‘Kizuki no Mori’: a forest of books
 
Kengo Kuma and Associates have recently completed this Chikujō Town Public Library, reworking a former public hall into a timber-filled civic space in rural Fukuoka, Japan.
 
Set within a quiet landscape, the new library presents a low, extended form whose edges are softened by a field of vertical wooden louvers. These slender members gather along the facade and entrance canopy, where they tilt and fan outward, forming a porous threshold between town and interior. Their spacing allows light to pass through while tempering the scale of the existing structure.
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physics, optics, and environmental art by lachlan turczan
 
There’s a moment in Lachlan Turczan’s work where the space shifts – a desert at dawn, a mangrove reserve at night, or a gallery in Milan – and the viewers soon realize that what they’re looking at is a moving light. It has volume and stands in the air like a wall or a column, and when they move toward it, it responds, flowing like water yet diaphanous like a thin, translucent fabric. From here, the realization comes through: light can behave like matter, and Lachlan Turczan has mastered the ways it bends, shifts, and dances.
 
The Los Angeles-based artist’s practice sits in the space between physics, optics, and environmental art, as he...

April showers bring unread book towers ... and we're here to add a few more to your list! With a focus on retelling history through an artist's lens, here are our recommendations for books to read this spring. New York-based Molly Crabapple brings her background as a painter and organizer to bear on a book about the Jewish Bund, while Susan Simensky Bietila narrates her decades-long career as an environmental activist and feminist artist. In catalogs, the first comprehensive tome on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha fleshes out the artist's inner life and experimentation, long overshadowed by her creative legacy, as a 50-year survey of Chicano camera culture and photography contextualizes the evolving art...

Colorado state legislators will consider creating a new legal framework for artists to incorporate their practices, a move that could enshrine intellectual property rights and expand healthcare access for cultural workers.A new bipartisan bill introduced in the state’s legislature last month would establish the country’s first-ever Artists Corporation, or A-Corp, a distinct limited liability corporation (LLC) for which only artists would be eligible. Because Colorado permits businesses from across the country to register as corporations in the state, if enacted, the bill could have far-reaching impacts for both individual artists and collectives whose members reside outside the state.Behind the push for a...

A motel in Pioneertown, a community in California's Mojave Desert, offers local grit and an antidote to art fair fatigue

Kamrooz Aram was everywhere I happened to be these early months of 2026, and I’m all the luckier for it. He exhibited at Nature Morte in Mumbai for Mumbai Art Week, is currently on view at Alexander Gray Associates in Tribeca, and makes a rich appearance — almost a mini-solo show — in the 2026 Whitney Biennial. Aram, born in Iran and a graduate of Columbia’s MFA program, is known for his play with the grid. It’s a project that is archeological and critical at once, as it underlies two traditions that are often understood at odds: Western modernist abstraction, on the one hand, and non-Western, and specifically Western Asian, decoration (above all, pottery and tilework) on the other. Aram’s...

Teresinha Soares, the Brazilian artist whose paintings and installations from the 1960s and ’70s challenged gendered-conventions of how women were both treated in Brazilian society and depicted throughout art history, died on March 31 in Belo Horizonte. She was 99 years old. She had been hospitalized after breaking her femur and never recovered, according to her daughter, artist Valeska Soares, as reported by Brazilian newspaper Estado de Minas. “Teresinha Soares leaves a legacy that, in the present, keeps open investigations into desire, eroticism, and expression,” the artist’s gallery, Gomide & Co., wrote on Instagram, adding that her body of work “made a decisive contribution to discussions on the...

I don't really know about swimming in the Canal, but I guess if it's good enough for Mimmo the obscenely large dolphin, then it's good enough for me. (via Instagram; all screenshots Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic)For each April Fools’ Day, the writers and editors at Hyperallergic put their heads together to condense a year's worth of outrageous global art happenings into a single day of semi-believable satire posts. Honestly, it's the number-one thing on our editorial calendar that I, the publication's horrible little imp, look forward to most. In addition to our fresh and feral stock of jokes this year, we wanted to show some love to a few other examples of April Fools’...

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Glen Baxter (1944–2026)British cartoonist and artistHis absurdist drawings and cartoons, inspired by adventure comics and pulp fiction, have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and more. He exhibited regularly at Flowers Gallery, and his work is held in the collections of the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Melvin Edwards (1937–2026)Minimalist sculptor of welded steelHe welded industrial materials into abstract sculptures that engaged with modern art, race, civil rights, and protest. He was most renowned for his Lynch Fragments (1936–2026), steel works incorporating...

