CERAMIC MEETS WOOD UNDER SOFT LIGHT
 
Seoul-based designer Byunggwon Na explores the relationship between ceramic, wood, and illumination with ALIT, a lamp reduced to two contrasting materials and a deceptively simple geometry. Beginning with the translucent qualities of ceramic, Na studied how light could pass through, bounce against, and diffuse across its surface before introducing a square wooden column as the project’s only additional material.
 
The result sets the softly curved ceramic shade directly on top of the timber base, allowing light to fall across both surfaces at once. Rather than hiding the meeting point between structure and diffuser, ALIT makes it the focus: a small material...

Celebrity Illustrator Mr Doodle drew over a photo of Yayoi Kusama in his signature style. (image courtesy Mr Doodle)From her beloved dotted pumpkins to her immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms, artist Yayoi Kusama reenvisioned the pop avant-garde with artworks that often doubled as social commentary and public protest. Following this week's news of her passing at the age of 97, artists, galleries, museums, and fashion houses around the world have taken to social media to reflect on the seismic loss. Tributes from Louis Vuitton to professional doodlers have flooded Instagram, each remembering the artist as a daring, radical, and complex force. Across generations and disciplines, these 12 testimonies cement...

Welcome to the 352nd installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, printmaker and self-proclaimed "mountain ultrarunner" Hilary Lorenz transforms paper into boats, books, and weavings in the studio she built herself.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Hilary Lorenz, Abiquiu, New MexicoHow long have you been working in this space?I have been officially in my studio on and off since 2013. I bought a small house in rural New Mexico in 2010 and started building my studio the following summer. I was still living...

Mamuli Reimagines Georgian Identity Through Hospitality Design
 
With Mamuli, SOIA Design set out to create something more nuanced than a restaurant inspired by Georgia. The goal was to translate the character of Georgian culture into space without relying on familiar decorative symbols or turning heritage into a visual theme. The result is an interior built around interpretation rather than imitation, a warm, expressive environment in Krasnodar, in which traditional references, contemporary craftsmanship, and the rituals of hospitality come together as one experience.
 
From the beginning, the brief presented a clear challenge. The clients wanted Mamuli to feel unmistakably connected to Georgian culture...

Through his art, Mansour was a pioneering force of Palestinian cultural resistance

The exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía demonstrates the wealth of meanings in the artist's work

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Lisa Havilah, CEO of Sydney’s Powerhouse Parramatta, has stepped down ten weeks before its opening. A €4 million ($4.7 million) diamond necklace has been stolen from the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.  A £71 million ($96.4 million) Rembrandt portrait has been placed under an export bar in the United Kingdom. The Headlines  TROUBLE DOWN UNDER. The Art Newspaper reported that Lisa Havilah, the chief executive overseeing Sydney’s much-anticipated Powerhouse Parramatta museum, has stepped aside just ten weeks before its scheduled opening on November 7. Havilah, who has led...

Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Hayama Artist ResidencyFeaturedLaunched in 2020, the Hayama Artist Residency offers visual artists from around the world a unique opportunity to spend four weeks in Japan for rest, reflection, and creative inspiration. Selected artists receive roundtrip airfare, a private bedroom, and an $800 stipend to cover meals and local transportation. We welcome applications from visual artists working in any medium and at any stage of their career. Applicants must be at least 21 years old. The residency runs June 1 to 30,...

The export bar gives UK museums and galleries until 26 December to raise the funds to keep the painting in the country

ellie seymour traces the revival of america’s roadside icons
 
Luster Publishing releases Vintage Motels: America’s Most Iconic Motels, Beautifully Restored, a new book by Ellie Seymour that takes readers on a nostalgic road trip across the United States. Seymour documents 40 mid-century motels, once symbols of freedom, anonymity, and the golden age of American car travel, revamped into contemporary boutique hotels while preserving the character of the past.
 
The Pearl in Florida, the Skyview in California, Hotel Lucine in Texas, and The Dive in Nevada are among the 40 motels presented. Whether it’s through restored neon signs glowing once more at sunset or minimalist reimaginings that reinterpret...

The group show ‘The Defeated: The Aesthetics of Resistance 2026’, which opened in Stockholm this week, is inspired by the antifascist, postwar literature of German-Swedish writer Peter Weiss

For me, autumn in New York means four things: art fair frenzy, leaf peeping, apple cider donuts, and lots and lots of openings. To help you navigate the wealth of stellar exhibitions this year, from gallery shows to blockbuster surveys, we’re proud to present our Hyperallergic Fall 2026 New York Art Guide. Choose your own adventure: telenovelas and their influence on contemporary art, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock side by side, explorations of girlhood and art. As Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang writes in her foreword, there’s something for everyone. Enjoy.Read on for more in this edition, including a massive auction for an LGBTQIA+ art mentorship program, the many lives of beloved author Virginia...

