LOS ANGELES — Walking through the exhibition Michael Asher at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, one may mistake the artist for a donor. The small solo show takes over two galleries, and Asher’s name is most prominently mounted above the opening that separates the rooms, like a deep-pocketed patron who bought their legacy.Asher, who passed away in 2012, was not wealthy like the Annenbergs or the Sacklers, famous benefactors who coaxed museums into naming wings after them. He was a conceptual artist and longtime educator at CalArts, and his reputation endures despite the lack of sellable objects he produced. Asher was more interested in the way museums looked and operated, and his exploration of...
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — The rainy season is over, and the verdant hills up the west central coast dazzle our eyes; the blue ocean sparkles in the high sun. It’s a straight shot up the 101 Freeway from my house in Echo Park, with only one turn: Madonna Road, the exit for the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo.The famous kitschy motel with themed rooms, in all its pink glory, is where we’re staying to meet up with filmmaker/artists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens; they booked the Swiss Chalet Room. I’m traveling with my friend Philo, who used to be their neighbor in San Francisco. Only a few months earlier, Sprinkle and Stephens were back at the Madonna Inn, having a ball, clowning around in the Romance...
HALL 5 GIVES SURFBOARD WASTE A SECOND LIFE
Ignacio Abaitua and his daughter Carlota transform leftover resin and fiberglass from surfboard production into furniture, vessels, coasters, soap dishes, and other everyday objects. Based in Zarautz, on Spain’s Basque coast, Hall 5 studio explores how materials normally discarded during the manufacturing process can become practical pieces with distinctive colors and textures.
After more than three decades overseeing production at the Pukas surfboard factory, Ignacio began investigating ways to reuse the solidified resin and fiberglass accumulating around the workshop. In early 2024, the pair focused on developing an artisanal process capable of incorporating...
Ignacio Abaitua and his daughter Carlota transform leftover resin and fiberglass from surfboard production into furniture, vessels, coasters, soap dishes, and other everyday objects. Based in Zarautz, on Spain’s Basque coast, Hall 5 studio explores how materials normally discarded during the manufacturing process can become practical pieces with distinctive colors and textures.
After more than three decades overseeing production at the Pukas surfboard factory, Ignacio began investigating ways to reuse the solidified resin and fiberglass accumulating around the workshop. In early 2024, the pair focused on developing an artisanal process capable of incorporating...
“We braved driving on the ‘wrong’ side of the narrowest country lanes”
Superblue, the experiential art venture cofounded in 2020 by Pace CEO Marc Glimcher and former Pace London president Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, has landed in India for the first time, with a sprawling nine-work exhibition of immersive installations at Mumbai’s Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC). Titled “Second Nature,” the show opened at NMACC’s four-story Art House on July 3 and runs through January 10, 2027. Curated by Dent-Brocklehurst, the company’s cofounder and CEO, alongside head of curatorial Margot Mottaz, the show features large-scale installations by teamLab, A.A.Murakami, Simon Heijdens and Es Devlin, among others. The installations probe the increasingly porous boundaries between...
The Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center in Cambridge, Maryland, reported a break-in that resulted in damage to a mural over the weekend. The involved party, which remains at large, broke into the building only a month after it reopened to the public following an extensive renovation.“It really is a violation,” said Linda Harris, the museum's director of events and programming, in a brief call with Hyperallergic. Located in the abolitionist's home county, the small, volunteer-run free museum was established in the mid 1980s in an effort to preserve and celebrate her life and legacy through exhibits, events, lectures, and guided tours of the city, which was among the inaugural “stops”...
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has donated three sculptures by the artist from his “Gluts” series, 1986–89/1991–94, to Artist Rooms, a collection jointly managed by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland. The pieces will be on view at the Tate Modern later this year, extending 2025’s centennial celebration of Rauschenberg’s birth. Launched in 2008, Artist […]
Actress Zendaya has been on the receiving end of some, ahem, piercing criticism after wearing ancient Iranian earrings to a London event promoting the new Christopher Nolan epic The Odyssey, in which she plays the Greek goddess Athena. The film hits US and UK theaters July 17 and has already been the subject of intense debate. Zendaya got the earrings, believed to date from the first millennium BCE, from London dealer Charlie Barron, and then had them remounted with diamonds and 18-karat yellow gold, reports the London-based New Arab, which earlier reported on the criticisms. Barron’s website touts a collection that “spans centuries, from antique and estate pieces to contemporary works by leading...