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid has refused the Guggenheim Bilbao’s request to borrow Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, evoking reminders of a painful political history in Spain, according to Italy’s Il Giornale dell’Arte. The Guggenheim, which is located in Basque Country, had hoped to borrow the 1937 masterpiece for nine months beginning […]

The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance found that the Louvre in Paris continues to be the most visited museum in the world, even though numbers have dipped significantly since Covid—the institution, which has recently been plagued by a major jewel heist and a ticket fraud scheme, welcomed over 9 million people in 2025.  Some […]

Patricia Marroquin Norby, who in 2020 was named the first-ever full-time associate curator of Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, quietly departed the role in December as questions swirled regarding her own Native heritage, Artnews reports. Norby had been touted as the first Native American curator hired by the museum. The Met […]

Amidst a partial government shutdown and an illegal war on Iran, Trump’s plans for an overhaul of his living quarters have been at least temporarily scuppered: on Tuesday, a federal judge approved an order that will halt Trump’s in-progress construction of an opulent ballroom at the site of what was formerly the  White House’s East Wing. His ruling follows […]

In an opinion filed March 31,  a US District Court judge for the District of Columbia has rejected the Trump administration’s arguments for a 90,000-square-foot, $400 million ballroom to be erected on the former site of the East Wing, which Trump unceremoniously demolished last year.  Judge Richard J. Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, came out of the gate strong, in an opinion that starts, “The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner!” He goes on to use seventeen more exclamation points in the course of the 35-page opinion, which is highly dismissive of the administration’s arguments. Trump claims that...

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The similarities between Rome and Paramus, New Jersey, are legion, and soon there will be one more point of commonality: Michelangelo’s hallowed paintings in the Sistine Chapel. The setting will be the Westfield Garden State Plaza shopping mall, and the occasion will be “Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition,” an “immersive experience” opening April 10. “Rated 4.8 stars globally, the exhibition faithfully recreates all 34 of Michelangelo’s ceiling and altar masterpieces using licensed high-resolution imagery and an advanced printing technique,” reads a press release (which deserves some credit for not bumping that rating up to 5). “From The Creation of Adam to The Last Judgment,...

Caravaggio, a feature-length documentary about the Baroque Italian painter, was released in theaters last fall. The film, directed by Phil Grabsky and David Bickerstaff, is part of the “Exhibition on Screen” series, which is produced by UK-based company Seventh Art Productions. It will now be more widely available, premiering on Marquee TV, a streaming platform that mostly focuses on performing arts, starting on April 6. Grabsky told the Art Newspaper that the film does not overly emphasize Caravaggio’s notorious temper and reputation as a troublemaker, instead focusing on his innovative, emotionally complex painting style. Grabsky and Dickerstaff worked on the documentary for five years, and it covers...

The German artist's "Angelus Novus", once owned by Walter Benjamin, remains at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem due to war-related flight suspensions

China has ordered a sweeping, nationwide audit of its state-run museums after a scandal at one of its top institutions revealed that national treasures had quietly slipped into the private market, according to Hong Kong newspaper South Morning China Post. The directive, issued this week by the National Cultural Heritage Administration, requires every state-owned museum to conduct a physical, item-by-item inventory of its collections, checking each object against official records. The goal is simple: make sure what’s on paper actually exists in storage.  The move follows months of fallout from the Nanjing Museum, where investigators uncovered decades of mismanagement and alleged corruption involving donated...

H168 House: a garden home in bangkok
 
Bringing together a mixed-use program of living and working, Bangkok-based studio Only Human builds this H168 House in Thailand’s capital. The design draws from the owners’ long connection to China, translating spatial concepts found in traditional paintings into a built sequence of rooms, corridors, and framed views.
 
A central corridor organizes the project into two interlocking halves. On one side, the private residence includes bedrooms, kitchen, dining, and living spaces, along with a garage that extends into a collectibles room and a dedicated music listening area. The other side accommodates an office, additional bedrooms, and a warehouse. This division...

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Known for his collaborative photography projects like Invisible Jumpers, Joseph Ford is interested in perception and intervention. His ongoing series, Impossible Street Art, invites artists such as Antonyo Marest, Alex Senna, and MadC to imagine their work in monumental landscapes via a bit of sleight of hand. The artists create trompe-l’œil interventions on Ford’s photographs, which he then documents on an easel in front of that same place to give a sense of what these huge paintings or installations would feel like in situ. “These new works mostly explore infrastructure in the form of huge concrete constructions—nuclear power plants, dams, fossil fuel power stations,” Ford says. The locations are...

