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by Hyperallergic - about 2 hours
In a rather peculiar blunt rotation, Jackson Pollock, Constantin Brancusi, and Hollywood star Nicole Kidman were all part of a record-setting $1 billion evening sale at Christie's on Monday, May 18. Pollock’s 10-foot-long drip painting “Number 7A, 1948,” shattered records for work by the late artist, selling for $181.2 million. The superlative sale nearly tripled the artist's previous auction record of $61.2 million for the sale of "Number 17, 1951" in 2021. In the same sale, Brancusi's cast-bronze bust “Danaïde” (c. 1913) went for $107.6 million, becoming the second most expensive sculpture ever sold after Alberto Giacometti's “L'Homme au Doigt” (1947) fetched $141.2...
by Hyperallergic - about 2 hours
With the spring art fairs behind us, we can relax for a moment and enjoy some restorative community time. That’s exactly the purpose of Bahar Behbahani’s Damask Rose project at Governors Island, where artists and cultural practitioners convened to share stories, play music, and make art. Diba Mohtasham was there to participate and report.Across the river in New Jersey, Aaron Short visits artist studios at Mana Contemporary while a monument for Gaza is installed in the city of Paterson. Also, who's the artist behind that wacky nude figure that was just installed in front of the New Museum?—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chiefBahar Behbahani’s Damask Rose: A Gathering on Governors Island (photo Diba...
by Hyperallergic - yesterday at 22:59
On the unseasonably warm afternoon of Saturday, May 16, three shallow fountains on Governors Island were transformed. Handwoven, antique carpets across regional weaving traditions lined the oval pools while pink, red, and purple crocheted canopies stretched overhead, setting the stage for artist Bahar Behbahani’s Damask Rose: A Gathering. As part of Governors Island Arts’s annual Interventions series, Behbahani worked with the organization’s associate curator and producer, Juan Pablo Siles, to convene over two dozen community practitioners and cultural groups — among them the Asia Contemporary Art Forum, Pardis for Children, and Eat Offbeat — for a four-hour event blending storytelling, communion,...
by ArtNews - yesterday at 22:56
The cultural minister of Guatemala has begun the process to reclaim a 1,200-year-old stone lintel that was repatriated from the United States to Mexico in mid-April, according to a report in the Art Newspaper. The object was initially brought to the Mexican consulate in New York by an unidentified American businessman, who presumably realized that it had been illegally removed from its country of origin at some point before he or she acquired it. The lintel depicts ritual acts involving the sun god and Cheleew Chan K’inich, a late ruler of the ancient Mayan city Yaxchilán, and was made around 600-900 CE. It is signed by the carver known as Mayuy, one of the only artists in the ancient Americas to sign his...
by ArtNews - yesterday at 22:35
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has been threatened with legal action by an Israeli organization over an exhibition about the Nakba, with the group arguing that the presentation “politicizes” history, according to local media reports.   Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center announced this week that it had sent a formal legal demand to the museum’s board of trustees and senior leadership protesting “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present,” an exhibition scheduled to open at the museum on June 27. A statement included with the filing from Shurat HaDin president Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, first reported by the Winnipeg Sun, warns the federally funded museum of “contributing to...
by Designboom - yesterday at 22:00
Point Cloud turns a public plaza into a kinetic color field
 
A vibrant cloud of color drifts through the air in Vincent Leroy’s Point Cloud, transforming Beijing’s Taikoo Li Sanlitun into a chromatic and kinetic environment. Presented as part of the 2026 Fashion Festival, the monumental installation unfolds as a floating constellation of translucent discs animated by wind, light, and movement. Shades of electric blue, violet, pink, and red ripple continuously through the work as each element rotates independently with the slightest air current. Suspended above the plaza like an airborne flight of petals, the installation constantly shifts between density and transparency, forming ever-changing...
