In conversation with Theo Triantafyllidis
 
In Theo Triantafyllidis’s video-based installation, Funny Weather, software-generated birds, planes, and clouds drift across a dreamy sky. At any point, the weather can turn gray, a flock can burst across the screen, or a kite can whip into view. To create this work, the artist draws on real-time data local to Manchester, where the installation is presented, to generate an uncanny AI-powered simulation of the world outside the exhibition space. Funny Weather, which premieres in mid-November at Aviva Studios in the UK, will travel to Hong Kong, Melbourne, and New York. In each new city, the work will draw on local data, creating a site-specific reflection of the...

Despite a surfeit of star power and directorial ideas, Manon Lescaut at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées never quite congeals.

Array

Array

INIMRUUM AND UN-LIKE INSTALL NEST 2 ATOP REPURPOSED SHIPYARD MAST
 
Installed in Tallinn’s Noblessner district, a former pre-World War I submarine shipyard redeveloped into a mixed-use seafront neighborhood, Nest 2 is a site-specific light installation by Inimruum and lighting brand un-like, commissioned by real estate developer Merko. Continuing a public art series initiated with the 2024 Nest installation on Kalaranna Street (inspired by a five-year-old’s drawing of a stork nest), the new intervention repurposes a decommissioned industrial lighting mast on Lennusadama Street. Elevated approximately 20 meters above grade, the mast stands between the Ellingu Quarter waterfront park around the historic...

Array

Array

Array

The third annual ARTnews Awards, an editorial project honoring excellence in art achievements at US arts institutions, has just revealed the winners for its 2026 edition. To help select this year’s winners, ARTnews invited five esteemed US-based curators, along with two ARTnews editors, to review exhibitions that opened between August 2025 and July 2026. Traveling exhibitions were only eligible for their first US stop. Each juror nominated 1–3 exhibitions per category. Over the course of two meetings, the jury chose a group of nominees and a winner in each of six categories. Read more about each juror below. Giampaolo Bianconi Dittmer Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Institute of...

GIO TIROTTO DESIGNs LA LENTA BENCH FOR LIGURIA’S COAST
 
Developed by slow-living platform Vita lenta, Italian designer Gio Tirotto, and B Corp-certified seaside restaurant La Marinella, La Lenta is a public bench conceived to counter defensive urban furniture and restore prolonged seating to shared spaces. Scheduled for installation in spring 2027 in San Terenzo, a village in Lerici along Liguria’s Gulf of Poets, in collaboration with the Municipality of Lerici, the seating piece will sit along the waterfront facing the sea as an open-access civic amenity.
all images ©Raoul Ventura
 
 
La Lenta ELONGATES typical domestic CHAIR PROPORTIONS
 
Designer Gio Tirotto’s concept merges domestic and civic...

By Kristine Schomaker A dear friend, Heather Lowe, died last week. I have been losing friends, and every time I think I have figured out how to do this, I haven't. I'm writing this to put her somewhere that isn't only in my head. I found out Heather had passed away right before going into an appointment. How did I get through it? I have no idea. I reached out to a friend who had no idea. We were both in disbelief. How do you understand what it means for someone so vibrant and beautiful to be...

By Kristine Schomaker A paper shopping bag hung on the wall at Charlie James Gallery. Javier’s, across the front. Under a tree, drawn in soft browns, a man lies in the grass with his hat tipped and his body finally still. A nap. Or maybe the only ten minutes he’s had to himself all day. Narsiso Martinez draws on the things we throw away without thinking. The bag, the produce box, the clamshell. And on them he draws the people we disregard just as easily. The farmworkers who pick our food and...

rune bosse’s lung trees imagine a forest on life support
 
Danish artist Rune Bosse places living trees on artificial life support in Lung Trees, an installation presented at the Danish Architecture Center in Copenhagen as part of its Age of Nature exhibition, which ran through September 2026. Each tree stands inside a transparent, inflated plastic enclosure, and is surrounded by mechanical equipment and artificial lighting. With their branches reaching toward overhead lamps, each tree seems to have been removed from the forest and placed under intensive care.
 
The installation imagines a future in which trees might depend on technology to survive, even as humans continue to depend on the ecological...

At Boston Lyric Opera, a hardworking cast can’t make magic of André Previn’s disenchanting adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Director Elkhanah Pulitzer reflects on the images and the legacy of that historic 1972 visit before her production of Nixon in China opens in Washington.

