On Tuesday, four more suspects were arrested in connection with the theft of the French crown jewels from the Louvre in Paris last month. One of those men, who is currently in police custody, is suspected of being the fourth member of the group who staged the heist. The man in question was arrested yesterday in the small city of Laval, just 174 miles west of Paris. He reportedly has a criminal record and has been charged with organized theft and criminal conspiracy, according to Le Parisien. He is also believed to have connections with the other three alleged members who were previously arrested. Additionally, three of the suspect’s relatives were taken in for questioning. “They are two men aged 38 and...

In 2024, while Timo Fahler was out for a run in Los Angeles, he came across a discarded bedspring. It lingered in his studio for months until one day, its thirteen rows of springs revealed themselves as the red and white stripes of the American flag. It also turned out to be the last work he made in the U.S. before he and his family relocated to The Netherlands. Fahler’s slouched “flag” is one of a number of recent stained glass sculptures on view in his solo exhibition Terminal Classic at Sebastian Gladstone that reference major changes in the artist’s personal life and the U.S.’s tumultuous socio-political climate. Time becomes slippery as he taps into imagery that is both contemporary and ancient....

In some of his first public comments after being accused of sexual misconduct in 2023, David Adjaye lambasted the Financial Times story that detailed the allegations, calling it “deeply unfair”. Adding, “There was just an interest in just destroying me, and I got caught in a sort of version of the #MeToo slam.” As reported by the architecture and design magazine Dezeen, Adjaye spoke out in an interview with architecture critic Tim Abrahams for the podcast Superhumanism. “The article that the FT wrote really destabilized a lot of people’s confidence in me,” he said. “And for me, it was deeply unfair, but I get how news cycles work and I get how stories work. And there wasn’t an interest in...

Renowned critic and commentator Christopher Knight is retiring after writing about art for some 45 years, including 36 years at the Los Angeles Times. Knight is among the few remaining full-time critics at magazines and newspapers. Friday is his final day.  “It’s impossible to overstate the loss Knight’s departure represents for the paper and Los Angeles, or what a tireless, generous, inspiring colleague he is,” said staff writer Jessica Gelt in a column announcing Knight’s retirement. “He possesses a quiet, encyclopedic knowledge of art, and in column after column he connected the dots of culture, history, folklore, civics and psychology in razor-sharp assessments of what a piece of art really...

The Biennale's eighth edition focuses on the city-state's idiosyncrasies

‘David and Goliath’ went to auction with an estimate of just just €2m–€4m

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Grand Tier Grab Bag features a complete performance of Ernest Chausson's Poème de l'amour et de la mer ahead of a particular year for both its soloist and conductor.

Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu to curate the 20th Architecture Biennale
 
Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu have been appointed to curate the 20th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia, opening May 8th and running through November 21st, 2027, in the Giardini and Arsenale. The decision, approved by La Biennale’s Board of Directors upon the recommendation of President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, brings the founders of Amateur Architecture Studio to one of the most influential platforms in the discipline, marking a pivotal moment ahead of the exhibition’s 2027 edition.
 
For nearly three decades, Amateur Architecture Studio’s practice is rooted in reuse, vernacular craft, and resistance to...

The Nicholson family has been having a moment.

The fee, announced ahead of today's budget, would apply to overnight stays, with England's mayors and local leaders able to decide what revenue should be spent on

Cristina De Middel’s Journey to the Center, currently on view at the International Centre for the Image, Dublin, until 23 December, presents a compelling exploration of migration, myth and human resilience. Presented by PhotoIreland, the exhibition marks her return to the city a decade after the Irish premiere of The Afronauts. The series merges documentary photography with constructed imagery and archival material to create narratives that are at once political, poetic and conceptually playful. Rather than presenting migration solely as a crisis, De Middel reframes it as a journey of courage, endurance and imagination. Her approach encourages viewers to rethink the stories often circulated by media and...

Emmanuel Perrotin famously founded his original Paris gallery in 1990 at the age of just twenty-one

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French media report arrest of man in small town in the West of they country, said to have links with those apprehended in October

Replacing foot and lower leg with 3D printed prosthetic fin
 
Essesi Design Studio designs Nimble, a concept modular 3D printed prosthetic fin that can help athletic amputees swim again. An attachable technology, the assistive object replaces the foot and lower leg that users have lost. It uses a carbon fiber for the shell, and inside this main body sits a lattice structure made of rubber material.
 
This part bends during movement, so in this case, when the swimmer kicks, the lattice structure flexes, creating thrust that moves them forward through water. The same lattice structure handles another task: it absorbs impact to protect the remaining limb section from experiencing discomfort or pain during...

