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A mobile pencil cabinet draws on Yerevan’s pink volcanic tuff
 
Designed by Shushana Khachatrian of STUDIO SHOO, the TUFF Pencil Cabinet draws on the pink volcanic tuff stone that defines Yerevan’s architectural identity. The design also references chalk drawings, handwritten names, and simple motifs often found on the stone’s porous surfaces, translating the city’s architectural heritage and everyday street culture into mobile storage for creative tools.
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Two colorways offer different storage configurations
 
Available in yellow and pink, the cabinet by STUDIO SHOO comes in two configurations. The yellow version features a single tier with a top-opening drawer, while...

At first glance, the structure resembles a kind of elongated igloo or a giant, white snail. One one hand, it’s an immersive, pop-up room with a futuristic, bubble-like texture. It’s also a giant, walk-in camera (there are 221 lenses to be exact). Premiering late last month at MODE Festival, a celebration of global photography, “Compound Camera 3” is the latest work by Pneuhaus, the Rhode Island-based studio known for its large-scale, architectural inflatables. Dozens of tiny cameras comprise the installation, which covers more than 700 square feet and invites visitors to walk around inside of a projection powered entirely by the sun. The images visible through the tiny apertures land on bulbous...

K-pop star Rosé will perform at LACMA’s upcoming Art+Film Gala on November 7. The Blackpink vocalist joins the museum’s 15th annual fundraiser, which will honor Latvian American artist Vija Celmins, long celebrated for her meticulous renderings of the natural world, and Denis Villeneuve, the director behind cerebral sci-fi hits Dune and Arrival. The event is presented again by Gucci, with actor Leonardo DiCaprio and LACMA trustee Eva Chow returning as co-chairs. “The LACMA Art+Film Gala celebrates creative icons and the connections between all forms of creativity, all around the world,” said Chow in a statement. “As a global pop superstar, Rosé will amplify the spirit of the evening with her...

Commissioned and produced by Wesleyan University in Connecticut, the work explores nationhood and freedom

I was way too productive throughout the three-day weekend. A grueling closet overhaul (five-drawer wooden tallboy vs. fourth-floor walk-up), an overdue bathroom bleachout, a close friend’s 30th birthday party, a drop-in cat-sitting visit that turned into a rare accidental nap, and an arduous round-trip trek to the distant land of Nassau County were accomplished, and yet I still feel haplessly behind on my never-ending to-do list.Looking at the upcoming roster for the rest of the month, I’m positive that I’m not the only one who’ll be letting that to-do list pile up again in favor of ✨immersing myself in the culture✨. Much like my closet door for the better part of the last eight months, the doors...

In 1962, Marc Chagall embarked on a secret commission from the French culture minister, André Malraux: 24 wedge-shaped canvases to be installed on the ceiling of Paris’s Palais Garnier opera house. His canvases covered a fresco painted by the mostly-forgotten 19th century painter, Jules-Eugène Lenepveu. His family is now planning legal action to uncover the […]

On Monday, before the eyes of Washington, D.C., water once again filled the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. A sign, posted by National Park Service on the premises, reads: “The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is being refilled as the National Park Service and contractors put the final touches on a historic effort to clean, repair, and beautify this iconic national landmark. As part of the normal refilling process, the water may temporarily appear cloudy before clearing.” Earlier this year, after a restoration that involved painting the bottom of the reflecting pool—a color described by President Donald Trump as “American Flag Blue”—the new coating began to peel, prompting a second round of...

Pope Leo XIV addressed a group of directors of globally renowned museums on Saturday at the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican, underlining the Catholic Church’s “special affinity with the arts.” The pontiff spoke to members of the Bizot group, also known as the International Group of Organizers of Major Exhibitions, whose member institutions include the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Singapore, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the British Museum in London, and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, among other world-class institutions. Founded in 1992, the group takes its name from Irène Bizot, former director of France’s...

Lucy McRae on body futurism
 
The body is both the starting point and the testing ground for Lucy McRae’s speculative practice. Through sculpture, film, conceptual fashion, and experimental design, the artist explores how technology might change the way we inhabit ourselves and relate to others. Her work treats the human body as a medium through which possible futures can be experienced and questioned.
  McRae leads Future Sensitive, an art-led speculative lab that brings together scientists, artists, and designers to explore body futurism and post-nature futures. Her interest in the subject developed through a combination of physical training, design research, and technological experimentation. After...

