Largest and longest-running exhibition of contemporary art in Scotland opens doors this May as Royal Scottish Academy celebrates 200 years

English composer is busy working on a production inspired by one of the most audacious thefts in art history

uncanny valley opens in new york city
 
The Haas Brothers’ Uncanny Valley at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York brings together eighty-five works that present objects as active presences within a dreamlike, speculative reality.
 
Installed across sculpture, furniture, ceramics, painting, and digital work, the exhibition moves without hierarchy. A beaded plant, a low table, and a fur-covered creature occupy the same space, each following its own internal logic. The show reads as a continuous environment where distinctions between art and design give way to a shared condition of movement and interaction.
 
Across scales, from handheld vessels to towering figures, the works establish a setting where...

room for dreams unveils live talkS and cinema program
 
As we are fast approaching Milan Design Week 2026, designboom unveils the full program of live talks, films and daily rituals that will take place throughout the week at ROOM FOR DREAMS. Alongside the immersive installations that will be on view at ME Milan Il Duca, conversations, social encounters and the cinema space all contribute to the multilayered exploration of dreams as design tools for cultural and social transformation. The result is not a static showcase, but a temporal ecosystem of ideas that evolves over the course of the week, inviting visitors to move between reflection, immersion, and speculation.
 
As part of the social programming, we...

A deeply personal exhibition by Gilbert & George will open this May at Gilbert & George Centre

Like a hall of mirrors or a Borgesian labyrinth, Duchamp's oeuvre asks us to look at the past reflecting endlessly into the future. In an interview today, scholar Thierry de Duve praises a kind of mise en abyme in MoMA's new Duchamp show, which features not one but seven “boîtes-en-valise” — the artist's clever miniature exhibitions-in-a-box, created decades before his first museum retrospective. This is "Duchamp's typical genius," de Duve tells Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang. “I think he anticipated the logic of the museum.” Read their conversation, in which de Duve muses on what it means to live in a “post-Duchamp” world.Also today, our writers bring you art-fair...

Thanks to Elly Ameling, I made it through college.

Peter Blake’s studio will be brought to life inside Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery this winter

LAYERED MOONLIGHT ANIMATES an INTERIOR of SHIFTING REFLECTIONS
 
Located in Xi’an, MC bar is conceived as a retreat detached from the rhythm of the city, offering a slower and more introspective mode of urban life. Drawing on the imagery of ‘tasting malt between cliffs under the moonlight’, the project brings together space, light, and material to construct an atmospheric experience that oscillates between reality and imagination. A series of circular pendant lights forms the most recognizable feature of the interior, their geometry evoking the crescent moon. Each fixture varies in thickness and reflectivity, producing a layered lighting effect that is both bright and soft. As visitors move through the...

The Belgian city’s MoMu fashion museum celebrates the 40th anniversary of the designers’ international breakthrough

The artist's new show at the National Portrait Gallery offers plenty of reasons to be cheerful

Lost objects, colour, dystopia, plants and cats … lots of cats.

David Bowie (1947-2016) is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. This spring, a major new immersive experience dedicated to him is opening at London’s Lightroom, in close collaboration with the Bowie Estate. The 360° show – titled You’re Not Alone – promises to transport visitors inside the artist’s “iconic performances and creative mind”. From Space Oddity through Diamond Dogs, Heroes and ★, You’re Not Alone offers audiences the opportunity “to feel they have travelled through time to experience Bowie up close and first-hand.” But this is not about perpetuating the myths or characters often associated with Bowie, like Aladdin Sane, Halloween Jack,...

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THAILAND UNITES HERITAGE & INNOVATION AT SLOW HAND DESIGN 2026
  From April 19–26, 2026, Thailand’s ‘Slow Hand Design 2026’ exhibition returns to Milan Design Week at Superstudio Events to show how tradition can meet the future. Organized by the Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP), the exhibition, curated by Asst. Prof. Eggarat Wongcharit, invites visitors to explore how Thai craft traditions respond to global challenges. Under the theme ‘Heritage Reimagined: The Futuristic Thai Crafts Evolution’, the exhibition proposes a new approach that integrates local wisdom, forward-thinking design and agricultural-based upcycled materials, reimagining classical imagery through the lens of...

