UMA builds spruce bark hut from beetle-damaged trees
 
Ulf Mejergren Architects (UMA) constructs Spruce Bark Hut from layers of bark, collected in a forest affected by the spread of the spruce bark beetle. In recent years, large areas of spruce forest have been damaged or killed by the insect, causing the bark to loosen and fall from the trees. What is typically understood as a sign of decay becomes, in this case, the very condition that makes construction possible. The project, situated in Grödinge, Sweden, is shaped by the influence of two insects: one that destroys, and one that builds. The bark beetle weakens the tree and separates its outer layer from the trunk, producing an excess of material. Ants,...

A survey of New York is an impossible premise. It’s simply too big, too unwieldy — but that’s also what makes it so relentlessly, aggravatingly, and beautifully itself. MoMA PS1’s Greater New York tries its hand at the tall task of capturing the city’s art world — and it is a world unto itself — exhibiting more than 150 works by more than 50 artists. Below, we’ve selected around 20 artists whose work we feel strongly about, whether because we loved it, because we didn’t, or because we’re still puzzling through it. There’s some disagreement between us here. Of course there is — this is New York, home of eight million stubbornly held opinions. What fun would it be otherwise?Check out...

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By partnering with museums and public spaces, TONO offers a distributed alternative to institutional programming

The tragedy was the result of overcrowding at the Unesco site during an unauthorised event promoted and led by TikTok influencers

NEON, the Athens-based initiative founded by leading collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos, will conclude its activities later this year, “after 14 years of activity, having fulfilled its cultural and social mission,” according to a release. NEON’s final project began last year when the first of three exhibitions by Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz opened at the Acropolis Museum in May, while the second exhibition opened last October. The trilogy of exhibitions, collectively titled “Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures,” were presented in collaboration with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, the Acropolis Museum, and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens. The last of these will involve a new commission...

A Canadian woman was killed in an attack from atop the Pyramid of the Moon that authorities have linked to the “Columbine effect”

When the Trump administration removed exhibits about slavery from a Philadelphia historic park earlier this year, the city met the federal government with a defiant lawsuit. Among the targeted displays was an artwork portraying Ona Judge, who fled enslavement from George and Martha Washington.While the legal battle over the work advances, a Philadelphia cultural festival plans to unveil a sprawling temporary monument next month commemorating Ona Judge’s escape from the captivity of the United States’s first presidential family in 1796. As part of ArtPhilly, a new festival founded by Philadelphia Museum of Art trustee Katherine Sachs, New York-based conceptual artist indira allegra will debut a trio of...

The economy of Peru’s Sacred Valley has long been entwined with the seasons. Rural communities typically grow crops and raise livestock to sustain themselves and to barter with others, a process that necessitates an attunement with nature, its cycles, and how these patterns influence self-sufficiency. This is particularly true for the Quechua communities, Indigenous peoples who have long worked for subsistence rather than state currencies. In recent years, health clinics, schools, markets, and transportation requiring residents to use cash have slowly eroded this way of life. Today, many Quechua men leave their communities to work in tourism, which offers an income and the opportunity to learn Spanish....

The fog surrounding the United States’s controversial pavilion exhibition at the 61st Venice Biennale has yet to lift as the international event inches closer, but one artist who was asked to represent the US has spoken out about her decision to decline the opportunity. In a statement, artist and author Barbara Chase-Riboud told the Financial Times that it was “not the moment.”The American-French sculptor whose dichotomous sculpture practice was recently celebrated in an exhibition across eight Parisian museums, was among the initial artists fielded by the recently formed American Arts Conservancy (AAC) to represent the US for the 2026 Biennale. The New York Times recently reported that both she and...

This past Sunday afternoon, April 19, artist Cey Adams put the finishing touches on his newest mixed-media collage on a large wooden drafting table as a handful of visitors trickled into his Jay Street studio as part of this year’s edition of DUMBO Open Studios.The graphic designer and founding creative director of Def Jam Recordings did not expect to sell anything. But he kept his loft door open because he enjoys the event’s impromptu conversations and the artist community that his building’s owner, Two Trees, has cultivated in Brooklyn for decades.“I like the idea that this exists,” Adams said. “When the pandemic happened, the owners asked me to do a Black Lives Matter mural at a time when a lot...

