestic policy, wrote a letter to the Smithsonian’s board of regents on August 28, warning that the Smithsonian may lose support from executive agencies. Congress provides the majority of the Smithsonian’s funding, more than $1 billion a year. The letter was earlier reported on by the Washington Post. As Burgum and Haley outline, the White House Domestic Policy Council recently issued a report, “Saving...

Before the iPhone essentially turned all of us into documentarians, the Super 8 camera offered a more democratic approach to filmmaking. Kodak introduced the analog format in 1965 with an eye toward amateurs and hobbyists interested in capturing the world around them, and today it remains a stalwart of the discipline, particularly for those drawn to the grainy, nostalgic qualities of shooting on film. Ed Sayers, director and founder of the annual Super 8 competition and community called straight 8, tapped into the camera’s equalizing legacy for his latest project. Bringing together 40 collaborators in 25 countries across five continents, Super Nature is a collective ode to our planet. Rather than travel the...

Cartographical works tied to famous works of fiction will feature in an exhibition at Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Opening days of Seoul's Art Week show the South Korean market entering a more mature, if less ebullient, phase

Cover of Whistler: A Novel by Ann Patchett (Harper, 2026)Artists and authors are taking the Year of the Horse quite seriously. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey hit theaters this summer, featuring the classic Trojan horse and all it stands for: things both passed down orally and things unspeakable. And just a month before that came Ann Patchett’s Whistler, her 10th novel for adults, which also takes this year’s zodiac quite seriously — the book is named for a horse in a story within the story.Patchett is known for her character-driven tales, and for writing literary fiction that remains accessible. She is perhaps best known for her 2001 breakaway hit Bel Canto, based on the Japanese...

CRYSTALS FOLLOW THE FLIP
 
Motorola’s latest razr arrives with 35 Swarovski crystals scattered across its quilted PANTONE Meteorite shell, but the detail that gives the collaboration its logic sits directly in the phone’s hinge. A larger 32-facet crystal occupies the mechanical joint, catching light each time the device opens and closes.
 
‘The hinge is the heart of the razr interaction,‘ Motorola North American Marketing Director Maria Jose Martin tells designboom. ‘It’s the exact point of movement that turns every flip into a brilliant reveal.‘ On a phone whose identity has always depended on that movement, the crystal becomes part of the gesture instead of sitting somewhere purely...

German painter Kerstin Brätsch has been named the winner of the twentieth Zurich Art Prize. She will receive CHF130,000 ($161,000), of which CHF30,000 ($37,000) is prize money and CHF100,000 ($124,000) will go toward production costs for a solo exhibition by the artist at Zurich’s Museum Haus Konstruktiv, to open in June 2027. Born in Hamburg […]

Gloria Steinem, the feminist activist who furthered the modern women’s movement, died at 92 years old, as confirmed in an Instagram post. “She spent her recent years doing the two things she loved most: being in community with others and writing. She has welcomed hundreds of guests into her living room for Talking Circles, a tradition she insisted will continue long after she is no longer with us,” the post explained. “As Gloria wrote in her forthcoming book, An Unexpected Life, ‘I have now lived for more than fifty years in this brownstone, in rooms that have witnessed lives before mine, and will know others after I am gone.’ This book, along with her commitment to her home becoming a center for...

With Los Angeles’s Lucas Museum of Narrative Art finally open to the press, the institution’s chief executive has responded to layoffs and high-profile departures that took place last year in the run-up to the inauguration. In a New York Times profile of the Lucas Museum, a private museum opened at a cost of $1 billion by collectors George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, Tracey Bates, the CEO who replaced Sandra Jackson-Dumont as the institution’s leader in January, suggested that the turnover had not impacted operations. Lucas, Bates told the Times, “has always been the chief curator.” Moreover, she said, “the planning, the mission, vision and values of this organization have never changed.” In fact,...