by ArtNews - yesterday at 21:59
A culture prize that has been awarded in Germany for nearly five decades will be renamed due to the Nazi ties of the man who was the prize’s namesake when it was founded. The Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal will now be called the Medal for Art and Culture in Hamburg. The change comes after a 2024 article published Die Welt am Sonntag, the Sunday magazine of the German newspaper Die Welt. In it historian Helmut Stubbe da Luz provided proof that Hans Harder Biermann-Ratjen, who would eventually be appointed as Hamburg’s senator for culture in the postwar era, confirmed his Nazi Party membership in a 1943 application to the Third Reich’s literary authority, when he wanted to publish a novel. The article...
by Hyperallergic - yesterday at 21:52
The city of Paterson, New Jersey, celebrated Palestine Day last Sunday, May 17, by unveiling its new Gaza Square on Main Street with a sculpture by artist and activist Kyle Goen. Goen's popular “Gaza Love” (2014–) design, realized in three dimensions, sits outside of Paterson's Southside library branch to commemorate the city's large diasporic Palestinian community at a time of profound loss.“I call the work 'Gaza Love' to communicate that love is solidarity — that it's resistance,” Goen told Hyperallergic in a phone call. “Love isn't passive. What pushes us forward is love for ourselves and humanity, and wanting to see people live.”Invoking the typography of...
by Thisiscolossal - yesterday at 21:38
Nestled amid plants native to the U.K., a giant figure of Gaia, or Mother Nature, sleeps in a verdant garden. With willow-branch locks shaped by artist Tom Hare and a crown of leaves, the figure’s face and shoulders are made from a fallen mature tree carved by Tim Wood. A winding pathway leads beneath an arch that extends the character’s torso, created in the tradition of dry stone walls and meticulously assembled by the family-run outfit Noble Stonework. You’ll find Gaia in a garden titled “On the Edge” at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, which has taken the top prize of Garden of the Year. The project is a collaboration between designer Sarah Eberle and Campaign to Protect Rural England...
by artandcakela - yesterday at 21:20
By Mary Singh Los Angeles has been in a prolonged conversation about monuments. Co-organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art and The Brick, and co-curated by Hamza Walker, Kara Walker, and Bennett Simpson, earlier this year, "MONUMENTS" brought ten decommissioned Confederate statues into the Geffen Contemporary's vast industrial space, placing them in direct dialogue with contemporary works by nineteen artists. Praised by the Los Angeles Times as "the most significant show in an American...
by ArtForum - yesterday at 21:16
Blue-chip auction house Christie’s pulled in $1.1 billion in back-to-back sales held the evening of May 18, thanks to record-setting prices commanded by numerous works on offer. Chief among these was an eleven-foot-wide 1948 Jackson Pollock drip painting, Number 7A, which entered the sale with a $100 million guarantee and hammered for $181.2 million with […]
by Hyperallergic - yesterday at 20:48
Walk into any bookstore in the United States lately, and the shelves and new-release tables resemble group exhibitions. Reproductions of oil and acrylic paintings, many immediately recognizable, fill the covers. Their colors are saturated, often primary. Figures abound, with inscrutable expressions and intimate gestures emphasized by tight cropping. Rather than stock photos or digital renderings, the covers foreground material marks made by artists ranging from early modernists like Hilma af Klint to contemporary realists like Nashville-based Shannon Cartier Lucy. In a market flooded with design templates and AI-generated imagery, the painted cover stands out as distinctly human.The recent shift from color...