Last week — when it was still nice out, remember those days? — our entire editorial staff hopped on the G train to head to MoMA PS1's Greater New York survey. There, we found three floors of that former public school packed with paintings, photographs, sculptures, and much more by early-career artists based here. I loved the show for many reasons, but in particular because it captured the lived texture of our beloved city — delivery drivers with those makeshift mittens on their e-bikes, those steam radiator poles that thread through so many of our bathrooms, and rats, rats, rats!Stay tuned for the list of works that stuck with us, whether because we loved them, because we didn't quite, or...

Marian Goodman Gallery will temporarily halt operations at its Los Angeles branch after its current show, an exhibition of the work of Tacita Dean, closes on April 25, Artnews reports. Per a statement sent to the platform, the gallery’s four partners—Rose Lord, Junette Teng, Emily-Jane Kirwan, and Leslie Nolen—are “consolidating programming to our historic homes in New […]

To celebrate the cult movie director’s 80th birthday, we bring you our interview with John Waters from Hi-Fructose Isssue 69. You can still get a copy in print of this issue here. Happy Birthday to The King of Puke! ABOVE: Portrait of John Waters, photo by Greg Gorman, © Academy Museum Foundation Early on in the […]
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A Renoir that hasn’t been seen in public in ninety-seven years due to the fact that it’s been ensconced in the private collection of the Whitney Payson family is going up for auction. La femme aux lilas (Portrait de Nini Lopez) (Woman with Lilacs [Portrait of Nine Lopez]), 1876–77, is a defining Impressionist masterpiece depicting the […]

By the end of last year, 2026 seemed poised to be the year of the Gulf for the art market. In December 2025, Sotheby’s held the first edition of Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week, netting $133 million in the process. This past February, Art Basel held the inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar. And, in November, Frieze is set to host the first edition of its newly rebranded fair Frieze Abu Dhabi.  But then, after weeks of saber rattling, the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran. The Islamic Republic responded with attacks on the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. While the US and Iran are engaged in shaky ceasefire talks, the Gulf’s reputation as a low tax, safe place to do business in the...

A number of books that were stolen between 1982 and 1989 from John Hay Whitney, a venture capitalist, philanthropist and a former president of the Museum of Modern Art, have resurfaced thanks to efforts made by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit, the organization announced this week.  Over 28 titles were stolen from the Whitney’s estate in […]

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Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli is set to receive more than 150,000 objects from Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the grandson of Diego Rivera, in a donation that significantly expands the museum’s holdings and renews attention on the artist’s original vision for the site. As first reported by The Art Newspaper, the gift spans centuries, from 16th-century ceramics to textiles, photographs, wooden objects, prints, and archival material tied to Rivera and his circle. The works will be transferred in stages over the coming months, beginning with ceramics and followed by manuscripts and correspondence, with completion expected by the end of the year.  Coronel Rivera, a photographer and art historian, spent more...

The personal treasures of Diane Keaton, the commanding actress who established a significant sartorial presence and wore hats as well as a milliner could ever dream, are the subject of an in-person auction in New York and three online sales courtesy of Bonhams. Exhibitions of the lots on offer will be mounted in Los Angeles, starting May 5, and New York, beginning May 29. “Diane Keaton: The Architecture of an Icon” is the main event, at the US flagship of Bonhams on West 57th Street on the evening of June 8. The three online auctions will relate to “The Diane Keaton Collection” with subtitles including “Tailored & Timeless,” “At Home with Diane,” and “Chapters of an Edited Life.” “Diane...

