Ahead of the return of Louise to the Opéra National de Lyon, Parterre Box features Elsa Dreisig in a much more famous French opera.

Tenger City: Squareone Atelier’s Proposal for New Satellite City
 
Tenger City is an urban planning proposal by Sydney-based practice Squareone Atelier, awarded as a Top 3 Winner in the Hunnu City International Urban Planning Competition 2025. The project proposes a new satellite city located approximately 52 kilometers south of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, with phased development planned between 2025 and 2045. The proposal forms part of Mongolia’s broader Ulaanbaatar 2040 Masterplan and the national Vision 2050 framework, which aim to support decentralization, resilience, and long-term urban growth.
 
The masterplan introduces a model for contemporary Mongolian urbanism informed by the spatial openness of the...

Drifting Cloud Kinetic Installation sets on Zanzibar’s Shoreline
 
Located on Jambiani beach along Zanzibar’s east coast, Drifting Cloud is a kinetic installation by Vincent Leroy that interacts directly with the wind. The sculptural work is constructed from carbon rods, 3D printed joints, and kite-canvas discs, forming a lightweight structure capable of responding to subtle air currents.
 
The installation’s modular components move independently while remaining part of a connected whole, generating a dynamic, constantly changing composition. Movements vary according to wind strength, ranging from fine vibrations to broader gestures, producing an organized yet unpredictable rhythm.
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The hoard, uncovered by archaeologists in Norfolk, includes rare animal-headed battle trumpet

Thibaut Grevet is a French director and photographer who moves through the world with an eye tuned to the unseen. His images slip between reality and reverie, blending people, architecture, and landscape into quiet collisions of shape, shadow, and motion. What he captures often feels less like documentation and more like memory—soft, shifting, and charged with an otherworldly calm. Grevet works in moments that unfold on their own terms: unposed, unpolished, and beautifully transient. He gravitates toward what flickers at the edge of perception, revealing details that many overlook but that, in his hands, expand into entire worlds. His 2025–26 collaboration with New York City Ballet extends this dialogue...

The artist’s experience of being a recreational pilot has played into many of their works—including some on view in a current Paris exhibition

faceted geometry and reflective glass respond to the andes
 
Set within the rugged terrain of the Andes, the Rumi Ñahui Cabin by Rtresarquitectos negotiates its presence through reflection, fragmentation, and elevation, allowing the site to remain the dominant force. Facing east, the building adopts a faceted envelope composed of angular elements that recall suspended rocks scattered across the hillside. These articulated surfaces visually break down the volume, offering protection from prevailing winds. The geometry softens the mass of the cabin, translating geological conditions into an architectural language.
 
A continuous wall of reflective glass mirrors the surrounding landscape, dissolving the edges...

Outside my regular lunch spot in Brooklyn yesterday, a worker dressed as a giant lettuce leaf was handing out samples in the cold. When I asked him how he was doing, he replied with a smile, "Can't complain." I took it as a reminder to remain grateful for what I have, no matter where life takes me.Speaking of problematic working conditions, I encourage you to read Amanda Tobin Ripley's plea to art museums to voluntarily recognize their workers' unions. No more forced elections, fear-mongering, and pitting workers against each other. It's a must-read not just for museum leaders, but for everyone in our field.—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chiefLACMA workers celebrate after winning their union...

Ai-Da makes history as the first humanoid robot to design a home, with designs for future housing for the Moon and Mars.

Olloni is a cyber pet for homes with interactive screen
 
OLLOBOT introduces OlloNi, a cyber pet robot for homes that displays playful emotions using an interactive screen between its two eyes. Designed to be a companion, the device is meant to live in a home the way a pet does: nearby, responsive, and emotionally present, without being demanding or overwhelming. Instead of copying the shape of a dog, a cat, or a person, OlloNi has a soft, rounded body that feels friendly rather than mechanical. On top of its head are two horn-like shapes that users can touch to instantly stop the robot or mute it in emergencies. These horns also help the cyber pet for homes, OlloNi, see and understand the world. They work...

HSC Designs Rebuilds Public Park in Ahmedabad
 
Circle of Life Park, also known as Chakrajeevan Udyaan in Ahmedabad, India, is a public landscape project by HSC Designs developed through site-specific analysis of climate, movement patterns, and user behavior. Early observations revealed that women, children, and senior citizens were underrepresented users of the park, primarily due to concerns around safety and accessibility. The design responds by prioritizing clarity of movement, visibility, and inclusive access as core spatial principles.
 
