The Lehman College Art Gallery presents the 2026 BFA, MA, and MFA Thesis Exhibition, opening May 20 and on view through May 28, 2026. The exhibition features the culminating work of graduating students from the Lehman College Art Department, highlighting a range of practices across digital media, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and interdisciplinary forms.Bringing together over thirty undergraduate and graduate artists, the exhibition reflects a broad spectrum of conceptual inquiry and material experimentation. Students engage with themes including identity, memory, technology, migration, and social space, often working across traditional and emerging media. Time-based and digital works will be...

By Lacey Argus It's easy to miss the bite-sized rainbows orbiting around the travertine surfaces of The Getty Center's Main Entrance. Some people breeze by them, eager to visit the various galleries that lie just beyond them. Others dash through them as they rush into a crowded bathroom line. Some briefly glance upward at the towering glass light prisms suspended from the atrium enclosing the space. But not children. If you spend an afternoon amongst these rainbows, you're sure to notice...

The Neue Galerie, a private museum in New York’s Upper East Side run by collector Ronald S. Lauder, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, making yet another major expansion of the latter institution’s modern art offerings. The New York Times reports that the merger will take place in 2028 and that the Neue Galerie will now be known as the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie, or the Met Neue for short. (The latter institution is located in a townhouse at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 86th Street, about a five-minute walk from the Met.) The Neue Galerie is known for its deep holdings of German and Austrian modernist art, including masterpieces by Gustav Klimt, at least one of which is worth more...

This week marks the 12th annual New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) fair in New York, as well as my first time ever attending it. My inner compass always goes haywire in the enormous exhibition space at Starrett-Lehigh Building in Manhattan, but even more puzzling was that the actual fair made me feel almost like I was at the mall. Not like the Frieze experience, which feels like a mall because it's at The Shed, but rather evoking the realization that almost every store is selling marginally different versions of the same thing these days. It's a sweeping overstatement, I know, but it's just that there were trends and tropes everywhere I turned. The prevalence of zany little sculptures and...

Following the success of their 2025 collaboration, BAND-AID® Brand and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have reunited to produce a new lineup of art-themed adhesive bandages. This year, the band-aids feature details from three flower paintings in the Met’s collection: Impressionist painter Claude Monet’s Water Lilies (1919), Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh’s Irises (1890), and Symbolist artist Odilon Redon’s Bouquet of Flowers (ca. 1900–1905). The 2026 Band-Aid x Met offering comes as a 50-count assortment of small (Redon), medium (van Gogh), and large (Monet) printed fabric bandages, all packed in a collectible tin adorned with a larger reproduction of the van Gogh. As with last year’s...

The artist behind New York's beloved pigeon monument will create a mobile project celebrating Latine dignity

"I’ve always challenged the supremacy of sight in the arts"

Faig Ahmed is known for his vibrant textile sculptures that take traditional Azerbaijani ornamental carpets as starting point, often appearing to melt, pool, or glitch. In his current solo presentation at the 61st Venice Biennale, where he is representing Azerbaijan, the Baku-based artist branches out into more conceptual territory, exploring science, alchemy, spirituality, and perceptions of self in a sprawling, maze-like installation called The Attention. Curated by Gwendolyn Collaço, the exhibition expands upon Ahmed’s interest in the dialectic between digital processes and time-honored, hand-crafted techniques. The artist considers how advanced scientific inquiry, such as quantum physics and...

Good Morning! An expert claims the iconic image of JMW Turner printed on British banknotes was never his self-portrait. Hungary’s new minister of culture, Zoltán Tarr, shares his vision for fostering freedom of expression in a liberated local art scene. The Trump administration is charging ahead with the building of a contested Triumphal Arch and a White House ballroom. The Headlines AN ABOUT-TURNER. Most will immediately recognize the famous and rare self-portrait of a young J.M.W. Turner, in which he appears to lock his steady gaze with the viewer. It hangs in Tate Britain and is printed on £20 notes. But a Turner expert now claims the Romantic artist never painted it, reports...

Christopher Corwin surveys the three Traviata casts — led by Lisette Oropesa, Rosa Feola, and Ermonela Jaho — at the Met this spring.

The Bronx Opera's Ariadnes auf Naxos is well worth the subway ride. Plus, two strong premieres at the Brooklyn Art Song Society.

