Yoshiko Mori, chairperson emerita of Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum, died on December 23 from pneumonia. She was 85 years old. The museum confirmed her death in a statement on Tuesday.  She and her husband, real estate developer Minoru Mori, who died in 2012, opened the museum, considered one of Japan’s top contemporary art institutions, in 2003.  “For more than two decades since then,” the museum said in a statement, “she devoted herself with great passion to contemporary art, and as the museum’s founding chairperson, it was her joy to contribute to both the international development of the museum and contemporary art in Japan. At this time, we would like to express our deepest gratitude for the...

Deepen your practice as an artist within a diverse and nurturing community of outstanding faculty and fellow graduate students. Throughout the MFA program you’ll explore new techniques, refine your artistic philosophy, and gain teaching experience at one of the top universities in the United States. As a global research university, Notre Dame also offers opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration and international engagement, including funding for research travel. As a tier 1 research university, Notre Dame offers students access to world-class scholars and cultural events from across the institution. Our dedicated faculty work closely with graduate students to develop their work in a supportive...

Thanks to the collaboration of several government organizations in the United States and Egypt, seven artifacts were recently repatriated to Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The objects had been smuggled from the country in separate cases and are from different time periods, according to Shaaban Abdel Gawad, director-general of the Repatriation of Antiquities Department and supervisor of the Antiquities Units in Ports. The news was first reported in Egyptian news outlet Ahram Online. Five of the objects in question were initially smuggled out of Egypt in 2017 (two mummified fish and a falcon head from the Ptolemaic period) and 2018 (a bronze amulet of Set, the ancient Egyptian god of deserts,...

A collection of early Apple computers and Steve Jobs memorabilia has gone up for auction as the technology company approaches its 50th anniversary, underscoring a growing appetite for artifacts linked to modern corporate mythology. The sale, run by Boston-based RR Auction, comprises 191 lots spanning vintage Apple hardware, original corporate documents, and personal belongings from Jobs’s childhood bedroom in Los Altos, California. Bidding opened this week and will run through January 29, according to the auction house. Among the headline items is what RR Auction describes as the first check ever issued by Apple Computer Inc. Dated March 16, 1976, and signed by Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the $500 Wells Fargo...

New York-based artist Joiri Minaya's Venus Flytrap was a site-specific, newly commissioned performance series and installation at Philadelphia's Bartram’s Garden last summer. Curated by writer and editor Dessane Lopez Cassell, the series reflected on the intertwined legacies of freedom, extraction, and ecology in North America's oldest surviving botanical garden. "From the posed elegance that starts the performance, Venus Flytrap grows into a carnivalesque frolic that ends with the performers receding into a large tree surrounded by sail-like colorful printed fabrics that the artist created at the city’s Fabric Workshop and Museum," Hyperallergic's Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian...

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

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

A lawsuit that alleged sexual assault by the late artist Norval Morrisseau was tossed out by British Columbia’s Supreme Court this week, according to the Canadian Press. Filed against the artist’s estate, the lawsuit by Mark Anthony Jacobson claimed that Morrisseau had touched his buttocks without his consent. Jacobson claimed that he had visited Morrisseau in 2006, roughly a year prior to the Anishinaabe artist’s death, after an assistant told Jacobson that Morrisseau could heal his back pain. The estate vigorously contested these claims, saying that Morrisseau had by this point been battling an advanced form of Parkinson’s disease and was “confined to a wheelchair.” The artist “was in no...

Welcome to the 319th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists yearn for higher ceilings and find inspiration in the solitude of their studio.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.XiaoXiao Wu, San Gabriel, CaliforniaHow long have you been working in this space?Five years.Describe an average day in your studio.An average day in my home studio starts around 8am or 9am, four to five days a week. The space is mainly for concentration, so I avoid eating or any entertainment while working. I usually...

veil: a layered intervention in patissia’s urban fabric
 
Arid reworks and extends a two-story corner building from 1951 in the Patissia district of Athens into a hybrid residential, co-living, and co-working building. The project, dubbed Veil, renovates the original fabric and adds three new floors above it, resulting in an 850-square-meter building that engages directly with its neighborhood’s spatial logic.
 
The intervention is shaped by Karamanlaki Street’s characteristic morphology, where setbacks generate ‘prassies,’ semi-open front gardens. These transitional spaces become a guiding principle for the new volume, which pulls back, carving out terraces and voids that preserve openness and...

