two monumental installations take over the hayward gallery
 
Hayward Gallery in London presents two concurrent exhibitions built around textiles and found objects, Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life and Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart. On view until May 3rd, 2026, the shows bring together large-scale installations by the two internationally celebrated artists whose practices transform ordinary materials into spatial reflections on memory, identity, and shared human experience. Presented as part of the Southbank Centre’s 75th anniversary program, the exhibitions extend the long-standing focus of the institution on immersive installations that respond to the iconic brutalist architecture of the gallery.
 
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The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has appointed Nicholas R. Bell director and CEO. Bell, who since 2019 has served as president and CEO of the Glenbow museum in Calgary, Alberta, will take up his new roles on July 6. He succeeds Josh Basseches, who stepped down late last year after a decade at the helm of the institution, which […]

Frieze Week LA 2026 rages during our new age of conflict

There was a moment in the Guggenheim’s sprawling new Carol Bove exhibition when the entire show began to make sense to me. It was when I chanced upon “10 Hours” (2019). Located on the museum’s third ramp, it consists of a hollow, crimped and bent rectangular tube, painted banana yellow, that’s been draped over an upright stanchion of roughly cut steel with a rust patina. It could be a bath towel that someone flung onto a drying rack after an ocean swim, which makes it befuddling: I know that this listless form is made of steel covered in urethane paint, but it doesn’t look like it or behave as I expect it to. It’s wondrous that Bove has taken material used in the construction of buildings,...

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Anicka Yi’s Collecting GalleriesSeems like the South Korea-born, New York-based artist isn't just collecting scents, bacteria, and other assorted oddities for her art practice — she's also collecting galleries. She is now represented by Pace, in collaboration with Gladstone Gallery, 47 Canal, and Esther Schipper.NYC's New Culture CommissionerNYC’s new culture commissioner Diya Vij (photo Xavier Petromelis, courtesy Powerhouse Arts)Diya Vij, who was part of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's transition team, is now part of his actual team....

We've all encountered the particularly sad sight of a museum reading room, full of books, that ultimately sits empty. For KoozArch, Maryam Eskandari considers a show that comprises the reading room itself, reorienting space in the process:To step into the Reading Room at the MAK Center is to enter an argument staged in space. Installed within architect R.M. Schindler's Kings Road House, the exhibition unfolds less like a gallery than a rehearsal studio. Light pools on tables scattered with journals and pamphlets, zines and artist books. Readers lean over spines and margins, their postures echoing the pitched diagonals of Schindler's planes. This is no mausoleum of publications but rather a...

As my friend Anthony Elms pointed out to me recently, the Whitney Biennial is a kind of neither-here-nor-there entity: too big for a tight thesis to be legible, too small to provide a true scope of what’s happening in the United States art world. (He should know: He curated a floor of the 2014 edition.) The two most recent editions — 2024’s Even Better Than the Real Thing and 2022’s Quiet as It’s Kept — opted for a strong theme to guide curatorial choices. This time, we have a show, curated by in-house curators Drew Sawyer and Marcela Guerrero, that wants to revert to an older model of taking the temperature of the art world, come what may.And what is that temperature? In the few days since art...

It was a favorably mild-weathered evening in New York yesterday, March 4, when thunderous calls for a fair contract rumbled through the air at the Guggenheim Museum's opening reception for Carol Bove's solo exhibition.With negotiations in progress for the next contract ratification, museum workers unionized under Local 2110 UAW rallied outside the famous rotunda to inform VIP attendees about exorbitant healthcare benefit costs and job insecurity — especially highlighting the abrupt layoff of 20 Guggenheim employees last year.A group of around 30 museum workers and allies picketed outside with signs, chants, and multicolored flyers for event goers and passersby. Leading the charge last night were...

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, vexed for decades by one of the art world’s most dramatic mysteries, cracked a case of less but still some significance when conservators identified the original fabric for a set of chairs in need of restoration in the museum’s Dutch Room—the site of the greatest art heist of all time. That mystery derives from the still unsolved case of three invaluable paintings—by Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Manet—that were stolen by thieves who broke into the Dutch Room in 1990 and made off with artworks whose whereabouts remain unknown. The newer mystery involves the question of how best to spruce up a set of 17th-century chairs to a period-faithful state as part of a three-year...

