On Wednesday and Thursday night, sound mixers, synthesizers, pedals, speakers, whistles, a turkey call, and a ceramic horn sat on a table at the center of the Veterans Room in Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory. Serving as the stage for Raven Chacon’s hour-long improvisation sessions for the Armory’s Artists Studio series, the table also offered audiences the rare opportunity to see the prolific artist at play.During his performance on October 8, the Diné artist, composer, and Pulitzer Prize-winner used each object on the table to surprising and often discomfiting ends. He rigorously blew a whistle into a microphone, looping the sound and layering it atop a rising drone, which he intermittently cut to make...

WASHINGTON, DC — Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk) artist Truman Lowe’s first major retrospective opens with “Ottawa” (1992), a billowing sculpture of pine and peeled willow saplings that brings together the tributary currents of the rivers that marked the aquatic realms of his childhood. The form undulates with an audacious disregard for the material’s inherent fixed state; each bend, movement, and ripple echoes Lowe’s unwavering ethos that wood is water.Throughout Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe at the National Museum of the American Indian, Lowe resonates with Toni Morrison’s sentiment that “all water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” The works are arranged...

"His art was intransigently and exuberantly eclectic"

Rick Canny, an erstwhile artist rep for rockers including Whitesnake, ZZ Top, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, and former Creed frontman Scott Stapp, has been appointed artistic director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, the New York Times reports. Canny will be in charge of programming at the […]

real data center vacuum turns server maintenance into a game
 
The Server is an interactive game installation by art-design duo Playfool that invites visitors to take on the role of a data center cleaner. Commissioned by the V&A Museum through its Emerging Designer Commission, the work uses a real data center vacuum as a controller, allowing players to remove digital dust from a sculptural server.
 
The installation draws parallels between the maintenance of data centers and the conservation of museum collections. Although data centers are highly automated, cleaning remains a manual task essential to their operation. Similarly, museum objects require ongoing care long after their creation. Through a playful...

With the 2028 election just over the horizon, the economist Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn has put the long-contested Aztec treasure back in the spotlight

The latest attempt to halt the impending construction of President Donald Trump’s 250-foot-tall triumphal arch involves a local government body. The five-member Arlington County Board filed a lawsuit Thursday in the Eastern District of Virginia, related to the project’s questionable review process. Democracy Forward, the advocacy group representing the Board, along with the Arlington County attorney’s office, referred to the proposal as a “vanity project” that would be “massively intrusive and harmful.” Democracy Forward notes November 5 as the date of the National Capital Planning Commission’s next meeting, at which point the committee could “rubber stamp” the start of construction. The...

To commemorate Indigenous Peoples' Day here in New York, we have highlighted seven ongoing exhibitions of Native art and history in Manhattan, the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, and the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook. Across solo and group presentations, the featured artists, who represent a diverse tapestry of Indigenous populations across Turtle Island, embody survivance by tracing and rejecting narratives of dispossession and irrelevance, upending and satirizing stereotypes, preserving and reinventing traditional art forms, and bringing underrepresented histories out from the margins. Some of these sites are closed in observance of the occasion, and some of you have not been afforded the...

From rare interventions by Banksy to monumental images by JR and Diego Rivera, and preparatory sketches by Judy Baca, the museum frames muralism as public storytelling

The Renoir Museum is getting back two of its paintings that were taken during a pre-dawn raid. The paintings were recovered by the local authorities in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, where the museum is located. Mayor Bryan Masson, a member of France’s far-right National Rally, said in a statement that these “two paintings are far more than works of art. They are part of our city’s history, our cultural heritage and the legacy Auguste Renoir left to Cagnes-sur-Mer. Their recovery is a tremendous relief for the people of Cagnes-sur-Mer and for everyone who cares deeply about our museum.” The stolen paintings were Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano (1910) and Jeune fille au puits (1886), which are...

The inaugural iteration of Santa Fe Invitational will take place April 8–11, 2027 at the Santa Fe Convention Center, hosting some forty-five international galleries as well as artists, collectors, and various local and international institutions. A press release describes SFI as a “cultural summit built around cultivating the relationships, knowledge, confidence, and curiosity,” though further […]

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Mesolithic baby tooth TRIESTE, ITALY—La Brújula Verde reports that a camp used by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers has been found just underneath artifacts left by the first farmers of the Neolithic period in intact archaeological layers in Tina Jama, a mountain cave on the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea. Federico Bernardini of Ca’ Foscari University, Elena Leghissa of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and their colleagues suggest that farmers arrived in the region some 7,500 years ago. Prior to the arrival of farming in the region, hunter-gatherers built a hearth in the most sheltered part of the cave. They also closed off the cave entrance with stones and blocks. Stone tools, waste flakes from...

