salon 94 displays ceramics inside its NYC townhouse
 
Within an upper-level gallery space of Salon 94’s Upper East Side townhouse, ceramic works by Tom Sachs appear behind glass, arranged in a white cabinet with red tape along its edges and a familiar NASA mark repeated across their imperfect surfaces.
 
Some look like bowls, some look like fragments rescued from a kiln disaster, and others seem to have been rebuilt just enough to suggest the shape they once wanted to hold. The patched surfaces, taped seams, and lumpy edges make the case feel like a workshop archive over a display of precious objects.
 
The setting is Tom Sachs’ Furniture, a full-building exhibition that brings together new and earlier...

Finn, previously the chief curator at the Orange County Museum of Art, starts at Crystal Bridges and the Momentary in August

A joint Slovenian-Mexican archeological team has discovered an undisturbed Mayan city in a remote area of Campeche, Mexico. Located deep within the jungles of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, the city—which the researchers have named “Minanbé,” a Maya Yucatec phrase meaning “there is no road”—had been hidden by vegetation for over a thousand years. The site features a 43-foot-high pyramid temple (about the height of a four-story apartment building), and 14 carved altars and stelae, according to Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), which authorized the expedition. The discovery is the culmination of lead archaeologist Ivan Šprajc’s three-decade-long exploration of the...

Lari Pittman in 2022 (photo William Jess Laird, all images courtesy Lehmann Maupin, New York and Seoul)This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June.Lari Pittman’s captivatingly cacophonous paintings juxtapose myriad forms of visual culture, from design, decoration, and typography to cartoons, architecture, and high art. Behind his enthralling, maximalist surfaces, he excavates uncomfortable legacies — specifically those of the Americas — through jumbled jungles of text and image that defy easy resolution. The Colombian-American artist has been routinely mining this vein for more than four decades, from early...

Ring the alarm—the most striking performance of this year’s Venice Biennale is going on tour. An adapted version of Florentina Holzinger’s Seaworld Venice, created for the Austrian Pavilion, will be presented at Gropius Bau in Berlin in spring 2027, followed by a stop at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna that fall, before concluding its run in March 2028 at Amant in Brooklyn. Nora‑Swantje Almes, Curator for Live Programs and Outreach at Gropius Bau, who organized its Venice presentation, will reportedly oversee this new iteration. In the unlikely event you haven’t heard (of) it, a refresher: Holzinger hung upside down inside a great bronze bell recovered from the Venetian lagoon and suspended above the...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Frayda Feldman (1938–2026)New York gallerist and Andy Warhol print expertThe longtime gallerist and progressive advocate exhibited work by over 1,000 artists during her directorship of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, which she co-founded with her husband in 1970. She mentored countless arts professionals, collectors, and staff and served as an editor of the Andy Warhol Prints catalogue raisonné, now in its fourth edition. In the 1980s, Warhol collaborated with her and Ronald on publishing multiple print series, including Ads (1985) and Moonwalk (1987).Inga Brūvere (1963–2026)Latvian curator and painterThe...

Lawyers for Julia Ormond are looking to have the court issue a bench warrant for the arrest of CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz for walking out of a deposition after being prodded about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Ovitz was asked about his continuing association with Epstein after the disgraced financier’s conviction for sex crimes. At one point, Ovitz stopped engaging. “I’m not going to discuss anything about Jeffrey Epstein,” he said. “You can ask all the questions you want, you’re going to get no answers.” The line of questioning related to Ovitz’s assertion that he would’ve cut ties with Weinstein had he known about the former movie mogul’s history of sexual misconduct. Ormond,...

Matthew Campbell, a reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek, spent years digging into sources to write The Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy. His book reads like a thriller while laying out the entwined histories of the Cambodian genocide and the rapacious hunger of Western collectors for the images of Hindu and Buddhist deities created by the sculptors of the Khmer Empire during the 9th to 15th centuries CE in what is now Cambodia.Campbell’s book focuses on Douglas Latchford, an Englishman who moved to Bangkok in the late 1950s and became one of the main conduits for looted Khmer antiquities. He directed every aspect of the trade, from telling looters where to...

The 272-year-old New York Society Library’s patrons have included the likes of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton

Misan Harriman, the chair of London’s Southbank Centre, announced that he would be stepping down from his post via social media this week. Harriman’s resignation comes one month after a slate of virulent criticism from Britain’s Telegraph and Daily Mail which labeled the photographer and entrepreneur antisemitic, which in turn encouraged more than 100,000 people […]

Hundreds of New York City–based artists and cultural workers have called on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to implement a two-year moratorium on artificial intelligence in public schools. In an open letter published yesterday by the AI Moratorium Coalition, approximately 500 visual artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers called on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to prohibit the technology, describing it as “built on theft, having stolen the work of countless creatives” and arguing that it has now “invaded the city’s classrooms”. Among the signatories are visual artists Nan Goldin, Laurie Simmons, and Carroll Dunham; as well as art critic Jerry Saltz and writer-artist Molly Crabapple. The missive cites a slew of...

