gestalten’s book charts the global rise of design-led saunas
 
Ridiculously Good-Looking Saunas, published by gestalten, a publication edited with sauna designer and maker Christopher Selman, documents the growing architectural and cultural revival of the thermal retreats. The 256-page volume gathers 36 projects from across the globe, from remote wilderness structures to floating urban installations. The book frames the sauna as a shared spatial ritual that connects contemporary architecture with evolving social habits and a growing interest in more intentional ways of gathering. Through full-color photography and project documentation, the book traces the new generation of sauna architecture. Projects...

On Wednesday in Manhattan, VIP guests trickled into the Guggenheim Museum to celebrate its buzzy Carol Bove show, while outside, its unionized staff—conservators, archivists, educators, front-facing staff, and others—rallied for a second contract that the group hopes will be more robust.   The Guggenheim staff, who voted to join UAW Local 2110 in 2023 after more than two years of negotiations with management, are back at the bargaining table under renewed urgency. Last year, the museum cut 20 jobs—7 percent of its staff—across multiple departments, marking its third round of layoffs in five years.  At the time, museum leadership cited an “overall financial picture” that “is not where it...

The Apsáalooke artist’s new exhibition at Sargent’s Daughters in New York takes the form of a simulated trading floor for glass beads

On Friday, Doron Langberg, one of the most successful and well-known Israeli artists working today, will open his first New York exhibition in seven years at Jeffrey Deitch’s Tribeca gallery. For the occasion, Langberg has so far opted to give a single interview—to the New York Times—and to publish an accompanying 750-word text on Deitch’s website addressing how his new body of work reflects the Israel-Palestine conflict. Langberg has not spoken extensively about the issue in the past. The body of work for which he is best known consists of portraits and domestic scenes that explore queer life, gender, and sexuality. He has cited David Hockney, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Mickalene Thomas as influences; in...

My favorite thing to do in New York City is leave it. I’m kidding, I’m kidding, but there’s nothing wrong with a little break, especially to explore the beautiful exhibitions below. They’re just a short trip from the city — and just as the weather’s beginning to hint at warmth. Many of these shows offer alternate visions, not just from the concrete crush of New York City but from our dimension entirely. See, for instance, Liz Nielsen’s abstract photographs at Connecticut's Hartford Art School Galleries — she dubs them “interdimensional timelines.” Or Piero Manzoni’s entirely white and furry room, on view in a major exhibition at Magazzino in Cold Spring. Also Upstate, three...

A voluptuous Neolithic marble figurine, a model Nayarit home from ancient Mesoamerica, Claude Monet's 1891 painting "Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun)" — these are among the items in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection that are now available to the public as high-quality 3D scans. Last week, the museum released 100 scans of objects from its collection for free on its website as part of an institutional push to increase “access to the museum’s collection and scholarship," Met Director and CEO Max Hollein said in a statement shared with Hyperallergic. It's the first batch in a selection of over 100 scans that will be made public, the museum said.While The Met’s website maintains...

Americans are uniquely disconnected from our food. More than 10 percent of the working population is employed in agricultural sectors, but it’s rare for the average person to grapple with—let alone witness—the number of people involved in growing, harvesting, packaging, and ultimately getting dinner onto their plate. Given that many farms, restaurants, and other food-related businesses employ those who are undocumented, these sectors have also been targeted for deportation, further pushing the people who keep them running into the shadows. For Narsiso Martinez, this essential labor has long been the central point of his practice. The Oaxaca-born artist is known for painting tender portraits on produce...

Angulo’s work was devoted to decolonising the museum, anti-racism and reparation with a special focus on diversifying narratives to include more Black and Indigenous voices

After a two-year study by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a painting held for decades in a private collection has been attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn.“The Vision of Zacharias in the Temple” (1633) is currently on display at the museum through a long-term loan from the owner. Hidden from the public eye for over 60 years, the painting was previously misattributed to an anonymous pupil of the Dutch Master through limited analysis of photographic reproductions rather than first-hand examination.The owners of the work, who remain anonymous, told the Guardian that their father purchased it in 1961 from the late Piet de Boer, an Amsterdam-based art dealer. They contacted the Rijksmuseum and allowed its...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Iris Cantor (1931–2026)Arts patron The chairwoman of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, she gave hundreds of millions to arts, medical, and educational instiuttions. She held one of the largest private collections of sculptures by Auguste Rodin in the world. Rena Bransten (1933–2026)San Francisco galleristShe helped shape the art scene in San Francisco for more than half a century with her eponymous gallery. She focused on California-based practitioners, particularly artists of color, women, and those who identified as LGBTQ+.Mario Buhagiar (1945–2026)Maltese art historian and educatorMario...

