observation becomes a design method for KIBEKOUMUTEN bench
 
Observation.01 is a furniture project by KIBEKOUMUTEN Inc., led by designer Masahiro Kibe, that investigates how material behavior can inform design decisions. Developed around Kvadrat Argo 2, a long-pile textile, the project examines the relationship between material, structure, and form through an iterative process of observation rather than predetermined outcomes.
 
The project began with the characteristics of Kvadrat Argo 2 and a question about the role of material in the design process. Instead of applying the textile to an existing object, the design evolved through a series of full-scale mock-ups that examined the fabric’s behavior at...

Nearly a month after a federal judge ordered that President Trump’s name be removed from the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., a tarp affixed to the outside of the building is still partially obscuring it from view. This obstruction has prompted another order from US district […]

Raphael’s epic fresco cycle, the Loggias, is getting a makeover.  The Vatican Museums launched a restoration of the Renaissance masterpiece this week, unprecedented in scale: more than 20 experts are set to clean the artwork spanning 65 meters (nearly 215 feet) in the Apostolic Palace, also known as the Pope’s residence. The project will last five years, addressing a slew of restoration concerns accrued over the centuries, the weather being chief among them. According to Italian media, windows will be installed to stabilize the corridors’ climate. Created between 1517 and 1519 by Raphael for Pope Leo X, the Loggias are divided into 13 bays on the second floor of the Apostolic Palace, overlooking a...

Just when you're about to give up on this power-hungry, money-obsessed, star-fucking art world and its market-driven media, people like Ed Woodham come along and restore your faith in what art can do for society. The decades-long practice of the 69-year-old Atlanta-born artist, curator, and educator is thoroughly rooted in community. He's most known for leading Art in Odd Places, a public art group he originally co-founded as part of Atlanta's cultural programming for the 1996 Summer Olympics. After the September 11 attacks, when he was living in New York, Woodham relaunched the group as a response to the dwindling of public space and the quashing of civil liberties under the condemnable PATRIOT...

The "Keith Herrings" at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade on June 20 (photo AX Mina/Hyperallergic; all other images courtesy M Eilo)Hyperallergic’s tarotscope series is a combination of tarot with astrology, a reading for the collective readership combined with cards for the major astrological signs, grouped by their elemental associations. These are developed by AX Mina, a Hyperallergic contributor and producer for Five and Nine, a podcast about magic, work, and economic justice. These tarotscopes have a special focus on the arts and creative practice, for each solstice and equinox, to mark the turning of the seasons.I spent my Juneteenth and Summer Solstice weekend at the Mermaid Parade in Coney Island,...

The Box in Plymouth, England, has been named the winner of this year’s UK Art Fund Museum of the Year Award. The annual £120,000 ($158,000) honor is the most prestigious museum prize in the nation and the largest of its kind in the world. The institution, located in the southwestern part of the country, beat […]

Three years ago, in the summer of 2023, the Irish government formed a committee to advise museums and other cultural institutions on matters related to restitution and repatriation. That endeavor, known as the Advisory Committee on the Restitution and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage, presented its final report last month. According to The Art Newspaper, the report aims to address the “practical and legal impediments” that can prevent some institutions from properly responding to claims, whether related to colonial-era artifacts or cultural property looted during the Nazi regime. Therefore, the government should establish a national advisory panel to oversee such claims, along with funding to address...

joshua vides turns the petersen into a drawn garage
 
At the Petersen Automotive Museum in LA, Joshua Vides has turned a gallery of cars into a walk-in black-and-white drawing.
 
The Los Angeles-based artist’s exhibition, Flat Out: The Art of Joshua Vides, takes over the Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery with five hand-painted vehicles, tire stacks, gas pumps, wall graphics, and oversized garage signage, all rendered in his crisp monochrome linework.
 
The space reads at first like an auto body shop stripped of color. A sign for Vides Auto Body hangs above an arched opening, checkered flags run across the ceiling, and a blunt NO PARKING graphic stretches across the wall.
 
The familiar objects of car...

A site-specific project emerges from the conservation of the museum’s 16th-century building

The US State Department is now accepting design proposals for the 2027 Venice Biennale of Architecture, with stipulations echoing its application process for this year’s Venice Biennale: designs should “exemplify America’s exceptionalism,” and “advance and complement U.S. foreign policy and public diplomacy objectives.” Per the proposal submission guidelines, the ideal architectural design would “promote the achievements of American architectural communities and enhance America’s global competitiveness in the creative and built environment sectors.” The commission should also “offer constructive artistic and cultural channels to counter negative perceptions and advance safety and security...

