A three-level extension to an existing solid brick Art Deco home, this project is anchored around a courtyard garden at its core, creating a zone around which circulation becomes an essential aspect of the design, guiding the experience of the space and allowing for a fluid transition between the various living nodes.

Shenzhen Dapeng New District Starfire Discovery Camp is a comprehensive outdoor practice base integrating research-based education, agro-cultural tourism, and leisure experiences. It is adjacent to Dongshan Temple, with Dapeng Fortress and Jiaochangwei to the west. To meet diverse outdoor needs, the owner planned to add a canopy space beside the existing old buildings, serving both as shade and shelter from rain.

Two dozen cultural treasures will head home to Native American communities tonight, August 19, following a ceremony at the Speed Art Museum in Kentucky, where they are currently housed. The Louisville museum’s first repatriation under the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) includes artifacts that belong to the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, such as beaded bags, a turtle amulet, and a cradle board.In 2023, Speed curators connected with tribal representatives to determine which items in the museum’s collection were due for repatriation under NAGPRA. The act stipulates that items associated with a "particular Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization" must be...

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam recently received an exceptionally well-preserved 17th-century drawing book as a donation from the prominent Van Eeghen family in the Netherlands, the museum announced. The book, which has been in the safekeeping of the Van Eeghen family for more than three centuries, contains approximately thirty drawings, many of which depict biblical scenes. […]

On Tuesday, a federal judge granted the Trump administration permission to proceed with paint tests on the Eisenhower Executive Building. Trump’s desire, which is to coat the granite facade with white paint, has been met with significant pushback from historians who say that covering the historic building’s granite exterior with paint could trap moisture and […]

For many artists, designers, and writers, the daily project is a fruitful, if not invigorating, exercise. Whether it emerges in the form of a morning sketch or collection of objects gathered during walks, disciplined creativity has a certain allure, and many of us long for a regimen that pushes through blocks, demanding that we make even in the most uninspiring conditions. This is true for Damien Hoar de Galvan, who embarked on a daily sculpture project at the beginning of 2024 from his home studio in Milton, just outside of Boston. He decided that, for the next 12 months, he would fashion a small wood assemblage each day. “I thought it would be a good way to change up how I was making things, new...

Located in the heart of the historic La Candelaria neighborhood, Plaza de la Concordia is a site of high heritage value and a natural meeting point for students, residents, and tourists due to its strategic location next to Colegio La Candelaria and the gateway to Chorro de Quevedo.

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Bou Meng (1941–2026)Cambodian painter who survived the Khmer RougeHis ability to paint propaganda portraits of then-Cambodian dictator Pol Pot and other leaders, including China's Chairman Mao Zedong and North Korea's President Kim Il Sung, led to his being one of only seven people known to have lived through the Khmer Rouge torture center in Cambodia. He was one of the most recognizable figures of Cambodian genocide remembrance, notably testifying before the national courts against a prison chief in 2009. Later, he began painting murals of holy scenes in meditation centers and Buddhist temples....

Painter Haroutiun Galentz (1910–1967), orphaned and displaced during the Armenian Genocide, remains one of the 20th century’s most vital yet enigmatic modernist figures. He navigated the impossible demands of Lebanese nationalism, French colonialism, Soviet Stalinism, and Armenian socialism, but his work has been studied differently across these contexts. By reuniting his displaced works and reading them chronologically, Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Colour (2025) argues that the artist developed a singular modernist language rooted in color and psychological portraiture. This language, editors Vartan Karapetian and Marie Tomb claim, was not a rejection of his circumstances but a sophisticated response to...

The Colombian ministry of culture has compiled a preliminary report of damage to cultural sites in the seven departments closest to the 10 August earthquake’s epicentre, and in the Unesco-designated “Coffee Cultural Region”

A trio of paintings by Swedish-born artist Monica Sjöö are at the center of a legal dispute between London-based Alison Jacques gallery and Swedish-American couple Yoed and Natasha Anise. The couple allege that Jacques, who represents Sjöö’s estate, breached contract conditions in selling the paintings to them and subsequently rescinding the sale. The Anises, who […]

Cynthia Blanchard, the former owner of Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and the Dallas-based company 20cDesign have filed a defamation suit against numerous media outlets, as well as the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and its executive director, Barbara Gordon, over coverage of the 2024 sale of some of the tower’s furnishings. The suit, filed […]

Angie Nixon, a Florida congresswoman and Democratic Socialist with a track record of supporting universal health care, denouncing Israel's genocide in Gaza, and championing Black arts and culture, won the state's Senate primary race last night in a major upset. With less than a million dollars funding her largely grassroots campaign, she clinched 56% of the votes to beat out retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel and combat veteran Alex Vindman, a moderate with significant party endorsements and $16 million in backing. The 42-year-old Jacksonville native is now set to face incumbent Republican Senator Ashley Moody in the November general election.

