Representatives for the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Trust and the Tate had warned that the legislation could have severely impacted their funding

Living in a high-rise apartment or a house with a small yard comes with the disadvantage of not having access to garden space. Fortunately, fine wallpaper manufacturer Astek has a way to bring beautiful blooms indoors. The company’s collection of dreamy floral mural designs called Eterna Nouveau is conceived as a reinterpretation of the Art Nouveau movement of the early 20th century, which historically flourished in Europe and emphasized nature-inspired motifs like flowers and birds. Eterna Nouveau’s arching, sinuous stems and leaves nod to its namesake style’s characteristic “whiplash” lines. “Aquavita,” for example, features lilies and other water plants that illustrates life both above and...

Larry Gagosian doesn’t do a lot of interviews, but one supposes when Elle Decor asks to do a glossy profile on the rocket-ship trajectory of his eponymous gallery, you say yes. Speaking on the occasion of a new gallery opening at 980 Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side this spring, Gagosian reflected on his many successes—and two notable failures. His short-lived San Francisco gallery, which opened in 2016 near SFMoMA and closed in 2021, was one such failure. At the time, a spokesperson framed the closing as an effort to “consolidate and strengthen Gagosian’s presence in California.” In the interview with Elle Decor, the mega-dealer was quite a bit blunter. “It just failed,” Gagosian said. “I...

Romanian culturati and historians, as well as Dutch museum officials, were shocked in January 2025 when thieves blew up a wall at a Netherlands museum to get at one of the great treasures of the National Museum of Romanian History: the golden Cotofenesti helmet, which dates to the 5th–4th centuries BCE. The thieves were seen on surveillance video opening a museum door with a crowbar before an explosion occurred.  But at a press conference in Assen on Thursday, police wearing balaclavas revealed that the helmet was returned, along with two of three golden bracelets dating to the second half of the first century BCE that were also stolen. The treasured Cotofenesti helmet dates back about 2,500 years, and...

An ancient golden balaclava stolen from a Dutch museum last year has been found, The Guardian reports. Dating to 450 BCE, the priceless Coțofenești helmet was one of several gold artifacts taken from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands, by a trio of thieves who dynamited the institution’s doors in order to get at […]

The Barclays Center arena in downtown Brooklyn is expanding its arts programming in the service of “Brooklyn Art Encounters,” a new multi-year initiative to continue public art presentations on the building’s high-profile plaza but also move into other realms including an artist-in-residence program to be inaugurated by Paul Pfeiffer.   Pfeiffer, whose work has engaged the spectacle around sports, will lead what a press release describes as “a year-long media workshop engaging justice-impacted youth and adults from surrounding communities” in collaboration with artist Shaun Leonardo. With support from the Social Justice Fund, the two artists will provide training in video production, storytelling,...

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Editor's Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission from Curating Engagement (2026), a new field resource developed by Wagner Foundation and the Public Trust. Curating Engagement is available as a free downloadable PDF and will officially debut at the Curatorial Forum of Expo Chicago in partnership with Independent Curators International on April 10. Cover of Curating Engagement (2026)My career has been defined by a steady effort to collapse silos: between curatorial and educational work, between institutions and communities, between what museums have been and what they might yet become. The path from arts engagement to institutional leadership has not been linear, but the throughline is...

The helmet and two golden bracelets, belonging to the eastern European Dacian civilisation, were returned as part off a court case against the alleged thieves

Sculptor Melvin Edwards, whose innovative abstraction evoked both the sculptural canon and the haunting afterlives of Atlantic slavery, died on Monday, March 30, at the age of 88. The news of his death was confirmed by his gallery, Alexander Gray Associates.Edwards was born in 1937 and raised in segregated Houston, Texas, and integrated Dayton, Ohio. The family was not especially religious — “you could say God is important, but you had to be rational about it,” Edwards said. But they were political — his father was the first senior Black official of the Boy Scouts of America and co-founded a Black political organization — and believed in the transformational power of education. At an integrated...

layered Boxes Shape a Vertical Light House by Studioninedots
 
Light House is a residential project by Studioninedots located on Centrumeiland, a newly developed neighbourhood in Amsterdam characterized by its sustainability ambitions and self-build culture. The house is conceived as a vertical composition of stacked volumes, organizing domestic life through a system of spatially distinct yet interconnected ‘boxes.’
 
