Carbon fiber for lightweight 3D printed violin and cello
 
Forte3D introduces a series of 3D printed violins and cellos that use carbon fiber as the main material instead of wood, allowing resistance to cracks and deformities. Assembled by hand, the string instruments adopt the lightweight material, which doesn’t react to temperature and humidity and avoids any morphing when the environment changes over time. Traditional string instruments use wood, which can change shape when the objects are exposed to varying weather conditions. They tend to crack and get scratched as well as be heavier to carry.
 
The design idea of Forte3D, then, is to let musicians bring their violin or cello to places without fear of...

a prayer room carved into the hillside
 
ITM Yooehwa Architects completes this ‘Heaven’s Voice’ prayer room at South Korea‘s Handong University, bringing a compact place for reflection shaped by its hillside site and minimalistic concrete expression. The project occupies a small rise at the center of campus, a location the architect immediately recognized for its symbolic nature.
 
The commission emerged from a donation by an elder of a local church, and the brief invited a chapel that was both modest and purposeful. ‘The site revealed itself,’ lead architect Yoo Ehwa shares. She describes perceiving the contours of the campus as resembling a sheep, with the chosen hill forming its heart. This...

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Hundreds rallied outside the New School during a board meeting today, December 10, to protest sweeping faculty and program cuts that many say will be devastating to the century-old institution’s progressive social research mission.At 4 pm today, around 300 students, staff, and supporters gathered outside 66 West 12th Street, which houses the offices of President Joel Towers and Provost Richard Kessler.“Short on money, high on power, we don’t trust Joel Towers,” New School students and faculty chanted underneath the university building’s scaffolding.The university in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, which includes the Parsons School of Design and the College of Performing Arts, is facing a $48 million...

On the familiar comforts of Miami Art Week 2025

“Jaful Secolului” (Traffic) was inspired by a 2012 heist at Kunsthal Rotterdam and is Romania’s official selection for the 2026 Oscars

While 2025 might be drawing to a close, the art books we read this year will stay with us for a long time to come. And not just the monographs or catalogs you might be thinking of — we also consumed biographies, academic titles, memoirs, zine re-issues, art novels, and more. My personal favorite was Imani Perry's Black in Blues; it doesn't necessarily fit the mold of an "art book," per se, and that's precisely what makes it such a rich addition to any artist or art-lover's shelves. Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara recommends Hew Locke's latest catalog, while Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian offers us a spate of books, including Tamara Lanier's moving account of her fight to reclaim...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Frank Gehry (1929–2025)Architect who turned buildings into sculpturesHe made iconic postmodernist designs for museums, libraries, and concert halls, with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao being his most instantly recognizable work. He was a "true original," Mary Anne Gilmartin, an architect who worked with Gehry, told Hyperallergic. "An artist, an architect, and a fearless visionary who changed the way we experience cities."Read the obituary Jane Birt (d. 2025)Anglo-American watercolor and oilsHer work was shown in galleries across Britain. She illustrated multiple books, including a travelogue and a co-written...

Federico Babina maps seventeen museums using geometric forms
 
Federico Babina’s Musealis illustration series reimagines seventeen of the world’s most iconic museums as an imaginary black-and-white atlas, a visual journey. Each architectural illustration arises from the encounter between content and container. The architecture, with its geometries, both embraces and allows itself to be traversed by words, the titles of the most emblematic works housed within. No longer captions, but building blocks: the artworks transform into a plastic language, into lines, squares, curves, solids, and voids that construct the very image of the museum.
 
In Musealis, the words of the artworks are freed from their...

For Shuo Hao, finding the proper place is at the heart of her practice. The Chinese artist, who is currently based in Paris, has long been interested in the ancient text Yijing and how it offers a system of understanding for a world perpetually in flux. The cosmological book provides structure through the five elements—earth, water, air, fire, and metal—and also considers the relationships between humans and nature and the order of things, more broadly. Shuo Hao works with antique furniture, typically sourced from auctions and second-hand shops. Wood worn with age is her preferred material, and most objects she selects date between the 16th and 20th centuries. Like much of her practice, choosing these...

There hasn’t been a dull moment in the Parisian art world in 2025. It has been a year of museum blockbusters and historical rediscoveries, of jaw-dropping exhibitions at private foundations and impressive shows by younger voices across the city’s nonprofit spaces. The landscape of how we experience contemporary art is also shifting: This past September, the Centre Pompidou closed its iconic Beaubourg building for a long-term renovation after a season of memorable exhibitions, while the Fondation Cartier left Boulevard Raspail for a sprawling new site just steps from the Louvre. All of this attests to a thriving, always-in-flux ecosystem that makes Paris one of the most vital and dynamic places to see art...

