Dusseldorf’s Gallery Ludorff is appealing to the public for any information about a gold-colored bronze sculpture by Jean Arp that was stolen from its booth at Art Cologne on Sunday, November 8, the last day of the fair. “If you visited our booth during this period and took any photographs, we would be very grateful if you could share them with us,” states the gallery on its website. “If you are being offered for sale the work … or if you have any information regarding its whereabouts, please contact us or the police,” it adds. It is believed the sculpture was snatched between 4:55 p.m. and 5:10 p.m. Sunday. Soon afterwards, staff noticed it had been removed from its pedestal, and at first, they...

AMSTERDAM — It must have been a peculiar sight at the Rijksmuseum’s Gallery of Honor, where Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” (1642) is the proud centerpiece: a microbiologist in a white lab coat, carefully taking samples of the canvas and placing them in prepared Petri dishes. “To get that close to the painting was very scary,” Eline van Bloois, the microbiologist in question, told Hyperallergic. “After all, it’s a piece of art that is so well-known to so many people.”The Amsterdam institution has teamed up with an unlikely partner: ARTIS, the city’s zoo. Or, more specifically, with ARTIS-Micropia, the zoo’s science museum, focused on the study of microbes. Their scientists are researching...

Ethan Fenton wins the first Paul Lowe Award for The Shed.

The citywide exhibition will include site-specific commissions and seek to reveal the “other worlds” artists envision through their practices

SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico has announced the theme and artist list for the upcoming 13th International Biennial, which will open next June. The exhibition’s curator, Ekow Eshun, has chosen the title “There Are Other Worlds,” which posits that “other worlds already exist within the one we inhabit—whether they are hidden in plain sight, found in refusal of the status quo, or brought into being through acts of imagination,” according to a release. Additionally, the exhibition will feature three sections: “Worlds Beyond,” which is partially informed by the Transcendental Painting Group; “World in Common,” which will look at how artists form community and kinship; and “Worlds Alive,” which...

The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has received a $10 million gift from Beatriz and Graham Bolton to launch a new fund that will support the museum’s global ambitions and support its education department. The gift is the largest by an individual donor in the museum’s 105-year history. The Beatriz and Graham Bolton Global Vision Fund, as it will be called, will be used to support exhibitions, loans, and partnerships with museums, galleries, embassies, and cultural organizations around the world. The gift will also be used to endow the role of the chief of education and responsive learning, which will be named after the Boltons. The Phillips Collection will also rename its education gallery the...

With estates and collections accounting for some of the season's biggest consignments, auction houses are betting wealthy collectors will shrug off market volatility

From fungi and insects to technology and crystals, the winning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition reveal astonishing details typically invisible to the naked eye. This year’s top prize went to Ole Bielfeldt, a student and experimental photographer based in Cologne, Germany, who used a hand-built rig to capture an incredible up-close view of droplets inside of an inkjet printer. Runners-up included John-Oliver Dum’s portrait of a jumping spider with pollen on its body and Kaelin Wulf and Rachel Flannery’s capture of mouse neurons. Winner images were organized into three categories: Top 20, Honorable Mentions, and Images of Distinction. Explore some of our favorites here,...

The opera singer population has a gender parity problem, and Ursula Sturgeon has a solution: blow up gender altogether.

San Francisco Opera music director Eun Sun Kim tantalizes with her readings of Strauss.

The museum subsequently repurchased the jug from Drake’s descendants so it can stay in the institution’s permanent collection and publicly accessible

Tschabalala Self’s Fourth Plinth work, and Nicole Eisenman's sculpture at the RA are welcome signs of change

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Kun Sok on how walking through Bacon and de Kooning in a different order changes the way we see them.

The early work by the Renaissance master had previously been exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum, where it is now on display, in the 1930s

A tarot deck may seem like an easy gift for someone who loves tarot. But what if they already have... Read More

Agnieszka Kurant turns art crates, freeports and AI into a speculative game of chess.

The Quantum Effect at OGR Torino
 
At OGR Torino, The Quantum Effect, an expansive exhibition on art and quantum theory, illustrates the seemingly unknowable principles of quantum mechanics with mirrors, monkeys, and monoliths. To enter the exhibition, one must pass through a series of mirrors that create a dizzying sense of disorientation. Turn a corner, and there’s a projection of those reflective halls being played back to the viewer. It’s a visual collapsing of perception that speaks to the uncertainty of the universe.
 
In conversation with designboom, curators Daniel Birnbaum and Jacqui Davies discuss how they connected Mark Leckey, Yayoi Kusama, and Tomás Saraceno with Heisenberg’s Uncertainty...