by ArtForum - yesterday at 20:15
In the wake of accusations of antisemitism being leveled at British-Nigerian arts trustee Misan Harriman, more than 98,000 people have submitted complaints to the UK Independent Press Standards Organisation in Harriman’s defense, marking the highest-ever amount of complaints over a single issue ever made to the watchdog organization. Separately from the complaint, activist Greta Thunberg […]
by archaeology - yesterday at 20:00
WARSAW, POLAND—Science in Poland reports that traces of fermented alcoholic beverages have been detected on 4,500-year-old vessels uncovered in northeastern Poland by a team of researchers led by Dariusz Manasterski of the University of Warsaw. The 13 vessels in the study were found at several different sites linked to the Bell Beaker culture. The residues in at least nine of the vessels contained metabolic products of bacteria and yeast, which indicate that fermentation had taken place, Manasterski said. Some of the vessels may have held more complex mixtures, such as Nordic grog, he added. The scientists also detected biomarkers for processing wheat and barley, fruit, and possible resins that may have been...
by Thisiscolossal - yesterday at 19:46
Incorporating nearly two tons of porcelain fragments, a monumental pair of vessels spills out into a pool of lustrous green. Shards of broken cups and saucers, pots, and other voluptuous forms blanket the gallery of the Green-House at Green-Wood for a new installation by Jean Shin. Celadon Landscape is one of the latest projects in which the artist transforms a singular material into a sprawling sculpture. Found objects that bear traces of their former purposes and users are prized possessions in Shin’s New York studio, as these often-discarded items are nested into dynamic works that consider the relationship between consumption, environmental care, and community. Green-Wood presents the second iteration of...
by ArtForum - yesterday at 19:30
On Monday morning, the French government announced that an international team of architects combining the efforts of New York’s Selldorf Architects and Studios Architecture Paris, will be responsible for executing the biggest overhaul of the Louvre Museum in thirty five years, thus winning a high-stakes competition that also included the Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto Architects […]
by archaeology - yesterday at 19:30
ST. MARY’S CITY, MARYLAND—According to a Live Science report, scientists including Éadaoin Harney of the 23andMe Research Institute, Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and David Reich of Harvard University examined DNA samples taken from skeletons uncovered in the cemetery at the site of the Brick Chapel in St. Mary’s City, the capital of the British colony of Maryland founded by religious dissenters in 1634. The samples were taken from the remains of 49 people who were buried at the site between 1634 and 1730. The researchers identified the remains of Thomas Greene, the second colonial governor of Maryland, and Philip Calvert, the fifth governor of the colony,...
by ArtNews - yesterday at 19:19
When Sotheby’s moved into the Breuer building last year, the auction house inherited more than just a famous slab of Marcel Breuer modernism on Madison Avenue. It also inherited the ghost of a museum. Now, Sotheby’s is leaning into that history in earnest, and with more than its usual blockbuster, star-studded evening sales.  The auction house announced this week that it will launch a new exhibition initiative called “In Residence.” The first of these will be presentation of three paintings by Spanish master Joaquín Sorolla from the collection of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library. The show, titled “In Residence: The Hispanic Society Sorollas,” opened Monday and runs through June 1 at the...
by The Art Newspaper - yesterday at 19:06
Japanese writer-director Koji Fukada’s new film, which recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, is set in a remote town where artmaking is central to many residents’ lives
by ArtNews - yesterday at 19:04
The Palm Springs Art Museum in California has released a three-page statement saying that an investigation conducted in response to a whistleblower complaint alleging mismanagement and fraud found no wrongdoing by the museum. The museum declined to provide ARTnews a copy of the resulting report, which will not be publicly released. The whistleblower complaint made numerous detailed allegations. Among them are claims that the museum improperly reclassified funds in its endowment to meet cash crunches; that there is a $3 million discrepancy in the balance of the museum’s investment account; and that a former director was improperly forced out to make way to promote an internal hire after a problematic search...
by archaeology - yesterday at 19:00
ANTALYA, TURKEY—The first-century A.D. stadium in the ancient city of Perge was converted into an amphitheater and used for executions involving wild animals during the third century, Hürriyet Daily News reports. Located in southwestern Turkey, Perge was founded by the Lycians in the twelfth century B.C., and was later inhabited by the Greeks. Aytaç Dönmez of Istanbul University said that the city’s stadium originally measured about 800 feet long. Then, to make the structure suitable for Roman-style entertainment, the northern section was enclosed to form an arena. “We realized that some of the pedestal remains uncovered during the excavations were bases for platforms and crosses used in executions...