From nearly 4,000 entries submitted by 1,338 photographers around the world, a striking selection has been shortlisted for the Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026. The handpicked images represent some of the finest photographic portrait work being made today, from intimate settings in which figures meet the viewer’s eye to candid scenes on city streets and rural expanses alike. Open to professionals and amateurs alike, the competition will select one winner to receives a £15,000 award plus a commission to be added to the collection of London’s National Portrait Gallery. An exhibition of the best entries will also be shown at the museum from November 5 to January 17, and the winner will be announced...

The house occupies a flat, well-oriented lot, with the building set along the neighboring property line and the front setback to form an L-shaped floor plan This leaves a large open courtyard at the center of the site. Openings face east, north, and west, bringing sunlight into the interiors throughout the day.

The Asian Cultural Council (ACC) is officially seeking applicants for its 2027 Global Grant Cycle.Designed for artists, arts professionals, scholars, and organizations, ACC fellowships provide the funding, freedom, and time to pursue open-ended research rather than final productions. This unique focus on process encourages grantees to foster deep international dialogue, build lasting relationships, and advance mutual understanding between the United States and Asia.To date, ACC has supported approximately 6,000 transformative exchanges across 16 disciplines and 26 countries and regions. For those ready to expand their research, collaborate globally, and join a vibrant international network of alumni, submit an...

Taiwanese artist participating in the 16th iteration of the Gwangju Biennale allege that exhibition organizers changed the name of their pavilion in an act of political censorship. The group’s proposal was submitted by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) and accepted under the name “Taiwan Pavilion” but was unilaterally changed on posters promoting […]

Chocó Pambil Refuge transforms a challenging slope into the spatial structure of a minimal house within the forest.

After multiple assaults from Moscow, now the artist community Nahirna22 faces eviction

In Brussels’ iconic Grand-Place, a summer tradition literally blossoms in monumental style. The city’s Flower Carpet event, which this year celebrated its 24th edition, celebrates art, community, and diplomacy in the heart of Belgium’s capital, which is also the hub of the European Union. From August 13 to 16, the event marked 160 years of friendship between the nation and Japan, inviting artist Hiro Sugiyama to design a city square-sized composition, which he conceived as a tribute to ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai. Titled “Neo Hokusai,” the monumental arrangement comprised more than 750,000 fresh dahlias, covering nearly 14,000 square feet. Framed with ornate patterns, the reimagining of the...

Works by Marie Bracquemond, Wifredo Lam, T.C. Cannon, Christina Quarles and many others are among the around 190 objects joining the collection

In Bayreuth, a confident Magnus Vigilius and luminous Jennifer Holloway attempt to elevate Wagner’s populist Rienzi.

The Chinati Foundation will carefully repair and weatherproof the Judd-modified buildings that house his 100 untitled works in mill aluminium

An A-Z of organisations and individuals that offer professional services to artists beyond traditional gallery representation

I've only heard one performance that could be described as 'filth.'

Alejandro Aguilar Canela finds profound value in what may be seen as some of our bleakest emotions. Delving into subject matters such as depression, anger, abandonment, fear, individuality, sexuality, and more, Canela strives to understand the multitudes within each, and how their shadowy paths have the ability lead us somewhere brighter. Though occasionally venturing into sculpture, the Austin, Texas-based artist specializes in drawing. His works range in size, with many of his compositions spanning two to four feet wide on both traditional paper and vellum. Canela largely employs graphite and fine line mechanical pencil, welcoming “mistakes” or inadvertent motifs—such as smudges and unplanned...

 
Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
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The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

“For me, paintings represent an attempt (sometimes more successful, sometimes less so) to grasp a ‘something’ that for some reason deeply moves me, agitates me,” says Turin-based artist Francesco Pirazzi. In atmospheric, dreamlike paintings, deceptively simple architecture, trees, walkways, and other features of the landscape glow amid uncanny lighting. “What drives my research is the feeling that something in reality is slightly off, that before my eyes lies an indecipherable enigma,” Pirazzi says, adding that he enjoys the way painting can encompass both reality and the “unknowable world,” and the ways they irresistibly converge. Deep shadows, minimalist archways, luminescent clouds, and...

Calling from 2066, Brendan Latimer argues that the best way to save opera might be to just blow up the standard repertoire altogether.

