As the year draws to a close, we take a moment to reflect on the extraordinary visionaries who shaped our pages in 2025. From evocative portraiture to daring conceptual work, these cover images capture the spirit of contemporary creativity and artistic exploration. Across the past 12 months, each artist has brought their unique voice to the fore, inviting us to see the world anew through colour, form and imagination. Here are the six remarkable photographers that made it onto our cover this year. Sarah Doyle | The imaginative contemporary photography of Dublin-based Sarah Doyle plays with shapes and colours, to offer up a joyful viewing experience. Maria Svarbova | Simplicity, detachment and symmetry are...
France’s Bayeux Tapestry is set to be covered by a UK Treasury guarantee of around £800 million ($1 billion) when it goes on loan to the British Museum in 2026. That means British taxpayers will ultimately foot the bill to protect the 230-foot-long tapestry against damage or loss during its journey from France to the UK. It’s part of the UK government’s indemnity scheme, which acts as the insurer instead of paying for commercial insurance. However, nothing will be paid upfront; the £800 million is a contingent liability, only coming into play if something goes wrong. The Treasury says the scheme has already saved UK museums about £81 million and has covered loans such as Vincent van Gogh’s The...
LES CARYATIDES DE GUYANCOURT BY Manuel Núñez Yanowsky
Just southwest of Paris, at the intersection of Andrea Palladio and Frank Lloyd Wright streets in the suburb of Guyancourt, 18 colossal female figures stand together to support one of the most surreal manifestations of postmodernist architecture.
Together, the monumental replicas of the Venus de Milo compose Les Caryatides, two identical apartment blocks standing across from each other, performing their own kind of concrete theater in full view of the public. The project was designed in 1992 by architect Manuel Núñez Yanowsky, who was one of the original team members of Ricardo Bofill’s Taller de Arquitectura in early 1960s Barcelona, and went...
Just southwest of Paris, at the intersection of Andrea Palladio and Frank Lloyd Wright streets in the suburb of Guyancourt, 18 colossal female figures stand together to support one of the most surreal manifestations of postmodernist architecture.
Together, the monumental replicas of the Venus de Milo compose Les Caryatides, two identical apartment blocks standing across from each other, performing their own kind of concrete theater in full view of the public. The project was designed in 1992 by architect Manuel Núñez Yanowsky, who was one of the original team members of Ricardo Bofill’s Taller de Arquitectura in early 1960s Barcelona, and went...
repawse is an assistive and attachable exoskeleton for dogs
Meet Repawse, an attachable powered exoskeleton for dogs that allows them to walk well again after an injury or illness. A design project led by Zhou Leijing and her team in Hangzhou, the device is worn on the pet’s hind legs to support their movement. It doesn’t operate on its own because it ‘listens’ instead to the dog’s body by using surface electromyographic sensors, known as sEMG sensors. These sensors are placed on a healthy front leg, so when the dog walks, muscles in that leg send signals. They then read these signals and send the data to a control system.
The system processes the signals in real time and predicts how the...
Meet Repawse, an attachable powered exoskeleton for dogs that allows them to walk well again after an injury or illness. A design project led by Zhou Leijing and her team in Hangzhou, the device is worn on the pet’s hind legs to support their movement. It doesn’t operate on its own because it ‘listens’ instead to the dog’s body by using surface electromyographic sensors, known as sEMG sensors. These sensors are placed on a healthy front leg, so when the dog walks, muscles in that leg send signals. They then read these signals and send the data to a control system.
The system processes the signals in real time and predicts how the...