MEDICLINICS HIDES FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS BEHIND INVISIBLE LAYER
 
By integrating all functional elements — hand dryers or paper dispensers, faucets, and soap dispensers — behind the mirror glass, Mediclinics offers a powerful system, acting as an invisible layer that fully conceals the necessary devices without compromising their functionality. The approach results in visually expanded, organized spaces free from clutter, ensuring walls and countertops remain unobstructed while maximizing available space for truly minimalist restrooms. For the user, the entire hand hygiene process, including  washing, soaping, and drying, occurs at a single, intuitive location. Activated via infrared sensors, the...

Photography has a unique capacity to make the invisible visible, and to illuminate truths about the world and ourselves that often go unnoticed. It documents reality whilst simultaneously interpreting it, acting as both witness and storyteller. The 2025 Royal Photographic Society Awards, the world’s longest-running photography prize, celebrated this power, recognising photographers whose work challenges boundaries and transforms how we see. From experimental landscapes to socially engaged portraiture, the winners demonstrate the breadth of contemporary photography and its capacity to engage, provoke and inspire. At the forefront is Susan Derges, awarded the RPS Centenary Medal for her outstanding...

The production is based on the Elisabeth Fritzl story, and it really made me reconsider this opera's fairy tale storyline.

Wallace Collection will focus on art as soft power, bringing fresh perspectives to the creativity of Sir Winston Churchill, Britain at war, and Renaissance power

‘Uchi–Etxe’ Concept Guides El Departamento’s Design for Bershka
 
El Departamento takes over the design of Bershka‘s new concept store in San Sebastián based on the idea of ‘Uchi–Etxe,’ a meeting point between Japanese domestic aesthetics (uchi) and the traditional Basque house (etxe). The project reinterprets the brand’s identity through a domestic, contemporary spatial framework that aligns with the city’s layered and cosmopolitan character.
 
Located at 3 Fuenterrabia Street, the store reorganizes an existing site into a permeable retail environment defined by large windows that enhance the relationship between interior and exterior. Referencing the typology of the Basque farmhouse,...

Mary Kelly talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work

inflated geometry defines gustaf westman’s storage system
 
With Puzzle Shelf, Gustaf Westman continues expanding his soft-edged, hyper-saturated world, this time through a system that assembles like an exaggerated childhood toy. The stackable storage system is made up of glossy, bone-shaped blocks that lock into one another like a giant jigsaw, forming shelving, benches, tables, or sculptural stacks depending on how users configure them. The candy-pink, cherry-red, grass-green, icy-blue, and cream elements feel almost animated, compressing Westman’s instantly recognizable visual language into a single, modular kit.
 
In an Instagram reel created in collaboration with Apple, the designer traces the...

Morgan Quaintance & Onyeka Igwe have jointly received the 2025 Film London Jarman Award

“We have not yet begun to utilize the museum as an instrument of cultural education.” Those words, from Alain Locke’s 1925 essay “The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts,” carry visitors through a set of newly installed permanent collection galleries at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA).   When he penned that text a century ago, Locke, the eminent philosopher of the Harlem Renaissance, spoke on what he viewed as the popular distortion of “the African spirit,” a caricature, he argued, that obscured the true character of its descendent: African American artistic expression. He characterized this creative temperament as “free, exuberant, emotional, sentimental and human” and shaped by African...

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For nearly two decades, the Jarman Award has marked a key moment in the UK’s creative landscape. Each year, the prize spotlights emerging artists who are reinventing what moving-image work can be. Taking its name from the radical filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman (1942–1994), the award seeks out practices that echo his bold, boundary-breaking approach. Previous winners feature some of today’s most influential contemporary practitioners, including Heather Phillipson, Imran Perretta, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Luke Fowler and Sin Wai Kin. Now, Morgan Quaintance and Onyeka Igwe join that illustrious list. The two artists were announced as joint winners of the 2025 Film London Jarman Award at a special ceremony at...

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Experience design firm Murmur Ring, in partnership with Empathy and the Institute of Design, invites artists, designers, makers, and creatives of all kinds to join the Reclaiming Value: Sacred Valley Design Immersion from June 15 to 19, 2026, in Peru’s Sacred Valley. The Colossal team previously joined Murmur Ring for a transformative week-long immersion in Oaxaca, Mexico, and looks forward to joining this excursion, as well. This is not a tourist program. Mumur Ring’s Immersions are creative exchanges born from years of research and relationship-building. Intimate site visits with Peruvian makers and innovators offer rare, behind-the-scenes access to the perspectives, techniques, and community-centered...

