C’è una linea invisibile ma potentissima che unisce la frazione di un secondo in cui scatta l’otturatore di una macchina fotografica e la durata temporale di una nota musicale. Luigi Ghirri, tra i più grandi maestri della fotografia contemporanea, definiva questo legame una «strana e misteriosa parentela». Per esplorare questa sinergia profonda, Palazzo dei Musei di Reggio Emilia ha inaugurato la mostra Luigi Ghirri. A Series of Dreams. Paesaggi visivi e paesaggi sonori, un ambizioso percorso espositivo curato da Ilaria Campioli e Andrea Tinterri, con la curatela musicale di Giulia Cavaliere.
Luigi Ghirri, “A Series of Dreams”, installation view, photo Iacopo Pasqui, courtesy Musei Civici di Reggio...

At King’s Leap, documents and audio works perform an “unspectacular yet remarkable” play with language

Have you seen a middle-aged man sporting an 18th-century, white, powdered wig, a nobleman’s fine clothes, and a gentle, open smile? If so, you may have come upon a certain Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger, a French engraver, designer, and art critic, who worked for King Louis XV and lived from 1715 to 1790. The fact that he is long dead does not preclude him from effectively being a wanted man in France today. Or more accurately, a painting of him by the celebrated French artist Jean Siméon Chardin is actively being sought after, after it was plundered from the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans during the German invasion of the city during World War II. Over 86 years later, the French museum along the...

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A Large Semicircular Table Reorganizes Living Space in KYOTO
 
In a vacant unit within a municipal housing complex in Kyoto, a 3.6 m-diameter semicircular table becomes the central organizing element of the living space. Designed by Tato Architects – Yo Shimada as part of a renovation initiative involving eight universities across Kyoto, the project transforms vacant units in an aging housing estate into company housing for welfare-sector workers. Each participating architecture program is responsible for renovating one unit, with the broader initiative aiming to reactivate vacant apartments and contribute to the revitalization of the housing community.
 
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As New Yorkers braced for a torrential storm on Tuesday evening, July 21, dozens of protesters in rain gear marched in front of a Lower East Side community center carrying signs bearing the messages: “Community united against MOCA’s Racism,” “No Jail,” and “You’re Not Fooling Anyone.” Protesters also sheltered a suited effigy of Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) President Michael Lee from the inclement weather. Inside Manny Cantor Center, a panel of leaders from MOCA heard testimony from Chinatown community members. During a town hall event organized by the museum, Lee attempted to distance the institution from a $35 million capital grant — tied to the construction of a Chinatown jail —...

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, a federal organization largely staffed by recent Trump appointees, has submitted an internal draft outlining proposed revisions to longstanding policy. These revisions would scale back restrictions on modifying national landmarks.  Specifically, the ACHP is looking to amend the rules that dictate Section 106, a portion of the 1966 National […]

Tate's board of trustees confirmed today, July 22, that British curator Jessica Morgan has accepted its request to serve as the next director of the institution, starting in 2027. Morgan, who worked at Tate from 2002 to 2014 and served as Tate Modern's curator of international art from 2010 to 2014, is returning to London from New York after steering the Dia Art Foundation for just over a decade. Before beginning her curatorial career at Tate in 2002, Morgan previously served as the chief curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.Morgan's appointment comes at a period of turbulence for Tate. The museum network's former...

Artist Jeff Koons has once again prevailed in a legal challenge, as a New York federal appeals court affirmed that a copyright lawsuit filed against him by artist Michael Hayden was brought too late. According to court documents filed yesterday in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the lawsuit was dismissed for the second time on procedural grounds: Hayden waited until 2021 to file suit, which sought to assert copyright over a set piece Hayden had created that appears in a 1989 photograph from Koons’s notorious “Made in Heaven” series, which also included oil paintings and a billboard. The case centered on a Styrofoam sculpture of a coiled serpent created by Hayden for the Italian...

The rise and fall of Chico da Silva in the global art world is a cautionary tale. He was born in 1910 in the Amazon Rainforest, the son of an Indigenous Peruvian fisherman and a Brazilian woman from Ceará, along the Atlantic Ocean. After his father died from a snakebite, she brought her son to Fortaleza, the capital of the state of Ceará, settling in the impoverished neighborhood of Pirambu. In the 1940s, da Silva, who never learned to read or write, and whose parents’ names remain unknown, began to become locally known for drawing mystical, Amazon-inspired murals with black charcoal, chalk, and natural pigments on the exteriors of fishermen’s houses. This situation changed in 1943 when Jean-Pierre...