Washington, DC — Approximately 250 protesters gathered beside the Washington Monument on the National Mall on October 8 as part of a National Day of Action event calling for accountability and justice for sexual assault survivors. The protest was just one of more than a dozen “I Am Jane Doe” demonstrations held across the country last week, “from the frat house to the White House,” as described by the Women’s March.The National Day of Action was largely organized in response to allegations that seven Cornell University men, now known as the “Cornell 7,” gang raped a female student and advertised it in a fraternity Snapchat group. When the woman, known as Jane Doe, reported the incident two...

I’ve never put much thought into how I want to be portrayed after I die. Perhaps I’d opt to be plastered on Etsy mugs, tea sets, and journal covers, à la Frida Kahlo (though I doubt I’d have many buyers, or that Kahlo would’ve enjoyed how her self-image is often nowadays detached from the politics and life behind it), or I would begin things early by enlisting an artist to paint their best guess at my posthumous body. Maybe I'd like to be dipped in ink and stamped onto rice paper, as Molly Tenzer does with the roadkill she finds on New York City streets.The lineup at this year’s DOC NYC, which returns to venues throughout the city from November 11 through November 29, offers many reflections on...

A long canoe floats onscreen to the throbbing hum of insects; a frail woman expertly strips bark from a tree. She boils it slowly, a small tamarin monkey curled on her head like a crown. Dipping a blade into a bowl of tree juice, the woman free-hands a series of geometric shapes. Her nails are stained with age and ink, her grip remarkably steady.Directed by Èlia Gasull Balada and Matteo Norzi, The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs (2026) follows artist Sara Flores throughout her rapid ascendance to art world fame as the representing artist of the Peruvian pavilion at the current Venice Biennale. The film will screen at the 50th annual São Paulo International Film Festival starting on October 19, and will...

In New York real estate, a good amenity can add serious dollars to the asking price: a private gym is nice, a rooftop pool even better. An original Keith Haring mural? That’ll tick the price up to $25 million. A seven-bedroom loft containing a work the artist painted in 1979 has hit the market for $25 million, according to the New York Times. The catch? The mural is painted directly onto the building’s walls, ceiling, and structural supports, so the art literally comes with the listing (or vice versa). The 8,000-square-foot triplex occupies part of the American Thread Building at 260 West Broadway, a Renaissance Revival building completed in 1896. In addition to Haring’s black-and-white artwork, it has...

Peter Nagy, an artist who became a star of the East Village in 1980s New York before ascending as one of India’s leading art dealers in the 1990s, has died at 67. Nature Morte, the New Delhi–based gallery that he ran, said that he had battled a long illness in a statement posted to social media. “He lived exactly as he chose: fearlessly, irreverently and wildly free,” the gallery wrote. “He had no patience for convention for its own sake, and endless patience for ideas, for artists and for the people he loved. He made the art world more daring, more generous and far more interesting.” The arc of Nagy’s career was an unusual one. He fostered a generation of appropriation-minded artists based in...

Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings stick in your mind. They are memorable and congenial. When I went to Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, the first major survey of his work in more than 30 years, at the Whitney Museum, I expected to be surprised by something new the curators dug up in their research into the sources of many of the more than 130 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints on view. I was not initially disappointed. Throughout his life, Lichtenstein credited Hoyt Sherman, his teacher at Ohio State University, with teaching him how to see. Lichtenstein gave his first son the middle name “Hoyt” and, after becoming successful, endowed the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center at the university in the 1990s....

