In 2023, Minnesota-based artist Lydia Hansen set a goal of taking at least one hike every week throughout the entire year to care for her mental health. She began musing about how fun it would be to create crocheted mushrooms that one would encounter with the same surprise they’d feel coming across the real thing. Serendipitously, she ran into one of the trail managers of the park she was exploring and shared her idea. “That turned into my very first Fungi Hunt, which ran for an entire year at the Lost Creek Hiking Trail near Chatfield, Minnesota,” the artist tells Colossal. This summer marks the third iteration of the project, which visitors can explore at Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center in...

MAD completes its coastal museum after eight years
 
Across the edge of Houhai, where Shenzhen’s headquarters district meets Talent Park and the open water, MAD has completed Shenzhen Bay Culture Square after eight years of work. The 188,000-square-meter museum sits on a reclaimed site facing Hong Kong, with mangrove wetlands continuing along China‘s shoreline.
 
Its scale is immense, though the first impression comes through a broken silhouette. White granite volumes rise separately from green slopes, leaving the bay visible between them and giving the complex the appearance of stones exposed by retreating water.
 
The finished complex reveals how closely its architecture depends on the spaces between...

A MONUMENT ARRIVES AT BOFILL’S LA FÁBRICA
 
Three hundred kilograms of silvery rock have landed at La Fábrica, looking less like a discreet new artwork than the beginning of a particularly elegant science-fiction incident. Created by artist Luna Paiva, Totem stacks a series of imagined stones cast in stainless steel, introducing a reflective, almost otherworldly presence into the industrial architecture of Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. For Paiva, however, the staging of the object matters as much as the object itself: how it was made, where it stands and, crucially, who helped bring it there.
 
The sculpture draws on archaeological patterns shared by civilisations across different periods and...

Jisu Yoon introduces Re-flat pack foldable furniture system
 
Seoul-based industrial designer Jisu Yoon introduces Re-flat pack sofa, a furniture system that explores the possibility of repeatedly folding and unfolding a sofa through the use of shape-memory materials. The design replaces conventional foam upholstery with nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy typically used in medical stents and aerospace mechanisms, allowing the material to function simultaneously as the structure and cushioning system.
 
The project begins from a limitation of traditional flat-pack furniture: while existing systems simplify transportation and assembly, most pieces cannot return to their original compact form after being built....

Today, Art Week NYC announced the participating galleries for its inaugural citywide event taking place November 11–14, 2026. The gallery program, presented by Artforum, is the cornerstone of the inaugural event, bringing together more than 76 world renowned galleries shaping the contemporary art world.  Participating galleries include Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, David Zwirner, Pace Gallery, Lisson, Paula Cooper Gallery, and many others across New York’s gallery districts, […]

A house spins out of control in a wind storm, animals loom large in the imaginations of children, and mysterious creatures lurk in the darkness of Susan kae Grant’s shadow puppet-like photographs. For more than two decades, the artist has plumbed the mind’s eye, especially what it sees when we sleep. In the early 1990s, she even began collaborating with a researcher in a sleep laboratory at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Study and documentation of what she visualized in her own REM cycle led to phrases and vocabulary about what she dreamt that she continues to tap into for her studio work. Forthcoming this autumn from MW Editions, Grant’s book Night Journey delves into her lifelong fascination with the...

David Zwirner will stage its first solo exhibition of Yoshitomo Nara, celebrating the artist's first major New York exhibition in almost a decade.

The bonkers, bewildering Die ägyptische Helena begets a suitably lush musical and creative treatment at Bard SummerScape.

‘Free museums and galleries are a fundamental part of London life’, says the long-serving Labour mayor in a new op-ed

The Photographers' Gallery presents an outdoor afternoon of live music, film and photography in Soho Photography Quarter.

The seventh-century Anglo-Saxon burial ship is due to take to the water in May 2027, following a lengthy reconstruction process working from decayed remains

Thaddaeus Ropac London brings together eight contemporary artists for Like Music in the Blood, a group exhibition exploring the body

Luxembourg’s banks as a site for creative inquiry
 
Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, SUPERFLEX, and museum visitors have come together to create something this small European country is big on: banks. Throughout the summer of 2026, members of the community are invited to Mudam to co-create The Bank, which will result in a permanent installation for the surrounding Park Dräi Eechelen. Here, a bank isn’t merely a place to hold money—it could be a site for storing ideas, containers for critters to stow away their treasures, or a central point for collecting and distributing food. Using molds created by the Copenhagen-based artist collective, kids and curious adults will shape...

