gèngjin composes a temporary pavilion out of fabric and bamboo
 
Veil Tower, designed by gèngjin Architecture Office, is a temporary pavilion set within a dense moso bamboo grove in Xianning, Hubei, China. Developed as a fully recyclable installation, the project combines a raw bamboo framework with a suspended black fabric enclosure to investigate low-tech construction, reversible assembly, and the relationship between bodily movement and landscape. Drawing on the centripetal spatial logic of ancient Chu ritual architecture, the pavilion transforms a clearing in the forest into a space defined by framed views, filtered light, and controlled perception.
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Harmony Korine’s EDGLRD has teamed up with Converse to push the Chuck 70 into unfamiliar territory, transforming the classic silhouette... Read More

Gensler positions landscape as the foundation of future tourism
 
Global design firm Gensler unveils the conceptual masterplan for a 522-hectare tourism destination in Vang Vieng, Laos, proposing a long-term framework that reflects the country’s evolving tourism ambitions. Located across the villages of Pakpor and Phoudindeng in Vientiane Province, the project moves beyond the conventional resort model by organizing hospitality, recreation, cultural programs, and infrastructure around the landscape and ecological systems of the house. As Laos seeks to diversify its tourism economy, the proposal positions Vang Vieng’s natural environment and cultural identity as the foundation for future development rather...

Moradavaga designs a series of playful communication tools
 
The Outsiders, designed by Moradavaga for ROOMING INN, is a set of multifunctional mobile urban objects developed as part of the cultural initiative’s ongoing Living Lab project in Vienna. Conceived as a hybrid between communication devices and movable public furniture, the intervention supports social interaction, participation, and informal gathering within the public spaces surrounding a former kindergarten transformed into a community-oriented cultural center.
 
ROOMING INN promotes art in public space through temporary interventions that explore new ways of activating the public realm. Operating under the motto ‘the city begins at your...

Prima ancora di nominare un’origine, origo ne assume la morfologia. Nella sua struttura grafica e sonora, la parola comincia e finisce con una “o”, figura minima del cerchio, della cavità, della soglia. In questa doppia apertura si inscrive una temporalità non lineare, un movimento che non procede verso un punto inaugurale, ma ritorna, ricomincia, si riavvolge incessantemente nella materia. L’origine non appare come un luogo remoto da raggiungere, né come mito pacificato del principio, ma come una condizione di rientro, una possibilità di esporsi nuovamente a ciò che precede il corpo e insieme lo sostiene.
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The Invisible Systems Behind Every Object
 
In the past century, design significantly changed its relationship with the world. Once, objects – think of an oil lamp – had to work largely by themselves. But with the arrival of electricity, they became dependent on invisible networks that extend far beyond the physical boundaries of the object itself. A lamp is no longer just a lamp; it is connected to a power grid, power plants, cables, maintenance workers, politics, mining, and landscapes hundreds or thousands of kilometres away. 
 
For many of us, especially in societies where basic infrastructure is reliable, these systems have become so seamless that they disappear from view. We tend to experience...

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Designer Jonathan Anderson has once again taken inspiration from the work of sculptor Lynda Benglis for his latest fashion show. The creative director of Dior since 2025, Anderson presented the house’s Fall Winter 2026-27 Haute Couture Show at the Musée Rodin in Paris on Monday, marking his second haute couture collection for Dior. “The collection responds, in the language of couture, to the work of American sculptor Lynda Benglis,” a description published on Dior’s website reads. “Many of the artist’s works begin in two-dimensional materials that are transformed, through knotting, pleating or moulding, into three. The art of couture enacts a similar shift: fabric is given sculptural form,...

