CAUTION WET FLOOR imagines an everyday domestic task as art
 
An everyday domestic task, specifically, mopping the floor, is relocated to a new context to draw attention to a form of labor that often goes unnoticed. Performed on a floating platform by Insola, in the middle of Berlin’s River Spree, the act of cleaning is detached from its practical purpose and presented as a continuous, repetitive action.
 
The six-hour durational performance by artist Lara Lussheimer examines the tension between routine labor and the desire to impose order. By placing a familiar domestic gesture within an environment where it appears functionally unnecessary, the work, CAUTION WET FLOOR, reflects on the persistence of...

L’apparente, seconda personale di Alessandro Roma (Milano, 1977) alla CAR Gallery di Bologna, si configura come un momento di approfondimento di una ricerca che ha trovato nella ceramica smaltata il terreno privilegiato in cui la dialettica tra pittura e scultura smette di essere una questione formale per diventare una domanda filosofica sull’essenza stessa del visibile. Il titolo sembra suggerire che ciò che appare non sia mai semplicemente dato, ma costituisca piuttosto una soglia in perpetuo divenire, uno strato di realtà che si offre alla percezione trattenendo al tempo stesso qualcosa di irriducibile allo sguardo, un’intuizione che le opere in mostra declinano con una coerenza tanto più efficace...

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car bodies become luminous stained-glass vessels
 
Stained-glass has traditionally illuminated the solemn halls of holy spaces. On the east side of Los Angeles, Ben Tuna sees this medium in a new light. He works between the language of old windows and the weathered bodies of cars, bringing stained-glass into places where it usually has no business appearing.
 
Inside Glass Visions Studio, the family-run stained-glass business founded by his father Mark Tuna in 1979, the artist has built a practice that balances architectural craft and automotive ruin. Porsche shells, salvaged church glass, desert agate, and detached car doors become parts of the same world.
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Last July, Amy Sherald announced that she was canceling the National Portrait Gallery stop of her solo exhibition American Sublime because of concerns that the Smithsonian Institution had attempted to censor her painting of a Black trans woman, Arewà Basit, posing as the Statue of Liberty.Lindsey Halligan, a special assistant to President Donald Trump, responded to Sherald’s decision with satisfaction. “The Statue of Liberty is not an abstract canvas for political expression — it is a revered and solemn symbol of freedom, inspiration, and national unity that defines the American spirit,” she said in a statement at the time.But all national symbols, whether flags, statues, or personifications of...

By the standards of geological epochs, Kaaterskill Falls in Upstate New York is positively youthful. Generated by melting glacial runoff eroding the sandstone and shale at the foot of the Catskills’ South Mountain during the middle Pleistocene — a spritely 130,000 years ago — Kaaterskill is a spectacular two-stage waterfall that seems to almost bounce down its 260-foot (~79-meter) height. Two centuries ago, that cascading waterfall would inspire a 25-year-old engraver born in Lancashire, England, who wanted to forge a new American aesthetics. Thomas Cole’s “Kaaterskill Falls” of 1826, on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, heralded that new movement.Painted at his...

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 Swiss Institute's New HomeThe Swiss Institute in New York City is acquiring a new permanent home at 250 Bowery, just across the street from the freshly renovated New Museum. The organization tapped architectural firm Johnston Marklee to renovate the space, which will open next spring with The Environment, a group exhibition inspired by a participatory project led by filmmaker Bud Wirtschafter in the 1960s Lower East Side. It's a milestone moment for the Swiss Institute, which will own its location for the first time in its four-decade...

Lina Ávila, "Abrazo mundi," (2020) (image courtesy TODOS x VENEZUELA) Following the devastating earthquakes that hit Venezuela on June 24, leaving thousands dead or injured, tens of thousands missing, and countless families displaced, the nation has seen an outpouring of help. On the ground, locals move rubble by hand to find survivors. Abroad, the Venezuelan diaspora, caught between feeling helpless and relentless, turned to networks and contacts, pooling donations to send home.Interdisciplinary artist Cristóbal Ochoa was one of them. He was a political activist in Venezuela before fleeing to France as a political refugee in 2017; he now splits his time between Paris and Madrid. Days after the twin...

