Critic Eileen G'Sell hasn't forgotten about the iconic anti-red carpet staged by Amazon workers to protest the Met Gala, and neither should you. For the Conversation, she writes about the complex history of glamour as resistance:The antipathy of left-wing movements toward glamour usually stems from justified concerns over the harms of what Karl Marx dubbed “commodity fetishism.” When a satin skirt or silk scarf is valued primarily for the status endowed upon its wearer – rather than its functionality as clothing – products take on a mystical status. This can obscure economic realities, including the all-too-common exploitation of the workers who made the clothing.In his seminal 1972 book,...

Staff members at the Seattle Art Museum have officially unionized following a landslide National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election this week.  The new union, Seattle Art Museum Workers United (SAMWU), will represent over 130 full- and part-time employees across its three locations, including the Seattle Asian Art Museum and the Olympic Sculpture Park. A spokesperson for the union, Gillian Fulford, told Hyperallergic that the new bargaining unit will encompass 21 of the institution’s departments, including its curation, conservation, facilities, and education divisions. Workers at the museum first announced their intent to unionize in a May letter addressed to the museum’s Director and CEO, Scott...

Created as part of the conceptual artist’s current show at Meredith Rosen Gallery in New York, Attune is for anyone who obsesses over text messages

A New York Supreme Court judge on June 16 gave billionaire dealer David Nahmad thirty days to return Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 painting Seated Man with a Cane to the family of Jewish antiques dealer Oscar Stettiner, who left it in his Paris shop as he fled the Nazis during World War II. The ruling is the latest twist in a […]

In the lead up to the formal opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, former US president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama revealed their first dual portrait on June 15. The portrait was created by Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who currently resides in Los Angeles.  Titled The Obamas: Springing Forth, […]

An immersive “laboratory of imagination” from Anadol's studio boots up in Downtown Los Angeles

Rico Gatson's "Beacons: Audre Lorde" (2018) at the 167th Street subway station in the Bronx (photo courtesy Bronx Museum)The United States' Juneteenth federal holiday, commemorating the day emancipation reached Texas years after the proclamation of the end of slavery, turns six this Friday.Notably, this year, the public holiday's festivities coincide with the country's 250th anniversary, which has propelled a nationwide discourse about which American stories ought to be elevated. In New York, arts groups and organizations are honoring the contemplative and joyous date with events ranging from heritage walks and drag performances to DJ sets and museum exhibitions. Here's a selection of...

A video work by Helen Cammock that has been on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London for nine months has recently sparked controversy for its claim about former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s role in the Bengal famine of 1943. In the 40-minute video, titled Persistence (2025), Cammock, who won the Turner Prize in 2019, mentions Oliver Cromwell’s conquest of Ireland, which included a famine. In her narration, according to the Guardian, she says, Cromwell “starved people, en masse, a little like the wilful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill.” The controversy was first stirred up in the conservative British newspaper the Telegraph earlier this week, when arts...

AN AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE CENTER REIMAGINED AS AN EXHIBITION SPACE
 
Designed by Material Editors with creative lead Teona Kokhodze, Reimagine The Ride is a 255-sqm automotive service center in Tbilisi, Georgia, developed for Tegeta Holding. The project reconsiders the conventional tire service center as a hybrid environment where vehicle maintenance, retail, and brand presentation are integrated within a single architectural framework. The project combines industrial materials, kinetic installations, and exhibition-inspired displays to reimagine how customers engage with vehicle care.
 
The design is based on exposing, rather than concealing, the operational aspects of automotive service. Workshop elements and...

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In the remote desert of north-west Saudi Arabia, near the ancient city of AlUla, Heatherwick Studio’s AlUla Manara rises from the open ground as a cluster of stone-clad tubes turned toward the sky.
 
The visitor center and masterplan have been designed for a newly designated Dark Sky Park in the region, where the night landscape allows astronomy, tourism, and research to meet under unusually clear conditions.
 
Commissioned by the Royal Commission for AlUla following an international design competition, the project introduces a destination for astrotourism and celestial research beside one of Saudi Arabia’s most archaeologically charged landscapes.
 