Pat Perry  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
Pat Perry’s Website
Pat Perry on Instagram

I am interpreting "gained in translation" literally, and the wonderful The Bartered Bride with Vickers, Stratas, Gedda, and Talvela singing it in English was a great experience.

Framed by their car’s windshield, and then again by my rearview mirror, a man and a woman who seem to be a couple look like they'd rather be anywhere but together. He’s behind the wheel, doing all the talking; she’s looking straight ahead, motionless like a marble statue. Gradually, her face wears a desperate expression that only grows more hopeless as he continues talking and gesticulating.  In the supermarket checkout line, I pick up a copy of TIME magazine for the first time in God knows how long, drawn to a painting of Jesus Christ on the cover. It’s a special edition promising to tell us “Who he was. Who he is. His miracles, his mission, his love.” I expect to see a lot of biblical...

TERON STUDIO RECONFIGURES 77-SQM 1975 ATHENS PENTHOUSE
 
Occupying the top floor of a 1975 residential building adjacent to Athens’ Pedion tou Areos park, An Architect’s Penthouse is a 77-sqm apartment renovation by TERON Studio. The project entails a complete spatial reconfiguration and envelope redesign aimed at maximizing daylight penetration and visual connectivity with the surrounding urban topography. New perimeter openings orient the interior directly toward the expansive terrace, establishing uninterrupted sightlines across the Athens basin and integrating the city horizon into the domestic floor plan.
all images ©Alina Lefa
 
 
Earthy textures and hues of green define the interior
 
The...

A former Philadelphia Museum of Art executive admitted on Friday to using company credit cards to make approximately $30,000 in personal purchases, the Inquirer reports. Latasha Harling, the museum’s former chief people and diversity officer, pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property, averting a trial that had been scheduled for Friday. Common Pleas Court Judge Leon King II sentenced Harling, 44, to five years of probation for the misdemeanor offense. King also ordered her to pay the museum $30,000 in restitution in monthly installments of at least $500, beginning in January. If she pays the full amount before her probation ends, however, Harling may request early termination of her probation. Harling...

The ADAA Fair is a rebooted version of the association's Art Show, with a reduced exhibitor list and a partnership with the Whitney Museum

It seems like news of new museum robberies just keeps coming, particularly in the months following the brazen Louvre heist one year ago. In an attempt to shed light on the phenomenon, Europol published a study in August, Changing Tactics, Changing Targets: The Evolving Nature of Museum Heists, which examines key trends within these more recent crimes, as reported earlier by The Art Newspaper. What does Europol tell us? For one, the old notion that museum thefts are generally non-violent, or use stealthy tactics such as replacing precious jewels or artworks with convincing fakes, is no longer the case. “Offenders are adopting more direct and confrontational approaches,” as well as “a growing use of...

The memorial highlighted how she made artists as well as art

A $300 million art donation to Seattle University has been revealed to be more complex than originally reported. On Monday, Sotheby’s will begin selling approximately 50 works from the collection amassed by Seattle real estate developer and philanthropist Richard “Dick” Hedreen, previously billed as the “largest art gift ever” to a US university. Hedreen said in September that the sale did not mean the promised gift was falling through. Rather, he suggested, the proceeds would help furnish Seattle University’s new art museum, where the collection was eventually expected to hang. Records newly reported on by The Seattle Times, however, tell a different story: The works are being sold not to fund the...

There are many art fairs in New York City, but perhaps none are friendlier than the one hosted by the chummy Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). “We all know each other very well,” Dorsey Waxter, former president of the ADAA and partner at Van Doren Waxter gallery, told Hyperallergic. “We’ve vetted each gallery that comes into the association for levels of excellence and standards. And it’s not so big you can’t have conversations with dealers and find out things about what you’re looking at.”Jovial conversations about pathbreaking newcomers and long-dead modernists abounded inside the Park Avenue Armory, which provided a needed refuge from the cold nor’easter pummeling Manhattan for...

A new report tracks the challenges facing publications that cover arts and culture. (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic, image KC Green)Nearly half of independent publications covering arts and culture in the United States said their business models will not be sustainable without “profound changes” to the current funding landscape, according to a report from Critical Minded and the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation released this week. The new survey notably identifies a disturbing correlation between censorship concerns, including external pressure from advertisers and sponsors, and financial precarity. The 41% of respondents who said they faced free-speech pressures or threats in the last two years...

