“The wind is my nemesis!” says Jennifer Latour, and rightly so. In her sculptural assemblages, single flowers or small clusters of blooms sprout from tree branches or thick stems, appearing like otherworldly forms standing in the landscape. A soft breeze could topple the Vancouver-based artist’s ephemeral works, scattering their delicate petals and spindly shoots before she has the chance to snap a photo. These fleeting moments are preserved in Latour’s Bound Species series, which she began during lockdown by piecing together objects found around her home into unconventional, ikebana-style compositions. “During this time, I started having a recurring dream of giant flowers growing around me with...

The United States National Committee of the International Council of Museums released a statement Tuesday pledging its “unwavering support” for the Smithsonian Institution, as it faces repeated assaults on its integrity and independence by the Trump administration. In the statement, ICOM-US said that it was speaking out in response to the recent congressional hearings, in which Anthea Hartig, the director of the institution’s National Museum of American History, was grilled over allegations that the institution has failed in its duty to preserve and present the nation’s story. While the statement stops short of rebutting the Trump administration’s claims that the Smithsonian is subject to “extreme...

The San Francisco photography organization SF Camerawork will close its doors after 52 years, the nonprofit announced on Instagram this week. Its last day of operations is set for August 16, concurrent with the closing of John Chiara’s solo show Bay Panel at its gallery space in the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.“Despite the determined efforts of our staff, Board, artists, donors, and supporters to secure a sustainable future, we have reached the difficult conclusion that we can no longer continue operations,” the organization said in its announcement, which cites “rising operating costs, declining public funding, and a changing philanthropic landscape” as factors in their decision.

A “stunning” British collection of 318 Jurassic fossils has been sold to the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi in what some have described as a loss to the nation, the Guardian reports. The items were collected by UK fossil hunter Chris Moore on the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO world heritage site in southwest England that is rich in fossils dating from 200 million to 245 million years ago. The trove includes fossilized ichthyosaurs, fish, and crustaceans, among other creatures, some of which could be new species. The collection was initially offered to the Natural History Museum in London and to Amgueddfa Cymru (a natural history museum in Wales) for what is said to have been an eight-figure sum. Both museums...

In a new documentary on Gaza, three humanitarian physicians from the United States navigate the horrors of genocide as they struggle to treat civilians in a buckling, under-resourced hospital in Khan Younis. Screening this week at the Angelika Film Center in Manhattan, journalist Poh Si Teng's debut feature documentary American Doctor (2026) uses the physicians' accounts as indisputable evidence of the cruelty inflicted on Gaza.Urgently produced in one year with on-the-ground footage by the Gaza cinematography company Alef Multimedia, American Doctor premiered at the Sundance Film Festival only weeks after its completion, and has since been acquired by Watermelon Pictures for distribution.The...

LOS ANGELES — The rumbling in a small foyer in the Hammer Museum gave me pause before I entered a gallery where eight boulders hunkered amidst piles of soil. I couldn’t help but look up at the rattling of track lights overhead. Was this my first California earthquake of the millennium?Somewhat reassuringly, nearby wall text explained that Raven Chacon’s sound piece “Study for Vertical Earth” (2026) had translocated underground audio recordings to animate the constructed space of the galleries. This unsettling beginning for the exhibition Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials induces a sense of immersion in a specific place, in contrast to the dozens of standalone, mostly...

In the wake of the Portland Art Museum having completed a comprehensive campus expansion project in 2025, the institution, one of the oldest art museums in the United States, announced on Tuesday that it has appointed a new director: Michael J. Anderson. Anderson, who will become the museum’s new Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Director, has […]

The San Diego Museum of Art laid off 11 employees on Wednesday, August 5, citing “rising operational costs,” the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The layoffs affected departments across the museum, including programs, development, and exhibitions, and leave the total staff count at 118. The news comes six months after the Balboa Park museum marked its 100th anniversary and amid a major renovation of its West Wing. Kari Kovach, the museum’s chief operating officer, told the newspaper that “the current landscape” required the institution to re-evaluate its operations going forward. “Federal funding remains available to arts applicants, but is increasingly difficult to secure,” Kovach said. San...

Just when it looked like the major auction houses had exhausted the supply of trophy consignments, another heavyweight collection has surfaced. Sotheby’s has secured the collection of the late Argentine collectors Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier, a group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces said to be worth around $450 million, according Artnet News. The consignment is expected to anchor the upcoming auction season and includes paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and others. The collection comes from one of Argentina’s best-known collecting families. In 1995, The New York Times described Nelly Arrieta de...

