New Contemporaries has announced the 26 artists selected for its 2026 edition, a touring exhibition opening later this month at the South London Gallery before travelling to MIMA in Middlesbrough in spring. From the end of January through to August these two institutions will host a snapshot of emerging practice in the UK, bringing together artists working across painting, sculpture, installation, photography and moving image. As the gallery prepares to open its doors, New Contemporaries arrives not simply as a showcase but as a declaration: that the future of art is shaped at its earliest stages and that attention, space and belief must be extended now if new voices are to be heard. Founded in 1949 by artists...

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Keyboard magnetically attaches to card-sized smartphone
 
At CES 2026, iKKo brings the card-sized smartphone MindOne, complete with a snap-in case keyboard that revives the days of tactile typing. A modular device built around a physical keyboard, the case introduces a full QWERTY typing tool that attaches magnetically, transforming the phone into a seemingly handheld laptop. The keyboard uses raised, separated keys arranged in a standard QWERTY layout. Each key has a sloped surface position, and unlike flat touch keyboards, it allows users to type without constantly looking at the screen. 
 
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Holland’s Mauritshuis museum in The Hague announced on Thursday that the best-known work in its collection, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, will travel to Japan this fall. The news was reported by the Japan Times. The 17th-century masterpiece will be on temporary loan to the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka while the Dutch museum is closed for renovations in August and September. The painting was last loaned to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for its 2023 Vermeer retrospective. “Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of the most famous paintings in the world,” the museum said, “and is a key reason for many people to visit the Mauritshuis. It is therefore loaned to other institutions only in...

Beatriz González, a Colombian painter who ranks among the most important Latin American artists of the 20th century, died on Friday at her home in Bogotá at 93. Galerie Peter Kilchmann, her Zurich-based representative, announced her passing but did not specify a cause. González’s wide-ranging oeuvre tested painterly taboos and flirted with controversy. Working with a color palette that was often termed garish or unpleasing to the eye, she initially gained fame during the 1960s by remaking art historical masterpieces, then pivoted during the ’80s, a period when she began to paint explicitly political images critiquing her nation’s government and acts of violence that made headlines. Her art rarely fit...

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CCD’s design for Hotel Indigo Nalati draws on Nomadic Culture
 
Hotel Indigo Nalati is located at the junction of the Duku Highway and the Ili ‘Figure-8’ Scenic Loop in Nalati Town, within the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang, China. Set within an expansive landscape of steppe and framed by the Tianshan Mountains, the hotel occupies a strategic position along a major scenic route. The design by CCD is structured around the concept ‘A Grand Journey Along the Duku Highway, Through the Seasons of Nalati,’ using the Kazakh word mausym, meaning ‘season,’ as a thematic framework to interpret seasonal change and nomadic cultural patterns.
 
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Jessica Backhaus (b. 1970) is an artist who strips photography back to its fundamentals: light, shadow, colour. Her work is rooted in documentary practice, expanding the tradition through a lyric, abstract visual language. In her series, Cut Outs (2021), she arranged paper shapes until the relentless Berlin sun, capturing the pieces as they curled and bent, freezing their movement in a split second. In Plein Soleil, close-up and zoomed in pictures show turquoise pages coiling and casting shadows over contrasting magenta sheets. Now, FFFrankfurt presents a major retrospective of the artist, considered one of the most influential German practitioners working today. Shadows Might Dance brings together works...

A parte la via e la galleria e il vetro che le divide, resta la mischia. Lo dice la parete: in alto come in basso, tutta la mostra scaturisce intorno alla mischia di un singolo orizzonte; quel punto là, dove il cielo viene a sapersi cielo e la terra terra, ciascuno dentro l’avanzo dell’Altro. La mostra è La particella di Dio, prima personale di Riccardo Ricca, a cura di Luca Cantore d’Amore, con un testo critico di Giulia Ronchi, presso la galleria Fabbrica Eos fino al 18 gennaio 2026.
Riccardo Ricca, “La particella di Dio”, 2025, exhibition view at Fabbrica Eos, Milano, courtesy of the artist and Fabbrica Eos
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They killed Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good in cold blood. They shot two other people in Portland in the same week. They abducted a foreign leader, shamelessly laying claim to his country's oil. They're bullying the Smithsonian into submission, vulgarizing culture, uglifying art, dismantling democracy, and dumbing down an entire nation.The stories below respond to the shocking events of this week, once again demonstrating the power of art and community in the face of political oppression and violence. At a time like this, we can't afford apolitical and ahistorical art media owned by a handful of Trump-loving billionaires. Become a Hyperallergic Member today to support art journalism about...

