Tracing Michael Krebber's Legacy

Alma Allen’s pavilion for the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale has become a proxy fight over politics, process, and cultural authority—questions the artist himself has little interest in adjudicating. “I don’t think my work is political in respect to party politics,” Allen said as he prepared his exhibition, adding that his more immediate concern was practical: “some of the pieces barely fit in the doorway.”  A report by the New York Times has drawn fresh attention to how the US Pavilion came together, after the State Department abandoned its long-standing selection model and handed control to a newly formed nonprofit with virtually no track record of mounting exhibitions.  For...

From the early 1970s to the late ’80s, the unconventional Canadian artist collective General Idea facilitated an international network of correspondence art through FILE Magazine, a self-published periodical comprised of guest submissions. The collective received piles of entries from Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, the late transgressive visual and performance artist whose explicit, multidisciplinary practice raised hackles around the United Kingdom and worldwide. A selection of P-Orridge's mail art from approximately half a century ago has now emerged from the National Gallery of Canada's (NGC) collection for a focused exhibition at Art Metropole in Toronto, marking its brief return to the space...

Dealer Matthew Brown is more than doubling his Los Angeles footprint with a move to a former warehouse at 1145 Seward Street in the Hollywood Media District. It’s just a mile or so from the two Hollywood spaces he has occupied since opening in 2019, at 712 N La Brea Avenue, but the design is worlds apart, he said in a phone conversation. “It’s night and day,” said Brown. “It’s the details, it’s the lighting, it’s the placement of the skylights, the way offices are built out, the way the viewing rooms are built out. When we built the first gallery, I just didn’t have the experience I have now.”  The new facility is in the same neighborhood with a number of galleries, including Jeffrey...

Good news for any Art Basel attendees hoping to relive their early aughts salad days: Thomas Bangalter, one half of legendary French electro duo Daft Punk, will take over Hall 1.1 South at Messe Basel on Saturday June 20. Advertised as immersive experience and presented by art.klub, the event “WAREHOUSE ARTEFACTS” will feature Bangalter, house music producer Rampa, and French Swiss conceptual artist Julian Charrière. Info on the event is pretty scant, so it’s not clear if Bangalter plans to perform; an Instagram post announcing the event said it will feature a DJ sert by Rampa and a special guest from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. The event is produced by Nordstern Basel, a popular nightclub in the Swiss city, and...

Art Basel has announced the thirty-three winners of its 2026 edition of the Art Basel Awards, the second iteration of a round of accolades it introduced last year in order to honor individual artists, curators and major players in the contemporary art system; as well as institutions in a broader sense.  As was the case […]

A Boca Raton woman faces felony charges over a forged check linked to Florida’s Flagler Museum, police report.  An affidavit of probable cause from the Palm Beach Police Department details how Alexandra C. Kaiser, 31, was arrested on April 14 for allegedly depositing a counterfeit check drawn on the museum’s Northern Trust account into her personal JPMorgan Chase account earlier this year. Kaiser was charged with grand theft, uttering a forged check, and criminal use of personal identification information. Museum officials later told police the check had not been authorized. Moreover, the legitimate check bearing the same number remained in the museum’s possession and had been issued to a different...

Hans Ulrich Obrist, one of the art world’s great curators, is more deeply connected with artists than most could dream: he has estimated that he’s recorded over 2,000 hours worth of interviews with artists, and he regularly posts handwritten notes from painters, sculptors, and filmmakers whose studios he’s visited. But one artist has regularly refused his requests for a studio visit, and that artist is one of the most secretive painters still alive today. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Obrist said that he has never been able to successfully get a studio visit with Jasper Johns, the painter most famous for Flag, his 1954–55 work depicting an American flag in encaustic. Asked by journalist...

When we think of “invasive species,” perhaps zebra mussels or kudzu vine spring to mind. Both have flourished in their non-native environments and continue to threaten other native organisms. Invasive species aren’t inherently bad—they’re just trying to survive—but by definition, they’re likely to disrupt local ecosystems and even cause billions of dollars worth of damage each year. So, what does one California city have to say about its burgeoning population of… peacocks? Introduced by a businessman and land baron named Elias Lucky Baldwin more than a century ago, the avian population has long called the area home. Over the years, though, as the originally open area filled with homes and...