A continuous, gently winding pathway forms the primary organizational spine of the park. This loop connects a series of clearly defined activity zones while...

New Jospeh Beuys'exhibition brings focus to the decades-long evolution of his monumental Bathtub

Amid widespread budget deficits, several top universities have suspended admissions to their art history graduate programs or cut the size of the cohorts they will admit, along with modifications to other humanities concentrations. Boston University, the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and Princeton University are among those institutions seeing changes. The cutbacks come in the context of a widely discussed crisis in higher education. Philadelphia-based public radio station WHYY reported in November that both public and private colleges and universities are facing “enormous challenges,” including declines in state and federal funding, reductions in the numbers of foreign students owing to the...

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We exist in an extraordinary moment. The past decade has been shaped by the rapid expansion of social media, the emergence of artificial intelligence and a global pandemic that fundamentally altered how we understand connection, education, work and social life. Layered onto this are ongoing political and economic uncertainties, creating a world in near-constant flux. It is within this landscape that a new generation of artists has come of age, using the lens as both witness and compass. These emerging voices are being brought into focus across institutions and galleries worldwide. Their work navigates a shifting terrain in which identity, memory and place feel increasingly unstable, and perhaps always have...

«Vogliamo essere visibili, siamo esseri umani». Sono le sei parole, tradotte in italiano da un ragionamento in lingua inglese, che raccontano meglio di ogni altro concetto questa mostra. La Collezione Maramotti ospita un progetto site-specific dell’artista rom di passaporto polacco Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, già vista e apprezzata in Italia nel 2022 alla Biennale Arte di Venezia, nel padiglione nazionale della Polonia. Abbiamo definito site-specific il progetto perché nasce anche dal confronto dell’artista con la comunità sinti di Reggio Emilia. Si tratta di una comunità vasta che racchiude circa la metà dell’intera popolazione rom e sinti dell’intera Emilia-Romagna e che l’artista ha voluto...

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In 1955, New York’s MoMA opened The Family of Man, an ambitious exhibition which brought together hundreds of images by photographers around the world. It was organised by Edward Steichen, whose aim was to demonstrate “the gamut of life from birth to death” through pictures. The display toured internationally and was seen by more than 9 million visitors, and is now regarded as one of the most famous shows of all time. Perhaps most importantly, it positioned the idea of “family” as something bigger than our immediate, or biological, circles. The images showed how complex and wide-reaching the term can be – highlighting shared experiences across borders. Now, Brussels’ Hangar presents Family...

The work, which has sparked online backlash, will see buyers of the project's tokens choose whether Angus becomes hamburgers and handbags, or is sent to live at an animal sanctuary

Known for his meticulous drawings of insects, birds, and other creatures hybridized with mechanical gears and intricate filigree, Steeven Salvat has a penchant for detail. Often tapping into historical analog technology like clocks, typewriters, globes, and hourglasses, the artist nods nostalgically to a pre-digital age. Salvat’s forthcoming exhibition, Latitude/Longitude at Galerie Hamon, continues the artist’s interest in the convergence of nature and human activity. This recent body of work, created using acrylic and Chinese ink, focuses more specifically on navigation and cartography. Vintage maps, charts, and globes provide the foundation for beautiful renderings of songbirds and butterflies in a...

The unionization wave across museums in the United States just scored major wins. Workers at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), who announced their intent to unionize on October 29, won their union election on December 16 with 96% of the vote, while workers at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced their campaigns on November 4 and November 17, respectively. These workplaces are behemoths among museums, and unions have the power to materially change the realities of the thousands of people working at these institutions and to profoundly shift labor-management relations in the sector. In a testimony to the power of their organizing work, 100% of union...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Lucia Di Luciano (1933–2026)Pioneering Italian painterAn eminent figure in the Arte Programmata movement of the 1960s, she brought the analytic precision of mathematics to the expressive medium of painting, as exemplified by her series of optically dazzling black and white grid works. She described her work as a "continuous transformation" and painted into her 90s. Rosa von Praunheim (1942–2025)Avant-garde filmmakerA leading figure of the New German Cinema movement, he made boundary-pushing films about gay life in the nation. He is arguably best known for his 1971 full-length feature It Is Not the...