A painting in David Salle’s new exhibition at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles has been removed from view after critics questioned whether the painter copied another artist’s work. Salle’s painting, Hatchet (2025), features as its primary subject a woman in a black-and-white dress—her face cropped by the edge of the canvas—brandishing a sledgehammer. The exhibition, titled “My Frankenstein,” opened on February 24, and social media chatter quickly picked up on the resemblance to Kelly Reemsten’s painting Impact (2021). In a video that has since drawn nearly 10,000 views, the Minneapolis-based artist Josie Lewis asked: “Did Salle steal this woman’s idea, or is it just harmless...

A federal planning commission is set to vote Thursday on President Donald Trump’s proposal to build a massive ballroom at the White House, a plan critics say would dramatically alter the scale and historic layout of the presidential residence. The National Capital Planning Commission will consider the proposal for a roughly 90,000-square-foot addition to the White House complex, including a 22,000-square-foot ballroom designed to host as many as 1,000 guests. The project has already received approval from the US Commission of Fine Arts. Trump first announced the ballroom last summer, arguing the White House lacks an appropriate space for large formal events and often relies on temporary tents erected on the...

Have you always wished that you could visit a museum devoted to U.S. history, like maybe the one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but wished that rather than a brick-and-mortar museum in the nation’s capital, it could be on a tractor trailer in, say, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, or Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania? Well, the Trump administration is making those dreams come true with a fleet of six “Freedom Trucks”—mobile museums that will travel the nation throughout 2026, marking 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. On display are artifacts like a draft of the Declaration of Independence, the Aitken Bible (“the first complete Bible published in an independent...

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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—According to a statement released by the Nature Publishing Group, Anopheles leucosphyrus mosquitoes may have evolved to feed on humans in Southeast Asia. Upasana Shyamsunder Singh of Vanderbilt University, Catherine Walton of the University of Manchester, and their colleagues sequenced DNA from 38 modern-day mosquitoes from 11 species in the leucosphyrus group. Then the researchers employed computer models and estimates of DNA mutation rates to reconstruct the evolution of these mosquitoes. The study suggests that the bugs switched from feeding on non-human primates to early humans in the region of Sundaland, an area including the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, between 2.9...

Earlier this week, the William Penn Foundation announced a slew of grants, totally $7.6 million, that will support access to museums for low-income families and people with disabilities. The grants apply to six specific organizations based on the number of ACCESS visitors each received during the 2024-25 fiscal year. (The ACCESS card allows people who receive public assistance or identify as having a disability to receive heavily discounted tickets to participating cultural institutions, of which there are nearly 100 in the Philadelphia area.) The following organizations will receive funds from the William Penn Foundation: The Academy of Natural Sciences, the Franklin Institute, the Morris Arboretum and...

drawing from the hectic streetscape of mumbai
 
The Unscripted Pavilion by Abin Design Studio stands as a temporary structure shaped by Mumbai‘s layered and unpredictable character. Conceived as a built response to Mumbai’s dense urban fabric, the pavilion translates the shifting rhythms of the city into a compact framework of structure, void, and movement.
 
The streets of Mumbai have overlapping tempos, and movement here rarely follows a straight path. This condition informs the conceptual starting point for Abin Design Studio. The project approaches the city as a place guided by improvisation.
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abin design studio Interrupts the grid’s order
 
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BARCELONA, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), the Romans extracted gold from alluvial deposits in the Eastern Pyrenees. Using optically stimulated luminescence dating techniques, Oriol Olesti Vila of the UAB and Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez of the University of A Coruña dated two samples of fill from the remains of an ancient hydraulic structure on the Segre River to the third and fourth centuries A.D. The researchers explained that Roman miners would have eroded gold deposits from the riverbanks with water, and then washed them, either by channeling water through the sediments or flooding the sediments with pressurized water to extract the gold. The mining...