by Designboom - yesterday at 18:00
Ten Studio turns cycling infrastructure into ecological pavilion
 
Designed by Ten Studio for Shanghai’s Chongming Dongtan Greenway, the 60-Degree Ecological Pavilion transforms a conventional cycling rest stop into a self-sustaining ecological prototype. By layering human activity with habitat systems and renewable technologies, the project proposes a new model of infrastructure where architecture actively participates in natural processes.
 
Located on Chongming Island, envisioned as Shanghai’s future world-class ecological island, the project responds to the Dongtan Greenway, a nationally recognized cycling tourism route that supports a wide range of users. Instead of treating the cycling station as a...
by The Art Newspaper - yesterday at 17:49
Tate Britain show will bring to light the “incredible skill and magic and variety” in the painter’s work
by Designboom - yesterday at 17:21
Roma Continua frames a new civic map for Rome
 
Roma Continua, the winning vision for Rome by IT’S and OMA, proposes a new urban framework for the Italian capital by working through its landscape, infrastructure, and overlooked sites.
 
Rome is a city of layers, meaning that its history can be read through its streets. It’s at once frozen in time, and constantly building upon itself. Now, the ancient city is to see its next chapter, and while it will remain legible as Rome, the proposal asks how this next layer might take shape over the coming twenty-five years.
 
Developed with OKRA, NET Engineering, and a wider interdisciplinary team, the proposal responds to the Roma REgeneration Foundation’s...
by ArtForum - yesterday at 17:05
The Dia Art Foundation and the Sam Gilliam Foundation have announced Guatemala-based artist and poet Edgar Calel as the winner of the 2026 Sam Gilliam Award. Calel will receive $75,000 and will be featured in a public program at one of Dia’s locations this fall. Born in Chi Xot (San Juan Comalapa), Guatemala, in 1987, […]
by Thisiscolossal - yesterday at 16:08
When Valerie Lueth of Tugboat Printshop sets out to make a woodblock print, it’s rare that she only uses a single block. Instead, sometimes up to five distinctly carved pieces are incorporated, each containing different details that, when combined, create a total image. To make the prints, which are usually limited to editions of 100 or so, Lueth rolls the meticulously hand-carved blocks with colorful ink, layering them precisely in order. Black outlines define flora and fauna, for instance, which are first laid down as colorful shapes. Tugboat Printshop is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and for a limited time, there’s a discount on original woodcut prints in the shop. Keep an eye out on the...
by Designboom - yesterday at 15:00
Arc of the wind transforms blossoms into kinetic spatial rhythm
 
Arc of the Wind is a kinetic installation by topoloy that explores how slow movement can quietly inhabit everyday space. Created for gaga’s flagship store at Taikoo Li Sanlitun in Beijing, the project introduces a gentle temporal layer into a fast-paced dining environment shaped by constant movement, visual stimulation, and short periods of stay. The installation draws from two natural phenomena and holds them in vertical tension: above, the tensile pull of traditional Chinese kites under suspension; below, the gradual unfolding of blossoms over time.
 
Rather than translating these references into literal forms, topoloy extracted their...
by Parterre - yesterday at 15:00
Soprano Amanda Forsythe as Ilia and tenor David Portillo in the titular role were highlights of Washington Concert Opera’s robust Idomeneo.
by The Art Newspaper - yesterday at 12:59
The Hong Kong and Paris institutions will stage a major exhibition with work from both collections, to open at the revamped Centre Pompidou in 2030
by The Art Newspaper - yesterday at 12:38
The French institution’s partnership with the Hanwha Foundation of Culture promises a “reciprocal exchange”, but there are concerns it will be too Western focused
by Designboom - yesterday at 12:37
Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu announce venice biennale 2027 theme
 
Curators Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu unveil Do Architecture: The Possibility of Coexistence in the Face of Real Reality as the theme of the 20th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Running from May 8th to November 21st, 2027, the exhibition positions architecture as a direct response to an increasingly unstable world shaped by ecological crisis, accelerated urbanization, technological abstraction, and the erosion of cultural memory.
