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Our round-up of the latest art publications

In the decades following WWII, Britain welcomed thousands of South Asian migrants, many of whom found work in the mills and factories of Northern England. By 1970, more than 20,000 Pakistanis had made their home in Bradford alone. The following decade was one marred by economic hardship, unemployment and poor housing, a landscape that saw intensified social pressure. At the same time, the National Front, a far-right, fascist political party, rose in popularity. In 1977, the party won more than 100,000 votes in a Greater London election and in Bradford, NF marches and racist street activity became a regular feature of the political landscape. In response, a confident second generation began to emerge, with the...

Dubbed the ‘Mona Lisa of the decorative arts’, the work is now the most expensive Fabergé egg ever sold at auction

In conversation with Suzette Bell-Roberts, Josèfa Ntjam, whose work is featured in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, explores erased histories, speculative ecologies, and the sonic frequencies that open pathways to new ways of being […]

As the Villa Zegna pop-up takes root in Miami, the artist Sam Falls and Edoardo Zegna discuss the common threads in their work

Miami Dispatch: Beach Library Installation Flops Reporting from Miami Art Week, Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia attends the opening of artist Es Devlin’s “Library of Us” (2025), a 50-foot (~15.2-meter) revolving library set within a pool on Miami Beach. Gimmicky? Yes. But in Devlin’s defense, the artwork promotes a good cause: encouraging people to read books again. Alas: "I watched this premise fall apart almost immediately after Devlin’s speech, as attendees invited to mount the slowly rotating installation did what anyone who finds themselves riding an enormous sparkly spinning thingy on a beach would do in 2025: They pulled out their phones to document every second. (That includes me.)"Read...

The Andy Warhol Foundation named 28 arts writers and three translators to receive its annual Arts Writers Grant, today, Wednesday, December 3. The 31 grant recipients will receive a combined total of $1.04 million for articles, books, short-form writing, and translated texts. For the first time in the arts grant's 20-year history, the foundation awarded $30,000 grants to three writers to translate books about contemporary art from another language into English. The inaugural winners — Jessica Gogan, Ekido Ikeda Kay, and viento izquierdo ugaz — were selected to translate writings from Portuguese, Japanese, and Spanish, respectively. Gogan, a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of...

The country is stymied by international sanctions, but Iranian collectors spend millions on home-grown art

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The story begins, as so many do in the history of modern photography, with an image: a woman behind the camera, calibrating light, waiting for a moment to materialise, composing an understanding of the world. Women Photographers 1900-1975: A Legacy of Light, which recently opened at NGV International, expands this gesture into a sweeping, multi-generational portrait of creative ingenuity. More than 300 works by over 70 artists illuminate the breadth and complexity of women’s contributions to photography during one of the most turbulent and transformative eras in modern history. The exhibition begins with a single idea – that women’s perspectives shaped photography – and transforms it into a global...

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The South African gallery announced a plan to shift its US base east as it participates in its first Art Basel Miami Beach

Hello, New York! We hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving, and that your December's off to a great start, even though it's dark and literally sleeting, plus expected to be the coldest winter since 1876 .... But I digress.If you're wondering what exactly you've stumbled onto here, then may I introduce you to our formerly email-only New York Newsletter? Every Tuesday, we tell you what's going on in the city's art world, including exhibitions to visit, events to attend, and, especially this week, ways to warm up. If you're a New Yorker, someone who visits or enjoys the city, or just a sicko who wants to feel FOMO, please subscribe below. Either way, welcome. This week, we present...

