Palestinian Saudi artist Dana Awartani will represent Saudi Arabia at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Her pavilion will be curated by Antonia Carver, director of Art Jameel, with assistance from Hafsa Alkhudairi. Awartani has been a fixture of the international biennial circuit in recent years, earning acclaim for her material interpretations of conflict in the Middle East. Her practice draws on Saudi Arabia’s craft and cultural legacies, and she collaborates regularly with local artisans or displaced craftspeople. She was born and raised in Jeddah to a Saudi mother and a Palestinian father and received a BA from Central St Martins in London. Her work is informed by her subsequent training in Islamic geometry at...

The drawings of Laurie Lipton have bewildered and enchanted audiences for several decades. Each piece wields a cacophony of influences and experiences in dreamlike visions. Read Andy Smith's full article by clicking above.
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On Saturday, Tania Willard, a mixed Secwépemc and settler artist based in Neskonlith, British Columbia, was named the winner of the annual Sobey Art Award, which comes with CAD$100,000 ($71,000). The announcement took place at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. The award was launched in 2002 by the Sobey Art Foundation in order to promote and support contemporary Canadian artists. The five shortlisted artists—Tarralik Duffy, Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, Sandra Brewster, Swapnaa Tamhane, and Hangama Amiri—will receive CAD$25,000 ($17,800) each. Willard’s artistic and curatorial practice is land-based and community-focused. Her work “center[s] art as an Indigenous resurgent act,” according to a...

The official preview weekend for the museum complex in Benin City was disrupted when a group of protestors broke in

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MVRDV’s Grand Ballroom proposes a spherical arena of colossal scale for Tirana, Albania. Designed to replace the Asllan Rusi sports palace, the project brings together a 6,000-seat venue, hotel, apartments, and retail in a single continuous form. The sphere, over 100 meters (330 feet) in diameter, rises from a compact urban site between the city center and the airport road, appearing at once grounded and weightless.
 
The building’s circular volume folds gently into the landscape. Around its perimeter, open plazas and outdoor courts extend the public life of the arena. At ground level, shallow steps and shaded terraces guide visitors toward a sunken...

The opening of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria, originally slated for November 11, has been postponed after a group of some twenty protesters disrupted a preview event on November 9. The demonstrators, some wielding bats, appeared to be asserting the jurisdiction of the Edo people’s ceremonial king, Oba Ewuare […]

New works by Salmah Almansoori, Maktoum Al Maktoum and Alla Abdunabi will go on show at the fair and in the city of Al Ain, before touring the world

Tania Willard, an artist of Secwépemc descent known for her work centering Indigenous basketry, has been named the winner of the 2025 Sobey Art Award. Presented annually by Ottawa’s National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in partnership with the Sobey Art Foundation, the prize is widely regarded as Canada’s most prestigious contemporary art honor. It is also […]

Sasha Suda has sued the Philadelphia Art Museum after being dismissed last week as director and CEO of the Pennsylvania institution, according to the New York Times. The suit, which ARTnews reviewed, alleges that Suda was accused by board members of “misusing Museum funds for personal gain,” something that appears to have been a component of an investigation initiated by the museum’s board of trustees prior to her dismissal. Suda was investigated prior to her dismissal as director and CEO last week, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. The nature of the investigation remains unclear, as does the unspecified “cause” that was mentioned in an email to Suda that reportedly confirmed her ouster. Her...

Nearly a month after the theft of the French crown jewels that captured global attention, the Louvre Museum announced several emergency security measures. On Friday, the Board of Directors of the Louvre Museum met to discuss the emergency measures concerning the museum’s security. The meeting came at the request of French Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, and was chaired by the museum’s director, Laurence des Cars. According to a release from last week, the emergency measures were broken down across four categories: security governance, site protection, coordination with police services, and technical and human resources. The Louvre is now planning to hire a security coordinator who will report directly...

Known for her perplexing compositions of domestic interiors, Cinta Vidal continues to mesmerize with a new body of paintings at Thinkspace Projects. The artist’s solo show, Inward, continues her exploration of what she describes as “un-gravity constructions,” in which space and time appear folded or warped. In Vidal’s dizzying compositions, people occupy different areas of invented apartments and homes. Perhaps each tableau represents a different period of time; perhaps they are parallel universes. “For Vidal, depicting macro and micro levels of inverted apartment buildings and city structures illustrates the various ways the world is experienced by a mass population,” the gallery says. “Flat”...

“Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” ~ Paul Gauguin "I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."  ~Frida Kahlo   NOTE: This essay is about Tony Pinto’s brilliantly conceived and curated “Self/not Selfie” exhibition currently at the Golden West College Gallery. As its name indicates, the exhibition focuses on artists’ private images of themselves (i.e., self-portraits)—not on contemporary Smartphone photographs used to document...

Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Exactly 55 years ago this week, three artists—Faith Ringgold, Jean Toche, and Jon Hendricks—came together to mount “The People’s Flag Show” at Judson Memorial Church in New York’s Greenwich Village. The exhibition was meant both to protest the Vietnam War and to think through the meaning of the US flag at a contentious point in history. The exhibition was directly inspired by 1967 arrest of gallery owner Stephen Radich, who was charged with discretion desecration of the US flag. His case was heard in front of the US Supreme Court the month...

A brief concert at the Frick Collection teases the multifaceted artistry of Davóne Tines

The Studio Museum in Harlem’s $300m new home, which took seven years to build, opens with an exhibition devoted to the works of Tom Lloyd—the first artist to have a solo show in 1968 at the legendary institution

The Parisian museum has recently made headlines for all the wrong reasons—so now is a good time to remember its greatness

In 2016, a high school student in Charlottesville, Virginia, launched a petition to remove a number of statues from public view. These included Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Thomas Jefferson, and others, a majority of which a businessman named Paul Goodloe McIntire commissioned in the early 20th century. Over time, these monuments were seen as glorifications of men who furthered Manifest Destiny and condoned slavery, and they continued as emblems of white supremacy. When the Charlottesville city council approved removing some statues, counterprotestors filed a lawsuit to keep them. And in 2017, during a Unite the Right rally, tensions...

The women were the highlights of Washington National Opera's militaristic Aïda

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At MACAAL in Marrakech, Moroccan artist Hiba Baddou transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, exploring how unseen waves shape memory, intimacy, and imagination Installation view of ‘Paraboles, A Herzian Odyssey’ at the Museum of African […]

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Eduba modular furniture redefines classroom layouts
 
Eduba, developed by Roie Avni, is an adaptive modular classroom furniture system that challenges the static nature of traditional learning spaces. Designed to make classrooms more flexible, dynamic, and student-centered, it allows quick and intuitive changes in layout and posture, enabling a fluid learning experience that evolves throughout the day. The system includes a chair and a table, both designed for versatility and ease of use. Each piece can be connected, detached, or flipped to create different configurations. The table offers three height levels by resting on different sides of its base, while the chair’s seat can be positioned high, mid, or...

The cumbersome and hugely expensive system is complicating international hiring across the sector

wireless portable split keyboard ‘toucan’ comes with trackpad
 
The wireless portable split keyboard Toucan by Beekeeb comes with a flat circular trackpad so users don’t keep forgetting their mouse on trips again. Compact enough to fit the tray tables on airplanes and trains, the device also features a pixel display that shows information such as battery level, connection status, and layout mode.  
For the 40mm trackpad made by Cirque, it is built into the wireless portable split keyboard, so there’s no need for a separate mouse, and it allows users to move the cursor, click, and scroll directly on the device’s surface. It also helps when traveling or working in tight spaces. The Toucan connects...

The opening of John Dexter's production of The Dialogues of the Carmelites (originally produced in English) is one of the most arresting and memorable images I have ever seen.

national black theatre reimagines its harlem home
 
The National Black Theatre (NBT) in Harlem is entering a new chapter with the construction of a major capital redevelopment project on its historic site at 2031 National Black Theatre Way. The project, set to be completed in 2027, is designed to transform NBT into a 21st-century performing arts destination and economic engine for East Harlem, uniting theater, design, and cultural entrepreneurship under one roof. Following the opening of the Studio Museum in Harlem (find designboom’s coverage here), the development continues the neighborhood’s cultural renaissance, reaffirming its role as a global center for Black art, architecture, and community...