Coopparatus installation forms a sequence of Rotating Images
 
Coopparatus is an anamorphic, rotating installation by Thomas Medicus in which four images assemble sequentially through controlled mechanical movement and perspectival alignment. The project introduces a shift in the artist’s approach by composing the fragmented imagery in central perspective, allowing for closer viewing distances and more direct spatial engagement.
 
At the center of the installation stands a cubic image body constructed from 144 vertical glass strips and enclosed within a transparent hood. Distributed across these strips are four fragmented images. Through precise arrangement in central perspective, each image resolves into...

In August, the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation announced that it was dispersing all 63 artworks in its possession to three art museums: the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Among the 29 artworks gifted to the Brooklyn Museum—many of them paintings and sculptures by Chaïm Soutine, Edgar Degas, and Amedeo Modigliani—is Paul Gauguin’s painted relief panel Te Fare Amu, dated to the late 1800s or early 1900s, depending on the source. The panel was initially intended to adorn the entrance to Gauguin’s home in Polynesia. The Art Newspaper published an interesting deep dive on the history of the suggestive panel, which Henry Pearlman purchased in Paris in...

Founded by Alexander Wang and his mother Ying, the Wang Contemporary debuted at the landmarked 58 Bowery with a MSCHF installation timed to Lunar New Year

Cordy Ryman is in an unenviable position. He is the youngest son of the artist Robert Ryman, who was married to the esteemed critic Lucy Lippard, with whom he had a son, Ethan. After that marriage ended in divorce in 1966, he married the painter Merrill Wagner and they had two children, Will and Cordy. All three sons are artists. Despite this formidable legacy, he has developed his own visual language, transforming aspects of his parents’ work, and Minimalism, into something recognizably his. I came to this conclusion while spending the afternoon in Ryman’s Brooklyn studio, discussing his work, all of which he constructs from either 4-by-8-foot sheets or 2-by-4-inch wood boards. From there, he uses every...

The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto has named Nicholas R. Bell as its next director and CEO. Bell, who was selected via an international search, will start in the role on July 6. He succeeds Josh Basseches, who stepped down at the end of last year after a decade in the role. Bell is currently president and CEO of Glenbow, an art museum with a collection of more than 250,000 objects in Calgary, Alberta. There since 2019, he has focused on developing the institution’s strategic plan, which “prioritized financial sustainability, increased inclusion and accessibility, and furthered Indigenous community engagement and reconciliation,” according to a release. He also established an endowment that made the...

THE LEGACY OF CLAUDE PARENT (1923–2016) is one of spatial insurrection, a realm in which architecture is reanimated as a medium of resistance to passivity in urban life. Although trained in the orbit of Le Corbusier, Parent emancipated himself from established models and norms, devoting his life to demonstrating the physicality of freedom. He developed […]

Sam Gibbons isn’t letting you off the hook. Sex, violence, religion, ego—everything comes together in colorful palettes unrestricted by shape or form. His rare, vibrant paintings are teeming with images both familiar and grotesque, and they’re demanding some careful attention Read the full article form our archives by clicking above.
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The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg is planning a major expansion expected to begin construction in 2026, with the new facilities slated to open in 2028. The museum said the approximately 35,000-square-foot addition will cost an estimated $65 million and is intended to grow the exhibition spaces, create a dedicated learning center, and introduce new immersive experiences combining art and digital technology. The project will be designed and built by the Beck Group, which also constructed the museum’s current building that opened in 2011. Founded in 1982, the museum holds one of the largest collections of works by the Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí outside Spain. According to the institution, it has...

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Among African elephants, “Big Tuskers” refers to bulls that grow tusks so long they sometimes scrape the ground. Each one can weigh well over 100 pounds. These giant, ivory incisors continually grow throughout an elephant’s life, and males typically have much larger tusks than females. The bigger the tusks, however, the more vulnerable these gentle giants are to poachers who harvest and traffic the ivory for trade. There are only a couple dozen left in nature preserves like Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park and Amboseli National Park. “Together Forever” For wilderness photographer Johan Siggesson, a fascination with animals and their habitats led to a series of striking black-and-white photographs...