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New York’s Eden Fine Art filed a legal complaint in New Jersey district court last month, saying that collector Jacob Shochat hasn’t paid for some $822,390 worth of artworks he bought from the gallery. The gallery is accusing the collector, who has a background in medical technologies, of breach of contract. Eden says it began taking orders from Shochat in 2018 for $900,000 worth of “artworks and sculptures.” Based on past experience in which he had paid for his purchases, the gallery handed over pieces, sometimes even personally delivering them to his home in Mahwah, New Jersey. Eden says it’s a small, family-owned gallery that can’t withstand these kinds of losses and is suing for the balance as...

The museum claimed financial hardship, even as it goes ahead with a starchitect-designed revamp

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) in Cape Town, South Africa, announced this week that Elvira Dyangani Ose has been appointed as its artistic director effective October 1. Concluding a 15-month search, Dyangani Ose's appointment comes after the sudden and untimely loss of Zeitz MOCAA's late Executive Director and Chief Curator of six years, Koyo Kouoh, who died in May 2025. Dyangani Ose was among the five women jurors that Kouoh, who was named chief curator of the 61st Venice Biennale before her death, had appointed for the Golden Lion awards.

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Christian Bernard (1950–2026)French critic, curator, and museum directorThe French critic and curator was the founding director of Geneva's Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. He helped establish the Regional Contemporary Art Fund Rhône-Alpes, a French government-funded regional collection of contemporary art, served as artistic director of the Printemps de Septembre contemporary art festival in Toulouse, and founded the publishing house Walden N. He was also an accomplished poet, receiving the Grand Prix de Poésie 2026 for a lifetime of work from the French Academy mere weeks before his passing....

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Most two-bedroom apartments can be understood before anyone moves in. One bedroom is larger, the other smaller. Both open onto some version of a hall, with the kitchen and living room forming the shared end of the home. The drawing leaves out the occupants, yet it is easy to place them: nuclear families see the parents taking the larger room, and children sleeping down the hall. Put two unrelated adults into the same plan and the hierarchy might become financial. Someone pays more for the bigger bedroom.
 
Bedrooms and kitchens still work across almost every kind of household. The stranger assumption sits elsewhere, in the expectation that the relationships between...

Excavations at the Cerro Mayal site in the north of the country show it was an important production facility for Moche ceramics around the seventh century

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Last Friday, the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) announced that it would be granting staffers at its V&A East Storehouse the changes they had requested regarding the institution’s break policy, marking the latest development in an ongoing struggle between staffers and the museum. Previously, staffers at the V&A’s storage-facility-turned-museum, who are represented by the trade […]

Our round-up of the latest art publications

The best publications about the subject, from a collection of Surrealist writing to a survey of pioneering architects—selected by Elvira Dyangani Ose and Adom Getachew

The San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) laid off eleven employees on August 5 in what it described as an effort to remain sustainable in the wake of rising costs and uncertain funding. The cuts affected multiple departments—including exhibitions, development, and programming—and bring SDMA’s total staff count to 118. “Inflation and rising operational costs are increasing overall […]

From materials we normally discard like padded packaging or the mesh sleeves that protect fruit from bruising, Suzanne Jongmans summons elegant and dreamlike Renaissance portraits. The artist drapes models in lush velvet fabrics and typically positions them against deep backgrounds in the vein of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” (1489-91) or Antonello da Messina’s “Portrait of a Young Man” (c. 1470). The settings and the addition of fine garments contrast found plastic detritus with hints of refinement and the figures’ dignified postures, mirroring the solemn, pious expressions of individuals in Renaissance portraiture. Recently, she has also incorporated copper coils extracted from the...

Robert Storr speaks about his tenure in this exclusive extract from Massimiliano Gioni’s new book of interviews with biennale artistic directors

Slur House turns musical continuity into two homes’ dialogue
 
Slur House is a detached annex added to a 15-year-old single-family residence in a suburban residential area of Tokyo, Japan. The project, designed by Yohei Ikai /icai architects, expands the existing lot and establishes a new relationship between the original house and the addition, using the musical concept of a slur, separate notes played in a smooth, continuous manner, as a spatial and formal reference.
 
