TRIMINÓ: modular furniture series for early childhood learning
 
TRIMINÓ is a modular furniture system designed for early childhood education environments, developed by Lais Ferraz. The project transforms conventional school storage units into interactive elements that support learning through play, targeting children up to six years old.
 
The system is based on a modular logic influenced by construction toys, allowing units to be combined and reconfigured. Integrated sensory features, including chalkboard surfaces, analog clocks, and letter-based handles, encourage interaction, supporting the development of motor skills, basic literacy, and spatial awareness. These elements are embedded directly into the...

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Sound sculptures by yuri suzuki form social architecture
 
Yuri Suzuki‘s sound sculptures propose a simple yet radical idea: that collective life can be built through listening. Across his work, the horn appears as a recurring instrument, a flared tube that gathers sound at one end and releases it at the other. While its function is technical, in Suzuki’s hands it becomes social in order to carry voices across space and turn sound into a shared experience. The horn acts as a connector, a device that closes distance and brings people together through interaction, resonance and exchange.
 
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After a four-year process and two-year closure, the New Museum has finally returned. Designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas, this 60,000-square-foot expansion doubles the institution's exhibition space and creates more room for artist residencies, public programs, and its "cultural incubator," NEW INC. The inaugural exhibition, New Humans: Memories of the Future, explores what it means to be human amidst cataclysmic technological change across the 20th and 21st centuries through the work of more than 150 artists, scientists, filmmakers, and more. It's certainly bigger, but is it better? Hyperallergic's editors got together after the press preview earlier today to share our thoughts...

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New York City sees the completion of the New Museum‘s long-awaited expansion by OMA, which now stands proudly alongside its iconic SANNA-designed counterpart. Realized under the direction of Shohei Shigematsu, the addition rises along the Bowery as a distinct yet closely linked counterpart to its neighbor, which first opened in 2007.
 
‘It’s a new New Museum composed of two distinct yet highly connected buildings, independent but in constant dialogue,‘ Shigematsu explains ahead of the building’s public opening. Rather than merging into a single form, the two volumes maintain their independence, as OMA’s folding facade contrasts with the familiar...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Éliane Radigue (1932–2026)French experimental composer She pioneered electronic music in the 1960s through her use of feedback and tape loops. Her work has been performed or exhibited by the San Francisco Art Institute, New York Cultural Art Center, and other institutions around the world.Brad Bucher (1942–2026)Houston arts patron and collectorBucher was known for supporting arts institutions across the city alongside his wife, Leslie, from an artist-in-residence program at Rice University to a gallery at the Glassell School of Art. He was also a dedicated researcher who contributed to the vital work of...

‘REMEMBERING THE FUTURE’: PROCESS revealed THROUGH NEW FILM
 
A newly released behind-the-scenes video traces the technical process behind Remembering the Future, the woven work by Janet Echelman at the MIT Museum. On view from September 18th, 2025 through Fall 2027, the installation occupies the museum’s central atrium and uses braided fibers to translate climate data into a suspended artwork.
 
Upon entering the MIT Museum, attention moves upward to Echelman’s expansive net sculpture. Layers of hand-spliced fibers in gradients of orange and blue stretch across the atrium, forming a suspended canopy above the staircase. During the day, natural light passes through the open mesh, while at night...

Asia Week descends upon New York City starting tomorrow, March 19, and as one would expect, there’s a lot of art to cover when it comes to the world’s largest continent and its diaspora. The next 10 days are devoted to celebrating art history, antiquities, material culture, and centuries-old traditions spanning from Persia to Japan. We’ve selected eight standout events, including educational lectures, timely exhibitions, specialized auctions, and spots to check out art and cultural heritage from various eras and regions — from miniature painting and Chinese porcelain to Japanese woodblock printing, contemporary art, and much more. Check out Asia Week New York’s website for a complete listing of...

Paintings by Impressionist artist Claude Monet (1840–1926) are some of the most valuable artworks in the world; in 2019 his Meules (Haystacks) soared to $110.7 million at Sotheby’s New York, setting an auction record for an Impressionist painting that still stands today. From glowing haystacks painted at different hours of the day to his monumental Nymphéas (Water Lilies) canvases and ethereal Venetian cityscapes, Monet’s work has attracted a global following of collectors eager to own a piece of his luminous art. But at the beginning of his career Monet, like many of the Impressionists, struggled to make ends meet. As reported by Artnet News, a letter confirming a loan to the artist from Gustave...

