ford nucleon is atomic-powered car with nuclear reactor
 
Meet the Ford Nucleon, an atomic-powered concept vehicle with a nuclear reactor that Ford Motor Company never produced. Presented to the public in 1958, the project proposed a car that would run on nuclear power instead of gasoline. It came from the car manufacturer’s Advanced Styling Studio, whose premise was to work on projects that looked 10 to 20 years into the future. The American industrial and automotive designer George W. Walker led the styling division of the atomic-powered car Ford Nucleon.
 
He believed that concept cars should create publicity and reportedly told the designers to develop ideas that would pique the public’s interest,...

It's a weird time to be grateful. Over the past year, President Trump rolled back protections for Native lands and sovereignty while attempting to erase entire chapters from American history; namely, the ones where White people commit unspeakable injustices. As we recoil at the return of monuments honoring figures better left forgotten, we find solace in the members of our art community who, against all odds, are trying to do the right thing. This Thanksgiving, we're celebrating 25 things that bring us joy, great and small: gorgeous sculptures by Jeffrey Gibson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, long-awaited repatriations, no-strings-attached grants for artists, gallery dogs, and more. —Valentina...

Amid the parade frenzy and triggered smoke alarms of Thanksgiving Day in New York City, a new Haudenosaunee-led documentary cuts through the noise by recentering Indigenous storytelling and resistance. Remaining Native (2025) follows Paiute teenager Kutoven "Ku" Stevens, whose goal to run professionally proves to be inseparable from the story of his great-grandfather, who ran away from a residential school for Indigenous children.Four years in the making, Mohawk/Oneida director and producer Paige Bethmann’s film made its award-winning premiere at South by Southwest Film and TV Festival last March before embarking on its international festival circuit. The documentary's team organized a week of...

Vincent Leroy imagines a moving cloud in the Normandy sky
 
Installed above the Caen peninsula in Normandy, Molecular Cloud is a suspended kinetic sculpture composed of mirrored stainless-steel spheres arranged in a cloud-like formation. Designed by French artist Vincent Leroy for the Millennium of the city of Caen, the project introduces a reflective structure that interacts directly with its urban and atmospheric surroundings.
 
Positioned between the city’s new peninsula district and the historic Abbaye aux Dames, the installation establishes a visual link between the area’s historical and contemporary layers. The spheres form a constellation-like cluster that reflects the city, sky, and movement of...

For the past three days, Los Angeles–based artist Brittany Fanning has posted the same picture to her Instagram grid. It shows two grinning men in double-breasted suits, complete with pocket squares. In her caption, she identifies them as brothers Jackson Navin and Matthew Navin, of London-based gallery Pictorum Art Group. In a separate posting, Fanning says that she is still owed money from the gallery related to a group show she participated in three years ago.  During the course of her campaign, Fanning said she learned that other artists are claiming to be in a similar situation and have also not received payment from Pictorum. One of these artists, Finn Johnson, received a court judgment ordering...

Lohaus Sominsky, the Munich-based gallery founded by Ingrid Lohaus and Sofia Sominsky, will open its first New York space next month at 62 White Street in Tribeca. The debut exhibition, featuring new paintings and a site-specific installation by Berlin-based artist Charlie Stein, will open December 11—just days after the gallery participates in Art Basel Miami Beach for the first time. The expansion comes three years after the gallery established its Munich headquarters, where it has mounted more than 18 exhibitions with a roster that includes international names such as Vera Molnár, Phoebe Derlee, and others across Europe and the Americas. Their current Munich exhibition “Alive” spotlights New...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Llyn Foulkes (1934–2025)Multidisciplinary artist who satirized American cultureAcross a seven-decade career, he made paintings, assemblages, and music that used American culture and history as raw material. He held solo exhibitions at the Hammer Museum and the New Museum, as well as blue-chip galleries like David Zwirner and Gagosian. He remained uncompromising in his vision — as curator Paul Schimmel put it, “He preferred to shoot himself in the foot than to be a pawn of the art world."Read our full obituary here.Timothy App (1947–2025)Abstract painter and art professorHis geometric style was...

South Korean painter and sculptor Lee Ufan, a key figure of the Mono-ha movement, has been named the winner of the thirty-second Wolfgang Hahn Prize, presented by the Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. The museum, which sponsors the prize, will put €100,000 (about $115,000) in member donations toward purchasing work […]

After 36 years at the Los Angeles Times, the esteemed critic and journalist is putting down the pen

A Renoir painting that has been missing for a century sold for $2 million at an auction in Paris.  The painting, titled L’enfant et ses jouets – Gabrielle et le files de l’artiste, Jean (The Child and His Toys – Gabrielle and the son’s artist, Jean), depicts Renoir’s young son Jean playing with his nursemaid Gabrielle, the scene captured with palpable warmth. Created roughly around 1910, had never been published or exhibited, yet came to auction in remarkably good condition, requiring no restoration work. Joron-Derem offered the work in its Tableaux Modernes sale at Hôtel Drouot in Paris on November 25. An international collector secured the work for a hammer price of €1.45 million ($1.68...

