Astronauts traces histories of magic and femininity
 
Designed by Danae Dasyra and Joe Bradford of Astronauts, Agnes’ presence is suspended somewhere between dream, ritual, and resistance. Part of their Goetia series presented at Nilufar Gallery during Milan Design Week 2026, the piece explores magic, drawing from the long, charged histories of femininity that continue to shape the present.
 
Speaking with designboom, the Athens-based designer duo describes Agnes as rooted in the figure of Agnes Sampson, a Scottish healer executed for witchcraft, situating the project within a broader lineage where ‘midwives and female healers — bearers of empirical, embodied knowledge — were disproportionately...

Systems of power, cultural identity and “the fragile boundaries between perception and reality” are the ideas that drive Lucia Shuyu Li, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, performance, painting and sound. They’re also some of the most relevant themes of our times, emerging from a contemporary era defined by misinformation, political polarisation and an endless news cycle. Li draws on her Chinese heritage and time spent in the US to create her works, which express her “experiences as an individual navigating the complexities of contemporary society.” The trio of paintings Judge Me, I Am Dead Therefore I Was Alive and Who Cried Walking Home are perhaps her most personal, and...

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New images document the construction of The Whale by Dorte Mandrup in Andenes, Norway, showing the building emerging directly from its Arctic shoreline.
 
The building, with its low rooftop, reads from above as a low, continuous form pressed into a chain of rocky islets. Its footprint follows the contours of the terrain and extends toward the water without asserting a clear boundary between land and ocean. A red lighthouse and the clustered houses of Andenes remain visible in the background to reinforce the scale of the intervention within a working coastal town.
image © Terje Løkke
 
 
the whale: a gestural surface shaped by climate
 
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In recent years, Julianknxx has developed a practice that sits at a compelling intersection of film, poetry and performance – one that resists easy classification while remaining grounded in lived experience. Born in Sierra Leone and now based in London, his work reflects an engagement with questions of identity, displacement and cultural memory. Rather than treating these themes as fixed subjects, he approaches them as evolving conditions, shaped by movement, language and time; unfolding through a logic of association rather than linear narrative, rhythm, voice and atmosphere. This creates a viewing experience that is as much about listening and sensing as it is about interpretation. In this way, Julianknxx...

Martha Ortiz is out only two months after the sudden dismissal of artistic director Eugenio Viola

The donation, from the foundation of collector and NGA trustee Mitchell P. Rales, is the largest programming gift in the gallery’s history

el departamento stages cinematic interior within flagship store
 
El Departamento completes the Lady Pipa flagship store in Madrid, located on Calle Lagasca in the Salamanca district. The 106 sqm retail space reinterprets conventional store layouts through a scenographic approach that integrates interior architecture with cinematic references. The concept, titled Soirée Dreams, structures the space as a sequence of environments where retail, atmosphere, and narrative are closely linked.
 
The design draws on visual references associated with the work of David Lynch, particularly in its use of contrast, reflection, and spatial ambiguity. Upon entry, a metallic wall-mounted telephone introduces the spatial...

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Inside Vegas's Ho Château, a total artwork of American decadence

Artforum’s new co-editors address the enduring stakes of art writing

On "Problems of Criticism" and judgment in times of crisis

“She took on a story most found too uncomfortable to face”

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Editor’s Note: This interview was translated from Spanish by Valentina Di Liscia and is available at the end of this article. / Nota del editor: La entrevista original en español se encuentra aquí. Tomorrow, May 1, on the occasion of May Day, also known as International Workers' Day, Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera will stage her performance “Tatlin’s Whisper #6” in the middle of Times Square in Manhattan. With a deceptively simple setup of a raised platform and a microphone, the work dates to the 2009 Havana Biennial, when Bruguera invited Cubans to exercise their right to free speech. Each speaker’s time on the stage was limited to one minute, emphasizing the fraught, conditional...