American Bach led a stirring rendition of Handel's Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, full of big questions and even bigger musical highlights.

I could not wrap what’s left of my mind around the concept of “filth and dementia” in opera

By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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By Victoria Thomas Photographer and ceramic artist Catherine (Cathy) Opie first shocked and rocked the fine art world with her self-portraits during the late 1990s. Today, her decades of work — often termed confessional — now serve as context for the far more enigmatic Holding Blue installation, on view at Regen Projects through July 3. The Los Angeles-based artist identifies as a leather dyke, lesbian cowboy, an elder, and as "Mama Cathy," with a mustachioed male alter-ego named Bo. Opie is...

“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...

By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...

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...

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 week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

Photographer Chester Higgins has spent more than six decades creating images that honor the presence, history, and achievements of people of African descent. Raised in rural southern Alabama during the height of the Civil Rights movement, he discovered photography as a student at Tuskegee University, a path that would eventually lead to a nearly forty-year career as a photographer for The New York Times. Chester Higgins: Shared Memories, an exhibition spanning six decades of his work, is on view at Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York through June 20, 2026. We spoke with him about what it means to respect your subject and tell their story in a way that is ‘unique, embracing, and nonjudgmental.’ Do you...

By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

Jain Temple in cave 32 at Ellora, 9th century CE Dr. David S. Efurd, a two-time Fulbright recipient, associate professor, and chair of art and art history, has spent decades documenting the Buddhist cave sites of western India. Armed with a notebook and a handheld camera, he has visited more than 80 caves and captured over 10,000 photographs, which are now available through Artstor. This extraordinary archive reveals remarkably preserved monasteries carved directly into volcanic basalt cliff faces, along with religious art, monuments, architectural details, and sacred spaces dating back to the second century BC. Efurd’s work is grounded in the practice of “slow looking,” in which he spends days closely...

 
Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...

Harry Adams, Protest Car, 1962, inkjet print, Courtesy of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center at California State University, Northridge. © Harry Adams. All rights reserved and protected. Ray Francis, Genie, 1971, gelatin silver print, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, 2023.91.3 Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985,’ currently on view at the Getty in Los Angeles, is a seriously powerful collection of work. Curated by Philip Brookman and Deborah Willis, it brings together “150 examples tracing the Black Arts Movement from its roots to its lingering impacts, from 1955 to 1985.” We spoke with Mazie Harris, assistant curator at the Getty, about how this exhibition came to be and why...

©Jon McCormack ©Jon McCormack Patterns: Art of the Natural World, published by Damiani and released to coincide with Earth Day (April 22, 2026), is a striking photobook by Australian photographer and conservationist Jon McCormack. The project emerged from a pivotal shift in McCormack’s practice during the COVID-19 pandemic, when travel restrictions confined him to a single location and, in turn, fostered a slower, more attentive way of seeing. “Repetition removed distraction. Because I wasn’t constantly moving on to a new destination, I could no longer rely on the excitement of elsewhere. I had to let the subject reveal itself more slowly,” he reflects. The result is a body of work unified by...

Filipino fishermen unload catches of Yellowfin tuna, Bigeye tuna, and Blue Marlin, after being at sea for approximately one month, at General Santos fish port, the Philippines, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. General Santos is known as the Philippines’ tuna capital and hub for tuna fishing and exports of the products. The city hosts numberous processing facilities where the fish, primarily tun, is packaged or canned for sale ot the Filipino market and for export worldwide. ©Nicole Tung for Fondation Carmignac Overfishing in Southeast Asia, on view until April 26, 2026, at the Bronx Documentary Center, is a powerful and layered exhibition by photojournalist Nicole Tung, laureate of the 15th Carmignac...

In the forest nothing stands still. Time layered through thoughts and feelings, leaves kicked and crunched as we walk. The trees talk to each other, sending mycelium messages, carbon gifts, and warnings of drought or illness. From ancient wisdom to popular culture, it’s all here.
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, did it make a sound? Of course it did. And if Jo Stapleton was there to capture the moment, there would be a visual symphony of light, shape and form to follow.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, this beautiful collection of 100 images by Jo Stapleton is an expressionist photographic account of her interactions with trees, forest and woodland, later remembered and...

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here. We also mark an...

The Undercurrent Surfaces There are moments in a country’s creative consciousness when the atmosphere tilts. For many of the designers showing at Zurich Fashion Week 2026, the seeds were sown during last year’s pre‑events. And so, after more than twelve months of preparation, this was the week their work stepped fully into the light — an undercurrent now rising into a transformative movement in modern style. As I walked into the Kongresshaus Zurich this February, the first edition of Zurich...