STORRS, Connecticut — Before scrolling their omniscient portable supercomputers, people looked to the stars to answer their deepest questions about the universe.Then there’s Connecticut-based artist Maureen McCabe, 79, who remained spellbound by the sorcery of tarot card readers, carnival barkers, and voodoo priests for much of her life. Her mixed-media installations and collages exploring the origins of mysticism are the subject of an engrossing new retrospective, Fate and Magic: The Art of Maureen McCabe, at the University of Connecticut’s William Benton Museum of Art through December 14.McCabe’s exposure to art began when her mother took her from their home in Quincy, Massachusetts, to the Museum of...

Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Happy Thursday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week: South Arts Names Doug Shipman as Next President and CEO: Shipman will depart his post as Atlanta’s City Council president to take the helm of the regional arts nonprofit in January, overseeing its programs across nine Southern states as it enters its 50th anniversary year. London’s Alison Jacques Now Represents Gina Kuschke: The Cape Town–born painter will open her debut solo exhibition with the gallery on January 15. Gallery Wendi Norris to...

The gifted works, by 78 artists, date from the 1950s to today and will be featured in an exhibition in 2027

The thieves who stole jewelry from the Louvre evaded capture in October “by a hair’s breadth,” a senior official from the administrative inquiry into the museum’s security failings told the French Senate on Wednesday, as reported by Le Figaro. Noël Corbin, director of the General Inspectorate of Cultural Affairs (IGAC), noted that Louvre agents or the police had a chance to prevent their escape.  Another rapporteur for the investigation, Pascal Mignerey, from the Security, Safety and Audit Mission (Missa) at the French Ministry of Culture, stressed that an exterior camera on the museum had “clearly filmed the arrival of the thieves, the installation of the platform, the ascent of the two...

François-Xavier Lalanne’s Hippopotame Bar sold today for a staggering $31.4 million at Sotheby’s in New York, shattering every precedent in the market for design and setting a new auction record for the artist by a wide margin. Estimated at $7 million–$10 million, the hand-wrought copper bar more than tripled its high estimate after a 26-minute bidding contest among seven bidders. Not only does the result confirm Lalanne’s commercial star power, it also redraws the topography of the design category altogether. No work of design has ever fetched a higher price at auction. The hammer also caps a year in which the French sculptor’s hybrid creatures—somewhere between Surrealism, furniture, and...

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You might associate raffles with pretty low stakes: pitch in a few dollars for the Girl Scouts, say, and win a chance for something like a gift card or a spa day. But now aspiring art collectors can donate just €100 (about $115) to a raffle organized by France’s Fondation Recherche Alzheimer and win the chance to take home a Pablo Picasso valued at €1 million ($1.2 million). Entrants can buy one of 120,000 tickets at the site 1picasso100euros; the draw will take place April 14, 2026 at Christie’s Paris.  The work, a 1941 gouache on paper titled Tête de femme, measures just over 15 inches high. At a Sotheby’s London sale in 1999, it fetched £102,700 (equivalent to just under $167,000 at the time),...

Japan’s Yokohama Triennale has announced Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero as co-artistic directors for its 9th edition, set to open at the Yokohama Museum of Art on April 23, 2027. Costinaș, from Romania, is a writer and critic. He is a senior curator at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, an art center in Berlin; at the end of the year, he will transition from his current role and become a curatorial adviser to the museum. Guerrero, from Bogotá, is a professor in the School of Creative Media at City University in Hong Kong and has taught internationally. Costinaș and Guerrero have worked together on several projects in the past. They were co-artistic directors of “Ten Thousand Suns,” the 2024 Biennale of...

Indigo dye, which is derived from Indigofera tinctoria, is deeply connected to craft traditions in cultures where the plant is endemic, such as the tropical regions of Western Africa, the stretch between Tanzania and South Africa, and the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia. A laborious process of texturizing and fermentation creates a deep blue dye that continues to be one of the most sought-after natural pigments for textiles and garments. Indigo also fulfills a spiritual and social role in some cultures, like the Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin or the Manding of Mali, whose dye-makers customarily perform rituals when beginning a new batch. “Dry Season 2” (2025), acrylic on canvas, 200 x 200...

