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Unesco has increased support following confirmed damage to protected archaeological sites across southern Lebanon

The Art Works is a central feature of the NGS’s 2026-30 strategic plan, which focuses on improving access to Scotland’s national art collection

Charting the Turkish city's history through the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, the V&A claims that the show will be “the first exhibition in the UK to
tell this story in full”

The Washington, DC institution has received a $15m gift from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, the bulk of which will go to shoring up its finances, infrastructure, staffing, conservation and digital systems

The Spanish cathedral will create a TikTok Live of the Pope’s blessing of the building on 10 June

Jongjin Park captures the memory of paper in porcelain
 
In Seoul, Jongjin Park works with materials that seem almost incompatible at first glance, bringing the softness of paper into the heat and permanence of porcelain. The Korean ceramic artist has developed a process that begins with ordinary sheets, dipped in watered down ceramic slip, tinted with hand mixed pigments, then folded, stacked, compressed, and fired until the paper disappears.
 
What remains is a ceramic body that still carries the memory of each crease, layer, and pressure mark, as if the kiln has translated a temporary material into something geological.
 
Park’s work sits at the meeting point between hand, fire, and material...

Egyptian artist Eman Khalifa has had a 30 year career as an entrepreneur and single mother raising a family, but art and creativity have always been there.

What happens when materiality becomes the driving force of design? How can a cultural infrastructure express its own identity? The Spanish Design Pavilion for World Design Capital Frankfurt Rhein-Main 2026 brings together the country’s creative innovation to address contemporary challenges through a reinterpretation of Gaudí‘s architectural legacy. Conceived as a reversible cultural infrastructure, the project activates public space while expanding the conversation around material use, circularity, and reuse. Rather than reproducing historical forms, the pavilion adopts a contemporary, operational approach. It highlights collaboration among Spanish industry, design and culture, exploring structural...

The phrase “LA’s new AI art museum” sends a shiver down my spine. But reporter Matt Stromberg, a longtime Angeleno, makes it a compelling subject in his latest dispatch. Harrowingly dubbed Dataland and founded by artist Refik Anadol, the new institution reminded Stromberg of Disneyland and made him feel “a bit like Neo in the Matrix” (derogatory).In our latest installment of our queer and trans elders interview series, Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang speaks with artist Nayland Blake, whose expansive body of work plays with eroticism and tinkers with desire. Pair that illuminating conversation with our list of seven art books about queer and trans art history, past and present, to celebrate the first...

Sagrada Família lights up tower of Jesus Christ for inauguration
 
One hundred years after Antoni Gaudí’s death, the Sagrada Família inaugurates the tower of Jesus Christ, bringing new significance to the basilica’s tallest and most symbolic structure (find designboom’s previous coverage here). Rising 176 meters above Barcelona and completed externally with the installation of its monumental cross, the tower is formally blessed on June 10th, 2026, during a ceremony led by Pope Leo XIV. A large-scale light spectacle created for the occasion transforms the tower into a luminous tribute to Gaudí’s creativity, vision, and enduring architectural legacy. Interior works within the structure are scheduled...

Negli ultimi anni il paesaggio industriale è tornato al centro dell’attenzione di artisti, fotografi e istituzioni. Non soltanto come testimonianza di una stagione produttiva conclusa, ma come patrimonio visivo capace di raccontare le trasformazioni economiche e urbane che hanno attraversato l’Europa dalla seconda metà del Novecento a oggi. In questo contesto si inserisce High Voltage, la mostra curata da Nicola Bigliardi presso StayOnBoard Art Gallery, che mette in dialogo le opere di Gabriele Basilico, Andrea Chiesi e Günter Pusch.
Gabriele Basilico, Andrea Chiesi, Günter Pusch, ”High Voltage”, installation view, 2026, courtesy StayOnBoard Art Gallery, Milano
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In 2026, mobility itself has become a status symbol

GRIMM marks its 20th anniversary with a new Amsterdam gallery and an artist residency programme at Château Val Croissant in Provence.

buzz lightyear leads porsche’s toy story 5-inspired 911 models
 
Porsche turns three of its iconic 911 sports cars into one-off tributes to Buzz Lightyear, Woody, and Jessie ahead of the release of Toy Story 5. Revealed on the red carpet at the film’s world premiere in Los Angeles, the bespoke vehicles have been created by Porsche’s Sonderwunsch division, which specializes in highly customized commissions. Developed in collaboration with Disney and Pixar, the project translates the personalities of the beloved characters into drivable automotive designs while supporting a charitable initiative benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the American Red Cross, and Starlight Children’s...