A new gallery dedicated to the work of Ruth Asawa, a trailblazing modernist sculptor known for her organic-feeling, looped wire creations, will open in San Francisco in the spring, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The new venue will be in San Francisco’s Minnesota Street Project, a converted warehouse space that hosts galleries and arts nonprofits. Born in rural […]

Maurizio Cattelan’s meteorite-struck pope returns as a miniature
 
With La Nona Ora, Maurizio Cattelan revisits one of his most controversial works, translating the 1999 installation into a new limited edition sculpture. The piece depicts Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite, frozen in a moment of collapse atop a vivid red carpet. Both irreverent and carefully composed, the work retains its original tension, presenting a powerful religious figure as vulnerable and human.
 
To mark the release, the Italian artist expands the project beyond the object itself by introducing a confessional hotline, inviting the public to submit their sins via voicemail, text, or WhatsApp. Launching on April 2nd, 2026,...

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Madama Butterfly confronts anime, virtual reality, and weeaboos in Matthew Ozawa's bold production at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Parterre Box is announcing a formal partnership with Kalshi Inc. 

Some of the country’s most precious historic sites and buildings are in need of major repair following bombing by Israel and the US

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The exhibition at the UK’s Farleys House & Gallery brings together female-focused works by Bohm, who also helped get Miller’s work back into the spotlight

The skeleton of a young adult dinosaur, excavated in Wyoming during the 1990s "Bone Rush", sold on the musician's online Joopiter platform

When we visit major hubs like Copenhagen or Paris, we often take a lot of photos and make sure to grab a little souvenir as a memento of our visit. How better to remember the architecture and the feel of the city? Well, fiber designer Jake Henzler, a.k.a. Boy Knits World, figures you can stitch those memories into something much cozier than a postcard or a keychain. Forthcoming from David & Charles Publishing, Henzler’s book Knit the City highlights buildings around the world through a series of building block-like patterns. Using a modular system, details like gables and windows can be switched up to create your own unique facades. Then it’s up to you to choose the colors you’d like to use. The blocks...

collective cinema shaped by river and ritual
 
In Belén, Peru, where the Itaya River redraws the city each year, a floating cinema emerges as a recurring space for collective life. The Floating Stage for MuyunaFest, developed by Espacio Común Association together with local builders from the neighborhood, takes shape within this amphibious context in the Peruvian Amazon. Here, seasonal flooding between January and June transforms streets into waterways, reorganizing daily routines around canoes, stilt houses, and floating structures. Within this shifting environment, long marked by environmental pressure and limited state support, local initiatives continue to sustain spaces for education, gathering, and...

Frida Leider is a major Wagnerian soprano who does not sound like a Wagnerian soprano.

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Authenticity and connection are two core values that drive Tina Simakova, a London-based portrait photographer. “I believe the most powerful images are born in trust and honesty,” she says. The artist is a master of natural light and minimal settings, using them to create atmospheric portraits rooted in intimacy and vulnerability. In one shot, a sliver of illumination – perhaps from a doorway, or an open window – slices through the darkness, brightening only the subject’s eyes. In another, the sitter’s side profile balances on the edge of a plush sofa, bathed in the glow from yet another unseen source. Its warmth complements their auburn hair. Elsewhere, chiaroscuro – where deep shadows engulf...

 
A figure shades her face from bright headlights, shining through a front window. Another character lies on a green velvet bedspread, quietly examining a pocketknife. Elsewhere, a woman clutches a portrait, its face obscured by rays of sunlight. These are compositions by Chrissy Lush, a visual artist born in New York and based in Nashville. Her staged works centre on moments when “composure begins to give way.” Often set within domestic and suburban environments, Lush’s figures appear to respond to external pressures that remain just outside the frame. “These are moments of slippage, when a controlled exterior falters and something unguarded briefly surfaces,” Lush says. The work explores tensions...

 
Stockholm-based Linda Westin left photography to pursue a PhD in neuroscience, specialising in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy – a group of imaging techniques that allows scientists to illuminate the structures inside cells by making them glow under specific wavelengths of light. When returning to the medium, she began to apply what she had learned, and started to look at forests, rocks, plants and stars with a newfound sensitivity. Now, Westin brings methods from neuroscience into artworks. These pictures present forest canopies as if they were neuronal dendrites, the branching extensions of nerve cells that receive signals. In the following pages, far-off mountains are framed by lush, layered...

