The Rio fair brings together 76 galleries as an upcoming presidential election and a new generation of collectors shape the market

The plot thickens just a few months away from the grand opening of Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels. Amid criticism that the European capital’s forthcoming and only major modern and contemporary art museum is too large and costly for taxpayers, La Libre reports that the head of Brussels’ local government wants Kanal-Centre Pompidou’s founding general director Yves Goldstein out. On Thursday, Minister-President Boris Dilliès of the center-right francophone Movement Réformateur (MR) party reportedly surprised members of the Brussels-Capital Region government, which he has led since February, when he announced he is seeking Goldstein’s immediate dismissal. After left-leaning political leaders voiced...

Two new lawsuits, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, by Jewish heirs or their representatives seek the return of artwork taken by the Nazis during World War II and now held by prominent museums. The suits are prompted by two new laws, one passed by California lawmakers in 2024 and the other signed […]

malba grows beneath buenos aires
 
On its 25th anniversary, Malba is preparing to expand beneath Plaza Perú in Buenos Aires, with Frida Escobedo Studio leading a project that will double the museum’s exhibition space. The new architecture moves underground, allowing a substantial extension of the institution while the public square continues across the surface above. Currently in design, the project is expected to open in late 2029 or early 2030.
 
The expansion introduces new temporary exhibition galleries alongside an auditorium and flexible spaces for public programming. Workshops and storage areas move into the enlarged footprint, while an outdoor courtyard brings open air down into the museum. From...

As the auction house continues to celebrate 40 years of operating in Asia, its exciting line-up of September sales offers renowned global artists alongside those with strong markets in the region

Following heavy rainfall, a deluge flooded the Uffizi Gallery and Palazzo Pitti, both in Florence, Italy, on Thursday, reported Euro News. Both were impacted by a torrential downpour in which nearly two inches of rain fell in an hour in Florence. At the Uffizi Gallery, there was a leak that appeared beneath a skylight in a room housing seven 17th-century paintings, including Caravaggio’s Bacchus. “The leak splashed the outer glass of the protective case containing Caravaggio’s Bacchus,” the museum explained in a statement. “No damage whatsoever has been found to any of the works. The room will be open to visitors as normal from opening time tomorrow morning.” (Corriere della Sera reported a...

Borusan Contemporary presents two new exhibitions opening on September 19, 2026: Olivo Barbieri: Time Space Geometry, the Italian photographer’s first solo exhibition in Türkiye, and Haunted, a collection exhibition exploring the visual culture of the digital age.Curated by Dr. Fırat Arapoğlu, Olivo Barbieri: Time Space Geometry brings together works from five major series spanning more than four decades of the artist’s practice. Moving from ancient archaeological sites and contemporary cities to waterfalls, the Alps, and Capri, the exhibition examines how scale, perspective, and optical intervention shape our perception of place. It also features a newly commissioned series for the Borusan Contemporary...

Welcome to the 355th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, husband-and-wife artist duo Hillerbrand and Magsamen build a spaceship in their backyard and relish the messiness of making.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand, Houston, TexasHow long have you been working in this space?Twenty years in our house. Ten years in the garage studio.Describe an average day in your studio.We've been working as a collaborative team for over 25 years. When we first moved to...

Artist Engineering Hardware is a new system that aims to reduce damage during transport and installation by eliminating direct contact with works of art

Researchers believe that humans may have walked across the sea from Wales during the last Ice Age and made art

Walk into the first gallery of the group exhibition Thresholds at the Haggerty Museum of Art, and you’ll encounter dozens of hand brooms installed in long rows. Scraps of ribbons, cords, and braids in a vast array of colors and textures bind the small tools together, with raw branches from a fallen tree jutting from the top. Made during a participatory workshop this past July at Lynden Sculpture Garden, the sweepers are what artist Daniel Minter calls a “talisman, tool, and object of remembrance.” Minter has long considered the spiritual dimension of the items we use in daily life. The broom, for example, has been an ongoing topic of inquiry as he questions what it means to cleanse and care for one’s...