This past summer, Participant Inc., a Lower East Side art nonprofit, hosted an exhibition on Chloe Dzubilo, a trans woman who became an AIDS activist after contracting the disease. The show, curated by Alex Fleming and Nia Nottage, was immensely rich and important for both its historical and personal insights into the artist’s life. Through text-based works and drawings, the artist painted an intimate and sometimes painful picture of her experience living in subsidized housing for people with AIDS and discrimination at the hands of medical professionals. I reviewed the show with the hope that it would strike a nerve with readers from all walks of life who have experienced subpar healthcare, housing...
inside the curatorial vision shaping noor riyadh
For Noor Riyadh 2025, designboom spoke with curatorial lead Mami Kataoka, and curators Sara Almutlaq and Li Zhenhua to understand how they shaped the fifth edition of the world’s largest light art festival. Their collective vision traced a journey along Riyadh’s metro line, from historical districts to contemporary transit hubs, turning the city into a living canvas where art became accessible to all. Through their perspectives, the theme ‘In the Blink of an Eye’ emerged not only as a reference to light and speed, but also to the city’s rapid transformation and its deeper cultural timelines. The curators describe the festival as a public encounter...
For Noor Riyadh 2025, designboom spoke with curatorial lead Mami Kataoka, and curators Sara Almutlaq and Li Zhenhua to understand how they shaped the fifth edition of the world’s largest light art festival. Their collective vision traced a journey along Riyadh’s metro line, from historical districts to contemporary transit hubs, turning the city into a living canvas where art became accessible to all. Through their perspectives, the theme ‘In the Blink of an Eye’ emerged not only as a reference to light and speed, but also to the city’s rapid transformation and its deeper cultural timelines. The curators describe the festival as a public encounter...
Review our top 10 personal gadgets of 2025
In our TOP 10 personal gadgets for 2025, many of the devices are specific to the users’ needs, portable enough to bring, use single materials, and revive the styles of old technologies. At times, there are no extra components or parts needed to make these gadgets work, like the GamiFries holder that uses magnets to connect to the game console, or the PP-1 turntable, which is made from one block of aluminum. Some of them preview the possible future of compact devices, as is the case with the Zero mini smartphone, which folds into a card-sized device.
Many of the devices in our TOP 10 personal gadgets of 2025 remove familiar components, such as Studio Waiting...
In our TOP 10 personal gadgets for 2025, many of the devices are specific to the users’ needs, portable enough to bring, use single materials, and revive the styles of old technologies. At times, there are no extra components or parts needed to make these gadgets work, like the GamiFries holder that uses magnets to connect to the game console, or the PP-1 turntable, which is made from one block of aluminum. Some of them preview the possible future of compact devices, as is the case with the Zero mini smartphone, which folds into a card-sized device.
Many of the devices in our TOP 10 personal gadgets of 2025 remove familiar components, such as Studio Waiting...
In its 2024 Year-in-Review, ARTnews noted a widening schism in the art world, defined by a moral fault: the continued support of Israel amid the destruction of Gaza. A year later—and more than three years into what a UN commission of inquiry determined this fall to be a genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip—artists, critics, museums, gallerists, and audiences remain divided over what has become the ethical litmus test of our lifetimes. This year, that divide has shaped not just discourse but practice, determining exhibits, funding, and, in turn, what stories cultural institutions choose to tell. This rolling censorship crisis was further amplified in 2025 by Donald Trump’s return to the White...
Aesthetica recommends one standout UK exhibition for every month of 2026, spanning art, design, fashion, film, installation and photography. Next year brings major retrospectives of Catherine Opie, Chiharu Shiota and Tracey Emin, alongside ambitious group shows that celebrate Black music‑making in Britain, revisit the 1990s and trace the evolving history of the catwalk. Here are twelve shows to add to your list. January | Marshmallow Laser Feast: Of the Oak, Yorkshire Sculpture ParkUntil 15 March A single oak tree can support more than 2,300 species: lichens clinging to bark, birds nesting in branches, butterflies drifting through leaves and a vast underground network of fungi. In Of the Oak, experiential...