Rather than concentrating key functions on a single level, the design distributes activities such as cooking, dining, gathering, and rest across multiple volumes. Each program is assigned to an individual box, which is positioned within the overall structure to create a layered spatial...

Through atmospheric, black-and-white photographs, Yamamoto Masao explores the emotional connections between image and memory. His intimate, otherworldly gelatin silver prints evoke dreamlike archival footage that has been somehow unyoked from the normal rhythms of time. His subjects vary, although he often focuses on landscapes and natural subjects, including a number of owls that roost in trees near his home in Japan. Ten Owls at Yancey Richardson marks the artist’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery, showcasing intimate portraits of the nocturnal birds. No larger than 10 inches on the longest side, these images are intended to be viewed up close in a way that brings these elusive creatures much...

“The Marathon was unlike any experience I’ve had and not something I will soon forget. It was important for my progress and validation as an artist. I leveled up [...] and I’m ready to tackle subjects that I was reluctant to in the past. It was well worth my time…I would [attend] again in a heartbeat.” —Kareem Johnson, Summer Drawing Marathon The New York Studio School’s Marathon program engages students in a rigorous two-week intensive where they are exposed to a multitude of approaches in drawing and painting, with virtual and in-person options. Every day, from 9am to 6pm, students work continuously on their craft, often ending each day in critiques. Marathons are led by both New York Studio...

The cultural body has also unlocked more than $100,000 in emergency funding for urgent operations on the ground

Sculptor Melvin Edwards, known for powerful works exploring the history of racial violence and the experiences of Black people in America, as well as themes of beauty and joy, died at his home in Baltimore on March 30. He was eighty-eight. His death was confirmed by New York gallery Alexander Gray and Associates, which represents […]

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In Nanping Village near Huangshan, China, Atelier Guo transforms a centuries-old ancestral hall into a functioning cinema and public living room, without altering its protected structure. The project demonstrates how preservation can operate as a framework for new collective life. The intervention is minimal in physical impact yet expansive in cultural ambition, positioning the building as a shared platform for film, reading, and everyday gathering within a rural context increasingly shaped by migration and change.
 
The Cheng Family Ancestral Hall is preserved intact through a pivoting panel system that introduces all new functions. Developed by the...

Parterre Box acknowledges Riccardo Muti's 600th performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra by highlighting two of his favorite singers — under a different conductor.

The arena’s parent company also announced a suite of forthcoming artistic additions to its campus by Sarah Sze, Kambui Olujimi and others

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesBEARING WITNESS. Today, the acclaimed French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with the International Federation for Human Rights, filed a complaint with the French War Crimes Unit against “unknown perpetrators,” and denouncing the Israeli army’s bombing of civilian homes in Lebanon, according to a press release. On November 26, 2024, hours before a ceasefire, Cherri’s parents, Mahmoud Naim Cherri and Nadira Hayek, were killed when the Israeli military bombed their apartment in Beirut. The attack killed a total of seven people. Targeting a civilian home “could constitute a...

Hyperallergic’s monthly Opportunities Listings provide a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their work. Subscribe to receive this list of opportunities in your inbox each month. Sign up here! If you find this list valuable, consider becoming a Hyperallergic Member to help us make it possible every month. Residencies, Workshops, & FellowshipsBanff Centre for Arts and Creativity – Visual Arts Thematic ResidenciesDevelop your work in a Visual Arts residency at Banff Centre. Access exceptional studios, mentorship from leading faculty, and a vibrant artistic community in the Canadian Rockies. The application fee is $65 ($35 for applicants who identify as...

