The fossilised skeletons make an unusual incursion into a downtown gallery, meeting John Chamberlain's twisted-metal forms

The indie art fair with Estonian roots is once again making the most of its Beaux-Arts setting and collaborative spirit

Plus Lucy's Liu's 'Hard Feelings'

It is not only many of the fairgoers at Frieze New York who are fresh off the plane from the Venice Biennale. Quite a few of the works on the stands at the Shed are by artists who have just made a splash in Koyo Kouoh’s central exhibition 'In Minor Keys', at national pavilions or in collateral shows in Venice

Mary Lovelace O’Neal, whose gestural abstractions consistently ran against the grain, defying the demands placed upon Black painters by critics and artists alike, died on Sunday in Mérida, Mexico. She was 84. Her galleries, Jenkins Johnson and Marianne Boesky, announced her passing on Wednesday. Lovelace O’Neal produced sprawling paints defined by tangles of drippy, roiled strokes. This was a style that placed her outside the orthodoxy of Minimalism, the dominant movement when she was maturing as an artist during the 1960s. She also arrived too late to be classified as an Abstract Expressionist. But she did not consider herself an adherent of either movement, anyway, and in interviews, she said she...

A new production, loosely based on the artists' lives, is accompanied by an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art—both visually imagined by the set and costume designer Jon Bausor

Israel advanced a bill on Tuesday that would expand Israeli civilian authority sweeping authority over antiquities and archaeology in the occupied West Bank, a move that human rights groups warned would lead to the annexation of the Palestinian territory. As first reported by Haaretz, the Likud-backed bill would empower a new government body under the purview of the Israeli heritage minister to purchase and expropriate land. The proposed “Judea and Samaria Heritage Authority”—using the biblical term favored by the Israeli government for the occupied West Bank—“will hold exclusive responsibility for all matters relating to heritage, antiquities and archaeology in the area.” Those responsibilities...

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, acquired 314 works in 2025, Artnews reports. The year followed the fiftieth anniversary of the institution, which was established under the aegis of the Smithsonian in 1974. The acquisitions brought the museum’s collection to 13,000 pieces and increased its holdings in areas it had sought to […]

An artist has accused Andrew Bolton, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute’s spring 2026 exhibition, of displaying and collecting what she has described as a “counterfeit” of her work, without credit or compensation. In a series of now-viral Instagram posts, the first of which was published on May 11, the London-based sculptor, textile designer, and filmmaker Anouska Samms claimed joint-authorship of Corpus Nervina 0.0, a garment included in the recently opened “Costume Art.” According to Samms, Corpus Nervina 0.0 was inspired by a 2023 piece she created in collaboration with Yoav Hadari for his fashion label, Psycheangelic, titled Nervina. In the video, Samms claims that she...

Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is perhaps one of the world’s most famous burial grounds, home to luminaries like authors Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust, musicians and composers like Frédéric Chopin, Édith Piaf, and even The Doors’ Jim Morrison, among many others. Its family tombs and sculptural headstones are iconic, and when artist Marina Kappos spent time wandering through Père Lachaise during a stay in the city last year, she was intrigued by the sculptures of grieving women she encountered. “They seemed to hold a power in their sadness, but also great beauty and remembrance as they stood guard over many of the tombs,” the artist says. In Piercing the Veil at SHRINE, Kappos’ solo exhibition...

It may have been Shakespeare who said “all the world’s a stage,” but for some in the art world, the most coveted platform is a freshly drywalled booth at an art fair. In New York City, spring fairs are in full throttle, anchored this week by Frieze at The Shed, which kicks off for VIPs today, May 13. Fairs are where galleries and artists mingle, meet collectors and curators, and, ideally, sell enough work to make it worth the cost. That last point is a delicate calculus for many exhibitors, as booth fees run the gamut from single digits to tens of thousands of dollars. We asked 13 New York art fairs to open up about booth costs, and what they shared (and didn't) revealed much about affordability and...

Somehow, somewhere, exists a place in New York City where one can buy a medium-sized pad of Yupo paper, a set of unopened Sennelier oil sticks, oodles of embroidery floss, and a mix-and-match encaustic paint set for under $20. That place is called Brooklyn Creative Reuse (BCR), and it recently opened its physical location in Industry City. Created by jeweler and reuse enthusiast Stephanie O'Brien, BCR emerged as a pop-up events initiative in February 2025, working to sustainably divert used art supplies from landfills by cycling them back into new hands at an affordable price. The organization opened its brick-and-mortar location in Building 2 earlier this month, coming in as a small but mighty...

