Authorities are scrambling to protect more than 10,000 coastal archaeological sites as experts accuse them of insufficient planning despite warnings
student-designed EV captures the dust coming off its own tires
Electric cars have done away with exhaust fumes, but they still leave something behind on the road. Every turn of the wheel wears down rubber, while braking releases another stream of fine particles into the air. VENTRA, a new student-built EV from Eindhoven University of Technology, is designed with that overlooked mess in mind.
The car’s most visible feature is a set of bright orange covers wrapped around each wheel. Inside them sits T.R.A.C.E., an electrostatic collection system that pulls tire and brake particles out of the air as the car moves. It is a surprisingly physical solution to a type of pollution that usually disappears into...
Electric cars have done away with exhaust fumes, but they still leave something behind on the road. Every turn of the wheel wears down rubber, while braking releases another stream of fine particles into the air. VENTRA, a new student-built EV from Eindhoven University of Technology, is designed with that overlooked mess in mind.
The car’s most visible feature is a set of bright orange covers wrapped around each wheel. Inside them sits T.R.A.C.E., an electrostatic collection system that pulls tire and brake particles out of the air as the car moves. It is a surprisingly physical solution to a type of pollution that usually disappears into...
By Kristine Schomaker I learned yesterday that my friend Scott Froschauer died suddenly. I've known him for almost ten years, and I'm still trying to find a place to put this. Scott was a Shoebox artist, one of the early ones. We worked together on several projects, but the one I keep coming back to is an art salon we put together on consent, negotiation, and the male gaze, how the male posture of viewing women frames any sign of femininity as an invitation, and what it would mean to actually...
The National Gallery of Art has named Virginia Anderson the Christiane Ellis Valone Senior Curator of American Art and head of the art of the Americas, starting in November. Anderson is currently the senior curator of American art and department head of American painting and sculpture and decorative arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art […]
Inheritance makes me think of money. Handing down heirlooms after a loved one passes, or being next in line for the deed to the family house. A one-way street, an open-and-shut door. But to Rebecca Ness, inheritance is akin to transformation: taking something old and making it new. Her latest show explores this by revisiting and updating historical paintings in contemporary contexts. Here she proclaims that all of art history belongs as much to her as to anyone else.In Inheritance, Manet’s “A Bar at the Folies Bergère” (1882) becomes a crowded and sweaty scene at the West Village lesbian institution Cubbyhole. The 19th-century trompe l’oeil board paintings by William Harnett and John F. Peto are...
If you’ve ever wondered what an art collection assembled by a Korean pop star looks like, look no further than the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)’s latest exhibition, “RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me.” The show will feature works from the personal collection of RM, the BTS superstar announced Tuesday on KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco. The news was first reported by Billboard. The 32-year-old singer said he began assembling his collection about eight years ago, often during visits to museums. While completing his mandatory military service in South Korea, he said, he received “a serious proposal from SFMOMA” about two years ago—and “I loved it.” He added, “I also thought it could be a...
Dr. Yusuf Ali Osman, a registered blind man, has filed suit against the British Museum, claiming the London institution failed to comply with the Equality Act by not providing audio-described guides at its exhibition of the famed Bayeux Tapestry. Osman called the museum in advance of his visit to ask whether live audio-described tours would […]
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Hurvin Anderson and Orla Kiely receive Honorary Doctorates from the Royal College of Art.
Three generations of the Düsseldorf-based Bronner family have been recognized with the 2026 Art Cologne Prize, which recognizes the commitment to collecting, promoting, and making art accessible to the public. The winner receives €10,000 ($11,300) and is selected by the Koelnmesse and the Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Kunsthändler (BVDG), an association of German galleries and […]
Sand Becomes Part of Comillas’ Seafront Landscape
Located on Spain’s northern coast, Comillas is a small Cantabrian town with a rich architectural heritage, including El Capricho, one of Antoni Gaudí’s few buildings outside Catalonia. Against this historic backdrop, the transformation of the town’s seafront by Hector Navarro + arkhitekton addresses its changing relationship with the Cantabrian Sea. Instead of treating sand as something to be removed, the intervention incorporates it into the everyday functioning of the promenade. Carried inland by wind and beachgoers, sand settles within planted areas and permeable paving, becoming part of the public space.