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Chicago-based artist Laura Berger continues her explorations of communion in a suite of staggering paintings that place her signature minimal figures in intimate fellowship with one another and the earth. Spanning six feet wide, the monumental works layer limbs and landscapes, as nude bodies merge with waves, flowers, and sun-strewn clouds. Berger frequently gestures toward past experiences and the spiritual realm, particularly focusing on the ways time fogs the clarity of memory and how transformation emerges from myriad circumstances. This body of work expands on the themes of interdependence, too, as she renders her figures in varying states of translucence as they swim through a cresting wave or lounge...

ensamble studio builds the real instead of imagining it
 
In an architectural landscape increasingly dominated by frictionless renderings and speculative futures, Ensamble Studio redirects attention toward something heavier and more grounded. Led by Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa, the practice does not reject technological advancement but reframes it through a material lens. Their work suggests that the future of architecture lies in a deeper engagement with the physical world, encompassing gravity, mass, resistance, and time.
 
Ensamble Studio proposes a ‘utopia of the real’ imagined as an operative condition embedded in construction itself. It is not about projecting ideal futures, but about...

Spain’s pavilion for World Design Capital Frankfurt Rhein-Main
 
At a moment when architecture is being pushed to respond more directly to environmental and social pressures, Spain’s pavilion for World Design Capital Frankfurt Rhein-Main 2026 positions itself as more than a temporary installation. While materiality is at the center of its design, the project explores how a reversible cultural infrastructure can activate public space without permanent construction. Discussions about material use, circularity and reutilization in architecture are closely tied to cultural contexts, environmental conditions, and historical influences that reveal how time shapes the built environment. Beyond its construction,...

The staggeringly great Ukraine-born Jewish bass Mark Reizen sings "The Ebullient Kura Swirls" a/k/a "The Persian Love Song" by Moldova-born Jewish composer Anton Rubinstein.

Happy April! Hope you got a kick out of our April Fools’ issue. If that wasn't enough for you, Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar rounded up the best jokes in the art world this year — check it out and let us know who you think did it best. (For the record, I still think it’s us.) And in other ways to celebrate this month, we’ve also put together a list of 10 recommended books coming out in April. Kamrooz Aram is everywhere this year, from Mumbai Art Week to the Whitney Biennial, and critic Aruna D’Souza is grateful. She pens a beautiful meditation on his work, reading his abstract paintings as not simply a denunciation of Western modernism nor a reassertion of Islamic visual motifs, but something else...

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UNPACKING room for dreams at Milan Design Week 2026
 
ROOM FOR DREAMS, designboom’s multilayered takeover of the ME Milan Il Duca during Milan Design Week 2026, brings together architects, designers, cultural institutions, and brand collaborators to transform the Aldo Rossi-designed hotel in the heart of the city into a temporary ecosystem of ideas. Exploring dreams as rigorous tools for social and cultural change, each intervention transforms the hotel’s public spaces through a unique interpretation of dreaming, imagination and future possibilities.
 
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More than a design exhibition, ROOM FOR DREAMS becomes a living manifesto for utopian optimism, creative courage and...

 
FEELING SEEN is guest curated by Jenna Eady as part of our Curate for the Community series.
Our sense of feeling goes beyond the physical – it’s emotional, atmospheric, and relational. It’s through these feelings that we connect with one another on a deeper level.
FEELING SEEN is about exploring how photography can express both internal and external sensations – whether it’s the rush of anticipation, the dis/comfort of the body, nostalgia of memory or tension of conflict. This project believes in photography’s power to evoke real emotional resonance. Its about creating the space for others to feel something.
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Teresinha Soares, the Brazilian artist whose paintings and installations from the 1960s and ’70s challenged gendered-conventions of how women were both treated in Brazilian society and depicted throughout art history, died on March 31 in Belo Horizonte. She was 99 years old. She had been hospitalized after breaking her femur and never recovered, according to her daughter, artist Valeska Soares, as reported by Brazilian newspaper Estado de Minas. “Teresinha Soares leaves a legacy that, in the present, keeps open investigations into desire, eroticism, and expression,” the artist’s gallery, Gomide & Co., wrote on Instagram, adding that her body of work “made a decisive contribution to discussions on the...

