There’s a rare circle of artists that exists within photography: those whose creative genius came to light posthumously. Their images, once overlooked, misunderstood or simply hidden from public view, now serve as a touchstone for the medium. Perhaps the most famous example is Vivian Maier, whose New York street photography caught the world’s attention in 2013, four years after her death and six years after storage locker sales in Chicago unearthed thousands of her photos and negatives. Another is Francesca Woodman, whose black-and-white portraits of herself and female models gained critical acclaim after her premature death at 22. Now, joining that list is Herbert Smith, who passed away in 1987, leaving...

scenarii édition debuts furniture series at design miami 2025
 
At Design Miami’s 20th edition, Paris-based architects and designers Berenice Curt and Caroline Duncan introduce the first chapter of Scenarii Édition, a new curatorial line extending their ongoing investigations within Berenice Curt Architecture. Presented in collaboration with The Spaceless Gallery, the debut features two pieces, the Tripodal chair and the Torii table. Both works rely on hand-polished stainless-steel frameworks, setting the stage for material experiments ranging from reclaimed wood to mycelium-grown textiles.
 
Scenarii Édition positions collectible design as a site for rethinking material life cycles. The studio’s...

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A new section for digital art at the fair this year, Zero 10, coincides with a flight to secondary material, suggesting that an adapting market may also be a bifurcating one

The Pérez Art Museum Miami’s new chief curator sees Reefline as a model for a type of environmentally restorative public art that can be replicated globally

Nora Lawrence, the executive director of Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley, shares her favorite sculptures from the fair

The project “invites fairgoers to reflect, respond and enact change through signing a petition that demands the closure of Alligator Alcatraz”, Amnesty says

The fair is committed to centring both Black artists and Black audiences

Frank Gehry, one of the world’s most celebrated architects and a towering intellect whose designs transformed the cities they inhabited, died on Friday, December 5, at the age of 96. The Pritzker Prize-winning architect suffered a respiratory illness before his death at his home in Santa Monica, California, his chief of staff told the New York Times.A monumental figure who demystified modern architecture and an early adopter of computer-driven design, Gehry became beloved for his luminescent, curvilinear structures that appeared to defy gravity. His postmodern designs of museums, concert halls, and libraries have become destinations for tourists as much as the venues themselves. His most revered...

MA.DE BISTRO reInterprets Traditional Vietnamese Architecture
 
MA.DE Bistro is a contemporary complex by AN NAM Design and Build located within the pine forest of Mang Den in Vietnam’s Central Highlands. The restaurant design incorporates regional cultural references, drawing from the traditional Rông house to establish its architectural identity. A roof composed of three interlinked peaks forms the primary visual element, creating a rhythmic profile that echoes the surrounding mountain landscape.
 
The 1,000-sqm site is bordered on three sides by forest, influencing the project’s spatial arrangement and environmental response. Instead of replicating vernacular structures, the design adapts their...

It’s been two years since I last made the trek to Miami Beach in December. Despite the Miami edition of Art Basel being the only art fair to carry a scarlet letter for being “as much about the parties as the art,” it remains the most important fair in the US. And, if we’re being honest, every fair week—from Paris to Los Angeles to Hong Kong—is packed with events and openings, dinners, parties, and after-parties. You can’t make it to everything, especially in Miami. But for you, dear reader, I tried. My week kicked off Monday night, when I touched down at Miami International at 9:30pm—just a half hour delayed. Untitled Art was throwing its party for exhibitors at The Moore, a private social...

The city of Detroit has a new public artwork, one that memorializes the lead character in a cult classic film set in the city—nearly four decades after the film was released and some 15 years after the statue was first proposed. The bronze statue of RoboCop measures over 11 feet high and weighs in at some 3,500 pounds.  Directed by Paul Verhoeven, the ultra-violent satire RoboCop (1987) stars Peter Weller as police officer Alex Murphy, who, in a near-future, crime-ridden Motor City, is killed by a criminal gang. He is then revived by sinister megacorporation Omni Consumer Products as a crime-fighting cyborg and unwitting ambassador for its plan to privatize the police force. As he struggles to regain his...

