Wooden drum machine, sequencer and sampler in one
 
Meet Tembo, a chess-like instrument that mixes a drum machine, sequencer, and sampler in one wooden device. Designed by the startup team Musical Beings, it triggers sounds using small magnetic pieces called Beats that users place physically onto a wooden grid. Each position on the grid activates a step in a rhythmic loop. Basically, when the user puts this magnetic piece on the surface, they hear and produce a sound. When they move it, they change the rhythm. So, adding more means building a pattern of sounds, creating a complete track. 
 
The controls of the wooden drum machine, sequencer, and sampler are minimal, starting with two large knobs at the...

Dries Van Noten foundation to open in april 2026
 
Fondazione Dries Van Noten is set to open in April 2026 inside Venice’s Palazzo Pisani Moretta, positioning craftsmanship as a material, bodily, and imaginative act at the core of a new cultural platform. Overlooking the Grand Canal and located between the Rialto Bridge and Ca’ Foscari, the foundation is situated within a historic palazzo, proposing a framework that frames making as the common ground through which culture is formed, transmitted, and renewed. ‘Venice is more than a weekend destination; it’s a city full of life, from its markets to its young residents, with a one-of-a-kind cultural stimulus,’ notes Dries Van Noten.
 
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Video Craft, currently on view at San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Design (MCD) through August 16, 2026, explores the formal and technical properties that video, film, and early moving image technologies share with more traditional craft media like ceramics, textiles, and glass. These practices have long been cut out of new media discourse, but this trend is in the process of being reversed. Through themes of encoding, looping, and sampling, the exhibition expands terms usually associated with media art to examine practices by artists using a wider range of materials and techniques, many of which are rooted in craft history.The artwork in Video Craft is loosely sorted into these three terms. Encoding...

The Katy Trail, a 3.5-mile urban greenway in Dallas, will be the venue for a new public art biennial launching in Spring 2027. The KTX Biennial will unfold across the length of the Katy Trail, and the works will be on view for up to 18 months, the approved length for a temporary public work in Dallas. New York–based curator Jovanna Venegas will organize the inaugural edition of the KTX Biennial. The Katy Trail runs through three Dallas neighborhoods, Uptown, Knox, and Highland Park, and is free to the public and open from 5am until 11pm. Conceived of as a public-private partnership in 1997, the Katy Trail is an early example of converting former rail lines into green space. It now sees some 2 million...

In the spectacular, lofty photos of Dani Guindo, heavy clouds and mercurial pools glow amid an Icelandic landscape. The Spanish artist, based in Reykjavík, seeks unique relationships between light, form, and atmosphere. In Iceland, the vicissitudes of the weather and the stark, glacial landscape continually stoke his interests. Guindo typically uses drones to capture a wide range of angles, from panoramas of glaciers and mountains to vertical shots of silty streams that appear almost abstract. His latest series, Terminus, captures a glacier’s many rivulets amid a rocky landscape, along with a ghostly, rounded outline revealing evidence of the glacier’s earlier phases. The glacier is Múlajökull, which...

Parterre Box features a performance from two belcantisti who would rather you not think about their political affiliations.

Even the customs authorities responsible for enforcing the regulations seem unsure when and how they apply

From an exhibition curated by a painting to a boat load of phalluses

Despite ongoing management turmoil, there is a buzz around this year’s fair, as it welcomes more works from the past 100 years to its traditional roster

The price is among the highest the Italian state has paid for a single work of art, according to the culture ministry

The move comes after Russia's participation sparked outcry from European governments and arts professionals

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The Headlines IRANIAN LANDMARKS HIT. More news of damage to historical sites in Iran is coming through as the war drags on in the region, reports The Art Newspaper. Following the UNESCO-listed Chehel Sotoun in Isfahan and the Golestan Palace in Tehran, other landmarks have been hit by American-Israeli airstrikes. They include sites in Isfahan’s historic center, notably its 17th-century Naqsh-e-Jahan Square and the Dawlatkhaneh complex. According to local reports, damaged buildings include the Ali Qapu Palace and the Jame Abbasi Mosque, the Rakeb-Khaneh pavilion originally for royal stables, the...

