ESTUDIO GRIS SHAPES SOLID OAK INTO A LAMP RECALLING A BIRD AT REST
 
TUPI is a table lamp by Estudio Gris, the Medellín-based studio led by Gustavo Rodríguez and Estefanía Agudelo. The piece starts from a single observation: the stillness of a bird at rest, that moment when it stops moving and simply watches. The body is turned from solid oak in a local workshop in Medellín, Colombia, and assembled by hand. Its tapered silhouette rises to a rounded head, where a darker wooden beak extends forward, and a small turned eye completes the figure. The beak works as the lamp’s shade: the light source sits beneath it, so the glow falls softly down the oak body instead of reaching the eye directly.
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‘Acting Like Women’ is a deep dive into Los Angeles art and activism of the 1970s and 80s

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HANBOK SILHOUETTES meet EAST AFRICAN KITENGE TEXTILES in MOYO
 
The MOYO shirt jacket, developed by design-focused social enterprise Jerrybag in collaboration with designer Hyunah Kim of ili studio, combines the structural silhouette of the Korean Hanbok with East African Kitenge textiles. Named after the Swahili word for ‘heart,’ the garment translates the layered construction, wrapping technique, and relaxed proportions of traditional Korean dress into a modern shirt jacket format.
 
The design pairs the understated geometry of the Hanbok with the high-contrast colors and dynamic patterns of Kitenge fabric, bridging Asian and African design languages. The familiar shirt jacket format serves as an...

George Osborne, chairman of the British Museum, has expressed hope that a deal can be struck to share the Parthenon Marbles between Athens and London, despite the two-centuries-long diplomatic feud. “I’m still optimistic that we can reach an agreement,” Osborne told reporters in Athens on Tuesday. “If everyone enters into it with the spirit of we’re not going to get everything we want, as is always the case with a successful agreement, then there’s a deal to be done.” The Parthenon Marbles, made between 447 and 432 BCE by the Greek sculptor Phidias, depict gods and processions in marble relief panels, sculptures, and friezes. They’re also known as the Elgin Marbles, after the Scottish nobleman...

On Tuesday, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) returned 22 antiquities to Greece. The cache includes decorated pottery from the 8th through the 4th centuries BCE that had been seized during an illegal antiquities trafficking investigation in and around Tel Aviv in 2020. The ceremony took place at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens and was attended by Lina Mendoni, the Greek Minister of Culture; Pninat Yanai, the Israeli Ambassador to Greece; and Amir Ganor, director of the IAA’s Anti Theft Prevention Unit. This handover marks the first time Israel has returned contested items to Greece. In a social media post, the IAA states that the 2020 seizure involved raids of an unnamed gallery,...

Artist Peter Nagy, whose Nature Morte gallery was instrumental in bringing contemporary Indian art to the attention of international audiences, died on October 13 in New Delhi following a long illness. He was sixty-seven. A charismatic force on the East Village art scene of 1980s New York before setting up shop in New Delhi, Nagy […]

Curator Mia Lopez generates conversations around the aesthetics of Latinidad and the nuances of cultural heritage in Mercado/Material, on view at San Antonio's free Centro de Artes gallery from October 16 through March 7, 2027. The exhibition features 16 artists using vibrant imagery and popular culture to address themes of Latinx cultural identity and consumerism, playfully building on the Pop art tradition of Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.From layered screen prints of fruit cups and groceries to monumental piñata sculptures, the works engage viewers with iconic forms of Latinx visual culture — vibrant paintings, immersive installations, textile and ceramic sculptures, and works on paper inspired...

On a Friday morning in late August, dozens packed a small auditorium at the Museum of Modern Art to watch choreographer, director, and writer Isa Spector writhe on a red-painted platform, struggling to carry out the museum’s request to make “a painting of dance” in 10 minutes. After flailing to and fro, down on all fours to the red platform floor and up to the fluorescent studio lights, and calling out to a "mom" whose name changed to “MoMA” and a "dad" to “Dada” with an alliterative tongue, Spector had an epiphany. They knew what they were to paint. Seconds later, five performers donning red gloves emerged from backstage and assembled at the center of the platform. Hand in hand, they began...

