Nine works that brought wit, absurdity and a little melancholy to Frieze.

An elegant rendition, and an artistically true one.

CORRUGATED ALUMINUM SKIN ESTABLISHES A CIVIC LANDMARK IN SARDINIA
 
Designed by Leicho architettura, the new Via Caravaggio school in Sinnai, Sardinia, replaces an obsolete structure with a civic facility that redefines the relationship between public architecture, pedagogy, and urban identity. The building presents a dual spatial character: a compact, highly recognizable exterior volume contrasts with a permeable, porous interior layout.
 
The exterior building envelope is wrapped in micro-perforated corrugated aluminum panels that soften straight edges along curved margins. The textured metal skin shifts in response to daylight, establishing the school as a distinct visual landmark within the neighborhood....

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LOG PILE GEOMETRY SHAPES TIMBER CYCLING HUB by ToB.Studio
 
Designed by ToB.Studio, the Burgsinn Cycling Rest Station establishes a public service hub along the D9 cycle route in Germany, positioned at the transition between the town and surrounding landscape. Drawing visual cues from local forestry history, the compact building reinterprets the form of stacked timber logs. Its solid volume features carved-out niches that accommodate sheltered seating areas, entrances, and service points beneath a broad overhanging green roof.
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rough-sawn larch cladding wraps bike station’s exterior
 
The station, designed by ToB.Studio architectural practice,...

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Signal Festival co-founder in conversation with designboom
 
Signal Festival reemerges for a weekend of immersive digital art installations that light up the corners and monuments of Prague. Founded by Martin Pošta, alongside producer and curator Jan Rolník and artist Amar Mulabegovič from the art group The Macula, nearly fourteen years ago, the event has grown from a yearly festival to also include a permanent space, open year-round in the Czech capital. Following the opening night of the event’s fourteenth edition, Dream On!, Pošta catches up with designboom in the recently opened Signal Space in Prague’s city center to chat about the event’s history.
Gábor Kitzinger, András László Nagy, and...

Jellyfish, office blinds and the fragile politics of home at Frieze London.

The world's leading tenor garners a tepid response at Carnegie Hall's season opener featuring the Berliner Philharmoniker.

SNØHETTA’S SHANGHAI GRAND OPERA HOUSE OPENS ON HUANGPU RIVER
 
After nearly a decade in the making, Snøhetta’s Shanghai Grand Opera House officially opens on October 17, 2026, bringing a new cultural landmark to the banks of the Huangpu River. Spanning 146,786 square meters, the completed building houses three auditoriums with a combined capacity of 4,200 seats, alongside rehearsal, production, education, exhibition, and hospitality facilities. Yet the Norwegian architecture studio’s ambitions extend beyond creating a world-class performance venue. Conceived as an accessible public destination, the Opera House invites residents and visitors to experience its architecture and surrounding landscape,...

Daphne King on Fong Chung-Ray, Chinese abstraction and escaping art-world boxes.

The open, skyward deliveries at the beginning and end of the aria as she addresses heaven! The mournful softness of her interceding "O mia Regina."

The guttsiest, bitchiest, verismoist Amneris in my experience

It’s a sunny October afternoon in Manhattan and the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art are bustling with visitors. Tourists pose for selfies against the museum’s facade; street vendors sell chopped-up hotdogs in a nest of French fries; and the sound of saxophone music drowns into the symphony of splashing water fountains and honking cars on Fifth Avenue. So many types of people; the only ones missing are the Lenape whose land was stolen so we could enjoy this fine Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the steps of The Met. Inside the museum, a blockbuster exhibition about Abstract Expressionist painters Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock is jam-packed. The show is as much about their mutual influence as it is...

Leah Wood brings colour, botanicals and a fragile sense of paradise to Knightsbridge.

The satellites and comets still worth catching before Frieze Week ends.

A fascination with Cool Britannia is evident at exhibitions, auctions and art fairs—though some question whether a revival of this era is possible or wise

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! The Norton Simon Museum countersued the Jewish Federation Los Angeles, following the latter’s suit claiming it owned a Nazi-looted Lucas Cranach diptych in the museum collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has selected artist Danh Võ for its 2027 Genesis Façade Commission. The Biennale Jogja Foundation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, has announced it is closing its operations after 16 years, due to political and economic turmoil. The Headlines CRANACH CONFUSION. The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, countersued the Jewish Federation Los Angeles on Wednesday, following the...

DISCARDED RESEARCH PROTOTYPES turn into SCULPTURAL OBJECTS
 
Developed by industrial designer and researcher Ruben Moutinho, THE FORM THAT REMAINED transforms discarded research prototypes, experimental models, and obsolete components into a series of one-of-a-kind sculptural objects. The project establishes its material archive directly from scientific and technological development projects, preserving the technical geometries, surface treatments, and structural forms produced during iterative testing and refinement. Rather than concealing their origins, each sculpture retains the name or acronym of its source research project, such as SHESOIL, AUTONOVA, LIVIA, BRIVA, ACTIVA, and UNIKA, as an independent...