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All arts festivals abound in sights and sounds, but the Reykjavík Arts Festival invested in a sense seldom given its due: smell. And not just any smell but, suggestively, the scent of “freshly cut grass resting by a fence post, chervil spilling across a sun-warmed sidewalk, a lawnmower shredding dandelions and sorrel, the echo of a distant party, blackcurrants dropping one by one from bare branches.” Those are some of the poetic notes appended to a special scent created for the Reykjavík Arts Festival by Fischersund, a family enterprise led by Jónsi, the lead singer of the Icelandic rock band Sigur Rós, and his artist sisters Lilja, Ingibjörg, and Sigurrós Birgisdóttir. The scent emanated from an...

An aerial rendering of the National Garden of American Heroes posted by Trump in May (screenshot via Truth Social)Among the violations alleged in the lawsuit is the administration's apparent disregard for regulations governing the creation of new monuments in the nation's capital. Typically, a multi-step review and Congress's approval would be required for such a project, the filings state. Instead of moving through the approved channels, the groups claim the president is accelerating the project consistent with the “administration’s track record of beginning overhauls of historic and civic spaces in the nation’s capital without warning.”Trump announced his plans to build the bizarre...

Earlier this week, Swiss anarchist-hacker Maia Arson Crimew leaked information about Dialog, the secretive, invite-only organization cofounded by right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel in 2006. Among the figures listed on the leaked membership rolls are numerous major art collectors and arts patrons. The organization convenes wealthy and powerful figures in tech, finance, politics, entertainment, and other sectors of American life for an annual retreat to “discuss topics off-the-record.” The existence of Dialog, which has been likened to a more hush-hush version of the World Economic Forum (i.e. Davos), hasn’t been exactly a secret: Last year, Semafor reported that the organization had purchased land...

A legal battle that went on for 11 years over a prized painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani came to a close in April, when billionaire art dealer David Nahmad and his family lost their bid to hold on to Seated Man With a Cane (1918), valued at upward of $25 million. The family had bought the painting at auction in 1996 for $3.2 million. But the Nahmads have not returned the piece, and now, a new ruling in New York Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 16 gives Nahmad 30 days to return the canvas to its rightful owners. A court decided in April that the painting rightfully belonged to the estate of Jewish art dealer Oscar Stettiner, who left the painting behind when he fled Paris ahead of the Nazi occupation....

The organizers of Art Basel have canceled the Baloise Art Prize, the Art Newspaper reports. Established in 1999, the SFr30,000 (roughly $37,000) honor had been presented annually to two artists whose work appeared in the fair’s Statements section, devoted to emerging artists. The prize was historically administered by Swiss insurer Baloise Group, which purchased works […]

Los Angeles, CA—June 18, 2026—Today, Penske Media Corporation (PMC) announced the acquisition of Vox Media and its leading brands: Eater, The Verge, SB Nation, POPSUGAR, The Dodo, Punch, and Thrillist, along with Concert, Vox Media’s premium ad marketplace, and Forte, Vox Media’s first party data platform. PMC was Vox’s largest shareholder prior to the announcement of the deal and acquisition.   Penske Media has created a new subsidiary “PMX”, which will combine PMC’s existing publishing portfolio, which includes Billboard, Variety, Rolling Stone, WWD, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Robb Report, Sportico, SHE Media, StyleCaster, ARTnews, Art in America, Artforum,...

Think for a second about what comes to mind when you hear “soda.” Perhaps fizzy, saccharine, and bright? Then consider the connotations of the word “sour.” Maybe it evokes the zing of a lemon, tanginess, or something sharper. This is the relationship that forms the basis of Sour Soda Studio, a project built upon two decades of illustration experience with a playful and slightly unsettling view of some of the most pressing issues of the Anthropocene. “It didn’t come from a change of direction, or from a manifesto,” says the artist, who prefers to remain unnamed. “It came from something simpler: the need to say different things with a different voice.” In these vibrant, often absurd works with...

