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Gearing up FOR MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026
 
Milan design week 2026 is just around the corner, and designboom returns with it to guide you through this year’s most exciting events, exhibitions, and must-see installations! From April 20th to 26th, 2026, the world’s biggest design event is set to transform the streets of Milan into a celebration of creativity and promises an electrifying mix of design, architecture, and innovation spread across the city.
 
To make sure you don’t miss a thing (and know where to go!), we have once again curated a selection of must-see events, talks, exhibitions, and experiences that will ensure you leave Milan full of powerful new insights and lasting impressions. Chief among...

tsyuyoshi tane on his method of ‘archaeology of the future’
 
architecture is often viewed as an act of looking forward, a race toward the sleek, the new, and the unprecedented. but for tsuyoshi tane, the most radical way to build the future is to dig into the past. ‘i believe that architecture begins from the memory of a place,’ tane tells desigboom in an interview from his paris based studio. behind him, the walls are a mosaic of references, much like his projects: a collision of archaeological fragments and modernist ambition. ‘we are not just designing shapes; we are excavating stories that have been buried by modernization.’
 
this ‘archaeology of the future’ — tane’s personal...

The song recitals I remember most vividly were, unsurprisingly, the most vivid ones.

Happy Passover! As matzah appears on Seder tables across the world this week, artist Emily Drew Miller approaches the flatbread as a printmaking tool. Her collagraph series tenderly explores Jewish heritage and political consciousness in all its fractures and layers. Staff Reporter Isa Farfan has the story.Today, we also remember the unflinching life and work of sculptor Melvin Edwards, who died on Monday at 88 years old and leaves behind a singular political vocabulary in steel. Don’t forget to check out our Los Angeles and New York guides to help plan your April in art, plus Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia’s weekly dispatch on news in the art world this week — including improbable artworks made from...

HIGGSFIELD MOVES BEYOND AI PLASTICITY
 
Generative imagery is finally moving beyond the stage of synthetic compositions with Higgsfield’s major evolution of its proprietary AI photo generation model Soul 2 designed specifically for the creative industry. The update marks a significant shift away from generic, auto-generated content towards creating artistic visuals. Soul 2.0’s visual quality is driven by a female team of engineers, art directors, stylists, and photographers with backgrounds in luxury fashion and brand communications. Their deep industry expertise has eliminated AI plasticity, producing images with a distinct visual quality that feels intentional and art-directed. Addressing the long...

Lab-Grown T-Rex leather turns into handbag
 
Techwear label Enfin Levé debuts a handbag made from lab-grown T-Rex leather and collagen collected from fossilized dinosaur bone fragments. On public display at Art Zoo Museum in Amsterdam, the accessory is positioned beside a cast of a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen on loan from Naturalis Biodiversity Center. The handbag comes to life using the collagen of a specimen. In the standard production, it comes from the hides of cattle, sheep, or other animals after slaughter, but in the Lab-Grown T-Rex Leather, the collagen sequence was reconstructed from fossilized T-rex bone fragments. The original protein recovered from those fossils were incomplete, meaning that...

In this week's episode, Ben Luke discusses the UK government’s response to a report about the future of Arts Council England, talks to the curator of a new Raphael exhibition in New York, and takes a look at a work by the multimedia artist Senga Nengudi

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Shinsegae Department Store presents spring Graphic Identity
 
Each spring, Shinsegae Department Store presents ‘Blooming Playlist,’ a seasonal campaign that redefines retail environments through integrated design and cultural programming. Developed in collaboration with Moonwalker Studio for the second consecutive year, the campaign explores the relationship between graphic identity and natural motifs.
 
At the center of the visual system is Shinsegae’s S-check pattern, reinterpreted through the addition of cherry blossom imagery. The structured geometry of the motif is overlaid with organic floral forms, establishing a contrast between graphic order and natural variation. This approach generates a...

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With the endless blockbusters exhibitions in New York City this spring — from Raphael at The Met to the Whitney Biennial to the reopening of the New Museum — it can be easy to overlook shows at galleries, independent art spaces, and smaller venues.That would be a mistake. New York’s only as rich as it is because of that constant flux of new, experimental, and occasionally batshit art that’s years or decades away from entering more established spaces, if it ever does at all. Some of these shows only run for a couple of weeks. Tough on an editor; lucky for you.Below, we’ve rounded up our favorite exhibitions this month, from an all-immigrant exhibition in Queens to DAZE’s city-inspired aesthetics to...

A 6.6-by-5.9-inch collograph from Emily Drew Miller's ongoing Mazot series (all photos courtesy Emily Drew Miller)During her final year as a painting student in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Carnegie Mellon University, artist Emily Drew Miller placed a piece of paper over an old heater in her studio. When she rubbed a stick of graphite over the paper-covered lattice heater, the result reminded her of something familiar: matzah. “That was around Passover in  2016,” Miller told Hyperallergic. "And since then, I've been experimenting with matzah around this time, and now that I'm saying this out loud, I realize that it is kind of my own Passover ritual.” A decade later, the now New...