Japanese architect Junya Ishigami, known for airy designs that link the built environment to nature, has been announced as the first winner of the newly launched Barragán Prize, the Architect’s Newspaper reports. Named for renowned Mexican architect Luis Barragán, the prize is a collaboration between La Cuadra, a cultural space outside Mexico City occupying a […]

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Prague is set to welcome its first international contemporary art fair next spring, with the launch of Prague Contemporary. The fair is the brainchild of founder and director Alexandra Karpuchina, the owner of Prague’s Karpuchina Gallery (formerly Black Pearl Gallery). Bulgarian art dealer Stephan Stoyanov will serve as the fair’s curatorial director. Titled “This Feeling […]

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A three-hundred-year-old Jingdezhen porcelain bowl and box were found in shards inside a glass case at the British Museum after the bowl apparently tumbled from its shelf in the display. Staff at the museum are still investigating how the bowl fell, as its mount is undamaged and no one was in the room when it […]

Around 1906, Hilma af Klint was living in Stockholm, where she kept a studio. Deeply engaged with Christian esotericism, she channeled her mystic visions into a series of otherworldly paintings that art historians acknowledge to be the first known abstract works in the canon, a paradigm shift in 20th-century art that had previously been credited to Wassily Kandinsky starting around 1910. What continues to awe us today about af Klint’s works is she didn’t view her vibrant paintings strictly as artworks, but as a result of spiritual channeling. Their production also coincided with a period of incredible scientific discovery. Nikola Tesla had just developed the alternating current (AC) electricity system,...

Curator Fatoş Üstek guides us through 11 monumental works on show this year in Regent's Park

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Nick Cave (nato nel 1959 a Fulton, vive a Chicago) “Amalgam (Origin)” 2024, bronzo. Foto di R.Grisancich per Juliet. L’opera, installata nel percorso esterno dell’Arsenale, è inserita nel progetto “In Minor Keys” di Koyo Kouoh per la Biennale Arte 2026.
38 | Inchiesta sull’Intelligenza Artificiale – Potenzialità e limiti (XI) / Luciano Marucci
46 | L’altra realtà di Goffredo Fofi – Testimonianze (I) / Luciano Marucci
52 | Art Basel in attesa – Uno scenario di calma apparente / Loretta Morelli
56 | Galleria Planetario – Intervista a Livio Radin / Roberto Vidali
58 | La Biennale della complessità – 61. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte di...

sunken plaza likns corporate tower with São Paulo’s public realm
 
Jeronimo Faria Lima by Perkins&Will rethinks the corporate tower through its relationship with São Paulo’s public realm. Located at the intersection of Brigadeiro Faria Lima Avenue and Jeronimo da Veiga Street, the project uses a sunken plaza, pedestrian bridge, and elevated garden to connect the building with the surrounding streets.
 
The first basement level contains a sunken plaza with cafés, social areas, and collaborative spaces, extending public activity into the building. From here, a pedestrian bridge leads to the main lobby, creating a gradual transition between the street and the tower. Transparent enclosures, continuous...

New York gallery Lubov has announced Mode Bonafilia and Kristen Wasik as its new owners. The pair succeed gallery founder Francisco Correa Cordero, who died suddenly this past August at the age of thirty-seven. Established in 2016, Lubov gained a reputation as a welcoming home for cutting-edge artists. Thanks to Cordero’s charisma, it also became […]

The historic site will operate as a permanent exhibition space as well as a cultural centre, managed by the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus)

The Greek collector who heads her family’s shipping firm is showing works from her collection at the Hellenic Centre during Frieze London that reflect on perceptions of Greece past and present

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From birch plywood and select solid maple, birch, cherry, and other native hardwoods, Chicago maker and designer Bill Groot crafts handmade Lap Easels in small batches. The ingenious device is a portable, adjustable support that sits comfortably on your lap or tabletop. It’s perfect for a multitude of creative activities, like drawing and painting, reading books and magazines, writing, relaxing with a screen, holding a cookbook, and more. The Lap Easel’s strong and lightweight design features five angled height settings to reduce hand and neck fatigue, and basic supplies can be tucked into the body compartment. Order yours today in the Colossal Shop. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a...

In its third revival, Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of Don Giovanni nails its predatory Don — but falls short dramatically with its donne.

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Ahead of the world premiere of Lincoln in the Bardo next week, Carmen Paddock looks at how presidents in opera can be both symbols of an idealized past and trenchant commentaries on the present.