The price, three times its high estimate, smashed the auction records for Lalanne's work and any design object

The prize, presented in partnership with Nxthvn, includes a solo stand at Frieze Los Angeles and $25,000

At 72, Elaine Carr is painting with gratitude. They lean towards more positive themes now. Their paintings tend to be a composition of beautiful colors that most times seem animated. Known for their bold colors and sometimes playful themes, Elaine's paintings are colorful compositions of still life, landscapes, and portraiture. They're primarily self-taught, having painted since childhood, but now in their retirement years they paint with a goal of creating works that evoke good emotions....

‘waterhouse’ stands among the ferns and wildflowers of quebec
 
Quebecois architecture studios oyama and Julia Manaças Architecte complete this Waterhouse project within a forest clearing in Canada. The home introduces a composed arrangement of three volumes, each tuned to program and terrain.
 
While the design team was first visiting the site, they noted the overwhelming presence of ferns, wildflowers, boulders, and rolling ground. This established a strong baseline for the home’s design. Early decisions center on creating a single-family residence suited to daily life for one person while allowing comfortable stays for visiting family and guests.
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If there’s a feeling that could sum up the whiplash of living online and off, it might be cognitive dissonance. This deep sense of unease emerges when our actions and beliefs don’t align or when something we’d previously thought true is proven false. Psychology tells us that the constructive way to deal with this unwanted feeling is to incorporate the new information into our lives, instead of pretending it doesn’t exist or continuing to believe something inaccurate. In an era of AI slop and conspiracy theories ruling the highest levels of government, cognitive dissonance will likely be a fixture of contemporary life for the foreseeable future. It’s also an apt title for a new body of work by Los...

The Finnish city, close to the Arctic Circle, will play host to hundreds of arts and cultural events

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Grand Tier Grab Bag highlights La Scala's opening night prima donna Sara Jakubiak with an excerpt of her Chrysothemis recorded last year.

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aalto university installs outdoor stage in rural finland
 
In Kuhmo, a small timber-industry town in eastern Finland, Aalto University’s Wood Program installs Kide, a crystalline outdoor stage that doubles as a civic gathering point. The pavilion responds to the need of the town for a flexible cultural venue by translating the fractal geometry of snow into an inhabitable wooden canopy. Suspended lightly on two corners, the structure offers a sheltered space for performances, markets, and everyday meetings, contributing to the social and cultural life of a community of 8,000 residents.
 
Formed by eight interwoven glulam trusses wrapped in a translucent metal mesh and topped with prefabricated LVL...

The Turner Prize, established in 1984 and named after the radical Romantic painter JMW Turner, has long reflected the shifting currents of British contemporary art. Each year, the award spotlights those pushing the boundaries of creativity, urging audiences to reconsider both the art world and our modern society. Previous editions have brought early recognition to the likes of Damien Hirst, Lubaina Himid and Laure Prouvost. Now, NNena Kalu joins that illustrious list. The artist was named as the 2025 winner in an awards ceremony in Bradford last night. It makes Kalu the first artist with a learning disability to receive the renowned accolade. The jury commended Kalu’s “bold and compelling work”, praising...

Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination explores the transformative power of photographic portraiture to shape identity, imagination and political consciousness. The exhibition traces how photographers across mid-20th century Africa and its diaspora captured the aspirations of individuals while contributing to broader movements for Pan-African solidarity. These portraits illuminate Africa not only as a physical continent but as a conceptual space, defined by dialogue, creativity and shared possibility. Through the circulation of images across borders, the exhibition demonstrates how portraiture functioned as both witness and catalyst during moments of decolonial transformation, when European...

La fotografia dell’intimità si muove da sempre su un crinale problematico, sospeso in bilico tra il desiderio di preservare la dimensione privata dell’esperienza e la necessità di condividerla attraverso la visibilità pubblica dell’immagine. Al di là delle ragioni autobiografiche, quando un artista decide di fotografare il proprio corpo, i propri spazi domestici e i momenti vulnerabili della quotidianità compie anzitutto un gesto di negoziazione con la propria presenza nel mondo, forzando i confini tra ciò che viene considerato appropriato mostrare e ciò che dovrebbe restare celato e rivendicando il diritto di svincolare la propria rappresentazione dalle imposizioni esterne. L’atto di...