The existing house was designed by a different architect, but the new annex carries forward three of its defining characteristics: a near-square plan, a pointed roof, and simple white exterior walls. The two buildings are positioned with a...

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York reports a steep drop in enrollment since 2019 and the largest budget deficit in the school’s eighty-year history. Artnews notes that enrollment has declined by 34 percent over the past seven years. The school’s operating budget, which is about $200 million, relies on tuition and is facing a $22 million […]

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On August 13, the New York–based Joan Mitchell Foundation named fifteen recipients of its 2026 Joan Mitchell Fellowship. Each will receive an unrestricted $60,000 grant, disbursed over a five-year period. The fellows—who variously work in the fields of painting, sculpture, collage, video, sound, and installation—will also receive support in the form of networking opportunities and […]

Scientists have long studied how magnetic energy powers solar activity. The constant motion of plasma particles and the sun’s rotation are major contributors to its cycles and events, such as flares and coronal mass ejections, which lob huge quantities of plasma and gas into space. Sometimes these explosions reach the earth’s magnetic field and cause geomagnetic storms, which are when we see some of the most brilliant auroras. But they also disrupt or damage our communications systems, power grids, GPS, and satellites, and researchers want to further understand how the sun builds up its magnetic energy so we better know how to guard against its massive fits of activity. They’ve also been trying to figure...

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen shows that he's at the top of a crowded pack of countertenors in two recent New York performances with Philharmonia Baroque.

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Alexander Köpeczi, currently plying leading roles in two operas in Santa Fe and, rumor has it, the life of one prominent soprano, is the object of this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag.

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Le sculture di Anna Maria Maiolino (Scalea, 1942) si accumulano. Si ammucchiano per ripetizione e sono costruite da gesti infiniti e dal tatto. Ma questi piccoli gesti quotidiani non sono solamente pratica artistica: visualizzano come la vulnerabilità e la sensibilità, il tatto e la cura, possono essere un atto di resistenza. La Galleria Ovale del Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) di Lisbona, Portogallo, racchiude queste sculture create con modalità ripetitiva. La mostra si intitola Poetic Earth. Alcune delle opere sono state realizzate decenni fa, altre sono state create in situ, proprio in questo spazio a forma di foglia.
View of the exhibition “Anna Maria Maiolino. Poetic Earth”,...

CLAY WITH A SENSE OF PLACE
 
Mexican ceramic atelier SAUDARA approaches clay as more than raw material. Founded by Ivana Sánchez and her mother, María Padilla, the studio creates tableware, vessels and domestic objects that bring a contemporary sensibility to forms rooted in Mexican craft and identity. Rather than treating tradition as something to preserve behind glass, SAUDARA places it firmly on the table, where it can be touched, used and inevitably become part of everyday life.
 
The studio’s collections are built around restrained silhouettes and surfaces that do much of the talking. Expressive glazes, natural clay and subtle variations give otherwise simple forms a distinct presence, balancing...

JETTE SCHEIB EXPLOREs THE GEOMETRY OF LIGHT WITH SOLIS
 
Maison Forestier introduces the Solis collection, a series of pendant lights that balance natural fibers with graphic forms. Designed by Jette Scheib, these luminaires use hand-woven raphia to diffuse a soft glow that mimics the gentle warmth of daylight. By stretching the organic material over rigid metallic frames, the collection creates visual depth with silhouettes that shift subtly with every perspective.
Jette Scheib designs Solis collection for Forestier | all images courtesy of Forestier
 
 
A LONG-TERM ALLIANCE SHAPING FORESTIER’S IDENTITY
 
For the Solis collection, Maison Forestier continues its collaboration with German designer and...

HANGHAR QUESTIONS THE FLOOR PLAN
 
A three-bedroom apartment. Living room, kitchen, two bathrooms, corridor. For Eduardo Mediero, founder of Madrid-based architecture studio HANGHAR, the familiar shorthand says plenty about how a property is sold and surprisingly little about how it feels to live there. ‘The market has reduced architecture to a system of programmatic labels,’ he tells designboom, arguing that the language of real estate has gradually displaced questions of natural light, cross ventilation, proportion, height and spatial quality. HANGHAR’s domestic work begins by challenging precisely this assumption: that every piece of a home needs a name before someone has even moved in.
 
