katharina grosse expands painting beyond the canvas into space
 
I Set Out, I Walked Fast exhibition in White Cube London brings together new works, archival material, and a large in-situ installation by Katharina Grosse, assembling them into a single, continuous environment. Rather than following a chronological order, the exhibition connects works from different periods, allowing them to interact across time. Individual pieces function as points within a wider network, where relationships shift depending on movement and proximity.
 
Since the late 1990s, Grosse primarily worked with acrylic pigments applied with an industrial spray gun, a technique that extends the reach of the body and registers the act...

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Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, who has appeared on multiple editions of ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list, is stepping down from his position. Undersecretary Hung Cao will become acting secretary, according to a short post on X by Sean Parnell, chief Pentagon spokesperson. While Parnell’s statement contained little information about Phelan’s departure, the New York Times characterized it as a “firing,” saying that it followed months of disagreements with senior members of the Department of Defense over how to revamp the Navy’s shipbuilding program. Phelan is the latest cabinet secretary to leave during President Donald Trump’s second term. Earlier this week, Labor Secretary Lori...

By Jorge Rodriguez-Jimenez Gustavo Rimada is showing his third solo show and largest to date at Thinkspace Projects. The show, titled “Rhythmic Sequence,” brings together his masterfully vivid acrylic paintings and his newly found love for ceramics. Offering mugs with faces that both haunt and delight, Rimada, who was born in Mexico and raised in California, is blending his Mexican heritage and his California lifestyle to create bold and culturally stunning works of art. Rimada’s ceramic work...

LONDON — What’s in a name? "Whistlejacket" is a magnificent, rampant beast. Where to find him, though? Start at the Western (Sainsbury Wing) end of the long corridor that takes you through and past much of the long history of the great paintings in the possession of London’s National Gallery. The sightline is arrow-direct, through magnificent doors, framed in marble the color of a rich, mottled madder. Look directly ahead of you, through room after room after room. And there, at last, you will find him, facing you — in fact, his pose is side-on, though his head is twisted to catch the bright white of his eye, on the wall of Gallery 34, reared up in all his fiercesome equine magnificence,...

Holbein, "Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve (The Ambassadors)" (1533), oil on oak, held at National Gallery, London (all photos courtesy Yale University Press)The most succinct visual embodiment of the complexities and contradictions of the English Renaissance is displayed on an ornate mantel in a mansion at 1 East 70th Street in Manhattan. Hans Holbein the Younger’s c. 1527 “Portrait of Sir Thomas More” and his 1532 “Portrait of Thomas Cromwell” (a contemporary copy of the lost original) sit on opposite sides of Gilded Age industrialist Henry Clay Frick’s New York estate, now better known as the Frick Collection.More, the celebrated humanist and Lord Chancellor (effectively Secretary of...

Originally delayed earlier this year, reportedly amid staff unrest, and later postponed until after the French municipal elections, the jury tasked with selecting the architects for the Louvre Museum renovation is now set to convene in mid-May, Le Figaro reports. Its members will assess five shortlisted architectural proposals, formally launching the $778 million renovation plan spearheaded by French President Emmanuel Macron. Quoting sources close to the project, the French newspaper reports that jury members are scheduled to meet on May 13, addressing speculation that the initiative could be shelved amid staff shortages and urgent infrastructure needs—all unfolding against a backdrop of leadership upheaval...

A previously undisclosed contract governing the fundraising for President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom shields donor identities and omits key conflict-of-interest protections, according to documents obtained by the Washington Post after a court order forced their release.  The agreement, signed in early October between the White House, the National Park Service, and the Trust for the National Mall, sets the legal framework for what Trump has described as a roughly $400 million project—one of the most significant physical changes to the executive residence in decades. Demolition of the East Wing began less than two weeks after the contract was finalized.  The contract allows donors to...

A committee appointed by the Dutch government has come up with a plan for a state-owned collection’s controversial holdings, reports the New York Times. The Netherlands Art Property Collection (known as the NK Collection) comprises thousands of priceless objects, including paintings worth millions by Dutch Golden Age masters, repatriated by the Allies from Germany to the Netherlands after World War II. Most of these objects were looted from Jews who were killed, deported, or forced to sell their holdings by the Nazis. While provenance research overseen by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science remains ongoing, the items’ rightful owners have yet to be located. The collection is currently...

