The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a Washington D.C-based nonprofit focused on education and advocacy, has sued the Trump administration over its controversial makeover of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, arguing that federal officials failed to follow legally required review procedures before coating the basin in a bright blue surface.  Filed Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., the lawsuit seeks to halt work on the project through a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction. The group argues that the Interior Department violated the National Historic Preservation Act by moving ahead with major changes to one of the nation’s most recognizable memorial landscapes without the...

Check out our top picks from the many exhibitions taking place across the city

An installation by the sound artist Hans Rosenström at Four Freedoms Park uses the human voice to meditate on space and freedom

The Chinese artist presents a new iteration of his gunpowder paintings at Tefaf New York

A special section at the fair seeks to deepen visitors’ understanding of “the largest Black country outside the African continent”, says curator Igor Simões

inside yuko mohri’s shifting world of noise, circuits, and chance
 
Following her acclaimed presentation at the Japan Pavilion during the 2024 Venice Biennale, Japanese artist Yuko Mohri returns with Entanglements, her most extensive solo exhibition in Europe to date. Presented at Centro Botín in Spain, the exhibition transforms the Renzo Piano-designed arts center into a living network of sound, movement, energy, and improvisation. Across kinetic sculptures, self-playing instruments, leaking systems, and delicate electronic circuits, Mohri invites visitors into environments shaped as much by humidity, dust, air, and chance as by the artist herself.
 
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Construction next door to the Merchant’s House Museum in Manhattan could damage its historic secret hiding place

XUE TAN is a curator, producer, and writer from Hong Kong. The chief curator at Haus der Kunst in Munich since June 2024, Tan works with artists on commission-based exhibitions, most recently with Cyprien Gaillard, Ligia Lewis, Ei Arakawa-Nash, and Koo Jeong A. She was a cocurator of the Fifteenth Shanghai Biennale, “Does the Flower Hear […]

Air de Paris, a leading French gallery, will close its doors and declare bankruptcy after 36 years in business, the gallery’s cofounders, Florence Bonnefous and Edouard Merino, tell Cultured.  Bonnefous says the gallery owes money only to the landlord and the bank, not her artists. The gallery is closing, per Cultured, due to its “fragile” finances as well as the founders’ health (Bonnefous suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Mennino also has unspecified health issues). The gallery worked with artists including Trisha Donnelly, Joseph Grigely, Pati Hill, Pierre Joseph, Allen Ruppersberg, Lily van der Stokker, Mona Varichon, and Amy Vogel, all of whom were included in its farewell...

Frieze, Independent, NADA, Future, oh my! Welcome back from Venice, art world — it’s fair week in New York. Read below for this week’s offerings (and there are many; don’t say I didn’t warn you). Stay tuned for our coverage of the more major of the bunch.What a season it’s been. Can you believe that everything from the New Museum reopening to the Whitney Biennial and MoMA PS1’s Greater New York — not to mention The Met’s Raphael exhibition and MoMA’s Duchamp show — happened in the last couple of months? This is the last push, I promise. Memorial Day’s right on the horizon. But if you need that change of pace sooner, we’ve also got a guide to what to see Upstate this month, written by...

The controversies beleaguering this year’s edition of the Venice Biennale continue to pile up: of late, Somali artists and cultural organizations are voicing concern that the Somalia pavilion does not adequately showcase artists and art organizations based in the country, and that the involvement of an Italian cocurator is overtly colonial. Somalia is one of […]

Archaeologists excavating at the Ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, near modern El-Bahnasa, announced the discovery of a papyrus containing lines from Homer’s Iliad on the abdomen of a Roman-era mummy. The papyrus dates to the late Roman period, around the fifth century CE, about 1600 years ago. Over 1,500 papyri quoting Homer’s works survive today, but only an extremely small number were placed in burials. Why would a Romano-Egyptian want to take Homer with them to the afterlife? In November and December, the Spanish Archeological Mission of the University of Barcelona and the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies (IPOA), headed by Maite Mascort and Esther Ponce Milado, uncovered several Greek and...