At Conductor Art Fair, preview visitors join Bangladeshi artist and curator Bishwajit Goswami on his work, “Bhaitak” (2025), presented as a special project through the Brihatta Art Foundation in Dhaka (photo Gina Curovic, courtesy Powerhouse Arts)Less than three weeks after the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair smashed attendance records at Powerhouse Arts (PHA), the Gowanus-based nonprofit has debuted yet another ambitious new program. I returned yesterday evening to check out the opening night of the inaugural edition of the Conductor Art Fair. Running through Sunday, May 3, the new event is a tightly curated yet experimental foray in representing, in its own words, “the global majority and Indigenous...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration unveiled its very first commemorative public artwork on Thursday, April 30, in recognition of Manhattan’s first Arabic-speaking enclave, “Little Syria.”“Al Qalam (The Pen): Poets in the Park,” a mosaic installation and sculpture created by French-Moroccan artist Sara Ouhaddou over the past decade, honors nine members of the neighborhood’s once flourishing literary community. Among the most recognizable figures named in the work is Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran, who co-founded the neighborhood's local writers’ association, Pen Bond (al Rabitah al Qalamiyyah), in 1920. Situated in the Financial District’s Elizabeth H. Berger...

Georg Baselitz, an influential German artist who was internationally known for his robust, often violent, Neo-Expressionist paintings, died today, April 30, at the age of 88, according to a press release from Thaddeus Ropac, his representative gallery. Baselitz’s final paintings will be on view in the exhibition Eroi d’Oro, opening at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice on May 6.Baselitz caused controversy when, in 2013, he told the German newspaper Der Spiegel, “Women cannot paint very well. It’s a fact.” In accordance with such views, some of his most famous works center the drama of male genius. His 1960s series, Heroes, for instance, consists of monumental portraits of male soldiers (in the...

Georg Baselitz, a preeminent painter of postwar Germany and an engine of the 1980s Neo-Expressionist movement that rebuked Minimalism, and who would later come under fire for his comments about women artists, has died at 88. His death was announced in a press release by Thaddaeus Ropac, one of the galleries that represented the artist.  Baselitz exploded into the German art consciousness in the 1960s with a formal grit matched by tormented subject matter: his breakout “Heroes” series (1965–66) features bloated, blocky figures balancing on ruined buildings and toppled flags. Through his eyes, postwar German society appeared raw and taut as an exposed muscle. Next came his “Fracture” series, which...

Banksy is back. Not with a mural this time, but with a full-blown sculpture in the heart of London. The provocateur from Bristol confirmed in a video on his Instagram account today that he is indeed the creator of an imposing statue at Waterloo Place in Central London. To dispel any mystery, he also scratched his signature on the statue's base. The monument depicts a modern man in a suit walking off a plinth with his face covered by a flag. Banksy's left his signature on the base of the plinth. (photo Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Installed covertly in the early hours of Wednesday, April 29, the statue is in proximity to a cluster of monuments celebrating the bygone glory of...

German conceptual artist Timm Ulrichs has died at the age of 86. His death on April 29 in Berlin was announced by the art association Kunstverein Hannover, of which he was the oldest member. Born in Berlin in 1940, Ulrichs studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover from 1959–1966. In 1961, inspired by the “Merzkunst” (Merz art) of Hanoverian artist Kurt Schwitters, he declared himself a “total artist,” renaming his living space and studio the Werbezentrale für Totalkunst & Banalismus (Advertising agency for total art, banalism, and extemporism). “Total Art,” he once stated, “knows no boundaries as regards to genre and encompasses diverse disciplines that serve to get to the...

During the much-ballyhooed visit of King Charles and Queen Camilla to New York City on Wednesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on the King to use his power to return the Koh-i-Noor Diamond to India. As reported by Reuters, at a press conference before a ceremony to commemorate the victims of ​the September 11 attack, Mamdani said, “If I were to ‌speak to the king separately from that, I would probably encourage him to return the Koh-i-Noor Diamond.” The two leaders did in fact meet later at the ceremony itself, but Buckingham Palace declined to comment and Mamdani’s office did not respond to a request for comment about what was discussed. In 1850, the Koh-i-Noor Diamond was given to Queen Victoria...