Archaeologists working in Upper Egypt discovered two tombs dating to the Early Dynastic period, both of them at the fabled location known as Gabal El-Teir—or, as translated from Arabic, “Mountain of the Birds.” The tombs date from 3100 to 2686 B.C.E. and “will allow researchers to trace the development of funerary architecture,” according to Archaeology Magazine, which noted that thick walls at the bottom that taper toward the top of the structures could represent an early stage in the development of pyramids. As reported by Ahram Online, “The first early Dynastic tomb represents a rare architectural model distinguished by its unique geometric design, while the second tomb closely mirrors it in...

Australian artist Jane Allan is facing allegations that she mimicked the work of New York neo-expressionist Jean-Michel Basquiat and British-born Australian artist Nicholas Harding in two paintings that won Australian prizes in recent years. The Guardian reports that concerns first arose over Allan’s canvas Seaside Explorers, which won the AU$20,000 (US$13,800) Doyles Art Award for […]

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In Alexis Trice’s dreamy worlds, ethereal looking fish, hounds, shells, and clouds mingle and sparkle like jewels in a crepuscular haze. It’s in a hypnogogic state (where dreams and reality interweave) that they really spring to life: swimming, prancing, basking, and even weeping. Like sand passed through our fingers, though, their seemingly solid forms vanish […]
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Democratic Socialist Claire Valdez, an artist and New York State Assemblywoman, clinched the Democratic nomination to represent New York’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives in a landslide victory in Tuesday night's primary. Valdez, a Texas-born painter who moved to New York City to work in the arts, had defeated her top competitor, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, a member of the progressive Working Families Party, by about 20% as of Wednesday morning, June 24. Valdez is now poised to win the seat representing New York's so-called "Commie Corridor" — a district encompassing parts of Brooklyn and Queens, including Ridgewood, Williamsburg, and...

Across an expansive lawn at Minneapolis’ Boom Island Park earlier this month, Franco-Swiss artist Saype painted a monumental public artwork directly onto the grass. Part of his Beyond Walls series, which has so far seen 22 iterations around the world, the piece marked the first time the project appeared in the U.S. Minneapolis found itself in the global spotlight earlier this year when ICE descended on the city and spurred several weeks of turmoil, protests, and violence. Especially tragic were the killings of Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti during interactions with agents. The city is no stranger to the ripple effects of police brutality, especially in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020 and the...

Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Manhattan’s borough president, announced on Tuesday that all $50 million of his office’s annual discretionary budget would be going towards NYC arts-centric cultural programming and renovation projects. Hoylman-Sigal told the New York Times that he had decided to allocate the budget this way, rather than divide it up between sectors as in years […]

The Eiffel Tower and the Louvre announced early closures this week as France swelters in record-breaking temperatures, having achieved a high of nearly 112˚F in the southern part of the country yesterday. News site France 24 reported that the Eiffel Tower, which is typically open past midnight, would close at 4 p.m. on June 23, […]

Recognition by the International Union of Geological Sciences highlights how stone can reveal and preserve a city's material history

Recent rulings in California and New Mexico against the social media giants seem to promise greater accountability, but in practice they may erode free and creative expression online

Creative Folkestone has named Philippine Nguyen as its new Chief Executive, succeeding Alastair Upton MBE later this year.

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Along the Skellefte River in northern Sweden, this faceted Lithium Crystal Sauna catches the water, the trees, and the recovering ground around it. Bigert & Bergström’s pink project stands at the center of WasteLand, a climate action park built on the former Scharin industrial site, where contaminated land has been remediated over seventeen years and opened as a public landscape for art, ecology, and gathering.
 
The fully functioning sauna is the permanent centerpiece of the park, which opens in connection with Society Expo 2026 under the motto From Waste to Promise.
 
WasteLand has taken shape in one of the region’s former polluted industrial areas, and brings...

For some working artists, summer in Chicago is a time to get into the (stiflingly hot) studio; others might prefer to participate in an idyllic residency in some charmed lakeside Wisconsin or Michigan town. Blessedly, despite the corn sweat, Chicago’s gallery and museum scene is eager to provide fresh work for the Midwestern mind. The city’s summertime pride is certainly accompanied by an enthusiasm for the work of local emerging artists, seen in spaces like Prairie and Hans Goodrich. The sweltering heat also brings a simmering interest in local history and political positioning, as is the case at the National Museum of Mexican Art and Logan Center Exhibitions. And on the South Side, the long-awaited Obama...