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,” economist and computer scientist Herbert Simon warned in 1971. In our era of digital overload, it feels increasingly urgent—ironically—to remember to slow down. Too often we’re distracted by one thing or the next, looking down at our screens or paying attention to our surroundings just briefly enough to snap a photo before moving on. Jonathan Knight is captivated instead by the quiet moments, the beauty in stillness, and the gentle, gradual changes around us that take time to fully appreciate. Known for his ethereal, minimalist images, Knight conceived of Exhale as a way to explore the nuances of color and “the emotional experience of...

Branchline, a permanent exhibition space for the Gochman Family Collection, will open on November 6 in Katonah, New York, functioning as a new home for the renowned trove of contemporary Native art.Building on the private collection's focus on Indigenous and anti-colonial art, Branchline will present rotating exhibitions of the over 800 works by contemporary Native artists in the Gochman Collection and provide residential and studio spaces for artists. Deriving its name from the network of rail lines that connect Katonah to surrounding areas like Manhattan and Upstate New York, Branchline also encompasses the ancestral and historical lineages informing the featured art."We imagine this as a flexible space...

In dual shows at Kunsthalle Fribourg and Fondation Pernod Ricard, the artist traces how cultural identities change through the ages

OSLO, NORWAY—Additional ring ditches have been discovered at the Hunn burial ground in eastern Norway with ground-penetrating radar, according to a Science Norway report. Standing stone circles are known to have stood in the South Field some 2,000 years ago. The newly uncovered circles were found in the West Field, where traces of large burial mounds remain. “They may have made the circle first in order to plan the construction of the burial monument, or it may have formed because people walked in a circle around it,” said Anne Lene Melheim of Norway’s Museum of Cultural History. Several possible graves have also been spotted in the area. “We are quite certain that standing stones were erected...

By Jody Zellen Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 3–November 22, 2026 Susan Silton has never been an artist attached to a single medium. Her practice, which spans more than forty years, interweaves photography, design, performance, sculpture, video, audio, and installation. Working as a graphic designer in the 1970s and ’80s shaped her visual acuity and formal sensibilities. Her production is conceptually strong and visually coherent and very little is left to chance. It is a delight...

A painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill will be auctioned at Christie’s as part of its Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale in London on October 21. Amaryllis Lily (1948) carries an estimate of £300,000–£500,000 ($396,000–$661,000). The painting depicts a red amaryllis belladonna, otherwise known as a March lily, blooming in a plant pot situated on a table against a dark backdrop. Churchill gave the painting to his daughter, Lady Mary Soames, who then donated it in 1995 to the Churchill Fellowship. Proceeds from the sale will be used to support Churchill Fellowship’s “Making Space for the Arts” program. “Amaryllis Lily is a striking example of Winston Churchill’s...

16TH-CENTURY PALACE BECOMES flagship for massimo dutti in rome
 
Spanish fashion brand Massimo Dutti opens its new flagship store within the 16th-century Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome. Spanning over 2,000 square meters (21,527 square feet) along Via del Corso, the retail design exhibits its clothing collections within the historic architecture, pairing the palace’s original  features — such as the vaulted ceilings and palatial staircase — with contemporary wooden furniture, large-format rugs, and lightweight displays for fashion.
Spanish fashion brand Massimo Dutti opens its new flagship store within the 16th-century Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome
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SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA—According to a statement released by the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), a study conducted by scientists from UCSB and Stanford University has determined that the forager-farmer Tsimané people of lowland Bolivia and the hunter-gatherer Hadza people of Tanzania have highly diverse yet similar gut microbiomes, sharing more than 1,200 bacterial species. More than 60 percent of these bacterial species are rare or absent in the microbiomes of people living in industrialized populations. The researchers were surprised because the Hadza consume mammals, birds, fish, and foraged fruits and vegetables, while the Tsimané eat more fiber in the form of plantains, rice, manioc...