The 13 works stolen, by Henri Matisse and Cândido Portinari, have not been recovered and are valued at up to $180,000

ANTIGUA and GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala — Fall 2025 has been quite a busy time for Guatemala: The country hosted the 12th edition of the Central American Games in October, attempted to qualify for next year’s FIFA World Cup, and opened the 24th Bienal de Arte Paiz at the beginning of November. Indeed, this year’s edition of the second-oldest biennial in Latin America is its most ambitious to date, with work by 46 artists (almost double the number of 2023’s edition) spread across 10 venues in Antigua and Guatemala City and representing over 15 countries.Taking inspiration from the myth of the tree of life, the idea for this year’s theme, The World Tree, is to present artistic practices and artworks that...

Supporting existing research on the benefits of viewing original artwork versus reproductions, a new study found that seeing authentic art can help drop cortisol levels, among other positive effects on the nervous system.Still in pre-print since its submission last October, “The Physiological Impact of Viewing Original Artworks vs. Reprints: a Comparative Study” was conducted by researchers from the Department of Psychological Medicine at King's College in London working in collaboration with the Courtauld Institute of Art. Fifty adults between the ages of 18 and 40 participated in the experimental study — one half was made to view five authentic paintings with their wall labels in a gallery setting...

In a historic military operation that flouted international law, the United States invaded the South American nation of Venezuela early Saturday morning, seizing the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, who will face federal charges in New York. US President Donald Trump has openly said that his administration will “run” the country until a favored administration takes control, and said that the US will revive the crumbling petrochemical infrastructure in a nation that sits on some of the world’s largest oil reserves, even noting that he informed oil industry executives before the military strike, while not letting Congress know until the deed was done. Millions have gathered...

Dutch photographer Pieter Henket has spent the past few years spotlighting the innovative and subversive fashionings of Mexico City’s queer communities. After a lengthy period in the capital, he teamed up with stylist Chino Castilla to create portraits of dancers, performers, and even locals he encountered while strolling through the park. Together, they wanted to highlight “the boundaries between Mexico’s deeply rooted Catholic traditions and the freedom of modern self-expression,” Henket says. Resulting is a captivating collection that defies notions of cultural identity, gender, sexuality, and even queerness itself. Shot in black and white, Birds of Mexico City zeroes in on the textures of cracked...

KHERSON OBLAST, UKRAINE—Science in Poland reports that cinnabar has been recovered from graves in a Scythian cemetery in southern Ukraine. Known as the Chervony Mayak cemetery, the site was in use from the second century B.C. to the mid-third century A.D. More than 175 graves in the cemetery have been excavated to date. Lumps of cinnabar, a toxic mercury sulphide with an intense red color, were found in three of these burials by a team of researchers led by Oleksandr Symonenko of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The lumps have now been analyzed by Beata Polit of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University and her colleagues. “Pigments of various shades of red have been discovered in graves attributed to...

When the fire reached Diana Thater’s home in Altadena last January, there was no time for triage. As she and her husband, the artist T. Kelly Mason, evacuated ahead of the flames, Mason grabbed what he could carry: a server and several hard drives. Thater took the cats. Everything else—decades of raw footage, master tapes, installation manuals, ephemera, paintings—was left behind in a temperature-controlled garage that burned to the ground. “It’s hard to live to be 62 years old and lose your entire life in one night,” Thater told the New York Times at the time. The loss was not just personal but professional. Much of her work, made since the early 1990s, exists at the intersection of video, sound,...

CAIRO, EGYPT—According to an Ahram Online report, the U.S. has repatriated seven artifacts to Egypt. Shaaban Abdel Gawad of Egypt’s Repatriation of Antiquities Department said that the objects include two mummified fish and a falcon head dated to the Ptolemaic period (304–30 b.c.). These artifacts were seized by U.S. customs in 2017. In 2018, investigating U.S. officials recovered a bronze amulet of Set, a basalt heart-shaped scarab, and a carving of a human face, which had all been illegally smuggled into the country. A painted ushabti figurine and a stone head turned into the Egyptian embassy in Washington by an American citizen were also returned. To read about a recent Ptolemaic-era discovery in...

