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  Over time, utopias, often disparaged, have shown their capacity to guide and shape the evolution of the world toward more desirable scenarios. The power of utopia is such that many of today’s widely accepted urban proposals— such as collective housing, garden cities, or mass public transport — were once dismissed as utopian. Over the past century, utopia became a powerful tool for accelerating change. After the First World War, the historian, philosopher, and urbanist Lewis Mumford, author of the book The Story of Utopias, argued that the most important task of the moment was to ‘build castles in the air,’ advocating for a proactive,...

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From 5 to 7 May 2026, Villa Erba hosts the 33rd edition of Proposte 2026, bringing together 87 carefully selected exhibitors from 14 countries. Under the new presidency of Marco Parravicini and the direction of Massimo Mosiello, the fair continues to position itself as a meeting point for creativity, industry, and market forces, as well as a privileged observatory on the evolution of high end furnishing textiles.
 
The 2026 theme, Heritage Forward, frames the edition as both reflection and projection. ‘Proposte represents a heritage built over time thanks to a rigorous selection process and a shared vision’ says Parravicini, emphasizing how...

Thaddaeus Ropac has taken on the estate of Martha Diamond, the New York painter whose cityscapes are admired by artists yet largely under-recognized on the market. The gallery will represent the estate in collaboration with David Kordansky, with a first European museum survey set to open at the Sara Hildén Museum in Tampere, Finland, in September 2026. Diamond, who died in 2023 at 79, spent more than six decades developing a body of work that translated the architecture of Manhattan into a distinct visual language. Her canvases, often built from repeated, vertical lines, hover between abstraction and figuration, capturing not the literal skyline so much as its essence. Ropac, the eponymous dealer, said his...

In these strangest of times, up is down and right is wrong. In DC, President Trump installs a statue of Christopher Columbus outside the White House. It's a replica of a monument to the colonizer that protesters tore down in Baltimore during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. In New York, a Paul Klee exhibition at the Jewish Museum opens without its centerpiece, the famous "Angelus Novus" (1920), due to "current conditions" in Israel, where the work is held. To cheer things up, enjoy Joel Meyerowitz's heart-pleasing photos of Giorgio Morandi’s preserved studio in Bologna and read about the Indian modernists who practiced "Global South" solidarity way before it became an academic buzzword....

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Industrial designer Maxim Tatarintsev, in collaboration with the brand Svoy Design, introduces ‘Caramel,’ a collection of ceramic interior objects that combines lighting and furniture into a modular system. The series includes pendant, ceiling, and wall-mounted light fixtures, along with a side table or ottoman available for both indoor and covered outdoor use. Rather than presenting a fixed set of products, the collection allows users to configure elements into personalized compositions.
 
The concept draws from the designer’s personal reflection on identity and everyday experience. ‘We all come from childhood,’ says Tatarintsev. ‘That is...

This bass aria "Sous les pieds d'une femme" from Gounod's La Reine du Saba used to be a concert favorite

“We are witnessing growing geopolitical complexity around the world. In times like these, culture matters more than ever. Culture transcends borders,” said Hong Kong’s Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Rosanna Law, at the opening ceremony of this year’s Hong Kong International Cultural Summit on Monday.  The remark offered one of the summit’s few, curated nods to the destabilizing effects of the spiraling U.S.–Israel–Iran war on global transport and energy flows. But the implication landed cleanly: the world is reorganizing—and with it, the distribution of cultural influence. Panels and policy discussions painted a picture of a city weighing its next steps. Over...

steel guardrails become urban art at rockefeller center
 
Bettina Pousttchi transforms a familiar element of urban infrastructure into a monumental sculptural presence in New York City, opening a dialogue between art, architecture, and the city’s layered history. Installed at Rockefeller Center, Vertical Highways V03 (2025) reimagines highway guardrails as vertical, rhythmic forms that echo circulation while suspending their original function. ‘By installing my sculpture Vertical Highways V03 in front of Rockefeller Center, I want to initiate a dialogue of art and architecture that resonates with the urban history of New York City,’ the artist notes.
 
On view until April 17th, 2026, the work occupies...

