Join us for a hopeful conversation with social justice artist and recent MacArthur "Genius Grant" winner Tonika Lewis Johnson, a native and current resident of Chicago's South Side Englewood neighborhood whose work is a powerfully poetic challenge to the devastating logic of racial segregation.You’ll hear Johnson talk about her emblematic "Folded Map Project," which connects people living at mirror addresses on the city's North and South sides, and other works at the intersection of art and participatory, community-driven action.We will begin with live readings of testimonies from the artist’s 2024 book Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It, which inspired the title of this...

Seventy-three artists and curators participating in the Sixty-First Venice Biennale’s main exhibition, set to open May 9, have issued on open letter objecting to organizers’ decision to “exceptionally” move the Israeli pavilion to the Arsenale, saying its presence there will foster an intimidating atmosphere that conflicts with the inclusive mandate of the show’s late curator, […]

On Monday, President Donald Trump posted a short video to Truth Social unveiling a rendering of his planned Donald J. Trump Presidential Library in downtown Miami. The video shows a 47-story tower emblazoned with Trump across the top, a red-white-and-blue spire, and an American flag at its center. The promo also shows a gold entranceway and escalator, naturally, as well as models of Air Force One and several military aircraft. It also depicts a 20-foot-tall golden statue of Trump, as well as a replica of the Oval Office, the latter of which is common in presidential libraries. In a post on X also featuring the video, the president’s son and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, Eric Trump,...

More than 300 Mexican cultural professionals are calling for clarity surrounding the Gelman Santander Collection, a trove of works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, María Izquierdo and others

British filmmmaker Steve McQueen has been named the winner of the 2026 Erasmus Prize, the Dutch version of the Nobel, whose theme this year was “Ecce Homo, Behold the Human Being.” The award, presented annually by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, is not reserved for artists but is given to a person or institution that has […]

Konel unveils translucent wearable bag ‘pulse pack’
 
During Milan Design Week 2026, Konel is releasing a translucent wearable bag that converts the user’s heartbeats into slow pulses to help them be aware of their current state and calm them down. Named Pulse Pack, the self-calming gadget, which comes from the same company that created the ZZZN puffer jacket, measures the heartbeat in real time and responds to the accessory with a physical pulse of its own, timed at exactly half the frequency of what it detects. The idea behind it draws from a phenomenon in physiology and psychology that when the body is under stress, the heart rate rises. When a person is calm, it slows. 
 
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Melvin Edwards, a sculptor whose assemblages of welded steel and barbed wire nodded toward centuries of violence and reframed the visual language of Minimalism, died on Monday in Baltimore. He was 88, according to his gallery, Alexander Gray Associates, which said in its obituary that he died peacefully, in the presence of his wife, Diala Toure. Edwards remains best known for his “Lynch Fragments,” a body of work he began producing in the 1960s. Working primarily with found steel objects, Edwards created masses of hooks, chains, and beams, some of which were abstracted beyond recognition. His titles—both of the series overall and of the individual works within the series—tended to be forceful,...

a metro as urban structure in turin
 
UNS’s vision for Turin’s new Metro Line 2 positions infrastructure as a visible and continuous part of the Italian city. Developed with Settanta7, Mijksenaar, Frigorosso, 3BA, and WSP, the proposal reframes the metro as an urban system shaped as much by movement as by form.
 
Selected by an international jury chaired by architect Dominique Perrault, the project was recognized for its ability to connect mobility with public space. Rather than treating the metro as a hidden layer beneath the city, the design gives it presence at street level, allowing entrances, signage, and spatial cues to participate in the wider urban fabric.
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I FIRST MET PHIL LEIDER in early 1967 in Los Angeles, where my wife and I had come to take part in the events around the opening of the Morris Louis retrospective at the LA County Museum of Art. I had organized the exhibition and had hoped to install it, but the local curator beat […]

Blown wildly out of proportion in large format, the slime molds that British photographer Barry Webb captures seem atmospheric and sculptural. Stemonitis, for example, looks like dozens of thin pieces of wire with their ends coated in colored wax. But this fungi-like form is one of hundreds of kinds of slime mold, and it typically only reaches a height of about two centimeters at the most. Thanks to Webb’s macro photos, we glimpse a phenomenally beautiful world up-close that is otherwise virtually invisible. Scientists have documented hundreds of these organisms, which aren’t actually related to plants, fungi, animals, or molds—despite the name. They comprise a unique group unto themselves, more closely...