YACADEMY BRIDGES EDUCATION WITH GLOBAL PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES
 
Stepping directly from university into world-class studios is every young designer’s dream. Bridging theory and practice, Yacademy’s Placement Program turns that ambition into reality by providing students with a direct pipeline into leading world-renowned firms like SANAA, BIG, Snøhetta, David Chipperfield Architects, Herzog & de Meuron, and Kengo Kuma & Associates. A total of 32 scholarships are available for applicants to the four courses running from November 2026 to February 2027.
Scholarships available for Yacademy’s 2026/2027 Educational Offer | all images courtesy of Yacademy
 
 
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Just when we thought tech companies couldn’t get more odious, they took a page from the long, tyrannical tradition of book burning. Author and bibliophile Ed Simon opines today about the horrific revelation that Anthropic scanned and then shredded out-of-print books to train its large language models, a shameless act of artistic plunder aimed at gutting our humanity. Read and share, and take this as a sign to support your local library while you’re at it.Meanwhile, artists continue to offer glimmers of hope in unexpected places. Case in point: psychedelic pickleball courts in Pittsburgh (say that five times fast). A co-founder of the experimental collective Hilma’s Ghost and proponent of public art,...

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Korean Traditional Painting in Alter-age: Pure and Hybrid places masterpieces of Korean painting alongside the work of four contemporary artists.

An exploration of scientific studies on art and health, short-listed for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction

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Jelena e Nataša Prljević sono artiste, operatrici culturali ed educatrici serbe. Nel 2018 a New York, insieme all’artista Joshua Nierodzinski, hanno dato vita a HEKLER, una piattaforma collaborativa transnazionale che esplora le relazioni tra ospitalità e conflitto attraverso programmi come Assembly, Host e Medium. Questa pratica ha ispirato Four Waters, a Ljubanje, in Serbia, una casa indipendente, un punto d’incontro e un rifugio per artisti e comunità, che fonde strategie artistiche, curatoriali, pedagogiche e organizzative, ponendo al centro il potenziale liberatorio del lavoro collaborativo e collettivo.
Jelena Prljević, “Baba Bosiljka Prljević, Ljubanje”, 2020. Ph courtesy of the...

Lubov's statement on the passing of gallery founder Francisco Correa Cordero (screenshot via Instagram)Francisco Correa Cordero, the founder of the downtown New York gallery Lubov, died on Sunday, August 2, at the age of 37. The news of his passing was announced by the gallery’s Instagram account today, August 3. The cause of death was not listed, but the gallery said in its statement that he passed away "surrounded by what he loved the most — his chosen family, laughter and so much love."

Francisco Correa Cordero, the founder of New York gallery Lubov, died on August 2. The news was announced in a post on the gallery’s Instagram account, which did not provide a cause or age. “He accomplished and lived for his dream through the gallery of a safe and meaningful community for artists – what he built through Lubov will be felt through the art community forever,” the gallery’s post reads, which notes that Correa Cordero “passed away peacefully surrounded by what he loved the most – his chosen family, laughter and so much love.” Lubov did not immediately return ARTnews’s request for comment. A pinned Instagram post from February 2025, featuring a Photoshopped “WANTED” poster for...

Clara Wu Tsai and Joseph Tsai, the billionaire art collectors and owners of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty, are divorcing after nearly 30 years of marriage, the New York Post reported Friday. The couple, who married in New York in 1996, were named jointly to ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list in 2018 and 2025, with a focus on contemporary art. A representative for the Tsais told the Post that the split was mutual and amicable and that the two plan to keep working together across their business and philanthropic interests. Tsai will remain chairman of Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment and governor of the Nets, while Wu Tsai will remain vice chair and governor of the Liberty. The couple’s art...

Get ready for Leonardo da Vinci fever at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the curators, without so much as a press release, hung a painting this spring by the Renaissance master. On a Monday visit, the work wasn’t gaining any particularly high level of attention as it hung in gallery 609, on the second floor in the European paintings department. The small painting hangs between giant ones by Francesco Francia and Andrea Solario. Madonna of the Yarnwinder (ca. 1505 per a wall label, ca. 1501 per the museum’s website), attributed on a wall label to the master and his studio, comes from the collection of billionaire hedge funder and ARTnews Top 200 collector Kenneth C. Griffin. (Griffin’s...

Gagosian has closed its small space in London’s Burlington Arcade and will soon close up its space in Basel, Switzerland, the Art Newspaper reports. Both spaces started as pop-ups, and as long as the rents were good, it made sense for founder Larry Gagosian to keep up those spaces, a source familiar with the gallery’s thinking told ARTnews. “Larry’s thinking is, ‘If there’s opportunity there, great. If not, that’s okay too,’” the source said. Among the gallery’s London spaces, the Burlington Arcade location, which opened in 2023, was the smallest, with the downstairs featuring a store that sold books, editions, and other Gagosian merchandise. Upstairs was a tiny exhibition space that was...

Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? The Eric Carle Museum staff have started unionizing. Workers announced the news on Instagram on August 3, amid staff allegations of understaffing, a lack of promotions, and poor workplace conditions at the Massachusetts museum established by the beloved children's book author and illustrator. According to their post, employees filed for a full-time and part-time staff election with the National Labor Relations Board. "We call upon Museum leadership not to interfere with or delay a union vote," the post reads. Under representation from the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110, the group demanded that as many staff as possible be allowed to vote in the election,...

Pickleball aficionados in downtown Pittsburgh get to enjoy an art experience as they play thanks to artist Sharmistha Ray's vibrant floor murals.The artist's new "Geometry of Play" installation invites the public to step into — and onto — the vibrant surfaces, pickleball paddle in hand.

Staff at Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) in UK-based trade union Prospect have decided to strike on August 11 and 12, as per a recent statement. Over 90% of members voted on action, with nearly 77% of those favoring strike action. Operating out of Greenwich’s UNESCO World Heritage site, RMG represents four cultural institutions in London: […]

Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org.Two alumni from the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan have come forward with previously unreported abuse allegations against Jeffrey Epstein while he was a benefactor of the school. The alumni's allegations against the financier, which include claims of sexual misconduct and assault, emerged during a two-year external investigation into a history of abuse at the arts boarding school and summer camp.In addition to the new accounts about Epstein, the investigation culminated in a 97-page report in which dozens of alumni made...

The Jeju Museum of Art has revealed the list of sixty-nine participating artists and collectives for the 2026 Jeju Biennale in a press release. The event, which is set to open on August 25, will run until November 15, and is titled “Iyahong: The Art of Metamorphosis.”  Now in its fifth edition, the Jeju Biennale will take place […]

Before announcing John Galliano as the subject of its starry Costume Institute exhibition opening next spring, the Metropolitan Museum of Art met with influential rabbis and Jewish leaders to discuss the selection of a figure “as famous for his antisemitic rant in 2011 as he is for his fashion,” according to the New York Times. As reported by the Times’s chief fashion critic Vanessa Friedman, the Met convened several meetings between Jewish leaders and Anna Wintour, Vogue’s global editorial director and a Met trustee; Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of the Met’s Costume Institute; and Galliano himself. Among the Jewish leaders were Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League,...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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Paris’s Palais de Tokyo will close for repairs in July 2027, necessitating a temporary move to a location that turns out to be hotly contested, French daily Libération reports. The noncollecting institution, which since its 2002 founding has been housed in a concrete structure built for the 1937 World’s Fair, recently revitalized its building and […]

Known for their monumental murals, which span entire public squares, rooftops, playing fields, and more, Ella & Pitr bring eccentric joy to urban spaces. The artists often represent people from historically marginalized groups, including refugees and the elderly. Sometimes laughing, other times sleeping or passing the time in quietude, these giant figures curl around fountains and wedge into parking areas in an expression of joy, resilience, and individuality. The duo are slated for an exhibition at Galerie Jonathan Roze in Rennes, France, titled Points de Suspension. Explore more on Instagram. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts...

The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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The curatorial team for the 2027 Bogotá Biennial (BOG27) has just been announced. Following the first edition in 2025, the upcoming edition of the biennal will be led by Juan Ricardo Rincón Gaviria as director, supported by chief curators Magalí Arriola and José Esparza Chong Cuy. The additional supporting curators will be María Paula Bastidas, […]

After spending many years painting, Agata Iwaszkiewicz picked up a ball of clay for the first time at 41 and felt a change. “I knew I’d found what I had been looking for,” she tells Colossal. “Working with clay felt completely natural. Ideas came effortlessly, and I immediately had a clear vision for what I wanted to build with my new business.” Ceramika Matylda was born. The Gdańsk, Poland-based artist is particularly drawn to animals, especially dogs. Their playful, quirky, cartoonish faces and spaghetti-like limbs are both relatable and slightly unfamiliar, tapping into a sense of sentimentality and curiosity. “My newest collection of poodles was inspired by my own dog, Rudolf, who passed away...