Art Basel and Frieze are expanding in the Middle East while Art Cologne is reinstating its Mallorca edition
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«Gli artisti sono sempre più paragonabili a degli sciamani, perché gli sciamani sono individui che cercano di stabilire dei contatti con altri mondi». Nicolas Bourriaud
La dimensione relazionale dell’arte, ovvero l’idea che l’opera esista e si attivi nel rapporto con lo spettatore, è sempre esistita. Ne parla, già nel XIX secolo, Eugène Delacroix nei suoi diari, dove descrive la triangolazione artista-opera-pubblico servendosi di una metafora metereologica in cui il pittore viene paragonato alla pioggia e il quadro alla nuvola che si forma dalla sua evaporazione, destinata a piovere di nuovo sullo spettatore. Su questo concetto è imperniato il saggio Estetica relazionale, pubblicato nel 1998...
La dimensione relazionale dell’arte, ovvero l’idea che l’opera esista e si attivi nel rapporto con lo spettatore, è sempre esistita. Ne parla, già nel XIX secolo, Eugène Delacroix nei suoi diari, dove descrive la triangolazione artista-opera-pubblico servendosi di una metafora metereologica in cui il pittore viene paragonato alla pioggia e il quadro alla nuvola che si forma dalla sua evaporazione, destinata a piovere di nuovo sullo spettatore. Su questo concetto è imperniato il saggio Estetica relazionale, pubblicato nel 1998...
archermit Suspends ‘Heavenly Road’ Over Canyon in tibet
Archermit presents the Nujiang River 72 Turns Canyon Scenic Area in Tibet, an infrastructure that translates the peril and grandeur of the Sichuan–Tibet Highway into a visitor experience. Completed after six years of high-altitude construction, the project is located in Buze Village, Baxoi County, along the G318 Highway. It centers on a dramatic glass viewing platform cantilevered 37 meters from a cliff face above the Nujiang Grand Canyon, echoing the legendary hairpin bends of the ‘devil’s road’, the 72 turns of Nujiang.
The main structure of the project reimagines the infamous road’s serpentine layout as a walkable loop suspended 130...
Archermit presents the Nujiang River 72 Turns Canyon Scenic Area in Tibet, an infrastructure that translates the peril and grandeur of the Sichuan–Tibet Highway into a visitor experience. Completed after six years of high-altitude construction, the project is located in Buze Village, Baxoi County, along the G318 Highway. It centers on a dramatic glass viewing platform cantilevered 37 meters from a cliff face above the Nujiang Grand Canyon, echoing the legendary hairpin bends of the ‘devil’s road’, the 72 turns of Nujiang.
The main structure of the project reimagines the infamous road’s serpentine layout as a walkable loop suspended 130...
The French actress, who has died aged 91, was immortalised by artists such as Andy Warhol and Gerald Laing
As we approach the end of 2025, we’re taking a chance to look back on a fantastic year of art. Here, we’re sharing an insight into the photographers and artists who were part of Aesthetica Magazine this year, from stunning portraiture to striking landscapes. Together, their works trace a vivid narrative of contemporary image-making, revealing the ideas and influences that continue to shape our visual world. Issue 128: Reflection The final issue of the year featured an interview with the inimitable Brooke DiDonato, marking the release of her debut monograph. We chatted all things surrealism and how images can subvert the everyday. We also sit down with Andoni Beristain, whose poignant publication, now...
Historic embroidery will be protected from damage or loss under taxpayer-backed scheme
Dance once belonged to the stage – a fixed rectangle of floor, audience in fixed seats, the shimmer of spotlight, the expectation of entrance, exit, return bow. But in the hands of Wayne McGregor, it has quietly begun to outgrow architecture. With Infinite Bodies at Somerset House and its companion installation On the Other Earth at Stone Nest, McGregor invites us to witness not a retrospective but a radical transformation: dance becomes habitat, body becomes data, memory becomes algorithm – and the audience becomes participant in a living choreography that moves, breathes and evolves around them. This is not theatre. It is not performance in the traditional sense. It is a new topography of the body,...
