MIAMI BEACH — For the third year in a row, a coalition of Miami artists and activists met at City Hall near the Miami Beach Convention Center today, December 6, on the busy Saturday of Art Basel to raise their voices and handmade signs in protest of the event’s ties to the genocide in Gaza. This time, the advocacy group Artists 4 Artists also joined the action to call for a boycott of the next edition of the fair in 2026, citing the event's impact on both the environment and the local arts community. After being relocated from the front of the Convention Center last year by dozens of Miami Beach police officers, several of the organizers are involved in ongoing litigation with the city of Miami Beach...

At 54, Nancy Popp is visioning for their long-term project 'under°veloped'. They're thinking more deeply about long term histories, legacies and larger structural fundamentals. If their work didn't change it wouldn't be authentic to the changes in their self and life. They don't see much change after turning 50 to what they were doing in their late 40s, but there is a difference to what they were doing in their 30s physically. What's actually hard about being an artist at this point?  Time...

One of the top comments on a new video from the Victoria and Albert Museum reads as follows: “I think it is time to have a renaissance of mourning. In this age of sanitized and hidden grief, it would be a welcomed relief for a more refined mourning experience.” This commenter is responding to two V&A curators unboxing a collection of 19th-century objects common in Victorian mourning traditions. Through a variety of garments, ephemera, and photos, the pair showcases the elaborate rituals and rites people once used to honor the dead. The video highlights a black, silk gown with tiny pleats, delicate lace, and sequins, along with jewelry made from semi-precious jet stones, and brooches containing human hair....

Floating Pavilion Reconfigures Rijeka’s Waterfront Public Space
 
PlivaTri is a floating triangular pavilion installed off the coast of Rijeka, Croatia, as part of the MEDS Design Workshop 2025. Conceived as a public structure addressing the limited availability of comfortable beachfront space, the pavilion forms a geometric intervention within the Adriatic landscape. Its triangular plan incorporates an open central void and a perimeter walkway that supports activities such as swimming, resting, and small-scale gatherings. The pavilion’s form produces a defined relationship between water, city, and port, framing views and creating varied spatial conditions depending on movement, light, and...

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A consideration of Anika Kildegaard’s extraordinary recital in Philadelphia—and the oddity of recitals themselves. 

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buildings by Frank gehry that shifted the world
 
With the death of Frank Gehry at 96, the design world is revisiting the buildings that reshaped cities, reoriented cultural institutions, and redefined what architecture could look and feel like. Across more than six decades, Gehry created works that fused sculptural ambition with technical innovation, pushing the boundaries of form, material, and emotion. Below, a closer look at a selection of the projects that most clearly express his influence.
 
Take a trip back in time here to revisit a collection of his physical models displayed at Milan’s Triennale Design Museum during the 2009 exhibition ‘Frank O. Gehry: Since 1997.’
Frank Gehry at the 12th...

Portable mazda suitcase car for airports and travels
 
Back in the early 1990s, Mazda built a suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle for airports that fits inside hard-shell luggage. A project coming from an internal contest called Fantasyard between 1989 and 1991, the concept automobile was built by seven of the company’s engineers from their manual transmission testing and research unit. They wanted a vehicle to move around airports faster, so the team bought a pocket bike and the largest hard-shell Samsonite suitcase, size 57 cm by 75 cm. They used parts from the pocket bike, including its 33.6 cc two-stroke engine that produces 1.7 PS. The handlebars went inside the suitcase, the rear wheels...

This month’s theme – “Opera singers celebrate the holidays” – conjured up a vast lexicon of memories of growing up in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Market, market, market. That's all we've been hearing about lately. First it was the November evening sales in New York, and this week it was the Miami fairs. Here at Hyperallergic, we cover these events critically and keep in mind that there are other, more important things happening in the art community. It so happens that our Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia is a Miami native who knows the city beyond this once-a-year escapade for art worlders. She was there this week to cut through the BS and see through gimmicks ranging from a revolving library on the beach to Beeple's robodogs of famous men. I recommend reading her stinging commentary: Visitors photograph Beeple's "Regular Animals"...

There’s a rare circle of artists that exists within photography: those whose creative genius came to light posthumously. Their images, once overlooked, misunderstood or simply hidden from public view, now serve as a touchstone for the medium. Perhaps the most famous example is Vivian Maier, whose New York street photography caught the world’s attention in 2013, four years after her death and six years after storage locker sales in Chicago unearthed thousands of her photos and negatives. Another is Francesca Woodman, whose black-and-white portraits of herself and female models gained critical acclaim after her premature death at 22. Now, joining that list is Herbert Smith, who passed away in 1987, leaving...

