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Philip Guston loved poets. In 1968, after he and his wife, the artist and poet Musa McKim, and their teenage daughter moved to Woodstock, New York, he began to radically shift his work from abstraction to a cartoonish world of people and things. This change coincided with his beginning to collaborate with a close circle of poet friends, particularly Clark Coolidge, who lived nearby. From then until his death in 1980, he did drawings for many poems, including ones by Coolidge, Bill Berkson, and William Corbett, and also gave drawings to illustrate covers of inexpensively printed little magazines and poetry books published on a mimeograph machine. His generosity to poets was unmatched by other artists. With few...

Just in time for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, World Monuments Fund (WMF) has unveiled a list of 10 historic sites across the United States whose preservation is “essential to the richness and complexity” of the nation’s story. The sites range from colonial-era architecture and public health landmarks to early mission churches, all of which face deterioration without sustained preservation efforts, according to the organization. One designated site will be familiar to art history students: Black Mountain College’s Studies Building in North Carolina, where a remarkable roster of American luminaries in visual art, music, design, and performance studied and taught. Its storied...

Nóema craft prize exhibition brings together 15 emerging makers
 
The inaugural Nóema Craft Prize exhibition is on view inside the former Public Tobacco Factory of the Hellenic Parliament in Athens, introducing an emerging cultural platform that places contemporary craft at the center of conversations around design, architecture, art, and emerging technologies. The presentation frames craft as an evolving discipline through the work of 15 finalists who reinterpret inherited techniques to address questions of identity, ecology, material experimentation, and social change.
 
The exhibition also marks the announcement of the first Nóema Craft Prize winner, with the jury awarding Kostas Lambridis for It’s...

The 79th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on sculptor Willy Verginer, the black and white world of Murayama Tomoaki, the graphic art of Jimi Biscuits, Harriet Mena Hill’s painted rubble, the art of Panama,  Plus a Special Insert Section featuring the art of Marigold Santos, surrealist painter Philip Bosmans, the universal art […]
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Josh Kline’s viral essay highlights how creative people lose gumption in the face of financial burden, but we should all strive for community instead of competing for the wealthy’s attention

What can the pigments of Paleolithic cave paintings tell us about the artists who painted them? Deep in the ancient caves of Spain and Portugal, scientists have discovered evidence of ancient human DNA on cave walls. The find proves for the first time that DNA can survive for millennia within the paint applied to rock walls, opening a future pathway to recovering the identities of ancient artists from thousands of years ago. A new study published in the journal Nature Communications on June 23 examines ancient DNA preserved within pigment samples extracted from 24 rock art panels within 11 caves across Spain and Portugal. The team, led by Alba Bossoms Mesa, is largely from the Max Planck Institute for...

Self-taught German conceptual artist Rune Mields died on June 27 in Cologne, Germany, at the age of 91. Her death was first reported by the German Press Agency. Born in Münster in 1935, Mields came to art-making in her 30s after completing an apprenticeship as a bookseller. She first gained attention for her “Röhrenbilder” (Pipe Paintings) of the late 1960s and early ’70s, large-format monochrome canvases featuring hyperreal renderings of three-dimensional geometric forms. “To understand life,” she told the German art and culture magazine Monopol in 2025, “you have to understand mathematics. It describes the fundamental principles of the world.” By the 1970s, following a move to Cologne,...

In 1975, Stuart Pearson Wright entered the world as a product of artificial insemination, his father’s identity kept anonymous for the entirety of his life even to this day. This fact would fuel Wright’s early, burgeoning interest in expressing himself through the arts and a later rise to prominence in portraiture. In interviews, he would […]
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Andre Clark performing the New Way vogue style he pioneered at the Christopher Street pier, June 2026 (photo Ridikkuluz/Hyperallergic)You might have grown up being told you were doing the most — but on the ballroom floor, that's the point. Posing, strutting, voguing, and flaunting the parts of yourself the world might have shamed are celebrated.If you've ever been to a ball, you know the night always gets initiated with an L.S.S. (Legends, Statements, and Stars), a cocktail hour dedicated to toasting the members of the scene who are paving the way. The commentator, the grand marshal of the night, starts calling out members according to hierarchy. As the commentator calls out each legend, statement,...

