Calixto Bieito's production of Idomeneo at La Monnaie is anchored by a committed cast, but gets swept up in pseudo-psychoanalytic imagery — and foot fetishism.
Raúl Sánchez inserts A new layer within a 19th-century narrative
In Mataró, near Barcelona, Spain, architect Raúl Sánchez reworks La Casa del Pirata, a residence originally commissioned in the 19th century by corsair Antoni Cuyàs, inserting a precise contemporary layer within its richly ornamented interiors. The intervention focuses on the main domestic rooms, where painted ceilings, decorative wallpapers, and inherited portraits are retained, allowing the historical atmosphere of the residence to remain fully present.
Today, the house is inhabited by Cuyàs’ descendants, who sought to adapt the historic interiors to a contemporary live-work routine. The project concentrates on three rooms that...
In Mataró, near Barcelona, Spain, architect Raúl Sánchez reworks La Casa del Pirata, a residence originally commissioned in the 19th century by corsair Antoni Cuyàs, inserting a precise contemporary layer within its richly ornamented interiors. The intervention focuses on the main domestic rooms, where painted ceilings, decorative wallpapers, and inherited portraits are retained, allowing the historical atmosphere of the residence to remain fully present.
Today, the house is inhabited by Cuyàs’ descendants, who sought to adapt the historic interiors to a contemporary live-work routine. The project concentrates on three rooms that...
Washington National Opera offered a searing production of Robert Ward’s opera The Crucible, directed by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello, as the second installment in the company’s next chapter.
The art historian Gary Schwartz argues that the copy of “Old Man with a Gold Chain” currently hanging alongside the original at the Art Institute of Chicago is by Rembrandt himself, not his workshop
Italian police say that four hooded criminals broke into the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, housed in a rural villa south of Parma, on 22 March
The news follows his sudden departure as president of the Pinault Collection
olafur eliasson shapes shared experience through perception
Olafur Eliasson’s work is based on a simple but important idea: perception is not passive, but something we actively construct. From this perspective, art is not only about creating objects, but about setting up situations where people can together experience and rethink the world that surrounds them. What emerges is not a fixed vision of a better future, but a shared condition shaped through perception, participation, and responsibility.
A key concept in Eliasson’s practice is what he describes as seeing yourself seeing. This is not just a poetic idea, but a way of making viewers aware of their own role in perception. By introducing...
Olafur Eliasson’s work is based on a simple but important idea: perception is not passive, but something we actively construct. From this perspective, art is not only about creating objects, but about setting up situations where people can together experience and rethink the world that surrounds them. What emerges is not a fixed vision of a better future, but a shared condition shaped through perception, participation, and responsibility.
A key concept in Eliasson’s practice is what he describes as seeing yourself seeing. This is not just a poetic idea, but a way of making viewers aware of their own role in perception. By introducing...
Pure class. Kurt Moll really knew his own voice inside out.
Raphael: Sublime Poetry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is by far the biggest blockbuster of the season here in New York. It's also the first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael in the United States, bringing into one place more than 170 of his greatest masterpieces, including hits like "Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione" (c. 1514–1515) and "The Alba Madonna" (c. 1510), alongside a trove of sketches and studies. Today we speak with the woman behind the show, longtime curator Carmen C. Bambach, to get a glimpse into the making of this exceptional exhibition. Also in this edition: a tour through a Robert Therrien exhibition at The Broad in Los Angeles, the artist collective that fights against nuclear...
The La Napoule Art Foundation is opening its doors more widely than ever before through its new Threshold Art Retreats, a program designed for artists seeking creative exploration in an extraordinary setting at the Château de La Napoule in the south of France. These immersive five-day retreats invite participants of all backgrounds—not just professional artists—to step into a world where art, nature, and personal reflection intersect. With a focus on both artistic practice and inner renewal, the experience offers a rare opportunity to engage deeply with creativity in an ethereal setting shaped by nearly a century of artistic vision. Each retreat blends hands-on artistic instruction with restorative...