Whether you are an ex–head of state (George W. Bush), an Academy Award–winning thespian (Adrien Brody), or a Grammy Award–winning musician (Jack White), it seems that what famous people really want to be, deep down, is artists. Academy Award–nominated actor Johnny Depp is yet another example. The exhibition, “Johnny Depp: A Bunch of Stuff Presents Figures of the Fringe,” now open at Modern Art Museum (MAM) Shanghai, marks his first exhibition in China. When it debuted in 2024 at a non-art space in the Chelsea gallery neighborhood of New York, Artnet News reported that it aimed “to demonstrate his bona fides and illustrate how artistry just flows through his veins, man.” The man who has...

In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about Giotto’s revitalised depictions of the life of St Francis of Assisi in the Basilica of Santa Croce, speaks to the curator of the 18th edition of the Biennale de Lyon, and explores a painting by surrealist Remedios Varo on view in a major retrospective at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark

The Royal Opera House's Don Giovanni comes without an instruction manual — but features a fine lothario in Gordon Bintner.

Kübra Çetin  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
Kübra Çetin’s Website

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Rodrigo Cass, a Brazilian artist and a former Carmelite monk, died at 43 in a fatal accident yesterday on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland argues that artworks made by prisoners forced to do so in Nazi concentration camps are not their legal property. Art Basel’s parent company, MCH Group, reported rising revenue, driven by strong performance outside its Swiss headquarters, notably by its first edition of Art Basel Qatar. The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. Brazilian artist and former Carmelite monk Rodrigo Cassdied at 43 in a fatal accident yesterday on...

Rodrigo Cass, a Brazilian artist whose work found spirituality in minimal forms, died at 43 in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday. His death was confirmed by Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, the art gallery that represents him on Instagram. The gallery said that Cass died in an accident on Copacabana Beach and described the artist as someone with a “gentle presence” and “generosity” to the artistic community. Cass’s work frequently featured bright hues, in particular sunshine yellow, orange, pink and blue. He borrowed motifs from classical Catholic iconography and styles derived from Brazilian Neo-Concretism. “A former Seminarian and deeply devoted to religion, he employed color in a methodical and bold manner,...

the city as a field of possibility
 
What if the city wasn’t something to consume but something to play? For the Situationists, this was a way of challenging the passive role assigned to people in modern society. Instead of simply following the routes, functions, images, and routines laid out for them, they imagined inhabitants who could wander, interfere, improvise, and collectively reshape the environments around them. The city, in other words, could become a field of possibility.
 
This ambition runs through the work of the Situationist International, the group of artists, writers, and theorists formed in Europe in 1957. Their critique extended from advertising and mass media to architecture, urban...

“I’m in love with the shape of you,” said Ed Sheeran to the missile … or so says political cartoonist Benjamin Slyngstad. The satirical drawing is one of a delicious flurry of artistic lampoons of the self-proclaimed “singer with a flow,” who made headlines for dumping Macklemore from his tour after the rapper made a speech against the genocide in Gaza. Staff Writer Anna Lee rounds up some of the best artworks calling out Sheeran’s cowardice (and poking fun at his eminently mockable lyrics).More to chew on in today’s newsletter, including the one-hit wonder that is Anish Kapoor, the lineage of Sankofa in Black American ironwork, and Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara’s Pocket Review of Chilean...

AARKE TRANSFORMS HIDDEN APPLIANCES INTO COUNTERTOP ARTIFACTS
 
For the sixth feature of Navigators of Design, a 10-part interview series produced with Most Studios, designboom connects with Malin Gäfvert, Creative Director at premium kitchen appliance brand Aarke. Stepping into the digital and physical frontier of contemporary brand building, Malin explores how creative direction transforms everyday objects from functional utilities into elevated lifestyle artifacts. Rather than viewing kitchen appliances as disposable tools to conceal in cabinets, her approach injects worth into mundane daily moments, turning routine tasks into quiet rituals of understated design.
 
‘Kitchen appliances have traditionally...

Array

NAÏVE MY LOVE Brings Ukraine’s scattered folk art together
 
As the official media partner for the London launch, designboom joined GUNIA Project and Assouline on September 17th, 2026, as they marked the launch of Naïve My Love: Ukrainian Folk Art of the 20th Century at Maison Assouline on Piccadilly. Developed by GUNIA Project founders Maria Gavryliuk and Natalia Kamenska, the 304-page publication brings together Ukrainian naïve art from the twentieth century, drawing on museum collections, archives, private collections, and the knowledge of researchers and local custodians. Edited by Kyiv-based curator and publisher Lidia Lykhach, with text by Ukrainian journalist Anna Lodygina, the book traces a...