Nestled amid an established row of houses in a rural Vietnam community, a brick structure called Nang House by Trung Tran Studio creates an airy, earthy dwelling for a three-generation household. Encompassing mature trees into the design, including notches in rooflines to accommodate the trunks, a natural canopy spills over a courtyard garden where indoor and outdoor spaces converge. The interior spaces embrace high wooden ceilings, irregular angles, and curved details that highlight the angularity and modularity of the building material. Through contemporary forms, a timeless building block transforms into a warm, welcoming home. (via archdaily) Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a...

MoMA PS1, in Long Island City, New York, will offer free admission to all visitors from the beginning of 2026 through the end of 2028. The new pricing policy, which coincides with the institution’s fiftieth birthday, is made possible by a $900,000 gift from creative strategist and art collector Sonya Yu. The museum since 2015 […]

Writer and critic Cosmin Costinas and art historian Inti Guerrero have been named joint artistic directors of the Ninth Yokohama Triennale, set to take place April 23–September 12, 2027, at the Yokohama Museum of Art and at other venues across the Japanese city. The Triennale’s six-person organizing committee chose the pair—who co-curated the Twenty-Fourth Biennale […]

Candles have been in use in some way, shape, or form for thousands of years. It’s believed that both the ancient Egyptians and the Romans created a kind of wicked candle using rolled papyrus that was repeatedly dipped in melted beeswax or tallow. For centuries, until the advent electricity, they were an essential part of daily life. Today, the tapers, votives, and pillars we decorate our homes with are mostly just that—decoration—but that means they’re ripe for creativity, and designers certainly take notice. Gustavo da Mata, who’s behind Brazilian design studio Estúdio Capim, has created a concept called “ÓST,” a series of geometric candles with flutes, half-circles, and trapezoids that merge...

Offenbach's Robinson Crusoé is salvaged from obscurity. 

A Venezia capita spesso che le cose sembrino immobili, come se l’intera città vivesse in apnea tra un’acqua alta e l’altra. Poi succede che qualcuno, all’improvviso, ti metta davanti un’eruzione. Una vera. O almeno la sua versione pittorica. È quello che accade entrando allo Spazio SV, dove c’è Simone Rutigliano che ti guarda come un tipo che ha appena scalato un vulcano e vuole raccontarti cosa ha visto dentro il cratere. La mostra si chiama Magma, e non c’è titolo più onesto: tutto qui parla di qualcosa che preme, ribolle, scalpita. A partire da lui, l’artista leccese trapiantato a Venezia, che sembra aver raggiunto quella fase della vita in cui si capisce che non si può continuare a...

Exploring how classical Italian aesthetics continue to inspire and transform her artistic journey. In this conversation with Clay Artist, Monica Vaccari , she reflects on the enduring influence of classical Italian aesthetics and how they shape her creative practice. Discover the inspirations behind her work and the dialogue she creates between tradition and contemporary artistry. Access the full interview below: Conversation with Clay Artist, Monica Vaccari on classical Influences on...

Auntie Joan goes the whole nine yards on this one and invigorates it to make it work in a way as no one else can.

This winter, exhibitions across Europe, the UK and USA are showcasing influential documentarians, past and present. This list offers a snapshot of what’s on, from iconic 20th-century work by Lee Miller and Ruth Orkin to more expansive definitions of the genre by contemporary figures like Coco Fusco, Hajar Benjida and Naima Green. Together, these shows demonstrate just how wide-ranging documentary practice has become – stretching from wartime photojournalism to performance-driven self-portraiture, politically charged interventions and deeply collaborative portrayals of community. They reveal a field that is constantly evolving, responsive to social change and alive with new approaches to truth-telling....

In conversation with Suzette Bell-Roberts, Adama Delphine Fawundu traces the spiralling currents of Luba, Kongo, and Yoruba knowledge systems, revealing how vibration, memory, and ancestral materials converge in her immersive installation for the 36th Bienal […]

Earlier today, some two hundred employees representing three unions at the Louvre voted unanimously to begin rolling walkouts on December 15 in response to “insufficient staff numbers as well as technical failures and the building’s aging condition,” French daily Agence France Presse reports. The strike threatens to leave the Paris museum—the world’s most visited art […]

“Creating new characters is a way for me to collect ‘things’ without having to collect actual physical things. Read the full article on Matt Furie by clicking above!
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Lately in the studio, Jalila Bell is fired up clearing space for new work and diving into their steampunk series—where imagination, invention, and rebellion collide. At 50, hitting that milestone has powered them up and made them bolder. They're being pushier with mixed-media materials, mashing together effigy and new worlds. With their new steampunk series, they're breaking rules about what "their art" looks like, bending reality, and letting their imagination lead the charge. What's...