317studio organizes learning around a campfire-inspired core
Located in Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Qingshan Forest by 317studio reimagines a conventional classroom at Qingshan Elementary and Junior High School as a flexible, forest-like learning environment. Designed to support the long-standing focus of the school on scouting education, the project accommodates teaching, hands-on training, and group activities within a single adaptable space. In a region marked by frequent rainfall, outdoor exercises are often brought indoors, prompting the need for a classroom that can host action-based and experiential learning.
The architects replace the typical front-facing layout with a shared central...
Located in Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Qingshan Forest by 317studio reimagines a conventional classroom at Qingshan Elementary and Junior High School as a flexible, forest-like learning environment. Designed to support the long-standing focus of the school on scouting education, the project accommodates teaching, hands-on training, and group activities within a single adaptable space. In a region marked by frequent rainfall, outdoor exercises are often brought indoors, prompting the need for a classroom that can host action-based and experiential learning.
The architects replace the typical front-facing layout with a shared central...
A$AP Rocky curates exhibition with basic.space
The Walker Guest House, designed in 1952 by Paul Rudolph, is on view again, far from its original site in Florida and in an exhibition curated by A$AP Rocky. Presented by Basic.Space as a structure rebuilt and installed in full scale, the house is shown with its original interior elements, with modern design pieces from Charlotte Perriand, Eileen Gray, Jean Prouvé, Pierre Jeanneret, Dieter Rams, Ettore Sottsass, Gaetano Pesce, Sabine Marcelis, and many more. The house was first built on Sanibel Island, Florida, sitting on a square plan, raised slightly from the ground.
Its structure uses a clear grid, and the wood frames define the walls and roof. It is...
The Walker Guest House, designed in 1952 by Paul Rudolph, is on view again, far from its original site in Florida and in an exhibition curated by A$AP Rocky. Presented by Basic.Space as a structure rebuilt and installed in full scale, the house is shown with its original interior elements, with modern design pieces from Charlotte Perriand, Eileen Gray, Jean Prouvé, Pierre Jeanneret, Dieter Rams, Ettore Sottsass, Gaetano Pesce, Sabine Marcelis, and many more. The house was first built on Sanibel Island, Florida, sitting on a square plan, raised slightly from the ground.
Its structure uses a clear grid, and the wood frames define the walls and roof. It is...
The Arts Collective complex, five years in the making, will feature galleries, learning spaces and 17 artists’ studios
Expanded version of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (Hear) Act in the US fundamentally alters the legal landscape for both claimants and current owners
winner revealed for All-New Nissan MICRA design competition
Following an international, multi-phase contest that began in August 2025, Nissan and designboom reveal Marc-André Fauteux as the winner of the Elevate the All-New Nissan MICRA: The Signature Edition competition. Selected from 11 distinguished finalists, Fauteux’s proposal was lauded for its ability to transform the compact urban vehicle into a moving canvas of ‘organized simplicity’. The international design competition challenged creators to reinterpret the exterior identity of the All-New Nissan MICRA without altering its physical architecture, focusing instead on the evocative power of color, graphics, and material finishes.
Nissan,...
Following an international, multi-phase contest that began in August 2025, Nissan and designboom reveal Marc-André Fauteux as the winner of the Elevate the All-New Nissan MICRA: The Signature Edition competition. Selected from 11 distinguished finalists, Fauteux’s proposal was lauded for its ability to transform the compact urban vehicle into a moving canvas of ‘organized simplicity’. The international design competition challenged creators to reinterpret the exterior identity of the All-New Nissan MICRA without altering its physical architecture, focusing instead on the evocative power of color, graphics, and material finishes.
Nissan,...
Kyoto is one of the oldest municipalities in Japan. It served as the official Imperial capital from 794 until 1868, and today remains steeped in history. The city attracted over 10 million foreign tourists in 2024, and is renowned for its bamboo grove, gardens, historic districts, shrines and temples. Yasuhiro Ogawa (b. 1968), a leading figure in Japanese contemporary photography, has been documenting the locale for 10 years. Now, the resulting atmospheric series, Lost in Kyoto, is central to his latest show in Berlin. This body of work eschews the traditional conventions of documentary or travel photography, which revel in famous landmarks or Instagram-friendly photo-ops. Instead, Ogawa presents abstractions...