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C’è qualcosa di inevitabile nel modo in cui un corpo cade. Nel modo in cui una caviglia cede, devia, costringe l’intero sistema a riorganizzarsi. È da questa immagine semplice, fisica, quasi banale che Carlos Antonio Castro Lobato costruisce la sua prima personale italiana, Tobillo Torcido (Caviglia storta), ospitata fino al 29 aprile 2026 negli spazi di terzospazio a cura di Giulia Mariachiara Galiano. L’artista messicano, classe 2003, in residenza presso la Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa di Venezia, porta in mostra tre opere che insieme compongono un discorso in cui narrazione autobiografica e riflessione collettiva non si escludono ma si alimentano a vicenda. Non un percorso, non un sistema, ma un...

A new DVD recording of La Juive boasts considerable musical strengths in spite of a frustrating production.

What a shaded and elegant delivery William Mattteuzzi brings to this lilting setting of D'Annunzio's "O falce di luna calante"!

Few contemporary photographers are as synonymous with black and white as Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025). The Brazilian activist, documentarian and photojournalist is world-renowned, notably for images made in the Amazon rainforest and the Serra Pelada gold mine, Brazil. Now, a new collection of Salgado’s pictures, titled Glaciers, is dedicated to some of the planet’s most remote places. It spans from dramatic ice fields in Patagonia to the Himalayas’ towering peaks. Salgado also travelled to Antarctica to capture its ice shelves, as well as to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, a hugely volcanic region. The book features 65 duotone photographs, depicting sweeping vistas, massive crevasses, wind-swept snow...

Un sottile raggio di luce diafana attraversa l’intera stanza, accarezzando ogni piccolo dettaglio racchiuso nelle opere di Alessandro Piangiamore (Enna, 1976). “La polvere ci mostra che la luce esiste”, il titolo della mostra allestita alla Repetto Gallery di Lugano, rimanda a un capitolo contenuto all’interno del saggio del filosofo francese Georges Didi-Huberman “La conoscenza accidentale. Apparizione e sparizione delle immagini” (2011). L’esposizione, visitabile sino al 26 giugno 2026, presenta una selezione multimediale dei lavori dell’artista, alcuni dei quali inediti, che comprende sculture, installazioni e video art. Nel loro insieme essi sono inseriti con l’intenzione di conferire...

By Kristine Schomaker The work hits immediately. Not one piece — all of it, simultaneously. Large sculptural assemblages covering the walls, a freestanding sculpture in the middle of the room, a piece suspended from the ceiling. The whole gallery feeling like its own solar system, each work a satellite orbiting something enormous and unspoken. Last night, four humans splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after flying around the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years. Artemis II...

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, a painter whose work dealt with racism and upheaval in an America riven by inequalities, died at her home in Los Angeles on Friday. She was 46. Jeffrey Deitch gallery, which will open a Dupuy-Spencer show in LA next week, announced her death on Saturday morning, but did not state a cause. Dupuy-Spencer moved freely between unflinching images of protests and tender pictures of intimacy. She was just as likely to paint a fallen Confederate monument as she was to capture sexually frank images of lovers in bed, as she did in Sarah, a 2017 painting in which the artist can in bed with her former partner Sarah Johnson. All of the subjects Dupuy-Spencer painted, she said, were “things that are...

Daring reimaginings of Cocteau and Wilde take the stage at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

A house set between field and forest
 
In Hoengseong, South Korea, BRBB Architects’ Shin-Dae-Ri House is positioned between a cultivated foreground and a wooded slope, and stands as a transition from village to mountain life. Designed for an elderly couple leaving Seoul, the home reflects a shift in pace, where gardening and seasonal change guide the spatial experience.
 
The site extends gently upward toward the rear, with distant ridge-lines forming a layered horizon. The architects place the house close to the mountain edge, allowing the open front portion to remain available for a garden and small field. This decision establishes a clear foreground for cultivation while giving the house an elevated...

Just a few days ago, the president of the United States threatened to annihilate Iran's "whole civilization." He was bluffing, of course, but some bluffs can leave lasting damage. When the cannons finally go silent, Americans may need to ask themselves: Which civilization should be more worried about its future?   In this edition, Ed Simon contemplates Salvador Dalí’s “Nuclear Mysticism,” John Yau reflects on Jasper Johns's decades-long career, Aruna D’Souza writes a fiery rebuttal to an essay by artist Josh Kline that made some noise in the local New York scene, Staff Reporter Rhea Nayyar interviews the duo behind Hilma’s Ghost, and Materials for the Arts Executive Director Tara...

Does this count as an art song?

