Your life doesn’t stop for grad school — and your practice shouldn’t either. The MFA Art Practice program at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) is an online, critique-driven degree that meets artists where they live and work while keeping them deeply engaged with New York’s contemporary art discourse.Across the year, you’ll sustain a rigorous studio practice supported by seminars, critiques, and mentorship with faculty and visiting artists. Optional nine-day Summer Symposiums bring the cohort together for exhibitions, critiques, and dialogue — connecting you to peers, mentors, and the broader cultural ecosystem that makes New York a generative place to test ideas.This program is designed for artists...

Roland Augustine helped start the influential Chelsea gallery more than 40 years ago

Three more paintings by PBS icon Bob Ross are going up for sale at Bonham’s at the end of the month, as part of a group of 30 such works being sold to raise money for the beleaguered public-broadcasting entity American Public Television (APT). ˆThe three works will be on offer in the “Americana: Crafting a Nation: Art, History & Legacy” sale in Marlborough, Massachusetts, on January 27, with estimates for the three reaching up to $155,000. Last year, Bonhams was consigned to sell 30 works by Ross, the Joy of Painting host whose status as the brush-wielding artist with improbably shapely hair was known far beyond the confines of galleries and museums. The high estimate for the group of the works at the...

Artist Gabrielle Goliath was dropped by her South African representative, Goodman Gallery, before the cancelation of her proposed Venice Biennale pavilion, according to a report by the Cape Town–based newspaper Daily Maverick from Tuesday. She appears to have been one of around a dozen artists who exited the gallery between last fall and the present. Goliath said in that article that the gallery cut off its relationship with her on December 18, one day before her solo show at the gallery’s New York outpost closed. She had been with the gallery for over a decade. The artist will continue to be represented by Milan-based Galleria Raffaella Cortese. By that point last month, the artist said, she had already...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesSTRAIGHT TO THE TOP. South Africa’s planned presence at this year’s Venice Biennale has descended into high drama after the government abruptly pulled the plug on its own pavilion. The selected artist, Gabrielle Goliath, and curator Ingrid Masondo are now appealing directly to President Cyril Ramaphosa and the foreign ministry, hoping to resurrect a project silenced days before the deadline, the Art Newspaper reported Wednesday. The work, Elegy, is a spare yet searing video installation: seven trained women singers sustain a single B note for an hour, passing it from breath to breath...

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In her uncanny visages and sculptures, Malene Hartmann Rasmussen taps the ceramic medium as a form of make-believe. Surreal folkloric creatures take on absurd, sometimes cartoonish personalities, assembled from disparate plants and critters or reflecting characterful, mask-like qualities. In Rasmussen’s playfully monstrous “Egg-head,” for example, silly antics are equally unsettling—what’s in its mouth? Where is the rest of its body? And “Inner Beast #10” gives a disgusted side-eye that’s open to interpretation. What does it find so offensive? “Egg-head” (2025), glazed stoneware, 24-carat gold luster, 37 x 27 x 21 centimeters By disturbing the boundaries between cuteness and abjection and...

United States Artists (USA), a Chicago-based nonprofit, has named 50 artists across disciplines to receive its annual $50,000 unrestricted financial award.After a year-long selection process, which includes nominations, the organization awarded USA Fellowships to artists across the country in 10 discipline categories: visual art, architecture and design, craft, writing, dance, film, music, theater and performance, and traditional arts and media. A full list of awardees is included at the end of this article.This year’s awardee class marks the USA Fellowship’s 20th year. The organization considers artists with singular artistic visions who have made an impact in their respective disciplines. Among this...

Each of 50 recipients—including visual artists, dancers, writers and filmmakers—will receive an unrestricted grant of $50,000

The outline of the largest Roman villa ever known in Wales has come to light three feet underground, and the experts behind the find are calling it a possible equivalent to Pompeii.  “My eyes nearly popped out of my skull,” project lead Alex Langlands, co-director of Swansea University’s Centre for Heritage Research and Training, told the BBC of the moment that ground-penetrating radar revealed the “huge structure” beneath a historical deer park. It measures over 6,000 square feet. The villa’s remains may be especially well preserved because they lie under a historical site that has not been built upon.  Langlands may have been “playful” in invoking Pompeii,  the rich archaeological site in...