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Exhibitions at Warin Lab Contemporary, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, and STORAGE

Alternating between felted wool, crochet, and embroidery, Holly Guertin summons moments of peace and reflection through nature. Lifelike lambs serenely nod off or stand in front of ornate backgrounds, while vignettes of foliage and flourishes incorporate colorful fiber. In her practice, the artist seeks connections between patterns and adornments and flora and fauna. “The brilliant color work in a hummingbird’s feathers, the spots on a pufferfish, even the stripes in a blade of grass are all ordinary moments of spectacular ornament,” she says. Some of these pieces will be on view in the artist’s solo exhibition Hand in Hand at Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, North Carolina, which runs from...

AMASA Estudio Extends the Life of a Mid-Century Home
 
Casa Xoltic is the rehabilitation of a mid-century house in Coyoacán, a historic residential neighborhood in southern Mexico City. Designed by AMASA Estudio, the project reconfigures an existing dwelling through a series of spatial, material, and programmatic interventions that adapt the house to contemporary domestic life while preserving its original structure.
 
Rather than replacing the building, the project focuses on extending its lifespan through transformation. The existing house remained largely intact, but its compartmentalized layout and underutilized spaces no longer supported contemporary patterns of living. The intervention reorganizes the...

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Parterre Box shines a light on Liparit Avetisyan, who made his Met debut as Alfredo earlier this spring.

From a major drawing exhibition, launch of a new foundation and a landmark Hong Kong show, Frank Bowling is entering a remarkable new chapter

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‘Persistence’ implies that the former prime minister is to blame for the 1943 Bengal famine, which historian Andrew Roberts says is inaccurate

we+ rethinks craft as a way of understanding materials
 
Founded in Tokyo by Toshiya Hayashi and Hokuto Ando, design studio we+ approaches materials less as resources to be shaped than as collaborators to learn from. Across projects involving microalgae pigments, industrial waste, Styrofoam, seaweed, and even mist, their work asks how materials can shape the design process instead of simply being shaped by it.
 
For we+, craft is not something fixed or nostalgic. It is an active way of working with materials and understanding their qualities through making. As the design team explains to designboom, craft is the practice of understanding materials through the hands and body, intervening in them, and giving...

The second episode of the Room For Dreams podcast series introduces a compelling dive into how architecture can embrace the future without losing its soul. Recorded live at Milan Design Week 2026 in cooperation with INDX|GLOBAL, this episode features architects Arun Sharma and Jaskaran Singh as they unpack the true meaning of the digital vernacular.
 
The conversation turns the typical tech anxiety on its head, reframing artificial intelligence not as a threat to heritage, but as an unexpected ally for keeping local identity alive. The architects describe a fast-evolving landscape where algorithms do not dictate aesthetics, but instead quickly decode traditional building practices — speeding up...

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Markus Klinko is an internationally recognised artist whose images have become part of the visual memory of our era

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From Louise Bourgeois and Taryn Simon to Bruce Nauman and Ana Mendieta, Paul Carey-Kent selects his standout discoveries from Art Basel 2026.

Tra i meriti di Josef Albers, uno è forse il più sottile: aver costruito opere che restituiscono allo sguardo pigro esattamente il nulla che merita, e allo sguardo paziente qualcosa di completamente diverso. La critica tende a descrivere il lavoro di Albers come «variazioni sul tema»: lo studio dello spettro cromatico declinato nella geometria del quadrato. È una formula che, pur non mentendo, tradisce per difetto. Registra il cosa – la ripetizione della forma, la modulazione del colore – ma lascia nell’ombra il perché: il fatto che quella forma non sia mai fine a sé stessa, ma il dispositivo attraverso cui Albers mette in tensione la materia pittorica e la percezione di chi la guarda. Ed è...

Albert Einstein once said that “the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” For Dr. Elliot McGucken, the sublime enigmas of nature form the basis of his explorations of landscape and light. McGucken traverses North America’s most beautiful and striking terrain, including Death Valley where he captured a wildflower superbloom earlier this year. He revels in all kinds of natural phenomena, from the vicissitudes of the Rocky Mountains to brown bears fishing in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve to the ghostly, flood-carved walls of Antelope Canyon. He also happens to be a physicist whose...

To open a new film from Art21, artist Lenka Clayton encapsulates her way of thinking and making: “Looking at things that are supposed to behave a certain way and purposefully misunderstanding how they should be used, it’s really important to me,” she says. The Cornwall-born artist works across media, creating both meditative animations via typewriter and immersive installations of gathered artifacts. Collecting is central to Clayton’s practice both materially and conceptually, and she often works from her own experiences, particularly those around becoming a parent and her life in Pittsburgh (she even started an open-source residency program for artist mothers). In the short documentary, we see...