The pieces come from a beloved 2015 collaboration between Abloh and his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Oklahoma-based artist’s first travelling exhibition lands in Donald Judd’s West Texas

More than a year after President Trump ordered his administration to investigate so-called "race-centered ideology" at the Smithsonian Institution, the White House has published a new report accusing museum leadership of promoting "extreme political activism."Published on July 4, "Saving America's Story" was authored by the Trump-appointed Domestic Policy Council. Throughout the 162-page document, the council scrutinizes how the institution’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) portrays topics such as race, immigration, and gender. Sunday's report follows the administration's March 2025 executive order demanding an end to "divisive narratives” across the Smithsonian's 21...

The White House on July 4 issued an acidic 162-page report that accused the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH) of “extreme political activism” and lambasted its leadership for having “explicitly adopted an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political […]

“It is that miraculous connection between artist and subject, the self and the world beyond, that is the fever dream of all great art,” Dale Tucker, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s senior editor, writes in Points of View: 100 Connections to Art. Composed of short essays written by The Met’s staff, the compendium zeroes in on 100 objects in the museum’s permanent collection, offering new perspectives on artworks through five themes: “Relationships,” “Self,” “Politics,” “Spirituality,” and “Environment.” Edited by The Met’s CEO and director, Max Hollein, and published last month, Points of View is the museum’s first publication to encourage dialogue across its various...

The former New York home of Marlborough Gallery, arguably the world’s pioneering mega-gallery before its collapse and closure in 2024, has found a new owner. Gazelli Art House, which operates galleries in London and Baku, Azerbaijan, has purchased the former Marlborough space at 545 West 25th Street for $7.5 million. Brown Harris Stevens brokers Jeffrey Zoldan and Roger Gillen represented the seller. The sale marks another chapter in the winding down of Marlborough’s legacy. After nearly eight decades in business, the gallery announced in April 2024 that it would cease representing artists, close its exhibition program and begin liquidating an inventory reportedly worth around $250 million, following...

Carmelita Tropicana (photo Carlos David, courtesy the artist)This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June.When the off-Broadway theater Soho Rep moved from its longtime Tribeca space in 2024, it went out with a bang. The final show at the location, Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!, was a fitting tribute to its history as a downtown theater hub. The titular star, Carmelita Tropicana, has been a fixture of New York’s downtown theater and performance art scene since the 1980s. As the alter ego of Cuban-American writer and performer Alina Troyano, Carmelita Tropicana has confronted stereotypes of Latina and queer women,...

Another day, another brazen museum heist in France. French media outlets reported a jewel heist took place early on Sunday morning, July 5, at a museum in the Bas-Rhin region devoted to glassware designer René Lalique. The band of thieves smashed several display cases on the gallery floors and made off with 27 pieces of fine jewelry worth approximately €4 million ~($4.5 million).The museum did not immediately respond to Hyperallergic's inquiries. The institution will remain closed to the public for the next several days in light of the ongoing criminal investigation. Per Le Monde, the burglary at Musée Lalique began at around 5:30am and lasted only a few minutes, echoing the eight-minute raid of the...

CHICAGO — An eerie, operatic, disembodied chorus floats to the front of Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present at Wrightwood 659. This is “Coro de plantas extintas” (2020) by the Ecuadorian artist Saskia Calderón, a video performance mourning the loss of endangered and extinct plant species. Ten minutes down the coast of Lake Michigan, another exhibition also opens with sound: A honeyed voice croons a Selena song from somewhere deep inside of Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Is this a recording of Selena herself, or someone skilled singing karaoke? It is, as it turns...

Midjourney has asked a federal US court to force Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose how they use artificial intelligence, returning a legal volley first fired by the entertainment giants. The studios sued Midjourney, accusing it of facilitating widespread infringement of their copyrighted characters—a potentially devastating legal challenge for the popular AI image generator. Per Variety, Midjourney has claimed “fair use” and now argues that the studios are employing the same AI features that originally landed it in court.  On June 15, a magistrate judge had denied Midjourney’s request for broad information about its behind-the-scenes AI tools, finding it irrelevant to the question of...