 
Announced at the Biennale headquarters in Venice, the theme marks a notable shift from the technologically driven discourse of recent editions toward a more grounded architectural approach...
by archdaily - yesterday at 12:00
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by Parterre - yesterday at 12:00
Stiffelio has always been the dark horse of early Verdi operas.
by The Art Newspaper - yesterday at 11:34
Scientific research shows that rather than a victim of invasion, early medieval Britain was a cultural melting pot
by Juliet - yesterday at 9:40
Alla Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, la prima personale istituzionale italiana di Lenz Geerk, Theatre of the Mind, si presenta come un dispositivo percettivo in cui la pittura regola le circostanze dell’apparizione. La mostra elabora un campo in cui sagoma, spazio e tempo non si danno simultaneamente, ma come scansioni differite, in cui la visione arriva sempre leggermente dopo il proprio accadere. Nei dipinti di Geerk non si dispiegano rappresentazioni semplici. Figure, oggetti e situazioni coesistono in configurazioni instabili e gli elementi non tendono a una sintesi, ma rimangono in uno stato di connessione irrisolta, in cui ciò che affiora non coincide mai davvero con ciò che si compie.
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by Aesthetic - yesterday at 9:00
Between the rhythms of global capital and the architectures of digital life, meaning today is produced in spaces where the physical and the virtual are no longer distinct but mutually constitutive. Labour, identity, memory and desire circulate through systems of automation, simulation and networked communication that reshape how experience is felt and represented. Within this condition, contemporary art becomes a site for testing the limits of perception itself – a way of registering how subjectivity is formed under technological pressure. It is here that the work of Cao Fei finds its urgency, staging a world in which utopia and exhaustion, play and infrastructure, coexist in uneasy proximity. Her practice...
by Aesthetic - yesterday at 7:00
In an age defined by the incessant circulation of images, photography has become less a discrete medium than an ambient condition. Pictures arrive and depart with such velocity that looking is often reduced to a kind of reflex – a flicker of attention rather than sustained encounter. The photograph, once anchored in the idea of duration, now behaves like a surface of perpetual present tense, endlessly refreshed and endlessly displaced. However, within this saturation, photography festivals have become increasingly important as counter-temporal spaces – environments in which images are slowed, recontextualised and recharged through proximity, scale and sequence. They function as temporary architectures of...
by ArtForum - monday at 21:18
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, has reinstated mention of Donald Trump’s two impeachments in a new wall text accompanying his portrait in the institution’s gallery of American presidents. The museum had earlier sparked an uproar by scrubbing all reference to the events as the Smithsonian, its parent institution, came under intense scrutiny from […]
by Thisiscolossal - monday at 20:45
In a distraction-free “dream lab,” Zendaya has carte blanche to create a new wardrobe in a short, stop-motion film written and directed by Spike Jonze. The advertisement, which announces a clothing line the actor co-created with apparel brand On, merges dance and playful optics as she maneuvers through some otherworldly trial and error. You might also enjoy Jonze’s mind-melting dance video for Apple featuring FKA twigs. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Zendaya Taps into the Creative Process in a Quirky Ad Directed by Spike Jonze appeared first on Colossal.
by archaeology - monday at 20:00
LUXOR, EGYPT—Authorities from Egypt’s Luxor Museum revealed a never-before-seen plaster wall from King Tutankhamun’s tomb, The Independent reports. The wall was originally constructed just before the burial chamber was sealed to protect the young pharaoh’s grave from intruders. It still bears stamps associated with the funerary rituals and seals belonging to Tutankhamun as well as those of the necropolis guards charged with keeping the tombs safe and protecting them from theft. Similar blocking walls are almost never found intact by archaeologists because so many royal Egyptian tombs were looted in antiquity and they were dismantled by robbers. However, when Howard Carter’s team discovered the grave...