New York’s Salon 94, a contemporary art gallery founded by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn in 2003, will open a branch in Paris, Artnews reports. The new space, occupying a compact 323 square feet at 30 Galerie de Montpensier across from the Jardin du Palais Royal, will open on October 18 with an exhibition of work by […]

The image-licensing giant Getty Images, which holds more than 477 million assets, is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy following a failed $3.7 billion merger with rival Shutterstock, abandoned over a regulatory roadblock. During its earnings call in August, Getty CEO Craig Peters said in the process of merging with Shutterstock, the company had spent “more […]

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of two colossal statues believed to depict Ramses II after a local landowner reported finding an inscribed stone block in the village of Behbeit El-Hagar. The discoveries were made by an archaeological mission from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). According to Dr. Hisham El-Leithy, Secretary-General of the SCA, the first find was a stone head more than five-feet-high from a massive statue. It depicts a man wearing a double crown, a symbol of the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt worn by ancient Egyptian rulers. Nearby, archaeologists found part of the statue’s back pillar. An inscription on the pillar gives one of Ramses II’s five royal...

Artist Tammy Nguyen will present the foreword to her debut opera Timaeus and The Teacher at the 61st Venice Biennale's closing program on November 13 and 14, capping off an eventful edition of the international contemporary art festival. The aria is the entry point to Nguyen's still-unfinished opera, which traces the national and ideological impacts of the Vietnam War and fuses Plato’s theories of the cosmos with enduring questions of identity. Inspired by her father's experiences as a refugee aboard a vessel in the South China Sea, Nguyen centers the performance around a Vietnamese English teacher who attempts to flee Saigon (since renamed to Ho Chi Minh City) by boat, two years after North...

The imaginative, strange childhood dreams of twins Nikolai and Simon Haas materialize in a large-scale exhibition at Blanton Museum of Art. Working as the Haas Brothers, the siblings have been collaborating since 2010 and are widely known for their fantastical sculptures of flora and fauna with their signature cheeky, surreal twist. In Austin, the Los Angeles artists present a range of figurative furniture, plush cartoonish characters, and illuminated installations that showcase their idiosyncratic aesthetic. Previously on view at Cranbrook Art Museum and the Museum of Art and Design in New York, Uncanny Valley is the first mid-career survey for the duo, presenting a range of their quirky, genre-defying works....

The versatile American soprano, a staple at the Metropolitan Opera and one of the most important Black opera singers of the 20th century, has died at 89.

For her latest show, Deana Lawson made one simple request: no photography allowed. I watched as other gallery-goers entered and received the same mandate, while an attendant handed out Gagosian-branded stickers to cover phone cameras. I found myself watching the crowd, observing micro-expressions of discomfort and surprise. I imagine the rule against photography in our highly visual, largely immediate world can be unsettling, but is our attachment really that strong? In a society where most of us carry the vehicle of modern technological warfare in our pockets, Lawson’s prohibition on photography is certainly a sensible request. As I looked at the sticker plastered over my own camera, I felt that perhaps...

At Frieze London this week, even the bathroom will be a place to see art. Gray Wielebinski’s new site-specific Production (2026) will transform the fair’s public toilets into an intimate olfactory environment, where scent, bodily function, privacy, desire, and surveillance will converge. Rather than disappearing into the functional infrastructure of the bathroom, Production announces itself as an artwork: Custom urinal cakes and toilet-rim blocks infused with two scents are housed in sculptural cages, with security tags attached. They are strange, brightly colored, and scented. One is almost lipstick-red, while the other is black. Their texture is also different from typical urinal cakes. “They almost...

Investigators have released details about the theft of two works by the French Impressionist after they were recovered from behind a concrete wall

For centuries, Navajo/Diné weavers have created intricate, geometrically patterned blankets and rugs on upright looms, powered only by the artisans’ bodies. More than a millennia ago in Mesoamerica, which encompassed much of what today is Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and parts of Central America, the Mayans produced ornate ceramics decorated with natural motifs like birds. Utilizing materials that could be foraged or cultivated in the landscape—the Diné have herded the distinctive Navajo-Churro sheep since the breed was introduced by Spaniards in the 16th century—the techniques, motifs, and cultural customs continue to influence artists today. Through the lens of Indigenous interpretations of...

Red Hook’s arts community is nothing if not defiant in the face of tragedy. Nearly 13 months after a five-alarm fire scorched part of a historic Van Brunt Street warehouse, the Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood's open studios festival returned for its 11th year on October 10 and 11.Some artists displaced by the fire have come back to the area too, moving into studios in nearby buildings closer to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. But the Civil War-era structure remained under a partial vacate order, with an unsightly green sidewalk shed surrounding part of the block just before the pier.When festival co-coordinator Deborah Ugoretz distributed flyers promoting the event a few weeks ago, some residents told...