VENICE — For the first time in its history, the State Archives of Venice has opened its doors to the public to showcase an art exhibition by Dayanita Singh. The Indian “off-set artist,” as she calls herself, has long been unsatisfied with the limitations of the photograph placed on a wall. Instead, she’s explored more dynamic formats that use serialization, custom frames, and book objects. ARCHIVIO, located in Campo dei Frari square in the San Polo neighborhood, welcomes Venice Biennale visitors into a treasure trove of documents that date back over a millennium, including wills, contracts, and other official records that safeguard the rich history of one of the world’s most storied cities. “I...

The streetwear brand Hurley, which is known for surf and swim apparel, has released a capsule collection inspired by Keith Haring, one of the most recognizable and oft-licensed American artists. The collection includes cotton T-shirts, board shirts, bucket and trucker hats, bathing suits, and sweatshirts for men and women, with prices ranging from $28 (a black mesh trucker hat featuring one of Haring’s blue dancing figures astride a two-legged figure that looks like some kind of dolphin/human hybrid, standing in the waves) to $100 (a reversible one-piece women’s bathing suit featuring dancing daisies on one side and an allover flower print on the other). Haring died of AIDS-related causes in 1990, at age...

There’s a whole choreography surrounding art: the bodily habits of spectatorship, the invisible labor of maintenance and care, and the ways artists are expected to present themselves to make it professionally. Across performances, participatory projects, and interventions, artist Maia Chao approaches the museum less as a neutral space than as a structure that quietly trains behavior and participation. Later this week, as part of the programming for the 2026 Whitney Biennial, Chao will activate the seventh-floor galleries with her performance "Being Moved." Chao’s projects frequently echo the canonical gestures and concerns of institutional critique. “My Business (Cards)” (2017) invokes Adrian...

Throughout her illustrious 32-year career, Pacita Abad (1946-2004) traveled to more than 60 countries. Myriad experiences ultimately introduced her to a wide range of techniques, materials, and relationships, shaping the artist’s practice over time. Movement provided an enduring source of new ideas and inspiration, and as she put it, “For me, traveling is my art school.” In the spring of 1998, Abad visited Yemen. At the time, the country was still in recovery following the Yemeni Civil War, which took place four years prior. Grounded in her rigorous political engagement and the instabilities experienced in her native Philippines, Abad reflected on the immutable significance of cultural practices and...

One of dozens of portraits Alexis Adler took of Jean-Michel Basquiat when they lived together (photo Alexis Adler, all courtesy The Bishop Gallery unless noted)While thousands will descend upon Manhattan this week for the bulk of New York's spring art fairs, a Brooklyn gallery encourages us to tune out the numbers and trends and spend time with some of the most important samples of contemporary art history ever produced in the city. Opening Saturday, May 16, Our Friend, Jean at The Bishop Gallery is an intimate collection of art and ephemera from the precipice of Jean-Michel Basquiat's career explosion.In a phone call, the gallery's co-founders, Erwin John and Stevenson Dunn Jr., reminded...

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Entering the main exhibition of the 2026 Venice Biennale, “In Minor Keys,” from the Arsenale, the first artwork one encounters is a poem. “If I must die / you must live / to tell my story,” the poem by Palestinian poet and professor Refaat Alareer begins. Those lines became a rallying cry for the pro-Palestine movement after Alareer was killed in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike in December 2023, and have since achieved a ubiquity that once seemed all but impossible for a poem in the 21st century. For “In Minor Keys,” the poem acts as a kind of benediction or, perhaps, a statement of purpose. The last edition of the Biennale opened just seven months after October 7; this edition is truly the first to...

Museums and other arts institutions in Cleveland, Ohio, have a financial support structure that might surprise you. Some of the biggest visual arts presenters, as well as much smaller organizations, get money each time someone in Cuyahoga County, of which Cleveland is the county seat, buys a pack of cigarettes. According to the New York Times, Cleveland “is thought to be the only place in the country” where such a tax supports arts organizations, and the paper reports that via the nonprofit Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, the levy has supported the arts to the tune of $270 million since it was put into effect in 2007. The organization has given out some 4,000 grants to 485 nonprofit organizations, while, in the...