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scenarii édition debuts furniture series at design miami 2025
 
At Design Miami’s 20th edition, Paris-based architects and designers Berenice Curt and Caroline Duncan introduce the first chapter of Scenarii Édition, a new curatorial line extending their ongoing investigations within Berenice Curt Architecture. Presented in collaboration with The Spaceless Gallery, the debut features two pieces, the Tripodal chair and the Torii table. Both works rely on hand-polished stainless-steel frameworks, setting the stage for material experiments ranging from reclaimed wood to mycelium-grown textiles.
 
Scenarii Édition positions collectible design as a site for rethinking material life cycles. The studio’s...

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In occasione della tappa genovese della compagnia Nanou, abbiamo incontrato Marco Valerio Amico negli spazi del Teatro Akropolis, poche ore prima che Arsura e Specie di spazi andassero in scena nell’ambito della rassegna Testimonianze Ricerca Azioni. Il cofondatore del Gruppo Nanou ha condiviso visioni, processi e motivazioni che attraversano il lavoro della compagnia e ne definiscono l’identità. Anche in Arsura si ritrovano gli snodi principali da cui transita la poetica dei Nanou. Una poetica che evoca, piuttosto che rappresentare, mondi interiori e sensoriali, usando corpo, spazio, suono e astrazione per creare un’esperienza che sfugge a schemi definiti e apre nuove visioni. Il corpo per loro è...

A new section for digital art at the fair this year, Zero 10, coincides with a flight to secondary material, suggesting that an adapting market may also be a bifurcating one

The Pérez Art Museum Miami’s new chief curator sees Reefline as a model for a type of environmentally restorative public art that can be replicated globally

Nora Lawrence, the executive director of Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley, shares her favorite sculptures from the fair

The project “invites fairgoers to reflect, respond and enact change through signing a petition that demands the closure of Alligator Alcatraz”, Amnesty says

The fair is committed to centring both Black artists and Black audiences

Frank Gehry, one of the world’s most celebrated architects and a towering intellect whose designs transformed the cities they inhabited, died on Friday, December 5, at the age of 96. The Pritzker Prize-winning architect suffered a respiratory illness before his death at his home in Santa Monica, California, his chief of staff told the New York Times.A monumental figure who demystified modern architecture and an early adopter of computer-driven design, Gehry became beloved for his luminescent, curvilinear structures that appeared to defy gravity. His postmodern designs of museums, concert halls, and libraries have become destinations for tourists as much as the venues themselves. His most revered...

MA.DE BISTRO reInterprets Traditional Vietnamese Architecture
 
MA.DE Bistro is a contemporary complex by AN NAM Design and Build located within the pine forest of Mang Den in Vietnam’s Central Highlands. The restaurant design incorporates regional cultural references, drawing from the traditional Rông house to establish its architectural identity. A roof composed of three interlinked peaks forms the primary visual element, creating a rhythmic profile that echoes the surrounding mountain landscape.
 
The 1,000-sqm site is bordered on three sides by forest, influencing the project’s spatial arrangement and environmental response. Instead of replicating vernacular structures, the design adapts their...

It’s been two years since I last made the trek to Miami Beach in December. Despite the Miami edition of Art Basel being the only art fair to carry a scarlet letter for being “as much about the parties as the art,” it remains the most important fair in the US. And, if we’re being honest, every fair week—from Paris to Los Angeles to Hong Kong—is packed with events and openings, dinners, parties, and after-parties. You can’t make it to everything, especially in Miami. But for you, dear reader, I tried. My week kicked off Monday night, when I touched down at Miami International at 9:30pm—just a half hour delayed. Untitled Art was throwing its party for exhibitors at The Moore, a private social...

The city of Detroit has a new public artwork, one that memorializes the lead character in a cult classic film set in the city—nearly four decades after the film was released and some 15 years after the statue was first proposed. The bronze statue of RoboCop measures over 11 feet high and weighs in at some 3,500 pounds.  Directed by Paul Verhoeven, the ultra-violent satire RoboCop (1987) stars Peter Weller as police officer Alex Murphy, who, in a near-future, crime-ridden Motor City, is killed by a criminal gang. He is then revived by sinister megacorporation Omni Consumer Products as a crime-fighting cyborg and unwitting ambassador for its plan to privatize the police force. As he struggles to regain his...