 
One unexpected angle can offer an entirely new perspective on something we think we know. Stockholm-based Senay Berhe (b. 1979) proves this to be true, encouraging us to reconsider our surroundings through graphical compositions. As he travels across the city, Berhe captures everything from bridges to tower blocks – with the setting sun bouncing off multi-storey buildings, or balconies and satellite dishes cast in shadow. These are everyday locations shown anew. In portraiture, Berhe demonstrates an equally considered approach to framing and lighting, whilst also emphasising the depths of human emotion. One shot plays with primary colours; a model – seemingly deep in thought – is positioned against a...

The Danish architecture firm BIG was founded in 2005 by Bjarke Ingels (b. 1974), one of the most celebrated figures in the field. What began as a small Copenhagen practice has now grown into a major studio, with offices in Barcelona London, Los Angeles, New York, Riyadh, Shanghai and Zurich. BIG’s designs – often described as “pragmatic utopian” – stand out for their bold-yet-practical forms, elements of surprise and people-focused solutions. From Denmark’s playful LEGO House, which appears to be made from the famous colourful bricks, to The Twist, a warping structure situated in the Kistefos Sculpture Park outside Oslo, BIG continues to produce buildings that push the boundaries of imagination. ...

SPA | Spazio Per Arte di Oleggio (NO) ospita la collettiva intitolata “FRAGILITY – The Dance of Life and Death” a cura di Domenico de Chirico e Rischa Paterlini. La mostra, allestita nelle stanze di Palazzo Bellini, indaga attraverso un silenzioso e intimo dialogo tra opere, l’eterna danza tra Eros e Thanatos, «le due forze – sottolineano i collezionisti, nonché proprietari dello spazio, Laura e Luigi Giordano nel testo in catalogo – che attraversano e definiscono la vita, l’impulso vitale, creativo e generativo, e quello distruttivo, silenzioso, inevitabile».
Rainer Fetting, “Reclining nude with legs on chair”, 1988, courtesy Collezione Laura e Luigi Giordano
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Throughout Southeast Asia, nymph-like, shape-shifting deities associated with clouds and water known as apsaras are commonly depicted in sculptures and other artworks dating back millennia. For San Francisco-based artist Anoushka Mirchandani, who was born in India, these mythological beings are the spirits, so to speak, of vibrant oil paintings. Tapping into family memories and her upbringing influenced by South Asian cultural traditions, Mirchandani explores mythology and perception. Her current solo exhibition, My Body Was a River Once at ICA San José, explores the tradition of the apsara through a lens of timelessness, femininity, and biophilia. Curated by Zoë Latner, the show emphasizes the dynamic...

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In the process of painting someone, artist Jenny Morgan reveals not only what shows, but what doesn’t show. Her vibrant and emotional oil paintings of figures hover in a place that is between realism and abstraction, where many of her subjects confront their viewer with an electric stare that braves against the vulnerable moment in […]
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Blown wildly out of proportion in large format, the slime molds that British photographer Barry Webb captures seem atmospheric and sculptural. Stemonitis, for example, looks like dozens of thin pieces of wire with their ends coated in colored wax. But this fungi-like form is one of hundreds of kinds of slime mold, and it typically only reaches a height of about two centimeters at the most. Thanks to Webb’s macro photos, we glimpse a phenomenally beautiful world up-close that is otherwise virtually invisible. Scientists have documented hundreds of these organisms, which aren’t actually related to plants, fungi, animals, or molds—despite the name. They comprise a unique group unto themselves, more closely...

Barrie Kosky’s zany production of The Nose time-steps back onto the Komische Oper Berlin stage.

As a (former) bass singer myself, I've always been captivated by this aria.

Uri Aran (Gerusalemme, 1977), artista americano di base a New York la cui ricerca ha trovato spazio in alcune delle istituzioni più rilevanti del panorama internazionale, dalla Biennale di Venezia del 2013 curata da Massimiliano Gioni alla Whitney Biennial del 2014, è al centro della sua prima retrospettiva istituzionale in Italia. La mostra, Untitled (I love you), allestita al terzo piano del Museo Madre di Napoli e curata dalla direttrice uscente Eva Fabbris, riunisce oltre 170 opere realizzate a partire dai primi anni Duemila ad oggi, distribuite su circa ottocento metri quadrati in un percorso concepito dall’artista come un complesso ecosistema in cui ogni opera richiama le altre, talvolta per...