I remember a dance floor for what it allowed us to imagine. In the haze of strobe and bass, we built worlds. We mourned what we had lost and rehearsed what might come next.As a curator, I understand raving as a transformative method of worldbuilding, one that can expand out of the warehouse and into the museum. Rave culture has long been dismissed as escapist or unserious, dance floors as hedonistic or indulgent, places of temporary release rather than political formation. Yet collective dancing has always been more than leisure, as McKenzie Wark and Destiny Brundidge point out in the anthology Writing on Raving (2025). When bodies move in rhythm, hierarchies loosen. The bass and rhythm are not only heard but...

Swiss art historian Maria Schnyder has been named the new director of the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, a visual art staple in Tilburg, North Brabant, the Netherlands, Artdependence reports. Schnyder will succeed current director Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen, who plans to retire in October.  Schnyder is a longtime employee of the De Pont who […]

Visit Brookfield Place and experience Fleeting Opulence by British artist duo Graphic Rewilding. The bold and vibrant large-scale installations transform the Winter Garden and surrounding spaces into an immersive celebration of the natural world. On view through October 2026, the work features a variety of larger-than-life flowers and cherry blossoms in full bloom that shift with the changing light, creating an ever-evolving environment. Both joyful and contemplative, the installation invites the audience to look up, slow down, and experience nature woven into the fabric of the city.Graphic Rewilding is the 2026 recipient of the Brookfield Place New York Annual Arts Commission. Founded by Catherine...

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an 18th-century carousel reborn in milan
 
At Milan Design Week 2026, Laila Gohar presents her collaboration with ARKET through a public installation at Giardino delle Arti, where a reworked fairground carousel becomes the central device for introducing her first ready-to-wear collection.
 
The installation takes the form of an antique carousel adapted from a rare late-18th-century model, its horses replaced by oversized fruits and vegetables. The shift is immediate and legible. Familiar objects are enlarged, displaced, and set into motion, turning a childhood structure into something closer to a staged environment for adults.
 
Gohar’s work has long operated in this territory, using food as both material...

room for dreams is now live at ME Milan Il Duca
 
Now open during Milan Design Week 2026, designboom’s ROOM FOR DREAMS takes over ME Milan Il Duca, transforming the Aldo Rossi-designed hotel at Piazza della Repubblica into a layered environment where installations, live talks, daily rituals, and film screenings unfold. Conceived as a temporary ecosystem, the project explores dreaming as a deliberate tool for social and cultural transformation, activating the building through a sequence of immersive, interconnected experiences.
 
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From SolidNature and AMO/OMA’s installation led by Samir Bantal to the Cinema of Dreams by Paf atelier and a LIVE talk with Philippe Starck,...

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Gregory Spears, whose newest opera Sleepers Awake opens this week at Opera Philadelphia, is reviving Romanticism

Mark Ellen Mark (1940 – 2015) is one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. For four decades, she turned her lens upon those marginalised, overlooked and neglected by society. This month, her iconic works are on display alongside self-taught Turkish artist Sabiha Çimen (b. 1986) at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. Sabiha Çimen and Mary Ellen Mark: The Girls highlights the universal nature of being a girl, captured by two artists separated by time and geography. The photographers never met, but their careers intertwined briefly in 2012, when Çimen was asked by a curator to locate a Turkish girl photographed by Mark in 1965. The curator was curious about subject’s...

In the large-scale murals of Alex Senna, figures gather, greet one another, relax, and interact with their own shadows in bold compositions. The Brazilian artist is known for his black-and-white murals that emphasize community and emotional bonds. Togetherness, security, and positivity pervade the scenes, sometimes playful and other times more contemplative. Set against colorful backgrounds and amid urban structures, Senna’s pieces emphasize connection, support, reflection, and belonging. At the end of May, Senna embarks on a tour across Italy, France, and Spain to participate in several festivals. Follow the artist’s Instagram for updates. Festival Monstar, Bosnia (2022). Photo by Ilda Kero...

