WATERFORD, NY — The scene in Waterford, Upstate New York, in early August: A group of kind elders sing with gusto under wilted American flags. Excited supporters hover over artist duo Z Behl and Kim Moloney — together, called “BALONEY STEEL” — as they prepare to embark on what they call the “Mule’s Passage,” and paddle 350 miles (~563 km) to Buffalo. After brief speeches and an emotional spoken-word piece by playwright Judy Tate, founder of the American Slavery Project, Behl and Maloney boarded their canoe at the end of the dock at the Eastern Gate corridor, the first in a series of locks that lift vessels from the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers into the canal system. The singers walked to the...

Stephan Jost, the director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario, will leave his posts at the end of the year, the Toronto museum announced on Tuesday. Within the Canadian art scene, Jost’s leadership has been polarizing. He has drawn praise for making a significant investment in modern and contemporary art at the AGO, which acquired a range of important artworks in that area, including 450 works by Diane Arbus, 200 works by Peter Hujar, and 227 works by Hiroshi Sugimoto. In 2027, the museum will open a new gallery for modern and contemporary art that spans 40,000 square feet and five floors. But Jost’s tenure was also marred by controversy over the past few years. In 2023, Wanda Nanibush, the museum’s...

The Homeland Security Investigations unit of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) said it seized more than 22,000 ancient artifacts in Florida as part of a smuggling inquest that counts “among the largest in the agency’s history,” according to a press release. “The identification and authentication process for the large number of items will take time,” the release reads, “but preliminary evaluations indicate that some objects may have originated from ancient civilizations dating between 1,000 and 5,000 years ago, from sites across Europe, Africa and the Levant, and the Eastern Mediterranean.” The seized treasures coming in for further study include coins, ceramic pots and...

The Minnesota State Fair took down a crop artwork containing an anti-Trump slogan at the artist's request this weekend, after she was doxxed, harassed, and threatened by right-wing agitators, as first reported by the Minnesota Star Tribune.Against a backdrop of black and red beans, the artwork reads “8647” in yellow corn kernels, a sequence often used in protest of President Donald Trump. To "86" something, in the hospitality industry, means to get rid of it, and "47" has been interpreted as referring to Trump's status as the 47th United States President. After conservative news outlet Alpha News zeroed in on the artist's creation across social media, others allegedly targeted, threatened,...

Pianni’s playable pocket-sized electronic instrument
 
Orphea is a compact 13-key electronic piano developed by Pianni to examine how far a conventional keyboard can be reduced while retaining its physical and musical functions. Measuring only slightly larger than a modern smartphone, the instrument combines a standard chromatic black-and-white key layout with physical pressable keys, polyphonic playing, octave controls, built-in speakers, headphone output, MIDI connectivity, and USB-C charging.
 
The current prototype spans one chromatic octave, from C to C, across 13 physical keys. Dedicated octave controls extend the playable pitch range without increasing the instrument’s footprint. This...

Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
The post Celestial Stance: The Art of Marigold Santos first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Dog-watching, already one of Central Park’s top attractions, is about to get a little more enticing. This fall, the Paris-born, New York–based artist Camille Henrot will install 12 large-scale dog sculptures in Doris C. Freedman Plaza, a very visible spot at the southwest corner of the New York park. The Public Art Fund project will be on view for a full year, from September 9 through August 29, 2027. Henrot’s “Dogs” will be made of bronze, stone, steel, and concrete, and will be based on previous artworks of hers. One thinks of the variety of dog sculptures on view in “A Number of Things,” her 2025 show at Hauser & Wirth. That exhibition was chock-full of charming canine friends with evocative...

An administrative court in Caen, France, faulted the Deauville city hall on Monday for removing a photograph taken in Gaza from a local festival, reported AFP and Le Monde. The image by Associated Press photographer Jehad Alshrafi features a soccer match being played by members of the Palestinian Ahli Gaza Club on a pristine, synthetic green field, surrounded by rubble from Israeli military attacks. But in mid-August, the image was quietly taken down from an outdoor exhibition that is part of this summer’s Deauville Sport Images Festival, which celebrates the “value of sports.” The ruling effectively suspends the city hall’s prior decision to nix the photograph and follows an emergency motion filed by...

A Beeple artwork set to appear at Wisconsin’s Madison Museum of Contemporary Art next month has rankled locals who object to the way that the piece uses AI to analyze artworks in the institution’s collection. An open letter about the piece, titled Diffuse Control (2025), calls into question the ethics of allowing Beeple to utilize images of artworks from the museum’s holdings. (A release did not specify whether these works were used with the permission of the artists or their representatives, but the museum later clarified that the pieces “are either in the public domain or used with permission from the appropriate copyright holder.”) Visitors to the museum will be able to create images displayed on...