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Sometimes I arrive at a building and don’t take a photograph for the first hour. I walk around. I look at the light, the floor, the ceiling, the way one room leads into another. I pay attention to the materials and how they change depending on where I stand. Sometimes I know the building well from photographs. Sometimes I have travelled a long way to see a place I have been curious about for years. Other times, I arrive with very little idea of what to expect. Usually, I have an idea of what I am looking for. It is quite often wrong.
 
Once I am actually there, the building starts to feel different. A photograph can give you an idea of a place, but it can never really tell you...

FIAT MULTIPLAY CONCEPT DEBUTS AT 2026 PARIS MOTOR SHOW
 
Fiat has unveiled Multiplay at the 2026 Paris Motor Show, a concept car that combines the space of an MPV, the character of an SUV and the versatility of a pickup truck. Measuring 4.45 meters in length, the vehicle explores how a single design could accommodate the changing needs of family life, from school runs to weekend adventures. At its heart is an adaptable architecture that allows the car to physically transform between two configurations. For now, Multiplay remains a design experiment rather than a preview of a specific production model.
 
The transformation revolves around a sliding rear module called Metamorfosi, developed around the...

I went for Nilsson, but the star for me was the exceptional Mignon Dunn.

Ci sono luoghi votati alla trasparenza assoluta, spazi architettonici nati per celebrare il trionfo della ragione illuminista, la linearità geometrica e la fede incrollabile nel progresso visibile: ed è così, sotto la teca di cristallo e acciaio di Mies van der Rohe, che Berlino fino al 7 marzo 2027 si trasforma nel teatro di un’ombra collettiva. A pochi mesi dalla celebre chiusura e riapertura del tempio del Modernismo, Cattelan orchestra un’installazione totale e spettrale, dove il buio non è assenza di luce, ma il luogo in cui la coscienza contemporanea è costretta a fare i conti con i propri fantasmi. La Neue Nationalgalerie di Berlino, capolavoro testamentario di Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, è...

Opera Baltimore strikes out with an uninspired production of Don Giovanni. 

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I find it unfathomable that Frederica Von Stade is 81 years old, for to me she is eternally 31.

Il termine «mediale» è più preciso di «digitale». Il digitale definisce un codice; il mediale definisce una condizione. Un’immagine mediale non esiste solo perché prodotta da una tecnologia: esiste all’interno di una rete di produzione, trasmissione, trasformazione e percezione. Il quadro diventa così una soglia tra codice e sguardo. In mezzo c’è il tempo. Segni Mediali, la personale di Davide Maria Coltro alla Galleria Andrea Ingenito Contemporary Art di Napoli, curata da Gabriele Perretta, si confronta con la condizione della pittura nel momento in cui il quadro non coincide più con una forma visiva stabile. Non si tratta di un semplice aggiornamento tecnologico, ma di una trasformazione...

Una ferita può diventare immagine senza che l’immagine finisca per appropriarsi della ferita? È una questione che attraversa Second Chances (2026) di Eliel David Martínez Julián, opera vincitrice del Premio Paolo Rigamonti nell’ambito del Premio ArtiVisive San Fedele 2026, dedicato a Il volto della violenza. Il lavoro prende avvio da un episodio preciso: il 22 marzo 2024, alla stazione di Ferrara, l’artista viene aggredito da un gruppo di ragazzi e colpito all’occhio destro con un oggetto metallico. Da quell’esperienza nascono un autoritratto, la documentazione successiva all’aggressione e una lettera indirizzata ai responsabili, riuniti in un’installazione che evita di trasformare il trauma...

By Kristine Schomaker I keep thinking about Nomadland. Fern driving her van across that enormous American landscape. Not running from something. Moving toward something she could not quite name yet. That feeling of needing less. Of being, as Dominique Moody says, at home in the world. NOMAD: Dominique Moody and the Assemblage of Home is on view at the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena through January 16, 2027, part of the year-long city celebration for the centennials of Route 66 and the...