Two curatorial teams have been named the winners of the Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025. Organized by Hyundai Motor Company, the prize was established to support “the evolving role of curators” as they consider “pressing contemporary issues, in connection with the contexts of Asia.” After an open call in July, which received over 160 exhibition proposals for Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, give teams were shortlisted to participate in a curatorial program overseen by an international jury panel. The program offered one-on-one mentorship and a research trip to Beijing to supporting the final exhibition proposals. The jury then selected two of the five teams as the final winners. Seoul–based curators Hyejin and...

Art critic Christopher Knight will retire from the Los Angeles Times on Friday, November 28, fellow staff member Jessica Gelt announced in a newsletter last week. As the paper's staff art critic, Knight published exhibition reviews and commentary on the city's arts institutions, writing for the publication for 36 years. In 2020, he won a Pulitzer Prize in criticism for his work evaluating the changes at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as the institution prepared for its forthcoming expansion, demonstrating “extraordinary community service by a critic.” Knight was previously named a finalist for the prize three times, in 1991, 2001, and 2007, and won the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin...

Four original canvases by the late television painting instructor have been sold lately to raise funds for US public broadcasting following slashes by the Trump administration, and dozens more will be offered in 2026

John Oliver’s benefit auction for public broadcasting just set a new market milestone for Bob Ross’ painting—and funneled some crucial funds toward free speech in America. On Monday, Ross’ Cabin at Sunset, painted for a 1986 episode of PBS’ iconic “The Joy of Painting”, sold for roughly $1,044,000. The late-night comedian revealed on the 2025 finale of “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” that he had persuaded the Bob Ross estate to auction another piece of the beloved painter’s legacy: the intimate, pastoral Cabin at Sunset, with its knobby green hills and slowly lavendering sky. The lot received 35 bids, Variety reports. Earlier this month, three more of Ross’ “Joy of Painting”...

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Art by Sossio Integrates into Il Bottaccio Hotel’s Architecture
 
At Il Bottaccio, the Relais & Châteaux located between the Apuan Alps and the Versilian coast, the work of Italian painter Sossio forms an exhibition integrated throughout the property, turning the hotel into a cohesive and continuous artistic environment. The project places the Sossio Art Collection across corridors, salons, private suites, and transitional spaces, creating a steady visual presence that accompanies guests through the building’s stone architecture and historic interiors.
 
Sossio’s career began in Naples between 1968 and 1972 during a formative period for Italian art, shaped by direct contact with figures of the New...

Across Tokyo, museums and galleries are taking up the fraught legacy of World War II

Kara Walker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Peter Doig and Olafur Eliasson are among the artists raising funds for Médecins Sans Frontières' efforts in Gaza

“I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that our perceived reality is shaped by our minds and reflecting our inner world,” says artist Michelle Blancke, whose ethereal photographs of trees, glens, and foliage invite us into a familiar yet uncanny world. Her lens-based practice explores themes of interdependence, consciousness, and concealment, especially through the subject of nature. Blancke’s vivid Secret Garden series comprises a total of five sub-categories: Realm, Ascent, Essence, Veins, and Origin. Whether capturing the waxy surface of an intricately veined leaf or the way vines create shadowy veils over gnarled trees, she’s interested in relationships between “transformation, mysticism, and...

Wayne White’s pictures start with thrift store paintings... White seizes on a startup surface that was a middle class decorator staple in the ‘50s and ‘60s.. read Mat Gleason's article on the artist by clicking above!
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Carmen Dominguez is working with gift tissue as transparencies. At 56, they're doing more woven paper art, experimenting with combining traditional home crafts with abstract imagery. They're exploring the themes of reconciling historical alienation with contemporary reality. They're influenced by absurdist humor—DADA, found art, art brut, home crafting, and graffiti. They must call themselves "entry-level" but they have 20 years of creating art at home. Self-taught. Southern California, urban...

Irwell Hill Residences rise in singapore
 
Designed in collaboration between MVRDV and local practice ADDP Architects, two residential towers dubbed the Irwell Hill Residences rise above the dense urban weave of Singapore. The project presents a study in how modular construction can carry architectural nuance. The 36-story development, with its pixelated facades, employs prefabricated pre-finished volumetric construction, a method that allows entire rooms to be assembled off-site before being stacked into place. This way, the building process minimizes waste and labor while maintaining precision.
 
Commissioned by City Developments Limited, the project exemplifies Singapore’s continuing commitment to...