Frank Gehry, an award-winning architect whose designs for museums proved widely influential, died on Friday in Santa Monica, California, at 96. According to the New York Times, which first reported the news, the cause was a brief respiratory illness. More so than perhaps any other architect of the past half-century, Gehry defined the field of museum architecture. His designs, often composed of sloping, incongruous forms, helped move art institutions in a new direction, showing that they need not only be set in Neoclassical pantheons or hard-edged modernist structures. The most famous of his museum buildings was for the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Spanish museum opened in 1997 in a city that was economically...

Archaeologists digging beneath the 19th-century Palace of Westminster, home to the United Kingdom's Parliament, unearthed scores of artifacts dating back 6,000 years, the Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal Delivery Authority announced last month. As part of a three-year investigation that will inform upcoming restoration work, archaeologists discovered 60 flint flakes they believe were used as tools around 4,300 BCE during the Mesolithic or early Neolithic period. The archaeologists also uncovered additional items, including 800-year-old footwear and a 19th-century beer jug. The group noted that the flint artifacts predate Stonehenge's earliest earthworks by 1,000 years. At Stonehenge,...

The two-year MFA in Design at the University of California, Davis encourages interdisciplinary, research-driven work from students who have access to the extensive resources of a top-tier public university. The curriculum supports individual creative and scholarly practices while guiding graduates through core courses taken with their cohort.The program culminates in a public exhibition at the Manetti Shrem Museum, along with a thesis presentation and written document archived by the department. Students engage with leading designers and scholars through events such as the Alberini Family Lecture Series and the Research in Design Lecture Series, and they receive mentorship and funding to present work at major...

After six days of dedicated surveillance, New Zealand authorities have recovered a diamond-encrusted Fabergé egg from a thief accused of swallowing it.  The 32-year-old man allegedly picked up the egg at Auckland’s Partridge Jewellers and ingested it late last week. The heist was swiftly foiled, as police arrived within minutes of the staff’s report and detained the suspect. “Police can confirm the pendant was recovered,” a police statement said Friday. “It is now in police custody,”  A police officer was assigned to watch over the man while waiting for nature to deliver the pendant back to its owner—and the suspect, in due course, to justice. The special-edition locket, valued at $33,585, was...

South Africa’s Stevenson Gallery will close the Johannesburg branch of the gallery after 17 years in operation. The Johannesburg gallery’s last day will be December 12, according to a post on Instagram. “We are deeply grateful to every artist, collector, friend and community member who has been with us on this journey,” the gallery wrote. The gallery’s locations in Cape Town (the South African city where it was founded in 2003) and Amsterdam will remain in operation. The final exhibition in Johannesburg will be Tofo Bardi’s show of paintings and ceramics, “Underground: Nothing to Hold,” which was scheduled to be on view until January 31, but will close next Friday instead. Michael Stevenson...

James Lipnickas has used horror tropes for a long time. But his works were once much more linear. That used to mean monsters, aliens, and isolated landscapes that had something haunted about them. A giant worm pouring its effluence into a cabin. A force within exploding the cabin.
The horror has changed. Click above to read the full article.
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Located in the Yangtze River Delta, Hangzhou is enmeshed in waterways. The city’s center abuts a large lake and sits just north of the Qiantang River, infamous for its magnificent tidal bore that sweeps through the region each fall. For their latest project presented in the Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art at Zhejiang Art Museum, Jin Choi and Thomas Shine merged aspects of this local environment and culture with their distinctive process. The artists, who work as Choi + Shine Architects, often create sweeping lace isntallations crocheted in partnership with local communities. Choi typically designs the motif, while Shine focuses on the structure itself. Suspended above reflective surface mimicking a dark body...

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Though perhaps showing its age, a storied production of La bohème nonetheless makes a welcome return to the Los Angeles Opera

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At the intersection of art, technology and the political imagination, Hito Steyerl’s latest exhibition, The Island, opens at Fondazione Prada’s Osservatorio in Milan as a meditation on the fluidity of time, space and knowledge. In a world simultaneously inundated by digital images and threatened by rising seas, Steyerl interrogates the structures through which we perceive reality. Her work situates itself in the uneasy spaces where scientific discovery, historical trauma and cultural myth converge, posing questions that are urgent, unsettling and deeply resonant. The Island is not merely a presentation of objects or images; it is an ecosystem of ideas that operates as much in conceptual registers as in...

