Jean-Luc Nancy’s 1996 treatise Being Singular Plural suggests that “being is always ‘being with,’ that ‘I’ is not prior to ‘we,’ that existence is essentially co-existence.” Queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz, in The Sense of Brown (2020), draws on Nancy’s notion of being and selfhood as essentially relational to articulate a sense of “a collectivity […]

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WHEN I VISITED the Louvre in Paris to view their blockbuster survey of Jacques-Louis David this past October, I found myself shedding tears in front of his 1784 history painting The Oath of the Horatii—an allegory of the virtues of fidelity and sacrificing oneself to a greater cause, produced by a future Jacobin on the […]

IN 1995, when David Lynch—who had directed the film version of my novel Wild at Heart and had also directed my two plays, Tricks and Blackout, for a television production called Hotel Room—came to me and asked me to collaborate with him on the screenplay for a new film, I could hardly say no. After […]

IN 2025, fascism is rapidly being consolidated in America. Along with gutting the rule of law, the military occupation of cities, unbridled violence and cruelty, the support of Palestinian genocide, overt racism, the suppression of dissent, and the shameless substitution of propaganda for truth, this US fascism relies on nationalism (including the division of society […]

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Even before her partner, the much-adored poet April Freely, passed away in 2021, Jennifer Packer was a painter of remembrance. Her solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum, which opened months after Freely’s death, included “Blessed Are Those Who Mourn (Breonna! Breonna!),” a tribute to Breonna Taylor, the young medical worker whose murder by police, along with that of George Floyd, sparked worldwide Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020. It was Packer’s ability to evoke the emotional intensity of loss without depicting Taylor directly that struck me then — in the painting, she homes in instead on a young man lying on a couch in an acid yellow interior, surrounded by seemingly insignificant...

Something shifted the moment I stood inside the Elbow Church art space in Amersfoort in the Netherlands this past September. As journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones delivered a sharp lecture beneath Nina Chanel Abney's monumental installations, it became clear that this Medieval city was presenting narratives of Black American life that the United States is increasingly unwilling to hold. Jacob Lawrence: African American Modernist and Nina Chanel Abney: Heaven's Hotline opened in Amersfoort on the same evening. Together, Lawrence's historical narratives and Abney's bold indictments mapped the breadth of Black American artistic vision in a way that felt both clarifying and impossible to...

We’ve had stained glass in the Western world since the times of ancient Rome. Yet the art form reached its zenith in the later Middle Ages, with the rise of the great cathedrals. Before the broad availability of paper, designs began with the vidimus — Latin for “we have seen” — crafted with wood and chalk. By the early 16th century, according to the Victoria & Albert Museum, paper allowed for a separation — one person could illustrate the design, and these designs “could be saved, reused and handed down from glazier to glazier. This made stained glass an exceptionally collaborative art.”In Light of Innocence, a stained glass solo exhibition by Raúl de Nieves, currently on view at Pioneer...

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Writing the first comprehensive biography of a major artist could prove daunting, but in the case of Marie-Laure Bernadac’s Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois, such an undertaking might be called heroic. Bourgeois lived to the age of 98, still active and furiously making art until the end. And according to Bernadac’s thorough and vivid account, the French-American artist kept nearly everything she made, read, wore, or wrote in the course of a long life. This includes Bourgeois’s massive oeuvre of sculpture, installations, prints, paintings, and drawings, along with letters dating back to her childhood, school notebooks, business transactions (hers and her parents’), and writing from at least as...

Say formaggio!A blindingly white-and-silver Leica camera owned by the late Pope Francis sold at a European auction this weekend for about $7.5 million, nearly 100 times its estimate.It was one of the most expensive Leica models ever sold, according to Leitz Photographica Auction, which announced it would auction the Pope’s mechanical camera for charity in September. The record is still held by a 100-year-old prototype that sold for $16.7 million in 2022.The camera company presented a personalized Leica M-A film camera and its Noctilus-M 50 mm lens to his holiness last year. In a statement, the auction house said Pope Francis had decided to auction the Leica and donate the proceeds “in keeping with his...

Kumiki Architects renovates 1984 holiday home in Herperduin
 
Kumiki Architecture takes over the extension and renovation of a characteristic A-frame holiday home from 1984 in the Netherlands. The structure stands amidst the forest park near the Herperduin nature reserve, surrounded by heathlands, ponds, and sand drifts. The residence has been transformed into a retreat for a young family, a place to escape the bustle of the city and reconnect with nature. In collaboration with the client and an ecologist, a design was developed in which architecture and ecology intertwine. The guiding principle: sharing the house with nature. When the family is away, birds, bats, and other animals take over. Nesting boxes...