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid has refused the Guggenheim Bilbao’s request to borrow Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, evoking reminders of a painful political history in Spain, according to Italy’s Il Giornale dell’Arte. The Guggenheim, which is located in Basque Country, had hoped to borrow the 1937 masterpiece for nine months beginning […]

The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance found that the Louvre in Paris continues to be the most visited museum in the world, even though numbers have dipped significantly since Covid—the institution, which has recently been plagued by a major jewel heist and a ticket fraud scheme, welcomed over 9 million people in 2025.  Some […]

Patricia Marroquin Norby, who in 2020 was named the first-ever full-time associate curator of Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, quietly departed the role in December as questions swirled regarding her own Native heritage, Artnews reports. Norby had been touted as the first Native American curator hired by the museum. The Met […]

Known for his collaborative photography projects like Invisible Jumpers, Joseph Ford is interested in perception and intervention. His ongoing series, Impossible Street Art, invites artists such as Antonyo Marest, Alex Senna, and MadC to imagine their work in monumental landscapes via a bit of sleight of hand. The artists create trompe-l’œil interventions on Ford’s photographs, which he then documents on an easel in front of that same place to give a sense of what these huge paintings or installations would feel like in situ. “These new works mostly explore infrastructure in the form of huge concrete constructions—nuclear power plants, dams, fossil fuel power stations,” Ford says. The locations are...

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Madama Butterfly confronts anime, virtual reality, and weeaboos in Matthew Ozawa's bold production at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Parterre Box is announcing a formal partnership with Kalshi Inc. 

When we visit major hubs like Copenhagen or Paris, we often take a lot of photos and make sure to grab a little souvenir as a memento of our visit. How better to remember the architecture and the feel of the city? Well, fiber designer Jake Henzler, a.k.a. Boy Knits World, figures you can stitch those memories into something much cozier than a postcard or a keychain. Forthcoming from David & Charles Publishing, Henzler’s book Knit the City highlights buildings around the world through a series of building block-like patterns. Using a modular system, details like gables and windows can be switched up to create your own unique facades. Then it’s up to you to choose the colors you’d like to use. The blocks...

Frida Leider is a major Wagnerian soprano who does not sound like a Wagnerian soprano.

Authenticity and connection are two core values that drive Tina Simakova, a London-based portrait photographer. “I believe the most powerful images are born in trust and honesty,” she says. The artist is a master of natural light and minimal settings, using them to create atmospheric portraits rooted in intimacy and vulnerability. In one shot, a sliver of illumination – perhaps from a doorway, or an open window – slices through the darkness, brightening only the subject’s eyes. In another, the sitter’s side profile balances on the edge of a plush sofa, bathed in the glow from yet another unseen source. Its warmth complements their auburn hair. Elsewhere, chiaroscuro – where deep shadows engulf...

 
A figure shades her face from bright headlights, shining through a front window. Another character lies on a green velvet bedspread, quietly examining a pocketknife. Elsewhere, a woman clutches a portrait, its face obscured by rays of sunlight. These are compositions by Chrissy Lush, a visual artist born in New York and based in Nashville. Her staged works centre on moments when “composure begins to give way.” Often set within domestic and suburban environments, Lush’s figures appear to respond to external pressures that remain just outside the frame. “These are moments of slippage, when a controlled exterior falters and something unguarded briefly surfaces,” Lush says. The work explores tensions...

 
Stockholm-based Linda Westin left photography to pursue a PhD in neuroscience, specialising in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy – a group of imaging techniques that allows scientists to illuminate the structures inside cells by making them glow under specific wavelengths of light. When returning to the medium, she began to apply what she had learned, and started to look at forests, rocks, plants and stars with a newfound sensitivity. Now, Westin brings methods from neuroscience into artworks. These pictures present forest canopies as if they were neuronal dendrites, the branching extensions of nerve cells that receive signals. In the following pages, far-off mountains are framed by lush, layered...

 
One unexpected angle can offer an entirely new perspective on something we think we know. Stockholm-based Senay Berhe (b. 1979) proves this to be true, encouraging us to reconsider our surroundings through graphical compositions. As he travels across the city, Berhe captures everything from bridges to tower blocks – with the setting sun bouncing off multi-storey buildings, or balconies and satellite dishes cast in shadow. These are everyday locations shown anew. In portraiture, Berhe demonstrates an equally considered approach to framing and lighting, whilst also emphasising the depths of human emotion. One shot plays with primary colours; a model – seemingly deep in thought – is positioned against a...