If you find the world is smoldering, come on home to Green River.Greta Thunberg and three dozen members of the environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion turned Venice’s Grand Canal lime green on Monday to decry the scant progress governments around the world have made toward phasing out fossil fuels.  Extinction Rebellion’s waterborne demonstration, which made the City of Water resemble St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago, was one of several protests at lakes, fountains, and waterways in 10 cities throughout Italy following the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Brazil. Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined members of Extinction Rebellion for the "Stop the Ecocide" action in Venice.In...

As artists continue to feel the impacts of grant withdrawals and exhibition cancellations under the Trump administration, New York City Councilmember Erik Bottcher held an oversight hearing on alleged censorship in the arts sector on Thursday, November 20.The hearing featured testimony from artists and cultural leaders, including New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) Commissioner Laurie Cumbo; Asian American Arts Alliance Executive Director Lisa Gold; and Elizabeth Larison, director of the Arts and Culture Advocacy Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship. The group called upon the City Council to address growing uncertainty, including the federal government’s abrupt mass...

Following a fraught selection cycle, the US Department of State on Monday confirmed that Utah-born, Mexico-based sculptor Alma Allen will represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale.  The prestigious exhibition opens next May, when scores of curators, collectors, and journalists descend on the lagoon city to judge not only the quality of art on display, but the politics communicated by each national pavilion at the world’s top international art event. In the context of the ideological re-weaving of arts and culture under President Trump, the choice of the US representative offers a prism through which to read his priorities, especially when this year’s guidelines were updated to include that...

An anti-establishment fixture of the Los Angeles scene, Foulkes leaves behind a long legacy of furious expression spanning painting, sculpture, animation, music and more

Enigmatic artist and musician Llyn Foulkes passed away on Thursday, November 20, at his home in Los Angeles. The news was confirmed by his daughter, Jenny Foulkes, who noted that earlier reports misstated the date of his death. He was 91 years old.Across his seven-decade career, Foulkes created paintings, assemblage pieces, constructions, and music that mine American history, cartoons, politics, and his own autobiography in a diverse oeuvre, mixing dark humor and scathing critique with a tactile vitality. He was a mercurial artist, never wanting to be pinned down with one style, though he was perhaps best known for his Bloody Head paintings, portraits whose subjects looked as if their heads had been split...

The Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM) has filed a civil suit against former director and CEO Sasha Suda, accusing her of theft. The filing, which claims that Suda “misappropriated funds from the Museum and lied to cover up her theft,” is the latest twist in a saga that began earlier this month when the institution, until […]

Berlin is not a place where you feel. Feel too deeply here and you’ll either pack your bags or lose your mind. The city hums with a seductive aura: gritty, unflinching, addictive. Sometimes I think the devil lives here, dressed in black, DJing liberation for lost souls with no rhythm. Since I moved here during the COVID-19 pandemic, people have greeted my lack of enthusiasm for a fascist country and its marginally less fascist capital with disbelief.Berlin is fascist — but sexy fascist. The kind where a party with a darkroom passes for liberation. The kind where, if I were attacked with a stake in public for being a shapeshifting, time-travelling trickster in the body of a dark-skinned Black trans...

What happens when abstract art gets inventive, playful, even rebellious? A handful of current exhibitions offer compelling answers. Painting in Space brings together four titans of abstraction — Al Held, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, and Frank Stella — whose visions of space, flatness, and opticality are as radical now as they were decades ago. Anish Kapoor’s early pigment sculptures at the Jewish Museum also pushed boundaries and set the stage for the monumental artworks for which he’s best known today. These creators laid the groundwork for later generations of artists, including Luz Carabaño, whose quiet, dreamy paintings are almost hypnotic.If abstraction isn’t your preference, check out An...

A vibrant new pavilion rises to meet the square’s picturesque trees in Cradle of Country Music Park in Knoxville, Tennessee, connecting the city’s Old Town and its theater district. Made from tens of thousands of individual pieces of painted aluminum, the vivid “Pier 865” provides both a resting place and a vantage point in a reinvigorated public square. The reptilian sculpture is the work of Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY, continuing the designer’s interest in high-tech, large-scale installations that involve meticulously assembled elements. Conceived digitally, the structure has a bold, futuristic quality that looks exactly like a 3D model made real—one can imagine its pixel-like pieces puzzling...

Stephen Friedman Gallery has announced that it will shutter its New York outpost at the end of February 2026. The gallery, which had moved to its TriBeCa space just over two years ago, will continue to operate its London flagship, in business since 1995, and has said it will maintain its full artist roster. Stephen […]

The end of the year is quickly approaching and so is the season of giving. By choosing to shop with us this year, you’re supporting independent publishing and allowing us continue to share important stories every day. This year’s Colossal Gift Guide highlights some of our favorite art and design products. From world-renowned artist tools and one-of-a-kind calendars to quirky bags and detailed monographs, we’ve curated everything you need to be named Best Gift Giver of the Year. Grouped by each unique recipient—whether it be your creative sibling, grandkids, or that one uncle whose vibe is impossible to identify—there’s something here for everyone on your list. Grab a cup of tea, get cozy, and...