Snøhetta returns to beijing with radiating art museum
 
Developed in collaboration with Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, the project marks Snøhetta’s second major cultural commission in the Chinese capital after the Beijing Library. Set within the rapidly developing eastern district, the museum takes shape as a large-scale civic building positioned to support Beijing’s expanding cultural infrastructure while addressing the everyday rhythms of the surrounding neighborhood.
 
The program spans more than 110,000 square meters and accommodates fine art, contemporary practice, design, and forms of intangible cultural heritage. Alongside exhibition spaces, the building includes areas for research,...

An archeological operation conducted in advance of a construction project in Gela, Sicily, has uncovered an unusual carved bone stylus—a sharp tool used to inscribe clay before firing—that, according to excavation director Gianluca Calà, may have had a symbolic purpose. The news was reported by the Spanish magazine La Brújula Verde. The stylus was discovered during a survey of the building site for a new Palace of Culture; such investigations are not uncommon in areas known to have potential archeological value, and Gela, once a powerful ancient Greek city, is known for its extensive ruins. A bit more than five inches long, the stylus dates to the 5th century BC and was found in the remains of a...

Construction begins on Africa’s largest airport, designed by zha
 
Ethiopian Airlines Group begins construction on what is set to become Africa’s largest airport, Bishoftu International Airport (BIA), designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and located around 40 kilometers southeast of Addis Ababa. With an initial annual capacity of 60 million passengers, rising to 110 million once fully built, the project marks a major infrastructural shift for the country, positioning Ethiopia as a central aviation hub between Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. 
 
The architectural concept draws from Ethiopia’s geography and cultural diversity. A central spine organizes the terminal and its piers, reducing transfer...

Nearly three years after the premiere of François Girard's Lohengrin at the Met, Parterre Box looks back at the production with a duet from Piotr Beczala and Elena Stikhina.

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Architecture is never just about buildings. It is a way of understanding place, memory and care, shaped by the cultural traditions of a place and the people who inhabit it. The very best structures respond to social change, ecological responsibility and human experience, creating something that is perfectly in harmony with its surroundings. These five exhibitions spotlight the designers and buildings that shape how we live, heal and connect. They include Geoffrey Bawa’s quietly radical reimagining of Modernism in Sri Lanka; the intricate designs of Herzog & de Meuron; and contemporary practices that open up new ways of living. Geoffrey Bawa: Architecture for the Senses Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein |...

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The site, which will feature work by artists such as Alberto Giacometti and Henry Moore, is expected to open in the autumn—though planning permission is yet to be confirmed

Marc Leschelier installs a walkable field of pre-architecture
 
Marc Leschelier brings his practice of pre-architecture to Florence with the monumental installation Ancient / New Site. The project occupies the central square of the Fortezza da Basso with 18 monolithic structures that visitors are invited to enter, cross, and inhabit. Spread across 1,700 square meters, the structures are built from scaffolding frames clad in concrete canvas, a material that has become central to Leschelier’s work. Originally developed for infrastructural purposes such as slope stabilization and roadside reinforcement, concrete canvas is a flexible textile impregnated with cement. Once positioned and moistened, it hardens...

South Africa’s Venice Pavilion Cancellation highlights tensions between artistic independence and government interference, raising questions about cultural autonomy and political control. Gabrielle Goliath, Elegy – Noluvo Swelindawo, 2017. ICA Live Art Festival, Cape Town. Courtesy […]

The “near frightening rigour” of the post-conceptualist artist is celebrated at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art

Vitamins by Eleonore Buschinger and Tabea Mathern
 
Vitamins is a collaborative project by designer Eleonore Buschinger’s Vitamin Color and photographer Tabea Mathern that explores vegetables as a material for contemporary image-making. Developed in New York, the series presents sculptural still lifes in which everyday objects, from fashion accessories to familiar household items, are reconstructed entirely from produce. By replacing industrial materials with organic ones, the project invites a new way of looking at both objects and food.  The collaboration brings together two complementary practices: Vitamin Color’s long-standing exploration of vegetables as cultural and emotional objects, and...

I wasn't alive during the golden age of Verdi baritones like MacNeil, Warren, or Gobbi, but hearing Amartuvshin Enkhbat live in an opera house must be the next best thing.

There's a particular magic in discovering the worlds created by the late prescient author Ursula K. Le Guin, from the Earthsea archipelago to the planet of Gethen. The former series was one of the first I encountered as a young reader that centered non-White characters.Even her carefully drawn maps reveal a mind with gears always turning, swirling with storylines that defied linearity and conventions of science fiction — and the way writers speak to their readers. "A book is just a box of words until a reader opens it," she replied to each of her many fan letters.Theo Downes-Le Guin brought his mother's approach to art and literature to life for an exhibition at Oregon Contemporary in Portland,...

