More than 65,000 images by photographers in 121 countries presented a staggering challenge for the jurors of this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Of these entries, 100 were selected for the prestigious contest’s shortlist, showcasing the world’s diverse creatures and their habitats. The top images also demonstrate an array of realities across a number of categories, from animal behavior to portraits to photojournalism. Viewers are treated to the beauty and tenderness of inter-species cooperation and also confronted with the poignancy of family and the sometimes troubling impacts of human intervention. Ernest Porter (South Africa), “Mutual Friends,” Manyeleti Game Reserve,...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! An employee from Ireland’s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.  Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for “slandering China’s heroes.” The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy’s Dau despite Ukraine’s “profound concern.” The Headlines  TICK, TICK, TICK. An employee at Ireland’s National Museum who has been charged with possession of 394 grams of military-grade Semtex has been granted €40,000 ($46,680) bail, the Irish Times reported. Simon...

From Warhol to Annie Leibovitz, the late Dolly Parton was an inspiration to artists over her nearly 60-year career

The artists and curator behind the pavilion had said its name was changed to NTMoFA without their consent, while the biennial says it had been agreed in January

Richard Tuttle talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

"Ground Truth" is a device that manipulates a bike's brakes depending on the levels of the area's rent affordability. (photo courtesy Justin Blinder) This story was copublished with Next City, a nonprofit news organization reporting on solutions for more sustainable, accessible, inclusive, and equitable cities.While biking the perimeter of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York, on a sunny August afternoon, the pedal strokes are smooth. On the Citi Bike, I ease through all of Park Slope and most of Windsor Terrace, but as I bike through Prospect Lefferts Gardens, also known as Flatbush, tension builds. When I enter the park at Lincoln Avenue, where Flatbush begins, there is a massive shift in my...

what happens to waste in space?
 
For astronauts aboard the International Space Station, dealing with waste is a constant logistical challenge. Some discarded materials are collected and packed into cargo vehicles, which later burn up during reentry, while resources such as water and air are continuously recovered and reused. As missions venture farther from Earth, the ability to simply discard materials becomes increasingly limited, making the recovery and reuse of resources more important.
 
This makes space an interesting place to examine the circular economy. A spacecraft is a small, controlled environment in which resources are limited, resupply is expensive and storage space matters. The systems...

SPATIAL INNOVATION THROUGH ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
 
Celebrating how art and architecture shape city life, My Archischool announces the winners of the 2026 International Youth ARCHIDESIGN Competition. The awarded projects rethink everyday urban spaces. Instead of keeping ideas on paper, they bring culture and artistic expression straight into the streets. From art galleries to floating restaurants, these projects show how smart building design can revive public areas and bring new life to local communities.
organic arches and transparent glass vaults define this coastal art gallery and waterbird sanctuary | all images courtesy of My Archischool
 
name: Bird Haven
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From the heart-wrenching dulcet tones of "Jolene" to the boppy proletarianism of “9 to 5,” Dolly Parton has given us a soundtrack for every possible stage of life. Today we mourn the country singer, camp queen, hair icon, philanthropist of wide-ranging generosities, and veritable Patron Saint of the South — particularly Appalachia and Tennessee, from which she proudly hailed and whose rich culture and people she loved deeply.In tribute to our dearest Dolly, who passed away yesterday at the age of 80, we're sharing an artwork from East Tennessee State University's 2020 exhibition dedicated to the musician. “Dolly was a proverbial ray of sunshine amidst an often dark world,” said artist Kym...

This Strauss is demented in the best way possible.

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OFF-THE-SHELF PINE BECOMES A CHAIR
 
Stockholm-based architect and designer Martin Labbé turns standard construction timber into a compact wooden chair built without screws or metal hardware. Developed as part of a furniture intervention for a small gelato shop, the chair takes readily available 45 x 95 mm pine sections and gives them a more deliberate architectural language through proportion, repetition, and exposed joinery.
 