Frank Gehry, an award-winning architect whose designs for museums proved widely influential, died on Friday in Santa Monica, California, at 96. According to the New York Times, which first reported the news, the cause was a brief respiratory illness. More so than perhaps any other architect of the past half-century, Gehry defined the field of museum architecture. His designs, often composed of sloping, incongruous forms, helped move art institutions in a new direction, showing that they need not only be set in Neoclassical pantheons or hard-edged modernist structures. The most famous of his museum buildings was for the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Spanish museum opened in 1997 in a city that was economically...

Archaeologists digging beneath the 19th-century Palace of Westminster, home to the United Kingdom's Parliament, unearthed scores of artifacts dating back 6,000 years, the Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal Delivery Authority announced last month. As part of a three-year investigation that will inform upcoming restoration work, archaeologists discovered 60 flint flakes they believe were used as tools around 4,300 BCE during the Mesolithic or early Neolithic period. The archaeologists also uncovered additional items, including 800-year-old footwear and a 19th-century beer jug. The group noted that the flint artifacts predate Stonehenge's earliest earthworks by 1,000 years. At Stonehenge,...

The two-year MFA in Design at the University of California, Davis encourages interdisciplinary, research-driven work from students who have access to the extensive resources of a top-tier public university. The curriculum supports individual creative and scholarly practices while guiding graduates through core courses taken with their cohort.The program culminates in a public exhibition at the Manetti Shrem Museum, along with a thesis presentation and written document archived by the department. Students engage with leading designers and scholars through events such as the Alberini Family Lecture Series and the Research in Design Lecture Series, and they receive mentorship and funding to present work at major...

SANTA FE — During a recent tour of Georgia O’Keeffe’s house in Abiquiu, New Mexico, I looked out a window and recognized the view of the highway snaking up the mesa toward Española. I felt a little uneasy when I realized that my familiarity came primarily from the artist’s paintings of the landscape. O’Keeffe’s renderings of Northern New Mexico — which do not include Tewa people or culture — and the lore of her independent settler spirit are ingrained in the history of Western Modernism, and they continue to attract tourists, artists, and collectors to the region. Her self-proclaimed divinely sanctioned possession of the land is vital to consider when thinking critically about her art. So I...

a legendary architect passes
 
Frank Gehry has died on Friday, December 5th at his home in Santa Monica, California. He was 96. One of the most legendary architects of his generation, his sculptural buildings transformed skylines and reshaped the public’s imagination about what architecture could be. His chief of staff, Meaghan Lloyd, confirmed that the cause was a brief respiratory illness.
Frank Gehry at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, 2010 | image © designboom
 
 
frank gehry’s Global Architectural Force
 
Frank Gehry was best known for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which opened in 1997 and quickly became one of the most celebrated buildings of its era. Clad in rippling...

Visual artists in Canada may soon receive royalties from the resale of their works after the government announced its intent to amend its copyright laws last month.In Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget bill, passed narrowly on November 17, the government said it intended to establish an “Artist’s Resale Right,” a directive that would entitle artists to royalties from secondary and future sales of their artworks. One clause of the bill states that the measure would help create secondary income streams for visual artists, who are among Canada’s lowest earners and, like artists in the United States, currently do not receive royalties if their work's value increases after its initial...

After six days of dedicated surveillance, New Zealand authorities have recovered a diamond-encrusted Fabergé egg from a thief accused of swallowing it.  The 32-year-old man allegedly picked up the egg at Auckland’s Partridge Jewellers and ingested it late last week. The heist was swiftly foiled, as police arrived within minutes of the staff’s report and detained the suspect. “Police can confirm the pendant was recovered,” a police statement said Friday. “It is now in police custody,”  A police officer was assigned to watch over the man while waiting for nature to deliver the pendant back to its owner—and the suspect, in due course, to justice. The special-edition locket, valued at $33,585, was...