The National Gallery in London announced that it has acquired a significant history painting by 18th-century artist Angelica Kauffman. The work is now on view at the museum.  Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes (1787–88) is the first work by Kauffman to enter a UK national collection in nearly two centuries. Another painting by the artist was bequeathed to the National Gallery in 1835 but was later transferred to Tate Britain, as the museum is now known, when it opened in 1897. Tate Britain lent the work to Guildhall in Plymouth, and it is believed to have been destroyed during World War II in the 1941 Plymouth Blitz. Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes depicts a Greek...

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New York’s Lyles & King, known for its championship of emerging artists and its keen eye for talent, has shuttered. The gallery had opened in a restaurant basement on the city’s Lower East Side in 2015 before moving to Chinatown in 2020, becoming one of the first of a wave of galleries to open there. […]

With July 4 and its attendant propaganda on the horizon, I'm turning to essays that offer the critical, hopeful perspectives we need on American art and culture. Musician Nate Wooley takes a deep dive into the ever-evolving practice of Diné artist and composer Raven Chacon for the New York Review of Books:Much of the recent writing about Chacon has rightfully foregrounded his critique of America’s colonial history and its abuses against Indigenous people. This project is central to Chacon’s thinking, but the methods, techniques, and materials he chooses to pursue it connect him with a wider range of American musical mavericks than critics often acknowledge. His oeuvre has echoes of the microtonal...

The discovery of lead during renovation work at Paris’s historic Palais Garnier—opened in 1875 and summoned as inspiration for Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera (and even more famously for Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical adaptation)—has “throw[n] a tight schedule of venue closures and the projected budget into disarray,” according to a report in Le Figaro. Planned restoration work that was supposed to take two years is now projected for five, with evaluation for the best method to extract the lead to be undertaken this summer. “Depending on the method chosen, the duration of the Palais Garnier stage’s closure will be determined this fall,” Le Figaro reports. “Barring any...

New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs is set to receive its highest ever allocation of $323.8 million in this year’s city budget. The announcement came after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, City Council Speaker Julie Menin, and other council members reached a “handshake agreement” on a balanced $125.8 billion Fiscal Year 2027 budget […]

DORYUN CHONG is the artistic director and chief curator of M+, Hong Kong, overseeing all curatorial activities and programs across the museum’s three main disciplinary areas of design and architecture, moving image, and visual art. If you could have attended any show in art history, which one would it be? The legendary “Magiciens de la […]

Memory may not be a tape-recorder, but in Sasha Gordon’s work, it serves as a device for the initial transportation. Characters wander this fluxing landscape—be it a drive-through window, a master bedroom, or white suburbia—shifting through the dynamic background of her dream-like haze. As a viewer of Gordon’s narrative paintings, you are intruding on intimate […]
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An artist has demanded the organizers of Manifesta 16 remove an installation from the exhibition in Essen, Germany, alleging that a piece in the show plagiarizes one of her earlier works.  The piece, titled Elevation and made by the Turkish sculptor Nasan Tur, consists of reclaimed church pews installed on their side inside St. Gertud Church and engraved with anonymous musings submitted by the public. Bochum-based artist Dorothee Bielfeld told the German outlet Waz that the Elevation’s central visual motif—meter-high upright pews, transformed by their reorientation into oblique towers—closely resembles her 2010 work Aufrichten (Raising Up), created for Ruhr.2010, a cultural campaign in Germany’s Ruhr...

