artist thuy tien nguyen slows the system down
 
At Gasworks in south London, Thuy Tien Nguyen’s upcoming exhibition Press, Release is set to move through the gallery like a machine with a memory of its own. A skeletal conveyor belt will snake through two spaces, carrying Vietnamese, Thai, and British vernacular objects along a choreographed path. Its polished steel frame suggests the smooth logic of factories and airports, but the rhythm feels unsettled. Objects shudder forward and back. They keep moving, then hesitate.
 
Opening from July 9th to September 13th, 2026, the solo show marks the Hanoi- and Frankfurt-based artist’s first in the UK. The installation is built from modular polished steel and...

Liu Bin, the Chinese archaeologist widely known for his work at the ancient city at Liangzhu, the so-called Venice of the Stone Age, pleaded guilty on May 20 to charges of taking bribes and embezzling research funds, Caixin Global reports. In the trial, which took place at Suichang County People’s Court in Zhejiang Province, Liu was accused of accepting more than 4.65 million yuan (about $690,000) in bribes and embezzling 300,000 yuan (about $45,000) from a research project related to the civilization at Liangzhu, reports Caixin, noting that he was detained by the authorities in December 2025 and arrested in February. No penalty has been announced. After studying archaeology at Jilin University, Liu joined...

Elsewhere is bringing 26 exhibitors to the Yowie Hotel on South Street for its inaugural edition

Art world figure Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, who gained notoriety with pithy, irreverent gossip and commentary delivered under the pseudonym Jerry Gogosian, was found deceased in a São Paulo hotel room on May 31. Brazilian television network Globo reports that her body was discovered in a room at the Rosewood São Paulo by her plastic surgeon, […]

Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, the curator and art-world satirist widely known by the moniker Jerry Gogosian, has died at age 40. Police in Brazil have opened a “suspicious death” investigation after Helphenstein was found dead in a São Paulo hotel room on Sunday, May 31, as first reported by the local outlet Globo.In a statement to Hyperallergic, a spokesperson for Rosewood São Paulo, a luxury hotel in the city's Bela Vista district, confirmed that Helphenstein was found deceased in one of its rooms on Sunday afternoon."Since the incident, the hotel has provided full collaboration with the competent authorities, promptly providing all the information requested to assist in the investigation," the...

The president of Chicago’s DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, Perri Irmer, has responded to a whistleblower lawsuit that shook the institution months ago with allegations that she and other leadership misused funds.  In December, Kim Dulaney, the museum’s former vice president of education and programs, filed a whistleblower and retaliatory discharge lawsuit in the Cook County Circuit Court, alleging that she was fired after repeatedly raising concerns about the museum’s operations under president and CEO Perri Irmer. The Chicago Crusader reports that Irmer has filed a 15-page response seeking dismissal of the lawsuit. In it, her attorneys argue that Dulaney failed to meet a requirement...

One would think that with nearly 400 years of history since the initial Dutch settlement in 1652, the former capital city of New York would want its new signage to reflect centuries of cultural and commercial growth. Instead, Kingston got dozens of new site markers last month that many are calling “bland,” “ugly,” “soulless,” and “sterile slop.”The signs, which were designed by the Pennsylvania-based environmental and urban design firm MERJE, sparked additional fury when local news outlets reported that the project cost about $425,000 in funding so far, provided by federal distributions from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) for economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative...

Even if you don’t know it by name, you’ve certainly seen Ramon Casas’s “After the Ball” on the cover of a novel. The painting renders a disheveled woman in a black dress slumped on a green couch, a book she’s too exhausted to read in her hand. (Same.) It’s one of the more recognizable examples from the painted book cover trend, which has slowly overtaken lit-fic shelves in the last decade.Tara Anne Dalbow spoke with editors, cover designers, and publishing executives to tease out a few patterns from newer releases with figurative portraits on their jackets, and the commercial and artistic appeal of such imagery.More in this edition, including a book on a notorious art trafficker who plundered...

A battle over new visitor facilities highlights tensions between tourism development and local livelihoods

The British Museum elected to postpone a Jewish Culture Month event that was scheduled to take place last Thursday, May 28th due to concerns that the talk—a lecture on Ancient Israel and Judah—might be disrupted by protests.  “In recent days, we were informed that a significant proportion of registered attendees were individuals intending to deliberately […]

Celia Paul, "Burning Painter" (2025), oil on canvas (© Celia Paul; photo courtesy the artist, Gladstone and Victoria Miro)My buildup to Celia Paul’s exhibition Innervisions at Gladstone Gallery has been a long one. First, I read Zadie Smith’s sharp, smart essay, “The Muse at her Easel” in the New York Review of Books, about the relationship between Paul and the notorious figurative painter Lucian Freud. She was 18 and an art student at Slade School of Fine Art, and he was 55 and famous. They had a 10-year relationship, and eventually, a child together. Though she is regarded by many to be one of Freud’s muses, she also kept a rigorous painting schedule, working daily. I then read Paul’s marvelous...

