Tour david hockney’s immersive opera stage designs
 
Inside the immersive opera stage designs of artist David Hockney lie imagined worlds filled with vibrant colors, ‘forced’ perspective, and 3D spaces. Since the 1970s, the artist has designed sets and costumes for productions at some of the largest opera houses in the United States and Europe. These are not collaborations where he provided a sketch and left it for the in-house production team to realize. They are complete visual environments: painted backdrops, dimensional scenery, and costume schemes. All of them are built from the same spirit of colors and perspectives that run through his paintings and that he sees, but the difference is that the...

Buddy portable mood lamps designed by Chevy Chanpaiboonrat
 
The Buddy portable mood lamps, designed by Chevy Chanpaiboonrat for Buddy Design, explore a physical approach to interaction in a product category increasingly dominated by digital interfaces. Instead of relying on applications or connected features, the lamps are operated through a single mechanical control: a winding key positioned at the back of the object.
 
In many contemporary products, interfaces aim to reduce friction through touchscreens, app-based controls, and automated settings. The design of the Buddy lamps takes a different direction. The product replaces digital interfaces with a tactile interaction intended to encourage a direct...

a Museum celebrating Huizhou’s vernacular bridge traditions
 
The Huizhou Vernacular Historic Bridges Micro-Museum, designed by LUO Studio, is located beside Shisanba Bridge in Mazha Town, Huizhou, China. Positioned within a bamboo grove, the project forms part of the ‘Nankunshan–Luofushan Rim Pioneer Zone (Huizhou) Architectural Art Project,’ a regional initiative that introduces architectural interventions and cultural waystations along a 218-kilometer scenic tourism route. The micro-museum is dedicated to documenting and interpreting vernacular historic bridges found across the Huizhou region. The project combines exhibition spaces with visitor amenities, such as tea and coffee service areas,...

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Ceramic organisms to show in Chicago
 
Artist Janny Baek is set to present Life Forms, a new exhibition of ceramic sculptures set to open on March 20th, 2026 at Joy Machine gallery in Chicago. The works gather across the space as a series of small presences that appear midway through transformation. Some open outward like blossoms. Others stretch upward with limbs that resemble wings, stems, or shells. Each piece carries a quiet sense of motion, as though the forms continue to shift even after the firing process has fixed them in place.
 
The exhibition introduces a speculative landscape built entirely from ceramic. Baek’s sculptures hover between recognizable structures and unfamiliar ones, drawing...

Ryan Vizzions is archiving the objects left at the site of Renee Good's murder. (all photos by and courtesy Ryan Vizzions)Ryan Vizzions, a photojournalist from Atlanta, had already arrived in Minnesota when federal immigration agents murdered poet and mother Renee Nicole Macklin Good. For the last five years, the traveling photographer has been living out of his small van as he travels across the country for a photo survey exploring what it means to be American in all 50 states. He was taking photos at Lake Superior when he learned of Good’s killing, and drove immediately to the street where agents shot Good in her car. He arrived in time for a massive vigil held in Good’s memory. Nearly two months...

An international team of researchers has confirmed the rediscovery of the lost city of Alexandria on the Tigris in Iraq. Founded by Alexander the Great (356 BCE–323 BCE), whose brief empire stretched from Greece to the Indus River and encompassed swathes of Europe, the Middle East, and Central and South Asia, it was a vital trading center until the 3rd century CE. News of the find was announced in January by the University of Konstanz in Germany, whose chair of Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology Professor Stefan Hauser leads the archeological initiative documenting the site. Alexandria on the Tigris (later renamed Charax Spasinou) was one of several major cities founded by the Macedonian general, the...

Eugene Gordon's photographs of 1980s Queens (all photos Lakshmi Rivera Amin/Hyperallergic)You’ll hear The New York Sari before you see it.Anoushka Shankar’s sitar, Arooj Aftab’s voice, and Alice Coltrane’s harp spill into the hallway outside the one-room exhibition, on view at the New York Historical through April 26. Suchitra Mattai’s “she arose (from a pool of tears)” (2024), a Bharatnatyam dancer made from used and loved saris, greets visitors at the entrance. The small but mighty show serves as a primer on South Asian history in New York, framed conceptually and visually through the sari in all its infinite pleats, drapes, and patterns.Co-curators Salonee Bhaman and Anna Danzinger...

Artforum revisits J. Hoberman’s 2011 essay on midcentury cinema as proto-Pop art.

The Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) has named Mumbai-based curator and artist Jitish Kallat as the new president of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Kallat, a KBF board member and the curator of the biennale’s second edition in 2014–15, will oversee the selection of the curator for the biennale’s seventh iteration. He takes the reins from Biennale cofounder Bose Krishnamachari, who stepped […]

The board of directors the Kennedy Center voted on Monday in favor of President Donald Trump’s proposal to shut the institution down for two years, according to the Associated Press. Related Articles Renowned Composer Philip Glass Withdraws Symphony from the Kennedy Center Trump Plans to Close Kennedy Center for Two Years, Beginning July 4 The closure will begin after celebrations there on July 4, marking the 250th anniversary of the United States. When Trump announced plans to close the Center in February, he said he wanted to transform “a tired, broken, and dilapidated Center,” into “the finest Performing Arts Facility of its kind,” which would necessitate its complete closure. According to the...

Six volcanic-stone boxes found at Templo Mayor reveal a ceremony linked to Moctezuma I’s imperial expansion

Last week, the New York Academy of Art (NYAA) told its students and alumni that it will donate $65,900 in funds associated with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to an organization supporting survivors of sex trafficking. In an email reviewed by Hyperallergic, the NYAA board admitted to “serious failures in judgment and governance” in the school's continued relationship with the disgraced financier after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution, new details of which were recently revealed in the latest release of Epstein files. “As we noted in our letter to our Community and as we have said previously, the Academy apologizes for and regrets its past association with Mr. Epstein, which...

The London-based gallery Timothy Taylor will close its New York outpost next month at the conclusion of its current show for James Prapaithong, after nearly a decade of operation in Manhattan. The decision was made “to ensure the long-term stability of the gallery and the community around it,” the gallery told ARTnews. The gallery, however, will maintain an office and viewing room in New York. “In light of current market conditions, the gallery has made the decision to close its New York space and consolidate its operations while continuing our relationships with artists and maintaining our gallery space in London,” Timothy Taylor, the gallery’s founder, said in an emailed statement to ARTnews....

Maria Balshaw, who in December announced her plan to step down from her role as director of Tate since 2017, said that UK chancellor Rachel Reeves should incentivize donations to museums’ endowment funds by offering bigger tax breaks to would-be philanthropists. In an interview with the Financial Times, Balshaw said, “The government could do a lot more to incentivise giving by very rich people, because British museums are competing on a very uneven playing field compared with US institutions. Rachel Reeves . . . should think hard and creatively.” She continued: “The arts are part of the public good so we need public funding, not just commercial and philanthropic. But we could make a real shift...

Blue shields now guard 34 archaeological sites across Lebanon, as the country moves to protect its cultural heritage amid escalating air and ground assaults from Israel, the Lebanese Culture Ministry announced Sunday. The shields signal that the sites are protected under international agreements regarding cultural property during wartime. Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh told Lebanon’s National News Agency that the move aims to comply with the 1954 Hague Convention, which requires safeguarding cultural heritage—including monuments and artworks—against destruction during armed conflict. “The ministry did not stand idly by,” Salameh said, noting that he appealed directly to UNESCO Director-General...

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WASHINGTON, DC — Lorena Bradford set out to be a speech-language pathologist, but she fell in love with art history, going on to earn a PhD in 17th-century Dutch and Flemish print-making. It would not be until 2010, however — two years after she started working as an educator at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC — that she learned about arts accessibility, when she attended her first Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD) Conference.At the time, she was "confronting my own assumption that speaking equals engagement,” Bradford said over Zoom in January. As more autistic children were visiting galleries as part of school programming, she began asking questions about creating...

Aix-en-Provence, France, is home to the Fondation Vasarely, a museum dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Hungarian-French Op Art pioneer, Victor Vasarely. The museum is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, amid a battle to restore both the architecture of its premises and the monumental artworks inside it. The foundation was established by Victor […]

The initiative’s fourth edition in 2030 will be devoted to transpacific cultural exchange, with grant applications opening to institutions across eight Southern California counties this June

For Chris Perani, the most diminutive details—the kind that are virtually impossible to see with the naked eye—are an endless source of wonder. His ongoing series, Wings, focuses on the prismatic effect of insects’ anatomy in what he describes as “extreme macro.” The images reveal details we’d otherwise only be able to see clearly beneath a microscope, and a meticulous process illuminates undulating, scaled surfaces that resemble chromatic pixels, stained glass, or even beadwork. Perani uses special lenses that magnify objects up to 10 times, but he also takes up to 2,000 carefully measured shots of each specimen. He then digitally stacks them to achieve incredible clarity and dimension. Each...

acte deux turns a paris apartment into a ‘swim lane’
 
On the sixth floor of a residential building in Paris’ 10th arrondissement, Acte Deux reimagines a 73-square-meter apartment as a playful interior landscape shaped by references to swimming pools, titled Couloir de Nage. The renovation project merges a street-facing veranda with a secondary living room and introduces a wide bay window that opens across two-thirds of its width, expanding views and extending the living area toward the exterior.
 
