‘chasing clouds’ opens in new york
 
A small blue-tinted mirror, on display as part of Chasing Clouds at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, once asked its user to do something novel. Instead of facing a landscape directly, the so-called Claude mirror was held over the shoulder, so that the scenery behind became a miniature reflection. Its slightly convex surface compressed the view while its dark glass deepened the colors. Artists used them, but so did tourists.
 
Long before the camera arrived, people were already finding ways to transform the world into an image before looking at it.
 
Now open in New York, the ephemeral exhibition is curated by Stephen C. Pinson and follows more than a century of people...

Ab-Anbar Gallery is offering a rare access to contemporary Iranian art as sanctions, war and economic pressures isolate the country’s art scene

a joint that adapts to variation instead of standardizing it
 
Omnibite by Eugenio Costa and Nicolò Tallone begins in the moment where a branch is cut, held, and turned in the hand before anything is assembled. The project proposes a shift in self-building that moves construction back to the moment of gathering material, where wood is still irregular, unprocessed, and open to interpretation, introducing a three-axis joint with a quick-locking system that connects raw branches without screws, allowing natural elements to become structure with minimal preparation.
 
Rather than standardizing material, the joint accepts variation thanks to its geometry, which adapts to different diameters and angles, holding...

Say what you want about the Gen-Z stare, but nothing tops the Silicon Valley villain stare — as evidenced by Elizabeth Holmes’s unblinking, dead-eyed interview with Nathan Fielder and the question that launched a thousand memes: “Why would I deceive you?” If you’ve spent any time in art museums and galleries, you’ve heard that one before. Our brilliant team gave the format an art-world twist below.Also in this edition, workers at three major New York museums prepare to strike, The Met breaks ground on its forthcoming wing, and critic Aruna D’Souza considers the art of archipelagic thinking at a show in Maine.And if you’re in New York City this month, don’t miss our evening of studio visits...

SHIFTING DESIGN FROM A SOLVER TO A PROVOKER AT PARIS DESIGN WEEK
 
Presented by Pli office for Paris Design Week 2026, ‘TOUT EST CHAOS’ takes over two floors of La Gaîté Lyrique to question the role of objects in an over-produced world. Historically, modernism defined design by its utility, aiming to solve daily problems and streamline life through mass manufacturing. Yet this relentless drive toward optimization has created a new paradox: in a world already saturated with material goods, the core question is no longer what design can solve, but what it can provoke. Curated by Christopher Dessus, from Paf atelier, the exhibition embraces chaos as a fertile, unstable ground to spark new forms, unexpected...

ALTERNATIVE MATERIAL LANGUAGES AT HOME
 
How can material innovation and unexpected forms bring joy to the homes we inhabit every day? Three London-based designers are rethinking materials from radical new perspectives and exploring how the idea of home is shaped by community and the act of making. In rejection of uniformity, the home of today becomes a vehicle for pleasure, personality and creative liberation. From ceramic dining chairs to a sofa woven from nautical rope, familiar materials are recontextualized in new forms as the spirit of unpredictability reigns supreme. Embracing experimentation and the element of surprise, these alternative material languages evoke a sense of carefree abandon.
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studio drift fills las vegas lobby with moving flowers
 
Studio DRIFT installs Shy Society Palazzo, a kinetic art installation above the Palazzo lobby at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, bringing together two of the Amsterdam-based studio’s works, Shylight and Meadow. Comprising nine Shylight sculptures and 18 Meadow elements, the suspended installation translates the opening and closing of flowers into a continually changing choreography.
 
Shy Society Palazzo depends on movement to define the work. The individual Shylight elements behave like solitary flowers or dancers, while the larger Meadow grouping operates collectively, creating shifting relationships between individual and group behavior. ‘Nature...