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Spaces in Norwich, Plymouth and Cambridge will be considered alongside London heavyweights for the £120,000 award

Two West African musical instruments at the Fowler Museum were looted by British troops in the late 19th century

palazzo litta becomes a saturated field of movement
 
At Milan Design Week 2026, MoscaPartners reactivates Palazzo Litta with Variations, transforming its Cortile d’Onore into a saturated, inhabitable landscape with Lina Ghotmeh’s Metamorphosis in Motion. The installation occupies the courtyard as a dense, pink spatial system that immediately shifts the reading of the baroque setting. The courtyard reads as a dreamlike field in flux, where perception loosens and space is continuously redefined through movement. Drawing from the ceremonial and spatial history of the palace, Ghotmeh frames the intervention as both fragment and performance. ‘It’s a baroque installation that plays with the fragment, but...

Organised by curator Ekow Eshun, "A Chorus of Strangers" includes artists such as Alex Margo Arden, Alvaro Barrington, Lubna Chowdhary and Jesse Darling

Rising oil prices affecting air freight and blocks to shipping routes are forcing Asian logistics firms to rethink plans and absorb losses

"Du bist die ruh" was one of the first art songs I ever knew.

“I never started out to be an inspiration. I started out to just do what I’ve tried to do,” Joan Semmel said during a recent visit to her Manhattan studio. Wiser words have never been spoken, and at 93, with hundreds of portraits painted and demand for her works on the rise, Semmel has quite a bit of wisdom to share. Aaron Short profiles the artist with exquisite photos by Hyperallergic's Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian.After the Tisza opposition party defeated Viktor Orbán in a landslide election, ending 16 years of authoritarian rule over life and culture in Hungary, artists and art workers are finally allowing themselves to hope. The New York-based Hungarian curator Veronika Molnár traces the...

‘POLISH MODERNISM’ EXHIBITION AT TORRE VELASCA
 
Following its success with Romantic Brutalism in 2025, Visteira Foundation returns to Milan Design Week with the exhibition titled  ‘Polish Modernism. A struggle for Beauty.’ Hosted on the 16th floor of Milan’s iconic Torre Velasca from April 20–26, the exhibition explores the courageous nature of Polish design. Curated by Federica Sala and Anna Maga, the show juxtaposes historical masterworks with contemporary designs to reveal how Poland’s turbulent history gave rise to modernism.
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The exhibition’s title is drawn from a 1948 text by Irena Krzywicka,...

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atelier mja uses reclaimed brick to shape community hub in paris
 
The Rosa Parks Community Center, designed by Atelier MJA, is located within a newly developed park near Paris, France. Positioned at the center of the landscape, the building functions as a community facility for local associations and nearby schools, accommodating activities such as workshops, cultural events, and recreational programs. The project is conceived as a compact, adaptable structure that integrates with its surroundings while serving a broad public program.
 
The architectural approach is based on simplicity, durability, and contextual integration. The building references the local architectural heritage of brick construction...

What does it mean to make art together, apart? As digital infrastructures reshape how we connect and collaborate, creatives are no longer bound to the physical studio – nor are students. In fact, a growing number of arts education programmes are rethinking how practice can be taught, shared and sustained across distance. Falmouth University’s MA Fine Art Online is one such course. Aesthetica speaks to lecturers Josie Cockram, Kate Fahey and Srin Surti about how the programme brings together artists working across continents, contexts and disciplines to engage with global political, economic, social and ecological change. They reflect on recent showcases, share success stories and consider what lies...

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Just three percent of the world’s land remains ecologically intact, with healthy numbers of all its original animals and undisturbed habitat. According to WWF’s Living Planet Report, the average size of wildlife populations fell by a staggering 73% between 1970 and 2020, and a 2022 study warned that more than 1 in 10 species could be lost by the end of the century. Photographer Zed Nelson’s latest project asks the question: how did we let ourselves get here? The Anthropocene Illusion is the result of six years of travel, during which Nelson visited 14 countries across four continents to observe how humans immerse themselves in increasingly artificial landscapes. People holiday on synthetic beaches...

Respighi's liriche can be as colorful, poetic, and downright lovely as any selection from other art song traditions. Case in point: Rosa Feola's recording of the first song from Quattro rispetti toscani.

