You couldn’t possibly have thought that you’d seen the last of Beeple’s grotesque robot dogs? Last appearing in Art Basel Miami Beach’s new Zero10 digital art section in December, Regular Animals is now on the loose in San Francisco. So, if you’ll permit me, who let the dogs out? The answer to that age-old question is none other than Palo Alto’s Node Foundation, a digital arts nonprofit and exhibition space that will open a mid-career survey for Beeple, a.k.a. Mike Winkelmann, on April 18. Among the works on the checklist for “INFINITE_LOOP” are Human One, Beeple’s first “kinetic sculpture”—purchased by ARTnews Top 200 collector Ryan Zurrer for $29 million in 2021 for his 1OF1...

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In Kyoung Chun’s creative practice moves between painting and site-specific installation. Interactive works extend the language of painting beyond the canvas, inviting viewers into environments that challenge perception and encourage connection.  As an immigrant artist, Chun reflects on the shifting sense of home — both safe and fragile, stable yet impermanent. Transparent houses, suspended structures, and intimate paintings serve as metaphors for belonging, suggesting neighborhoods that are open and inclusive. By blurring boundaries between interior and exterior, personal and public, her work builds shared spaces where fragility and resilience coexist, and where the act of looking becomes an act of...

VIP day of Art Cologne Palma Mallorca saw brisk sales at the lower end, while war in the Middle East boosts the Spanish island's position as a holiday and culture destination

handmade paper sculptures by zim & zou
 
Zim & Zou reimagines the vintage boombox and cassette tapes as vibrant handmade sculptures made entirely from paper. Designers Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann create these artworks with layers, cuts, and folds by hand, using colored paper. The series begins with a boombox, as the designers cut the paper to form the two speakers on each side and the central panel with buttons and controls. 
 
The surface shows lines and circles that copy the real speaker grid, and the middle section includes paper buttons, sliders, and a cassette slot. The handmade paper sculpture by Zim & Zou uses blocks of color to separate each function, even focusing on small details like the...

The staff departures have been organised to address the gallery’s projected £8.2m deficit

On April 6, the four astronauts aboard the Integrity spacecraft as part of the Artemis II mission documented their breathtaking view as they circled the far side of the moon and began their return to Earth. NASA shared a gallery of spectacular images of the first flyby, revealing areas of the moon that no human has laid eyes on before, as well as a surprise solar eclipse. The four astronauts—commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen—spent seven hours photographing their view through one of Orion’s windows, taking turns with a handheld Nikon DSLR camera and two zoom lenses. Below are some of the incredible photographs.

Maurizio Cattelan will inaugurate Milan Design Week at 7 a.m. on April 20 with what can only be described as a hopefully civilized and very caffeinated experiment in amateur economics: a public “breakfast-barter” in Piazza Duomo. According to Artribune, the premise is simple. Bring an object—ideally something “curious, iconic, affective, eccentric or unexpected”—and attempt to trade it with a stranger before the espresso runs out. Coffee will be provided by Lavazza, which, unlike the objects in circulation, is not up for negotiation. Organized with Nicolas Ballario and featuring a supporting cast of brand-name designers including Stefano Seletti, Fabio Novembre, Marcantonio, Charley Vezza, and...

Welcome to the 332nd installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists blend painting and dancing and work inside a former yarn factory.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.Katya Granova, Leipzig, GermanyHow long have you been working in this space?I moved in May of 2025, but I’ve been away for quite a bit.Describe an average day in your studio.I usually wake up around 8am and start working at 10am, finishing somewhere between 4pm and 6pm. My hours depend on daylight, as I don’t like working under...

At Copenhagen Contemporary, Kengo Kuma and his team have honed in on the Japanese concept of komorebi, which reflects the unique interplay of light and shadow that occurs when the sun filters through the trees. The monumental, site-specific installation “Earth / Tree” harnesses this fleeting condition through a suspended canopy of wooden slats. Curved with a central opening, the diaphonous structure floats above a brick platform and a pile of rubble. These two organic materials bridge Nordic and Japanese cultures, which both value craftsmanship and continuity with the landscape. Kuma—who was recently awarded the bid to design the new National Gallery in London—often focuses on “soft architecture,”...