the museum on michelin’s former tire manufacturing site
 
The proposed renovation of L’Aventure Michelin by Kengo Kuma & Associates is planned for Clermont-Ferrand, France, on a former tire manufacturing site linked to the company’s early growth. The museum sits within the Quartier des Pistes, a 1960s industrial complex whose long spans and repetitive frames continue to define the area.
 
L’Aventure Michelin opened to the public in 2009 as a permanent museum dedicated to the history of the brand founded in the city in 1889. Its galleries chart developments from early rubber products through guidebooks, maps, and tire technologies, using the existing factory building as a spatial...

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LOS ANGELES — The 31st edition of the LA Art Show is back this week at the downtown Convention Center, more than a month before Frieze, Felix, and Post-Fair roll into town. Although it is LA’s longest-running art fair, the show is somewhat of an outcast, snubbed as pedestrian, too commercial, and out of touch with the cutting edge of the global art world. But at the rear of the cavernous exhibition hall, a pair of projects organized by curator Marisa Caichiolo gives visitors a sense of the fair’s cultural and political relevance.Caichiolo organized the first Latin American Pavilion at the fair, a modest group of three booths: Artier Gallery from Palm Springs, Verse Gallery from Ft. Lauderdale, and...

A man in British Columbia had alleged that Morrisseau, a renowned First Nations artist who suffered from Parkinson’s disease, had assaulted him the year before his death

Seven years after an undercover sting led police to a house packed with stolen art in the hills above Nice, France, the case has returned to court, with ten defendants now on trial over a cache that included several works by Pablo Picasso. The trial, which opened earlier this month in Nice, revisits a 2017 judicial police operation that recovered more than 20 stolen artworks, including at least seven works by Picasso, following a tip that major pieces were being quietly offered for sale on the Côte d’Azur. According to reporting by French newspaper Nice-Matin, investigators from the Police Judiciaire went undercover, posing as a Swiss buyer and his assistant, after receiving intelligence from...

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As part of its upcoming spring program, the Barbican in London will stage a major commission by artist Delcy Morelos, her first in the United Kingdom. For the commission, on view May 15 to July 31, Morelos will construct her most ambitious sculptural installation to date. Measuring around 78 feet in circumference, the new work, to be sited in the Barbican’s outdoor sculpture courtyard, will take the form of an oval-shaped pavilion made of soil, clay, spices, and plant materials. Morelos’s commission is the third by the Barbican to be staged in its public areas and the first to be done in its Sculpture Court. “Our public realm commissions invite artists to respond to the Barbican’s iconic brutalist...

The foundations of a building complex from the 5th–6th century CE were recently uncovered at Al-Qarya bi-Al-Duweir, an archaeological site in Sohag, a city along the Nile River in central Egypt. The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities posted about the discovery on January 8 on X, noting that the mission was overseen by the Supreme Council of Antiquities. According to Ahram Online, Sherif Fathy, minister of tourism and antiquities, observed that the Byzantine-era residential complex “shed[s] new light on early Christian monastic life in Upper Egypt.” Fathy also hopes that this discovery will draw attention from both tourists and potential researchers to Al-Qarya bi-Al-Duweir, which is not as well known as...

South Africa has scrapped a performance mourning victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza that was selected for the country's 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion. In a statement to Hyperallergic, a spokesperson for the nation's Department of Sport, Arts and Culture said the pavilion “should not be used to amplify similarly divisive global disputes that do not center South Africa’s own story,” adding: “We need to use our platforms to sell our country to the world.”Artist Gabrielle Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo's proposal for the South African presentation, titled Elegy after Goliath's decade-long vocal performance series, had been chosen for the Biennale by an independent committee...

By marrying the realistic with the fantastical and uncanny, Stephanie Temma Hier conjures tension: there’s a calf-hair necktie that morphs into a table fan, popcorn surrounding pink ballet shoes, and a rapt snake framed by orange igneous rocks. The Brooklyn-based artist is formally trained as a painter and self-taught as a ceramicist, and she fuses the two modes of working into a complementary practice. Hier begins by sculpting a wide range of forms, and after several rounds of firing with both handmade and commercially available glazes, she adds a painting. The pairings arise intuitively, sometimes through free association, trial and error, or by homing in on a color. Earlier works include a decadent,...

