Treelithon Reimagines the Rural Stone House in Chalkidiki
 
Treelithon by Not a Number Architects reinterprets the archetype of the rural stone house of Chalkidiki, Greece, as a composition of three interconnected dwellings. Set on a long, narrow plot with a gentle slope and a mature landscape of pine and olive trees, the project was developed as a family holiday retreat, with part of the accommodation operating as short-term rental units to support the viability of the property. The architecture establishes a relationship between domestic use, hospitality, and the surrounding landscape while exploring the potential of traditional stone construction within a contemporary context.
 
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Paul Carey-Kent reviews Trace Elements, a new monograph documenting Eric Butcher's striking shift towards a more sustainable artistic practice.

CAMPING GOES VERTICAL IN THE NETHERLANDS
 
Dutch artist Willem De Haan transforms the familiar image of a campsite into a vertical landscape with Highrise Campsite: Nature City, an installation first presented during IJsselbiënnale 2023. Rising eleven metres above the Dutch countryside, the scaffold structure accommodates up to twelve camping tents while occupying only a fraction of the ground normally required. Set beside the IJssel river, the work introduces an unexpectedly urban silhouette into an otherwise pastoral setting.
 
Rather than imagining the countryside as an endless open landscape, the project points to a reality where space is increasingly contested. The installation borrows its logic from...

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Salina Light and furniture series Reinterprets Marine organisms
 
The Salina Collection by Federico Stefanovich draws on the morphology of marine organisms, particularly the skeletal structures, shells, and carapaces found in aquatic environments. The collection translates these natural references into an abstract study of volume, composition, surface variation, texture, and opacity, exploring the structural relationship between fragility and strength.
 
Rather than directly reproducing natural forms, the collection interprets their internal balance and structural complexity through sculptural lighting and furniture. The pieces occupy a space between mineral and living matter, rigidity and organic fluidity,...

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Facha architekti inserts black timber retreat into Czech barn
 
The Box in the Barn is a compact contemporary dwelling inserted into an existing agricultural structure in a rural family homestead in Brtev, Lázně Bělohrad, Czech Republic. Designed by Facha architekti as a seasonal retreat, the project replaces an initially considered renovation of the farmstead’s residential wing with a new, independent living unit positioned within the historic barn. The intervention preserves the existing structure and its character while introducing a clearly defined contemporary volume that remains structurally separate from the original building.
 
The new dwelling takes the form of a simple timber structure wrapped...

PollenNav navigation app maps lower-pollen routes in the city
 
Most navigation apps optimize for time, distance, or traffic. PollenNav asks a different question: which route will least likely leave you struggling to breathe? Designed by Bay Area product designer Yani Shi with collaborators Yawen Zheng, Ziqi Li, and Chang Mou, the app treats pollen exposure as a routing variable, as real to an allergy sufferer as a road closure is to a driver. The premise is personal. Shi spent a stretch of 2021 dismissing her own allergy symptoms until they escalated into asthma, coughing through nights she couldn’t sleep. The recurring thought during that period — that she simply had no way of knowing where the...

The two shows both seek to investigate the interstices of spiritual and artistic practices, yet neither fully manages to capture the divine

After the US Supreme Court struck down the White House’s previous tariffs, Trump and his trade representative have imposed new tariffs of 10% or more on around 80 countries

French police arrested a man in connection with the theft of a 2,500-year-old gold torque from the Musée du Pays Châtillonnai in Burgundy.

Dustin Yellin has a hot take: “Religion should be a product of art, not art a product of religion!” Um, sure! The multidisciplinary artist and Pioneer Works founder made the comment in a recent appearance on SubwayTakes, the internet talk show hosted by Kareem Rahma. In the episode, posted to Instagram Tuesday, a befuddled Rahma responds, “100 percent disagree. Don’t even know what the f—k you’re talking about.” As is perhaps to be expected from an out-there personality like Yellin, he had quite a bit more to say. Yellin explained that his point was about how humans treat religion as “literal and real,” which in his estimation creates division and killing. He went on to say that he thinks...