by archaeology - monday at 19:30
SIBERIA, RUSSIA—According to a CNN report, Neanderthal dentists may have used sophisticated tools to treat toothaches 60,000 years ago. A lone Neanderthal lower molar recently stood out among dozens of hominin teeth, fossils, and other artifacts that archaeologists recovered from the Chagyrskaya Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains. The tooth’s crown featured an unusual deep hole that extended into the pulp cavity. After researchers conducted a detailed analysis of the prehistoric tooth and experiments on modern teeth, they concluded that the hole was most likely created when someone used a small stone point to drill into an infected tooth and alleviate pain caused by a cavity. The find represents the...
by Thisiscolossal - monday at 16:26
On a day pretty much like any other, a girl named Prue is out in a park with her baby brother when the unthinkable happens: he’s swept off by crows and taken into a mysterious forest known as the Impassable Wilderness. Joined by her classmate Curtis, Prue ventures into the magical, sylvan realm where animals have developed a complex society of their own. The search for Prue’s missing sibling plots the course for an epic adventure that is the heart of the young adult novel Wildwood. Soon, the story lights up the big screen. The forthcoming feature-length film is based on an original story by Colin Meloy—the lead singer of The Decemberists, for the fans out there—and illustrated by Carson Ellis, who also...
by booooooom - monday at 15:00
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by Aesthetic - monday at 14:00
Uluru stands at the heart of Australia’s “Red Centre.” The sandstone monolith, rising 348 metres above the desert, has stood for 550 million years. The natural wonder is a symbol of Aboriginal land rights and a source of spiritual connection with the continent. Artist Bruce Munro (b. 1959) visited the site in the 1980s. The trip, which began as part of a journey around Australia, marked a turning point in both his life and artist trajectory. The location inspired Field of Light, an installation of 50,000 solar powered stems, which illuminates an area the size of seven football fields. The piece, first opened in 2016, was intended to be a one-year exhibition, but has since received 750,000 visitors...
by Parterre - monday at 12:00
I have very few opportunities to see real-life opera divas, but when Natalie Dessay chose to debut her first Traviata at Santa Fe, there was no way I was going to miss it.
by Juliet - monday at 7:33
Si entra subito nel cuore del tema centrale osservando le immagini del fotografo colombiano Felipe Romero Beltrán: Bravo è il titolo del progetto che esplora il dramma dell’attraversamento del confine tra Messico e Stati Uniti, costituito dal fiume nel titolo, il Rio Bravo. Eppure, non vediamo figure umane nell’atto di passare il guado, ma soprattutto oggetti, sedie, materassi, pentolame, cortili senza persone, reliquie religiose, e luoghi che ci fanno capire che qualcuno da lì è passato. Come uno spettro. Fantasmi del quotidiano è il leitmotiv della XXI edizione del Festival della Fotografia Europea, realizzata con la curatela di Walter Guadagnini, Arianna Catania, Tim Clark e Luce Lebart.
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by The Gaze - sunday at 20:20
By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...
by Juliet - sunday at 19:32
C’è qualcosa di controcorrente, nel senso migliore del termine, in una manifestazione che occupa un intero weekend per parlare di terracotta. Eppure, Buongiorno Ceramica!, giunta alla sua dodicesima edizione il 23 e 24 maggio 2026, è una delle poche occasioni in cui il termine “diffuso” – spesso abusato dal lessico delle arti contemporanee – riacquista una misura concreta e verificabile. Sessanta comuni italiani, più di cinquecento eventi, due giorni: la ceramica esce dalle vetrine, scavalca i recinti delle fiere specializzate e torna a occupare la strada, i cortili, le botteghe aperte come fossero stanze di una casa provvisoriamente condivisa.
