Calvin Tomkins, whose vivid and revealing profiles of contemporary art’s most fabled figures graced the pages of the New Yorker for more than sixty years, died on March 20 at his home in Middletown, Rhode Island. He was one hundred years old. His wife, Dodie Kazanjian, told the New York Times that his death was […]

If it weren’t for being so lightweight and crisp in their facets, Goran Konjevod’s elegant vases could at first glance be mistaken for thin porcelain. Crafted instead from precisely folded paper, the works tap into the relationship between—and associations with—material, form, and function. His meticulous origami compositions combine organic forms with nuanced hues and gradients, creating a sense of visual heft and presence from thin, gauzy material. Konjevod’s work was recently included in Art of the Fold at ACCI Gallery, and “Grey Curves Vase” and “Artist’s Palette Vase” will be part of an exhibition titled The Craft of Paper: Contemporary Takes on Tradition this August at the Robert C....

Star-Shaped Units Form a Self-Supporting Timber Structure
 
Astral Ascent is a site-specific installation that explores the relationship between geometry, structure, and spatial perception through a modular construction system. The project, designed by Yue Fei Zheng, draws on traditional timber joinery principles, reinterpreting mortise-tenon logic within a contemporary framework based on repetition and interlocking components.
 
The installation is composed of more than 700 star-shaped modules fabricated from sustainable panels. Each unit is designed to function both as an individual geometric element and as a structural connector within the larger system. Using an adapted mortise-tenon approach, the...

Agosto Machado, an artist and activist associated with the Downtown New York art scene whose altar sculptures currently appear in the Whitney Biennial, died on Saturday following a brief illness. In keeping with his own wishes, his gallery, the New York–based Gordon Robichaux, did not announce Machado’s age in the obituary it sent out on Sunday. Speaking of his decision never to publicly share his birth year last year, Machado said, “A lady never tells.” Within the art world, Machado is now recognized as an artist, though he has also been described variously as an archivist and an activist. In interviews, he opted for a different descriptor: “pre-Stonewall street queen.” An active participant in...

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Exploration and absence form the twin axes of Sophie Calle’s (b. 1953) compelling body of work. From the delicate interplay of text and image to her investigations into the seen and unseen, her art occupies a space between intimacy and universality, curiosity and revelation. Themes of love, memory, longing, beauty, and mortality pulse throughout her practice, inviting viewers to reconsider the boundaries of perception. In her latest exhibition, Something Missing?, opening 26 March at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, Calle presents seven major series alongside additional works spanning nearly four decades. Totalling more than 300 individual pieces of photographs, texts and videos, the exhibition...

A sublime Reginald Mobley and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra are a balm for troubled times in a program of baroque selections and spirituals.

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Nel contesto del progetto di EDICOLA480, di 480 Site Specific, con la direzione artistica del curatore Massimiliano Bastardo, l’intervento di Jona Fierro – artista napoletano, classe 1997 – si presenta come una soglia percettiva più che come una semplice installazione. Come il fuoco brucia la foresta e come la fiamma incendia i monti – Residuo #01 (2025) non costruisce un racconto lineare, né cerca di restituire un’immagine spettacolare della distruzione. Al contrario, si colloca deliberatamente nel tempo che segue l’evento, in quella dimensione sospesa in cui ciò che resta diventa l’unico elemento attraverso cui interrogare ciò che è accaduto.
Jona Fierro, “Come il fuoco brucia la foresta...

an agricultural Form Reconsidered in Quebec
 
Architectural designer Teedah Hammer completes a compact cabin — the Hanger — in a rural village of Quebec. The project nods to the familiar agricultural Quonset structures which dot the area. In this case, the Quonset has been reworked for contemporary living, its curved steel profile translated into a small dwelling with a footprint covering less than forty square meters.
 
Hammer describes an early interest in ‘the loftiness that was possible due to the self-supporting nature of the structure,’ along with its durability through harsh winters. That combination shaped the decision to build new rather than adapt an existing shell, as it allowed for the...

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Papercrete Structure Defines a Porous Installation by Raza Zahid
 
Morphosis by Raza Zahid is an experimental installation that transforms discarded paper into a living spatial system. Developed through research into paper waste and the cultivation of microgreens on paper substrates, the project explores how growth, decay and material reuse can coexist within an architectural framework.
 