HOW INDIAN ARCHITECTURE IS WRITING A NEW SCRIPT FOR GLOBAL DESIGN
 
Built99 arrives to bridge Indian architecture and design with the global creative sphere, spotlighting practices defined by low-impact construction, native materials, and cultural responsiveness. Backed by designboom and ArchDaily, the initiative introduces an annual list celebrating 99 nominated studios whose work actively challenges conventional building practices. The goal is clear: ensure this regional contextual intelligence takes its rightful place in shaping the future of contemporary architecture and design.
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I'm not sure if Eleanor Steber's strongly founded marble tower is a lyrical improvement, but I just can't imagine this being sung better. Can you?

Smart, powerful, thoughtful women are at the center of today’s issue. First, two absolute giants in the form of race and aesthetics scholar Anne Anlin Cheng and artist and director Patty Chang join forces for a conversation about the latter’s show at Stanford, the afterlives of Asian-American violence, and so much more. It’s a rare treat to peek into the machinations of two great minds — not least to see them deepen each other’s thinking, as happens here. “I definitely tend to think about beauty as a kind of covering up, you know, like hiding blemishes or imperfections,” Chang says at one point. “But I like this idea about the relationship, the closeness between beauty and violence. I’d like...

BIG rethinks refugee settlements as cities, not temporary camps
 
BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) and to.org propose Refugee Future Cities, a comprehensive urban masterplan for Bidi Bidi in northern Uganda that challenges the approach to refugee settlements as temporary places of shelter. Home to approximately 230,000 refugees, the settlement continues to expand, with the proposal designed to accommodate an additional 155,000 residents while connecting Zones 1 and 2.
 
The project approaches Bidi Bidi refugee camp as a city, integrating residential areas with public spaces, education, healthcare, local production, and economic opportunities. Refugee settlements are often planned as temporary places of shelter,...

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GARTON GROUP ARCHITECTURE builds CASA BLACK IN PLAYA GRANDE
 
Sited in Playa Grande along Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, Casa Black is a private residence designed by Garton Group Architecture. Organized along an extended linear axis, the home mediates between communal gathering areas and secluded retreats, establishing continuous thresholds that connect domestic routines with the surrounding tropical landscape.
 deep roof overhangs shelter the home within its tropical garden | all images ©Garton Group Architecture
 
 
STONE-LINED CORRIDOR LEADS TO TIMBER-CEILINGED COMMUNAL LIVING
 
The spatial sequence begins at a shaded entryway that transitions into an elongated, stone-lined circulation corridor....

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FLOOR-TO-CEILING BOOKCASES REDEFINE MODERN INTERIORS
 
As contemporary interiors increasingly balance multifunctional living spaces with digital media, floor-to-ceiling bookcases are re-emerging as primary architectural features. Historically confined to enclosed rooms defined by dark wood paneling and built-in millwork, the modern home library integrates seamlessly into open-plan living areas, dining spaces, home offices, and transitional corridors. By deploying full-height shelving, ranging from bespoke cabinetry to modular, freestanding systems offered by furniture retailers like Emma Mason, designers utilize vertical wall surfaces to maximize storage capacity without reducing usable floor area.
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Nvidia CEO depicted looking at alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang, while his wife, Lori Huang, looks on in horror (screenshot @beanexplains via Instagram)After two Astronomer executives were caught canoodling on the jumbotron during a Coldplay concert last year, another tech CEO's extramarital affair has become the meme of the season. Since confessing to his affair with suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang on Sunday, November 8, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has set off a firestorm across the tech and geopolitical spheres and, to our amusement, social media. In a message shared with his employees on November 8, the 63-year-old CEO acknowledged the affair and extended an apology to his wife, Lori Huang, and his two...

One day after the historic rout by the Democrats nationwide on Election Day a week ago, Trump took to the construction site of the sprawling ballroom he is constructing on the grave of the East Wing of the White House, which he abruptly razed in October 2025. “Trump invited reporters into a cavernous construction site and talked about the building project for nearly 20 minutes,” reported PBS, “without mentioning sweeping Republican defeats around the country the night before.” The next day, Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to greenlight the 90,000-square-foot construction project, including the 22,000-square-foot ballroom-cum-military complex. He asked the...

In a new low for an art world we thought had reached rock bottom, Artnet has announced an official partnership with the betting platform Kalshi in an incestuous marriage of two markets known for financial opacity, insider trading, and the most insufferable straight men you've ever met: art and predictions.The news came in a press release ahead of New York's marquee auction week, promising interested budding criminals users an exclusive opportunity to “trade yes-or-no contracts in a peer-to-peer structure” (??) on public art sales. The mechanism is as follows: Artnet will use its Price Database, once nostalgically the realm of wannabe art advisors trying to sound like they have an MBA, to...

