Powerhouse Parramatta soon to complete in sydney
 
With architecture by Moreau Kusunoki with Genton, Powerhouse Parramatta is taking shape in Western Sydney, Australia. The ambitious project, which is expected to complete in late 2026, will bring a colossal museum to Parramatta, a part of the city that has been growing fast but has had fewer institutions of this scale.
 
What stands out first is how the building handles its size. Two main volumes sit side by side, each wrapped in a deep structural skin. Instead of relying on a flat facade, the architects push the structure outward, turning it into something that can be read immediately from the street. It gives the building a presence without leaning on...

The central attraction at the Venice Biennale is its main exhibition, a curated show meant to pinpoint a dominant theme in art as it stands right now. But all around it are pavilions staged by countries, with each nation selecting one or more artists to mount their own show or installation. These national pavilions have contributed to the common conception of the Biennale as the art world’s Olympics: a place where stars are born and nations flex their might. The national pavilions often tend to remain in flux until the very end. In 2024, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza upended several nations’ plans to exhibit at the Biennale. In 2026, those conflicts have once again roiled this area of the Biennale, with...

The veteran provocateur talks about his return to the enduring motif of Santa Claus, and his ongoing collaboration with the German actress Lilith Stangenberg, as an exhibition of his taboo-busting work opens in Paris

Welcome to the 335th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Gerardo Camargo draws inspiration from Latino communities and transforms basic materials into artistic tools.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.Gerardo Camargo, Kensington, MarylandHow long have you been working in this space?Six years.Describe an average day in your studio.I like to start early in the morning before everybody wakes up because my studio is in my basement. I listen to a couple of news podcast, one in Spanish and one in...

Please join the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (SMFA at Tufts) for the culmination of the 2026 MFA class. On view from May 5 to 17, 2026, at Tufts University Art Galleries in Medford, Passages presents thesis work by nineteen MFA candidates, showcasing their richly varied practices and development in the MFA program. The exhibition’s title speaks to the journey each student has undergone, in art and in life, forming a conceptual throughline for the works on view.A passage may be a voyage of exploration, a narrow path, or the simple, inevitable passing of time. Artists engage with these topics across a range of media, reflecting their ability to look within and outside themselves,...

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"I had seen enough of so-called order. I was forced to question everything."

Francesco Faccin gives voice to the invisible support
 
At Francesco Faccin’s Piedistalli, the pedestal steps out from the background and claims its own presence. Presented at Galleria Giustini / Stagetti in Rome, the exhibition, the result of a long-term investigation, traces nearly two decades of research into the cultural, symbolic, and spatial role of the object tasked with supporting art. Rather than functioning as a neutral base, the pedestal emerges here as an active device that shapes perception, directs attention, and mediates the relationship between artwork and viewer.
 
For the Italian designer, the pedestal is never passive. Through height, materiality, proportion, and placement, it shapes the...

Exhibitions worth travelling for this summer, featuring Jesse Darling, The Antwerp Six, Martin Creed, Tracey Emin, Hayden Dunham and Harmony Korine.

Nearly 200 objects will be on view at San Francisco's Legion of Honor in a show exploring the influential civilisation

The Goodwood Art Foundation hosts Britain's first major exhibition by the US artist

The head of the Venice-based publisher and exhibition organising company shares his suggestions for places to eat, shop and explore

In this week's episode, Ben Luke takes a tour of the Zurbarán survey at the National Gallery in London, speaks to the director of the Carnegie Museum of Art ahead of this year's Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, and learns about a Walter Sickert painting on view at Charleston in Sussex.

The winners of the Fourth Plinth Schools Awards 2026 were announced today

Contxt Venice launches as a new way to navigate the 2026 Venice Biennale, helping visitors discover artists, exhibitions and ideas across the city.

May exhibitions from DESIGNBOOM RADAR
 
May’s exhibition calendar is shaped by a series of large institutional presentations and focused solo shows that revisit key figures while introducing new commissions. Major exhibitions by artists such as Marina Abramović, Katharina Grosse, and Ron Mueck anchor the month, while group surveys and thematic projects — from New York to Venice — consider how artists are working across performance, installation, and image-based practices today.
 
Some of the exhibitions highlighted in earlier radars and listings on our dedicated events guide remain on view, giving designboom readers more time to encounter them around the globe.
 
Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the...

While studying Un ballo in maschera for my Vienna role debut next January, I came across this beautiful ‘Ecco l’orrido campo’ amazingly performed by Montserrat Caballé.