Patricia Marroquin Norby, the first curator of Native American art ever hired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, quietly left her post in December 2025. Earlier this month, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York posted a job listing for a curator of Native American art to replace Norby, who had been the museum’s associate curator of Native American art since 2020.  Norby had been hired to great fanfare, as both the first person to hold the role at the Met and the first Native American to be hired as a curator by the institution. Her appointment was seen as both a watershed and as a response to criticism from various Native American tribes, who pointed to the museum’s poor documentation for many of the...

Barrie Kosky’s zany production of The Nose time-steps back onto the Komische Oper Berlin stage.

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Germany is setting up a new panel called the Coordination Council for Returns of Cultural Property and Human Remains from Colonial Contexts. A rare scrap of typed lyrics from Bob Dylan’s song “I’m Not There” was found hidden in a book and will be auctioned. Plans for Donald Trump’s presidential library in Miami were revealed yesterday. The Headlines RETHINKING REDRESS. Germany is creating a new panel to oversee the restitution of colonial-era artifacts and human remains, reports the Art Newspaper. The new group, with the lengthy, acronym-unfriendly title: Coordination Council for Returns...

Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s (b. 1982) photographs unfold with both sensual intimacy and visual precision. The USA-based artist is best-known for intimate studio portraits of friends and lovers that navigate the line between exposure and concealment. They often reveal as much about the process of photographing as they do about the subject themselves. Queer, Black bodies are fragmented. Protected, private spaces are made public. The camera becomes a character. This spring, Fotomuseum Winterthur presents Sepuya’s first major solo exhibition in Switzerland, bringing together a vast array of early and recent works, alongside extensive ephemera drawn from the artist’s own personal archive.  Much of Sepuya’s oeuvre...

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The auction, scheduled for 11 June, will bring together 93 works including rare Bengali pieces

The new panel is intended to “shape ongoing and future restitution processes more effectively” and coordinate with counterparts in receiving countries

judy chicago constructs utopia through feminist space-making
 
American artist Judy Chicago approaches utopia as a method embedded in space, collaboration, and education. Her work is currently on view in Judy Chicago: Revelations at the Joods Museum, a comprehensive survey marking her first major presentation in the Netherlands, while The Materiality of Judy Chicago, curated by Allison Raddock, will open in 2026 at Alberta Pane in parallel with the Venice Biennale. Together, these exhibitions bring renewed attention to a practice that, across more than five decades, has consistently constructed environments where historically excluded voices, particularly women, can be seen, studied, and collectively...

Danish government reforms have resulted in increased funds for museums, but some question the equity of grants based on footfall

Artists struggle to work, museums and galleries close their doors and historic sites are badly damaged

LEXUS PRESENTS SPACE INSTALLATION AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026
  During Milan Design Week from April 21 to 26, 2026, LEXUS invites visitors to experience a boundary-pushing shift in mobility, presenting the SPACE installation at the heart of the Tortona district. Centered on the LEXUS LS Concept — a six wheel, chauffeur-driven concept vehicle first unveiled at the Japan Mobility Show 2025 — the exhibition aims to prove that mobility is no longer merely a means of reaching a destination, but a transformative experience in itself. Presented alongside the immersive installation, the LEXUS LS Concept rear-seat space also serves as a shared motif for creative reinterpretation, showcased in the collaborative...

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Less than three minutes. That's the time it reportedly took thieves in northern Italy to walk off with a Cézanne, a Matisse, and a Renoir worth about $10 million altogether. And what have you done today?Just kidding. Maybe you were one of 8 million Americans who participated in last weekend's No Kings protests. Writer Bella Bromberg was at some of New York’s marches to talk to protesters and capture photos of the best signs. Meanwhile, a guerrilla artwork featuring a gold toilet appears on the National Mall in DC to lampoon Trump’s gaudy bathroom renovation.There's more, including Juan Uslé’s memory-laden paintings of shipwrecks, and a new film that tries very hard to dramatize the...