More than 200 works on view at Henrique Faria Fine Art are on offer to raise funds for emergency aid in Venezuela through the World Central Kitchen

Herculaneum, an ancient Roman town that was buried in an avalanche of volcanic refuse following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, is also the site of a long-preserved library called the Villa of the Papyri. For hundreds of years, researchers have puzzled over the question of how to decipher the carbonized scrolls entombed within the […]

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Will Sweeney is a commercial artist based in the UK. With a big reach and an enormous imagination, his illustrations adorn album sleeves, shirts for big fashion brands, toys in Japan, and almost any other sort of wearable or product one could imagine. Recently, we asked Sweeney to describe a bit of the machinations that […]
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Announced on the heels of the rent freeze, the money includes a new fund to help struggling arts organisations

A word to the wise: no matter how frazzled you are while preparing to leave town for a family vacation, make sure you don’t forget anything on the sidewalk when you drive away. Especially if you are the type of family that takes valuable, framed artwork on road trips. Andrés Hurtado, a 57-year-old man from Murcia, was visiting Seville with his family when an artwork leaning against a garage door caught his eye while on a walk around the city center. He picked it up, particularly taken by the wide gold frame. Unbeknownst to Hurtado, the painting belonged to a local family and had been reported missing on Saturday, June 27. The owners, accustomed to taking a beloved artwork with them on vacation, had...

A photograph by acclaimed Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov has been stolen from the Lithuanian National Museum of Art in what officials believe was a targeted theft. The work, part of Mikhailov’s 1993 series At Dusk, disappeared from the Radvila Palace Museum of Art in Vilnius on June 28 while on view in the exhibition Ukrainian Dreamers: Kharkiv School of Photography, according to museum officials. Police are investigating after the incident was captured on security cameras.  According to reporting in Ocula, museum staff discovered the photograph missing from a second-floor gallery shortly after 1:30 p.m., but the suspected thief had already left the building. “We believe the perpetrator likely knew in...

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Tickets to view the fragile medieval tapestry, which is on rare loan from France, are now sold out through the end of 2026, with further releases to come

carlo ratti imagines a hospital campus as a civic landscape
 
In Brescia, the future of one of Lombardy’s major healthcare institutions is being drawn by a team led by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati as a campus of gardens, glazed wings, and public routes.
 
The winning proposal for the new Main Hospital and Children’s Hospital of ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia has been unveiled at Teatro Grande, bringing together CRA, Park Associati, and Politecnica Building for Humans with Openfabric, DOTDOTDOT, Eckersley O’Callaghan, and Studio Mattioli.
 
The project, selected through an international design competition, reworks the existing hospital campus through the lens of One Health, linking medical treatment with...

W16 mistral ‘blanc éternal’ evokes a digital model
 
Bugatti‘s porcelain white W16 Mistral ‘Blanc Éternel’ is traced with fine black lines that look almost hand-drawn over its own skin. The one-of-one commission comes through Bugatti Sur Mesure with Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM) Berlin, and brings the last roadgoing W16 Bugatti into conversation with a much older material culture.
 
The car is framed as a return to a story that began fifteen years ago, when Bugatti worked with KPM on the Veyron Grand Sport ‘L’Or Blanc.’ That earlier car took cues from a white porcelain vase designed for KPM by Enzo Mari, whose royal-blue brushstrokes suggested a way to read the volume of a hypercar...

The country’s heritage minister criticised curatorial choices in “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present”, drawing widespread rebukes including from the leader of the New Democratic Party

Rosenstein’s traumatic experiences during wartime run through her art, which fuses Surrealism, biomorphic abstraction and figuration

The last few mornings, as I’ve walked with my dog up the ravine behind my house, two fawns seem to bound of thin air, racing in unison through the trees until far enough way that they stop, stare, and wait for us to pass. It’s not uncommon to see several does grazing in the same woods, and I’ve always wondered where they sleep. Photographer Katherine Wolkoff followed a similar curiosity as she traversed the grassy meadows of Block Island, which sits a few miles off the coast of Rhode Island, for her series Deer Beds. Flattened by lean cervid bodies, tall grasses reveal the areas where deer bed down. They don’t typically sleep in the same place every single night, but a home range area may have several...