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, a onetime chief curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), will return to the Washington, DC, institution as its director. Hartigan is currently executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. She will begin her new role September 8. Hartigan succeeds Jane Carpenter-Rock, who took over as […]

A man standing atop one of the ancient pyramids at Teotihuacán in Mexico opened fire on tourists Monday, killing a Canadian woman and injuring at least 13 others, according to Mexican authorities. The shooter was identified by the Associated Press as 27-year-old Mexican national Julio César Jasso Ramírez. Authorities said he later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound following the attack. Security officials added that he was found in possession of a firearm, a knife, and ammunition. The Mexican government said that he acted alone. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called for stricter gun control at tourist sites on Tuesday. “We need to have better security to make sure someone can’t enter an...

William Kentridge’s memorable and layered drawings and films leave a mark in Prague. 

BRABUS and DAB Motors introduce a three-bike electric series
 
German mobility brand BRABUS launches its first electric motorcycle in collaboration with French manufacturer DAB Motors. Presented during Milan Design Week 2026, the collection introduces three new BRABUS motorcycle models, DAB 1α BRABUS, BRABUS URBAN E, and BRABUS URBAN E FIRST EDITION, marking a new direction for fully electric urban two-wheelers. The series introduces a more expressive reading of BRABUS design language through color and material contrast. Alongside the deep black carbon finishes, the FIRST EDITION brings four saturated tones, ‘Peetch,’ ‘Desert Sand,’ ‘Superviolet,’ and ‘Fusion Red,’ applied as full-body...

sara ricciardi’s serotonin floats inside the pinacoteca di brera
 
At a moment when contemporary life is defined by overstimulation and emotional fatigue, Serotonin – The Chemistry of Happiness, Sara Ricciardi’s immersive installation at the Pinacoteca di Brera proposes a spatial response to how pleasure is produced, perceived, and sustained. Presented during Milan Design Week 2026, the inflatable structure floats inside the loggiato of the historic building, transforming it into a responsive, sensorial environment that translates a biochemical process into lived experience. Developed in collaboration with American Express, the project is open to the public from April 21st to 26th, 2026.
 
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a campus set into the landscape
 
The new Cherokee Heritage Center in Oklahoma by Safdie Architects organizes a series of low, faceted volumes across a wooded site, forming a campus that sits close to the ground and follows the terrain. From a distance, the rammed earth buildings read as a cluster of warm, earth-toned forms, their sloped roofs catching light at different angles while tree canopies soften their edges.
 
Each volume holds a distinct program, yet the composition feels continuous. Paths trace between the buildings, moving through planted clearings and across shallow water. The layout encourages a gradual approach, with the architecture revealing itself in fragments rather than as a single...

CERAMICS AND FASHION COLLIDE DURING MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026
 
For Milan Design Week 2026, Iris Ceramica Group interprets the Fuorisalone theme ‘Be the Project’ through
a storytelling titled ‘The Humans Behind.’ Transforming its showroom at Via Santa Margherita 4 into a showcase where each ceramic material shows a personal narrative, the installation invites visitors to look through the tangible surfaces to recognize the traces of the creators, visions, and identities that brought them to life. In the main window, the ‘Reloaded’ a project by Diesel Living with Iris Ceramica provides the backdrop for a live podcast series with special guests from the worlds of fashion, design, and haute cuisine,...

Rózsa Farkas founded Arcadia Missa straight out of college in 2011

Dull conducting makes Der Freischütz miss its mark at Carnegie Hall.

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Building sites and agricultural areas are typically described by the utilitarian operations that shape them—rugged, harsh, and often back-breaking. They are spaces that resist softness, built quite literally around force and tension. Artist Pia Hinz flips this idea on its head as she explores the conceptual and material relationship between strength and vulnerability. Living and working between Ardèche, Amsterdam, and Arles, France, Hinz has been working with stained glass for the past three years. She focuses much of her work on objects that one might find in environments of labor, such as construction or farming. Her sculptures take on an array of recognizable forms including hammers, screws, traffic...

A global public art exhibition led by Le Good Society brings climate-focused works to major digital screens, highlighting environmental urgency and collective action.