Le Large, a museum in the new Pointe des Arts complex just outside of Paris, has opened its doors on the Île Seguin, in Boulogne-Billancourt. The island is the former home of a Renault factory, which was active for most of the 20th century and demolished in 2005. Planning for a new cultural hub on […]

Following widespread opposition, including from Mexico City’s mayor, the plans to build a sprawling military museum in Bosque de Chapultepec are on hold while authorities seek an alternative site

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The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia is being considered as a potential new member of the Smithsonian museum network, with members of a new congressional commission sworn in on Tuesday set to study the matter. As reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Philip Darivoff, a former longtime chair of the Weitzman and current chair of the new commission, and Dara Horn, a writer serving as vice chair, “said that the Weitzman joining the Smithsonian would send a powerful message that Jews are a crucial component of the history of the country.” Darivoff told the JTA, “It’s a different statement that our country makes when it says that the study of Jewish American history...

Orozco talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to film-makers, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

Spoiler alert! We are about to delve into what Digger spends its first half hour hiding – if you have not seen the film yet, save this piece for afterwards.
 
A CLOSER LOOK AT THE SCENOGRAPHY in ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU’S DIGGER
 
About thirty minutes into Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger, a model tree falls over, a section of what had looked like a hillside opens up, and a giant man steps out to pick it up while the rest of the crew floods the frame behind him. The director starts shouting instructions, Tom Cruise drops the Texas accent, and everything you have watched so far turns out to have been a technical rehearsal for the 25th anniversary of a stage play called Fossil Fools.
 
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The Karachi Biennale Trust (KBT) has announced the cancellation of its fifth annual Karachi Biennale. The KBT cited regional conflict and logistical challenges as the reasons behind their decision. Originally scheduled for January 16 through January 31 of next year, the biennale would have brought artists and collectors to Karachi, the largest city in Pakistan. […]

Celebrities and art world glitterati descended on Regent’s Park today for an exclusive first look at Frieze London and Frieze Masters

“I find that when I work from my emotions and experiences, I make a more powerful image,” Ann Toebbe writes. Meditating on the connection between physical spaces and the feelings and memories bound within them is central to the Chicago artist’s practice. In a review of Toebbe’s recent exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center, the writer Elisa Shoenberger teases out the distinction that grounds the artist’s work. “Space is the physical location, while place is the meaning we bring to it. It’s the difference between thinking about the physical location of your house (space) and the feelings, history and emotions tied up in your home (place),” Schoenberger writes. Rendering interiors and cross-cut...

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modular pavilion shifts from carnival gateway to public furniture
 
Frame to Folly is a modular timber pavilion designed to be disassembled, transported, and reconfigured for different sites and community uses in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Developed by Carnegie Mellon University’s student-led Architectural Crafts Collective and Pittsburgh-based PARTlab (Laboratory for Radical Participatory Design), the project forms part of a year-long partnership with local nonprofit Neighborhood Allies.
 
The structure uses a system of vertical timber frames connected by interchangeable infill panels that double as seats, tables, backrests, and awnings. Initially assembled as a gateway for Pittsburgh’s annual Spring...

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I’m an illustrator/ graphic designer currently based in Beijing. Through illustration, I make connections to everyday life, seeking out beauty in the midst of chaos. My work gives visual form to inner feelings and experiences. I see each creative process as an adventure, specializing in the translation of text into vibrant visual narratives.
This zine《Let’s go to the park》 is an experimental work on visual language, creating narrative solely through visual imagery. It came from some moments when I was just zoning out in the park: from the amusing interactions between a dog and its owner, the swirling ripples in the fountain, the sudden downpour of rain… I blended these unrelated moments...

FINDING IMPRESSIONISM IN CONTEMPORARY PARIS
 
Does the Paris of the great Impressionist painters still exist? French photographer and videographer Alix Urien believes the answer may lie in the way we look rather than in what we see. In her series Circa 2020s, created between Paris and Normandy, she transforms ordinary contemporary scenes into photographs and videos shaped by the light, color and fleeting sensations of nineteenth-century Impressionism. Rather than reproducing famous paintings through a camera lens, Urien explores the emotions that connect different generations, suggesting that while cities and societies evolve, certain human experiences remain remarkably unchanged.
 
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At first glance, the structure resembles a kind of elongated igloo or a giant, white snail. One one hand, it’s an immersive, pop-up room with a futuristic, bubble-like texture. It’s also a giant, walk-in camera (there are 221 lenses to be exact). Premiering late last month at MODE Festival, a celebration of global photography, “Compound Camera 3” is the latest work by Pneuhaus, the Rhode Island-based studio known for its large-scale, architectural inflatables. Dozens of tiny cameras comprise the installation, which covers more than 700 square feet and invites visitors to walk around inside of a projection powered entirely by the sun. The images visible through the tiny apertures land on bulbous...