Its straightforward silhouette is closely tied to how it is made. Rather than disguising connections beneath fittings or decorative details, Labbé assembles every element using traditional mortise-and-tenon joints and wooden dowels. The construction becomes the chair’s defining...

ryo yamada’s in vitro / zero metre above sea level
 
Presented as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2026 at Summerhall Arts, Japanese artist Ryo Yamada designed and self-built In Vitro / Zero Metre Above Sea level as a site-specific architectural installation. Initiated in 2025 as part of his ongoing Zero Metre Above Sea Level series, this iteration confronts Scotland’s projected sea-level rise resulting from global climate change. Situated approximately 79-meters above sea level, this installation uses physical space to map time, translating complex environmental projections into a profound spatial experience. the windows encourage visitors to look out and imagine the passage of 20,000 years in the...

color, printmaking, and movement converge in color index
 
Austrian graphic designer and printmaker Julia Schimautz collaborates with Copenhagen-based Small Wonder CPH on Color Index, a deck of playing cards that turns a familiar object into a small kinetic image. Across the cards, saturated fields of color gradually shift and accumulate into oversized suit symbols; when the deck is riffled, the individual frames combine into a moving image that exists only through the user’s interaction with the cards.
 
At first glance, the deck follows the basic visual grammar of a conventional pack. Letters and numbers identify the cards while hearts, clubs, diamonds, and spades remain recognizable as suits. But...

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Two years after an internal audit of the Canadian federal government found that 132 pieces in its Indigenous art collection were unaccounted for, the government has still failed to locate 111 of these objects, per reports. The government’s Indigenous Art Centre relocated its holdings to temporary storage facilities in 2022, a move that exposed the […]

Sir Joshua Reynolds's celebrated "Portrait of Mai (Omai)" (c. 1776) will be displayed at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles beginning on September 14, four years after it was subjected to a 15-month export ban issued by the United Kingdom to protect it from foreign sale. The work has undergone comprehensive technical analysis ahead of its United States debut, revealing new insights about the painter's technique.In a rare move, the Getty and the National Portrait Gallery secured shared ownership of the work in 2023, with each institution paying half of the £50 million price tag ($61 million at the time). Conservators from the Getty and the National Portrait Gallery in London began analyzing the nearly...

A fire broke out at the Kherson Regional Art Museum on August 20, after a Russian first person view (FPV) drone hit the building. There were no civilian casualties as a consequence of the drone hit and fire, but the museum building and some artworks suffered damage, according to reporting by Reuters. Emergency crews worked under […]

Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong announced today that Anne Imhof will debut a suite of new works as part of her solo exhibition opening at the former prison turned art space next month. Related Articles Anne Imhof’s Vapid ‘DOOM’ Performance Has Nothing to Say After 14 Years, Philip Tinari Leaves UCCA for Hong Kong's Tai Kwun Titled “House of Swans,” the exhibition, which marks the artist’s first solo in Asia, will feature “a major commission of monumental new works that construct a powerfulmultisensory experience through atmospheric scenography, installations, paintings and live performances,” according to a release. Curated by Ying Kwok and Tiffany Leung, the exhibition will take...

Two people were convicted in a Hamburg court on Monday of money laundering in a case whose details closely match those of the two children of Serop Simonian, the German art dealer and alleged leader of an Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring that sold items to museums including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The conviction was reported by Arab News, which did not mention the names of the convicted parties or the French museum in the United Arab Emirates. The court ordered the convicted parties to turn over €32 million ($37 million) and pay fines of more than €90,000 ($105,000). The descriptions of artworks and the dollar amounts for which they sold and in the Hamburg...

Last week, rock music photographer Justin Thomas filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against the American painter Elizabeth Peyton, Sotheby’s, and David Zwirner Gallery, as first reported by Copyright Lately. In the suit, Thomas accuses Peyton of willfully copying a photograph he took at an after-party in London’s Earls Court in 1995 of Oasis band members Liam and Noel Gallagher embracing in a rare show of affection, given the brothers’ well-reported animosity. Petyon’s painting from the photograph, titled Earl’s Court (Liam + Noel) (1996), went on to fetch $1,920,000 at Sotheby’s in New York in May. The disputed painting “is just a slavish copy of the...

New York-based artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to three years in prison for making satirical sculptures of Mao Zedong. The ruling was delivered by the Sanhe City People’s Court in China’s Hebei Province following a closed, one-day trial in March Gao, a 70-year-old Chinese citizen and U.S. permanent resident, has been in detention in China since August 2024. He […]

The Department of State removed Kehinde Wiley's 2015 commissioned painting from the United States embassy in the Dominican Republic this month, claiming that the artist's “violent and racist words and depictions” have no place in the foreign relations agency. In a statement shared with Hyperallergic, a spokesperson said that the department has consulted legal representatives to “ascertain whether the art can be sold.”Leah Campos, the Trump-appointed US Ambassador to the Dominican Republic as of 2025, posted a video of the painting's removal on Instagram on August 11. The post's caption read: “In the Trump Administration and under my leadership we are turning away from globalist...

