a new sports car shaped by Porsche’s historic models
  Porsche unveils the Mission S, a mid-engined super sports car vision model that reinterprets its design identity by drawing on historic racing automobiles while featuring a deliberately restrained digital interior. Developed by Style Porsche under Vice President Tobias Sühlmann, the concept forms part of the brand’s Sportwagenschmiede ‘35 strategic realignment and offers an early indication of the design direction Porsche intends to carry into future models. The project places particular emphasis on the relationship between driver and machine, retaining physical controls and familiar instruments. The Mission S points toward a potential expansion of...

The UK-based collector tells us about her new Focus Fund supporting young artists at Frieze, buying a Jean Arp in instalments and her love of Fra Angelico’s frescoes

For the late American artist, whose Barbican show is his first in the UK for over three decades, the space in which a painting sat mattered as much as the work itself

The German artist’s first major UK institutional show, at London’s Garden Museum, includes works that span 30 years

We check into Frieze week's "transgressive" art destination in Fitzrovia's Newman hotel

From the National Gallery to the Wallace Collection, a wave of museum shows suggests the intergenerational hang is here to stay, despite lingering reservations

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EXPANDABLE city NETWORK UNIFIES THESSALONIKI’S HISTORICAL layers
 
The Armosi (Άρμοση) masterplan, designed by Apostolopoulos Tasoulis, establishes an expandable urban network to unify over seventy monuments and archaeological sites across Thessaloniki, Greece. Structured along the historic Egnatia Street axis and its intersection with Aristotelous Street, the design framework integrates Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Jewish, and modern historical layers into a cohesive public landscape informed by UNESCO’s Historic Urban Landscape approach.
Arch of Galerius and Rotunda, restoring the continuity of the historic imperial axis | all images ©Apostolopoulos Tasoulis
 
 
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Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.The Met's 2027 Genesis Facade and Great Hall CommissionsArtist Danh Vo was chosen for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2027 Genesis Facade commission, and Sandra Mujinga was selected for the Great Hall commission. Vo, who often entwines his experience as a Vietnamese boat refugee with questionings of modern history, will create new works for the four niches of the museum's Beaux-Arts exterior, on view starting in September. Mujinga, whose practice draws from the legacy of Afrofuturism, science fiction, and post-colonialism, will present a...

FUTUREWAVE’S BRACELET USES HAPTIC FEEDBACK TO REDUCE SCREEN TIME
 
Belgian design studio Futurewave has unveiled Arc, a silver bracelet conceived to remind its wearer when it might be time to look away from their phone. Rather than adding another screen to an already crowded collection of connected devices, the concept takes the form of a sculptural piece of jewelry that delivers a discreet vibration when phone use exceeds a previously established limit. Made from Argentium silver and designed to be worn like a traditional open torc, Arc explores an unusual proposition for wearable technology: doing less, rather than more.
 
The idea is deliberately straightforward. Through a portal accessed from the...

There’s a reason the lexicon of textiles and fiber lends itself so well to storytelling — we thread the needle, weave the tale, spin the yarn. Writers have reached for these metaphors for centuries because they feel true to life, but artists know they’re also true to craft and its tangled histories. We’ve gathered a few recent books on embroidery, fiber art, weaving, and more that deserve a closer look, from Black Southern quilting and Korean bojagi to Palestinian tatreez and contemporary Diné weaving. Refreshingly, so many of these titles complicate or refuse reductive, familiar frameworks and open up new ways to understand the meditative and political dimensions of textile traditions, moving past...

NYC Health + Hospitals’ Arts in Medicine department wrapped up conservation work on three New Deal-era murals and a John Rhoden sculpture held at its Harlem hospital on Wednesday, October 14.Located in the hospital's indoor mural pavilion, the Great Depression-era works were made during a pivotal period in United States history when Black artists advocated for and gained unprecedented access to major public commissions through the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Federal Art Project. Among the commissioned works were Charles Alston's two companion murals, "Magic in Medicine" (1940) and "Modern Medicine (1940)," and Hayes's eight-panel mural, "Pursuit of Happiness" (1937), which have...

setting the stage with DuckUnit
 
Based in Bangkok, Thailand, the design and production studio DuckUnit uses light, mechanical movement, and the possibilities of the stage as its tools for creating spectacular events that range from concerts to contemporary art installations to performance. Founded in 2005 by Wit Pimkanchanapong, the group starts by working on concerts and other works of art. Now, the group is led by Rueangrith Suntisuk and Pornpan Arayaveerasid, alongside a team of creatives who work together to bring creative spectacles to life.
 