Throughout the apartment, the designers introduce visual cues borrowed from aquatic environments. Mosaic surfaces appear in the kitchen, circulation areas, and bathroom, where they trace linear patterns...

The first room of Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture opens on a genre already falling out of favor. The “conversation pieces” gathered here were considered provincial by the London elite by the time Gainsborough painted them. Working from the Suffolk countryside and trained partly in the archaic conventions of English painter Francis Hayman, he gives “The Gravenor Family” (1754) a similarly formal stiffness, arranging their figures with a peculiar sameness. Yet “Mr. and Mrs. Andrews” (1750) demonstrates what Gainsborough could already do that his contemporaries could not: make landscape and clothing equally legible as declarations of ownership and belonging, devoting as much attention to the...

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For the first time, curated Southeast Asian boutique fair S.E.A. Focus was folded into Art SG

NeSpoon continues to embellish the sides residential complexes and facades of historic buildings around the world with her striking murals. Taking the deceptively simple concept of lace and translating it to an architectonic scale, the artist adds a striking element of whimsy and a nod to craft that peek out around city corners. As far as we can tell, lace has been around since at least the early 16th century, and it may have originated in Venice. Over the centuries, as the practice evolved and its popularity grew, so did its styles and the techniques used to create it. There’s bobbin lace, which involves fiber attached to small bobbins, which are used to braid or twist the thread into a delicate fabric. And...

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation today announced the recipients of its Rauschenberg Centennial Award. The one-time prize is given only this year, in honor of pioneering artist Robert Rauschenberg’s one hundredth birthday. Winners were chosen from among those who were invited to attend or participated in the foundation’s Captiva Residency, in the disciplines of art, photography, […]

The organizers of the Gwangju Biennale have revealed the title and theme of the event’s sixteenth iteration, to take place September 5–November 15. “You Must Change Your Life,” the Biennale’s title, repeats the last line of Austrian poet Raine Maria Rilke’s 1908 poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo.” The narrator of Rilke’s brief verse looks upon […]

A $7m conservation project has focused on mitigating the engineering issues of the architect's masterpiece as well as preparing the building for a changing climate

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A trolley. A dining table. A mahjong board. In Jessie Li’s work, everyday objects expand to become investigations into personal memory and family archives. The Chinese-born artist, now based in West Yorkshire, creates participatory, site-specific installations that transform overlooked urban spaces into sites of dialogue. She collaborates with local residents and artists, using interviews and fieldwork to create spaces where marginalised voices can be heard. These are pieces that see silence transformed into story.  Li trained initially in Chinese painting and art history before moving into video installation and interdisciplinary media. She later completed a BA in Digital Media Art at the University of...

The programme, announced as Tate’s director Maria Balshaw departs, will also feature shows for the Algerian modernist painter Baya and the British artist Thomas Gainsborough, alongside a group exhibition exploring Asian works in ink

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If I must choose a single bass performance, it is still Boris Christoff’s Boris Godunov.

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A un certo momento, nel romanzo di Mary Shelley (Londra, 1797 – 1851), la creatura smette di chiedere di essere amata e comincia a desiderare che chi l’ha rifiutata soffra quanto lei. L’amore si converte in odio e la benevolenza dell’artefice verso la propria opera, come quella della società verso chi ne è escluso, si rivela premessa di violenza. Shelley pubblicò Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus nel 1818, come esperimento narrativo sul limite della scienza, ispirata dai test condotti nel XVIII secolo da Erasmus Darwin sulla rianimazione della materia morta e dal galvanismo.
Motus, “Frankenstein (a love story)”, photo © Andrea Macchia, courtesy ERT-Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione
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Kristine Schomaker and Genie Davis at the Getty By Kristine Schomaker I've known Genie Davis for years. She shows up. That's the first thing you notice about her — and also the thing you never stop noticing, because she just keeps doing it. She's at openings, she's writing reviews, she's telling anyone who will listen about artists she believes in. For over a decade, her blog Diversions LA has been quietly, consistently documenting the Southern California art scene because she genuinely loves...