Ten years since the death of countertenor Brian Asawa, Charles Stanton remembers his friend and corrects the record on his untimely passing.

In 1912, Pablo Picasso and George Braque began experimenting with combining artworks on a page. As art critic Michael Bird wrote, it “transformed collage from parlour game to avant-garde medium.” The process soon became popular in Modernist and Cubist circles, as artists sought new methods of creative expression, Yet, this narrative, as Fiona Rogers writes in the introduction to Cut Out, presents “historians and art critics with something of a conundrum.” The reality is that there were makers all over the world, mostly women, folk and Indigenous artist, who have been relegated to the margins of the practice. Cut Out, a new publication from Thames & Hudson presents collage, assemblage and montage as a...

This task feels near impossible, as I listen to a LOT of art song singers on repeat, across decades and continents (from piano to orchestral works)  — mostly for pleasure, but also for study. 

Last week, I visited Gracie Mansion in Manhattan for a conversation with artist and New York First Lady Rama Duwaji. It was her first interview with a journalist since her husband, Zohran Mamdani, took office on January 1. I didn't know what to expect as I had never met Duwaji before or heard her speak in public. In what became a standard studio visit, I discovered a humble and thoughtful artist who refuses to use her celebrity for easy career gains. Though we spoke primarily about her practice, the interview got picked up by dozens of publications worldwide because of Duwaji's apology for foolish teenage tweets that a far-right rag dug up from the depths of the internet in an attempt to hurt her...

At the Art21 gala with the downtown darling and Greater New York standout

Low exhibitor turnover and deliberative buying underscore a market built on long-term connections, while younger dealers shape the city’s evolving cultural context

After years of supporting the Henry Street Settlement, a social services nonprofit on New York’s Lower East Side, via a partnership which ended in December of 2025, the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) has announced that the new beneficiary for its Park Avenue Armory fair in 2026 will be the Whitney Museum of American Art, Hyperallergic reports. […]

By Katherine Kesey In the last few years, Los Angeles's Melrose Hill neighborhood has quickly become one of the city's most walkable arts districts. This past Saturday night, there were nearly ten coordinated openings, and I attended almost all of them. Taken individually, the shows were equally captivating. Together, they were a warm and exciting medley of passionate color, lighthearted mystery, and wry humor. Hannah Tishkoff, Beyond Love There is No Belief. 2026. Acrylic, oil, and pennies...

Feline antics are notoriously chaotic. “The cat is, above all things, a dramatist,” author and Egyptologist Margaret Benson is to have said. Sacred to ancient Egyptians, domestic cats share more than 95% of their genetic makeup with tigers, and they can leap five times their height and turn into veritable spring mechanisms when startled. Also, would the Internet be the same without cat memes? For Léo Forest, these lovable, independent, wily, and territorial creatures provide an endless source of inspiration for dynamic pencil drawings. The Paris-based artist’s playful works tap into the physical and emotional quirks of cats, from brawling pairs to individuals in the midst of grooming, scratching, or...

In a converted 18th-century chapel on the grounds of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a strange form creeps through openings in the architecture. One can imagine its clipper- and knife-footed tendrils scurrying across the floor as it spills from an upper aperture and even slithers around part of the building’s exterior. Its otherworldly genesis is at the hands of Nicola Turner, known for her monumental, contorted textile installations that often heave and surge from structures and public spaces. Turner’s solo exhibition, Time’s Scythe, comprises forms made of recycled wool and horsehair, which she hand-stitches inside of mesh to create the bulging, knotted forms. “This is Turner’s first large-scale...

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Chairs hung from the ceiling. Colourful playgrounds as interior spaces. Two-metre-high seating towers. This is the world of Danish designer Verner Panton (1926–1998), who is being celebrated by Vitra Design Museum this spring. The retrospective exhibition, Form, Colour, Space, opens in line with the 100th anniversary of Panton’s birth – a centenary which is also to be marked by other major destinations, including the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin and Designmuseum Danmark. Panton is recognised for shaping design in the second half of the 20th century, by taking a playful, sculptural approach to domestic space. This show is a chance to be immersed in his vision, to which colour, textiles and light...