Students say they are not receiving marks or feedback, as dispute over the institution's restructuring programme has dragged on for 130 days

The area, called Noma, will be near the site of the first Frieze Abu Dhabi, which launches next month in the Saadiyat Cultural District

The gallery-free fair takes a commission rather than charging a stand fee

Sanaz Sohrabi’s feature-length documentary “An Incomplete Calendar” uses archival materials to reframe the oil cartel as an agent of anti-imperialist solidarity

Rubaiaya Qatar, a new quadrennial that will open its inaugural edition at various venues across Doha beginning November 21, has announced more than 120 artists that will participate in the new initiative, presented by Qatar Museums in collaboration with ALRIWAQ Arts + Architecture. Unlike most other recurring art exhibitions, Rubaiaya Qatar will be made up of three separate shows at three different institutions and will also include a public art component. “The inauguration of Rubaiya Qatar marks a defining moment in this change, with Doha as the stage on which contemporary art from our region and beyond is presented to the world,” Sheikha Alanood Al Thani, the quadrennial’s director, said in a...

Two years ago, I encountered the infamous 1892 image of two men with a hill of buffalo skulls at the Baltimore Museum of Art. It was covered by a small wall-mounted curtain designed by Yurok artist Stormi Turner, and it gave the image, still shocking after over a century of circulation, the depth of tragedy that it warranted. Part of the Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum exhibition, it was a way of acknowledging the care that such a crime demands, in the same way that human remains are shown in museums today, often with warnings, behind doors you must open, or under covers that you must actively remove to see. Turner’s intervention was a way to honor an animal that many Native American groups and...

Artavazd Pelechian said his piece, and his admirers have waited decades for the world to take notice. The Armenian filmmaker, active primarily during the Soviet era, has a concise oeuvre: 13 works, mostly shorts, with two features that barely crack an hour. Aside from 2019’s Nature, he has not released anything since 1994. International recognition came gradually, but it has grown enough that many of his films have received 4K restorations that premiered at different festivals over 2026. Recently, the Pelechian Project was showcased at the New York Film Festival (NYFF), with eight of the director’s restored works in the program.At the storied All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow in the...

Two life-changing experiences lie at the heart of the captivating new oil-and-graphite paintings in Tanya Merrill’s exhibition, Land animal, house animal: The artist gave birth to her daughter in June, and her family recently relocated from New York City to upstate New York. In her new environment, Merrill decisively challenges a pervasive anthropocentric worldview that deems humans superior and animals lesser. She foregrounds local animals as sentient beings with their own motivations and desires, including a cat in two terrific paintings, a wide-eyed and inquisitive dairy cow, and the Northern harrier (or marsh hawk) with piercing eyes and luscious gray, white, and black feathers that she frequently...

Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History could join the Smithsonian museum network. The museum was founded in 1976 and is currently a Smithsonian affiliate. As an affiliate, it can borrow from the Smithsonian’s collections and draw on its resources. The museum regularly programs exhibitions, as well as housing a core collection covering Jewish […]

On September 29, ARTnews celebrated the launch of the 37th edition of our annual Top 200 Collectors list at Summit New York 1 Vanderbilt, which featured impressive views of the New York skyline from the Chrysler Building to the JPMorgan Chase Tower to the Empire State Building. The evening’s cohosts were Estrellita Brodsky, chair of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and cofounder of Another Space in Chelsea, and Becky Gochman, cofounder of the Gochman Family Collection, which will open Branchline, an exhibition space in Katonah, New York, next month. During remarks, Gochman spoke about the central role artists play in the art world. “I would like to make a statement here tonight that we wouldn’t...

In a suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, California, is arguing that it is the proper owner of 16th-century diptych that was looted by the Nazis and later sold to its founder. The heirs have been fighting for the artwork for decades, though the family chose after World War II not to sue for its return. The museum opposes an attempt by the Jewish Federation-Council of Greater Los Angeles and its board chair Daniel Gryczman, who sued in September for the return of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 16th-century diptych painting Adam and Eve. Marei von Saher, heir to the Dutch dealer Jacques Goudstikker, who owned the piece before the war, has sued...

A life-sized statue of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis began melting soon after the climate advocacy group 350 Action installed it in front of a crowd of DeSantis supporters in Tallahassee on Tuesday, October 13.The transformation of the gallium statue, aptly titled "DENIAL," into a skeletal base highlighted the elected official's longstanding rejection of climate change as Floridians prepare to vote for who will be DeSantis's successor on November 3. The statue's placard reads, "I am not a global warming person," quoting DeSantis's proclamation during his gubernatorial campaign in 2018, and includes a reference to his 2024 signing of House Bill 1645, an energy law that axed the phrase...