The Trump administration is threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if it does not get its wish to close it for two years in order to renovate it. In a Monday court filing, the administration describes the building as “dangerously dilapidated, outdated, and decrepit” and argues that, absent its proposed renovation, the building “will be required to be taken down, with a determination to follow on what to build on the site,” noting that “some” unidentified people have “for many years” proposed an outdoor amphitheater overlooking the Potomac River. “Such a replacement will fail to adequately honor President John F. Kennedy,” argues the administration in the filing,...

The US State Department has said it is contemplating selling a painting by Kehinde Wiley that it removed from the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic last week, after the director of the department’s Art in Embassies program called it “woke” and “aesthetically terrifying.” The canvas, titled Young Artists after Siamesas 1960, was commissioned in 2013 by the program under the […]

The 70-year-old Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to three years in prison for his sculptures of communist revolutionary and leader Mao Zedong. The verdict was issued in the Sanhe City People's Court in Hebei Province on Tuesday, August 25, as reported by the New York Times. The three-year sentence falls under an amendment passed by People’s Republic of China (PRC) leader Xi Jinping in 2021, which prohibits any perceived slander of China's deemed heroes and martyrs. Prosecutors pointed to sculptures created between 2005 and 2009, which include depictions of the communist leader repenting, or aiming fire at Jesus. Another is an enlarged bust of Mao with a cartoonish nose and...

In Leslie Wayne’s exhibition The Unintended Blues, large-scale paintings may a first read as photographs. Melting icebergs in the Arctic Circle, the island of Manhattan, harbor construction projects, and coastlines around the U.S. that are vulnerable to rising sea levels take center stage. The closer one approaches, however, the more fluid the imagery becomes, as some shapes and shorelines appear nearly abstract. These latest works follow Wayne’s series titled This Land Is Your Land, in which trompe-l’œil paintings of airplane windows depict aerial views of the American West based on photos the artist snapped while in flight. For The Unintended Blues, she expands this idea beyond the frame and turns her...

The photographer Kwame Brathwaite was best-known during his lifetime for his incisive portraits of the figures who made up the Black Power and civil rights movements, and now, the long-unknown subject of a 1972 photo taken by Brathwaite has been identified.  The photo, which is part of the National Gallery of Art’s permanent collection in […]

The monumental painting was recently deinstalled from the US embassy in the Dominican Republic, with ambassador Leah Campos calling it an example of “globalist and woke ideologies”

Breakout projects this year highlight a rethinking around tradition, identity and belonging

From the Tanzanian grasslands around Mount Kilimanjaro to the ever-evolving icy realm of Antarctica and beyond, Swedish photographer Björn Persson captures the majesty of the natural world and its wild denizens. His bold, tonal style of portraiture taps into the drama of running giraffes and a stoic American bison in profile, but he also homes in on family-centric moments as a lioness plays with her cubs, for instance, or a coalition of cheetahs perch calmly atop a knoll. Persson’s emotive photographs meander between intimate, tender vignettes to striking and powerful demonstrations of brute strength and presence. In many cases, the animals look directly at the viewer, as if we’re being stalked. Others...

Julia Bullock on ten years of living with the life and artistry of Joséphine Baker before Paris performances of Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine

They should sell pay-per-view tickets to this like WWE.

Lasciata alle spalle una torre medievale dell’XI secolo e qualche palazzo cinquecentesco della Serenissima, sperso tra la speculazione edilizia degli anni Sessanta, a pochi passi dalla ottocentesca piazza Erminio Ferretto (intitolata a un partigiano morto nella guerra di liberazione dal nazifascismo) nel centro storico di Mestre, oltrepassato il duomo di S. Lorenzo, attraversato un restaurato cortile con porticato settecentesco, per studiato contrasto sorge il Museo del Novecento M9 (progettato dallo studio di architettura tedesco Sauerbruch Hutton, studio che aveva vinto il concorso internazionale indetto dalla Fondazione di Venezia per la riqualificazione di quell’area urbana), museo  ideato e proposto...

Joy Machine is thrilled to present The Peace of Wild Things, a duo exhibition by Chicago-based American artist Emmy Star Brown and San Jose-based Korean artist Danym Kwon. This is Brown’s second exhibition at Joy Machine and Kwon’s third. Drawing its title from Wendell Berry’s often-quoted poem, The Peace of Wild Things is a return to wonder through disparate yet complementary practices. For both Brown and Kwon, color and layering become a means of self-discovery and a way to tap into the emotions, dreams, and memories that might not surface otherwise. Their practices diverge in notable ways—Brown works abstractly, while Kwon turns to surreal representations of care and domestic life—but when...