David Fox and Dan Johnson report on Yannick Nézet-Seguin's recent performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia and New York.

In art and life, the future has emerged as both a caution and a possibility. The climate crisis, accelerating technologies and new planetary infrastructures now shape the narratives artists construct about tomorrow. Increasingly, creative practice is less about prediction and more about rehearsal, imagining how humanity might navigate the realities unfolding. The news cycle right now shows a new senseless war, and this, coupled with Gaza and Ukraine, sees the planet inching closer and closer to that doomsday clock.  Immersive exhibitions have emerged as powerful arenas for this speculative thinking, intersecting art, science fiction and design. They allow audiences not merely to observe but to inhabit...

Three more months of The Talk of the Town means that we need your most sizzling takes!

Daguerreotypes. Photograms. Double exposure. Today, we’re spotlighting five experimental photography exhibitions. These shows feature a mix of 20th century pioneers, like Lillian Bassman, whose visionary work redefined fashion and fine art photography, alongside contemporary practitioners such as Garry Fabian Miller and Liz Nielsen, who continue to explore light, colour and process in groundbreaking ways. Across these exhibitions, each image challenges perception, interrogates memory and celebrates the material and conceptual possibilities of lens-based medium. This is traditional imagery, reimagined. Liz Nielsen: Interdimensional Timelines  Joseloff Gallery at Hartford School of Art | Until 11 April ...

Boris Christoff's sound is justly famous, and his vocal splendor is on full display here.

Photography remains one of the most vital ways we examine society, culture and the intimate contours of human experience. The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026, hosted at The Photographers’ Gallery in London from 6 March to 7 June, continues this tradition, foregrounding the ways contemporary photographers challenge perception, narrative and the politics of representation. Established in 1996, the Prize identifies and rewards artists for an exhibition or book that has made a significant contribution to photography in the previous twelve months. Over three decades, it has become a barometer for innovation and social engagement, spotlighting work that is aesthetically compelling while deeply...

La Mestna galerija Nova Gorica presenta Movimento incessante, personale di Arianna Ellero. La mostra è corredata da un testo di Daniele Capra e da una composizione sonora di Stefano Pilia che s’intitola The Suncrows Fall And Tree. Immagini e musica intrecciano pertanto un dialogo a due voci, quasi un contrappunto da manuale, dove la nota musicale cerca il suo alter ego nel segno pittorico, in una continuità con la storia dell’arte che ci riporta in primo piano le azioni musicate di Jannis Kounellis o le antropometrie di Yves Klein. Il passato, allora, ritorna nel senso che il movimento, in questa mostra, può essere inteso anche come fattore temporale del nostro vissuto, come un flusso (o un fluire) che...

What does freedom truly mean? How has our definition changed over the past 80 years? Do we have the same privileges today that our parents or grandparents had? Our Freedom: Then and Now, developed by Future Arts Centres and Open Eye Gallery, brings together stories of participants from 60 locally led projects across the UK. The images were captured by 22 photographers who followed each project closely, featuring a diverse range of people aged 0-100, including school children, veterans and artists. The result is a tapestry of personal experience, weaving together disparate ideas of what ideas of liberty, justice and equality mean in our current moment, when it often feels like personal and political freedoms...

Il MAG – Museo Alto Garda ospita Ultimate Landscapes. L’illusione del ghiaccio, una grande mostra dedicata al progetto che il fotografo romano Claudio Orlandi porta avanti dal 2008: un racconto visivo sulle trasformazioni irreversibili dei ghiacciai, tra le testimonianze più drammatiche e urgenti della crisi climatica contemporanea.
Claudio Orlandi, “Ultimate Landscapes”, installation view at Museo Alto Garda, Riva del Garda (TN), ph. Nicola Eccher, courtesy the artist and Museo Alto Garda
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Claudio Orlandi: Galeotto fu il mio matrimonio, grazie al quale ricevetti in regalo una Reflex e da lì, iniziai a interessarmi alla...