VENICE, CALIFORNIA — On a bustling corner along Venice Boulevard about a mile and a half from the beach, artist Ali Eyal stood outside a Chevron gas station last Friday, May 29, posing as a black-market petrol salesman. On the screen of an old-fashioned television set, he had painted the words “We have oil here” in ornate Arabic calligraphy. Atop the set sat four jugs resembling those filled by roadside gas vendors, their exteriors painted a noxious shade of ochre. The level of “gas” is consecutively diminished in each one, until it transforms into a thin red sunset. “I’m ‘duskaphobic,’” Eyal told Hyperallergic. “Bad things always happened after dark.”The one-day pop-up installation was...

In Sydney’s Circular Quay, a 6.5-meter-tall installation spins, twirls, and totters amid a public thoroughfare. Titled “There, Now, Here,” the kinetic artwork is by the Brooklyn-based duo Wade and Leta and is in almost constant motion, thanks to wind, motors, and willing participants hopping on a see-saw. With black and white stripes alongside a more muted palette, the colors of the playground-style project reference Dorothea Mackellar’s beloved poem “My Country,” which professes her devotion to the Australian landscape and what she dubs the “sunburnt country.” Harnessing the washed-out tones of a sun-bleached environment, the artists present their signature bold works in more subtle hues, as...

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The Arkansas museum now has 50% more space for its ever-expanding collection and art-and-wellness programming

Artist and art world commentator Hilde Lynn Helphenstein was found dead on Sunday in São Paulo’s Rosewood Hotel, according to a report by Brazilian television network Globo. Helphenstein, better known by her pseudonym Jerry Gogosian, was found in her hotel room beside an empty vodka bottle, a broken glass, and unidentified pills. A man who identified himself as her plastic surgeon said he went to her room after she stopped answering her phone, according to Globo. He said further that she had been in Brazil for three weeks while she had a surgical procedure. The death was registered as suspicious by the police, and tests have been requested, says the paper. “Rosewood São Paulo confirms that the guest...

A house designed by the storied architect Richard Neutra in Los Angeles’s Nichols Canyon is up for sale for an asking price of $5.95 million. Designed in 1962, the so-called Hendershot House was built for Robert Hendershot and his wife Harumi Taniguchi, and was later expanded by the architect’s son Dion Neutra. It was featured in the 2010 Taschen monograph Neutra. Complete Works and was restored in 2023 with an AIA|LA Emerging Practice Award–winning renovation. According to the Compass listing for the sale, “The home represents Neutra at his most refined: ribbon windows, deep overhangs, full-height sliding glass walls, and a masterful response to a sloping canyon site sheltered by native trees and...

When Craig Hubbard moved from Brooklyn to Venice Beach in 2013, he had an established creative career as an animator and comic book colorist, but it had been a long time since he had picked up a camera. The golden hour hues of the West Coast’s legendary sunsets reacquainted him with lens-based work, and he began documenting the areas he frequented in his spare time. “As an avid surfer and former skater, I gravitate toward skateparks and water,” he tells Colossal. And with the ocean, of course, come the waves. Venice Beach is a funky, coastal Los Angeles neighborhood that has retained its laid-back, surf-loving vibe despite new developments. Surfers await swells in areas like the Breakwater and the...

Ever since Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan first made a splash at Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 with the artwork Comedian, 2019, which consists of a banana affixed to a gallery wall with a single piece of duct-tape (in an edition of three). In the last six years, the work has been both a press […]

Archaeologists excavating an ancient cemetery in Cairo have found a cache of burial objects that could shed new light on funeral practices in one of Egypt’s most important religious centers. According to Heritage Daily the discovery was made at the Banhsi Cemetery in Ain Shams, a district built over parts of ancient Heliopolis, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The site forms part of the sprawling necropolis of Heliopolis, the city that served as the center of the cult of the sun god Ra for centuries. An Egyptian team from the Supreme Council of Antiquities uncovered the objects beneath a mudbrick tomb containing human remains. The group of items appears to have been deposited as...