Nel lavoro Il prato del vicino, presentato all’interno di EDICOLA480, Vega Flux – pseudonimo di Chiara Panunzio, pittrice pugliese nata nel 1997 – costruisce un’immagine che non si esaurisce nella dimensione pittorica, ma si apre a una rete di rimandi storici, simbolici e percettivi. Lo spazio espositivo – pensato come soglia permeabile tra opera e città – amplifica il carattere diretto e interrogativo del lavoro, che si impone allo sguardo come una presenza ambigua, capace di attivare letture stratificate senza mai chiudersi in una narrazione univoca.
EDICOLA480, 2025, Vega Flux, “Il prato del vicino”, olio su tela, 120×100 cm, 2023, ph. Danilo Donzelli, courtesy Edicola480
La figura...
EDICOLA480, 2025, Vega Flux, “Il prato del vicino”, olio su tela, 120×100 cm, 2023, ph. Danilo Donzelli, courtesy Edicola480
La figura...
Thoughts on the future during festive times
Ayo Akingbade (b. 1994) is an artist, writer and film director. Her short films explore the mundanity of urban life in London’s inner-city boroughs and industrial life in her family’s hometown in Nigeria. Aesthetica Art Prize shortlisted film, The Fist, explores intersecting narratives of legacy, labour and architecture. Akingbade focuses on the 1962 opening of the Guinness factory in Ikeja, Lagos, linking Nigeria’s post-independence era to global industrialisation. The piece observes the factory floor, where the building becomes a central character. Through documenting its inner workings, the artist reveals the quiet politics embedded in daily production and consumption. The piece reflects broader...
Happy last Saturday of the year. We've spent the past few weeks rounding up the best of the best of 2025 — our favorite exhibitions and artworks, the books and films that moved us, memes that made us laugh and helped us process an increasingly dystopian reality. We also published our annual 20 Most Powerless list, a Hyperallergic tradition dating back to our founding days that parodies the market-driven media's arbitrary “most powerful” rankings. Our first-ever Powerless list, published in 2009 (!), included “assistant curators living off $27,000 salaries,” and we're afraid not much has changed ... This year, we shout out undocumented immigrants, artists who've been censored, and...
Director of key UK photography venue defends decision, saying safeguarding the collection is paramount
As the founder of Agence Vu, he built a reputation for recognising new talent and commissioning unique assignments
È la prima metà del 2003 quando la Peggy Guggenheim Collection di Venezia organizza una mostra dal titolo “Kandinsky e l’avventura astratta”, in cui l’unica donna presente è un’artista italiana. Veneziana di origine e deceduta nel 1981 (quindi due decadi prima), Bice Lazzari è da tempo ormai ricordata come la prima pittrice italiana dell’astrazione, colei che ha respinto “ogni forma pittorica immobile e socialmente accettata”, come scritto nella presentazione del curatore di questa mostra milanese che ha, tra i suoi meriti, soprattutto quello di volgere il proprio sguardo su un’artista (molto) ingiustamente poco conosciuta. “I linguaggi del suo tempo” è, infatti, il titolo di una...
Homes on fire as fossil fuels burn. Pro-Palestine protesters jailed. Migrants disappeared from the streets of the United States. Trans individuals persecuted and denied life-saving care. Indigenous people's rights under threat.There was no shortage of injustices in 2025. Refusing to be desensitized by the perpetual scroll of tragic images and news headlines, artists and creative activists mobilized their mediums in pursuit of change, sometimes risking their own lives and livelihoods. Below are 10 works that spoke truth to power in 2025, a decidedly non-comprehensive list of murals, protest actions, museum exhibitions, and other artistic gestures to carry us with intention and courage into the new...
As this year comes to a close and we gear up for an exciting 2026, let’s take a moment to reflect on Hyperallergic’s most read stories of 2025. From our coverage of the Louvre heist to the rising authoritarianism in the White House, this year has generated plenty of fodder for art discourse, memes, and more. We’re proud of our coverage of the art world this year and the fact that we’ve published so many stories that have resonated with you.This list is only a sample of the work Hyperallergic publishes daily. Over the past year alone, we published almost 2,000 stories by hundreds of authors, and reached millions of readers in our email newsletters and on the web.None of this would have been possible...
