Film-maker Gregg Araki’s new film, starring Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman, deals in questions of power, consent and liberation

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ARVIE Bangkok restaurant adapts an existing house and garden
 
Located in Bangkok’s Yannawa district, ARVIE Bangkok by Pachapasa Studio adapts an existing house and its surrounding garden into a restaurant and hospitality setting. Rather than replacing the original structure, the project retains the building and removes its internal partitions to create a continuous dining room. A new pavilion is introduced across the courtyard, establishing a second architectural volume while activating the previously unused garden between the two structures.
 
The courtyard becomes the spatial center of the project, connecting the existing house with the new pavilion. At night, light passes through the pavilion’s...

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Entrando negli spazi privati di fondaco in Largo Forcella 8 ad Atri, adibiti a luogo espositivo in occasione della collettiva “Adagio” dei cinque pittori Benyamin Zolfaghari, Enrico Pierotti, Andrea Lucchesi, Lorenzo Di Lucido, Andrea Astolfi, respiro un’aria serena: ad accogliermi c’è uno spazio rimasto fermo nel tempo, intriso di ricordi familiari, una sorta di grotta in mattoni e pietra datata tra Settecento e Ottocento, fatta di cunicoli e scale senza uscita, ampie arcate e nicchie immerse tra luci e ombre, come stanze della memoria o del pensiero umano.
AA.VV., “Adagio”, installation view at fondaco, Atri, 2026, courtesy of the artists
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The Asper family’s foundation last donated to the museum in 2023, and Gail Asper says she has indefinitely paused a personal gift of C$50,000 over a display about the violent displacement of Palestinians

Simone Forti, the pioneering choreographer who bridged the worlds of performance, dance, and contemporary art, passed away at her home in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning at the age of 91, according to Jason Underhill, her longtime assistant and a trustee of the Simone Forti Art Trust. While the cause could not be confirmed, she was open about her years-long battle with Parkinson’s disease.Throughout her lengthy career, she mixed boundless curiosity with a formal rigor across a broad creative spectrum that included movement, painting, poetry, video, and even holography. “The more you look, you will find her standing in the midst of nearly every avant-garde that hit New York and California over five decades...

Gilberto Cárdenas, one of the country’s top collectors of Latinx art and a leading scholar of Latino studies, died on July 26 at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 79 years old. With his wife Dolores Carrillo García, Cárdenas, a sociologist and professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, built up a collection of some 20,000 of works of Chicanx and Latinx art, with an emphasis on elevating photography and prints to the same level of the other objects they amassed over several decades. “I’m a bottom-up collector,” he told ARTnews in a 2024 feature that labeled him a “true believer collector.”    The couple’s collection featured a who’s who of Latinx artists, with iconic pieces by...

"Sacrifice," one of the two statues that make up the The Arts of War equestrian statues along Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington, DC, on July 29, 2026. (photo by Kent Nishimura / AFP via Getty Images)The scaffolding is coming down around two newly regilded bronze equestrian sculptures in Washington, DC, according to a recent post from President Donald Trump on Truth Social.On July 27, the president shared photos of the process alongside the message, "Taking down the scaffolding around the regilded Arts of War sculptures!"Amid Trump's ongoing makeover of dozens of monuments, statues, and landmarks across the capital city, the Arts of War statues are just two of the four horse statues slated for a...

3D CLOAK SENDS HEAT THE LONG WAY ROUND
 
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Technical University of Denmark have developed a free-form 3D thermal cloak that can hide complex objects from infrared detection. Instead of simply blocking heat and leaving behind a suspicious cold patch, the device guides thermal energy around a protected space before allowing it to continue on its original path. From the outside, the temperature pattern appears largely undisturbed — which is considerably more convincing than placing a very obvious thermal wall around whatever you are trying to hide.
 
Earlier thermal cloaks typically worked with flat surfaces, simple geometries, or heat arriving...