South Africa’s Stevenson Gallery will close the Johannesburg branch of the gallery after 17 years in operation. The Johannesburg gallery’s last day will be December 12, according to a post on Instagram. “We are deeply grateful to every artist, collector, friend and community member who has been with us on this journey,” the gallery wrote. The gallery’s locations in Cape Town (the South African city where it was founded in 2003) and Amsterdam will remain in operation. The final exhibition in Johannesburg will be Tofo Bardi’s show of paintings and ceramics, “Underground: Nothing to Hold,” which was scheduled to be on view until January 31, but will close next Friday instead. Michael Stevenson...

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James Lipnickas has used horror tropes for a long time. But his works were once much more linear. That used to mean monsters, aliens, and isolated landscapes that had something haunted about them. A giant worm pouring its effluence into a cabin. A force within exploding the cabin.
The horror has changed. Click above to read the full article.
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‘mountain chamber’ carves into a swedish cave
 
The Mountain Chamber by Erdegard Arkitekter rises at the threshold of an existing rock cavern in Sweden, introducing a precisely engineered volume at the edge of raw geological mass. The project serves as a transitional structure that guides visitors from open terrain into a sheltered interior carved by time and shaped again through architecture.
 
The entrance building appears as a compact, sculptural form that aligns itself with the natural direction of the bedrock. Its position frames the descent, preparing visitors for a shift in temperature, acoustics, and scale as they move toward the chamber below.
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Located in the Yangtze River Delta, Hangzhou is enmeshed in waterways. The city’s center abuts a large lake and sits just north of the Qiantang River, infamous for its magnificent tidal bore that sweeps through the region each fall. For their latest project presented in the Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art at Zhejiang Art Museum, Jin Choi and Thomas Shine merged aspects of this local environment and culture with their distinctive process. The artists, who work as Choi + Shine Architects, often create sweeping lace isntallations crocheted in partnership with local communities. Choi typically designs the motif, while Shine focuses on the structure itself. Suspended above reflective surface mimicking a dark body...

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Though perhaps showing its age, a storied production of La bohème nonetheless makes a welcome return to the Los Angeles Opera

STUDIO DENG GIVES HISTORIC COURTYARD a TONGUE FOR FAV 2025
 
In the historic courtyard of Montpellier’s Hôtel de Rozel, Studio Deng unveils The Tasting Tongue, an installation for the 2025 Festival des Architectures Vives (FAV) that imagines what happens when every object holds an invisible tongue. A metallic foil form drips from a windowsill into the small stone courtyard, carrying 130 pink felt ‘taste buds’ that sway in the breeze and invite visitors to insert, bend, and rearrange them. By encouraging this gentle interaction, the piece becomes a shifting archive of shared flavor memories and turns the intimate site into a playful experiment in collective sensory fiction.
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At the intersection of art, technology and the political imagination, Hito Steyerl’s latest exhibition, The Island, opens at Fondazione Prada’s Osservatorio in Milan as a meditation on the fluidity of time, space and knowledge. In a world simultaneously inundated by digital images and threatened by rising seas, Steyerl interrogates the structures through which we perceive reality. Her work situates itself in the uneasy spaces where scientific discovery, historical trauma and cultural myth converge, posing questions that are urgent, unsettling and deeply resonant. The Island is not merely a presentation of objects or images; it is an ecosystem of ideas that operates as much in conceptual registers as in...

Our collaboration with MPB, the UK’s leading camera reseller, has explored the deep relationships that filmmakers form with their equipment. MPB: The Next Shot set out to celebrate how cameras move beyond their function, becoming catalysts for ideas and unlocking new ways of seeing and storytelling. As we bring the series to a close, we are sharing a highlights video, bringing together moments from all four films and celebrating the joy of passing on kit, knowing it will shape a new story in someone else’s hands. Across the series, one theme emerged again and again: our creative identities are tied to the kit we use. Cameras age with us. They absorb our experiences – the knocks, the breakthroughs, the...

C’è una fotografia forse più emblematica delle altre. Ritrae una fila composta esclusivamente di persone nere alluvionate in attesa di assistenza. Su di loro incombe la gigantografia del più elevato livello di vita, ovvero quello di una famiglia bianca (genitori, figli e cane): There’s no Way Like the American Way. È per me questa la foto che può fungere da cover e da titolo di questo contributo critico che racconta la retrospettiva di Margaret Bourke-White, organizzata dalla Fondazione Palazzo Magnani di Reggio Emilia, in collaborazione con Camera – Centro italiano per la Fotografia, presso i Chiostri di San Pietro, con l’efficace e divulgativa curatela di Monica Poggi. La fotografia ha per...