The new Museo de Arte Textil de los Pueblos Indígenas y Afromexicanos frames textiles as living heritage and explores ethical collaboration

London Museum has announced that it will open the doors to its long-awaited new home in Smithfield on 28th November 2026,

a mobile hive moves through the city
 
Across the broken green spaces of contemporary cities, where parks, medians, rooftops, and planted edges often sit apart from one another, Nicolas Nielsen imagines Hyve, a beehive that can move between them.
 
His project brings the form of a small autonomous rover together with a living bee colony, proposing a mobile habitat that carries pollination into places where urban development has interrupted natural routes.
 
Designed by Nielsen, a student at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Hyve was presented as a finalist for the 2026 Rimowa Design Prize (see here). The concept responds to the pressures facing bees in cities, from habitat fragmentation to reduced foraging...

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Better known as a painter, the artist’s new video and installation show explores extrasensory perception using tropes from science fiction, religion, consumer culture and art history

For its major survey of Helen Frankenthaler, Kunstmuseum Basel has focused on the late American artist’s time in Europe and the influence of Old Masters on her work

The shortlist for the 2026 Film London Jarman Award has been revealed, highlighting four artist filmmakers

The Trellis Art Fund has named the dozen artists making up its 2026 Milestone Grant cohort. Each will receive an unrestricted grant of $100,000, disbursed in two installments over a two-year period. Among this year’s recipients are sculptor and installation artists Kelly Akashi; performance artist Ei Arakawa-Nash, who is representing Japan at this year’s Venice Biennale; conceptual […]

Raised in a wealthy, well-connected family in England, the young Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) glommed onto stories her mother and grandmother told of Celtic folk tales about mythical beings in Ireland. Her imagination ran rampant as a child, and a rebellious spirit earned her expulsion from more than one convent school for antics like writing backwards and even trying to levitate. Later, her father insisted she be presented to the court of King George V at a debutante ball and was expected to “marry well.” Art and fantasy continued to call to Carrington, though, and not to be sallied by social convention, she attended the Chelsea School of Art, discovered Surrealism at the 1936 International Surrealist...

After success at the Met as Turandot and before a historic Medea, soprano Anna Pirozzi talks to Harry Rose about her voice, her repertoire, and where her "second explosion of career" is taking her.

Video Artists International brings us back to a time when opera was carried over the airwaves by great voices—and a tire company.

Award-winning MAP Bengaluru is expanding while plans are unveiled for a new 240-acre sculpture park in India's spectacular Nilgiri Mountains.

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ECHO ZEN RETREATS: A RESIDENCE ORGANIZED AROUND OUTDOOR LIVING
 
Designed by VP Architectural Studio, Echo Zen Retreats is a residential complex located on the island of Kefalonia, Greece. The project explores Mediterranean outdoor living through a composition of interconnected indoor and outdoor spaces, where architecture is organized around landscape, climate, and daily use.
 
The layout unfolds from private bedroom suites toward shared living areas centered on the kitchen and dining spaces. Large openings establish visual continuity between the interiors and the surrounding landscape while introducing natural light throughout the residence.
 
Outdoor living forms a central component of the design....

Found auto rubber; bicycle pedals and chains: You may not see it at first glance, but these are the building blocks of Kim Dacres's dazzlingly meticulous sculptures. The New York native braids bike tire inner tubes and douses her assemblages in industrial spray paint, creating art that “smells like home, like the city, like places I’m going.” On the occasion of Dacres's current solo exhibition at Charles Moffet Gallery, writer Daria Simone Harper talks to the artist about her practice of material and metaphorical reclamation.Breaking news: A mama duck and her brood of ducklings were found waddling sweetly in the reflective pool at the Frick Collection in Manhattan, whose staffers even built a...

HONG KONG’S HARBOURFRONT ACTIVATED BY DESIGN AND ART
 
Ahead of its phase one opening in 2027, Central Yards is rewriting the rules of civic infrastructure on Hong Kong’s Central Harbourfront. The ambitious 1.6-million-square-foot ‘groundscraper’ development by Henderson Land Group has transformed its temporary pedestrian passageway into an active cultural canvas. Connecting the bustling route between IFC Mall and the Central Ferry Piers, this urban spine incorporates a vibrant, multi-sensory art bridge and an architectural coffee kiosk. Together, these site-specific interventions invite passersby to find a moment of pause within the city’s relentless flow, previewing a new era of experience-led...

