Erin M. Riley, an artist out of Philadelphia, is urging you to really rethink your notion of weaving and looming by transforming it from traditional to anything but. Read Eva Glettner's interview withthe articst from our archives by clicking above.
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From pieces of everyday white paper, a series of delightful stop-motion animations illuminates how a simple material can be transformed into a sophisticated design. Created by Japenese designer Tomohiro Okazaki, who runs a studio called SWIMMING, “Paper Study” is a series of short intervals in which pieces of cut, folded, and sculpted paper appears to move on its own. Flat sheets transform into voluminous structures before collapsing back into a single plane, and arches, circles, and myriad other shapes move in sync. Okazaki is known for his playful optical animations using matches and other household objects. See more on SWIMMING’s YouTube channel and the designer’s website. Do stories and artists...

High Art, a taste-making Paris gallery that brought artists ranging from Lucy Bull to Julien Creuzet into the eye of the broader art world, will close its physical space after 12 years in operation. Its last exhibition closed in July. “Entering a new chapter, we will reform and transition toward collaborations, offsite exhibitions and individual artworks,” the gallery wrote on Instagram on Friday. “How this will take shape in the coming years is still to be determined, but we remain very much so excited about the future of contemporary art and its enduring relevance.” Founded by Romain Chenais, Jason Hwang, and Philippe Joppin in 2013, High Art became one of Paris’s most closely watched small...

An American con artist has been charged for allegedly defrauding a London gallery owner over an early Gustave Courbet painting. Thomas Doyle, 68, was arrested on November 14 by members of the FBI’s Art Crime Team and charged with one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum prison term of 20 years.  According to court documents filed in a New York district court, London gallery owner Patrick Matthiesen bought the 1844 oil painting, Mother and Child on a Hammock, at a French auction house in 2015 and was seeking a buyer. In 2023, he cosigned the work to Nicholas Hall Gallery in New York. Hall presented the work at that year’s Tefaf Maastricht fair with an asking price of $650,000. It did not sell,...

A portrait of a young aristocrat, painted ca. 1795–1800 by Spanish master Francisco de Goya, has been at the center of a long-running dispute between two aristocratic Spanish brothers. Now, a Madrid court has ruled that Fernando Ramírez de Haro, 10th Marquess of Villanueva del Duero and husband of Esperanza Aguirre, Spain’s former minister of education and culture and a leader in the conservative Popular Party, must pay his brother, author and playwright Íñigo Ramirez de Haro, Marquis de Cazaza in Africa, 853,732 euros ($992,420) from the proceeds of the sale of the Portrait of Valentín Belvís de Moncada, according to El Mundo. The late construction and metals billionaire Juan Miguel Villar Mir bought...

During the first week of December, as the art world descends upon Florida’s Magic City, fairs such as Art Basel Miami, Untitled Art, and NADA Miami tend to be the main attraction. But those fairs are hardly the only places to see art in the city this week. Below, we’ve compiled a list of the gallery shows our editors are most excited to see in Miami, and we’ve partnered with See Saw to create a map of our picks.On the See Saw app, search #artnews in the Miami section to view our selected exhibitions as a list and add them to your own map.

Leandro Erlich submerges ‘concrete coral’ along miami beach
 
With all twenty concrete ‘cars‘ now parked twenty feet below the ocean’s surface, ReefLine introduces its first fully deployed artwork just in time for Miami Art Week 2025. The seven-mile underwater sculpture park and hybrid reef is being conceived by Ximena Caminos and masterplanned with OMA / Shohei Shigematsu off the coast of Miami Beach. Leandro Erlich‘s underwater Concrete Coral installation transforms the traffic jam, a symbol of Miami Art Week, into a living underwater habitat which marks a milestone in an ambitious long-term plan to merge public artwork and accessible ocean activism.
 
Leandro Erlich’s concept is a submerged...

Following the heist of France’s crown jewels that captured global attention, foreign tourists will pay the cost. The Louvre Museum board voted on Thursday to raise its ticket prices by 45 percent for visitors outside the European Economic Area, the New York Times reported. The increase is part of a larger effort to raise funds to support infrastructure changes at the institution. Starting on January 14, tourists will pay €32 ($37) up from the current price at €22 ($25). This will impact Americans, Britains, and Russians, as they are not part of the European Economic Area, which includes countries in the European Union, along with Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway. While roughly one quarter of the...

