Nella cultura odierna orientata all’immagine, gli artisti sono costantemente circondati da riferimenti visivi – dai feed dei social media, alle scene cinematografiche, dalla storia dell’arte e dagli archivi personali. Il curatore e critico francese Nicolas Bourriaud ha descritto questo approccio come “postproduzione”: gli artisti non creano più da zero, ma rimescolano e reinterpretano immagini e simboli culturali esistenti. L’ascesa di internet ha solo intensificato questo processo. Gli artisti contemporanei ora lavorano con flussi infiniti di immagini online, fotografie trovate e materiali d’archivio, citandoli, rimescolandoli e riappropriandosene mentre li caricano di significati diversi. Il...

a 100-meter pool for potsdamer platz
 
Along the western edge of Potsdamer Platz, Berlin’s Tilla-Durieux-Park stretches for 485 meters as a long, tilted lawn between dense blocks. Kinzo Architekten proposes turning its central strip into a year-round recreational route led by a 15-by-100-meter outdoor pool. The basin runs almost like an urban canal, with lap lanes drawn down the axis and timber decks stepping along one side. A pink path traces the park’s edge and continues toward the sports areas farther south.
 
The idea begins with a familiar weakness in Potsdamer Platz, one of Europe’s best-known post-reunification planning projects and among its most debated. Its offices and tourist draws keep the...

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“We can see snakes move, but we cannot see how they move”

The San Francisco campus of Vanderbilt University has received a landmark $75 million donation from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and his wife Lori to set up a new art college. The new institution will be named the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, pending the university’s approval. The institution is also currently seeking a […]

The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has announced Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet as the curators of the 2027 edition of its Made in L.A. biennial. Wellen is chief curator at the Hammer, having arrived to the institution just months ago from London’s Tate Modern, where he was senior curator of international art. Blondet […]

On Tuesday, a New York federal appeals court ruled Jeff Koons’s well-known “Made in Heaven” series did not infringe on a sculpture made by artist and set designer Michael Hayden. The decision matched a 2025 ruling delivered in a lower court, which said Hayden waited too long to file his copyright suit against Koons. Hayden […]

Serweta Peck Turns Historic Canal Building into Flexible Art Hub
 
The Medina Triennial Hub by Serweta Peck is an adaptive reuse interior renovation of a landmark building into the headquarters of an inaugural art triennial. Sited along the Erie Canal in the Village of Medina, halfway between the cities of Buffalo and Rochester in New York State, the Hub is part of a larger arts initiative to revitalize rust-belt cities along the canal as a joint commission by the Medina Triennial 2026, New York Power Authority (NYPA), and the Canal Corporation. For the duration of the triennial, the Hub serves as the Triennial’s ‘living room’ for community gatherings, artist workshops, talks and screenings, as well as...

Qingyuan Deng reports from the collective's ten-year anniversary show

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has awarded $903,000 to 132 artists across New York State in its joint fellowship program with the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). The program gives unrestricted cash grants of $8,000 to artists working in five disciplines, which rotate every year.This year's recognized disciplines included craft and sculpture; digital and electronic arts; nonfiction literature; poetry; and printmaking, drawing, and book arts. Selected from a pool of 3,985 applicants, the awarded artists are all based in New York and range in age from 25 to 90. The NYSCA/NYFA program also announced 16 finalists, who will receive NYFA services and unrestricted cash grants of...

A newly shared letter reveals that alleged "racist" and "culturally insensitive" behaviors contributed to Yuko Kikuchi's January resignation from her post as head of academic programs at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London.In a January 26 letter she shared with The Art Newspaper, Kikuchi cited pushback on her proposals, feelings of marginalization among senior staff as the only person of color, and microaggressions — all of which impeded her mental health. Writing directly to V&A Director Tristram Hunt and museum research committee trustees, she indicated there was "a culture of systemic racism within the organisation that ... needs to be addressed." The Tokyo-born researcher has lived in the...

