Hiplok designs the world’s first anti-angle grinder security link
 
Hiplok introduces L1000, the world’s first anti-angle grinder security link, designed to extend the reach of Hiplok’s anti-angle grinder D locks without the bulk of a conventional chain. The compact link stores inside the D lock itself, creating a compact modular security system.
 
The project began with a simple design challenge: how could the versatility of a chain be combined with the anti-angle grinder resistance of a D lock? Hiplok designed a compact link that works alongside its anti-angle grinder D locks, extending locking reach while maintaining a high level of attack resistance. The system allows riders to secure motorcycles...

The World Cup quarterfinals are upon us, and so is the ultimate crossover. Surrealism meets jersey design in an updated kit for the Belgian team with an homage to René Magritte’s painting “Voice of Space.” The cherry on top is a cheeky “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” reference — gives new meaning to o jogo bonito, eh?In New York, the New Museum in Manhattan named Massimiliano Gioni as its next director, succeeding Lisa Phillips. Meanwhile, the state of Texas paved over the massive “Black Artists Matter” street artwork in Austin, just over six years after it was painted, following an order from Republican Governor Greg Abbott. Read on for John Giorno’s fugitive poetry, John Constable’s...

a convenience store is taking shape entirely in felt
 
Lucy Sparrow has spent more than a decade rebuilding the places where people shop and eat. Her materials stay intentionally simple, with a palette made up of just felt, thread, stuffing, and paint. Through them, she has recreated the corner shop, the bodega, the deli, the fast-food counter, and the supermarket, filling each one with thousands of handmade food objects that turn commercial packaging into something softer and much more personal.
 
In conversation with designboom, the British artist reflects on why these familiar retail spaces continue to draw her back, how her studio transforms mass-produced goods through slow collective labor, and what...

bureau betak builds whimsy fairy tale landscape for Chanel
 
For its Fall Winter 2026 Haute Couture presentation in Paris, Chanel stages its latest collection inside an enchanted world conceived by Bureau Betak, where monumental flowers, twisting vines, and oversized botanical forms transform the runway into an immersive environment. The scenography extends the central narrative of the collection, translating fairy tales into space as models move through a handcrafted landscape populated by climbing vegetation, hidden furniture, and fantastical blooms.
 
Drawing on stories including Jack and the Beanstalk and Goldilocks and the Three Bears, the collection explores fantasy through the established codes of the...

Uau Studio Designs a Bio-Facade Inspired by Tree Canopies
 
Designed by uau studio, led by Gianluca Santosuosso, Algae Tower investigates the integration of photo-bio-reactor technology into the building envelope as a responsive environmental system. Developed for an office tower in Melbourne, the proposal draws from the behavior of tree canopies, using a bio-facade that provides shading, absorbs carbon dioxide, and generates renewable energy through micro-algae cultivated within integrated photo-bio-reactors.
 
The project addresses the increasing impact of prolonged and more frequent heat waves on the built environment. As large glazed facades often contribute to solar heat gain and higher cooling demands,...

CLEAN GEOMETRY INTERSECTED WITH OPEN-AIR LAYOUTS
 
Vondom softens the typical rigidity of aluminum with the Gum outdoor furniture collection, shaping a characteristic silhouette through continuous tubular lines that curve, wrap, and support. Crafted with the fluidity of a hand-drawn gesture, the series, designed by the architect Ramón Esteve, sparks an open conversation between future-focused production, environment, and form. Developed for hotel terraces, restaurant dining rooms, and private residences, the warm hues of its upholstery and its geometric purity transform the open-air layout into an expressive, cohesive setting. Gum Collection by Vondom | all images courtesy of Vondom
 
 
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“Identità mutanti”, “Il latte dei sogni”. Il tema dell’identità oltrepassa il secolo scorso, attraversa le Biennali e le riflessioni critiche di FAM, le tendenze Queer e le metamorfosi di Barney per bagnare le rive di Santarcangelo. La 56esima edizione di Santarcangelo Festival, se da un lato deve ancora fare i conti con un corpo collettivo ereditato dalla sua storia, si sofferma su quello individuale. Se il nuovo direttore (Luigi De Angelis) dovrà – tra le altre cose – riportare soprattutto il festival alla sua storia di gratuite pratiche di inclusione cittadina e di coinvolgimento popolare, l’attuale programma dell’edizione diretta da Tomasz Kireńczuk mette al centro il corpo...