Saru Translates Memory into Domestic Architecture
 
Tales of Saru is a residential project by Studio for Architecture and Regional Urbanism (SARU), located in Mettupalayam, Tamil Nadu, India, at the foothills of the Nilgiris. Built on the site of the client’s childhood home, the 3,200-sqft house is conceived as an architectural framework shaped by memory, landscape, and lived experience rather than by a predefined stylistic approach. The design translates recollections of place into spatial sequences, organizing the house around four distinct architectural narratives, or ‘tales,’ each derived from specific experiences associated with the land.
 
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Altrove, prima mostra personale in Italia, in corso presso la Galleria napoletana Sulmondo, è un viaggio nella poetica dell’artista taiwanese Wu Kuan-Te. Nato nel 1979, inizia la sua carriera nel 1995, laureandosi presso il Fine Arts Institute of Taiwan Normal University. Il suo pensiero e la sua arte sono fortemente influenzati da esperienze di viaggio internazionali, come quello del 2011 in Francia sulle orme di Paul Cézanne, dalla filosofia orientale e dall’osservazione della natura.
Wu Kuan-Te, “Awakening”, olio su tela, 120 x 120 cm, 2025, ph. courtesy Galleria Sulmondo
Ad avviarlo all’arte fu lo zio paterno, Yao-Zhong Wu, la cui tragica scomparsa segnò nel profondo Kuan-Te, che decise di...

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We tell young artists never to pay for the privilege of being considered. Then we send them into an art world that invoices them for the opportunity. Ten dollars here, $40 there, “just a SlideRoom fee,” “just to cover jurors.” Small line items with significant consequences. The logic is tidy: it weeds out the unserious, funds the review, and keeps the lights on. The reality is messier. Fees are a paywall on opportunity, and paywalls do not measure merit. They measure means. When a field built on ideals of access and expression charges for the act of showing up, the rhetoric of equity collapses into the economics of endurance.Application fees are one of the least examined but most pervasive forms of...

In A Sexual History of the Internet (2025), artist and researcher Mindy Seu proposes a different kind of archive: one that maps how bodies, desires, technologies, and systems of power have been entangled since the earliest days of our beloved web. Rather than frame this research through a traditional academic text or media theory, Seu retools the publishing format entirely, intentionally delivering the project as part performance, part artist book, and part financial experiment. Taken together, these components challenge the sanitized, teleological narratives that have long defined internet history. In their place, Seu offers a parallel record drawn from theorists, net artists, cyberfeminists, and sex workers...

Through the atmospheric lens of New York-based photographer Geordie Wood, a short film called “Divers” glimpses a day in the life of an elite high-diving camp. A moody yet bright setting evokes the way sun still glares when tucked behind clouds or glints off the surface water, and individuals are alternately silhouetted and spotlit by its glow. With cinematography by Adam Golfer and editing by Luke Lorentzen, film short “documents the restless anticipation of walking to the platform’s edge and the fleeting serenity found in jumping.” Watch below, a find it on Vimeo. You might also enjoy the 2017 film “Ten Meter Tower.” Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today...

South Africa’s Department of Sport, Arts, and Culture has canceled artist Gabrielle Goliath’s pavilion at the upcoming Sixty-First Venice Biennale, calling it “highly divisive.” According to South African news platform the Daily Maverick, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie ended the project because it contained content relating to the deaths of women and children in Gaza. The move would […]

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery removed a wall text accompanying a portrait of US president Donald Trump that contained mention of his two impeachments, ahead of a January 13 deadline set by the White House for the organization to provide materials for a sweeping and unprecedented review. The text, which had appeared in the context of an exhibition […]

The New Museum in New York will welcome the public on March 21 following a two-year closure, the institution announced today. Admission will be free March 21 and March 22, with registration for these tickets opening in February. The museum has been shuttered since March 2024 as it undergoes an expansion, designed by OMA / […]

In museums everywhere, collections departments are troves of historical objects, art, cultural artifacts, and scientific specimens. In our increasingly digital age, it’s easy to forget that in many cases, a good amount—sometimes even the majority—of records are documented in heavy, physical catalogues or accession registers. And over the course of decades or even centuries, labels can get damaged, items can go awol, or in the worst case scenario, fire or water damage can destroy these valuable resources. In a sense, these analog databases are just as important as the objects they document, providing information about provenance and materials. In filing drawers, cases, and archival boxes, pieces are...