The Venice Biennale has revealed the members of the five-person jury that will decide the Golden Lions for the 2026 edition. The president of the jury is Solange Oliveira Farkas, who will be joined by Zoe Butt, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Marta Kuzma, and Giovanna Zapperi. Farkas founded the Videobrasil Biennial in São Paulo in 1983, serving as its artistic director until 2004. Farkas is currently the founder and artistic director of Associação Cultural Videobrasil, which supports the biennial. From 2007 to 2010, she was the director and chief curator of the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia. She has organized solo shows for artists like Isaac Julien, Joseph Beuys, and Sophie Calle, as well as the 2024–25...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Desmond Morris (1928–2026)British zoologist, television presenter, and artistAmong the nearly 50 books, as many articles, and the many TV episodes he presented, his book The Naked Ape (1967) stood out as groundbreaking and influential (and controversial) for framing modern humans as fundamentally ape-like. But he was also a painter of what he called "biomorphs" who showed his surrealist work alongside that of artists like Joan Miró, and famously experimented with giving art tools to Congo the chimp. “I tried to create a private world in which my own, invented organisms evolved and developed like a...

Installation view of Pierre Huyghe, Liminal (2024) at Punta della Dogana, Venice. © Pierre Huyghe (photo Ola Rindal © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection)One luminous summer day in June, my daughter and I stepped into Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition Liminal (2024) at the Pinault Collection in Venice, Italy. It wasn’t easy to discern anything in the dim light. The ambiance was truly liminal. In the first gallery, we sidled up to a full-sized statue of a man with an eerie and smooth golden mask instead of a face. “Wait, is that a real person?” my daughter asked. I dismissed her with a laugh and leaned in closer, snapping some pictures with my phone. Then, a guard startled us: “Step back from the...

Billionaire Mitchell P. Rales has given $116 million to the National Gallery of Art to be spent on loaning its works to museums around the country. The historic gift is the largest programming endowment ever made to the Washington, DC, institution, and will cover costs of its “Across the Nation” initiative. Established to celebrate the […]

Following a $116 million donation from the foundation of biotech billionaire and Glenstone museum co-founder Mitchell Rales, the National Gallery of Art (NGA) will continue an artwork lending program that has brought its collection to small regional museums across the country in perpetuity. Launched as a pilot program last spring with seed funding also from Rales, Across the Nation has so far brought works by Georgia O'Keeffe to Anchorage, Rembrandt to Denver, Rothko to Boise, Bottoceli to Flint, and Henri Matisse to northern Washington. The initiative, which also covers expenses associated with transport and installation, reached an estimated 900,000 visitors in its first year across the 10 institutions...

Raphael Fonseca, who in 2021 joined the Denver Art Museum (DAM) as its first-ever curator of Latin American modern and contemporary art, has been appointed visual arts programmer at Culturgest in Lisbon. He will move to Lisbon in June before taking up his role at the private foundation, which belongs to state-owned Portuguese bank Caixa […]

Reckoning with memory, myth, and the Lost Cause through the LA exhibition “MONUMENTS”

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Last week, the European Commission (EC) accused the Venice Biennale of violating EU sanctions against Russia and threatened to cut funding for the Biennale—specifically, a $2.3 million grant slated for 2028—unless changes were made. Now, the EC has followed through on its threat: Kaja Kallas, foreign policy chief of the EU, said on Tuesday that […]

American French sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud is speaking out on her decision to forgo participating in the United States Pavilion for the 61st Venice Biennale, which is fraught with tension this year due to a raft of global conflicts—Russia’s “war of aggression” against Ukraine; calls to exclude Israel and the United States altogether.  “Participating in the […]

The $33.5m price fetched by set, which once belonged to Yves Saint Laurent, reflects Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne's still-growing market

Grainy textures and gestural lines characterize the lush compositions of Tania Yakunova. Collaborating with a range of commercial and editorial clients, the Kyiv-born illustrator harnesses the visual impact of bold shapes and vibrant color palettes to convey brand narratives and inexpressible feelings. Bare feet planted in dandelion-strewn grass and a greenhouse-style figure housing flowers attempting to burst from the glass cages, for example, conjure Yakunova’s homesickness, since she left her native Ukraine for London in 2023. The artist’s distinct expressions translate across mediums, whether working in hand-built ceramic sculpture, painting, or digital and graphite illustration. Keep an eye out for...