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

Tenger City: Squareone Atelier’s Proposal for New Satellite City
 
Tenger City is an urban planning proposal by Sydney-based practice Squareone Atelier, awarded as a Top 3 Winner in the Hunnu City International Urban Planning Competition 2025. The project proposes a new satellite city located approximately 52 kilometers south of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, with phased development planned between 2025 and 2045. The proposal forms part of Mongolia’s broader Ulaanbaatar 2040 Masterplan and the national Vision 2050 framework, which aim to support decentralization, resilience, and long-term urban growth.
 
The masterplan introduces a model for contemporary Mongolian urbanism informed by the spatial openness of the...

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Drifting Cloud Kinetic Installation sets on Zanzibar’s Shoreline
 
Located on Jambiani beach along Zanzibar’s east coast, Drifting Cloud is a kinetic installation by Vincent Leroy that interacts directly with the wind. The sculptural work is constructed from carbon rods, 3D printed joints, and kite-canvas discs, forming a lightweight structure capable of responding to subtle air currents.
 
The installation’s modular components move independently while remaining part of a connected whole, generating a dynamic, constantly changing composition. Movements vary according to wind strength, ranging from fine vibrations to broader gestures, producing an organized yet unpredictable rhythm.
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The hoard, uncovered by archaeologists in Norfolk, includes rare animal-headed battle trumpet

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

The artist’s experience of being a recreational pilot has played into many of their works—including some on view in a current Paris exhibition

faceted geometry and reflective glass respond to the andes
 
Set within the rugged terrain of the Andes, the Rumi Ñahui Cabin by Rtresarquitectos negotiates its presence through reflection, fragmentation, and elevation, allowing the site to remain the dominant force. Facing east, the building adopts a faceted envelope composed of angular elements that recall suspended rocks scattered across the hillside. These articulated surfaces visually break down the volume, offering protection from prevailing winds. The geometry softens the mass of the cabin, translating geological conditions into an architectural language.
 
A continuous wall of reflective glass mirrors the surrounding landscape, dissolving the edges...

Outside my regular lunch spot in Brooklyn yesterday, a worker dressed as a giant lettuce leaf was handing out samples in the cold. When I asked him how he was doing, he replied with a smile, "Can't complain." I took it as a reminder to remain grateful for what I have, no matter where life takes me.Speaking of problematic working conditions, I encourage you to read Amanda Tobin Ripley's plea to art museums to voluntarily recognize their workers' unions. No more forced elections, fear-mongering, and pitting workers against each other. It's a must-read not just for museum leaders, but for everyone in our field.—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chiefLACMA workers celebrate after winning their union...

Olloni is a cyber pet for homes with interactive screen
 
OLLOBOT introduces OlloNi, a cyber pet robot for homes that displays playful emotions using an interactive screen between its two eyes. Designed to be a companion, the device is meant to live in a home the way a pet does: nearby, responsive, and emotionally present, without being demanding or overwhelming. Instead of copying the shape of a dog, a cat, or a person, OlloNi has a soft, rounded body that feels friendly rather than mechanical. On top of its head are two horn-like shapes that users can touch to instantly stop the robot or mute it in emergencies. These horns also help the cyber pet for homes, OlloNi, see and understand the world. They work...

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Amid widespread budget deficits, several top universities have suspended admissions to their art history graduate programs or cut the size of the cohorts they will admit, along with modifications to other humanities concentrations. Boston University, the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and Princeton University are among those institutions seeing changes. The cutbacks come in the context of a widely discussed crisis in higher education. Philadelphia-based public radio station WHYY reported in November that both public and private colleges and universities are facing “enormous challenges,” including declines in state and federal funding, reductions in the numbers of foreign students owing to the...

We exist in an extraordinary moment. The past decade has been shaped by the rapid expansion of social media, the emergence of artificial intelligence and a global pandemic that fundamentally altered how we understand connection, education, work and social life. Layered onto this are ongoing political and economic uncertainties, creating a world in near-constant flux. It is within this landscape that a new generation of artists has come of age, using the lens as both witness and compass. These emerging voices are being brought into focus across institutions and galleries worldwide. Their work navigates a shifting terrain in which identity, memory and place feel increasingly unstable, and perhaps always have...

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

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

The work, which has sparked online backlash, will see buyers of the project's tokens choose whether Angus becomes hamburgers and handbags, or is sent to live at an animal sanctuary

Known for his meticulous drawings of insects, birds, and other creatures hybridized with mechanical gears and intricate filigree, Steeven Salvat has a penchant for detail. Often tapping into historical analog technology like clocks, typewriters, globes, and hourglasses, the artist nods nostalgically to a pre-digital age. Salvat’s forthcoming exhibition, Latitude/Longitude at Galerie Hamon, continues the artist’s interest in the convergence of nature and human activity. This recent body of work, created using acrylic and Chinese ink, focuses more specifically on navigation and cartography. Vintage maps, charts, and globes provide the foundation for beautiful renderings of songbirds and butterflies in a...