One of the most complete fossilised skeletons of its kind beat the previous record, held by Ken Griffin’s Apex, by more than $5m
Art fairs may have started out as trade shows for dealers to sell each other their inventory, but they have long since become major events in the art world’s attention economy, zhuzhed up with public art commissions and intellectual dressings, including elaborate programs of public talks and film screenings, as well as plain old fun events like concerts. (As I wrote in 2020, the Armory Show even once offered a museum-style audio guide.) The public programming for the upcoming edition of Frieze Seoul this September includes a citywide hunt for thousands of custom-made artist’s coins, along with films, talks, music and special projects. The fair’s fifth edition (September 2–5) features more than 125...
RIDGEFIELD, Connecticut — Connecticut has been home to a thriving community of artists, including Sol LeWitt, Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns, Barkley Hendricks, Alexander Calder, Yves Tanguy, and Josef and Anni Albers, among many others. But new generations of artists have been making ambitious works in leafy college towns and sleepy suburban enclaves unbeknownst to many of their neighbors.That’s about to change. Over the next six months, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is showcasing 40 artists based in the Constitution State in its inaugural survey, The Aldrich Decennial: I am what is around me. The museum’s mission has supported artists at different stages of their careers, with a particular...
In Yorùbá culture, it’s said that more than 600 years ago, a hunter discovered a lush grove in southwestern Nigeria carved by a rushing river. His community had experienced drought and eagerly moved to the region, which they quickly learned was under the rule of the goddess of rivers and fertility, Ọ̀ṣun. In exchange for protection and prosperity, the people promised to celebrate the deity, and this pact grounds what’s now known as the Ọṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred Grove. A UNESCO World Heritage site spanning 190 acres, the spiritual sanctuary has long been revered by the Yorùbá people, and in the mid-20th century, a group of artists revitalized the landscape by erecting large-scale sculptures in...
The two principal suspects in the spectacularly disruptive, broad-daylight jewel heist that took place at the Louvre in October of 2025 claimed in statements to judiciary authorities—per Le Monde, which just published a report on the transcripts—that a “mysterious mastermind,” who they refuse to name, orchestrated the theft. Taxi driver and former motorcycle stuntman Abdoulaye […]
Three major Robert Rauschenberg sculptures have been donated to ARTIST ROOMS by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
US President Donald Trump on July 13 signed proclamations drastically reducing the size of two national monuments. Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, both in Utah, will lose “close to a million and a half acres each,” said Trump. Specifically, the former will be reduced from about 1.87 million acres to roughly 181,500 acres, while the latter will […]
The High Museum of Art's former Chief Operating Officer Brady Lum has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $600,000 from the nonprofit arts institution.The 59-year-old executive resigned from the Atlanta museum in December after its parent organization, the Woodruff Arts Center, traced institutional “financial irregularities” back to him. According to court documents filed by federal prosecutors in April, Lum used museum funds to purchase personal items, including “luxury guitars” and “woodworking equipment,” over the course of his nearly seven-year tenure at the institution. Lum used his position of power to approve fraudulent reimbursement invoices and took other actions to conceal his...
St. Louis has long served as a center for advanced medical care and pediatric treatment, making it a place where... Read More
A Nazi-looted painting that once belonged to Jewish Dutch art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, has been identified and will now be returned to his heirs. The painting had been in the possession of Amsterdam resident Robert van der Hoek, who found it in a trash pile in the city decades ago. “I took it with me […]
Dominique Lévy, one of the dealers behind the blue-chip New York gallery Lévy Gorvy Dayan, spoke at length in a new profile about her response to October 7, claiming that she received death threats after publicly denouncing a 2023 open letter in Artforum that called for a ceasefire in Gaza. Published on October 19, 2023, the letter that ran in Artforum described Israel’s war in Gaza as an “escalating genocide” and demanded “an immediate ceasefire and the opening of Gaza’s crossings to allow humanitarian aid to enter unhindered.” It was signed by artists such as Nan Goldin, Tania Bruguera, Kara Walker, and many more. The letter did not mention the October 7 Hamas attack, which killed 1,200 people...
The fever for the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament, the largest, most expansive in the competition’s 96-year history, has swept North America. Star players like Norway’s Erling Haaland, England’s Harry Kane, France’s Kylian Mbappe, and Argentina’s Lionel Messi have turned in dramatic performances. Americans have fallen in love with visiting teams and foreign visitors have become enamored, of all things, with American-size food portions and ranch dressing. Now, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced that this historic moment will be memorialized in New York with a set of 12 murals appearing throughout all five of the city’s boroughs, each designed by a local artist. The initiative is a...