Il post-minimalismo, nato a partire dalla risemantizzazione di ciò che il minimalismo storico aveva consegnato alla storia come irrisolvibile, è tra le correnti che hanno segnato più in profondità la scultura e l’installazione degli ultimi trent’anni. Se maestri come Donald Judd (Excelsior Springs, 1928 – New York, 1994), Robert Morris (Kansas City, 1931 – Kingston, 2018) e Dan Flavin (New York, 1933 – New York, 1996) avevano perseguito un’idea di riduzione assoluta attraverso forme concepite come presenze pure, neutre e incorruttibili, la generazione successiva rovesciò quell’assioma pur continuando a interrogarsi su quanto si potesse togliere all’opera finale, reintroducendo nel white...
Inta Ruka (b. 1958) began photographing at a young age, driven by a deep curiosity about the people around her. The camera became her way of encountering the world. Between 1983 and 2008, Ruka captured people in her native Latvia, recording their lives in homes, courtyards and streets – places where everyday life unfolds. She returned to the same people over time, working slowly and allowing trust to develop. The resulting photographs preserve places, relationships and lived experiences, from which a sense of belonging emerges. Fotografiska Tallinn presents Places Called Home, a show that brings together two series across more than 80 photographs. They paint a portrait of Latvia during a time of...
L’artista digitale multidisciplinare Di Cao ha recentemente presentato nuove opere alla NEOI Gallery a Ginza, Tokyo. Nel 2025 è stato invitato a partecipare alla prestigiosa mostra annuale The Discerning Eye alle Mall Galleries di Londra. Nello stesso anno è stato selezionato per la mostra collettiva internazionale Art Evol 2025: Voices from the Undefined, promossa dal London Art Collective e presentata alla Saatchi Gallery. Su invito della NEOI Gallery, Di Cao ha presentato la sua prima mostra personale Collective Body dal 23 febbraio al 1 marzo 2026. L’esposizione ha segnato una tappa importante nello sviluppo dell’artista come praticante multiculturale. Riflette il suo percorso artistico dalla Cina...
Global agriculture is at a tipping point. Countries worldwide face mounting pressures: extreme weather driven by climate change, increasing water scarcity, and a growing agricultural labour shortage as people move from rural areas. It’s a serious concern, heightened by projections that the global population will increase by two billion by 2050, requiring food production to rise by 70%. In response, many are turning to technological innovation. A 2024 McKinsey survey found that 57% of North American farmers are likely to adopt yield-enhancing technologies within the next two years. By 2021, an estimated 87% of businesses in the US agricultural sector were already utilising artificial intelligence. Artist Cao...
As we reach the end of “Bass Month” I’d like to call attention to the superb American Gregory Reinhart who particularly shone in music by Jean-Philippe Rameau.
I hope you're reading this while waiting for the sparkly glue to dry on your DIY protest sign for today's No Kings marches. Check out Steven Weinberg’s fantastic comic this week for tips from artists and writers on how to make a great one. Reuse your “I Prefer My ICE Crushed” banner at less mainstream local actions to keep the pressure going.This leads us to a weightier question looming over art and activism right now: “Where does socially engaged art fit into a world progressively hostile to independent thought?” That inquiry prompted Ed Woodham, a fixture of NYC's experimental scene and founder of Art in Odd Places, to explore the pernicious ways in which the frameworks of social...
On a recent visit to the Notre-Dame de Paris, the 12th-century cathedral was bustling with a steady flow of visitors who had come inside the Gothic monument from a wintery afternoon. It seemed more packed than it had been before its closure in 2019, after the collapse of its iconic spire and roof in a horrific blaze. But the line to get in moved quickly, and once under its vaulted ceiling, the sheer size of the structure left room to linger. I had gone to see the stained-glass windows designed by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th century, adorning six of the south-side chapels along the nave—before they are replaced. Viollet-le-Duc’s windows, geometric and floral-patterned stained-glass...
