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Though perhaps showing its age, a storied production of La bohème nonetheless makes a welcome return to the Los Angeles Opera

The American photographer’s incisive documentary work ranges from poverty-stricken rural First Nations people to the glitzy, sterile environments of wealthy Californians

Fearsome 2,400-year-old sculpture of a chimaera has been reinstalled in a dedicated gallery at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze

Writer Octave Mirbeau, an early owner of a Sunflowers painting, titled his fictional travelogue "628-E8"—after his car’s own licence plate

"Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989-2010", co-curated by The National Art Center, Tokyo and M+, Hong Kong, brings together more than 50 artists from Japan and abroad

Highly successful auctions and fairs do not solve the market’s deeper problems

STUDIO DENG GIVES HISTORIC COURTYARD a TONGUE FOR FAV 2025
 
In the historic courtyard of Montpellier’s Hôtel de Rozel, Studio Deng unveils The Tasting Tongue, an installation for the 2025 Festival des Architectures Vives (FAV) that imagines what happens when every object holds an invisible tongue. A metallic foil form drips from a windowsill into the small stone courtyard, carrying 130 pink felt ‘taste buds’ that sway in the breeze and invite visitors to insert, bend, and rearrange them. By encouraging this gentle interaction, the piece becomes a shifting archive of shared flavor memories and turns the intimate site into a playful experiment in collective sensory fiction.
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‘Claw’ machines with parts made of recycled food waste
 
Scientists at EPFL have recycled food waste like shells from langoustines into functional, robotic claw machines that can hold onto objects. In a study by CREATE Lab, the team has tested whether crustacean shells could work better for some robotic tasks instead of the usual metal, plastic, or other synthetic materials. The scientists say that crustacean shells can function well because they are hard and rigid in some places, which gives them strength, and they are also flexible in other places, which allows them to bend. This mix of hard and soft parts lets the animals move fast and with high power in water, the same properties that can be useful...

Today in douchy crypto-bro art, a Beeple sensation at Art Basel Miami Beach features anthropomorphic robodogs with the faces of powerful men, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, and the artist himself, born Mike Winkelmann. Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia, who had the misfortune of witnessing the spectacle, calls out the real purpose of this installation and others at the fair, which is to "advance crypto wealth by making you, the viewer, an active participant in the ploy."I thought we got rid of NFTs and the scam artists who made them. And yet they're rearing their heads again.Read the full opinion SPONSORED Craft in America Returns for a New Season With “EAST” and “WEST”The latest...

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An exhibition of work by Marisa Merz, originally scheduled to open this fall at the Fridericianum museum in Kassel, Germany, was canceled by the Italian artist’s daughter in protest of Documenta’s newly instated Code of Conduct. The code has sparked cultural controversy across Europe over its definition of antisemitism, which critics warn could penalize artistic expression. Marisa Merz (1926–2019) was the only woman among the core group associated with the influential Arte Povera movement, whose artists made sculptures from everyday materials instead of ones typically associated with fine art. Her exhibition was scheduled to open in August at the Fridericianum, which acts as the historic anchor of...

RCR sculpts a dubai residence as a topographic network
 
RCR Arquitectes shapes Alwah House, a 900-square-meter dwelling, as a cluster of curved, shaded volumes partially embedded into the desert on the outskirts of Dubai. The home turns to the natural logics of a flower and an oasis as its two main references. The architects carve a hollow in the sand to retain water and vegetation, creating a microclimate where light, wind, shade, and filtered views guide the spatial experience. From above, the house reads as a family of ribbed shells rising softly among palm groves, while inside, it becomes an exploration of non-orthogonal verticality and unexpected relationships.
 