George Osborne, the former British chancellor who now chairs the British Museum, played a personal role in securing a reported £5 million ($6.6 million) sponsorship from billionaire hedge fund manager Igor Tulchinsky, according to internal emails obtained by the campaign group Culture Unstained. The correspondence, first reported by in the Art Journal, shows that Osborne introduced Tulchinsky to the museum and gave the go-ahead for sponsorship negotiations less than 90 minutes after receiving a due diligence report that included a section on potential concerns about the donor. What those concerns were remains a mystery, since the museum blacked out that part of the report before releasing it under Britain’s...

FLORENCE, ITALY—A bronze statue of an Etruscan man wearing a toga found in 1567 may have been deliberately turned black some 2,200 years ago, according to the Greek Reporter. Historical accounts of the discovery indicate that the sculpture was green when it was unearthed. It had been previously thought that the statue, known as the Arringatore (“Orator”) of Pila, turned black over time through a natural corrosion process. Conservators, including Salvatore Siano of the Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara” and Sonia Mugnaini of the University of Siena, removed brown coatings on the statue, and found smooth, nearly black areas on the sculpture’s face, hair, clothing, and arm. The researchers...

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA—According to a statement released by Flinders University, underwater archaeologists working with the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation rangers and divers have identified sites off the northwestern coast of Australia where First Peoples lived more than 9,000 years ago, when sea levels rose and reshaped the coastline. The submerged area covers some 772,000 square miles. One of the identified sites includes a freshwater spring and stone tools, which were made using material obtained from an island about 14 miles away. Another site featured a rocky hill overlooking a river channel. “The Ngarda-Ngarli people have cared for Murujuga for at least 50,000 years,” said Vincent Adams, director of...

GHARBIA GOVERNARATE, EGYPT—According to an Ahram Online report, fragments of two colossal statues have been discovered in Egypt’s Nile Delta. One statue has been identified as Ramesses II, and the second is also thought to represent the pharaoh, who ruled from about 1279 to 1213 B.C. Archaeologists from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) uncovered the statues after they were called to the site by a local villager who found an inscribed granite block on his property. Hisham El-Leithy of the SCA said that the first statue fragment is a five-foot-long head depicting Ramesses II wearing a double crown, symbolizing the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt. A piece of the statue’s back pillar is...

Moscow’s GES-2 House of Culture has named Italian curator Francesco Bonami as its new artistic director. The institution opened in 2021 before halting programming in 2022 at the start of the Russia-Ukraine War, and is funded by billionaire Leonid Mikhelson’s V-A-C Foundation. Bonami began his career as an artist, and worked as an editor at […]

The creation of a Centre Pompidou in Foz do Iguaçu, a city in the Brazilian state of Paraná, was initially slated to open in November 2027, then rescheduled for 2028. Now, the project has been pushed back again, until 2029. The new museum will be designed by Paraguayan architect Solano Benítez, but the bidding process […]

French billionaire and collector François Pinault told Le Monde that he intends to put 106 works from his personal art collection on permanent display at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, one of three venues where Pinault stages programs of temporary exhibitions. The permanent show is set to open March 2027. “For 20 years, we opted […]

A nude figure with frazzled hair lies in bed, the sickly colored linens draped across their upper body. Fingertips glowing red as if inflamed, the character grasps a navy phone and stares catatonically at the screen. A vibrant infinity symbol is superimposed on the scene, emerging as endless loops of energy and mesmerization from the device. The all-too-relatable portrait is part of a suite of new works by Robin F. Williams capturing the omnipotent techno-dystopia we’re collectively barreling toward. Extrapolating on the ways humanity and machines merge, the Brooklyn-based artist presents a mystical vision of another world infused with pop culture and art history. “Merminator” (2026), oil on linen, 60 x...

The organizers of Art Week NYC today announced the thirty-two cultural institutions and nonprofit organizations participating in the event’s inaugural edition, to take place November 11–14 across the city. Designed around New York’s gallery neighborhoods, Art Week NYC aims to celebrate the city’s one-of-a-kind art ecosystem by bringing together museums, cultural institutions, galleries, artists, collectors, […]

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Beth Taylor sings with her whole heart and soul and it is evident in the aria "Priva son d'ogni conforto" from Handel's Giulio Cesare.

Ribs (top) and scapula (above) of Shanidar A CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—Haaretz reports that Emma Pomeroy of the University of Cambridge and her colleagues examined the remains of Shanidar A, a Neanderthal of about 45 years of age who was buried in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Shanidar Cave some 75,000 years ago. The researchers suggest that the individual had been killed when a weapon, likely a sharpened stick, was forced into his chest from the front, passed through a lung, and punched a hole in his left shoulder blade. Similar holes have been identified in fossilized animal bones. About a year before his death, this individual had also suffered facial injuries, including a shattered front tooth. An earlier study...