​​Happy May Day! Today in the news: drama in Venice. The jury for the 61st Venice Biennale, which awards the top prizes, resigns en masse. Why? They didn't say, but the decision is likely related to their recent announcement that no awards will go to countries accused of committing crimes against humanity (i.e., Russia and Israel).  Meanwhile, Banksy strikes again. This time, it's a full-blown anti-imperialist statue in the heart of London. And here in New York, a new public artwork honors the city's first Arabic-speaking community.There's more, including Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia in conversation with Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera ahead of the restaging of her...

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FAD News: Powerhouse Parramatta set to open in late 2026, bringing a new museum model to Western Sydney with major exhibitions, STEM learning spaces

La vita di Franco Ule (Trieste, 1959-2018) si è consumata nell’arco di una sessantina d’anni e ben scarne sono le testimonianze che ne possono tenere in vita la memoria. La sua indole ribelle non gli ha permesso di concludere alcun corso di studi artistici essendo entrato sempre in contrasto con le dottrine che i suoi “maestri” pretendevano di inculcargli. Per esempio, un insegnante che gli chiedeva di tirare linee diritte, mentre lui si ostinava a inseguire le sue pulsioni interiori, arrivò a spezzargli la punta della matita; modo un po’ brusco per dirgli che in quell’aula la sua pretesa espressione artistica legata al segno, al ghirigoro, allo scarabocchio, alla cancellazione, alla pittura...

Astronauts traces histories of magic and femininity
 
Designed by Danae Dasyra and Joe Bradford of Astronauts, Agnes’ presence is suspended somewhere between dream, ritual, and resistance. Part of their Goetia series presented at Nilufar Gallery during Milan Design Week 2026, the piece explores magic, drawing from the long, charged histories of femininity that continue to shape the present.
 
Speaking with designboom, the Athens-based designer duo describes Agnes as rooted in the figure of Agnes Sampson, a Scottish healer executed for witchcraft, situating the project within a broader lineage where ‘midwives and female healers — bearers of empirical, embodied knowledge — were disproportionately...

Systems of power, cultural identity and “the fragile boundaries between perception and reality” are the ideas that drive Lucia Shuyu Li, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, performance, painting and sound. They’re also some of the most relevant themes of our times, emerging from a contemporary era defined by misinformation, political polarisation and an endless news cycle. Li draws on her Chinese heritage and time spent in the US to create her works, which express her “experiences as an individual navigating the complexities of contemporary society.” The trio of paintings Judge Me, I Am Dead Therefore I Was Alive and Who Cried Walking Home are perhaps her most personal, and...

construction advances along the coast of norway
 
New images document the construction of The Whale by Dorte Mandrup in Andenes, Norway, showing the building emerging directly from its Arctic shoreline.
 
The building, with its low rooftop, reads from above as a low, continuous form pressed into a chain of rocky islets. Its footprint follows the contours of the terrain and extends toward the water without asserting a clear boundary between land and ocean. A red lighthouse and the clustered houses of Andenes remain visible in the background to reinforce the scale of the intervention within a working coastal town.
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the whale: a gestural surface shaped by climate
 
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In recent years, Julianknxx has developed a practice that sits at a compelling intersection of film, poetry and performance – one that resists easy classification while remaining grounded in lived experience. Born in Sierra Leone and now based in London, his work reflects an engagement with questions of identity, displacement and cultural memory. Rather than treating these themes as fixed subjects, he approaches them as evolving conditions, shaped by movement, language and time; unfolding through a logic of association rather than linear narrative, rhythm, voice and atmosphere. This creates a viewing experience that is as much about listening and sensing as it is about interpretation. In this way, Julianknxx...

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Inside Vegas’s Ho Château, a total artwork of American decadence

“She took on a story most found too uncomfortable to face”

Grabbing martinis with Jenny Borland, the Jenny behind Jenny’s

Artforum’s new co-editors address the enduring stakes of art writing

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Editor’s Note: This interview was translated from Spanish by Valentina Di Liscia and is available at the end of this article. / Nota del editor: La entrevista original en español se encuentra aquí. Tomorrow, May 1, on the occasion of May Day, also known as International Workers' Day, Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera will stage her performance “Tatlin’s Whisper #6” in the middle of Times Square in Manhattan. With a deceptively simple setup of a raised platform and a microphone, the work dates to the 2009 Havana Biennial, when Bruguera invited Cubans to exercise their right to free speech. Each speaker’s time on the stage was limited to one minute, emphasizing the fraught, conditional...