Turbo Moka redesigns the iconic Italian moka pot
 
Turbo Moka, designed by Matteo Frontini, reinterprets the moka pot, originally invented in 1933 by Alfonso Bialetti and Luigi De Ponti. While maintaining the recognizable form and function of the classic design, the project introduces significant technical and material innovations aimed at improving energy efficiency and performance.
 
At the core of Turbo Moka’s redesign is its helical spiral base, inspired by aircraft turbine geometry. Engineered according to principles of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics, the spiral structure increases the surface area in contact with the flame by 93% compared to a traditional moka pot. This enhancement allows for...

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LOS ANGELES — The seventh iteration of Made in L.A., the Hammer Museum’s biennial exhibition showcasing artists working in the greater Los Angeles area, contains few surprises. The curators’ self described “no-methodology methodology” results in a scattered exhibition that feels bland and curatorially unimaginative.  Despite this, the show contains some strong work, especially in cases where the artists have been given their own rooms — for example, Hannah Hur’s gorgeous five-panel installation “Suspension” (2025), installed in a vault-like gallery. Each painted panel consists of a grid of faint white lines dotted with white flower-like patterns. The interaction between the grid and the...

Few artists have examined the ethnographic gaze as closely — or turned it as deftly back on itself — as Coco Fusco. Across her career, she has inhabited a succession of roles — museum specimen, interrogator, colonial queen, subaltern laborer — to expose the systems that produce them. Her works, whether filmed, staged, or photographed, return to that charged encounter so that what began as performances about being looked at has evolved into frameworks for looking back: at surveillance, at the museum’s apparatus of display, at the camera’s complicity, at the viewer’s own position within it. Fusco’s first United States retrospective, Tomorrow I Will Become an Island at El Museo del Barrio, traces...

Softness as a weapon. That's the fire. Juniper Sikora, Experiment Artist, working with activated biofilm, 60cm x 90cm, 2025, Photo credit: artist At 54, Juniper Sikora is obsessed with bioplastics, oysters, memory foam faces—materials that hold memory, resilience, and fragility all at once. She's embedding frequency, RFID, and AI into sensory works that whisper rather than shout, but still change the room they enter. It's that delicious tension between tenderness and power that keeps her lit....

For Hongqian Zhang, founder of ArtFlow Studio, becoming a curator was a necessity. “I witnessed many talented artists – especially from East Asian backgrounds – whose works were under-recognised or misinterpreted due to a lack of accessible platforms,” she says. “Too often, I saw their voices being flattened or lost in translation within Western institutional narratives. Without spaces that understood and supported them, many abandoned their practices altogether. ArtFlow emerged in response to that gap.” Zhang’s practice is grounded in “listening, interpretation, and cultural responsibility.” Her philosophy centres on “building infrastructures of care” – treating exhibitions as more...

Behind My Camera: 8x10: 2018 At 70, Kimberly-Ann is converting beaded necklaces into bracelets. She's also just finished entries for two simultaneous shows, and next on her radar is another Call & Response bookmaking project and a local art fair. Her work is eclectic and varied. She works in leather, semi-precious beads, on gourds, with many different types of paint, paper, and found objects, as well as photography. She's been creating art in one form or another since she can remember. There...

In a lifetime of opera going I suppose I have seen many transformative productions, but this recent one seems, in the light of the increasing disaster enfolding this country, uncannily pertinent.

“If portraiture were merely about recording how people look, then every photographer with  a sharp lens would be a master,” writes Phillip Prodger in the book Face Time (Thames & Hudson, 2021). “Instead, it is among the most difficult undertakings in art … the portraitist is an excavator of truth, revealing qualities of which the sitter might not even be aware, or may wish to hide.” The following five artists, featured in recent editions of Aesthetica Magazine, echo this sentiment. Through symbolism, colour theory, paint strokes and bubbles, they use the genre to tell stories, uncover hidden meanings and encourage us to see differently. Han Yang Psychology, femininity, gender, technology and the...

Of all the multimillion-dollar artworks available for sale at Sotheby’s this month, only Maurizio Cattelan’s gold toilet has its own rope barrier. The 223-pound, fully operational 18-karat “America” (2016), consigned by hedge fund billionaire and Mets owner Steve Cohen, is expected to fetch roughly $10 million, or about one-third of Mets first baseman Pete Alonso’s 2025 salary.  For now, it rests in a brightly lit mirrored room in the auction house’s new headquarters in the iconic Breuer Building at 945 Madison Avenue, which is opening to the public on Saturday, November 8. But don’t even think about putting your butt on that gilded throne. The outside of the Breuer Building “At the...

