All images courtesy of the artist and GNYP gallery In Aistė Stancikaitė’s painting “Some Time We Walk Together,” two gloved hands are joined by a set of finger cuffs. The connected, silver rings resemble wedding bands. As for the hands, whether they belong to one or two people is up to the viewer to decide. […]
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Based in the foothills of Cambewarra Mountain in New South Wales, Australia, Tamara Dean captures ethereal images that explore the intrinsic bond between the human body and the natural world. She is driven by what she describes as a desire to “explore the reality that humans are not separate from nature, but intrinsically part of it.” Using bodies to express this relationship, the figures within her compositions do not emerge as prominent subjects of portraiture. Instead, they exist as elements embedded within each scene, often emerging as extensions of surrounding flora. “I am interested in those moments when the body appears to merge with the landscape, becoming almost plant-like, animal-like or...

Fábio Szwarcwald, who served as executive director of the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio) from 2020 to 2022, has been ordered to pay a fine of 100,000 reais (about $20,000) for breach of contract, the Art Newspaper reports. The breach came in 2022 when Szwarcwald said publicly that the museum had been without […]

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Along the Seine in central Paris, JR‘s La Caverne du Pont Neuf has opened after a weather-delayed start earlier this month. The installation now covers Paris’ oldest bridge with a rocky, cavernous skin, turning the familiar stone crossing into a temporary passage shaped by fabric, air, sound, scent, and augmented reality.
 
The project opened to the public on June 15th will remain accessible until June 28th from Place du Pont Neuf Christo et Jeanne-Claude. Conceived as JR’s homage to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 1985 work The Pont Neuf Wrapped, the installation is free to enter, open twenty-four hours a day, and visible from the quays, nearby bridges, passing...

Tunnels dating to Henry VIII’s reign have been discovered on the grounds of New Hall School in Chelmsford, England. The news was first reported by the BBC earlier this month. Workers repairing a ha-ha, a ditch traditionally used to contain livestock without interrupting the view across an estate, uncovered a tunnel entrance, along with Tudor-era artifacts including pottery, bones, and glass bottles. New Hall School is named for New Hall, a house Henry VII acquired from his future (and ill-fated) wife Anne Boleyn’s family in 1517 and rebuilt as the much grander Palace of Beaulieu. A favorite royal residence in the 1520s, the house’s importance declined after Henry’s death, and it was removed from Crown...

Sarah Schulman speaks as she writes — with candor and a clear-eyed sense of justice. I’ve long admired the New York City scholar, organizer, and author, but I finally feel like I understand a core component of her life’s work: fiction writing. Read our conversation on the world that shaped her multifaceted practice and numerous novels, which largely center on lesbian protagonists that the publishing industry still ignores.Also this Pride month, we recommend books on the radical work of trans artist Vaginal Davis, the bicoastal Chinatowns that inspired Martin Wong, the intertwined lives of Paul Thek and Peter Hujar, and an early-19th-century lesbian couple in Vermont brought into full relief by graphic...

Art Basel may transform Basel during its annual summer spell, but the city’s art ecosystem exists long before the fair and its many satellites arrive—and continues long after they leave

The usually restrained London-based collector, who grew up in China, can make decisions rapidly when she sees something she really responds to

As he recovers from a brutal physical attack, the artist talks about his Münsterplatz commission and why it is important to preserve the memory of objects that have a complex history

For her show at Kunsthalle Basel, the Chinese-born artist has drawn inspiration from the online videos of amateur storm chasers and how they are a metaphor for the current media landscape

The gallery is bringing together the Weimer-era artist's paintings held in private American and European collections

During the eight-week summer intensive of the Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art (MFA) program at Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D), MFA graduate candidates come to Portland, Maine, to bond as an artistic cohort while exploring the interdisciplinary conversation that will challenge and inform the art created throughout their program. Central to this summer intensive is the accelerated professional development that our artist candidates receive from visiting artists who are on-site each week for lectures and studio visits.We are pleased to announce the participants in the 2026 Summer Visiting Artist Lecture Series, running June 24 through August 5:Nyugen E. Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose work...