In the midst of a project in Paris, Rueangrith Suntisuk chats with designboom about the studio’s current technical explorations and its work between the worlds...

The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has come under scrutiny after the institution pulled calligraphic artwork belonging to him from its current exhibition, according to South Korean English language newspaper Korea JoongAng Daily. Initially attributed to an independence activist, the piece was later identified as a work by a pro-Japanese collaborator. You has exhibited and donated other items in his collection to the institution since he took office in 2025, and the incident has sparked questions about his influence on the selection of works for exhibitions. The work at the center of the controversy was presented in the show “The Korean Table: Food, Nature, and Life” (on view...

London’s Natural History Museum has millions of specimens in its collection, and until recently at least one dinosaur nobody knew it had. A fragment of skull that spent roughly a century in the museum’s holdings has turned out to belong to an entirely new species of carnivorous dinosaur, according to Discover. Better still, the creature appears to be Europe’s first known megaraptoran, a group of formidable prehistoric predators that have prevously identified elsewhere in the world. The dinosaur has been given the elegant name Invictibellatrix amberina, which is quite a moniker for a speciman that spent much of the past hundred years in storage. The fossil originally came from the Isle of Wight, where it...

Joan Kron with a remake of Roy Lichtenstein’s “Super Sunset Billboard” (1967) at the Whitney Museum of American Art (all photos courtesy Joan Kron)In 1962, the first-ever Pop Art exhibition on the East Coast was mounted at the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association (YM/YWHA) in Philadelphia. Just days before the Sidney Janis Gallery broke with Abstract Expressionism in its historic show The New Realists, the firebrand "housewives" of the Y had already featured many of the same up-and-coming artists, including Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg in Art ’63: A New Vocabulary.Brushing off the scorn from Philadelphia’s then-conservative art world, the show’s organizers, Audrey...

The London auction house Christie’s brought in $289.4 million over two evening sales on Wednesday, October 14—the 20/21st Century Evening Sale and the “Monsoon,” sale of the collection of Peter Simon. The amount achieved on Wednesday is more than double that of last year’s sales. The Peter Simon collection set a record for the highest […]

Reframing Rembrandt, one of the Dutch Golden Age’s greats, is no small feat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art seems poised to pull it off, with an exhibition next year that will bring several of the artist’s works to the United States for the first time. “Rembrandt and the Ancients,” organized with the Louvre Museum and opening in New York in November 2027, is billed as the first in-depth museum examination of the artist’s fascination with the art and mythology of Mediterranean antiquity. It will also be the Met’s first major exhibition dedicated to Rembrandt in 20 years and will mark the US debut of at least three paintings: Bathsheba Holding King David’s Letter, Oath of the Batavians, and Woman...

A pen-and-brown-ink drawing by eighteenth-century Italian master Canaletto that remained out of public view for hundreds of years is set to hit the auction block on October 21, Artnet News reports. The drawing, which depicts a crumbling stone arcade spanning a body of water, is being sold by Oxford, UK, auction house Mallams, where it […]

The first edition of Rubaiya Qatar, a new quadrennial in Doha, opens next month and will host more than 120 artists from around the world, including Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iran, Nepal, Palestine, the Philippines, Sudan, and Thailand. This inaugural quadrennial is focused on global ecology, water, and maritime heritage and comprises three exhibitions and […]

LONDON — Yesterday, October 14, the international art world descended on Regent’s Park for the opening of this year’s edition of Frieze London, where they mingled, sipped on Ruinart champagne and spent lots of money. A visitor, coincidentally dressed to match an orange-and-black sculpture by Teresa Solar Abboud, reaffirmed that the preview day was as much about seeing art as it was about being seen.In many ways, the 2026 edition is a typical offering. There was the obligatory mirrored artwork-slash-selfie spot, this time in the form of Anish Kapoor’s stainless-steel “Green and Brandy.” There were indeterminate objects lying on the carpeted floors, which could either be works of searing...