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ “The Princesse de Broglie” at the Met Museum in New York may have been damaged by a rogue visitor. (1825–1860 (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) On Halloween, while dressed as Dakota Johnson from her Architectural Digest home tour, I was approached by a blond man in all black clothing, a safety vest, and a tiara who needed directions. “Louvre thief!” I shouted at him. “I thought you were arrested.” Drunk twenty-somethings in safety vests buzzed around us in the East Village, as if they’d answered some sort of casting call. It was official: the Louvre thief was 2025’s NPC (Non-Playable Character for those unfamiliar with Gen-Z English) costume of the...

Moving images haunt at Bangkok's Ghost 2568 festival

We cherish the seasons for their charms and endure their agonies, and as the cold rains and political races come and go, we scurry to art as a steadfast shelter from the storm. This month, the Hudson Valley invites you to explore exhibitions across the map. At Private Public Gallery, ethereally expressionistic paintings by Kathy Goodell brighten the mood. Hudson Hall presents the curiously macabre photographs of Corinne May Botz, while the Palmer Gallery at Vassar College features futuristic figurative paintings by Larissa Tokmakova. A fun-loving two-person show at Susan Eley Fine Art highlights the dynamic painting practices of Susan Lisbin and Sasha Hallock. Meanwhile, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild offers...

Palm seed chewed by a rat TUCSON, ARIZONA—Phys.org reports that Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) may have played a larger role in the deforestation of Rapa Nui than previously thought. Some 15 million Rapa Nui palm trees (Paschalococos disperta) are estimated to have covered Easter Island before the arrival of Polynesians around A.D. 1200. When Europeans arrived in 1722, they observed just a few isolated trees, grasses, and shrubs. Terry Hunt of the University of Arizona and Carl Lipo of the University of Birmingham developed an ecological model of the island and found that a single pair of rats, feasting on nutritious palm nuts, could grow into a population of more than 11 million in less than 50 years....

Debra Varvi, resolving a mono print, 2024 At 69, Debra Varvi is working through her dead angels cathedral window series. She's more focused now, more disciplined. And she's still paying bills. There's an insistent energy in creativity. A restless energy that pushes and prods. It collects light, color, shadow, form, lines, ideas, songs, bits of poetry, imagery, random nonsense. It hoards these things in the back of the mind and plays with them constantly. This energy is only satisfied by...

BURGOS, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH), Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez and their colleagues think that scavenging for carrion was vital to the survival of early hominins. It had been previously suggested that although eating carrion requires less effort than hunting, it carries the risks of consuming pathogens from spoiled meat and being attacked by hungry predators. Yet ecological research indicates that carrion is more widely available than had been thought, and tends to be available when other food sources are scarce. Acid in the human stomach may have acted as a defense against pathogens and toxins. Humans can travel for long...

Jade artifact likely representing a woman giving birth TUCSON, ARIZONA—According to a CNN report, excavations at Aguada Fénix, a plateau made of earth in southeastern Mexico more than 3,000 years ago, have revealed a cruciform pit set within a larger cruciform pit. The raised plaza itself is situated at the intersection of two roads—one running from north to south and the other from east to west. At the bottom of the smaller pit, the researchers led by Takeshi Inomata of the University of Arizona discovered jade artifacts that had also been arranged in the shape of a cross, and pigments that may have been linked to the four directions—blue to the north, green to the east, and yellow to the south. A red...

France’s court of auditors on November 6 released a report on security at the Louvre accusing the Paris museum of prioritizing “visible and attractive” projects over upgrades to security. In publicly presenting the document at a press conference, state auditor head Pierre Moscovici cast the pace of security upgrades at the institution as “wholly inadequate” […]

Workers at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) have announced their intention to unionize. Seeking what the campaign has described as “fairer compensation, valued input, clearer pathways for progression, and increased transparency,” the Detroit Institute of Arts Workers United (DIAWU) aims to organize under the auspices of AFSCME Cultural Workers United Michigan (AFSCME Michigan). That […]

Tobias Kratzer's time-traveling Arabella from the Deutsche Oper Berlin, now available on DVD, turns the opera's problems into its strengths.