Art in Resonance, an annual programme of site-specific commissions in the luxury hotels, invites artists to develop new works at scale

Experimentation, modernism and the shifting boundary between art and commerce define Lillian Bassman: Bazaar and Beyond, a compelling new exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Drawing on a transformative gift from the artist’s estate, the presentation reframes fashion photography as a site of radical visual inquiry rather than mere commercial output. Across more than 60 works, the exhibition reveals a practice grounded in process, materiality and reinvention. Here, the magazine page becomes an arena for aesthetic risk, where gesture and atmosphere displace clarity and precision. The show foregrounds the tension between control and spontaneity, tracing how Bassman’s work resists fixity. As Max...

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New Babylon: a city after the end of work
 
In the aftermath of World War II, Europe rebuilds its cities with urgency, but not its certainties. The physical reconstruction of streets and housing takes place alongside the collapse of social structures, habits, and belief systems that once organized everyday life. Within this unstable terrain, Constant Nieuwenhuys begins to imagine something far more radical than reconstruction. Not a better city, but a different civilization altogether.
 
Conceived between 1956 and 1974, New Babylon emerges as a speculative project through which Constant does not design buildings in the conventional sense. Instead, he constructs a framework for a world inhabited by homo...

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In Tales from Fractured Minds la memoria personale e identitaria di sette giovani artisti viene analizzata e dissezionata. In un tempo in cui il corpo è terreno politico e l’identità appare costantemente ridefinita e distorta dal ‘fuori’ il ricordo assume una propria dignità e autonomia, trasformandosi in un organismo vivo e puro sentimento umano.
AA.VV., “Tales from Fractured Minds”, 2026, installation view, works by Tatjana Danneberg and Hanna Antonsson, courtesy of the artists and The Address, ph. Alberto Favara
Ad accogliere il nostro sguardo all’entrata di The Address c’è Weekends and beginnings dell’austriaca Tatjana Danneberg, che costruisce, attraverso la raccolta di scatti e...

Brian Yue’s Cheng-Lan Foundation focuses on forgotten communities and making art more accessible

From woven photographs by the late Dinh Q. Lê to a survey of 21st century Chinese art

Cultural exchanges in both directions have been created via new infrastructure, rail routes and flights, but also organically, through artist and institutional collaborations

The events spotlight mid-career artists, try new fee structures and show works that fit inside a suitcase

Happy spring! If you’ve been stuck in a reading slump like me, look no further. We've got a Swedish painter’s gripping portraits of her own aging process, delicious French poster design, a wondrous alchemical manuscript, and more to cure your art book woes this season. Find your next read below, plus Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang’s thoughts on the latest art-world novel to focus on disaffected White women — there's plenty more where that came from — and Nageen Shaikh on the Indian modernist painters who dreamed of international solidarity long before “Global South” became a mainstream term.—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editorPao Houa Her’s new catalog, Rothko’s friendship with...

Film still of Grégory Chatonsky, "Completion 1.0" (2021) (image courtesy the artist)HOUSTON — It’s perfectly normal to fear the AI apocalypse: the loss of jobs, the destruction of natural resources, the bastardization of human creativity for corporate profit, whether or not it will kill us all, etc., etc. Given the way that certain tech billionaires are behaving — and how someone like Grimes, the tech-billionaire-adjacent artist and musician, has been talking lately — it seems like it's become increasingly difficult for that class to notice the difference between a cool sci-fi thought experiment and mass human suffering. There is understandable fear among artists that artificial intelligence...

The organizers of the Paris Internationale, a free gallery-led nonprofit art fair established in 2015, have announced the thirty-four galleries and nonprofits set to participate in its inaugural Milan event, to take place April 18–21, with a VIP preview day on April 17. The debut of Paris Internationale Milano signals an increasing interest in the Italian city […]

Chile’s freshly-inaugurated president, the far-right politician José Antonio Kast, has announced a budget cut of 3 percent across all ministries; this is just one facet of what Kast calls his “emergency” government, which he believes is necessary to address the country’s alleged economic and security crises. This budget cut slashes the funds allocated to Chile’s Ministry of […]

On “Art (by) Dealers” at White Columns

Documents in the Justice Department’s release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein appear to show ties between the financier and convicted sex offender and a New York art collector and magazine publisher, and her developer-investor husband. Lisa Fayne Cohen and her husband, Jimmy Cohen—founder, CEO, and chairman of the real estate and development firm Hudson Capital Properties—were in close contact with Epstein in 2015 and early 2016, long after his crimes were a matter of public knowledge, according to emails released in the so-called Epstein Files, which began to be released in December. There is no indication in the files of any wrongdoing on either’s part. In one email exchange, Lisa Cohen was...

