Reclaimed Engine Heads Become Handcrafted Electric Guitars
 
Plateis Guitars turns old car engine heads into handmade electric guitars, giving discarded automotive parts a second life as playable instruments. Created by Slovenian maker Vlado Plateis, the project brings together car culture, music, metalwork, and slow craftsmanship in one unexpected object. Each guitar begins with a used engine head, a part that once helped power a car and would usually end up as scrap. Instead of hiding its industrial origin, Plateis keeps the character of the metal visible. The shape, marks, openings and weight of the engine head become part of the guitar’s identity. What once roared on the road now roars in a different...

Linder's first permanent public artwork, Sirona, is unveiled at London Zoo, honouring pioneering zoologist Joan Procter as part of ZSL's bicentenary

In occasione del terzo ciclo annuale del progetto di residenza d’artista Artist in Officina, la sensibile congiunzione tra pratiche performative e scultoree di Ekaterina Shcherbakova ha rintracciato gli echi della storiografia composita di Montefollonico, nel territorio senese, rendendoli nuovamente manifesti. Ideata da Paul Gregory e Tessa Singleton, con la collaborazione di Margareth Dorigatti ed Emanuele Fasciani, l’iniziativa prende vita nello storico laboratorio del fabbro del paese, riconvertito per accogliere i percorsi di ricerca di artisti di provenienza internazionale.
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toward a friendly relationship with chaos
 
At Raisonné in New York, Emmanuel Boos walks us through Noir C’est Noir like he’s introducing his crew of disorderly ceramic collaborators. The tables, stools, vases, and brick-like modules gathered for his first solo exhibition in the US all carry the discipline of porcelain, but they also keep the evidence of what happened when discipline gave way.
 
The ‘errors’ which the French ceramicist celebrates take the form of misaligned seams, pools of excess glaze, and slumping surfaces which lean onto each another for balance. Boos keeps returning to this thin space between intention and behavior, noting that the material behaves in ways he can not fully plan,...

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Artist Gloria Blancato was asleep in her bedroom on the early evening of June 24 when she was abruptly awakened by violent tremors. The shaking was so strong that the panes of her windows shattered, exploding into glass shards on her bedspread as the walls collapsed around her. She held on tightly to the doorknob, the ground quivering beneath her, before finding a pair of shoes, slipping them on, and jumping out the window of the two-story building in the port city of Catia La Mar in La Guaira. Her feet are still swollen and her legs bruised from running among the debris, and she and her family have been sleeping outside for the last week. “I send this with my eyes filled with tears,” Blancato said in a...

Following the recent seizure of several objects from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection in June, the total valuation of looted artifacts surrendered by the museum now stands at a whopping $95 million. In addition to hundreds of small-scale items linked to smuggling schemes, investigators have seized 120 objects worth between $20,000 and $26 million from The Met's holdings since 2017.The Met told the New York Times that the ongoing object recovery is a mutual effort between the museum's own provenance research team, which was instituted in 2023 and recently expanded to a 12-person operation led by former Sotheby's restitution head Lucian Simmons, and investigators from the...

Minanbé, an intact site in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, sheds new light on the Maya Lowlands

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Rune Mields (1935–2026)German conceptual artistRife with geometric forms, musical notes, and monochromatic grids, Mields's body of work lingers in the space between order and expression. The self-taught artist spent five decades nurturing her interest in mathematics, ornamentation, and symbols across diagrammatic paintings and drawings. Her boundless creative energy even extended to her own gravestone at the Artists' Necropolis in Kassel, which she designed in 1992 and titled "La vita corre, come rivo fluente" (Life flows, like a fluctuating river).Bae Young-whan (1969–2026)South Korean...

QSTN?MRK Turns One-Dollar Bills into a Participatory Artwork
 
The Last Dollar is a collaborative, living artwork that takes the form of a growing pile of US one-dollar bills. Created by art collective QSTN?MRK, an internet-controlled ATM dispenses each bill on demand, and whoever drops the latest one becomes ‘The Last Dollar.’ The entire process is broadcast live on the project’s website.
 
Inspired by Andy Warhol’s 1975 statement that ‘making money is art,’ The Last Dollar uses money itself as its medium. The work consists of a pile of US one-dollar bills placed on the floor, gradually changing shape as new bills are added. The project began on June 25th, 2026, with an initial contribution of...