Array

Array

Array

Pace Prints today announced that it has purchased publisher Brand X Editions. In acquiring the Long Island, New York–based workshop, with which it has long collaborated, Pace has become one of the largest printmakers in the United States. The two workshops will maintain their operations, while Pace Prints will expand into Los Angeles as well. […]

Peter Max, whose trippy Day-Glo paintings came to symbolize the Flower Power era of the 1960s, died on September 18 in a hospital in New York at the age of eighty-eight. He had previously suffered from Alzheimer’s-related dementia. His death was confirmed by his son, Adam Max, and by Park West Gallery. An astoundingly prolific […]

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other art-world happenings.The Best and Worst of TIME 100 Art ListArtist Amy Sherald, who stood on the right side of history when she canceled her show at the Smithsonian Institution for fears that her painting of a trans woman would be censored, has been recognized on TIME magazine's list of 100 influential people shaping the arts. The list includes other laudable and deserving individuals, including Dayanita Singh and Tuan Andrew Nguyen. It also features people who range from irrelevant (Vanessa Horabuena, the Trump-adored Christian speed painter!?) to absolutely reprehensible, like billionaire...

Depending on who you talk to, "affordable art" could qualify as a million-dollar steal for a blue-chip painting or a $2 plastic-wrapped print at Washington Square Park. While the latter tends to be more within my tax bracket, I found myself sticking mental bookmarks into some artworks at the opening of the New York Affordable Art Fair last night.Running through this Sunday, September 20, the semiannual Affordable Art Fair returns to the Starrett Lehigh Building in Chelsea with artworks from 620 artists, most of whom are based outside the United States, according to a press release. With pieces ranging in price from $100 to $12,000, the atmosphere feels a touch more approachable than some of its more exclusive...

Casa POP reorganizes a standardized Madrid apartment
 
Casa POP by gon architects is the renovation of a 78 sqm apartment in Vicálvaro, east of Madrid, that had been occupied by its owners for 20 years. The starting point was a typical, heavily compartmentalized home whose layout no longer suited their way of living. The project reorganizes the apartment around a large central storage core, replacing the original sequence of small rooms and corridors with a more open and connected spatial arrangement. A large green bookshelf runs from one side of the home to the other, incorporating sliding doors that can be opened or closed to adjust privacy and change the configuration of the space depending on the...

The Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent (CCA Tashkent), Uzbekistan’s first permanent institution devoted to contemporary art, opened to the public on September 6. London-born curator, writer, and educator Sara Raza was named artistic director and chief curator last year. Designboom reports that Raza’s inaugural exhibition is titled “Hikmah,” the Arabic word for “wisdom.” The show […]

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has named the four curators who will lead the third edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale, slated to open on November 1, 2027. The team will be helmed by Nada Raza, director of the Alserkal Arts Foundation; William Robinson, former head of Christie’s Islamic Art department; Alain Fouad George, I. M. […]

Italy’s South Tyrol province, which borders Switzerland and Austria in the Alps and is home to some of Central Europe’s most dramatic mountains, lives up to its geographic position as a borderland. Italy annexed the region in 1919 following World War I, prior to which it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Many people are German-speaking, and in many ways, their cultural traditions and ancestry lean traditionally toward Austria more than Italy. At the outbreak of World War II, the Fascist Italian regime built a series of fortifications along the country’s northernmost border. Construction was halted at the onset of the war, and the military controlled what had been completed until 1993. For Vincenzo...

With San Francisco Opera's orchestra on strike and bass Andrew Potter retiring at 43, Miles Greenberg sees opera's ethics and economics of impracticality at a breaking point

I guess it’s no secret here that I LOVE contemporary operas.

Dear Reader, The New York Times recently asked dozens of 10-year-olds what the world will be like in 2050. Some are hopeful: a woman will finally be president of the U.S., people will be more kind, and everyone will have a pet fox. Others, though, feel as if they’ve been plucked straight from a dystopian hellscape: world wars, monarchic rule supplanting voting, embedded brain sensors that send your thoughts straight to an app, and the end of human civilization entirely. Whether optimistic or not, these children mention A.I. again and again. In their futures, it’s an inextricable fixture of life. A.I.’s exponential growth has accelerated fears about its power, prompting numerous executives and...