This April brings several shows that highlight the power of the ineffable, the pedestrian, and the overlooked. A 60-year retrospective of pioneering LA print publisher Gemini G.E.L. and a 500-year survey of the Gruenwald Center at the Hammer Museum showcase the breadth and depth of works on paper. At ArtCenter, Dave Muller underscores the importance of social connection and the handmade in his oeuvre. Two LA performance art icons — Rachel Rosenthal and King Moody, and Bob & Bob — are celebrated in shows that gather performance documentation with physical ephemera and artworks. And a newly discovered collection of matchbook miniatures by the late Joe Brainard shows him turning the abandoned stuff of...

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.A Museum and an Art Fair Walk Into a BarThis week, Frieze announced it will partner with several NYC institutions to present performances and exhibitions timed with its May fair. The Whitney Museum of American Art will show artist Jonathan González’s Body Configurations (2023­–25), a suite of works commissioned especially for the Whitney Biennial, while Dia Art Foundation will display David Lamelas's video piece “To Pour Milk into a Glass” (1972) and other works. Is this a sign that the cozy ties between the institutional and commercial...

Per a press release, Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) has announced that it will open a new outpost in Guangzhou—this will be the first ancillary location for the institution to be situated in South China. The new art space, UCCA OneM Center for Contemporary Art, is the result of a partnership between UCCA and the OneM […]

The Center at West Park has been marshalling support from famous actors led by Mark Ruffalo to stop the demolition of West Park Presbyterian Church

Donald Trump’s $400 million plan to remake the White House with a sprawling ballroom has hit a familiar Washington obstacle: Congress—and a judge who says he cannot go around it. A federal judge earlier this week, passionately and emphatically, ordered construction on the project to stop unless lawmakers authorize it, throwing the future of the ballroom into doubt and forcing the administration into a choice it has so far avoided: fight on Capitol Hill or in the courts.  On Capitol Hill, there is little sign of a rescue. Democrats have dismissed the project outright, while Republicans have largely steered clear of the issue, wary of tying themselves to a costly and unpopular proposal in a midterm election...

Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has filed a civil complaint in France calling for an investigation into Israeli authorities’ bombing of a residential building in Beirut in November 2024, which killed seven civilians, including the artist’s mother and father. The complaint, filed on April 2 with the French War Crimes Unit against unknown perpetrators, draws on a reconstruction and analysis of the attack by Forensic Architecture (FA) and Amnesty International. Reviewing footage of the aftermath, FA reported identifying remnants of GBU-39 munitions—extensively documented as used by the Israeli air force.  The strike hit four floors of the...

Andy Warhol’s former studio building on Broadway and East 17th Street has been home to many businesses since the Pop artist decamped from his third-floor Factory in 1984, after a decade at 860 Broadway. A nightclub (the Underground) was there in the ‘80s, followed by a Petco in the mid-90s, which relocated nearby in 2023. The commercial building’s ground floor retail space has been vacant for the intervening years, but a new tenant has moved it. The Japanese fashion brand Uniqlo will open its seventh New York store at 860 Broadway tomorrow. 860 Broadway, where the new Uniqlo Union Square store opens on Apr. 3, 2026. It is unclear if the store expands all the way to the third floor, the former location of...

When the Bulls Fest—a raging celebration of the iconic and famed NBA team—first happened at Chicago’s United Center in 2022, Kyle Cobban was one of the contributing artists to The Art of the Game exhibition. It’s a piece that encapsulates Cobban’s aesthetic vision. Working with graphite and paper, the Chicago-based artist makes small, detailed drawings […]
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According to court papers filed last month, Gonzalve Bich, Charles Bich and Guillame Bich, the French heirs to the multi-billion dollar Bic Pen fortune, are alleging that a 15th century Renaissance masterpiece originally purchased by their grandfather was stolen by their chauffeur and erroneously sold twenty years ago, Bloomberg reports.  The painting in question is Saint Sixtus, ca. 1453–55 by Fra Angelico, […]

Representatives for the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Trust and the Tate had warned that the legislation could have severely impacted their funding

Living in a high-rise apartment or a house with a small yard comes with the disadvantage of not having access to garden space. Fortunately, fine wallpaper manufacturer Astek has a way to bring beautiful blooms indoors. The company’s collection of dreamy floral mural designs called Eterna Nouveau is conceived as a reinterpretation of the Art Nouveau movement of the early 20th century, which historically flourished in Europe and emphasized nature-inspired motifs like flowers and birds. Eterna Nouveau’s arching, sinuous stems and leaves nod to its namesake style’s characteristic “whiplash” lines. “Aquavita,” for example, features lilies and other water plants that illustrates life both above and...

Larry Gagosian doesn’t do a lot of interviews, but one supposes when Elle Decor asks to do a glossy profile on the rocket-ship trajectory of his eponymous gallery, you say yes. Speaking on the occasion of a new gallery opening at 980 Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side this spring, Gagosian reflected on his many successes—and two notable failures. His short-lived San Francisco gallery, which opened in 2016 near SFMoMA and closed in 2021, was one such failure. At the time, a spokesperson framed the closing as an effort to “consolidate and strengthen Gagosian’s presence in California.” In the interview with Elle Decor, the mega-dealer was quite a bit blunter. “It just failed,” Gagosian said. “I...