“Zero 10,” Art Basel’s relatively new global initiative dedicated to platforming digital art, has a curator for its third edition at Art Basel in Switzerland: Trevor Paglen, an artist, geographer and author best known for his artistic engagement with themes of surveillance technology. Paglen will curate the wide-ranging program alongside digital art strategist Eli Scheinman, […]

With a stained glass window, light filters through to illuminate narrative scenes or geometric patterns, but it’s primarily the window itself that draws our attention. For Lesley Green of Bespoke Glass, these vibrant compositions certainly aren’t limited to these traditional apertures. “One of my personal obsessions is trying to convince people to hang glass on the wall instead of in the window, so you can really experience the pure color and texture of the glass,” she tells Colossal. Bespoke Glass creates a wide range of aesthetic and functional forms, conceived for both residential and commercial interiors. Some are designed to be screens or separators, such as behind a bar or between tables in a...

Jongjin Park wins Loewe Craft Prize 2026
 
Jongjin Park has won the Loewe Craft Prize 2026 with Strata of Illusion, a ceramic work presented at the National Gallery Singapore as part of this year’s finalist exhibition. Made from porcelain, paper, stain, and glaze, the piece sits somewhere between a low chair, a geological sample, and a compressed textile field. Its rectangular body dips inward at the center, while bands of color gather across the surface in layered ridges, folds, and compacted seams.
 
The winning work begins with paper. Park coats sheets in porcelain slip tinted with hand-mixed pigments, then folds, stacks, and presses them into dense blocks before firing. In the kiln, the paper...

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Riding the coattails—or perhaps it would be more apt to say the gown trails—of the monumental retrospective exhibition in 2023 in Paris at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Brooklyn Museum is about to open the striking new edition of Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses. Building upon the previous presentation’s emphasis on the way fashion meets art, this show also includes recent collections like Sympoeisis, reaffirming Iris van Herpen’s one-of-a-kind approach to sustainable, sculptural couture. Van Herpen is known for her elaborate dresses that incorporate high-tech processes and materials, such as laser-cutting and Plexiglas, while also embracing the rhythms and patterns of biological and...

BENTU turns Aquaculture Waste into circular Building Material
 
BENTU Design develops unfired ceramsite panels from fish pond sludge through alkali-activated geopolymer technology, transforming aquaculture waste from the Pearl River Delta into a circular architectural material system. The project, titled The Metamorphosis of Mud: From the Collapse of Mulberry-Fish Pond Systems to the Redemption of Circular Materials, examines how traditional ecological knowledge can be reinterpreted through material research, environmental remediation, and contemporary construction methods.
 
Historically, the Pearl River Delta’s mulberry-fish pond system operated as a closed-loop agricultural ecology in which mulberry...

As we enter the summer months, there’s a universal desire to get outside. The trees are green, flowers are in full bloom and the sun is shining well into the evening. These five exhibitions are bringing contemporary art into nature, placing sculptures in dialogue with the environment. Each one offers visitors the opportunity to witness art outside of the confined of white walls and gallery spaces, getting up close to creativity on a monumental scale. Major names like Yayoi Kusama, Lynn Chadwick and Henry Moore take up new space, whilst Nic Nicosia and Nicola Turner transform familiar museums into new experiences. Lynn Chadwick Houghton Hall, Norfolk | Until 4 October Houghton Hall presents a new exhibition...

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anonym studio builds saikhoo house around twin banyan trees
 
Saikhoo House by anonym studio reconfigures a 1.38-acre family property in Samut Prakarn, Thailand, around two existing banyan trees, preserving the site’s wetlands, vegetation, and mature landscape as the central framework for the residential design.
 
Originally left largely untouched for decades, the site contained dense plant growth, wetlands, and two large banyan trees positioned near its center. Rather than treating the trees as obstacles to construction, architects Phongphat Ueasangkhomset and Parnduangjai Roojnawate organized the house around them, integrating the landscape directly into the spatial structure of the project. An L-shaped...