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Artist Valerie Brathwaite at her exhibition A Flowing Path of Her Own (2025–26) at the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires. (photo Eugenia Sucre, courtesy MALBA)Valerie Brathwaite, the Trinidadian-born, Caracas-based artist whose undulating, organic sculptural forms reflected her love of the natural world, has died at age 87. The Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires announced the news of her passing on their Instagram page on Monday, July 6. The museum, which presented a retrospective of the artist’s sculptures and drawings less than a year ago, described Brathwaite as an “artist of extraordinary sensitivity, whose work was driven by her admiration for life and nature” in the...

Joy Machine and Vertical Gallery are excited to share their first collaborative exhibition, Wanderland by Collin van der Sluijs. This marks the artist’s sixth solo exhibition in Chicago and more than a decade in partnership with Vertical Gallery. It’s his first presentation at Joy Machine. Wanderland comprises a new body of work developed during a two-year period. Spanning enormous mixed-media paintings, intimate drawings, and skate decks bearing the artist’s signature birds, the exhibition reflects both the momentous and mundane, particularly loss, grief, and the therapeutic powers of nature. “Wanderland” (2026), mixed media on paper, framed A portmanteau of wander and wonderland, the title...

After a 10-month search, the New Museum in Manhattan announced today that its artistic director of 12 years, Massimiliano Gioni, has been appointed as its next director. Gioni succeeds Lisa Phillips, the institution's second-ever director, who announced her retirement after 26 years at the museum last September. With 20 years of experience and several title changes, Gioni not only co-established the New Museum Triennial, which launched in 2009, but has curated solo exhibitions for artists including Lynda Benglis, Judy Chicago, Theaster Gates, Hans Haacke, Nicole Eisenman, Faith Ringgold, Kahlil Joseph, Marta Minujin, Chris Ofili, and Raymond Pettibon. In 2021, Gioni helped realize the late Nigerian...

The Fourth of July fireworks and barbecues are behind us, but America 250 — and all its attendant propaganda — is still in full swing. Thankfully, artists, critics, curators, and museum professionals across the nation provide a deep well of books to make sense of this apocalyptic anniversary, using it as an opportunity to uncover ugly truths about United States history that the Trump administration and political right is doing its best to scrub from the record. Artist Keisha Scarville's series of images meditating on her father's passport explores the dimensions of the fraught document, while a photographer chronicles the annual tradition in which drag queens flood Fire Island on the Fourth of...

An exhibition of some 70 artworks by the Spanish artist Remedios Varo will open at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, a destination museum on the coast just north of Copenhagen, this fall. The show, “Painting Magic,” is on view from September 18, 2026, through January 10, 2027, and includes examples of Varo’s paintings, drawings, and photographs. It will subsequently travel to the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Varo was born in Spain in 1908 and left for Paris when she was 19, where she fell in with artists like André Breton, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, and Leonora Carrington. She settled in Mexico City in the early 1940s, where her career blossomed. She had her successful exhibitions in 1955 and 1958,...

Spanish-American art historian Salvador Salort-Pons has announced the discovery of a previously unattributed portrait by Spanish Baroque painter Diego Velázquez. In an article for ARS Magazine, published by the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Salort-Pons, who is the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts revealed a methodology combining archival research and X-ray imaging to […]

Loro Piana, the Italian luxury brand known for its high-end wool and cashmere garments, shot its fall/winter 2026 ad campaign at a trio of unexpected (for a fashion brand, at least) locations in Houston: the Menil Collection and private de Menil residence, both run by the Menil Foundation, and the nearby Rothko Chapel, a non-denominational space founded by John and Dominique de Menil that is full of serene, monochromatic canvases by the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko. The fashion house approached the Menil Collection last fall, and the campaign was shot—by Mario Sorrenti—over four days this spring. The four teaser photos below utilize the Rothko Chapel and the de Menils’ private home as...

“Every ruin feels like a message”

The Fundación Kahlo, the New York–based nonprofit established by the family of the iconic painter Frida Kahlo, has announced the launch of a new prize to support emerging Mexican artists. Underwritten by the auction house Phillips, the Kahlo Art Prize will be awarded every other year and come with a $50,000 stipend, as well as opportunities for the winner’s work to be exhibited in Mexico City at the recently opened Museo Casa Kahlo. “Through the process of opening the museo and welcoming the globe into Frida’s world, there has been one constant refrain: Más amor, más família, más Mexico – more love, more family, more Mexico,” Mara Romeo Kahlo, the artist’s grandniece and heir who serves as...

The cultural activist group that led a historic strike and rally at this year’s Venice Biennale over Israel’s inclusion in the international exhibition has called for a mass mobilization on July 17, when the US Ambassador to Italy, Tilman Fertitta, is scheduled to arrive in Venice. The group, Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA), announced the action in an Instagram post published today, inviting supporters to gather at 4 p.m. at Campo San Zaccaria, a square in central Venice just steps from the Church of San Zaccaria, where Fertitta’s yacht is expected to dock. In addition to being an ambassador, Fetitta is also the largest shareholder of Wynn Resorts and the cousin of brothers Frank J. Fertitta III and...