Perkins&Will composes a multi-family complex in Ubatuba
 
Bambu Atmosfera is a multi-family residential complex in Ubatuba, São Paulo, designed by Perkins&Will. The project integrates architecture, landscape, and shared amenities while emphasizing local materials, passive environmental strategies, and community-oriented spaces within Brazil’s Atlantic Forest coastline. Located on a flat site between the ocean and rainforest, the development responds to a humid tropical climate characterized by high solar exposure and frequent rainfall. The design uses climate and landscape as primary drivers, prioritizing natural ventilation, shading, and daylight to support thermal comfort and reduce reliance on...

instant camera that prints photos as receipts
 
Creator Box Art makes an instant camera shaped like a meter box that prints receipt photos using thermal heat. All handmade, the machine produces images that are grainier and warmer than usual on a piece of paper. The brain of the instant camera that prints receipt-like photos is a Raspberry Pi Zero, which is a fully functional computer roughly the size of a credit card. Then, there’s a dedicated camera module that connects to the board using a flat ribbon cable and handles the actual image capture.
 
The machine turns on because of a disassembled power bank, which has a lithium-ion battery pack with its charging circuit and voltage regulator already built...

JXY Studio reimagines furniture as spatial structure
 
The art-chitecture modular furniture system by JXY Studio repositions furniture as an active spatial element. The system combines seating, lighting, and shelving within a modular framework built from standardized components and refined connection methods. Through this approach, furniture extends beyond individual objects to form adaptable structures that support human activity, illumination, and even small habitats for plants or animals while contributing to the spatial organization of an environment.
 
Furniture has traditionally been approached as a form of applied art, evaluated through material selection, proportion, scale, craftsmanship, and surface...

There is an air of the spectral to Fiona Pardington’s recent photographs of birds. While they are actual specimens, captured in atmospheric light and exhibiting unique plumage and expressions, there’s something a little bit uncanny about them. Are they real? In a sense, yes, but they’re no longer alive. Some no longer even exist. For Pardington, who is of Māori and Scottish descent, natural history specimens provide a unique and striking look at nature. And the photos seen here, comprising part of her series Taharaki Skyside, are slated for the artist’s exhibition in the Aotearoa New Zealand Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year. Pardington’s bold, large-scale portraits of birds native to New...

Luxembourg’s pavilion for the upcoming Venice Biennale has sparked a political spat at home, after lawmakers questioned both the cost of the project and the nature of the work set to represent the country. At the center of the debate is La Merde, a project by Luxembourg-born artist Aline Bouvy representing the country at the biennale’s 61st edition. The work, described as a feminist and societal commentary centered on a personification of excrement, has drawn criticism from members of Luxembourg’s right-wing Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR). They say the concept is both provocative and an expensive way to promote the country abroad. The criticism was formally raised in parliament by ADR lawmaker...

Nasser Mohamed, the only publicly queer Qatari citizen, strikes at the heart of a fundamental ethical contradiction in our field today: "The art world cannot claim to champion freedom while ignoring the people who are denied it."Except it often does, including Art Basel Qatar. In a moving opinion piece, Mohamed writes about the dissonance of fleeing a country because it criminalizes queerness while watching artists, dealers, and collectors flock to its capital.In other stories, artists and political figures lead a protest against Russia's participation in the Venice Biennale, while US-Israel airstrikes damage another precious Iranian cultural heritage site. Check out our list of art books to read this...

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After taking an impressive £197.5 million ($265 million) from its marathon, three-pronged modern and contemporary evening sale last week, Christie’s London is now preparing for its modern British and Irish art sale on March 18. Frank Auerbach, Lynn Chadwick, and Barbara Hepworth spearhead the tightly curated auction of 26 works. Among the top lots is Auerbach’s Christmas Tree at Mornington Crescent (2004-05), which has a high estimate of £2 million ($2.6 million). Rendered in the artist’s trademark thick paint and striking in scale, the painting exemplifies Auerbach’s tactile approach to landscape. Mornington Crescent, located near Auerbach’s Camden studio, was one of several North London sites he...