Bentonville is a small town in Northwest Arkansas that has, over time, become synonymous with massive retail operations and corporate ecosystems. The bustling hub is ingrained with the legacy of Walton’s, a small nickel and dime convenience store that opened on Bentonville’s downtown square in 1950 to serve its surrounding community. The shop quickly found success, and owner Sam Walton opened another store nearby that would evolve into the largest retailer in the world: Walmart. During this time and throughout the ’60s, a post-war boom overtook the burgeoning commercial landscape of the United States. The suburban American Dream became a catalyst for retailers to adapt to an evolving social fabric that...

Marcel Moore, "Title unknown" (c. 1930), exhibition copy of a photographic collage (image courtesy Jersey Heritage Collection)ST. LOUIS — “Beneath this mask, another mask. I will never be finished removing all these faces.”This line from a photocollage created by Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore speaks to the magnificent, magnanimous life they shared as both romantic and creative partners — one in which gender and familial identity proved as mercurial as France’s tumultuous political climate in the 1920s and ’30s. Born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, respectively, the two met as teens in their hometown of Nantes and fell recklessly in love. They then became legal stepsisters when...

Pathbreaking artist Betye Saar, whose powerful assemblages of racist memorabilia served up scorching commentary on the condition of the Black American—particularly the Black American woman—died on July 26 in Los Angeles. She was ninety-nine. Saar’s longtime gallerist Julia Roberts, of Roberts Projects, confirmed her death, which occurred at home, in the artist’s sleep, four days […]

Japan's historic Kumamoto Castle was damaged after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit the country today, July 28. Video footage on X shows a section of the moat wall tumbling down onto the lawn and into the water, near the entrance from the castle's Ninomaru Plaza in Kumamoto Prefecture on the southwest island of Kyushu.

Two activists affiliated with Youth Demand, a group calling for the British government to end economic trade with Israel as well as the cessation of new licenses for fossil fuels, were found guilty of criminal damage after covering a Picasso painting with an image of a mother and child in Gaza. Jai Halai, age 25, and Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, 23, were convicted by a jury over the incident at the National Gallery in London in October 2024.   As reported by Jewish News, “During the protest, they placed a large photograph of a mother and child from Gaza over the protective glass protecting Picasso’s 1901 painting Motherhood before pouring water-based paint onto the gallery floor and chanting slogans calling...

There is a new development in an ongoing fraud lawsuit against the leader of the collapsed Vancouver-based developer Coromandel Properties, whose chief executive allegedly misappropriated funds to acquire an art collection, reports The Vancouver Sun. In 2023, Junchao Mo, a Chinese seed investor and part-owner of Coromandel Properties, and his two sons, Zhao Ming “Robert” Mo and Zi Hao “Calvin” Mo, filed a lawsuit now headed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia against Jerry Zhong, the company’s chief executive and co-owner. They allege that Zhong deceived them into investing over $100 million in the company’s Vancouver-area real estate projects, and deliberately misused those funds to purchase...

Betye Saar died on July 26, four days before her 100th birthday, to the shock and sadness of an art world preparing to celebrate the centennial of the singular assemblage artist. Born in Los Angeles in 1926, Saar spent six decades excavating the American sediments of race and politics through found objects, from the innocuous—furniture, feathers, birdcages—to the insidious. Saar’s groundbreaking 1972 piece The Liberation of Aunt Jemima depicted the eponymous “Mammy” figure bearing a toy rifle and broom, with a Black Power fist rising before her. “She is going to liberate herself at all costs,” ARTnews wrote in its obituary yesterday, echoing Saar’s own words: “Take a woman who was a victim...