According to the White House, two international groups working on cultural heritage preservation and arts policy are “contrary to the interests of the United States” and “waste taxpayer dollars.”The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) and the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) are among 66 organizations or treaties from which President Trump withdrew in a memorandum on Wednesday, January 7.Headquartered in Australia, the IFACCA collaborates with government arts agencies and conducts research on issues that impact cultural policy decisions, such as arts funding and cultural labor. The group is perhaps...

The miniseries, nominated in three categories, prominently features works by Norman Lewis as well as two contemporary artists

ELLENVILLE, New York — The word “GUILLOTINE” was drawn in charcoal capital letters on the wall of artist Michael Berryhill’s basement studio when I visited him in November, shortly after Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City. Berryhill was fired up about the state of the country but optimistic. His home is a museum piece of the 1950s, with plywood floors, ranch-style corner windows, and pink-tiled and wallpapered bathrooms. But the way he and his wife, musician Eleanor Friedberger, use it feels like a form of resistance against that period of conformity: In addition to the basement studio, there is a music studio and small performance space. The upstairs living room, where we talk over a...

WOLIN, POLAND—According to a Science in Poland report, traces of four unusual huts dated to the eleventh or twelfth century have been uncovered on an island in the Baltic Sea near the coast of Poland. Researchers were excavating an area once known as Srebrne Wzgórze on the northern edge of the medieval town, where there had been a market and craft workshops, when they unearthed the huts. “They are platforms made of clay and sand, surrounded by a ditch,” said Wojciech Filipowiak of the Polish Academy of Sciences. “Some have a hearth, some have an oven,” he added. Pottery, animal bones, Norwegian whetstones, glass beads, and metal objects were also recovered. “We have not seen structures like this...

Mandible during excavation in Thomas Quarry, Morocco CASABLANCA, MOROCCO—A team of Moroccan and French researchers suggests that they have identified the remains of the last common ancestor of modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans, according to a Live Science report. The 773,000-year-old fossils, including three partial lower jaws, several vertebrae, and teeth, were discovered in a cave in Morocco’s Thomas Quarry. They have some characteristics of Homo erectus, which evolved in Africa some two million years ago. Some Homo erectus groups migrated out of Africa, and reached Europe about 800,000 years ago. Those in Spain, known as Homo antecessor, are thought to be direct ancestors of Neanderthals....

Carnyx NORFOLK, ENGLAND—EuroNews reports that a collection of Iron Age objects was unearthed during an archaeological investigation conducted ahead of a construction project in the East of England. A nearly complete Celtic battle trumpet, or carnyx, and parts of a second one were found in the hoard, in addition to a bronze boar head from a military standard and five shield bosses. “The carnyces and the boar-headed standard are styles well known on the continent and remind us that communities in Britain were well connected to a wider European world at the time,” said Fraser Hunter of National Museums Scotland. To read about the mouthpiece of a Roman horn discovered at the site of Vindolanda in northern...

In 1666, the marriage of Emperor Leopold I and Infanta Margarita Teresa of Spain solidified a political alliance between the Austrian and Spanish sides of the Habsburg family. They were also both uncle and niece and first cousins, such was the intense insularity of royal marriages intended to gain or maintain power across Europe. The union was arranged while Margarita Teresa was very young—she was only around 15 when they married—and during the years leading up to the wedding, court painter Diego Velázquez created numerous portraits of her, which were sent to Leopold I in the form of tokens or updates documenting the imperial bride’s development into a young woman. “Them, after Hodges, Kruseman,...

blackwattle bay’s first completed project
 
Set to open at last on January 19th, 2026, the 3XN Architects-designed Sydney Fish Market occupies a prominent stretch of Blackwattle Bay on the Australian city’s inner harbor. Planned in collaboration with BVN and Aspect Studios, and delivered by Multiplex, the project introduces a purpose-built facility that brings wholesale operations, public market areas, and waterfront access into a single system.
 