The sculpture, of an art preparator whose torso is concealed in a crate with their legs sticking out, prompted a late-night rescue mission at Vancouver’s Access Gallery

CATCHING SOME SLEEP, QUITE LITERALLY
 
Pokémon Sleep and Japanese hospitality brand NOT A HOTEL are translating one of gaming’s most recognizable objects into inhabitable architecture. Appearing amid the natural landscape of Hokkaido in September 2026, the Poké Ball-Themed Hotel turns the familiar red-and-white sphere into a place where people can actually spend the night — a rather literal invitation to catch some sleep.
 
The collaboration borrows its premise from the fictional universe, where Poké Balls are conceived as comfortable places for Pokémon to rest. Here, the scale shifts from pocket-sized device to human retreat, with architecture and technology used to create an environment centered on...

A trove of 700 Viking Age silver objects and fragments has been discovered in a man’s garden in Rebild, North Jutland Museums announced, marking the largest-ever find of its kind in Denmark. The anonymous homeowner was planning to build a new terrace in his garden when he found the treasure. “It should have just been a few hours of hard gardening work removing stubborn grass, stones and gravel for a new tiled terrace, but it turned out to be the biggest surprise of my life,” he said. “After half an hour of digging, my grip hit something that made a strange sound. At first I thought it was old iron or fence wire and some potsherds, but when I started digging with my hands, I was suddenly able to fish...

By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Parker 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...

September welcomes the rituals of renewal — back to school! — and recognition, as the end of the year approaches. While the seasonal light and shadows cast dramatic beauty across the Hudson Valley, galleries and museums match the mood with robust exhibitions. This month, Shaker Outpost features graceful ceramics by Paula Greif, and September presents a survey of artworks by the self-taught Black Arts Movement artist Reginald Madison. Dynamic fabric pieces by Holly McCabe take over the tattoo studio and gallery space at Distortion Society, while the Hessel Museum at Bard College presents the work of legendary gallerist, poet, and artist Betty Parsons. The Kleinert/James Center for the Arts at Byrdcliffe...

Created from bamboo and printed Japanese paper, Jacob Hashimoto’s elaborate installations cascade from the ceiling to create a vibrant “cloud canopy.” In his latest exhibition titled Giant Arc, ripples of color and pattern stretch from wall to wall as the nearly 75,0000 kite-like elements cluster, repeat, and tease the floor. The monumental work, which just went on view at SFMOMA, marks the largest piece the artist has created to date. As sun streams through the museum’s large windows and mixes with the light of the gallery, the feel of the installation changes throughout the day. Hashimoto conceives of the experience as a conduit to wonder for visitors of all ages, focusing on formal compositional...

Stephan Jost, who has served as CEO and director of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto since 2016, will exit both roles at the end of the year, the museum announced. Jost did not reveal his future plans, but suggested that his departure was spurred by the early achievement of some long-term objectives. […]

A new English translation of Puccini's La fanciulla del West gallops into a high school in Pacifica with as much grit and gumption as its titular frontierswoman.

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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem has died at 92.  Chinese participants threaten to withdraw from Gwangju Biennale unless the Taiwan Pavilion is renamed.  A new Trump administration letter has threatened to cut federal agency support for the Smithsonian Institution.  The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has died at 92, reports NBC News. “Yesterday, Gloria Steinem passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her,” stated her official Instagram page today. In addition to her pioneering work advocating for...

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‘Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee’ brings together work of Beverly Buchanan and Dionne Lee that highlights histories hidden in the environment

documenting northern california’s back-to-the-land movement
 
Half a century after thousands of young Americans left urban life for rural communes, Handmade Utopia: Back-to-the-Land Architecture in Northern California returns to the homes that took shape during from one of the country’s largest urban-to-rural migrations. Created by David Jacob Kramer and photographer Michael Schmelling, the book travels along Northern California’s hidden roads and through its redwood forests to document a generation that taught itself how to build, farm, and live differently. At a moment when questions around self-sufficiency, ecological building, and alternative forms of housing have returned with renewed urgency,...

