Exploring the forest of ecologicstudio
 
In 2025, a forest emerged in the Triennale Design Museum in Milan. It was DeepForest³, a project by the London-based design studio ecoLogicStudio, co-founded by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto. It was presented as part of the exhibition We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture, curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, who authored the book of the same title. While the installation looked as though a few saplings had risen from the shiny museum floors, what was on display was, in fact, a hypothesis about how domestic space could be transformed by processes inherent to nature, with Poletto describing it as a system constructed with a ‘fully functional...

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Impromptu Projects erects Bamboo Pagoda along Sai Van Lake
 
Sited on the shoreline of Sai Van Lake in Macau, Bamboo Pagoda is a 13-meter-tall temporary pavilion designed by local practice Impromptu Projects, led by Rita Machado and João Ó. The installation draws directly from Macau’s vernacular bamboo scaffolding, a building technique listed on the city’s Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2017, reinterpreting construction-grade craft into a contemporary waterfront pavilion for contemplation.
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The design by Impromptu Projects studio references classical pagoda geometries...

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designboom shop drop: beyond the wall
 
The designboom shop introduces its next curated drop, presenting creative objects and bespoke surfaces designed to bring vertical planes to life. Shifting focus toward vertical boundaries, the release gathers wall accents, kinetic paper mobiles, dynamic timepieces, and tactile murals that transform blank walls into expressive, characterful canvases.
 
Transform walls through movement, form, and texture on designboom shop:
Mybird by ilsangisang
 
 
Name: Mybird
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Conceived as an emotional biophilic companion object, Mybird by South Korean Studio ilsangisang draws on iconic birds of luck, happiness, and hope — including the...

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San Diego Opera's Rigoletto, starring a persuasive Michael Chioldi, veers traditional—without the mothballs in tow.

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There are Bohèmes and Bohèmes, and it is almost a joke word these days, but the French show us how it is properly done.

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november exhibitions from DESIGNBOOM RADAR
 
November’s designboom exhibition radar begins with an unlikely reunion in Paris, where two Alexander Calder mobiles return to public view after decades. In Zurich, 125 familiar lamps become a walk-through tunnel, while a new gallery in Hong Kong transfers the grain of wood into cast aluminum. Elsewhere, a house lost to Mexico City’s architectural history returns through an imagined botanical setting, and a new museum in Western Sydney opens with exhibitions on flight and water. 
 
Some of the exhibitions highlighted in earlier radars and listings on our dedicated events guide remain on view, giving designboom readers more time to encounter them around the...

The false choices behind “cultural heritage”

Benjamin Paul on the emancipatory dimension of nostalgia

Evaluating Victorian hound portraits and canine fossils at a Park Avenue temple to puppy love

On the Conceptual artist's daredevil antics and bureaucratic maneuvers

The urban evolution of offscreen word clouds

MILIMETRIK ARCHITECTS CONVERTS RAMI LIBRARY INTO FAMILY FESTIVAL
 
Staged across the historic Rami Library in Istanbul, AileFest 2026 is a temporary spatial intervention designed by Turkish practice Milimetrik Architects. Held from September 26th to October 6th, 2026, the 91,000-sqm installation adapted the site’s historic courtyard and interior halls into an interconnected landscape for family-oriented recreation, education, and cultural programming, hosting approximately 825,000 visitors over an eleven-day period.
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MODULAR COURTYARD INSTALLATIONS FOSTER OPEN-ENDED RECREATION
 
The project employs a child-centric, semi-structured spatial syntax designed around ergonomic scales...

This performance by Marilyn Horne has always stunned me and everyone I play it for.

On a fair afternoon in Queens, New York, a woman in a red dress crosses the street in front of me with an actual axe under her arm. Her face is stern, her step fast, and you can tell from the blood on her axe that she wasn’t using it to chop wood. A police siren wails in the distance, but that doesn’t seem to bother her. I reach to lock the car and then remember it’s Halloween. At a warm and lovely dinner at Cabinet Magazine, founder and editor-in-chief Sina Najafi shows us a photograph of tightrope walker Margret Zimmermann balancing on a high wire above the bombed-out ruins of the Haymarket in Cologne, Germany, in 1946. She looks her finest in her red lipstick, but a treacherous wind is blowing in...

The Republic of Austria, the Albertina Museum, and the Leopold Museum Foundation—the latter two both in Vienna—filed a response Friday to amicus briefs submitted by two US senators, in which they repeat their claim that the updated Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act violates Article III of the US Constitution and the Tenth Amendment. Austria, the Albertina, and the Leopold are defendants in a suit brought by Timothy Reif, a descendant of Fritz Grünbaum, a Jewish cabaret performer and collector who was killed in a death camp in 1941. Reif is seeking the return of several works by Egon Schiele that he alleges were looted by the Nazis when they seized Grünbaum’s collection. The defendants...