The installation occupies a 5 × 5 × 5 meter volume defined by slender powder-coated metal frames, each supporting clusters of hand-formed papercrete branches. Drawing from traditional paper-mâché techniques, shredded paper is reconstituted into a structural medium capable of maintaining form, texture, and the capacity...

Washington Concert Opera returned to its roots with a delightful performance of Georges Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de perles.

Contemporary culture is increasingly defined by spectacle, self-performance and the circulation of images that shape how identity is imagined and consumed. Museums now grapple with the challenge of presenting art that not only critiques these forces but also inhabits their visual language. The exhibition A Whole New World at Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean embraces precisely this tension, transforming the gallery into a theatrical terrain of attractions and immersive encounters. Spanning nearly two decades, the show surveys the practice of Simon Fujiwara through environments that echo the dramaturgy of theme parks. Fantasy and critique become inseparable as visitors move through...

A David Lang premiere at the New York Philharmonic brings a wealth of musical delights — and bodes well for Gustavo Dudamel's leadership.

I don't know if I'll ever hear as great a performance as René Pape's Gurnemanz.

After several years of closure, the New Museum on Manhattan's Lower East Side is reopening today with a new look and expanded galleries. We attended a press preview earlier this week and came back with mixed feelings. Read our candid, messy thoughts below, plus Aaron Short's report on the business side of the $82 million facelift. This week's edition is packed with must-reads. Leila Seyedzadeh, an Iranian artist living in New York, writes about her feelings these days as her home city of Tehran is under unceasing bombardment. David Markus, a contract professor at NYU, explains why he and his colleagues plan to strike soon. Curator Sadaf Padder acquaints us with the artists heralding Islamic...

in a chinese garden, shede culture museum tops out
 
Rising from a circular garden pond, OPEN Architecture‘s Shede Culture Museum has topped out in Shehong, China. The project is expected to complete in 2027, and will stand as a new threshold for a distillery along the Fu River.
 
The project occupies a peripheral site that has long remained unused despite its proximity to the main entrance. OPEN identifies this edge condition as an opportunity. The museum draws visitors into a landscape that bridges production and public life, and uses land and water to create a tranquil arrival experience.
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A built landscape of pond and islands
 
At the center of the Shede...

Nel cuore di Firenze, una stanza vetrata al piano terra dello storico Hotel Torre Guelfa interrompe il ritmo pedissequo delle vetrine commerciali e degli ingressi alberghieri, infiltrandosi silenziosamente nel corpo della città: è lo spazio espositivo indipendente Marameo. Qui nasce Liminale, la mostra di restituzione della residenza d’artista di Luca Granato, curata da Lucrezia Caliani e visitabile fino al 3 maggio 2026. Durante la serata inaugurale si è tenuta anche Cartografia di un corpo, intervento performativo site-specific della danzatrice e performer Irene Lombardi, realizzato insieme al DJ e musicista elettronico Andrea Lenzi. L’incontro tra esposizione e performance – divenuto nel tempo...

Say you just landed from Mars and walked straight into the 2026 Whitney Biennial. Would you be able to tell from the show that the country is teetering on the precipice of fascism? That two American citizens have been shot dead in broad daylight by masked federal agents? That hard-working immigrants are being rounded up in Home Depot and Walmart stores and sent to concentration camps? That the current government unabashedly kidnaps and assassinates foreign leaders and lays claim to their countries’ oil?How about the fact that artists have been silenced and denied opportunities for their political views, including at the Whitney itself, where a program was put on hold and its leader sacked over a cohort’s...

Featuring Maxwell Graham, Galerie Buchholz, Pirates of the Carbomb Infantry, and Triest

The Outsider Art Fair has enriched New York City’s art world since its inception in 1993, presenting eclectic and idiosyncratic artists who challenge traditional fine art hierarchies. The fair serves as an egalitarian anchor during unstable times in the art market and the United States, marking an optimistic moment to watch art quickly sell off the walls and a range of visitors express genuine delight. The event, this year featuring 68 exhibitors at Chelsea’s bustling Metropolitan Pavilion through Sunday, March 22, has long been an antidote to the sterile, pretentious nature of a blue-chip gallery fair.What exactly qualifies as “outsider art,” though? “Self-Taught,” “Folk,” “Visionary,”...