AUSTIN — Last year, among a wave of protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violence, a gathering outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, took a turn when a demonstrator shot a police officer in the neck. Among the defendants handed lengthy prison sentences in connection with the incident is tattoo artist Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada. Estrada did not attend the protest, but he was sentenced to 30 years over a charge of concealing evidence. At the center of his case sits a box of zines.Zines are self-published booklets. Often hand-bound and independently circulated, they are low-cost, easy to distribute, and can feature a range of art media. Zines surged in...

When a portrait of aviation pioneer Ruth Rowland Nichols was taken while she stood beside her Lockheed Vega aircraft in 1931, she was already one of the most accomplished pilots in the world. That photo was captured the year she also became the first woman to hold simultaneous international records in altitude, speed, and long distance. Nichols’ striking portrait is just one of hundreds of images and illustrations highlighting humans’ pursuit of knowledge in Worlds Unfolding: Science on the Page, published by Princeton University Press. The five-volume tome features more than 625 illustrations and an introduction by engineer and PBS personality Bill Nye. Moreover, it’s an exploration of global science,...

Rhizome marks 30 years of internet art with the relaunch of ArtBase and a season exploring digital culture.

backdirwas_5 community oven reinterprets Alpine traditions
 
As part of the Medienfrische festival, Studio Carraldo has created backdirwas_5, a community oven in Boden that reinterprets local Alpine building traditions through concrete, timber, firebrick, and stainless steel. The project’s name translates to ‘bake yourself something,’ and its aim is to provide a place for people to come together and one that is available to both local residents and artists in residence during their stay. the flames glowing through the stainless steel shell | all images ©Studio Carraldo 
 
 
Timber formwork and firebrick shape the oven’s structure
 
The oven stands on a solid concrete base cast using formwork made...

Hyperallergic’s monthly Opportunities Listings provide a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their work. Subscribe to receive this list of opportunities in your inbox each month. Sign up here! If you find this list valuable, consider becoming a Hyperallergic Member to help us make it possible every month. Awards & GrantsFoundwork – 2026 Foundwork Artist PrizeThe honoree will receive a $10,000 grant and studio visits with jurors Stefan Benchoam, François Ghebaly, Manuela Moscoso, Gabi Ngcobo, Esther Schipper. Three shortlisted artists will receive $1,000 grants.Deadline: September 25, 2026 | foundwork.artGulf Coast Journal — Toni Beauchamp Prize in...

It’s hard to believe it’s already September. How did it sneak up on us like that? Is it because August ended with a string of monumental losses within the arts and culture sector that left us bereft and disoriented? Let’s hear it for artist Justin Blinde, who created a device that makes electric City Bikes slow down in less affordable neighborhoods. That’s art activism you can actually feel. Read Eliana Perozo’s report, co-published with the nonprofit news organization Next City.Meanwhile, John Galliano withdraws his exhibition from the Costume Institute at The Met after an onslaught of criticism regarding his racist and antisemitic hate speech (which includes but is not limited to literally saying...

By Betty Ann Brown "What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"—Honoré de Balzac "Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning."—Miguel de Unamuno Hiroko Yoshimoto's paintings concentrate nature into radiant and dynamic beauty, distilling visual sensation into poetic and environmental significance. Throughout the 2020s, Yoshimoto has worked on two series of paintings about nature: Biodiversity and Of Infinite Variety. Both series are based on observation of the natural...

a patchwork facade for wynwood norte
 
In Miami’s Wynwood Norte, MVRDV has broken a 163-residence mixed-use building into a stack of differently scaled blocks, which gives WOMA the appearance of several buildings gathered across one site. The development marks Ecuador-based Uribe Schwarzkopf’s first project in the United States and occupies the former home of a coffee roasting company.
 
Across the exterior, deep red and green sections sit beside blue or sandy volumes, while recessed windows and shifting grids give each piece its own rhythm. The fragmented massing responds to a neighborhood still defined largely by smaller buildings, thus keeping the project legible from the sidewalk even as it rises...

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Stand outside a well-run store on a Tuesday morning and you can watch the whole promotional calendar turn over in... Read More

Conceptually, memento mori has been around for millennia. Ancient Greek philosophers like Socrates and Seneca reflected upon the nature of mortality in ancient Greece. And during Roman triumphs, a handful of accounts document how a general would be accompanied by a companion or a slave who was tasked with reminding him he would eventually perish. We often think of memento mori visually in relation to Dutch Golden Age paintings, where skulls or rotting fruit surrounded by insects served as reminders of the fleetingness of life. Latin for “remember you will die,” the phrase can be traced to a biblical passage. And for Melbourne-based artist Hieu Thien Nguyen, who works as kelogsloops, death is a constant...