A Dutch still life, “Beast Jesus,” several esoteric Goya characters, and not one but two Marina Abramović/Ulay references (and not even the most obvious ones!) walk into a bar ... That’s a Hyperallergic Halloween, baby! On Wednesday evening, October 28, almost 200 of our members, readers, artists, supporters, and their enthusiastic friends rolled into Oberon in Brooklyn for our annual art costume party. Winners in several categories ranging from “Best in Show” to “Most Likely to Get Censored in Florida” brought out the art-history nerd within them, materializing into both immediately recognizable icons — Roy Lichtenstein's “Drowning Girls” and Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl...

With around 80% of its exhibitors based in Canada, this edition of the country’s biggest art fair reflects the current “elbows up” attitude of a nation embroiled in a trade war with its neighbour

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Olivia Smith had a thriving career running Exhibition A on the Upper East Side, a company that sells original contemporary art editions, when artists Chris Dorland and David Deutsch approached her in 2015 about opening a gallery on the Lower East Side.Smith had worked with hundreds of artists producing limited edition prints, but she had never managed a commercial gallery or negotiated with museums before. Still, she felt a kinship with Dorland and Deutsch, who found a ground-floor storefront on Allen Street and needed help programming it. First they had to agree on a name, as long as it wasn’t their own on the door.“We wanted something expansive and open-ended,” Smith told Hyperallergic. “We felt...

From left to right: Museum of Modern Art director Christophe Cherix, M+ Museum Director Suhanya Raffel, and Centre Pompidou President Laurent Le Bon (photo © Centre Pompidou/Chau-Cuong Lê)Leaders at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Paris's Centre Pompidou, and M+ in Hong Kong signed an agreement granting unprecedented access to each museum's holdings for increased viewership, more collaborative curation, and additional research. The alliance emerges on the eve of M+'s fifth anniversary at its physical location in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District, and just one year into MoMA director Christophe Cherix's tenure. The agreement follows a wave of institutional...

Pipo Nguyen-duy, a beloved 64-year-old photography professor and the studio art department chair at Oberlin College in Ohio, and his wife, 56-year-old Tran Thi Phong, were fatally shot in their home on Wednesday, October 28. Nguyen-duy's child and Phong's stepchild, 31-year-old Asia Nguyen-duy (birthname Daniel Jones), has been charged with their deaths and faces six counts of murder, one count of tampering with evidence, and four counts of felonious assault, per Oberlin Municipal Court records. "I am deeply concerned about the impact of the devastating loss of Pipo to our community," Oberlin President Carmen Twillie Ambar wrote in a statement. "Pipo was beloved. During his years at Oberlin, he...

The American Arts Conservancy, the non-profit responsible for this year’s presentation in Italy, is short $1m to bring Alma Allen's giant sculptures back across the Atlantic

Silver coin of Antonius Pius SOMOGY COUNTY, HUNGARY—More than 700 coins were discovered at three sites near the Drava River in southwestern Hungary by archaeologists from the Rippl-Rónai Museum, Hungary Today reports. Most of the coins have been dated to the rule of the emperor Constantine (A.D. 307–337), but silver coins dating to the reigns of the emperors Antoninus Pius (A.D. 138–161), Severus Alexander (A.D. 222–235), Aurelian (A.D. 270–275), and Probus (A.D. 276–282) have also been identified. One coin, known as a “consecration coin,” is thought to have been minted to mark the death of Claudius II (reigned A.D. 268–270) and his deification. Pottery, brooches, and fragments of a scale...

Gall wasps, also known as cynipids, have a unique mutual relationship with plants. Their name is derived from the deposits, called galls, which they induce on host plants to support their larvae. The benign growths are created by chemicals that the larvae insert into the plant, drawing on its resources. These phenomena are often very tiny, occasionally appear in clusters, and can range from ruddy brown to vibrant pinks and yellows. Nature photographer Timothy Boomer can’t get enough of them. “Galls can be brought about by many different organisms, but I tend to focus on the ones induced by cynipid wasps because they are the most visually stunning (at least in my opinion),” Boomer tells Colossal. Striped...

Ukraine’s prosecutor general reported that a Russian lieutenant general has been charged in absentia for ordering a missile strike that caused significant damage to the Hryhoriy Skovoroda National Literary Memorial Museum in the country’s Kharkiv region in the spring of 2022. As reported by The Kyiv Independent, “According to the Prosecutor General, the Russian lieutenant general who ordered the attack is originally from the village of Chuhuiv in Kharkiv Oblast and commands Russia’s 6th Guards Air and Air Defense Forces Army.” The prosecutor general wrote, “The (lieutenant) general knew for certain that he was attacking not a military target but a monument of Ukrainian culture. Despite this, he...