The baton is being passed from an elder generation of French art dealer to a younger one, with the purchase of Galerie Malingue by dealer Kamel Mennour, who will take over Malingue’s 4,300-square-foot showroom at 26 Avenue Matignon in Paris’s Matignon district. “Located in a space with a long history in modern art, formerly Galerie Malingue, this new venue reflects Mennour’s continued growth while setting out a clear direction: the showcasing of significant works by modern, post-war and contemporary artists from private collections,” said the gallery in an emailed announcement.  “This curatorial programme complements the gallery’s primary market activity and its longstanding work with artist...

The Alborz Mountain range is bombed in my hometown and becomes a fragile line on a map. Dark clouds fill the sky over Tehran; black rain flows on the streets I once walked. I watch explosions from far away through fragments of video, asking myself: How far was that from my mother’s house? I am certain the shockwave reached her.News arrives through the thin glass of my phone screen, and it feels as if the sky itself has collapsed onto the earth. Distance does not soften the terror. It only deepens my helplessness. In moments like this, I realize that geography is not measured in miles, but in attachment. War rearranges distance.These days I find myself returning to "The Conference of the Birds," the...

Seattle police have arrested a man for allegedly shattering highly valuable glass sculptures at Chihuly Garden and Glass, an art installation featuring works from the studio of acclaimed glassblower Dale Chihuly.The 40-year-old suspect, identified as Alexander Taylor Weis, allegedly caused $240,000 worth of damage to multiple plant-shaped glass artworks on Monday night, March 16. He was later arrested on suspicion of burglary and assault after police arrived at the venue, which is directly adjacent to the city's Space Needle observation tower.The Seattle Police Department said the suspect threw broken glass at the exhibition's security staff and attempted to stab one guard with shards multiple times....

Museums in the UK are being forced to reckon with the country’s colonial past once again, after an investigation published by the Guardian on March 7 revealed that these institutions collectively hold over 263,000 items of human remains from across the world. Through freedom of information (FoI) requests, the Guardian determined that around 37,000 items […]

One hundred eighty-three artists, curators, and art workers participating in the Sixty-First Venice Biennale have signed an open letter demanding that Israel be excluded from the event, saying that the Biennale’s “complicity with the attempted destruction of Palestinian life must end.” Among the signatories to the missive, which was organized by the Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) are artists Sophia […]

Workers at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio have complained to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) about headaches, nausea, and dizziness thought to be caused by a chemical sealant used on gallery floors. As reported Tuesday by the Columbus Dispatch, the museum used the floor sealing product GT 275 during recently commenced renovation work on its Ross building, and employees have complained about fumes throughout the institution in the weeks since work began. A former gallery associate told the paper that several museum workers have called in sick and that the “maintenance team gave the workers information on the sealer and handed out N95 masks.” According to the Dispatch, which...

A major corporate sponsor of the Sydney Biennale, Australia’s biggest art exhibition, has withdrawn following allegations of antisemitism involving a DJ in its program. On Tuesday, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies filed a police complaint over comments allegedly made by US electronic music producer Zubeyda Muzeyyen, who performs as DJ Haram, during a set at the Biennale’s opening night party last week at White Bay Power Station, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Muzeyyen is accused of having referred to a “Zio-Australian-Epstein empire,” making a tribute to “martyrs” and using the phrase “long live the resistance”—which the complaint says is “commonly understood” as a call for “acts...

After nearly ten years in New York, London-based gallery Timothy Taylor will close its stateside outpost after the conclusion of its current show of James Prapaithong; thereby joining the ranks of many other New York City galleries that have shuttered in recent months, ARTnews reports.  “In light of current market conditions, the gallery has made the decision to […]

A man caused $240,000 in damage to the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum in Seattle late on Monday night, according to a report by the local police. The Seattle Police Department did not name the man, saying only that he was 40 and that he was arrested for assault. The blotter report described the vandalism as “catastrophic damage.” According to the report, the man destroyed several sculptures of plants located on the museum’s grounds. Those sculptures are by Dale Chihuly, whose glass sculptures are highly prized. “Officers found large pieces of colorful broken glass on the walking path and scattered around the area,” the police said, noting that the man was taken into custody after security identified...

