lacma’s David Geffen Galleries debut in L.A.
 
DRIFT has released Franchise Freedom, its illuminated flock of dancing drones, over the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), to mark the opening of the Peter Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries in Los Angeles.
 
Set along Wilshire Boulevard, the event placed two systems into conversation. The David Geffen Galleries extend horizontally in sand-toned concrete, forming a continuous elevated plane across the site. Above it, DRIFT’s formation of illuminated drones moved through the evening air, shifting in density and direction. One holds its position through mass and structure, the other through motion and coordination.
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Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world.Last week, Marina Abramović opened her first solo presentation in Berlin since the 1990s, the bombastically named, “Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition” at Gropius Bau. Set to run through August 23, the show brings together historical and recent works, tracing her long-standing engagement with ritual, eroticism, death, and the body as a site of political and spiritual intensity. Drawing on Balkan folklore, alongside Abramović’s performance history, the exhibition moves between film, installation, sculpture, and live action to create an environment...

For 60 years and counting, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has moved with the times, both in its changes of location and navigating the art world, curating its archives with a startup’s mentality and an appetite for risk

The eclectic collection spans hundreds of years and includes ceramics, textiles and photographs, as well as documents from Rivera and Kahlo’s personal archives

Art Dubai, which earlier this spring announced its postponement amid the US and Israel’s sustained attack on Iran, has revealed the details of the “special edition” that will take the place of the originally planned twentieth-anniversary event. Whereas that iteration of Art Dubai had been set to take place in April with roughly 120 exhibitors […]

Palantir, Anduril, and the aesthetics of avant-garde fascism

Cemeteries are spaces where ritual and reflection converge, where commemorations of life co-exist with contemplations of human mortality. In Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, a new pair of installations by artist Jean Shin question how ritual and reflection mark cycles of time, shaping what we carry with us and what we choose to leave behind. Situated in a meadow facing the cemetery’s brownstone Gothic Revival gates, “Offering” (2026), unveiled to the public on April 18, is a site-specific regenerative earthwork that pays tribute to trees that have spent their entire lives at Green-Wood. The installation was informed by tumuli, artificial burial mounds of earth and stone found all over the world. Shin...

A group of scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has built a new machine-learning program that might help art historians determine how many artists’ hands contributed to the creation of centuries-old artworks. The dozen researchers who published the paper in Science Advances range from physicists and computer scientists to art historians and anthropologists. The AI model is called PATCH, which stands for pairwise assignment training for classifying heterogeneity. It works by comparing 1-centimeter-square “patches” of artworks that are known to have been painted by an individual artist (rather than a group of artists, or a workshop, as was common during the early modern...

President Donald Trump has long fondly envisioned a sculpture garden dedicated to 250 American heroes. You know, people like George Washington, the country’s first president, and Alex Trebek, the longtime host of TV game show Jeopardy! Sculpted in traditional materials at larger than life size, these mythical sculptures have been on his mind for six years, and he has publicly promised “a beautiful complex.” But now, the National Garden of American Heroes is less than three months out from its planned opening date of July 4, 2026, the 250th birthday of the United States, and it looks as though not even one sculpture will be standing by that time, according to unnamed sources in a CNN report. According to...

One of 16 drawings and petroglyphs Mexican archaeologists discovered along a multi-billion-dollar planned train route in Mexico (all photos Gerardo Pena, courtesy INAH)Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered 16 pre-Hispanic artworks along the route of a forthcoming passenger train connecting the country’s capital to the city of Querétaro. The artworks, including paintings and petroglyphs, surfaced as part of an archaeological project supported by the Mexican government and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The institution announced the discovery last week, months after the initial findings were made in January.Following the discovery, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she...