“Il silenzio del gesto. Nel punto esatto in cui mi perdo comincio a sentire” è il titolo scelto per la grande retrospettiva di Antonio Recca alla Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Catania (GAM), visitabile fino al prossimo 12 aprile 2026. Non è solo un titolo, è una micronarrazione: un modo di evocare l’atto pittorico e sensoriale dell’artista, classe 1957. Antonio Recca, ph. Renato Zacchia, courtesy dell’artista
La mostra, curata da Giacomo Fanale, in co-organizzazione col Comune di Catania, ospita cinquanta paesaggi, dal 2009 a oggi. Sono visioni intimistiche e astratte, afflati interiori, percezioni sottili di una pittura che non vuole essere rumorosa ma vuole indurre all’ascolto e alla...
La mostra, curata da Giacomo Fanale, in co-organizzazione col Comune di Catania, ospita cinquanta paesaggi, dal 2009 a oggi. Sono visioni intimistiche e astratte, afflati interiori, percezioni sottili di una pittura che non vuole essere rumorosa ma vuole indurre all’ascolto e alla...
Guillaume Cerutti, the onetime CEO of Christie’s auction house who joined the Pinault Collection as president last February is stepping down after just thirteen months in the role, according to French investigative news platform Glitz. Though neither Cerutti nor the Pinault Collection has commented publicly on his departure, the Paris institution told the Art Newspaper that it had no plans […]
Marica Vilcek, a champion of immigrant artists and scientists, has died at the age of 89. The beloved art historian and philanthropist passed away on Monday, March 23, at her New York home. News of Vilcek’s passing was announced by her namesake foundation, which she established in 2000 alongside her husband, Jan, to support immigrant contributions to the arts and research sciences. To date, the Vilcek Foundation has awarded more than $17 million to advance its immigrant-centered mission, including unrestricted cash awards for researchers and artists across disciplines. “Marica had a remarkable ability to recognize potential in people — sometimes before they saw it in themselves,” Vilcek Foundation...
The Kennedy Center began laying off staff on Thursday, according to a report in the Washington Post. The cuts, which employees say affected multiple departments, are tied to President Donald Trump’s plan to shut down the Washington, D.C., cultural institution for two years, which was approved by its board earlier this month. Included in the layoffs were the Kennedy Center’s executive vice president Nick Meade and vice president Rick Loughery, both of whom were installed in their roles by the center’s former president Richard Grenell, a Trump loyalist hired a year ago to overhaul the institution’s “woke” programming. Trump and the rest of the board replaced Grenell, whose tenure was marked by...
CLAREMONT, Calif. — The feminist collective Slow War Against the Nuclear State — better known as SWANS — formed in a moment of serendipity and epiphany. In 2022, Los Angeles-based feminist artist Nancy Buchanan decided to throw a dinner party to discuss the politics of the nuclear state, and the group hasn’t stopped meeting since. Three SWANS members grew up with fathers who were deeply involved in the production of atomic weapons, while two had parents who were anti-war and anti-nuclear activists. All seven are both artists and academics, collectively spanning three generations. At Pitzer College Art Galleries, Atomic Dragons includes contributions from each member, focusing on photography’s role in...
After a year when chatbots have infiltrated virtually every aspect of our social consciousness, it wasn’t a surprise to see that AI was a big theme in the 2026 Sundance Film Festival programming. On top of over a dozen industry panels and artist talks addressing uses of AI in storytelling, the festival — the last to be held in Park City, its historic home — also included not one, but two feature documentaries directly grappling with today’s AI discourse. Viewed together, these two films provide a thorough survey of the pervading anxieties and wide-ranging attitudes surrounding AI. In Ghost in the Machine (2026), filmmaker Valerie Veatch — who also directed Love Child (2014) and Me @ the Zoo...