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ecotonos by Slalom & UNA/UNLESS debuts at Open Air Design 2025
 
Slalom and UNA/UNLESS unveil Ecotonos, a site-specific acoustic installation premiering at Open Air Design 2025, held September 18–21 at BAM – Biblioteca degli Alberi, Milan. Designed by architect Giulia Foscari, founder of UNA/UNLESS, the project merges Slalom’s acoustic expertise with a conceptual framework rooted in ecology, cinema, and multispecies coexistence. Staged within the event’s theme ‘Frames of Nature,’ the installation explores silence and listening as tools for reconnection between city and biodiversity, while extending research from UNA/UNLESS’s Voice of Commons project at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
 
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At the intersection of art, technology and the political imagination, Hito Steyerl’s latest exhibition, The Island, opens at Fondazione Prada’s Osservatorio in Milan as a meditation on the fluidity of time, space and knowledge. In a world simultaneously inundated by digital images and threatened by rising seas, Steyerl interrogates the structures through which we perceive reality. Her work situates itself in the uneasy spaces where scientific discovery, historical trauma and cultural myth converge, posing questions that are urgent, unsettling and deeply resonant. The Island is not merely a presentation of objects or images; it is an ecosystem of ideas that operates as much in conceptual registers as in...

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XXXI.studio Develops an Adaptable Interior for Lupita restaurant
 
Architectural practice XXXI.studio introduces Lupita’s latest Lisbon location, a pizza restaurant situated in Alvalade, Portugal. The new location introduces an architectural approach centered on production, visibility, and operational clarity. The project expands on the brand’s earlier Cais do Sodré space by positioning pizza-making as the primary spatial and visual driver. The restaurant’s fully open facade exposes the interior directly to the street, treating the preparation process as a continuous, public-facing activity.
 
XXXI.studio’s strategy prioritizes preservation and adaptability. Existing features are maintained whenever...

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Our collaboration with MPB, the UK’s leading camera reseller, has explored the deep relationships that filmmakers form with their equipment. MPB: The Next Shot set out to celebrate how cameras move beyond their function, becoming catalysts for ideas and unlocking new ways of seeing and storytelling. As we bring the series to a close, we are sharing a highlights video, bringing together moments from all four films and celebrating the joy of passing on kit, knowing it will shape a new story in someone else’s hands. Across the series, one theme emerged again and again: our creative identities are tied to the kit we use. Cameras age with us. They absorb our experiences – the knocks, the breakthroughs, the...

C’è una fotografia forse più emblematica delle altre. Ritrae una fila composta esclusivamente di persone nere alluvionate in attesa di assistenza. Su di loro incombe la gigantografia del più elevato livello di vita, ovvero quello di una famiglia bianca (genitori, figli e cane): There’s no Way Like the American Way. È per me questa la foto che può fungere da cover e da titolo di questo contributo critico che racconta la retrospettiva di Margaret Bourke-White, organizzata dalla Fondazione Palazzo Magnani di Reggio Emilia, in collaborazione con Camera – Centro italiano per la Fotografia, presso i Chiostri di San Pietro, con l’efficace e divulgativa curatela di Monica Poggi. La fotografia ha per...

The Cambodian government formally reached out to the family of Emma C. Bunker, an art historian who died in 2021 and who sat on the board of the Denver Art Museum, for her records and archival materials, the Denver Post reported. The request follows on from the repatriation of 11 Asian artifacts by DAM in recent years to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. The works had primarily been donated by Bunker, who came under scrutiny several years ago after it was found that she sourced acquisitions of several works from Douglas Latchford, an art and antiquities dealer accused of smuggling and dealing in looted Southeast Asian antiquities. Latchford died in 2020 before he could stand trial, while Bunker died a year...

In sharp contrast with last year's “Mocha Mousse,” the Pantone Color Institute revealed today that, for the first time, the color of 2026 is a white hue. The Institute describes “Cloud Dancer” as “a discrete white hue offering a promise of clarity,” but in today's polarized sociopolitical climate, this selection offers disengagement at best and channels rage-bait at worst.“The cacophony that surrounds us has become overwhelming, making it harder to hear the voices of our inner selves,” Pantone Color Institute Executive Director Leatrice Eiseman explained in the press announcement. “A conscious statement of simplification, Cloud Dancer enhances our focus, providing release from the...