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In the wake of allegations of sexual abuse against labor leader Cesar Chávez that emerged earlier this week, Latine artists and cultural institutions are facing a moment of reckoning, perhaps most deeply felt in California, where Chávez lived and worked.Throughout the state, countless murals bearing his likeness adorn streets, while schools and civic institutions celebrate his legacy with public sculptures — symbols that are already being taken down. In Watts, the artist behind a Chávez mural is in the process of replacing it with a portrait of activist and United Farm Workers (UFW) co-founder Dolores Huerta, one of several women who accused Chávez of sexually abusing her.But for many artists, grappling...

Organizers of the Glasgow International have revealed the full program for the 2026 iteration of the biennial event, set to take place June 5–21. Spanning institutions, artist-run spaces, and community sites, this year’s edition is led by new director Helen Nisbet. It will focus on experimentation and duration, with participating artists exploring such themes as ecology, labor, migration, […]

Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism has reportedly moved to ban multi-media artist and New York City First Lady Rama Duwaji from entering the country. According to the Israeli news outlet Haaretz, the ministry accused the Syrian illustrator and ceramicist of antisemitism for her pro-Palestinian illustrations and social media reaction history. The ministry reportedly took issue with Duwaji’s animation "Eyes on Jenin" (2025), a work that linked police brutality against pro-Palestinian protesters to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Many of her other illustrations, viewable on her social media and website, feature individuals wearing keffiyehs, recount stories of Gazans, and decry...

His works, painted on found wood and discarded tin, illuminate culture on the remote Saint Helena Island

A mural of Cesar Chavez in San Francisco’s Mission District was painted over this week, becoming one of the first visible public reckonings with newly surfaced allegations of sexual abuse against the labor leader. The artwork, which covered the facade of the Latin Rock Music House at 25th and York Streets, was removed Wednesday by the building’s owner, Richard Segovia, along with artist Carlos “Kookie” Gonzalez, according to ABC7 Eyewitness News. The decision came days after a New York Times investigation detailed allegations that Chavez abused women and girls connected to the United Farm Workers movement.  “I did this to let everyone know,” Segovia said. “Let’s get the ball rolling.” ...

Tensely contorted or standing pin straight, Ben Zank’s signature faceless subjects evoke ineffable yet familiar emotions. The New York City-based photographer has a knack for turning ordinary settings and unaccompanied figures into strangely perplexing sights. Mismatched socks, bold garments, and awkward poses go a long way in evoking a visceral response through his lens, tapping into a sort of uncanny realism. Zank’s work traveled to Festival Cargo Les Photographiques—a.k.a. The Cargo Festival—in Saint-Nazaire, France last summer. Since its debut in 2022, the annual event typically features several outdoor exhibition areas, highlighting contemporary photographers. The artist’s plein air installation...

Medieval wall painting found inside Durham Castle DURHAM, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Northern Echo, a fragment of a medieval wall painting has been found in northern England at Durham Castle, which was constructed by William the Conqueror in the 1070s and served as the seat of the Prince Bishops of Durham. The artwork, thought to date to the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, had been hidden under plaster and wall paneling dating to the 1950s. Andrew Ferrara of Durham University said that the painting is an outlined masonry design with a central flower and stem motif. “It’s an incredibly rare survival in such an important castle site and really underscores the power and status of the...

Contemporary art curator Liz Munsell has been named Vice President of Curatorial Arts and Programs at Powerhouse Arts, a creative arts nonprofit based in Brooklyn’s Gowanus, the organization announced this week. Munsell has previously held curatorial leadership roles at the Jewish Museum in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Harvard University.  In her […]

James and Kathryn Murdoch are working with MCH Group, the parent company of Art Basel, on a new festival meant to rival the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and other “ideas”-driven gatherings that convene the world’s wealthy and powerful. While details remain scarce and no formal announcement has been made, Vanity Fair’s Nate Freeman reported that he confirmed the in-the-works event with multiple sources. According to Freeman, the project is a joint venture between Lupa Systems, James Murdoch’s investment firm, which holds a controlling stake in MCH, and Futurific, an organization cofounded by Kathyrn Murdoch that produced PBS’s six-part docuseries A Brief History of the...

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Masonry block with painting of the god Sucellus LYON, FRANCE—A painting of the Celtic god Sucellus has been discovered in Mancey, a hilltop sanctuary in eastern France, by a team of researchers led by Grégory Compagnon of France’s Archaeological and Archaeometry Laboratory, according to the Greek Reporter. The cult site featured two main structures, paths, and gathering areas. The painted masonry block was found on a small altar covered with plaster in a room inside one of the buildings. This room also contained two statue bases, a large stone table, and an altar with a raised edge. The temple was built in the late third century, Compagnon said, based on a collection of coins found on a clay floor surface...

