On June 4, when Pace announced that it would cut 50 artists from its roster and lay off 50 employees, CEO Marc Glimcher framed the decision as a response to a larger industry problem and a gallery model he deemed “unfixable.” Later that day, according to staff, Glimcher told employees during a surprise Zoom town hall that he took personal responsibility for the situation and acknowledged that the decisions that led Pace to this point were his own.But workers inside the gallery say the cuts unfolded quickly and without clarity, affecting the most unprotected staff members — and among the impacted artists who knew what was coming, some questioned how the announcement was handled. After going through...

After almost eight years of work, the San Lorenzo Mártir church in Altos is back to its former glory

The American art market runs on a simple premise: artists are paid once, while the value of their work continues to grow — often for the benefit of others.The system works like this: Artists are paid at the point of first sale, while the long-term value they create is captured largely by collectors and intermediaries. That imbalance is not unique to the United States, but it is handled differently elsewhere. In most major art markets around the world, it is addressed through resale royalties. In the United States, it is not.For more than two decades, Representative Jerrold (Jerry) Nadler has been one of the few lawmakers working to change that. Since 1992, he has represented New York’s 12th District and,...

Is there anything the art world loves more than a game of insider baseball? If you read James Cahill’s novel The Violet Hour (2025), it would be hard to conclude otherwise. In this dreamy chronicle of fame, greed, and ambition, the stage is set for a glittering cast of characters who come off as cartoonish, even unrealistic — unless you’ve had the misfortune of encountering these types firsthand.The story’s beginning is cinematic. First, we witness the mysterious death of an ingénue gallery assistant. But before we can investigate, Cahill sweeps us away to the penthouse of an ultra-luxury skyscraper abutting Central Park. It’s occupied by elderly real estate tycoon and mega-collector Leo J. Goffman,...

Though separated by roughly 6,000 miles, the New Museum and Korea’s Ulsan Art Museum have never been closer. The two institutions today announced a multi-year partnership as part of the Hyundai Translocal Series, an initiative by the Hyundai Motor Company. The collaboration begins with a new commission by Singaporean multimedia artist and writer Ho Tzu Nyen. The work will be installed in the glass elevators of the New Museum’s recently inaugurated OMA redesign, and in Ulsan, a coastal city north of Busan.  Ho is one of Singapore’s most visible living artists, having represented the city-state at the 2011 Venice Biennale with his multi-channel video installation The Cloud of Unknowing. The work...

Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal announced Tuesday that he will dedicate $50 million, the entirety of his discretionary budget for the next fiscal year, toward the arts, reports the New York Times. Hoylman-Sigal, who assumed office in January, told the Times that this decision came as a direct response to President Donald Trump and his attempts to remake the nation’s cultural institutions. During his second administration, Trump has taken over the Kennedy Center and attempted to rename it after himself; ordered the changing of displays at historic sites that examine the history of enslavement in the US; proposed a triumphal arch and sculpture garden of American heroes; and cracked down on...

The board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a Congressionally chartered nonprofit involved in lawsuits against Donald Trump’s plans for a new White House ballroom and a reimagined John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, elected Brent Leggs as its new president and chief executive. As reported by the New York Times, Leggs—who has worked for the organization for more than 20 years—“becomes the 11th leader of the trust since it was formed in 1949 to help safeguard historically and culturally significant U.S. sites, buildings and objects.” Leggs was previously executive director of the National Trust’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, a grant program that...

Albert Einstein once said that “the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” For Dr. Elliot McGucken, the sublime enigmas of nature form the basis of his explorations of landscape and light. McGucken traverses North America’s most beautiful and striking terrain, including Death Valley where he captured a wildflower superbloom earlier this year. He revels in all kinds of natural phenomena, from the vicissitudes of the Rocky Mountains to brown bears fishing in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve to the ghostly, flood-carved walls of Antelope Canyon. He also happens to be a physicist whose...

Back in May, R.M.S. Titanic’s plan to bring 100 artifacts recovered from the shipwreck to auction became public. R.M.S. Titanic is the name of the company that owns exclusive sales rights to the notorious shipwreck. The objects in question were among those rescued from the ocean floor in 1987, two years after the wreck was discovered and 75 years after the ship sank in the North Atlantic. Various government entities in the US and France had previously voiced objection to the company’s periodic attempts to sell items from the shipwreck, part of the reason why, according to the New York Times, R.M.S. Titanic requested that court documents related to this latest endeavor remain sealed. (A U.S. District Court...

The Bellevue Men’s Shelter was closed earlier this year after falling into disrepair, but efforts to document and preserve at least six Works Progress Administration-era murals in the building have stalled

As accusations of censorship mount at museums nationwide, a new resource has emerged to help artists safeguard freedom of expression. The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom, from the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), outlines strategies for artists facing canceled exhibitions, demands to alter works, and contract negotiations—situations that the guide notes are increasingly shaped by shrinking institutional space for risk-taking art. In its introduction, the NCAC defines censorship broadly: when institutional leadership or “government actors” cancel or withdraw an invitation to present work over disagreement with its “perceived message,” or out of concern for public backlash....