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. Earth 2026 Art Awards: Exhibition, Publication, Sales, and Global PromotionFeaturedWhat does your art reveal about Earth? Its beauty, its resilience, or what’s at risk? The 6th edition of Earth 2026 juried awards invites artists worldwide to explore and express the power, beauty, and resilience of our wounded planet as we approach World Earth Day. From nature and climate to human connection and endangered ecosystems, this is your space to turn awareness into art. Selected artists receive an exhibition, Artsy...

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Il post-minimalismo, nato a partire dalla risemantizzazione di ciò che il minimalismo storico aveva consegnato alla storia come irrisolvibile, è tra le correnti che hanno segnato più in profondità la scultura e l’installazione degli ultimi trent’anni. Se maestri come Donald Judd (Excelsior Springs, 1928 – New York, 1994), Robert Morris (Kansas City, 1931 – Kingston, 2018) e Dan Flavin (New York, 1933 – New York, 1996) avevano perseguito un’idea di riduzione assoluta attraverso forme concepite come presenze pure, neutre e incorruttibili, la generazione successiva rovesciò quell’assioma pur continuando a interrogarsi su quanto si potesse togliere all’opera finale, reintroducendo nel white...

L’artista digitale multidisciplinare Di Cao ha recentemente presentato nuove opere alla NEOI Gallery a Ginza, Tokyo. Nel 2025 è stato invitato a partecipare alla prestigiosa mostra annuale The Discerning Eye alle Mall Galleries di Londra. Nello stesso anno è stato selezionato per la mostra collettiva internazionale Art Evol 2025: Voices from the Undefined, promossa dal London Art Collective e presentata alla Saatchi Gallery. Su invito della NEOI Gallery, Di Cao ha presentato la sua prima mostra personale Collective Body dal 23 febbraio al 1 marzo 2026. L’esposizione ha segnato una tappa importante nello sviluppo dell’artista come praticante multiculturale. Riflette il suo percorso artistico dalla Cina...

“Il silenzio del gesto. Nel punto esatto in cui mi perdo comincio a sentire” è il titolo scelto per la grande retrospettiva di Antonio Recca alla Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Catania (GAM), visitabile fino al prossimo 12 aprile 2026. Non è solo un titolo, è una micronarrazione: un modo di evocare l’atto pittorico e sensoriale dell’artista, classe 1957. Antonio Recca, ph. Renato Zacchia, courtesy dell’artista
La mostra, curata da Giacomo Fanale, in co-organizzazione col Comune di Catania, ospita cinquanta paesaggi, dal 2009 a oggi. Sono visioni intimistiche e astratte, afflati interiori, percezioni sottili di una pittura che non vuole essere rumorosa ma vuole indurre all’ascolto e alla...

Growing up as a queer kid in the ‘80s, I was well aware from an early age that I was different, and that different was not okay, especially living in Missouri,” says New Mexico artist Anthony Hurd, who recently shifted away from abstracts, to delve into what may be deemed “controversial” figurative work. Not only […]
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The 78th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on Nieves Gonzalez, the art of Grip Face, The landscapes of Jennifer Nehrbass, the soft sculptures of Ela Fidalgo, the stitched urban landscapes of Laura Ortiz Vega, the art Jeffrey Gibson, Yu Jin Young’s once transparent figures, and the paintings of Fatima De Juan.  Plus […]
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We are really pleased to announce that DO YOU LIKE LOVE? is now available to order!
Do you like love? The question came from a conversation, recalled by a friend. Her elderly neighbour used to cry for ‘elp!’ and Jane’s husband Pip would rush to her aide. Sometimes she’d fallen, but rarely; although she was blind she had lived in that house for 60 years, she knew every inch of it. A house filled with memories of her husband, their life together, and her aloneness after his death. On this one day that she called out, she was found sitting with the television on, a black and white film playing out a romantic scene from the 1950s.
‘Do you like love, Pippy?’ she said, ‘I like love.’
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Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen captures people in oils with all the precision and clarity of a camera. He then places these incredibly lifelike images in impossible scenes. Uldalen’s models float in blank spaces. They precariously climb staircases that spiral upside down. They fall from buildings that tilt at odd angles. The Oslo-based artist’s work isn’t so […]
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