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The ceremony officially kicked off construction on the wing designed by the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo

If you find yourself feeling impatient at the slow, meditative opening scenes of “The Spectacle,” just wait. The short documentary from The New Yorker visits a slew of stunning vistas primarily across Norway, showcasing star-dappled night skies and awe-inspiring mountaintop views. We’re witness to landscapes that appear untouched by humanity, until director Yasmin van Dorp plops us down amidst hordes of tourists. What was a serene environment is suddenly a chaotic display of phones and cameras. A parent attempts to coax their child out atop the famous Norwegian boulder Kjeragbolten for a photo, assistants fluff formal gowns so their wearer appears windswept, and selfie sticks and drone controls abound....

I was heading down to Sunset Park on Sunday afternoon to visit a close friend when, as an absentminded creature of routine, I accidentally embarked on my usual journey to Atlantic Terminal. I’ve made this ultimately harmless mistake multiple times now, but I still get frustrated with myself for arriving somewhere later than I intended because of something so easily preventable. In this instance, however, I was in the wrong place at the right time for once. Because if I hadn’t accidentally sent myself uptown, I wouldn’t have gotten to see this:As one can imagine, my whole day was made because of this serendipitous little treasure named Benji. I’d hazard a guess that many others felt similarly when...

Nyla Innuksuk’s “In the Heart of the South” grapples irreverently with the fraught ethics of an Inuk artist tapping into narratives of collective suffering for her work

The Metropolitan Museum of Art officially broke ground today, September 15, on its forthcoming Tang Wing for modern and contemporary art, designed by Frida Escobedo. The Mexican architect joined Met Director Max Hollein and elected officials in a morning ceremony at the museum's European Sculpture Court. Escobedo, the first woman to design a wing at The Met, also clinched another “first” earlier this year, when she participated in the museum's inaugural public event held entirely in Spanish. At today's ceremony, she began her remarks with a nod to a Spanish expression for groundbreaking — la primera piedra, or “the first stone” — a phrase that made her think of the four piles of...

As we enter the season when many communities remember and honor their ancestors, DC’s art scene centers its own — both those long celebrated and those overlooked or excluded from the mainstream. The National Museum of Women in the Arts highlights Black women quilters creating across time and space, while the National Gallery of Art explores the history of Black American portrait photographers revolutionizing the field. Roberto Benavidez reimagines the art of piñata-making at the Renwick Gallery, while Ahn Chang-Hong channels Korean historical memory into masks, paintings, and sculptures. The Phillips Collection investigates the friendship between three artists — Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark...

Unionized workers at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) have voted to authorize a strike action if they don't receive fair offers for union contracts with their respective institutions. “Staff should be able to afford to live in the city they work in,” said AFAM's Director of Information Technology, Richard Ho, who has worked at the museum for 25 years. “AFAM staff voted unanimously to unionize to address pressing concerns about workplace rights and wages that lag below inflation.”Strike dates have not been set, but the three union groups organized with United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110 also voted to set a strike deadline if...

Unionized staff at three New York City cultural institutions—the Brooklyn Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art—voted in favor of strike action if they do not receive satisfactory offers on their contracts, Local 2110 UAW announced today. Local 2110 UAW, which represents workers at a broad network of museums and cultural institutions across the country, said its members voted overwhelmingly to authorize the union’s elected bargaining committee to call a strike. No strike deadline has been set, as contract negotiations remain ongoing. “It’s not that we want to strike,” Derrick Charles, a membership associate at the Whitney and union chairperson, said in a...

Three works of religious art were stolen from two churches in the Spanish city of Valladolid, the latest in a string of thefts from museums and churches across Spain and Europe. Two works disappeared from the Church of San Pablo: a small Station of the Cross depicting Jesus falling for the second time, decorated with a silver relief, and a 17th-century copy of an Ecce Homo by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales. A nearby church, Vera Cruz, meanwhile lost a roughly two-foot-tall polychrome wooden carving of an angel carrying a torch, according to El País. The thefts occurred only days apart, and authorities are investigating whether the same person was responsible. The prior of San Pablo suspects its...