769 photographers and astronomers around the world, representing 66 countries, submitted more than 4,000 images to this year’s ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. The shortlisted photos represent a range of phenomena from aurorae and stars to planets and the moon, captured around the globe. Some photographers focus on the juxtaposition of space and the human environment while others take telescopically captured snapshots of distant galaxies and nebulae, creating striking composite images. Winners will be announced on September 17, the day after which the public exhibition will open at London’s National Maritime Museum. The show is also accompanied by the book Astronomy Photographer of the...

organic wearable turns rhythm into tactile feedback
 
What if music could be felt instead of heard? Designer Haji Yang explores that possibility with Live Beats, a speculative wearable that rethinks how people experience sound in noisy environments. Rather than relying solely on audio, the headphone concept transforms rhythm into synchronized tactile feedback using four flexible tentacle-like appendages that rest against the wearer’s cheeks, allowing music to continue through touch when surrounding noise overwhelms the ears.
 
Live Beats departs from conventional noise-canceling headphones, which isolate users from their surroundings to preserve audio quality. Instead, the concept embraces ambient sound,...

An archaeological dig in western Thailand turned up a pair of gold rings in the vicinity of human bones. As reported by the Associated Press, one of the rings bears script that reads “pusarakhitasa,” which means “the one protected by Pushya.” Written in Bhrami, an ancient Indian system of writing, the allusion to Pushya refers to “one of the most auspicious zodiac signs in Indian astronomy,” according to the Thai government’s Fine Arts Department. The other gold ring is bare. Experts have theorized that the rings, discovered at the Don Yai archaeological site about 80 miles southwest of Bangkok, were owned by a merchant of the ancient Indian caste known as the Vaishyas. They were found as part of...

Thanks to a gift from a pair of Dallas-based art collectors, the National Gallery in London has added a painting by the 18th century Swiss portraitist and polyglot Angelica Kauffmann to its permanent collection. The painting is Kauffmann’s first history painting in oils to become part of a current U.K. national collection.  Kauffmann’s painting, Achilles […]

Salvador Salort-Pons, the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), recently revealed the discovery of a portrait by Diego Velázquez made during the artist’s earliest years as a court painter to King Philip IV. Salort-Pons, a specialist on Velázquez, published his findings in the current issue of ARS Magazine, which is run by the Museo Prado in Madrid. Titled The Count-Duke of Olivares in Armor (1626), the rediscovered painting depicts Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimental, commonly known as the Count-Duke of Olivares, who served as prime minister of Spain from 1623 to 1643 and was a valido (court favorite) of Philip IV. The work currently belongs to a private collection, according to Salort-Pons, who does...

An installation by Turkish-German artist Nasan Tur at Manifesta 16, has come under scrutiny for allegations of plagiarism, levied by sculptor Dorothee Bielfeld, who believes that it bears similarities to one of her past works.  Tur’s installation, titled “Elevation (2026),” features upturned church pews placed inside St. Gertrud Church in the German city of Essen. […]

Tallinn Art Hall, one of the oldest and most prestigious contemporary art institutions in Estonia, will reopen to the public on November 13th, 2026 after the completion of a five-year, €13 million restoration project. The renovation, led by Juhan Rohtla of Tallinn-based KUU Architects, re-envisions the building’s galleries, and preserves Edgar Johan Kuusik’s 1934 façade. Additional […]

In Dutch Golden Age still-life painting, it’s not uncommon to be treated to tables laden with flowers and food such as fruits, game, and fish. These works were painstakingly rendered; one can practically smell the sea. But the flip side is the temporality of these items, as the painting preserves their freshness, but we know they will ultimately decay. This incorporation of memento mori was intentional, as the inevitability of death was something people meditated carefully on. Flora and fauna in Dutch painting also demonstrate abundance and diversity, from myriad types of foods to hyperrealistic flower arrangements, such as those of Rachel Ruysch, that may have had folkloric hidden meanings. For artist Veks...

