Investigators have arrested two men believed to have been involved in the audacious October 19 theft of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre in Paris. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in an October 26 statement that investigators made the arrests the previous evening. The suspects, both in their thirties, are residents of the department of […]

Manuel Álvarez Bravo is sometimes called the father of Mexican photography, but he did not reach the heights of his field on his own. He achieved his place in history through conversations and connections with some of the greatest minds of the 20th century in Mexico and abroad. Álvarez Bravo began taking pictures in the 1920s in the wake of the Mexican Revolution, a time when the art scene in Mexico City was thriving. Over the next seven decades, he worked with Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, André Breton, Luis Buñuel, Octavio Paz, and many others.   With over 100 photographs and ephemera, Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Collaborations illustrates that working with others was a central part of the artist’s creative...

Applications for the University of Arkansas School of Art’s graduate programs for the 2026–2027 academic year are now open and will be accepted through January 15, 2026. Housed in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, the school offers tuition-free graduate programs in art education, art history, graphic design, and studio art. Students accepted have access to support through graduate assistantships, fellowships, and research and travel grants. Informational sessions for each program are now available on the school’s YouTube page. MA Student Ella Nowicki Thanks to a generous gift from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation in 2017 — the largest ever given to a US university in...

Racquel Chevremont, a model, curator, and Real Housewives of New York star, has filed suit against her former romantic partner, artist Mickalene Thomas, whom she had already accused of harassment over the summer. Chevremont previously accused Thomas of creating an “abusive work environment” in a legal filing submitted in August. But where those allegations went largely without detail in that three-page filing, Chevremont’s 31-page lawsuit significantly expands on them. The suit was submitted on Monday in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. It centers on the working relationship between Chevremont and Thomas, who is known for her images of Black women in poses that both recall and subvert the...

Fair operator Art Basel has announced Karim Crippa as the new director of its Paris event. Cripps currently leads Art Basel Paris’s communications department and is senior editor of Art Basel’s editorial department. He will assume his new role on November 1, succeeding Clément Delépine, who in September revealed that he was leaving to join […]

Apparently the Centre Pompidou in Paris is where one of Daft Punk’s two robot-role-playing heroes fell in love with electronic music—and he kept the affair alive with a surprise DJ set for a music festival staged after the museum recently closed for five years of renovation.   As part of Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter helped put the banging, biting “French house” sound on the on the international dance-music map. And he broke his spell of relative reclusivity with his first proper DJ set in 16 years (and his first without hiding his face within a robot helmet in 24). In an Instagram post, the artist known as Fred again… (who was part of the same festival lineup at the Pompidou) wrote, “Thomas told me...

Andrea Gyorody has resigned as director of Pepperdine University’s Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art after the university removed and obscured artworks it deemed “political,” prompting accusations of censorship from artists, students, and faculty. Gyorody confirmed to Hyperallergic that Friday, October 24, was her final day in the role. Her departure follows the university’s decision earlier this month to alter or remove two works from the group exhibition Hold My Hand in Yours, which she curated. The administration reportedly turned off Elana Mann’s video Call to Arms 2015–2025 and covered a small “Abolish ICE” patch in the collaborative sculpture Con Nuestros Manos Construimos...

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Fifty-seven curators and museum directors—including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s Christophe Cherix and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)’s Michael Govan—signed an open letter in support of Louvre’s director Laurence des Cars, following the theft of the museum’s crown jewels that has captured global attention. The letter, published by Le Monde, expressed solidarity and support for the director and museum alike: “Our institutions are not immune to the world’s brutality. Today, they are facing increasingly violent acts. What happened to the Louvre is one of the greatest fears of museum professionals. Some of us have already experienced it. These risks weigh on each of our institutions....