In 2007, Magnhild Kennedy indulged a lifelong fascination by moving to London. “I have had London on my mind since I was a teen. I wanted to live there even before my first visit,” she says. Growing up in Trondheim, Norway, from the age of sixteen onward she devoured every image and word in issues […]
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a former prison becomes a hotel in nara
 
On a 25-acre site in Nara, Japan, red brick walls and radiating cell blocks now frame HOSHINOYA Nara Prison, a 48-room hotel built inside one of Japan’s most unusual surviving modern landmarks. The initial announcement surfaced in June 2022 and again when more details were unveiled in September 2023.
 
The former prison, completed in 1908, carries the scale and discipline of a Meiji-era institution, with a central guardhouse and long wings extending outward in a plan designed for surveillance.
 
Hoshino Resorts has opened the property as a heritage hotel after approximately seven years of restoration and renovation, turning a nationally designated Important...

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When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, among the objects and remains preserved for the next two millennia were a collection of carbonized scrolls from a residence in Herculaneum known as the Villa of the Papyri. This ancient Greco-Roman library was situated near Pompeii, just 11 miles from the base of Mount Vesuvius. These ancient scrolls are too fragile to unfurl, stymieing scholars’ attempts over the past few centuries to complete translations of the texts within. That’s where the Vesuvius Challenge comes in. The University of Kentucky launched the project in 2023, with the goal of using machine learning and X-ray technology to make progress on deciphering the preserved Herculaneum scrolls. Over the past...

For the past three decades, pioneering gender and queer theorist Jack Halberstam has redefined his fields of study through unconventional perspectives and cultural forms — as he puts it, “tell[ing] stories slightly differently than the way they’ve been told in the past.” In his seminal 1998 book Female Masculinity, he argued for masculinity in people other than cis men as a category all its own rather than a quality inherent to “maleness.” Since then, he has examined the myriad ways that queerness and gender nonconformity manifest in our surrounding world through subjects as diverse as Lady Gaga and Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are (1963). For his forthcoming book, Anarchitecture After...

The 17th edition of the Gwangju Biennale, a closely watched exhibition in South Korea with a broadly international legacy, will be led by an artistic director selected through an open call—“marking a significant shift in the Biennale’s curatorial selection process,” according to an announcement. As published via e-flux, the announcement states: “Until now, the Artistic Director has been selected through a recommendation-based system, in which a small group of advisors nominated candidates for consideration and a final director was appointed from among them. While the existing system has often brought in internationally renowned figures, the Biennale is embracing a new approach to honor its landmark...

Three Swiss museums—the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich, Museum Rietberg Zurich, and Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève—have collectively returned eighteen courtly and religious objects from the Republic of Benin (now Nigeria). All of the returned items are among the Benin Bronzes: a priceless collection of thousands of artworks which were looted from the ancient […]

Bae Young-hwan, a beloved artist who represented his home country of Korea at the 2005 edition of the Venice Biennale, died on June 19 at 57. His Seoul representative, Gallery BB&M, did not state a cause in its announcement of his passing on June 20, which described Bae’s death as “sudden.” He was most widely known for his artworks that appropriated lyrics from Korean pop songs. Remaking those lyrics from pain medications, disinfectant, and cotton used to soothe wounds, Bae critiqued the optimism of these songs, suggesting that the hope offered by those words was only a temporary patch in the quest to fix a perennial sense of sadness afflicting Korean society. Born in 1969, Bae attended Hongik University...