Known for his atmospheric photographs of landscapes, interiors, and urban centers that feel mysteriously locked in a not-so-distant past, Andrew Moore’s enigmatic images invite us into a slippage of time. Often—but not always—devoid of people, his scenes have a timelessness about them, as if they could have unfolded at any point over the past several decades. Sometimes it feels as though someone may have just walked by; others, it’s as if no one has viewed the scene for many years. In his current solo exhibition, Theater, the artist’s photographs of grand staircases, aging stages, and box office ticket booths hearken to a bygone era before screens. Additional compositions featuring a bar, art...

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The beleaguered John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will close for two years to undergo renovations following a unanimous vote from the board, which is helmed by Donald Trump, the New York Times reported on Monday. In a press release, the Center indicated that the facilities will close down in July following an Independence Day celebration.  […]

POND, a duo show by Daisy Dickens and ?lke ?ahin, presents a series of paintings, sculptures, and installations shaped by self-organising material processes.

twirl tower comes alive through shared rotation in china
 
At Shenzhen’s OCT-LOFT, Daxing Jizi Design’s Twirl Tower is a public installation created for the 2026 Super New Year event, which works as a kinetic system powered by its visitors. Turn the circular base, and the whole structure begins to respond, gears catching one another as movement travels upward through its stacked layers. 
 
The form borrows from a celebration cake, with layered rings rising one above the other, soft in appearance yet precise in construction. Inside, one tier moves forward, and the next reverses, creating a continuous back-and-forth rhythm.
 
As the motion builds, the tower becomes a shifting field of color and rotation....

Graph paper is commonly used for plotting, well, graphs, plus other spatial and mathematical visualizations. But for Pejac, its potential goes way beyond a two-dimensional gridded surface. The artist, who is known for his trompe-l’œil paintings and playful street art interventions, often turns to the precise geometry of gridded sketchbooks in order to challenge perception and think instead about depth and movement. From a group of kids tossing snowballs—wait, they’re cubes from the grid itself—to a construction worker carving out a silhouette of the famous Sistine Chapel motif of God and Adam’s hands touching, Pejac challenges our sense of space and the possibilities of the “blank slate.” Find...

The New York institution opens its $82m expansion with a huge exhibition of works by more than 200 artists, from Salvador Dalí to Precious Okoyomon

Walk through any contemporary art fair in a major city and the shift becomes clear. Cannabis imagery now appears in... Read More

Embroidery as an art form is often overlooked as a craft, but that is part of its appeal to Burbank, California-based artist Michelle Kingdom, who uses embroidery to express her innermost thoughts and escape to her imaginary world. Michelle Kingdom’s unexpected approach to embroidery is like a painter’s, and some have dubbed her work as […]
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Constructive Reasoning positions drawing not as decoration, but as a way of thinking through fashion itself.

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A fashionable bat, a melancholy sun, and a springtime spirit with seasonal allergies are just a few of the characters conceived by Cat Johnston. Drawing on childhood memories, folk art, and nature, the London-based illustrator and model maker creates expressive sculptures and puppets that inhabit dreamlike realms. Invoking historical costumes and cartoonish and emotive faces, Johnston’s otherworldly cast seems both familiar and strange, as if children’s book protagonists have sprung to life or converged with a strange dream. Recent characters comprise a series of gods representing sunburn, hay fever, and insomnia, which also—rather inconveniently—are the sun, flowers, and the moon. Johnston recently...

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Parterre Box answers the question, "how can a singer do both Tristan and Nemorino within a few month of each other?" with a clip of a recent role debut from Michael Spyres.

Gordon Parks is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, Park was drawn to photography as a young man. He dedicated his life to documenting the realities of American culture, focusing on social justice, race relations, the civil rights movement and the African American experience. In 1942, he spent time capturing the neighbourhoods and communities of Washington D.C., images that would become foundational documents of Black life. More than 80 years later, Beverly Price photographs the same streets. Her work centres the experiences of children, showing them in moments of joy and reverie, reminding audiences that childhood needs to be...