In art and life, the future has emerged as both a caution and a possibility. The climate crisis, accelerating technologies and new planetary infrastructures now shape the narratives artists construct about tomorrow. Increasingly, creative practice is less about prediction and more about rehearsal, imagining how humanity might navigate the realities unfolding. The news cycle right now shows a new senseless war, and this, coupled with Gaza and Ukraine, sees the planet inching closer and closer to that doomsday clock.  Immersive exhibitions have emerged as powerful arenas for this speculative thinking, intersecting art, science fiction and design, They allow audiences not merely to observe but to inhabit...

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Nello spazio espositivo zerozerosullivellodelmare a Pescara, diretto da Lúcio Rosato, è in corso la mostra “In gioco” del collettivo artistico abruzzese Di Bernardo Rietti Toppeta. La mostra è un’indagine sull’evoluzione del gioco nel tempo e sul gioco inteso come terreno fertile in cui le potenzialità intellettuali dell’individuo possono evolversi, soprattutto recuperando il contatto con la Natura e stabilendo delle connessioni sociali e umane, non soltanto virtuali. Il progetto nasce come riflessione su come la nascita delle nuove tecnologie e lo sviluppo dei videogiochi, abbiano influito soprattutto sulle nuove generazioni e sulla loro percezione della realtà, modificando il loro modo di...

My god, it’s beautiful out. Spring in New York really makes you work for it, but then it makes it worth your while. Just in time. This (very likely temporary) warmth coincides with the start of the peak art season, starting with the Whitney Biennial, which opened to the public on Sunday. Read below for some of our editors’ first impressions, including what we liked, what we didn’t, and what we’re ambivalent about. Spoiler: Associate Editor Lakshmi Rivera Amin didn’t, uh, love that Zach Blas installation on the first floor (I think her exact words were: “red-pilled Reddit thread’s BDSM dungeon”). Also, make sure to read Aruna D’Souza’s thoughtful review of the Biennial, and see if you...

The anonymous artists behind The Secret Handshake, the guerrilla public art statue of President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, are at it again. On Tuesday, the group emailed ARTnews with photos of a new statue placed in Washington, D.C., again depicting Trump and Epstein. Titled KING OF THE WORLD, the 12-foot tall statue depicts the US president embracing Epstein in the now iconic pose of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the 1997 film Titanic. A plaque below the statue makes the connection explicit, reading: “The tragic love story between Jack and Rose was built on luxurious travel, raucous parties, and secret nude sketches. This monument honors the bond between Donald Trump...

Book cover of Anika Jade Levy, Flat Earth (2025), published by Catapult (photo courtesy Catapult)Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of self-harm and sexual assault. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org.How do I describe the plot of Anika Jade Levy’s Flat Earth (2025)? It’s about a girl named Avery, who’s vaguely in grad school (“media studies”). She’s jealous of her best friend, Frances, a hot-girl heir to a shipping empire who makes an art film about flat-earth conspiracists in flyover country...

Israeli and United States forces have taken aim at the city of Isfahan in the second week of their joint war on Iran, with strikes reportedly damaging several centuries-old palaces and buildings that functioned as cultural and tourism centers. While Isfahan is known for its dynastic architecture and craftwork as the former Persian capital during the Safavid Empire, the city and its namesake province are modern-day hubs for Iran's industrial and military infrastructure, and are believed to house much of the uranium for its nuclear program.Iranian news outlet WANA Agency reported that various elements of the 17th-century Chehel Sotoun palace were damaged amid strikes on the adjacent provincial government...