Our collaboration with MPB, the UK’s leading camera reseller, has explored the deep relationships that filmmakers form with their equipment. MPB: The Next Shot set out to celebrate how cameras move beyond their function, becoming catalysts for ideas and unlocking new ways of seeing and storytelling. As we bring the series to a close, we are sharing a highlights video, bringing together moments from all four films and celebrating the joy of passing on kit, knowing it will shape a new story in someone else’s hands. Across the series, one theme emerged again and again: our creative identities are tied to the kit we use. Cameras age with us. They absorb our experiences – the knocks, the breakthroughs, the...

C’è una fotografia forse più emblematica delle altre. Ritrae una fila composta esclusivamente di persone nere alluvionate in attesa di assistenza. Su di loro incombe la gigantografia del più elevato livello di vita, ovvero quello di una famiglia bianca (genitori, figli e cane): There’s no Way Like the American Way. È per me questa la foto che può fungere da cover e da titolo di questo contributo critico che racconta la retrospettiva di Margaret Bourke-White, organizzata dalla Fondazione Palazzo Magnani di Reggio Emilia, in collaborazione con Camera – Centro italiano per la Fotografia, presso i Chiostri di San Pietro, con l’efficace e divulgativa curatela di Monica Poggi. La fotografia ha per...

El Salvador will make its inaugural appearance at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to take place May 9–November 22, 2026. The country will be represented by Salvadoran American artist J. Oscar Molina, whose exhibition will be staged at the Palazzo Mora in Venice’s Cannaregio district. El Salvador–born poet and art historian Alejandra Cabezas is curating the […]

The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) will inaugurate a new fair next year, after canceling the 2025 edition of its flagship Art Show, established in 1988. Titled the ADAA Fair, the novel event will run November 12–16, 2026, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, the traditional home of the Art Show. Whereas […]

The Rijksakademie in Amsterdam has named Laurence Rassel as its next director. Rassel arrives to the academy from école de recherche graphique (erg), the Brussels art school where she has served as director since 2016. She will step into her new role on March 1, 2026. Rassel succeeds Emily Pethick, who departed the post this […]

London’s Serpentine and the New York–based FLAG Art Foundation have announced the establishment of the UK’s largest contemporary art prize. The Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize will be awarded biannually over a span of ten years to five international artists, each of whom will receive £200,000 (about $270,000). Recipients of the honor, which is […]

When we look at a leaf, we see a predominantly flat plane, intersected by a midrib and myriad veins, or perhaps dotted with ailments like fungi or the eggs of insects. But imagine what these bits of foliage would look like if blown up like balloons. Artist Syd Carpenter responds “to the garden as a source of form” with her Expanded Leaf series. Imagining a papery leaf if it were inflated, perhaps to the size of a cat, the resulting forms take on “the girth, weight and physicality of animals,” she says. Carpenter is known for her clay-based practice exploring the body, land, agriculture, and African American history. She taps into the ancient legacy of the material, merging the timeless medium with...

At 55, Marni Myers is fired up about cyanotype multi-layering. They're investigating the expressive possibilities of alternative photographic processes through cyanotype, layered imagery, hand-applied toners, and embroidered details. Their approach resists precision in favor of painterly textures, imperfect edges, and tactile presence, revealing their hands-on approach within a process historically tied to replication and science. Since they reached 50, their dedication to their craft...

Peter Ferguson creates scenes filled with intriguing characters often caught in very strange situations. His people quite often exist in darkly humorous fantasy realms where elements like vintage fashion and the occasional nod to pop culture connect their reality to ours. Read the full article by clicking above!
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A visit to Tramps, Arcadia Missa, Santi, and Season 4 Episode 6

Known as Tse Bitai to the Diné (Navajo) people, or “winged rock,” Ship Rock in New Mexico is an otherworldly geological formation rising out of the desert that can be seen for miles around. The result of a massive volcanic eruption, the unique outcrop consists of a monolithic stack and at least six radiating, serpentine ridges of long-cooled lava. Originally, Ship Rock was likely a few thousand feet below the ground, but gradual erosion over tens of millions of years has revealed its jagged shape. For Karol Nienartowicz, who won second place in this year’s International Landscape Photographer of the Year contest, the natural landmark was an irresistible place to document from the air as a storm rolled...