The vote comes as museum administrators and members of UAW Local 2110 seek to reach a new collective bargaining agreement that addresses healthcare costs and inflation

On a perfect day, I would get up and not snooze,” says Brandi Milne of her ideal day at work. She would then head into the studio at her Huntington Beach, California home, do some warm-up sketches and paint for about eight hours. She would remember to take breaks to stretch. (“That’s really important and […]
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Ninety-eight-year-old Klaus Kallmann, the grandson of Felix Kallmann, a lawyer and art collector has for the past nine years, waged a legal battle involving Paris’s Musée d’Orsay. Kallmann is in pursuit of the ownership of Hôpital Saint-Paul à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1889, a painting by Vincent van Gogh that’s currently part of the institution’s core collection. Kallmann […]

As negotiations for the second contract with the Guggenheim Museum in New York City enter their sixth month, unionized staff across several departments have voted to authorize a strike if necessary. Organized under UAW Local 2110, the Guggenheim's union has been pushing for increased job protections and higher pay following the abrupt layoff of 20 employees in February 2025. After filing a grievance with the National Labor Relations Board regarding the layoffs, the union is zeroing in on additional job security measures and improved severance pay. Union chair Drew Reynolds, who works as a museum educator, said in a press statement that the layoffs that affected 14 union positions were implemented...

In March 2025, the Euclid mission led by the The European Space Agency (ESA) enabled scientists to capture the highest resolution image ever taken of the dense, glowing center of the Milky Way galaxy. An enormous swarm of stars forms a bulge at the heart of the spiral, and researchers continue to search amid these billions of gaseous orbs for exoplanets, or any planet that’s located outside of our solar system. “The galactic bulge—the central region of our galaxy—is a vast, tightly packed structure filled mainly with old, cooler stars, giving it its characteristic yellow colour,” ESA says. The photograph, which is taken with visible light, allows scientists to pinpoint exoplanets and measure their...

Unionized workers at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York voted to strike last week, Artnews reports. According to UAW Local 2110, which represents the institution’s staff,  93 percent of members agreed to the action “if necessary to win a fair contract.” No strike date has been announced as of yet, but the vote […]

Our West Coast editor visits exhibitions at Timothy Hawkinson, Sea View, and Château Shatto.

cav builds a GT40-inspired supercar in cape town
 
From a workshop in Cape Town, Cape Advanced Vehicles returns to one of motorsport’s most recognizable shapes with the GT MkII, a car that sits low, wide, and familiar at first glance. It carries the long roofline, deep-set cabin, and muscular rear haunches associated with the Ford GT40, then moves into a far more current language with a body built around carbon fiber composite.
 
The South African manufacturer has spent nearly three decades producing GT40 recreations, building more than 220 examples before turning toward this new model. Timed with the 60th anniversary of Ford’s 1-2-3 finish at Le Mans in 1966, the GT MkII shifts the company from replica...

The organizers of Skulptur Projekte Münster have revealed an inaugural list of artists and locations for the German sculpture decennial’s sixth iteration, to take place June 13–October 3, 2027. Róza El-Hassan, Hew Locke, Oscar Murillo, Selma Selman, and Iza Tarasewicz are five of the roughly thirty artists who will present works exploring themes of marginalization […]

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The organisation’s new Irreplaceable America programme nods to the importance of the Watts Towers, Black Mountain College and the entire city of New Orleans

Mark Rothko is known for his “color field” paintings, a genre that was coined in the 1950s to describe his work specifically, along with peers like Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still. These works are generally characterized by their total abstraction and emphasis on clearly delineated areas, or “fields,” of different hues. One might also think of Josef Albers’ seminal series titled Homage to the Square, which delved into the virtually infinite relationships between colors. For Rothko, canvases were often very large, measuring upwards of 10 feet. The works inside the Rothko Chapel in Houston, for example, are architectonic, commanding the viewer’s complete attention and inviting us to slow down and...

Grand Tier Grab Bag features the American Zwischenfach mezzo Irene Roberts ahead of an eclectic season of Wagner.

Six-Day Build Turns Timber into Social Infrastructure in A Coruña
 
Un Obradoiro emerges from a hands-on design-build workshop conducted with first-year architecture students at CESUGA (Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios de Galicia) in A Coruña, Spain. Led by Sebastián Erazo and Stefano Pugliese (Erazo Pugliese), together with professors Javier Caride and Tomás Valente, the workshop was co-financed by XERA (Agencia Gallega de la Industria Forestal) and structured as an introductory exercise in architectural production, connecting design development with full-scale construction.
 