Since I first saw Jule Korneffel’s acrylic and natural pigment paintings at her thesis exhibition at Hunter in 2018, I have watched an increasing gravitas enter her work in debut and subsequent exhibitions at Spencer Brownstone Gallery in 2019 and 2022, and a 2025 group exhibition I curated that included her work. Korneffel develops a palette for each painting based on research and intuition. She pays particular attention to the paint’s viscosity and its capacity for making distinct kinds of marks. One of the engaging paradoxes of her work is the relationship between austerity and lushness, restraint and declaration. The marks — their shape and thickness — seem crucial and spontaneous, while...

“How long can you silence the very thing that makes you human?” asks our Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara in his review of Ai Weiwei’s new book On Censorship. The dissident Chinese artist’s “small but mighty” book draws on a lifetime of fighting state control and packs in ever timely reflections on the harms of censorship — not just in authoritarian regimes, but also in the so-called enlightened West. Also in this edition: a sojourn inside a Black Panther family album, a peek into the lives of the now-anonymous painters in the Qing dynasty Canton trade system, and a semi-autobiographical novel about a predatory art teacher. —Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor“Joju & Maceo [Cleaver], Hydra 1970”...

wood, stone, and ceramic shape ‘rebirth’ immersive exhibition
 
SM Bureau presents ‘Rebirth’ in Paris as a spatial composition of collectible design, where objects in wood, stone, and ceramic define the space they inhabit. The exhibition explores how material and light interact to construct atmosphere and perception. Rather than a conventional display, the project is conceived as a structured environment, where each piece operates as part of a larger spatial system. Furniture, sculptural objects, and wall works are positioned with attention to proportion, distance, and alignment, creating a quiet and immersive setting between gallery and interior. Material transformation lies at the core of the...

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., has announced the return of 17 rare books to the heirs of John Hay and Betsey Cushing Whitney. The books, which were stolen from the couple’s Long Island home in the 1980s, include works by John Keats, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and the Brothers Grimm. John Whitney, who died in 1982, served as publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, president of the Museum of Modern Art, and Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Betsey Whitney, who died in 1998, was known for establishing the Greentree Foundation in 1983. The couple were noted art collectors: their holdings featured works by 19th- and 20th-century European and American masters. After John’s death, most of their...

The totemic object was a source of intense interest among post-war artists like Louise Nevelson and Joan Miró, who created personages from found items, echoing the monuments of Indigenous groups. More recently, Simone Leigh has attempted to revisit these objects in a decolonial light, mining their symbolism to deconstruct imperialist histories. The five sculptures in Do Not Be Afraid at Parent Company are Leonardo Madriz’s gangly, knotted additions to this legacy. Madriz anthropomorphizes each work as a sentinel, inscribing a role of protector into the assortments of rope, resin, and found items. Their identities are formed through poetic relationships between the objects that comprise the structures and...

James Hayward, a West Coast painter whose abstractions earned him a loyal cult following among artists, died on April 16. He was 82, according to a brief obituary posted by his studio over the weekend. Hayward may not be among the most well-known names to emerge from the postwar period, but many artists knew and loved his work. Mike Kelley, for example, once praised him as “one of the few truly important West Coast painters.” His process was marked by a certain eccentricity that differentiated his art from a lot of similar work. From the mid-1970s onward, Hayward largely produced monochrome abstractions. But where many single-color canvases from the era were characterized by the smooth, even application of...

The TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Australia, has tapped Sydney-based writer, researcher, and curator Mikala Tai to curate the Tenth TarraWarra Biennial, to take place July 31–November 4, 2027. Launched in 2006, the TarraWarra Biennial is just one of a few surveys of contemporary Australian art. Tai is an expert in in contemporary Australian and […]

renaissance of the real: an ethereal landscape in milan
 
Snøhetta partners with USM Modular Furniture to create Renaissance of the Real, an otherworldly installation during Milan Design Week 2026. It unfolds in the garden of Fondazione Luigi Rovati as a lightweight space that frames the relationship between structure, body, and perception.
 