Around 1897, the French director Georges Méliès made a silent short film that, until last month, hadn’t been publicly viewable for more than a century. “Gugusse et l’Automate,” or “Gugusse and the Automaton,” is a 45-second slapstick piece featuring a magician and a Pierrot-styled robot as they duke it out. Méliès is best known for “A Trip to the Moon,” a short film from 1902 that famously features astromoners landing their capsule into the eye of the moon. The director’s work is widely regarded as some of the first within fantasy and science fiction, with “Gugusse et l’Automate” being a long-lost addition to his canon. This film resurfaced recently when Bill McFarland drove from...

Laura Phipps has been announced as the new director of the Gochman Family Collection (GFC), a private collection devoted to contemporary Indigenous art. Phipps arrives to the collection from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, where she was an associate curator. In her new capacity, she will serve as a public advocate for Native artists and guide the […]

A guerrilla art installation featuring the names and visages of twenty public figures who’ve been linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared in a public park close to the White House in Washington, DC earlier this month. No individual or group has yet claimed authorship of the “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame,” which consists of […]

Roman mosaic featuring an erotic scene NAPLES, ITALY—According to a statement released by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, the original home of a mosaic taken to Germany by a Wehrmacht captain who worked as a military supply chain officer during World War II has been identified. The mosaic, which depicts an erotic scene, was returned to Italy by his heirs. The Carabinieri’s Cultural Heritage Protection Unit handed the artwork over to the Archaeological Park of Pompeii last summer. Research conducted by archaeologists from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii and the University of Sannio has now determined that the mosaic was produced in a workshop in Lazio, exported in antiquity to the Marche region, and...

Graffiti etched by Cikai Korran inside Tomb 8 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings CHENNAI, INDIA—Live Science reports that about 30 inscriptions written in three ancient Indian languages have been studied in six different tombs in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Ingo Strauch of the University of Lausanne said that these inscriptions have been dated to between the first and third centuries A.D., when Egypt was a province of the Roman Empire and a tourist destination. One inscription, written in Sanskrit, was left by a man named Indranandin, who identified himself as a messenger of King Kshaharata. “It is possible that Indranandin arrived by ship at Berenike [on the east coast of Egypt], perhaps together with...

The life and times of Modern Primitive performance artist Fakir Musafar

Relationships among the family group at Childrey Warren as identified by aDNA analysis OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND—According to a La Brújula Verde report, eight burials at the Childrey Warren site in southeastern England have been analyzed. In all, the rural cemetery contained more than 30 burials. The eight burials in the study, including the remains of newborns and adults who were more than 45 years old at the time of death, have been dated to the fourth century A.D. One of the individuals had been beheaded, with the skull placed beneath the feet. Ancient DNA samples taken from these remains show that six of the eight people were closely related—sisters, paternal first cousins, and paternal and maternal uncles...

By Kristine Schomaker I keep seeing Liberal Jane's work pop up across different platforms - Instagram, obviously, but also sliding through Facebook, saved in Pinterest boards, shared in group chats. This immersion matters more than I think we acknowledge. These aren't gallery pieces waiting for the right audience to find them. They're already embedded in the actual digital infrastructure where people are trying to survive right now. Caitlin Blunnie has been making this work for seven years,...

The Contemporary Art Center (CAC) Vilnius has appointed artist Nikita Kadan and art historian, writer, and curator Natalia Sielewicz curators of the Sixteenth Baltic Triennial, to take place in 2027. Kadan, who lives and works in Kyiv, is known for paintings and installations reckoning with history, memory, and trauma; Sielewicz is chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and the […]

Is there anything more soothing than a sleeping baby swan—known as a cygnet? Or anything more illustrative of the relationship between nature and urban development in the U.K. than the red fox, which are seen in neighborhoods as often as in the wild? For this year’s British Wildlife Photography Awards (BWPA), photographers from around Great Britain and its islands—including young, budding documentarians—highlight some of the region’s most beloved creatures. Paul Hobson’s black-and-white image of a leaping, silhouetted toad takes top honors this year, captured at a pond near his home in Sheffield. He snapped the photo from inside the pond, having built a glass box that could settle into the water...