Workers waving flags and holding flares staged a protest at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence behind a banner reading “Basta Vite Precarie” (No Move Precarious Lives). As reported by the Art Newspaper, the protest in the Piazzale degli Uffizi was convened after some temporary workers at the museum—assigned to roles in security, reception, ticketing, the bookshop, and the coatroom—lost their jobs following a change in service providers at the institution last fall. That raised the ire of the trade union Sudd Cobas, which organized the protest and wrote on Instagram: “New Year’s resolution: continue working together with the workers of the Uffizi Galleries. What’s at stake is a different idea of...

FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS—According to a statement released by the University of Arkansas, an international team of researchers has identified a possible Bronze Age host of the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis. Beginning about 5,000 years ago, the plague infected people in Eurasia for a period of about 2,000 years, but it was not clear to scientists how the disease spread. DNA from Y. pestis has now been identified in the remains of 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep from the site of Arkaim, a fortified settlement in the Southern Ural Mountains belonging to the Sintashta culture, which is known for herding, horse riding, and bronze weaponry. “Our plague sheep gave us a breakthrough,” said team member Taylor...

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has announced the artists participating in the third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, opening on January 30, in the JAX District, an industrial zone that has been converted into an arts complex in Diriyah, near the capital city of Riyadh. Taking the title “In Interludes and Transitions,” this edition of the Biennale will be curated by Nora Razian and Sabih Ahmed and feature more than 65 artists, alongside over 20 new commissions. Razian, deputy director and head of exhibitions and programs at Art Jameel, and Ahmed, projects director of the Ishara Art Foundation, have positioned the exhibition around the movement of histories, knowledge, and artistic...

The works are included in an upcoming Christie's sale marking the 250th anniversary of US independence

Jana Euler’s paintings are crowded with symbolically charged motifs—sharks, sockets, slugs, dollar bills, bodily close-ups, and her own fantastical animal, the morecorn. Each stars as the protagonist in its own series of works, and puts us in touch with a different attitude toward reality. Her canvases may seem metaphorical, producing impressions of how it feels […]

Born to a family of farmers near Wilmington, North Carolina, Minnie Evans (1892-1987) never intentionally set out to become an artist. She observed the rural landscapes of her early childhood home in Pender County, then moved to Wilmington, where she attended school until the sixth grade. She married, had three children, and was devoted to her religious beliefs. Steered by vivid dreams and visions, she made her first drawing on Good Friday in 1935, when she was in her early 40s. “I never plan a drawing. They just happen,” Evans said in 1969, when her work had begun to gain recognition. “In a dream, it was shown to me what I have to do, of paintings. The whole entire horizon all the way across the whole...

the UK's only development and bursary scheme dedicated to the next generation of artist filmmakers.

Crania, ulnae, and femora of (left to right): a chimpanzee, Sahelanthropus, and Australopithecus NEW YORK, NEW YORK—A new study of seven-million-year-old Sahelanthropus tchadensis fossils employing 3D imagery suggests that the species was capable of walking upright, according to a statement released by New York University. The fossils were discovered in Chad some 20 years ago. Previous study of these remains found that Sahelanthropus had a small brain and an ape-like appearance. However, Scott Williams of New York University and his colleagues recently identified a femoral tubercle, the attachment point for a ligament that connects the pelvis and femur in hominins, on a Sahelanthropus femur. The...

Sillman’s first exhibition with the gallery will be in New York in 2027.

A messy new I puritani at the Met is a historic and historical disappointment.

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Palestinian-Saudi artist Dana Awartani’s practice centres around one primary contrast: the act of creation and the experience of loss. Her multidisciplinary practice addresses the destruction of cultural heritage, reflecting upon the ravages of conflict within the Middle East. The artist’s latest exhibition, held at Towner Eastbourne until the end of the month, takes its name from an ongoing series. Standing by the Ruins traces the act of remembrance, healing and forgetting. At its heart is a major floor installation constructed in collaboration with adobe restoration craftsmen from Riyadh. The piece draws directly from the historic Hamam al-Sammara, one of Gaza’s oldest bathhouses, now believed to be...

The annual Architecture Drawing Prize celebrates the significance of drawing as a tool in capturing and communicating architectural ideas.

Elina Garanča scaled the vocal and dramatic summits of the Judgement Duet and Scene in the May series of Aïda.