US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran have severely damaged Tehran’s four-hundred-year-old Golestan Palace, according to reports first released by Iran’s ISNA and Mehr news agencies. Photos of the Safavid-era palace, the Iranian capital’s only UNESCO-listed site, showed glass and debris scattered across its floors following a March 2 missile strike on nearby Arag Square, a buffer zone. […]

Kostas Stasinopoulos, the longtime director of live programs at London’s Serpentine contemporary art gallery, has been appointed director of exhibitions and programs at Kyklos, the Renzo Piano–designed center for art and culture set to open in 2028 in Piraeus, Greece. Established by the Dinos and Lia Martinos Foundation, the private institution will be the first […]

Chenhu Wetland Art Center opens outside wuhan
 
The Chenhu Wetland Art Center stands on a triangular slip of land where the natural shoreline of Wuhan meets an artificial road fork. Designed by Trace Architecture Office (TAO), the museum occupies a site enveloped by China‘s Tonghu Provincial Wetland Park, located approximately one hour from the city center. This region remains remote, and defined by a mixture of farmlands, water bodies, and woodlands. The architecture responds to this context, where wind and water have long shaped a meandering waterline.
 
The design process began with an inquiry into the wall as a primary generative element. In this instance, the wall serves as the sole design driver,...

disc-shaped cartridges for modern, portable audio player
 
ENSA P1 aims to restore the physical form of music by becoming a modern, portable audio player that uses disc-shaped cartridges. Designed by Vladimir Dubrovin, the concept project imagines bringing back the CD feel to the digital tracks, but in the most modern way possible still. The designer plans to make the device run on C-NAND systems, which are disc-shaped solid-state cartridges, each one holding a full album. 
 
It’s similar to a vinyl record, but the tracks are in a USB drive. It has no moving parts inside, so it’s totally digital in how it stores sound. But it has a physical shape users can hold, flip over, look at, and collect, so in a...

The art historian is cementing his legacy in the form of a catalogue raisonné and a home for his vast collection

In 1898, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum staged an exhibition of paintings by renowned Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt (1606-1669). Included in this show was a 23-by-19-inch oil painting titled “Vision of Zacharias in the Temple,” which was completed in 1633, relatively early in the artist’s career. Fast-forward to 1960, and the work was deemed to have not actually been made by Rembrandt. Despite that in the past it had been catalogued as part of his oeuvre, that was no longer the case. So, a private collector purchased it in 1961, from which point on, it remained out of sight—until now. Experts and conservators at the Rijksmuseum, which was recently granted the opportunity to reassess the painting by...

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£231M renovation plan approved for london’s brutalist icon
 
London’s unmistakable Brutalist colossus, the Barbican Centre, secures planning approval for a £231 million renewal program. The building is set to to pause its regular operations and close its doors for a full year beginning in June 2028 as part of an ambitious renovation program, led by Allies and Morrison, Asif Khan Studio, and Buro Happold.
 
The Barbican, a Grade II-listed cultural powerhouse designed by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon and built between 1965 and 1982, has since stood as an iconic mixed-use development with residential, recreational, and cultural facilities. It houses one of Europe’s most celebrated multi-arts portfolios,...

Parterre Box previews an upcoming performance of Hercules with Ann Hallenberg in some very unique Baroque repertoire.

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Strong performances at Opera Naples can't overcome the cringey nostalgia of Derrick Wang's Scalia/Ginsburg.

Overpainting of the genitals of a figure in the relief panel “Te Fare Amu”—once described as a “serious editorial suppression of Gauguin’s original concept”—is expected to be removed at the Brooklyn Museum

It is estimated that by 2030, 1 in 6 people worldwide will be over 60. Meanwhile, 1 in ten children in the UK are now expected to live beyond 100. Yet, as people globally are living longer, many face health and social inequalities that impact later life. A new exhibition at Wellcome Collection, London, asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better. The Coming of Age is the first major museum show to explore experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to the elderly, through art, science and popular culture. More than 120 artworks and objects are featured in the exhibition, including Sebald Beham’s medieval woodcut depicting elders rejuvenated by the mythical fountain of youth, and...

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The one, the only Fyodor Chaliapin, singing Massenet's "Elegie" (with, I believe, a young Piatigorsky on the cello part).

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The Black Arts Movement emerged as a profound cultural awakening and radical reimagining of representation, galvanised by mid-20th century civil rights struggles and sustained by a belief in art’s transformative power. Writers, musicians, visual artists and performers sought not merely to reflect the world but to remake it, centring Black identity, dignity and autonomy within a cultural landscape that had long marginalised these voices. At its core, the movement insisted that creative production was inseparable from political engagement, asserting that culture could not remain neutral in the face of systemic oppression. Themes of self-definition, collective empowerment and the reclamation of history resonate...