The burgeoning market is suffering the fallout of current geopolitical stresses, while other regions appear disarmingly nonchalant

Art Fund announces the five finalists for Museum of the Year 2026, highlighting innovative UK museums redefining collections, access and audience engagement.

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Rosa Ponselle is the singer who had it all.

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With the support of the Chanel Culture Fund, the Swiss museum's new role is the first of its kind at a major arts institution

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©Jon McCormack ©Jon McCormack Patterns: Art of the Natural World, published by Damiani and released to coincide with Earth Day (April 22, 2026), is a striking photobook by Australian photographer and conservationist Jon McCormack. The project emerged from a pivotal shift in McCormack’s practice during the COVID-19 pandemic, when travel restrictions confined him to a single location and, in turn, fostered a slower, more attentive way of seeing. “Repetition removed distraction. Because I wasn’t constantly moving on to a new destination, I could no longer rely on the excitement of elsewhere. I had to let the subject reveal itself more slowly,” he reflects. The result is a body of work unified by...

Street photography has long occupied a paradoxical space within the history of image making – at once documentary and deeply subjective, anchored in the real yet charged with the fleeting architecture of perception. Its most enduring practitioners operate in the charged interval between chance and intent, where composition is not merely arranged but discovered in motion. The genre thrives on attentiveness to the ordinary – the flick of a glance, the choreography of bodies in public space, the accidental poetry of urban life. Within this field, the question is never simply what is seen, but how seeing itself is structured: through proximity, timing, and an instinctual responsiveness to the world unfolding...

When we think of “invasive species,” perhaps zebra mussels or kudzu vine spring to mind. Both have flourished in their non-native environments and continue to threaten other native organisms. Invasive species aren’t inherently bad—they’re just trying to survive—but by definition, they’re likely to disrupt local ecosystems and even cause billions of dollars worth of damage each year. So, what does one California city have to say about its burgeoning population of… peacocks? Introduced by a businessman and land baron named Elias Lucky Baldwin more than a century ago, the avian population has long called the area home. Over the years, though, as the originally open area filled with homes and...

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Gregory Spears, whose newest opera Sleepers Awake opens this week at Opera Philadelphia, is reviving Romanticism

Mark Ellen Mark (1940 – 2015) is one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. For four decades, she turned her lens upon those marginalised, overlooked and neglected by society. This month, her iconic works are on display alongside self-taught Turkish artist Sabiha Çimen (b. 1986) at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. Sabiha Çimen and Mary Ellen Mark: The Girls highlights the universal nature of being a girl, captured by two artists separated by time and geography. The photographers never met, but their careers intertwined briefly in 2012, when Çimen was asked by a curator to locate a Turkish girl photographed by Mark in 1965. The curator was curious about subject’s...

In the large-scale murals of Alex Senna, figures gather, greet one another, relax, and interact with their own shadows in bold compositions. The Brazilian artist is known for his black-and-white murals that emphasize community and emotional bonds. Togetherness, security, and positivity pervade the scenes, sometimes playful and other times more contemplative. Set against colorful backgrounds and amid urban structures, Senna’s pieces emphasize connection, support, reflection, and belonging. At the end of May, Senna embarks on a tour across Italy, France, and Spain to participate in several festivals. Follow the artist’s Instagram for updates. Festival Monstar, Bosnia (2022). Photo by Ilda Kero...

"Du bist die ruh" was one of the first art songs I ever knew.

What does it mean to make art together, apart? As digital infrastructures reshape how we connect and collaborate, creatives are no longer bound to the physical studio – nor are students. In fact, a growing number of arts education programmes are rethinking how practice can be taught, shared and sustained across distance. Falmouth University’s MA Fine Art Online is one such course. Aesthetica speaks to lecturers Josie Cockram, Kate Fahey and Srin Surti about how the programme brings together artists working across continents, contexts and disciplines to engage with global political, economic, social and ecological change. They reflect on recent showcases, share success stories and consider what lies...