Artist Kehinde Wiley returned to the New York art scene last week with his first show in the city since he was accused of sexual assault in 2024. Now the famed artist and Obama portraitist faces a legal dispute of a different kind: real estate. In a complaint filed in New York County Supreme Court, 115 West 11th Street LLC accuses Wiley of failing to pay rent on his apartment in its building since October 1. According to court documents filed November 6, the rent is $18,000 a month, and the landlord is seeking $36,000 in total. Per the documents, Wiley has lived in the building since September 2023 and signed a lease renewal in July 2025, which was later extended through the end of September. The landlord...

In the summer of 1966, David Hockney began work on one of his most iconic paintings: “Beverly Hills Housewife,” a portrait of the arts patron Betty Freeman. She is depicted on her garden patio in front of her sleek, modernist house, which is framed by strips of blue sky and green lawn. A few status symbols surround her — a William Turnbull sculpture, a zebra-skin lounge designed by Le Corbusier, and a mounted antelope head— but the focal point is Freeman in her bright pink dress, gazing wistfully beyond the confines of the canvas.Critic and novelist James Cahill uses the painting as a jumping off point to expound on the intertwined lives of both artist and muse, as well as to provide a fragmentary...

Tribal organizations are urging legislators to halt the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA), a bill that would speed up the permitting and review processes of major infrastructure projects and could severely undermine tribal sovereignty over sacred and culturally significant sites. The United States Senate advanced the controversial bill for further debate on November 8 amid mounting criticism from Indigenous groups and historic preservation advocates, largely due to the act's narrowing of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The law mandates federal agencies to weigh the impact of projects on historic properties, oftentimes with required tribal consultation,...

The digital presentations at the heart of the Grand Palais continue this year’s trend of situating digital art in art historical lineage

The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has appointed Caroline Shields chief curator. A specialist in nineteenth-century French art, Shields joins the Clark following her position at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto, where she has served as curator and head of the European art department since 2019. She will step into her new […]

NEW YORK, NEW YORK—According to a Science Alert report, Thomas Snyder of New York University and Haagen Klaus of George Mason University analyzed the remains of more than 1,600 individuals recovered from different sites in Peru’s Lambayeque Valley. The individuals lived between about 1500 B.C. and A.D. 1500. During this period, a series of El Niño events brought drought and flooding. Previous studies have shown that El Niño events led to mass ritual sacrifices by the Moche and Sicán peoples of the Lambayeque Valley. The researchers suggest that ecological stress may have also brought on violence between people in competition for resources, as has been observed in human remains unearthed at other...

VIENNA, AUSTRIA—Zooarchaeologist Wim Van Neer of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and his colleagues examined a collection of 131 ancient Egyptian cat skulls held at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, according to a ZME Science report. The skulls came from mummified felines removed in the nineteenth century from the cemetery site of Beni Hassan in central Egypt. Analysis revealed that 26 of the cats had periodontitis and 24 had missing teeth. Pitting was found on 35 of the skulls, while 19 had perforations in the eye sockets, consistent with infections or nutritional stress. Traumatic injuries such as fractures and puncture wounds were found on 14 of the skulls. Some of the wounds may have...

Graves goods from Tombs I and II at the Trafalgar necropolis include (A) a gold earring; (B) a dark green necklace bead; (C) a spherical silver bead; (D) a whitish-yellow necklace bead; (E) a metallic arrow; (F) a cylindrical silver bead; (G) a copper earring; and (H) an ivory comb. CÁDIZ, SPAIN—La Brújula Verde reports that radiocarbon dates for human bones found in two monumental stone tombs on Cape Trafalgar indicates they were used for about 200 years between 1875 and 1625 B.C.—centuries after individual graves became more common in the southern Iberian Peninsula. Eduardo Vijande-Vila of the University of Cádiz and his colleagues found that Tomb I consists of an oval chamber cut into the rock that...