Skip surface prep before spray painting, and you’ll get the same result every time: paint that peels, bubbles, or won’t... Read More
Jenkin van Zyl premieres Enclosure, a large-scale film and installation set to transform Somerset House Studios
During the medieval and Renaissance periods, baskets were everyday essentials—no plastic bags at the supermarket or even reusable totes. They were also used for all sorts of activities, from handled varieties for produce at the market to decorative vessels holding sewing materials to large versions that could be worn like rucksacks. For Cardiff-based artist Lewis Prosser, a self-described “absurdist basketmaker,” folklore, regional identity, and cultural heritage center a multidisciplinary practice. Through sculptural baskets that can be worn as costumes or displayed like venerable sculptures, Prosser taps into storytelling, masking traditions, and public ceremony and celebration. Welsh communities still...
A circular observation deck in the colonnade below the golden Civic Fame statue opened to the public last month, after a $6m restoration
students Design a Pavilion Around Reuse and Reversibility
Developed and constructed by students from Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with the Innsbruck-based collectives Gans Anders and Bonanza, the Gabonsa Pavilion is a temporary structure created for the Gabonsa Music Festival at the Rossau Recreation Center in Innsbruck, Austria. Designed as an exploration of circular construction and material reuse, the pavilion combines simple timber elements, reversible connections, and standard construction materials to investigate how temporary architecture can generate adaptable public space with minimal resources.
The project forms part of a broader initiative to reactivate the...
Developed and constructed by students from Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with the Innsbruck-based collectives Gans Anders and Bonanza, the Gabonsa Pavilion is a temporary structure created for the Gabonsa Music Festival at the Rossau Recreation Center in Innsbruck, Austria. Designed as an exploration of circular construction and material reuse, the pavilion combines simple timber elements, reversible connections, and standard construction materials to investigate how temporary architecture can generate adaptable public space with minimal resources.
The project forms part of a broader initiative to reactivate the...
Volkswagen's latest e-bike range brings automotive-inspired safety technology to cycling with radar, rear-view cameras, smart lighting and connected wearables.
Now part of the joint Artist Rooms collection, the 1980s works will go on show at Tate Modern in September as part of a free Robert Rauschenberg display
Earlier this month, Karen Harvey announced that Shutter Hub would begin a new chapter under the stewardship of its community, marking the organisation’s most significant evolution to date. It was also one of its most radical acts, placing the future of Shutter Hub into the hands of the people who have helped shape it over the past decade.
Since its beginnings, Shutter Hub has championed a democratic approach to photography, creating opportunities that are open, accessible, and driven by community rather than hierarchy. The creation of a Community Team is a natural continuation of those values, ensuring that the organisation’s future is informed by a diverse network of practitioners, educators, curators,...
the Sports Court Became a vibrant New kind of Playground
Sports courts are among the most standardized spaces in the city. Their dimensions are fixed, their markings universally recognized, and their purpose is clear long before anyone steps onto them. Whether in Paris, Accra, Shanghai, or Los Angeles, a basketball or tennis court speaks the same visual language, shaped by painted arcs, boundary lines, circles, and rectangles that have changed remarkably little over time.
Over the last decade, artists, architects, and designers have repeatedly returned to the sports court to explore what happens when one of the city’s most ordinary pieces of infrastructure becomes a site for experimentation. Some of...
Sports courts are among the most standardized spaces in the city. Their dimensions are fixed, their markings universally recognized, and their purpose is clear long before anyone steps onto them. Whether in Paris, Accra, Shanghai, or Los Angeles, a basketball or tennis court speaks the same visual language, shaped by painted arcs, boundary lines, circles, and rectangles that have changed remarkably little over time.
Over the last decade, artists, architects, and designers have repeatedly returned to the sports court to explore what happens when one of the city’s most ordinary pieces of infrastructure becomes a site for experimentation. Some of...
thoughtful public design as permission to play
For more than a century, architecture and design have excelled at telling us how to behave. Benches are for sitting. Squares are for crossing. Museums are for observing. Homes are for efficiency. Public space is governed by an unwritten choreography that rewards productivity over pause. Yet the most exciting designers working today are beginning to write a different script.
Rather than creating objects that simply solve problems, they are producing environments that loosen social conventions. A bench becomes impossible to sit on ‘correctly.’ A pavilion refuses to dictate a single programme. A domestic object slows us down through surprise instead of...