VENICE — On Tuesday, May 5, the day before previews began at this year’s Venice Biennale, Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine, targeting, as is usual, civilians and civilian infrastructure. Twenty-seven people perished, and well over 100 were injured. At the 61st iteration of the international art event, among many scandals and controversies, the Biennale’s startling decision to welcome Russia back into the fold despite the now five years of its brutal, unprovoked war on Ukraine looms as especially shameful. With very few exceptions, this war — the worst in Europe since World War II — was largely invisible throughout the sprawling Biennale, including the main exhibition In...

A public contradiction about Iran’s participation in the 61st Venice Biennale has emerged after Aydin Mahdizadeh Tehrani, the director general of visual arts at Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (MCIG), was interviewed by the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA). In the interview, Mahdizadeh Tehrani explained that Iran “neither submitted a withdrawal letter nor […]

Alexis Corbière and Alexandre Portier, the French MPs overseeing the government commission investigating the shocking October 19, 2025, Louvre jewel heist, have accused the museum of deprioritizing security at the museum. The full parliamentary report was released today and also casts doubt on French president Emmanuel Macron’s nearly $1 billion plan to revamp the Louvre, which he announced in January 2025 (nine months before the heist) and referred to as a “new renaissance” for the museum, the world’s most-visited art museum.   Macron’s visit followed the release of a leaked memo written by Laurence de Cars, then the director of the Louvre (she resigned in February of this year), alerting French...

With a brazen gynephilia, Holzinger's art luxuriates in the violence that high art and its histories conceal

May is an incredibly busy time for migrating birds, as millions flock from their southerly wintertime feeding grounds back to northern climes, where they’ll nest and breed. Chances are, if you look and listen in your back garden or nearby nature preserves, a wide variety of unusual birds may be noticeable around this time as they stop off to refuel during their journeys. So, it’s fitting that Vasilisa Romanenko’s solo exhibition, Flora & Flight at Arch Enemy Arts, continues this month. Romanenko’s detailed acrylic paintings, which range from six to 28 inches tall, set birds within vibrant sprays of blossoms. They’re intimate and inviting, bringing us close to these feathered creatures that, in real...

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A new study by University College London reveals that engaging with arts and culture can slow biological aging in a manner similar to exercise. Published in the journal Innovation in Aging, the report suggested that those engaging passively with culture, by attending a performance or visiting a gallery, and those participating in the arts—for example, […]

On the performer's Opening Étude, SEAWORLD VENICE 2026

The Book of Exodus is unequivocal on the matter. During Moses’s 40-day-and-40-night sojourn atop Mount Sinai, wherein the prophet would receive the Ten Commandments from the Lord, the anxious Hebrews abandoned in the desert melted down their gold and fashioned a calf to whom they’d offer hosannas. Dancing about the idol, burning incense and offerings, the multitude praised not God, but rather this crude, wanton, and ostentatious object of their own crafting. Dead in eye and dumb of ear, the Golden Calf diverted the Hebrews from genuine worship; a deadening of the ethical imperative that had guided their liberation from bondage in Egypt. Castigating their stiff-necked impudence, God tells Moses in Exodus...

W hen we connect over Zoom, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, aka Shoplifter, is in Bentonville, Arkansas preparing to unveil Xanadu, a large-scale, outdoor installation at Format Festival. “It’s going to be like an alien forest that people at the festival roam around in and space out,” says Arnardóttir of the installation, consisting of ten poles ranging in […]
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In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Bruno Bischofberger (1940–2026)Swiss art historian, collector, and dealerBeginning in the 1960s, he established art galleries in Zurich and St. Moritz in Switzerland. He brought American Pop Artists to Swiss audiences, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and more. In the 1970s and '80s, he promoted Neo-Expressionist artists such as Julian Schnabel and George Condo. "Bischofberger was far more than just an art dealer; he was a brilliant artist in his own right, a visionary, a pioneer, a teacher and a patron of the arts," a statement released by his gallery read. "Without him, the...