MONTREAL, CANADA—According to a statement released by the University of Montreal, recent analysis of the water system at the Maya city of Ucanal in northern Guatemala determined that it was effective at controlling visible pollutants and bacteria, but was contaminated by mercury, which would have been undetectable. Sediments from three reservoirs in the city were tested for biological pollution and chemical contamination: Aguada 2, located in a wealthy area; Aguada 3, located in a modest neighborhood; and Piscina 2, which was connected to the city’s drainage system. Jean Tremblay and Christina Halperin of the University of Montreal found that Ucanal’s water system was free of blue-green algae, which has...

Fossils, frozen art, a model, disabilities and recent history.

Paintings by Monet, Matisse, Dalí and Picasso were snatched in a cinematic heist from Rio de Janeiro’s Museu da Chácara do Céu in 2006

In the age of the internet, we’re fortunate to have virtual access to museum collections around the world, thanks to objects in the public domain and programs like The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative. Through a searchable digital catalogue, visitors to the museum’s website can see hundreds of thousands of objects, many images of which are available for download. And it’s not alone—other institutions like the Art Institute of Chicago, The National Gallery of Art, and The Cleveland Museum of Art, among others, make pieces in their collections accessible to all. The thing is, digital images don’t always give us the full picture, so to speak. Even two-dimensional paintings and...

At the intersection of fashion, art, and the uncanny, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin have for four decades challenged the ways we perceive images. Can Love Be A Photograph – 40 Years of Inez & Vinoodh, at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, offers a monumental survey of a career defined by its refusal to settle, blending the quotidian with the surreal and the personal with the performative. Their work operates in the liminal space where digital manipulation, intimacy, and high-gloss fashion imagery converge, revealing both the extraordinary and the unsettling within everyday life. “Inez & Vinoodh have been able to create something utterly fantastic; an invisible reality that looks artificial but is not. A...

Mycelium shapes compostable wooden bicycle seat
 
Networks of mycelium grow and form the shape of the compostable bicycle seat with a wooden saddle. Named Myco Seat by Ludwig Eder, the biomaterial is seen growing out of the holes from under the saddle, continuing its growth and stabilizing the seat. The designer shapes the wooden saddle with CNC-cut timber using computational tools to map out exactly where the mycelium needs to grow and where the structure needs to breathe. 
 
The pattern of holes found around the compostable wooden bicycle seat is what can be considered functional geometry so that the mycelium, the root network of mushrooms, can spread evenly through the substrate underneath. That...

Paul Ehorn, an 80-year-old shipwreck hunter, has finally located the long-lost luxury steamer Lac La Belle

EntoPedia Wearable Tool Documents Insects Without Capture
 
EntoPedia is a wearable digital collection system designed by Junfei Teng to reframe insect ‘collecting’ as documentation, turning everyday encounters into moments of observation, learning, and shared knowledge without physical capture. The project received the 2026 French Design Awards Gold (Professional) in Product Design, Educational Toys & Games, recognizing its approach to ecological education through wearable interaction and community-built datasets. Worn as a compact magnetic pendant, EntoPedia is intentionally styled to blend into personal wear rather than resemble technical equipment so that it can remain quietly present in daily life....

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Dunhuang, Buddha figures, celestial palaces, seas of clouds, lotus thrones, the Diamond Sutra…

The construction of Grundtvigs Kirke in Copenhagen took nearly two decades, beginning in fall of 1921 and finally reaching completion in 1940. Designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, it transforms the humble brick into a masterpiece of Expressionist architecture. Its pointed interior arches and vaulted ceiling, stepped crenellations, and hulking exterior nod to medieval Gothic and Romanesque styles while also exhibiting a profoundly modern sensibility. David Altrath, a Hamburg-based photographer whose work emphasizes urban and architectural elements, captures Grundtvigs’ details in an atmospheric cumulative portrait. Bathed in mellow, golden light, the church’s pale yellow bricks appear to glow,...

Anicka Yi, who explores subjects across technology, microbiology, and politics through her highly inventive artworks.