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La mostra Converging Trajectories: Ettore Spalletti meets Gino De Dominicis and Franz West indaga i punti di tangenza tra artisti che, pur attraverso linguaggi differenti, hanno condiviso un’idea di arte come esperienza totale. Un percorso che coinvolge sia il piano poetico sia quello storiografico, mettendo in evidenza il legame tra le personalità indagate e la città di Pescara, centro dinamico di sperimentazione nella seconda metà del Novecento. Oltre alla Galleria Vistamare, che ospita la mostra nella sua sede milanese, si ricorda il fratello di Ettore Spalletti, Vittoriano, appassionato collezionista, e Mario Pieroni, che nella sua galleria romana propose nel 1969 un primo confronto tra l’artista...

“Warriorhood is an act of living an awakened life,” says Rupy C. Tut, referencing the continual battles that emerge from being a person in the world. Tut has long invoked her family’s history of migration and Punjabi heritage to consider kinship, a theme that has more recently evolved into a recurring warrior character. “The privilege of belonging and being seen as a part of a place, without needing explanations, is not available to my characters, who are finding ways to navigate and battle that out-of-place-ness,” she adds. Depicting suited figures floating amid translucent jellyfish, the dream-like “Battle Ready” is one such work. The creatures’ tentacles trail across the composition,...

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For Masayoshi Matsumoto, also known as Isopresso Balloon, a simple dog-shaped balloon animal is utter child’s play. His elaborate constructions combine a range of colors and can take on virtually any shape. From meticulously textured squids to demure gophers to stout tropical birds, the artist conjures playful and expressive animals from stretchy rubber and air. Lately, he’s been particularly interested in birds, expertly twisting beaks and tail feathers into recognizable species like mallards, swans, and a bright kingfisher. See more on Instagram, and try your hand at balloon art of your own with a range of tutorials on YouTube. He’s currently working on a few new videos geared specifically toward...

Critic, poet, and publisher Giancarlo Politi, founder of the influential contemporary art journal Flash Art, one of the first international publications of its kind, died on February 24. He was eighty-nine. Politi, over a career spanning more than five decades, shaped the global contemporary art scene through the establishment of a publishing house, an art-world directory, a […]

A painting that has gone unseen by the public since being deauthenticated more than fifty years ago has been determined to be an early work by Rembrandt van Rijn and will go on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam this week alongside twenty-five others by the renowned artist. Titled Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, […]

Will Liverman and Kiera Duffy brought an eclectic program to their jovial post-blizzard recital at Rhode Island College.

Fyodor Chaliapin is considered one of the greatest basses ever because he combined a dark, flexible, and instantly recognizable bass voice with extraordinary musical intelligence and nuance.

L’ingannevole equivalenza visiva tra un’immagine fotografica e il frammento di realtà in essa immortalato si fonda su una serie di riduzioni successive: il volume degli oggetti collassa sulla superficie del negativo, la materia si dissolve in traccia ottica e la profondità spaziale si traduce in graduazioni di luce e ombra. Nataly Maier (Monaco di Baviera, 1957) inizia alla fine degli anni Ottanta a interrogarsi su cosa accade a livello visivo e concettuale quando si tenta di restituire alla fotografia quella consistenza fisica e volumetrica che essa può soltanto suggerire attraverso codici rappresentativi. Alla Fondazione Sabe per l’arte di Ravenna la mostra Immagini nello spazio si concentra su un...

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In an era dominated by constant scroll and shrinking attention spans, documentary has emerged as one of the most vital languages in contemporary culture. From the political urgency of Navalny to the cultural resonance of Beckham and the environmental meditation of David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, non-fiction storytelling has become central to how audiences engage with politics, identity and collective memory. Viewers are increasingly drawn to works rooted in truth yet shaped with cinematic precision. Documentary today is not merely reportage; it is authorship, immersion and, often, an act of listening. Across platforms and festivals, audiences are seeking stories that move, challenge and...

Contemporary design today is as much about narrative as it is about form. At the Design Museum in London, Simone Brewster’s first museum show PLATFORM makes this clear, presenting objects that are functional, sculptural and rooted in cultural memory. Spanning four sections: Passages, Everyday Ornaments, Scales of Emotion and Body Narratives – the exhibition interrogates identity, heritage and value. Brewster combines the precision of architectural thinking with the fluidity of sculpture, suggesting that design must engage social histories and formal innovation. This is design that asks why objects exist, what they communicate and who benefits from their creation. Within the museum’s programme,...