Romanian culturati and historians, as well as Dutch museum officials, were shocked in January 2025 when thieves blew up a wall at a Netherlands museum to get at one of the great treasures of the National Museum of Romanian History: the golden Cotofenesti helmet, which dates to the 5th–4th centuries BCE. The thieves were seen on surveillance video opening a museum door with a crowbar before an explosion occurred.  But at a press conference in Assen on Thursday, police wearing balaclavas revealed that the helmet was returned, along with two of three golden bracelets dating to the second half of the first century BCE that were also stolen. The treasured Cotofenesti helmet dates back about 2,500 years, and...

An ancient golden balaclava stolen from a Dutch museum last year has been found, The Guardian reports. Dating to 450 BCE, the priceless Coțofenești helmet was one of several gold artifacts taken from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands, by a trio of thieves who dynamited the institution’s doors in order to get at […]

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For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Portrait category: Sima Choubdarzadeh.
Originally from Iran and now based in Berlin, Sima is an award-winning documentary photographer with a background in philosophy. For the past decade, her work has focused on migration, identity, and resistance, often centering people living through tension and change.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website...

Through atmospheric, black-and-white photographs, Yamamoto Masao explores the emotional connections between image and memory. His intimate, otherworldly gelatin silver prints evoke dreamlike archival footage that has been somehow unyoked from the normal rhythms of time. His subjects vary, although he often focuses on landscapes and natural subjects, including a number of owls that roost in trees near his home in Japan. Ten Owls at Yancey Richardson marks the artist’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery, showcasing intimate portraits of the nocturnal birds. No larger than 10 inches on the longest side, these images are intended to be viewed up close in a way that brings these elusive creatures much...

Sculptor Melvin Edwards, known for powerful works exploring the history of racial violence and the experiences of Black people in America, as well as themes of beauty and joy, died at his home in Baltimore on March 30. He was eighty-eight. His death was confirmed by New York gallery Alexander Gray and Associates, which represents […]

Parterre Box acknowledges Riccardo Muti's 600th performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra by highlighting two of his favorite singers — under a different conductor.

Chicago-based artist Laura Berger continues her explorations of communion in a suite of staggering paintings that place her signature minimal figures in intimate fellowship with one another and the earth. Spanning six feet wide, the monumental works layer limbs and landscapes, as nude bodies merge with waves, flowers, and sun-strewn clouds. Berger frequently gestures toward past experiences and the spiritual realm, particularly focusing on the ways time fogs the clarity of memory and how transformation emerges from myriad circumstances. This body of work expands on the themes of interdependence, too, as she renders her figures in varying states of translucence as they swim through a cresting wave or lounge...

The staggeringly great Ukraine-born Jewish bass Mark Reizen sings "The Ebullient Kura Swirls" a/k/a "The Persian Love Song" by Moldova-born Jewish composer Anton Rubinstein.

 
FEELING SEEN is guest curated by Jenna Eady as part of our Curate for the Community series.
Our sense of feeling goes beyond the physical – it’s emotional, atmospheric, and relational. It’s through these feelings that we connect with one another on a deeper level.
FEELING SEEN is about exploring how photography can express both internal and external sensations – whether it’s the rush of anticipation, the dis/comfort of the body, nostalgia of memory or tension of conflict. This project believes in photography’s power to evoke real emotional resonance. Its about creating the space for others to feel something.
The project aims to amplify diverse voices and create opportunities for new perspectives...

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 […]

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...

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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. 

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...

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. ...

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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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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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Studio Loan wants to connect LA artists with the space they need — for free By Kristine Schomaker 60% of artists in Los Angeles don't have a studio outside their home. Or one at all. I think about that number a lot. Because space — or the lack of it — shapes everything. What you can make. How you can show it. Whether you can even invite someone in to see the work. Studio visits matter. Not in some abstract networking way, but in the real, tangible way where someone comes to your space, stands...

 
Who doesn’t love a good photo book? To flick through the pages, be enlightened, educated, distracted and absorbed into another world through another’s eyes? Totally fantastic!
We’re here to share our Photobook Favourites – a selection of our favourite photography books recommended by the Shutter Hub community, an archive of titles we’ve enjoyed, and a reference point for you to explore. Las Pelilargas, Irina Werning, GOST
For 18 years photographer Irina Werning travelled across Latin America to seek out those with long hair to uncover and understand its cultural significance. Her book Las Pelilargas (the long-haired ones) brings together this body of work in an exploration and celebration of...

Kristine Schomaker and Genie Davis at the Getty By Kristine Schomaker I've known Genie Davis for years. She shows up. That's the first thing you notice about her — and also the thing you never stop noticing, because she just keeps doing it. She's at openings, she's writing reviews, she's telling anyone who will listen about artists she believes in. For over a decade, her blog Diversions LA has been quietly, consistently documenting the Southern California art scene because she genuinely loves...