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Decades of davide groppi’s work in piacenza exhibition
 
A monographic exhibition dedicated to Italian light designer Davide Groppi opens in Piacenza, Italy, inside the Church of Sant’Agostino on Stradone Farnese. Titled One hour of light and curated by Marco Sammicheli, director of the Museo del Design Italiano and curator of the design sector at Triennale Milano, the show is presented by the gallery Volumnia and runs through May 26th, 2026. It traces forty years of Davide Groppi’s work, from his first lamps in the late 1980s to two new pieces unveiled for the occasion, positioning light as a material with emotional and architectural weight. The central nave of Sant’Agostino becomes the spine of the...

But any family history exceeds the comfort of the domestic and sits within a bigger sphere of politics and culture, which can shape, expand, disrupt and destabilise.

Mesa turns its downtown streets into an open-air exhibition. At the Mesa Arts Center, Mesa Musical Shadows by Daily tous... Read More

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Immersive environments that engage the body, mind and senses are a defining thread in contemporary art, and Ernesto Neto’s SunForceOceanLife exemplifies this approach with unparalleled vibrancy. At the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Brazilian artist transforms Cullinan Hall into a spiralling labyrinth suspended 12 feet above the ground. The installation draws attention to the cyclical relationship between the sun and the sea, reflecting the generative forces that sustain life on Earth. Colour and texture merge to create a dynamic, tactile experience: yellow, orange, and green hand-woven textiles form intricate patterns, while soft plastic balls beneath visitors’ feet subtly shift with every step. This...

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Uri Aran (Gerusalemme, 1977), artista americano di base a New York la cui ricerca ha trovato spazio in alcune delle istituzioni più rilevanti del panorama internazionale, dalla Biennale di Venezia del 2013 curata da Massimiliano Gioni alla Whitney Biennial del 2014, è al centro della sua prima retrospettiva istituzionale in Italia. La mostra, Untitled (I love you), allestita al terzo piano del Museo Madre di Napoli e curata dalla direttrice uscente Eva Fabbris, riunisce oltre 170 opere realizzate a partire dai primi anni Duemila ad oggi, distribuite su circa ottocento metri quadrati in un percorso concepito dall’artista come un complesso ecosistema in cui ogni opera richiama le altre, talvolta per...

Four men have pulled off a major heist of works by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in the rural Italian city of Parma, according to reports. Per a statement given by the foundation to the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera, on the night of March 22, the hooded thieves took less than three minutes to infiltrate the premises […]

A giant golden toilet has materialized on the National Mall in Washington, DC; it’s just the latest in a series of guerrilla art installations that’ve appeared on the premises in recent months. Nearly ten feet tall, the toilet-throne includes a plaque that references Donald Trump’s frequently-derided remodeling of the Lincoln Bedroom bathroom. Titled A Throne Fit for a King, authorship of the […]

Ten years after Arts of Africa became its own department at the Brooklyn Museum, the institution is embarking on the development of a $13 million permanent home for the collection of over 4,500 objects and artworks.The museum is transforming underutilized storage areas on its third floor into 6,400 square feet of exhibition space, creating a seamless transition with the Egyptian art galleries to reconnect the art and historical legacy of North Africa with that of the rest of the continent, the institution said in an announcement on March 24.Peterson Rich Office (PRO), a Brooklyn-based architecture firm behind multiple commercial and institutional exhibition spaces, is leading the site's renovation and...

In a heist lasting less than three minutes, thieves nabbed paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse from a small museum in northern Italy, according to local police. On the night of March 22 and early morning of March 23, multiple suspects reportedly entered the campus of the Magnani Rocca Foundation, a museum dedicated to the collection of the late critic and collector Luigi Magnani, about 12 miles outside of Parma.The thieves grabbed Renoir’s “Les Poissons” (1917), Cézanne’s “Cup and Plate of Cherries” (c. 1890), and Matisse’s “Odalisque on the Terrace” (1922), together reportedly worth an estimated $10 million. Local media described the incident as a highly...

The British filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen is this year’s winner of the Erasmus Prize, given annually by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, a Dutch cultural institution. The award comes with a 150,000 euro (about $172,000) cash prize plus “adornments”—in this case, a folded paper booklet printed with text in the 16th century Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus’s script.   As an artist, McQueen is best known for films like Occupied City (2023), a four-and-a-half-hour-long documentary about Amsterdam during the Holocaust; Ashes (2015), which was cut from footage McQueen shot of a man on a fishing boat in Grenada in 2002; and Static (2009), a view of the Statue of Liberty shot from a circling...