The purely musical performance preserved here is thrilling, ratcheted to a higher intensity than the Deutsche Grammophon studio recording

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mashrabiya structure becomes qatar’s meeting point in venice
 
At the future site of the permanent Qatar Pavilion in the Giardini, the country’s national participation at Venice Art Biennale 2026, named ‘untitled 2026 (a gathering of remarkable people)’, transforms the pavilion grounds into an evolving cultural meeting place shaped by performance, cuisine, sound, and collective participation. Anchored by a maroon tent-like structure designed by Rirkrit Tiravanija, the exhibition brings together artists, musicians, poets, and chefs from across the Arab world and the broader MENASA region.
 
Commissioned by Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and co-curated by Tom Eccles and Ruba Katrib,...

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In Artforum’s May issue, Harmon Siegel revisits the magazine’s 1967–71 essay series “Problems of Criticism,” which featured contributions from critics including Clement Greenberg, Barbara Rose, Max Kozloff, and Rosalind Krauss.The final installment was Krauss’s “Problems of Criticism X: Pictorial Space and the Question of Documentary,” a response to what she calls the problem of non-falsifiability in criticism.   In […]

Swiss art dealer Bruno Bischofberger, who fostered the famous collaboration between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, died on May 9. He was eighty-six. His death was announced on May 9 by his namesake gallery, which he had operated since 1963. Bischofberger played a crucial role in introducing US Pop artists to Europe and forged close, […]

For a little more than two decades, Bavarian photographer Markus Brunetti has scoured Europe for its most impressive basilicas, monasteries, duomi, and other striking ecclesiastical landmarks. Working closely with collaborator Betty Schöner, with whom he travels around the continent in a firetruck that has been converted to a photo lab, the pair snap thousands of images of each structure in meter-by-meter detail, often over the course of several years. Through a meticulous editing process that includes layering and arranging each shot into composite images, Brunetti creates precise, high-resolution views of the facades that we never experience in real life. Perspective is skewed so that the ornate temples and...

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By Melanie Chapman Let the Art (and the Artist) Speak for Itself Outside of the art world, painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer may not yet be as familiar a name as Jean-Michel Basquiat or Vincent Van Gogh, but to those who followed her artistic growth over the past ten years, she was on her way. Perhaps therein lay the problem. For those who knew Celeste personally and/or had the opportunity to work with her professionally, there is still a profound sense of loss permeating most conversations...

In ballpoint pen on found fragments of philosophical and historical texts, Habib Hajallie delves into the emotional realm of memory, connection, and loss. The Kent-based artist often celebrates Black cultural figures and beloved family members, along with examining his own personal experiences as a British man of Sierra Leonean and Lebanese heritage. In his current solo exhibition, Black & Blue at Larkin Durey, Hajallie grapples with the devastating stillbirth of his daughter and the “indescribable emotions that sit beneath language,” says the gallery. For this show, the artist deliberately switched from using black ballpoint ink to blue. As he made these works, Hajallie also reflected on the loss of his...

The 61st edition of the Venice Biennale, In Minor Keys, curated by the late Koyo Kouoh (1967-2025), is now open. It will run until 22 November at the Giardini, the Arsenale and in various locations around the city. Here is Aesthetica‘s run-down of 10 standout national pavilions to discover this year – paying attention to timely themes such as communication, connection, ecology, identity and legacy. Swiss Pavilion | The Unfinished Business of Living Together In April 1978, an episode of the Swiss public programme Telearena aired. The live broadcast debated the “problem of homosexuality”, and, whilst controversial, marked one of the first occasions when individuals from the LGBTQ+ community gained a...

To celebrate the 100th anniversary performances of Turandot at the Met starting next week, Patrick Dillon gives a listen to seven versions of "Signore, ascolta!" for Perspectives on an Aria.

Vivacious performances outweigh a host of odd directorial choices in the Washington National Opera's West Side Story

Liberation, modernism and the politics of self-determination form the conceptual spine of Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa, an exhibition opening this July at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It examines how architecture became a critical medium through which newly independent West African nations articulated sovereignty, identity, and futurity in the decades following colonial rule. Rather than treating modernism as a neutral or imported style, the exhibition frames it as a charged and adaptive language, refracted through the urgencies of nation-building and rapid urban transformation. Across Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo, architectural...

Victoria de los Ángeles has always been my Violetta of choice, a portrayal that never ceases to move me.