Creative Time has commissioned artist Guadalupe Maravilla to make a major installation in the Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York’s Morningside Heights neighborhood. Presented in collaboration with the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, Maravilla’s Consejos de las Estrellas will be on view from December 17, 2026, to February 7, 2027. As with past works by the artist, Consejos de las Estrellas will take the form a sculptural installation that is also “conceived as a sanctuary space—a place for gathering, reflection and respite during a season that can be both celebratory and vulnerable,” per a release. “Both in the way he approaches his work and moves...

Art historian Hall W. Rockefeller has designed an AI tool that shows the gender balance of any gallery’s roster of artists. Rockefeller designed the tool to advance the mission of “Less Than Half,” an artist network she founded to advocate for the recognition of women artists. The program allows users to check whether a gallery […]

Tucked away in the West Village, actor Julianne Moore doesn’t seem to live like her Hollywood counterparts. She resides in a two-bedroom duplex with her husband, film director Bart Freundlich, that is also home to work by Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, and Robin Rice. “My taste is consistent, though it has evolved. I love modernism. But this apartment is prewar, and you have to address that. It’s not tiny, but it’s not massive, either, so materials and choices become even more important,” she told Architectural Digest for a feature in its upcoming November issue. Her home in the West Village was constructed in the 1920s as a residential hotel with most of the units being used as...

Quarto publishes visually-rich books for artists of all mediums and skill levels. Explore highlights from the 2026 collection!Light & Color in the Watercolor LandscapeBy Vladislav YeliseyevDiscover the secrets to capturing depth, atmosphere, and emotion in your watercolor landscapes with Light and Color in the Watercolor Landscape. Acclaimed artist and instructor Vladislav Yeliseyev shares his proven techniques for harnessing light and shadow, creating luminous colors, and refining compositions to enhance realism and impact.Frida Kahlo at HomeBy Suzanne BarbezatDiscover the intimate spaces that shaped one of the world’s most iconic artists. This compelling visual biography traces Kahlo’s life through the...

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Burgundy wood, white marble, and blue define Chiquita’s interior
 
Chiquita by SahuquillodeArriba is a 59-sqm café, bookshop, and wine bar in Valencia’s El Botànic neighborhood, designed for product designer Gloria Izquierdo. The project combines coffee, books, and wine in a continuous interior that uses color, material contrasts, and custom furniture to connect the different functions.
 
A full-length ash wood bookcase stained deep burgundy runs along one side of the space, extending into the bathroom and serving as the interior’s main architectural feature. Opposite it, a continuous bench and small white marble tables introduce lighter surfaces, while the textured ceiling is finished in soft blue....

“I left my hometown / My hometown appears,” begins a poem by artist Shuling Guo titled “Temple II,” which shares its name with her forthcoming solo exhibition at Hollis Taggart Downtown. Drawing on sacred symbolism and nature, Guo delves into her memories of growing up in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, China, and the area’s unique mixture of spiritual and folk traditions. Her dreamlike, symmetrical works speak to the harmony of the cosmos as much as they nod to the balance of life and the sublime. Guo’s paintings in Temple II explore memory, presence, and loss, and their creation coincided with both the birth of her daughter and the death of her grandmother. Burgeoning blossoms, delicate flames,...

The UK artist known for his searing critiques of consumer culture is showing a new series of drawings at the Sir John Soane’s Museum that imagine the future ruins of notable buildings

The Jamaica-born abstractionist's first major survey, which opened at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art last year, moves to the Hammer Museum

Two up-and-coming sopranos — Chelsea Lehnea and Marigona Qerkezi — make a splash across two nights in Stuttgart.

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In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about life for artists in Gaza one year on from the ceasefire, visits the new Robert Ryman survey at the Barbican in London, and speaks to US artist Katherine Hubbard about her latest installation exploring her mother's illness and memory loss

POPSTICKS REIMAGINES CHOPSTICKS AS INFLATABLE UTENSILS
 
Some ideas begin with a serious problem. Popsticks begins with the possibility of finding yourself without chopsticks, which is apparently enough to justify a little design intervention. Created by designer Liam de la Bedoyere, the playful concept proposes a pair of inflatable chopsticks that can be rolled up, slipped into a pocket, and brought out when dinner calls. Instead of folding through hinges or coming apart into smaller pieces, the utensils rely on air to take shape.
 
The concept is as straightforward as it is unexpected. Each stick can be rolled into a compact spiral when deflated, then inflated into an elongated utensil ready for an...