The institution has removed exhibits on Stalin-era repression and will instead focus on Nazi crimes

The French parliamentary commission raises alarms over the “worrying condition” of their collections and proposes 40 recommendations amid rising threats to museums

The film director Baz Luhrmann and his wife, production designer Catherine Martin, have designed the lavish interior

arrotino del design shifts attention toward local repair
 
During Milan Design Week, installations often appear as polished objects briefly dropped into the city before disappearing again. Studio Method proposes something slower, smaller, and far more embedded in everyday life. Their project, Arrotino del Design, takes inspiration from the long-standing Italian figure of the traveling repairman, the arrotino, a familiar figure who once moved through neighborhoods fixing household objects while becoming part of the neighborhood life. ‘Basically, it was this repairman who goes around the neighborhood and fixes things, and he’s very much embedded in the community,’ the designers Riel Bessai and Pedro...

MIT Researchers Build a Social Robot From Labubu Heads
 
At the intersection of robotics, internet culture, and collectible design, researchers at MIT develop Labububot, a social robot built from twelve Labubu heads assembled into a rolling spherical form. Created by Miranda Li, Jake Read, Dimitar Dimitrov, and Cynthia Breazeal, the project challenges the visual and emotional language typically associated with social robotics. Most social robots are designed to feel approachable. Rounded forms, simplified facial expressions, and anthropomorphic features are often used to create trust and familiarity. Labububot moves in the opposite direction. Instead of reducing discomfort, the project embraces ambiguity,...

Harriman has been the focus of several articles in conservative UK media outlets following posts he shared on social media

At first glance, “Don Colossus” seems fairly unremarkable — another day, another crappy sculpture deifying Donald Trump! This time, though, it was unveiled at the president’s Miami golf club by several evangelical Christian leaders who believe he was “divinely appointed” to office (sound familiar?). Only critic Ed Simon could turn this gaudy, gilded statue into a lesson in art, religion, and idolatry.Meanwhile in New York, art fair week is up and running. As collectors flood the city for preview events, Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia turns to a question on all our minds: How much could a booth the size of a shoebox possibly cost? Hint: It makes my rent look like a steal.—Lakshmi Rivera Amin,...

A well-known Met Aïda with a starry cast from 1967 is TildyDiva’s Favorite Verdi Performance

GEBERIT RAISES DESIGN DIALOGUES AT ITS EXPERIENCE CENTER
 
Some products are shaped by trends, but when a bathroom renovation happens, on average, once in every two decades, trends fall short. Geberit takes the lead in the opposite direction when it comes to bathroom design. Instead, the European sanitary manufacturer factors foresight, substance, and a deep understanding of water, materials, and function into their design process. To reflect this perception, Geberit Experience Center opened right in the heart of Milan’s design scene – the Tortona District – during Milan Design Week 2026.
 
Within this permanent space, Geberit focuses on its core competence, the expertise of Mastering Water, with an...

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Baquio Arquitectura Elevates a Polycarbonate-Clad Retreat
 
Casa 6-3 by Baquio Arquitectura is located on the mountain slopes of the Mindo ecosystem in Ecuador, where it operates as a lightweight shelter integrated with the surrounding Chocó cloud forest. Conceived initially as a temporary hospitality structure, the project explores the relationship between architecture, landscape, and atmospheric conditions through a compact elevated form and a translucent material envelope.
 
The house is organized around a triangular geometry that extends outward toward the surrounding mountains, framing panoramic views while establishing a direct visual connection with the forest. Elevated on triangular stilts, the...

audemars piguet x swatch unveil royal pop collection
 
Swiss watchmakers Audemars Piguet and Swatch merge haute horlogerie with pop-inspired irreverence in the new Royal Pop collection, a collaboration that reimagines the iconic Royal Oak as a wearable pocket watch. Launching on May 16th, 2026, the series introduces eight pocket watches made from Swatch’s proprietary Bioceramic material, a composite blending ceramic powder with biosourced components derived from castor oil. The collaboration combines Audemars Piguet’s angular luxury watch codes with the colorful modular spirit of Swatch’s 1980s POP watches.
 
The Royal Pop collection pushes the silhouette of the Royal Oak into unfamiliar territory....