In a practice she describes as “ceramic collage,” Debra Broz delves into the world of secondhand decor and kitsch. The Seattle-based artist’s quirky sculptures are made from found figurines, which she cuts and reconfigures into playful hybrid forms. “A lot of times when I look at them, I think about if they were alive, how would they move and how would they operate?” Broz tells Seattle Channel. In her ongoing series Superorganisms, the artist creates three-dimensional assemblages that toy with the boundary between familiarity and the uncanny. “It’s really important to me that you look at it and your first thought is, ‘That’s a figurine I’ve seen before,'” she says. “And then your second...

The Louvre reopened its now-infamous Apollo Gallery on July 22, nine months after a group of thieves lifted $102 million worth of Napoleon era jewels from the Paris museum. The brazen daytime heist took less than eight minutes, during which time thieves, disguised as construction workers, used a monte-meubles, or a moving exterior staircase, to break into the Apollo Gallery. Once inside, they quickly absconded with nine bejeweled objects, including a tiara, a necklace, earrings, and a brooch. Only Empress Eugénie’s diamond-and-emerald-encrusted crown, which the thieves dropped while escaping on scooters, has been recovered. The lavishly decorated Apollo Gallery, however, will no longer house what remains of...

Nine months after a brazen jewel heist left the Louvre scrambling, the museum has finally reopened the Apollo Gallery, where four masked thieves stole eight items valued collectively at $102 million. However, per reports, the space that was once teeming with valuable jewelry is now completely empty.  Christophe Leribault, the freshly appointed director of the […]

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Christine Borland (1965–2026)Scottish artist who explored human fragility through scienceAcross sculpture, photography, printmaking, and works in glass, china, bronze, and more, she incorporated fields like genetics and forensic science into explorations of the fragility of life within systems. One of the Young British Artists, she was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997 and elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2020. She was a professor of fine art at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne. “We were fortunate to work with Christine on a number of projects over the years and to witness...

Two 1970s murals by Chilean artist Julio Escámez, long considered lost, are reemerging in Chillán’s city hall (Chile). Currently in the meticulous process of restoration, the first of the historic artworks is slated for completion in December 2027, ARTnews reports. The murals, titled The Beginning and The End, are being uncovered and restored by a team from the Heritage Unit […]

children leave their mark on haus der kunst
 
Across the marble floor of Haus der Kunst’s central hall, wax-crayon scribbles spread over pale stone and slip through its grid of seams. Ei Arakawa-Nash’s Mega Please Draw Freely began with an invitation that sounds almost suspiciously simple inside a museum: choose a color and draw.
 
Each visitor added to the same surface and lends a dense, changing field that belonged to everyone who played within it. Children left evidence of their presence behind, while the architecture became part of the picture. This permission sets the terms for For Children. Art Stories since 1968, which brought together works made for young audiences by more than twenty...

Major changes are taking place at the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation, which recently revealed that it has received a bequest of Pousette-Dart’s work by the artist’s late widow, Evelyn. The foundation is still examining the items included in Evelyn’s bequest, which it described as “very substantial” and includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, and notebooks, as per ARTnews. […]

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An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered three rock-cut tombs dating to Egypt’s New Kingdom period (ca. 1550–1070 B.C.) at the Bubasteion Necropolis in Saqqara. The news was first reported by Ahram Online. Located 40 km southwest of Cairo, Saqqara was an important cemetery of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis. In the second half of the 18th Dynasty (1550—1292 BCE), high-ranking city dignitaries created tombs for themselves in the limestone cliffs at Bubasteion. Hieroglyphic inscriptions in the newly discovered tombs are providing unusually detailed information about the individuals who were buried within them, according to Hisham El-Leithy, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of...

In January, the Bay Area’s California College of the Arts announced that it would close in 2027 after selling its two campuses to Nashville’s Vanderbilt University. Now, Vanderbilt has revealed that its San Francisco campus will open next year as the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, named in recognition of a $75 million donation from Nvidia founder Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang and his wife, Lori Huang. “Technology expands what we can build. Art and design determine why we build it. Together they shape civilization,” Jensen Huang said in a statement. “We are delighted to partner with Vanderbilt University to cultivate the next generation of creators and help San...