Editor's Note: The following story contains mentions of self-harm. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The most famous work in Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds at the Jewish Museum is defined not by its creator, but by its owner. “Angelus Novus” (1920) is etched into 20th-century history as a source of inspiration for cultural critic Walter Benjamin, who bought it in 1921, and as a symbol of his persecution by the Nazis and subsequent suicide. The political thrust of Klee’s art, together with his search for artistic freedom in the 1930s, the last decade of his life, forms the exhibition’s theme. It opens with...

Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, on the banks of the Nile River, is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world. Newly translated graffiti reveals just how long visitors have come from far and wide to this region, and felt compelled to mark their presence by inscribing their names on the walls of tombs. Earlier this month, Live Science reported on the findings from a February conference held in Chennai, India, that translated several examples of 2,000-year-old graffiti found on the walls of six Egyptian tombs. The newly translated texts—in Old Tamil, Sanskrit, and Kharosti—are from around the 1st to 3rd centuries CE. There is also evidence of Greek and Roman inscriptions on Egyptian tombs in the...

To mark the New Museum’s reopening, Artforum revisits New Museum–founder Marcia Tucker’s 1982 essay on sex, death, violence, and the apocalypse in figurative painting.

Following through on last month's revelation, President Trump installed a statue of Christopher Columbus in the White House compound on Sunday morning, March 22. The move reinforces Trump's proclamations to reinstate Columbus Day — despite its continued status as a federal holiday — and maintain the Genoese voyager's identity as a point of pride for the Italian American community in spite of Columbus's documented brutality toward Native people. The sculpture was erected outside the Eisenhower Executive Office building on White House grounds, standing on a plinth that calls Columbus the “Discoverer of America.” The work is a replica of the original that once stood in Baltimore's...

Art Fund, a non-governmental British charity founded in 1903 to aid the country’s acquisition of artworks, announced on March 19 that the organization would launch the Empowering Curators program, a five-year initiative intended to support senior to mid-career curators from global majority backgrounds in twenty separate multi-year curatorial roles.  Institutions across the nation including Tate […]

Archeologists working near Luxor have uncovered 22 painted wooden coffins containing mummies, according to the Daily News Egypt, which reported the news in February. The well-preserved sarcophagi date to Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period (1077–664 BCE). The archeological mission, which was affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Zahi Hawass Foundation for Heritage and Antiquities, also found a group of eight papyrus scrolls, some with their seals intact, in a pottery jar. The discovery was made during excavation work at a previously known tomb in the Theban Necropolis, a site on the Nile’s west bank where rulers, officials, and nobles were interred during Egypt’s Pharaonic period....

Any dog owner can appreciate the kind of unfettered, often visceral reactions canines have to everything from their favorite treats to a scurrying squirrel to another dog passing by the window. Their lack of inhibition and legendary fidelity bring comfort, routine, and goofiness to our daily lives despite their total unawareness of their effects on us. For Stephen Morrison, curiosity and play find their way into vibrant, quirky paintings that “invite viewers to rediscover the magic and absurdity often obscured by the routine,” he says. Morrison’s practice has lately revolved around trompe l’œil compositions of everyday objects and tableaux in which dogs’ features appear unexpectedly. A snout stands...

Mary Iverson paints bucolic, sweeping landscapes reminiscent of the late nine-teenth century that look as if were discovered in the dusty corners of an underrated thrift store. At first look, I assume the canvases are found objects, painted over and re-imagined as something quite different than the original painter intended. This is only partially true. […]
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As with most conversations about money, understanding how artists fund their practices and lives is rarely discussed and always of intrigue. Mason Currey dives into this underexplored topic in his new book Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life. Currey is known for documenting the day-to-day routines of hundreds of artists, writers, filmmakers, designers, musicians, and more. Making Art and Making a Living is in the same vein, revealing how family money, day jobs, schemes, and more have buoyed artists through the ages. ​In partnership with EXPO Chicago and the Chicago Athletic Association, we’re thrilled to celebrate the launch of Currey’s new book. Join us on April 8 for...

Jan Erik Waider has a knack for capturing shorelines, volcanic eruptions, and glaciers at their most mesmerizing—shrouded in mist, glowing in the darkness, or illuminated by pale northern light. His atmospheric photographs of icy seas and rugged landscapes from Iceland to the Antarctic, focus on dramatic forms and cast remote places into a dreamy ethereality. Most recently, Waider captured a striking phenomenon in the Baltic Sea, just off the coast of northern Germany. Fresh ice formed a thin layer on the rolling surface, creating faceted, polygon-like shapes that moved gently and rhythmically with the waves without breaking apart. Waider’s aerial drone perspective creates an otherworldly, almost totally...