But he did buy seven of the artist’s paintings, which are now shown at his Philadelphia museum—including two risqué ones

Nicknamed the “Little Louvre,” a hidden gem of European masterpieces in France’s Basque Country was given a new lease on life last fall. Founded in 1891, the Musée Bonnat-Helleu in Bayonne is home to some 7,000 artworks spanning antiquity to the early 20th century, and it reopened after 14 years of renovations that doubled its exhibition space. About 10 months before the opening, the museum also got a new leader in Barthélémy Etchegoyen Glama, a 33-year-old native of the Basque Country. Last month, the Musée Bonnat-Helleu also presented its first temporary exhibition since its reopening, complemented by rare loans from the Louvre, its partner, and the Quai Branly museum in Paris. On view through...

CAMPING GETS OFF THE GROUND
 
Tato Architects rethinks the familiar camping tent with Arc Tent, a lightweight shelter that behaves almost as much like a hammock as a place to sleep. Instead of resting directly on the terrain, its tubular equilateral triangle is suspended within a folded circular frame, raising the occupant slightly above the ground and allowing the structure to accommodate uneven outdoor surfaces.
 
That suspension also gives Arc Tent its defining movement. The geometric structure gently swings as people climb inside, turning a practical shelter into something closer to playground equipment. Rather than trying to eliminate every wobble from outdoor living, Tato Architects makes it part of...

over 500 works by do ho suh on view at mmca, seoul exhibition
 
Do Ho Suh’s large-scale solo exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) in Seoul brings together more than 500 drawings, sculptures, videos, and installations from across four decades, tracing an artistic practice shaped by questions of home, migration, memory, and identity. On view until February 9th, 2027, the exhibition moves from the artist’s earliest experiments to major fabric reconstructions and recent works, showing how Suh has gradually transformed personal experiences of relocation into a broader investigation of how people inhabit and remember space (read more here).
 
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The Riverside Art Museum (RAM) in California has named Vivian Zavataro as its next executive director. She will begin in the role on October 1. Zavataro succeeds Drew Oberjuerge, who served in the top job for more than 13 years and left in June 2025. “The Riverside Art Museum has grown from a beloved community museum into a dynamic cultural institution with an international presence,” RAM board president Patricia Reynolds said in a statement. “I am incredibly proud of the vision, commitment, and collaboration that have brought us to this moment, and excited about what lies ahead with Vivian as our new director.” As director of RAM, Zavataro will also oversee the artistic direction of the Cheech Marin...

Isamu Noguchi’s 41-ton granite sculpture Mississippi Fountain will shortly be installed at the entrance to the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), per reports. The sculpture, completed by the artist between 1961 and 1962, was originally designed to greet visitors at the headquarters of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, located in downtown New […]

In Ben Sledsens’ new body of work, An Apple for the Road, saturated fields of color meet methodical patterns constructed from grasses, leaves, brick, and more. The Antwerp-born artist conceives of vibrant, atmospheric paintings in which life pauses for a moment: there’s a swan hovering over its tinted reflection, a woman just stepping out her front door, and vivid still lifes in which clouds and soft breezes rustle through the windows. Often beginning with drawings on paper before translating the most salient details to the canvas, Sledsens is interested in repetition and the visual power of pattern, which he layers to form dense thickets of willow trees or the tiles lining a boating dock. These motifs set...

For nearly two decades, Vuslat Doğan Sabancı lived two lives. By day, she was one of the most powerful figures in Turkish media, serving as chief executive of Hürriyet, the country’s largest newspaper. At night—after work, dinner, and putting her children to bed—she went to her studio and made art. “Sometimes I would work until six in the morning,” Vuslat told ARTnews on a Zoom call from Istanbul. The strange thing was that almost nobody saw what she made. Vuslat, who goes solely by her first name professionally, drew, sculpted, worked in clay, and experimented with materials for nearly twenty years without exhibiting any of it. There was no gallery waiting for the work and, for much of that...

Chiffon Thomas discovered pretty quickly that New York wasn’t going to work. An artist and sculptor who moved to the city after three years in Los Angeles, Thomas needed a studio with room to weld metal and a parking spot for his van. New York real estate was prohibitively expensive and he went in search of another solution. Detroit and Philadelphia have recently become outposts for artists as New York becomes ever more expensive. The move Thomas eventually made signals that there is another locale joining the mix: New Haven. Thomas bounced between Bushwick and the Bronx. In Bushwick, the industrial spaces outside Manhattan that once attracted artists are now increasingly rented for all-night raves,...