Ribs (top) and scapula (above) of Shanidar A CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—Haaretz reports that Emma Pomeroy of the University of Cambridge and her colleagues examined the remains of Shanidar A, a Neanderthal of about 45 years of age who was buried in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Shanidar Cave some 75,000 years ago. The researchers suggest that the individual had been killed when a weapon, likely a sharpened stick, was forced into his chest from the front, passed through a lung, and punched a hole in his left shoulder blade. Similar holes have been identified in fossilized animal bones. About a year before his death, this individual had also suffered facial injuries, including a shattered front tooth. An earlier study...

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"If the Biennale is to be read as a poem of sorts, it goes without saying that it favors the epic over the haiku, privileging length over precision"

Coin TROY, OHIO—More than 18,000 artifacts were recovered during a rescue excavation conducted at a 200-year-old tavern site in western Ohio, according to a WYSO Public Radio report. The Overfield Tavern was constructed in 1808 by Benjamin and Margaret Overfield. “It was where the community gathered to celebrate, to share information, and to spend time together,” said Chris Manning of the Troy Historical Society. The building would have also housed local militia meetings and auctions, in addition to serving as the post office and the courthouse until official buildings were constructed. The building became a museum in the late 1940s, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The...

ANTALYA, TURKEY—BBC News reports that a Bronze Age shipwreck identified near Kekova Island off the coast of Turkey has been dated to between 4,400 and 4,700 years ago. None of the ship has survived, but its cargo of more than 30 amphoras rests on the seafloor, under some 100 feet of water. Hakan Öniz of Akdeniz University said that the style of the amphoras, which matches that of other vessels unearthed in Egypt and the Middle East, was used to date the wreckage. The size of the cargo suggests that the ship was originally about 30 feet long. Three large stone anchors have also been found. Karin Sowada of Macquarie University said that her team is analyzing residues detected in some of the intact amphoras....

Through next February, New York’s Poster House is home to “Designed to Be Red,” a milestone survey of Native graphic arts. By institutional convention, such a show would unfold chronologically; but as its curator, the Native designer Brian Johnson, notes, time is a snake swallowing its own tail. The show spans two centuries and more than 60 tribes and nations, organized around five themes: Indigenous Joy, Creative Sovereignty, Protest, It’s Complicated, and Extractive Marketing. The sections wrap around a single gallery, allowing visitors to begin at either end. It’s best to start from Joy, according to Johnson, though even that section’s psychedelic centerpieces—the ‘60s youthquake swept...

The long list of grievous failures related to the ill-fated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has grown longer after a Washington Post exposé based on an inspection report obtained by the paper. The report, issued internally on August 6 after having been commissioned by the contractor in charge of repairs, documents far more problems than were previously known, and does not mention any vandalism of the kind that the Trump administration cited as a source of the troubles during the summer-long affair. As reported by the Post, “The 75-page ‘failure analysis’ by Atlantic Coating Inspection includes scores of photos documenting the liner’s deficiencies—ranging in severity and including blisters, peeling...

MYCELIUM MODULES ADAPT TO VARIED SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS
 
Hypha-Lume is an adaptive modular pavilion that uses reconfigurable mycelium components, sensors, projection, and sound to translate human movement into spatial data. Conceived as a responsive system, the structure incorporates three block types with curvatures of 20, 40, and 60 degrees. These tapered biomaterial modules connect around vertical supports for structural stability, allowing the shell to be reassembled into varied configurations depending on site requirements.
by day, the lightweight mycelium modules create an open enclosure that balances shelter, visibility, and circulation
 
 
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Federico Veronesi received the top honor of the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year for his poignant black-and-white image of a female elephant carrying her deceased calf. The portrait represents a rare insight into animals’ habits we have yet to fully understand and demonstrates the power of timing and persistence in photography. Veronesi had been tracking elephants in the Huab River Valley of Namibia when he encountered some unusual drag marks on the earth. He eventually caught up with the family, and the adult emerged with the calf’s leg wedged between her trunk and tusk. “Behaviours centering on death have been observed in both Asian and African elephants, including vocalisations, guarding the...