The 10th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women is a remarkable intersection of creativity, place and dialogue. This year, the Prize has entered a nomadic phase, leaving its long-standing London base to partner with Museum MACAN in Jakarta. By focusing on Indonesia, the Prize acknowledges a vibrant art scene, where ancestral craft traditions coexist with contemporary experimentation. Five artists – Betty Adii, Dzikra Afifah, Ipeh Nur, Mira Rizki and Dian Suci – have been shortlisted, their work spanning painting, ceramics, installation, video and sound. Each practice navigates questions of identity, memory, environment and social justice, offering reflections that resonate both locally and...

Art Paris torna al Grand Palais, gioiello dell’architettura della Belle Époque, dal 9 al 12 aprile 2026. Questa 28ª edizione ospita circa 165 gallerie. Offre un programma ambizioso in una Parigi che da un po’ di tempo, dopo la Brexit sta vivendo un rilancio e una vera e propria rinascita artistica. Si tratta di una fiera socialmente impegnata, che affronta tante tematiche contemporanee attraverso progetti affidati a curatori ospiti, che si concretizzano in una serie di mostre dedicate e collocate all’interno della fiera.
Art Paris 2026 at Gran Palais, Paris, ph. Emanuele Magri
Ci sarebbero svariati temi su cui soffermarsi ma in questa edizione sono da evidenziare due temi portanti. Uno è...

The two Expo Chicago satellite fairs compliment the main event with accessible settings filled with ambitious presentations

Since attending the inaugural edition of the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair (BFAPF) at Powerhouse Arts last year, I've been eager to witness how this young event evolves in real time. Braving New York’s spring art fair season for a second year, BFAPF is anchored by a global community rooted in passion, partnership, and an inextinguishable fervor for pushing the envelope.Open through Sunday, April 12, the second iteration of BFAPF has expanded to include over 60 local, domestic, and international exhibitors including independent print shops, prominent publishers, academic printmaking departments and clubs, self-represented artists, and established galleries. A mix of returning participants and debut...

The upgrades, set to start in March 2027 and estimated to cost between $600m and $800m, will include a new tram from the parking structure to the museum’s hilltop campus

Marcel Duchamp, "L.H.O.O.Q." (1919), rectified readymade: pencil on reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (all photos Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)Anyone who has taken an introductory art history class knows about Marcel Duchamp. Let me restate that, actually: Anyone who’s encountered contemporary art in any form knows about Duchamp, whether they realize it or not. In 1917, the French-born artist infamously flipped a urinal upside down, signed it, and called it art. As it’s often told, that single gesture forever changed the trajectory of aesthetic history. No longer was art judged by skill, craftsmanship, even beauty — it could be anything an artist called art....

There’s something special about visiting an art fair when New York is on the cusp of spring.On Thursday night, April 9, well-dressed patrons marched into the Park Avenue Armory for the newly renamed International Fine Prints and Drawings Association’s (IFPDA) annual Print Fair that kicked off the city’s spring fair season. The fair, which started in 1991 and returns to the Upper East Side fortress, has become a favorite among the city’s wealthy collectors and everyday print enthusiasts alike. IFPDA’s atmosphere is far more intimate than its counterparts at the autumn art fairs, but another main draw is the comparatively lower pricing. Hank Willis Thomas, "It’s yours" (2026), UV-printed and...

The American Library Association, together with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees–the nation’s largest union of cultural workers– has reached a favorable settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, thwarting the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). According to an April 9 press release from the American Library Association (ALA), the settlement ensures the agency will continue awarding grants, conducting research, and supporting the operation of libraries and museums. The agreement also requires that previously terminated grants be reinstated, staff reductions reversed, and that the administration refrain from...

The administration of President Donald Trump has revealed a plan for a proposed triumphal arch that would occupy a traffic circle between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Monument. Intended to celebrate the United States’s 250th anniversary, the arch would be 250 feet tall, more than double the height of the 99-foot-high Lincoln Monument, which it would face from […]

ARTnews Top 200 Collector David Geffen’s short-lived marriage has come to an unceremonious end, with the billionaire entertainment mogul reaching a private settlement with his estranged husband, David Armstrong, capping months of unusually public legal sparring. According to court filings reported on by TMZ this week, Geffen, 83, and Armstrong, 33, have agreed to resolve their divorce, though the financial terms remain undisclosed. The split follows less than two years of marriage and, crucially, no prenuptial agreement. It’s that detail that helped turn the proceedings into a high-stakes dispute over money, lifestyle, and control that has generated much tabloid coverage.  The news also comes ahead...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesCOLD COMFORT. A proposed bronze statue depicting a seated girl, intended as a symbol of wartime sexual violence, has sparked tensions between Japan and New Zealand, the Guardian reports. The sculpture, donated to the Korean cultural garden at Barry’s Point Reserve in Auckland by the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance, commemorates an estimated 200,000 women forced into sexual slavery in Japanese military brothels between 1932 and 1945, known as “comfort women.” Most were Korean, though victims also included Chinese, Southeast Asian, and a small number of Japanese and...