In this Surrealism-themed episode, Ben Luke discusses the first major US survey of Marcel Duchamp in half a century, Alyce Mahon’s new book on Dorothea Tanning, and a painting by Leonora Carrington

The Kröller-Müller Museum is displaying a forged seascape bought by its founder

Golda Schultz casts darkness in an alluring light in an intimate recital at the New Orleans Opera Festival.

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The Xi’an International Football Center is conceived as an open civic infrastructure, redefining the conventional role of the stadium within the urban environment. By reducing its perceived scale and introducing a more permeable interface, the project integrates public activity beyond matchday, positioning the stadium as a continuously active element of the city.
 
The project addresses the limitations of contemporary stadium design, where large-scale venues often function as isolated, event-driven structures with limited engagement in daily urban life. In contrast, the proposal considers the stadium as part of a broader urban system, shaped by the interaction...

Fashion, at its most daring, becomes an instrument of thought, a compelling medium that negotiates between material, imagination and culture. Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art explores this premise fully, presenting the work of Elsa Schiaparelli as a fusion of couture, Surrealism and performance. The exhibition situates her visionary designs alongside the artworks, stage costumes and collaborations that made the House of Schiaparelli one of the most radical forces of the 20th century. Over 400 objects, including 100 ensembles, 50 artworks, accessories, jewellery and archive material, trace the trajectory from her first Paris boutique to the present-day creations of Daniel Roseberry. “For me, dress...

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A Guggenheim Bilbao display of the monumental painting would have marked the 90th anniversary of the bombing that inspired it

SolidNature and AMO dream Il Sonno installation
 
As Milan Design Week 2026 approaches, designboom sits down with David Mahyari for an exclusive look at a visionary transformation. Within the curated landscape of designboom’s Room for Dreams, SolidNature joins forces with AMO, the think-tank of OMA, to debut Il Sonno supermarket. This immersive experience reimagines the daily act of grocery shopping as a profound journey through geological time. By replacing ordinary household commodities with stone artifacts, the installation challenges the culture of disposability and invites a shift in perspective where modern consumption is replaced by awareness.
 
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Hotel Room #2: Communal Dreams imagines sleep as a shared field
 
At the MIT Museum, Carsten Höller reframes one of the last territories we tend to consider entirely private with Hotel Room #2: Communal Dreams, an installation not to look at, but to enter, lie down inside a sculptural environment, and drift into sleep together with other visitors. Developed with cognitive scientist Adam Haar Horowitz and visual artist Seth Riskin, the work, presented within the exhibition Lighten Up! On Biology and Time, on view until August 16th, 2026, positions dreaming as a shared field, unsettling the assumption that the mind belongs only to itself. 
 
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A giant warehouse chock full of free art supplies … could such a place exist? Queens is lucky enough to have one in Materials for the Arts, a nearly 50-year-old resource for artists across disciplines that also diverts millions of pounds of supplies from landfills each year. Executive Director Tara Sansone opines today about the crucial role the organization plays in the local cultural landscape, and why more cities should sponsor similar projects.Elsewhere in the opinion section, artist Paige Phillips of the GRIT collective critiques Fia Backström’s exhibition at the Queens Museum and its problematic framing of rural communities in Appalachia. And in the news, the Guggenheim Museum has tapped the...

I have always loved this recording of Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne sung by Dawn Upshaw and conducted by Kent Nagano.

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sanctuary of dreams, a cinematic monument to imagination
 
Rooted in a convergence of ritual, technology, and speculative storytelling, The Sanctuary of Dreams by Pierre-Christophe Gam is a multi-sensory, participatory installation rooted in African philosophies of cyclical time and ancestral memory. It operates as a collective framework for imagining futures and is developed within the wider universe of Toguna World to reactivate dreaming as a shared cultural practice rather than an individual act.
Conceived as a hybrid ‘digital temple,’ the traveling work merges virtual reality, film, music, and spatial design into a participatory environment where visitors are invited to envision alternative realities...

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Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Oluremi C. Onabanjo Heads to The MetThe Metropolitan Museum of Art has a new curator of photographs: Oluremi C. Onabanjo, a scholar with a deep commitment to African and Black diasporic histories of the medium. Born in London and raised in Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and the United States, she heads to The Met from the Museum of Modern Art, where she's held curatorial roles in the photography department since 2021, working on exhibitions of Ernest Cole, Ming Smith, and others. Among her celebrated publications is Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos...