Although Hew Locke’s practice revolves around geographically bound objects—superimposed drawings of Guyanese homes and his suspended flotilla among them—the artist traces the reaches of empire that extend far beyond any singular era or point on a map. How people, capital, cargo, and ideas traverse the globe has long been central to Locke’s work, an investigation he continues in The Wanderers on view at P·P·O·W. Returning to the artist’s Odyssey series, the solo presentation hangs a fleet of miniature ships from the gallery ceiling. The flotilla features a wide array of boats, from tankers and fishing vessels to the towering galleons of the 16th century, which Locke embellishes with tiny pennants...

Kosuke Ajiro
GR gallery is pleased to present Excavation Record I – Sayonara, the first solo exhibition in the United States by Japanese artist Kosuke Ajiro. The exhibition introduces Ajiro’s distinctive practice through the figure of the archeologist, who ventures into a whimsical and enigmatic imagined realm known as the “Kingdom of Sally.” Across the exhibition, each work reveals a fragment of this mysterious world, uncovering earthbound creatures and curious details before opening onto a vast, fantastical expanse. Moving between the familiar and the otherworldly, Ajiro’s works invite the viewer on a journey of mystery, magic, transformation, and discovery. As the story gradually reveals itself,...

The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art has named Bhutanese mixed-media artist Pem Lham the winner of the 2026 Rubin Museum Himalayan Art Prize. The honor is presented annually to a contemporary artist from the Himalayan region. It is attended by a $30,000 cash award, making it the largest prize of its kind in the world. […]

Having helped establish Henry Street as a New York art destination, the dealer now has a new gallery name, a new space and a new director

Artadia, the nonprofit known for giving unrestricted grants to artists across the United States, has named Allison Derusha its new executive director. Derusha, an arts fundraiser and strategist who has worked at the Guggenheim Museum, the American Ballet Theatre, the National Academy of Design, and SculptureCenter, takes over from Bora Kim, who has served as interim executive director since January and will serve as deputy director under Derusha. Kim stepped into the role following the departure of Patton Hindle, who left Artadia to become director of arts at the Knight Foundation. Derusha comes to the organization with more than 25 years of experience in the arts and philanthropy. According to Artadia, she...

What does it take to preserve an artist’s legacy? “You can only learn how to do this by doing it,” Solana Chehtman, director of artist programs at the Joan Mitchell Foundation, offered in response to a question that animates an ambitious new report titled Creating Future Memory: Building the Field of Artist Legacy Stewardship, published by the Mitchell Foundation. “There are so many ways in which people can have a hand in this work, and we want to a raise awareness and give visibility to efforts happening around the country.” Related Articles The ARTnews Accord: Solana Chehtman and Chris Sharp on Why Artists Should Take Estate Planning Seriously Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces 2024 Fellowship...

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts could not inscribe “renovated and restored by President Donald J. Trump” on the venue’s facade, dealing another setback to the Trump-appointed Kennedy Center’s months-long campaign to memorialize the president somewhere on the institution’s premises. US District Judge Christopher R. Cooper, who has presided over several legal challenges brought by Trump over the issue, wrote that any such change to the Kennedy Center would violate his earlier ruling, which held that his name was illegally inscribed on the building last December. “Simply put, defendants cannot install memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything...

The National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) at the Smithsonian has appointed Ching-Ling Wang as the inaugural Nancy Chang Lee Curator of Chinese Art. The art historian and curator begins his new role in November. “I hope to not only uphold one of the finest collections of Chinese art in the world, but to expand […]

Photography is no longer permitted in front of the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum, according to Maxwell Museums, the blog run by arts writer Maxwell Blowfield. Blowfield reported that he visited the museum twice to see the eleventh-century masterwork: the first time as an invited member of the press, and the second time as […]

In Derrick Jensen’s 1995 book Listening to the Land, Chickasaw poet and environmentalist Linda Hogan said, “There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” Decades on, we continue to grapple with an increasing detachment from nature as unfettered urban development continues, the current administration rolls back environmental protections for emissions and public lands, and escalating reliance on A.I. in work and daily life has led to a massive surge in data center construction. Our collective clamoring for so-called progress and our obsession with creature comforts and endless technological advancements...