How do we live when crises compound? Yesterday like today / Ayer cómo hoy is a poignant solo exhibition by Elmer Guevara that collapses time and space into dramatic paintings of unrest and upheaval. Layered with raging fires and warm California light, each work captures a tension between danger and mundanity, peering into the ways people cope amid chaos. Guevara was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, the neighborhood where his parents settled after fleeing civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s. When the police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted in 1992, people took to the streets, and riots spurred looting and arson. These tumultuous and violent events backdropped much of Guevara’s...

Once many objects came to the museum through conflict and colonial exploitation, but today they arrive by donations, bequests, purchases and commissions

Franco-Chinese painter Xie Lei, known for his dreamlike portraits of ghostly, ambiguous figures adrift in dark spaces, has been announced as the winner of this year’s Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s most prestigious contemporary art prize. The honor, presented annually by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art to an artist who is French […]

A fireworks show by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang outside the Centre Pompidou in Paris last week drew condemnation from activists who previously called for a boycott of the artist earlier this year. The Paris performance, titled Le Dernier Carnival (The Last Carnival), was staged on October 22, during Paris Art Week, to mark the museum’s five-year closure for renovations. Cai collaborated with White Cube gallery to transform the Pompidou’s facade with a combination of pyrotechnics and paint. To produce the work, Cai enlisted a custom-built AI model. Cai’s firework displays have been subject to sharp scrutiny in recent years. His 2024 show to kick off Getty’s PST ART festival in Los Angeles saw...

Canada’s biggest art fair appeared to benefit from the Toronto Blue Jays’ first crack at baseball’s top trophy since 1993

Cartier Flagship Reopens in the Miami Design District
 
The newly renovated Cartier flagship in Miami’s Design District stands at 147 NE 39th Street, its expanded form conceived by Diller Scofidio and Renfro as a fluid dialogue between architecture and the street. The building’s undulating glass facade carries a rhythm that catches the changing light and suggests a sense of motion. Across the curved surface, a delicate pattern has been translated from a 1909 Cartier brooch. It appears and disappears with each shift in sun or shadow, softening the boundary between interior and exterior.
 
Elizabeth Diller, founding partner of Diller Scofidio and Renfro, describes the facade as a surface ‘to draw in...

This sometimes muddled show gets lost in its own lyricism, but works by the likes of Marlene Almeida and a performance rescue the endeavour

A “perfect storm” of fire-retardant paint, humidity and the Covid-19 lockdown caused major damage to Louise Nevelson’s unique environment of nine painted wooden sculptures inside St Peter’s Lutheran Church in Manhattan

The patron and collector had a stellar career in the cosmetics business, but now surrounds herself with beauty of a different kind

In the uncanny world of Yuichi Hirako, the relationship between humans, nature, and the built environment plays out in vibrant color and unique proportions. The Tokyo-based artist creates large-scale sculptures, paintings, and installations that explore coexistence, often through compositions that appear crowded with domestic objects, food, cats, and figures whose faces are obscured by cartoonish head coverings shaped like trees or antlers. ORIGIN, Hirako’s expansive solo exhibition at the Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, invites us to enter a surreal, almost Alice in Wonderland-like realm. From salon-style hangings of numerous paintings and sculptures along an undulating plywood surface to a giant...

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Dmitry Matvienko led a performance of Mussorgsky and Shostakovich at La Monnaie with meticulous rectitude.

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a glimpse INSIDE Perrier-Jouët’s Maison Belle Époque
 
Nestled in the heart of Épernay, Champagne, Perrier-Jouët’s Maison Belle Époque opens its doors only to a rare few. Within its walls, more than two centuries of savoir-faire in champagne-making meet Europe’s largest private collection of Art Nouveau masterpieces — over 200 works by Gallé, Majorelle, Guimard, and their contemporaries — each reflecting the Maison’s enduring devotion to beauty and nature. Beneath the residence, three underground levels extend into the chalky soil, preserving thousands of bottles in various stages of fermentation, quietly connecting the art above to the craft below.
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Electric vehicles can recharge on motorways
 
A motorway that can recharge electric vehicles as they drive on the road has announced early test results on the A10 path, about 40 kilometers southwest of Paris. Named Charge as You Drive, the project is a collaboration between VINCI Autoroutes, Electreon, VINCI Construction, Gustave Eiffel University, and Hutchinson. The way it works is that under the asphalt of the A10 motorway, engineers have placed induction coils along 1.5 kilometers of road. These are connected to an electrical power supply and controlled by sensors and software, so when an electric vehicle with a receiver coil drives over this section, energy moves from the road coil to the receiver coil...