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At 50, Nicole Gammie has the chance to experiment and play. They're combining textile art techniques—bobbin lace and passementerie—creating work at the intersection of tradition and innovation. Learning and experimenting with lace and stitching began at an early age with numerous informal opportunities at school and in the community through classes and attending craft groups. Living around much of south-eastern Australia provided chances to investigate a range of lace and embroidery...

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Brenac & Gonzalez & Associes builds Les Fabriques School complex
 
Located in the northern districts of Marseille, France, Les Fabriques is a school complex by Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés designed as a compact, climate-responsive structure built from solid stone. Positioned on a constrained plot within the Littorale urban development zone, the project integrates a nursery school and an elementary school, each with dedicated reception areas, circulation routes, and naturally lit and ventilated classrooms.
 
The design adopts a vertical strategy that consolidates program elements in order to free ground space for the preschool playground. Additional outdoor areas for the elementary school, like playgrounds,...

I love Tabori—his staging of Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung are among my five favorite opera performances of all time.

Alejandro Cartagena (b. 1977) has called Mexico home since the age of 13, and, for the past 20 years, the country’s shifting landscapes have driven his practice. Ground Rules is a serious new retrospective at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, spanning more than 20 extensively researched projects. The multiyear Suburbia Mexicana (2005–2010) is a prime example, examining the relationship between urban centres and the suburbs built around them. From sun-drenched, dried-up riverbeds to rows of identical box-like houses, Cartagena looks at how rapid growth alters landscapes and impacts the lives of residents. Likewise, no exhibition of Cartagena would be complete without the celebrated Carpoolers...

DESIGNBOOM guide to miami art week 2025
 
Art and design lovers from around the globe are heading to Florida for Miami Art & Design Week, one of the coastal city‘s most coveted annual events. From December 2nd — 7th, Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami take center stage, opening their doors to collectors and enthusiasts alike. With perfect weather in the forecast and a lineup that blends world-class art fairs, public activations, exhibitions, and parties, the Magic City transforms into the ultimate creative hub. Whether you’re here for the fairs, the city-wide art installations, or the museum exhibitions, this guide has everything you need to make the most of Miami Art & Design Week 2025.
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kurosawa kawara-ten builds moss-bound roof for Waiting Area
 
The Sekiyuan Waiting Area, located in Ichihara City, Chiba, Japan, functions as a small structure where guests briefly wait before entering the adjacent tea room. Designed and built by Kurosawa Kawara-ten in collaboration with an architect and an artist, not professional builders, through the DIT (Do It Together) approach, the project explores how informal building practices can contribute to contemporary architectural culture.
 
The structure introduces a deformed single-slope roof supported at three points. Its surface is finished with mortar mixed with soil excavated from the foundation, extending across the gables and eaves for a unified...

Trovador combats deforestation as a tree-planting robot
 
Meet Trovador, a tree-planting robot that saves and restores burned land from deforestation by placing seedlings in the ground. A project by students Marta Bernardino and Sebastião Mendonça, the autonomous device plants trees on steep terrain that has been burned off. The young engineers propose two prototypes. The first one, which Marta Bernardino introduced in 2023, is a spider-like robot with six legs, each serving a different purpose. The middle legs hold and plant trees, while the back legs have rotating feet that press soil around planted trees. 
 
The front legs of the tree-planting robot that combats deforestation have sharp tips that grip...

Barbara Strozzi links two sensuous programs by L’Arpeggiata and Catapult Opera. 

Sotheby’s has unveiled the full contents of its Old Master and 19th century evening sale, slated for December 3 in London, saying the works are defined by “exceptional and scholarly significance and rare discoveries.” Of the 31 works, half have been hidden from public view for more than a century, while 12 have not been seen on the secondary market in 40 years. The house said the auction is one of the “greatest assemblages of Old Masters presented at Sotheby’s London in the last six years.”Among the top lots are Hans Eworth’s Portrait of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1652), which is making its auction debut with a high estimate of £3 million. The house said it “offers a striking glimpse...

From a variety of natural colors of clay, Léonore Chastagner sculpts tender representations of the human form. She details the wrinkles on one’s knuckles, the creases in a pair of denim jeans, and the intricate layers of a loosely folded T-shirt. “I use clay as one uses a diary: to record the feelings of daily life and the things that surround me,” Chastagner tells Colossal. “I take interest in what’s in front of me when I’m alone: my apartment, clothes, small gestures of the body.” Untitled (2022), ceramic, 51 x 65 x 45 centimeters. Photo by jclett Chastagner’s background in art history also influences her work, especially through the lens of archaeology and the often mysterious origins or...