It’s Ash Wednesday in Brooklyn and two plainclothes detectives are getting coffee from a street cart. They continue walking down the street past a church. As they approach a museum, a commotion ensues. Someone has been shot, and the shooters are on the second floor of the museum, they are told. “Beyond Measure,” the 17th episode of Law & Order’s 25th season, was ripped from the many, many headlines related to the recent Louvre Museum heist, a story that dominated international news for several weeks last fall. In that heist, thieves made off with $102 million worth of jewels and escaped via a cherry picker, with a global manhunt ensuing. Though arrests have been made in the case, the jewels have yet to...

A three-year, $7 million restoration and preservation project at Fallingwater, the iconic Stewart Township home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, has recently been completed, according to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Chief among the concerns that needed to be addressed were moisture degradation within the original interior finishes, general leaks and the conservation of doors and windows. A […]

According to Arkeonews, a 200-year-old hillfort has been freshly discovered at Köstrimägi in Tartu County, Estonia, providing new insights into the lives of the ancient Balkans.  What is a hillfort, you ask? Characteristic of the late Bronze Age or Iron Age periods of European history, hillforts generally refer to fortified, elevated settlements that were surrounded by barriers—usually made […]

Gen Z has made headlines recently for turning to analog media and the slower pace of life synonymous with a pre-internet world. Alongside DVDs and print magazines, snail mail has also been on the rise as more people flock to spaces untouched by an algorithm or AI. Even before the endless scroll subsumed much of our collective psyche, though, Gabriella Marcella was already combating digital fatigue through the design studio Risotto. Marcella founded Risotto in 2012, just after graduating from university, where she fell in love with risograph printing. She purchased her first machine secondhand and set up shop in her bedroom before moving to the Glue Factory, a former warehouse that still houses the studio along...

Blue-chip auction house Christie’s has announced that it will offer works from the collection of renowned dealer Marian Goodman at its spring marquee sales, to take place in May. Goodman, who died earlier this year at the age of ninety-seven, left behind a trove of artworks collectively valued at some $65 million.  Artnet News reports that guarantees will be in place for the […]

ABOVE: “Spatial Awareness”, 54″ x 250″, hand-knit with wool, 2025, photo by Chris Rettman From her dining room table in Oklahoma City, Kendall Ross knits brightly colored, intricately patterned sweaters and vests—some so large that referring to them as wearables is a bit misleading. Her textile pieces are often emblazoned with diary-like messages that speak […]
The post Kendall Ross Comments Directly on the Craft Vs. Art Debate first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

In 2019, Kayla Mahaffey reached a turning point with her art. The Chicago-based artist had a solo show at Line Dot Editions in April of that year. Titled Off to the Races, the series of paintings centered around children ready to hit the road. Some sat with their growing legs crouched in tiny cars or […]
The post Child’s Play: The Paintings of Kayla Mahaffey first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Printed Matter Announces 50th Anniversary Program

At Copenhagen Contemporary, Kengo Kuma and his team have honed in on the Japanese concept of komorebi, which reflects the unique interplay of light and shadow that occurs when the sun filters through the trees. The monumental, site-specific installation “Earth / Tree” harnesses this fleeting condition through a suspended canopy of wooden slats. Curved with a central opening, the diaphonous structure floats above a brick platform and a pile of rubble. These two organic materials bridge Nordic and Japanese cultures, which both value craftsmanship and continuity with the landscape. Kuma—who was recently awarded the bid to design the new National Gallery in London—often focuses on “soft architecture,”...