At 33 feet wide and 52.5 feet high, an ancient mosaic recently unveiled to the public may be the largest in the entire Roman world. It sits within the recently opened Museum of the Baths of Trajan in central Rome, which preserves a monumental, early 2nd-century bath complex built by Emperor Trajan covering about 15 acres. To construct the baths on the Oppian Hill, builders repurposed elements of a previous structure, Emperor Nero’s Domus Aurea, or “Golden House,” originally erected between 64 and 68 C.E. It’s unclear if the mosaic originated in that building; archaeologists think it could have also been part of a lavish dwelling that was later incorporated into the compound. But many of the monumental...

Inspired by shapes and movement found in nature, Pablo Luna Studio conceives of hospitality spaces, wellness retreats, and homes that sympathize with their surroundings. Rather than creating a barrier between outside and inside, the airy structures welcome foliage and the natural landscape into the overall experience, blurring the boundary between structure and environment. The firm, based in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, is dedicated to building with nature, incorporating sustainable materials and taking a climate-responsive approach. “Imagine a home that stays cool in summer without constant air conditioning, or warm in winter with minimal heating, simply by virtue of its design,” the studio says. “This...

Benjamin Styer  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
Benjamin Styer’s Website
Benjamin Styer on Instagram

There may be frozen giant erections and psychedelic projections galore — but there's also a surprising degree of emotion in Kirill Serebrennikov's latest theatrical experiment in Berlin.

Parterre Box draws your attention to another Macbeth taking the stage this month, the triple-threat baritone Luca Micheletti.

Kosuke Ajiro
GR gallery is pleased to present Excavation Record I – Sayonara, the first solo exhibition in the United States by Japanese artist Kosuke Ajiro. The exhibition introduces Ajiro’s distinctive practice through the figure of the archeologist, who ventures into a whimsical and enigmatic imagined realm known as the “Kingdom of Sally.” Across the exhibition, each work reveals a fragment of this mysterious world, uncovering earthbound creatures and curious details before opening onto a vast, fantastical expanse. Moving between the familiar and the otherworldly, Ajiro’s works invite the viewer on a journey of mystery, magic, transformation, and discovery. As the story gradually reveals itself,...

Michael Francalanci  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
Michael Francalanci’s Website
Michael Francalanci on Instagram

Raphaël Gaultier  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
Raphaël Gaultier on Instagram

By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...

For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
The post Harriet Mena Hill Brings Crumbling Concrete Back To Life first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...

Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
The post Celestial Stance: The Art of Marigold Santos first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

By Betty Ann Brown "What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"—Honoré de Balzac "Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning."—Miguel de Unamuno Hiroko Yoshimoto's paintings concentrate nature into radiant and dynamic beauty, distilling visual sensation into poetic and environmental significance. Throughout the 2020s, Yoshimoto has worked on two series of paintings about nature: Biodiversity and Of Infinite Variety. Both series are based on observation of the natural...

By Julie Faith There is something strange about returning to a place you once knew well after being away for a long time. You recognize the architecture before you recognize what the years have done to you. As I passed through the gate at Corey Helford Gallery, crossed the lot, and headed up the stairs, I felt ridiculously, wonderfully giddy. Kid-in-a-candy-store giddy. I have been away from the gallery and much of the Los Angeles art world, but somewhere between the gate and the stairs, I...

By Victoria Thomas Altadena-based artist James Griffith greets me at his studio, located in a refurbished 1920s firehouse diagonally across the street from the gleaming silver lagomorph of the restored Bunny Museum, by saying "Hi, I just started putting a galaxy in the armpit of a penguin." Great cities announce their identities through their monuments. New York City has the Statue of Liberty, St. Louis the Gateway Arch, Chicago the Cloud Gate, Philadelphia the original LOVE sculpture. And...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
The post Future Relics: The Art of Morgan Sorensen first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
The post The Disconcertingly Honest Self-Portrait Sculptures of Monica Piloni first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
The post Human/Nature: Animals Go Underground In the Paintings of Matthew Grabelsky first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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.

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here. We also mark an...