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a puerto rican landscape inside el choliseo
 
Inside San Juan’s Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot, Bad Bunny’s No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí residency turns the arena into a landscape of mountain paths, weathered concrete, plantain leaves, and the familiar roofline of a Puerto Rican home. Designed by STURDY. with Adrian Martinez in collaboration with Bad Bunny, the production builds its atmosphere through place before scale, as the island’s architecture and terrain are at the center of the performance.
 
The residency, which ran across thirty nights in 2025 with early tickets reserved for Puerto Rico residents, was a major cultural event for San Juan. Its staging gave that larger moment a physical...

New York City in the 1980s felt like a very different place. Imagine subway cars cloaked inside-out in graffiti and Times Square without the monumental LED screens. Evidenced by the likes of photographers Steven Siegel, Willy Spiller, and Jamel Shabazz, not to mention Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style (1982), a period of intense, new, rough-around-the-edges energy was canonized. The era marked the birth of hip hop and New Wave, MTV, iconic fashion, legendary nightlife, and Pop Art. In 1978, just prior to the economy reeling during a major recession, a 20-year-old Keith Haring (1958-1990) moved to Manhattan to study at the School of Visual Arts. “I arrived in New York at a time when the most beautiful paintings...

The argument that you can do good from the inside of an institution ravaged by the Trump administration no longer washes

Historic European cities now occupy a rare and productive tension. Shaped by centuries of memory, architecture and ritual, they continue to operate as living cultural systems rather than fixed historical artefacts. Within them, heritage is not a static condition but an active framework through which identity is continuously negotiated. These cities function most powerfully when preservation and transformation are held in productive relation rather than opposition. The question is not whether cities change, but how they manage to evolve while retaining the depth of their rich accumulated histories. Bruges exemplifies this condition with particular clarity. Its UNESCO World Heritage status situates it within a...

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The duct-taped banana installation was swiftly restored after its "perishable element" went missing on Saturday afternoon

the art of sari drapes
 
In the FAQ for the Sari Series, the founder Malika Verma addresses a question that people must ask her constantly: what are her favorite sari drapes? The answer is succinct and detailed, noting not just the drape of the the traditional garment found in India and South Asian, but the region it comes from: ‘Personal favorites include Boggili Possi from Andhra Pradesh, Yakshangana Kasi from Karnataka, and the Kotapad drape from Orissa.’ Verma, the founder of Border&Fall, an agency dedicated to craft and design that works between India and New York City, began this project over ten years ago with the intention to crystallize knowledge of sari draping and create a freely accessible...

camille henrot brings ecological grief into the domestic sphere
 
Camille Henrot’s film In the Veins centers on what it means to raise children in a world shaped by climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and ecological grief. Presented this year at LUMA Arles and now receiving its Scandinavian premiere within Paper Planes, Henrot’s largest solo exhibition in Scandinavia to date at Copenhagen Contemporary, the work moves between wildlife rehabilitation centers, scenes of caregiving, children’s gestures, cyclical rhythms, and fragmented observations on maintenance, repetition, vulnerability, and survival.
 
Animals arrive early in a human’s life, populating alphabet books, cartoons, bedtime stories,...

I decided I’d take ‘never made it to the Met’ as an excuse to submit a post about why French soprano Denise Duval (1921-2015) is special to me.

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....

Madison Schindele surveys the endlessly diverse offerings of Berlin's 2026-27 opera season.

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SECURITY ARCHETYPE SHIFTS TOWARD HIGH-DESIGN PRODUCTS
 
Beyond mere protection, Brown Safe transforms security into high design, crafting safes and vaults that are as aesthetically sophisticated as the treasures they house. Although security remains the core priority, the products transcend traditional utility, adapting to the nuances of contemporary living. Through an expansive palette of bespoke materials and finishes, each unit is reimagined as a sculptural element. Whether configured as a built-in element or a freestanding piece, every safe strikes a rigorous balance between form and advanced technical function, from precise climate control systems to industrial-grade fire protection.
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Time and place define this issue. Inside, artists, architects and photographers examine how we inhabit and interpret the world around us. At the core of their work is a fascination with the now: how it is shaped by history, yet continuously reimagined through creativity. Aesthetica’s June/July edition invites you to engage with a slower, more attentive way of seeing, Here’s a preview of what you’ll discover: Delicate Vignettes | Nuno Serrão’s minimalist images offer small parts of wider narratives, united by cinematic aesthetics and a sensitivity to the wider world. Analogue Landscape | Svetlana Talanova makes works by hand in the darkroom, using photosensitive paper to show how patterns recur across...