Once again, January sees the UK’s high streets, rail stations and shopping centres transform into a national art gallery, as JCDecaux’s digital screens light up with faces. This is Portrait of Britain, an initiative which launched in 2016 to showcase the diversity of modern Britain. The collaboration between British Journal of Photography and JCDecaux takes place annually, and this year’s edition “reaffirms the award’s commitment to public space, public attention and public storytelling.” It was judged by representatives from leading organisations like BAFTA and Photo London, as well as renowned artists including Dennis Morris and Rene Matić. Meet ten of the 100 winning photographers, and read...

Glitched landscapes. Paper fish. Echoes of René Magritte. These longlisted artists from the 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize create surreal works that make audiences double take. Figures are distorted in the landscape, blending in with flora and foliage, whilst elsewhere clouds look like they’ve blurred and stretched. The result is a body of art that is at once playful and unsettling, inviting viewers to question not only what they are seeing, but how systems of representation, authorship and reality are constructed. Karl Roberts Karl Roberts conjures surreal self-portraits that bring his vivid imagination to life. Drawing on inspirations from literature, music and cinema, his projects evolve over weeks into...

Our new line of Colossal merchandise is finally hitting the (digital) shelves in the Colossal Shop. We’re big fans of repping publications that inspire us, and we’re excited to finally offer our own goods to this special community of readers. Hats and mugs are now available, and all proceeds directly support our ongoing commitment to make art accessible to everyone. You can also receive a mug by joining us with an annual Patron of the Arts membership. Here’s a closer look at our first drop: Available in two colorways, these classic embroidered caps are made from 100% cotton and corduroy. With a relaxed profile and breathable feel, they’re perfect for everyday wear. Enjoy a nice hot cup of coffee or tea...

A high-drama Vanessa by the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers something to believe in.

The US-Mexico Border. Suburban sprawl. Wealth disparities. These concepts are subject of photographer Alejandro Cartagena (b. 1977). The prolific artist, originally from the Dominican Republic and now based in Mexico, employs landscape and portraiture to examine social, urban and environmental issues. He uses a vast array of formats and techniques, from documentary and collage to the appropriation of vernacular photographs and AI-generated imagery. There is a political decisiveness to his practice, prompting viewers to question to the systems that shape our world. They’re rooted in Mexico, and each image has a distinct sense of place, but his series speaks to shared global conditions of migration,...

All’inizio del Novecento, nella storia dell’arte, si apre una frattura. Con Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) di Pablo Picasso, questo passaggio si configura come un vero spartiacque nella costruzione dell’immagine: la pittura interrompe il patto illusionistico della tridimensionalità ed è costretta a confrontarsi, senza più schermi protettivi, con la propria condizione materiale. È in questo slittamento che entra in crisi il paradigma della finestra prospettica rinascimentale teorizzato da Leon Battista Alberti, e che la pittura smette di funzionare come diaframma trasparente sul mondo, affermandosi come presenza autonoma: una realtà che occupa spazio, superficie e tempo, assumendo i tratti di...

Influential curator Philip Tinari, the director and CEO of Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) and a frequent contributor to Artforum, has been named deputy director and head of art at Tai Kwun in Hong Kong. Tinari will assume his new role at the arts nonprofit on February 23. He replaces Pi Li, who is reportedly leaving to help establish […]

For the Chicana feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa, rigidity is a sure path to demise. In her manifesto, Borderlands/La Frontera, Anzaldúa presents what she calls a new mestiza consciousness, which advocates for ambiguity and moves “toward a more whole perspective, one that includes rather than excludes.” Groundbreaking when it was published in 1987, this theory pushed queer, feminist, and cultural scholars to consider how identity is both fluid and informed by several overlapping factors. It also helped to lay the groundwork for branches of study like ecofeminism, which connects the subjugation of women to the subjugation of nature. “Ritual a las faldas de un volcán” (2025), oil on linen, 120 x 90 x...

By Kristine Schomaker Standing in front of Leonie Weber's cardboard relief at Wönzimer and my brain's trying to sort through everything it's reminding me of—Abstract Expressionism, Nevelson, Bontecou, constructivism, Malevich's Black Square. All these art history touchstones showing up in what's essentially crushed Amazon boxes painted black and mounted on a wall. From a distance it reads as pure gesture—black forms exploding across the surface. But get closer and you see the construction....