The process began with a short phase of site analysis and proposal development carried out in studio over two days....

Brett Dean's Of One Blood casts a well-trodden Tudor tale in a poignant, new light.

Founded by the Brazilian collector Flavia Nespatti, Antesala in Fitzrovia will combine selling shows of Latin American artists with an advisory and public programme

The ten-yearly exhibition will include locations outside the city centre that are undergoing transformation

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NIKO JUNE REASSEMBLES INDUSTRIAL REMNANTS INTO FAMILY OF OBJECTS
 
At the Copenhagen group show Other Circle during 3daysofdesign, Danish studio NIKO JUNE presents Bouquet Theory, an exhibition of cast glass tables, carved wooden stools, drinking glasses, and sculptural objects assembled from found industrial fragments, obsolete molds, steel profiles, and discarded manufacturing components. The project preserves the histories of these materials, allowing their industrial past to shine within each piece and exploring how overlooked materials can be rearranged into functional objects through craft and experimentation.
 
The collection brings together discarded industrial components that would otherwise be...

The artist who I feel should have made it to the Met is Patrizia Ciofi.

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Pictet Group has been named the official partner of Paris Photo, with Prix Pictet receiving a dedicated exhibition at the Grand Palais during the 2026 fair.

Endless's recent exhibition at Cris Contini Contemporary examined London through the visual language of branding, celebrity, street culture

Bagri Foundation launches Springboard, a new curatorial programme supporting artists from Asia first show opening during Frieze Week.

In selvicoltura uno snag è un albero morto che resta in piedi: un organismo cessato e tuttavia non ancora restituito al suolo, più una soglia che un cadavere. Non è un residuo inerte, ma un ecosistema in attività, cavo abitabile per uccelli, insetti, pipistrelli, funghi, licheni – vivo di una vitalità che non è più la propria. È da questa figura sospesa che muove Old Snag, prima personale dell’artista norvegese Ingeborg Tysse (Stavanger, 1992) negli spazi di Société Interludio, a Cambiano (Torino), accompagnata da un testo critico di Caterina Avataneo. Il dato non è secondario: i tre ciliegi morti che reggono l’installazione provengono dai dintorni della galleria, prelevati da quello stesso...

In the Peruvian Amazon, the Shipibo-Konibo people (sometimes also spelled Shipibo-Conibo) have made their home around the verdant Ucayali River basin for millennia. Their visual culture is richly informed by their belief systems and the environment in which they live, where foraged clay, wild cotton, and plants used to make pigments have sustained a steadfast artistic tradition known as Kené. The exhibition Akinananti at White Cube illuminates the work of artist Sara Flores, whose meticulous patterns rendered with organic, handmade inks continue an ancient Indigenous tradition. The gallery says, “In the Shipibo language, ‘Akinananti’ describes work done together with love and joy—a practice and...

Before the days of of Reddit, Facebook, and most other social networks, DeviantArt was fostering an online community dedicated to artists and art lovers. Featuring a vast array of exciting and innovative projects across photography, painting, design, comics, and much more, the platform has spent the last 25 years connecting creators, collectors, and sellers working in every style and medium. DeviantArt is now home to a diverse, active global community of more than 108 million members. Offering far beyond the traditional social networks, the platform enables users to discover art, build audiences, and grow their creative businesses—all within a single ecosystem. “At its heart, DeviantArt is an art...

A figure carrying a small suitcase crosses the gangplank onto an ocean liner. A woman stands amid a city street, waiting for a tram. And a man in a fedora heads toward historic steps in what is perhaps a European city. Yet if you look a little closer, you’ll see the roofs resemble milk cartons. The tram rolls in amid books stood on end. And in the distance beyond the docked ships… a giant coffee mug? Since 2013, Derrick Lin has created miniature dioramas on his desk. Hand-painted figures inhabit settings constructed from cardboard and found objects, often with a nostalgic twist. And in a nod to the the tableaux’s tiny characteristics, he playfully pops in references to the scale of the real world, hence...