The lawsuit was brought by the artist Michael A. Hayden, who created a sculpture that appears in some of the images from the series

For Donna Wilson, there’s no reason that knitwear and home decor shouldn’t incorporate a lot of color and elicit joy. From patterned towels and socks to blankets and hot water bottle sleeves, the London-based designer celebrates vibrant patterns and playful creatures, especially in her series of cushions. What’s not to love about a pillow with personality? The soft objects ranging from bolsters to floor cushions to throw pillows are covered in knitted lambswool. Current designs include a larger-than-life banana, a whale, a toadstool, and more. The objects are produced in small batches in what Wilson describes as a “micro-factory” called the Knit Shop in Scotland, where vibrant flora and fauna, not to...

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Who's Making "Made in L.A."? According to the Hammer Museum, that'll be Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet. The Made in L.A. biennial at the Hammer Museum — now in its eighth edition, though modeled after the now-defunct biennial Hammer Invitational — exhibits new and recent work by artists living or working in Los Angeles, as well as commissions new ones. It's slated to open in fall 2027. Each edition pairs two curators, usually one from the Hammer and the other from outside. Wellen joined the museum this past April as its chief...

On July 23, the Kansong Art Museum in Seoul hosted a ceremony to mark the return of two Qing Dynasty stone lion sculptures to China. According to a report in the South Korean publication Yonhap News Agency, the ceremony was attended by Chun In-keon, director of the Kansong Art Museum, You Hong-june, director of the National Museum of Korea, Dai Bing, the Chinese ambassador to South Korea, and Rao Quan, head of China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration. The lions’ return had been arranged at a meeting between the two countries in early January. The statues were purchased by Jeon Hyeong-pil, a Korean art collector and philanthropist, from an auction in Osaka, Japan, in 1933. Jeon (who also went by...

Could Leonardo da Vinci, alongside imagery of visitors strolling through art exhibitions, become the face of future euro banknotes? In a first, Europeans can now help decide how they want to pay for their Belgian chocolate and French cheese: with bills printed in designs depicting either “European culture” or “Rivers and birds,” announced the European Central Bank (ECB) today. Not too shabby. The bank has revealed 10 shortlisted finalists of an international competition for the eurozone’s new banknote designs, and invited the public to share their two cents about it in a survey here, open until September 21, 2026. This is the first time the euro will get a full makeover since it was issued in 2002....

In late May, the quill held by David d’Angers’s 1834 statue of Thomas Jefferson, exiled from the New York City Hall since 2021, broke while the piece was being moved from the New York Historical’s library into a gallery space for the new exhibition Democracy Matters. The quill was repaired with Lascaux 498-X adhesive two weeks later, but the fact that this happened during the nation’s 250th anniversary, with democracy under assault, provides more than an irresistible symbolic trope. Jefferson’s language of equality has long inspired democratic, labor, and socialist movements and given them a basis to expand their demands for justice. In a bold maneuver, Mayor Zohran Mamdani could use this incident to...

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Watching Curtis Sliwa watch comedian Spike Einbinder — brother of Hacks star Hannah Einbinder and son of Saturday Night Live alum Laraine Newman — get shot in a comedic recreation of the former New York City Republican mayoral candidate's infamous 1992 kidnapping and shooting was the kind of experience I’ll remember for the rest of my life. Thankfully, the other parts of the performance were just as absurd, verging on the erratic, which was pitch-perfect for The Most American Pageant Ever!, an event billed as a “renewed portrait of America,” though it often felt more like an elegy during the nation’s semiquincentennial year.Former Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, along with the other...

The United States has repatriated a collection of looted cultural artifacts to Indonesia, according to a report by the Associated Press. The handover took place July 22 at a meeting between Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto and FBI director Kash Patel in Jakarta. The returned items, from Indonesia’s Papua region, are part of the cultural heritage of the Dani and Asmat tribes and Lake Sentani communities, said Indonesia’s culture minister Fadi Zon. They were repatriated through cooperation between the FBI and the ministry after provenance research established that they had been smuggled out of Indonesia, Zon added. The artifacts displayed at the repatriation ceremony include several stone axe heads....