In this week's episode of The Week in Art, Ben Luke discusses the newly-enlarged New Museum, talks to Georgina Adam about her new book on the latest generation of art collectors, and hears from the curator of a new exhibition on botany at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford

Human homes on moon, mars, space and underwater
 
The most frequent medicine taken on the International Space Station is sleeping pills because astronauts in orbit live in a light cycle that doesn’t match their biology. Their bodies don’t know when to sleep or when to wake, and the disruption lasts for weeks or months, affecting their performance, mood, and physical health.
 
For SAGA Space Architects, the Copenhagen-based architecture and space studio founded by Sebastian Aristotelis and Karl-Johan Sørensen, this is not a spacecraft problem. It’s the home design’s fault, and for those who want to go to the Moon, Mars, and the ocean floor and live there, the structure has to adapt to their needs...

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—According to a statement released by Hebrew University of Jerusalem, clay ornaments, including 142 beads, pendants, and a tiny, child-sized ring, have been discovered in Southwest Asia. Laurent Davin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said that the ornaments, recovered from four different sites, were made by Natufian hunter-gatherers some 15,000 years ago. “This discovery completely changes how we understand the relationship between clay, symbolism, and the emergence of settled life,” Davin said. The beads were shaped into cylinders, disks, and ellipses. Fibers preserved on some of them show how they were strung and worn. A number of the unbaked clay objects had then been coated in a...

Czech culture minister Oto Klempíř dismissed Alicja Knast from her post as director of Prague’s National Gallery, generating scrutiny over what precipitated the decision. Within the Czech Republic, the dismissal has been viewed by some as a politically motivated gesture. Knast took up the position in 2021, having been appointed to the role by Lubomir Zaoralek, a Social Democrat who was then serving as culture minister. Klempíř, a member of the right-wing Motorists party, became culture minister last year. Before becoming culture minister, Klempíř was the lead singer of the funk rock band J.A.R. Many artists in the Czech Republic have raised concerns about his ability to allocate funds appropriately....

Nine of the objects will stay in Switzerland despite the change of ownership

New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD) had filed a letter of complaint about a speech by Zubeyda Muzeyyen

The culture ministry of Mexico has called on eBay to remove sale listings for 195 pre-Colombian artifacts, claiming they were obtained by way of “illicit extraction” and that they should be returned to their country of origin. As reported by The Art Newspaper, the case was made public when Mexico’s secretary of culture, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, wrote in a posting on X that the Orlando, Florida–based enterprise Coins Artifacts was selling objects deemed part of Mexico’s cultural heritage by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). In a letter sent to eBay, Curiel de Icaza demanded that the company “immediately suspend the sale and return the items to the Mexican government,”...

Colonialism, home, migration, mental health and isolation.

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On the top floor of Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s Gundlach Building, a vast body of work from 58 artists comes together for Let Us Gather In a Flourishing Way. The impressive ensemble is both a survey of contemporary Latinx painting and a lively dialogue between a spectrum of artists with diverse backgrounds, experiences, identities, languages, and creative mediums. Let Us Gather In a Flourishing Way is a major exhibition that has slowly unfolded over the course of several years. Curator Andrea Alvarez—the architect and driving force behind the project—has spent much of this time immersed in research and collaborating closely with each artist throughout the process, refining every detail of the show. Eamon...

A man, identified in court documents as Alexander Weis, wreaked catastrophic havoc at the Seattle Center’s Chihuly Garden and Glass museum on Monday evening, causing $240,000 worth of damage to the facilities and destroying several glass sculptures of plants by Dale Chihuly, the Seattle Police Department reported this week.  The man, purportedly Weis, who is now in police custody, […]

Golda Schultz and Jonathan Ware present Dark Matter(s), an intriguing program of songs, at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.

Each year, Foam presents the Talent Award. The prize spotlights extraordinary new image-makers who are shaping the future of photography. This edition was a record-breaking one, with almost 3,000 submissions from 107 countries. Particularly exciting, the 2026 award marked the first time the Foam Talent Call welcomed artists of all ages in the early stages of their career. Those that submitted reflect a remarkably wide range of narratives, perspectives and artistic approaches. Many consider the constant global change and uncertainty of our times, addressing themes such as political oppression, mental health, religion and faith, displacement and the search for cultural identity. Technological developments are...