According to the General Authority for Antiquities and Museums in Yemen, 28 Yemeni artifacts held in London have been looted from their country of origin. Of these objects, eight were auctioned in early July by Bonhams and Apollo Art Auctions, and the remaining twenty were found in the collection of the British Museum. A release […]

John Giorno, "LIFE IS A KILLER" (2018), acrylic on canvas (photo courtesy Giorno Poetry Systems; all other photos Tara Anne Dalbow/Hyperallergic)LOS ANGELES — Through a sleek, ergonomic handset, the voice of poet Diane di Prima recites “Revolutionary Letter #7” (1971), in which she imagines a million earthworms tunneling under society’s oppressive structure until it falls. Press another button on the touch-tone phone resting on the round white table, and you may hear Frank O’Hara promising that “We shall have everything we want and there’ll be no more dying,” or John Giorno observing that “the meeting of the two minds is the awareness of the space they are sharing together.” 

On Tuesday, the auction house Phillips said its spring season generated $507 million in auction sales, a 60 percent increase from a year earlier, as a record-breaking watch business and stronger demand for high-value consignments helped propel one of the house’s best performances in recent years. The auction house said average lot value increased 55 percent over the same period, while maintaining a 90 percent sell-through rate by lot. Evening sales achieved a 94 percent sell-through rate by lot and 99 percent by value, and the season’s hammer-price-to-low-estimate index reached 165 percent. Watches accounted for $235.5 million of the total—nearly half of Phillips’ auction sales this spring—proving...

The New Museum in New York has named Massimiliano Gioni as its new director, beginning August 1. Gioni, who has served as the institution’s artistic director since 2014, succeeds Lisa Phillips, who announced her departure last fall after twenty-six years in the role. He is the third person to lead the museum since its 1977 founding as the New […]

It’s becoming a familiar tune: A jewel heist took place at a French museum. In the early hours of the morning on Sunday July 5, the Musée Lalique in France was robbed of around 20 pieces of jewelry, worth about €4 million (approximately $4.5 million). The French newspaper Le Monde reports that around 5:30 am, a “gang of masked […]

Since its foundation in 1931, the institution has promoted climate action across all its activities

In his characteristically illustrative, enigmatic style, Phlegm’s monochrome compositions evoke wonder, mischief, and riddles. Hybrid figures, strange interactions, and uncanny combinations of objects fill his idosyncratic murals, about which we can only speculate the meaning. “I think a lot about the barriers between people understanding each other, and I think I enjoy making artwork that floats in some grey area,” the London-based artist tells Colossal. The past several years have been dominated by a fascination with copper engraving, “to the point where I pretty much stopped painting murals,” Phlegm says. He’s spent much of the time in an almost monastic reverence to printmaking techniques of...

Our round-up of the latest art publications

The School of London artist, equally at home in Soho society and rural Scotland, was also a noted painter of celebrities

A new reading of the life and work of Beuys is no hagiography, seeing Beuys as someone who was fiercely determined and created myths about himself

Topics covered in the publications range from a Renaissance sculptress and Baroque Rome to 1930s Manchester and Frida Kahlo

Although Amelia Cross subscribes to the belief that our sartorial choices are a way to signal who we are and what we care about, she also knows there are more subliminal details hiding in personal style. A nametag curling at the edges or a pen bleeding through a shirt pocket stand in stark contrast to a perfectly pressed collar or shiny brogues, but each also has the potential to conceal or obscure. These covert elements are what the London-born artist is most interested in unpacking. After receiving a degree in bespoke tailoring at the London College of Fashion, followed by a master’s in painting at the Royal College of Art, Cross began to meld the two disciplines. “I originally painted figureless...

Mesdames et Messieurs, this summer's broadcasts from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence begin this weekend!

Large, a major new contemporary art centre on Paris's Île Seguin, opens with an ambitious inaugural exhibition curated by Cecilia Alemani

Jemma Appleby has won the Royal Academy’s £35,000 Charles Wollaston Award for the most distinguished work in the Summer Exhibition 2026.

IWM London will open the UK’s first exhibition dedicated to exploring how war affects children

I think Patanè did far more than just hold it together: he did full honor to Verdi.

Harmony Korine’s EDGLRD has teamed up with Converse to push the Chuck 70 into unfamiliar territory, transforming the classic silhouette... Read More

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.
Delcy Morelos, “origo”, installation view at the Barbican, London, 15 May – 31 July...

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...

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

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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...

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.

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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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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