El Salvador will make its inaugural appearance at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to take place May 9–November 22, 2026. The country will be represented by Salvadoran American artist J. Oscar Molina, whose exhibition will be staged at the Palazzo Mora in Venice’s Cannaregio district. El Salvador–born poet and art historian Alejandra Cabezas is curating the […]

The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) will inaugurate a new fair next year, after canceling the 2025 edition of its flagship Art Show, established in 1988. Titled the ADAA Fair, the novel event will run November 12–16, 2026, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, the traditional home of the Art Show. Whereas […]

The Rijksakademie in Amsterdam has named Laurence Rassel as its next director. Rassel arrives to the academy from école de recherche graphique (erg), the Brussels art school where she has served as director since 2016. She will step into her new role on March 1, 2026. Rassel succeeds Emily Pethick, who departed the post this […]

London’s Serpentine and the New York–based FLAG Art Foundation have announced the establishment of the UK’s largest contemporary art prize. The Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize will be awarded biannually over a span of ten years to five international artists, each of whom will receive £200,000 (about $270,000). Recipients of the honor, which is […]

When we look at a leaf, we see a predominantly flat plane, intersected by a midrib and myriad veins, or perhaps dotted with ailments like fungi or the eggs of insects. But imagine what these bits of foliage would look like if blown up like balloons. Artist Syd Carpenter responds “to the garden as a source of form” with her Expanded Leaf series. Imagining a papery leaf if it were inflated, perhaps to the size of a cat, the resulting forms take on “the girth, weight and physicality of animals,” she says. Carpenter is known for her clay-based practice exploring the body, land, agriculture, and African American history. She taps into the ancient legacy of the material, merging the timeless medium with...

At 55, Marni Myers is fired up about cyanotype multi-layering. They're investigating the expressive possibilities of alternative photographic processes through cyanotype, layered imagery, hand-applied toners, and embroidered details. Their approach resists precision in favor of painterly textures, imperfect edges, and tactile presence, revealing their hands-on approach within a process historically tied to replication and science. Since they reached 50, their dedication to their craft...

Peter Ferguson creates scenes filled with intriguing characters often caught in very strange situations. His people quite often exist in darkly humorous fantasy realms where elements like vintage fashion and the occasional nod to pop culture connect their reality to ours. Read the full article by clicking above!
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A visit to Tramps, Arcadia Missa, Santi, and Season 4 Episode 6

Known as Tse Bitai to the Diné (Navajo) people, or “winged rock,” Ship Rock in New Mexico is an otherworldly geological formation rising out of the desert that can be seen for miles around. The result of a massive volcanic eruption, the unique outcrop consists of a monolithic stack and at least six radiating, serpentine ridges of long-cooled lava. Originally, Ship Rock was likely a few thousand feet below the ground, but gradual erosion over tens of millions of years has revealed its jagged shape. For Karol Nienartowicz, who won second place in this year’s International Landscape Photographer of the Year contest, the natural landmark was an irresistible place to document from the air as a storm rolled...

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Liz Miller Kovacs photographs herself in scarred, extractive landscapes, exploring the link between environmental destruction and the objectification of femininity. The Aesthetica Art Prize shortlisted series Supernatural sees the artist draped in colourful fabric, her identity obscured and her body separated from her surroundings. Her poses echo classical paintings and art-historical archetypes. These gestures sit uncomfortably against the backdrop of ecological damage – mines, quarries and industrial ruins – calling attention to the violence enacted on both land and body. The work challenges viewers to consider how future societies might interpret these ruined environments and what they reveal about...

The story begins, as so many do in the history of modern photography, with an image: a woman behind the camera, calibrating light, waiting for a moment to materialise, composing an understanding of the world. Women Photographers 1900-1975: A Legacy of Light, which recently opened at NGV International, expands this gesture into a sweeping, multi-generational portrait of creative ingenuity. More than 300 works by over 70 artists illuminate the breadth and complexity of women’s contributions to photography during one of the most turbulent and transformative eras in modern history. The exhibition begins with a single idea – that women’s perspectives shaped photography – and transforms it into a global...