The unionization wave across museums in the United States just scored major wins. Workers at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), who announced their intent to unionize on October 29, won their union election on December 16 with 96% of the vote, while workers at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced their campaigns on November 4 and November 17, respectively. These workplaces are behemoths among museums, and unions have the power to materially change the realities of the thousands of people working at these institutions and to profoundly shift labor-management relations in the sector. In a testimony to the power of their organizing work, 100% of union...

The 13 works stolen, by Henri Matisse and Candido Portinari, have not been recovered and are valued at up to $180,000

Dutch photographer Pieter Henket has spent the past few years spotlighting the innovative and subversive fashionings of Mexico City’s queer communities. After a lengthy period in the capital, he teamed up with stylist Chino Castilla to create portraits of dancers, performers, and even locals he encountered while strolling through the park. Together, they wanted to highlight “the boundaries between Mexico’s deeply rooted Catholic traditions and the freedom of modern self-expression,” Henket says. Resulting is a captivating collection that defies notions of cultural identity, gender, sexuality, and even queerness itself. Shot in black and white, Birds of Mexico City zeroes in on the textures of cracked...

The works are included in an upcoming Christie's sale marking the 250th anniversary of US independence

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

Born to a family of farmers near Wilmington, North Carolina, Minnie Evans (1892-1987) never intentionally set out to become an artist. She observed the rural landscapes of her early childhood home in Pender County, then moved to Wilmington, where she attended school until the sixth grade. She married, had three children, and was devoted to her religious beliefs. Steered by vivid dreams and visions, she made her first drawing on Good Friday in 1935, when she was in her early 40s. “I never plan a drawing. They just happen,” Evans said in 1969, when her work had begun to gain recognition. “In a dream, it was shown to me what I have to do, of paintings. The whole entire horizon all the way across the whole...

A messy new I puritani at the Met is a historic and historical disappointment.

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Palestinian-Saudi artist Dana Awartani’s practice centres around one primary contrast: the act of creation and the experience of loss. Her multidisciplinary practice addresses the destruction of cultural heritage, reflecting upon the ravages of conflict within the Middle East. The artist’s latest exhibition, held at Towner Eastbourne until the end of the month, takes its name from an ongoing series. Standing by the Ruins traces the act of remembrance, healing and forgetting. At its heart is a major floor installation constructed in collaboration with adobe restoration craftsmen from Riyadh. The piece draws directly from the historic Hamam al-Sammara, one of Gaza’s oldest bathhouses, now believed to be...

Elina Garanča scaled the vocal and dramatic summits of the Judgement Duet and Scene in the May series of Aïda.

There is a particular urgency to Viktor & Rolf. Fashion Statements at the High Museum of Art, an exhibition that arrived with quiet confidence rather than overt spectacle. Now well underway, it has become one of those cultural moments that circulate through recommendation, drawing visitors through reputation and critical acclaim. With its run extending into early February, it feels less like a temporary display and more like a sustained proposition about the power of fashion within the museum space. The exhibition does not ask to be rushed, instead encouraging careful looking and prolonged engagement. In doing so, it asserts fashion’s capacity to function as a rigorous and imaginative art form. Over recent...

Ancora pochi giorni per visitare, negli spazi della galleria mondoromulo arte contemporanea a Castelvenere, la mostra di Alessandro Trapezio “Now I see you, now you see me” a cura di Francesco Creta. La mostra porta in esposizione due progetti del fotografo di origine spezzina mettendoli in relazione tra loro sulla questione dello sguardo. In “Closer”, omaggio alla serie di foto realizzate da Dino Pedriali a Pasolini, siamo noi a spiare la performer Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, mentre nei poster da riviste patinate della serie “Power, Corruption & Lies” ci troviamo assaliti dallo sguardo delle modelle fino a sentirci i loro occhi addosso. Lo sguardo e il dato voyeuristico sono il principio fondamentale su...