Since 2011, multidisciplinary artist Peggy Weil has been working on what she calls “extended landscapes”: artworks which “visualise the unseen but critical processes of climate change.” This month, two of her video installations, 88 Cores and 18 Cores, are on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Here, Weil reformats scientific archives – including ice and rock cores from the Greenland Ice Sheet and Salton Sea Scientific Drilling projects – into scrolling moving-image portraits that reveal invisible layers “beneath our feet, above our heads, and back in time.” The exhibition, titled Core Memory, takes audiences on a downward journey, showing how climatic and geological events are...

A Bologna, presso Fondazione MAST, le opere fotografiche complesse, articolate ed emblematiche di Jeff Wall raffigurano situazioni evocative, suggestioni profonde ed eventi mai accaduti. Con la mostra Living, Working, Surviving, la fotografia diventa pittura, la documentazione diventa interpretazione e l’ambiguità diventa il punto di partenza per analizzare i temi più profondi della nostra società.
Jeff Wall, “Dressing Poultry”, 2007, transparency in lightbox, ©: Jeff Wall, Courtesy: Cranford Collection, London
Si potrebbe dire che la mostra Living, Working Surviving di Jeff Wall presso la Fondazione MAST di Bologna non abbia una vera e propria tematica principale. Le fotografie si mostrano ambigue...

Il CRAC Puglia di Taranto ospita la mostra “Paesaggi”, con le opere di Aldo Damioli e Giovanni Pulze, a cura di Roberto Vidali, e accoglie in contemporanea la donazione di trenta opere che l’Associazione Juliet consegna agli archivi del CRAC, in occasione delle celebrazioni per “JULIET 45 YEARS”. La mostra mette a confronto due pittori italiani di impianto figurativo e concettuale che rimandano a un pensiero che va oltre la superficie della tela dipinta.
Aldo Damioli, “Venezia New York”, 2013, acrilico su tela, cm 80 x 100, courtesy l’Artista
La traccia di fondo che unisce questi due autori si incentrata sul ruolo che il loro lavoro ha avuto nella pittura del nuovo millennio e sui rapporti che...

Surrounded in her Massachusetts studio by pins, glue, and piles of brightly colored paper strips, a visitor might initially mistake Lisa Nilsson for a reclusive arts and crafts teacher. But as her nimble hands purposefully curl the paper into shapes, and then magically weave the shapes into identifiable forms, a new impression emerges. Read the full article by clicking above!
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Nella sua seconda personale presso la Nicelle Beauchene Gallery di New York, intitolata The gifts, Quentin James McCaffrey costruisce un insieme di dipinti inseriti in ambienti orchestrati con cura, dove tappeti, bouquet, miniature, tendaggi e superfici riflettenti assumono un ruolo strutturale. Non si tratta di abitazioni, ma di configurazioni concettuali in cui ogni componente definisce proporzioni, angolazioni e traiettorie ottiche. L’ordine è essenziale e privo di ornamenti superflui, mentre l’illuminazione stabilisce legami e relazioni tra le forme.
Quentin James McCaffrey, “Mirror with Landscapes”, 2026, oil on canvas over wood panel. Center panel: 12″ x 16″ x 1 1/2″; Side Panels: 12″ x...

For our second annual Illustration Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners from each of the following categories: Editorial, Personal, Advertising & Promotional, Product & Packaging, Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Student category: Bella Han.
Bella Han is a freelance illustrator from China and a first year student in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual Arts (Class of 2027). This work is part of a series illustrating one of the most famous Qing Dynasty stories in China, which depicts the opulent yet tragic life of Zhenhuan, a concubine of Emperor Yongzheng, who later became Empress Dowager after his death.
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The Undercurrent Surfaces There are moments in a country’s creative consciousness when the atmosphere tilts. For many of the designers showing at Zurich Fashion Week 2026, the seeds were sown during last year’s pre‑events. And so, after more than twelve months of preparation, this was the week their work stepped fully into the light — an undercurrent now rising into a transformative movement in modern style. As I walked into the Kongresshaus Zurich this February, the first edition of Zurich...

 
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, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: BLUE shares photographers’ wide range of creative expressions.
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The women portrayed in Prudence Flint’s paintings are caught in moments of quiet, reflection, and impermanence. They appear fixed in a moment of repose ripe for interruption. Perhaps they are lying on the grass, or changing an infant’s diaper, or awash in warm water mid-shower. Regardless, there is a certain mood shared among her works. Read the full interview with the artist by clicking above!
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