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tim walker explores queer history through 250 portraits
 
British photographer Tim Walker turns his fantastical visual language toward Queer history in Fairyland: Love and Legends, a major exhibition opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London today, October 9th, 2026. Curated by Susanna Brown and designed by Walker’s longtime collaborator Shona Heath, the exhibition brings together around 250 specially created portraits of activists, artists, performers, and cultural figures, including Isaac Julien, Ian McKellen, and Chappell Roan. The exhibition brings together five years of work with Queer people and their allies in Britain and beyond, reflecting a new direction in Tim Walker’s...

To celebrate the retrospective exhibition Future Pastime featuring the work of futurist Syd Mead opening at the Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery in San Francisco this evening, we are showing previews of paintings from the show as well as the full article which Silke Tudor wrote on the late legendary industrial designer in Hi-Fructose Issue 33. […]
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Bone comb DORCHESTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA—WCBD reports that a bone comb has been unearthed at Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site, which is located on the Ashley River, about 20 miles from the city of Charleston. The simple comb may have been discarded when too many of its tines had broken off. The village of Dorchester was founded in 1697 and abandoned before the Revolutionary War. A brick church bell tower, traces of the town’s log wharf, and the remains of a fort made of oyster-shell concrete remain at the site. For more about the site, go to "Off the Grid: Dorchester, South Carolina."
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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—Analysis of more than 190 bones from people who were buried in Scandinavia between about 500 B.C. and A.D. 1050 suggests that violent encounters increased over time, Live Science reports. The remains were interred in domestic areas, but it is not known if the violence occurred during domestic disputes, or as a result of warfare or some form of punishment. “The fact is that not all bodies ended up in monumental burial mounds in the Iron and Viking Ages, or even in more modest urnfields and cemeteries,” said Marianne Hem Eriksen of the National Museum of Denmark. Eriksen and her colleagues determined that at least 12 of the individuals in the study, including two women and a child, had...

Stumbling upon a battered end table or lost mitten is an opportunity for magic in Woo Jin Joo’s mind. The Seoul-born artist is known to gather furniture, garments, and other objects that have been left behind while walking near her home in London or commuting to her studio in Deptford. “I am not actively looking for anything in particular, but I discover them by happenstance, and they become meaningful; they provoke my imagination,” she says. “This is how I feel like we conjure meaning in our lives.” Combined with clay and shiny, viscose thread, these found items transform into uncanny sculptures that often meld animal bodies with domestic fixtures. Human-sized figures cloaked in costumes of white...

Flowers for eyes, a horizon for a mouth… a popsicle for a holy relic? Rafael Silveira has long been interested in what he describes as “visual synonymies,” which he likens to “formal correspondences between seemingly unrelated things, moments in which one image unexpectedly recognizes itself in another.” The Brazilian artist’s surreal paintings replace facial features with landforms, flora, and fauna, sometimes hybridizing animals, figures, and other objects. The works seen here were recently included in the artist’s solo exhibition Popsicledelic Trip at KP Projects Gallery in Los Angeles alongside a show by Silveira’s wife, the artist Flávia Itiberê. A series of vertical pieces with ornate,...

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With ambition to spare, Boston Lyric Opera's William Tell shows that the state of American opera need not be depressing.

And then I remembered how much I love Cecilia Bartoli who was a major star when I first got into opera in my teens and remains so today.

È la materia, prima ancora che il design, a prendere la parola in “Pottergeist. Archetipi, Simboli, Forme, Immagini”, la mostra che HoperAperta porta alla Pinacoteca Provinciale di Palazzo Pinto di Salerno dal 16 settembre al 30 novembre 2026, nell’ambito della seconda edizione di Salerno Design Week.
Dace Suna, “Down the Rabbit Hole”, 2026, lampada da tavolo in metallo. Produzione Horizon, courtesy HoperAperta
Il progetto, curato da Patrizia Catalano e Maurizio Barberis, con la collaborazione di Martina Barberis Casagrande, individua nella ceramica e nella terracotta un territorio di ricerca nel quale memoria, forma, artigianato e contemporaneità possono incontrarsi senza gerarchie. In mostra, in...