A landowner in Behbeit El-Hagar, an Egyptian village in the Nile Delta about seventy-six miles north of Cairo, unearthed a head from a monumental statue believed to represent Ramses II. The discovery led archaeologists to find additional pieces belonging to two separate statues of the Egyptian king. According to Hisham El-Lithi, the secretary-general of the […]

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The operatically elusive Marianne Crebassa is in Parterre Box's spotlight this week ahead of La clemenza di Tito in Barcelona.

Singing truly becomes a living thing in Jennifer Larmore's remarkable voice and personality.

The imaginative, strange childhood dreams of twins Nikolai and Simon Haas materialize in a large-scale exhibition at Blanton Museum of Art. Working as the Haas Brothers, the siblings have been collaborating since 2010 and are widely known for their fantastical sculptures of flora and fauna with their signature cheeky, surreal twist. In Austin, the Los Angeles artists present a range of figurative furniture, plush cartoonish characters, and illuminated installations that showcase their idiosyncratic aesthetic. Previously on view at Cranbrook Art Museum and the Museum of Art and Design in New York, Uncanny Valley is the first mid-career survey for the duo, presenting a range of their quirky, genre-defying works....

The versatile American soprano, a staple at the Metropolitan Opera and one of the most important Black opera singers of the 20th century, has died at 89.

AMMAN, JORDAN—According to a Menafn report, Australian officials handed over a carved stone slab unearthed in northern Jordan at Wadi Al Hammah to Ayman Safadi, Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. The artifact is one of three pieces of a large, 14,000-year-old sculpture uncovered during an excavation conducted by archaeologists from Jordan and Australia. One piece of the sculpture was transferred to the National Gallery of Australia in 1985. The other two pieces are held at the Jordan Museum in Amman and Dar Al Saraya Museum in Irbid. To read about a Neolithic necklace excavated in southern Jordan, go to “Child’s Play.”
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Token GLASGOW, SCOTLAND—According to a report in the Glasgow Times, a team of researchers from the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Life, Archaeology Scotland, and historian Chris Whatley of the University of Dundee uncovered the remains of “Harvie’s Dyke” on the banks of the River Clyde. The 12-foot walls were built in the early 1820s by Thomas ‘Lang Tam’ Harvie, a distiller in the Dalmarnock neighborhood in Glasgow’s East End. Topped with iron spikes, broken glass, and an armed watchtower, the structure blocked a public path beside the river. In 1823, a crowd gathered to tear down the walls, initiating a six-year legal battle. The House of Lords eventually...

For centuries, Navajo/Diné weavers have created intricate, geometrically patterned blankets and rugs on upright looms, powered only by the artisans’ bodies. More than a millennia ago in Mesoamerica, which encompassed much of what today is Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and parts of Central America, the Mayans produced ornate ceramics decorated with natural motifs like birds. Utilizing materials that could be foraged or cultivated in the landscape—the Diné have herded the distinctive Navajo-Churro sheep since the breed was introduced by Spaniards in the 16th century—the techniques, motifs, and cultural customs continue to influence artists today. Through the lens of Indigenous interpretations of...

“I find that when I work from my emotions and experiences, I make a more powerful image,” Ann Toebbe writes. Meditating on the connection between physical spaces and the feelings and memories bound within them is central to the Chicago artist’s practice. In a review of Toebbe’s recent exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center, the writer Elisa Shoenberger teases out the distinction that grounds the artist’s work. “Space is the physical location, while place is the meaning we bring to it. It’s the difference between thinking about the physical location of your house (space) and the feelings, history and emotions tied up in your home (place),” Schoenberger writes. Rendering interiors and cross-cut...

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I’m an illustrator/ graphic designer currently based in Beijing. Through illustration, I make connections to everyday life, seeking out beauty in the midst of chaos. My work gives visual form to inner feelings and experiences. I see each creative process as an adventure, specializing in the translation of text into vibrant visual narratives.
This zine《Let’s go to the park》 is an experimental work on visual language, creating narrative solely through visual imagery. It came from some moments when I was just zoning out in the park: from the amusing interactions between a dog and its owner, the swirling ripples in the fountain, the sudden downpour of rain… I blended these unrelated moments...

Ah, so many choices from my repertoire.