Missed a golden glimpse of the first Knicks’ championship trophy in 53 years, as it made its victory lap through Manhattan? Never fear, New York: Get yourself to the American Museum of Natural History starting Monday, where the Larry O’Brien Trophy will be on display through January 3. The Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs on June 13, crowning a spectacular comeback season and ending a two generation-spanning dignity drought for New York City. And so commenced a literally explosive weekend of celebrations across the five boroughs, which culminated in a ticker-tape parade on June 18 to City Hall. Roughly 2 million fans attended, leaving thousands more on the wrong side of the police barricades along...

After criticism on social media, the government scrapped the original selection of a design by Estudio Campo Baeza and Maoda, opting for a proposal led by the Japanese firm Sanaa

Axes from Kazakhstan (A) and Germany (B) KIEL, GERMANY—According to the Greek Reporter, Matthias Christian Hüls of Kiel University and his colleagues compared two Iron Age axes—one unearthed in a burial mound in Kazakhstan and the other discovered among a collection of tools in northern Germany. Radiocarbon dating determined that the tool from Kazakhstan was made between 357 and 164 B.C., making it several hundred years younger than the burial in which it was found. It may have been left at the site during the construction of a neighboring burial mound, Hüls explained. The ax was crafted from two types of iron. Softer metal was used near the handle, while the cutting edges were made of harder,...

EWE Studio Reinterprets Purépecha sand-casting techniques
 
The Exhuma Dining Table is a three-meter sculptural piece by EWE Studio that combines hand-carved green marble with cast aluminum, drawing on ancestral Purépecha sand-casting techniques to explore the relationship between material, craftsmanship, and contemporary design.
 
The table is the latest addition to EWE Studio’s Exhuma Collection, which references pre-Hispanic techniques and Purépecha metallurgy. The collection examines ancestral knowledge and material practices passed down through generations, adapting historical casting methods into a contemporary language of collectible design. The technique behind Exhuma is an adaptation of casting...

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SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR—Phys.org reports that a burial estimated to be 3,000 years old has been discovered in western El Salvador. The human remains had been placed face down in the pit, which also contained a ceramic vessel shaped like a sea turtle and cassava branches preserved by layers of volcanic ash. Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis are planned for future research. Archaeologists suspect that additional burials will be found in the area. To read about excavations of the country's first capital, go to "Letter from El Salvador: Uneasy Allies." Burial excavation, Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador
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The future of the architecturally illustrious centerpiece of the Glasgow School of Art—designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and completed in stages between 1899 and 1909—is uncertain after the school said planned renovation work following two fires is too expensive to undertake on its own. After a fire in 2014, actors Brad Pitt and Peter Capaldi led a fundraising drive to restore the building. But another blaze in 2018 did further damage that was deemed “exceptionally significant,” according to a BBC report tracing the timeline of what Stuart Robertson, the director of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, described as “like déjà vu.” But after the settlement of a years-long insurance claim,...

In galleries, magazines, apps and digital storefronts, clarity is often treated as a design preference. It is seen as something... Read More

By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...

For more than four decades, environmental artist Patrick Dougherty has reimagined the technical and sculptural capabilities of one simple material: twigs. Over the years, the North Carolina-based artist completed well over 300 large-scale, site-specific installations in a series he calls Stickworks, using literal truckloads of willow saplings from specialized farms in Canada that grow them for applications like fencing, basketmaking, and more. Where possible, Dougherty has also incorporated materials the local area had to offer. I first stumbled upon the artist’s whimsical constructions in Door County, Wisconsin, where “Happy Go Lucky” sits at Horseshoe Bay Farms near Egg Harbor. By the time I...

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soaring timber architecture led by shop
 
Over the skyline of Sydney, Atlassian Central now rises more than 180 meters (over 590 feet), its hybrid timber structure reaching full height with the completion of the final structural level. The 39-story tower designed by SHoP Architects and BVN is organized around seven timber habitats, each spanning four floors and forming large openings through the workplace above the city. Timber remains visible within these clustered spaces, giving the building an identity shaped by its construction system as much as its height.
 
Atlassian Central becomes the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower at its topping-out milestone, standing around 100 metres higher than...

For years, the phrase “destination wedding” conjured up a very specific, almost uniform image: a sun-drenched beach, white folding chairs... Read More

a temporary world beneath the kites
 
In Weifang, China, thousands of people spread across an open field each spring and spend the afternoon looking up. Tropical fish drift beside Shin Ramyun packets, while kites stretching as far as 300 meters cross the sky. Janice Chan photographs this strange scale from the ground, keeping the airborne forms within the larger world of spectators and vendors gathered across the field.
 