“Ci si trova sulla spiaggia come al margine del mondo conosciuto, contemplando l’ignoto oltre l’acqua. Gli innumerevoli granelli di sabbia lungo la costa, l’orizzonte lontano e le acque sconfinate sotto un cielo infinito possono suscitare sentimenti di meraviglia e riverenza, o semplicemente la consapevolezza della propria insignificanza.” (The Book of Symbols, 2010)
Maxwell Stevens, “Summer Daydream”, 2025, oil on canvas, 135 x 183 cm, courtesy of the artist and Onetwentyeight, New York
Nei dipinti della serie Surfside di Maxwell Stevens, la spiaggia appare come una soglia: non tanto un paesaggio delimitato, quanto una condizione percettiva. È il luogo dove la terra finisce e dove l’occhio,...

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,” economist and computer scientist Herbert Simon warned in 1971. In our era of digital overload, it feels increasingly urgent—ironically—to remember to slow down. Too often we’re distracted by one thing or the next, looking down at our screens or paying attention to our surroundings just briefly enough to snap a photo before moving on. Jonathan Knight is captivated instead by the quiet moments, the beauty in stillness, and the gentle, gradual changes around us that take time to fully appreciate. Known for his ethereal, minimalist images, Knight conceived of Exhale as a way to explore the nuances of color and “the emotional experience of...

By Jody Zellen Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 3–November 22, 2026 Susan Silton has never been an artist attached to a single medium. Her practice, which spans more than forty years, interweaves photography, design, performance, sculpture, video, audio, and installation. Working as a graphic designer in the 1970s and ’80s shaped her visual acuity and formal sensibilities. Her production is conceptually strong and visually coherent and very little is left to chance. It is a delight...

“I left my hometown / My hometown appears,” begins a poem by artist Shuling Guo titled “Temple II,” which shares its name with her forthcoming solo exhibition at Hollis Taggart Downtown. Drawing on sacred symbolism and nature, Guo delves into her memories of growing up in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, China, and the area’s unique mixture of spiritual and folk traditions. Her dreamlike, symmetrical works speak to the harmony of the cosmos as much as they nod to the balance of life and the sublime. Guo’s paintings in Temple II explore memory, presence, and loss, and their creation coincided with both the birth of her daughter and the death of her grandmother. Burgeoning blossoms, delicate flames,...

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To celebrate the retrospective exhibition Future Pastime featuring the work of futurist Syd Mead opening at the Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery in San Francisco this evening, we are showing previews of paintings from the show as well as the full article which Silke Tudor wrote on the late legendary industrial designer in Hi-Fructose Issue 33. […]
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The women look concerned, and weary. They are ready to repel an attack. The women look in love, but bored. “When are you leaving,” they might wonder. The women are only half-present. Matted hair, two eyes, a hand, and the rest have either turned inward or run away. The women are multifaceted. Their eyes are […]
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In the “feminist west” that lives on Jennifer Nehrbass’s canvases, women ride horseback and hike in fashionable attire. They appear in head-and-shoulder portraits against fiery backgrounds and nude in pieces where figurative and landscape painting converge. In her work, Nehrbass challenges the common depictions of the U.S. West. “You would always have the man who […]
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By Kristine Schomaker Friday night I stood at the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and watched artists perform five-minute pieces in the open air as the sun went down. ACTION = LIFE, presented by LACE and the Performance Art Museum as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. A marathon of performances. So many friends. So much history in one place. I drove home still feeling it. Thinking about the first performance I ever saw that made me understand what my own work was actually about....

By Kristine Schomaker I learned yesterday that my friend Scott Froschauer died suddenly. I've known him for almost ten years, and I'm still trying to find a place to put this. Scott was a Shoebox artist, one of the early ones. We worked together on several projects, but the one I keep coming back to is an art salon we put together on consent, negotiation, and the male gaze, how the male posture of viewing women frames any sign of femininity as an invitation, and what it would mean to actually...

By Betty Ann Brown "In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world."—Graciela Iturbide Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide creates haunting images that portray the people, places, and events of the extraordinary cultures and geographies of her home country. Iturbide has a unique artistic practice that involves living and working with the people she chooses to photograph. Her process has made possible the strange and wonderful depictions for which she is known. In...

With a creative lexicon featuring yarn, pixels, beeswax, and spray paint, Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega has created a new language for herself, one that speaks to the present and the past by using traditional and contemporary techniques, as well as rural and urban sensibilities, to create a body of work that synthesizes all her […]
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Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.