Following a major building expansion, the New Museum has added ten new members to its board of trustees, expanding its existing slate and bringing its total membership to nearly fifty. The new members are Donald Capoccia, Christina Hribar, Adriane Iann, Ambassador Randi Levine, Jennifer Levitt, Liza Mauer, Debbie Rechler, Juliana Siqueira de Sá, Sara Story, […]

Countertenor Carlo Vistoli shows he's got the goods across the repertoire at the Park Avenue Armory.

'Renoir and Love', which opens this October in collaboration with the Musee d'Orsay and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has already sold more than 22,000 tickets

Berlin's 26-27 season opens with a bang.

President Donald Trump has demanded that the Smithsonian remove what he described as a “strange modernist sculpture” from outside the National Museum of American History and install a thirty-foot-high “Colossus statue” of George Washington in its stead. “He is easily America’s Greatest Hero. Without him, our Country and our Freedoms wouldn’t exist,” wrote Trump in […]

From elemental materials like alabaster, quartz, garnet, and bronze, Debra Baxter assembles jewel-like sculptures that explore consciousness, nature, anatomy, and spirituality. For her most recent body of work on view now in Ascent at Roq La Rue, the artist meanders into a more mystical side of history, infused with a tinge of punk and, somewhat paradoxically, a meditative calm. Baxter contracted Covid in January 2022 that progressed into long Covid, during which she spent more time recuperating than being able to work with the heavy-duty equipment and materials characteristic of her practice. The sculptures on view in this show were initiated five years ago. However, her period of recovery, which she...

Friedrich Kunath describes that he aims to make his paintings “feel like songs.” The logo for the band Oasis turns up in a top corner of “Sometimes I’m Almost There,” and there is a kind of surreal, set-like quality to his vibrant, cinematic works. “Kunath explores themes of distance and (re)location, where a longing emerges between the place you’re in and the place you’re destined to be,” says a statement for his exhibition The Nearest Faraway Place, presented by Pace in Seoul. The artist taps into art history with compositions redolent of the tradition of Weltlandschaft, or “the world landscape,” which can be traced to the Northern Renaissance. There’s also a strong nod to the Hudson...

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On the heels of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film adaptation, John Danaher muses on operatic iterations of Homer’s Odyssey.

Opera Philadelphia's production of Mitridate, re di Ponto proves more puerile than perhaps its 14 year-old composer intended.

I am very much interested in La Scala's upcoming opening night with Verdi's Otello.

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Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...

By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...

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For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...

Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"—Honoré de Balzac "Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning."—Miguel de Unamuno Hiroko Yoshimoto's paintings concentrate nature into radiant and dynamic beauty, distilling visual sensation into poetic and environmental significance. Throughout the 2020s, Yoshimoto has worked on two series of paintings about nature: Biodiversity and Of Infinite Variety. Both series are based on observation of the natural...

By Julie Faith There is something strange about returning to a place you once knew well after being away for a long time. You recognize the architecture before you recognize what the years have done to you. As I passed through the gate at Corey Helford Gallery, crossed the lot, and headed up the stairs, I felt ridiculously, wonderfully giddy. Kid-in-a-candy-store giddy. I have been away from the gallery and much of the Los Angeles art world, but somewhere between the gate and the stairs, I...

By Victoria Thomas Altadena-based artist James Griffith greets me at his studio, located in a refurbished 1920s firehouse diagonally across the street from the gleaming silver lagomorph of the restored Bunny Museum, by saying "Hi, I just started putting a galaxy in the armpit of a penguin." Great cities announce their identities through their monuments. New York City has the Statue of Liberty, St. Louis the Gateway Arch, Chicago the Cloud Gate, Philadelphia the original LOVE sculpture. And...

 
Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
   
The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...