Twenty years ago, National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore set out on a deceptively simple multi-year mission: to create a photo archive of biodiversity. Documenting around a thousand animals each year, his ultimate goal is a portrait catalogue showcasing more than 25,000 species. As of this writing, Sartore has documented 18,567 animals, including the new species of cat recently discovered in Bolivia. In zoos, aquariums, wildlife sanctuaries, and more, he collaborates with conservationists and researchers to document an awe-inspiring yet tiny fraction of life on our planet. Sartore’s Photo Ark project illuminates animals against plain black or white backgrounds, highlighting their distinctive...

Our critic reports on the bumper crop of young singers at this year's Giargiari Bel Canto Competition in Philadelphia.

Anita Rachvelishvili and Saioa Hernandez are headed back to New York and this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag features them together in a performance from July.

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Damien Meade dipinge sculture d’argilla che non esistono più e ognuna delle sue ambigue figure è quanto resta, in pittura, di un corpo messo al mondo solo per essere disfatto. Il suo procedimento comincia sempre con innumerevoli teste e figure da lui modellate, manipolate, fotografate e rimpastate nella materia indifferenziata, spesso nel giro di poche ore per l’impellenza delle successive, finché una di esse non trattiene il suo sguardo abbastanza a lungo da imporre la propria transustanziazione pittorica. Meade racconta di lasciare che in questa prima fase sia l’istinto gestuale a suggerire le forme e, solo in un secondo momento, di intervenire razionalmente a selezionare, tra le creature...

The women look concerned, and weary. They are ready to repel an attack. The women look in love, but bored. “When are you leaving,” they might wonder. The women are only half-present. Matted hair, two eyes, a hand, and the rest have either turned inward or run away. The women are multifaceted. Their eyes are […]
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Da Société Interludio, a Cambiano, La Scia di Gaia De Megni, a cura di Vincenzo Estremo: tre fotogrammi ridisegnati, una lampada senza pellicola e un’ombra che compare solo per poche ore.
Gaia De Megni, “La Scia”, curated by Vincenzo Estremo, installation view. Courtesy Gaia De Megni and Société Interludio © Claudiu Asmarandei
Nel 1915 Max Fleischer mise a punto il rotoscopio, un apparecchio che proiettava un film su un vetro, un fotogramma alla volta, perché un disegnatore potesse ricalcarne i contorni. Dal ricalco nasceva l’animazione: la mano rifaceva il movimento, ventiquattro volte al secondo. Gaia De Megni (1993) fa qualcosa di simile e di opposto. Parte da Stage Fright (Paura in...

In the “feminist west” that lives on Jennifer Nehrbass’s canvases, women ride horseback and hike in fashionable attire. They appear in head-and-shoulder portraits against fiery backgrounds and nude in pieces where figurative and landscape painting converge. In her work, Nehrbass challenges the common depictions of the U.S. West. “You would always have the man who […]
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Guangyi Luo ha ricevuto una formazione specifica per controllare i pattern. La sua esperienza nel design della moda e nella stampa le ha insegnato come gestire la ripetizione, l’equilibrio e l’organizzazione delle immagini su una superficie. In Interwoven Shadows, l’artista rovescia questa padronanza tecnica contro l’uniformità. L’opera ripete le sue forme floreali senza permettere che la ripetizione produca monotonia; l’ordine si stabilisce, ma poi viene di continuo destabilizzato.
Guangyi Luo, “Interwoven Shadows”, 2025, digital print, courtesy of the artist
Presentata a Between Worlds presso il Museo MIIT di Torino (3–7 settembre 2026), l’opera tessile di Luo è tornata in Italia per la...

By Kristine Schomaker Friday night I stood at the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and watched artists perform five-minute pieces in the open air as the sun went down. ACTION = LIFE, presented by LACE and the Performance Art Museum as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. A marathon of performances. So many friends. So much history in one place. I drove home still feeling it. Thinking about the first performance I ever saw that made me understand what my own work was actually about....

Al giorno d’oggi la fotografia di dating app ha accumulato praticanti sufficienti da assomigliare quasi a un genere a sé: una confederazione eterogenea di artisti che usano la telecamera per documentare la specifica, nuova texture epocale del romanticismo condotto alla velocità di uno swipe. Per la maggior parte, si accontenta dell’ironia: screenshot di match, rievocazioni in scena di una “situationship”, un saggio visivo ironico sul ghosting. What if we were lovers? di Tia Liu, un progetto in corso iniziato nel 2023 e il corpus principale del suo portfolio online, è meno protetto dall’ironia, più vulnerabile, più paziente. Piuttosto che esasperare in accezione caricaturale l’app di dating, la...

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