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Luigi Brugnaro makes clear however that he feels the event should be a place for “diplomacy and openness”

The collages of Belgrade-based Russian Natalia Titova caught my eye recently

La vita ci costringe il più delle volte a comportarci in determinati modi per rispettare convenzioni sociali e costumi. La maschera pirandelliana che siamo obbligati ad indossare è qualcosa che allo stesso tempo limita e blocca la forza espressiva dirompente che ognuno di noi conserva all’interno di sé. Filippo Janez Bertoni, con la collaborazione di numerosi altri artisti, parte proprio da questa concezione per cercare di creare, con il medium del processo interpretativo, una maschera nuova, vera, che permetta a tutti coloro che vogliano indossarla di liberare le più profonde pulsioni creative ed eliminare le inibizioni.
Filippo Janez Bertoni, “Vera Sonora”, einLaden, Kassel, happening 24.01.26,...

Multi-colored lengths of fabric billow in the breeze in the work of Thomas Jackson, challenging the relationship between nature, human intervention, and consumerism. “Rooted in the tension between nature and artificiality, the installations pose questions about how we interact with the environment and how we might find equilibrium with it,” the artist writes in a statement. “All of my photographs strain credulity by design,” Jackson says. “At first blush, they can appear to be digital fabrications, but in truth, they are entirely in-camera, printed with minimal post-production.” The undulating swathes of fabric in his ethereal photographs initially appear to float and drape on their own, almost...

ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST—ABC News reports that France has repatriated a sacred talking drum looted from West Africa’s Ivory Coast in 1916 by French colonial authorities. The 950-pound drum, known as Djidji Ayôkwé, or “panther-lion,” was used by the Atchan people of the Abidjan region to communicate between villages. The drum is thought to have been stolen because it was being used to warn local residents about forced labor recruitment by colonial authorities. “After a long stay far from its land, our sacred drum is finally returning to its people,” said Aboussou Guy Mobio, chief of the village of Adjamé-Bingerville. The drum will go through an acclimatization period to allow the wood to adjust to...

MODENA, ITALY—Sci News reports that Neanderthals may have hunted straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) some 125,000 years ago in northeastern Germany at the site of Neumark-Nord. “The straight-tusked elephant was an iconic species of the European Pleistocene Interglacial ecosystem, sharing the landscape with Neanderthals during the warmer periods of the Middle and Late Pleistocene,” said Elena Armaroli of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. It was not clear, however, if Neanderthals hunted elephants, or if they scavenged their carcasses. Armaroli and her colleagues measured the levels of strontium isotopes in molars from four straight-tusked elephants recovered at Neumark-Nord....

A bold new structure has appeared in Cary Park in Cary, North Carolina: the latest sculptural pavilion by Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY. The work is titled “L’Ile Folie,” which nods to the architectural tradition of the folly, a landscape feature that was all the rage with wealthy estate owners in the 18th and 19th centuries. Often nostalgic and resembling ruined miniature castles or bucolic village buildings, follies were generally non-functional and conceived as pure decoration. Fornes, however, reimagines this practice with an eye toward the future rather than the past. The pavilion “gives this tradition a contemporary meaning: memorable, playful, and slightly surreal,” says a statement. Fornes is...

Over the past 28 years, Art Paris has become a key moment in the cultural calendar. This April, the fair returns to the Grand Palais, offering an ambitious programme that supports the French scene, whilst fostering dialogue with artists and galleries from around the world. The 2026 edition welcomes 165 galleries from 20 countries, with 60% made up of French institutions, reflecting the fair’s ability to remain both regional and cosmopolitan. This year’s edition offers audiences the chance to witness the breadth of contemporary talent, encounter established masters and discover new voices on the scene. Each year, the fair invites guest curators to tackle the themes and ideas that are defining our current...

 
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...

Photography remains one of the most vital ways we examine society, culture and the intimate contours of human experience. The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026, hosted at The Photographers’ Gallery in London from 6 March to 7 June, continues this tradition, foregrounding the ways contemporary photographers challenge perception, narrative and the politics of representation. Established in 1996, the Prize identifies and rewards artists for an exhibition or book that has made a significant contribution to photography in the previous twelve months. Over three decades, it has become a barometer for innovation and social engagement, spotlighting work that is aesthetically compelling while deeply...