There is a particular urgency to Viktor & Rolf. Fashion Statements at the High Museum of Art, an exhibition that arrived with quiet confidence rather than overt spectacle. Now well underway, it has become one of those cultural moments that circulate through recommendation, drawing visitors through reputation and critical acclaim. With its run extending into early February, it feels less like a temporary display and more like a sustained proposition about the power of fashion within the museum space. The exhibition does not ask to be rushed, instead encouraging careful looking and prolonged engagement. In doing so, it asserts fashion’s capacity to function as a rigorous and imaginative art form. Over recent...

Ancora pochi giorni per visitare, negli spazi della galleria mondoromulo arte contemporanea a Castelvenere, la mostra di Alessandro Trapezio “Now I see you, now you see me” a cura di Francesco Creta. La mostra porta in esposizione due progetti del fotografo di origine spezzina mettendoli in relazione tra loro sulla questione dello sguardo. In “Closer”, omaggio alla serie di foto realizzate da Dino Pedriali a Pasolini, siamo noi a spiare la performer Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, mentre nei poster da riviste patinate della serie “Power, Corruption & Lies” ci troviamo assaliti dallo sguardo delle modelle fino a sentirci i loro occhi addosso. Lo sguardo e il dato voyeuristico sono il principio fondamentale su...

Humans have been creating pigments for thousands of years, foraging for local materials that could be ground or extracted to create colors. The 17,000-year-old cave art in Lascaux, France, for example, is a mindbogglingly early example of human ingenuity when it comes to processing elements of nature, such as minerals, ochres, and shells, to create different hues. As time went on, people continued to experiment and develop new dyes and paints, some of which were poisonous. Minerals sometimes contain toxic elements, so red often contained lead, cinnabar had mercury, and orpiment arsenic. Aristocratic Romans even used a face-lightening compound containing lead, and their blush tended to feature crushed...

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has named the more than sixty-five artists set to participate in the third iteration of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale. Titled “In Interludes and Transitions (في الحِلّ والترحال),” the exhibition will open January 30 in the JAX District, an industrial site turned arts complex in the historic town of Diriyah, near […]

The British Museum is looking for an experienced treasure hunter to track hundreds of Greek and Roman antiquities that went missing from its collection in recent years and were possibly stolen by an employee. Tom Harrison, head of the institution’s Greek and Roman collections, told the London Times that he hopes to hire someone to […]

IZMIR, TURKEY—Türkiye Today reports that a small room with a mosaic floor has been found in a structure built between the fourth and sixth centuries A.D. at the site of Smyrna, an ancient port on the Aegean coast, by a team of researchers led by Akin Ersoy of Izmir Katip Celebi University. The building is situated on Agora North Street, one of the city’s main streets. The floor measures about 10 feet wide by 13 feet long, and features geometric panels, plant motifs, and intertwined loops known as Solomon’s Knot, a popular image believed to have offered protection from evil and misfortune. Ersoy explained that the mosaic floor had previously been uncovered in the nineteenth century and incorporated into...

Shigeru Ban has spent over four decades redefining what architecture can achieve, merging innovation with social conscience to create spaces that are as humane as they are visionary. From paper-tube shelters in disaster zones to landmark cultural institutions, his work demonstrates that architecture can transcend aesthetics, offering both dignity and hope. The Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow now presents a new exhibition that traces this remarkable career, situating Ban’s practice within a global dialogue of design, material experimentation and humanitarian ambition. Born in Tokyo in 1957, Ban studied architecture in the United States, a period that profoundly shaped his sensibility....

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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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The deadline for The City Series: Cambridge has been extended until 23 April 2026.
An ongoing series of publications, The City Series sets out to explore the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, showcasing images that respond to a place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
The inaugural volume explores a city that has welcomed us, and been home to nearly a dozen Shutter Hub exhibitions – Cambridge.
Rather than defining Cambridge by landmarks or narratives, we invite photographers to approach the city openly, perhaps through people, atmosphere, details, routines, abstractions, or moments that feel personal or unexpected....

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"Call me traditional, but I want to see a silver platter!"

A staged Freischütz is rare enough in itself to be the highlight of any opera season, but it was in Christoph Marthaler's Antwerp production that I connected with the characters and felt the story for the first time.