The 400-Year Ice Cream frames a reflection on material longevity
 
Created by Joll, The 400-Year Ice Cream examines the contrasting lifespans of everyday consumption and the materials that support it. Taking the familiar form of an ice cream, an object intended to disappear within minutes, the work transforms it into a PVC replica that may remain in the environment for centuries. By replacing a perishable food item with a non-biodegradable material, the project considers the long-term environmental consequences embedded within ordinary acts of consumption and disposal.
 
The installation combines a PVC food replica with a white oak frame and an exposed iron threaded rod secured by wing nuts. Rather than...

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Alessandro Isola translates speed into spatial experience
 
An existing building is transformed into a private space for displaying and experiencing an automotive collection in The Silence of Speed, a project by Alessandro Isola. Conceived as a multi-level environment for social gatherings, hospitality, and private enjoyment, the house explores how architecture can translate the spatial and perceptual qualities associated with speed. Rather than functioning as a conventional residence or showroom, the project combines domestic spaces with dedicated vehicle display areas, using material contrast, visual continuity, and carefully choreographed circulation to create a sequence of interconnected...

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...

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While municipal funding covered a modest share of organisations’ expenses, it had an outsized impact in cities that increased their cultural support, a new study from DataArts shows

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At the top of SESC 24 de Maio, swimmers circle a rooftop pool above downtown São Paulo, where towers press close and the street runs far below. Paulo Mendes da Rocha and MMBB placed the water on the fourteenth floor of a former department store, giving recreation one of the building’s broadest views. The pool appears almost extravagant for its setting, and that’s exactly why it works — here, valuable urban space has been set aside for play.
 
The architecture of leisure begins with this kind of civic choice. Where can someone spend time without purchasing a meal or moving toward another destination? Parks and public baths answer through open space and water, while...

Simone Forti, artist, choreographer, dancer, poet, and leading figure of New York’s Judson Dance Theater scene of the 1960s, as well as an influential contributor to Minimalism and the Fluxus movement, has passed away in Los Angeles at age 91, her gallery, Raffaella Cortese, confirmed via social media today. “She was a beloved friend and mentor, whose immeasurable influence on contemporary art, performance, and dance spanned over sixty years,” stated the Milan-based gallery. “We remember her with affection, admiration, and deep gratitude, and we remain committed to carrying forward the memory of her extraordinary work.” At the Judson Dance Theater in Greenwich Village, Forti became a key figure of...

Pathbreaking Italian American artist, choreographer, and dancer Simone Forti has died at the age of ninety-one. Her death, in Los Angeles, was announced by the Milan-based gallery Raffaella Cortese, which represented her. Training under postmodern dance pioneer Anna Halprin in San Francisco in the last half of the 1950s, Forti burst onto the New York […]

recycled brick forms a second skin
 
Along a narrow plot in Vĩnh Long, Vietnam, NAQ Architecture fronts a family weekend house with a deep layer of recycled terracotta brick. The screen wraps the street elevation from the ground-level gate to the upper floor, framing recessed openings while giving the 150-square-meter building a warm, porous face. Sourced from the traditional brick-making village of Mang Thít, the clay units connect the house to a material industry already present in the region.
 
Set in front of an inner glazed enclosure, the perforated wall intercepts direct sun before it reaches the rooms and leaves a ventilated space between the two layers. Air can pass through the staggered joints,...

The legendary Los Angeles artist reframed charged images and objects, embraced printmaking and developed elaborate, transporting installations

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:...

The Harvard Art Museums, a consortium of three institutions in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tested out a marketing campaign aimed at increasing visitor engagement and membership that makes use of generative AI in order to animate a 18th-century painting in its collection. John Connolly, the director of marketing for the Harvard Art Museums, and Julian De Freitas, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, recently spoke about the initiative on Open Call, a podcast produced by the Harvard Business Review and hosted by Brian Kenny HBS’s chief marketing and communications officer. De Freitas’s research “addresses questions about how consumers perceive, adopt, and interact with AI systems,” Kenny...

MADRID — Spanning over 25-feet wide and 11-feet high, Pablo Picasso’s painting “Guernica” (1937) is as monumental in size as it is in cultural significance. Its startling depiction of state brutality against civilians has made it an emblem of post-war Spanish identity, and its cry against violence has resonated with besieged people worldwide — from Vietnam to Gaza — throughout the past nine decades. A new annual exhibition series at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, which has served as the canonical work's permanent home since 1992, places “Guernica” in dialogue with other artworks. The new program, titled History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme, partly aims to revisit the...

For the first time, scientists have precisely dated prehistoric paintings inside Font-de-Gaume, a decorated cave in Dordogne, southwestern France. The news was reported by Science Daily, following an announcement made March 9 by France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Dordogne’s Vézère Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, is famous for its prehistoric art, which includes the paintings at Font-de-Gaume as well as those at nearby Lascaux. Accurately determining the age of the paintings, however, has historically proved difficult. This is because researchers had long assumed that the black pigments used by the paintings’ makers were purely mineral, making radiocarbon dating—a...