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth has announced Emerson Bowyer as its new chief curator. He began his new role on March 5. An expert in British and French art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Sydney-born Bowyer joined the Kimbell from the Art Institute of Chicago, where he was the Searle Curator as well as Curator, Painting […]

“I think of playgrounds as a primer of shapes and functions; simple, mysterious and evocative; thus educational,” Isamu Noguchi said in a pamphlet about his Playscapes. Perhaps best known for his stone sculptures and Akari lamps, the Japanese artist and designer always had an eye on the spaces that define childhood, particularly public playgrounds and their influence on the young mind. In 1933, Noguchi proposed redeveloping an entire New York City block into “Play Mountain,” an enormous topographical project that would be unstructured and open-ended. Rather than have swings and swift metal slides, for example, Noguchi wanted earthen steps, a bandshell, and a large hill for sledding and gathering. The...

Time to Act at Pittsburgh Opera effectively employs Greek tragedy to explore the all-too-common tragedies haunting schools across the United States.

Daguerreotypes. Photograms. Double exposure. Today, we’re spotlighting five experimental photography exhibitions. These shows feature a mix of 20th century pioneers, like Lillian Bassman, whose visionary work redefined fashion and fine art photography, alongside contemporary practitioners such as Garry Fabian Miller and Liz Nielsen, who continue to explore light, colour and process in groundbreaking ways. Across these exhibitions, each image challenges perception, interrogates memory and celebrates the material and conceptual possibilities of lens-based medium. This is traditional imagery, reimagined. Liz Nielsen: Interdimensional Timelines  Joseloff Gallery at Hartford School of Art | Until 11 April ...

No one in my experience both live and on records could swagger, spin out roulades, and ripple through Rossini and Handel like Samuel Ramey.

Before hearing Samuel Ramey as Zaccaria in Nabucco, I had always been more interested in higher voices.

Parks. Railway stations. City halls. Hotels. Theatres. Abstract artist Tada Minami (1924-2014) was committed to practice that spanned beyond the confines of the museum. She often left her creations in urban spaces, where they have since formed an integral part of everyday life. Across an almost 70-year career, she covered huge ground, varying her approach to both material and scale. Her works include massive, stainless-steel sculptures that appear to rise sharply skywards; glass and acrylic constructions that reflect the environment; and “Illuminated Walls,” which contain richly-coloured light. Tada is emblematic of a postwar Japan that was rapidly modernising, transforming itself into the nation of...

In alcuni artisti la creatività è fortemente intrecciata al vissuto, mentre in altri la componente autobiografica è meno influente. Alla prima categoria di sicuro appartiene Robert Mapplethorpe, la cui produzione fotografica è connessa a un’esistenza diventata, nell’ultimo decennio, molto crudele e a una biografia personale che diventa sociale. All’osservatore capita così, di fronte alle sue fotografie, di non poter fare a meno di sentire il vissuto dell’artista, incrociandolo con le immagini, anche quando – e ne è la maggioranza – le immagini hanno un tono distante e opposto al dolore esistenziale. Un vissuto che si dipana, sia nella vita vera sia nella fotografia, anche pensando agli...

ATHENS, GREECE—According to the Greek Reporter, an ancient mosaic was discovered in central Athens during construction work on Evripidou Street. Large sections of the floor appear to remain intact. Archaeologists are examining the mosaic in an effort to date it and determine if the floor belonged to a private residence or a public area. To read about lead curse tablets unearthed at Athens' Kerameikos necropolis, go to "The Cursing Well."
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Artifacts recovered from one of the structures include (clockwise from top) obsidian blades, faunal remains and ceramic fishing net weights, a ceramic censer, and other ceramic fragments. NEW YORK, NEW YORK—An excavation team at the Birds of Paradise wetland field complex in northwestern Belize has uncovered a Maya site occupied between a.d. 800 and 1500, after Maya urban centers had been abandoned, according to a statement released by New York University (NYU). “Our most exciting finding is the remarkable preservation of wooden architecture in a tropical wetland,” said NYU archaeologist Lara Sánchez-Morales. She and her colleagues found these wooden structures after using lidar equipment to map the...