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Located on Spain’s northern coast, Comillas is a small Cantabrian town with a rich architectural heritage, including El Capricho, one of Antoni Gaudí’s few buildings outside Catalonia. Against this historic backdrop, the transformation of the town’s seafront by Hector Navarro + arkhitekton addresses its changing relationship with the Cantabrian Sea. Instead of treating sand as something to be removed, the intervention incorporates it into the everyday functioning of the promenade. Carried inland by wind and beachgoers, sand settles within planted areas and permeable paving, becoming part of the public space.
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VOLLEBAK ROCK JACKET TURNS SLATE INTO FLEXIBLE OUTERWEAR
Vollebak takes its material experiments underground with the Rock Jacket, a one-off garment built from thousands of tiny pieces of slate. The British clothing brand has previously worked with copper, wood, aerogel and electromagnetic shielding, but its latest prototype goes considerably further back in the material timeline: stone. Rather than treating it as a rigid shell, the project sets out to make rock behave more like fabric.
Each 5mm x 5mm slate tile sits on a neoprene backing, forming a gridded surface that can twist and bend while retaining the uneven texture of natural stone. From a distance, the jacket reads almost like pixelated armor;...
Vollebak takes its material experiments underground with the Rock Jacket, a one-off garment built from thousands of tiny pieces of slate. The British clothing brand has previously worked with copper, wood, aerogel and electromagnetic shielding, but its latest prototype goes considerably further back in the material timeline: stone. Rather than treating it as a rigid shell, the project sets out to make rock behave more like fabric.
Each 5mm x 5mm slate tile sits on a neoprene backing, forming a gridded surface that can twist and bend while retaining the uneven texture of natural stone. From a distance, the jacket reads almost like pixelated armor;...
The New York–based luxury accessories brand Eittem created a new set of offerings inspired by the Frick Collection in New York, with a special focus on the newly accessible second-floor private rooms that opened to the public last year after the mansion’s four-year renovation. The line includes new editions of Eittem’s distinctive woodgrain handbags, priced from $5,500 to $7,900, as well as brooches ($750–$950) and a editioned sculpture ($10,000). The handbags bear the Frick Collection mark and are lined with a “Frick-red leather interior.” The items were inspired in part by the mansion’s Walnut Room, which boasts botanical woodcarvings by Abraham Miller in the ornate space where Henry Clay Frick...
A new archeological excavation at the Saint-Martin-au Val sanctuary in Chartres, France, has unearthed a collection of fragments of Roman stone statues and sculpted reliefs, reports Heritage Daily. Archaeologists also found evidence of a water system that may have played a role in ancient rituals. A monumental Gallo-Roman religious complex, the walled sanctuary occupied over 25 acres and enclosed a massive temple with walkways, a portico, and several other structures. Begun around 70–80 CE, it seems to have been abandoned by 130 CE—perhaps without ever having been completed. It is considered one of the most important Roman religious structures still surviving in France and is notable for its preserved...
"Just as Harlem is a truly cosmopolitan place, so, too, is the Studio Museum a cosmopolitan place. It’s not the home of Black art for Black people. It’s the home of Black art for all people," literary critic, historian, and Studio Museum trustee Henry Louis Gates Jr. writes in The Studio Museum in Harlem: A History. Set to be published on October 27 and distributed by Yale University Press, this new book brings together dozens of artists, curators, scholars, and community leaders’ insights on the 58-year-old Harlem institution, which reopened to the public last November after a seven-year hiatus.Edited by Romi Crawford, a visual and critical studies professor at the School of the Art Institute of...
For most of museum history, prints and drawings have lived in a kind of curatorial basement: light-sensitive, rotated sparingly, and confined to dedicated study rooms and print cabinets while paintings and sculpture hold the main galleries. That hierarchy, baked into museum architecture for over a century, is being interrogated in Drawn Together: Collections in Conversation, presented October 19 as part of the International Fine Prints & Drawings Association's Prints & Drawings Month.Drawn Together brings together curators from three institutions who are rethinking that arrangement: Claire Spadafora Baes of LACMA, Jun Nakamura of the Princeton University Art Museum, and James Wehn of the Chazen Museum of...
Two prominent Iraqi archaeologists were arrested this month, the Art Newspaper (TAN) reported. Many involved fear their arrests are retaliatory, spurred by public comments they made about corruption at the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH), which oversees the country’s archaeological sector. Archaeologist Ali Tabar was arrested on charges of extortion on September 17. He is one of the country’s leading drone surveyors who aerially documents sites before and after excavations and, until recently, was employed by SBAH. He additionally conducted surveys with teams of international archaeologists working in Iraq, which previously includedthe Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Bern....