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La Galleria de’ Foscherari di Bologna ha inaugurato Merci Satie, una personale dedicata al rapporto tra Aldo Mondino e la musica, costruita attorno alla figura di Erik Satie. Più che un semplice omaggio, il percorso espositivo mette in scena una domanda da sempre centrale nella ricerca dell’artista: come può la pittura trattenere ciò che per natura scorre, come il suono, il ritmo, il movimento di un corpo? Satie, figura fondamentale della musica tra Otto e Novecento, diventa per Mondino non soltanto un riferimento culturale, ma quasi un metodo. Nella sua musica, infatti, convivono leggerezza, ironia, malinconia e sospensione; gli stessi elementi che Mondino traduce in immagini attraverso la...

On June 16, Robert Kuzovkov, a Russian artist and political dissident, was killed outside his home in Biała Podlaska, a city in eastern Poland. Kuzovkov, 44, who often used the artistic name Semyon Skrepetsky, was a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and other world leaders.  A representative for the […]

One of the most enduring traditions in the U.S. is undoubtedly the state fair. The very first was held in Syracuse, New York, in 1841, and throughout the mid-19th century, states launched their own unique takes. Some of the largest and busiest, such as those in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, have been running just about as long as the states have existed. And it’s no coincidence that some of the most well known and beloved events, which usually take place in the late summer or early autumn, represent the nation’s agricultural heartlands. The exhibition State Fairs: Growing American Craft at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery celebrates the unique crafts and customs of these annual...

Bristol-based artist Diana Beltrán Herrera continues to construct elaborate sculptures of flora and fauna in vibrant paper. Over the last few years, Herrera’s work has grown in both scale and subject matter as she incorporates new materials such as paperboard, thread, and cardboard, which have allowed her work to evolve beyond previous forms. The artist’s latest explorations of nature motifs include flower structures, leaf patterns, and most recently, coral formations. Uniquely, coral reefs exhibit fractal and hyperbolic geometry, making them a particularly fascinating subject for sculptural reproduction. Utilizing thread as a structural tool has been especially integral for Herrera’s explorations of...

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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s concert Rigoletto hits some vocal turbulence

A full century after her heyday, Argentine soprano Hina Spani still moves us thanks to her vivid recordings and the savants who have cherished and shared them.

Tornare sui propri passi spesso significa percorrere strade già attraversate, ma con degli occhi del tutto nuovi e con la mente sgombra, per far spazio a nuovi percorsi e nuove figure. Si è rincuorati dalla possibilità di riconoscere i propri riferimenti e, allo stesso tempo, si è spinti a esercitare l’osservazione del nuovo. Questo esercizio di osservazione e di scoperta accade a me quando osservo le tele di Luca Ceccherini (Arezzo, 1993) e accade all’artista quando, grazie al suo ingegno creativo, si appresta a proseguire il suo coerente e solido percorso pittorico, dando una forma e un luogo, ancora e ancora, ai giullari, menestrelli, acrobati, campagnoli e contrabbandieri che da sempre popolano le...

Designer Taekhan Yun’s parents run an English school in Cambodia. One day, during a visit, he noticed how the kids were constantly shifting in their chairs, trying to get comfortable. “It made me realize how naturally furniture and spaces are designed around adult standards, while children are often expected to adapt and conform to those environments,” he tells Colossal. That’s when the idea was born to not only create functional pieces that would better suit the students’ needs but to invite them to create their own. Yun has always been interested in participatory creative projects, especially because of “the unexpected outcomes that emerge when people from different backgrounds come together to...