Ahead of his new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, Barrie Kosky chats with Kevin Ng in Aix about pretty much everything — except the details of his new Frau.

The Bayerische Staatsoper’s Ring cycle scores another triumph with Tobias Kratzer’s take on Die Walküre.

LAYER develops a modular charging ecosystem for Daily Objects
 
Node and Loft series is a family of charging products designed by LAYER for the lifestyle brand Daily Objects. Developed as part of a broader product ecosystem, the collection rethinks everyday charging through a consistent design language that combines modularity, sculptural forms, and domestic functionality. Comprising the Node modular wireless charging system and the Loft charging station, the products organize the charging of phones, earbuds, smartwatches, laptops, tablets, and other devices while integrating into home and workspace environments.
 
Rather than treating charging accessories as purely functional objects, the collection...

Linder's first permanent public artwork, Sirona, is unveiled at London Zoo, honouring pioneering zoologist Joan Procter as part of ZSL's bicentenary

In occasione del terzo ciclo annuale del progetto di residenza d’artista Artist in Officina, la sensibile congiunzione tra pratiche performative e scultoree di Ekaterina Shcherbakova ha rintracciato gli echi della storiografia composita di Montefollonico, nel territorio senese, rendendoli nuovamente manifesti. Ideata da Paul Gregory e Tessa Singleton, con la collaborazione di Margareth Dorigatti ed Emanuele Fasciani, l’iniziativa prende vita nello storico laboratorio del fabbro del paese, riconvertito per accogliere i percorsi di ricerca di artisti di provenienza internazionale.
Ekaterina Shcherbakova, “FUSA”, 2026, installation view at Cappella Santa Caterina, ph. credit 6PM STUDIO, courtesy of the...

Whether it’s the atmosphere casting a haze or the fuzziness of memories and dreams, Guimi You’s lush paintings have an aura of wistfulness and quietude. The Seoul-based artist creates dreamy oil compositions that tap into personal experience, passing time, and how one gains perspective and reevaluates their needs or desires as they go through life. You’s canvases are infused with elements of still life and landscape traditions, where anonymous protagonists reflect quietly in a garden, pause in a golden meadow, or stroll through a park in the rain. Cerulean shadows complement the magenta jacket of a woman strolling with her dog along a stream in “Spring Walk,” and a woman sits down at an easel in an...

The Estorick Collection and Compton Verney will present the first UK institutional exhibitions dedicated to Carla Accardi

Stand in any forest and look up, and it’s hard not to be mesmerized by the swaying of tall trees and their elegant canopies casting shade onto the woodland floor. But imagine being an ant or beetle and peering up at the stems of wild geraniums, garlic, or buttercups and experiencing the same sensation. For photographer Theo Bosboom, this ground-level view of flowers and plants gave rise to a series that captures them in the way we might photograph a grove of towering, ancient sequoias. Traversing local landscapes around his home in the Netherlands and sometimes venturing across the border into Germany or Belgium, Bosboom explores forests, dunes, public parks, roadside verges, and virtually any place that...

Greek National Opera's Medea in the ancient theater at Epidaurus is an intermittently rewarding exercise in nostalgia.

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San Francisco Opera hosts an exuberant tribute to queerness past and present.

Ai Weiwei's largest site-specific exhibition to date opens at Manchester's Aviva Studios

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Historically, conductors were often viewed as rigid, authoritarian figures. Yannick Nézet-Séguin completely subverts this stereotype.