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Leoncillo Leonardi (1915–1968), known as Leoncillo, was one of the most important Italian sculptors of the post-war period.

Interval One, a new annual programme pairing emerging artists with major historical figures launches with Scarlet Topley and Ed Ruscha.

Giannina Arangi-Lombardi never sang at the Met.

Da chi viene scritta la storia? Come possiamo ripensare il futuro attraverso gli occhi di chi vive le violenze e le ingiustizie di questo tempo? Sono queste alcune delle domande che pone Nalini Malani con Of Woman Born, progetto site-specific commissionato dal Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) di New Delhi con l’attenta curatela della direttrice artistica Roobina Karode e presentato presso i Magazzini del Sale come evento collaterale della 61° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia nel 2026.
Nalini Malani, “Of Woman Born”, 2026, camera di animazione con 9 iPad, audio, dimensioni variabili, installation view. Collezione Kiran Nadar Museum of Art © Nalini Malani
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All’interno del nostro quotidiano vi sono immagini che lasciano impresse un segno, un ricordo, qualcosa che sappiamo per certo possa poi definire la nostra storia. Nel nuovo spazio di Piazza Teresa Noce 17, Torino, la neonata Associazione Olfacta Project, fondata dall’artista olfattiva Francesca Casale, ha inaugurato lo scorso 6 giugno la mostra dal titolo “Strade a doppio senso” bipersonale degli artisti Carola Allemandi e Lorenzo Gnata, a cura di Filippo Mollea Ceirano.
AA.VV., “Strade a doppio senso”, 2026, photo credits Lorenzo Gnata, courtesy Olfacta Project
Al suo interno i ricordi sono accompagnati dalle sinfonie olfattive create da Casale, vicine alle note del sandalo e descritte dalla...

The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

Brundibár at the Opéra Comique combines whimsy with historicity to sobering effect.

Può l’arte curare le cicatrici invisibili di una comunità? Nella mostra Le ferite di Bologna, curata a Villa delle Rose da Ludovico Pratesi, Marco Bassan e Chiara Lorenzetti (Spazio Taverna) per il Settore Musei Civici del Comune di Bologna, dieci artisti italiani di diverse generazioni affrontano altrettanti traumi cruciali della storia bolognese. L’esposizione si configura come un viaggio analitico e catartico attraverso dieci traumi storici che hanno segnato la coscienza civile della città, in cui ogni artista è stato invitato a confrontarsi con una specifica “ferita” cittadina operando su un unico, identico supporto: un foglio di carta artigianale Amatruda. La texture materica della carta si fa...

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Cosa accade al ritratto quando non riesce più a sostenere la propria immagine, quando essa si ritira prima di formarsi del tutto, o diventa così materialmente densa da non poter più essere vista come immagine? Questa domanda è al cuore di Between Silence and Surface. The Appearance of Skin, curata da Tetiana Bairaka all’Ukrainian Art House di Londra (18 maggio – 30 giugno 2026). Riunendo i lavori dell’artista ucraina Alina Pyatnova, nota come Limpika Lilac, e dell’artista britannico Anthony-Noel Kelly, la mostra esamina il ritratto ai limiti della visibilità, posizionando il medium come un sito di tensione tra iper-presenza e dissoluzione. Attraverso i loro distinti trattamenti della pelle,...

In Alexis Trice’s dreamy worlds, ethereal looking fish, hounds, shells, and clouds mingle and sparkle like jewels in a crepuscular haze. It’s in a hypnogogic state (where dreams and reality interweave) that they really spring to life: swimming, prancing, basking, and even weeping. Like sand passed through our fingers, though, their seemingly solid forms vanish […]
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By Melanie Chapman There is much to appreciate about the new pop-up exhibition Hospital of Emotions, currently on view at St. Vincent Medical Center (2131 W. Third Street, Los Angeles) until July 31. But if you want to maximize the benefits of your visit, avoid the bombardment of images now flooding the internet and even consider not reading this review. Like seeing all the best parts of a movie by watching the trailer, it is better to just go, and go soon, with as little advanced exposure as...