A 3,700-year-old Greek jug and a 2,000-year-old Turkish bronze statuette of Hermes were among the dozens of ancient artifacts that were seized from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art earlier in June, the New York Times reports. The removals took place thanks to an intervention from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, which altogether has seized […]

This July, Los Angeles is rife with exhibitions that confront present-day challenges and conflicts in ways that are both pragmatic and poetic. Radical Kinship features eight women artists whose practices highlight informal communal networks, while Eva Aguila looks at the essential but contentious roles played by Mexican workers in the United States, framed by her own familial legacy. A career-spanning show on beloved Angeleno artist Barbara Carrasco at Charlie James Gallery showcases her lifelong synthesis of art and activism. And at Cevera Yoon, Jaime Pattison and Maura Brewer adapt the language and tools of the information economy to create haunting soundscapes and geometric abstractions.Vincent Ramos:...

A complex, sprawling legal case surrounding the late Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau took a new turn this week after an art expert testified that the painter’s children were active participants in a scheme that saw many of his works forged and passed off as authentic. Labeled Canada’s largest art fraud ever by investigators, the scheme has been the subject of a prolonged court battle that culminated last year in the conviction of Jeffrey Cowan, one of eight people arrested in 2023. He has been accused of taking part in an effort to sell 1,400 faked Morrisseau works between 2008 and 2021. But this week, Morrisseau expert John Zemanovich said that the artist’s own children were also culpable, since...

The Mexican government continued to face scrutiny this week over its handling of the Gelman Collection, a trove of artworks that includes an array of historically important paintings by Frida Kahlo and other artists of note. Amassed by the late collectors Jacques and Natasha Gelman, the 300-work Gelman Collection partially resurfaced in the holdings of Spain’s Banco Santander in January, about a year and a half after the Mexican government claimed not know the whereabouts of the collection. Then the bank traveled the collection to Spain, a move that many in Mexico’s art world claimed was illegal, according to the country’s laws guiding cultural heritage. After accusations that the Mexican government had...

The restoration of an early painting by the Dutch master Rembrandt, titled Let the Little Children Come Unto Me, has uncovered a previously hidden context of the work. Following the removal of layers of overpaint in preparation for a Sotheby’s auction, a bearded man in the frame was discovered to be wearing a turban instead […]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council will provide the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) with its highest-ever yearly appropriation as part of the city's Fiscal Year 2027 budget.A spokesperson for the Mayor's Office told Hyperallergic that the city government will give $323.8 million to the agency, which administers public funding to arts institutions throughout the city. The appropriation marks a nearly 7% increase from last year's then-record $299.6 million investment.In the hours before the July 1 official budget deadline, Mamdani struck a “handshake” deal with City Council Speaker Julie Menin and other members of the Council on how to distribute $125.8 billion...

The Sharjah Architecture Triennial, a major arts platform dedicated to advancing architecture and urbanism in the Middle East, North and East Africa and Asia, has announced the opening dates and full list of participating artists for its third edition, titled Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures. The triennial, which will be staged at […]

The leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) has criticized Heritage Minister Marc Miller for suggesting the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg should alter the language of its exhibition on Palestinian displacement. The backlash against Miller—who had previously vowed not to intervene in the exhibition—comes as a Jewish trustee of the museum resigned and museums worldwide grapple with the framing of Israel’s ongoing military assault on Gaza.  Miller told the Canadian Press on Monday that it was “regrettable” the curators of “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” did not “identify Hamas as a terrorist organization” or mention the Jews killed during Hamas’ 7 October...

The Brazilian-born, London-based art collector and patron Flavia Nespatti will open a commercial gallery in London this October, reports the Art Newspaper. Located in a mid-century industrial building in the central London neighborhood of Fitzrovia, Antesala will focus on art and artists from Latin America. The gallery will organize selling exhibitions of both primary and secondary market works in collaboration with galleries, artists, estates, collections, publications, and nonprofits, together with talks, screenings, and other public programming. As envisioned by Nespatti, the space will be a hub for exhibiting, discussing, and collecting contemporary art. Antesala will not represent artists, but neither...

An online auction of art belonging to noted collectors Anita and Chaim “Poju” Zabludowicz conducted by Christie’s ended with less than half of the works sold, Artnet News reports. The June 18–30 sale of forty-four works had been expected to pull in between £292,000 ($385,100) and £435,400 ($574,200) but concluded with just twenty works sold, for a total […]

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José Antonio Kast’s ultraconservative government nixed a show of the late Argentine artist’s overtly political work at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

It has, as usual, been a busy week for President Donald J. Trump. No, he hasn’t negotiated an actual peace agreement with Iran (beyond a hazy and already-violated memorandum of understanding), or ended Russia’s war on Ukraine (which he promised to end within a day), or, back at home, tamed mounting inflation (because he insists “affordability” is a word made up by—speaking of made-up words—“Dumocrats”). No, it’s been a busy week for the 47th president to post weird images on Truth Social. His latest is a seeming proposed addition to the decorative program at the White House. A post from 8:23 p.m. on Monday, June 29, later shared on Instagram by the White House and the president, shows a giant...