The Getty Center in Los Angeles’s Brentwood neighborhood will shutter for a year while it undergoes a major restoration, its first since opening in 1997. The closure will begin March 15, 2027, with the institution expected to reopen on March 15 of the following year, ahead of the Summer Olympics, which are being held in Los Angeles. […]

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City has appointed Melissa Chiu as its new director, starting September 1. Bookending her 12-year tenure at the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, Chiu will make her return to New York at a particularly challenging period for both museum networks. Chiu's appointment is part of Guggenheim Foundation Director and CEO Mariët Westermann's restructuring of the institution's global leadership team ahead of the opening of a controversial Abu Dhabi outpost, scheduled for later this year. According to a press release, Westermann will hand the reins of the flagship Manhattan museum to Chiu in order to...

“Wind carries away destinies,” reads the brief synopsis for a short film titled “Jour de Vent,” or “Windy Day.” The sweeping animation was created in 2024 by a team of six graduates—Martin Chailloux, Ai Kim Crespin, Élise Golfouse, Chloé Lab, Hugo Taillez, Camille Truding—from École des Nouvelle Images school in Avignon, France. A cast of characters—including a businessman, a picnicking family, a young couple, a cyclist, an old man and his dog, and a guitarist—spend a seemingly average day at the park. When a powerful gust of wind blows everyone’s day out of proportion, themes of change, acceptance, and connection emerge. Much like the film’s surrender to the flow of life, the team...

Ornellaia, the maker of Super Tuscan wines near the medieval town of Bolgheri, has revealed the designs it has commissioned performance artist Marina Abramović to make for its 2023 vintages. Part of the vintner’s Vendemmia d’Artista project, Abramović has created designs for the standard 750ml bottle, as well as its larger 3L, 6L, and 9L bottles. While the 750 ml have a much larger production, Ornellaia only makes 100 bottles in the 3L size, 10 in the 6L, and one in the 9L. Several of these limited-edition bottles with be auctioned in June at Bonhams, with proceeds benefitting the Guggenheim Museum’s upcoming exhibition “Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now,” opening in June. Each size has a different work,...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has hired a star photography curator away from MoMA, Artnews reports. Oluremi C. Onabanjo, formerly the Museum of Modern Art’s Peter Schub Curator, will join the Met as its new curator in the Department of Photographs.  “I am honored to join The Met at such a dynamic moment as it looks ahead to the […]

Melissa Chiu, who has served as director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, for over a decade, will leave the institution to helm the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She will take up her new post on September 1. Chiu was appointed by Dr. Mariët Westermann who has been the Director and CEO of the […]

For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Street category: Victor Cambet.
Based in Montréal, Victor Cambet developed photography as a self-taught practice after relocating to Canada from Lyon, France. Drawn to vivid scenes, unusual characters, and the overlooked details of daily life, his work finds beauty in the ordinary.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of...

Dartmouth students are renewing their efforts to rename the campus’s Black Family Visual Arts Center, a building that was funded via a donation contributed by Leon Black, a billionaire investor and longtime associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  The issue was raised at the first Dartmouth Student Government meeting of the spring term, where freshman Oscar Rempe-Hiam said […]

The future of a 5th-century church in Glasgow, known locally as “Govan Old,” has been in a state of flux for the past decade. In 2016, according to a report by the BBC, the Govan Heritage Trust began managing the site (Govan is the name of a district in southwest Glasgow) and announced a plan to “develop the church into a self-sustaining community-run cultural, museum and business complex.” Several years prior, in 2008, the Govan Old congregation joined forces with two other local churches to form the Govan & Lighthouse Parish Church, now housed at the nearby New Govan Church. The location of the original Govan Old Parish Church was an active site of worship from the 5th century AD until 2007. The...