As cultural leaders from across the world meet in Hong Kong, we speak to three of the key figures at the city's West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) to find out how they are rethinking their audiences

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Currently director of Tate Liverpool, Legg will be responsible for the RA’s exhibitions, collection and public programme

The Royal Academy of Arts has announced the appointment of Helen Legg as its new Artistic Director,

“More is more” is the phrase most associated with Maximalism – a design philosophy defined by its celebration of bold colours, layered patterns and rich textures. It has roots in 17th century Baroque and Rococo, resurfacing in the 1980s with the Memphis Group’s rejection of minimalism. Today, it’s experiencing a renaissance in the form of so-called “dopamine décor” and is being picked up by a new vanguard of creatives. Enter Precious Seronga, an emerging Tanzanian artist whose new book, Afro Maximalism, “celebrates an aesthetic of excess, women of colour and African textiles.” Right now, it’s being stocked in an array of “non-traditional” creative spaces, such as London salons and...

Ogni opera possiede un senso di mistero capace di provocare ulteriori suggestioni. Questo potrebbe essere il giusto avviso con cui visitare la mostra The Bell Jar alla galleria romana MONTI8, co-curata da Massimiliano Maglione. Il progetto, con le opere degli artisti Camilla Alberti, Ruby Chen, Mounir Eddib, Stephen Buscemi, Naomi Hawksley, Steffen Kern, Amber Wynne-Jones è tanto diversificato quanto ben costruito sul rapporto e l’incontro dei diversi lavori. Certi che le opere d’arte rappresentino frammenti di scelte artistiche, i cui significati cambiano a seconda del contesto in cui vengono collocate, la mostra rivela un’acuta indagine attorno alla capacità di disidentificarsi, sdoppiarsi,...

Photography remains one of the most vital ways we examine society, culture and the intimate contours of human experience. The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026, hosted at The Photographers’ Gallery in London from 6 March to 7 June, continues this tradition, foregrounding the ways contemporary photographers challenge perception, narrative and the politics of representation. Established in 1996, the Prize identifies and rewards artists for an exhibition or book that has made a significant contribution to photography in the previous twelve months. Over three decades, it has become a barometer for innovation and social engagement, spotlighting work that is aesthetically compelling while deeply...

The platform never reached its goal of converting one billion people into NFT collectors, but its rise and fall revealed much about the digital art ecosystem

In an article published in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy) on March 6, researcher Victor Gysembergh reported the discovery of a long-lost piece of writing by Archimedes. According to the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), which Gysembergh is affiliated with, the newly identified page, held at the Musée […]

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Mythology, landscapes, and technology converge in the meticulous, Afrofuturistic sculptures of Ekow Nimako. Using thousands of black LEGO bricks, the Ghanaian-Canadian artist explores legends and folklore of the African diaspora, creating figurative embodiments of allegorical creatures and spiritual beings. Through a single, modular medium, he highlights a wide range of cultural phenomena, from graffiti writing in his series Building Black GRAPHICA to sprawling metropolises in Building Black CIVILIZATIONS. Recently, Nimako has been working on a collection inspired by African ceremonial masks, interstellar travel, machines, and geometric forms. Some of the works seen here are currently on view in Building Black...

The Hear Act of 2025, which now only needs president Trump’s signature to become law, extends and expands the reach of its 2016 predecessor

Along with its reputation as the driest and lowest national park in the U.S., Death Valley is also one of the hottest places on Earth. It holds the air temperature record of 134 degrees Fahrenheit, recorded in 1913. But in spite of its macabre name, Death Valley is anything but lifeless. And over the past couple of weeks, a rare “superbloom” demonstrates just how vivacious it can be. For photographer Dr. Elliot McGucken, who focuses on landscapes and nature, the visual cacophony of wildflowers foregrounding the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes or dramatic mountains like Telescope Peak are an endless source of fascination. Death Valley’s predominant flower displays are magenta and yellow—Phacelia and Desert...

In 2020, photographer Rania Matar returned to the Lebanese capital of Beirut in the aftermath of the infamous port explosion. There, she encountered a sentence scrawled on an abandoned building: “Where do I go?” The question stuck with her, indicative of a nation that has faced turmoil, conflict and upheaval for decades. She herself left the country in 1984, during the Lebanese Civil War, and recognises her own experience in many other women who face the painful decision of whether to stay or leave. Now, that graffiti has become the title of a new exhibition and accompanying book. Matar explained that the name “was taken from the writing on the wall of an abandoned silk factory in Kfarmatta, south of the...