Violence and resilience have long existed side by side, shaping the contours of human history. Seeds of Hate and Hope, the Sainsbury Centre’s latest exhibition, brings together the work of seven artists – Hew Locke, Indrė Šerpytytė, Ishiuchi Miyako, Kimberly Fulton Orozco, Mona Hatoum, Peter Oloya, and William Kentridge – each responding in their own way to global mass atrocities. From genocides and ethnic cleansing to war crimes and crimes against humanity, the exhibition examines how artists across the 20th and 21st centuries have witnessed, experienced and interpreted acts of violence. The focus is not on images of suffering but on reflections that explore grief, memory and the possibility of...

The Henry Moore Institute's new show, ‘Beyond the Visual’, unpacks the value of the haptic and how perception involves all the senses

The long-term maintenance of public art raises questions about funding and who is responsible

Minna Väisänen is making animations with Grok. At 56, they're exploring what happens when digital tools tear down old gatekeeping. You don't need to beg a production house for gear anymore—you just open a laptop and build your own world. The speed and access are wild. And yes, for women especially, that shift mattered. The old art structures were rigged—"genius" was a word reserved for men with handlers and mistresses. Digital tools let women skip the permission stage. You can self-publish,...

The Château de Versailles and the Château de Chambord have also announced new pricing structures

Each year, the UK experiences an average of 156 days of rain. That’s almost every other day. It was during one of these downpours that artist Yihan Pan (b. 2002) found inspiration for her practice. She recalls: “at night, I found myself beside the swan pond in the heavy rain and saw the water on the swan’s surface rolling and changing. The world became unnamable again.” Pan was born in Beijing in 2002 and is now based in London, having studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts before completing an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art. Throughout her studies, she developed a body of work that explores the tension between permanence and dissolution. At the heart of her practice is a careful...

“You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.” These words from Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), speak to our enduring desire to communicate – through everything from paintings on cave walls to today’s social media feeds. Lin Cheng (b. 1993) demonstrates that there is no single way to tell a story. She works across a variety of media – including illustration, printmaking and moving image – and is committed to exploring the complexities of human experience through these multiple forms of expression, uplifting the voices of others in the process. Silent Absence (2022–2024) is a key example of Cheng’s attentive and...

Are today’s stars enough to sustain Andrea Chénier?

Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.

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Ben Luke speaks to The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief in the Americas, Ben Sutton, about the selection of Alma Allen for the US pavilion, explores a new exhibition on queerness in Islamic art and meets curators from Canada's National Gallery

This study of the first decade of the Artists International Association, set up in the years before the Second World War, focusses the group’s impact as well as its lesser-known figures

Brendan Dawes is a British artist and designer renowned for his playful yet thought-provoking explorations of data, technology, and everyday objects. Rooted in the ethos of remix culture, Dawes’s work often re-contextualises existing materials to examine how people experience the physical and digital worlds. Nothing Can Ever Be The Same, commissioned for Biennale Musica 2023 in Venice, is a 168-hour real-time generative film. The film uses bespoke generative technology developed for the Academy Award-shortlisted documentary Eno, continuously evolves, ensuring no two versions are ever alike. This living audiovisual system explores code, data and chance as artistic tools, pushing the boundaries of cinema. The...

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Earth Day does not officially arrive until the spring, but this winter several museums are getting things started early with ecologically minded exhibitions. The São Paulo Museum of Art is continuing its yearlong series of environmentalist art exhibitions with a solo show by Minerva Cuevas, the Jeu de Paume in Paris is positioning Martin Parr as an artist concerned about our climate, and the Vancouver Art Gallery is surveying Emily Carr’s paintings with a focus on her portrayals of roiled nature. Other forward-looking institutional shows explore how artists project themselves into the future. A Museum of Modern Art exhibition about African photography considers how the medium reflected the desire for...

A heartfelt celebration marking the artist’s 40-year journey, bringing together reflection, community, and the insistence on personal truth Senzo Shabangu, We must unite or perish, 2023. Acrylic paint on canvas, 130 x 130cm. Courtesy of […]

Christie’s London is preparing to send another trove of works amassed by the late Sam Josefowitz to the auction block on December 3. Titled “The Sam Josefowitz Collection: Graphic Masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn – Part III,” it follows the sales of Part I and Part II over the last two years, which netted the house a combined £13.5 million.This time around, 101 prints by the Dutch master will be up for grabs during Christie’s Classic Week. “Rembrandt’s etchings were an enduring passion for the late Sam Josefowitz, whose collection of the Dutch master’s graphic works remains unparalleled by any other 20th-century collector,” the house said in a statement. “This sale presents the final...