The family of 96-year-old Quebecois sculptor Armand Vaillancourt is not giving up the fight to save the 710-ton concrete landmark known as Québec Libre! or the Vaillancourt Fountain. The public artwork has been an iconic, if controversial, part of the landscape of San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza since it was constructed in 1971. However, last summer, San Francisco’s arts commission, which owns the work, was asked if would “deaccession” the sculpture in order to accommodate the city’s planned renovation of the plaza. “It’s one of urban America’s truly bizarre works of public art,” John King, a former architecture critic at the San Francisco Chronicle, told the New York Times last fall....

The five-person jury resigned amid an escalating dispute over the participation of Israel and Russia at this year’s Biennale

Home might be a mutable concept, but some objects retain the aura of belonging and comfort even outside the walls we reside in. For Monica Rohan, those items are patterned fabrics and bentwood dining chairs, which venture outdoors in her vibrant oil paintings. The Brisbane-based artist has long depicted the supple folds and bright motifs of textiles, which tended to swaddle her characters or hide their faces among natural landscapes. Upholstered loungers and carved wood seats have similarly appeared in unusual spots, precariously holding a figure while nested in a slim hedge or slumping down a small hill. “Draped Clover” (2026), oil on board, 70 x 100 centimeters In recent years, though, Rohan’s...

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco has named Essence Harden as senior curator. She will begin in the role on May 18. Harden currently serves as curator of the Expo Chicago art fair. Since 2024, they have also organized the Focus section of Frieze Los Angeles. They will continue in those roles with YBCA’s support. As an independent curator, Harden most recently co-curated the 2025 edition of the Made in L.A. biennial at the Hammer Museum. They previously served as visual arts curator at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles and have also organized exhibitions at the Orange County Museum of Art, Art + Practice in Los Angeles, the Museum of the African Diaspora in San...

Baselitz’s death comes on the eve of a major exhibition of his latest paintings at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini concurrent with the Venice Biennale

Earlier this month, dozens of metallic discs suspended from the ceiling of a large industrial space invited viewers to immerse themselves in what SpY describes as “a continuous choreography of movement and reflection.” The artist is known for his large-scale installations, often repurposing objects like traffic cones and metallic rescue blankets to create striking urban interventions. SpY’s most recent room-scale work, titled “Halos,” reimagined the industrial interior of a former railway-related factory in Florence—a place we typically associate with Renaissance elegance as opposed to brutalist design—as part of the city’s Bright Festival. Three stories high, “Halos” interacts with the...

The Caral civilisation used the structure thousands of years ago to track the sun, moon and stars to determine conditions for fishing and gathering shellfish

remembering georg baselitz
 
The art world mourns the passing of Georg Baselitz (1938–2026), a defining force in postwar painting whose work reshaped the trajectory of contemporary art. Over a career spanning more than six decades, Baselitz forged a language that confronted history, identity, and representation with unrelenting intensity, leaving a body of work that continues to resonate across generations.
 
‘We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Georg Baselitz, a titan of contemporary painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking,‘ reads a statement shared following his death, which was announced Thursday, April 30th, 2026. ‘A canonical innovator and one of the most important artists of...

a classic jeep becomes a rugged restomod
 
The Vigilante 4×4 Scrambler takes the long, open profile of the original Jeep CJ-8 and brings it into the present through a complete reworking of its structure and performance. The car is immediately recognizable. Flat body panels, exposed hardware, and an open cabin continue to define its appearance. Beneath that familiar profile, it has been rebuilt from the ground up.
 
A new chassis replaces the original frame, supporting updated suspension and a modern V8 engine. These changes shift how the vehicle behaves on the road and across uneven terrain. Acceleration, stability, and braking all move into a different range than the historic model. The team’s intention...

Klaus Mäkelä unexpectedly joins the foray for The Cleveland Orchestra's performances of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem.

Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung at Canadian Opera Company deliver on fine performances even if Robert Lepage's production skimps on horror.