Romare Bearden, "Untitled (Family)" (1969) (all images courtesy Coffee Bluff Pictures)A new documentary about Romare Bearden embraces a collage-like sensibility, fitting well with the artist’s most influential work. Romare Bearden: A Life in Collage, soon to screen at DOC NYC, eschews the familiar structure of a linear biography, jumping around to find thematic rhymes through different periods of Bearden’s life. Early on, for instance, the film alludes to Bearden’s family’s participation in the Great Migration, but rather than dwell on his biography, it turns to the recurring motif of trains in his work. The film benefits from generous access to recordings of Bearden himself, who speaks with...

The 2027 edition of the Liverpool Biennial, scheduled to open June 5 and continue through September 19, will feature 25 artists and collectives assembled in mind of a newly designated theme: “The Age of Magical Thinking.” “The title draws on psychologist Jean Piaget’s identification of a particular period in childhood development when the lines between reality and make-believe are blurred,” reads a press release. “This is an age when the imagination is powerful; tomorrow is charged with potential and when magical thinking can help to create new, alternative worlds.” Curated by Aimee Harrison and Lucía Sanromán, the exhibition across the city in North West England will include a public art...

The Dubai-based art collector Elie Khouri is building a new private foundation. Set to open in 2028, the Elie Khouri Art Foundation (Ekaf) will house Khouri’s collection, which includes work by over 300 artists, in a coastal villa redesigned by architect Sumayya Vally and her firm Counterspace. Originally from Lebanon, Khouri is one of the […]

Excavations in the former crematorium area of ​​the Dachau concentration camp, Germany DACHAU, GERMANY—Human bone fragments were found in a layer of ash at the site of the Dachau concentration camp in southern Germany, according to a Daily Express report. More than 200,000 people, including Jews, political opponents, priests, and resistance fighters, were imprisoned at Dachau during a 12-year period. The ashes were uncovered during an excavation of a well-preserved facility near the crematorium where Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) units trained dogs to terrorize and attack prisoners. Thirty-five kennels were also uncovered at the site. The dogs were used to round up prisoners attempting to escape the camp, and...

Rhizome has announced a pilot program to offer artist and partner channels on video.rhizome.org (VRO), a self-hosted video platform. The program took shape after Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) was censored by Vimeo in May of this year. Rhizome and EAI worked together to migrate more than 3,000 artist videos from EAI’s 5,000 strong collection, which […]

Galleries that participated in this year’s Art Basel Paris will see their invoices reduced by 20 percent after the fair closed early owing to planned protests, Artnews reports. Welcoming VVIP visitors on October 20, and hosting preview days on October 21 and 22, the event opened to the public on October 23. Fearing not only […]

TRENTO, ITALY—Phys.org reports that new investigations at Riparo Mochi, a rock shelter near the border of France and Italy, suggests that hunter-gatherers from Spain entered Italy earlier than previously thought. Previous excavation of the site uncovered a type of pointed stone tool known as a Noailles burin, thought to have been used to engrave or carve grooves in hard materials such as bone and antler by the people of the Noailles culture. A recent excavation at the rock shelter conducted by Fabio Santaniello of the University of Trento and his colleagues uncovered more than 7,500 artifacts, including an intact hearth surrounded by marine shells, Noailles burins, and other tools. Microscopic analysis of...

Frog bone samples CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by Bournemouth University, analysis of thousands of frog bones recovered from a settlement in the Cambridgeshire Fens has determined that the amphibian bones were likely left behind by birds of prey. More than 8,000 frog bones were recovered from a ditch at the site of a roundhouse. Some had suggested that the remains could be evidence of a mysterious frog cult practiced from about 400 B.C. to A.D. 43, but no cut marks were found on the bones, making it unlikely that the animals were killed by humans. Researchers led by Paul Clarkson of Bournemouth University first radiocarbon dated the bones to about 1,700 years ago, when the waters...

Dropping in on Ian James, founder of Los Angeles Chinatown gallery Leroy’s

Utah’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced on Friday that it’s investigating two incidents of vandalism near Moab, in which people carved names and other markings into or near prehistoric petroglyphs. ArtNews reports that one incident occurred on along the Utah Scenic Byway 279, which runs parallel to the Colorado River, and the other by […]

Jeanine De Bique, appearing in recitals in Fort Worth and New York this fall, casts a spell in this week’s Grand Tier Grab Bag.