School’s back in session in the art world, too — this fall, exhibitions on textbook artists like Abstract Expressionists Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, and modernist Constantin Brancusi are landing at The Met, the Whitney, and MoMA, respectively. Then there’s the shows writing the textbooks of tomorrow: surveys of artist-filmmaker Arthur Jafa, who remixes and shapes Black visual culture; photographer Taryn Simon, who plumbs American myths and institutions; and conceptual artist (and pathologist!) Teresa Margolles, who takes on death, that cruelest of subjects. Still, it’s not just blockbuster exhibitions this season. There’s something for everyone. For the girlies, a...

Allysa Pierre's "Untitled (the preparator)" (2024) (photo courtesy Access Gallery)Emergency personnel forced entry into Access Gallery in Vancouver on the night of August 14, after a 911 caller mistook a sculpture of an art preparator as a person in need of medical attention, as first reported by the local media outlet CityNews. Officers were dispatched to the downtown address after a witness reported "a person's feet protruding from behind a counter ... and believed medical assistance was required," a spokesperson for the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) told Hyperallergic. Emergency responders broke the gallery lock, breached the front door, and subsequently realized it was a false alarm.As the...

Yayoi Kusama, a pioneer of Pop and Minimalism whose playful glass sculptures, mirrored installations, and polka-dot paintings mesmerized audiences around the world, died on August 14 at a hospital in Tokyo of multiple organ failure. She was ninety-seven. Her death was announced on August 27 by her studio and confirmed by David Zwirner Gallery, her longtime representative.  Widely acknowledged to […]

Frieze has announced that eighty-four galleries from thirty-six countries and regions will take part in Frieze Abu Dhabi, the first fair presented by Frieze in the area comprising West Asia, North Africa, and South Asia. The inaugural exhibition, led by director Dyala Nusseibeh, will take place from November 19 to 22, 2026, and center on the contemporary exhibition space Manarat Al Saadiyat, in the city’s cultural district. “We are […]

A former employee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has brought a class-action suit against the museum over a data breach in 2025 that the employee says compromised staff and visitor information.  The breach occurred between July 7 and 11. According to ArtNews, those who illegally infiltrated LACMA’s network accessed “personally identifiable information,” including addresses, dates […]

Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art has just tapped Kim Conaty as its next director, the institution announced on Wednesday. Conaty, who is presently the chief curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, will assume her new role on October 27. She will succeed John Stomberg—who held the post for a decade and supervised […]

When I was about 10 years old, my parents organized a vacation to a tiny enclave called Orr Hot Springs just outside of Ukiah, California. Nestled in the mountains with a history dating to 1858 as a stagecoach stop with redwoods shading the trails, the property has a uniquely layered architectural history. We stayed in what my dad called “Art’s cabin,” which turned out to have really been built by a guy named Art in the mid-1970s. A giant tree intersected the middle of the structure. Art’s cabin is one of few remaining buildings from the property’s back-to-the-land era, before it became today’s modern yet earthy resort. In 1974, my dad and a group of friends from Berkeley teamed up to buy the hot...

For Xanthe Burdett, the boundary between humans and nature is thin, malleable, and always in flux. The Devon-born, London-based artist works largely in a palette of greens, layering leaves and vines atop faint figurative silhouettes. Invoking mythology and ancient cosmologies, her paintings suggest that people and plants are not only interconnected but also intrinsically one. Beginning with a sketch, Burdett employs the Renaissance-era cartoon method of transferring her drawings to canvas, which involves layering a substance like charcoal between the preparatory composition and the substrate and tracing the initial linework. After, the artist adds various greenery until she’s reached a lush density. “They...

Myriad myths and symbols are wrapped up in our captivation with cats. In ancient Egypt, the animals were revered as divine protectors, personified by the deity Bastet. In Japan, it’s hard to walk by shops without seeing a maneki-neko waving from the window. And superstition says that if a black cat crosses your path, it may be bad luck. Although depending who you ask, it could mean good luck… did you happen to notice which direction it was walking? For artist Minyoung Kim, who centers black felines in her eccentric compositions, the fascination comes down to “the contrast between how ordinary and how weird they are,” she tells Colossal. Kim taps into the paradoxes, such as how the animals can be...

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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. […]
The post Human/Nature: Animals Go Underground In the Paintings of Matthew Grabelsky first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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 […]
The post Dont Tempt Me: the Art of Kristen Liu-Wong first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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...

By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...

It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

 
Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...

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...

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here. We also mark an...