When one reassesses the architectural designs of the technologically obsessed, postmodernist Archigram Collective (1961–74), they encounter a brand of space-age Futurism that feels as cutting-edge and charmingly obsolete as a pulpy sci-fi novel. In an essay for the October 1998 issue of Artforum, architect Joel Sanders evaluates the significance of the group’s pre-digital forays into virtual […]

On Sunday, an expansive exhibition focused on Willem de Kooning’s drawings opened at the Art Institute of Chicago. The show includes some 200 artworks, including paintings, bronze sculptures, and mixed-media works from throughout de Kooning’s seven-decade career. The earliest work in the show, Dish With Jugs (ca. 1919-21), was given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by de Kooning. It is a black-and-white, almost photorealistic depiction of the three vessels on a wooden table. According to an interview with curator Kevin Salatino in the New York Times, de Kooning likely spent “something like 600 hours” completing the drawing over the course of several years. At the time, the Dutch artist (born in 1904)...

Editor's Note: The following text is the Rhode Island School of Design Commencement Address delivered by Julie Mehretu on behalf of the Class of 2026.I. Arrival It is an honor to be here with you today. I remember this moment. I remember standing where you are standing, in this city, and feeling the light, the way Providence glimmers, the water, the hills, feeling all of it at once — the nervousness, the joy, the strange relief of having finished something genuinely hard, something that asked everything of you. Before I say anything else, I want to congratulate you. You have already done something radical, before today, before this diploma. The most radical thing happened years ago, when you made a...

a fan-shaped seed kit breaks down into the garden bed
 
Created for a windowsill or small patch of shared ground, this Terra Seeds kit looks closer to a piece of molded earth than a conventional seed kit. Designed by Tom Fosbery at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, the Green Concept Award project proposes a planting tool that arrives without the usual plastic tray or disposable packet, using the body of the product itself as both carrier and growing medium.
 
The project is aimed at urban gardeners and families who want to plant with fewer tools and less waste around the process. Each fan-shaped unit is made from compressed local soil, tapioca starch, nutrients, and seeds, forming a small...

We can all call to mind the architectural “ideology” (for lack of a better term) behind modern art galleries: a... Read More

A music video generator is no longer just a shortcut for making abstract visuals or looping background clips. For musicians,... Read More

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In the statement for Annalise Gratovich’s solo exhibition, Carrying Things From Home, the gallery poses a couple of questions: “When war, displacement, and migration sever familial and cultural ties, how do we sustain a sense of self and ancestral connection? How do we hybridize in a new homeland?” For the artist, who is based in Austin and runs High Low Print Co., her family’s history informs a printmaking practice that explores deeply personal and even spiritual links to land, home, and a sense of belonging. Hecho a Mano presents eight large-scale, hand-carved woodblock prints in Carrying Things From Home, which have been painstakingly created between 2014 and 2025. Gratovich meticulously carves...

30+ sculptures spanning 40 years of Lynn Chadwick's career at Houghton Hall, one of the most significant British sculpture exhibitions of the summer.

Good Morning! Kyiv’s 11th-century Dormition Cathedral was severely damaged in Russian strikes. Police are investigating the vandalism of a painting recognizing Black achievement at the Houston Museum of African American Culture. Almine Rech announced it is representing the estate of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. The Headlines CULTURE UNDER FIRE. The UNESCO-listed, 11th-century Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv was set on fire following Russian strikes that also killed nine people in the region overnight Sunday, the Guardian reports. The remains of two Shahed drones were found at the site, contradicting Russia’s denial of having targeted the cathedral, whose gilded domed roof and façade were badly...