Coin TROY, OHIO—More than 18,000 artifacts were recovered during a rescue excavation conducted at a 200-year-old tavern site in western Ohio, according to a WYSO Public Radio report. The Overfield Tavern was constructed in 1808 by Benjamin and Margaret Overfield. “It was where the community gathered to celebrate, to share information, and to spend time together,” said Chris Manning of the Troy Historical Society. The building would have also housed local militia meetings and auctions, in addition to serving as the post office and the courthouse until official buildings were constructed. The building became a museum in the late 1940s, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The...

Federico Veronesi received the top honor of the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year for his poignant black-and-white image of a female elephant carrying her deceased calf. The portrait represents a rare insight into animals’ habits we have yet to fully understand and demonstrates the power of timing and persistence in photography. Veronesi had been tracking elephants in the Huab River Valley of Namibia when he encountered some unusual drag marks on the earth. He eventually caught up with the family, and the adult emerged with the calf’s leg wedged between her trunk and tusk. “Behaviours centering on death have been observed in both Asian and African elephants, including vocalisations, guarding the...

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The imaginative, strange childhood dreams of twins Nikolai and Simon Haas materialize in a large-scale exhibition at Blanton Museum of Art. Working as the Haas Brothers, the siblings have been collaborating since 2010 and are widely known for their fantastical sculptures of flora and fauna with their signature cheeky, surreal twist. In Austin, the Los Angeles artists present a range of figurative furniture, plush cartoonish characters, and illuminated installations that showcase their idiosyncratic aesthetic. Previously on view at Cranbrook Art Museum and the Museum of Art and Design in New York, Uncanny Valley is the first mid-career survey for the duo, presenting a range of their quirky, genre-defying works....

For centuries, Navajo/Diné weavers have created intricate, geometrically patterned blankets and rugs on upright looms, powered only by the artisans’ bodies. More than a millennia ago in Mesoamerica, which encompassed much of what today is Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and parts of Central America, the Mayans produced ornate ceramics decorated with natural motifs like birds. Utilizing materials that could be foraged or cultivated in the landscape—the Diné have herded the distinctive Navajo-Churro sheep since the breed was introduced by Spaniards in the 16th century—the techniques, motifs, and cultural customs continue to influence artists today. Through the lens of Indigenous interpretations of...

“I find that when I work from my emotions and experiences, I make a more powerful image,” Ann Toebbe writes. Meditating on the connection between physical spaces and the feelings and memories bound within them is central to the Chicago artist’s practice. In a review of Toebbe’s recent exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center, the writer Elisa Shoenberger teases out the distinction that grounds the artist’s work. “Space is the physical location, while place is the meaning we bring to it. It’s the difference between thinking about the physical location of your house (space) and the feelings, history and emotions tied up in your home (place),” Schoenberger writes. Rendering interiors and cross-cut...

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I’m an illustrator/ graphic designer currently based in Beijing. Through illustration, I make connections to everyday life, seeking out beauty in the midst of chaos. My work gives visual form to inner feelings and experiences. I see each creative process as an adventure, specializing in the translation of text into vibrant visual narratives.
This zine《Let’s go to the park》 is an experimental work on visual language, creating narrative solely through visual imagery. It came from some moments when I was just zoning out in the park: from the amusing interactions between a dog and its owner, the swirling ripples in the fountain, the sudden downpour of rain… I blended these unrelated moments...

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To celebrate the retrospective exhibition Future Pastime featuring the work of futurist Syd Mead opening at the Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery in San Francisco this evening, we are showing previews of paintings from the show as well as the full article which Silke Tudor wrote on the late legendary industrial designer in Hi-Fructose Issue 33. […]
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The women look concerned, and weary. They are ready to repel an attack. The women look in love, but bored. “When are you leaving,” they might wonder. The women are only half-present. Matted hair, two eyes, a hand, and the rest have either turned inward or run away. The women are multifaceted. Their eyes are […]
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In the “feminist west” that lives on Jennifer Nehrbass’s canvases, women ride horseback and hike in fashionable attire. They appear in head-and-shoulder portraits against fiery backgrounds and nude in pieces where figurative and landscape painting converge. In her work, Nehrbass challenges the common depictions of the U.S. West. “You would always have the man who […]
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With a creative lexicon featuring yarn, pixels, beeswax, and spray paint, Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega has created a new language for herself, one that speaks to the present and the past by using traditional and contemporary techniques, as well as rural and urban sensibilities, to create a body of work that synthesizes all her […]
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Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.