For more than a century, architecture and design have excelled at telling us how to behave. Benches are for sitting. Squares are for crossing. Museums are for observing. Homes are for efficiency. Public space is governed by an unwritten choreography that rewards productivity over pause. Yet the most exciting designers working today are beginning to write a different script.
Rather than creating objects that simply solve problems, they are producing environments that loosen social conventions. A bench becomes impossible to sit on ‘correctly.’ A pavilion refuses to dictate a single programme. A domestic object slows us down through surprise instead of...
inside léa mestres’ imaginative design world
In Léa Mestres’ universe, lamps become landscapes, benches resemble dreamlike creatures, and mosaics shape painted skies. The French artist and designer has built a practice around humor, instinct, and irreverence, pushing back against what she sees as an overly serious, and often overly masculine, design culture. Her latest exhibition, Small Car, Big Windows, presented alongside Martin Laforêt at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London, continues that pursuit through a collection of lighting, seating, and sculptural furniture inspired by long drives between Paris and Brittany, where shifting views of northern France become imagined landscapes.
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In Léa Mestres’ universe, lamps become landscapes, benches resemble dreamlike creatures, and mosaics shape painted skies. The French artist and designer has built a practice around humor, instinct, and irreverence, pushing back against what she sees as an overly serious, and often overly masculine, design culture. Her latest exhibition, Small Car, Big Windows, presented alongside Martin Laforêt at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London, continues that pursuit through a collection of lighting, seating, and sculptural furniture inspired by long drives between Paris and Brittany, where shifting views of northern France become imagined landscapes.
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Archaeologists hope that further research of the site will reveal more about the lives of the people who lived in the ancient city of Thebes
Movie about the friendship between the artist and the supermodel gets widespread drubbing from critics
Jeongmin Lee is interested in the ways “memory is carried through craft and repetition.” On traditional Korean mulberry paper, or hanji, Lee draws delicate lines in ink and pigments known as bunchae, rendering rippling textures that whirl across the page. Steeped in local folklore and mythology, the Busan-based artist creates surreal scenes that conjure fantastical tales of life by the sea. “Most of my recent projects begin with reading regional folktales, visiting places connected to those stories, and collecting fragments of history, mythology, and oral traditions,” she says. “I rarely paint a folktale exactly as it’s written; I’m more interested in its symbols, emotions, and the questions it...
“Civilizations are remembered through their monuments, but understood through the things they throw away,” says artist Helena Minginowicz, whose sensitive paintings interrogate our understanding of value. Using airbrushed acrylic, which can be built up in lightweight, translucent layers, the artist takes one of the most quotidian household items as a starting point: paper towel. With its machine-embossed, moisture-wicking patterns, the absorbent paper comprises an instantly recognizable substrate. The precise, textured flourishes are aesthetically pleasing, and yet it’s hard to completely separate them from our associations with mass-produced paper products that are designed for one-time use and...
From the Three Patriarchs of Zion Canyon to the swamps of Louisiana to the immense cascade of Niagara Falls, John Buck’s landscapes evoke the juxtapositions and proportions of dreams. His solo exhibition, Mont Blanc on Wood at Zolla / Lieberman Gallery, draws us to the fuzzy boundary between the familiar and the uncanny. The Bozeman-based artist is known for his eccentric, often life-size wooden sculptures that draw on folklore, personal memory, and daily observations. Figures are sometimes hybridized with other objects, and idiosyncratic drawings on wood panel reveal expansive landscapes populated by anthropomorphized plants and dramatic rock pinnacles. “Lighthouse” (2024), pen and ink on wood, 27 x 36...
Sara Suppan
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Pierre Monteux's career defies time.
La scelta di mettere in dialogo Arthur Jafa e Richard Prince potrebbe apparire, a prima vista, come l’ennesima operazione curatoriale costruita attorno al paradigma dell’appropriazione. Helter Skelter, la mostra curata da Nancy Spector per Fondazione Prada a Ca’ Corner della Regina, dimostra invece come questo dispositivo critico possa ancora produrre nuovi significati quando viene sottratto alla semplice genealogia postmoderna per confrontarsi con la crisi contemporanea dell’immagine.
Arthur Jafa, “Viriconium”, 2026. Veduta della mostra “Helter Skelter: Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince”. Foto di Andrea Rossetti, per gentile concessione della Fondazione Prada
Entrambi gli artisti costruiscono...
Arthur Jafa, “Viriconium”, 2026. Veduta della mostra “Helter Skelter: Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince”. Foto di Andrea Rossetti, per gentile concessione della Fondazione Prada
Entrambi gli artisti costruiscono...