At Conductor Art Fair, preview visitors join Bangladeshi artist and curator Bishwajit Goswami on his work, “Bhaitak” (2025), presented as a special project through the Brihatta Art Foundation in Dhaka (photo Gina Curovic, courtesy Powerhouse Arts)Less than three weeks after the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair smashed attendance records at Powerhouse Arts (PHA), the Gowanus-based nonprofit has debuted yet another ambitious new program. I returned yesterday evening to check out the opening night of the inaugural edition of the Conductor Art Fair. Running through Sunday, May 3, the new event is a tightly curated yet experimental foray in representing, in its own words, “the global majority and Indigenous...

Georg Baselitz, a preeminent painter of postwar Germany and an engine of the 1980s Neo-Expressionist movement that rebuked Minimalism, and who would later come under fire for his comments about women artists, has died at 88. His death was announced in a press release by Thaddaeus Ropac, one of the galleries that represented the artist.  Baselitz exploded into the German art consciousness in the 1960s with a formal grit matched by tormented subject matter: his breakout “Heroes” series (1965–66) features bloated, blocky figures balancing on ruined buildings and toppled flags. Through his eyes, postwar German society appeared raw and taut as an exposed muscle. Next came his “Fracture” series, which...

German conceptual artist Timm Ulrichs has died at the age of 86. His death on April 29 in Berlin was announced by the art association Kunstverein Hannover, of which he was the oldest member. Born in Berlin in 1940, Ulrichs studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover from 1959–1966. In 1961, inspired by the “Merzkunst” (Merz art) of Hanoverian artist Kurt Schwitters, he declared himself a “total artist,” renaming his living space and studio the Werbezentrale für Totalkunst & Banalismus (Advertising agency for total art, banalism, and extemporism). “Total Art,” he once stated, “knows no boundaries as regards to genre and encompasses diverse disciplines that serve to get to the...

During the much-ballyhooed visit of King Charles and Queen Camilla to New York City on Wednesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on the King to use his power to return the Koh-i-Noor Diamond to India. As reported by Reuters, at a press conference before a ceremony to commemorate the victims of ​the September 11 attack, Mamdani said, “If I were to ‌speak to the king separately from that, I would probably encourage him to return the Koh-i-Noor Diamond.” The two leaders did in fact meet later at the ceremony itself, but Buckingham Palace declined to comment and Mamdani’s office did not respond to a request for comment about what was discussed. In 1850, the Koh-i-Noor Diamond was given to Queen Victoria...

The family of 96-year-old Quebecois sculptor Armand Vaillancourt is not giving up the fight to save the 710-ton concrete landmark known as Québec Libre! or the Vaillancourt Fountain. The public artwork has been an iconic, if controversial, part of the landscape of San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza since it was constructed in 1971. However, last summer, San Francisco’s arts commission, which owns the work, was asked if would “deaccession” the sculpture in order to accommodate the city’s planned renovation of the plaza. “It’s one of urban America’s truly bizarre works of public art,” John King, a former architecture critic at the San Francisco Chronicle, told the New York Times last fall....

Home might be a mutable concept, but some objects retain the aura of belonging and comfort even outside the walls we reside in. For Monica Rohan, those items are patterned fabrics and bentwood dining chairs, which venture outdoors in her vibrant oil paintings. The Brisbane-based artist has long depicted the supple folds and bright motifs of textiles, which tended to swaddle her characters or hide their faces among natural landscapes. Upholstered loungers and carved wood seats have similarly appeared in unusual spots, precariously holding a figure while nested in a slim hedge or slumping down a small hill. “Draped Clover” (2026), oil on board, 70 x 100 centimeters In recent years, though, Rohan’s...

Earlier this month, dozens of metallic discs suspended from the ceiling of a large industrial space invited viewers to immerse themselves in what SpY describes as “a continuous choreography of movement and reflection.” The artist is known for his large-scale installations, often repurposing objects like traffic cones and metallic rescue blankets to create striking urban interventions. SpY’s most recent room-scale work, titled “Halos,” reimagined the industrial interior of a former railway-related factory in Florence—a place we typically associate with Renaissance elegance as opposed to brutalist design—as part of the city’s Bright Festival. Three stories high, “Halos” interacts with the...

Klaus Mäkelä unexpectedly joins the foray for The Cleveland Orchestra's performances of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem.

Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung at Canadian Opera Company deliver on fine performances even if Robert Lepage's production skimps on horror.

From recognizable scenes around her home in Scotland to delicately rendered snapshots of places she visits, Laura K. Sayers’ meticulously crafted postage stamps nod to connections from afar. The artist, who also illustrates children’s books and is commissioned for special projects like greeting cards, incorporates itty-bitty cuts of colorful paper into tiny tableaux that can fit in the palm of a hand. Much of the work seen here is currently on view solo in Sayers’ solo exhibition of miniatures titled The Wee Small Hours at N. atelier. An array of everyday scenes is chronicled in a format we typically associate with significant events and remembrance, documenting fleeting moments like little treasures....