Balkrishna Doshi’s final work opens on the Vitra Campus
 
The Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, welcomes a deeply personal and spiritual addition with the completion of the Doshi Retreat, a contemplative space designed by Pritzker Prize laureate Balkrishna Doshi together with Studio Sangath, led by his granddaughter Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and her husband, Sönke Hoof. The project marks both Doshi’s first built work outside of India and the last he conceived before his passing in 2023.
 
Designed as a winding subterranean path, the steel retreat guides visitors beneath the surface of the Vitra Campus, bringing together Indian philosophy with meditative spatial rhythm. Along its curving walls, soft...

Top architects and artists used for AI prompts on midjourney
 
A study finds that Zaha Hadid and Wes Anderson are some of the top architects and artists used in prompts to generate AI images and videos on Midjourney. Conducted by the web-based video editing platform Kapwing, the research has studied how users refer to famous names and styles when creating their images and videos with AI. The findings show that the most used architect name on Midjourney was Zaha Hadid, with 63,103 mentions, with the next one being Frank Lloyd Wright at 13,361 mentions. Other architects frequently used on Midjourney to generate AI images and videos include Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Peter Zumthor, Kengo Kuma, Bjarke Ingels, Le...

This is not exactly a comfort "opera" as it is from Handel's late oratorio Theodora which is sometimes staged as an opera.

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Poulomi Basu stands as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary visual culture, a documentarian and visionary whose work surpasses mere representation to interrogate the structures of power, exclusion and gender-based violence that define the lived experiences of women in the Global South. Born in Kolkata in 1983, Basu attended the London College of Communication, where her mastery of photojournalism and documentary photography was recognised with distinction. Her trajectory is marked not only by aesthetic innovation but by a profound social conscience, merging art and activism into a practice that challenges audiences to reconsider the nature of storytelling, representation and empowerment. Across...

John Koenig’s The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of “emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express.” Within its pages, Koenig defines an array of obscure terms, from “sonder,” the awareness that everyone has a story, to “astrophe,” the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth. One notable term is “anemoia” – “the feeling of nostalgia for a time you’ve never known” – and this idea is at the heart of a new exhibition as part of Connaught Village Art Month – a celebration of art and culture featuring exhibitions in the village’s leading galleries alongside pop-ups and events. The featured artists – Eleanor McLean, Ellie Pearch and Jacob...

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LONDON — Who are — or, better, what is — Gilbert & George? British-born George Passmore (the taller one) and Gilbert Prousch, the shorter Italian one from San Martin de Tor in the South Tyrol province, met at St Martins School of Art in 1967. In 1969 they donned suits tailored in an already vintage style (the tweed three-piece that became their uniform), slathered themselves in multicolored metallic paint and sang “Underneath the Arches.” This was the first iteration of themselves as artwork. Since then, the oddball duo in archaic English dress have lived and worked together in East London as perhaps one of the original, most complete, and longest running examples of performance art. They speak as...

LVIV — The city of Lviv has been a hub for Ukrainians fleeing Russian assaults and brutality since 2014, serving as a home to humanitarian projects like Superhumans and Unbroken that provide rehabilitation, support, extensive therapy, and prosthetics for war victims. Though it has not suffered nearly the volume and intensity of Russian attacks as have regions further east, it is far from immune to the current war. The storied, cathedral-rich city dating to the 13th century is subject to aerial attacks, including a recent one that killed one civilian and injured many more on August 21, shortly after I departed.  I was there to visit The Stammering Circle, a signature component of Faktura 10, a year-long...