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), “Portrait of Marchesa Casati” (1927), gelatin silver print (all photos Julia Curl/Hyperallergic)Walter Benjamin could’ve told us the problem with AI about a century ago. In 1931, before the technology could even be dreamed of, the German and Jewish philosopher and media theorist was becoming concerned with a different emerging medium: photography. With eerie prescience, Benjamin wrote that he feared that it could “endow any soup can with cosmic significance but cannot grasp a single one of the human connections in which it exists.” Photographs that aestheticize things while erasing their meaning are dangerous, he argued. Practitioners can bathe the chimneys of a steel...

A Boston exhibition this fall will reveal works by New York–based artist Robert Lazzarini that were intended to represent the country at the hotly contested US Pavilion at the current Venice Biennale. The show, as yet untitled, opens on September 30 at Boston’s MassArt Art Museum (MAAM), at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and will allow the public to see works that employ the artist’s trademark distortions to comment on American symbolism.  The current US Pavilion is one of the most talked-about in art circles in recent memory, having been arranged by a newly formed organization headed up by a Donald Trump–supporting former pet food purveyor with no art world experience. The process that...

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The Detroit Institute of Arts has received a major gift of over 2,000 contemporary and modern artworks from the estate of Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman, two prominent Detroit art collectors. The gift includes artwork made by nearly 500 different artists, including Diane Arbus, Jenny Holzer, Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Bruce Nauman, Diego Rivera, Bill […]

Why are there so many toxic people in the art world, and how do I protect myself — professionally and emotionally — from them? —A. Goodman, NY Every industry has toxic people, but desperation gives the art-world toxicity its particular flavor. The field is full of people making and supporting art, but the money available from collectors, grants and philanthropy combined can’t sustain most of them. We fight over the scraps. Some of us handle scarcity better than others, but nobody is their best self.When I worked as an art critic, people often asked me to write pieces exposing the bad behavior of professionals they didn’t like. Often the targets deserved a takedown, but the requests never sat well...

The Art Institute of Chicago has announced it will lay off its entire in-house custodial staff, and subsequently outsource the positions to private contractor. This decision has caused severe backlash from the museum’s unionized staff.  On June 29, an initial announcement detailing the plan was released: 23 unionized custodial workers responsible for cleaning the galleries […]

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At the 48th session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee in Busan, South Korea, 13 works by Finnish modernist architects Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto were added to the organization’s World Heritage List. The projects, which are collectively known as the “Aalto Works,” are the first collection of Finnish modernist architecture to achieve such a designation. […]

Mr Doodle has taken over London's West End

What best represents European life? The eternal dichotomy of nature vs. culture structures the Central Bank’s quest for a new banknote design, and now, the public can vote and offer feedback on ten proposals. A panel of jurors selected the designs, which follow one of two themes: European places and ideas or birds and rivers, the latter of which is meant to symbolize freedom and unity. While the basic elements are the same—all collections devoted to culture feature the same six figures, including Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, composer Ludwig van Beethoven, scientist Marie Curie, opera singer Maria Callas, and authors Bertha von Suttner and Miguel de Cervantes, for example—individual approaches...

The Royal Academy revisits Peggy Guggenheim's groundbreaking London gallery with a major exhibition of more than 80 works.

A new public work by Alan Michelson and an exhibition by Leslie Wayne explore climate change and fragile ecosystems

The French Culture Ministry has budgeted €30m over three years to improve security at local museums and has issued a 33-point action plan

The latest museum in the Guggenheim network will open on 11 December 2026, twenty years after its original 2006 announcement

Undergraduate art students will be able to study for the jointly awarded degree based at the Norwich University of the Arts from September 2027

The Royal College of Art and Norwich University of the Arts are partnering to launch jointly awarded undergraduate degrees from 2027.

The V&A and Burberry explore the history of the iconic trench coat in a free exhibition marking the fashion house's 170th anniversary.