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has named the more than sixty-five artists set to participate in the third iteration of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale. Titled “In Interludes and Transitions (في الحِلّ والترحال),” the exhibition will open January 30 in the JAX District, an industrial site turned arts complex in the historic town of Diriyah, near […]

The British Museum is looking for an experienced treasure hunter to track hundreds of Greek and Roman antiquities that went missing from its collection in recent years and were possibly stolen by an employee. Tom Harrison, head of the institution’s Greek and Roman collections, told the London Times that he hopes to hire someone to […]

Shigeru Ban has spent over four decades redefining what architecture can achieve, merging innovation with social conscience to create spaces that are as humane as they are visionary. From paper-tube shelters in disaster zones to landmark cultural institutions, his work demonstrates that architecture can transcend aesthetics, offering both dignity and hope. The Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow now presents a new exhibition that traces this remarkable career, situating Ban’s practice within a global dialogue of design, material experimentation and humanitarian ambition. Born in Tokyo in 1957, Ban studied architecture in the United States, a period that profoundly shaped his sensibility....

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"I’m more interested in revealing the quiet violence of what we call ‘normal’ than in telling anyone what to feel. If a viewer finds their own discomfort in that—it’s a gift, not something I try to control.”
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The deadline for The City Series: Cambridge has been extended until 23 April 2026.
An ongoing series of publications, The City Series sets out to explore the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, showcasing images that respond to a place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
The inaugural volume explores a city that has welcomed us, and been home to nearly a dozen Shutter Hub exhibitions – Cambridge.
Rather than defining Cambridge by landmarks or narratives, we invite photographers to approach the city openly, perhaps through people, atmosphere, details, routines, abstractions, or moments that feel personal or unexpected....

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"Call me traditional, but I want to see a silver platter!"

A staged Freischütz is rare enough in itself to be the highlight of any opera season, but it was in Christoph Marthaler's Antwerp production that I connected with the characters and felt the story for the first time.

I meccanismi di decodifica che scattano non appena il nostro sguardo si posa su un’immagine funzionano per automatismi percettivi sedimentati in secoli di educazione visiva: in virtù della loro istantanea attivazione, siamo in grado di riconoscere forme, attribuire profondità, distinguere piani, senza che questo processo richieda alcuno sforzo cosciente, come se la visione fosse un atto naturale e neutro anziché una costruzione culturale complessa e storicamente determinata. Turbare quest’illusione di immediatezza e minare alle radici l’incondizionata fiducia che riponiamo nelle nostre capacità percettive è il cardine della sperimentazione pittorica di Luca Moscariello, che nella personale Sublimi...

Il “Museo del Genio” (Istituto Storico e di Cultura dell’Arma del Genio) di Roma non poteva cogliere migliore occasione per riaprire le porte al grande pubblico. Fino al 15 febbraio 2026, infatti, ospita “Vivian Maier. The Exhibition”, mostra dedicata ad una delle più grandi “fotografe di strada” del secolo scorso. Il percorso espositivo è un viaggio itinerante fra New York e Chicago, i cui vivaci quartieri catturati da Maier sono i protagonisti indiscussi.
Vivian Maier, “Armenian woman fighting on East 86th Street”, New York, NY, September 1956. Gelatin silver print, 2012, 40×50 cm, © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof. Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY
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By Marina Claire The Middle Becomes Eclectic II is an LA-made small works salon – a large-scale exhibition within an intimate space – of forty Los Angeles area artists. The show’s title is a play on the iconic KCRW alternative radio program that began in LA in 1977. The small works in this exhibit span a wide range of media and styles, all made during the past year, by diverse artists at all career levels, guest curated by Camilla Taylor. The show is on view at The Middle Room Gallery in...

"I'm trying to create a portrait of a person without their face, which is really interesting to me," Laurie Lee Brom says. Instead, she allows the setting and actions to shed light on who this person is... Read the full article by clicking above.
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Con Fantastica, la Quadriennale d’arte del 2025 si presenta come un progetto che assume l’immaginazione non come fuga dal reale, ma come strumento critico capace di riformulare il presente. Ideata da Luca Beatrice, scomparso improvvisamente a gennaio nell’anno dell’inaugurazione, questa edizione porta con sé il peso e la responsabilità di una visione che non si è potuta misurare direttamente con l’esito espositivo, ma che rimane leggibile come struttura concettuale diffusa. Beatrice aveva immaginato Fantastica come un campo di forze, non come una mappa ordinata: un luogo in cui l’arte italiana contemporanea potesse mostrarsi nella sua capacità di generare mondi, immagini e narrazioni...

AN ARTIST AND PEDAGOGUE of powerful originality with a personality to match, Ken Jacobs saw the full equation. Like his generational peer Stan Brakhage, and such earlier nonpareils Dziga Vertov and Oscar Micheaux, he reinvented the motion picture medium to suit his interests, which extended well beyond conventional cinema: not montage, but bricolage; not film […]

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