Michaelina Wautier, "Self-portrait" (circa 1650) (all photos courtesy the Royal Academy of Arts)LONDON — The most remarkable aspect of the Royal Academy’s newly opened monographic exhibition on Michaelina Wautier (1604–1689) is its rediscovery of a talent on a par with the likes of Van Dyck and Rubens. Despite apparent success and recognition during her lifetime, the artist seemingly flew undetected — or, more accurately, misattributed — beneath our noses for centuries. Wautier is an art-historical anomaly; working in mid-17th-century Brussels, she spans wide genres from flower pieces to portraiture all the way up to grand, male-dominated history painting, excelling throughout. Her versatility...

Last night, France’s lower house of parliament unanimously voted in favor of a long-anticipated bill to facilitate the restitution of artworks looted during the colonial era, making good on a nearly 10-year-old pledge by French President Emmanuel Macron to return African heritage to the continent. The vote, which came following a lively debate that went late into the night, comes after the Senate’s adoption of the bill in January, and sets it on a smooth path to be enacted as law, likely before the summer. Members of parliament agreed the bill was a step forward in a decades-long, painful effort to confront France’s colonial past and return cultural goods that were unfairly and violently seized in...

In the mid-20th century, before preservation efforts revived Miami’s Art Deco South Beach neighborhood with bright colors and lavish hotels, the area was a whitewashed holiday haven for retirees. And in a third-floor room of the Colony Hotel, which looked out onto the building’s marquee and the street below, a unique artistic endeavor unfolded. Ukrainian artist Jonko “George” Voronovsky (1903-1982) transformed his humble, long-term residence into a vibrant environment of paintings and objects that he described as “memoryscapes.” Having endured incredible hardship amid the political maneuvers of the U.S.S.R. and the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s, he chose to work in a bright, optimistic style...

a new chapter in coachbuild for rolls-royce
 
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars announces Project Nightingale to reset what coachbuilding looks like for them now. It’s based in Goodwood, limited to 100 cars, and built around long-term collaboration with clients rather than a one-off commission.
 
The proportions of this electric production concept do most of the work. It’s almost Phantom length, but everything is redirected into a two-seat convertible. Long hood, low glass, short cabin pushed deep into the body, then a tapering rear. The whole thing reads as one continuous surface, with very little interruption, and very little added detail.
Project Nightingale reframes coachbuilding through a limited program of...

A digital LEGO build inspired by vintage botanical field kits
 
The Botanical Field Kit is a digital LEGO build inspired by 19th‑century naturalist tools and portable exploration cases. The project combines vintage aesthetics, botanical illustration, and the tactile charm of scientific field equipment. The case opens to reveal a collection of instruments: a magnifying device, specimen jars, botanical sketches, and small tools arranged with precision.
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A narrative-driven LEGO toolkit for botanical exploration
 
Designer Marco B. intended to create an object that feels functional, narrative, and slightly...

Golda Schultz soldiers through illness at the New York Philharmonic.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra explores love and death in an intense, intelligent program featuring soprano Corinne Winters.

Alserkal Avenue will stretch its usual Art Week into a five-week “Art Month” from April 18 to May 18, adding grants, temporary warehouse space for collectives, and a commercially focused group show organized with 12 galleries from around the United Arab Emirates. The extension is an effort to keep exhibitions and sales moving at a moment when pressure is building across the market and the global stage.  The initiative broadens what was once a tightly packed week of openings into a more distributed model: 16 gallery exhibitions, public art commissions, and more than 100 talks, performances, and events unfolding over five weekends. Among the opening shows are Green Art Gallery’s group exhibition “All...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesHISTORIC VOTE. France’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, unanimously voted late last night in favor of a long-anticipated bill to facilitate the restitution of artworks looted during the colonial era, making good on a nearly decade-old pledge by president Emmanuel Macron. ARTnews attended the lively late-night debate, where many lawmakers described the legislation as “imperfect,” yet still a meaningful step toward confronting France’s colonial past and returning cultural goods that were unfairly, and often violently, seized in the 19th and 20th centuries. Why...

Solo shows of strong women artists provide inspiration in gloomy times

'Future Goldsmiths' marks the third restructure programme at the south London-based university in five years

Fanglin Luo is a London-based emerging artist and curator whose interdisciplinary practice moves between performance, painting and photography. Her work has a foundation in both art theory and fashion design, weaving together visual and conceptual languages to examine identity, feminism and the complexities of transcultural memory. Luo’s works have been exhibited internationally, from the UK and France to the USA and Japan. In 2025, she presented at the London Design Festival and won the Silver Award at the Light From The Other Shore: 2025 New York International Art Competition. One of Luo’s earlier works is video piece ME & GODDNESS & ME, inspired by the artist’s experience walking alone at night in...