Her series, dubbed Most People Came to Watch the Sky, follows the annual Weifang International Kite Festival through its surrounding atmosphere. Chan, a Hong Kong-based Kiwi architectural designer and photographer, gives as much space to the people waiting beneath the flights as she does to...

miart has appointed curator, critic and lecturer Cloe Piccoli as Artistic Director for the 2027–2029 editions

While it may not be top-tier Rossini, Teatro Nuovo's mounting of Il turco in Italia is still good summer fun.

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The future of the iconic Art Nouveau building may be in jeopardy following fires in 2014 and 2018, as the Scottish art school looks for external funding

Rare carvings may reveal important information about New Kingdom era connections to the Near East and ancient domestic life

Suleman Aqeel Khilji is a contemporary artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores memory, migration, identity and collective history

The UK's largest artists' membership organisation rebrands from a-n to Artists Now and have launched a new Green Manifesto for artists.

Fifty some years ago I stumbled on to John Barbirolli's recording of matchless Elgar & V-Williams music for strings and discovered my go-to conductor for life.

Having survived his country’s numerous adversaries from Stalin to Putin, the artist has opened his first large-scale retrospective in Kyiv

C’è una linea invisibile ma potentissima che unisce la frazione di un secondo in cui scatta l’otturatore di una macchina fotografica e la durata temporale di una nota musicale. Luigi Ghirri, tra i più grandi maestri della fotografia contemporanea, definiva questo legame una «strana e misteriosa parentela». Per esplorare questa sinergia profonda, Palazzo dei Musei di Reggio Emilia ha inaugurato la mostra Luigi Ghirri. A Series of Dreams. Paesaggi visivi e paesaggi sonori, un ambizioso percorso espositivo curato da Ilaria Campioli e Andrea Tinterri, con la curatela musicale di Giulia Cavaliere.
Luigi Ghirri, “A Series of Dreams”, installation view, photo Iacopo Pasqui, courtesy Musei Civici di Reggio...

In a practice she describes as “ceramic collage,” Debra Broz delves into the world of secondhand decor and kitsch. The Seattle-based artist’s quirky sculptures are made from found figurines, which she cuts and reconfigures into playful hybrid forms. “A lot of times when I look at them, I think about if they were alive, how would they move and how would they operate?” Broz tells Seattle Channel. In her ongoing series Superorganisms, the artist creates three-dimensional assemblages that toy with the boundary between familiarity and the uncanny. “It’s really important to me that you look at it and your first thought is, ‘That’s a figurine I’ve seen before,'” she says. “And then your second...

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC—Science in Poland reports that Michał Misiak of the University of Wrocław and Petr Tureček of Charles University developed a mathematical model to evaluate the use of cannibalism in different societies. The practice is known to have been imbued with symbolic significance in ritual contexts, and to have been used in times of extreme famine as a survival strategy. “We looked at the human body as a potential food source, analyzing both the energy gains and the hidden costs,” Misiak said. “From a caloric perspective, a human proves to be an average meal, especially considering the difficulty of obtaining one,” he added. Problems include the risk of infection from consuming...

What good is a ladder without structural integrity? Artist brothers Saman and Sasan Oskouei consider this question in The Weight of Less, an ongoing series of pocked wooden sculptures. From a school desk to a door to an industrial pallet, each humble item is punctured with irregular yet cohesive holes, rendering their former functions impractical. “As layers are removed, the objects lose their original purpose while gaining a new presence,” the artists tell Colossal. “The carved spaces expose hidden rhythms, patterns, and relationships within the material, allowing absence to become an active part of the work.” The brothers are longtime collaborators and previously worked under the name Icy & Sot....