Aipad’s annual fair brings nearly 80 exhibitors to the Park Avenue Armory, seeking to be both an approachable entrypoint for new collectors and a place of discovery for connoisseurs

a supermarket cast in stone at designboom’s milan installation
 
SolidNature presents Il Sonno Supermarket, designed by OMA/AMO for designboom’s ROOM FOR DREAMS during Milan Design Week 2026. The work can be discovered within ME Milan Il Duca and transforms the familiar market into a study of SolidNature’s expressive stone. Set within a lightweight structure of translucent polycarbonate and metal trusses, the installation reads immediately as a supermarket, although every surface and object reframes the subjects under a veil of permanence.
 
Shelving units carved from onyx, marble, and other natural stones hold rows of goods that resemble everyday items. Bottles, eggs, soap bars, and packaged foods...

A Pavilion to celebrate craft of uzbekistan
 
At Palazzo Citterio during Milan Design Week 2026, the exhibition When Apricots Blossom presents Uzbekistan from street to courtyard to garden pavilion.
 
The project, initiated by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation and curated by Kulapat Yantrasast, treats craft as a working framework for architecture. The premise stays grounded in the Aral Sea region, where environmental change has reshaped both land and cultural practice, and where making remains closely tied to survival and adaptation.
 
Central to the installation is a yurt-inspired pavilion, designed by wHY Architecture and built from a fine lattice and translucent skin. Its open...

a raised public walkway reshapes tallinn city museum
 
Georges Batzios Architects’ proposal reimagines Tallinn City Museum in Estonia as a public passage, positioning it as a connector between the city and its cultural memory. Rather than a singular object, the museum quarter is approached as a continuous landscape, open, accessible, and integrated into the surrounding urban fabric. Movement becomes a central element, linking public space with archival and exhibition functions.
 
A raised public walkway extends from the ground plane and unfolds across the site as a continuous route. This elevated path connects key cultural institutions, including the City Museum, the Photo Museum, and EKKM, while also...

Spikes, fans, florets, waves, and other characteristics of marine creatures continue to shape the work of Lisa Stevens. The Bristol-based artist’s vibrant practice revolves around ceramic sculptures inspired by sea urchins, coral, nudibranchs, and other underwater organisms. Each piece is unique, with numerous colorful glazes and textures, and they often take on a fantastical quality, incorporating hybrid features that conjure associations with celestial objects, anatomy, and other facets of nature. Find more on Stevens’ Instagram, plus watch clay sculpting tutorials on YouTube. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as...

Nella serie Permeation, iniziata nel 2019 e ancora in corso, l’artista Lynn Pan, nata in Cina e residente a Londra, sviluppa un’indagine visiva sulla natura dei confini. Lavorando tra fotografia e costruzione digitale, propone la sfocatura non come effetto estetico ma come metodo strutturale: un modo di rendere visibili le condizioni in cui forme, identità e distinzioni iniziano a cedere.
Lynn Pan, portrait, courtesy of the artist
Permeation si dispiega attraverso tre opere centrali, ciascuna delle quali identifica un momento specifico di soglia: Shell, Shadow e Drift. La serie riflette una doppia formazione. Lynn ha studiato alla Communication University of China a Pechino prima di completare un MA in...

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louis vuitton stages objets nomades inside palazzo serbelloni 
 
At Milan Design Week 2026, Louis Vuitton transforms Palazzo Serbelloni into a layered exhibition that bridges decorative arts history with contemporary design. The presentation introduces the latest Objets Nomades collection alongside a curated selection of the House’s historic trunks, unfolding as a sequence of immersive interiors defined by saturated color palettes and scenographic staging. Moving through the palace, visitors encounter a narrative that traces Louis Vuitton’s evolution from Art Deco craftsmanship to present-day collectible design.
 
The exhibition extends into the courtyard with a monumental rug installation inspired by...

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Rosa Feola, still scheduled for a run of performances as Violetta in New York this spring, is the subject of this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag.

In folklore, twilight is often interpreted as a liminal, even magical time during which spirits emerge in the transition between light and dark. It’s sometimes even seen as a period when extra caution is advised, as will-o’-the-wisps, shapeshifters, and fae may try to influence people in their path. For artist Nicholas Moegly, nightfall sets the scene for neighborhoods and quiet streets in which curious creatures roam, and lights flicker on in houses, signaling the end of the day. Many of Moegly’s works possess a dreamy realism along the lines of photographer Todd Hido’s Houses at Night or the illustrations of children’s book author Chris Van Allsburg. There is both a timelessness and a sense that...

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The Reform-run council sold the public work back to the artist for an undisclosed sum

Sanya Kantarovsky talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

What I love most about Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Lilacs" is how beautifully it captures the quiet intimacy at the heart of art song.