How can ideas transform into a visual experience? How can engineering and technology intersect with art? What does it mean to embody perception? These are the questions at the heart of Manlin Zhang’s practice. The research-led visual artist is uniquely placed to navigate these intersections, having previously trained at the College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering She develops a structured, process-driven approach to image-making, treating painting as embodied research rather than illustration. Her work features layered surfaces and visual structures that sit between the organic and constructed.  Zhang effortlessly traverses science and art, and nowhere is this better demonstrated than...

In 2010, the world was recovering from a seismic financial crash. The Great Recession was the worst economic downturns since the Great Depression (1929 – 1939), and in the USA, households lost an average of 26% of their net worth. The effects rippled across the world, and in the UK, unemployment reached its highest rate in a decade, whilst earnings failed to keep up with prices. It was in this climate of uncertainty, desperation and hardship that photographer and writer Johny Pitts embarked on a five-month journey across Europe, armed with several notebooks and a camera. The project grew from a necessity both intimate and political: to understand what it means to be Black in Europe, beyond cliches, identity...

I feel that the best years of Maria Callas’s vocalità, when we hear such a unique freedom and generosity in her singing, were captured in her early recordings.

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By Coral Pereda Serras Among established and other art spaces in Melrose Hill, sits 1028 N. Western Ave., home to Western Avenue Collective artists studios. This 1922 building hosts 22 artist spaces among which is El Nido, an artist-run curatorial and research space by VC Projects. El Nido, borrowing from its Spanish name, is nested in this distinctly LA courtyard and through "Photography Into Sculpture: An Homage and An Update," emerges as a portal into the imagined memories of a Victorian...

ABOVE: Installation view, Jeffrey Gibson, boshullichi / inlvchi – we will continue to change, Kunsthaus Zürich, 2025, photo by Franca Candrian, Kunsthaus Zürich Jeffrey Gibson was far more open about the act of dreaming and the beliefs that make-up spirituality than I expected. I started our conversation saying that I like to keep things loose, […]
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At some point, I realized I didn’t want to choose between the past and the present. I was interested in allowing them to coexist,” says baroque-style painter Nieves González, who distorts trappings of traditional portraiture to exalt modern day women. Her recent portrait of British pop star Lily Allen, for example, places contemporary attitude—and fashion—within […]
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By Lorraine Heitzman Erik Otsea's show, Clever Animals & Static at Alto Beta is a menagerie of a different sort. His tabletop ceramic sculptures are quirky but solemn hand-built industrial shapes that suggest machine parts found in abandoned factories or as models for obscure patent applications. They conjure Soviet-style brutalist architecture and futuristic inventions, all simple geometric forms that hint at a bygone time when we believed that life could be improved through industry. So...

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By William Moreno The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. Susan Sontag, “On Photography” William Camargo’s current exhibit of twenty-four plus works, dated 2019 through 2025, reads as a mini survey, with photographic images and installations thematically placed throughout the modest gallery. It’s his largest showing of works to date. Early in his career, the Anaheim native considered fashion and product photography, photojournalism and conflict reportage, finding the latter...

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Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...

By Nancy Spiller Alec Egan's painting "Dawn House," in his show "Groundskeeper" at Vielmetter Los Angeles, is tender, serene, and calm — a lavender and peach sky sheltering the triangular top of a house flanked by two palm trees and the tip of a cypress. In its companion painting, "Night House," the sky takes a sinister turn with layers of dark blue, sunset orange, and a roiling strip indicative of flames mixed with what might be smoke. It hints at something of what Egan, his wife, and two...

“What I am advocating for is a type of grace,” says Matthew Hansel. “Both in the way we see ourselves and in the way we see others. I am celebrating the impossible mix of contradictory things that make us human, including the parts of ourselves we hide from the world.” Hansel’s tour of our hidden […]
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To celebrate the cult movie director’s 80th birthday, we bring you our interview with John Waters from Hi-Fructose Isssue 69. You can still get a copy in print of this issue here. Happy Birthday to The King of Puke! ABOVE: Portrait of John Waters, photo by Greg Gorman, © Academy Museum Foundation Early on in the […]
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