Drawn to the juxtapositions of urban spaces and desolate regions alike, photographer Luca Battaglia illuminates the distinctive characteristics of places. “I do not claim—nor do I ever say—that I am an architectural photographer,” he says in a statement. “When asked, I say that I am a photographer of places, of voids.” From the expanses of the American Southwest to images of New York City that revel in quietude rather than its signature boisterousness, built environments are a well of inspiration. In his ongoing series Ticket non remboursable (“non-refundable ticket”), Battaglia creates bold portraits of carousels in city squares and parks across Europe. The advent of these iconic amusement...

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Tra tutte le edizioni di Documenta, quella che si tenne nel 1972, dal titolo Interrogare la realtà – Mondi dell’immagine oggi, apriva una significativa riflessione sui linguaggi dell’arte contemporanea, il mondo reale e le sue rappresentazioni. Il titolo che il curatore Harald Szeemann scelse per la manifestazione risulta quanto mai contemporaneo, permettendo di consideralo come una valida prospettiva per scoprire lo studio dell’artista Luca Valerio (Fondi, Latina, 1966). È evidente come Interrogare la realtà – Mondi dell’immagine oggi presupponga una ricerca artistica che presenta elementi riconducibili all’arte concettuale, quindi caratterizzata da un rigoroso controllo formale e...

Bayreuth’s AI-powered “Ring 100010110” marred a first-rate cast and orchestra with nightmarish visuals and horrid dramaturgy.

Hyper Reality è il titolo-tema dell’undicesima edizione del Festival curato a Forlì da Vertov Project. Prologo alla Fondazione Dino Zoli con la mostra collettiva Interference, che riunisce dodici artiste internazionali nel segno dell’interferenza come forza generativa. Forlì torna a essere una Babele di stimoli e visioni, grazie a Ibrida Festival Internazionale delle Arti Intermediali: l’undicesima edizione, dal titolo-tema Hyper Reality, è in programma dal 17 al 20 settembre. Prologo essenziale e complementare sarà la mostra collettiva intermediale Interference, che dall’1 settembre all’11 ottobre metterà in dialogo le ricerche radicali di dodici artiste internazionali.
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La fotografia ha da lungo stabilito la propria autorità su ciò che Roland Barthes ha denominato il ça a été: la traccia di un momento reale fisicamente impressa sull’immagine. Una fotografia indica. Jiayue Wang è un’artista cinese che lavora attraverso fotografia, installazione e immagine in movimento, interrogandosi su ciò che una fotografia inizia a perdere nel momento in cui viene scattata. La sua prima mostra personale in museo, After the Image, di recente tenutasi al Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, ha spinto questa domanda fino alle estreme conseguenze, esplorando ciò che un’immagine diventa una volta che non può più assolvere la sua supposta funzione di testimoniare il reale.
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Il 23 novembre 1962, in una chiesa sconsacrata nel centro di Copenaghen, Alison Knowles eseguì Nivea Cream Piece for Oscar Williams. Una fotografia di quella sera è oggi al Museum of Modern Art di New York. Nella stessa serata Dick Higgins interpretò il Drip Music di George Brecht salendo su una scala – un’invenzione esecutiva che gli interpreti ripetono ancora oggi. Era la prima delle sei sere del Festum Fluxorum, il secondo festival Fluxus della storia dopo quello di Wiesbaden, pianificato da George Maciunas e organizzato sul posto da Arthur Köpcke, dalla sezione danese della società di musica contemporanea e da Knud Pedersen, che dentro quella chiesa teneva la propria biblioteca d’arte.
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Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
   
The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

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By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
The post Future Relics: The Art of Morgan Sorensen first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
The post The Disconcertingly Honest Self-Portrait Sculptures of Monica Piloni first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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By Victoria Thomas Photographer and ceramic artist Catherine (Cathy) Opie first shocked and rocked the fine art world with her self-portraits during the late 1990s. Today, her decades of work — often termed confessional — now serve as context for the far more enigmatic Holding Blue installation, on view at Regen Projects through July 3. The Los Angeles-based artist identifies as a leather dyke, lesbian cowboy, an elder, and as "Mama Cathy," with a mustachioed male alter-ego named Bo. Opie is...

“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...

By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...