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Mary Lovelace O’Neal, whose gestural abstractions consistently ran against the grain, defying the demands placed upon Black painters by critics and artists alike, died on Sunday in Mérida, Mexico. She was 84. Her galleries, Jenkins Johnson and Marianne Boesky, announced her passing on Wednesday. Lovelace O’Neal produced sprawling paints defined by tangles of drippy, roiled strokes. This was a style that placed her outside the orthodoxy of Minimalism, the dominant movement when she was maturing as an artist during the 1960s. She also arrived too late to be classified as an Abstract Expressionist. But she did not consider herself an adherent of either movement, anyway, and in interviews, she said she...

Israel advanced a bill on Tuesday that would expand Israeli civilian authority sweeping authority over antiquities and archaeology in the occupied West Bank, a move that human rights groups warned would lead to the annexation of the Palestinian territory. As first reported by Haaretz, the Likud-backed bill would empower a new government body under the purview of the Israeli heritage minister to purchase and expropriate land. The proposed “Judea and Samaria Heritage Authority”—using the biblical term favored by the Israeli government for the occupied West Bank—“will hold exclusive responsibility for all matters relating to heritage, antiquities and archaeology in the area.” Those responsibilities...

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, acquired 314 works in 2025, Artnews reports. The year followed the fiftieth anniversary of the institution, which was established under the aegis of the Smithsonian in 1974. The acquisitions brought the museum’s collection to 13,000 pieces and increased its holdings in areas it had sought to […]

Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is perhaps one of the world’s most famous burial grounds, home to luminaries like authors Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust, musicians and composers like Frédéric Chopin, Édith Piaf, and even The Doors’ Jim Morrison, among many others. Its family tombs and sculptural headstones are iconic, and when artist Marina Kappos spent time wandering through Père Lachaise during a stay in the city last year, she was intrigued by the sculptures of grieving women she encountered. “They seemed to hold a power in their sadness, but also great beauty and remembrance as they stood guard over many of the tombs,” the artist says. In Piercing the Veil at SHRINE, Kappos’ solo exhibition...

It may have been Shakespeare who said “all the world’s a stage,” but for some in the art world, the most coveted platform is a freshly drywalled booth at an art fair. In New York City, spring fairs are in full throttle, anchored this week by Frieze at The Shed, which kicks off for VIPs today, May 13. Fairs are where galleries and artists mingle, meet collectors and curators, and, ideally, sell enough work to make it worth the cost. That last point is a delicate calculus for many exhibitors, as booth fees run the gamut from single digits to tens of thousands of dollars. We asked 13 New York art fairs to open up about booth costs, and what they shared (and didn't) revealed much about affordability and...

Somehow, somewhere, exists a place in New York City where one can buy a medium-sized pad of Yupo paper, a set of unopened Sennelier oil sticks, oodles of embroidery floss, and a mix-and-match encaustic paint set for under $20. That place is called Brooklyn Creative Reuse (BCR), and it recently opened its physical location in Industry City. Created by jeweler and reuse enthusiast Stephanie O'Brien, BCR emerged as a pop-up events initiative in February 2025, working to sustainably divert used art supplies from landfills by cycling them back into new hands at an affordable price. The organization opened its brick-and-mortar location in Building 2 earlier this month, coming in as a small but mighty...

A public contradiction about Iran’s participation in the 61st Venice Biennale has emerged after Aydin Mahdizadeh Tehrani, the director general of visual arts at Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (MCIG), was interviewed by the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA). In the interview, Mahdizadeh Tehrani explained that Iran “neither submitted a withdrawal letter nor […]

With a brazen gynephilia, Holzinger's art luxuriates in the violence that high art and its histories conceal

May is an incredibly busy time for migrating birds, as millions flock from their southerly wintertime feeding grounds back to northern climes, where they’ll nest and breed. Chances are, if you look and listen in your back garden or nearby nature preserves, a wide variety of unusual birds may be noticeable around this time as they stop off to refuel during their journeys. So, it’s fitting that Vasilisa Romanenko’s solo exhibition, Flora & Flight at Arch Enemy Arts, continues this month. Romanenko’s detailed acrylic paintings, which range from six to 28 inches tall, set birds within vibrant sprays of blossoms. They’re intimate and inviting, bringing us close to these feathered creatures that, in real...