A trio of art-world stalwarts are joining forces to form a global gallery devoted to selling artwork on the secondary market. Pace Gallery, Di Donna Galleries owner Emmanuel Di Donna, and David Schrader, an executive vice president and chairman of global private sales at Sotheby’s, are teaming up to create Pace DiDonna Schrader (PDS). Headquartered […]

Voters in Switzerland, the home of art world mainstays Art Basel and Hauser & Wirth, emphatically voted down a new inheritance tax on Sunday, with 78 percent voting no. The proposed tax, which came from the country’s left-wing Social Democrats party, would have taxed all inheritances and gifts of more than 50 million Swiss Francs, or about $62.3 million, at a rate of 50 percent. Ahead of the vote, Swiss billionaire Peter Spuhler told Swiss newspaper Tagesanzeiger that his family would struggle to pay an inheritance tax as their wealth is tied up in several companies, including train manufacturer Stadler Rail, which he founded. Spuhler threatened to leave the country if the tax passed. In a recent CNBC piece,...

SAN FRANCISCO — A month after the city arts commission ordered the dismantling of the iconic Vaillancourt Fountain along the Embarcadero, a local organization is formally challenging the work's destruction.In an appeal sent to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors on Monday, December 1, Northern California’s chapter of Docomomo US, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Modernist sites, argued that the city’s parks and recreation department had unlawfully bypassed a mandatory review process in its pursuit to build a park over the fountain. The jutting Brutalist fountain, created by 96-year-old Canadian sculptor Armand Vaillancourt in 1971, has long marked architect Lawrence...

Hortensia Mi Kafchin’s Paintings Made for Aliens Above at PPOW Gallery is as remarkable for its diversity of representational strategies as it is for its pictorial content. The imagery ranges from the pastoral and surrealist to the technofuturistic. But it is the artist’s treatment of trans subjectivity — not the fact of its inclusion, but its use as a metaphor for an ideal of the transhuman — that most potently distinguishes this body of work. Raised in Romania and now living in Berlin, Kafchin thinks like a historian by folding elements of the past — drawn both from human history and her own life — into a vision of what humanity could achieve, if we could only pull together in one life-affirming...

A 14th-century English-made ewer may soon head to Ghana on long-term loan from the British Museum, according to the Art Newspaper. Known as the Asante Ewer, the lidded bronze jug is a rare example of medieval English bronze casting. At some point in its history, the object found its way to Kumasi, capital of the Ashanti (Asante) Kingdom, now Ghana. It is not known when, why, or by whom the vessel was transported to Africa from England, although it is thought to have been presented to an Ashanti king in the 14th or 15th century. An 1884 photograph clearly shows it (along with the middle jug in the photo above) in the courtyard of a royal palace in Kumasi. Placed under a sacred tree, it may have served a ritual...

The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., will show newly commissioned and acquired works paying tribute to filmmaker Steven Spielberg, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, scientist Temple Grandin, and poet Joy Harjo in an exhibition titled “Portrait of a Nation: 2025 Honorees.” The show, opening December 12 and running into next November, follows last month’s “Portrait of a Nation Gala,” during which the institution—embattled after the politically pointed departure of director Kim Sajet in June—raised money for its operations and endowment. “This year’s Portrait of a Nation Award honorees represent a few of the many disciplines of innovation that have shaped the nation’s trajectory...

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2025 was a rough year any way you slice it: an unstable economy, ravaging climate disasters, the return of President Trump to the Oval Office—and all the chaos that entails—and a viciously divided political climate sporadically punctuated by previously unthinkable violence. Narrow the focus to the art world and none of those pressures disappear. In fact, perhaps more than ever, the art world seemed intertwined with all of them. The Los Angeles fires were most destructive in neighborhoods where both collectors and artists live; the Trump administration made one of its signature policy planks bringing US museums and arts institutions to heel; advancements in AI technologies swept through creative industries...

While Coca-Cola decided to run with generative AI for its animated Christmas ad—a holiday tradition the brand is known for—Apple leaned into the world of practical effects with a troupe of woodland puppets. Titled “A Critter Carol” and featuring the latest iPhone model, the short film takes its cues from compassion, creativity, and community. The quirky, happy-go-lucky song is inspired by Flight of the Conchords’ tune “Friends” and features a ragtag group of woodland critters who happen to run across an iPhone someone dropped during a hike. “For me, it was the story of how one act of kindness can bring…lots of different people together, and I think that’s a nice message,” says director...