What good is a ladder without structural integrity? Artist brothers Saman and Sasan Oskouei consider this question in The Weight of Less, an ongoing series of pocked wooden sculptures. From a school desk to a door to an industrial pallet, each humble item is punctured with irregular yet cohesive holes, rendering their former functions impractical. “As layers are removed, the objects lose their original purpose while gaining a new presence,” the artists tell Colossal. “The carved spaces expose hidden rhythms, patterns, and relationships within the material, allowing absence to become an active part of the work.” The brothers are longtime collaborators and previously worked under the name Icy & Sot....

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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Tact Inoue builds HEAT-PRESSed ARTIFICIAL WOOD furniture series
 
MOCKY is a furniture series by Tact Inoue that explores the structural and formal possibilities of artificial wood. Rather than relying on conventional joinery, the project uses heat and pressure to fuse components made from artificial wood, creating organically distorted joints, protrusions, and irregular connections.
 
The furniture is made from artificial wood composed of wood flour and resin, a material commonly used for decking. When heated and compressed, the components adhere to one another, forming fused structures that also gain strength through the process. Unlike natural wood, which typically requires carefully designed...

LONDON — The Bayeux Tapestry, an 11th-century, 230-foot (~70-meter) linen that illustrates the story of the Norman conquest, has just returned to England after nearly a millennium for a forthcoming exhibition at the British Museum. Was David Hockney taking the piss out of this event by presenting an even longer 295-foot (~90-meter) composite iPad “painting," titled “A Year in Normandie” (2020–21), at Serpentine Galleries in March?Hockney, who died last month at age 88, argued against the Bayeux Tapestry’s loan from the French government due to the risk to the object, a concern expressed by numerous historians and scholars. Yet his Serpentine show, entitled A Year in Normandie and Some Other...

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range rover adds a fifth silhouette
 
Range Rover is stretching its familiar high-riding shape into a lower, sleeker grand tourer. The newly previewed Range Rover GT becomes the fifth model in the family, joining the full-size Range Rover, Sport, Velar, and Evoque as a vehicle shaped for long distances. Its roofline drops into a coupé-like arc while the body sits close around large wheels. A tapering rear gives the prototype a stance closer to a performance car than the brand’s existing SUVs. It is also the first all-electric Range Rover developed on Jaguar Land Rover‘s Electrified Modular Architecture (EMA) platform.
 
The GT expands the grand touring formula while keeping the all-terrain reach built...

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Tom Wesselmann's former Cooper Square studio will welcome visitors for the first time this September.

LIGHT RECASTS THE FLIP PHONE AS AN ANTIDOTE TO DISTRACTION
 
Brooklyn-based technology company Light presents the Light Phone Flip, its fourth device and first clamshell handset. Conceived as an alternative to app-heavy smartphones, the model removes social media feeds, infinite scrolling, and other attention-driven platforms, concentrating instead on essential communication tools within a compact format.
 
The design responds to repeated requests from users, particularly younger generations, seeking a flip phone that feels durable, current, and properly supported. Rather than recreating the basic handsets already on the market, Light combines its custom-built LightOS operating system with the physical...

How do we distinguish between the artificial and the real? And perhaps more importantly, why should we? Genesis Belanger makes the tension and anxiety that arise from these questions tangible as she lures viewers into an unsettling world. Known for her ceramic works depicting an uncanny vision of domestic life, Belanger often teases out the dynamic relationships between discomfort, consumption, and capitalism. New pieces like “Dreams of the Luddite” nod to our collective malaise over the ubiquity of technology, portraying a nostalgic world just out of reach. “Care-taken” captures a similarly contemporary dilemma, as it presents a bathroom cabinet with medicines of mixed proportions and the recommended...

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Elina Garanča's aborted first Ariadne may have been the headline item at the Salzburg Festival next month, but this week Parterre Box features the Zerbinetta, Ziyi Dai.

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Teatro Nuovo pays tribute to a historic New York production of Don Giovanni with a talented ensemble.