Sir Simon Rattle and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra strike (almost) all the right notes in their new recording of Mozart’s Idomeneo.

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Dan Johnson on the unique voice of Hildegard composer Sarah Kirkland Snider — and why some music could only ever be written by a woman.

Opening 30 January 2026 in JAX District, In Interludes and Transitions brings together more than 65 artists from over 37 nations, tracing shared histories of movement, exchange, and transformation across the Arab region and beyond. […]

Le opere di Sara Enrico (Torino, 1979) abitano un territorio di confine, fatto di pulsazioni, ambiguità e tensioni sensoriali che dialogano con le genealogie dell’Eccentric Abstraction, quella sfida alla radice delle forme primarie che informava le riflessioni di Lucy Lippard trovando attuazione nella prima esperienza espositiva alla Marilyn Fischbach Gallery di New York nel 1966. A questo magma sensistico afferivano artiste come Eva Hesse, Dorothea Tanning, Keith Sonnier, Alice Adams, Louise Bourgeois, nelle cui opere i confini si dissolvono generando “qualcosa di più sensuale e sensibile”[1]. Sara Enrico utilizza materiali di diversa natura per costruire oggetti che oscillano tra corpo e artificio....

Che le tecnologie digitali stiano riconfigurando il campo dell’arte contemporanea è ormai un dato acquisito. Meno scontato è capire in che direzione si stia muovendo questa trasformazione e quali siano gli snodi critici che meritano attenzione. È a questa necessità di orientamento che risponde Transforming Arts, l’evento organizzato dall’Accademia di Belle Arti di Catania per il 15 e 16 gennaio 2026, nell’ambito del più ampio progetto ART.IT – Art in Transition, finanziato dal PNRR e coordinato dall’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna in collaborazione con altri enti accademici. Non si tratta di una semplice rassegna di novità tecnologiche applicate all’arte, ma di un tentativo più...

What counts as sculpture? 20th century practitioners consistently pushed the boundaries of what it meant to produce three-dimensional art. Pieces were designed to decay or be dismantled, existing only fleetingly, moving out of traditional gallery spaces to explore how sculpture relates to the natural world. Anish Kapoor’s mirrored and void-like forms explore perception, space and time, whilst Jeff Koon’s highly-polished large-scale forms appropriate kitsch and consumer imagery. These five exhibitions foreground some of the most influential figures who have shaped what it means to create sculpture, and those who continue to question the creation of art, who it is for and who is excluded.  Mona Hatoum:...

Arte Fiera ritorna dal 6 all’8 febbraio 2026, con preview fissata per il 5 febbraio. Sono riconfermati i padiglioni 25 e 26 con agevole ingresso da Piazza Costituzione. Questo sarà l’anno della prima direzione artistica di Davide Ferri che sarà affiancato da Enea Righi, nel ruolo di direttore operativo.
Enea Righi (a sx) e Davide Ferri. Foto di Chiara Francesca Rizzuti, courtesy Arte Fiera
Alla prossima edizione di Arte Fiera parteciperanno 174 gallerie, a cui bisogna aggiungere dodici stand della sezione dedicata all’editoria e quattordici dedicati agli enti istituzionali, per un totale di duecento espositori. Alla Main Section di Arte Fiera saranno presenti molte gallerie prestigiose; ne...

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Kathleen Goncharov, who launched her career at Linda Goode’s pathbreaking New York gallery Just Above Midtown and went on to serve as US Commissioner for the Fiftieth Venice Biennale, died in her Boca Raton, Florida, home on December 31. She was seventy-three. Goncharov was widely esteemed for her staunch advocacy of such artists as El […]

With a two-headed, dozen-eyed Mona Lisa, a disjointed Frida Kahlo exploding like tiny little pieces of glass, and a tiny Napoleon in Egypt sitting on a gargantuan, long-limbed horse, collage artist and illustrator Lola Dupre proves that there’s art to be done after art is… well… done. Click above to read the full article by Liana Aghajanian.
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The 77th issue of Hi-Fructose is coming soon. Click above to see previews!
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"I’m more interested in revealing the quiet violence of what we call ‘normal’ than in telling anyone what to feel. If a viewer finds their own discomfort in that—it’s a gift, not something I try to control.”
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