About two months ago, footage of trembling beagles imprisoned at a biomedical research facility in Wisconsin, and of the tear-gassed activists who tried to rescue them, went viral. Photojournalists captured the dogs huddled together. They look into the cameras. They look at us — the humans who put them there. It feels dreadful to return the gaze, to acknowledge the intense pain one species can cause another. Yet, it is essential to do so, as Thomas W. Laqueur argues in a new book. The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History (2026) offers an expansive, accessible survey of canine presence in Western art from the Palaeolithic period onward. Brilliant, full-color reproductions of 250 artworks fill the book's...

Four panels of an interconnected painting by Norman Rockwell have gone on public view for the first time at the headquarters for the White House Historical Association, a “non-profit, non-partisan organization” a short walk from its namesake in Washington, D.C. The work ran under the headline “So You Want to See the President!” in the Saturday Evening Post after it had been commissioned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s press secretary Stephen Early in 1943. As reported by Artnet News, “After publication, Rockwell gave the paintings to Early, but following the press officer’s untimely death in 1951, they went to his daughter and were later lent to the White House between 1978 and 2022, becoming an...

Photographer and activist Misan Harriman said he will step down from his post as chair of London’s Southbank Centre. Harriman’s announcement comes weeks after a series of right-wing tabloids scrutinized his response to the April 29 attack in north London’s Golders Green. In a video uploaded to Instagram, Harriman, who has helmed the arts organization since 2021, said he had decided to depart the leadership position prior to the criticism from British media in May. A photographer of exceptional range, Harriman, born in Nigeria, became the first Black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover in September 2020. “It’s semi-public knowledge that my term is coming to an end anyway, my actual term,” Harriman...

Welcome to the 343rd installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Kathleen MacKenzie cherishes the birds of Upstate New York and the freedom of experimental video art.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Kathleen MacKenzie, Rosendale, New YorkHow long have you been working in this space?I moved from my loft in Tribeca, where I had lived for 35 years, to the town of Rosendale, located in the Mid-Hudson Valley, in 2012. I divided and converted the back end of the garage into a 400-square-foot studio. Hard to...

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Tokyo Gendai, a key event in Tokyo’s fall contemporary art fair season, has announced the list of exhibitors that will participate in its 4th edition. Set to take place at the convention center Pacifico Yokohama from September 11th to the 13th, the event will take up Gendai’s longstanding mission to bring international attention to the […]

The Iron Age city of Sardis in western Turkey has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, marking a milestone in one of the longest-running archaeological projects in history. Every year since 1958, archaeologists have returned to the ancient city as part of the Harvard-Cornell Exploration of Ancient Sardis, and excavations are still ongoing. Once the capital of the Iron Age kingdom of Lydia, Sardis stood at the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the Anatolian Plateau, a position that endowed it with a rich cultural legacy and a striking array of well-preserved ruins. Speaking to ScienceDaily, Benjamin Anderson, associate professor of history of art and visual studies at Cornell’s College of Arts and...

The organizers of Untitled Art, Houston have revealed the ninety-five galleries slated to participate in its sophomore edition, to take place October 2–4, with a preview day of October 1. Like the inaugural edition, held last year, the fair will occupy the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston. The 2026 edition features eleven […]

The pioneering perceptual artist James Turrell marked a career milestone this month with the opening of his 100th Skyscape, a site-specific architectural installation with a simple construction: a domed structure with an oculus pointed toward the sky. Now permanently on view at ARoS in Aarhus, Denmark, “As Seen Below” is the latest iteration of the iconic series, which has been installed in 26 countries. Spanning more than 50 feet high and 130 feet wide, the enormous dome most often opens up to an unfiltered sky, although various “color shifts” seal the oculus and instead cast brilliant color around the space. Read more about the project previously on Colossal, and reserve your tickets on the...

The digital art showcase’s third edition, at Art Basel’s hometown fair, offered much-needed historical context while prompting a fundamental question: who is this for?

Met with opposition and outrage from the moment it was announced, the show gathers historical objects and images, poetry, contemporary art and video interviews

mapping street vending reveals 78 urban typologies across india
 
Laari Futures emerges from Chaal Chaal Agency’s research project, Atlas of (In)Constant Infrastructures, which documented 78 street vending typologies across 12 Indian cities through maps and drawings. The research identified the vending cart as more than a vehicle or display surface, showing how it structures vendor occupation of the street, shapes customer interaction, and forms a temporary commercial edge within everyday urban space.
 
Building on this body of work, the design process revisits existing vending typologies to explore how their embedded logic can be extended without fixing or over-formalising them. This approach led to a...