A new study by University College London reveals that engaging with arts and culture can slow biological aging in a manner similar to exercise. Published in the journal Innovation in Aging, the report suggested that those engaging passively with culture, by attending a performance or visiting a gallery, and those participating in the arts—for example, […]

W hen we connect over Zoom, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, aka Shoplifter, is in Bentonville, Arkansas preparing to unveil Xanadu, a large-scale, outdoor installation at Format Festival. “It’s going to be like an alien forest that people at the festival roam around in and space out,” says Arnardóttir of the installation, consisting of ten poles ranging in […]
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ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND—Live Science reports that a dental bridge was discovered on the lower jaw of a man whose remains were unearthed at St. Nicholas East Kirk in northeastern Scotland. The man was middle-aged when he died sometime between 1460 and 1670, said bioarchaeologist Rebecca Crozier of the University of Aberdeen. The bridge was made of a gold wire, called a ligature, that was wrapped around two front tooth roots to span the gap between them. The wire was probably fashioned and installed by a jeweler, she added. “The application of the ligature would likely have caused some discomfort during the procedure,” Crozier said, explaining that it likely rubbed against the root of one of the anchoring...

PARAMONGA, PERU—Andina News Agency reports that Jose Luis Fuentes of the National University of San Marcos and his colleagues have uncovered possible ceremonial structures at Cerro de la Horca, or “Gallows Hill,” an archaeological site on Peru’s central coastline that was first inhabited around A.D. 900. “There are around 20 mounds surrounding four plazas, in addition to platforms, walls, and internal roads,” Fuentes said. These mounds may have once been residences for priests or elites, he added. Pottery recovered at the site indicates that it was occupied by various groups, including members of the Pativilca, Casma, and Huaura cultures. Fuentes observed two major construction phases. In the older...

What do you get when you combine an obsessive urge to create, sleep deprivation, climate change anxiety, and penchant for enchanted nature realms? Amy Casey shows us firsthand, through her infinitely detailed paintings of manmade structures, either clashing or peacefully coexisting with natural environments. In these pieces we might find repetitions of fungi, leaves, and […]
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Debbie Lawson is known for her large-scale sculptures of life-size animals cloaked in ornamental carpets. Starting with an armature of wire mesh, masking tape, and Jesmonite resin, she meticulously cuts and tucks Persian carpet around every limb, building a surface that looks unbroken. As if the animals have materialized from within the textiles and are temporarily frozen in a stage of metamorphosis, we encounter them on the verge of making a move. In the artist’s solo exhibition, In a Cowslip’s Bell I Lie at Sargent’s Daughters, she provokes “questions about the relationships between decoration and nature, craft and camouflage,” the gallery says. The title is a line from Shakespeare’s The Tempest,...

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Grand Tier Grab Bag hearkens back to the days when Sondra Radvanovsky — who is singing no Verdi at all next season — seemed like the Verdi soprano of reference.

My favorite Verdi performance is Claudio Abbado Don Carlo opening of the Scala.

The history of photography has long been shaped by what is seen and, crucially, by what is omitted. New Woman, New Vision. Women Photographers of the Bauhaus enters this contested terrain with force, assembling an expansive body of work that feels at once familiar and newly charged. Bringing together approximately 300 photographs, the exhibition reframes the Bauhaus not as a closed chapter of modernism, but as an evolving site of authorship, experimentation and erasure. It is less a recovery project than a recalibration, asking viewers to look again at images they may think they know. In doing so, it exposes the fragility of the canon itself. What emerges is a complex picture of photographic modernity. From...

As we enter the summer months, there’s a universal desire to get outside. The trees are green, flowers are in full bloom and the sun is shining well into the evening. These five exhibitions are bringing contemporary art into nature, placing sculptures in dialogue with the environment. Each one offers visitors the opportunity to witness art outside of the confined of white walls and gallery spaces, getting up close to creativity on a monumental scale. Major names like Yayoi Kusama, Lynn Chadwick and Henry Moore take up new space, whilst Nic Nicosia and Nicola Turner transform familiar museums into new experiences. Lynn Chadwick Houghton Hall, Norfolk | Until 4 October Houghton Hall presents a new exhibition...

Throughout her illustrious 32-year career, Pacita Abad (1946-2004) traveled to more than 60 countries. Myriad experiences ultimately introduced her to a wide range of techniques, materials, and relationships, shaping the artist’s practice over time. Movement provided an enduring source of new ideas and inspiration, and as she put it, “For me, traveling is my art school.” In the spring of 1998, Abad visited Yemen. At the time, the country was still in recovery following the Yemeni Civil War, which took place four years prior. Grounded in her rigorous political engagement and the instabilities experienced in her native Philippines, Abad reflected on the immutable significance of cultural practices and...

GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS—Phys.org reports that a shell midden dated to between 6,300 and 5,970 years ago has been discovered on Velanai Island in northern Sri Lanka by a team of researchers led by Thilanka Siriwardana of the University of Groningen and his colleagues. It had been previously thought that northern Sri Lanka was not occupied until the arrival of pastoralists from India in the fifth century B.C. because of its limited vegetation, lack of fresh water, and scarce raw materials for making stone tools. Analysis of the shell midden, however, indicates that prehistoric hunter-gatherers on Velanai Island relied heavily on mollusks, but also consumed sea bream, deer, wild boar, dugongs, and dolphins....

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—Stone tools uncovered at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China have been dated to 146,000 years ago, or about 20,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a statement released by the Field Museum. “People often imagine creativity as something that flourishes in good times,” said Yuchao Zhao of the Field Museum. “Finding out that these stone tools were made during a harsh Ice Age tells a different story. Hard times can force us to adapt,” he said. The new dates were obtained by measuring the ratio of uranium and thorium in calcite crystals in animal bones found alongside the stone tools. Because the small amount of uranium in a calcite crystal slowly...

Copper alloy collar found at an illicit whisky still site in Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve, Scotland KILLIN, SCOTLAND—According to a Herald Scotland report, National Trust for Scotland archaeologists, assisted by volunteers, recovered a piece of copper alloy from a stone structure in Highland Scotland’s Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve that may have been used to distill whisky in secret to avoid paying taxes that had been levied beginning in the 1780s. The researchers suggest that the copper part is a piece known in Gaelic as An Gearradan, or the collar connecting a still to its lyne arm, which controlled how much vapor returned to the pot and therefore controlled the flavor of the finished product....

Contemporary art from the Asia Pacific arrives in London with the force of something already long in motion. Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific brings together more than 40 artists from 25 countries, assembling over 70 works that span sculpture, photography, painting, ceramics, weaving and body adornment. Many of these works have never been shown outside the region, and their presence at the V&A immediately shifts the terms through which visibility is negotiated. What unfolds is a profound encounter with interconnected and evolving cultural systems across one of the most diverse regions in the world. Australia, Asia and the Pacific together account for roughly 60 percent of...

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By Melanie Chapman Let the Art (and the Artist) Speak for Itself Outside of the art world, painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer may not yet be as familiar a name as Jean-Michel Basquiat or Vincent Van Gogh, but to those who followed her artistic growth over the past ten years, she was on her way. Perhaps therein lay the problem. For those who knew Celeste personally and/or had the opportunity to work with her professionally, there is still a profound sense of loss permeating most conversations...

The 61st edition of the Venice Biennale, In Minor Keys, curated by the late Koyo Kouoh (1967-2025), is now open. It will run until 22 November at the Giardini, the Arsenale and in various locations around the city. Here is Aesthetica‘s run-down of 10 standout national pavilions to discover this year – paying attention to timely themes such as communication, connection, ecology, identity and legacy. Swiss Pavilion | The Unfinished Business of Living Together In April 1978, an episode of the Swiss public programme Telearena aired. The live broadcast debated the “problem of homosexuality”, and, whilst controversial, marked one of the first occasions when individuals from the LGBTQ+ community gained a...

Liberation, modernism and the politics of self-determination form the conceptual spine of Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa, an exhibition opening this July at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It examines how architecture became a critical medium through which newly independent West African nations articulated sovereignty, identity, and futurity in the decades following colonial rule. Rather than treating modernism as a neutral or imported style, the exhibition frames it as a charged and adaptive language, refracted through the urgencies of nation-building and rapid urban transformation. Across Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo, architectural...

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By Coral Pereda Serras Among established and other art spaces in Melrose Hill, sits 1028 N. Western Ave., home to Western Avenue Collective artists studios. This 1922 building hosts 22 artist spaces among which is El Nido, an artist-run curatorial and research space by VC Projects. El Nido, borrowing from its Spanish name, is nested in this distinctly LA courtyard and through "Photography Into Sculpture: An Homage and An Update," emerges as a portal into the imagined memories of a Victorian...

ABOVE: Installation view, Jeffrey Gibson, boshullichi / inlvchi – we will continue to change, Kunsthaus Zürich, 2025, photo by Franca Candrian, Kunsthaus Zürich Jeffrey Gibson was far more open about the act of dreaming and the beliefs that make-up spirituality than I expected. I started our conversation saying that I like to keep things loose, […]
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