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. Earth 2026 Art Awards: Exhibition, Publication, Sales, and Global PromotionFeaturedWhat does your art reveal about Earth? Its beauty, its resilience, or what’s at risk? The 6th edition of Earth 2026 juried awards invites artists worldwide to explore and express the power, beauty, and resilience of our wounded planet as we approach World Earth Day. From nature and climate to human connection and endangered ecosystems, this is your space to turn awareness into art. Selected artists receive an exhibition, Artsy...

WASHINGTON, DC — A 10-foot-tall, faux marble throne with a golden toilet in the center was unveiled on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial this morning, March 30. Titled “A Throne Fit For A King,” the protest piece features a towering throne back and armrest decorated with gold finials and ornamentation. Three semi-circular stairs lead up to the platform, and visitors are encouraged to sit on the golden commode. “In a time of unprecedented division, escalating conflict, and economic turmoil, President Trump focused on what truly mattered: remodeling the Lincoln bathroom in the White House,” reads a bronze plaque affixed to the work. The notorious bathroom remodeling last fall is just one of President...

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There are thousands upon thousands of types of mold out there. Some you can eat—think the rind on a wheel of brie or a gray fungus known as “noble rot” that gives certain types of grapes an extra sweet flavor for dessert wines. But there are plenty we shouldn’t eat, and when that loaf of bread in the cupboard begins to turn blue-green, it’s definitely time to chuck it in the bin. For Kathleen Ryan, the myriad colors and textures of mold continue to inspire larger-than-life sculptures of fruit and other foods that, in a way, preserve decay. Ryan’s oversized works are characterized by their textural finishes, often using salvaged metal and other materials in addition to an array of colored beads and...

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Calixto Bieito's production of Idomeneo at La Monnaie is anchored by a committed cast, but gets swept up in pseudo-psychoanalytic imagery — and foot fetishism.

Washington National Opera offered a searing production of Robert Ward’s opera The Crucible, directed by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello, as the second installment in the company’s next chapter.

For two decades, the Aesthetica Art Prize has operated at the intersection of artistic innovation and cultural dialogue, establishing itself as one of the UK’s most influential platforms for contemporary practice. Marking its 20th anniversary, the Prize presents a landmark, multi-site exhibition across North Yorkshire, bringing together 50 artists whose work reflects the urgency and the complexity of life in the 21st century. Rather than functioning as a single exhibition, this edition is conceived as a distributed cultural experience, unfolding across multiple venues and engaging audiences in different locations. Since its inception in 2006, the Prize has developed within the broader ecosystem of Aesthetica...

Pure class. Kurt Moll really knew his own voice inside out.

The La Napoule Art Foundation is opening its doors more widely than ever before through its new Threshold Art Retreats, a program designed for artists seeking creative exploration in an extraordinary setting at the Château de La Napoule in the south of France. These immersive five-day retreats invite participants of all backgrounds—not just professional artists—to step into a world where art, nature, and personal reflection intersect. With a focus on both artistic practice and inner renewal, the experience offers a rare opportunity to engage deeply with creativity in an ethereal setting shaped by nearly a century of artistic vision. Each retreat blends hands-on artistic instruction with restorative...

Censorship and book bans are on the rise worldwide, prompting growing concerns about access to information and free expression. Although this trajectory is increasingly worrisome, it isn’t new, as artist Xiaoze Xie reflects on his exhibition In the Name of the Book. Comprising paintings and life-sized porcelain sculptures, the show encompasses works made in the early 1990s through the present day, all of which reflect on the vital role books play in cultural, political, and social life. Xie’s practice is largely informed by his upbringing in China—he was born in Guangdong the same year as the Cultural Revolution— and in 1989, he witnessed the deadly Tiananmen Square protests. After moving to the U.S....

Circulation(s) Festival has been spotlighting the work of emerging European photographers since 2011. For its 16th edition, the event returns to Centquatre-Paris, bringing together 26 artists representing 15 different nationalities. Selected through an open call, there is no overarching theme; instead, key strands emerge – memory, identity, ecology and political tension – capturing what matters most to young practitioners today. This year, there’s an additional focus on Irish talent. Here, we highlight five to know. Matevž Čebašek, In the Mountains, the Sun is ShiningMatevž Čebašek’s (b. 1995) intimate body of work, In the Mountains, the Sun is Shining, surveys the fragile and unreliable nature...