Jessica Morgan will become the tenth Director of Tate in January 2027

Currently the director of Dia Art Foundation in New York, Morgan will succeed Maria Balshaw as director of the UK museum network from January 2027

The Portuguese private art collection, which features fine and decorative art from antiquity to the 20th-century, reopened on 18 July

A giant 65-foot hot dog has returned to Times Square. Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw's Hot Dog: The Second Serving

“Cultural events, funded by European taxpayers’ money, should safeguard democratic values—values which are not respected in today’s Russia,” a European Commission spokesman said

Due to popular demand, the National Portrait Gallery is extending Thursday opening hours for Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait

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La giovane e promettente artista Georgia Gardner Gray dipinge Stonehenge. Se il visitatore si aspetta quadri grigi, si sbaglia completamente: i dipinti esplodono di colore e tensione. A prima vista, i dipinti di Georgia Gardner Gray sembrano provenire dalla galleria di uno smartphone. Foto di un tempo recente, memorie di momenti vissuti. Ma, aspetta, c’è Stonehenge sullo sfondo? Una donna guarda il visitatore, i suoi tatuaggi sulla caviglia e sulla spalla sono come un codice sconosciuto allo spettatore. Le sue mani toccano appena una corona di fiori. Questa non è affatto la vita quotidiana! Il visitatore è forse entrato in un rituale, dove si fanno verticali sulla testa?
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Long-running series of quirky advertisements for Bruno Bischofberger’s Swiss gallery has come to an end

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Across three pickleball courts in central Pittsburgh, Sharmistha Ray embraces the realm of sport as a canvas for vibrant paintings. Geometry of Play comprises large-scale murals that mark the first artist-designed pickleball courts in the country. While we most often associate outdoor murals with walls, the otherwise nondescript 22-by-40-foot area is ripe for interpretation. Ray translates their vivid, geometric abstractions onto a playable surface, tapping into the sport’s communal nature. The artist has long been interested in themes of belonging, especially through the lenses of queer identity and the inheritance of multiple cultures. Photo by Ross Ribblett In Geometry of Play, target-like spheres,...

The iconic Art Deco architecture of Los Angeles’ Richard J. Riordan Central Library houses more than 10 million items, making it the third largest library in the country. The institution also celebrates its centennial this year. So, what better way to ring in a new century of reading and learning than with the largest pop-up book ever created? Commissioned by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles in partnership with the Los Angeles Public Library, L.A.-based artist and printmaker Daniel González conceived of a monumental ode to knowledge, discovery, and imagination. “Luceros y Penumbras” also nods to the building’s history, taking pride of place in the elegant rotunda surrounded by Dean...

Lucia di Lammermoor at La Scala, starring Rosa Feola, proves as airless as this summer's heatwaves.

Antonio Pappano's versatility in both German and Italian repertoire and beyond is both rare and impressive.

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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Whether an opera by Puccini, Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, or Berg, Dimitri Mitropoulos brought to the podium a total understanding and love for each score he touched.

All’interno dell’ex edificio industriale dell’Espace Monte-Cristo, nel quartiere del Père-Lachaise a Parigi, Diseuses de silence si configura come un dispositivo espositivo che non si limita a tematizzare il silenzio, ma lo assume come condizione epistemologica, come forma differenziale della percezione e come campo di tensione tra visibile e dicibile. Ospitata nella sede parigina della Fondation Villa Datris, istituzione fondata nel 2011 da Danièle Marcovici e Tristan Fourtine e dedicata alla promozione della scultura contemporanea in senso espanso, la mostra si inserisce in una traiettoria curatoriale che concepisce la scultura non più come oggetto, ma come ambiente percettivo, struttura relazionale...

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Il principio della sottrazione è il centro attorno al quale si articola la nuova mostra dell’artista Marco Rèa (Roma, 1975), intitolata “Silence is” allestita alla Street Levels Gallery di Firenze. Il principio della sottrazione affonda le sue radici in concetti autentici e lineari legati all’esistenza e alla visione della realtà. Lo stesso Italo Calvino in “Lezioni Americane” definisce la sottrazione come uno strumento concreto per alleggerire il peso del mondo, lasciando integra la sua sostanza. Rèa, con le sue creazioni, attinge da oltre vent’anni a un percorso che attraversa i confini tra street art, sistema dell’immagine e ricerca visiva contemporanea.
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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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Diciassette opere, divise fra dipinti su mappa e plate paintings ed esposte alla Pace Gallery, mettono in scena lo stesso soggetto ripetuto fino all’ipnosi: il pino domestico italiano, Pinus pinea, osservato da Julian Schnabel ogni giorno durante le riprese di In the Hand of Dante nei pressi di Villa Borghese. Finite le riprese, l’artista si è rifugiato ad Ansedonia, dove una pineta simile circondava la casa. Lì, en plein air, ha cominciato a dipingere.
Julian Schnabel, “Italy Through Its Trees“, installation view, May 15 – August 14, 2026, ph. courtesy Pace Gallery, New York
Schnabel dichiara, nel comunicato della mostra, che questi lavori non sono immagini di alberi. La materia dei quadri...

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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...