Nine-hour performance sees Florentina Holzinger transform spectacle, risk and nudity into a meditation on trust, care and collective experience.

Bamboo Canopy Installation by HCCH Studio Frames Sunken Plaza
 
Bent by Spring is a bamboo public art installation by HCCH Studio located in a historic park in Shanghai’s old city. The project is composed of ten clusters of bamboo poles that cantilever inward, forming a woven floral canopy above a sunken plaza. The structure establishes an elastic spatial field that operates simultaneously as overhead shelter and vertical enclosure.
 
Commissioned by the Power Station of Art for the Shanghai International Flower Show, the installation is positioned at the sunken entrance plaza of Gucheng Park along a pedestrian route connecting The Bund and Yu Garden. The site setting is defined by the dense urban fabric...

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Italian culture workers and arts collectives announced this week that they would be joining trade unions and other organizations across the country in participating in a “general cultural strike” on June 12. The strike will focus on supporting Palestine and championing workers’ rights. The organizations who communicated on Monday that they’d be part of the effort include […]

Galerie Templon has closed its Chelsea outpost in New York after four years in the location, Artnet News reports. Headquartered in Paris since its 1966 founding, the gallery joins the London-based Stephen Friedman and Timothy Taylor, both of which shuttered their New York branches in recent months. Mathieu Templon, who oversaw the New York space and is the son […]

Last Friday, three men who were convicted of stealing priceless golden artifacts from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands were sentenced to serve 47 months apiece in prison. In January of 2025, three thieves used dynamite and a crowbar to breach a door to the museum. They ultimately made off with golden treasures that included the helmet of Coțofenești, […]

How about them Knicks? (I’m writing this after Game 3, so do not respond to this email accusing me of jinxing.) What with the basketball buzz, I almost forgot that soccer’s also in season with the World Cup group stage starting this week. In celebration, the Guggenheim will be screening artists Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s masterpiece about French soccer legend Zinédine Zidane starting Thursday. And the Tribeca Film Festival’s this week, too? Seems like when the art world starts to get a little sleepy, the rest of the city comes out to play. It’s also Pride Month! We kick off our series of interviews with queer and trans elders this June with Senior Editor Di Liscia’s interview with...

Belgian Surrealist René Magritte’s iconic 1959 painting Le château des Pyrénées is undergoing conservation after a young visitor to the Israel Museum pierced it with a pine cone. Ha’aretz reports that a six-year-old boy was visiting the Jerusalem institution with his family when he discovered the pine cone in the museum’s sculpture garden and used it to puncture the canvas several […]

Nayland Blake at work (all photos © Nayland Blake, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery)This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June.Nayland Blake kind of looks like an alt Santa Claus, with a septum piercing and a beard that ends in a braid, and this wonderful loud, braying laugh. Their work is cerebral, hilarious, charming, kinky, alarming. See the video “Negative Bunny” (1994) in which a fluffy and toxic stuffed bunny tries to convince you of its negative HIV status and cajole you into having sex with it. Or the installation “Mirror Restraint” (1988–89), a BDSM collar suspended between tilted floor-level...

Outside the 10-15 48th Avenue building, where a fire erupted on the morning of June 8 (all screenshots via Linda Ganjian on Instagram)A fire that broke out in Long Island City on Monday left two Queens artists scrambling to rescue decades of work and look for new studios.Linda Ganjian spent much of the day inspecting and salvaging 20 years of sculptures and mixed-media works from water damage after a fire erupted in the two-story loft at 10-15 48th Avenue where she and sculptor Ilan Averbach had studios, she said. Known for making intricate table-top sculptures that play with West African and American craft traditions and for her murals in JFK Terminals 4 and 8, Ganjian stored many of her works in cardboard...

If you've watched and loved Paris Is Burning, the iconic 1990 documentary about Black and Latinx ballroom culture in Harlem, this is the reading list for you. This month, delve into new books that highlight queer and trans artists — past and present — who have always shaped the realms of visual art and culture. One is a catalog about Vaginal Davis, who recently got a retrospective at MoMA PS1 after decades of influential work as a performer, curator, and filmmaker. Another is a jewel-box compendium of photographs of queer nightlife, from Sunil Gupta's portraiture to the Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina's critical trove of images and testimonials. As fascist legislation targets queer and...