All images courtesy of CHOI&CHOI Gallery and the artist Sculptor Yu Jinyoung garnered international acclaim for her striking figures, whose bodies are often partially transparent. These are individuals “who wish to become invisible,” she says: “those who exist free from external attention and interference.” These explorations of both intentional isolation and somber loneliness have always […]
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3D rendering (top) and in situ examples (above) of poles from the Lake Tesse fishing traps OSLO, NORWAY—Fish traps radiocarbon dated to 7,000 years ago have been identified in Lake Tesse, which is located in the mountains of southern Norway, according to a La Brújula Verde report. Some 10,000 years ago, as glaciers retreated from the area, people were able to migrate into the mountains. Fish, however, would not have been able to swim upstream against waterfalls and rapids. Humans were thought to have transported fish to higher elevations in order to establish them as a food source, but it was not known when this happened. Axel Mjærum of the University of Oslo and his colleagues have now determined that...

Central roundel of mosaic floor, Devon, England DEVON, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Exeter, a Roman villa with a mosaic floor dated to the fourth century A.D. has been discovered in southwestern England. Made up of red, white, and dark blue-gray tesserae, the floor covers some 129 square feet of what may have been a dining or reception room. The center of the floor features a roundel containing a stylized flower with overlapping petals. Archaeologist Bill Horner of Devon County Council said that the mosaic is the westernmost example to be found in a villa in Roman Britain. A blue glass intaglio carved with an image of the goddess Victory was recovered from the villa, in...

How do we distinguish between the artificial and the real? And perhaps more importantly, why should we? Genesis Belanger makes the tension and anxiety that arise from these questions tangible as she lures viewers into an unsettling world. Known for her ceramic works depicting an uncanny vision of domestic life, Belanger often teases out the dynamic relationships between discomfort, consumption, and capitalism. New pieces like “Dreams of the Luddite” nod to our collective malaise over the ubiquity of technology, portraying a nostalgic world just out of reach. “Care-taken” captures a similarly contemporary dilemma, as it presents a bathroom cabinet with medicines of mixed proportions and the recommended...

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Elina Garanča's aborted first Ariadne may have been the headline item at the Salzburg Festival next month, but this week Parterre Box features the Zerbinetta, Ziyi Dai.

Teatro Nuovo pays tribute to a historic New York production of Don Giovanni with a talented ensemble.

La giovane e promettente artista Georgia Gardner Gray dipinge Stonehenge. Se il visitatore si aspetta quadri grigi, si sbaglia completamente: i dipinti esplodono di colore e tensione. A prima vista, i dipinti di Georgia Gardner Gray sembrano provenire dalla galleria di uno smartphone. Foto di un tempo recente, memorie di momenti vissuti. Ma, aspetta, c’è Stonehenge sullo sfondo? Una donna guarda il visitatore, i suoi tatuaggi sulla caviglia e sulla spalla sono come un codice sconosciuto allo spettatore. Le sue mani toccano appena una corona di fiori. Questa non è affatto la vita quotidiana! Il visitatore è forse entrato in un rituale, dove si fanno verticali sulla testa?
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Lucia di Lammermoor at La Scala, starring Rosa Feola, proves as airless as this summer's heatwaves.

By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...

Common Objects brings together the work of 97 photographers from across the globe to explore the role of the image and its ability to shape perception. Organized not by theme or geography but by visual association, the book draws on the logic of the reference catalog—a structure built for sustained, democratic looking. Within it, photographs from vastly different cultures and contexts find themselves in unexpected proximity, generating connections and contrasts that no single image could produce alone. In this format, the photographs enter into a subtle dialogue with one another, revealing how context, sequence, and framing shape interpretation and inform visual experience.  
   
   
   
   
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All’interno dell’ex edificio industriale dell’Espace Monte-Cristo, nel quartiere del Père-Lachaise a Parigi, Diseuses de silence si configura come un dispositivo espositivo che non si limita a tematizzare il silenzio, ma lo assume come condizione epistemologica, come forma differenziale della percezione e come campo di tensione tra visibile e dicibile. Ospitata nella sede parigina della Fondation Villa Datris, istituzione fondata nel 2011 da Danièle Marcovici e Tristan Fourtine e dedicata alla promozione della scultura contemporanea in senso espanso, la mostra si inserisce in una traiettoria curatoriale che concepisce la scultura non più come oggetto, ma come ambiente percettivo, struttura relazionale...

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