It seems Art Basel Miami Beach has perfected the art of the scroll-by spectacle. This year, the collective gasp was at the new Zero10 digital art section, and it happened every time one of about a half-dozen robot dogs “went.” The installation, Regular Animals by Beeple (a.k.a. Mike Winkelmann), is part satire, part dystopia, part slapstick theater. In it, a pen of robot dogs (or is it pigs?) have been fitted with grotesquely lifelike heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jeff Bezos, and Beeple himself. They wander, they twitch, they clash—and then, at intervals likely engineered for maximum dramatic tension, they tip backward and eject a printed image from their backsides....

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Empire State of MindMay we introduce to you "PDS" — no, that's not a medical abbreviation, but a new gallery. Pace, Emmanuel Di Donna of Di Donna Galleries, and David Schrader, executive vice president and chairman at Sotheby's, are teaming up to form Pace Di Donna Schrader Galleries (PDS). It'll focus on secondary sales, and operate out of Manhattan's Upper East Side starting early next year. I say we workshop the name. Meanwhile, Stephen Friedman Gallery will close its New York location in Tribeca early next year, while the...

El Salvador will make its inaugural appearance at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to take place May 9–November 22, 2026. The country will be represented by Salvadoran American artist J. Oscar Molina, whose exhibition will be staged at the Palazzo Mora in Venice’s Cannaregio district. El Salvador–born poet and art historian Alejandra Cabezas is curating the […]

The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) will inaugurate a new fair next year, after canceling the 2025 edition of its flagship Art Show, established in 1988. Titled the ADAA Fair, the novel event will run November 12–16, 2026, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, the traditional home of the Art Show. Whereas […]

The Rijksakademie in Amsterdam has named Laurence Rassel as its next director. Rassel arrives to the academy from école de recherche graphique (erg), the Brussels art school where she has served as director since 2016. She will step into her new role on March 1, 2026. Rassel succeeds Emily Pethick, who departed the post this […]

Early December means one thing in the art world: Miami Art Week is upon us again. While Art Basel Miami Beach remains the epicenter of the city’s activities, at least when it comes to art-dealing, there is no shortage of satellite fairs, celebrity-studded parties, beachside performances, brand collaborations, and product launches happening throughout the city. One of this year’s hottest tickets include a dinner hosted by the Cultivist, a private arts club, with a performance by the legendary Diana Ross, to celebrate the opening of Alex Prager’s installation Mirage Factory. Take a look at some of the models, athletes, musicians—plus a Top Chef!—who are in Miami this year.

London’s Serpentine and the New York–based FLAG Art Foundation have announced the establishment of the UK’s largest contemporary art prize. The Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize will be awarded biannually over a span of ten years to five international artists, each of whom will receive £200,000 (about $270,000). Recipients of the honor, which is […]

On Wednesday, London’s National Gallery announced plans to raise nearly $1 billion for Project Domani, the institution’s new initiative to collect art from the 20th and 21st centuries, along with a new wing to house that part of the collection. As part of Project Domani, the National Gallery held an international architectural competition to design the new wing, receiving 65 entrants. On Wednesday, the institution announced the six short-listed architects, which includes Farshid Moussavi Architecture with Piercy & Company, Foster + Partners, Kengo Kuma and Associates, Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Williams Matthews Associates and Adamson Associates, Selldorf Architects with Purcell, and Studio Seilern...

A monstrous specimen of art as social commentary takes form when the work in question replicates the mechanisms the artist boasts about subverting, and at Art Basel Miami Beach, in a new section titled Zero 10 backed by the crypto marketplace OpenSea, Jack Butcher’s “Self Checkout” (2025) is its most shameless manifestation.The installation consists of a checkout counter powered by Stripe terminals that beckon visitors to tap their cards and pay any amount, receiving a printed receipt whose length is proportional to their payment and comes with an “NFT companion.” A ticker above the counter tracks the lucre from an initial value of -$75,000, Butcher’s stated investment in the piece. When I informed...