A Fully Funded Residency Supporting Palestinian Artistic Practice Gasworks has opened applications for its 2026 Residency for Palestinian Artists, an eleven-week fully funded opportunity designed to support emerging and mid-career practitioners working anywhere in the […]

Curators Courage Dzidula Kpodo, Maria Pia Bernardoni and Robin Beth Riskin reflect on expanding photographic language, revitalising historic sites, and charting new pathways toward freedom. Good People, 2024. © Khanya Zibaya LagosPhoto enters a new […]

Greta Thunberg and several members of the Extinction Rebellion environmental group turned Venice’s Grand Canal bright green on Monday to protest what they view as the world’s slow progress in transitioning away from fossil fuels.They dropped non-toxic fluorescein dye into the canal from boats, making it look like a radioactive, toxic soup. The stunt was one of a series of demonstrations at lakes, fountains, and waterways across 10 Italian cities in the wake of the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Brazil. Thunberg and her fellow activists also unfurled a banner reading “Stop Ecocide” from Venice’s Rialto Bridge to highlight “the massive effects of climate...

Through large-scale tapestries of fringed strips of fabric, Abdoulaye Konaté explores the contemporary relevance of ancient signs and symbols. The Malian artist began working with textiles in the 1990s, when it became clear to him how prevalent they are in our everyday lives, from clothing and home goods to tools and more. This early interest began what’s become a research-driven artistic practice, and today, he layers long, stitched pieces of Bazin and Kente fabrics into dynamic, largely abstract works. Konaté and his team create each monumental tapestry entirely by hand, from the dyeing process to cutting and stitching. The final layout typically occurs on the studio floor after the artist sketches in...

 
Who doesn’t love a good photo book? To flick through the pages, be enlightened, educated, distracted and absorbed into another world through another’s eyes? Totally fantastic!
We’re here to share our Photobook Favourites – a selection of our favourite photography books recommended by the Shutter Hub community, an archive of titles we’ve enjoyed, and a reference point for you to explore.
The Colour of Money and Trees, Tony Dočekal, VOID
The Colour of Money and Trees, Tony Dočekal, VOID
The photographs in ‘The Color of Money and Trees’ were made by Dutch photographer Tony Dočekal during several visits to Arizona and California. While volunteering for an organisation working with the unhoused,...

Exploring a practice where tactility, ornament, and material play unsettle the boundaries of contemporary art Installation view of ‘I Like to Like What Others Are Liking’ at Sharjah Art Foundation. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art […]

For the past three days, Los Angeles–based artist Brittany Fanning has posted the same picture to her Instagram grid. It shows two grinning men in double-breasted suits, complete with pocket squares. In her caption, she identifies them as brothers Jackson Navin and Matthew Navin, of London-based gallery Pictorum Art Group. In a separate posting, Fanning says that she is still owed money from the gallery related to a group show she participated in three years ago.  During the course of her campaign, Fanning said she learned that other artists are claiming to be in a similar situation and have also not received payment from Pictorum. One of these artists, Finn Johnson, received a court judgment ordering...

“I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that our perceived reality is shaped by our minds and reflecting our inner world,” says artist Michelle Blancke, whose ethereal photographs of trees, glens, and foliage invite us into a familiar yet uncanny world. Her lens-based practice explores themes of interdependence, consciousness, and concealment, especially through the subject of nature. Blancke’s vivid Secret Garden series comprises a total of five sub-categories: Realm, Ascent, Essence, Veins, and Origin. Whether capturing the waxy surface of an intricately veined leaf or the way vines create shadowy veils over gnarled trees, she’s interested in relationships between “transformation, mysticism, and...

Wayne White’s pictures start with thrift store paintings... White seizes on a startup surface that was a middle class decorator staple in the ‘50s and ‘60s.. read Mat Gleason's article on the artist by clicking above!
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Carmen Dominguez is working with gift tissue as transparencies. At 56, they're doing more woven paper art, experimenting with combining traditional home crafts with abstract imagery. They're exploring the themes of reconciling historical alienation with contemporary reality. They're influenced by absurdist humor—DADA, found art, art brut, home crafting, and graffiti. They must call themselves "entry-level" but they have 20 years of creating art at home. Self-taught. Southern California, urban...

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....

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A Major Platform Supporting Emerging Artistic Talent in the UAE Applications are now open for the 2026 Christo and Jeanne Claude Award, an annual initiative designed to support the next generation of UAE-based artists. Presented […]

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...

"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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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...