Pathbreaking artist Lorna Simpson, known for her photographic works eschewing racist and sexist stereotypes and interrogating race, class, gender, politics, and history, has been revealed as the winner of the thirty-third Wolfgang Hahn Prize, presented by the Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. The museum, which sponsors the prize, will put […]

In the second stanza of “How to Be a Poet,” Wendell Berry wrote: “There are no unsacred places; / there are only sacred places / and desecrated places.” When it comes to preserving important historical locations, such as monuments, parks, and buildings, a new interactive public art installation asks, “what happens when preservation itself is endangered?” The Sacred Ordinary is an initiative organized by 1504, a production studio based in Birmingham that emphasizes in-depth storytelling to connect people with meaningful, human-focused services and experiences. The participatory artwork is presented in collaboration with the National Parks Conservation Association, which aims to protect U.S. national...

The Newark Museum of Art (NMOA) has agreed to restore ownership of a large brown jug made in 1852 by the enslaved South Carolina potter David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, to the artist’s descendants. According to a press release, NMOA will purchase the work back for its permanent collection. Amber Germano, NMOA’s […]

AltaMed’s art collection is focused on Chicano art and includes more than 4,000 works by artists like Laura Aguilar, Graciela Iturbide and Gabriel Orozco

The Philips Collection in Washington D.C has received its largest ever individual gift. The $10 million donation comes from the Beatriz and Graham Bolton Global Vision Fund. According to a press release, it will be used to “strengthen the Phillips’s international presence as a world-class art museum.” This will include exhibitions, loans, and international partnerships […]

The Strauss Family Gallery, hosting a collection of works by artists like Carrie Mae Weems and Zhang Huan, will also collaborate with the wider university community on interdisciplinary projects

The Whitney Museum of Art has deaccessioned Willem de Kooning’s Yellow River and put it up for sale at Christie’s 20th-century evening auction on November 17. The 1958 painting is estimated to sell for $12 million to $18 million. The sale is intended to support future acquisitions, Artnet reports, and follows the museum’s rare move […]

Celestial filmmaker Seán Doran is back with a new project that interprets stellar snapshots from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The footage-like video tours the sun and reveals its fiery surface complete with brilliant solar flares, all depicted in a distinctive crimson. To create the film, Doran attributed various pinks and reds to different wavelengths, creating an alluring interpretation of the fiery orb. Doran stitched together NASA’s captures, or more accurately, he says, the images were “conformed, repaired, graded, blended, rescaled and retimed” into a seamless film. “Crimson Star” is one of several astral projects he’s undertaken in recent years, and you can keep up with his latest...

Washington National Opera kicked off its first season as a fully independent company with a thoughtful production of Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly.

Looking at the serene paintings that emerge from Sky Glabush’ s studio, it’s easy to feel a soft breeze sliding off bare summer shoulders or hear the crunch of leaves underfoot, their parched fibers reverberating across the autumn landscape. Transportive and atmospherically charged, the landscapes harness the allure of texture to draw the viewer in and invite them to stay a while. Raised on the west coast of British Columbia and currently based in rural Ontario, Glabush has long been attuned to the natural world. He often identifies the feelings he associates with a particular place and translates that through color and intuitive interpretations of the terrain: the spindly, strangely straight tree trunks...

Fragments of clay coating that probably once covered organic objects ISTANBUL, TURKEY—According to a report in La Brújula Verde, 46 fragments of fired clay unearthed near the Tigris River at the site of Çemka Höyük in southeastern Turkey have been dated to about 11,400 years ago, making them some of the oldest fired clay in the Near East. Ergül Kodaş of Mardin Artuklu University, Natalia Petrova of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Maria Daghmehchi and Rana Özbal of Koç University said that the clay fragments were recovered from the floors of several houses in an archaeological layer at the site that has been dated to about 9350 B.C. with charcoal samples. The fragments are thought to have come...

LIMA, PERU—Phys.org reports that the remains of an infant who suffered from cyclopia, a rare birth condition affecting the developing brain and facial bones, have been discovered in southern Peru at a Nazca cemetery dated to between A.D. 325 and 440. Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao of Pontifical Catholic University and her colleagues explained that most children born with the condition die before or soon after birth. The remains of this child were found in a ceramic vessel with the remains of another infant who did not have any skeletal abnormalities. Genetic analysis of the remains indicate that both children were girls, but they were not maternally related. The baby with cyclopia had a smaller than expected skull...

A confection of arches and windows has emerged in the Gospel Oak neighborhood of Camden in northwest London, thanks to Peter Morris Architects and a unique collaborative ownership approach. “The Cloud House,” which actually comprises two side-by-side townhomes, practically froths from its foundations. One side is occupied by the architect himself along with his partner, Emily, while the other half is owned by a resident who embraced the stylistic potential of the project and agreed to the exterior design and the same contractor. Ten years in the making, “The Cloud House” is a playful response to its eclectic neighboring architecture, from the quirky Victorian church of St. Martin’s to a school next...