Fonds Bustamante, a new cultural institution founded by French artist Jean-Marc Bustamante, will formally open in Arles, France, on July 9. The foundation will operate out of the 12th-century Église Sainte-Croix church which has been restored by architect Charles Zana. Through the restoration, the architects sought to celebrate Arles’ history, and the church’s location in […]

New Bremen is home to one of the world’s largest manufacturers of forklift trucks; the company’s chief executive wants to make it ‘the Marfa of the Midwest’

Whether it’s the atmosphere casting a haze or the fuzziness of memories and dreams, Guimi You’s lush paintings have an aura of wistfulness and quietude. The Seoul-based artist creates dreamy oil compositions that tap into personal experience, passing time, and how one gains perspective and reevaluates their needs or desires as they go through life. You’s canvases are infused with elements of still life and landscape traditions, where anonymous protagonists reflect quietly in a garden, pause in a golden meadow, or stroll through a park in the rain. Cerulean shadows complement the magenta jacket of a woman strolling with her dog along a stream in “Spring Walk,” and a woman sits down at an easel in an...

new Tencent campus by mad floats over Shenzhen
 
Along a reclaimed coastline in Shenzhen, MAD’s Tengyun Center rises above the shore as three cloud-like office volumes held 8.6 meters (30 feet) in the air. Designed for Tencent’s headquarters campus in China, the building complex opens the ground below as public coastal space where visitors can move beneath the workplace toward the water.
 
The gesture gives the project its point, as corporate campuses often build their own internal worlds, with landscape and amenities kept behind a controlled edge. Here, MAD lifts the main mass onto ten structural cores, freeing the land below as a shaded field of paths, lawns, planted slopes, and views of the sea.
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The Estorick Collection and Compton Verney will present the first UK institutional exhibitions dedicated to Carla Accardi

The artist’s exhibition is based around the their own experience of facing eviction

Stand in any forest and look up, and it’s hard not to be mesmerized by the swaying of tall trees and their elegant canopies casting shade onto the woodland floor. But imagine being an ant or beetle and peering up at the stems of wild geraniums, garlic, or buttercups and experiencing the same sensation. For photographer Theo Bosboom, this ground-level view of flowers and plants gave rise to a series that captures them in the way we might photograph a grove of towering, ancient sequoias. Traversing local landscapes around his home in the Netherlands and sometimes venturing across the border into Germany or Belgium, Bosboom explores forests, dunes, public parks, roadside verges, and virtually any place that...

Greek National Opera's Medea in the ancient theater at Epidaurus is an intermittently rewarding exercise in nostalgia.

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San Francisco Opera hosts an exuberant tribute to queerness past and present.

New York gallery responds to client needs by offering a $10m-plus de Kooning painting in attention-grabbing move

Ai Weiwei's largest site-specific exhibition to date opens at Manchester's Aviva Studios

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new design and historic craft
 
In Japan, Craft x Tech connects contemporary designers and artists from around the world to collaborate with local artisans. Merging historic craft with experiments in aesthetics and form, the group has invited acclaimed creatives such as Bethan Laura Wood, Sabine Marcelis, and Eugene Kangawa to reimagine what’s possible using techniques that have shaped the country’s history. In conversation with designboom, Craft x Tech’s founder and creative director, Hideki Yoshimoto, and curatorial director, Maria Cristina Didero, speak about their journey bringing international designers to Japan.
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Historically, conductors were often viewed as rigid, authoritarian figures. Yannick Nézet-Séguin completely subverts this stereotype.

It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

Un corpo cammina. Attraversa quindici paesi, consuma le suole, accumula polvere e incontri. Quando questo corpo entra in un’istituzione, come Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, emblema del meccanismo dell’arte internazionale, qualcosa nel sistema si inceppa. Algebra è costruita su questo inceppamento. Il corpus di Paulo Nazareth non disgiunge esperienza e produzione: il cammino è già opera, l’incontro è già forma. Migrazione, diaspora, confine e memoria non sono temi da rappresentare, sono i presupposti operativi entro cui l’indagine emerge. Ogni immagine, oggetto o documento nasce da un sentiero e conserva la tensione tra vissuto e diffusione.
Floor: Paulo Nazareth, “Cadernos de Africa”,...