The project reads as a constructed landscape. From the exterior, USM’s familiar grid extends across the lawn in low platforms and open frameworks, its green panels catching filtered light beneath the trees. These modular volumes act as a permeable scaffold that organizes movement and allows the garden and surrounding architecture to show throughout.
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Tracing Michael Krebber's Legacy

Scotland celebrates a bicentenary of art in style.

BLOOM, in that sense, feels less like a snapshot of an art world and more like a diagram of both un- and re-artworlding. 

Art Basel has announced the thirty-three winners of its 2026 edition of the Art Basel Awards, the second iteration of a round of accolades it introduced last year in order to honor individual artists, curators and major players in the contemporary art system; as well as institutions in a broader sense.  As was the case […]

When we think of “invasive species,” perhaps zebra mussels or kudzu vine spring to mind. Both have flourished in their non-native environments and continue to threaten other native organisms. Invasive species aren’t inherently bad—they’re just trying to survive—but by definition, they’re likely to disrupt local ecosystems and even cause billions of dollars worth of damage each year. So, what does one California city have to say about its burgeoning population of… peacocks? Introduced by a businessman and land baron named Elias Lucky Baldwin more than a century ago, the avian population has long called the area home. Over the years, though, as the originally open area filled with homes and...

miart 2026 leans into growth, supporting galleries as they evolve. We pick six standout artists — including one that sparked a rare “is that art?” moment.

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an 18th-century carousel reborn in milan
 
At Milan Design Week 2026, Laila Gohar presents her collaboration with ARKET through a public installation at Giardino delle Arti, where a reworked fairground carousel becomes the central device for introducing her first ready-to-wear collection.
 
The installation takes the form of an antique carousel adapted from a rare late-18th-century model, its horses replaced by oversized fruits and vegetables. The shift is immediate and legible. Familiar objects are enlarged, displaced, and set into motion, turning a childhood structure into something closer to a staged environment for adults.
 
Gohar’s work has long operated in this territory, using food as both material...

room for dreams is now live at ME Milan Il Duca
 
Now open during Milan Design Week 2026, designboom’s ROOM FOR DREAMS takes over ME Milan Il Duca, transforming the Aldo Rossi-designed hotel at Piazza della Repubblica into a layered environment where installations, live talks, daily rituals, and film screenings unfold. Conceived as a temporary ecosystem, the project explores dreaming as a deliberate tool for social and cultural transformation, activating the building through a sequence of immersive, interconnected experiences.
 
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From SolidNature and AMO/OMA’s installation led by Samir Bantal to the Cinema of Dreams by Paf atelier and a LIVE talk with Philippe Starck,...

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Gregory Spears, whose newest opera Sleepers Awake opens this week at Opera Philadelphia, is reviving Romanticism

Mark Ellen Mark (1940 – 2015) is one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. For four decades, she turned her lens upon those marginalised, overlooked and neglected by society. This month, her iconic works are on display alongside self-taught Turkish artist Sabiha Çimen (b. 1986) at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. Sabiha Çimen and Mary Ellen Mark: The Girls highlights the universal nature of being a girl, captured by two artists separated by time and geography. The photographers never met, but their careers intertwined briefly in 2012, when Çimen was asked by a curator to locate a Turkish girl photographed by Mark in 1965. The curator was curious about subject’s...

In the large-scale murals of Alex Senna, figures gather, greet one another, relax, and interact with their own shadows in bold compositions. The Brazilian artist is known for his black-and-white murals that emphasize community and emotional bonds. Togetherness, security, and positivity pervade the scenes, sometimes playful and other times more contemplative. Set against colorful backgrounds and amid urban structures, Senna’s pieces emphasize connection, support, reflection, and belonging. At the end of May, Senna embarks on a tour across Italy, France, and Spain to participate in several festivals. Follow the artist’s Instagram for updates. Festival Monstar, Bosnia (2022). Photo by Ilda Kero...