LONDON — How does any great creative work by a novelist or poet come into being? This question never fails to fascinate. Henry James preceded his great 1916 novel The Ambassadors by writing the most intricate of plot lines, a work almost as dense as the finished novel itself. It was quite different for the poet W.B. Yeats: The first draft of the first poem of a great sequence called The Tower was so far from its final outcome that you could never have guessed at it. And yet he got there in the end. And what of Ursula K. Le Guin, the American novelist, whose many works occupied a fascinating terrain somewhere between fantasy and science fiction? How did she begin to realize her multiple fictional creations? A...

Mysterious light sources, geometric puzzles, disjointed figures, and bold hues characterize the diverse, narrative compositions of Bryce Wymer. The Brooklyn-based artist is known for his enigmatic, emotive murals, paintings, and illustrations. Merging the analog and the digital, Wymer’s pieces often explore themes of social interactions and power dynamics, often through a lens tinged with anxiety, mystery, and solitude. Whether working on large-scale commissions or more intimate drawings, sketchbooks remain Wymer’s primary jumping-off points. “I’ve been keeping sketchbooks since middle school, when I filled them with graffiti tags, local DIY show flyer ideas, and zine layouts,” Wymer tells Colossal....

Die ägyptische Helena isn't even an opera I love so much as a whole.

The history of landscape photography is long, rich and complex. It has developed significantly since its inception in the 19th century, evolving from straightforward documentation into a dynamic genre that explores and critiques humanity’s shifting relationship with the environment. Here, we share the work of five contemporary photographers, previously featured in print editions of Aesthetica Magazine, who are pushing beyond traditional forms of representation. These artists experiment with colour, light and physical interventions to offer fresh perspectives on wild places. From shimmering curtains and armies of desk lamps, to layered mountainscapes, fictional planets and holographic plant life, this...

Dorset-based artist Ellie Davies (b. 1976) creates works rooted in a sense of wonder at the natural world. She’s been photographing England’s wild places since 2007, capturing fragile ecosystems and urging us to reconnect with our surroundings amidst the worsening climate crisis and increased urbanisation. Her recent series, Weir Pool Triptych, was shortlisted for the 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize and is now on display at York Art Gallery until late January 2026. The images were shot on the River Test, an English chalk stream shaped by centuries of fishing and Victorian interventions. Manmade weirs, sluices and culverts govern its flow, funnelling and damning enormous volumes of water that roll, roar and...

I was first exposed to Hänsel und Gretel as a child, likely via The Metropolitan Opera's 1982 PBS telecast.

As it turns out, humans aren’t the only animals with a flair for drama. The 2025 Comedy Wildlife Awards (previously) presents another collection of angsty, surprised, and utterly terrified creatures around the globe. This year’s competition highlights several characters that would be right at home in a neighborhood yoga studio, from the elegant orangutan doing her own interpretation of tree pose to a fox crashing onto its neck after an all too relatable misstep. Find all the winning images on the awards’ website. Warren Price, “Headlock!” Paula Rustemeier, “Hit the dance floor! Foxes in a breakdance battle” Mark Meth-Cohn, “High Five” John Speirs, “It is tough being a duck” Michael...

So I’m standing—back against some kind of white box column—in a gallery that’s humming and realizing: all these faces and textures and loops of color across the walls are having a long, heated conversation, and I’m the accidental eavesdropper. This isn’t just some reverential “women’s art exhibition”. It’s loud, messy, full of risk—Oak trees, riotous masks, feathery stitched creatures, piles of upcycled joybombs. Three women from one lineage. And the art is straight-up talking to itself. Or,...