The 79th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on sculptor Willy Verginer, the black and white world of Murayama Tomoaki, the graphic art of Jimi Biscuits, Harriet Mena Hill’s painted rubble, the art of Panama,  Plus a Special Insert Section featuring the art of Marigold Santos, surrealist painter Philip Bosmans, the universal art […]
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In 1975, Stuart Pearson Wright entered the world as a product of artificial insemination, his father’s identity kept anonymous for the entirety of his life even to this day. This fact would fuel Wright’s early, burgeoning interest in expressing himself through the arts and a later rise to prominence in portraiture. In interviews, he would […]
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In 2007, Magnhild Kennedy indulged a lifelong fascination by moving to London. “I have had London on my mind since I was a teen. I wanted to live there even before my first visit,” she says. Growing up in Trondheim, Norway, from the age of sixteen onward she devoured every image and word in issues […]
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On a perfect day, I would get up and not snooze,” says Brandi Milne of her ideal day at work. She would then head into the studio at her Huntington Beach, California home, do some warm-up sketches and paint for about eight hours. She would remember to take breaks to stretch. (“That’s really important and […]
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In March 2025, the Euclid mission led by the The European Space Agency (ESA) enabled scientists to capture the highest resolution image ever taken of the dense, glowing center of the Milky Way galaxy. An enormous swarm of stars forms a bulge at the heart of the spiral, and researchers continue to search amid these billions of gaseous orbs for exoplanets, or any planet that’s located outside of our solar system. “The galactic bulge—the central region of our galaxy—is a vast, tightly packed structure filled mainly with old, cooler stars, giving it its characteristic yellow colour,” ESA says. The photograph, which is taken with visible light, allows scientists to pinpoint exoplanets and measure their...

Mark Rothko is known for his “color field” paintings, a genre that was coined in the 1950s to describe his work specifically, along with peers like Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still. These works are generally characterized by their total abstraction and emphasis on clearly delineated areas, or “fields,” of different hues. One might also think of Josef Albers’ seminal series titled Homage to the Square, which delved into the virtually infinite relationships between colors. For Rothko, canvases were often very large, measuring upwards of 10 feet. The works inside the Rothko Chapel in Houston, for example, are architectonic, commanding the viewer’s complete attention and inviting us to slow down and...

Grand Tier Grab Bag features the American Zwischenfach mezzo Irene Roberts ahead of an eclectic season of Wagner.

Brett Dean's Of One Blood casts a well-trodden Tudor tale in a poignant, new light.

In selvicoltura uno snag è un albero morto che resta in piedi: un organismo cessato e tuttavia non ancora restituito al suolo, più una soglia che un cadavere. Non è un residuo inerte, ma un ecosistema in attività, cavo abitabile per uccelli, insetti, pipistrelli, funghi, licheni – vivo di una vitalità che non è più la propria. È da questa figura sospesa che muove Old Snag, prima personale dell’artista norvegese Ingeborg Tysse (Stavanger, 1992) negli spazi di Société Interludio, a Cambiano (Torino), accompagnata da un testo critico di Caterina Avataneo. Il dato non è secondario: i tre ciliegi morti che reggono l’installazione provengono dai dintorni della galleria, prelevati da quello stesso...

In the Peruvian Amazon, the Shipibo-Konibo people (sometimes also spelled Shipibo-Conibo) have made their home around the verdant Ucayali River basin for millennia. Their visual culture is richly informed by their belief systems and the environment in which they live, where foraged clay, wild cotton, and plants used to make pigments have sustained a steadfast artistic tradition known as Kené. The exhibition Akinananti at White Cube illuminates the work of artist Sara Flores, whose meticulous patterns rendered with organic, handmade inks continue an ancient Indigenous tradition. The gallery says, “In the Shipibo language, ‘Akinananti’ describes work done together with love and joy—a practice and...

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Da chi viene scritta la storia? Come possiamo ripensare il futuro attraverso gli occhi di chi vive le violenze e le ingiustizie di questo tempo? Sono queste alcune delle domande che pone Nalini Malani con Of Woman Born, progetto site-specific commissionato dal Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) di New Delhi con l’attenta curatela della direttrice artistica Roobina Karode e presentato presso i Magazzini del Sale come evento collaterale della 61° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia nel 2026.
Nalini Malani, “Of Woman Born”, 2026, camera di animazione con 9 iPad, audio, dimensioni variabili, installation view. Collezione Kiran Nadar Museum of Art © Nalini Malani
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All’interno del nostro quotidiano vi sono immagini che lasciano impresse un segno, un ricordo, qualcosa che sappiamo per certo possa poi definire la nostra storia. Nel nuovo spazio di Piazza Teresa Noce 17, Torino, la neonata Associazione Olfacta Project, fondata dall’artista olfattiva Francesca Casale, ha inaugurato lo scorso 6 giugno la mostra dal titolo “Strade a doppio senso” bipersonale degli artisti Carola Allemandi e Lorenzo Gnata, a cura di Filippo Mollea Ceirano.
AA.VV., “Strade a doppio senso”, 2026, photo credits Lorenzo Gnata, courtesy Olfacta Project
Al suo interno i ricordi sono accompagnati dalle sinfonie olfattive create da Casale, vicine alle note del sandalo e descritte dalla...

The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

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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 […]
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