Kyoto is one of the oldest municipalities in Japan. It served as the official Imperial capital from 794 until 1868, and today remains steeped in history. The city attracted over 10 million foreign tourists in 2024, and is renowned for its bamboo grove, gardens, historic districts, shrines and temples. Yasuhiro Ogawa (b. 1968), a leading figure in Japanese contemporary photography, has been documenting the locale for 10 years. Now, the resulting atmospheric series, Lost in Kyoto, is central to his latest show in Berlin. This body of work eschews the traditional conventions of documentary or travel photography, which revel in famous landmarks or Instagram-friendly photo-ops. Instead, Ogawa presents abstractions...

Il post-minimalismo, nato a partire dalla risemantizzazione di ciò che il minimalismo storico aveva consegnato alla storia come irrisolvibile, è tra le correnti che hanno segnato più in profondità la scultura e l’installazione degli ultimi trent’anni. Se maestri come Donald Judd (Excelsior Springs, 1928 – New York, 1994), Robert Morris (Kansas City, 1931 – Kingston, 2018) e Dan Flavin (New York, 1933 – New York, 1996) avevano perseguito un’idea di riduzione assoluta attraverso forme concepite come presenze pure, neutre e incorruttibili, la generazione successiva rovesciò quell’assioma pur continuando a interrogarsi su quanto si potesse togliere all’opera finale, reintroducendo nel white...

L’artista digitale multidisciplinare Di Cao ha recentemente presentato nuove opere alla NEOI Gallery a Ginza, Tokyo. Nel 2025 è stato invitato a partecipare alla prestigiosa mostra annuale The Discerning Eye alle Mall Galleries di Londra. Nello stesso anno è stato selezionato per la mostra collettiva internazionale Art Evol 2025: Voices from the Undefined, promossa dal London Art Collective e presentata alla Saatchi Gallery. Su invito della NEOI Gallery, Di Cao ha presentato la sua prima mostra personale Collective Body dal 23 febbraio al 1 marzo 2026. L’esposizione ha segnato una tappa importante nello sviluppo dell’artista come praticante multiculturale. Riflette il suo percorso artistico dalla Cina...

“Il silenzio del gesto. Nel punto esatto in cui mi perdo comincio a sentire” è il titolo scelto per la grande retrospettiva di Antonio Recca alla Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Catania (GAM), visitabile fino al prossimo 12 aprile 2026. Non è solo un titolo, è una micronarrazione: un modo di evocare l’atto pittorico e sensoriale dell’artista, classe 1957. Antonio Recca, ph. Renato Zacchia, courtesy dell’artista
La mostra, curata da Giacomo Fanale, in co-organizzazione col Comune di Catania, ospita cinquanta paesaggi, dal 2009 a oggi. Sono visioni intimistiche e astratte, afflati interiori, percezioni sottili di una pittura che non vuole essere rumorosa ma vuole indurre all’ascolto e alla...

Growing up as a queer kid in the ‘80s, I was well aware from an early age that I was different, and that different was not okay, especially living in Missouri,” says New Mexico artist Anthony Hurd, who recently shifted away from abstracts, to delve into what may be deemed “controversial” figurative work. Not only […]
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La retrospettiva Materia e Percezione, al Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, riunisce oltre cento opere realizzate in venticinque anni di ricognizione estetica, offrendo una lettura approfondita del percorso espressivo di Carol Bove, tra le figure più autorevoli della prassi scultorea moderna. Il progetto curatoriale rinuncia a una sequenza cronologica lineare per privilegiare accostamenti sperimentali che mettono in luce l’interconnessione tra impianti, schemi tessili e ambientazioni costruttive. Mediante una gestione accurata dell’illuminazione e dei dispositivi di orientamento, la mostra accompagna il visitatore seguendo un itinerario scandito da aperture inquadrate, in cui la volumetria di Frank Lloyd...

The 78th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on Nieves Gonzalez, the art of Grip Face, The landscapes of Jennifer Nehrbass, the soft sculptures of Ela Fidalgo, the stitched urban landscapes of Laura Ortiz Vega, the art Jeffrey Gibson, Yu Jin Young’s once transparent figures, and the paintings of Fatima De Juan.  Plus […]
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