Hundreds of New York City artists have joined a campaign to urge New York City schools to implement a two-year “moratorium” on artificial intelligence in the classroom. In a letter published yesterday by the AI Moratorium Coalition (AIM), nearly 500 artists, writers, and actors asked Mayor Zohran Mamdani to prohibit the use of AI education technology in public schools. Among the missive’s visual artist signatories issuing a plea to “protect New York City’s creative future” are photographer Nan Goldin, illustrator and author Molly Crabapple, and filmmaker Laurie Simmons. “AI steals the work of artists and writers," Goldin said in an email to Hyperallergic, “and if we allow it to be used on our...

Turner Prize–winning artist Helen Cammock has removed her video installation Persistence from display at London’s National Portrait Gallery after the work drew complaints that it mischaracterized onetime British prime minister Winston Churchill. The 2023 video had been on view for nearly a year when criticism began to land regarding a voice-over in which Cammock mentioned […]

"What distinguishes this millennia-old city and the franchise cornerstone it spawned is a blind insistence on not changing in the face of everyone moving on"

‘Unhidden Heroines’ pairs important women in US history with monuments on the National Mall commemorating men of their time

The 2026 edition of Art Basel’s Switzerland fair came to a close on Sunday, and in a follow-up report on the results, Art Basel said that the top-selling offerings of the six day event included Pablo Picasso’s Le peintre et son modèle dans un paysage, which Hauser & Wirth sold for $35 million. Rounding out […]

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June.Artist Brenda Goodman was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1943. She lived in New York City from 1976 to 2009 and now lives and works in Pine Hill, NY, in the Catskill Mountains. She has had about 50 solo exhibitions of her work since 1973, most recently at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins. This fall, her work will be featured in three New York exhibitions. In September, she’ll be in group shows at Marc Straus Gallery and the Studio School. In October, she’ll show her collages in a solo exhibition at JJ Murphy Gallery.Painter Angela Dufresne and I first saw Goodman’s show of...

An extensive compilation of work produced by the globally renowned Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei will soon be transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s museum. The vast project archive, which includes 1,500 rolls of architectural drawings, fifty architectural models and 1,000 linear feet of manuscripts, is a gift to the university made by the […]

To open a new film from Art21, artist Lenka Clayton encapsulates her way of thinking and making: “Looking at things that are supposed to behave a certain way and purposefully misunderstanding how they should be used, it’s really important to me,” she says. The Cornwall-born artist works across media, creating both meditative animations via typewriter and immersive installations of gathered artifacts. Collecting is central to Clayton’s practice both materially and conceptually, and she often works from her own experiences, particularly those around becoming a parent and her life in Pittsburgh (she even started an open-source residency program for artist mothers). In the short documentary, we see...

GEOPLAN reimagines the village school as a shared social center
 
The Hotič Educational Complex by GEOPLAN unites a primary school, a kindergarten, a multipurpose hall, and local community facilities into a new social center for the village of Hotič, Slovenia. The project is based on the understanding of the school as the central social space of the community, not merely as an educational institution, but as a place for gathering, strengthening local identity, and fostering daily community life for all generations. Situated at the heart of the village’s layout, the building’s scale and articulation of volumes reflect the logic of scattered rural development. Rather than a single dominant volume, the...

Details on the objects, taken unlawfully during colonial conquests, are yet to be announced

The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia has appointed art historian and educator Connie Choi chief curator and inaugural vice president for art and education, effective September 8. Choi arrives to the foundation from New York’s Studio Museum in Harlem, where she is a curator. She succeeds Nancy Ireson, who was chief curator and deputy director for […]

Helen Cammock has withdrawn her National Portrait Gallery installation Persistence following controversy

callback 8020: a flip phone for the scroll-weary
 
Commodore’s Callback 8020 flip phone is unveiled to bring a sense of nostalgia that’s somewhere between an early 2000s cell phone and a 1990s desktop from the home ‘computer room.’ With its familiar hinge and its small outer screen, this new phone is said to do just enough without pulling its user into every corner of the internet.
 
The revived computing brand has turned toward the current appetite for digital minimalism, and has developed a device that looks back with plastic shells, T9 typing, and chiptune sounds while running a modern mobile system beneath.
 
The phone sits in a growing category of devices made for people who want distance from...

Opening in August, The Light will transform a former museum into a major new destination for contemporary art, innovation and culture

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Augustas Serapinas transforms Nottingham Contemporary into a living gym where classical ideals, body politics and contemporary culture collide.