The new building, with its floating roof canopy, is located roughly one mile southwest of the central business district and replaces a former market structure with a volume oriented toward the harbor edge. The site sits within the wider renewal of Blackwattle...

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A new international mentorship programme for emerging artists, with acclaimed painter Amoako Boafo announced as its inaugural mentor.

Entriamo in conversazione con l’artista Giorgia Mascitti (San Benedetto del Tronto, 1995) e la curatrice Miriam di Francesco (Atri, 1988) in occasione della mostra personale Davanti a un gran bosco a THEPÒSITO Art Space, concepita in relazione con il Festival “Rigenerarsi” a Narni. L’artista e la curatrice dialogano sulle opere in mostra evocandone la dimensione fiabesca, onirica e immaginativa, quali metafore del contemporaneo.
Giorgia Mascitti, “Davanti a un gran bosco”, curated by Miriam di Francesco installation view, ph. Aldo Destino, courtesy the artist and THEPÒSITO Art Space
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Tobias Kratzer digs beneath the surface of Strauss's Intermezzo in an excellent new DVD from Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Meet five photographers longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize who are redefining how we see the landscape. These artists move beyond traditional depictions of place, experimenting with time, perception and materiality to transform the natural world into something immersive and unexpected. From long-exposure forests that blur movement and stillness, to layered scenes that collapse multiple viewpoints into a single frame, their works challenge the boundaries between reality and imagination. They offer fresh perspectives on landscape photography, reflecting innovation and engagement with the environment. Gjert Rognli The force of nature is at the heart of Gjert Rognli’s artistic practice. He works across...

hill house by habitat architects emerges from the terrain
 
Designed by Habitat Architects, the Solan Hill House is a private residence embedded into a sloping site in Himachal Pradesh, conceived as an architecture that grows out of its terrain rather than resting on it. Completed as a response to complex gradients, access conditions, and visual exposure, the project uses the landscape itself as a generator of form, structure, and spatial sequence. By organizing living spaces across stepped levels that follow the natural contours, the house minimizes excavation while maximizing views, privacy, and environmental performance. The design prioritizes long-term adaptability, material intelligence, and a quiet...

I still don't think Sunset Boulevard is a top-tier musical but it was by far the most memorable vocal performance I saw in 2025.

In 1955, New York’s MoMA opened The Family of Man, an ambitious exhibition which brought together hundreds of images by photographers around the world. It was organised by Edward Steichen, whose aim was to demonstrate “the gamut of life from birth to death” through pictures. The display toured internationally and was seen by more than 9 million visitors, and is now regarded as one of the most famous shows of all time. Perhaps most importantly, it positioned the idea of “family” as something bigger than our immediate, or biological, circles. The images showed how complex and wide-reaching the term can be – highlighting shared experiences across borders. Now, Brussels’ Hangar presents Family...

Kathleen Goncharov, who launched her career at Linda Goode’s pathbreaking New York gallery Just Above Midtown and went on to serve as US Commissioner for the Fiftieth Venice Biennale, died in her Boca Raton, Florida, home on December 31. She was seventy-three. Goncharov was widely esteemed for her staunch advocacy of such artists as El […]

The leaders of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) at a January 6 press conference publicly denounced the Flemish government’s scheme to dissolve it and move its collection to a museum in another city, contending that the plan is “flagrantly” illegal. As reported by Flemish news platform VRT, their pronouncement was based on […]

With a two-headed, dozen-eyed Mona Lisa, a disjointed Frida Kahlo exploding like tiny little pieces of glass, and a tiny Napoleon in Egypt sitting on a gargantuan, long-limbed horse, collage artist and illustrator Lola Dupre proves that there’s art to be done after art is… well… done. Click above to read the full article by Liana Aghajanian.
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The world’s largest island that isn’t its own continent, Greenland spans more than 836,000 square miles. As we’ve been reminded recently, the territory is part of the Realm of Denmark, although it has its own systems of local government. Greenland is home to only about 56,000 people, the vast majority of whom are Inuit and live on the southern part of the island that’s not covered in ice. The largest city, Nuuk, houses around one-third of the country’s population. And situated just south of the Arctic Circle, residents only see a few hours of sunlight during the day in mid-winter. Hunting and fishing have traditionally sustained a subsistence lifestyle for Greenlanders, and today, the latter...