The Hasselblad Award is one of the world’s most prestigious accolades in photography. The prize – comprising a gold medal, camera, solo show and SEK 2,000,000 – has been given out annually since 1980, and its honourees read like a who’s who of contemporary image-making. Previous winners include Alfredo Jaar, Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, Graciela Iturbide, Jeff Wall, Nan Goldin and Wolfgang Tillmans, as well as icons of the 20th century like Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and William Eggleston. Now, Zanele Muholi (b. 1972) joins this list, becoming the 2026 laureate. Muholi has paved new ground by using the camera as a tool for visual activism, first and foremost claiming...

The Pacific Northwest is perhaps the wildest, most breathtaking region in the continental United States. With its combination of mountain ranges, conifer forests, lakes, rivers, and ancient sequoias looming over the California coast, the geography and texture of Wyoming, Montana, California, and Oregon return us to North America’s primordial past. It reminds us of when […]
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A captivating Asmik Grigorian leads the Bayerishce Staatsoper's revival of its Holocaust-set Salome. 

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Lo spazio del contemporaneo è lo spazio digitale; la maggior parte del nostro quotidiano si svolge a contatto con strumenti digitali, con display iper-connessi e con flussi incessanti. Byung-Chul Han legge il digitale come zona che produce, paradossalmente alle premesse originali, solitudine e frammentazione, “uno sciame di individui isolati” (Nello sciame, 2013). Invece, tra le pieghe di una città analogica che interroga il rapporto tra icone e contemporaneo come Venezia, una mostra collettiva apre su una prospettiva alternativa.  Restiamo umani! Utopie e Distopie nell’Era Digitale presso lo Spazio Berlendis a Venezia conclude la prima edizione del Premio Berlendis (promosso da Marignana Arte e...

Each year, on 8 March, countries around the world come together to celebrate International Women’s Day. The annual event was first held in 1911, when over one million people in Austria, Denmark and Germany took to the streets to mark the occasion. Today, it continues to be a moment to acknowledge the remarkable contribution of women and girls to society and to collectively demand more be done to achieve gender justice. To celebrate International Women’s Day 2026, we’re spotlighting 10 global exhibitions of women artists. Many address issues that are intimate and personal, often treated with taboo by society, but that continue to resonate with millions worldwide. Tracey Emin considers the body as a site...

È online il bando per partecipare alla 108ª Collettiva Giovani Artisti della Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, lo storico appuntamento dedicato alla scoperta e alla promozione dell’arte contemporanea emergente. Rivolta ad artiste e artisti under 30 che vivono o hanno scelto di risiedere nel Triveneto, la Collettiva è aperta a tutti i linguaggi del contemporaneo – pittura, scultura, installazione, video, performance e pratiche processuali – e prevede una sezione specifica dedicata al concorso per l’immagine grafica della manifestazione. Per il secondo anno consecutivo, l’iniziativa è parte integrante di CreArt 3.0 #stringing_together, progetto finanziato nell’ambito del Programma Europa Creativa....

Il lievito non lavora alla luce. Ha bisogno di calore, di tempo, di un ambiente giusto. Non si può accelerare: se provi a forzarlo, muore. Se lo lasci stare, trasforma tutto. Gli artisti, a volte, funzionano allo stesso modo. In biologia si chiama fermentazione: un processo in cui organismi microscopici – invisibili, pazienti – convertono una materia in qualcosa di completamente diverso. Non è magia. È chimica lenta. È la stessa cosa che succede quando un’idea entra in un corpo, ci rimane per mesi, e poi esce trasformata in qualcosa che prima non esisteva, magari in un’opera. Materica, polimaterica, performativa, sonora, non importa. Ora esiste. Vive. C’è. Da questa analogia – precisa, quasi...

Art history, in Hess' painting, is comprised of tiny renditions of famed works that are patch-worked together. They appear like reams of unfurled toilet paper that form vortices. One spiral extends into the past. Another spiral contains the twenty-first century... Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
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