The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida has snapped up the artist’s largest-ever work at auction, Artnet reports. Clocking in at over 20 meters high and 30 meters wide, Salvador Dalí’s Décor de théâtre pour Bacchanale, completed in 1939, was conceived by the artist as a backdrop for a Surrealist ballet, Bacchanale, choreographed by Léonide Massine and the Ballets Russes de […]
Per a faculty-wide email, the New School in New York City plans to lay off 15 percent of its university’s full time faculty and staff, Hyperallergic reports. The cuts are set to take place by June. This is the latest installment in a months-long showdown between the university and its faculty. Last December, amidst a deficit of […]
David Morrison continues his hyperrealistic explorations of flowers, seeds, and plants, capturing the intricacies and alluring textures found throughout nature in lush colored pencil. Delicate, fine lines and smooth gradients prevail in the artist’s drawings, which present the organic subject matter as if it were bathed in light. Rendered in a soft haze, shadows of individual fronds and nodes add a deceptive sense of depth to the two-dimensional works. The pieces shown here are some of Morrison’s latest, and you can find more on his Instagram and via Garvey | Simon, where he’s represented. “Botanical Series No.4 Drawing” (2025), colored pencil, 29 x 15 inches “Botanical No.3 Drawing” (2025),...
Section of the mosaic showing the leopard and the woman BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA—Sports researcher Alfonso Mañas of the University of California, Berkeley, examined an illustration of a third-century a.d. Roman mosaic discovered in 1860 in Reims, France, by archaeologist Jean Charles Loriquet, according to a Live Science report. Most of the mosaic was destroyed by bombing during World War I, but Loriquet’s illustration of the artifact survived in his book, which was published in 1862. Mañas said that the surviving fragment of the mosaic, housed in the Saint-Remi History Museum, closely matches the drawing, which shows animals, hunters, and gladiators. He thinks that one figure in particular, previously...
Growing up as a queer kid in the ‘80s, I was well aware from an early age that I was different, and that different was not okay, especially living in Missouri,” says New Mexico artist Anthony Hurd, who recently shifted away from abstracts, to delve into what may be deemed “controversial” figurative work. Not only […]
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SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA—According to a Phys.org report, Haichao Li of Sichuan University led a team of researchers in the analysis of fragments of iron discovered in southwestern China at the Sanxingdui site, a city occupied between 2800 and 600 B.C. So far, eight sacrificial pits containing metal objects such as bronze masks, trees, and figurines have been excavated at the site. The three iron fragments, which appear to have been parts of an ax-like weapon, were discovered in Pit 7. Because this object was found in the sacrificial area, the researchers suggest that it had ritual significance. Metallographic and scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) analysis of the metal...
Antonio Homem, who started working with the storied gallerist Ileana Sonnabend in the 1960s and went on to oversee her collection and maintain her and husband Michael Sonnabend’s legacy as supporters of some of the most important figures of post-war contemporary art, has died at the age of 86. The news was announced by the Sonnabend Collection Mantova, a museum Homem helped open in the north of Italy in 2025. Born in Portugal in 1939, Homem moved to Switzerland as a teenager and studied engineering before he solidified his interest in the arts upon meeting Ileana Sonnabend, who convinced him to work at her gallery in Paris in 1968. In an interview for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Homem...
OXFORD, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Oxford, domesticated dogs were spread across Europe and Anatolia and living with hunter-gatherers by 14,000 years ago. Researchers led by Lachie Scarsbrook and Greger Larson of the University of Oxford analyzed genomes taken from dog remains recovered at Upper Paleolithic sites, including Pınarbaşı in Turkey and Gough’s Cave in England, and two Mesolithic sites in Serbia. These dog genomes were then compared with the genomes of more than 1,000 ancient and modern dogs and wolves from around the world. “Not only has this discovery pushed back the earliest direct evidence of dogs by 5,000 years, it also showed us that dogs and wolves...