Experts fear the explosions’ proximity to the site has caused damage, but cannot assess this while the area remains under Israeli occupation

The 2026 edition brings together more than 1,200 works from 85 galleries across 20 countries and nearly 50 cities

Greenland, the world’s largest island, is also covered in one of the earth’s two ice sheets. The other cloaks Antarctica. Greenland’s encompasses around 80 percent of the nation’s land mass, spanning more than 650,000 square miles. But it’s also melting at an accelerating rate due to climate change, losing an annual average of 261 gigatonnes—one gigatonne is equivalent to 2.2 trillion pounds—contributing to rising sea levels that impact the rest of the world. And Greenland’s massive icebergs are a reminder of this exceptional scale. On July 25, a mammoth iceberg literally made waves as it flipped over off the coast of Ilulissat, Greenland. A video taken from town went viral online, and AfarTV,...

Just in time for this month's theme of filth or dementia, a review of Terrence McNally's Master Class from Central City Opera.

There have been protests and a petition since the archive of Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) was listed among the assets of the insolvent organisation

Ma che brutta figura per la lirica!

Beatriz Morales (Città del Messico, 1981) vive e lavora tra Hidalgo e Berlino. La sua pratica si origina nella pittura, ma ne sottopone progressivamente a verifica i confini, estendendo il gesto cromatico alla fibra, alla scultura e all’installazione. Il passaggio dalla superficie allo spazio non coincide tuttavia con un abbandono del linguaggio pittorico. Il colore continua ad agire come principio strutturante, assumendo consistenza materiale, profondità simbolica e valore culturale. Tecniche tessili, fibre vegetali e pigmenti non sono trattati come semplici risorse formali, ma come depositi di conoscenza. La materia trattiene temporalità, gesti, economie, storie di estrazione e pratiche di trasmissione....

By Victoria Thomas Photographer and ceramic artist Catherine (Cathy) Opie first shocked and rocked the fine art world with her self-portraits during the late 1990s. Today, her decades of work — often termed confessional — now serve as context for the far more enigmatic Holding Blue installation, on view at Regen Projects through July 3. The Los Angeles-based artist identifies as a leather dyke, lesbian cowboy, an elder, and as "Mama Cathy," with a mustachioed male alter-ego named Bo. Opie is...

The Bayerische Staatsoper’s summer festival wound down with Lotte de Beer’s darkly effective production of Gounod ’sFaust.

I sort of have a love/hate fascination with countertenors/male falsettists.

Prima istituzione d’arte contemporanea fondata oltre la vecchia Cortina di Ferro, il Ludwig Múzeum di Budapest si conferma un osservatorio geopolitico e culturale imprescindibile per decifrare le traiettorie dell’Est Europa. Nato nel 1989 dalla lungimirante donazione dei collezionisti tedeschi Peter e Irene Ludwig, il museo ha esordito nel 1991 tra le mura storiche del Palazzo Reale di Buda, per poi trovare la sua collocazione definitiva, nel 2005, negli spazi monumentali e avveniristici del Müpa, l’avamposto architettonico del Palazzo delle Arti affacciato sul Danubio.
István Csákány (Sepsiszentgyörgy, 1978), “The Sewing Room / Ghost Keeping”, 2012 (dettaglio dall’installazione). Veduta...

Entrando negli spazi privati di fondaco in Largo Forcella 8 ad Atri, adibiti a luogo espositivo in occasione della collettiva “Adagio” dei cinque pittori Benyamin Zolfaghari, Enrico Pierotti, Andrea Lucchesi, Lorenzo Di Lucido, Andrea Astolfi, respiro un’aria serena: ad accogliermi c’è uno spazio rimasto fermo nel tempo, intriso di ricordi familiari, una sorta di grotta in mattoni e pietra datata tra Settecento e Ottocento, fatta di cunicoli e scale senza uscita, ampie arcate e nicchie immerse tra luci e ombre, come stanze della memoria o del pensiero umano.
AA.VV., “Adagio”, installation view at fondaco, Atri, 2026, courtesy of the artists
L’artista atriano Andrea Astolfi fa gli onori di casa...

Siamo a Villa Marigola, a Lerici, all’interno del Lerici Music Festival, “Musica, Immagini e Parole dall’Acqua” con la mostra I miei orizzonti e tu di Giovanni Ozzola, a cura di Carlo Orsini e in collaborazione con Galleria Continua.
Giovanni Ozzola, vista parziale della mostra “I miei orizzonti e tu”, alla Fondazione Lerici. In primo piano a parete: “Untitled – a fine primavera”, 2026 e “Untitled – with a view”, 2026; sullo sfondo: “Venezia – faro di notte”, 2026. Foto di Fabio Gianardi, courtesy Lerici Music Festival 2026
Nella mostra sono presenti fotografia, scultura, installazione e video concepiti per il contesto del Golfo dei Poeti e con il mare che diviene metafora...

“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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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,...

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