Bottega ceramica a Montelupo Fiorentino (Toscana),...
by Parterre - sunday at 12:00
The air held a real charge that night in SF's War Memorial Opera House.
by Parterre - saturday at 21:12
The English soprano, famed for her interpretations of twentieth-century composers like Strauss, Britten, and Poulenc, as well as Mozart and operetta, died yesterday only a few days after announcing that she had a terminal cancer.
by Aesthetic - saturday at 19:00
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, established in 1996, celebrates exhibitions and publications that have made “a significant contribution to photography in the past 12 months.” It’s a major moment in the cultural calendar, and, over the years, has spotlighted seminal names such as Arthur Jafa, Deana Lawson, Lorna Simpson, Richard Mosse and Susan Meiselas. This year’s winning artist is Rene Matić, for the exhibition AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH, at CCA Berlin, Germany, which ran from November 2024 to February 2025. The show, as Shoair Mavlian, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery and Chair of the Jury, describes, comprised “raw and honest photographs” that “bring a story of...
by Aesthetic - saturday at 9:00
This season, photography exhibitions across Europe and the US are using image-making, installation and archival practice to confront some of the defining questions of our time: who controls representation, how technology reshapes tradition, and what it means to preserve identity under political and social pressure. From Amsterdam to Phoenix, artists are examining the tensions between truth and fiction, resistance and erasure. Presented at Huis Marseille, Fondazione Prada, Kunsthalle Bremen, Fotografiska Stockholm and Phoenix Art Museum, these exhibitions approach urgent contemporary issues with intimacy and ambition. Yumna Al-Arashi: Body as Resistance  Huis Marseille, Amsterdam | Until 21 June ...
by Juliet - saturday at 7:02
All’interno del programma di 480 Site Specific, nello spazio di EDICOLA480 con la direzione artistica di Massimiliano Bastardo, il dipinto I secondi soldati di Gabriele La Torre – pittore palermitano, nato nel 2003 – si impone come un’immagine in apparenza semplice che, a uno sguardo più attento, rivela una costruzione percettiva instabile e stratificata. L’olio su tela lavora su un immaginario immediatamente riconoscibile, quello dei soldatini di plastica, ma ne sovverte la funzione narrativa, trasformandolo in un campo di tensione sospeso tra memoria, ripetizione e dislocazione.
Gabriele La Torre, “I secondi soldati”, olio su tela, 100×85 cm, 2026, ph: Danilo Donzelli Photography, courtesy...
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by Juliet - friday at 5:30
Presso Fondazione Sabe per l’arte a Ravenna, la mostra Molteplice senza disordine curata Enrico Camprini espone tre artisti di generazioni diverse che si confrontano e si pongono in relazione con lo spazio espositivo creando una sintesi che ragiona sul dialogo tra il luogo espositivo e l’atmosfera creata dalle opere.
AA.VV., “Molteplice senza disordine”, veduta della mostra, Fondazione Sabe, Ravenna, 2026. Foto di Daniele Casadio, courtesy Fondazione Sabe per l’arte
Le opere degli artisti coinvolti si confrontano in sguardi che si ibridano e si influenzano a vicenda. Alice Cattaneo invade lo spazio espositivo con l’opera site specific Se questo margine è di tempo, che si allarga sulla...
by artandcakela - thursday at 17:00
By Lacey Argus It's easy to miss the bite-sized rainbows orbiting around the travertine surfaces of The Getty Center's Main Entrance. Some people breeze by them, eager to visit the various galleries that lie just beyond them. Others dash through them as they rush into a crowded bathroom line. Some briefly glance upward at the towering glass light prisms suspended from the atrium enclosing the space. But not children. If you spend an afternoon amongst these rainbows, you're sure to notice...