David Hockney’s Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) returns to Lightroom for one evening only, marking what would have been his 89th birthday

The Neue Galerie’s merger with the Met—the world’s fourth-largest museum—serves as a recent example of a smaller US institution uniting with a larger neighbour

Numerous heritage sites were among the 58,000 buildings destroyed by the deadly twin earthquakes last month

Four nights of rare video screenings and experimental music, including the UK premiere of Mother and a three-night Cafe OTO residency.

The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has appointed Frank Feltens chief curator, effective August 17. Feltens arrives to the institution from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, where he was associate director for curatorial affairs and curator of Japanese art. He succeeds José Carlos Diaz, who departed last autumn to serve as senior director of curatorial affairs and chief curator at the Pérez […]

At Cranbrook Academy of Art, no two doors are exactly alike. That was by design. Architect Eliel Saarinen believed even the smallest details deserved thoughtful consideration. Each door across Cranbrook’s historic campus serves the same purpose, yet each possesses its own distinct character—a reminder that creativity is found not in repetition, but in the possibilities created by difference. With this spirit in mind, Cranbrook Academy of Art is reopening graduate applications for Fall 2026. Applications will be accepted from June 22 through August 15 for a limited number of available openings in select programs. For artists and designers considering graduate study, this additional application period...

Jupiter Artland is taking its high street art programme nationwide, launching Jupiter+ Nation in Dumfries with Lindsey Mendick’s Growing Pains.

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Drawing on her experience as a textile designer and her family’s artistic heritage, Susan Maddux investigates the relationships between fabric, painting, and sculpture. If some of her longer pieces evoke the folds of kimonos, for example, it’s not a coincidence. Tapping into both her Hawaiian upbringing and Japanese heritage, the artist creates vibrant works that drape on the wall like elegant cloaks hung up after a walk. A small piece titled “Mantle” is redolent of the historical clothing worn to keep the shoulders warm. Other works feature conceptual or metaphysical names, such as “Flourish” and “Thrum.” Maddux sometimes stacks the bunches of folds several feet high, mirroring human...

Martin Margiela is releasing more than 200 objects from his personal archive in a landmark Paris auction, spanning his career from 1984 to 2008

A painting by the 18th-century artist was given to the museum by Dallas-based collectors Richard and Luba Barrett, alongside two other works

Sotto l’impulso teorico del suo Presidente, Guillaume Désanges, il Palais de Tokyo non si limita a ordinare una sequenza di mostre autonome, ma si offre come un vero e proprio ecosistema fenomenologico e politico teso a decostruire il sistema del validismo. Questo paradigma, strutturato su severi criteri fisici e psicologici, impone una rigida gerarchia tra corpi considerati normali e anormali in base alla velocità, alle performance e alla produttività capitalista. Désanges rovescia questa dinamica ricordando come la fragilità non sia una condizione eccezionale o marginale, bensì la coordinata ontologica più ampiamente condivisa dall’umanità e da tutto il vivente. Basta un virus, l’avanzare del...

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...

“Spain has an extraordinary, unbroken creative tradition: art, literature, music, research,” says Nieves González. From 16th-century portraitist El Greco to Baroque painters like Diego Velázquez and Bartolomé Murillo, the nation’s art history brims with narrative and intrigue. In the 17th century especially, dramatic contrasts of light and shadow influenced by Italian painter Caravaggio met movement, emotion, and religiosity to create theatrical tableaux. For González, this legacy informs a painting practice that merges past and present. “Creating isn’t something we do. It’s something we are,” the artist says in a statement. “And I come from that; I carry it in my body.” Her expressive...