KRK Ryden's latest solo show "Wet Bread" is now on view at Brassworks Gallery in Portland. Read an interview on the pop surrealist from our archives by clicking above!
The post In Blob We Trust: The Art of KRK Ryden first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

At Windsor Castle, a one-of-a-kind architectural marvel isn’t a structural part of the building itself or even a full-size feature. Here, you’ll find Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House, widely regarded as the largest and most famous in the world. Designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, the house was built between 1921 and 1924 and contains items and furnishings conceived of by hundreds of the leading craftspeople and artisans of the day. Queen Mary, consort to King George V between 1910 and 1936, was an enthusiast of all things miniature. Her dolls’ house even contains scale versions of nearly 600 real books in its library, including works by literary giants like A.A. Milne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

Joy Machine is pleased to present Life Forms, a solo exhibition by Janny Baek, on view from March 20 to May 9, 2026. How do we conceive of change? With fear, excitement, or uncertainty? As Janny Baek builds sculptural ceramics of speculative beings and imagined landscapes, she grapples with these questions. The work follows its own dream logic, one that accepts incongruity and dissonance as necessary to play and experimentation. Marbling hunks of colored clay, coiling bases, and molding a singular material into something new is part of an exploratory practice that embraces transformation and its often strange outcomes. Detail of “Dream State” (2024) Life Forms emerges from this dual meaning, invoking...

What is a web to the spider? A home, a tool, simply something they cling to? Tomás Saraceno presents these questions in a new segment from Art21, in which filmmakers visit his Berlin studio and examine the machinations of his collaborative practice, extending from a team of people to the tiny critters beneath our feet. Saraceno continually considers how humans occupy space and how such environments inform the ways we connect with the world around us. This short documentary, which is part of the “Realms of the Real” episode, reviews several of the artist’s projects, from his suspended installations to his more participatory community projects. Several artworks presented in the film have been previously...

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Baritone Quinn Kelsey’s recital of English-language art songs in partnership with pianist Craig Ketter was a worthy celebration of Vocal Arts DC’s 35th-anniversary season.

Al centro della pratica di Shenlu Liu si trova un intreccio sottile tra gesto manuale, materia e spazio, in un linguaggio poetico e meditativo. Nata a Pechino nel 2000, Liu ha studiato Fashion Design (Knitwear) al Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology e ha completato un MA in Textiles al Royal College of Art di Londra, laureandosi con distinzione. La sua pratica si colloca deliberatamente oltre i confini dell’artigianato, trasformando maglia, tessitura, ricamo e simulazione digitale in strumenti concettuali capaci di restituire esperienza sensoriale e attenzione al corpo, alla percezione e al tempo, in dialogo con la dimensione immateriale della contemporaneità. Attraverso video, stampe digitali...

There are many occasions when language fails me, when a poet’s hand seems what is needed to get to the truth of a thing—a man’s life, a work of art, a life of art. This is such a moment. To call the oil paintings of Eyvind Earle “landscapes” is accurate but very sorely wanting. For […]
The post Uncanny Valley: The Oil Paintings of the Late Eyvind Earle Still Have A Resounding Influence on Artists & Viewers Today first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

 
We’re very pleased to announce that the first in our The Colour Library series, BLUE, is now available to order now from the Shutter Hub shop!
The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives. Our first edition is dedicated to blue.
A colour of depth and distance. Blue is a language. Vast as the sky and as still as water. Blue can evoke calm, melancholy, serenity and sorrow.
From literal to abstract interpretations, and alternative processes, within these pages...

È con questa domanda che il visitatore è invitato ad attraversare la mostra collettiva Aria Notturna,  in corso alla Galleria Zero…, realizzata in collaborazione con Neue Alte Brücke e Matt Williams, che indaga le risposte dell’ambiente ai mutamenti di stato derivanti dall’oscurità, dai sistemi di illuminazione e di sorveglianza. Strumenti che colpiscono non solo lo spazio della rappresentazione, ma soprattutto quello della percezione, dando vita a una rete immateriale di stimoli e di informazioni.
Racheal Crowther, “Close Call Only (20139 Milano)”, 2026, antenna Diamond D-777 (installata sul tetto), radio scanner Whistler TRX2, frequenze radio, cavo coassiale a specifica militare, gabbia di...

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By Kristine Schomaker I keep seeing Liberal Jane's work pop up across different platforms - Instagram, obviously, but also sliding through Facebook, saved in Pinterest boards, shared in group chats. This immersion matters more than I think we acknowledge. These aren't gallery pieces waiting for the right audience to find them. They're already embedded in the actual digital infrastructure where people are trying to survive right now. Caitlin Blunnie has been making this work for seven years,...

The Pacific Northwest is perhaps the wildest, most breathtaking region in the continental United States. With its combination of mountain ranges, conifer forests, lakes, rivers, and ancient sequoias looming over the California coast, the geography and texture of Wyoming, Montana, California, and Oregon return us to North America’s primordial past. It reminds us of when […]
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