When we think of traveling circuses, the “big top” tent likely springs to mind with its acrobats, clowns, tightrope walkers, and other entertainers and pageantry. Sometimes the traditions are controversial, such as the use of elephants and lions for performances. But visions of bedazzled animals or the swinging trapeze are nevertheless etched in our collective memory. In the former U.S.S.R., the tradition took on a whole new meaning. Circuses had been nationalized in 1919, a few years before the Soviet Union was formed. Along with theater, opera, and music, the genre was also co-opted by the socialist government as a propaganda machine, turning family-friendly entertainment into a channel for Communist...

The Las Vegas Sphere has announced its next residency. A Sphere adapted version of The Rocky Horror Show will replace... Read More

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis does its best to give magic in its summer productions of Roméo et Juliette and A Streetcar Named Desired. 

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The revamped museum, which focuses on the history of the UK capital, will open to the public on 28 November 2026

In this interview, the artists discuss memory, belonging, landscape and artistic identity.

Out of Line proposes new housing model for suburban New Jersey
 
Out of Line has completed Swoop ADU, a two-bedroom, one-bathroom Accessory Dwelling Unit in South Orange, New Jersey, designed to support multigenerational living on a long-owned family property. The project allows a mother and daughter to share the same property with independent homes. Located within a cul-de-sac of nearly identical split-level houses built in the 1980s, the project engages a familiar suburban context and brings a new housing model to the neighborhood, being the first ADU permitted in the New Jersey town.
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sweeping facade line links old and new in Swoop ADU project
 
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Sena Jurinac, a celebrated Mozart and Strauss singer here as the Composer, a signature role.

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NOT A STUDIO reshapes century-old apartment in barcelona
 
Located in Barcelona’s Sarrià neighborhood, Monterols is NOT A STUDIO’s renovation of a 36-square-meter apartment with a 15-square-meter mezzanine inside a residential building dating to 1919. Designed as an update to a family-owned property passed down through generations, the project removes decades of partitions to recover the original volume of the home and foreground its nearly five-meter ceiling height. By exposing the structure of the apartment and introducing a vivid palette of blue, green, and yellow, the intervention transforms a compact historic interior into an open loft organized around light, height, and flexibility.
 
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COLOR TRANSFORMS TECHNICAL FIXTURE INTO INTENTIONAL DESIGN ASSET
 
Too often, conventional restroom fixtures are sidelined as utilitarian objects, but the U-Flow® system by Mediclinics challenges this default architectural neglect. Engineered for high-traffic environments, the hand dryer intersects an ergonomic user experience with technical performance housed within a highly considered outer form. Expanding beyond elemental utility, U-Flow® incorporates an adaptive color palette that shifts the device from a tacked-on afterthought into an intentional extension of bespoke architectural spaces.
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MEDICLINICS RESHAPES THE BASELINE OF SHARED...

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Marco Mazzucconi è un punto fermo della storia degli anni Novanta in Italia. La sua serie di “Informale visto dall’uomo e visto dal cane” è qualcosa di incredibile: porta in superficie la pittura e allo stesso tempo ci fa pensare. Ci lega alla realtà e al modo di percepirla, ci rimanda alla verità e all’interpretazione della stessa, ci parla della forma e dei pensieri che su questa si possono ricamare. Inoltre, si tratta di opere ineccepibili, eseguite con cura maniacale e di grande professionalità. Altro ciclo, declinato in varie maniere, ma sempre di grande forza espressiva e di grande intuizione, è quello che s’intitola “Chance di un capolavoro”. Questo ciclo, declinato nelle sagome di...

Ryan Heshka has a longtime love of science fiction, four-color printed comics from the 1950s and ‘60s and mid-twentieth-century mutant movie characters. In his comic Frog Wife, he taps into these influences while adding in a dose of contemporary themes, drawing upon not just the “anxiety of nuclear annihilation” that inspired so much twentieth-century pop […]
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Thousands of handmade ceramic tiles nest together like a puzzle on the facade of the Torre San Luis hotel in Guadalajara, Mexico. Abstract shapes evocative of a lush garden ecosystem burst across the outdoor wall in a collaboration between Alex Proba and the artisans of Cerámica Suro. Titled “Shape of Movement,” the large-scale public work melds Proba’s organic visual language with a color palette that reflects the local environment. Earthy neutrals, alongside dusty pinks and blues, mimic the sun-drenched landscape, while the dynamic forms appear as if they’re mid-motion. “The work is about the movement we carry through spaces every day,” Proba shares. “I wanted the mural to feel as if the...