Each December, thousands of art world denizens descend on Miami for a weeklong extravaganza anchored by fairs like Art Basel Miami Beach, which spotlight works by artists around the world. This year, two museums hope locals and tourists alike will also spend time with the art of some of the region’s original inhabitants. The exhibition Yakne Seminoli (“Seminole World”) at the HistoryMiami Museum gathers works by over 25 Seminole artists across traditional and contemporary mediums — not just beadwork, patchwork, and basketry, but also painting, photography, and even AI. Organized in collaboration with the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum on the Big Cypress Reservation in the Everglades, the show aims to convey to...

Enigmatic landscapes and metaphysical scenes unfold in the work of Gideon Kiefer. On canvas and panel, the artist paints countrysides dotted with small fires, pensive figures, and natural phenomena seemingly detached from reality by varying degrees, such as a wave crashing inside of an architectural enclosure or a chunk of purple-tinted landscape floating inside of a celestial cube. Kiefer is interested in the nature of time and the way we mark its passing. Many of the mysterious notations and framing devices he adds around his esoteric tableaux resemble quickly-scribbled notes, as if for remembering something important, or poetic extracts from diary entries. “B MF B” At first glance, Kiefer’s scenes...

MasterVoices presents a strongly-cast Sweet Smell of Success—but the merits of this noir musical are hardly black or white. 

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Composer Philip Venables talks about queer utopias and bending gender and genre in The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions which opens at the Park Avenue Armory this week.

KOD.objects translates early russian craft into furniture design
 
ECHO by KOD.objects reinterprets the material culture and architecture of 11th–17th century Russia as a sculptural furniture collection. Each object is crafted from plywood and recycled paper pulp, finished with a protective coating that adds durability and a tactile surface.
 
The project draws from ancient household objects, carved wooden forms, early stone structures, and the structural silhouettes characteristic of old Russian craftsmanship. These historical sources are translated into contemporary sculptural furniture. The collection includes stools, chairs, tables, consoles, and screens. Each object reinterprets the plasticity and...

Tobi Onabolu is an artist-filmmaker and writer from London, now based in Grand Popo, Benin Republic. His film, Danse Macabre, was awarded this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize. The moving-image piece explores spirituality, mental health and the human psyche. Here, Onabolu brings together a vast range of ideologies, uniting Jungian psychology, which stipulates that all humans share a “collective unconscious,” informed by our ancestors; with Yoruba cosmology, a belief system stating that the universe has two interconnected worlds, one physical and one spiritual. The work synthesises elements from Yoruba traditions, European cinema and experimental music, creating a performance that draws from multiple...

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The works by Marina Abramović, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman, Vik Muniz and others are the subject of an ongoing special exhibition

noor riyadh 2025 lights up the saudi capital
 
From 20 November to 6 December 2025, the world’s largest light art festival transforms six major locations across the Saudi capital into an illuminated citywide gallery. Curated by Mami Kataoka, Sara Almutlaq, and Li Zhenhua, Noor Riyadh brings together 59 artists from 24 countries to present 60 artworks, including more than 35 new commissions, under the theme ‘In the Blink of an Eye.’ With international and local artists like Shinji Ohmaki, atelier oï, Ayoung Kim, Muhannad Shono, and Ziyad Alroqi, the festival explores Riyadh’s rapid transformation, inviting visitors to witness moments of change through large-scale installations across Qasr Al Hokm...

Zilart will house the huge collection of St Petersburg property developer Andrey Molchanov and his wife, Yelizaveta Molchanov

2ND EDITION OF maison&objet INTÉRIEURS HONG KONG
 
From December 3–6, 2025, the rebranded Maison&Objet Intérieurs Hong Kong returns for an expanded second edition, firmly positioning the city as Asia’s premier hub for design, lifestyle, and global collaboration. Under the central theme of ‘Crossroads,’ the event celebrates the convergence of culture, traditional craftsmanship, and cutting-edge sustainable innovation. While the full program delivers Inspiration, Discovery, and Encounters across its three core sections, the heart of the show’s agenda lies within the Design Factory, conceived as a true laboratory of ideas.
 
This curated space is dedicated to both surprise and inspire, artfully...