Akhnaten has lost none of its power or glitz at the Los Angeles Opera.

The latest announcements of the key players representing their countries at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

Cultural sites and museums in Israel have closed and have been instructed to move their collections into bomb shelters

The show, spanning the South Korean artist’s seven-decade career, will be one of 31 collateral events at this year’s Biennale

Bringing together more than 150 works and over 300 images, the volume charts González’s bold engagement with power, memory and political history

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Henri Purnell crafts delicate blooms out of glass beads
 
Thousands of tiny glass beads come together to form the intricate floral sculptures of musician and maker Henri Purnell. Working bead by bead, the artist recreates delicate blossoms that echo the organic irregularities of real flowers while shimmering with the luminosity of glass. From airy wildflower stems to full, colorful bouquets, each arrangement captures the fleeting beauty of botanical forms that remain permanently in bloom.
 
Across his growing collection, Purnell recreates a wide range of flowers, from buttercups and soft pastel blossoms to vibrant poppies and bright gerbera-like blooms. Color gradients formed by translucent beads produce...

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Fyodor Chaliapin, the very great Russian basso, to this day owns the role of Massenet's Don Quichotte.

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Alicja Kwade “Siège du Monde”, 2025, marmo Azul Macaubas bronzo con patina nera, 96,5 x 54 x 58 cm. Photo Roman März, courtesy dell’artista e Galleria Continua
38 | “Al di là della pittura” – Rilettura di due film creativi di Luca Maria Patella e Marinella Pirelli / Luciano Marucci
46 | Inchiesta sull’Intelligenza Artificiale – Potenzialità e limiti (VIII) / Luciano Marucci
50 | Produzione creativa e identità – Riflessioni sulla genesi e l’evoluzione (XXI) / Luciano Marucci
54 | India – al PAC di Milano / Emanuele Magri
56 | Ismaele Nones – Tra passato e presente / Roberto Vidali
58 | Emilia Marasco – Arte visiva e scrittura / Elisabetta...

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Alla Galleria Massimo Minini l’incontro tra Sheila Hicks e Paolo Icaro non è un semplice dialogo tra due pratiche all’apparenza contrastanti, ma un campo di giocosa tensione. Da un lato la materia nuda, opaca, essenziale di Icaro; dall’altro le vibrazioni cromatiche di Hicks. La distanza è evidente, quasi strutturale. Ed è proprio lì che il progetto trova la sua forza.
“Live Wires. Sheila Hicks and Paolo Icaro”, installation view, 2026, courtesy of the artists and Galleria Massimo Minini, ph. Petrò Gilberti
Seduta vicino alla sua opera “The Captured Comrades” (2026), nobile e statuaria, Sheila osserva con uno sguardo vispo il via vai che la circonda. È lo sguardo di una donna che ha vissuto...

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...

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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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA—According to statement released by the University of Pennsylvania, scientists had previously surmised that the lack of Neanderthal DNA on modern human X chromosomes, which are inherited through the maternal line, was due to genetic incompatibility that may have caused health problems eliminated through the process of natural selection. Sarah Tishkoff and Alexander Platt of the University of Pennsylvania and their colleagues tested this idea by looking for modern human DNA on Neanderthal X chromosomes, and compared the results with the genomes of Africans whose populations had never mixed with Neanderthals. “What we found was a striking imbalance,” said team member Daniel...

LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a report by the Anadolu Agency, descendants of western Anatolian farmers traveled through Thrace and the Balkans and mixed with local hunter-gatherers in Europe, resulting in a 70- to 100-percent turnover of the ancestry of the European population between 6500 and 4000 B.C. This new group became known as Early European Farmers. But Iñigo Olalde of the University of the Basque Country, and Eveline Altena, Quentin Bourgeois, and Harry Fokkens of Leiden University, also determined that in the wetland, riverine, and coastal zones of northwestern Europe, hunter-gatherer populations survived for another 3,000 years. In these areas of the Netherlands, Belgium, and western...

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 curator 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 […]

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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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...