Three men have each been sentenced to 47 months in prison for the theft of ancient Romanian gold from a Dutch museum, marking a major development in the 16-month-long case. In the pre-dawn hours of January 25, 2025, a band of thieves blasted open several windows at the Drents Museum in the city of Assen, ultimately absconding with a cache of Iron Age gold artifacts from the exhibition “Dacia—Empire of Gold and Silver” and triggering a diplomatic conflict between Romania and the Netherlands. Among the stolen loot was the prized golden helmet of Cotofenesti, dated to the 5th century B.C., as well as Dacian gold spiral bracelets unearthed in sacrificial pits.  Shortly after the theft, Romanian Prime...

From the beaded phrases of Jeffrey Gibson’s sculptural weavings to Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s canoe series to Raven Halfmoon’s fingerprint-textured tributes, a new exhibition marks the largest presentation of American Indigenous work in the U.K. to date. Opening next week, Hold to This Earth at Yorkshire Sculpture Park features nearly 70 pieces by 38 artists, which in turn represent 35 Tribal Nations. “(The artists) reference and honour ancestral knowledge whilst being steadfastly contemporary, asserting a powerful presence and countering narratives of erasure that too often position Indigenous cultures only in terms of the past,” says a statement from Tia Collection, from which the pieces are drawn....

The 16th Gwangju Biennial, opening this fall in South Korea (Sept 5-Nov. 15, 2026), has announced the names of the 40-some artists and groups who will be included in the exhibition. The list was first published by e-flux. The Biennial’s curator, “fast-rising” Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen, was announced in April 2025. Ho represented Singapore at the 2011 Venice Biennale, and organized the Asian Art Biennial in 2019. The title of Ho’s show, “You Must Change Your Life,” is drawn from the last line of Rainer Maria Rilke sonnet “Archaic Torso of Apollo.” The show focus on the continuous practice of change and transformation. The inaugural edition of the Gwangju Biennial opened in...

The Museum of Modern Art has announced a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian’s years in New York—in particular, the influence of the city’s boogie-woogie music scene on his art. The exhibition will bring together 30 of Mondrian’s paintings either made or completed between his move to New York in 1940 and his death there in 1944. A pioneer of 20th-century abstraction, Mondrian began as a figurative painter before co-founding the De Stijl art movement—an international collective dedicated to non-representational art—in 1917. After moving to Paris in 1919, he continued to develop his theories on abstract art, eventually settling on the format for which he is best known:...

Victor Wembanyama is much more than a transcendant basketball star. In the hours leading up to a decisive Game 3 victory in the 2026 NBA Finals—the first such game in New York City in 25 years—the 7-Foot-4 Frenchman spent the afternoon in Gramercy sketching. As seen in a viral video posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Wembanyama and his sister Eve, who also plays professional basketball, but in Europe, were spotted in Gramercy Park, one of just two private parks in New York City, sketching a statue of Edwin Booth, the 19th-century Shakespearean actor whose brother, John Wilkes, cemented his place in history by assassinating President Abraham Lincoln. Edwin’s statue, depicting him as Hamlet, was sculpted by...

“There was a moment when I was walking between forests and mountains in Tepoztlán, Mexico, while dandelions floated across my face,” Alexis Mata says. “In that instant, I experienced a strange sensation, as if I were standing on another planet, in another time, confronted with an entirely new landscape.” As the dainty seeds drifted through the air, Mata began to think about the ways life forms travel and embed themselves in new ecosystems. He was drawn to the idea of landing, of rooting and growing, which quickly became the basis for a poetic exhibition at Thinkspace in Los Angeles. “Lost Landing” (2026), oil on canvas, 160 x 160 centimeters Titled Lost Landing, the show features Mata’s glitched...

René Magritte’s The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) has gone to the conservation lab at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after being accidentally damaged by a young museum visitor. A boy visiting the museum with his family punctured the painting with a pinecone before a museum guard could stop him, museum staff told The Times of Israel. Sharon Tager, head of conservation at the museum, told Ha’aretz that repairs would take several weeks. “We’re experienced in conserving paintings and objects that arrive in poor condition, including works that have been stored since the Holocaust period,” Tager told Ha’aretz. “The first stage is treating the base itself because the hole caused the canvas to sag. We...