The hotel and art centre in Provence is showing the famous ‘Lockheed Lounge’ chair and ‘Electra’, a monumental 6m-high sculpture unveiled for the first time

“New Woman, New Vision” explores lesser-known works from the Bauhaus archive

Procedures for returning objects will be “strictly supervised” and the law applies only to items illegally taken between June 1815 and April 1972

teamLab redefines the artwork as a borderless experience
 
teamLab constructs environments that challenge the idea of the world as a collection of separate entities. Instead, the collective proposes what it describes as a ‘long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity’, a condition in which boundaries dissolve and relationships take precedence. Their installations are not conceived as isolated objects, but as immersive fields that bloom through time and presence. As teamLab tells designboom, their work can be understood as ‘the experience itself’, shifting perception away from fixed forms toward a more fluid awareness of connection.
 
Within this framework, the viewer is never external to the...

ETHIMO MERGES NATURAL LANDSCAPE WITH CONTEMPORARY AESTHETIC
 
Set against the Mediterranean backdrop of Pantelleria, Ethimo’s 2026 catalogue presents a collection of outdoor furniture pieces, turning the relationship between design and environment into real conscious dialogue. Titled Architectural Nature, the concept provides a minded encounter between the island’s nature and ancestry with the contemporary aesthetic of the collection’s refined pieces. Located between Sicily and Tunisia, the Mediterranean island of volcanic landscapes and crystal-clear waters was transformed into a living stage for Ethimo’s designs to host a visual and sensory experience centered around the 2026 collections. 
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I had heard the renowned Dutch soprano on recordings and was an admirer of hers. I was unprepared, however, for such a truly memorable evening.

After posting memes depicting him as a Roman warrior, king, and pontiff, Trump decided to upgrade himself to the rare status of son of god. There's only one place left to go up from there, and we all know he's thinking about it. According to religion scholar Emma Cieslik, this latest Trump jest rubbed his Catholic base the wrong way, let alone the fact that he got the wound wrong. More about that below.Also today: Read my review of Ai Weiwei's thought-provoking new book On Censorship, John Yau on Steve DiBenedetto's cryptic paintings, and Aaron Short's obituary of artist and activist Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, who passed away last week at just 46.Finally, please join us this Wednesday from...

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Local materials and tropical principles shape Casa Milagros
 
Casa Milagros, located in Nosara, Costa Rica, is a residential project by Garton Group Architecture that integrates tropical architectural principles with contemporary construction methods. The design incorporates recycled ocean-plastic roof tiles, natural stone cladding, exposed timber structures, and continuous water elements as part of a material strategy rooted in local resources and environmental conditions.
 
The house draws from traditional tropical architecture, reinterpreting established elements within a contemporary framework. Locally sourced timber and stone are used throughout, including bespoke joinery produced by regional craftsmen....

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The National Pavilion of Qatar has announced that Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija will bring together a group of musicians, poets, chefs, and artists from the Arab world for its exhibition at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to open on May 9. The show, “Untitled (a gathering of remarkable people),” is being cocurated by Tom Eccles, executive director […]

Cameroon-born visual artist, composer, poet, writer, instrumentalist and philosopher Tanka Fonta has been named the winner of the 2026 Wi Di Mimba Wi Prize. Established in 2021 by Berlin-based arts nonprofit Savvy Contemporary and Einbeck, Germany-based foundation AKB Stiftung, the prize is awarded biennially to artists of color living and working in Germany. Fonta will receive a €30,000 ($35,000) grant, as well […]

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, a painter who confronted injustice at home and abroad with striking scenes of resistance, died on Friday, April 10, at the age of 46 at her home in Los Angeles, days before the opening of a new solo exhibition of her work at Jeffrey Deitch’s West Hollywood gallery. The cause of her death was not publicly reported, and the gallery is expected to make an announcement about her show and a memorial in the coming days.Deitch, whose gallery announced the news of her death on Saturday, said Dupuy-Spencer was “beloved by people in her creative community.” “Celeste was an extraordinary artist and a wonderful person, deeply dedicated to her painting, often working round the clock in her...

Marcel Duchamp inside the exhibition The Art of Assemblage at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961, with his artworks “Fountain” (1950, replica of lost 1917 original) and “Bicycle Wheel” (1951, replica of lost 1913 original) (© Association Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP, Paris/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2026; courtesy Gagosian, photo Marvin Lazarus)Remember brat summer? Well, apparently New York City is determined to have a Duchamp spring as Gagosian gallery announced that the inaugural exhibition at its new Uptown location will center the conceptual artist's famous “readymades” — including a replica series first exhibited at the same location over six decades ago.  Opening April 25...