Avant-garde style, technology, and performance converge in a fantastical, joyous competition every year in New Zealand. World of WearableArt is a vibrant multimedia competition established in 1987, which continues to invite entrants from around the world to sew and sculpt their most ambitious garments. Whimsical and technically impressive, many of the works call upon cultural traditions, while others tap into nature, futurism, and the chimerical. This year’s show is titled GLO!, with Kayla Christensen of New Zealand taking the top prize for her work “Sacred Nightfall,” a spectacularly noble, draped floral garment that nods to Indigenous ceremonial cloaks. Additional standouts include the enigmatic...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! The Royal Paintings Museum at El Escorial, housed in what is thought to be the largest Renaissance building in the world, reopens today after over a decade. Louvre president Christophe Leribault is building a “culture of security” at the museum as he tries to raise funds for a major renovation. A marble sculpture bought at a salvage yard was authenticated as a rare 18th-century Pietro Bracci maquette for a statue of Pope Clement XII, estimated to be worth about $13,000. The Headlines ROYAL REOPENING. The Royal Paintings Museum at El Escorial, housed in what is thought to be the largest...
Ju Young Kim on transit, temporary spaces, anonymous familiarity and the shifting meaning of home.
Iwona Sobotka, a favorite of Riccardo Muti, is this week's featured Grand Tier Grab Bag artist
London institution says that in-person audio-described tours will be offered, and that it may add an audio-described tour to the exhibition's app
The managing director Yves Goldstein will step down immediately after the opening in November due to “a difference of opinion” over the institution‘s future
This month, the Colombian artist will unveil his site-specific sculpture in an ancient Piedmontese town, as well as a solo gallery show in London
More than 120 objects trace 1,000 years of Chinese ceramics and maritime trade at the National Museum of Qatar.
Against a patchwork wall of hammered copper, a black veil appears to billow in mesmerizing motion. The fabric-like layer writhes and twists against the glimmering backdrop, revealing its diaphanous texture as it unfolds to translucence. Like a curtain flapping in an open window, the digital projection floats across the metallic surface of one of teamLab’s latest works. Part of teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity at the Smart Museum of Art, “Sea of Darkness, Memory Shining from the Depths” is one of several new commissions from the international art collective. Founded by Toshiyuki Inoko in 2001, teamLab consists of hundreds of artists, animators, musicians, mathematicians, developers,...
Most stunning mezzo performance in the premiere of an opera at the Met.
iF DESIGN EMBEDS SUSTAINABILITY INTO GLOBAL DESIGN STANDARDS
The term sustainable design has too often been reduced to a marketing label, diluted by superficial claims of recycled content or carbon offsets that mask short product lifespans. But true sustainability cannot be stamped onto a surface, it is woven into the entire process. A design is genuinely sustainable only when its creators can offer clear, responsible answers to fundamental questions across its entire lifecycle: Does this product solve a genuine problem, or does its quick path to replacement expose a design failure? Are materials selected for enduring quality and minimal extraction impact, or only to satisfy eco-branding trends? What is the...
The term sustainable design has too often been reduced to a marketing label, diluted by superficial claims of recycled content or carbon offsets that mask short product lifespans. But true sustainability cannot be stamped onto a surface, it is woven into the entire process. A design is genuinely sustainable only when its creators can offer clear, responsible answers to fundamental questions across its entire lifecycle: Does this product solve a genuine problem, or does its quick path to replacement expose a design failure? Are materials selected for enduring quality and minimal extraction impact, or only to satisfy eco-branding trends? What is the...
Flexible ‘free space’ adapts to sports, play, and family life
Osaka House by SHIOYA DESIGN is a two-generation residence in Japan organized around a large, flexible open space known as the ‘free space.’ Initially conceived as a dedicated judo area, the space developed during the design process into a gymnasium-like room that can accommodate multiple sports, play, and everyday family activities.
Rather than assigning a fixed function, the free space can be adapted to changing needs and interests. Judo, basketball, golf, bouldering, and other activities take place within the generous volume, with ceiling heights calibrated to different sports. A retractable golf net, basketball hoop and court...
Osaka House by SHIOYA DESIGN is a two-generation residence in Japan organized around a large, flexible open space known as the ‘free space.’ Initially conceived as a dedicated judo area, the space developed during the design process into a gymnasium-like room that can accommodate multiple sports, play, and everyday family activities.