“Ice burns, and it is hard for the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost,” wrote A.S. Byatt in Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice. Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami characterizes ice in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman as a capsule that preserves the past “cleanly and clearly,” but possesses no future. In the ephemeral performance “MIZU,” frozen water takes on the form of a woman in an enchanting and emotive meditation on memory, time, and impermanence. “MIZU” is the brainchild of puppeteer and director Élise Vigneron’s Théâtre de L’entrouvert and Companie Furankaï, which encompasses the work of choreographer and circus artist Satchie Noro. The composition...

Matthew Travisano has such doubts about Douglas Cuomo's opera recently seen at Opera Parallèle.

Supported by an ingenious production and strong performances, Antonia Bembo's Ercole Amante makes a successful Paris Opera debut.

So much color in this beautifully agile voice.

The Serpentine Pavilion is one of the most anticipated events in the international architecture calendar. Since 2000, the annual commission in London’s Kensington Gardens has invited leading architects to design a temporary pavilion on the Serpentine Galleries’ lawn. Its inaugural structure was designed by the late Zaha Hadid, with subsequent contributions coming from the likes of Herzog & de Meuron, Oscar Niemeyer, Sou Fujimoto and others. The project has become a leading platform for experimentation and innovation, offering visitors the chance to experience cutting-edge design in a public setting. 2026 is a landmark year for the Serpentine, marking a quarter of a century since Hadid’s first commission...

Alla cerimonia di premiazione del Nikon Photo Contest a Tokyo nell’ottobre 2025, una giovane fotografa cinese ha attirato la mia attenzione. Si chiama Fang Xianhui e, con la sua opera “Mom’s scent”, si è distinta tra i partecipanti di 180 Paesi, vincendo lo Special Encouragement Award nella categoria foto singola. I giudici hanno definito la scena di cottura del pane al vapore, scattata in un villaggio rurale dello Shanxi, come un “campione di emozioni che colpisce dritto al cuore”: nessuna narrazione grandiosa, nessuna tecnica abbagliante, ma solo la più semplice essenza della vita quotidiana. Ciò che mi ha incuriosito ancora di più è che non era la prima volta che calcava un palcoscenico...

Al Magazzino del Sale di Cervia, la seconda edizione di Endless Summer conferma la solidità di un progetto che sceglie di sottrarsi alla grammatica convenzionale della mostra collettiva per assumere, piuttosto, la forma aperta di una costellazione curatoriale. Ideato da MAGMA APS e sviluppato come ciclo triennale (2025-2027), il progetto prende in prestito dal celebre documentario di Bruce Brown l’immagine impossibile di un’estate perpetua, trasformandola in una metafora percettiva e mentale: non una stagione, ma uno stato di sospensione in cui desiderio, memoria e dissolvenza convivono simultaneamente.
Riccardo Baruzzi, “Silvia”, 2010, stampa a getto d’inchiostro su carta, dittico, 45 x 38 cm...

Between 2010 and 2023, more than 1,243 council-run youth centres closed, according to UNISON. Meanwhile, one in three people in the UK say their local areas are in decline, with 13,000 high street shops closing in 2024. Across the country, council restrictions, diminishing spaces, gentrification and enduring prejudices see many communities under threat of erasure. Photographer Sophie Green presents a vivid portrait of the communities, subcultures and social gatherings that shape contemporary Britain, forming a vital archive of a changing nation. For over a decade, she has documented how rituals and traditions build connection, belonging and shared identity. From the adrenaline thrill of banger racing, to the...

"Never mind that more and more of these movies look and feel like TV shows"

What is prison for? Touted as both a means of punishment and correction, the U.S. carceral system rarely succeeds at the latter. According to the Department of Justice, more than 650,000 people are released from prison annually, with two-thirds being arrested again within three years. Rehabilitation is the purported justification for locking away more of our residents than most other nations, but clearly, the punitive system seldom accomplishes this goal. A new film by writer Marvin Wade and animator Evan Bode juxtaposes the counterproductive forces of the carceral system with the programs, resources, and true determination that make change possible. Presented by The New York Times‘ Opinion section,...

Double can mean many things. It may imply a duplicate, symmetry, a reflection, a twin, a splitting, or even a shadow self. There is an inherent duality that forms around two parts, which may or may not be in concert with one another. Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Rank was the first to describe the concept in an essay published in 1914, and Sigmund Freud ran with the idea in his 1919 book The Uncanny. For Freud, the phenomenon illustrated how the unconscious is actually a kind of second consciousness. Scottish psychoanalyst R.D. Laing drew on this foundation in his study of schizophrenia in the book The Divided Self, which delves into the nature of “real” and “false” selves. And in a literary sense, the...