From recognizable scenes around her home in Scotland to delicately rendered snapshots of places she visits, Laura K. Sayers’ meticulously crafted postage stamps nod to connections from afar. The artist, who also illustrates children’s books and is commissioned for special projects like greeting cards, incorporates itty-bitty cuts of colorful paper into tiny tableaux that can fit in the palm of a hand. Much of the work seen here is currently on view solo in Sayers’ solo exhibition of miniatures titled The Wee Small Hours at N. atelier. An array of everyday scenes is chronicled in a format we typically associate with significant events and remembrance, documenting fleeting moments like little treasures....

"You're your own boss."

 
Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...

In Deborah Turbeville – Photocollage and Ikram Abdulkadir – Soft Focus, presented side by side at Moderna Museet Malmö, the image is not fixed but constantly in negotiation with time, material and gaze. Fashion and portrait photography provide the point of departure, yet both practices quickly exceed their commercial origins. Instead, they unfold into meditations on presence – how a body occupies space, and how that space might be withheld, transformed or dissolved over time. Across both exhibitions, softness becomes a structural principle rather than a purely aesthetic choice. Turbeville’s work establishes a language of atmospheric resistance, where the photograph resists clarity in favour of...

Non tutte le invisibilità coincidono con l’assenza. Alcune, più insidiose, sono prodotte da un paradossale eccesso di esposizione. Si tratta di corpi continuamente inscritti entro una matrice discorsiva e materiale che li classifica gerarchicamente, li piega a una funzione e, pertanto, li sottrae alla possibilità di apparire come singolarità. L’invisibile, in questo senso, non è ciò che manca allo sguardo, ma ciò che lo sguardo non sa sostenere senza ridurlo a figura amministrabile, a presenza funzionale, a materia governabile entro l’ordine storico. Si tratta di un in(di)visibile strutturalmente implicato nell’ordine che lo produce. L’invisibilità di cui parla Pamela Diamante non ha nulla a...

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Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Scenerium 2026 Art Award: Exhibition, Publication, Sales, and Global PromotionFeaturedWhere will your art take us? From landscapes and seascapes to cityscapes and imagined worlds, Scenerium 2026 invites artists worldwide to capture the essence of place and turn it into a visual journey. Through natural scenes, urban energy, and visionary environments, this juried opportunity celebrates art that draws viewers in and places them inside the world you create. Selected artists receive a smart online exhibition, Artsy...

In the richly detailed linocuts of Eduardo Robledo, festive ceremonies, spiritual motifs, and dream-like interactions unfurl. The Mexico City-based artist was born and raised in the southern borough of Xochimilco, which is famous for its canals—vestiges of a huge Aztec water transport system still used today for bringing goods into the city. This area and its time-honored customs provide a bounty of inspiration for Robledo. Community and celebration are at the heart of his work, as creatures and figures converge in enigmatic, sometimes ritualistic choreographies. Traditional motifs like skulls and skeletons, which represent remembrance, joy, and an acceptance of the cycle of life and death, interact with...

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Nostalgic for bass month, Parterre Box offers excerpts from two young basses to watch: Giorgi Manoshvili and Patrick Guetti.

In Kashmir, India, there are three stages of winter: Chillai Kalan, Chillai Khurd and Chillai Bache. The first is The Great Cold, occupying mid-December to the end of January, when the weather is at its harshest and temperatures drop below freezing. Snowfall is a common occurrence. The second is the Small Cold, when things warm up slightly but the weather can still be biting, followed finally by The Baby Cold, characterised by intermittent sunshine and melting ice. This annual progression towards spring is the focus of a new book from Magnum photographer Sohrab Hura (b. 1981). Snow documents the artist’s repeated visits to the Indian-administered region over a five-year period, recording its passage...

Hans Hotter masterfully captures the poignancy of this sublime Brahms Lied.

The opening of V&A East Storehouse signals a recalibration in how institutions might live with their collections, not as static reservoirs of heritage but as permeable, operational spaces of encounter. Set within the wider emergence of V&A East, the Storehouse reframes access as a continuous condition rather than an occasional event, dissolving the distance between storage, study and display. It arrives at a moment when museums are increasingly asked to perform not authority but to open their infrastructures to forms of public legibility that were once hidden. Its arrival also invites comparison with the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, where transparency and verticality have already recast the...