The Trump administration’s repeated attempts to undermine and attack the Smithsonian are being met with international pushback: this week, the Museums Association in the United Kingdom republished a statement, originally released by the American Alliance of Museums on July 20th, that resoundingly condemns the flagrant and politicized attacks that’ve been leveled at the US’s “flagship […]

Galetto Estudio places a pavilion beneath tree canopy
 
Pabellón Los Troncos by Galetto Estudio is a lightweight gathering pavilion located beneath a grove of mature pecan trees beside the 18th hole of Estancia La Paz Golf in Ascochinga, Córdoba, Argentina. Designed as an extension of the golf club’s clubhouse facilities, the pavilion provides a sheltered space for golfers at the end of the 7,360-yard course while maintaining a direct relationship with the surrounding landscape.
 
Rather than functioning as an autonomous object, the pavilion responds to an existing setting shaped by mature vegetation and successive interventions. Its placement beneath the pecan canopy establishes a close relationship...

Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy, “Regents of the Spinhuis” (1628) (all photos Natasha Seaman/Hyperallergic)KASSEL, Germany, and UTRECHT, the Netherlands — As demonstrated by a small coda to the exhibition Rembrandt 1632: Creation of a Brand, Rembrandt is a name that sells. A case displays ads for Rembrandt-branded tobacco, boxes of toothpaste, and even a television (the name suggests a fair amount of drama but inconsistent picture clarity). Rembrandt’s own first efforts to imbue his name with this power, this exhibition asserts, came in 1632, when he moved from Leiden to Amsterdam.Running the length of a capacious, purple-walled corridor in the Old Master-encrusted Wilhelmshöhe Palace in Kassel, Germany,...

TREEBOX RISES TOWARD THE CANOPY
 
Studio Officina82 completes TreeBOX, a timber retreat elevated among the oak trees of Selucente in Garessio, Italy. Raised on four wooden posts above a sloping forest floor, the compact accommodation reaches toward the canopy without placing any structural burden on the surrounding trees. A bridge connects the hillside to the entrance, while a terrace and broad glazed surfaces open the room toward the wooded landscape and the distant peaks of the Ligurian-Piedmontese Alps.
 
The project takes its cues from the barchi, traditional hay barns found across the Ligurian Alps. Their movable roofs are supported by four timber posts and slide vertically according to the amount of...

A newly announced $22 Million expansion of Los Angeles’s Watts Towers Campus is slated for groundbreaking in October, immediately following the premature end of a 15-year conservation project on the site. The soon to be enlarged Watts Towers Arts Center Campus (WTACC) surrounds 17 interconnected radio tower-like structures built between 1921 and 1954 by Sabato […]

The building’s epic art commissions play a big role, compelling visitors upwards

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.New era at the Montclair Art MuseumTodd Caissie was named executive director of the Montclair Art Museum (MAM) after serving as deputy director starting last year and interim director beginning this one. He succeeds Ira Wagner, who is retiring after taking on the role in 2020. Alongside recently appointed chief curator Kate Kraczon, the museum is entering a new era — one it calls "people-centric," emphasizing emerging and underrepresented artists. "Traditionally, museums are object-driven and function like black holes—accumulating art while...

Surveys of the Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas turned up evidence of pre-Colombian civilization that thrived in southwestern Amazonia. As reported by Heritage Daily, the new findings—published in the journal Nature—include signs of hundreds of earthworks that had not previously been identified. “The team conducted more than 4,400 kilometers of airborne LiDAR surveys over the Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas. The laser-based technology, which can penetrate dense forest canopy, identified 432 earthworks, only 36 of which had previously been recorded,” Heritage Daily wrote. The new findings, including evidence of geometric ditched enclosures, embankments, and ceremonial complexes dating as far...

The Han Nefkens Foundation in Barcelona announced French Lebanese artist and filmmaker Valentin Noujaïm as the recipient of the inaugural Mediterranean Video Art Production Grant 2026. The €25,000 (USD 28,800) grant was installed to support the production of a new video artwork by artists based around the Mediterranean Sea. Noujaïm (1991), who was selected from nine shortlisted […]

Workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new V&A East Storehouse have voted unanimously to strike in a dispute over working conditions, just weeks after the East London facility became one of the museum world’s most closely watched new cultural attractions.  The ballot, organized by the trade union Prospect, covers collections access officers who staff the museum’s much-publicized “Order an Object” program, which allows visitors to book appointments to view works from the V&A’s collection. According to the union, 100 percent of members who voted backed strike action on a turnout of nearly 88 percent, while 92 percent also supported action short of a strike.  Prospect argues that collections...