In the popular imagination, artists are often thought to create for the sake of creating, unfettered by the demands of the market-driven world outside their studios. Though many well-known artists have muddled the boundaries between art and commerce (Jeff Koons comes to mind), the two realms have a contentious relationship. Business savvy artists are often […]
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Parterre Box features soprano Miina-Liisa Värelä, making her title role debut in Die Walküre in Munich next week, in a performance of Tristan und Isolde from 2021.

La ricerca di Senzeni Marasela (Thokoza, Sudafrica, 1977) riflette sulla colonizzazione britannica del Sudafrica e poi ci parla dell’apartheid, ponendo l’accento sulla vita delle donne nere e sul lavoro nelle miniere dell’area intorno a Johannesburg utilizzando materiali tessili e il ricamo. Nella mostra In Minor Keys alla 61. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte a cura di Koyo Kouoh, l’artista presenta The Conversation (2018) e una serie sugli incidenti avvenuti nelle miniere tra il 1960 e il 2024: Coalbrook 435, 1960 (2025), Kinross 177, 1986 (2025), Marikana 34, 2012 (2025), Stilfontein 77, 2024 (2025), Val Reefs 104, 1995 (2025), Welkom 30, 2023 (2025), Comet (2025). Marasela ha un alter ego...

All images courtesy of the artist and GNYP gallery In Aistė Stancikaitė’s painting “Some Time We Walk Together,” two gloved hands are joined by a set of finger cuffs. The connected, silver rings resemble wedding bands. As for the hands, whether they belong to one or two people is up to the viewer to decide. […]
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“Metafisica / Metafisiche” è una straordinaria rassegna enciclopedica che ci fa vedere come nell’arte contemporanea si ritrovino radici che affondano nell’avanguardia storica della pittura metafisica di inizio Novecento. A Palazzo Reale di Milano, con quattrocento opere distribuite in tredici saloni, il curatore Vicenzo Trione, affiancato da una squadra di collaboratori costituita da Anna Luigia De Simone, Anna Calise, Vincenzo Di Rosa e Alessia Scaparra Seneca, dimostra i collegamenti fra la poetica della Metafisica con vari movimenti dell’arte contemporanea, collegamenti estesi anche agli ambiti della fotografia, del cinema, dell’architettura e della moda. Questo complesso e articolato progetto...

Sin dalle origini, si sa, la luce è sinonimo di rinascita: porta con sé speranza, gioia, novità e tutta una serie di connotazioni positive capaci di illuminare il futuro. E se Lucio Dalla cantava “Aspettiamo che ritorni la luce, di sentire una voce, aspettiamo senza avere paura domani”, la medesima luce è un faro che accompagna l’omonima mostra collettiva, curata da Diana Segantini e promossa dalla Fondazione Augusto Rancilio, visibile fino al 5 luglio 2026 a Villa Arconati a Castellazzo di Bollate (MI).
Igor Eskinja, Eskinja, “At your place”, lightbox, plexiglass, 2008; Antoni Taulé, “Seuil de la caverne”, 1986, olio su tela; Nives Widauer, “Moonbrightnight” (dalla serie of moon...

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Booooooom Studio is our way of making the work we’ve already been doing more official and, ideally, get a lot more of you involved.

By Victoria Thomas When John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966, he had no idea who she was. More remarkably, Yoko was equally unaware of John. This neutral introduction seems impossible for us today, especially for children of the 1960s. But defying mere nostalgia, The Broad meets this challenge with Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Ono's first LA museum show, which offers a full season of multi-arts media programming, including the installation of seven digital antiwar billboards across Los Angeles....

Interior Gallery Photos by and ©Tim Hursley, courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum  As a world-class institution showcasing one of the most impressive collections of American art spanning five centuries, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has firmly placed Bentonville, Arkansas on the global cultural map. And, except for a few major holidays, the museum […]
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By A. Laura Brody What is the language of bat senses and beaver teethmarks? How does water communicate to soil and roots, and how do we translate the paths left by burrowing insects or the markings of trees? These are questions asked by the Journal of Therolinguistics exhibition at Descanso Gardens' Boddy House, on view now until July 5, 2026. Oscar Salguero has curated a fascinating exploration of the expressive worlds of plants and animals brought to life by international artists Aistė...