It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

Un corpo cammina. Attraversa quindici paesi, consuma le suole, accumula polvere e incontri. Quando questo corpo entra in un’istituzione, come Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, emblema del meccanismo dell’arte internazionale, qualcosa nel sistema si inceppa. Algebra è costruita su questo inceppamento. Il corpus di Paulo Nazareth non disgiunge esperienza e produzione: il cammino è già opera, l’incontro è già forma. Migrazione, diaspora, confine e memoria non sono temi da rappresentare, sono i presupposti operativi entro cui l’indagine emerge. Ogni immagine, oggetto o documento nasce da un sentiero e conserva la tensione tra vissuto e diffusione.
Floor: Paulo Nazareth, “Cadernos de Africa”,...

The 79th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on sculptor Willy Verginer, the black and white world of Murayama Tomoaki, the graphic art of Jimi Biscuits, Harriet Mena Hill’s painted rubble, the art of Pabaja,  Plus a Special Insert Section featuring the art of Marigold Santos, surrealist painter Philip Bosmans, the universal art […]
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In 1975, Stuart Pearson Wright entered the world as a product of artificial insemination, his father’s identity kept anonymous for the entirety of his life even to this day. This fact would fuel Wright’s early, burgeoning interest in expressing himself through the arts and a later rise to prominence in portraiture. In interviews, he would […]
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In 2007, Magnhild Kennedy indulged a lifelong fascination by moving to London. “I have had London on my mind since I was a teen. I wanted to live there even before my first visit,” she says. Growing up in Trondheim, Norway, from the age of sixteen onward she devoured every image and word in issues […]
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In March 2025, the Euclid mission led by the The European Space Agency (ESA) enabled scientists to capture the highest resolution image ever taken of the dense, glowing center of the Milky Way galaxy. An enormous swarm of stars forms a bulge at the heart of the spiral, and researchers continue to search amid these billions of gaseous orbs for exoplanets, or any planet that’s located outside of our solar system. “The galactic bulge—the central region of our galaxy—is a vast, tightly packed structure filled mainly with old, cooler stars, giving it its characteristic yellow colour,” ESA says. The photograph, which is taken with visible light, allows scientists to pinpoint exoplanets and measure their...

Mark Rothko is known for his “color field” paintings, a genre that was coined in the 1950s to describe his work specifically, along with peers like Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still. These works are generally characterized by their total abstraction and emphasis on clearly delineated areas, or “fields,” of different hues. One might also think of Josef Albers’ seminal series titled Homage to the Square, which delved into the virtually infinite relationships between colors. For Rothko, canvases were often very large, measuring upwards of 10 feet. The works inside the Rothko Chapel in Houston, for example, are architectonic, commanding the viewer’s complete attention and inviting us to slow down and...

In selvicoltura uno snag è un albero morto che resta in piedi: un organismo cessato e tuttavia non ancora restituito al suolo, più una soglia che un cadavere. Non è un residuo inerte, ma un ecosistema in attività, cavo abitabile per uccelli, insetti, pipistrelli, funghi, licheni – vivo di una vitalità che non è più la propria. È da questa figura sospesa che muove Old Snag, prima personale dell’artista norvegese Ingeborg Tysse (Stavanger, 1992) negli spazi di Société Interludio, a Cambiano (Torino), accompagnata da un testo critico di Caterina Avataneo. Il dato non è secondario: i tre ciliegi morti che reggono l’installazione provengono dai dintorni della galleria, prelevati da quello stesso...

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Da chi viene scritta la storia? Come possiamo ripensare il futuro attraverso gli occhi di chi vive le violenze e le ingiustizie di questo tempo? Sono queste alcune delle domande che pone Nalini Malani con Of Woman Born, progetto site-specific commissionato dal Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) di New Delhi con l’attenta curatela della direttrice artistica Roobina Karode e presentato presso i Magazzini del Sale come evento collaterale della 61° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia nel 2026.
Nalini Malani, “Of Woman Born”, 2026, camera di animazione con 9 iPad, audio, dimensioni variabili, installation view. Collezione Kiran Nadar Museum of Art © Nalini Malani
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The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

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