From fungi and insects to technology and crystals, the winning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition reveal astonishing details typically invisible to the naked eye. This year’s top prize went to Ole Bielfeldt, a student and experimental photographer based in Cologne, Germany, who used a hand-built rig to capture an incredible up-close view of droplets inside of an inkjet printer. Runners-up included John-Oliver Dum’s portrait of a jumping spider with pollen on its body and Kaelin Wulf and Rachel Flannery’s capture of mouse neurons. Winner images were organized into three categories: Top 20, Honorable Mentions, and Images of Distinction. Explore some of our favorites here,...

Tomi Pomo  
   
   
   
   
   
 
Tomi Pomo’s Website
Tomi Pomo on Instagram

Array

Keke Yang  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
Keke Yang’s Website
Keke Yang on Instagram

UK artist Harry Waine, aka, Jimi Biscuits, oh-so-gently smacks viewers with a one-two punch of color and content that feels like reading retro comics on acid. Fusing punchy, wry humor with stunning and stark graphics, he’s built a following on Instagram, and collaborated with the likes of Paperwallet and various record labels to create a […]
The post “Art Is Slowly Adding the Unnecessary”: An Interview With Jimi Biscuits first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Nava Sabet-Imani  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
Nava Sabet-Imani’s Website
Nava Sabet-Imani on Instagram

All photos by Yubo Dong Ian Davis convenes nondescript characters into enigmatic gatherings. Often male, he calls them “actors.” But what kind of actor? They seem to be always on the brink of chaos or recoiling from its aftermath. Their exact charge is unclear to the viewer, and Davis has said in the past that […]
The post Toil & Trouble: The Enigmatic Paintings of Ian Davis first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

With photos provided by Stephen ESPO and Matthew Kuborn, courtesy of ESPO Stephen Powers is a New York-based artist with a bold, straightforward style that combines minimalism, a carnival sideshow joie de vivre, and pristine design. Nothing about his career makes sense. He spurns the dealership model and operates an atelier-style shop in New York […]
The post The Handwritten World of Stephen ESPO Powers first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Ominous backrooms? Echoey abandoned spaces? nope. These are the carefully explored and brilliantly captured photographs of instruments by Charles Brooks. Symphonic music can be epic. Grandiose in scale. It sweeps and pans through an architecturally tuned performance space, connecting our brains with the shared resonance of sound. And simultaneously, it can be intimate, reverberating through […]
The post Charles Brooks’ Eerie Photographs of Musical Instruments first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Credit: Márcia Falcão I was invited to attend two of the opening days of Frieze London and, arriving in my home city, I was immediately reminded of its extraordinary energy, gathering pace around the nucleus of the Regent's Park venue. The art on display was more than equal to the occasion. A-listers and icons from across the wider cultural landscape, including film, music and fashion, mingled with professionals, students and enthusiasts from London’s eclectic art scene, all seemingly loving,...

By Lorraine Heitzman There is a meticulous elegance to everything Phyllis Green makes, a quality that is immediately apparent in her brilliant fifteen-year survey show at the Laband Art Gallery. Phyllis Green: Of My Own Making is a diverse yet cohesive exhibit, both imaginative and grounded in the textures of commonplace materials such as wood, clay, cloth, and metal. She masterfully applies her vision across multiple disciplines making sculptures that appear simple despite her extraordinary...

By Victoria Thomas Classical music is rarely the currency of activism. We generally turn to less patrician, more hard-edged forms to voice protest and dissent against fascism, tyranny, racial violence, and other sociopolitical ills. But SYZYGY, a new three-movement concerto composed by Courtney Bryan celebrating three visual artists — all women, all women of color — defies this expectation. Bryan's 18-minute composition makes its world premiere on The American Concerto, Volume One, performed...

Photos provided by 21c, with additional photos by Atta Hi-Fructose co-founder Atta visited three 21c Museum Hotels in four days to explore their galleries and the towns around them. Here is his report! 21c locations combine actual contemporary art museum gallery exhibitions which are free and open to the general public (whether you stay there […]
The post Hi-Fructose Field Trip: We Visited Three 21c Museum Hotels in Four Days first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.