One of my favorite Christmas recordings is Kathleen Battle's A Christmas Celebration.

Noor Riyadh 2025 immerses the city in 125 artistic positions, weaving together history, architecture, and rapid urban change in an unforgettable display of public art. Shinji Ohmaki, Liminal Air Space-Time, 2025. Photo: Suzette Bell-Roberts Having […]

A monumental exhibition reconnecting Mexico, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia Galo B. Ocampo, Moro Dance, 1946. Collection of National Gallery Singapore. Courtesy of the National Heritage Board, Singapore. Opening at the Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico […]

 
We’re pleased to announce that the next book in our AUTO PHOTO series, AUTO PHOTO 04, is now available to pre-order in our online shop!
Featuring the Top 100 images selected for AUTO PHOTO Awards 2025, AUTO PHOTO 04 celebrates and showcases the best creative automotive photography from photographers around the world.
This year’s Awards were judged by a panel of experts from the automotive and photographic industries: Karen Harvey MBE (Founder and Creative Director of Shutter Hub and AUTO PHOTO), Charles Gordon-Lennox, The Duke of Richmond (Founder of Goodwood Revival and Festival of Speed), Hugh Chambers (CEO of Motorsport UK), Alessia Glaviano (Head of Global PhotoVogue and Director of the Photo Vogue...

A historic first for the Ghanaian artist and a shift in global cultural influence Photo: Almudena Caso Burbano. Courtesy the artist and APALAZZOGALLERY In a milestone moment for contemporary art, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has […]

In un’epoca segnata dalla crisi delle grandi narrazioni e dal progressivo sfaldamento delle certezze politiche ereditate dal Novecento, la pratica artistica che si confronta con la dimensione storica e geopolitica assume una valenza epistemologica. Non si tratta più di rappresentare gli eventi o di commemorarli, ma di operare su di essi una complessa opera di riattivazione semantica, atta a far emergere dalle pieghe del passato le tensioni irrisolte che continuano a strutturare il presente. La mostra Pushing the limits, in corso a Bologna alla Galleria de’ Foscherari, si inscrive precisamente in questo territorio interstiziale, dove l’arte diventa strumento di contro-memoria e dispositivo critico capace...

It’s not surprising that there are two sets of lush arrangements in Mason Pott’s Chicago studio. Photographing live bouquets of bright sunflowers, daisies, and waxy apples or magenta orchids at their peak is the first step in the artist’s layered process. Post photoshoot, he translates these floral bunches into hyperrealistic paintings, with particular care in accurately capturing their textures and the interplay of light and shadow. Pott is known for his impeccable attention to detail, painting large-scale works in oil that immerse the viewer in fields of foliage. He often creates moody still lifes that approach such classic, timeless subject matter through a contemporary lens. In keeping with that mode...

Katie Heck has built an immense body of work that crosses disciplines, from painting to sculpture to film. Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
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Since time immemorial, humans have sculpted sacred symbols into stone or formed them from clay. Expressing beliefs, worldviews, and spirituality in physical objects like votives and shrines is a way to imbue power and venerate deities and the natural world. For artists Chenlu Hou and Chiara No, ceramics is an enduring conduit to explore spirituality and storytelling. Hou and No’s work will be exhibited together in a duo exhibition titled What the Hands Remember to Hear, which opens next month at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. The artists showcase objects that take on a sacred quality, emphasizing ceremony and customs while considering how cultures change and merge over time. Chiara No, “Votive of...

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New York audiences got a taste of Ben Bliss in Mozart this fall, but this week Grand Tier Grab Bag offers snippets of the tenor trying his hand at Handel earlier this year.

In conversation with Suzette Bell-Roberts, Josèfa Ntjam, whose work is featured in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, explores erased histories, speculative ecologies, and the sonic frequencies that open pathways to new ways of being […]

Gabriela Beňačková is featured in a wonderful Christmas album called Carolling, released by Supraphon in the early 1990s.

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