Around 1906, Hilma af Klint was living in Stockholm, where she kept a studio. Deeply engaged with Christian esotericism, she channeled her mystic visions into a series of otherworldly paintings that art historians acknowledge to be the first known abstract works in the canon, a paradigm shift in 20th-century art that had previously been credited to Wassily Kandinsky starting around 1910. What continues to awe us today about af Klint’s works is she didn’t view her vibrant paintings strictly as artworks, but as a result of spiritual channeling. Their production also coincided with a period of incredible scientific discovery. Nikola Tesla had just developed the alternating current (AC) electricity system,...

In its third revival, Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of Don Giovanni nails its predatory Don — but falls short dramatically with its donne.

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Ahead of the world premiere of Lincoln in the Bardo next week, Carmen Paddock looks at how presidents in opera can be both symbols of an idealized past and trenchant commentaries on the present.

I went for Nilsson, but the star for me was the exceptional Mignon Dunn.

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By Kristine Schomaker I keep thinking about Nomadland. Fern driving her van across that enormous American landscape. Not running from something. Moving toward something she could not quite name yet. That feeling of needing less. Of being, as Dominique Moody says, at home in the world. NOMAD: Dominique Moody and the Assemblage of Home is on view at the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena through January 16, 2027, part of the year-long city celebration for the centennials of Route 66 and the...

 
When we say ‘think of the colour yellow’, what comes up for you? Our latest photobook, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: YELLOW, is bursting with inspiration, from delicate blossoms and ripe lemons to eye-catching clothing and sunny décor.
Across 100 photos, our photographers celebrate all things yellow: some chanced upon in the street or in nature, others meticulously planned. Of course, there are loads of different hues that count as yellow, from acidic brights to mustard, egg yolk, and canary. You’ll find them all in the book!
The cover image, by Jo Martindale, submerges us in a ball pit of yellow plastic balls: it’s immersive, fun, and hard to look away. The yellow we find around us definitely has multiple...

By Jody Zellen Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 3–November 22, 2026 Susan Silton has never been an artist attached to a single medium. Her practice, which spans more than forty years, interweaves photography, design, performance, sculpture, video, audio, and installation. Working as a graphic designer in the 1970s and ’80s shaped her visual acuity and formal sensibilities. Her production is conceptually strong and visually coherent and very little is left to chance. It is a delight...

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To celebrate the retrospective exhibition Future Pastime featuring the work of futurist Syd Mead opening at the Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery in San Francisco this evening, we are showing previews of paintings from the show as well as the full article which Silke Tudor wrote on the late legendary industrial designer in Hi-Fructose Issue 33. […]
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The women look concerned, and weary. They are ready to repel an attack. The women look in love, but bored. “When are you leaving,” they might wonder. The women are only half-present. Matted hair, two eyes, a hand, and the rest have either turned inward or run away. The women are multifaceted. Their eyes are […]
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In the “feminist west” that lives on Jennifer Nehrbass’s canvases, women ride horseback and hike in fashionable attire. They appear in head-and-shoulder portraits against fiery backgrounds and nude in pieces where figurative and landscape painting converge. In her work, Nehrbass challenges the common depictions of the U.S. West. “You would always have the man who […]
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By Kristine Schomaker Friday night I stood at the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and watched artists perform five-minute pieces in the open air as the sun went down. ACTION = LIFE, presented by LACE and the Performance Art Museum as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. A marathon of performances. So many friends. So much history in one place. I drove home still feeling it. Thinking about the first performance I ever saw that made me understand what my own work was actually about....

By Kristine Schomaker I learned yesterday that my friend Scott Froschauer died suddenly. I've known him for almost ten years, and I'm still trying to find a place to put this. Scott was a Shoebox artist, one of the early ones. We worked together on several projects, but the one I keep coming back to is an art salon we put together on consent, negotiation, and the male gaze, how the male posture of viewing women frames any sign of femininity as an invitation, and what it would mean to actually...

By Betty Ann Brown "In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world."—Graciela Iturbide Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide creates haunting images that portray the people, places, and events of the extraordinary cultures and geographies of her home country. Iturbide has a unique artistic practice that involves living and working with the people she chooses to photograph. Her process has made possible the strange and wonderful depictions for which she is known. In...

With a creative lexicon featuring yarn, pixels, beeswax, and spray paint, Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega has created a new language for herself, one that speaks to the present and the past by using traditional and contemporary techniques, as well as rural and urban sensibilities, to create a body of work that synthesizes all her […]
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Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.

The 80th Issue of Hi-Fructose is coming soon! It includes a cover a feature on the paper collages of Lola Dupre, the Fluffy Vases of Shishi San, the installation paintings of Evgenia Voinar, Debbie Lawson’s textile sculptures, painter Rob Browning’s stark surrealism.  Plus a Special Insert Section focused on the art of Jeff Sheridan, Andrea […]
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Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...

 
Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
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The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...