The classicists are fighting! Emily Wilson, whose celebrated Odyssey translation bucked historically Western and misogynistic approaches, has caused quite a stir with her scathing critique of Christopher Nolan's film in the London Review of Books. Far from a stuffy academic take, her text recognizes the murkiness of adaptations and still insists that Nolan bungles the questions of humanity and morality at the center of the epic:But the representation of Odysseus as a reluctant warlord makes a nonsense of the movie’s imagined world. We are not shown that war or killing are bad, only that good men sometimes feel bad about it – a very different point. Any serious depiction of violence, ancient or modern,...

A coalition of institutions in Shanghai have launched a “Museum Healing Alliance”, focus on exploring museum-based mental health support and therapeutic programming for those in need of aid. The multi-pronged initiative would hinge on the creation of a hospital referral program that would connect medical institutions with museums. Through this referral program, patients would be […]

Slender House and Hanging Chamber by Studio Frank Havermans
 
The Besiendershuis in Nijmegen, Netherlands, a medieval toll house dating from 1525, was built in the Lower Rhenish Gothic style. The building functions as a residency for artists, writers, and musicians and hosts cultural events throughout the year. While its historic exterior presents a relatively quiet presence, its interior supports an active program of creative production and exchange. To mark the building’s 500th anniversary, Studio Frank Havermans extends this cultural activity into the surrounding urban space through two temporary wooden structures: The Hanging Chamber and The Slender House.
 
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AYDIN PROVINCE, TURKEY—Türkiye Today reports that an excavation conducted by Murat Cekilmez of Adnan Menderes University has uncovered a 2,000-year-old mosaic floor in a bath-gymnasium complex in western Turkey’s ancient city of Tralles. Found under the remnants of a Byzantine workshop, the floor features an image of a hippocampus, a mythical sea creature associated with the sea god Poseidon that has the upper body of a horse and the lower body of a fish. Cekilmez said that the city was known in antiquity for producing scholars and writers. In addition to bathing, the bath-gymnasium complex contained rooms for education, exercise, and socializing, and perhaps scientific study, he concluded. To read about...

The four massive bronze statues that make up the “Arts of War” and “Arts of Peace” statues on roads leading to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., were looking a little long in the tooth, according to President Trump. In April, the Department of the Interior engaged a studio in Maryland to conserve and regild the equestrian bronzes, originally unveiled in 1951, at a cost of $5.1 million. Earlier this week, President Trump posted photos on Truth Social of the project’s first phase, showing the scaffolding being removed from the “Arts of War” sculptures, designed by Leo Friedlander. Work on the other pair is expected to be complete by the end of September. Neither pair was ready in time for...

From meticulously cut and painted pieces of paper, realistic birds emerge amid foliage and forests in compositions by The Paper Ark. The collaborative practice of Nayan Shrimali and Venus Bird, which focuses on intricate paper reliefs, also centers on ecology by illustrating real species and their habitats around the world. The duo aims to raise awareness of biodiversity and conservation by evoking a sense of wonder akin to how we also often feel in nature. The artists recently exhibited a number of the pieces shown here with Antler Gallery at Seattle Art Fair, and “Great Green Macaws” appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of Audubon Magazine. See more on The Paper Ark’s Instagram. “Hyacinth Macaw”...

German authorities have revealed new details about the January cyberattack on the Dresden State Art Collections, suggesting the incident was more severe than previously understood. Monopol reports that the Saxon Ministry of Justice confirmed the perpetrators remain unidentified and that investigators found the attack itself lasted several days, from January 17 to 21, when the breach was detected.  The Dresden State Art Collections, a network of some 15 museums in eastern Germany, announced shortly after the cyberattack was discovered that “large parts” of its digital infrastructure had been targeted. The attack left the museum group with limited phone and digital services, including online ticket sales...

CAMPECHE, MEXICO—Mexico News Daily reports that a digital reconstruction of a charcoal mural discovered inside a cave-like, arched vault at the Maya site of Calakmul has revealed early examples of calendrical writing. Daniel Salazar Lama of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said that the mural shows Juun Ajaw, one of the mythical Maya hero twins, hunting a creature in water. A symbol corresponding to a day marker in the 260-day Maya ritual calendar cycle is shown next to Juun Ajaw. Salazar said that the date appears to have been added to the main scene at a later time. The mural may represent an episode in the life of Juun Ajaw, or a renewal ritual, and the date may have been...