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Ask a seasoned collector about their first acquisition, and you’re likely to hear that they began with limited-edition prints. Often accessible in price point yet bearing the artist’s signature and maybe even hand embellishments, prints are the perfect entry point for people interested in living with art each and every day. For the holidays, our partners at Joy Machine have graciously curated a special collection of limited-edition prints for the budding collector in your life. Liz Flores: “Untitled” (2026) Sentrock: “Better Days Ahead” (2026) Mar Figueroa: “Untitled” (2024) Anna Valdez: “Untitled” (2026) Cody Hudson: “Self-Sufficiency Mono Print (Tangerine Variant)” (2024) Stevie Shao:...

Researcher Matt Waters stands next to a sediment core sample pulled from an ancient Maya Lowlands lake. AUBURN, ALABAMA—Reuters reports that mercury contamination has been identified at additional Maya sites. The Maya used the red pigment cinnabar, which contains mercury, in ceremonies and funerary rites, and to paint murals and decorate temples. A previous study confirmed mercury contamination at the Maya site of Tikal in Guatemala. Now, Matt Waters of Auburn University and Savanna Wooten of the Jones Center at Ichauway have identified mercury in core samples taken from lake beds at the sites of Coba and Xcach, which are located on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. The study found a mercury spike at Coba...

Sword and scan of the lower end of the sword and its scabbard COLMAR, FRANCE—A fifth-century cemetery A.D. has been excavated in northeastern France by archaeologists from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP), Live Science reports. The cemetery was used between about A.D. 450 to 500, around the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire. The graves of 11 adults, three children, and two horses buried with their harnesses have been uncovered. Silver bird-shaped brooches, glass bead necklaces, and a bone comb have been recovered from the women’s graves. A sword, a wooden scabbard, a shield, and a javelin have been unearthed in the men’s burials. A Germanic short sword...

More than 15,300 submissions made their way to the judges for this year’s Close-Up Photographer of the Year, setting a record for the highest number of entries in the competition’s history. From uncanny insects to slime molds to unexpected animal interactions, photographs captured by amateur and professional photographers alike highlight the diverse and sometimes surreal flora and fauna all around us. The contest winners will be announced in January. In the meantime, a photography challenge on the theme of “Close to Home” is open for submissions through the end of the month. Explore some of our favorites from the shortlist below, and learn more on the contest’s website. Joao Pontes, “Suspended”...

The Metropolitan Opera has added a live, free video broadcast of Lincoln in the Bardo to its fall lineup on Saturday, 14 November at 8 PM EST.

Plumbing the rhythms of the ocean and marine life, Amy Genser creates undulating abstractions that evoke swells, currents, reefs, and the sea floor. The artist composes elaborate wall works from rolled mulberry paper, acrylic, and wire in which patterns move and converge across swaths of blues and greens. The closer you look, the more colors emerge. Although reminiscent of the sea in many ways, Genser’s works defy instant recognition. At first glance, they may appear topographical, as if a luminous, clear sea is being viewed from above. The rolling forms are redolent of waves but also perhaps the way corals cluster around rock formations. Then, details draw us nearer: bulbous forms with cavities resemble...

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Son Lux’s newest music video is an atmospheric mini-epic. Last month, the video premiered at MASS MoCA—the piece is a joint commission by the museum and Pioneer Works and made in collaboration with Alex Cook—as an immersive, 17-minute installation titled “Out Into Us (Slow Down),” complementing the release of the band’s ninth studio album. “In the last decade, social media has created a reality in which music is often eclipsed by visuals, served up in an endless buffet of bite-sized and contextless flavors,” says a statement. For this multimedia work, the artists leaned instead toward deeply felt human experiences, like how long it can take to do or understand something. Portraying a...

Print Center New York has appointed Yukiko Yamagata as its new Executive Director, succeeding Judy Hecker following her decade-long tenure.... Read More

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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, students and enthusiasts from London’s eclectic art scene, all seemingly loving,...

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...

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...

By Kristine Schomaker I keep thinking about Nomadland. Fern driving her van across that enormous American landscape. Not running from something. Moving toward something she could not quite name yet. That feeling of needing less. Of being, as Dominique Moody says, at home in the world. NOMAD: Dominique Moody and the Assemblage of Home is on view at the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena through January 16, 2027, part of the year-long city celebration for the centennials of Route 66 and the...

By Jody Zellen Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 3–November 22, 2026 Susan Silton has never been an artist attached to a single medium. Her practice, which spans more than forty years, interweaves photography, design, performance, sculpture, video, audio, and installation. Working as a graphic designer in the 1970s and ’80s shaped her visual acuity and formal sensibilities. Her production is conceptually strong and visually coherent and very little is left to chance. It is a delight...