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—According to a Phys.org report, Victory Nery of the University of São Paulo and his colleagues suggest that fossils discovered at the site of Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia between 1999 and 2005 represent two distinct species. The hundreds of fossils in the group, including five skulls, have been dated to between 1.85 and 1.77 million years ago. Homo erectus is thought to have migrated out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago. Did other species migrate out of Africa as well at this time? The Dmanisi skulls differ from Homo erectus, do not all resemble each other, and vary in size. The scientists therefore focused on the surface area of the premolars and molars of three of the Dmanisi...
ARISDORF, SWITZERLAND—Live Science reports that two 2,300-year-old gold coins have been recovered from the Bärenfels bog in northern Switzerland by a pair of volunteers working with the local archaeology department, Archaeology Baselland. These Celtic coins imitated Greek gold staters minted during the reign of Philip II of Macedon (reigned 360–336 B.C.), and feature an image of the Greek god Apollo on one side and a two-horse chariot on the other. The Celts added a triple spiral known as a triskele, or triskelion, beneath the horses on the smaller coin’s reverse. These gold coins, and the 34 silver coins that had previously been found in the area, may have been placed in the bog by the Celts as an...
Zahi Hawass, a well-known Egyptian archaeologist, renewed his promise to bring an ancient bust of Nefertiti home this week, claiming that his country was readier than ever to host it once more, thanks to the recent opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum near Giza. He called once more for Berlin’s State Museums to return the bust of Nefertiti, which dates to ca. 1351 BCE–1334 BCE and is among the most famous ancient Egyptian artifacts held outside Egypt. It has repeatedly faced calls for repatriation across the years, and was very nearly given back to Egypt during World War II, when the Nazi regime thought that doing so would help Germany curry favor with Egyptians. Ludwig Borchardt, a German Egyptologist,...
Ukraine has requested the extradition from Poland of an archaeologist who was detained in Warsaw earlier this month on suspicion of conducting illegal excavations in Russian-occupied Crimea, according to the Polish media. The Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office received the extradition request from Kyiv authorities for Oleksandr Butyagin, following his apprehension in Poland on December 4. Butyagin, 52, is an employee of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, where he leads the archaeology division specializing in the Northern Black Sea region, which encompasses Crimea. Polish authorities arrested Butyagin in Warsaw while on a lecture tour across Europe, with a planned final destination in Belgrade. A...
A recently released set of files related to Jeffrey Epstein implied that the convicted sex criminal’s ties to collector Leslie Wexner ran deeper than some previously thought, placing new scrutiny on the former Victoria’s Secret CEO. One email from an FBI official that was released to the public this week referred to potential “co-conspirators” who had worked with Epstein. While the email was heavily redacted, like other files released by the Department of Justice on December 23, the message clearly refers to Wexner, the namesake collector behind the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Epstein and Wexner’s professional relationship is well-documented. Epstein managed Wexner’s finances and...
I joined Hyperallergic six years ago because I was drawn to its integrity and its commitment to tell stories that no other art publication would. And then I discovered the most rewarding part of working here — the freedom to speak my mind without fear. That’s not something to take for granted in a field plagued by bad-faith journalism and subservient, uncritical thinking. Now, as editor-in-chief of Hyperallergic, these values are my north star. This is my pledge: We will always speak our minds freely to meet the moment. We will stand for truth, justice, and equal rights for all. We will fight against tyranny, racism, misogyny, anti-LGBTQ+ hate, and elitism in the art world and beyond.We will hold art...