Trump's now-deleted Truth Social post contained an AI-generated image of him as Jesus (screenshot Hyperallergic)Yesterday, on Orthodox Easter, Donald Trump faced an eruption of backlash for posting an AI-generated photo of himself as Jesus Christ, just a couple of minutes after he criticized Pope Leo XIV on Truth Social. The image parodies the centuries-old Catholic image of the Divine Physician, with Trump wearing a flowing white mantle with a red robe, a beam of light emanating from his left hand as he rests his right on the forehead of a man in a hospital bed. Surrounding him are an older man in a dark navy cap (presumably a veteran), a man in military camouflage, a woman in a blue surgeon cap with a...

Researchers working on an archaeological salvage project related to construction of a passenger train between Querétaro and Mexico City discovered a 1,000-year-old stone altar. The discovery was first reported in March, and was uncovered within the Tula Archaeological Monument Zone, a Toltec site in the central state of Hidalgo, according to Mexico’s INAH (the National Institute of Anthropology and History). When the three-level altar was excavated from the test pit, the project archaeologists discovered four human skulls abutting the monument, along with several long bones, which are believed to be femurs. There is also a black ceramic bowl, fragments of obsidian, and several blades with the altar. It is...

Amid groves of trees, meadows, and aging infrastructure, Cinga Samson’s dreamlike tableaux are bathed in eerie light, as if spotlit or illuminated by the moon. The South African artist is known for his use of deep, dark pigments such as carbon black and Prussian blue, complemented by the occasional teal or purple and pops of bright white in t-shirts or sneakers. His figures, engaged in enigmatic activities, look on with spectral, all-white eyes. Green and brown foliage camouflages individuals who gather in fields, sort through mysterious items, and appear to converge with other beings like large birds. The work seen here is currently on view in the artist’s solo exhibition at White Cube called...

This article includes spoilers for The Drama, which is now playing theatrically. By now, you’ve probably heard that The Drama, a new film by Kristoffer Borgli that stars Robert Pattinson and Zendaya as a soon-to-be-married couple, has what many are calling a “twist.” In actuality, it’s more of a reveal, and it happens about a half hour in: Emma (Zendaya) reveals to Charlie (Pattinson) and her friends that she planned to shoot up her school as a kid but failed to execute on the plan. This disclosure causes Charlie, a chief curator at the fictional Cambridge Art Museum, to spiral and doubt their relationship. In one key scene, Charlie comes across a photobook called Brainrot that features young women...

The Medina Triennial, a brand-new walkable contemporary art exhibition set to take place in the Western New York town from June to September of this year, has released the list of artists who will be featured in the first edition.  The participants include Tania Candiani, a Mexico City-based interdisciplinary artist known for her large-scale installations. Her creation for the […]

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Digital reconstruction of hypothesized polybolos bolt impacts AVERSA, ITALY—The polybolos has long been a legendary weapon of Roman military might, both in the sense that it could inflict tremendous damage and that it may never have existed. But archaeologists and engineers from the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and the University of Bologna have identified ancient artillery holes that they believe correspond to shots from the device, according to a Diario AS report. The polybolos, literally “multiple thrower,” was a chain-driven freestanding catapult that fired metal-tipped bolts from a magazine in quick-repeating succession, automatically, according to a description by Philo of Byzantium, a...

Last March, Trump handed down an executive order that dictated a reduction of the statutory functions of the governmental entities he deemed “unnecessary.” One of these was the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which, according to a settlement signed on April 9, will now be allowed to continue its operations.  The settlement comes with the […]

This Illustration shows a European pond turtle crawling next to the foot of a European straight-tusked elephant. NEUMARK-NORD, GERMANY—A new analysis of turtle shell fragments unearthed at the Paleolithic site of Neumark-Nord in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt suggests Neanderthals regularly hunted the diminutive European pond turtle. A team led by archaeologist Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser from the Institute for Ancient Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz analyzed 92 turtle shell fragments from the site dating back 125,000 years, and found evidence that the turtles had been butchered and their shells cleaned. The team suspects Neanderthals did not eat the turtles, which grow to be no longer...

Aerial view of ritual complex, Tell el-Farama, Egypt TELL EL-FARAMA, EGYPT—Archaeologists have unearthed a religious complex with a central pool dedicated to water rituals at the ancient city of Pelusium in northeastern Egypt, Ahram Online reports. In antiquity, the circular basin, which measures 115 feet in diameter and is enclosed by red brick walls, was connected to a branch of the Nile, which would have filled it with salty water—a symbol of the city's patron deity, Pelusius. A square platform in the middle of the basin was likely a base for a statue of the god. The basin is surrounded by water drainage channels. The complex remained in use, with only modest renovations, from the second century b.c. to...

The embattled Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra bring Adams and Dvorák to Carnegie Hall.