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Spaces in Norwich, Plymouth and Cambridge will be considered alongside London heavyweights for the £120,000 award

Two West African musical instruments at the Fowler Museum were looted by British troops in the late 19th century

Organised by curator Ekow Eshun, "A Chorus of Strangers" includes artists such as Alex Margo Arden, Alvaro Barrington, Lubna Chowdhary and Jesse Darling

"Du bist die ruh" was one of the first art songs I ever knew.

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What does it mean to make art together, apart? As digital infrastructures reshape how we connect and collaborate, creatives are no longer bound to the physical studio – nor are students. In fact, a growing number of arts education programmes are rethinking how practice can be taught, shared and sustained across distance. Falmouth University’s MA Fine Art Online is one such course. Aesthetica speaks to lecturers Josie Cockram, Kate Fahey and Srin Surti about how the programme brings together artists working across continents, contexts and disciplines to engage with global political, economic, social and ecological change. They reflect on recent showcases, share success stories and consider what lies...

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Just three percent of the world’s land remains ecologically intact, with healthy numbers of all its original animals and undisturbed habitat. According to WWF’s Living Planet Report, the average size of wildlife populations fell by a staggering 73% between 1970 and 2020, and a 2022 study warned that more than 1 in 10 species could be lost by the end of the century. Photographer Zed Nelson’s latest project asks the question: how did we let ourselves get here? The Anthropocene Illusion is the result of six years of travel, during which Nelson visited 14 countries across four continents to observe how humans immerse themselves in increasingly artificial landscapes. People holiday on synthetic beaches...

Respighi's liriche can be as colorful, poetic, and downright lovely as any selection from other art song traditions. Case in point: Rosa Feola's recording of the first song from Quattro rispetti toscani.

Red threads, inventive art history, mental health, Samurai and shadows.

Ten years since the death of countertenor Brian Asawa, Charles Stanton remembers his friend and corrects the record on his untimely passing.

In 1912, Pablo Picasso and George Braque began experimenting with combining artworks on a page. As art critic Michael Bird wrote, it “transformed collage from parlour game to avant-garde medium.” The process soon became popular in Modernist and Cubist circles, as artists sought new methods of creative expression, Yet, this narrative, as Fiona Rogers writes in the introduction to Cut Out, presents “historians and art critics with something of a conundrum.” The reality is that there were makers all over the world, mostly women, folk and Indigenous artist, who have been relegated to the margins of the practice. Cut Out, a new publication from Thames & Hudson presents collage, assemblage and montage as a...

This task feels near impossible, as I listen to a LOT of art song singers on repeat, across decades and continents (from piano to orchestral works)  — mostly for pleasure, but also for study. 

By Katherine Kesey In the last few years, Los Angeles's Melrose Hill neighborhood has quickly become one of the city's most walkable arts districts. This past Saturday night, there were nearly ten coordinated openings, and I attended almost all of them. Taken individually, the shows were equally captivating. Together, they were a warm and exciting medley of passionate color, lighthearted mystery, and wry humor. Hannah Tishkoff, Beyond Love There is No Belief. 2026. Acrylic, oil, and pennies...

Feline antics are notoriously chaotic. “The cat is, above all things, a dramatist,” author and Egyptologist Margaret Benson is to have said. Sacred to ancient Egyptians, domestic cats share more than 95% of their genetic makeup with tigers, and they can leap five times their height and turn into veritable spring mechanisms when startled. Also, would the Internet be the same without cat memes? For Léo Forest, these lovable, independent, wily, and territorial creatures provide an endless source of inspiration for dynamic pencil drawings. The Paris-based artist’s playful works tap into the physical and emotional quirks of cats, from brawling pairs to individuals in the midst of grooming, scratching, or...

In a converted 18th-century chapel on the grounds of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a strange form creeps through openings in the architecture. One can imagine its clipper- and knife-footed tendrils scurrying across the floor as it spills from an upper aperture and even slithers around part of the building’s exterior. Its otherworldly genesis is at the hands of Nicola Turner, known for her monumental, contorted textile installations that often heave and surge from structures and public spaces. Turner’s solo exhibition, Time’s Scythe, comprises forms made of recycled wool and horsehair, which she hand-stitches inside of mesh to create the bulging, knotted forms. “This is Turner’s first large-scale...