A nude Black woman lies on a stark white chaise, her head propped up by her thin arm. She’s surrounded by flat, abstracted color in the form of fruits and fabrics, and a glass coupe and bottle on a nearby table offer a clear, rather than refracted, view of the vibrant scene. Rendered in oil on burlap, the painting by William H. Johnson is commanding in its palette and subject matter and an exemplary work in a new book by art historian Richard J. Powell. Forthcoming this fall from Princeton University Press, Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect delves into the ways that color and social, political, and cultural forces intersect in Black American art. Powell takes an expansive approach to each of the three...

“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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Since 1998, Fumiaki Aono has been interested in how objects circulate and what happens when they appear in new contexts. Questions of restoration and regeneration naturally followed, and wood became a prime medium for exploring these themes. Today, Aono continues to revitalize found objects, particularly discarded furniture. Dressers, chests, and cabinets stack into towering assemblages and become the imaginative backdrop for the artist’s constructed scenes. Converted drawers appear like apartment buildings on a summer day, with tenants leaning out windows and hanging out at street level. Several works also depict box trucks and other vehicles emerging from wooden furnishings, while bicycles, hats, and shoes...

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Wolf Trap Opera presented a lovely Eugene Onegin with particularly noteworthy performances by Magdalena Kuźma and Daniel O’Hearn.

Lorenzo Molajoli is a mysterious figure.

Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's bubbly The Judgement of Paris brings a distinctly Californian terroir to operatic comedy.

Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman's Lili Elbe receives its first recording ahead of its stateside transition.

Based on exactly one recording, Maurice Abravanel is my favorite opera conductor.

The small settlement of Pyramiden on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard is literally frozen in time. A former mining outpost for the Soviet Union, industrial operations ceased in 1998, and residents relocated. It wasn’t until 2007 that a handful of new inhabitants made the settlement home. Because Pyramiden was abandoned in a cold climate, it remains impeccably preserved, with remnants of its once-thriving settlement still visible. French photographer Damien Aubin visited the Arctic region and documented the still, serene environment blanketed in snow. “The place has not been abandoned. It has been left in suspension,” he says. Classroom, Pyramiden Pyramiden’s buildings and the objects inside are...

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By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...

All images courtesy of CHOI&CHOI Gallery and the artist Sculptor Yu Jinyoung garnered international acclaim for her striking figures, whose bodies are often partially transparent. These are individuals “who wish to become invisible,” she says: “those who exist free from external attention and interference.” These explorations of both intentional isolation and somber loneliness have always […]
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By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...

Common Objects brings together the work of 97 photographers from across the globe to explore the role of the image and its ability to shape perception. Organized not by theme or geography but by visual association, the book draws on the logic of the reference catalog—a structure built for sustained, democratic looking. Within it, photographs from vastly different cultures and contexts find themselves in unexpected proximity, generating connections and contrasts that no single image could produce alone. In this format, the photographs enter into a subtle dialogue with one another, revealing how context, sequence, and framing shape interpretation and inform visual experience.  
   
   
   
   
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Photos by Robert Berg, Gregory Gorman, courtesy of the Donum; with additional photos by Annie Owens Balancing awe and meditative moments, the sculptures of The Donum Collection populate a sprawling vineyard estate, with many works many commissioned expressly to respond to the lush landscape they inhabit. Seventy works of art, ranging from bronze sculptures by […]
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In the mountains of northern Italy, far from his studio in Madrid, David Oliver was supposed to be resting. It was early 2025 and he had gone with friends to a house in the Dolomites on a retreat to disconnect. Instead, Oliver found himself staring at images on his phone of cities under bombardment in […]
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By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...

The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

By Melanie Chapman There is much to appreciate about the new pop-up exhibition Hospital of Emotions, currently on view at St. Vincent Medical Center (2131 W. Third Street, Los Angeles) until July 31. But if you want to maximize the benefits of your visit, avoid the bombardment of images now flooding the internet and even consider not reading this review. Like seeing all the best parts of a movie by watching the trailer, it is better to just go, and go soon, with as little advanced exposure as...