For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Nature category: Sophie Altemus.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sophie Altemus is a photographer currently studying at Oberlin College in Ohio. Working primarily in the realm of snapshot photography, she carries a camera with her everywhere she goes.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of design variables, you can...

It’s one thing to marvel at the inner workings of a transistor radio or a timepiece, but for artist Manabu Kosaka, that curiosity reaches a whole new level. Using nothing but paper, the artist makes scale replicas of cameras, watches, gaming consoles, shoes, food, and more with a preternatural attention to detail. Not only does a 35mm film camera include a strap and a back hatch that opens, the lever used to advance the film and other gears are also built into the top, some of which are even moveable. Around ten years ago, Kosaka faced uncertainty about the direction of his work. “During that time, I spoke with a friend who works in art direction, and they suggested that I try creating with simpler...

In the forest nothing stands still. Time layered through thoughts and feelings, leaves kicked and crunched as we walk. The trees talk to each other, sending mycelium messages, carbon gifts, and warnings of drought or illness. From ancient wisdom to popular culture, it’s all here.
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, did it make a sound? Of course it did. And if Jo Stapleton was there to capture the moment, there would be a visual symphony of light, shape and form to follow.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, this beautiful collection of 100 images by Jo Stapleton is an expressionist photographic account of her interactions with trees, forest and woodland, later remembered and...

In a world not so unlike our own, during a time not that long ago, a mother wolf sits comfortably upon an abandoned tree stump in a clearing in the woods. Surrounded by carefully rendered flora and fauna, the creature is positioned upright with impeccable posture and human-like mannerisms. Her hind legs are crossed at […]
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For our fourth edition of the Booooooom Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners, one for each of the following categories: Portrait, Street, Colour, Nature, Student. You can view all the winners and shortlisted photographers here.
It’s our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Colour category, Chanyoung Chung. Born in South Korea and raised in Montréal, Chung came to photography after seven years working as a nurse in Vancouver. Now back in Montréal, he creates still-life images in the studio while also photographing traces of contemporary life beyond it. His work invites reflection on peace, cooperation, and the quiet harmony that can emerge within society.
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By Kristine Schomaker The work hits immediately. Not one piece — all of it, simultaneously. Large sculptural assemblages covering the walls, a freestanding sculpture in the middle of the room, a piece suspended from the ceiling. The whole gallery feeling like its own solar system, each work a satellite orbiting something enormous and unspoken. Last night, four humans splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after flying around the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years. Artemis II...

ABOVE: “Spatial Awareness”, 54″ x 250″, hand-knit with wool, 2025, photo by Chris Rettman From her dining room table in Oklahoma City, Kendall Ross knits brightly colored, intricately patterned sweaters and vests—some so large that referring to them as wearables is a bit misleading. Her textile pieces are often emblazoned with diary-like messages that speak […]
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In 2019, Kayla Mahaffey reached a turning point with her art. The Chicago-based artist had a solo show at Line Dot Editions in April of that year. Titled Off to the Races, the series of paintings centered around children ready to hit the road. Some sat with their growing legs crouched in tiny cars or […]
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San Juan Capistrano Library #1 Amir Zaki No Dust to Settle Diane Rosenstein Gallery April 4 - May 9, 2026 by Jody Zellen The saying "waiting for the dust to settle" might refer to when things will calm down and return to normal. It could be said that "the dust never settles" and there is no state of definitive calmness because everything is in flux, both in life and in art. This might be taking the personal into account by reading too much into the title of Amir Zaki's current exhibition, his...

 
There’s just two weeks left to submit your work for The City Series: Cambridge!
An ongoing series of publications, The City Series sets out to explore the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, showcasing images that respond to a place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
The inaugural volume explores a city that has welcomed us, and been home to nearly a dozen Shutter Hub exhibitions – Cambridge.
Rather than defining Cambridge by landmarks or narratives, we invite photographers to approach the city openly, perhaps through people, atmosphere, details, routines, abstractions, or moments that feel personal or unexpected....

When Frode Bolhuis got his start as a sculptor, he worked classically, with monumental figures made of bronze and metal—the kind of thing you see in a public square or park. But then the Dutch sculptor discovered the simplest of mediums, polymer clay, and his art practice exploded into a technicolor world of hue and […]
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Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here . We also mark an...