Layered Timber installation Reinterprets the Japanese Engawa
 
Strata Engawa by Superficium Studio reinterprets the traditional Japanese engawa as a digitally fabricated timber installation designed for sitting, gathering, play, and informal public occupation. Developed for the inaugural Digi Fab Award 2025 organized by KOKUYO × VUILD, the project explores the relationship between architecture, furniture, and adaptable public space through layered plywood construction and computational fabrication methods.
 
The installation takes its name from the engawa, the transitional space positioned between interior domestic environments and the surrounding garden in traditional Japanese architecture. Rather than...

ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND—Live Science reports that a dental bridge was discovered on the lower jaw of a man whose remains were unearthed at St. Nicholas East Kirk in northeastern Scotland. The man was middle-aged when he died sometime between 1460 and 1670, said bioarchaeologist Rebecca Crozier of the University of Aberdeen. The bridge was made of a gold wire, called a ligature, that was wrapped around two front tooth roots to span the gap between them. The wire was probably fashioned and installed by a jeweler, she added. “The application of the ligature would likely have caused some discomfort during the procedure,” Crozier said, explaining that it likely rubbed against the root of one of the anchoring...

PARAMONGA, PERU—Andina News Agency reports that Jose Luis Fuentes of the National University of San Marcos and his colleagues have uncovered possible ceremonial structures at Cerro de la Horca, or “Gallows Hill,” an archaeological site on Peru’s central coastline that was first inhabited around A.D. 900. “There are around 20 mounds surrounding four plazas, in addition to platforms, walls, and internal roads,” Fuentes said. These mounds may have once been residences for priests or elites, he added. Pottery recovered at the site indicates that it was occupied by various groups, including members of the Pativilca, Casma, and Huaura cultures. Fuentes observed two major construction phases. In the older...

a column-free museum at the edge of haikou
 
The Hainan Science Museum by MAD has opened in Haikou, China, where its silver, spiraling volume rises beside Wuyuan River National Wetland Park. With architecture led by Ma Yansong, the museum has already welcomed more than 350,000 visitors during its soft opening, with peak days drawing more than 5,800 people.
 
From above, the building reads as a compressed coil set between highway, city, and wetland. Its rounded shell-like facade appears to hover above the ground, with broad bands of metal catching the pale sky and softening the scale of the institution. The form gives the Hainan Science Museum a sense of movement before visitors step inside, as if the...

What do you get when you combine an obsessive urge to create, sleep deprivation, climate change anxiety, and penchant for enchanted nature realms? Amy Casey shows us firsthand, through her infinitely detailed paintings of manmade structures, either clashing or peacefully coexisting with natural environments. In these pieces we might find repetitions of fungi, leaves, and […]
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The gallery was founded by curators Mary Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout

Last week, the Venice Biennale announced that Iran had dropped out of the exhibition. Now, it appears, that report was incorrect. On Tuesday, Aydin Mahdizadeh Tehrani, the director-general of visual arts at the Iranian ministry of culture and Islamic guidance told the Iran Students News Agency that it still plans to participate. “Iran never withdrew from participating in the Venice Biennale,” Tehrani said, as translated by Google Translate. “Incidentally, we had the initial agreement to participate in Venice and we are still in consultation. We have submitted a plan to participate in the Biennale as an exhibition, and we will probably receive a receive a response in the next few days.” In an extensive...

selgascano’s sky-k rises as two bright coastal chimneys
 
Sky-K by Selgascano rises in Durrës, Albania, as a pair of slender residential towers set just behind Rruga Taulantia, the seaside street recently shaped into a linear park along the Adriatic coast. The project sits in a dense coastal fabric, where apartment blocks, palm-lined promenades, port infrastructure, and beach life press closely together. From the water, the building appears almost suddenly above the skyline, its red and yellow volumes catching the sun from behind the existing city front.
 
The site is set back from the waterfront, which gives the tower a strange double presence. It belongs to a small hidden lot at ground level, yet its...

The partnership reworks two classic Vans silhouettes through *Better With Age’s worn-in, vintage-inspired lens

A review covering the highlights of this year’s Venice Biennale.

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As this year's ‘Master of Photography’, Steven Meisel’s monumental black and white prints dominate the gallery floor overlooking the main fair below.