Nel trentennale della scomparsa dell’artista, Martina Caruso, la nipote che aveva un rapporto stretto con Turcato e l’archivio, e Giuliani Adrienne Drake, curatrice della Fondazione, hanno pensato a questa mostra, rispettando la ricerca dell’artista, chiedendosi perché l’opera di Turcato ha ancora una grande importanza in questo momento storico e perché è ancora un punto di riferimento per tantissimi artisti e curatori. Diversi lavori di diverse serie incentrati su un tema: il monocromo che è fedele alla sua ricerca sui colori ma anche sulla materia. La mostra doveva rispettare questo tema e anche il depliant è stato pensato come una narrazione con cinque opere riprodotte e lasciando alcune parti...
Dopo una brillante edizione nel 2025, Arte Fiera ritorna dal 6 all’8 febbraio 2026, con preview fissata per il 5 febbraio. Sono riconfermati i padiglioni 25 e 26 oltre al comodo ingresso da Piazza Costituzione. Questo sarà l’anno della prima direzione artistica di Davide Ferri (già curatore per cinque edizioni consecutive di Pittura XXI, sezione interamente dedicata al medium pittorico). Ferri sarà affiancato da Enea Righi, che per il quarto anno ricoprirà il ruolo di direttore operativo.
Vista parziale dei padiglioni di Arte Fiera, edizione 2025. Ph courtesy Arte Fiera
Arte Fiera, la più longeva tra le fiere d’arte italiane, ritorna dunque a essere un appuntamento e un riferimento...
Vista parziale dei padiglioni di Arte Fiera, edizione 2025. Ph courtesy Arte Fiera
Arte Fiera, la più longeva tra le fiere d’arte italiane, ritorna dunque a essere un appuntamento e un riferimento...
Over the past year we’ve worked hard to make Shutter Hub more accessible than ever. Our community has grown stronger, and we’ve created the greatest number of opportunities in Shutter Hub history.
Here are a few milestones from 2025 that we’d love to look back on with you…
A New Chapter
2025 was a year of important, meaningful change. To celebrate a decade of Shutter Hub, we completely relaunched our platform as a membership-free, open, and inclusive resource for photographers worldwide.
There was no doubt in our minds that this was the right thing to do and the natural next step, but we didn’t know how people would respond. Your response was incredible! We received so much support from our...
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Oxford University analyzed sediments from third-century a.d. sewer drains at the Roman site of Vindolanda, a fort near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, according to a statement released by the University of Cambridge. Although the fort was equipped with communal toilets, the soldiers’ health was still at risk due to poor sanitation and contaminated food and water. Microscopic examination of the samples detected the eggs of roundworm and whipworm, while Giardia duodenalis was identified with a method called ELISA, in which antibodies bind to proteins produced by single-celled organisms. This is the first time that the protozoan Giardia...
BOLOGNA, ITALY—A study of the genomes of Italians who have reached the age of 100 has found that they carry a higher proportion of genetic material from the ancestral group known as Western Hunter-Gatherers than the rest of the population, according to a Phys.org report. Researchers led by Stefania Sarno and Vincenzo Iannuzzi of the University of Bologna analyzed the genes of 333 Italian centenarians and 690 healthy adults around the age of 50. These genomes were then compared to more than 100 ancient genomes from four ancestral groups: Western Hunter-Gatherers, Neolithic Anatolian farmers, Bronze Age nomads, and ancient groups from the Iranian and Caucasus regions. All of the individuals in the study...
“I don't aim for my art to be political, but because I have my own perspective and worldview, that inevitably comes through in the art,” says Shyama Golden. Read Silke Tudor's full article on the artist by clicking above.
The post The Nature of Life: Shyama Golden on Art, identity, & The Not So Elusive Catsquatch first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
The post The Nature of Life: Shyama Golden on Art, identity, & The Not So Elusive Catsquatch first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
Max Seckel's paintings are all about the details. His landscapes come alive with the messy signs of humanity: a traffic cone standing in a puddle surrounded by a weedy yard; a utility pole teetering behind a dumpster; streams of yellow tape banding around trees. Read more about the article by clicking above!