At first glance, the structure resembles a kind of elongated igloo or a giant, white snail. One one hand, it’s an immersive, pop-up room with a futuristic, bubble-like texture. It’s also a giant, walk-in camera (there are 221 lenses to be exact). Premiering late last month at MODE Festival, a celebration of global photography, “Compound Camera No.3” is the latest work by Pneuhaus, the Rhode Island-based studio known for its large-scale, architectural inflatables. Dozens of tiny cameras comprise the installation, which covers more than 700 square feet and invites visitors to walk around inside of a projection powered entirely by the sun. The images visible through the tiny apertures land on bulbous...

In its third revival, Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of Don Giovanni nails its predatory Don — but falls short dramatically with its donne.

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By Kristine Schomaker I keep thinking about Nomadland. Fern driving her van across that enormous American landscape. Not running from something. Moving toward something she could not quite name yet. That feeling of needing less. Of being, as Dominique Moody says, at home in the world. NOMAD: Dominique Moody and the Assemblage of Home is on view at the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena through January 16, 2027, part of the year-long city celebration for the centennials of Route 66 and the...

 
When we say ‘think of the colour yellow’, what comes up for you? Our latest photobook, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: YELLOW, is bursting with inspiration, from delicate blossoms and ripe lemons to eye-catching clothing and sunny décor.
Across 100 photos, our photographers celebrate all things yellow: some chanced upon in the street or in nature, others meticulously planned. Of course, there are loads of different hues that count as yellow, from acidic brights to mustard, egg yolk, and canary. You’ll find them all in the book!
The cover image, by Jo Martindale, submerges us in a ball pit of yellow plastic balls: it’s immersive, fun, and hard to look away. The yellow we find around us definitely has multiple...

By Jody Zellen Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 3–November 22, 2026 Susan Silton has never been an artist attached to a single medium. Her practice, which spans more than forty years, interweaves photography, design, performance, sculpture, video, audio, and installation. Working as a graphic designer in the 1970s and ’80s shaped her visual acuity and formal sensibilities. Her production is conceptually strong and visually coherent and very little is left to chance. It is a delight...

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To celebrate the retrospective exhibition Future Pastime featuring the work of futurist Syd Mead opening at the Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery in San Francisco this evening, we are showing previews of paintings from the show as well as the full article which Silke Tudor wrote on the late legendary industrial designer in Hi-Fructose Issue 33. […]
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The women look concerned, and weary. They are ready to repel an attack. The women look in love, but bored. “When are you leaving,” they might wonder. The women are only half-present. Matted hair, two eyes, a hand, and the rest have either turned inward or run away. The women are multifaceted. Their eyes are […]
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In the “feminist west” that lives on Jennifer Nehrbass’s canvases, women ride horseback and hike in fashionable attire. They appear in head-and-shoulder portraits against fiery backgrounds and nude in pieces where figurative and landscape painting converge. In her work, Nehrbass challenges the common depictions of the U.S. West. “You would always have the man who […]
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By Kristine Schomaker Friday night I stood at the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and watched artists perform five-minute pieces in the open air as the sun went down. ACTION = LIFE, presented by LACE and the Performance Art Museum as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. A marathon of performances. So many friends. So much history in one place. I drove home still feeling it. Thinking about the first performance I ever saw that made me understand what my own work was actually about....

By Kristine Schomaker I learned yesterday that my friend Scott Froschauer died suddenly. I've known him for almost ten years, and I'm still trying to find a place to put this. Scott was a Shoebox artist, one of the early ones. We worked together on several projects, but the one I keep coming back to is an art salon we put together on consent, negotiation, and the male gaze, how the male posture of viewing women frames any sign of femininity as an invitation, and what it would mean to actually...

By Betty Ann Brown "In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world."—Graciela Iturbide Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide creates haunting images that portray the people, places, and events of the extraordinary cultures and geographies of her home country. Iturbide has a unique artistic practice that involves living and working with the people she chooses to photograph. Her process has made possible the strange and wonderful depictions for which she is known. In...

With a creative lexicon featuring yarn, pixels, beeswax, and spray paint, Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega has created a new language for herself, one that speaks to the present and the past by using traditional and contemporary techniques, as well as rural and urban sensibilities, to create a body of work that synthesizes all her […]
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