Rotterdam Photo 2026 Open Call: Echoes of Silence—War in the Artist’s SoulFeaturedRotterdam Photo invites photographers worldwide to explore how war and collective trauma resonate in the artist’s inner world. ‘Echoes of Silence’ asks: What happens when artists are not eyewitnesses to conflict but still carry its emotional legacy? How does violence linger in memory—not as an image, but as a feeling, a silence, a sound within? This edition focuses on photographers who use their lens not as a tool for documentation, but as a mirror reflecting the unseen impact of war, displacement, and survival. Selected applicants receive exhibition space at Rotterdam Photo 2026, along with shows in Barcelona,...

"Even though I would hope to be remembered as a portrait artist—canonizing the image of Indigenous people within art history—I am constantly set upon side quests,” says multidisciplinary Canadian artist Wally Dion.. read the full article by clicking above.
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Cartoonist Jay Howell is "looking forward to the next thing, always". Click above to read the full article.
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Perrotin has announced the representation of Todd Gray

Vincent Lombardo pays poetic tribute to the 60-year-long career of Robert Wilson.

Mindy Seu’s Instastory performance lays bare the internet’s sexual architecture.

As Messiah season begins, Christopher Corwin reports on two of Handel’s forays into the Old Testament.

Sam Metz is the winner of the 2025 Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize. Their work seeks to answer the question: what would the art world look like if it centred neurodivergent experiences? They make drawing, animation and sculptural installation that respond to neurodivergence and the body, often relating to stimming and ecology. The award-winning sculpture, Porosity, reflects Metz’s sensory experience of the Humber Estuary. Bright yellow structures echo how they see the water’s reflection through ocular albinism (a genetic condition that affects the eyes). The piece challenges conceptions of sculpture by integrating disability into its core form, embracing difference as method and message. Metz spoke to...

Chiharu Shiota’s work fills the galleries of MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale in Turin with a sense of presence and reflection. The Soul Trembles, curated by Mami Kataoka and Davide Quadrio, traces over 20 years of the Japanese artist’s practice, bringing together drawings, sculptures, photographs and monumental installations. Her pieces transform the museum into an immersive environment where threads, boats, dresses and suitcases act as carriers of memory, identity and human experience. The exhibition places Shiota’s work in dialogue with MAO’s collection, inviting visitors to consider the connections between East and West, past and present, and the visible and invisible traces that shape our lives. It...

Painter, jazz musician, and assemblage artist Llyn Foulkes, known for his uncategorizable work and his resistance to the commodification of art, died on November 20 at the age of ninety-one. During a career spanning seven decades, Foulkes created a vast and diverse body of work bound together by his use of humor and satire to […]

At 75, Cindy Zimmerman is developing a workshop on making artist books for Banned Books Week at San Diego Central Library. They're also working on Mobile Monument, rolling activist art for protests, parades, and exhibitions, amplifying words purged during the first weeks of the Trump administration. They're more clear now that they decide what to do based on the guidance of their inner voice. What's actually hard about being an artist at this point in their life?  Too little space. Someone...

Washington National Opera presented a well-sung and humorous Marriage of Figaro, buoyed by clever direction and a strong cast, particularly Rosa Feola’s Countess and Joélle Harvey’s Susanna.

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
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Up to a year ago, E.M. Miller's medium was food. Now it's raw canvas. At 50, he's a former actor turned musician turned chef turned artist standing at yet another fucking crossroads and deciding if he continues down this rabbit hole of art or not. How's his work different now than it was before 50?  A weaker person or perhaps a lesser experienced person would say the unknown, but he's used to not asking those kinds of questions. What's actually hard about being an artist at this point? He...

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foto credit Susanna Andreini Susanna Andreini works with the invisible realms—concrete with Elemental Beings. At 60, the stunning results of her recent paintings, the absolutely unexpected colors, motifs, and expression touched her in a very deep way and encouraged her to explore this way of artistic expression even deeper. She's exploring her connection to the Elemental Beings, offering them her canvas as their stage. They dance on it, try out different forms, sometimes as lines, sometimes...

GWAR was never an ordinary rock band. And in the recent documentary This Is GWAR, director Scott Barber digs into the past and present of the music and art collective that simultaneously defied categorization while infiltrating late twentieth century pop culture and continues to entertain fans today with heavy metal and elaborate—even gory—stage shows. Read Liz Ohanesian's full article by clicking above.
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