A researcher extracts DNA from a sample in the University of Tartu's laboratory. VIENNA, AUSTRIA—According to a statement released by the University of Vienna, a team of scientists from the University of Vienna, the University of Tartu, Cambridge University, and University College London have reconstructed the genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from samples taken from human remains recovered from archaeological sites in Europe. Today, HHV-6B infects about 90 percent of children by age two, causing roseola infantum, also known as “sixth disease,” an illness characterized by a rash and a fever. In addition to causing illness, these viruses are capable of integrating into human...

AKASZTÓ, HUNGARY—According to a Live Science report, the 1,100-year-old graves of three warriors have been excavated in southern Hungary by a team led by Wihelm Gábor of the Katona József Museum. A total of 81 coins were recovered from the three burials. Most of these coins were minted in northern Italy during the reign of Berengar, between A.D. 888 and 924. Gábor and his colleagues suggest that the three warriors may have participated in military campaigns in northern Italy and carried the coins home. The first man was 17 or 18 years old when he died. He was buried wearing a belt decorated with gilded silver, a leather pouch decorated with silver plate, a gold ring with blue glass stones, and silver...

Roughly one hundred Uffizi staffers staged a demonstration in the courtyard of the venerable Florence institution on January 4, protesting an effective layoff of the museum’s casual workers spurred by a change in service managers. Unfurling a large banner reading “Basta Vite Precarie” (“Enough with Precarious Life”), the protesters used flags and bright green flares […]

In an otherwise unassuming neighborhood in Beppu, Ōita Prefecture, Japan, a modest residence has undergone an unusual transformation. Thanks to Japanese art collective 目, the two-story private home has been hollowed out, in a sense, to create a literal cavern. 目 translates to “eye” and is pronounced “mé,” and the group comprises artist Haruka Kojin, director Kenji Minamigawa, and installer Hirofumi Masui. The trio’s focus revolves around conceiving works that encourage new ways of seeing the world as it constantly changes and evolves before us. Often playing with perception, pieces have included ocean swells that appear frozen in time and space and giant balloons of people’s faces that float...

Ahead of the return of Louise to the Opéra National de Lyon, Parterre Box features Elsa Dreisig in a much more famous French opera.

Thibaut Grevet is a French director and photographer who moves through the world with an eye tuned to the unseen. His images slip between reality and reverie, blending people, architecture, and landscape into quiet collisions of shape, shadow, and motion. What he captures often feels less like documentation and more like memory—soft, shifting, and charged with an otherworldly calm. Grevet works in moments that unfold on their own terms: unposed, unpolished, and beautifully transient. He gravitates toward what flickers at the edge of perception, revealing details that many overlook but that, in his hands, expand into entire worlds. His 2025–26 collaboration with New York City Ballet extends this dialogue...

Since its launch in 2015, the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards has become a leading biennial platform for emerging photographers in the UK. It has nurtured artists who have redefined contemporary photography and lens-based art, shaping how images influence our perception of the world. Past recipients such as Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Heather Agyepong, Joanne Coates, Joanna Piotrowska, Lúa Ribeira and Silvia Rosi and have expanded their practices from intimate exhibitions to international recognition, residencies and critical acclaim. The programme offers more than financial support, providing mentoring, guidance and touring exhibition opportunities that allow artists to develop ambitious projects at a pivotal stage in...

«Vogliamo essere visibili, siamo esseri umani». Sono le sei parole, tradotte in italiano da un ragionamento in lingua inglese, che raccontano meglio di ogni altro concetto questa mostra. La Collezione Maramotti ospita un progetto site-specific dell’artista rom di passaporto polacco Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, già vista e apprezzata in Italia nel 2022 alla Biennale Arte di Venezia, nel padiglione nazionale della Polonia. Abbiamo definito site-specific il progetto perché nasce anche dal confronto dell’artista con la comunità sinti di Reggio Emilia. Si tratta di una comunità vasta che racchiude circa la metà dell’intera popolazione rom e sinti dell’intera Emilia-Romagna e che l’artista ha voluto...

Jana Euler’s paintings are crowded with symbolically charged motifs—sharks, sockets, slugs, dollar bills, bodily close-ups, and her own fantastical animal, the morecorn. Each stars as the protagonist in its own series of works, and puts us in touch with a different attitude toward reality. Her canvases may seem metaphorical, producing impressions of how it feels […]

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