Luminary cartoonist Alison Bechdel's new graphic novel is finally here, and Hyperallergic contributor Alexis Clements penned an excellent essay about its lessons for working artists in the Los Angeles Review of Books:Bechdel is likely one of the people for whom it’s fair to say that aspects of her life have become easier with added income, but the generating of the work still relies on her alone. She still has to come up with something to say about the world that interests both herself and the buyers of her work—something that Alison struggles with regularly in Spent. And with that in mind, it seems notable that, at this moment in her career, Bechdel is returning to the work with which she started,...

When we look at a leaf, we see a predominantly flat plane, intersected by a midrib and myriad veins, or perhaps dotted with ailments like fungi or the eggs of insects. But imagine what these bits of foliage would look like if blown up like balloons. Artist Syd Carpenter responds “to the garden as a source of form” with her Expanded Leaf series. Imagining a papery leaf if it were inflated, perhaps to the size of a cat, the resulting forms take on “the girth, weight and physicality of animals,” she says. Carpenter is known for her clay-based practice exploring the body, land, agriculture, and African American history. She taps into the ancient legacy of the material, merging the timeless medium with...

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA—According to a Stars and Stripes report, the remains of 25 people and some 2,000 artifacts, including personal effects and military equipment, have been recovered from a Korean War battlefield site in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) under the direction of South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense Agency for Killed in Action Recovery and Identification. The excavation was conducted by South Korean troops and U.N. Command (UNC) personnel. Most of the remains are believed to belong to Korean soldiers. “These efforts are part of UNC’s ongoing commitment to upholding the Korean War Armistice Agreement, honoring the sacrifice of those who fought under the U.N. flag and alongside Korea,”...

Shell trumpet CATALONIA, SPAIN—The Guardian reports that conch shells unearthed at Neolithic sites in northeastern Spain may have been used to communicate over long distances and played as musical instruments some 6,000 years ago. Archaeologists Miquel López-Garcia and Margarita Díaz-Andreu of the University of Barcelona said that the 12 large Charonia lampas shells they examined had been collected after the sea snails had died, and were therefore not used for food. Removal of the shells’ pointed tip suggests that they had been used as trumpets, the researchers added. López-Garcia, who is also a professional trumpet player, was able to produce a “really powerful, stable tone” from eight of the...

BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK—According to a SciNews report, Carl Lipo of Binghamton University and his colleagues have used 11,000 images to create a 3D model of Rano Raraku, the Easter Island quarry that served as the source of stone for the more than 1,000 moai, or monumental statues created by the Rapa Nui. Accounts written by early visitors to the island suggest that the Rapa Nui lived in small, autonomous groups and maintained distinct territories. Likewise, analysis of the new 3D model identified 30 separate centers of quarrying activity. “We see separate workshops that really align to different clan groups that are working intensively in their specific areas,” Lipo said. “You can really see graphically...

At 55, Marni Myers is fired up about cyanotype multi-layering. They're investigating the expressive possibilities of alternative photographic processes through cyanotype, layered imagery, hand-applied toners, and embroidered details. Their approach resists precision in favor of painterly textures, imperfect edges, and tactile presence, revealing their hands-on approach within a process historically tied to replication and science. Since they reached 50, their dedication to their craft...

Peter Ferguson creates scenes filled with intriguing characters often caught in very strange situations. His people quite often exist in darkly humorous fantasy realms where elements like vintage fashion and the occasional nod to pop culture connect their reality to ours. Read the full article by clicking above!
The post The Beauty of Tragedy: Peter Ferguson’s Paintings Depict A Dangerously Dark World That Is All His Own first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

A visit to Tramps, Arcadia Missa, Santi, and Season 4 Episode 6

Known as Tse Bitai to the Diné (Navajo) people, or “winged rock,” Ship Rock in New Mexico is an otherworldly geological formation rising out of the desert that can be seen for miles around. The result of a massive volcanic eruption, the unique outcrop consists of a monolithic stack and at least six radiating, serpentine ridges of long-cooled lava. Originally, Ship Rock was likely a few thousand feet below the ground, but gradual erosion over tens of millions of years has revealed its jagged shape. For Karol Nienartowicz, who won second place in this year’s International Landscape Photographer of the Year contest, the natural landmark was an irresistible place to document from the air as a storm rolled...