The highs and lows of the Guatemala-based biennial's twenty-fourth edition

It is a physical pleasure to hear Kate Lindsey at close quarters.

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"This isn’t an opera that touches on queer themes; it’s a bundle of queer themes tied up in an opera."

Italian artist Sof creates works that invite audience participation. His latest work, Geo 1 is an artwork that comes alive through touch. Instead of simply looking at it, viewers are invited to interact with the surface, moving pieces of the mosaic to reveal shifting patterns of light underneath. Shards of mirrored material come together to form a single sculpture, with light shining through the cracks. The work changes with every touch, made up of magnetic fields, materials and light that respond in real time, meaning no two experiences are the same. The piece, which was nominated for the 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize, was built around the idea of anagrams, encouraging people to discover new meanings as they...

Una mostra da non perdere durante la biennale Foto Industria della Fondazione MAST a Bologna è senza ombra di dubbio “Looking for Palestine” di Forensic Architecture, negli spazi di Palazzo Bentivoglio Lab in via Mascarella 2. Nel periodo storico della guerra asimmetrica in cui i dati e le informazioni sono comparabili alle munizioni e ai proiettili, le zone d’ombra favoriscono l’aggressore al punto che il primo stadio offensivo consiste nell’isolare il bersaglio inibendo le reti di comunicazione. Allo stesso tempo è l’epoca dei social media e della circolazione incontenibile di immagini, video e file audio in cui chiunque può essere produttore e testimone, semplicemente accendendo lo...

Juliet è una rivista di informazione e teoria strettamente dedicata alle espressioni artistiche contemporanee: arte, architettura, design, fotografia e tanto altro. Diretta da Roberto Vidali, esce a scadenza fissa cinque volte all’anno, a cui via via sono stati aggiunti extra issues e il supplemento Juliet design hotels.
Trieste, Teatro Miela, 2011. Concerto dei Luc Orient, band new wave/alternative rock composta da Piero Pieri (voce, sax, elettronica), Rrok Prennushi (chitarra, voce), Flavio Davanzo (tromba, tastiere), Stefano Lesini (basso), Mauro “Spoonfool” Berardi (batteria). Il concerto è stato realizzato in occasione di “JULIET 30 YEARS”. Foto di Stefano Visintin
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Togo Photo Festival 2025 has arrived. Founded and directed by Ako Atikossie and Giulia Brivio, its goal is to provide international visibility and create new opportunities for emerging photographers from Togo and West Africa. “For centuries, the representation of Africa has been filtered through a colonial lens that turned the other into an object, stripping it of its voice,” they explain. “Today, a new generation of African curators, artists and thinkers has overturned that perspective, restoring photography to the centre of an autonomous language capable of influencing the worlds of contemporary art, fashion and architecture.” Here, photography is not just a tool to document reality, but it has the...

At 54, Nancy Popp is visioning for their long-term project 'under°veloped'. They're thinking more deeply about long term histories, legacies and larger structural fundamentals. If their work didn't change it wouldn't be authentic to the changes in their self and life. They don't see much change after turning 50 to what they were doing in their late 40s, but there is a difference to what they were doing in their 30s physically. What's actually hard about being an artist at this point?  Time...

In occasione della tappa genovese della compagnia Nanou, abbiamo incontrato Marco Valerio Amico negli spazi del Teatro Akropolis, poche ore prima che Arsura e Specie di spazi andassero in scena nell’ambito della rassegna Testimonianze Ricerca Azioni. Il cofondatore del Gruppo Nanou ha condiviso visioni, processi e motivazioni che attraversano il lavoro della compagnia e ne definiscono l’identità. Anche in Arsura si ritrovano gli snodi principali da cui transita la poetica dei Nanou. Una poetica che evoca, piuttosto che rappresentare, mondi interiori e sensoriali, usando corpo, spazio, suono e astrazione per creare un’esperienza che sfugge a schemi definiti e apre nuove visioni. Il corpo per loro è...

James Lipnickas has used horror tropes for a long time. But his works were once much more linear. That used to mean monsters, aliens, and isolated landscapes that had something haunted about them. A giant worm pouring its effluence into a cabin. A force within exploding the cabin.
The horror has changed. Click above to read the full article.
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