Cristopher Canizares, an integral partner at Hauser & Wirth, has announced his intention to depart the juggernaut art gallery in order to start his own artist talent management agency, Artnews reports. Canizares spent sixteen years at the Marc Payot–helmed gallery and assumed a number of roles during his tenure—he had his hands in sales and exhibition planning, […]
Countless bands and musical artists have celebrated new album releases on late-night television, but no one has done so with quite the art world flair as BTS, the mega-famous K-pop boy band fronted by art enthusiast and collector RM. (The other six members are Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook.) Fresh off a four-year hiatus, BTS’s new album Arirang came out on Mar. 20. The band was interviewed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night. But instead of performing their new single “SWIM” in Studio 6B, Fallon played a previously recorded video from a secret live performance at the Guggenheim Museum earlier that day. In the video, Fallon stands in front of a circular stage on the...
As controversy mounts over Russia’s plans to mount its first Venice Biennale pavilion since the nation’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, 37 members of the European Parliament signed a letter that calls for the European Union to cease all funding to the Biennale. The EU has not publicly stated how much money it gives to the Biennale, which is not just the top art exhibition in Europe but the biggest show of its kind anywhere in the world. But according to the letter, which was obtained by Politico on Friday, the EU has granted around 2 million euros to the Biennale over a three-year period. “Under no circumstances should Russia, a state subject to extensive European Union sanctions on trade, goods and...
“My process is a constant negotiation with gravity,” says Soojin Choi. The artist creates intimate ceramic sculptures depicting a pair entwined in an unknottable embrace, their limbs a seemingly endless tangle. With pockets of negative space peeking through, the characters pose in a precarious balance. “I intentionally minimize ground contact to prioritize the specific gestures and the psychological tension between the two figures, giving the work a sense of lightness and emotional presence,” the artist adds. A long-time resident artist at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Choi is formally trained as a painter, a background that informs the sweeping, gestural marks of her pieces. The figures are...
New Museum describes itself as “Manhattan’s only museum devoted exclusively to contemporary art.” It reopened last week after a 60,000-square-foot expansion, envisioned by Pritzker Prize-winning architecture firm OMA. The project was headed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas, in collaboration with Executive Architect Cooper Robertson. When New Museum was founded in 1977 in a one-room office, it became the first contemporary art institution established in New York since WWII. But it wasn’t until 2007 that its first purpose-built space opened. That structure was designed by SANAA, founded by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. Their flagship building – constructed on a former parking lot on the Bowery...
Opera directors could learn a thing or two from Deaf Broadway's vivacious performance of Jeanine Tesori's Violet.
Fashion designer Yinghan Qian is profoundly influenced by Zen philosophy. The Buddhist practice literally means “meditation,” teaching that enlightenment is achieved through the realisation that we are already enlightened beings. In Qian’s designs, this concept comes to the fore as a foundational way of understanding existence and transformation, informing how she works with materials and symbols, and allowing new contexts to emerge throughout the making process. This approach sets her work apart from other artists, transforming fashion design into a form of self-examination. As Harpaar’s Bazaar China writes: “Lacrynette is reminding us that in the future fashion world, it may not be the loudest...
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La retrospettiva Materia e Percezione, al Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, riunisce oltre cento opere realizzate in venticinque anni di ricognizione estetica, offrendo una lettura approfondita del percorso espressivo di Carol Bove, tra le figure più autorevoli della prassi scultorea moderna. Il progetto curatoriale rinuncia a una sequenza cronologica lineare per privilegiare accostamenti sperimentali che mettono in luce l’interconnessione tra impianti, schemi tessili e ambientazioni costruttive. Mediante una gestione accurata dell’illuminazione e dei dispositivi di orientamento, la mostra accompagna il visitatore seguendo un itinerario scandito da aperture inquadrate, in cui la volumetria di Frank Lloyd...
When photographer Frank Relle was nine years old, he remembers sneaking out of the house he grew up in in New Orleans just before daybreak to catch the sunrise—an event he found frustratingly difficult to explain to others, as much as he wished to share the experience. It was only years later that he discovered the camera, and he reflects on this time now through the lens of an excerpt from the essay “Between Yes and No” by Albert Camus: “A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.” Relle adds, “The swamp was that opening for me. I do not fully understand how. I went in...