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Liz Miller Kovacs photographs herself in scarred, extractive landscapes, exploring the link between environmental destruction and the objectification of femininity. The Aesthetica Art Prize shortlisted series Supernatural sees the artist draped in colourful fabric, her identity obscured and her body separated from her surroundings. Her poses echo classical paintings and art-historical archetypes. These gestures sit uncomfortably against the backdrop of ecological damage – mines, quarries and industrial ruins – calling attention to the violence enacted on both land and body. The work challenges viewers to consider how future societies might interpret these ruined environments and what they reveal about...

The story begins, as so many do in the history of modern photography, with an image: a woman behind the camera, calibrating light, waiting for a moment to materialise, composing an understanding of the world. Women Photographers 1900-1975: A Legacy of Light, which recently opened at NGV International, expands this gesture into a sweeping, multi-generational portrait of creative ingenuity. More than 300 works by over 70 artists illuminate the breadth and complexity of women’s contributions to photography during one of the most turbulent and transformative eras in modern history. The exhibition begins with a single idea – that women’s perspectives shaped photography – and transforms it into a global...

One of my favorite Christmas recordings is Kathleen Battle's A Christmas Celebration.

Noor Riyadh 2025 immerses the city in 125 artistic positions, weaving together history, architecture, and rapid urban change in an unforgettable display of public art. Shinji Ohmaki, Liminal Air Space-Time, 2025. Photo: Suzette Bell-Roberts Having […]

A monumental exhibition reconnecting Mexico, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia Galo B. Ocampo, Moro Dance, 1946. Collection of National Gallery Singapore. Courtesy of the National Heritage Board, Singapore. Opening at the Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico […]

 
We’re pleased to announce that the next book in our AUTO PHOTO series, AUTO PHOTO 04, is now available to pre-order in our online shop!
Featuring the Top 100 images selected for AUTO PHOTO Awards 2025, AUTO PHOTO 04 celebrates and showcases the best creative automotive photography from photographers around the world.
This year’s Awards were judged by a panel of experts from the automotive and photographic industries: Karen Harvey MBE (Founder and Creative Director of Shutter Hub and AUTO PHOTO), Charles Gordon-Lennox, The Duke of Richmond (Founder of Goodwood Revival and Festival of Speed), Hugh Chambers (CEO of Motorsport UK), Alessia Glaviano (Head of Global PhotoVogue and Director of the Photo Vogue...

A historic first for the Ghanaian artist and a shift in global cultural influence Photo: Almudena Caso Burbano. Courtesy the artist and APALAZZOGALLERY In a milestone moment for contemporary art, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has […]

In un’epoca segnata dalla crisi delle grandi narrazioni e dal progressivo sfaldamento delle certezze politiche ereditate dal Novecento, la pratica artistica che si confronta con la dimensione storica e geopolitica assume una valenza epistemologica. Non si tratta più di rappresentare gli eventi o di commemorarli, ma di operare su di essi una complessa opera di riattivazione semantica, atta a far emergere dalle pieghe del passato le tensioni irrisolte che continuano a strutturare il presente. La mostra Pushing the limits, in corso a Bologna alla Galleria de’ Foscherari, si inscrive precisamente in questo territorio interstiziale, dove l’arte diventa strumento di contro-memoria e dispositivo critico capace...

For photographers, a website isn’t just a nice addition to your social media; it’s proof that you take your work seriously. When everyone has an Instagram feed, a portfolio site still stands apart. It shows that you care about presentation, craft, and the story behind each image. It’s a quiet way of saying: this isn’t a hobby. Hiring managers and clients notice that difference. Research shows that more than 90 percent of hiring managers visit portfolios when candidates include a link, and nearly as many say they find them valuable when deciding who to work with. A portfolio website lets people see the bigger picture: how you approach projects, how your work has evolved, and what makes you distinct....

It’s not surprising that there are two sets of lush arrangements in Mason Pott’s Chicago studio. Photographing live bouquets of bright sunflowers, daisies, and waxy apples or magenta orchids at their peak is the first step in the artist’s layered process. Post photoshoot, he translates these floral bunches into hyperrealistic paintings, with particular care in accurately capturing their textures and the interplay of light and shadow. Pott is known for his impeccable attention to detail, painting large-scale works in oil that immerse the viewer in fields of foliage. He often creates moody still lifes that approach such classic, timeless subject matter through a contemporary lens. In keeping with that mode...

Katie Heck has built an immense body of work that crosses disciplines, from painting to sculpture to film. Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
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