After adding Yoshitomo Nara to its roster last fall, David Zwirner will present the Japanese artist’s first show with the gallery at both of its spaces on 19th and 20th Streets in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The exhibition, touted as Nara’s first major solo show in New York in nearly a decade, is slated to open October 29 and will run through December 12. Nara joined Zwirner after being represented previously by Pace and Blum galleries, and said at the time, “Now, I feel fortunate to present the works I will be creating under the guidance of a gallerist who, though born and raised in a different place, shares the same generation and the spirit of the era we both lived through—including its...

A recent psychological study on so-called "cancel culture" and artistic impact found that its respondents reacted more punitively toward an artist accused of sexual assault (SA) compared to an artist accused of murder.

The charge stems from an October 9, 2024, incident in which Halai and Rosenfeld entered London’s National Gallery during open hours and covered Pablo Picasso’s 1901 Motherhood (La Maternité) with an image of a Palestinian woman weeping as she held her bloodied child. The photo was taken by Palestinian journalist Ali Jadallah during the Israeli […]

PHILADELPHIA — Imagine walking down a dirt pathway towards a bright, clean building in rural upstate New York. The windows are shutterless, neatly spaced rectangles; the roof is softly arched; and the walls are rattling with the screams, shouts, and stomps of dozens of people inside. You’ve arrived at the Second Meetinghouse of Mount Lebanon, the beating heart of a tiny, celibate, egalitarian, pacifist Christian sect: the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, better known as the Shakers, named for the distinctive ecstatic dances that accompanied joyful song during worship. A society of revolutionaries, when they burst onto the scene of 18th-century America, they were considered...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Betelhem Makonnen (1972–2026)Artist who explored diasporic consciousnessThrough photography, video, public art, and installations, she explored diasporic consciousness, embedded memory, and contemporary experience. In the 2019 video work “change means revolution in Amharic (person, place and thing),” for instance, she wanders through trees wearing a mask of herself as a child. "On her own now," Billie Anania wrote in a review in this magazine that same year, "the artist hides behind her former self, occasionally lifting the mask to face the world with caution."Makonnen's work has been shown at the...

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In the famously barren courtyard of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, a garden for the next two years has been planted. Created by artist and poet Precious Okoyomon, the elaborate installation invites us to approach a giant teddy bear’s butt and slide through its core to exit through the mouth, like a tongue. “The rectum isn’t a grave, it’s just a portal,” the artist told me during the press event that took place during an overcast Wednesday sprinkled with drizzle. Their statement riffs on Leo Bersani’s 1987 seminal queer theory essay “Is the Rectum a Grave?”

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The final decisions from UNESCO‘s World Heritage Committee bring together a broad and sometimes unexpected view of heritage. A modernist sanatorium in Finland now shares the list with a porcelain-making landscape in China. Coral reefs in Jordan sit beside a South Sudanese migration route crossed by millions of animals, while cliffside towns and fortified mountain networks reveal how people have shaped difficult terrain over centuries.
 
UNESCO announced 25 inscriptions at the close of the World Heritage Committee’s 48th session on July 28th, 2026. The final count includes 19 cultural properties and five natural ones. Mount Olympus is the sole mixed cultural and natural...

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...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has announced a deficit of $10 million on a $75.6 million budget for fiscal year 2025–26. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, which broke the story on July 28, the figure is nearly double that of the institution’s shortfall for the previous year, which was $5.4 million. Museum officials’ predictions for […]

Claude Monet’s Bord des falaises à Pourville (ca. 1882) is coming to the auction block at Christie’s Paris this October with an estimate of €11 million–€15 million ($12.5 million–$17.1 million). The brightly hued landscape is leading a sale of works from the family collection of Paul Durand-Ruel, the dealer considered most responsible helped establish Impressionism as a commercial and critical success. The October 22 sale, titled “Durand-Ruel, Generations of Vision,” will feature 62 works that have remained in the family’s possession for generations, including paintings by Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Gustave Loiseau, Henry Moret, and Pablo Picasso. The...

Carnelian gem depicting the goddess Victoria with a staff and wreath WINDISCH, SWITZERLAND—La Brújula Verde reports that an excavation at Vindonissa in northern Switzerland has traced the boundary of the first Roman military camp there, which was likely built during the rule of the emperor Tiberius (reigned A.D. 14–37). Since the site is slated for a residential construction project, archaeologists for Canton Aargau wanted to investigate questions first raised more than 90 years ago, when a V-shaped ditch was uncovered. The recent excavation determined that the defensive wall made of timber and earth ran some 230 feet south of a wall belonging to a later legionary camp, and then it turned northwest,...