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The post Cracks In the Levee: The Paintings of Max Seckel first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
Sean Norvet has long been described as a Renaissance-inspired satirist, a mish-masher of photorealism and cartoons into goofy–gruesome critiques of consumer culture or social media habits or other twenty-first-century concerns. Read the full article by clicking above..
The post Tropical Flavored Nightmare: Sean Norvet’s Paintings Are Reflective Mountains of Disgusting Excess first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
The post Tropical Flavored Nightmare: Sean Norvet’s Paintings Are Reflective Mountains of Disgusting Excess first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
The Ruth Foundation for the Arts has revealed the five winners of its Ruth Award: Yuji Agematsu, Ranu Mukherjee, Will Rawls, Ellen Sebastian Chang, and Anna Martine Whitehead. The prize was inaugurated in 2024 and is given in recognition of North American artists who “are accelerating the field forward, building deeper relationships and connections across […]
The Trump administration, which this past August announced that it would review current and forthcoming Smithsonian exhibitions “to assess tone, historical framing and alignment with American ideals,” has reiterated its threat to pull funding if the Smithsonian does not comply. Although the Smithsonian provided the White House with documentation in September, Domestic Policy Council director […]
Arnulf Rainer, whose work provided crucial inspiration to the Viennese Actionists, died on December 18 at the age of ninety-six. His death was confirmed by gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, which represents him. Though best known for his psychologically intense “Übermahlungen,” or overpaintings, Rainer’s experiments touched on Surrealism, minimalism, and Abstract Expressionism, among other genres; throughout, he […]
COLOGNE, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the University of Cologne, a team of researchers has developed a model to explore possible contact between Neanderthals and modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula between 38,000 and 50,000 years ago. During this period, modern humans arrived in Europe while Neanderthal populations declined steadily and went extinct. The model was run with three parameters: an early extinction of Neanderthals, the survival of a small population of Neanderthals, and the prolonged survival of Neanderthals in the region. In all three cases, Neanderthals were highly sensitive to the alternating cold and warm climate phases known to have occurred at this time. And in most of...
What is the value of knowledge? A coffee shop latte easily costs six dollars or more these days, but peruse any used book sale and you’ll find classics of literature and science for mere cents—published works that have had an indelible impact on culture. In many cases, mass production has rendered the value of books—as objects—at pennies. Used bookstores with buy-back policies often play a vital role in simply being able to properly recycle or dispose of volumes that are no longer salable. Hundreds of millions of books are tossed each year, whether due to overstock, age, or damage, which is an ongoing problem for the publishing industry. “The New American” (2021), hardcover book, acrylic varnish,...
A year-end post highlighting our favourite pieces from every art feature this year. This compilations represents the wide array of talent and perspectives that have come to make Booooooom the community that it is.
We want to thank everyone who took the time to share their work with us this year! Whether you’ve been following us for a while or participated in your first open call with us, you’re presence here means a lot to us.
You can also check out our year-end posts of photography/photographers here, if you haven’t already!
Which artwork was your favourite discovery this year?
We want to thank everyone who took the time to share their work with us this year! Whether you’ve been following us for a while or participated in your first open call with us, you’re presence here means a lot to us.
You can also check out our year-end posts of photography/photographers here, if you haven’t already!
Which artwork was your favourite discovery this year?
From inexpensive, ubiquitous, and utilitarian materials, virtually endless forms and narratives can be created with a bit of imagination. That’s exactly what the show Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities, opening next month at Wönzimer Gallery, aims to highlight. The group exhibition is curated by Ann Weber, whose work Colossal readers may recognize, along with that of Narsiso Martinez and Shigeru Ban. The show also highlights an iconic chair design by Frank Gehry, who died this month at the age of 96, plus contributions from Jodi Hays, Edgar Ramirez, Leonie Weber, Samuelle Richardson, Jabila Okongwu, and more. Frank Gehry, “Easy Edges Wiggle Chair” (1972), corrugated cardboard and hardboard, 34 x 24 x 17...