Buying art used to mean a train into the city and an afternoon of pretending you understood the price list.... Read More

New research links widening wealth inequality to the market’s growing reliance on ultra-rich collectors

Royal College of Art launches new School of Communication & Design, bringing fashion, animation, textiles, visual communication + design together.

Colour, performance, experimental music, mermaids and karaoke: Jupiter Rising turns Jupiter Artland into a wonderfully strange one-night Wonderland.

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As her first major show in her homeland opens, the Korean American artist
discusses the big issues: life, death—and the inspiration of cats

The new Spotlight section brings together 12 solo presentations of 20th-century artists

An exhibition organised jointly in Yokohama and Seoul explores painful, and sometimes neglected, episodes from the countries’ past

This year’s editions between them showcase 89 artists and collectives, and explore Korea’s history of protest alongside the transformational power of reinvention

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Through the lens of Midwest Materials
 
In Julie Blackmon’s Midwest Materials, published in 2022 by Radius Books, is a series that both confirms and obscures the imagined life of the American suburb. In her photos, she moves through the landscape around her hometown in Springfield, Missouri, capturing moments that have all the trappings of childhood memory, but its meticulous colors, compositions, and staging render the stills closer to dreams than historical record.
Midwest Materials is Julie Blackmon’s third monograph published by Radius Books | image courtesy of Julie Blackmon and Haw Contemporary
 
 
The American Suburb as Muse
 
The ‘little boxes on the hillside, the little boxes made of...

I'm looking forward to the Met's new production of Puccini's La fanciulla del West.

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bandai turns tamagotchi into a wearable ring with color screen
 
Bandai shrinks the Tamagotchi into a ring-shaped device designed to be worn as an accessory. The Tamagotchi ring measures approximately 28 × 23 × 35 millimeters and places a color LCD screen inside a compact wearable form, allowing users to feed, care for, and play with the digital creature directly from their finger. The device is available in Japan in three color combinations: Pink & Pearl White, Light Blue & Metallic Gold, and Black & Metallic Silver. Bandai uses an aurora pearl finish for the pink version, while the other two models feature plated finishes. 
 
Traditionally carried in a pocket, attached to a keychain, or suspended from a...

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Animated characters, patterned textiles, logos from iconic fashion labels, graffiti, and more coalesce in the vibrant portraits of Victor Quiñonez. Born in Mexico, raised in East Dallas, and now based in Brooklyn, the artist, who works as Marka27, is interested in the ways activism and pop culture converge, and he infuses the visual language of contemporary street art with Indigenous imagery and Mexican mural traditions. Whether working on large-scale walls or more intimate canvases, Quiñonez taps into his own experiences of living between cultures and the arbitrary nature of national borders. Portraits like “Luchando Por Mi Alma” superimpose the signature Louis Vuitton pattern, desert flora, a striped...

With a teal roof and gabled windows, a colonial-style dollhouse is at the center of Isaiah Lee’s practice. In his current body of work, the Chicago artist renders childhood toys that transition from objects of play and nostalgia into uncanny, animate entities. Set in the scaled-down rooms and landscape around the miniature home, Lee’s scenes channel the wonder and theatrics of the adolescent imagination, while confronting the ways these early experiences permeate one’s life. Born into a fundamentalist Christian family in Missouri, the artist grapples with the contradictions within the teachings of his upbringing, alongside the lived reality of being a Black man in the U.S. In “Shepherd I,” a tiny...

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It is only a concert performance, but no one seems to have told them that; and thank the heavens for that!

By Julie Faith There is something strange about returning to a place you once knew well after being away for a long time. You recognize the architecture before you recognize what the years have done to you. As I passed through the gate at Corey Helford Gallery, crossed the lot, and headed up the stairs, I felt ridiculously, wonderfully giddy. Kid-in-a-candy-store giddy. I have been away from the gallery and much of the Los Angeles art world, but somewhere between the gate and the stairs, I...

The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall's Talk of the Town!

John Yohalem reviews pianist Steven Blier's warm, witty, and worldly autobiography, From Ear to Ear.

An amateurish production of Le siège de Corinthe, combined with heavy-handed conducting, at Pesaro weakens the defenses of one of Rossini's most topical operas.

Nel 1979, quando il saggio “La Transavanguardia italiana” di Achille Bonito Oliva viene pubblicato su Flash Art, Jean-François Lyotard scrive “La condizione postmoderna”. Entrambi i testi muovono da una condizione di crisi, quella che interessa le metanarrazioni, vale a dire i sistemi narrativi volti a legittimare una visione del mondo lineare e progressiva. Per il francese l’obiettivo è la dialettica dello spirito, per l’italiano è il “darwinismo linguistico”[1] dell’avanguardia. Bonito Oliva contrappone all’istanza collettivistica e progettuale che aveva indirizzato le formazioni nate negli anni Sessanta “un ritorno dell’arte ai suoi motivi interni, alle ragioni costitutive del suo...