Hyundai Motor Group announces the open call for the 7th VH AWARD, a global award program and platform amplifying creators whose work engages with the context of Asia. The VH AWARD invites individuals and collectives of Asian descent, based in Asia, or members of the Asian diaspora, to submit screen-based audiovisual art, including video art, motion graphics, animation, games, films, or newly explored areas.   Enhanced Opportunities for Artistic Growth This edition offers increased production grants for all finalists. Furthermore, a new Honorary Mention category will recognize a broader range of voices, offering global exposure and selective access to the online residency.  In June 2027, an international...

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gehry partners returns to abu dhabi’s cultural district
 
On Saadiyat Island, where Abu Dhabi’s cultural district is gathering museums along the water, Gehry Partners is adding another large cultural building to the horizon. Dar al Funoon Abu Dhabi, or House of the Arts, will rise near the architect’s long-awaited Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (see here), though this time the focus shifts from galleries to live performance.
 
The new venue has been launched by the UAE‘s Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi and is planned to open in 2030. It will bring opera, theater, ballet, concerts, jazz, and outdoor performances into a single complex, adding a stage-based institution to a district already shaped...

More than 20 experts are expected to work on the decorative cycle over five years

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is back with another stunner: a new 223-megapixel composite featuring about 16.5 million stars that have been evolving over several million years. Captured by Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) across 65 hours, the enormous image features Messier 82, also known as the Cigar galaxy, which is located 12 million light-years away. “M82 is a mess, but it’s a beautiful mess,” said NASA fellow Adam Smercina. “We don’t fully understand what’s going on, especially concerning its evolutionary history. What could have triggered such an elevated rate of star formation? How long has this galaxy been driving plumes of material away from its center?” Side-by-side...

Magic is sometimes very close to nothing at all centres on Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and explores football, language and popular culture.

The premiere recording of David T. Little's What Belongs to You reveals a work of both tenderness and artistic tenacity.

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In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern in London, speaks to Alexander Herman of the Institute of Art and Law on the impact of Brexit ten years on, and discusses the Renaissance-era Visconti-Sforza Tarot, on view at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.

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The British Museum will mark the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence with a new display examining... Read More

yehwan song transforms code into a contemporary craft
 
As digital technologies become increasingly seamless, much of their complexity disappears from view. Interfaces grow more intuitive, algorithms become more invisible, and artificial intelligence promises ever more frictionless ways of creating. Yet Korean artist Yehwan Song moves in the opposite direction. Through interactive installations, experimental websites, and software-based artworks, she deliberately slows technology down, exposing the systems that quietly shape everyday digital life.
 
Rather than viewing technology as something that replaces human making, Song approaches it as something to be carefully crafted. Her practice demonstrates that...

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Truck accidents in Nevada pose serious risks to motorists. Recent data shows 360 fatal crashes resulting in 385 deaths. Approximately... Read More

Dallas is one of Texas’s largest and most active metropolitan areas, with busy highways, thriving businesses, and millions of people... Read More

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Frida Kahlo's paintings remain extraordinary, but does Tate Modern devote too much space to the icon that emerged after her death?

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

Malani layers mythology, war, and colonial history at the Magazzini del Sale during the Venice Biennale

Sure, we all want love, but what lengths would you go to find it? Swedish animator Anna Mantzaris once again captures the gamut of human emotion in a stop-motion film that plunges headfirst into the pitiful and cringy. As its title suggests, “PLEASE” is about wanting and attempting to find love through increasingly unhinged acts of desperation and neediness. Mantzaris’ signature felt characters light fires for marriage proposals, sob in the chip aisle, and hug puppies while waiting for the train. The writer and director tells Creative Boom that she got the idea for the short film during the early days of the pandemic, when most people were trapped at home. “We became more obsessed with our self-image...

Known for his painstakingly intricate mixed-media sculptures, Canadian artist Chris Millar continues to test the bounds of scale and detail. Two recent works epitomize his ongoing explorations: “A Prize Every Time” and “Loom Beneath the Loam,” the latter of which contains eight tiny paintings, two relief sculptures, and numerous sculptural elements attached to a brass frame. Cartoonish pendants, vignettes with faces, branch-like tendrils and more lend the piece an enigmatic contraption-like quality, as if the pull of a hidden lever will send the entire thing into motion. In a departure from his multimedia pieces, “A Prize Every Time” is a meticulously rendered acrylic painting containing some 90...

John Danaher pays an operatic tribute to the writings of James McCourt, an author who captured the spirit of opera as queer and dangerous like no other.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, leading the Met Orchestra, and Joyce DiDonato continue their exploration of Mahler at Carnegie Hall.