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Liz Miller Kovacs photographs herself in scarred, extractive landscapes, exploring the link between environmental destruction and the objectification of femininity. The Aesthetica Art Prize shortlisted series Supernatural sees the artist draped in colourful fabric, her identity obscured and her body separated from her surroundings. Her poses echo classical paintings and art-historical archetypes. These gestures sit uncomfortably against the backdrop of ecological damage – mines, quarries and industrial ruins – calling attention to the violence enacted on both land and body. The work challenges viewers to consider how future societies might interpret these ruined environments and what they reveal about...

The story begins, as so many do in the history of modern photography, with an image: a woman behind the camera, calibrating light, waiting for a moment to materialise, composing an understanding of the world. Women Photographers 1900-1975: A Legacy of Light, which recently opened at NGV International, expands this gesture into a sweeping, multi-generational portrait of creative ingenuity. More than 300 works by over 70 artists illuminate the breadth and complexity of women’s contributions to photography during one of the most turbulent and transformative eras in modern history. The exhibition begins with a single idea – that women’s perspectives shaped photography – and transforms it into a global...

One of my favorite Christmas recordings is Kathleen Battle's A Christmas Celebration.

Noor Riyadh 2025 immerses the city in 125 artistic positions, weaving together history, architecture, and rapid urban change in an unforgettable display of public art. Shinji Ohmaki, Liminal Air Space-Time, 2025. Photo: Suzette Bell-Roberts Having […]

A monumental exhibition reconnecting Mexico, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia Galo B. Ocampo, Moro Dance, 1946. Collection of National Gallery Singapore. Courtesy of the National Heritage Board, Singapore. Opening at the Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico […]

 
We’re pleased to announce that the next book in our AUTO PHOTO series, AUTO PHOTO 04, is now available to pre-order in our online shop!
Featuring the Top 100 images selected for AUTO PHOTO Awards 2025, AUTO PHOTO 04 celebrates and showcases the best creative automotive photography from photographers around the world.
This year’s Awards were judged by a panel of experts from the automotive and photographic industries: Karen Harvey MBE (Founder and Creative Director of Shutter Hub and AUTO PHOTO), Charles Gordon-Lennox, The Duke of Richmond (Founder of Goodwood Revival and Festival of Speed), Hugh Chambers (CEO of Motorsport UK), Alessia Glaviano (Head of Global PhotoVogue and Director of the Photo Vogue...

A historic first for the Ghanaian artist and a shift in global cultural influence Photo: Almudena Caso Burbano. Courtesy the artist and APALAZZOGALLERY In a milestone moment for contemporary art, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has […]

In un’epoca segnata dalla crisi delle grandi narrazioni e dal progressivo sfaldamento delle certezze politiche ereditate dal Novecento, la pratica artistica che si confronta con la dimensione storica e geopolitica assume una valenza epistemologica. Non si tratta più di rappresentare gli eventi o di commemorarli, ma di operare su di essi una complessa opera di riattivazione semantica, atta a far emergere dalle pieghe del passato le tensioni irrisolte che continuano a strutturare il presente. La mostra Pushing the limits, in corso a Bologna alla Galleria de’ Foscherari, si inscrive precisamente in questo territorio interstiziale, dove l’arte diventa strumento di contro-memoria e dispositivo critico capace...

For photographers, a website isn’t just a nice addition to your social media; it’s proof that you take your work seriously. When everyone has an Instagram feed, a portfolio site still stands apart. It shows that you care about presentation, craft, and the story behind each image. It’s a quiet way of saying: this isn’t a hobby. Hiring managers and clients notice that difference. Research shows that more than 90 percent of hiring managers visit portfolios when candidates include a link, and nearly as many say they find them valuable when deciding who to work with. A portfolio website lets people see the bigger picture: how you approach projects, how your work has evolved, and what makes you distinct....