TORUŃ, POLAND—Residues of milk beverages with reduced lactose have been found on 5,500-year-old pottery fragments unearthed at the Neolithic site of Sławęcinek, which is located in north-central Poland, according to a Science in Poland report. Among the more than 6,000 pieces of pottery made by members of the Funnelbeaker culture that were recovered, the researchers were able to identify a set of libation vessels including a large funnel-shaped beaker, five collared flasks, and two small cups. “We identified proteins derived from both cow’s milk and sheep’s or goat’s milk,” said Łukasz Kowalski of Nicolaus Copernicus University. “These products were likely produced using a process similar to...

Lyric Opera of Chicago announces its 2026-27 season.

ALICANTE, SPAIN—According to the Greek Reporter, a fortified monastic settlement dated to the sixth century a.d. has been found in southeastern Spain at the site of El Monastil by a team of researchers led by Antonio M. Poveda Navarro of the Urbs Regia Foundation. The site, known as Elo or Elum in Latin, was situated on the Via Augusta, the main Roman road in the area, and was occupied by soldiers and clergy from the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire. Two iron plates from a flexible suit of armor have been uncovered at the fort, along with seven bronze weights used for tax collection. Fragments of an altar made of white Parian marble from Greece were found scattered in several of the rooms. The church...

Galicia, Spain-based artist Abi Castillo continues to create iterative self-portraits through her evolving ensemble of ceramic personas. Her delicate yet emotive figures are an invitation to consider the inner self, transformation, and the beauty of the natural world. Femininity, nature, and symbolism play a central role within Castillo’s sculptures, contrasting with the notion of concealment. “This ambivalence between mysticism and drama, between monstrosity and beauty, is all very present,” she explains in an artist statement. Though each ceramic character is distinct, her body of work carries overarching formal motifs including colorful hairstyles and wide eyes with light blue irises. Organic...

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA—CBS 19 News reports that an eighteenth-century kiln has been uncovered on the East Lawn of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s estate in central Virginia. The kiln is thought to have been used to make bricks to expand the residence after Jefferson returned from Europe, where he served as the second United States Minister to France from 1785 to 1789. “It wasn’t recorded on any maps, or plats, or drawings, or letters, so archaeology was really the only way we were able to rediscover it,” said Crystal O’Connor, Monticello’s archaeological field research manager. For more on excavations at Monticello, go to "Close Quarters." S-shaped specialty bricks
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San Juan Capistrano Library #1 Amir Zaki No Dust to Settle Diane Rosenstein Gallery April 4 - May 9, 2026 by Jody Zellen The saying "waiting for the dust to settle" might refer to when things will calm down and return to normal. It could be said that "the dust never settles" and there is no state of definitive calmness because everything is in flux, both in life and in art. This might be taking the personal into account by reading too much into the title of Amir Zaki's current exhibition, his...

THIS YEAR’S HONG KONG ART WEEK KICKED OFF amid an atmosphere that was equally festive, speculative, and reflective, yet marked by an undercurrent of anxiety. Still, somehow, with the war in Iran, art market uncertainty, and general economic upheaval, the week saw an overwhelming number of events, including the opening of three alternative fairs, several […]

This April, galleries from around the world come together as part of The Photography Show, taking place at the Park Avenue Armory in the heart of New York. Now in its 45th edition, the Fair features 80 galleries, alongside a further 20 photobook exhibitors. The much-anticipated event, hosted by AIPAD, represents a longstanding commitment to deepening the collective understanding of photography’s history, whilst spotlighting some of the most dynamic examples of contemporary experimentation.   Visitors will encounter some of the most dynamic artists working today. Oscura Gallery presents the work of Rania Matar, a Lebanese artist whose portraits of Middle Eastern women explore issues of personal and...

In the little town of Kosciusko, Mississippi, a self-described “unusual artist” named L.V. Hull transformed her home and garden of three-and-a-half decades into an elaborate, continuous artwork. Through found objects and trinkets, paint, and glue she purchased at the local Walmart, the artist created an immersive art environment—a riot of color, patterns, and textures in which creativity merged with daily living. Many of Hull’s works are currently on view in the show Love Is a Sensation at the Mississippi Museum of Art, which celebrates the self-taught artist’s eclectic approach to materials and space. From vibrantly painted everyday objects to idiosyncratic assemblages, Hull’s creativity and...

Kaija Saariaho’s spectral, shattering Innocence makes its Metropolitan Opera debut.