Subtlety is for cowards, say the blazing Anita Cerquetti and the blaring Ebe Stignani.

Approda a Spazio Piera a Trento, dove sarà esposto e attivato dal pubblico fino al 3 luglio 2026, il Lessicogramma dell’abitare del progetto Corrispondenze. Cogliamo quest’occasione per raccontare un lavoro che le artiste, Paola Boscaini e Cristina Materassi, avevano già presentato di recente a Torino e che mette in luce aspetti rilevanti del fare arte delle generazioni più giovani. E giovani lo sono davvero, Boscaini e Materassi, entrambe 29 anni, diplomate all’accademia di Firenze, poi specializzatesi presso l’Albertina a Torino. Nel 2021 hanno avviato Corrispondenze, progetto artistico ed editoriale che definiscono “un duo mobile dislocato in città diverse, che pone al centro della propria...

In Alexis Trice’s dreamy worlds, ethereal looking fish, hounds, shells, and clouds mingle and sparkle like jewels in a crepuscular haze. It’s in a hypnogogic state (where dreams and reality interweave) that they really spring to life: swimming, prancing, basking, and even weeping. Like sand passed through our fingers, though, their seemingly solid forms vanish […]
The post Alexis Trice Paints a Wild-Eye and Feral Chosen Family first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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Parterre Box shines a light on Liparit Avetisyan, who made his Met debut as Alfredo earlier this spring.

Tra i meriti di Josef Albers, uno è forse il più sottile: aver costruito opere che restituiscono allo sguardo pigro esattamente il nulla che merita, e allo sguardo paziente qualcosa di completamente diverso. La critica tende a descrivere il lavoro di Albers come «variazioni sul tema»: lo studio dello spettro cromatico declinato nella geometria del quadrato. È una formula che, pur non mentendo, tradisce per difetto. Registra il cosa – la ripetizione della forma, la modulazione del colore – ma lascia nell’ombra il perché: il fatto che quella forma non sia mai fine a sé stessa, ma il dispositivo attraverso cui Albers mette in tensione la materia pittorica e la percezione di chi la guarda. Ed è...

Marco Mazzucconi è un punto fermo della storia degli anni Novanta in Italia. La sua serie di “Informale visto dall’uomo e visto dal cane” è qualcosa di incredibile: porta in superficie la pittura e allo stesso tempo ci fa pensare. Ci lega alla realtà e al modo di percepirla, ci rimanda alla verità e all’interpretazione della stessa, ci parla della forma e dei pensieri che su questa si possono ricamare. Inoltre, si tratta di opere ineccepibili, eseguite con cura maniacale e di grande professionalità. Altro ciclo, declinato in varie maniere, ma sempre di grande forza espressiva e di grande intuizione, è quello che s’intitola “Chance di un capolavoro”. Questo ciclo, declinato nelle sagome di...

Ryan Heshka has a longtime love of science fiction, four-color printed comics from the 1950s and ‘60s and mid-twentieth-century mutant movie characters. In his comic Frog Wife, he taps into these influences while adding in a dose of contemporary themes, drawing upon not just the “anxiety of nuclear annihilation” that inspired so much twentieth-century pop […]
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By Melanie Chapman There is much to appreciate about the new pop-up exhibition Hospital of Emotions, currently on view at St. Vincent Medical Center (2131 W. Third Street, Los Angeles) until July 31. But if you want to maximize the benefits of your visit, avoid the bombardment of images now flooding the internet and even consider not reading this review. Like seeing all the best parts of a movie by watching the trailer, it is better to just go, and go soon, with as little advanced exposure as...

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Miriam Cahn propone una visione e la impone come dato. La retrospettiva al MACRO di Roma, la prima in Italia di questa ampiezza, è un campo di attrito in cui cinquant’anni di opere costringono il corpo a misurarsi con la propria esposizione all’abuso. Guardare, qui, indica essere guardati. Il titolo, Ciò che mi guarda, ribalta la direzionalità dello scrupolo con una minuzia tutt’altro che retorica. Lo spettatore smarrisce qualunque ubicazione esterna: viene convocato in una relazione che esclude neutralità e divario gestibile. Il visivo funziona da contatto diretto, pressione, più che raffigurazione. Curata da Cristiana Perrella e allestita da Didier Fiúza Faustino // Bureau des Mésarchitectures,...

Calligraphy is an ancient art with roots across the globe, dating back to early Chinese dynasties and Greek civilization, all through the Italian Renaissance. But one glance at a work by San Francisco-based artist Hunter Saxony III, and your understanding of calligraphy will be turned on its head. In an approach that is varied, yet […]
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The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

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