Nearly three decades after his landmark Hayward survey, Anish Kapoor returns with a major exhibition that transforms the entire gallery

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Leonardo Drew, one of the most recognizable sculptors working today, has joined Hauser & Wirth, which will now represent the artist worldwide. The gallery announced the news on Tuesday and will debut a new work by Drew, Number 451, at Art Basel later this month. Drew’s first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth is scheduled to open in New York in fall 2027. Over the past four decades, Drew has built a career transforming weathered wood, metal, paper, and other materials into sprawling sculptures and installations that explore destruction, renewal, and the passage of time. His work can be found in the collections of institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn...

magnus pettersen brings sculptural weight to copenhagen
 
Inside The Lab on Vermundsgade in Copenhagen, where the group show ‘other circle’ gathered a field of post-disciplinary design voices during 3daysofdesign, Magnus Pettersen’s sculptural objects held their ground with a dense, mineral presence.
 
Stone-like faces, boulder forms, and stacked concrete totems appeared less concerned with easy categorization than with the physical charge of matter itself, asking visitors to look longer at surface, mass, and the small shifts that happen when a crafted object sits between sculpture and use.
 
Pettersen’s presentation at Other Circle marks the latest point in a practice built around tension. The...

“The question that has always stayed with me is the one the market rarely asks: what happened in the studio before the work arrived? The sketches abandoned, the ideas reconsidered, the moment something became itself?” That is Shlomi Rabi, founder of Bridgewell Arts and a former auction-house specialist, describing what he is now looking for in his new role on the jury of the .ART Award. The global art prize opened for applications this May to mark the 10th anniversary of the .ART domain. The .ART Award’s format follows from his question. Every artist who applies builds a working archive in the process: their bio, their work, the story behind it, gathered in one place on a .ART domain. “We rarely get to...

Reclaimed bricks form a mortar-free modular partition system
 
Gjenreis is a modular construction system developed by Oslo Metropolitan University students Ariel Hammer and Åshild Limstrand that explores the reuse of reclaimed brick within contemporary interior environments. Presented as part of the Built by Design exhibition at 3daysofdesign, the project examines alternatives to conventional demolition practices by considering existing buildings as repositories of reusable materials.
 
Developed as a bachelor project in product design, Gjenreis, meaning ‘rebuild’ in Norwegian, proposes a mortar-free assembly system designed specifically for reclaimed brick. The system allows components to be...

British artist David Hockney died at age 88 last week, leaving an oasis-shaped void in our collective imagination. In sun-bleached paintings of California swimming pools, psychological portraits, and later in collages and digital works, he wielded color like few artists before or since and depicted gay relationships with sensitivity and care. Today, Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang remembers the work of the prolific, beloved artist and “restless experimenter.”As July rapidly approaches and “America 250” celebrations shift into high gear, Staff Reporter Rhea Nayyar has a guide to must-see art exhibitions that challenge, reframe, and unsettle the history of the United States. More as always, including...

The one who got away was Anna Caterina Antonacci, a thrilling performer.

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bmw m adapts racing cues for the neue klasse era
 
BMW M Concept Neue Klasse makes its world premiere at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, offering the clearest indication yet of how BMW M intends to translate its performance-focused identity into the electric era. Developed by BMW M and presented as a preview of future high-performance models based on the Neue Klasse platform, the concept combines motorsport-derived design elements, lightweight materials, and a four-motor electric drivetrain in a vehicle that links the racing heritage of the brand with its all-electric future.
 
BMW M uses the concept to bring forward familiar performance characteristics through a new visual language. The proportions of the car...

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Drawing on two years of research with quantum computing technologies, Laure Prouvost's Nous, frissons d'étoiles explores reality

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“Metafisica / Metafisiche” è una straordinaria rassegna enciclopedica che ci fa vedere come nell’arte contemporanea si ritrovino radici che affondano nell’avanguardia storica della pittura metafisica di inizio Novecento. A Palazzo Reale di Milano, con quattrocento opere distribuite in tredici saloni, il curatore Vicenzo Trione, affiancato da una squadra di collaboratori costituita da Anna Luigia De Simone, Anna Calise, Vincenzo Di Rosa e Alessia Scaparra Seneca, dimostra i collegamenti fra la poetica della Metafisica con vari movimenti dell’arte contemporanea, collegamenti estesi anche agli ambiti della fotografia, del cinema, dell’architettura e della moda. Questo complesso e articolato progetto...