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In 2024, while Timo Fahler was out for a run in Los Angeles, he came across a discarded bedspring. It lingered in his studio for months until one day, its thirteen rows of springs revealed themselves as the red and white stripes of the American flag. It also turned out to be the last work he made in the U.S. before he and his family relocated to The Netherlands. Fahler’s slouched “flag” is one of a number of recent stained glass sculptures on view in his solo exhibition Terminal Classic at Sebastian Gladstone that reference major changes in the artist’s personal life and the U.S.’s tumultuous socio-political climate. Time becomes slippery as he taps into imagery that is both contemporary and ancient....

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The Biennale's eighth edition focuses on the city-state's idiosyncrasies

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‘David and Goliath’ went to auction with an estimate of just just €2m–€4m

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Grand Tier Grab Bag features a complete performance of Ernest Chausson's Poème de l'amour et de la mer ahead of a particular year for both its soloist and conductor.

Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu to curate the 20th Architecture Biennale
 
Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu have been appointed to curate the 20th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia, opening May 8th and running through November 21st, 2027, in the Giardini and Arsenale. The decision, approved by La Biennale’s Board of Directors upon the recommendation of President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, brings the founders of Amateur Architecture Studio to one of the most influential platforms in the discipline, marking a pivotal moment ahead of the exhibition’s 2027 edition.
 
For nearly three decades, Amateur Architecture Studio’s practice is rooted in reuse, vernacular craft, and resistance to...

The Nicholson family has been having a moment.

The fee, announced ahead of today's budget, would apply to overnight stays, with England's mayors and local leaders able to decide what revenue should be spent on

Cristina De Middel’s Journey to the Center, currently on view at the International Centre for the Image, Dublin, until 23 December, presents a compelling exploration of migration, myth and human resilience. Presented by PhotoIreland, the exhibition marks her return to the city a decade after the Irish premiere of The Afronauts. The series merges documentary photography with constructed imagery and archival material to create narratives that are at once political, poetic and conceptually playful. Rather than presenting migration solely as a crisis, De Middel reframes it as a journey of courage, endurance and imagination. Her approach encourages viewers to rethink the stories often circulated by media and...

Emmanuel Perrotin famously founded his original Paris gallery in 1990 at the age of just twenty-one

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Photography has a unique capacity to make the invisible visible, and to illuminate truths about the world and ourselves that often go unnoticed. It documents reality whilst simultaneously interpreting it, acting as both witness and storyteller. The 2025 Royal Photographic Society Awards, the world’s longest-running photography prize, celebrated this power, recognising photographers whose work challenges boundaries and transforms how we see. From experimental landscapes to socially engaged portraiture, the winners demonstrate the breadth of contemporary photography and its capacity to engage, provoke and inspire. At the forefront is Susan Derges, awarded the RPS Centenary Medal for her outstanding...

The production is based on the Elisabeth Fritzl story, and it really made me reconsider this opera's fairy tale storyline.

Wallace Collection will focus on art as soft power, bringing fresh perspectives to the creativity of Sir Winston Churchill, Britain at war, and Renaissance power

Morgan Quaintance & Onyeka Igwe have jointly received the 2025 Film London Jarman Award

For nearly two decades, the Jarman Award has marked a key moment in the UK’s creative landscape. Each year, the prize spotlights emerging artists who are reinventing what moving-image work can be. Taking its name from the radical filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman (1942–1994), the award seeks out practices that echo his bold, boundary-breaking approach. Previous winners feature some of today’s most influential contemporary practitioners, including Heather Phillipson, Imran Perretta, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Luke Fowler and Sin Wai Kin. Now, Morgan Quaintance and Onyeka Igwe join that illustrious list. The two artists were announced as joint winners of the 2025 Film London Jarman Award at a special ceremony at...

Experience design firm Murmur Ring, in partnership with Empathy and the Institute of Design, invites artists, designers, makers, and creatives of all kinds to join the Reclaiming Value: Sacred Valley Design Immersion from June 15 to 19, 2026, in Peru’s Sacred Valley. The Colossal team previously joined Murmur Ring for a transformative week-long immersion in Oaxaca, Mexico, and looks forward to joining this excursion, as well. This is not a tourist program. Mumur Ring’s Immersions are creative exchanges born from years of research and relationship-building. Intimate site visits with Peruvian makers and innovators offer rare, behind-the-scenes access to the perspectives, techniques, and community-centered...

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced the 28 members of his Committee on Arts and Culture, one of 17 advisory committees formed ahead of his inauguration next year. Members include former NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) Commissioner Gonzalo Casals, curator and critic Kimberly Drew, Brooklyn Children’s Museum President Atiba Edwards, poet and Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander, The Kitchen Executive Director and Chief Curator Legacy Russell, and Hiba Abid, the New York Public Library’s first-ever curator of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. A complete list of members is appended at the end of this article.During a news conference in Central Park’s Conservatory Garden...

The Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM) has filed a civil suit against former director and CEO Sasha Suda, accusing her of theft. The filing, which claims that Suda “misappropriated funds from the Museum and lied to cover up her theft,” is the latest twist in a saga that began earlier this month when the institution, until […]

A vibrant new pavilion rises to meet the square’s picturesque trees in Cradle of Country Music Park in Knoxville, Tennessee, connecting the city’s Old Town and its theater district. Made from tens of thousands of individual pieces of painted aluminum, the vivid “Pier 865” provides both a resting place and a vantage point in a reinvigorated public square. The reptilian sculpture is the work of Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY, continuing the designer’s interest in high-tech, large-scale installations that involve meticulously assembled elements. Conceived digitally, the structure has a bold, futuristic quality that looks exactly like a 3D model made real—one can imagine its pixel-like pieces puzzling...

Stephen Friedman Gallery has announced that it will shutter its New York outpost at the end of February 2026. The gallery, which had moved to its TriBeCa space just over two years ago, will continue to operate its London flagship, in business since 1995, and has said it will maintain its full artist roster. Stephen […]

The end of the year is quickly approaching and so is the season of giving. By choosing to shop with us this year, you’re supporting independent publishing and allowing us continue to share important stories every day. This year’s Colossal Gift Guide highlights some of our favorite art and design products. From world-renowned artist tools and one-of-a-kind calendars to quirky bags and detailed monographs, we’ve curated everything you need to be named Best Gift Giver of the Year. Grouped by each unique recipient—whether it be your creative sibling, grandkids, or that one uncle whose vibe is impossible to identify—there’s something here for everyone on your list. Grab a cup of tea, get cozy, and...

"Even though I would hope to be remembered as a portrait artist—canonizing the image of Indigenous people within art history—I am constantly set upon side quests,” says multidisciplinary Canadian artist Wally Dion.. read the full article by clicking above.
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Cartoonist Jay Howell is "looking forward to the next thing, always". Click above to read the full article.
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Perrotin has announced the representation of Todd Gray

Vincent Lombardo pays poetic tribute to the 60-year-long career of Robert Wilson.

As Messiah season begins, Christopher Corwin reports on two of Handel’s forays into the Old Testament.

Sam Metz is the winner of the 2025 Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize. Their work seeks to answer the question: what would the art world look like if it centred neurodivergent experiences? They make drawing, animation and sculptural installation that respond to neurodivergence and the body, often relating to stimming and ecology. The award-winning sculpture, Porosity, reflects Metz’s sensory experience of the Humber Estuary. Bright yellow structures echo how they see the water’s reflection through ocular albinism (a genetic condition that affects the eyes). The piece challenges conceptions of sculpture by integrating disability into its core form, embracing difference as method and message. Metz spoke to...

Chiharu Shiota’s work fills the galleries of MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale in Turin with a sense of presence and reflection. The Soul Trembles, curated by Mami Kataoka and Davide Quadrio, traces over 20 years of the Japanese artist’s practice, bringing together drawings, sculptures, photographs and monumental installations. Her pieces transform the museum into an immersive environment where threads, boats, dresses and suitcases act as carriers of memory, identity and human experience. The exhibition places Shiota’s work in dialogue with MAO’s collection, inviting visitors to consider the connections between East and West, past and present, and the visible and invisible traces that shape our lives. It...

At 75, Cindy Zimmerman is developing a workshop on making artist books for Banned Books Week at San Diego Central Library. They're also working on Mobile Monument, rolling activist art for protests, parades, and exhibitions, amplifying words purged during the first weeks of the Trump administration. They're more clear now that they decide what to do based on the guidance of their inner voice. What's actually hard about being an artist at this point in their life?  Too little space. Someone...

Washington National Opera presented a well-sung and humorous Marriage of Figaro, buoyed by clever direction and a strong cast, particularly Rosa Feola’s Countess and Joélle Harvey’s Susanna.

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
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Up to a year ago, E.M. Miller's medium was food. Now it's raw canvas. At 50, he's a former actor turned musician turned chef turned artist standing at yet another fucking crossroads and deciding if he continues down this rabbit hole of art or not. How's his work different now than it was before 50?  A weaker person or perhaps a lesser experienced person would say the unknown, but he's used to not asking those kinds of questions. What's actually hard about being an artist at this point? He...

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foto credit Susanna Andreini Susanna Andreini works with the invisible realms—concrete with Elemental Beings. At 60, the stunning results of her recent paintings, the absolutely unexpected colors, motifs, and expression touched her in a very deep way and encouraged her to explore this way of artistic expression even deeper. She's exploring her connection to the Elemental Beings, offering them her canvas as their stage. They dance on it, try out different forms, sometimes as lines, sometimes...