“I never imagined being a ceramic artist when I was a kid,” Iwamura admits. “I had no interest.” But today, he is a ceramicist living and working in Shigaraki—a small town east of Kyoto and home to one of Japan’s Six Ancient Kilns. Read the full article on the artist by clicking above.
The post Using Ancient Kilns En Iwamura Builds His Ceramics One Coil At a Time first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
The post Using Ancient Kilns En Iwamura Builds His Ceramics One Coil At a Time first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
In São Paolo, a midcentury interior is reimagined into a “hybrid habitat” by architect Guto Requena. The project, called “Apartamento Varanda,” reimagines a modernist residence, originally constructed in 1962, with contemporary details that nod to its decades-old spirit while incorporating a particularly organic element in the form of lots and lots of plants. Draped from rafters or bespoke frameworks, Brazilian botanicals create a green oasis indoors. What Requena describes as a “true urban forest” is then complemented by a range of iconic furnishings from both modernist and contemporary eras. See more on the studio’s website. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal...
Welcome to our annual year-end photography post highlighting our favourites! Going back through every feature from the past year we’ve compiled our top picks of this year’s roundup. As in previous years this collection represents a wide range of talent and approaches.
We want to thank everyone who took the time to share their work with us and participate in our open calls this year. Whether you’ve been following us for a while or are brand new to our membership, you’re an integral part of what makes the Booooooom community what it is.
If you haven’t seen our previous A Year in Photos posts you can check them all out here: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011,...
We want to thank everyone who took the time to share their work with us and participate in our open calls this year. Whether you’ve been following us for a while or are brand new to our membership, you’re an integral part of what makes the Booooooom community what it is.
If you haven’t seen our previous A Year in Photos posts you can check them all out here: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011,...
Surveying the final round of 2025 shows in New York
Surreal Salon, the annual international exhibition celebrating the Pop-surrealism/Lowbrow movement, is returning to Baton Rouge Gallery – center for contemporary art (BRG) for its 18th year. Held in partnership with Louisiana State University (LSU)’s School of Art, the show will be open to all at no cost from January 2 to 25, 2026, in Louisiana’s capital city. This year’s multimedia edition features more than 60 artists from the U.S. and abroad, with pieces hand-picked by the show’s Special Guest Juror, Swoon, from a pool of nearly 800 works via a blind jurying process. Every year, Surreal Salon celebrates the ever-evolving Pop-surrealist/Lowbrow art movement by inviting artists across the globe...
When considering Miguel Arzabe’s bold, woven works, it’s unsurprising that he begins by painting two abstract pieces. Vibrant fields of acrylic spread across his canvases before they’re sliced into long strips and reconfigured. Resulting are dynamic compositions that meld art historical traditions with Arzabe’s Bolivian heritage, drawing on longstanding Andean imagery and weaving practices. Next month at Johansson Projects, the Oakland-based artist presents a collection of new wall works and suspended sculptures in Sin Contar Cincuenta. Arzabe refers to his practice as offering a “productive confrontation” of distinct cultures, approaches, and periods, and these new compositions continue his...
A photographic collaboration between photographer Samuel Pasquie and artist Olivier Charland. It began as an observation of a particular pattern or “quiet repetition” amongst their respective archives. Despite the photographs being taken independently, they nonetheless shared a kind of visual logic. In exploring how individual acts of image-making could converge so often, they look beyond their close, fifteen-year friendship and shared home base, to reflect on “emergence” and the ways in which large-scale patterns can arise from small interactions. As their friend, Samuel Bonneau, writes in the intro text for the book:
“If a resemblance appears, what does it mean? The human mind, primed to detect...
“If a resemblance appears, what does it mean? The human mind, primed to detect...
"I have a hunch that any successful painting creates work for the viewer,” says the painter Ben Spiers. “I think that's part of the reason why it can be hard to begin the process of looking at paintings seriously..." read the full article on Benjamin Spiers by clicking above!
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