Sin dalle origini, si sa, la luce è sinonimo di rinascita: porta con sé speranza, gioia, novità e tutta una serie di connotazioni positive capaci di illuminare il futuro. E se Lucio Dalla cantava “Aspettiamo che ritorni la luce, di sentire una voce, aspettiamo senza avere paura domani”, la medesima luce è un faro che accompagna l’omonima mostra collettiva, curata da Diana Segantini e promossa dalla Fondazione Augusto Rancilio, visibile fino al 5 luglio 2026 a Villa Arconati a Castellazzo di Bollate (MI).
Igor Eskinja, Eskinja, “At your place”, lightbox, plexiglass, 2008; Antoni Taulé, “Seuil de la caverne”, 1986, olio su tela; Nives Widauer, “Moonbrightnight” (dalla serie of moon...

Conductors, schlock, and 26-27, oh my! Make sure to weigh in on our next edition of The Talk of the Town.

In the case of Lina Bruna Rasa, the reasons why she never sang at the Met are painfully clear.

In the award for the most literal interpretation of authoritarian thought control this week, the winner is the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The institution placed Savneet Talwar, the director of its graduate art therapy program, on leave for asking students to create a mock therapeutic treatment plan for a queer Arab woman who sympathized with pro-Palestinian protests and feared retaliation under the Trump administration.Provost Martin Berger found this exercise in empathy unacceptable, enacting his own retaliation against the professor. Ironically, Berger is a scholar who has authored several publications on the civil rights movement. This incident, as Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian writes, is "a...

La pittura contemporanea è entrata da tempo nella propria fase necromantica. Origina fantasmi, archivi, rovine, temporalità collassate e mitologie tossiche, ma raramente produce ancora storia. Il trauma si presenta oggi come filtro atmosferico: una nebbia estetica compatibile con la circolazione dell’immagine. Il sistema dell’arte dipende dall’immaginario terminale; distopie climatiche, folklore post-umani, allegorie coloniali ricombinate e iconografie del deterioramento sono diventati il linguaggio dominante di una pittura che oscilla tra fascinazione archeologica e consumo della catastrofe. La vera ossessione non è più la fine del mondo, ma la paura che la fine del mondo abbia smesso di produrre...

A new public art project is set to liven up the streets of New York City’s five boroughs as well as nearby parts of New Jersey with soccer ball-themed sculptures created in honor of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The project, titled “The Art of the Game,” was conceived by New Jersey-based arts accessibility initiative […]

When Helene Plotkin purchased a painting of a seated woman at a White Plains thrift store sixty years ago, she bought it because she liked it. A former art student, she admired its colors and brushwork, and the price was right: she remembers it costing under $100. Now, thanks to Ms. Plotkin’s eye, her son’s curiosity, and a little help from the Google chatbot Gemini, her family is more than $250,000 richer.   Verified by specialists as an original canvas by noted Scottish artist F.C.B. Cadell (1883–1937), the work sold to a private buyer at auction June 4 for $189,200 pounds with fees. Though Plotkin, now 88, always treasured the painting—which depicts a chic woman in a dark dress and 1920s-style...

British painter David Hockney, known for his bright, pleasure-suffused paintings of 1960s and ’70s Los Angeles, died in London on June 11. He was eighty-eight. His death was announced by his publicist, Erica Bolton. Hockney in the 1960s recuperated figurative painting and, more specifically, the human form, both of which had been previously rejected by the […]

A series of 20-day furloughs are set to hit all staff at the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, South Carolina. In a statement to The Post and Courier, the museum cited “financial pressure” and “a shift in the political and funding environment,” as the rationale for the measure.  The museum intends to carry […]

In the ever-expanding pantheon of open-world video games where combat, survival, crafting, and anarchy reign, the simple idea of taking a virtual walk while chatting with a few friends might seem pointless. A new video game from Melbourne-based developer House House begs to differ, though, turning a casual stroll across dreamy landscapes into a uniquely collaborative game, where puzzles and the lengths required to solve them take center stage. Some areas of Big Walk render players speechless, forcing you to devise innovative ways to communicate. It might just be the antithesis of Fortnite or Grand Theft Auto. This friendly, casual, and playful approach to game design may come as no surprise from the makers of...