Ahead of his first season as the Music & Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic, how much longer can — and should — Gustavo Dudamel stay quiet about the situation in his native Venezuela?

Sami Farra is this artist we selected for this year’s Capture Photography Festival! Sami is an architect and photographer based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Combining image and object, his work questions the photographic medium in its representation of reality, offering a unique vision of our shared environment. Sami’s interest in images developed during his architecture studies which led him to explore the links between photography and architecture in greater depth at CEPV (Centre d’enseignement professionnel de Vevey).
As the winner of our open call Sami’s work will be installed at the Olympic Village Canada Line Station in Vancouver. The images on display are part of a project involving accidental...

Matthias Pintscher’s Nuit sans aube at the Opéra Comique conjures up plenty of atmosphere — but not much else.

Tancredi Pasero is so noble in mien and rich-voiced here, a perfect complement to Caniglia's earthy Leonora who honestly charts the movement from despair to fervent, transcendent faith in this duet.

Movement, memory and the infrastructures that quietly shape daily life underpin Phoebe Boswell’s latest commission for London’s Underground, where escalators become both conduit and canvas. Water threads through the work as a conceptual and historical force, linking subterranean rivers with human passage above them. The project situates transit as a site of reflection, where repetition and routine open onto questions of belonging and visibility. Beneath the surface of the city, layered geographies and suppressed ecologies echo the lived experiences of those who move through its spaces. Boswell’s intervention reframes the Underground as a place where histories converge, diverge and resurface in unexpected...

La premessa da cui muove la pratica dell’artista olandese Anneke Eussen (Kerkrade, 1978, vive a Vaals), di cui è in corso la prima mostra personale in Italia alla Galleria Studio G7 di Bologna, è l’intuizione della consistenza materica del tempo. La prima conseguenza è l’idea che i materiali (quelli da lei più frequentati sono il vetro, il marmo e il metallo) siano depositari di durate, stratificazioni e momenti vissuti che persistono nella materia anche quando la funzione originaria è venuta meno. In base a questi presupposti, ogni successiva scelta tecnica e compositiva si configura come un gesto di ascolto verso ciò il tempo ha depositato sulla superficie dei materiali infiltrandosi in...

If it weren’t for being so lightweight and crisp in their facets, Goran Konjevod’s elegant vases could at first glance be mistaken for thin porcelain. Crafted instead from precisely folded paper, the works tap into the relationship between—and associations with—material, form, and function. His meticulous origami compositions combine organic forms with nuanced hues and gradients, creating a sense of visual heft and presence from thin, gauzy material. Konjevod’s work was recently included in Art of the Fold at ACCI Gallery, and “Grey Curves Vase” and “Artist’s Palette Vase” will be part of an exhibition titled The Craft of Paper: Contemporary Takes on Tradition this August at the Robert C....

Exploration and absence form the twin axes of Sophie Calle’s (b. 1953) compelling body of work. From the delicate interplay of text and image to her investigations into the seen and unseen, her art occupies a space between intimacy and universality, curiosity and revelation. Themes of love, memory, longing, beauty, and mortality pulse throughout her practice, inviting viewers to reconsider the boundaries of perception. In her latest exhibition, Something Missing?, opening 26 March at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, Calle presents seven major series alongside additional works spanning nearly four decades. Totalling more than 300 individual pieces of photographs, texts and videos, the exhibition...

A sublime Reginald Mobley and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra are a balm for troubled times in a program of baroque selections and spirituals.

Nel contesto del progetto di EDICOLA480, di 480 Site Specific, con la direzione artistica del curatore Massimiliano Bastardo, l’intervento di Jona Fierro – artista napoletano, classe 1997 – si presenta come una soglia percettiva più che come una semplice installazione. Come il fuoco brucia la foresta e come la fiamma incendia i monti – Residuo #01 (2025) non costruisce un racconto lineare, né cerca di restituire un’immagine spettacolare della distruzione. Al contrario, si colloca deliberatamente nel tempo che segue l’evento, in quella dimensione sospesa in cui ciò che resta diventa l’unico elemento attraverso cui interrogare ciò che è accaduto.
Jona Fierro, “Come il fuoco brucia la foresta...