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In 1912, André Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto. The work described Surrealism as “pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.” It was a statement that came to define a moment that, one hundred years later, continues to play a defining role in contemporary art. To consider Surrealism is to conjure up names like Breton, Salvador Salí or René Magritte, but many female artists pushed the artform forward in ways that have long been overlooked. VISU Contemporary, in Miami...

Thanks to Elly Ameling, I made it through college.

David Bowie (1947-2016) is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. This spring, a major new immersive experience dedicated to him is opening at London’s Lightroom, in close collaboration with the Bowie Estate. The 360° show – titled You’re Not Alone – promises to transport visitors inside the artist’s “iconic performances and creative mind”. From Space Oddity through Diamond Dogs, Heroes and ★, You’re Not Alone offers audiences the opportunity “to feel they have travelled through time to experience Bowie up close and first-hand.” But this is not about perpetuating the myths or characters often associated with Bowie, like Aladdin Sane, Halloween Jack,...

Few contemporary photographers are as synonymous with black and white as Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025). The Brazilian activist, documentarian and photojournalist is world-renowned, notably for images made in the Amazon rainforest and the Serra Pelada gold mine, Brazil. Now, a new collection of Salgado’s pictures, titled Glaciers, is dedicated to some of the planet’s most remote places. It spans from dramatic ice fields in Patagonia to the Himalayas’ towering peaks. Salgado also travelled to Antarctica to capture its ice shelves, as well as to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, a hugely volcanic region. The book features 65 duotone photographs, depicting sweeping vistas, massive crevasses, wind-swept snow...

By Kristine Schomaker The work hits immediately. Not one piece — all of it, simultaneously. Large sculptural assemblages covering the walls, a freestanding sculpture in the middle of the room, a piece suspended from the ceiling. The whole gallery feeling like its own solar system, each work a satellite orbiting something enormous and unspoken. Last night, four humans splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after flying around the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years. Artemis II...

The 10th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women is a remarkable intersection of creativity, place and dialogue. This year, the Prize has entered a nomadic phase, leaving its long-standing London base to partner with Museum MACAN in Jakarta. By focusing on Indonesia, the Prize acknowledges a vibrant art scene, where ancestral craft traditions coexist with contemporary experimentation. Five artists – Betty Adii, Dzikra Afifah, Ipeh Nur, Mira Rizki and Dian Suci – have been shortlisted, their work spanning painting, ceramics, installation, video and sound. Each practice navigates questions of identity, memory, environment and social justice, offering reflections that resonate both locally and...

Spanish silver real SANTIAGO, CHILE—Live Science reports that a sixteenth-century Spanish silver coin has been discovered in southern Chile at the site of Ciudad del Rey Don Felipe, a failed Spanish colony situated on the north side of the Strait of Magellan. Soledad González Díaz of Bernardo O’Higgins University said that the real was found on top of a stone in the foundations of a church structure. The discovery corresponds with an account written in 1584 by navigator Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, who described the founding of the colonial settlement, the placement of the coin on the stone, and a historic map of the area. “It not only helps to confirm the location and layout of key structures within the...

Gen Z has made headlines recently for turning to analog media and the slower pace of life synonymous with a pre-internet world. Alongside DVDs and print magazines, snail mail has also been on the rise as more people flock to spaces untouched by an algorithm or AI. Even before the endless scroll subsumed much of our collective psyche, though, Gabriella Marcella was already combating digital fatigue through the design studio Risotto. Marcella founded Risotto in 2012, just after graduating from university, where she fell in love with risograph printing. She purchased her first machine secondhand and set up shop in her bedroom before moving to the Glue Factory, a former warehouse that still houses the studio along...

ABOVE: “Spatial Awareness”, 54″ x 250″, hand-knit with wool, 2025, photo by Chris Rettman From her dining room table in Oklahoma City, Kendall Ross knits brightly colored, intricately patterned sweaters and vests—some so large that referring to them as wearables is a bit misleading. Her textile pieces are often emblazoned with diary-like messages that speak […]
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NORTH GYEONGSANG PROVINCE, SOUTH KOREA—According to a report in The Korea Herald, Jeong Choong-won of Seoul National University and an international team of researchers conducted a genetic study of 78 individuals buried in 44 tombs in South Korea’s Imdang-Joyeong burial complex, which was in use during the Three Kingdoms period between the fourth and sixth centuries A.D. The scientists detected evidence of close-kin marriages and family-based sacrificial burials among the occupants of the burials. Most of the tombs in the complex consist of a main burial chamber and a secondary chamber. In at least 20 of the main chambers, the researchers found evidence of sunjang, the practice of interring sacrificed...

In 2019, Kayla Mahaffey reached a turning point with her art. The Chicago-based artist had a solo show at Line Dot Editions in April of that year. Titled Off to the Races, the series of paintings centered around children ready to hit the road. Some sat with their growing legs crouched in tiny cars or […]
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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,”...

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“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...

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...

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...

 
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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