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Winners and their booking group will receive ‘a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stand within the ancient stones with no one else around’ before opening hours

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced the acquisition of more than ninety modern and contemporary artworks, as well as more than 250 approved gifts of art to the museum. All the pieces were acquired between January and June 2026. The purchases include video installations and works by Ana Mendieta, Stephanie Comilang and […]

Nearly twenty years after it was first announced, the long-awaited Guggenheim Abu Dhabi has finally revealed an opening date of December 11. The new modern and contemporary art museum in the United Arab Emirates’ capital was designed by the late Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry and is the latest addition to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s […]

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...

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Refusés is opening its first permanent space at Queensrollahouse, expanding its artist-led programme with a solo exhibition by Elspeth Vince.

Introducing a redesigned retail format in one of London's fastest-growing creative districts.

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.

Polazzo creates works on canvas, murals using the fresco secco technique, and functional, hand-painted lamp sculptures

Three new properties were inscribed under emergency procedures and simultaneously placed on the World Heritage in Danger List

The National Portrait Gallery looks beyond Marilyn Monroe’s screen image to reveal the beauty, vulnerability and tragedy behind the Hollywood icon.

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.

As Andy Burnham opens a new office in the city of Manchester, we offer up some suitably northern works for the walls

Paul Carey-Kent reviews Trace Elements, a new monograph documenting Eric Butcher's striking shift towards a more sustainable artistic practice.

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...

Bentonville is a small town in Northwest Arkansas that has, over time, become synonymous with massive retail operations and corporate ecosystems. The bustling hub is ingrained with the legacy of Walton’s, a small nickel and dime convenience store that opened on Bentonville’s downtown square in 1950 to serve its surrounding community. The shop quickly found success, and owner Sam Walton opened another store nearby that would evolve into the largest retailer in the world: Walmart. During this time and throughout the ’60s, a post-war boom overtook the burgeoning commercial landscape of the United States. The suburban American Dream became a catalyst for retailers to adapt to an evolving social fabric that...

Entrance to Nabeta rock-cut tomb, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan VENICE, ITALY—According to a Phys.org report, a new study of the paintings in southern Japan’s Kyushu tombs conducted by Claudia Zancan of Ca’Foscari University suggests that the images are not portraits of the dead, but anonymous figures who symbolize the journey undertaken by any dead person. Dated to the sixth and seventh century A.D., the tombs are horizontal stone chambers that could be reopened and were reused for generations. They were decorated with colorful images of spiral circles, horses, boats, and stick-like people. These stick figures were often depicted without faces and shown as smaller than other objects in the paintings. For...

Section of ceiling fresco NAPLES, ITALY—La Brújula Verde reports that restoration work has been completed on a ceiling fresco that once adorned a banquet hall in the Casa con Pacificio, or House with Bakery, in Pompeii’s Regio IX. Decorative fragments of the ceiling, which depict the union of the god Dionysus and Ariadne, were first examined and reunited in the lab. When conservators were able to determine the original position of the fragments, the images were incorporated into a modular reconstruction of the curved, vaulted ceiling that will allow future researchers to continue the work as additional fresco fragments are identified. So far, conservators have identified fragments of a large central panel...

What best represents European life? The eternal dichotomy of nature vs. culture structures the Central Bank’s quest for a new banknote design, and now, the public can vote and offer feedback on ten proposals. A panel of jurors selected the designs, which follow one of two themes: European places and ideas or birds and rivers, the latter of which is meant to symbolize freedom and unity. While the basic elements are the same—all collections devoted to culture feature the same six figures, including Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, composer Ludwig van Beethoven, scientist Marie Curie, opera singer Maria Callas, and authors Bertha von Suttner and Miguel de Cervantes, for example—individual approaches...

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,...

A nude Black woman lies on a stark white chaise, her head propped up by her thin arm. She’s surrounded by flat, abstracted color in the form of fruits and fabrics, and a glass coupe and bottle on a nearby table offer a clear, rather than refracted, view of the vibrant scene. Rendered in oil on burlap, the painting by William H. Johnson is commanding in its palette and subject matter and an exemplary work in a new book by art historian Richard J. Powell. Forthcoming this fall from Princeton University Press, Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect delves into the ways that color and social, political, and cultural forces intersect in Black American art. Powell takes an expansive approach to each of the three...

“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.

Lorenzo Molajoli is a mysterious figure.

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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Lo scorso 12 dicembre è scomparso all’età di 89 anni l’artista e fotografo emiliano Franco Vaccari (Modena, 1936-2025); per ricordarlo, Museion, il museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Bolzano, ha allestito una mostra, la prima in assoluto dopo la sua morte, intitolata “Feedback. Gli Ambienti di Franco Vaccari”, a cura di Frida Carazzato e Luca Panaro, visitabile fino al 13 settembre 2026.
“Feedback. The Environments of Franco Vaccari”, exhibition view at Museion, 2026. Photo: Luca Guadagnini, courtesy Museion, Bolzano
Mosso dall’iniziale interesse verso la “poesia visiva” e per quelle che amava definire “forme anonime di poesia”, Franco Vaccari era attratto dai segni apparentemente...

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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,...