From record-breaking droughts and catastrophic flash floods to contaminated pipelines and increasingly thirsty AI farms, water is at the nexus of the climate crisis. The life-giving liquid is both scarce and too abundant, causing half the global population to lack sustained access to fresh drinking water, while much of the world is subject to hotter, wetter weather that subsumes communities with extreme conditions. For designer, author, and activist Julia Watson, pinpointing myriad approaches to these all-consuming problems is one of the most critical and urgent tasks today. Her new book Lo-TEK Water, published by Taschen, highlights various Indigenous technologies and aquatic systems that could be utilized in...

What Opera Lafayette’s Dido and Aeneas lost in gravitas it gained in charm and specificity.

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The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, established in 1996, celebrates exhibitions and publications that have made “a significant contribution to photography in the past 12 months.” It’s a major moment in the cultural calendar, and, over the years, has spotlighted seminal names such as Arthur Jafa, Deana Lawson, Lorna Simpson, Richard Mosse and Susan Meiselas. The winning artist, to be announced on 14 May, will receive £30,000, with each of the shortlistees taking away £5,000. They will be selected by a jury comprising representatives from Autograph ABP, Foto Colectania Foundation, Magnum Photos and The Photographers’ Gallery. The 2026 shortlist – Amak Mahmoodian, Jane Evelyn Atwood,...

Canal Projects, the cutting-edge nonprofit arts space established by the Korean American community-building organization YS Kim Foundation in a 19th-century cast-iron building at the edge of New York’s Chinatown, has announced that it will close its physical location on May 23, 2026. It will transition to become a grantmaking and funding body, distributing $3 million […]

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A cross-cultural celebration coinciding with major African art exhibitions in London and the announcement of Frieze Abu Dhabi Lot 5: Oluwole Omofemi (Nigerian b. 1988), I See It. Estimate: £15,000 – £20,000. At a time […]

Curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose, Antawan Byrd, Adom Getachew, and Matthew S. Witkovsky, this groundbreaking exhibition examines the visual, sonic, and political legacies of Pan-Africanism from the 1920s to today, uniting 100 artists across four […]

Curated by Robert Leckie, the exhibition ‘Donald Locke: Resistant Forms’ brings together more than eighty works tracing the Guyanese-British artist’s journey across Guyana, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Donald Locke, Redoubt, 1972. Ceramic, […]

Senegalese curator Ousseynou Wade discusses the making of ‘More than Meets the Eye’, a landmark exhibition of the CBH Bank Collection at the Musée Rath in Geneva, tracing the breadth of African modernism and contemporary […]

Photo Courtesy Jennifer Scott Jennifer Scott has been drawing since she could hold a crayon. At 50, she's put in 10,000 hours of practice times 30. She knows what she's doing. She's not studying something anymore—her work is not a performance for others, it's just part of how she communicates. Drawing with pen, being out and part of the world recording spaces—that's what keeps her excited. Her work moves between the immediacy of small black-and-white drawings and the expansive possibilities...

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Curator and writer Clare Patrick reflects on Pippa Hetherington’s transcontinental practice, tracing how her photography, textile and embodied research practice instigates a dialogue between South Africa and the United Kingdom. Pippa Hetherington and Alice Kettle, […]

David Cerný is by all accounts the most famous artist in the Czech Republic. A quick Google search confirms that diagnosis by revealing the byproduct of artistic success: article upon article attempting to pigeonhole him. Read Clayton Schuster's full article on the artist by clicking above!
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Using striking symbolic language that seems to drift from subconscious realms, Arghavan Khosravi commands the subjects of her vibrant, sculptural paintings. Read Zara Kand's full article on the artist by clicking above!
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Rise of Raven Woman, 2021 self portrait , color photographs mounted on metal with hidden back frame, both performed and shot with tripod by the artist Monet Clark At 57, Monet Clark is making the best work of her life. She's deep in the process of creating performance-based photographic series and performance video works as animal-women hybrid characters. Think elaborately costumed figures posing in sweeping natural landscapes, tripod and interval timer capturing moments that are both wryly...