Whether it’s a large-scale wallpaper reproduction of Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” or pages of deconstructed Artforum magazines, David Daigle’s detailed punch-cut compositions delve into the material and conceptual possibilities of layers, depth, and what is revealed or concealed. Daigle’s forthcoming exhibition, The Death of Beauty at Track 16, investigates intersections of identity, consumer culture, and desire through a kind of sedimentary approach to commercial imagery, which he excavates with precise holes each revealing tiny tableaux. This method of décollage, which involves building up the surface and then removing elements, literally peels away the meanings and intentions behind...

By Melanie Chapman There is much to appreciate about the new pop-up exhibition Hospital of Emotions, currently on view at St. Vincent Medical Center (2131 W. Third Street, Los Angeles) until July 31. But if you want to maximize the benefits of your visit, avoid the bombardment of images now flooding the internet and even consider not reading this review. Like seeing all the best parts of a movie by watching the trailer, it is better to just go, and go soon, with as little advanced exposure as...

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The divine Dame Janet Baker never sang at the Metropolitan, sadly for American audiences.

Miriam Cahn propone una visione e la impone come dato. La retrospettiva al MACRO di Roma, la prima in Italia di questa ampiezza, è un campo di attrito in cui cinquant’anni di opere costringono il corpo a misurarsi con la propria esposizione all’abuso. Guardare, qui, indica essere guardati. Il titolo, Ciò che mi guarda, ribalta la direzionalità dello scrupolo con una minuzia tutt’altro che retorica. Lo spettatore smarrisce qualunque ubicazione esterna: viene convocato in una relazione che esclude neutralità e divario gestibile. Il visivo funziona da contatto diretto, pressione, più che raffigurazione. Curata da Cristiana Perrella e allestita da Didier Fiúza Faustino // Bureau des Mésarchitectures,...

Wolf Trap Opera triumphs in a fizzy, fun Cenerentola.

We had to wait for Marian Anderson to break the color barrier at the Met and many great Black opera singers never had a chance there.

Dallo Studio Tommaseo a una rete internazionale di curatori e artisti: Giuliana Carbi Jesurun racconta il percorso e la visione di un centro culturale che ha deciso di guardare oltre, rivolgendosi a Est, in un progetto che parte negli anni ‘70 e che continua ancora oggi a evolversi.
“Dialoghi Lituani”, 1997, mostra alla Stazione Marittima di Trieste, in primo piano le sculture imbottite di Darius Bastys, foto Tiziano Neppi, courtesy Trieste Contemporanea
Veronica Rinaldi: Ci potrebbe raccontare com’è nata Trieste Contemporanea?
Giuliana Carbi Jesurun: Trieste Contemporanea è nata perché in una Trieste che voleva essere contemporanea era doveroso guardare a Est. I nostri Dialoghi con l’arte...

Durante i giorni della Biennale, Venezia continua a funzionare come un sistema poroso, dove ogni intervento si innesta su stratificazioni già presenti senza mai cancellarle del tutto. In questo contesto, la Cappella di Santa Maria della Pietà accoglie Vessels of Other Worlds di Wallace Chan come una deviazione silenziosa rispetto al flusso espositivo diffuso in città. Non si tratta di un’occupazione dello spazio, ma di una sua lenta modulazione, in cui la materia sembra reagire più che dichiararsi. L’impatto visivo, per chi entra nell’edificio progettato da Giorgio Massari, è un’alterazione improvvisa della luce: la pietra e i marmi storici della chiesa settecentesca entrano in contrasto con la...

Calligraphy is an ancient art with roots across the globe, dating back to early Chinese dynasties and Greek civilization, all through the Italian Renaissance. But one glance at a work by San Francisco-based artist Hunter Saxony III, and your understanding of calligraphy will be turned on its head. In an approach that is varied, yet […]
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The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

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Nello spazio del foglio i segni tracciati da Kazuko Miyamoto si muovono liberi. Gli ideogrammi animano la superficie della pagina in una raffinata sequenza di passi e movimenti, alla stregua di una danza, così come i tocchi di inchiostro e colore sono coinvolti in un moto perpetuo di aggregazione e disgregazione. Sulla carta non esiste possibilità di correzione e ripensamento, e ciò non per puntigliosa ed esteriore regola di gioco, ma perché la scrittura rappresenta il diagramma continuo d’un fluire a cui sono ignote le soste.[1]
Kazuko Miyamoto, “Dancing around the entrance to the cellar”, exhibition view, courtesy Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Roma
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In the popular imagination, artists are often thought to create for the sake of creating, unfettered by the demands of the market-driven world outside their studios. Though many well-known artists have muddled the boundaries between art and commerce (Jeff Koons comes to mind), the two realms have a contentious relationship. Business savvy artists are often […]
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All images courtesy of the artist and GNYP gallery In Aistė Stancikaitė’s painting “Some Time We Walk Together,” two gloved hands are joined by a set of finger cuffs. The connected, silver rings resemble wedding bands. As for the hands, whether they belong to one or two people is up to the viewer to decide. […]
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