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Chairs hung from the ceiling. Colourful playgrounds as interior spaces. Two-metre-high seating towers. This is the world of Danish designer Verner Panton (1926–1998), who is being celebrated by Vitra Design Museum this spring. The retrospective exhibition, Form, Colour, Space, opens in line with the 100th anniversary of Panton’s birth – a centenary which is also to be marked by other major destinations, including the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin and Designmuseum Danmark. Panton is recognised for shaping design in the second half of the 20th century, by taking a playful, sculptural approach to domestic space. This show is a chance to be immersed in his vision, to which colour, textiles and light...

For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Nature category: Sophie Altemus.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sophie Altemus is a photographer currently studying at Oberlin College in Ohio. Working primarily in the realm of snapshot photography, she carries a camera with her everywhere she goes.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of design variables, you can...

It’s one thing to marvel at the inner workings of a transistor radio or a timepiece, but for artist Manabu Kosaka, that curiosity reaches a whole new level. Using nothing but paper, the artist makes scale replicas of cameras, watches, gaming consoles, shoes, food, and more with a preternatural attention to detail. Not only does a 35mm film camera include a strap and a back hatch that opens, the lever used to advance the film and other gears are also built into the top, some of which are even moveable. Around ten years ago, Kosaka faced uncertainty about the direction of his work. “During that time, I spoke with a friend who works in art direction, and they suggested that I try creating with simpler...

Filipino fishermen unload catches of Yellowfin tuna, Bigeye tuna, and Blue Marlin, after being at sea for approximately one month, at General Santos fish port, the Philippines, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. General Santos is known as the Philippines’ tuna capital and hub for tuna fishing and exports of the products. The city hosts numberous processing facilities where the fish, primarily tun, is packaged or canned for sale ot the Filipino market and for export worldwide. ©Nicole Tung for Fondation Carmignac Overfishing in Southeast Asia, on view until April 26, 2026, at the Bronx Documentary Center, is a powerful and layered exhibition by photojournalist Nicole Tung, laureate of the 15th Carmignac...

In the forest nothing stands still. Time layered through thoughts and feelings, leaves kicked and crunched as we walk. The trees talk to each other, sending mycelium messages, carbon gifts, and warnings of drought or illness. From ancient wisdom to popular culture, it’s all here.
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, did it make a sound? Of course it did. And if Jo Stapleton was there to capture the moment, there would be a visual symphony of light, shape and form to follow.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, this beautiful collection of 100 images by Jo Stapleton is an expressionist photographic account of her interactions with trees, forest and woodland, later remembered and...

In a world not so unlike our own, during a time not that long ago, a mother wolf sits comfortably upon an abandoned tree stump in a clearing in the woods. Surrounded by carefully rendered flora and fauna, the creature is positioned upright with impeccable posture and human-like mannerisms. Her hind legs are crossed at […]
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For our fourth edition of the Booooooom Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners, one for each of the following categories: Portrait, Street, Colour, Nature, Student. You can view all the winners and shortlisted photographers here.
It’s our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Colour category, Chanyoung Chung. Born in South Korea and raised in Montréal, Chung came to photography after seven years working as a nurse in Vancouver. Now back in Montréal, he creates still-life images in the studio while also photographing traces of contemporary life beyond it. His work invites reflection on peace, cooperation, and the quiet harmony that can emerge within society.
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By Kristine Schomaker The work hits immediately. Not one piece — all of it, simultaneously. Large sculptural assemblages covering the walls, a freestanding sculpture in the middle of the room, a piece suspended from the ceiling. The whole gallery feeling like its own solar system, each work a satellite orbiting something enormous and unspoken. Last night, four humans splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after flying around the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years. Artemis II...