Today, we’re celebrating Earth Day, an annual event that promotes environmental protection. First celebrated in 1970, the movement annually mobilises 1 billion people across 190 countries towards taking positive climate action. The 2026 theme is Our Power, Our Planet, reflecting the fundamental truth that “environmental progress doesn’t depend on any single administration or election. It’s sustained by daily actions of communities, educators, workers and families protecting where they work and live.” It’s an admirable aim, often reflected in the work of artists and creatives around the world. We’re spotlighting five exhibition that highlight the beauty of our environment, as well as the urgent...

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As well as the renovated and expanded Los Angeles County Museum of Art, here are some of the art and culture projects to look forward to

Ai Weiwei needs no introduction. For more than three decades, the artist has occupied a singular position at the intersection of aesthetics and activism, reshaping the possibilities of contemporary art through an unwavering commitment to political truth. Works such as Sunflower Seeds (2010) and Remembering (2009) have become touchstones of 21st-century practice, confronting mass production, state violence and collective memory with both poetic restraint and monumental force. His 81-day secret detention by Chinese authorities in 2011 marked a defining rupture — one that transformed personal experience into a sustained artistic inquiry into surveillance, control and resistance. Since then, Ai has continued...

Cos’è la bellezza oggi? È una domanda che risuona come un’infrazione in un sistema dell’arte che, per decenni, ha eletto il brutto, il perturbante e l’analitico a unici parametri di verità. Oggi la bellezza appare come un concetto anacronistico, quasi una colpa da espiare. Abbiamo combattuto con tutte le armi delle avanguardie storiche il Rinascimento fiorentino, gli eccessi decorativi barocchi, le tempeste emotive romantiche. Le abbiamo scacciate dai palazzi, dalla storia dell’arte ufficiale, dai libri di testo. Eppure, come in un eterno ritorno dell’identico, le abbiamo spinte fuori dalla porta sul retro solo per sentirle bussare, con una forza destabilizzante, all’ingresso principale....

The economy of Peru’s Sacred Valley has long been entwined with the seasons. Rural communities typically grow crops and raise livestock to sustain themselves and to barter with others, a process that necessitates an attunement with nature, its cycles, and how these patterns influence self-sufficiency. This is particularly true for the Quechua communities, Indigenous peoples who have long worked for subsistence rather than state currencies. In recent years, health clinics, schools, markets, and transportation requiring residents to use cash have slowly eroded this way of life. Today, many Quechua men leave their communities to work in tourism, which offers an income and the opportunity to learn Spanish....

To celebrate the cult movie director’s 80th birthday, we bring you our interview with John Waters from Hi-Fructose Isssue 69. You can still get a copy in print of this issue here. Happy Birthday to The King of Puke! ABOVE: Portrait of John Waters, photo by Greg Gorman, © Academy Museum Foundation Early on in the […]
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Dull conducting makes Der Freischütz miss its mark at Carnegie Hall.

Building sites and agricultural areas are typically described by the utilitarian operations that shape them—rugged, harsh, and often back-breaking. They are spaces that resist softness, built quite literally around force and tension. Artist Pia Hinz flips this idea on its head as she explores the conceptual and material relationship between strength and vulnerability. Living and working between Ardèche, Amsterdam, and Arles, France, Hinz has been working with stained glass for the past three years. She focuses much of her work on objects that one might find in environments of labor, such as construction or farming. Her sculptures take on an array of recognizable forms including hammers, screws, traffic...

Rosa Ponselle is the singer who had it all.

Street photography has long occupied a paradoxical space within the history of image making – at once documentary and deeply subjective, anchored in the real yet charged with the fleeting architecture of perception. Its most enduring practitioners operate in the charged interval between chance and intent, where composition is not merely arranged but discovered in motion. The genre thrives on attentiveness to the ordinary – the flick of a glance, the choreography of bodies in public space, the accidental poetry of urban life. Within this field, the question is never simply what is seen, but how seeing itself is structured: through proximity, timing, and an instinctual responsiveness to the world unfolding...

Alcova ci ha ormai abituati, Salone del Mobile dopo salone, all’apertura di luoghi mai visti e quest’anno svela al pubblico Villa Pestarini, prima e unica villa milanese realizzata dal maestro del razionalismo Franco Albini. Nel 1938 un giovanissimo Albini, di appena trentatré anni, progetta la piccola Villa a pochi passi da Piazza Tripoli in una zona di Milano destinata dal piano regolatore degli anni Trenta a essere costruita a ville e case unifamiliari. La struttura è completamente isolata sui quattro lati dando la possibilità ad Albini di sperimentare con quei principi di essenzialità e geometria che contraddistinguono il movimento moderno progettando una perfetta “macchina per abitare”...