We are living in uncertain times. The past 12 months have offered unprecedented political, societal and environmental shifts. Wildfires raged across Europe and America, destroying countless homes and habitats, leaving thousands displaced. The war in Ukraine entered its fourth year, whilst the United States conducted military strikes again Iran. A new Pope was appointed – the first to hail from America. The Artemis II mission saw humans travel further from Earth than ever before. Photojournalists have been there from every key moment, bringing hidden stories to light and documenting history as it happens – from warzones, revolutions and protests to quiet hospital wards and families around the breakfast...

Jessye Norman really embraces elements of the song falling somewhere between classical art song and popular ballad.

 
There’s just two weeks left to submit your work for The City Series: Cambridge!
An ongoing series of publications, The City Series sets out to explore the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, showcasing images that respond to a place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
The inaugural volume explores a city that has welcomed us, and been home to nearly a dozen Shutter Hub exhibitions – Cambridge.
Rather than defining Cambridge by landmarks or narratives, we invite photographers to approach the city openly, perhaps through people, atmosphere, details, routines, abstractions, or moments that feel personal or unexpected....

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Colossal Members have helped us reach a fantastic milestone! We’re delighted to share that this month, we’ve officially assisted in funding 100 projects in classrooms around the nation via DonorsChoose. These include supplies and materials for K-12 students, some of whom are learning about and experiencing art for the first time. A portion of all Membership fees are allocated to this initiative, and so far we’ve been able to contribute more than $13,000, making a substantial difference in numerous learning spaces. And since we’re based in Chicago, we especially like to support classrooms here at home. Here’s what a few recent recipients had to say after their projects were funded: “These supplies...

ANTWERP PROVINCE, BELGIUM—Layers of rubble from earlier phases of construction were discovered underneath Saint Rumbold’s Cathedral in northern Belgium’s city of Mechelen, according to a Belgian News Agency report. Construction of the current church began in the early thirteenth century. Beneath the floor of the cathedral's northern section, archaeologists found pottery and construction materials dating to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The materials indicate that major alterations were made to the cathedral at that time. Beneath these layers, researchers uncovered an outer wall dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century. An even earlier wall section, which had a different orientation, may...

Visible accumulations of stone artifacts at the Jojosi site, South Africa TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, evidence of quarrying some 220,000 years ago has been discovered at the Jojosi site in eastern South Africa by a team of researchers led by Manuel Will of the University of Tübingen. It had been previously thought that early modern humans found stones for making tools incidentally as they looked for food. Team member Gunther Möller reassembled more than 350 rock fragments recovered from the site into “refits,” or stones that had been broken apart by knapping. “With these 3D puzzles, we were able to see precisely where and how material was...

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This spring, Malta Biennale returns for its second edition. Launched in 2024, the event lies at the intersection of contemporary art and cultural heritage, marrying the two together through its exhibitions and historic venues. Across 11 weeks, museums and sites are transformed, adding new layers to the country’s already complex and colourful history, turning the Maltese Islands into a melting pot of international artistic activity. The 2026 theme is Clean | Clear | Cut, with 130 artists from 43 nations presenting work that tackles the topic. Mario Cutajar, Biennale President and Heritage Malta Chairman, says: “The second edition of the Biennale is going to cement the future of this international...

Spring in London brings a wave of artistic innovation, and none more compelling than the archival exhibition of Senga Nengudi at Whitechapel Gallery. Running from 1 April to 14 June, the show offers a glimpse into the work of an artist whose practice spans sculpture, performance and choreography. Nengudi’s work exists at the intersection of the corporeal and the sculptural, exploring the elasticity of materials, the rhythms of movement and the lived experience of the body. Through photographs, films and archival material, the exhibition illuminates the experimentation that defined her most productive period between 1972 and 1982. It is an opportunity to encounter a body of work both historically significant...

When Frode Bolhuis got his start as a sculptor, he worked classically, with monumental figures made of bronze and metal—the kind of thing you see in a public square or park. But then the Dutch sculptor discovered the simplest of mediums, polymer clay, and his art practice exploded into a technicolor world of hue and […]
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Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, with an abundance of invigorating artistic narratives emerging across forms and disciplines, even as the wider climate feels increasingly unsettled. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity to the mayhem of today’s world. You can read the interview here . We...