Debbie Lawson is known for her large-scale sculptures of life-size animals cloaked in ornamental carpets. Starting with an armature of wire mesh, masking tape, and Jesmonite resin, she meticulously cuts and tucks Persian carpet around every limb, building a surface that looks unbroken. As if the animals have materialized from within the textiles and are temporarily frozen in a stage of metamorphosis, we encounter them on the verge of making a move. In the artist’s solo exhibition, In a Cowslip’s Bell I Lie at Sargent’s Daughters, she provokes “questions about the relationships between decoration and nature, craft and camouflage,” the gallery says. The title is a line from Shakespeare’s The Tempest,...

Landscape and Structure Merge Within Pamba Bike Refuge
 
Pamba Bike Refuge by URLO Studio is located in Ascázubi, Ecuador, at the base of Pambamarca Hill within the landscape of Pamba Bike Park. Developed as a shelter and resting space for cyclists, the project responds to the climatic conditions of the Andes while establishing a direct relationship with the surrounding terrain, vegetation, and panoramic views. The bike park forms part of a larger agricultural property that has undergone extensive reforestation over recent decades, creating a landscape of forested trails and open clearings. Within this setting, the project references the region’s historical context, where ancestral pucarás, or fortified...

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Grand Tier Grab Bag hearkens back to the days when Sondra Radvanovsky — who is singing no Verdi at all next season — seemed like the Verdi soprano of reference.

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bold villa stretches horizontally across the Peloponnese’s hills
 
Bold Villa by Georges Batzios Architects unfolds through horizontal strong gestures that embrace the panoramic landscape in Peloponnese, Greece, fostering fluid transitions between interior and exterior spaces. This openness enhances the connection to nature and reinforces the luxurious character of the development. Articulated volumes and pergolas serve as subtle connectors to the landscape, fostering a sense of cohesion while maintaining the individuality of each unit. The massing remains low and terraced, sculpted and horizontally embedded into the natural terrain. This approach allows the architecture to harmonize with the site’s...

Art Basel has announced Trevor Paglen and Eli Scheinman as co-curators of Zero 10 bringing together major artists and galleries exploring digital culture

My favorite Verdi performance is Claudio Abbado Don Carlo opening of the Scala.

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The history of photography has long been shaped by what is seen and, crucially, by what is omitted. New Woman, New Vision. Women Photographers of the Bauhaus enters this contested terrain with force, assembling an expansive body of work that feels at once familiar and newly charged. Bringing together approximately 300 photographs, the exhibition reframes the Bauhaus not as a closed chapter of modernism, but as an evolving site of authorship, experimentation and erasure. It is less a recovery project than a recalibration, asking viewers to look again at images they may think they know. In doing so, it exposes the fragility of the canon itself. What emerges is a complex picture of photographic modernity. From...

As we enter the summer months, there’s a universal desire to get outside. The trees are green, flowers are in full bloom and the sun is shining well into the evening. These five exhibitions are bringing contemporary art into nature, placing sculptures in dialogue with the environment. Each one offers visitors the opportunity to witness art outside of the confined of white walls and gallery spaces, getting up close to creativity on a monumental scale. Major names like Yayoi Kusama, Lynn Chadwick and Henry Moore take up new space, whilst Nic Nicosia and Nicola Turner transform familiar museums into new experiences. Lynn Chadwick Houghton Hall, Norfolk | Until 4 October Houghton Hall presents a new exhibition...

Throughout her illustrious 32-year career, Pacita Abad (1946-2004) traveled to more than 60 countries. Myriad experiences ultimately introduced her to a wide range of techniques, materials, and relationships, shaping the artist’s practice over time. Movement provided an enduring source of new ideas and inspiration, and as she put it, “For me, traveling is my art school.” In the spring of 1998, Abad visited Yemen. At the time, the country was still in recovery following the Yemeni Civil War, which took place four years prior. Grounded in her rigorous political engagement and the instabilities experienced in her native Philippines, Abad reflected on the immutable significance of cultural practices and...

GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS—Phys.org reports that a shell midden dated to between 6,300 and 5,970 years ago has been discovered on Velanai Island in northern Sri Lanka by a team of researchers led by Thilanka Siriwardana of the University of Groningen and his colleagues. It had been previously thought that northern Sri Lanka was not occupied until the arrival of pastoralists from India in the fifth century B.C. because of its limited vegetation, lack of fresh water, and scarce raw materials for making stone tools. Analysis of the shell midden, however, indicates that prehistoric hunter-gatherers on Velanai Island relied heavily on mollusks, but also consumed sea bream, deer, wild boar, dugongs, and dolphins....

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—Stone tools uncovered at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China have been dated to 146,000 years ago, or about 20,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a statement released by the Field Museum. “People often imagine creativity as something that flourishes in good times,” said Yuchao Zhao of the Field Museum. “Finding out that these stone tools were made during a harsh Ice Age tells a different story. Hard times can force us to adapt,” he said. The new dates were obtained by measuring the ratio of uranium and thorium in calcite crystals in animal bones found alongside the stone tools. Because the small amount of uranium in a calcite crystal slowly...

With a stained glass window, light filters through to illuminate narrative scenes or geometric patterns, but it’s primarily the window itself that draws our attention. For Lesley Green of Bespoke Glass, these vibrant compositions certainly aren’t limited to these traditional apertures. “One of my personal obsessions is trying to convince people to hang glass on the wall instead of in the window, so you can really experience the pure color and texture of the glass,” she tells Colossal. Bespoke Glass creates a wide range of aesthetic and functional forms, conceived for both residential and commercial interiors. Some are designed to be screens or separators, such as behind a bar or between tables in a...

Copper alloy collar found at an illicit whisky still site in Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve, Scotland KILLIN, SCOTLAND—According to a Herald Scotland report, National Trust for Scotland archaeologists, assisted by volunteers, recovered a piece of copper alloy from a stone structure in Highland Scotland’s Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve that may have been used to distill whisky in secret to avoid paying taxes that had been levied beginning in the 1780s. The researchers suggest that the copper part is a piece known in Gaelic as An Gearradan, or the collar connecting a still to its lyne arm, which controlled how much vapor returned to the pot and therefore controlled the flavor of the finished product....

The purely musical performance preserved here is thrilling, ratcheted to a higher intensity than the Deutsche Grammophon studio recording

Contemporary art from the Asia Pacific arrives in London with the force of something already long in motion. Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific brings together more than 40 artists from 25 countries, assembling over 70 works that span sculpture, photography, painting, ceramics, weaving and body adornment. Many of these works have never been shown outside the region, and their presence at the V&A immediately shifts the terms through which visibility is negotiated. What unfolds is a profound encounter with interconnected and evolving cultural systems across one of the most diverse regions in the world. Australia, Asia and the Pacific together account for roughly 60 percent of...

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By Melanie Chapman Let the Art (and the Artist) Speak for Itself Outside of the art world, painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer may not yet be as familiar a name as Jean-Michel Basquiat or Vincent Van Gogh, but to those who followed her artistic growth over the past ten years, she was on her way. Perhaps therein lay the problem. For those who knew Celeste personally and/or had the opportunity to work with her professionally, there is still a profound sense of loss permeating most conversations...

The 61st edition of the Venice Biennale, In Minor Keys, curated by the late Koyo Kouoh (1967-2025), is now open. It will run until 22 November at the Giardini, the Arsenale and in various locations around the city. Here is Aesthetica‘s run-down of 10 standout national pavilions to discover this year – paying attention to timely themes such as communication, connection, ecology, identity and legacy. Swiss Pavilion | The Unfinished Business of Living Together In April 1978, an episode of the Swiss public programme Telearena aired. The live broadcast debated the “problem of homosexuality”, and, whilst controversial, marked one of the first occasions when individuals from the LGBTQ+ community gained a...

To celebrate the 100th anniversary performances of Turandot at the Met starting next week, Patrick Dillon gives a listen to seven versions of "Signore, ascolta!" for Perspectives on an Aria.

Vivacious performances outweigh a host of odd directorial choices in the Washington National Opera's West Side Story

Liberation, modernism and the politics of self-determination form the conceptual spine of Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa, an exhibition opening this July at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It examines how architecture became a critical medium through which newly independent West African nations articulated sovereignty, identity, and futurity in the decades following colonial rule. Rather than treating modernism as a neutral or imported style, the exhibition frames it as a charged and adaptive language, refracted through the urgencies of nation-building and rapid urban transformation. Across Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo, architectural...