TOTO Gallery·MA Traces Marina Tabassum Architects’ innovations
 
TOTO Gallery·MA hosts People Place Poiesis, an exhibition that traces how Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) reshapes architecture in Bangladesh through climate-attuned design, community agency, and lightweight systems built for a rapidly changing world. On view until February 15th, 2026, the show spans two floors and extends into the courtyard with a full-scale Khudi Bari, MTA’s now-seminal flood-resilient housing prototype, installed alongside a newly developed Japan-specific version built with architect Kazuya Morita and students from Kyoto Prefectural University. Previously presented in Munich and Lisbon, this Tokyo edition sharpens the...

Show at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt also demonstrates how the German artist's practice was altered radically by his experiences during the First World War

Anna Moffo, in glorious voice and looking gorgeous as usual, sings "O Holy Night," one of my favorite Christmas tunes.

Plus, versions of famous images by Bruegel and L.S. Lowry are on sale this month

Uncanny. Surreal. Nostalgic. Disorientating. Fantastical. All these words and more can be used to describe the world of Brooke DiDonato (b. 1990). The inimitable visual artist, originally from Ohio and now based in New York City, has established a singular photographic vision over the past decade – one rooted in a playful imagination and the desire to inspire a double take. Her scenes, constructed using real locations, objects and people, teeter on the edge of possibility, occupying a place that is familiar yet off-kilter. But their popularity also comes from their relatability: tapping into contemporary anxieties and universal experiences of love and loss. Family homes and domestic settings offer DiDonato...

A screwed-up piece of paper can hold serious meaning. In 1995, Martin Creed scrunched a sheet of A4 into a ball and presented it as a sculpture. Meanwhile, in photomontage, the technique adds texture and narrative, tapping into feelings of conflict, disruption or frustration. Now, in Topographies of Fragility, a series nominated for both the Prix Pictet 2025 and the Aesthetica Art Prize in 2022, Ingrid Weyland (b. 1969) harnesses it as a metaphor for humanity’s impact on nature. Here, it “represents our destructive marks on the landscape.” The Argentinian artist depicts forests, mountainscapes and icebergs, spanning the Arctic to Cape Horn. Each scene is overlaid with a creased, twisted version of the...

Jordevity is Jordan Diomandé, a photographer and director from Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. Diomandé was born and raised in Abidjan, and is currently based in Los Angeles, creating work with the aim to “inspire, heal, enlighten and promote the beauty of diversity and kindness.” Several years ago, he made the shift from modelling to photography. Since then, he’s developed a stand-out collection of portraits – driven by the goal of bringing his personal visions to life. The following images are taken from various series, including Earth, Queen & Slim and Trapped in Plain Sight, and are filled with emotion and implied narrative. Diomandé has a masterful command of natural light, often shooting at...

In 1923, Wassily Kandinsky handed out a questionnaire to his Bauhaus students. Their task: match the three primary colours with basic shapes. The responses fed into the art- ist’s wider investigations into colour-form theory, which linked yellow to triangles, red to squares and blue to circles. Today, contemporary photographers, including Dublin-based Sarah Doyle, are continuing to play with the relationships between geometry and palettes. Across the compositions, multi-toned spheres are suspended against stark black backdrops, models hold scarlet rings aloft, whilst various shades of thick paint spill out across portraits. Elsewhere, cerulean is layered over navy in a remarkable display of colour-blocking....

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From the late greats Richard Hunt and Joyce Pensato at the Institute of Contemporary Art to Hiba Schahbaz at Moca North Miami, Jack Pierson at the Bass and a look back at the futurism of World’s Fairs at the Wolfsonian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Even though I would hope to be remembered as a portrait artist—canonizing the image of Indigenous people within art history—I am constantly set upon side quests,” says multidisciplinary Canadian artist Wally Dion.. read the full article by clicking above.
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Cartoonist Jay Howell is "looking forward to the next thing, always". Click above to read the full article.
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At 75, Cindy Zimmerman is developing a workshop on making artist books for Banned Books Week at San Diego Central Library. They're also working on Mobile Monument, rolling activist art for protests, parades, and exhibitions, amplifying words purged during the first weeks of the Trump administration. They're more clear now that they decide what to do based on the guidance of their inner voice. What's actually hard about being an artist at this point in their life?  Too little space. Someone...

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
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Up to a year ago, E.M. Miller's medium was food. Now it's raw canvas. At 50, he's a former actor turned musician turned chef turned artist standing at yet another fucking crossroads and deciding if he continues down this rabbit hole of art or not. How's his work different now than it was before 50?  A weaker person or perhaps a lesser experienced person would say the unknown, but he's used to not asking those kinds of questions. What's actually hard about being an artist at this point? He...

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