The Danish architecture firm BIG was founded in 2005 by Bjarke Ingels (b. 1974), one of the most celebrated figures in the field. What began as a small Copenhagen practice has now grown into a major studio, with offices in Barcelona London, Los Angeles, New York, Riyadh, Shanghai and Zurich. BIG’s designs – often described as “pragmatic utopian” – stand out for their bold-yet-practical forms, elements of surprise and people-focused solutions. From Denmark’s playful LEGO House, which appears to be made from the famous colourful bricks, to The Twist, a warping structure situated in the Kistefos Sculpture Park outside Oslo, BIG continues to produce buildings that push the boundaries of imagination. ...

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In the process of painting someone, artist Jenny Morgan reveals not only what shows, but what doesn’t show. Her vibrant and emotional oil paintings of figures hover in a place that is between realism and abstraction, where many of her subjects confront their viewer with an electric stare that braves against the vulnerable moment in […]
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Growing up as a queer kid in the ‘80s, I was well aware from an early age that I was different, and that different was not okay, especially living in Missouri,” says New Mexico artist Anthony Hurd, who recently shifted away from abstracts, to delve into what may be deemed “controversial” figurative work. Not only […]
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The 78th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on Nieves Gonzalez, the art of Grip Face, The landscapes of Jennifer Nehrbass, the soft sculptures of Ela Fidalgo, the stitched urban landscapes of Laura Ortiz Vega, the art Jeffrey Gibson, Yu Jin Young’s once transparent figures, and the paintings of Fatima De Juan.  Plus […]
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We are really pleased to announce that DO YOU LIKE LOVE? is now available to order!
Do you like love? The question came from a conversation, recalled by a friend. Her elderly neighbour used to cry for ‘elp!’ and Jane’s husband Pip would rush to her aide. Sometimes she’d fallen, but rarely; although she was blind she had lived in that house for 60 years, she knew every inch of it. A house filled with memories of her husband, their life together, and her aloneness after his death. On this one day that she called out, she was found sitting with the television on, a black and white film playing out a romantic scene from the 1950s.
‘Do you like love, Pippy?’ she said, ‘I like love.’
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Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen captures people in oils with all the precision and clarity of a camera. He then places these incredibly lifelike images in impossible scenes. Uldalen’s models float in blank spaces. They precariously climb staircases that spiral upside down. They fall from buildings that tilt at odd angles. The Oslo-based artist’s work isn’t so […]
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Studio Loan wants to connect LA artists with the space they need — for free By Kristine Schomaker 60% of artists in Los Angeles don't have a studio outside their home. Or one at all. I think about that number a lot. Because space — or the lack of it — shapes everything. What you can make. How you can show it. Whether you can even invite someone in to see the work. Studio visits matter. Not in some abstract networking way, but in the real, tangible way where someone comes to your space, stands...

Mary Iverson paints bucolic, sweeping landscapes reminiscent of the late nine-teenth century that look as if were discovered in the dusty corners of an underrated thrift store. At first look, I assume the canvases are found objects, painted over and re-imagined as something quite different than the original painter intended. This is only partially true. […]
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Who doesn’t love a good photo book? To flick through the pages, be enlightened, educated, distracted and absorbed into another world through another’s eyes? Totally fantastic!
We’re here to share our Photobook Favourites – a selection of our favourite photography books recommended by the Shutter Hub community, an archive of titles we’ve enjoyed, and a reference point for you to explore. Las Pelilargas, Irina Werning, GOST
For 18 years photographer Irina Werning travelled across Latin America to seek out those with long hair to uncover and understand its cultural significance. Her book Las Pelilargas (the long-haired ones) brings together this body of work in an exploration and celebration of...

Kristine Schomaker and Genie Davis at the Getty By Kristine Schomaker I've known Genie Davis for years. She shows up. That's the first thing you notice about her — and also the thing you never stop noticing, because she just keeps doing it. She's at openings, she's writing reviews, she's telling anyone who will listen about artists she believes in. For over a decade, her blog Diversions LA has been quietly, consistently documenting the Southern California art scene because she genuinely loves...