Alserkal, the Dubai-based cultural enterprise, and Design Miami will launch a new regional platform for collectible design in Dubai through a multi-year partnership, the two organizations announced Tuesday. The initiative—built around a flagship fair and year-round programming—will debut in early 2027 and marks Design Miami’s first expansion into the Middle East.  The collaboration brings together Alserkal’s 15-year track record in developing Dubai’s contemporary art and creative industries with Design Miami’s two decades of convening top-tier galleries, designers, and collectors in Miami and Paris. The partners aim to “triangulate” those hubs with Dubai, creating a network that elevates...

Taken from a vertical perspective, Kevin Krautgartner’s photographs of crashing waves conjure the power and beauty of our oceans. Captured along the coast of Western Australia, the images revel in the clarity and textures of the water and shoreline, where “wind, swell, and underwater topography creates some of the most powerful and visually striking wave formations I’ve ever encountered,” he says. Krautgartner’s latest series is titled Waves | Ocean Forces. Turquoise water swirls, sprays, rolls, and washes over the sand, focused so specifically that the phenomenon appears nearly abstracted. The artist spends time planning and waiting for ideal weather conditions and swells in order to snap the...

At 52, Heather Powers is exploring mud and clay resist pattern texts on fabrics combined with natural dyes. They're working with indigo, captivated by the shades of blue it yields. There is a process of alchemy that transforms humble plants' leaves into royal shades of indigo. There's been a continuous thread—they're a weaver and fiber artist—throughout their creative career. For the early part, they were focused on developing technical skills and a personal language through patterns, colors,...

It’s the time of year when best-of lists make their rounds. As usual, we’ve deliberated and selected some of our favorite monographs, surveys, and whimsical tomes published in 2025. Several of these titles were also reader favorites and flew off our shelves as quickly as we could stock them (ahem, Dog Only Knows!). You can find many of the books below—along with others we’ve been enjoying—in the Colossal Shop. For more favorites, check out 2024’s list. Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape This ABC pop-up book by Kelli Anderson is the culmination of thousands of hours of research within various design archives. The artist and designer meticulously engineered kinetic and three-dimensional...

Europe’s museums and galleries are presenting a season of ambitious exhibitions that push the boundaries of installation, performance and experiential art. From pioneers of the Brazilian avant-garde to artists redefining ecological practice, game-changing British choreographers, and politically charged multimedia works, these shows invite audiences to engage with creativity from the inside out. Together, they highlight the inventive, urgent and immersive directions art is taking today. This is a December not to be missed. Lygia Pape. Weaving SpacePinault Collection, Paris | Until 26 January Lygia Pape (1927–2004) is recognised as one of the leading figures of the 20th-century Brazilian avant-garde,...

Curator Edith Arance reflects on photography’s role in preserving Sudanese memory and amplifying the voices of artists documenting their own unfolding history. Absent Presence, 2022. © Altayeb Morhal The Africa Center has opened ‘Resistance in Memory: […]

Shin Shin (しんしん) is a Japanese onomatopoeia that describes the softened hush of falling snow. The literal translation of “Shin” is “silence”, or more accurately, the absence of sound where there was sound before. The word reflects the sensation that the world has been turned down, muffled by a blanket of white across rooftops and tree branches. It also captures the meditative stillness that runs through Michael Kenna’s (b. 1953) work. The photographer is best-known for enigmatic, graceful and hauntingly beautiful images of nature, often taken at dawn or in the dark hours of night. A new exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, brings together a selection of black-and-white prints...

Order up! The only two words you want to hear when you’re ravenous and seated at the laminate counter of a roadside diner. Artist Adrienna Matzeg takes this highly anticipated call as the basis for a new trio of punch-needle works. Through nostalgic embroidered tableaux, she whips up melty grilled cheese, waffles with a pat of butter, and a banana split with puffs of cream and not just one, but three cherries nested on top. Detail of “Sweet as Suga'” Like much of her earlier work, Order Up captures Matzeg’s keen interest in nostalgia and the welcome discoveries of a long car ride. “Inspired by North American roadside diners and late-night stops, each piece captures the essence of a greasy spoon,”...

Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight retired on November 28 after serving thirty-six years in the role. A three-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Knight won the honor in 2020 for his watchdog coverage of the contentious redesign of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which drew criticism over its spiraling cost […]

The Louvre has announced that it will raise ticket prices for most visitors from outside the European Union by 45 percent, effective January 14, 2026. Officials expect the increase, from €22 (about $30) to €32 (roughly $42), to bring in an additional €17.5 million for the Paris institution annually. The Louvre, which welcomed some nine […]

Erin M. Riley, an artist out of Philadelphia, is urging you to really rethink your notion of weaving and looming by transforming it from traditional to anything but. Read Eva Glettner's interview withthe articst from our archives by clicking above.
The post Erin M. Riley’s Weaves Unlikely Moments first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

The Trellis Art Fund, a New York–based nonprofit that launched in February 2024 with a $15.8 million endowment and the goal of supporting individual artists through unrestricted grants, is expanding its $20,000 Stepping Stone grants to a two-year program. Twenty artists in the 2025 cohort and twenty-one artists making up the 2024 group will each […]

From pieces of everyday white paper, a series of delightful stop-motion animations illuminates how a simple material can be transformed into a sophisticated design. Created by Japenese designer Tomohiro Okazaki, who runs a studio called SWIMMING, “Paper Study” is a series of short intervals in which pieces of cut, folded, and sculpted paper appears to move on its own. Flat sheets transform into voluminous structures before collapsing back into a single plane, and arches, circles, and myriad other shapes move in sync. Okazaki is known for his playful optical animations using matches and other household objects. See more on SWIMMING’s YouTube channel and the designer’s website. Do stories and artists...

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Tobi Onabolu is an artist-filmmaker and writer from London, now based in Grand Popo, Benin Republic. His film, Danse Macabre, was awarded this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize. The moving-image piece explores spirituality, mental health and the human psyche. Here, Onabolu brings together a vast range of ideologies, uniting Jungian psychology, which stipulates that all humans share a “collective unconscious,” informed by our ancestors; with Yoruba cosmology, a belief system stating that the universe has two interconnected worlds, one physical and one spiritual. The work synthesises elements from Yoruba traditions, European cinema and experimental music, creating a performance that draws from multiple...

At 50, Nicole Gammie has the chance to experiment and play. They're combining textile art techniques—bobbin lace and passementerie—creating work at the intersection of tradition and innovation. Learning and experimenting with lace and stitching began at an early age with numerous informal opportunities at school and in the community through classes and attending craft groups. Living around much of south-eastern Australia provided chances to investigate a range of lace and embroidery...

Minna Väisänen is making animations with Grok. At 56, they're exploring what happens when digital tools tear down old gatekeeping. You don't need to beg a production house for gear anymore—you just open a laptop and build your own world. The speed and access are wild. And yes, for women especially, that shift mattered. The old art structures were rigged—"genius" was a word reserved for men with handlers and mistresses. Digital tools let women skip the permission stage. You can self-publish,...

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A heartfelt celebration marking the artist’s 40-year journey, bringing together reflection, community, and the insistence on personal truth Senzo Shabangu, We must unite or perish, 2023. Acrylic paint on canvas, 130 x 130cm. Courtesy of […]

A Fully Funded Residency Supporting Palestinian Artistic Practice Gasworks has opened applications for its 2026 Residency for Palestinian Artists, an eleven-week fully funded opportunity designed to support emerging and mid-career practitioners working anywhere in the […]

Curators Courage Dzidula Kpodo, Maria Pia Bernardoni and Robin Beth Riskin reflect on expanding photographic language, revitalising historic sites, and charting new pathways toward freedom. Good People, 2024. © Khanya Zibaya LagosPhoto enters a new […]

 
Who doesn’t love a good photo book? To flick through the pages, be enlightened, educated, distracted and absorbed into another world through another’s eyes? Totally fantastic!
We’re here to share our Photobook Favourites – a selection of our favourite photography books recommended by the Shutter Hub community, an archive of titles we’ve enjoyed, and a reference point for you to explore.
The Colour of Money and Trees, Tony Dočekal, VOID
The Colour of Money and Trees, Tony Dočekal, VOID
The photographs in ‘The Color of Money and Trees’ were made by Dutch photographer Tony Dočekal during several visits to Arizona and California. While volunteering for an organisation working with the unhoused,...