Ispirata all’omonimo capolavoro di Caravaggio del 1606-1607 (Le sette opere della Misericordia, olio su tela, 390 x 260 cm, realizzato per la chiesa del Pio Monte della Misericordia di Napoli), la mostra, attraverso video, fotografia e scultura, trasforma un tema della tradizione cristiana in una riflessione attuale sulla cura verso gli altri. Abbiamo rivolto a Helen Broms Sandberg sette domande sul significato contemporaneo della misericordia.
Helen Broms Sandberg, “The Seven Works of Mercy”, performance, video still, 2021. Courtesy of the artist
Costabile Guariglia: Quale intuizione l’ha spinta a trasformare la sua esperienza del dipinto caravaggesco in un progetto artistico sviluppato nell’arco...

Opera conductors … my favorite subject!

Entriamo in conversazione con Riccardo Freddo, Head of Museum and Institutional Relationships per Rosenfeld Gallery, Londra. In seguito a comprovate esperienze internazionali tra Roma, Parigi, Los Angeles e New York, dal 2023, anno di fondazione della residenza The Place of Silence, Umbria, il curatore formula un nuovo format che fa dialogare la scena internazionale contemporanea e il patrimonio storico-artistico e paesaggistico italiano, secondo i princìpi della sostenibilità e valorizzazione. Ce ne parla in questa intervista.
Riccardo Freddo, ritratto, photo Eleonora Pascai, courtesy Riccardo Freddo
Sara Buoso: Vorresti parlarci della genesi del tuo progetto curatoriale diffuso in Italia? Le tue scelte si...

He has conducted some of my favorite opera recordings.

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Although Ernest Ansermet is most often associated with orchestral music, his 1964 recording of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is still my favorite.

L’apparente, seconda personale di Alessandro Roma (Milano, 1977) alla CAR Gallery di Bologna, si configura come un momento di approfondimento di una ricerca che ha trovato nella ceramica smaltata il terreno privilegiato in cui la dialettica tra pittura e scultura smette di essere una questione formale per diventare una domanda filosofica sull’essenza stessa del visibile. Il titolo sembra suggerire che ciò che appare non sia mai semplicemente dato, ma costituisca piuttosto una soglia in perpetuo divenire, uno strato di realtà che si offre alla percezione trattenendo al tempo stesso qualcosa di irriducibile allo sguardo, un’intuizione che le opere in mostra declinano con una coerenza tanto più efficace...

Memory may not be a tape-recorder, but in Sasha Gordon’s work, it serves as a device for the initial transportation. Characters wander this fluxing landscape—be it a drive-through window, a master bedroom, or white suburbia—shifting through the dynamic background of her dream-like haze. As a viewer of Gordon’s narrative paintings, you are intruding on intimate […]
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Will Sweeney is a commercial artist based in the UK. With a big reach and an enormous imagination, his illustrations adorn album sleeves, shirts for big fashion brands, toys in Japan, and almost any other sort of wearable or product one could imagine. Recently, we asked Sweeney to describe a bit of the machinations that […]
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Ahead of his new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, Barrie Kosky chats with Kevin Ng in Aix about pretty much everything — except the details of his new Frau.

The Bayerische Staatsoper’s Ring cycle scores another triumph with Tobias Kratzer’s take on Die Walküre.

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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

The 79th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on sculptor Willy Verginer, the black and white world of Murayama Tomoaki, the graphic art of Jimi Biscuits, Harriet Mena Hill’s painted rubble, the art of Pabaja,  Plus a Special Insert Section featuring the art of Marigold Santos, surrealist painter Philip Bosmans, the universal art […]
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In 1975, Stuart Pearson Wright entered the world as a product of artificial insemination, his father’s identity kept anonymous for the entirety of his life even to this day. This fact would fuel Wright’s early, burgeoning interest in expressing himself through the arts and a later rise to prominence in portraiture. In interviews, he would […]
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In 2007, Magnhild Kennedy indulged a lifelong fascination by moving to London. “I have had London on my mind since I was a teen. I wanted to live there even before my first visit,” she says. Growing up in Trondheim, Norway, from the age of sixteen onward she devoured every image and word in issues […]
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