It’s not surprising that there are two sets of lush arrangements in Mason Pott’s Chicago studio. Photographing live bouquets of bright sunflowers, daisies, and waxy apples or magenta orchids at their peak is the first step in the artist’s layered process. Post photoshoot, he translates these floral bunches into hyperrealistic paintings, with particular care in accurately capturing their textures and the interplay of light and shadow. Pott is known for his impeccable attention to detail, painting large-scale works in oil that immerse the viewer in fields of foliage. He often creates moody still lifes that approach such classic, timeless subject matter through a contemporary lens. In keeping with that mode...

WARSAW, POLAND—Analysis of monkey remains unearthed at the Roman port of Berenice on Egypt’s Red Sea Coast has identified the animals as rhesus macaques, bonnet macaques, and one grivet—all animals from southern India or the Indus Valley in northern India, IFL Science reports. Marta Osypińska of the University of Wrocław, Piotr Osypiński of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and Iwona Zych of the University of Warsaw suggest that these monkeys were kept as pets by Roman elites, probably army officers, in the first and second centuries A.D. Monkey remains unearthed at other Roman sites have been identified as North African Barbary macaques, making the Berenice pets the first known to have been imported...

Katie Heck has built an immense body of work that crosses disciplines, from painting to sculpture to film. Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
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Since time immemorial, humans have sculpted sacred symbols into stone or formed them from clay. Expressing beliefs, worldviews, and spirituality in physical objects like votives and shrines is a way to imbue power and venerate deities and the natural world. For artists Chenlu Hou and Chiara No, ceramics is an enduring conduit to explore spirituality and storytelling. Hou and No’s work will be exhibited together in a duo exhibition titled What the Hands Remember to Hear, which opens next month at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. The artists showcase objects that take on a sacred quality, emphasizing ceremony and customs while considering how cultures change and merge over time. Chiara No, “Votive of...

A researcher holds two cat skulls during lab analysis. ROME, ITALY—Gizmodo reports that analysis of DNA samples taken from 70 cats who lived in Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia between the ninth century B.C. and the nineteenth century A.D. suggests that cats (Felis catus) may have arrived in Europe just 2,000 years ago. It had been previously thought that cat domestication began some 10,000 years ago, when wildcats lived alongside farmers in the Levant and hunted rodents seeking stored grain. Cats were then thought to have traveled with Neolithic farmers who left Anatolia for Europe some 6,000 years ago. Felines are known to have been revered in Egypt about 4,000 years ago. But when Claudio Ottoni and...

In the autumn, abundant leaves fall from deciduous trees, leaving traces of a season’s job well done. Simultaneously everywhere and yet tiny symbols of the fragility of our forest ecosystems, these delicate specimens spend all summer photosynthesizing and making sure their trees get the nutrients they need. Once their job is done, Susanna Bauer’s beautiful and intimate pieces begin. Known for her lacy leaves meticulously stitched with cotton thread, Bauer transforms magnolia, gingko, oak, and other varieties of leaves into elegant, tiny textile pieces. Whether filling a precisely cut circular void, joining pointy edges, or merging multiple leaves together, the materials converge in a study of strength and...

Europe’s museums and galleries are presenting a season of ambitious exhibitions that push the boundaries of installation, performance and experiential art. From pioneers of the Brazilian avant-garde to artists redefining ecological practice, game-changing British choreographers, and politically charged multimedia works, these shows invite audiences to engage with creativity from the inside out. Together, they highlight the inventive, urgent and immersive directions art is taking today. This is a December not to be missed. Lygia Pape. Weaving SpacePinault Collection, Paris | Until 26 January Lygia Pape (1927–2004) is recognised as one of the leading figures of the 20th-century Brazilian avant-garde,...