Trump’s National Park Service nonsensically removed a bright-blue Joel Shapiro sculpture from outside the Kennedy Center yesterday without stating a reason. The late artist is known for his quasi-abstract, dynamic stick-figure artworks that could not offend your most politically questionable uncle, but our president will find a way. Was it too happy? Too person-shaped? Or even better … “woke”?Teju Adisa-Farrar’s must-read piece on Black American natural dyeing traditions is an antidote to cultural erasure. In the latest of our series on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2025 Craft Archive Fellows in collaboration with the Center for Craft, Adisa-Farrar traces the ways in...

There are several HDs that look interesting, but what I most looking forward to is the Manon with Nadine Sierra.

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over 500 works by do ho suh on view at mmca, seoul exhibition
 
Do Ho Suh’s large-scale solo exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) in Seoul brings together more than 500 drawings, sculptures, videos, and installations from across four decades, tracing an artistic practice shaped by questions of home, migration, memory, and identity. On view until February 9th, 2027, the exhibition moves from the artist’s earliest experiments to major fabric reconstructions and recent works, showing how Suh has gradually transformed personal experiences of relocation into a broader investigation of how people inhabit and remember space (read more here).
 
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This week, London’s Serpentine Galleries announced the launch of a six-month fellowship program, commencing in September, that will award four artists working with artificial intelligence grants of £10,000. The inaugural cohort of the fellowship includes Reina Mun, Alice Bucknell, Alfredo Salazar-Caro and Auriea Harvey.  Serpentine has long demonstrated support for artist-cum-technologists. In 2019, the gallery […]

Anonymous Was a Woman (AWAW) in collaboration with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has named the 2026 recipients of funds from AWAW’s Environmental Art Grants program. Twenty-seven projects led by women-identifying artists from across the United States and its territories whose work addresses ecological concerns will receive grants of up to $20,000 […]

From the stillness of a lily-specked pond to a nostalgic carousel perched on top of a spindly stand, Hans Op de Beeck’s latest works delve further into a realm of meditation and solitude. His forthcoming solo exhibition, Vanishing Point at Almine Rech, highlights his characteristically monochromatic sculptures, which he often coats in matte gray. Many are life-size, inviting viewers to stand quietly near a calm figure seated on a chaise lounge beside a fawn or peer into a framed seascape in which definition is only wrought by contrasts in light and shadow. Scale, lifelike detail, and an array of objects, figures, and animals in different settings lend Op de Beeck’s sculptures a kind of wünderkammer...

Major expeditions, numerous attempts, and strokes of luck characterize how many of the top images in the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards came to be. Francisco Castro Escobar, for example, was surprised to see a rare lesser horned owl, sometimes referred to as “the ghost of the desert,” perched on a cactus in northern Chile during a dawn hike. “The largest owl in Chile gets this nickname because seeing one is so rare that it’s like an apparition,” Escobar says. The image also took the grand prize for the Chile/Colombia contest. Audubon Photography Awards runs two parallel opportunities, one for photographers in the U.S. and Canada and the other for those based in Chile and Colombia. This year, the...

In between performances of Strauss and Mozart, Parterre Box highlights the smolderingly elegant Samantha Hankey.

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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...

I'm looking forward to the Met's new production of Puccini's La fanciulla del West.

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It is only a concert performance, but no one seems to have told them that; and thank the heavens for that!

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...

By Victoria Thomas Altadena-based artist James Griffith greets me at his studio, located in a refurbished 1920s firehouse diagonally across the street from the gleaming silver lagomorph of the restored Bunny Museum, by saying "Hi, I just started putting a galaxy in the armpit of a penguin." Great cities announce their identities through their monuments. New York City has the Statue of Liberty, St. Louis the Gateway Arch, Chicago the Cloud Gate, Philadelphia the original LOVE sculpture. And...

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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.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
   
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...

By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

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

The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...