The Colombian artist Delcy Morelos describes her hometown of Tierralta as “a paradise full of butterflies and unpaved streets.” In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Morelos spent her days in her grandmother’s garden, running barefoot and gleaning what it meant to live in connection with the land. When paramilitary and guerrilla troops moved in, though, the region was plunged into a chaotic state of grief and fear. In her earliest works, Morelos translated the death and destruction plaguing her home into two-dimensional compositions. As she details in a new segment for Art21, acrylic painting was not long her primary mode of working, and quickly, she returned to the earth, incorporating soil, straw, and...

Conductor Eun Sun Kim and soprano Elza van der Heever play to their strengths in a piercing revival of Elektra at San Francisco Opera.

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For vibrato fanciers, of course, discovering Supervia is like hitting the mother lode.

Dal 9 al 13 giugno 2026 si svolge a Bologna la dodicesima edizione di Opentour, la piattaforma dedicata alla promozione dei giovani talenti dell’arte contemporanea che continua ad arricchire la città trasformandola in un grande laboratorio diffuso di ricerca, confronto e sperimentazione artistica. Al centro del programma di Opentour è la rassegna Giovani talenti in galleria che, coinvolgendo simultaneamente 31 gallerie e spazi privati di Bologna, costituisce il fulcro della manifestazione, creando un dialogo diretto tra la formazione accademica e il sistema dell’arte contemporanea.
Opentour 2026, Openshow, ph. Alessandro Para, courtesy Accademia delle Belle arti di Bologna
Partendo dal luogo da dove...

All’interno di Mezz’aria Community Hub, a Bologna, una mostra abita un’area della struttura inutilizzata da anni per ragionare sulla condizione generativa che l’estetica dell’oggetto e del luogo industriale abbandonato comportano, creando un intreccio di sguardi che crea suggestioni immersive e spunti per ulteriori riflessioni.
AA.VV., “Failing Supreme”, installation view at Mezz’aria Community Hub, Bologna, courtesy of the artists
Alla base dell’ideazione della mostra Failing Supreme il gruppo curatoriale Infrarosso composto da Anna Zanette, Greta Virdis e Aurora Taiti è partito proprio dal ragionamento sul luogo. Mezz’aria Community Hub è un progetto di rigenerazione urbana, un...

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By Victoria Thomas When John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966, he had no idea who she was. More remarkably, Yoko was equally unaware of John. This neutral introduction seems impossible for us today, especially for children of the 1960s. But defying mere nostalgia, The Broad meets this challenge with Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Ono's first LA museum show, which offers a full season of multi-arts media programming, including the installation of seven digital antiwar billboards across Los Angeles....

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Dearest by Zeinab Diomande is a zine presenting a collection of paintings that, while not a formal series, share a cohesive visual language exploring themes of liquidity and the passage of time, achieved through the use of thinned paint and water. The pieces employ texture as a storytelling device, reflecting the rituals and ceremonies of the artist’s alter egos within imagined worlds.
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Interior Gallery Photos by and ©Tim Hursley, courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum  As a world-class institution showcasing one of the most impressive collections of American art spanning five centuries, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has firmly placed Bentonville, Arkansas on the global cultural map. And, except for a few major holidays, the museum […]
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By A. Laura Brody What is the language of bat senses and beaver teethmarks? How does water communicate to soil and roots, and how do we translate the paths left by burrowing insects or the markings of trees? These are questions asked by the Journal of Therolinguistics exhibition at Descanso Gardens' Boddy House, on view now until July 5, 2026. Oscar Salguero has curated a fascinating exploration of the expressive worlds of plants and animals brought to life by international artists Aistė...

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For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...