Each year, Foam presents the Talent Award. The prize spotlights extraordinary new image-makers who are shaping the future of photography. This edition was a record-breaking one, with almost 3,000 submissions from 107 countries. Particularly exciting, the 2026 award marked the first time the Foam Talent Call welcomed artists of all ages in the early stages of their career. Those that submitted reflect a remarkably wide range of narratives, perspectives and artistic approaches. Many consider the constant global change and uncertainty of our times, addressing themes such as political oppression, mental health, religion and faith, displacement and the search for cultural identity. Technological developments are...

Contemporary culture is increasingly defined by spectacle, self-performance and the circulation of images that shape how identity is imagined and consumed. Museums now grapple with the challenge of presenting art that not only critiques these forces but also inhabits their visual language. The exhibition A Whole New World at Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean embraces precisely this tension, transforming the gallery into a theatrical terrain of attractions and immersive encounters. Spanning nearly two decades, the show surveys the practice of Simon Fujiwara through environments that echo the dramaturgy of theme parks. Fantasy and critique become inseparable as visitors move through...

Nel cuore di Firenze, una stanza vetrata al piano terra dello storico Hotel Torre Guelfa interrompe il ritmo pedissequo delle vetrine commerciali e degli ingressi alberghieri, infiltrandosi silenziosamente nel corpo della città: è lo spazio espositivo indipendente Marameo. Qui nasce Liminale, la mostra di restituzione della residenza d’artista di Luca Granato, curata da Lucrezia Caliani e visitabile fino al 3 maggio 2026. Durante la serata inaugurale si è tenuta anche Cartografia di un corpo, intervento performativo site-specific della danzatrice e performer Irene Lombardi, realizzato insieme al DJ e musicista elettronico Andrea Lenzi. L’incontro tra esposizione e performance – divenuto nel tempo...

Tensely contorted or standing pin straight, Ben Zank’s signature faceless subjects evoke ineffable yet familiar emotions. The New York City-based photographer has a knack for turning ordinary settings and unaccompanied figures into strangely perplexing sights. Mismatched socks, bold garments, and awkward poses go a long way in evoking a visceral response through his lens, tapping into a sort of uncanny realism. Zank’s work traveled to Festival Cargo Les Photographiques—a.k.a. The Cargo Festival—in Saint-Nazaire, France last summer. Since its debut in 2022, the annual event typically features several outdoor exhibition areas, highlighting contemporary photographers. The artist’s plein air installation...

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La vita ci costringe il più delle volte a comportarci in determinati modi per rispettare convenzioni sociali e costumi. La maschera pirandelliana che siamo obbligati ad indossare è qualcosa che allo stesso tempo limita e blocca la forza espressiva dirompente che ognuno di noi conserva all’interno di sé. Filippo Janez Bertoni, con la collaborazione di numerosi altri artisti, parte proprio da questa concezione per cercare di creare, con il medium del processo interpretativo, una maschera nuova, vera, che permetta a tutti coloro che vogliano indossarla di liberare le più profonde pulsioni creative ed eliminare le inibizioni.
Filippo Janez Bertoni, “Vera Sonora”, einLaden, Kassel, happening 24.01.26,...

 
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. Las Pelilargas, Irina Werning, GOST
For 18 years photographer Irina Werning travelled across Latin America to seek out those with long hair to uncover and understand its cultural significance. Her book Las Pelilargas (the long-haired ones) brings together this body of work in an exploration and celebration of...

ABOVE: Gaza Cinderella, Northern Gaza Strip, 2012“Although her drawing is filled with soldiers, helicopters, and tanks, “Amara” only spoke about her intense fear of missile strikes. When a building or other structure is targeted in Gaza, it is often hit with a barrage of several missiles to ensure its complete destruction. The sound of successive […]
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Embroidery as an art form is often overlooked as a craft, but that is part of its appeal to Burbank, California-based artist Michelle Kingdom, who uses embroidery to express her innermost thoughts and escape to her imaginary world. Michelle Kingdom’s unexpected approach to embroidery is like a painter’s, and some have dubbed her work as […]
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Kristine Schomaker and Genie Davis at the Getty By Kristine Schomaker I've known Genie Davis for years. She shows up. That's the first thing you notice about her — and also the thing you never stop noticing, because she just keeps doing it. She's at openings, she's writing reviews, she's telling anyone who will listen about artists she believes in. For over a decade, her blog Diversions LA has been quietly, consistently documenting the Southern California art scene because she genuinely loves...