June marks Pride Month, a time when communities around the world celebrate LGBTQIA+ identities while reflecting on the history of the movement and the ongoing fight for equality. Its origins are often traced to June 28, 1969, when a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in Lower Manhattan was met with resistance from patrons and local community members. The six days of protests that followed, known as the Stonewall Riots, became a turning point in the struggle for LGBTQIA+ rights and helped galvanise a new era of activism. More than five decades later, Pride continues to honour that legacy while creating space for visibility, solidarity and celebration. Art has long played a vital role in this story, offering a...

Dearest by Zeinab Diomande is a zine presenting a collection of paintings that, while not a formal series, share a cohesive visual language exploring themes of liquidity and the passage of time, achieved through the use of thinned paint and water. The pieces employ texture as a storytelling device, reflecting the rituals and ceremonies of the artist’s alter egos within imagined worlds.
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Opera Theater of St. Louis's summer festival opened last night and Parterre Box is celebrating by launching a new feature: custom travel guides!

Emma Hoffman reports on the glimmers of ecstatic artistry in Lise Davidsen's all-Schubert recital at Carnegie Hall with James Baillieu.

Contemporary art is undergoing a profound shift in how it is made, experienced and understood. At Aesthetica, we are responding to this moment with clarity, ambition and intent. What we are witnessing is not simple progression but a fundamental reconfiguration of how art circulates, gains meaning and operates within wider cultural systems. Across Aesthetica 20, we are building a living framework where exhibition, discourse and publication function as a single connected structure. The Future Now Symposium sits at the centre of this, extending the Aesthetica Art Prize into a space where ideas are exchanged, tested and developed in real time. We are not simply presenting contemporary art, we are interrogating its...

L’architettura quattrocentesca di Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel a Venezia si fa teatro di un dialogo vibrante, eppure straordinariamente eloquente con le opere di Su Xiaobai. La mostra raccoglie trentacinque lavori che ripercorrono la parabola creativa dell’artista, dai primi esperimenti con la lacca risalenti al 2003 fino alle sue più recenti evoluzioni. L’esposizione è curata da Stephen Little, curatore di arte cinese e capo dei dipartimenti di arte cinese, coreana e del sud – sudest asiatico al LACMA.
A render of the works by Su Xiaobai at Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel, image credit © Su Xiaobai Foundation, 2026. Courtesy of the Su Xiaobai Foundation
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Vivian Maier was born in New York on 1 February 1926. The street photographer spent the majority of her life between France and the USA, working as a nanny for several Chicago families. It was only after her death in 2009 that her 150,000 image archive was discovered. In the same year as Maier was born, across the city, Allen Ginsberg arrived on 3 June. His was a life of fame and notoriety, producing poetry, photography and activism that was foundational in the Beat Movement. His radical literary works left an indelible mark on American counterculture, with his renowned poem Howl becoming the subject of an obscenity trial in 1957. As far as artistic figures go, these two could perhaps not be further apart....

È certo che ogni avvenimento del passato continui a persistere ostinatamente nel flusso della storia politica, sociale e culturale contemporanea di un Paese. Talvolta questa presenza risulta così viva e profonda da modellare il presente e influenzarlo, offrendo racconti parziali e significativi. In questo senso, la storia non viene più intesa come un percorso esclusivamente individuale, bensì come un’esperienza condivisa, capace di instaurare un rapporto vivo con chi la incontra. Proprio all’interno di questa relazione si aprono nuovi spazi di comprensione, rendendo visibili dinamiche che spesso rimangono implicite.
MarÍa Leguízamo, Gerson Vargas, “Unos pocos buenos amigos”, installation view,...

Interior Gallery Photos by and ©Tim Hursley, courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum  As a world-class institution showcasing one of the most impressive collections of American art spanning five centuries, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has firmly placed Bentonville, Arkansas on the global cultural map. And, except for a few major holidays, the museum […]
The post Crystal Bridges Opens Impressive New 114,000 Square Foot Expansion first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

By A. Laura Brody What is the language of bat senses and beaver teethmarks? How does water communicate to soil and roots, and how do we translate the paths left by burrowing insects or the markings of trees? These are questions asked by the Journal of Therolinguistics exhibition at Descanso Gardens' Boddy House, on view now until July 5, 2026. Oscar Salguero has curated a fascinating exploration of the expressive worlds of plants and animals brought to life by international artists Aistė...

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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...