A grandly sung revival of The Ballad of Baby Doe at Central City Opera mines poignance from America's past and present.
Daniel Barenboim’s Tristan und Isolde is a performance I keep coming back to, again and again.
Lino Fiorito non ha mai separato davvero la pittura dallo spazio. Anche quando lavora sulla superficie della tela, le sue immagini sembrano già pensate come corpi; quando invece la forma occupa fisicamente un ambiente, continua a comportarsi come un dipinto. È a partire da questa continuità che le due mostre presentate tra 480 Site Specific ed EDICOLA480 possono essere lette come un unico progetto articolato in due tempi, in cui la seconda non rappresenta una conclusione, ma una naturale condensazione della prima.
Lino Fiorito solo show, installation view, 2026, 480 Site Specific, Napoli, courtesy dell’artista e 480 Site Specific, Photo: Danilo Donzelli
La mostra ospitata da 480 Site Specific, a cura di...
Lino Fiorito solo show, installation view, 2026, 480 Site Specific, Napoli, courtesy dell’artista e 480 Site Specific, Photo: Danilo Donzelli
La mostra ospitata da 480 Site Specific, a cura di...
Liang Wang
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I first experienced the magic of Seiji Ozawa in 1972 when I was 12 years old.
Ho parlato con lo scultore di Zagabria, Vladimir Novak, per diverse settimane questa primavera, culminando in una conversazione, “Tra scultura e città”, organizzata da Residency Unlimited a New York. Il lavoro recente di Novak si concentra su questioni scultoree relative alle risposte fisiche degli oggetti nello spazio in modi sorprendenti. Ciò include meccanismi accuratamente calibrati, come l’uso di piccole macchine leggermente decentrate e posizionate dietro le quinte che animano l’opera e le interazioni con il pubblico che le attivano.
Vladimir Novak, “≈ 30 Steps In Balance”, 2018. © Vladimir Novak, foto di Zvonimir Ferina, per gentile concessione dell’Artista
Qual è il ruolo della...
Vladimir Novak, “≈ 30 Steps In Balance”, 2018. © Vladimir Novak, foto di Zvonimir Ferina, per gentile concessione dell’Artista
Qual è il ruolo della...
“Identità mutanti”, “Il latte dei sogni”. Il tema dell’identità oltrepassa il secolo scorso, attraversa le Biennali e le riflessioni critiche di FAM, le tendenze Queer e le metamorfosi di Barney per bagnare le rive di Santarcangelo. La 56esima edizione di Santarcangelo Festival, se da un lato deve ancora fare i conti con un corpo collettivo ereditato dalla sua storia, si sofferma su quello individuale. Se il nuovo direttore (Luigi De Angelis) dovrà – tra le altre cose – riportare soprattutto il festival alla sua storia di gratuite pratiche di inclusione cittadina e di coinvolgimento popolare, l’attuale programma dell’edizione diretta da Tomasz Kireńczuk mette al centro il corpo...
Prima ancora di nominare un’origine, origo ne assume la morfologia. Nella sua struttura grafica e sonora, la parola comincia e finisce con una “o”, figura minima del cerchio, della cavità, della soglia. In questa doppia apertura si inscrive una temporalità non lineare, un movimento che non procede verso un punto inaugurale, ma ritorna, ricomincia, si riavvolge incessantemente nella materia. L’origine non appare come un luogo remoto da raggiungere, né come mito pacificato del principio, ma come una condizione di rientro, una possibilità di esporsi nuovamente a ciò che precede il corpo e insieme lo sostiene.
Delcy Morelos, “origo”, installation view at the Barbican, London, 15 May – 31 July...
Delcy Morelos, “origo”, installation view at the Barbican, London, 15 May – 31 July...
Jon Testa
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By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...
Madeline Gallucci
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Memory may not be a tape-recorder, but in Sasha Gordon’s work, it serves as a device for the initial transportation. Characters wander this fluxing landscape—be it a drive-through window, a master bedroom, or white suburbia—shifting through the dynamic background of her dream-like haze. As a viewer of Gordon’s narrative paintings, you are intruding on intimate […]
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Will Sweeney is a commercial artist based in the UK. With a big reach and an enormous imagination, his illustrations adorn album sleeves, shirts for big fashion brands, toys in Japan, and almost any other sort of wearable or product one could imagine. Recently, we asked Sweeney to describe a bit of the machinations that […]
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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...