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA—China Daily reports that Australian officials have repatriated the looted heads of two statues dating to the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960–1127) to China. The sculptures, which depict a civil official and a military official, were taken from imperial mausoleums near Kaifeng, the Song Dynasty capital in central China. Chinese Ambassador to Australia Liu Jinsong said that the statues once stood guard at ancient tombs—the civil official at the Yongchang Mausoleum and the military official at the Yongyu Mausolem. The National Gallery of Australia acquired the sculptures in 1995. China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration requested their return in 2025. “The return of these...

Nguyen-duy was a beloved teacher at Oberlin College in Ohio; his son has been arrested and charged with six counts of murder

In 1979, at the start of her essay “Sculpture in the Expanded Field,” art critic and theorist Rosalind Krauss wrote: “Over the last ten years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture: narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends; large photographs documenting country hikes; mirrors placed at strange angles in ordinary rooms; temporary lines cut into the floor of the desert.” Since then, sculpture has ventured even wider, into realms such as crafts, gardens, and masquerades, all relatively unexplored in Krauss’s time by mainstream Western art. Sculpture can take the form of a bacterial culture, a free clinic, or a virtual world, and The Kiss can now refer to an 1882 marble by Rodin,...

In the fall of 2024, Italian police used AI to analyze photographs taken at a popular antique fair, identifying a particular oil painting as having been one stolen from a church near L’Aquila 20 years prior. The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Italy’s art crime squad, has been using an AI algorithm to identify stolen artworks and artifacts since 2023. The platform they use is called SWOADS—or Stolen Works of Art Detection System—and was developed by Salvatore Rapicavoli, an IT engineer who joined the art crime team in 2023. A BBC article detailed the process, which began with Italian police officers visiting Mercanteinfiera, a 40-year-old “antiques village” that...

Ben Luke learns about a new Edward Hopper biography and digital editor Alexander Morrison visits a new private museum in Georgia. Ben Luke also hears about an installation by the Arte Povera artist Marisa Merz, who is now being celebrated by three institutions across Turin

BURSA, TURKEY—According to a Türkiye Today report, a cremation tomb dated to the first century A.D. has been discovered among the 5,000 seats of a theater in the ancient city of Apollonia ad Rhyndacum, which is located in northwestern Turkey. The tomb was made up of a mudbrick chest covered by a gabled roof of terracotta tiles. “What was a tomb doing in a theater area when the city had its own necropolis?” asked Derya Şahin of Bursa Uludag University. “The grave must be a special one. It must carry some meaning, perhaps a trace of sacredness or heroism,” she reasoned. So far, the members of the excavation team have uncovered and reconstructed 42 of the theater’s seating steps. They think the...

Detail of the Horses Panel in Chauvet Cave, France PARIS, FRANCE—SciNews reports that a team of researchers including Philippe Walter and Yohan Boulard of Sorbonne University have examined the 37,000-year-old artworks inside Chauvet Cave with ultraviolet fluorescence spectroscopy. Located in southeastern France, the cave contains more than 1,000 drawings and engravings depicting horses, cave lions, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, bears, and bison. By shining ultraviolet light on the cave paintings from about eight feet away, Walter and his colleagues observed that some materials absorbed the light, while others gave off a visible glow. The color of the glow allowed the researchers to identify the materials on...

Crepundia uncovered in the House of Cornelius Maximus, Pompeii, Italy NAPLES, ITALY—Reuters reports that archaeologists have uncovered a wooden cupboard discovered in a house on Via dell’Abbondanza in central Pompeii. Inscriptions in the house suggest that it belonged to Cornelius Maximus. “We cannot reconstruct with certainty the identity of whoever lived in the house, but these fragments bring us closer to their daily life,” said Gabriel Zuchtriegel of Pompeii Archaeological Park. Researchers determined that before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the cupboard held a necklace made up of at least 24 crepundia, or amulets crafted from bone, glass paste, earthenware, and...

Maite de Orbe explores intimacy, identity and visibility in MOMOSTAR at ICA London.

“Everything Twice” is a quiet meditation on disability and the ways we orient ourselves in the world. Since childhood, Cy Kuckenbaker noticed that one of his eyes drooped, something he attributed to a snowboarding accident. But doctors quickly dismissed that theory, and after innumerable tests and many, many years, the photographer learned he was born with a rare disease. Kuckenbaker chronicles this realization alongside a slow, analog process he began to combat burnout. Utilizing homemade cameras crafted from cardboard boxes and drugstore magnifying glasses, he captured a variety of landscapes and sights on the West Coast. Pairing both the slow processes of labor-intensive photography with that of...