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Like many kids, I struggled with bedtime. I was a naturally anxious child with a vast imagination and siblings who loved to watch scary movies, leaving me capable of generating an endless array of terrifying things that could happen once the lights went out. To remedy this problem, my mother designated a particular stuffed bear as my guardian, and before retreating to her own room, she would grab its squishy body and infuse it with her protective “power” should I need some comfort and safety during the night. For a time at least, this plush toy was enough to get me to sleep. For Seoul-born, Chicago-based artist Sungho Bae, the meaning and emotion we ascribe to our childhood possessions gets flipped inside...

Described by its anonymous creators as “the largest search engine for museum art,” The Last Museum is a veritable trove of the the world’s great works. It currently includes pieces by more than 290,000 artists, which are held across 4,903 museums and represent 304 cultures and nationalities. A lot of the works are in the public domain, such as a 19th-century beaded bag attributed to the Lakota, thousands of ancient Etruscan artifacts, and objects spanning thousands of years in places like Germany, Spain, India, and Egypt. Clicking on any artifact will any available information about the artist, title, and date, plus a link to the museum collection it belongs to. If there’s copyright attached to the...

Ilana Walder-Biesanz reports from The Santa Fe Opera, where Tobias Picker's latest opera falls short, a new Rodelinda scintillates, and sumptuous singing abounds across the entire repertoire.

That this performance of Verdi's Lady Macbeth was recorded and preserved for posterity is beyond the pale.

Ci sono artisti la cui carriera coincide con una lunga ricerca e altri che, raggiunta una determinata soglia, sembrano aver trovato una lingua tanto riconoscibile da poter attraversare qualsiasi soggetto senza modificarne realmente la struttura. È una condizione rara, che appartiene a quei pochi autori il cui immaginario ha ormai assunto la forma di un universo autonomo, capace di assorbire temi, epoche e narrazioni mantenendo pressoché intatta la propria grammatica. Osservando Le Alchimiste, il mastodontico progetto concepito da Anselm Kiefer per la Sala delle Cariatidi di Palazzo Reale, a Milano, a cura di Gabriella Belli, la sensazione è proprio questa: non quella di assistere a una svolta, quanto...

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Richard Lynn would like to bring some operatic podcast episodes of The Sewers of Paris and Die Primadonnen to your attention.

La pittura contemporanea ha spesso trasformato il ritorno in una narrazione di recupero: un’interruzione superata, una perdita convertita in nuova possibilità. When the Sun Shines Again, la prima grande personale newyorkese di Guimi You presso Lehmann Maupin, usa questa struttura per metterla in crisi. La mostra osserva ciò che accade quando il gesto artistico emerge da periodi di sospensione, quando il fare pittura si intreccia con la cura, l’attesa e forme di vita che tradizionalmente rimangono fuori dalla storia della produzione.
Guimi You, “When the Sun Shines Again”, installation view at Lehmann Maupin New York. Photography by Studio Kukla, courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul...

Knokke Art Fair è una delle fiere d’arte più antiche al mondo e la più longeva tradizione internazionale sulla costa belga, un luogo speciale dove l’arte emoziona, giovani e anziani, curiosi ed esperti. Che sia ammirata tra le solenni mura di un luogo deputato o all’aria aperta (con una scultura site-specific), l’arte suscita emozioni, stimola la riflessione e invita al dialogo.
Vista esterna della location di Knokke Art Fair, edizione 2026
Knokke Art Fair è un evento del tutto indipendente, incentrato sulla qualità basata su un’accurata selezione che si svolge prima dell’apertura della fiera, ed è organizzata da Alexander Tuteleers. In questo luogo, il tempo sembra essersi fermato in...

Fino al 30 novembre 2026 il Parco Archeologico di Pompei ospita la mostra Philip Colbert in Pompeii: Pop Mythology. La mostra, curata da Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, espone oltre trenta sculture monumentali dell’artista britannico tra le quali protagonista assoluto è l’astice antropomorfo, alter ego dell’artista e ormai suo marchio riconoscibile.
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Le opere di Colbert sono progettate per risultare subito leggibili e perfettamente compatibili con le aspettative della comunicazione social. Molti lavori si distinguono per l’uso di colori saturi, monumentalità, ironia pop e kitsch con citazioni della classicità ridotte a segni facilmente riconoscibili e nel...

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...

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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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A selection of recent work by artist Emma Steinkraus. Based in Lexington, Virginia, Steinkraus  
   
   
   
   
 
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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 […]
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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...