By Victoria Thomas Altadena-based artist James Griffith greets me at his studio, located in a refurbished 1920s firehouse diagonally across the street from the gleaming silver lagomorph of the restored Bunny Museum, by saying "Hi, I just started putting a galaxy in the armpit of a penguin." Great cities announce their identities through their monuments. New York City has the Statue of Liberty, St. Louis the Gateway Arch, Chicago the Cloud Gate, Philadelphia the original LOVE sculpture. And...

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Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Hayama Artist ResidencyFeaturedLaunched in 2020, the Hayama Artist Residency offers visual artists from around the world a unique opportunity to spend four weeks in Japan for rest, reflection, and creative inspiration. Selected artists receive roundtrip airfare, a private bedroom, and an $800 stipend to cover meals and local transportation. We welcome applications from visual artists working in any medium and at any stage of their career. Applicants must be at least 21 years old. The residency runs June 1 to 30,...

Le lancette dell’orologio non smettono mai di rincorrere il tempo. Con il loro fare silenzioso, avanzano a poco a poco, rendendo attimi, minuti, ore e giorni, entità che in pochi istanti perdono di valore. Potremmo parlare di circolarità o di eterno ritorno se pensassimo a quel lampo di genio che, dopo generazioni e generazioni, continua ad abitare nella famiglia Buendia, nella lontana e recondita Macondo. Sì, perché alla fin fine, ogni attimo è destinato a ritornare.
Giovanni Anselmo, “Entrare nell’opera”, 1971, stampa fotografica su tela (copia espositiva), Archivio Giovanni Anselmo ETS, Foto © l’Artista, courtesy Archivio Giovanni Anselmo ETS
“Ripensando il Romanticismo nell’arte...

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Lasciata alle spalle una torre medievale dell’XI secolo e qualche palazzo cinquecentesco della Serenissima, sperso tra la speculazione edilizia degli anni Sessanta, a pochi passi dalla ottocentesca piazza Erminio Ferretto (intitolata a un partigiano morto nella guerra di liberazione dal nazifascismo) nel centro storico di Mestre, oltrepassato il duomo di S. Lorenzo, attraversato un restaurato cortile con porticato settecentesco, per studiato contrasto sorge il Museo del Novecento M9 (progettato dallo studio di architettura tedesco Sauerbruch Hutton, studio che aveva vinto il concorso internazionale indetto dalla Fondazione di Venezia per la riqualificazione di quell’area urbana), museo  ideato e proposto...

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Tra tutte le edizioni di Documenta, quella che si tenne nel 1972, dal titolo Interrogare la realtà – Mondi dell’immagine oggi, apriva una significativa riflessione sui linguaggi dell’arte contemporanea, il mondo reale e le sue rappresentazioni. Il titolo che il curatore Harald Szeemann scelse per la manifestazione risulta quanto mai contemporaneo, permettendo di consideralo come una valida prospettiva per scoprire lo studio dell’artista Luca Valerio (Fondi, Latina, 1966). È evidente come Interrogare la realtà – Mondi dell’immagine oggi presupponga una ricerca artistica che presenta elementi riconducibili all’arte concettuale, quindi caratterizzata da un rigoroso controllo formale e...

Hyper Reality è il titolo-tema dell’undicesima edizione del Festival curato a Forlì da Vertov Project. Prologo alla Fondazione Dino Zoli con la mostra collettiva Interference, che riunisce dodici artiste internazionali nel segno dell’interferenza come forza generativa. Forlì torna a essere una Babele di stimoli e visioni, grazie a Ibrida Festival Internazionale delle Arti Intermediali: l’undicesima edizione, dal titolo-tema Hyper Reality, è in programma dal 17 al 20 settembre. Prologo essenziale e complementare sarà la mostra collettiva intermediale Interference, che dall’1 settembre all’11 ottobre metterà in dialogo le ricerche radicali di dodici artiste internazionali.
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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.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
   
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...

By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
The post Future Relics: The Art of Morgan Sorensen first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
The post The Disconcertingly Honest Self-Portrait Sculptures of Monica Piloni first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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By Victoria Thomas Photographer and ceramic artist Catherine (Cathy) Opie first shocked and rocked the fine art world with her self-portraits during the late 1990s. Today, her decades of work — often termed confessional — now serve as context for the far more enigmatic Holding Blue installation, on view at Regen Projects through July 3. The Los Angeles-based artist identifies as a leather dyke, lesbian cowboy, an elder, and as "Mama Cathy," with a mustachioed male alter-ego named Bo. Opie is...