When we think of traveling circuses, the “big top” tent likely springs to mind with its acrobats, clowns, tightrope walkers, and other entertainers and pageantry. Sometimes the traditions are controversial, such as the use of elephants and lions for performances. But visions of bedazzled animals or the swinging trapeze are nevertheless etched in our collective memory. In the former U.S.S.R., the tradition took on a whole new meaning. Circuses had been nationalized in 1919, a few years before the Soviet Union was formed. Along with theater, opera, and music, the genre was also co-opted by the socialist government as a propaganda machine, turning family-friendly entertainment into a channel for Communist...

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis does its best to give magic in its summer productions of Roméo et Juliette and A Streetcar Named Desired. 

Sena Jurinac, a celebrated Mozart and Strauss singer here as the Composer, a signature role.

Marco Mazzucconi è un punto fermo della storia degli anni Novanta in Italia. La sua serie di “Informale visto dall’uomo e visto dal cane” è qualcosa di incredibile: porta in superficie la pittura e allo stesso tempo ci fa pensare. Ci lega alla realtà e al modo di percepirla, ci rimanda alla verità e all’interpretazione della stessa, ci parla della forma e dei pensieri che su questa si possono ricamare. Inoltre, si tratta di opere ineccepibili, eseguite con cura maniacale e di grande professionalità. Altro ciclo, declinato in varie maniere, ma sempre di grande forza espressiva e di grande intuizione, è quello che s’intitola “Chance di un capolavoro”. Questo ciclo, declinato nelle sagome di...

Ryan Heshka has a longtime love of science fiction, four-color printed comics from the 1950s and ‘60s and mid-twentieth-century mutant movie characters. In his comic Frog Wife, he taps into these influences while adding in a dose of contemporary themes, drawing upon not just the “anxiety of nuclear annihilation” that inspired so much twentieth-century pop […]
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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...

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The divine Dame Janet Baker never sang at the Metropolitan, sadly for American audiences.

Miriam Cahn propone una visione e la impone come dato. La retrospettiva al MACRO di Roma, la prima in Italia di questa ampiezza, è un campo di attrito in cui cinquant’anni di opere costringono il corpo a misurarsi con la propria esposizione all’abuso. Guardare, qui, indica essere guardati. Il titolo, Ciò che mi guarda, ribalta la direzionalità dello scrupolo con una minuzia tutt’altro che retorica. Lo spettatore smarrisce qualunque ubicazione esterna: viene convocato in una relazione che esclude neutralità e divario gestibile. Il visivo funziona da contatto diretto, pressione, più che raffigurazione. Curata da Cristiana Perrella e allestita da Didier Fiúza Faustino // Bureau des Mésarchitectures,...

Wolf Trap Opera triumphs in a fizzy, fun Cenerentola.

Dallo Studio Tommaseo a una rete internazionale di curatori e artisti: Giuliana Carbi Jesurun racconta il percorso e la visione di un centro culturale che ha deciso di guardare oltre, rivolgendosi a Est, in un progetto che parte negli anni ‘70 e che continua ancora oggi a evolversi.
“Dialoghi Lituani”, 1997, mostra alla Stazione Marittima di Trieste, in primo piano le sculture imbottite di Darius Bastys, foto Tiziano Neppi, courtesy Trieste Contemporanea
Veronica Rinaldi: Ci potrebbe raccontare com’è nata Trieste Contemporanea?
Giuliana Carbi Jesurun: Trieste Contemporanea è nata perché in una Trieste che voleva essere contemporanea era doveroso guardare a Est. I nostri Dialoghi con l’arte...

Durante i giorni della Biennale, Venezia continua a funzionare come un sistema poroso, dove ogni intervento si innesta su stratificazioni già presenti senza mai cancellarle del tutto. In questo contesto, la Cappella di Santa Maria della Pietà accoglie Vessels of Other Worlds di Wallace Chan come una deviazione silenziosa rispetto al flusso espositivo diffuso in città. Non si tratta di un’occupazione dello spazio, ma di una sua lenta modulazione, in cui la materia sembra reagire più che dichiararsi. L’impatto visivo, per chi entra nell’edificio progettato da Giorgio Massari, è un’alterazione improvvisa della luce: la pietra e i marmi storici della chiesa settecentesca entrano in contrasto con la...

Calligraphy is an ancient art with roots across the globe, dating back to early Chinese dynasties and Greek civilization, all through the Italian Renaissance. But one glance at a work by San Francisco-based artist Hunter Saxony III, and your understanding of calligraphy will be turned on its head. In an approach that is varied, yet […]
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The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

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In the popular imagination, artists are often thought to create for the sake of creating, unfettered by the demands of the market-driven world outside their studios. Though many well-known artists have muddled the boundaries between art and commerce (Jeff Koons comes to mind), the two realms have a contentious relationship. Business savvy artists are often […]
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