In 1906, Devil’s Tower in northeastern Wyoming became the first national monument in the U.S., preserving a little more than 1,300 acres around the 867-foot-tall column of igneous rock. Amid the rolling hills of the plains, it can be seen from miles around, and it’s been a sacred site and gathering place for myriad Indigenous American tribes, who refer to it by names like Bear Lodge or Bear’s House. One oral narrative describes how bears attacked a group of seven girls, and the ground swelled up to push the children toward the sky. There, they became the constellation Pleiades, or the “Seven Sisters,” which can be seen over the monument. In other stories, the distinctive striations around the...

TARRAGONA, SPAIN—Gizmodo reports that analysis of the remains of 24 Homo antecessor fossils recently discovered at the Gran Dolina site in Spain revealed cut marks associated with cannibalism. It had been previously suggested that H. antecessor limited cannibalism to younger individuals, primarily due to the large number of infant and juvenile skeletons uncovered at Gran Dolina. Stone tools, and the remains of hyenas, beavers, horses, rhinos, and other animals, have now been found, in addition to the bones of adult H. antecessor individuals dated to 850,000 years ago. “For the first time, we can approach its demographic structure with a representativeness that we did not have until now,” said Andreu...

Employees of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum who are members of the Prospect trade union on July 29 voted to strike over issues including pay, working conditions, and access to water and toilets, The Guardian reports. The V&A operates four museums in the London area: the V&A in South Kensington, V&A East Museum and V&A […]

SFMOMA will stage the first museum exhibition of RM's personal art collection. RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me

As ON REPEAT closes at GLASSHOUSE, Marc-Aurèle Debut talks to FAD Magazine about dating apps, emotional vulnerability, repetition ..

At the age of 14, Janice Yang and her family emigrated from South Korea to the U.S. in the wake of a financial crisis that upended their sense of security. (Incidentally, the Korean stock market is experiencing a historic crash this month in the wake of unwinding global trade in the AI sector.) Displaced from everything they knew, her family had to start again. “Our stable economic situation in Korea changed to more precarious working-class reality in the U.S., where repeated business failures left us in a lot of debt,” Yang tells Colossal. For two decades, Yang worked unpaid at her family’s small sushi restaurant, where she dreamed of eventually pursuing her studies to become an artist, all while...

The National Portrait Gallery has launched Artist Focus, a new free programme championing contemporary portraiture

V&A staff represented by the Public and Commercial Services Union are also considering industrial action

After fire destroyed half of the historic red-brick structure in 2024, its owners’ ambitious goal is to rebuild even faster than the French did with the Paris cathedral

Ingrid Wiener's handwoven tapestries transformed everyday objects into works of sustained attention long before textile art entered the mainstream.

Zubin Mehta was a major part of musical life when I moved to Southern California in 1969, having started his tenure as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Cubitts has opened its first Manchester store in the Northern Quarter, bringing its repair-led approach to eyewear to a historic former department store

Siamo a Villa Marigola, a Lerici, all’interno del Lerici Music Festival, “Musica, Immagini e Parole dall’Acqua” con la mostra I miei orizzonti e tu di Giovanni Ozzola, a cura di Carlo Orsini e in collaborazione con Galleria Continua.
Giovanni Ozzola, vista parziale della mostra “I miei orizzonti e tu”, alla Fondazione Lerici. In primo piano a parete: “Untitled – a fine primavera”, 2026 e “Untitled – with a view”, 2026; sullo sfondo: “Venezia – faro di notte”, 2026. Foto di Fabio Gianardi, courtesy Lerici Music Festival 2026
Nella mostra sono presenti fotografia, scultura, installazione e video concepiti per il contesto del Golfo dei Poeti e con il mare che diviene metafora...

Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Nuditas 2026: 5th Annual Juried Exhibition, Publication, Promotion, and SalesFeaturedReady to reveal the naked truth of the human body? From personal identity and body positivity to spirituality, mythology, emotion, and vulnerability, Nuditas 2026 celebrates the human form in all its expressions. Submit your strongest figurative or abstract works for the opportunity to exhibit internationally, be featured on Artsy, published in the official catalogue, and promoted worldwide.Learn more and submit:...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA—A set of six pyramid-shaped copper bells has been discovered at Yoroma, a Yampara settlement in southern Bolivia’s Oroncota Valley, according to a Greek Reporter article. Sonia Alconini of the University of Virginia and Walter Sánchez-Canedo of the Higher University of San Simón said that the bundle of bells, found inside a circular stone structure known as a qollqa where crops were stored, dates to between A.D. 1300 and 1536. Each of the bells had a different clapper made of copper, shell, or semiprecious stone, so that the bells would have produced different tones, ranging from bright and sharp to soft and low. The bells were found next to a small stone carving of an ear of...

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA—Courthouse News Service reports that a new study of 21 fossilized footprints found in Kenya on the ancient shoreline of Lake Turkana in 1978 suggests that the hominins who left them, identified as Paranthropus boisei, may have been six feet tall and weighed about 165 pounds. Members of P. boisei are also known for their powerful jaws and large teeth. Kevin Hatala of Chatham University said that this estimate of their stature is larger than previous ones for these hominins, who left these prints some 1.43 million years ago, when Homo erectus also lived in the region. Hatala and his colleagues now think these individuals were a group of eight males who were traveling together. “They...

Across West Africa, Indigenous communities mark holidays, rites, and sacred events with a remarkable variety of ceremonies ranging from dances to processions. These masquerade traditions incorporate meticulously carved masks and full-body costumes that often facilitate links between humans and the spiritual world. There’s evidence of masked customs dating back millennia, and today, artists continue the tradition of hand-hewn masks and ensembles in vivid colors and a wide array of materials—sometimes with a twist. The exhibition New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, which opens at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg next month, celebrates contemporary creations by four...

It's a busy summer for Vida Miknevičiūtė and Eric Cutler, the subjects of this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag.

Yuval Sharon's production of The Excursions of Mr. Brouček shoots for the moon — and lands somewhat limply on Lake Constance.

It is no wonder Bernard Herrmann relishes the wistful lyricism in Barber's masterwork, as Herrmann's score for Vertigo is among the most beautiful and haunting of all film scores ever composed.

La fotografa Glorija Lizde, che vive e lavora a Spalato, utilizza la sua macchina fotografica per costruire quasi-documentari mirati attraverso le immagini, spesso indagando i membri della propria famiglia attraverso conversazioni difficili e in situazioni di precarietà. Non sorprende quindi che Glorija trovi punti di contatto nell’opera del medico Jean-Martin Charcot, le cui immagini di fine Ottocento, che ritraggono donne alle prese con la malattia mentale, possiedono un intenso peso psicologico e sollevano interrogativi culturali su autorialità, soggettività e ruoli di genere.
Glorija Lizde, “Ritratto di famiglia. Che aspetto aveva il mio viso prima della nascita dei miei genitori”, 2022, foto di...

Da oltre quarant’anni Antony Gormley assume il corpo come punto di partenza della propria ricerca, senza mai ridurlo a una semplice figura. Lo considera piuttosto una misura attraverso cui interrogare spazio, materia e condizione umana. In What Holds Us, la mostra presentata da Galleria Continua a San Gimignano, questa riflessione trova una formulazione particolarmente essenziale. Più che introdurre nuovi temi, il progetto approfondisce una domanda che attraversa l’intero lavoro dell’artista: quali relazioni rendono possibile la presenza di un corpo nello spazio?
Antony Gormley, “What Holds Us”, 2026, installation view at Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, photo Ela Bialkowska – OKNO Studio,...

“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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Wolf Trap Opera presented a lovely Eugene Onegin with particularly noteworthy performances by Magdalena Kuźma and Daniel O’Hearn.

Esistono immagini che non si limitano a rappresentare il reale, ma ne sospendono la consistenza fenomenica per restituirlo come esperienza critica dello sguardo. Mediterraneo, il progetto che Mimmo Jodice torna a consegnare al pubblico nella grande mostra curata da Carlo Sala a Palazzo Lanfranchi (Matera), la prima ampia esposizione istituzionale a lui dedicata dopo la sua scomparsa, appartiene a questa rara condizione dell’immagine: non descrive il passato, ma ne riattiva la presenza, trasformando l’archeologia in una pratica della contemporaneità.
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By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...