After more than six years, a mystery woman captured in a portrait that was acquired by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in 2020 has been identified, Artnet reports. The painting, which the museum acquired at auction at Sotheby’s, was signed J. Schul and dates back to the eighteenth century. It depicts a young Black woman, bedecked with pearls and holding […]
For Olaf Hajek, difference isn’t about opposition but rather about identifying connections. The Berlin-based illustrator renders dense, uncanny compositions that nod to Surrealist icons like Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. Nature and culture entwine, and magic and mystery veil each scene. These dreamlike moments of intrigue ask the viewer to suspend preconceived notions and instead, enjoy the allure of the ambiguous. Hajek is an avid traveler and cultural consumer, offering him a vast repository of images from a variety of sources and locales. Folklore, vernacular traditions, spiritual practices, and natural motifs blend into a distinguishable aesthetic. “What interests me is not so much their...
The 78th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on Nieves Gonzalez, the art of Grip Face, The landscapes of Jennifer Nehrbass, the soft sculptures of Ela Fidalgo, the stitched urban landscapes of Laura Ortiz Vega, the art Jeffrey Gibson, Yu Jin Young’s once transparent figures, and the paintings of Fatima De Juan. Plus […]
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Dental and skeletal lesions strongly indicate treponemal disease that spread from mother to infant in utero. NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA—A team of researchers from Australia and Vietnam examined skeletal remains of more than 300 people who lived in Vietnam between 10,000 and 1,000 years ago, according to a statement released by Charles Sturt University. The bones and teeth of three of the children who lived between about 3,200 and 4,000 years ago exhibited signs of infection with a congenital treponemal disease such as syphilis or yaws. Venereal syphilis was not found to be common in the larger population, however, which suggests that the children suffered from yaws, a non-venereal disease that can cause...
SKIEN, NORWAY—According to a ZME Science report, three oak barrels were discovered during a water and sewage system project in the center of the city of Skien in southeastern Norway. The seventeenth-century barrels were surrounded by lime deposits, which helped to preserve them, and a large wooden rammer used by builders. Compacted lime was found in the bottom of the barrels and demolition debris was found on top of them. Slaked lime, an ingredient in mortar, was probably stored here. Workers may have buried the barrels to keep the lime chemically stable and prevent it from freezing during the winter. “The discovery of such vessels in an intact position provides a rare insight into craft activity directly...
Alcuni progetti non si lasciano riassumere in un elenco di attività e prodotti perché la loro logica è fondamentalmente processuale: ART.it – Art in Transition, ideato da Cristina Francucci, ex direttrice dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, e sviluppato sotto la responsabilità scientifica di Maria Rita Bentini nell’arco di oltre un anno con il coinvolgimento di cinque istituzioni – le Accademie di Bologna, Catania e Ravenna, l’Alma Mater Studiorum e l’Università di Macerata – appartiene alla categoria dei progetti in cui il metodo di lavoro è anche, e forse soprattutto, il risultato. Finanziato nell’ambito del PNRR attraverso il MUR per le istituzioni AFAM, il progetto formativo si...
In partnership with our friends at Bookmobile, we helped nine artists and photographers create their own books for FREE. We’re beyond excited to share these gorgeous finished projects! This time around the winners were: Caleb Thal, Kyoko Takenaka, Matthew Walton, Olly Geary, Minhan Lin, João Lutz, Angelo Dolojan, Zeinab Diomande, Grace Dodds. Some of them opted to upgrade and enhance certain aspects of their books, and we always love seeing the unique design choices each person makes.
Independently owned and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bookmobile began as a design and typesetting production house in 1982, then started offering print services in 1996, and distribution services in 2004. When your...
Independently owned and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bookmobile began as a design and typesetting production house in 1982, then started offering print services in 1996, and distribution services in 2004. When your...