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Set against glowing backdrops of desert, city skylines, skate parks, and anonymous interiors, Gerwyn Davies’ vibrant photographs merge fashion photography with elaborate and sometimes bizarre handmade costumes. His practice harkens back to some of his first experiments with photography, when he and a group of friends would stage collaborative portraits in which they’d take turns operating the camera, posing, and searching the house for lamps to light the scene. “It was Vogue magazine on a B-horror film budget,” Davies says. “I was transfixed by the potential to fabricate fantasy through photography and from that point I was very excited about what else I could do with it.” He credits those early,...

Consider the monumental figures have shaped contemporary photography, and few loom as large as Don McCullin (b. 1935). The photojournalist has documented some of the most violent and brutal conflicts of the late 20th century, including Vietnam, Biafra, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Northern Ireland and, more recently, Iraq and Syria. Regardless of location, McCullin has a unique ability to encapsulate the world’s complexities – both its horrors and humanity – in a single shot. Now, a new book from GOST spotlights that artist’s still life photography and landscapes. The Stillness of Life, published to coincide with his 90th birthday, is a more personal offering from an artist often associated with distant...

The end of the year is quickly approaching and so is the season of giving. By choosing to shop with us this year, you’re supporting independent publishing and allowing us continue to share important stories every day. This year’s Colossal Gift Guide highlights some of our favorite art and design products. From world-renowned artist tools and one-of-a-kind calendars to quirky bags and detailed monographs, we’ve curated everything you need to be named Best Gift Giver of the Year. Grouped by each unique recipient—whether it be your creative sibling, grandkids, or that one uncle whose vibe is impossible to identify—there’s something here for everyone on your list. Grab a cup of tea, get cozy, and...

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC—According to a Radio Prague International report, the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes estimates that several thousand people killed by the Nazi and Communist regimes were buried at Ďáblice Cemetery, which was founded in Prague in 1914. So far, members of the institute have uncovered detailed information about 120 of the victims who were buried in the cemetery. They are now working to recover the remains of three Czechoslovak soldiers—Vilém Sok, Miloslav Jebavý, and Karel Sabela—who fought against the Nazis during World War II and were later imprisoned for their resistance to the communist regime that took power after the war. The three men were executed by the...

CHENNAI, INDIA—Daiji World reports that workers restoring a Shiva temple near the Javvadu Hills in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu discovered 103 gold coins dated to the Chola period, which spanned the ninth through the thirteenth centuries A.D. The coins had been neatly stacked in a pot and buried beneath the temple floor. The temple is thought to have been built during the reign of King Rajaraja Cholan III, between 1216 and 1246. Temple wealth flourished during the late Chola period, when gold-based trade networks were active across South India, according to researchers from the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department. Officials from this department are now collaborating with...

Once scheduled to be on view at the Smithsonian's National Portrait gallery, Amy Sherald's American Sublime is now on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art after the artist pulled the exhibit, asserting that she could not 'comply with a culture of censorship" Read the full article on the exhibition from our recent issue, after it premiered at the SFMOMA by clicking above!
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Across a wide range of media, from painting to textiles to works on paper, Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) developed a practice that merged history, activism, formal inquiry, and global influences. Born and raised in Harlem, New York, her work evolved from her awareness of politics and social issues in the 1960s and 1970s, which she channeled into “an incisive narrative about the historical sacrifices and achievements of Black Americans,” says Jack Shainman Gallery. Opening this month at the gallery, a retrospective spans Ringgold’s explorations of textiles, sculpture, and works on canvas. She is renowned for her story quilts, which combine fabric and embroidery with painted tableaux of Harlem, jazz clubs,...

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Key Jo Lee, Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, reflects on how ‘UNBOUND’ redefines Blackness through cosmology, science fiction, and ancestral vision David Alabo, […]

Osei Bonsu, Senior Curator of International Art, Africa and Diaspora at Tate Modern, on how artists redefined modernism in Nigeria through independence, imagination, and cultural synthesis Installation view of ‘Nigerian Modernism’ at Tate Modern, 8 […]