"You're your own boss."

 
Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...

In Deborah Turbeville – Photocollage and Ikram Abdulkadir – Soft Focus, presented side by side at Moderna Museet Malmö, the image is not fixed but constantly in negotiation with time, material and gaze. Fashion and portrait photography provide the point of departure, yet both practices quickly exceed their commercial origins. Instead, they unfold into meditations on presence – how a body occupies space, and how that space might be withheld, transformed or dissolved over time. Across both exhibitions, softness becomes a structural principle rather than a purely aesthetic choice. Turbeville’s work establishes a language of atmospheric resistance, where the photograph resists clarity in favour of...

Non tutte le invisibilità coincidono con l’assenza. Alcune, più insidiose, sono prodotte da un paradossale eccesso di esposizione. Si tratta di corpi continuamente inscritti entro una matrice discorsiva e materiale che li classifica gerarchicamente, li piega a una funzione e, pertanto, li sottrae alla possibilità di apparire come singolarità. L’invisibile, in questo senso, non è ciò che manca allo sguardo, ma ciò che lo sguardo non sa sostenere senza ridurlo a figura amministrabile, a presenza funzionale, a materia governabile entro l’ordine storico. Si tratta di un in(di)visibile strutturalmente implicato nell’ordine che lo produce. L’invisibilità di cui parla Pamela Diamante non ha nulla a...

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Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Scenerium 2026 Art Award: Exhibition, Publication, Sales, and Global PromotionFeaturedWhere will your art take us? From landscapes and seascapes to cityscapes and imagined worlds, Scenerium 2026 invites artists worldwide to capture the essence of place and turn it into a visual journey. Through natural scenes, urban energy, and visionary environments, this juried opportunity celebrates art that draws viewers in and places them inside the world you create. Selected artists receive a smart online exhibition, Artsy...

In the richly detailed linocuts of Eduardo Robledo, festive ceremonies, spiritual motifs, and dream-like interactions unfurl. The Mexico City-based artist was born and raised in the southern borough of Xochimilco, which is famous for its canals—vestiges of a huge Aztec water transport system still used today for bringing goods into the city. This area and its time-honored customs provide a bounty of inspiration for Robledo. Community and celebration are at the heart of his work, as creatures and figures converge in enigmatic, sometimes ritualistic choreographies. Traditional motifs like skulls and skeletons, which represent remembrance, joy, and an acceptance of the cycle of life and death, interact with...

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Nostalgic for bass month, Parterre Box offers excerpts from two young basses to watch: Giorgi Manoshvili and Patrick Guetti.

In Kashmir, India, there are three stages of winter: Chillai Kalan, Chillai Khurd and Chillai Bache. The first is The Great Cold, occupying mid-December to the end of January, when the weather is at its harshest and temperatures drop below freezing. Snowfall is a common occurrence. The second is the Small Cold, when things warm up slightly but the weather can still be biting, followed finally by The Baby Cold, characterised by intermittent sunshine and melting ice. This annual progression towards spring is the focus of a new book from Magnum photographer Sohrab Hura (b. 1981). Snow documents the artist’s repeated visits to the Indian-administered region over a five-year period, recording its passage...

The opening of V&A East Storehouse signals a recalibration in how institutions might live with their collections, not as static reservoirs of heritage but as permeable, operational spaces of encounter. Set within the wider emergence of V&A East, the Storehouse reframes access as a continuous condition rather than an occasional event, dissolving the distance between storage, study and display. It arrives at a moment when museums are increasingly asked to perform not authority but to open their infrastructures to forms of public legibility that were once hidden. Its arrival also invites comparison with the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, where transparency and verticality have already recast the...

C’è qualcosa di profondamente antiretrospettivo nella mostra dedicata a Agnès Varda, e non è un paradosso, ma una precisa presa di posizione. Pur presentandosi come la prima grande retrospettiva italiana consacrata alla sua opera fotografica, l’esposizione evita con decisione la forma celebrativa e lineare per articolarsi piuttosto come una costellazione di materiali che restituiscono la natura mobile e refrattaria della sua pratica.
“Agnès Varda. Qui e là, tra Parigi e Roma”, installation view at Villa Medici – Accademia di Francia, Roma, ph. © Daniele Molajoli, courtesy Villa Medici – Accademia di Francia
Il punto di partenza dichiarato – la Parigi del dopoguerra e il cortile-atelier di...

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