Rather than assigning a fixed function, the free space can be adapted to changing needs and interests. Judo, basketball, golf, bouldering, and other activities take place within the generous volume, with ceiling heights calibrated to different sports. A retractable golf net, basketball hoop and court...
KAWS brings his XX motif and CHUM character to Absolut’s latest Artist Edition bottle.
Jeffrey Weiss on the uncertain fate of Serra's land work
The fair is once again taking over Rimadesio’s design showroom, giving pride of place to young galleries with a focus on experimentation and affordability
Hailing from the French West Indies in the Caribbean—specifically the island of Guadeloupe—and currently based in Montréal, multi-disciplinary artist Eddy Firmin is deeply interested in the history and politics of colonization and identity. His home region’s inextricable ties to the dark legacy of slavery informs a practice that interrogates how knowledge is shared and passed down through generations. Throughout more than three centuries, upwards of 20 million or more people were transported to the Western Hemisphere to be sold as slaves in what is now viewed as one of the most atrocious crimes against humanity ever perpetrated. Millions died due to exhaustion, disease, and brutal transport and living...
Lou Melchior turns everyday objects, shadows and fragments into something stranger in a new solo exhibition at Gallery46.
Amartuvshin Enkhbat is superb in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra in San Francisco — even if the drama offstage is more persuasive than this new production.
Reuben “Rube” Goldberg (1883-1970) was known for his comic strips, political cartoons, and unique inventions. His most enduring legacy, however, is arguably the Rube Goldberg machine. Still bearing his name, these contraptions are often comical or playful due to their “overengineered” nature, using complex sequences of simple chain reactions like rolling ramps, weight and pulley systems, domino chains, and pendulum swings. “Busy Bodies,” created by animator Kate Renshaw-Lewis, is a short film inspired by these straightforward yet intricate mechanisms. The animation presents an imaginative process for what seems to be the creation of red rubber gloves and the packaging of vague fish products. As...
Known for his fantastical paintings of hybrid flora and fauna, Jon Ching channels the otherworldly in vibrant and meticulously detailed canvases. His precise renderings of regal creatures conjure elemental energies like fire and water, merged with the personalities of mammals, birds, and marine life. Inspired by his island upbringing on O’ahu, Hawai’i, Ching continues to turn to nature as a boundless source of wonder and solace. The Los Angeles-based artist’s forthcoming solo exhibition, Path of Least Resistance at KP Projects, highlights recent portraits of owls, hummingbirds, fish, orchids, and more. Navigating both the socio-political realities of the past few years and the daily challenges and...
By Betty Ann Brown "In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world."—Graciela Iturbide Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide creates haunting images that portray the people, places, and events of the extraordinary cultures and geographies of her home country. Iturbide has a unique artistic practice that involves living and working with the people she chooses to photograph. Her process has made possible the strange and wonderful depictions for which she is known. In...
Tenet Vocal Artists's first-ever opera production, of Monteverdi's Orfeo, soars to Platonic ideals.
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By Victoria Thomas Lauren Cross, PhD is the Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts for The Huntington. The gifted artist, author, and scholar moves through the world of material objects with a detective's nose for sleuthing out lost context and hidden figures, and a Griot's gift for connecting narrative dots to unearth treasure. She is the unstoppable force behind the first major museum retrospective to explore the untold history of ceramic innovator Doyle Lane, with more...
With a creative lexicon featuring yarn, pixels, beeswax, and spray paint, Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega has created a new language for herself, one that speaks to the present and the past by using traditional and contemporary techniques, as well as rural and urban sensibilities, to create a body of work that synthesizes all her […]
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Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.
The 80th Issue of Hi-Fructose is coming soon! It includes a cover a feature on the paper collages of Lola Dupre, the Fluffy Vases of Shishi San, the installation paintings of Evgenia Voinar, Debbie Lawson’s textile sculptures, painter Rob Browning’s stark surrealism. Plus a Special Insert Section focused on the art of Jeff Sheridan, Andrea […]
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By Lacey Argus Sovern, a nonprofit art gallery and healing justice center in Los Angeles, sticks out like a vibrant castle in the midst of the harsh greys of urban Los Angeles. The bright shades of pink and elaborate designs that adorn its concrete walls draw you in, as if calling you to explore the treasures within. The gallery's current showing is Into the Pluriverse, running from June 25 through October 8, 2026. Into the Pluriverse is a group exhibition inspired by the Zapatista term...
By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...
For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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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 […]
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