Works by Bettina, Ching Ho Cheng, Nicola L. and other former residents have been popping up at galleries, museums and art fairs worldwide

Ominous backrooms? Echoey abandoned spaces? nope. These are the carefully explored and brilliantly captured photographs of instruments by Charles Brooks. Symphonic music can be epic. Grandiose in scale. It sweeps and pans through an architecturally tuned performance space, connecting our brains with the shared resonance of sound. And simultaneously, it can be intimate, reverberating through […]
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Random International brings new AI-responsive light sculptures to Art Basel Miami Beach.

Earlier this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the three artists chosen for the Artisan Residency Programme, a collaboration between the museum and Vacheron Constantin, unveiled the works that each has created through the program. The Swiss luxury watch company launched the 18-month residency program with the Met in May 2025, making the third such partnership for the company. (The company also has partnerships with the Louvre, dating to 2019, and the Palace Museum in Beijing, established in 2024.) The program is meant to pass on, preserve, and reinterpret traditional craft techniques. As part of the program, artists spent considerable time at both the Met and the Vacheron Constantin Manufacture in...

A contemporary kitchen is more than a place to prepare meals. It is a space where materials, textures, and proportions... Read More

In the second half of the 17th century, when early American colonists were well into producing their own furniture, makers drew upon the motifs and techniques common in England. Chests and cabinets were chunky, and chairs and tables often incorporated spool-like legs. In Boston, a particular interpretation of the high-backed Windsor chair emerged, inspiring furniture-maker and artist Aspen Golann to create uniquely sculptural, contemporary iterations as a nod to this heritage. “Meeting Bench,” made in collaboration with chairmaker Peter Galbert, and “Union Settee” pay tribute to the unique early style while also celebrating furniture’s role in how we convene. Golann has long been interested in the...

Still lives, water, bullfighting, masterpieces and a snake.

Two Philadelphia institutions present delectable performances of sex and filth (of the best kind).

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Centre Pompidou, M+ and MoMA unite for a new three-continent museum alliance.

Some singers only need a few seconds to show what they are all about. Listen to Ursula Hesse von den Steinen in this stunning performance to see what I mean.

Credit: Márcia Falcão I was invited to attend two of the opening days of Frieze London and, arriving in my home city, I was immediately reminded of its extraordinary energy, gathering pace around the nucleus of the Regent's Park venue. The art on display was more than equal to the occasion. A-listers and icons from across the wider cultural landscape, including film, music and fashion, mingled with professionals and enthusiasts from London’s eclectic art scene, all seemingly loving, living...

Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. $4,500 Artist GrantsFeaturedThe Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for $4,500 and $1,000 artist grants from a total pool of $13,000. Two artists will each receive $4,500 and four artists will each receive $1,000. This is an international open call, and all visual media is eligible. The Hopper Prize provides a direct path to get your work in front of an international community of curators, artists, gallerists, and arts administrators. Additional exposure is available via a 30 artist shortlist, an online...

Gretchen Scherer’s paintings of affluent homes, studios, and libraries appear to expand before our eyes. Brimming with ornately framed paintings installed salon-style on richly papered walls, her half-imagined spaces are inspired by real places, which she infuses with a playful brightness and whimsy. When we home in on one particular floral arrangement, framed artwork, or piece of furniture, it seems that there’s a sudden increase in how much more there is to explore. Scherer’s new solo exhibition, In Time at Monya Rowe Gallery, continues the artist’s fascination with historical interiors, from art museums and drawing rooms to palatial halls and ecclesiastical spaces. “A French Cafe with Paintings”...

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By Lorraine Heitzman There is a meticulous elegance to everything Phyllis Green makes, a quality that is immediately apparent in her brilliant fifteen-year survey show at the Laband Art Gallery. Phyllis Green: Of My Own Making is a diverse yet cohesive exhibit, both imaginative and grounded in the textures of commonplace materials such as wood, clay, cloth, and metal. She masterfully applies her vision across multiple disciplines making sculptures that appear simple despite her extraordinary...

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By Victoria Thomas Classical music is rarely the currency of activism. We generally turn to less patrician, more hard-edged forms to voice protest and dissent against fascism, tyranny, racial violence, and other sociopolitical ills. But SYZYGY, a new three-movement concerto composed by Courtney Bryan celebrating three visual artists — all women, all women of color — defies this expectation. Bryan's 18-minute composition makes its world premiere on The American Concerto, Volume One, performed...

Photos provided by 21c, with additional photos by Atta Hi-Fructose co-founder Atta visited three 21c Museum Hotels in four days to explore their galleries and the towns around them. Here is his report! 21c locations combine actual contemporary art museum gallery exhibitions which are free and open to the general public (whether you stay there […]
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