C’è qualcosa di profondamente antiretrospettivo nella mostra dedicata a Agnès Varda, e non è un paradosso, ma una precisa presa di posizione. Pur presentandosi come la prima grande retrospettiva italiana consacrata alla sua opera fotografica, l’esposizione evita con decisione la forma celebrativa e lineare per articolarsi piuttosto come una costellazione di materiali che restituiscono la natura mobile e refrattaria della sua pratica.
“Agnès Varda. Qui e là, tra Parigi e Roma”, installation view at Villa Medici – Accademia di Francia, Roma, ph. © Daniele Molajoli, courtesy Villa Medici – Accademia di Francia
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By Nancy Spiller Alec Egan's painting "Dawn House," in his show "Groundskeeper" at Vielmetter Los Angeles, is tender, serene, and calm — a lavender and peach sky sheltering the triangular top of a house flanked by two palm trees and the tip of a cypress. In its companion painting, "Night House," the sky takes a sinister turn with layers of dark blue, sunset orange, and a roiling strip indicative of flames mixed with what might be smoke. It hints at something of what Egan, his wife, and two...

C’è sempre, entrando in una mostra, un momento quasi automatico, e in fondo un po’ ridicolo nella sua prevedibilità, in cui ci si ritrova a chiedere che cosa si abbia davanti, che cosa sia davvero ciò che si sta guardando, come se fosse ancora possibile, oggi, ottenere da una domanda del genere una risposta stabile, qualcosa che non si dissolva nello stesso istante in cui prende forma.
Andrea Capucci, “In forma di amore”, 2026, terracotta invetriata, 30 × 40 cm. Courtesy Galleria Antonio Verolino, Modena
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Matthew Walton is an emerging artist based in Toronto. He holds a B.A.A. (Hons.) in Animation from Sheridan College. His mixed-media practice combines drawing and painting, often merging the human form with a distinct graphic sensibility. The result is figurative compositions that strike a distinct textural contrast between softness and hardness. Embracing gestures and mannerisms once repressed, his work is also a celebration of authentic self-expression.
Froot Loops features Matthew’s mixed-media-work-on-paper series highlighting the quiet charm of everyday queerness. Each piece reimagines a separate mundane moment, transformed by Matthew’s bold, graphic approach to figuration and his vibrant technicolor...

Il nuovo programma di residenze artistiche presso l’associazione culturale Alchemilla a Bologna, quest’anno curato da Giulia Giacomelli e Gabriele Tosi, si pone come dispositivo di dialogo tra l’interiorità isolata, accogliente e protetta del palazzo storico di Bologna e l’alterità del mondo che lo circonda, aprendo lo sguardo verso la scena artistica bolognese e la contemporaneità complessa e destabilizzante del nostro tempo. Tre sono le artiste coinvolte nel programma delle nuove residenze, della durata di due mesi, nei quali ciascuna troverà modo di affrontare una prima fase di ricerca individuale seguita da una seconda nella quale si creerà un contatto e un dialogo con la scena artistica...

Shifting Crossroads. Beirut Contemporary fornisce una panoramica dell’attuale scena artistica libanese. Personalità riconosciute sul piano internazionale, come Mona Hatoum e Simone Fattal, dialogano con giovani artisti e proposte frutto della ricerca di Nicole Saikalis e Matteo Bay che, con lo scopo di promuovere una visione aperta e interconnessa del contemporaneo, hanno fondato nel 2024 la Saikalis Bay Foundation.
AA.VV., “Shifting Crossroads. Beirut Contemporary”, installation view at Circolo, Milano, ph.  Andrea Rossetti, courtesy Saikalis Bay Foundation
Shifting Crossroads è una mostra che si colloca non solo in un momento di crisi globale, segnato dalla guerra e dalla deriva totalitaria della...

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