John Danaher on the world-premiere recording of Clémence de Grandval's wild and worthy Mazeppa, the latest release from the operatic archaeologists at Palazzetto Bru Zane.

Boris Christoff's Procida (along with Cerquetti's Elena) lifts Mario Rossi's RAI Torino Vespri to distinction.

Il passaggio tra l’inverno e la primavera di quest’anno preannuncia l’incontro, alla Galleria Il Ponte, con la scultura di Mauro Staccioli (Volterra 1937 – Milano 2018), artista in bilico tra due secoli, messo in luce nell’arco temporale dagli anni Ottanta all’inizio dei Duemila. L’esposizione, a cura di Caterina Martinelli, consente un’osservazione nel contesto della sua produzione artistica, più nota per installazioni monumentali rispetto alle derivazioni posteriori in scala ridotta, oggi fondamenta dell’Archivio Staccioli di Volterra insieme a scritti, appunti e progetti. Un lavoro concepito in relazione a un luogo, scevro da rappresentazione e narrazione, eppure armonicamente inserito...

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A trolley. A dining table. A mahjong board. In Jessie Li’s work, everyday objects expand to become investigations into personal memory and family archives. The Chinese-born artist, now based in West Yorkshire, creates participatory, site-specific installations that transform overlooked urban spaces into sites of dialogue. She collaborates with local residents and artists, using interviews and fieldwork to create spaces where marginalised voices can be heard. These are pieces that see silence transformed into story.  Li trained initially in Chinese painting and art history before moving into video installation and interdisciplinary media. She later completed a BA in Digital Media Art at the University of...

If I must choose a single bass performance, it is still Boris Christoff’s Boris Godunov.

A un certo momento, nel romanzo di Mary Shelley (Londra, 1797 – 1851), la creatura smette di chiedere di essere amata e comincia a desiderare che chi l’ha rifiutata soffra quanto lei. L’amore si converte in odio e la benevolenza dell’artefice verso la propria opera, come quella della società verso chi ne è escluso, si rivela premessa di violenza. Shelley pubblicò Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus nel 1818, come esperimento narrativo sul limite della scienza, ispirata dai test condotti nel XVIII secolo da Erasmus Darwin sulla rianimazione della materia morta e dal galvanismo.
Motus, “Frankenstein (a love story)”, photo © Andrea Macchia, courtesy ERT-Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione
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Kristine Schomaker and Genie Davis at the Getty By Kristine Schomaker I've known Genie Davis for years. She shows up. That's the first thing you notice about her — and also the thing you never stop noticing, because she just keeps doing it. She's at openings, she's writing reviews, she's telling anyone who will listen about artists she believes in. For over a decade, her blog Diversions LA has been quietly, consistently documenting the Southern California art scene because she genuinely loves...

David Fox and Dan Johnson report on Yannick Nézet-Seguin's recent performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia and New York.

La Mestna galerija Nova Gorica presenta Movimento incessante, personale di Arianna Ellero. La mostra è corredata da un testo di Daniele Capra e da una composizione sonora di Stefano Pilia che s’intitola The Suncrows Fall And Tree. Immagini e musica intrecciano pertanto un dialogo a due voci, quasi un contrappunto da manuale, dove la nota musicale cerca il suo alter ego nel segno pittorico, in una continuità con la storia dell’arte che ci riporta in primo piano le azioni musicate di Jannis Kounellis o le antropometrie di Yves Klein. Il passato, allora, ritorna nel senso che il movimento, in questa mostra, può essere inteso anche come fattore temporale del nostro vissuto, come un flusso (o un fluire) che...

Il MAG – Museo Alto Garda ospita Ultimate Landscapes. L’illusione del ghiaccio, una grande mostra dedicata al progetto che il fotografo romano Claudio Orlandi porta avanti dal 2008: un racconto visivo sulle trasformazioni irreversibili dei ghiacciai, tra le testimonianze più drammatiche e urgenti della crisi climatica contemporanea.
Claudio Orlandi, “Ultimate Landscapes”, installation view at Museo Alto Garda, Riva del Garda (TN), ph. Nicola Eccher, courtesy the artist and Museo Alto Garda
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