Wayne White’s pictures start with thrift store paintings... White seizes on a startup surface that was a middle class decorator staple in the ‘50s and ‘60s.. read Mat Gleason's article on the artist by clicking above!
The post The Respect He So Richly Deserves: The Art of Wayne White first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Carmen Dominguez is working with gift tissue as transparencies. At 56, they're doing more woven paper art, experimenting with combining traditional home crafts with abstract imagery. They're exploring the themes of reconciling historical alienation with contemporary reality. They're influenced by absurdist humor—DADA, found art, art brut, home crafting, and graffiti. They must call themselves "entry-level" but they have 20 years of creating art at home. Self-taught. Southern California, urban...

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"Even though I would hope to be remembered as a portrait artist—canonizing the image of Indigenous people within art history—I am constantly set upon side quests,” says multidisciplinary Canadian artist Wally Dion.. read the full article by clicking above.
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Cartoonist Jay Howell is "looking forward to the next thing, always". Click above to read the full article.
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At 75, Cindy Zimmerman is developing a workshop on making artist books for Banned Books Week at San Diego Central Library. They're also working on Mobile Monument, rolling activist art for protests, parades, and exhibitions, amplifying words purged during the first weeks of the Trump administration. They're more clear now that they decide what to do based on the guidance of their inner voice. What's actually hard about being an artist at this point in their life?  Too little space. Someone...

GWAR was never an ordinary rock band. And in the recent documentary This Is GWAR, director Scott Barber digs into the past and present of the music and art collective that simultaneously defied categorization while infiltrating late twentieth century pop culture and continues to entertain fans today with heavy metal and elaborate—even gory—stage shows. Read Liz Ohanesian's full article by clicking above.
The post THIS IS GWAR: Inside the infamous Art Collective turned Gored-out Shock band first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

 
There’s just one week left to submit your work for Shutter Hub Editions’ publication The Colour Library: Blue!
The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives.
Our first edition is devoted to blue. A colour of depth and distance. Vast as the sky and as still as water. Blue evokes calm, melancholy, serenity and sorrow. Delicate cornflowers, robust denim, precious jewels, and the deepest ocean. From literal to abstract interpretations, and alternative processes,...

Couture Fashion Night 3.0 — The Exquisite Transcends

 
Introducing the AUTO PHOTO Awards 2025 Winners! Selected from The Top 100 images, these are the best of the best from around the world – a diverse selection of imagery that stood out amongst a incredibly high calibre of thousands of submissions.
Over 25 individual awards have been presented – Winners and Highly Commended in each of our five categories, one winner for each of our Partner Awards, and our People’s Choice Award (to be announced soon!). Find full details of all the awards here.
Reaching an annual audience of approximately 2 million people, AUTO PHOTO introduces photographers to new opportunities and experiences through the Awards, supporting them in getting published, receiving motorsport...

 
There’s just two weeks left to submit your work for Do You Like Love? – the next book from Shutter Hub Editions!
What does love look like? Sometimes it comes with lust and desire, sometimes with deep-rooted care from the heart, and other times it’s a disguise for something that isn’t love at all.
Love can be found in the quieter gestures of everyday life. It can look like kindness, the people and places you hold dear, moments of care and support, or the small comforts that bring you peace: a cup of tea, a single flower, a familiar corner of home.
We’re re-imagining some of our favourite themes from the last decade. In 2015 we exhibited Do You Like Love?  as part of Photomonth East London...