Yellow Submarine si configura come un viaggio esplorativo immersivo, subacqueo, nell’universo visionario cartaceo di Pietro Antolini. Il progetto site-specific, ospitato nei suggestivi spazi-capsula dagli iconici pavimenti gialli del 5/C LAB — ex laboratorio dello storico tornitore Orlando Martello e sede, dal 2024, dell’associazione culturale Serendippo — accoglie una selezione di libri d’artista e piccole sculture di carta bi- e tridimensionali. Il corpus di lavori ha come soggetto il mare, popolato da creature per lo più immaginarie, zoomorfe e ibride: pesci, cavallucci marini, conchiglie e molluschi che, pur richiamando talvolta forme realistiche, vengono rielaborati dalla fervida fantasia...

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Gregory Spears, whose newest opera Sleepers Awake opens this week at Opera Philadelphia, is reviving Romanticism

Mark Ellen Mark (1940 – 2015) is one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. For four decades, she turned her lens upon those marginalised, overlooked and neglected by society. This month, her iconic works are on display alongside self-taught Turkish artist Sabiha Çimen (b. 1986) at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. Sabiha Çimen and Mary Ellen Mark: The Girls highlights the universal nature of being a girl, captured by two artists separated by time and geography. The photographers never met, but their careers intertwined briefly in 2012, when Çimen was asked by a curator to locate a Turkish girl photographed by Mark in 1965. The curator was curious about subject’s...

What does it mean to make art together, apart? As digital infrastructures reshape how we connect and collaborate, creatives are no longer bound to the physical studio – nor are students. In fact, a growing number of arts education programmes are rethinking how practice can be taught, shared and sustained across distance. Falmouth University’s MA Fine Art Online is one such course. Aesthetica speaks to lecturers Josie Cockram, Kate Fahey and Srin Surti about how the programme brings together artists working across continents, contexts and disciplines to engage with global political, economic, social and ecological change. They reflect on recent showcases, share success stories and consider what lies...

L’AIDS ha divorato non solo esseri umani, ma anche molti sogni, sebbene per fortuna parte di questi continuino ancora a vivere in noi. Ce lo ricorda una mostra monumentale e necessaria, sorprendente, differente per impostazione e tematica scelte, visitabile al Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Prato. Curata in maniera impeccabile da Michele Bertolino, Vivono. Arte e affetti, HIV-AIDS in Italia. 1982-1996, è infatti una eccellente, vibrante e commovente ricognizione artistica, sociale, culturale, giornalistica, documentale, sociologica e, soprattutto, umana, del quindicennio che ha travolto le relazioni sentimentali di tanti esseri umani (e qui, usiamo ancora questa locuzione perché uomini o...

By Katherine Kesey In the last few years, Los Angeles's Melrose Hill neighborhood has quickly become one of the city's most walkable arts districts. This past Saturday night, there were nearly ten coordinated openings, and I attended almost all of them. Taken individually, the shows were equally captivating. Together, they were a warm and exciting medley of passionate color, lighthearted mystery, and wry humor. Hannah Tishkoff, Beyond Love There is No Belief. 2026. Acrylic, oil, and pennies...

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For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Nature category: Sophie Altemus.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sophie Altemus is a photographer currently studying at Oberlin College in Ohio. Working primarily in the realm of snapshot photography, she carries a camera with her everywhere she goes.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of design variables, you can...

In the forest nothing stands still. Time layered through thoughts and feelings, leaves kicked and crunched as we walk. The trees talk to each other, sending mycelium messages, carbon gifts, and warnings of drought or illness. From ancient wisdom to popular culture, it’s all here.
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, did it make a sound? Of course it did. And if Jo Stapleton was there to capture the moment, there would be a visual symphony of light, shape and form to follow.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, this beautiful collection of 100 images by Jo Stapleton is an expressionist photographic account of her interactions with trees, forest and woodland, later remembered and...

In a world not so unlike our own, during a time not that long ago, a mother wolf sits comfortably upon an abandoned tree stump in a clearing in the woods. Surrounded by carefully rendered flora and fauna, the creature is positioned upright with impeccable posture and human-like mannerisms. Her hind legs are crossed at […]
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