Just three percent of the world’s land remains ecologically intact, with healthy numbers of all its original animals and undisturbed habitat. According to WWF’s Living Planet Report, the average size of wildlife populations fell by a staggering 73% between 1970 and 2020, and a 2022 study warned that more than 1 in 10 species could be lost by the end of the century. Photographer Zed Nelson’s latest project asks the question: how did we let ourselves get here? The Anthropocene Illusion is the result of six years of travel, during which Nelson visited 14 countries across four continents to observe how humans immerse themselves in increasingly artificial landscapes. People holiday on synthetic beaches...

Respighi's liriche can be as colorful, poetic, and downright lovely as any selection from other art song traditions. Case in point: Rosa Feola's recording of the first song from Quattro rispetti toscani.

In 1912, Pablo Picasso and George Braque began experimenting with combining artworks on a page. As art critic Michael Bird wrote, it “transformed collage from parlour game to avant-garde medium.” The process soon became popular in Modernist and Cubist circles, as artists sought new methods of creative expression, Yet, this narrative, as Fiona Rogers writes in the introduction to Cut Out, presents “historians and art critics with something of a conundrum.” The reality is that there were makers all over the world, mostly women, folk and Indigenous artist, who have been relegated to the margins of the practice. Cut Out, a new publication from Thames & Hudson presents collage, assemblage and montage as a...

By Katherine Kesey In the last few years, Los Angeles's Melrose Hill neighborhood has quickly become one of the city's most walkable arts districts. This past Saturday night, there were nearly ten coordinated openings, and I attended almost all of them. Taken individually, the shows were equally captivating. Together, they were a warm and exciting medley of passionate color, lighthearted mystery, and wry humor. Hannah Tishkoff, Beyond Love There is No Belief. 2026. Acrylic, oil, and pennies...

Feline antics are notoriously chaotic. “The cat is, above all things, a dramatist,” author and Egyptologist Margaret Benson is to have said. Sacred to ancient Egyptians, domestic cats share more than 95% of their genetic makeup with tigers, and they can leap five times their height and turn into veritable spring mechanisms when startled. Also, would the Internet be the same without cat memes? For Léo Forest, these lovable, independent, wily, and territorial creatures provide an endless source of inspiration for dynamic pencil drawings. The Paris-based artist’s playful works tap into the physical and emotional quirks of cats, from brawling pairs to individuals in the midst of grooming, scratching, or...

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For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Nature category: Sophie Altemus.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sophie Altemus is a photographer currently studying at Oberlin College in Ohio. Working primarily in the realm of snapshot photography, she carries a camera with her everywhere she goes.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of design variables, you can...

Filipino fishermen unload catches of Yellowfin tuna, Bigeye tuna, and Blue Marlin, after being at sea for approximately one month, at General Santos fish port, the Philippines, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. General Santos is known as the Philippines’ tuna capital and hub for tuna fishing and exports of the products. The city hosts numberous processing facilities where the fish, primarily tun, is packaged or canned for sale ot the Filipino market and for export worldwide. ©Nicole Tung for Fondation Carmignac Overfishing in Southeast Asia, on view until April 26, 2026, at the Bronx Documentary Center, is a powerful and layered exhibition by photojournalist Nicole Tung, laureate of the 15th Carmignac...

In the forest nothing stands still. Time layered through thoughts and feelings, leaves kicked and crunched as we walk. The trees talk to each other, sending mycelium messages, carbon gifts, and warnings of drought or illness. From ancient wisdom to popular culture, it’s all here.
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, did it make a sound? Of course it did. And if Jo Stapleton was there to capture the moment, there would be a visual symphony of light, shape and form to follow.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, this beautiful collection of 100 images by Jo Stapleton is an expressionist photographic account of her interactions with trees, forest and woodland, later remembered and...

In a world not so unlike our own, during a time not that long ago, a mother wolf sits comfortably upon an abandoned tree stump in a clearing in the woods. Surrounded by carefully rendered flora and fauna, the creature is positioned upright with impeccable posture and human-like mannerisms. Her hind legs are crossed at […]
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