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Fashion, at its most daring, becomes an instrument of thought, a compelling medium that negotiates between material, imagination and culture. Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art explores this premise fully, presenting the work of Elsa Schiaparelli as a fusion of couture, Surrealism and performance. The exhibition situates her visionary designs alongside the artworks, stage costumes and collaborations that made the House of Schiaparelli one of the most radical forces of the 20th century. Over 400 objects, including 100 ensembles, 50 artworks, accessories, jewellery and archive material, trace the trajectory from her first Paris boutique to the present-day creations of Daniel Roseberry. “For me, dress...

Non è mai facile descrivere interamente il lavoro di un artista. Un incontro con un’opera d’arte è un’esperienza che unisce, che mette in connessione lo sguardo e lo spazio col proprio pensiero. Ecco, l’intera carriera di Liliana Moro (Milano, 1961) segue questi princìpi: la condivisione, l’ascolto e il dialogo, molto spesso applicati in situazioni pubbliche.
Liliana Moro, “| senza | soluzione di continuità”, 2026, installation view Platea | Palazzo Galeano, courtesy: the artist, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Albisola and Platea | Palazzo Galeano, Lodi, ph credits Alessio Belloni
Allo stesso modo, l’installazione dell’artista che apre la stagione espositiva di Platea è un gesto...

The Getty Center in Los Angeles’s Brentwood neighborhood will shutter for a year while it undergoes a major restoration, its first since opening in 1997. The closure will begin March 15, 2027, with the institution expected to reopen on March 15 of the following year, ahead of the Summer Olympics, which are being held in Los Angeles. […]

“Wind carries away destinies,” reads the brief synopsis for a short film titled “Jour de Vent,” or “Windy Day.” The sweeping animation was created in 2024 by a team of six graduates—Martin Chailloux, Ai Kim Crespin, Élise Golfouse, Chloé Lab, Hugo Taillez, Camille Truding—from École des Nouvelle Images school in Avignon, France. A cast of characters—including a businessman, a picnicking family, a young couple, a cyclist, an old man and his dog, and a guitarist—spend a seemingly average day at the park. When a powerful gust of wind blows everyone’s day out of proportion, themes of change, acceptance, and connection emerge. Much like the film’s surrender to the flow of life, the team...

For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Street category: Victor Cambet.
Based in Montréal, Victor Cambet developed photography as a self-taught practice after relocating to Canada from Lyon, France. Drawn to vivid scenes, unusual characters, and the overlooked details of daily life, his work finds beauty in the ordinary.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of...

Galicia, Spain-based artist Abi Castillo continues to create iterative self-portraits through her evolving ensemble of ceramic personas. Her delicate yet emotive figures are an invitation to consider the inner self, transformation, and the beauty of the natural world. Femininity, nature, and symbolism play a central role within Castillo’s sculptures, contrasting with the notion of concealment. “This ambivalence between mysticism and drama, between monstrosity and beauty, is all very present,” she explains in an artist statement. Though each ceramic character is distinct, her body of work carries overarching formal motifs including colorful hairstyles and wide eyes with light blue irises. Organic...

San Juan Capistrano Library #1 Amir Zaki No Dust to Settle Diane Rosenstein Gallery April 4 - May 9, 2026 by Jody Zellen The saying "waiting for the dust to settle" might refer to when things will calm down and return to normal. It could be said that "the dust never settles" and there is no state of definitive calmness because everything is in flux, both in life and in art. This might be taking the personal into account by reading too much into the title of Amir Zaki's current exhibition, his...

This April, galleries from around the world come together as part of The Photography Show, taking place at the Park Avenue Armory in the heart of New York. Now in its 45th edition, the Fair features 80 galleries, alongside a further 20 photobook exhibitors. The much-anticipated event, hosted by AIPAD, represents a longstanding commitment to deepening the collective understanding of photography’s history, whilst spotlighting some of the most dynamic examples of contemporary experimentation.   Visitors will encounter some of the most dynamic artists working today. Oscura Gallery presents the work of Rania Matar, a Lebanese artist whose portraits of Middle Eastern women explore issues of personal and...

In the little town of Kosciusko, Mississippi, a self-described “unusual artist” named L.V. Hull transformed her home and garden of three-and-a-half decades into an elaborate, continuous artwork. Through found objects and trinkets, paint, and glue she purchased at the local Walmart, the artist created an immersive art environment—a riot of color, patterns, and textures in which creativity merged with daily living. Many of Hull’s works are currently on view in the show Love Is a Sensation at the Mississippi Museum of Art, which celebrates the self-taught artist’s eclectic approach to materials and space. From vibrantly painted everyday objects to idiosyncratic assemblages, Hull’s creativity and...