Tamara Dean (b. 1976) turns the camera upon herself for High Jinks in the Hydrangeas, a series in which the Australian photomedia artist takes on the roles of director, subject and image-maker. In some shots, her body is submerged within massive pink blooms. For others, she clings onto bending branches, seeming to defy gravity. This is Dean’s most personal collection to date. “The figure moving through these landscapes became the woman I aspired to be: one who could fly, shoot an arrow, climb trees and clap clouds of thunder. Yet, she was also vulnerable and curious, introverted and gentle. During editing, I expected to confront my body with the same criticisms I would ordinarily inflict upon myself....

When Frank Relle first encountered a swamp, he felt an internal shift. “I went in once, and something happened; I changed, and then I kept going back.” In the years since, Relle has continued to explore Louisiana by water, spending nights camping and photographing with a lighting system rigged to his flatboat. The resulting images capture cypresses in bayous and lakes. These are otherworldly, towering trees which can live as long as 1,000 years. “I’m alone in the boat, but not alone in any real sense,” Relle explains. In fact, he is surrounded by life: not only plants, but alligators, cormorants, deer, frogs, herons, raccoons and osprey. “The swamp at two in the morning is one of the loudest places...

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Ci sono artisti che producono immagini e poi ci sono artisti che producono sintomi. TuRist appartiene chiaramente alla seconda categoria. Guardando En Marche to the Future – quel Lenin avvolto nella bandiera arcobaleno che marcia mano nella mano con una figura simile a Greta Thunberg trasformata in influencer post-apocalittica del lusso globale – la prima reazione è ridere. La seconda è il disagio. La terza, se si rimane abbastanza a lungo davanti all’opera, è la consapevolezza che quella risata nasconde qualcosa di molto più instabile: il sospetto che il mondo rappresentato dalla scultura non sia una fantasia satirica, ma un ritratto anticipato del presente stesso. Ed è qui che il lavoro smette di...

"You don’t need opera, the grandeur of apparitions and murderous confessions, to access horror. Not in America, anyway"

"Sofia’s crime is not her betrayal of the documentarian’s fiduciary duty to biographical explication but the tasteful neutering of Marc’s histrionic import"

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.

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...

Bass-baritone Le Bu’s recital with Vocal Arts DC highlighted his linguistic and timbral versatility.

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
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“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,...

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...

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...

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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...

By Tatou Dede T: How did you end up here, being an artist today? A: I think it depends on how you define the term artist. I was always in theatre since, maybe, kindergarten. When I was a child I used to produce and direct sort of nonsensical plays for my schools, wherever I was, in Oakland, San Francisco, and Berkeley. So every year I produced a very bizarre play that, for some reason, every school had me put on. And then I studied with the Berkeley Rep theater. After that I went to UCLA and...

We’re Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau’s relationship with his estranged father. Lau’s father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau’s life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father’s sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father’s unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father’s passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai‘i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his...

By Melanie Chapman Timed in conjunction with the Taschen publication "My Education," the first book-form retrospective of photographer Bruce Weber's multi-decade career, the new exhibition now on view at Fahey Klein Gallery, Bruce Weber: Try a Little Tenderness, is worth more than one visit. Likely due to Weber's genre-defining success as a fashion photographer for Calvin Klein, GQ, Vogue, etc., particularly at its height in the 1980s and '90s, the line for the recent gallery opening...

Angelo Dolojan
it’s all very interesting what is happening by Angelo Dolojan is a zine featuring drawings created over the course of a year. The work weaves together observation, memory, dreams, documentation, and manifestation into a continuous visual exploration.
 
 
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By Barbara Patterson Zarina Van Ranzow's debut solo exhibition featuring work from her ongoing series Let it Bleed and Music for Lovers opened on May 8 at STONE/AGE Studios in East Los Angeles. Drawing from archival photographs of the artist's family and portraits of a variety of musicians, the series adapts photographic content into oil and airbrush paintings that pick up where the camera leaves off. Diffusing the harsh, resolute forms that photography's understanding of the subject...

In Perfectly Normal—the exhibition from Dustin Myers that ran at Los Angeles gallery Thinkspace Projects in November 2023—the Southern California artist presented a collection of young characters painted in oils. Posed in the awkward-yet-endearing postures associated with school photographs, the characters’ exaggerated facial features reveal a bevy of emotions. Some are ready for their close-up. […]
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“I have a passion for product design; most of the motifs I draw are related to consumer products,” says Shohei Ochiai. The Tokyo-based artist studied at Tama Art University, where he graduated about a decade ago, and is an admirer of the designs of consumer product company Braun, Memphis Group founder Ettore Sottsass, and famed […]
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